Michèle Pétin

Production

Michèle Pétin

Place of birth

Paris, France

Known for

Production

Credits

44 titles

Known for

Nouvelle Vague poster
7.2

After writing for Cahiers du cinéma, young Godard decides making films is the best film criticism. He gets Beauregard to fund a low-budget feature, creating a treatment with Truffaut about a gangster couple.

Nouvelle Vague

2025

Taxi poster
6.7

In Marseilles a skilled pizza delivery boy Daniel who drives a scooter finally has his dreams come true. He gets a taxi license. Caught by the police for a huge speed infraction, he will help Emilien, a loser inspector who can't drive, on the track of German bank robbers, so he doesn't lose his license and his dream job.

Taxi

1998

Taxi 2 poster
6.3

A cabdriver and a cop race to Paris to rescue a love interest and the Japanese minister of defense from kidnappers.

Taxi 2

2000

Taxi 3 poster
5.8

A gang of thieves calling themselves the Santa Claus Gang are wreaking havoc, and the police can't keep up. Police Captain Gilbert is distracted by a Chinese reporter writing a story on his squad, and taxi driver Daniel is in the midst of a relationship crisis. After a string of mistakes in which the thieves outsmart the police time and time again, Daniel and his super-taxi pitch in.

Taxi 3

2003

The Suicide Shop poster
6.3

In a cold French city where suicide is a common urge, there is a colorful shop, managed for many years by the Tuvache family, where it is very easy to obtain the necessary tools to satisfy the sinister desires of so many depressed citizens.

The Suicide Shop

2012

Monsieur Ibrahim poster
7.0

Paris, 1960s. Momo, a resolute and independent Jewish teenager who lives with his father, a sullen and depressed man, in a working-class neighborhood, develops a close friendship with Monsieur Ibrahim, an elderly Muslim who owns a small grocery store.

Monsieur Ibrahim

2003

Film credits

Behind the camera

Nouvelle Vague poster
7.2

After writing for Cahiers du cinéma, young Godard decides making films is the best film criticism. He gets Beauregard to fund a low-budget feature, creating a treatment with Truffaut about a gangster couple.

Nouvelle Vague

2025

Nouvelle Vague poster
7.2

After writing for Cahiers du cinéma, young Godard decides making films is the best film criticism. He gets Beauregard to fund a low-budget feature, creating a treatment with Truffaut about a gangster couple.

Nouvelle Vague

2025

Taxi poster
6.7

In Marseilles a skilled pizza delivery boy Daniel who drives a scooter finally has his dreams come true. He gets a taxi license. Caught by the police for a huge speed infraction, he will help Emilien, a loser inspector who can't drive, on the track of German bank robbers, so he doesn't lose his license and his dream job.

Taxi

1998

Taxi 2 poster
6.3

A cabdriver and a cop race to Paris to rescue a love interest and the Japanese minister of defense from kidnappers.

Taxi 2

2000

Taxi 3 poster
5.8

A gang of thieves calling themselves the Santa Claus Gang are wreaking havoc, and the police can't keep up. Police Captain Gilbert is distracted by a Chinese reporter writing a story on his squad, and taxi driver Daniel is in the midst of a relationship crisis. After a string of mistakes in which the thieves outsmart the police time and time again, Daniel and his super-taxi pitch in.

Taxi 3

2003

The Suicide Shop poster
6.3

In a cold French city where suicide is a common urge, there is a colorful shop, managed for many years by the Tuvache family, where it is very easy to obtain the necessary tools to satisfy the sinister desires of so many depressed citizens.

The Suicide Shop

2012

Monsieur Ibrahim poster
7.0

Paris, 1960s. Momo, a resolute and independent Jewish teenager who lives with his father, a sullen and depressed man, in a working-class neighborhood, develops a close friendship with Monsieur Ibrahim, an elderly Muslim who owns a small grocery store.

Monsieur Ibrahim

2003

Taxi 4 poster
5.6

Before being extradited to Africa to stand trial, a notorious Belgian criminal is entrusted to the Marseilles police department for less than 24 hours. But the wily crook convinces bumbling policeman Emilien he's a lowly Belgian embassy employee who got railroaded by the brilliant master criminal.

Taxi 4

2007

Vengeance poster
6.6

A French chef swears revenge after a violent attack on his daughter's family in Macau, during which her husband and her two children are murdered. To help him find the killers, he hires three local hit-men working for the mafia.

Vengeance

2009

Families poster
4.7

Jérôme Varenne, a French financier, lives and works in Shanghai with Chen-Li, his life and business partner. One day, during a short stay in Paris, while paying a call to his mother, he is very displeased to learn from her and his hated brother, that the family house in Ambray is going to be sold. Jerome decides to go to the town where he grew up to see what is going on. Little does he know how eventful his escapade will be. Little does he know that it will change his life from soup to nuts...

Families

2015

Bon Voyage poster
6.3

On the eve of World War II four Parisians cope with the impending invasion of their city by German forces. While the French government braces for impact, the intersected lives of a young writer, a vain movie star, a French politician and a young scientist are examined as they attempt to deal with war and evade German spies.

Bon Voyage

2003

Rosetta poster
7.1

Young, impulsive Rosetta lives a hard and stressful life as she struggles to support herself and her alcoholic mother. Refusing all charity, she is desperate to maintain a dignified job.

Rosetta

1999

A Crime poster
5.6

Vincent's life is on hold until he finds his wife's killer. Alice, his neighbor, is convinced she can make him happy. She decides to invent a culprit, so that Vincent can find revenge and leave the past behind. But there is no ideal culprit and no perfect crime.

A Crime

2006

Feelings poster
5.9

Two seemingly happily married French couples are forced to contend with a number of issues.

Feelings

2003

The Second Wind poster
6.0

Gu, a famous gangster, has just escaped from jail. All french police is after him. Before leaving the country with Manouche, the woman he loves, Gu needs a final job to get some money. The job works, but a police's scheming makes Gu appear as a traitor to his own accomplices. Gu will do whatever it takes to clean his honor...

The Second Wind

2007

Try Me poster
6.1

When Yves-Marie, 9, asks Jacqueline, who is her age: "Marry me", she replies with a pirouette: "The day you go to the stars, I give you my hand."

Try Me

2006

Augustine poster
5.1

Set in Belle Époque France, the story follows nineteen-year-old "hysteria" patient Augustine, the star of Professor Charcot's experiments in hypnosis, as she transitions from object of study to object of desire.

Augustine

2012

Another Woman's Life poster
6.2

When the fun loving Marie sets her eyes on brooding comic book artist Paul, it sets off the kind of romantic sparks that quickly culminate in the bedroom. But the next morning brings its share of surprises as Marie crawls out of bed to discover her life flash-forwarded fifteen years down the road: Not only has she been married to Paul all this time, but she’s now the mother of a little boy the head of a powerful multinational investment firm and the proprietor of a fabulous apartment overlooking the Eiffel Tower. Quickly Marie discovers that all her achievements have not brought happiness.

Another Woman's Life

2012

The Officers' Ward poster
7.0

The first days of WWI. Adrien, a young and handsome lieutenant, is wounded by a piece of shrapnel. He will spend the entire wartime at the Val-de-Grâce Hospital, in Paris. Five long years, and his life will change forever...

The Officers' Ward

2001

Kamikaze poster
6.3

A disgruntled scientist is fired from his job; slipping into madness, he invents a machine which harnesses the airwaves and can shoot people through the TV screen.

Kamikaze

1986

Comme les 5 doigts de la main poster
6.2

Five brothers similar yet different, raised by a mother widowed too early. One of them had left the family when he returns, pursued by a gang of smugglers, he find shelter in his family while reveling them a dark secret. The five brothers, together, will find the energy to defend themself and the means to avenge the memory of their murdered father...

Comme les 5 doigts de la main

2010

17 fois Cécile Cassard poster
5.1

A portrait of a woman, composed of 17 moments from her life.

17 fois Cécile Cassard

2002

Cherche fiancé tous frais payés poster
5.6

Alexandra, trente ans, s'apprête à passer les vacances d'été en famille. Au moment de prendre la route, elle apprend que sa mère a aussi invité son ex, accompagné d'une "fiancée" jeune et ravissante. Dans un café, elle croise un acteur au chômage et l'engage sur le champ pour tenir le rôle de son fiancé. Comme ça, elle pourra affronter son ex, en toute sérénité.

Cherche fiancé tous frais payés

2007

The Pimp poster
5.8

A mild-mannered banker is forced to masquerade as a notorious gangster and pimp.

The Pimp

2010

The Green Shutters poster
5.5

The twilight of a sacred monster, Jules Maugin, an actor at the height of his glory. Beneath the famous personality, the big mouth, and the social shell, lies the intimate portrait of a man laid bare.

The Green Shutters

2022

Golden Years poster
5.4

The true story of a French WW1 deserter who, with the support of his wife, spends a decade in disguise as a woman.

Golden Years

2017

Olé ! poster
4.9

Ramon Holgado is the driver of a big boss, as well as his confidant, his golf partner, and the alibi of his escapades. His wife, Carmen, dreams of returning to sunny Andalusia.

Olé !

2005

96 heures poster
5.4

Carré is the boss of the BRB (Brigade for the Repression of Banditry). 3 years earlier, he arrested a big mobster, Kancel. Today, thanks to an extraction, Kancel kidnaps the cop. He has 96 hours to elicit a single information: know who gave him.

96 heures

2014

It Begins with the End poster
4.6

A woman, a man, a summer in Paris. Passion, break ups, reconciliations. A love story in disarray...

It Begins with the End

2010

Murderous Maids poster
6.2

Based on the true story of two chambermaids of 1930s France who murdered their employer and her daughter.

Murderous Maids

2000

Murderous Maids poster
6.2

Based on the true story of two chambermaids of 1930s France who murdered their employer and her daughter.

Murderous Maids

2000

Adolphe poster
5.5

Twenty-year old Adolphe finds himself drawn irresistibly to Ellénore, a married woman who is ten years his senior. Although she initially repels her young suitor’s unwanted advances, Ellénore soon yields to his charms and the two embark on a passionate love affair.

Adolphe

2002

A Paris Education poster
5.8

Etienne comes to Paris to study filmmaking at the Sorbonne. He meets Mathias and Jean-Noël who share his passion for films. But as they spend the year studying, they have to face friendship and love challenges as well as choosing their artistic battles.

A Paris Education

2018

To Live, To Die, To Live Again poster
6.7

Emma loves Sammy, who loves Cyril, who loves her back. What could have been a love story at the end of the last century is blown apart by the arrival of AIDS. Expecting the worst, each character's destiny takes an unexpected turn.

To Live, To Die, To Live Again

2024

Bad Girl poster
5.2

Louise simultaneously discovers that she is pregnant and that her mother is seriously ill. Happiness and guilt, euphoria and sadness, filial love and love, period. She'll need a good nine months to cope with all this.

Bad Girl

2012

The Repentant poster
5.6

A mysterious woman, dressed in black and carrying a small suitcase, arrives in Nice and tries in vain to get a job in a luxury goods shop. She ends up in a plush hotel where a solitary middle-aged man, engages her to be his companion. They introduce themselves - she is Charlotte, he is Paul. Both are reluctant to talk about their past; both need someone to make their present predicament more tolerable. Unbeknownst to either of them, Charlotte is being followed by another man, who seems intent on revenge...

The Repentant

2002

Ulysse poster
6.5

Alice, a sociology researcher, and Volodymyr, a pianist, are going to have a child! They will call him Ulysses. Except that Ulysses, at one year old, doesn't fit the growth charts. Too small, too thin, and he still isn't walking. The verdict comes down: Ulysses won't be like the others. But how will he be?

Ulysse

2026

Le making of de Nouvelle Vague poster
NR

The making of Nouvelle Vague and the opportunity to make a portrait of Richard Linklater.

Le making of de Nouvelle Vague

2025

Words in Blue poster
6.6

Clara is afraid of words. Her daughter, Anna, is afraid of others. Vincent is afraid to grow up. But he won't be afraid to love them.

Words in Blue

2005