Lionel Abelanski

Lionel Abelanski

Birthday:Oct 22, 1964
Place of birth:Paris, France

Filmography

2023
The President's Wife

The President's Wife

Comedy Drama
6.3

20231h 34min

France

Director: Léa Domenach

When she arrived at the Elysée Palace, Bernadette Chirac expected to finally get the place she deserved, she who had always worked in the shadow of her husband to make him president. Put aside because she was considered too old-fashioned, Bernadette decided to take her revenge by becoming a major media figure.

2012
On the Other Side of the Tracks

On the Other Side of the Tracks

Comedy Action Crime Buddy Comedy Police Procedural
5.8

20121h 36min

France

Director: David Charhon

Two mismatched cops team up to investigate the murder of a business mogul's wife.

2009
The Concert

The Concert

Drama Comedy Entertainment Industry Drama Ensemble Comedy
7.5

20091h 59min

France, Belgium

Director: Radu Mihăileanu

A former world-famous conductor of the Bolshoï orchestra, known as "The Maëstro", Andreï Filipov had seen his career publicly broken by Leonid Brezhnev for hiring Jewish musicians and now works cleaning the concert hall where he once directed. One day, he intercepts an official invitation from the prestigious Théâtre du Châtelet. Through a series of mad antics, he reunites his old orchestra, now composed of old alcoholic musicians, and flies to perform in Paris and complete the Tchaikovsky concerto interrupted 30 years earlier. For the concerto, he engages a young violin soloist with whom he has an unexpected connection.

2005
Let's Be Friends

Let's Be Friends

Comedy
6.0

20051h 40min

France

Director: Olivier Nakache

The two friends Claude and Serge are fundamentally different in their temperament. Similarities arise only when they try to have a relationship with a woman, because both fail equally. While Claude is simply too shy to even start a relationship, let alone meet a woman, Serge is too jumpy to have a relationship. Together they go in search of the great love in all sorts of curious situations, from the self-help group on speed dating to wedding celebrations of strangers - in the hunt for the right woman, they are no way too far.

2004
Narco

Narco

Comedy
6.2

20041h 45min

France

Director: Tristan Aurouet

Gustave Klopp suffers from narcolepsy, he can fall asleep everwhere at anytime whithout warning. Living a simple life with his wife Pam and his best friend Lenny Bar, Gus decides to undergo therapy sessions and finds out that he can make incredible comics from his dreams.

1998
Train of Life

Train of Life

Drama Comedy War
7.6

19981h 43min

Belgium, Israel

Director: Radu Mihăileanu

In 1941, the inhabitants of a small Jewish village in Central Europe organize a fake deportation train so that they can escape the Nazis and flee to Palestine.

1997
Didier

Didier

Comedy
6.3

19971h 44min

France

Director: Alain Chabat

Jean-Pierre Costa is a football manager upon whom fate appears not to be smiling. First, a friend, Annabelle, dumps a pet Labrador named Didier on him whilst she goes off to make a report in Los Angeles. Next, one of his star players is injured, leaving him one player short for a crucial match. As if things could not get any worse, Costa wakes up one morning to find that that Didier has been transformed into a man...