Pierre Arditi

Pierre Arditi

Born: December 1, 1944
in Paris, France
Pierre Arditi (born 1 December 1944) is an award-winning French film and stage actor. He is the brother of French actress Catherine Arditi.

He has often played romantic, womanizing roles, similar to those played by Marcello Mastroianni.

In 1987 he won a César Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for his role in Mélo, and in 1994, a César Award for Best Actor for his role in Smoking/No Smoking.

Although his work has primarily been in French film and theater, Arditi is known in the Anglophone world as the French voice of Christopher Reeve. Arditi dubbed Christopher Reeve on the French-language version of the three first Superman movies by Richard Donner and Richard Lester (See the French Wikipedia article on Pierre Arditi for more information). Because of the added footage in the DVD Special Edition of Donner's Superman, the movie had to be re-dubbed with a different voice actor, much to the chagrin of the generation of moviegoers who had grown up with the original soundtrack and identified Superman's voice with Arditi's. He also provided the French voice for Reeve in the comedy/whodunit Deathtrap. Finally, he was the voice of the documentary serie Untamed Africa, written and produced by Frederic Lepage.

He was made Chevalier (Knight) of the Légion d'honneur in 2002. He was made Chevalier (Knight) of the Ordre national du Mérite on 7 April 1994, and promoted Officier (Officer) in 2005.

Description above from the Wikipedia article Pierre Arditi, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Movies for Pierre Arditi...

Title: Citoyens clandestins
Character: Bastien Rougeard
Released: March 21, 2024
Type: TV
bee
Le Voyage en pyjama
Title: Le Voyage en pyjama
Character: Jules César
Released: January 17, 2024
Type: Movie
40-something Victor, humanities professor and amateur meteorologist, is a madcap, a friendly dabbler, who lives day by day, alongside is wife Anne.
bee
Tout sauf l’ennui
Title: Tout sauf l’ennui
Character: Pierre Arditi
Released: December 22, 2023
Type: Movie
bee
Clémenceau, la force d'aimer
Title: Clémenceau, la force d'aimer
Character: Georges Clémenceau
Released: November 6, 2023
Type: Movie
bee
Title: Alphonse
Character: Jacques Bisson
Released: October 12, 2023
Type: TV
Alphonse, a quadragenarian going through a professional and marital crisis, reconnects with a father he barely knew and discovers a surprising new calling. Along the way, he meets a galaxy of women, each more exciting and quirkier than the last, plunging him into a journey that is both perilous and transgressive, yet filled with kindness.
bee
Le premier venu
Title: Le premier venu
Character: André
Released: April 30, 2023
Type: Movie
bee
Fallait pas le dire !
Title: Fallait pas le dire !
Released: April 18, 2023
Type: Movie
bee
Title: Beau geste
Character: Self
Released: January 22, 2023
Type: TV
bee
Maestro(s)
Title: Maestro(s)
Character: François
Released: December 7, 2022
Type: Movie
The Dunars are conductors from father to son. François' long and brilliant international career come to an end, whereas Denis has just won an umpteenth classical music award. When François is chosen to be the head of the Scala, his ultimate dream, he can't believe it. Happy at first for his father, Denis quickly become disillusioned when he discovers that he was, in fact, chosen to go to Milan.
bee
Alain Resnais, l'audacieux
Title: Alain Resnais, l'audacieux
Character: Self
Released: September 5, 2022
Type: Movie
A genius inventor of forms, Alain Resnais is one of the fathers of cinematic modernity. This portrait, rich in archives, looks back on the career of a discreet non-conformist, in perpetual search of renewal to fight against anxiety.
bee
They Love Each Other... Well, Almost!
Title: They Love Each Other... Well, Almost!
Character: Martin
Released: March 30, 2022
Type: Movie
Follows the intertwined stories of five couples and their entourage, living in the same opulent Parisian building, over the four seasons of the year.
bee
Title: What Pauline Is Not Telling You
Character: Bernard Borel
Released: March 9, 2022
Type: TV
Pauline regains her freedom when her husband dies, but her silence about the event places her under suspicion.
bee
Mémoire trouble
Title: Mémoire trouble
Character: Pierre Garlat
Released: January 29, 2022
Type: Movie
Garlat, a former cop, agrees with Voltaire's maxim, but when confronted with evidence manipulation in one of his former investigations, he is forced to ask himself other questions. Is memory selective? Did he really fabricate evidence? So who is he? And is this man in prison guilty? With his son, Nicolas, a cop like him, Garlat returns to Paris and takes up the investigation again.
bee
Adieu Paris
Title: Adieu Paris
Character: Jacques
Released: January 26, 2022
Type: Movie
An old Parisian bistro with eternal charm. Eight gentlemen at the table, eight great figures. They were the “kings of Paris”… National treasures, masterpieces in peril. A well-honed ritual ... A sense of humor and self-deprecation intact. Tenderness and cruelty. Eight old friends who hate and love each other. And suddenly an intruder ...
bee
Bacri, comme un air de famille
Title: Bacri, comme un air de famille
Character: Self
Released: January 14, 2022
Type: Movie
Jean-Pierre Bacri was never happy about anything. But beyond the caricature of the grumpy man, from his apprenticeship years to his death in January 2021, this film tells the story of this quintessential Frenchman: a man turned towards others, an actor by accident, a moralist by vocation, who was left unaffected by flattery and false honors by success, and ready for all kinds of anger when it was necessary to speak out against injustice and stupidity. The film tells the story of how Jean-Pierre Bacri's life changed several times: from Algeria to France when he was eleven years old in 1962; from bank clerk to apprentice theater actor; from Pieds-noirs film star to screenwriter for Alain Resnais; and from Cannes playboy to Agnès Jaoui's mad lover, the most decisive encounter for his life as well as for his work
bee
The Accusation
Title: The Accusation
Character: Jean Farel
Released: December 1, 2021
Type: Movie
The Farels are a power couple: Jean is a prominent French pundit and his wife Claire an essayist known for her radical feminism. Together they have a model son, Alexandre, who is a student at a prestigious American university. During a brief visit to Paris, Alexandre meets Mila, the daughter of his mother’s new partner, and invites her to a party. The next day, Mila files a complaint against Alexandre for rape, destroying family harmony and setting in motion an inextricable media-judicial machine that posits opposing truths.
bee
Little Nicholas' Treasure
Title: Little Nicholas' Treasure
Character: M. Moucheboume
Released: September 9, 2021
Type: Movie
In the peaceful world of Little Nicholas, there is Daddy, Mommy, the school, but above all, his band of friends. They are called The Invincibles, but above all they are inseparable. At least they think so. But when Dad gets a promotion and announces that the family is moving to the south of France, Nicolas' world falls apart. How can he imagine life without his best friends?
bee
Mitterrand, président culturel
Title: Mitterrand, président culturel
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: May 12, 2021
Type: Movie
On the occasion of the fourty years anniversary of François Mitterand's election, a look back to the relationship between the President and artists, from admiration to manipulation.
bee
The Grand Restaurant III
Title: The Grand Restaurant III
Character: The actor who rehearses
Released: February 3, 2021
Type: Movie
He had opened his Great Restaurant twice, in 2010 and 2011, as part of an entertainment broadcast on France 2. Pierre Palmade “reopens it after work” in the form of a fiction offered by M6. Exit the brewery. The artist has chosen to shoot his film at the Froufrou, the restaurant at the Théâtre Édouard-VII, in Paris, a chic establishment with rococo decor, more solemn and therefore more appropriate to important moments in life, to his big announcements that make the subject of a series of sketches. They are interpreted by a cast of stars just as prestigious as that of his comrade Muriel Robin a few weeks ago in I Love you coiffure , on TF1. As a common thread, Pierre Palmade in the role of the host busy satisfying his customers, while ensuring that his mother (Marthe Villalonga), his competitor (Florence Foresti) and her cook husband (Jean Leduc) do not transform the evening in disaster.
bee
I Love You Coiffure
Title: I Love You Coiffure
Character: François Fleury (segment "Le Psychanalyste")
Released: December 21, 2020
Type: Movie
Liliane and Maud are twin sisters. The first is a modest provincial hairdresser while the second leads the great life in Paris. They both fight over their mother's custody.
bee
Title: À la tribune
Character: Self
Released: October 5, 2020
Type: TV
bee
Compromis
Title: Compromis
Released: May 24, 2020
Type: Movie
2 thirty year old friends in an empty apartment. One is a mediocre comedian, the other a failed playwright. The former sold his apartment and asked the latter to be present when the compromise was signed, to reassure the buyer. Because if he writes very bad plays, he still has a reassuring face. It’s its great quality. We're waiting for the buyer. Besides, buyer or pigeon?
bee
Saint-Germain-des-Prés, un paradis perdu
Title: Saint-Germain-des-Prés, un paradis perdu
Character: Self
Released: November 20, 2019
Type: Movie
bee
La Belle Époque
Title: La Belle Époque
Character: Pierre
Released: November 6, 2019
Type: Movie
Victor, a disillusioned sexagenarian, sees his life turned upside down on the day when Antoine, a brilliant entrepreneur, offers him a new kind of attraction: mixing theatrical artifices and historical reconstruction, this company offers his clients a chance to dive back into the era of their choice. Victor then chose to relive the most memorable week of his life: the one where, 40 years earlier, he met the great love.
bee
Title: The Traveller
Character: Yann Cesnoz
Released: May 28, 2019
Type: TV
Hunting down killers to help bereaved families get justice is more than just a job; it’s a duty for Thomas Bareski, a retired, hotshot police detective eager to reopen unsolved murder cases in a mission to find the culprits.
bee
Velvet Paws
Title: Velvet Paws
Character: Poltergeist
Released: April 20, 2019
Type: Movie
Bernadette Lafont and Michel Bouquet reteam with Kaplan as, respectively, a clairvoyant and a criminologist drawn into the orbit of widow Caroline Sihol; when the latter’s late husband Pierre Arditi turns out to yet have surprises up his sleeve for all of them, Kaplan hones in on the women’s by-necessity connection. The director foregoes her own cameo in favor of ones for colleagues Jean Chapot and Claude Makovski, both as nurses.
bee
Quand sort la recluse
Title: Quand sort la recluse
Character: le docteur Cauvert
Released: April 10, 2019
Type: Movie
After three elderly men are bitten by spiders, everyone assumes that their deaths are tragic accidents. But at police headquarters in Paris, Inspector Adamsberg begins to suspect that the case is far more complex than first appears.
bee
The Summer House
Title: The Summer House
Character: Jean
Released: September 1, 2018
Type: Movie
A large and beautiful property on the French Riviera. A place that seems out of time and sheltered from the rest of the world. Anna goes there with her daughter for a few days of vacation. Amidst her family, friends and the house staff, Anna has to handle her fresh break-up with her partner and the writing of her next film.
bee
Quelque chose a changé
Title: Quelque chose a changé
Character: Louis-Régis Dupont-Moreau
Released: January 16, 2018
Type: Movie
Outvoted by his board of directors and hounded by the press, the Parisian CEO of a large company finds refuge for the weekend in a country inn run by his ex-wife.
bee
Mémoires d'un condamné
Title: Mémoires d'un condamné
Character: Narrateur (Voice)
Released: November 1, 2017
Type: Movie
bee
Mr & Mme Adelman
Title: Mr & Mme Adelman
Character: Claude de Richemont
Released: March 8, 2017
Type: Movie
How did Sarah and Victor get along for more than 45 years? Who was this enigmatic woman living in the shadow of her husband? Love, ambition, betrayals and secrets feed the story of this extraordinary couple, as they experience both the large and small moments of the last century's history.
bee
Vermeer: Beyond Time
Title: Vermeer: Beyond Time
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: February 22, 2017
Type: Movie
Narrator Steve Martin explains Vermeer's fall into obscurity and rebound into worldwide sensation, all while examining themes in his paintings, comparisons to Renaissance masters, and relevant history of Europe's politics and art market.
bee
Title: Capitaine Marleau
Character: Gilles Garin
Released: September 15, 2015
Type: TV
Beneath her eccentric appearance, Captain Marleau is a formidable detective. Her Sherlock Holmes deerstalker cap, her character, her unusual appearance, her humor, her unpredictable behavior--Captain Marleau is not your average gendarme. She never rushes an investigation; she becomes the investigation and relentlessly pursues the suspects.
bee
The Sweet Escape
Title: The Sweet Escape
Character: Fisherman who looks like Pierre Arditi
Released: June 10, 2015
Type: Movie
Michel, a fifty year old man, graphic designer, decides to change the urban lifestyle and go on an adventure. Fascinated by airmail, he dreams at Jean Mermoz when he's on scooter. One day, Michel sees a picture of a kayak.
bee
A Change of Heart
Title: A Change of Heart
Character: Jean-Pierre Berthelot
Released: April 15, 2015
Type: Movie
Jean-Pierre is a brilliant surgeon. The problems of his nearest and dearest don't interest him. But when he discovers that he too has a serious heart disease which needs operating on, Jean-Pierre finds out what it is to be a patient.
bee
Comme s'il en pleuvait
Title: Comme s'il en pleuvait
Character: Bruno
Released: April 26, 2014
Type: Movie
bee
La Fleur de l'âge
Title: La Fleur de l'âge
Character: Gaspard Dassonville
Released: May 1, 2013
Type: Movie
Gaspard Dassonville may be 63 but he stubbornly refuses to show his age. A well-known television producer, he amuses himself with women who are half his age, and life has never felt so good. Then, one day, his age catches up with him with a vengeance, when he is forced to take care of his elderly father Hubert. An indomitable oldster, Hubert soon manages to unsettle his son’s illusory youth, but things take an unexpected turn when a care assistant with a colorful imagination comes between them...
bee
Title: Murders in...
Character: Etienne Rosnard
Released: April 23, 2013
Type: TV
Murders in... is a collection of French-Belgian police TV movies taking place each time in a different French city and region.
bee
You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet
Title: You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet
Character: Orphée #1
Released: September 1, 2012
Type: Movie
From beyond the grave, celebrated playwright Antoine d'Anthac gathers together all his friends who have appeared over the years in his play "Eurydice." These actors watch a recording of the work performed by a young acting company, La Compagnie de la Colombe. Do love, life, death and love after death still have any place on a theater stage? It's up to them to decide. And the surprises have only just begun...
bee
Granny's Funeral
Title: Granny's Funeral
Character: Le père d'Armand
Released: June 19, 2012
Type: Movie
A provincial chemist in the throes of a mid-life crisis must choose between burying his dearly departed grandmother and cremating her in this quirky comedy of manners starring Valerie Lemercier, Denis Podalydes, and Isabelle Candelier.
bee
La danse de l'albatros
Title: La danse de l'albatros
Character: Thierry
Released: June 12, 2012
Type: Movie
bee
La Vérité
Title: La Vérité
Character: Michel
Released: July 22, 2011
Type: Movie
bee
Vivace
Title: Vivace
Character: Gilles Vasseur
Released: April 15, 2011
Type: Movie
A young couple, Pauline and Alex, moves from Paris to a quiet neighbourhood in the French countryside. Pauline loves to take care of her garden and the plants. She is also fascinated with her older neighbour Gilles who lives alone. They spend much time together and he helps her with her garden. Finally, he gives her a special plant from Brasil as a gift. The plant needs a lot of attention and is sensitive to the mood around it. As the plant grows, it takes up all of Paulines time which endangeres her relationship with Alex.
bee
D'un film à l'autre
Title: D'un film à l'autre
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: April 13, 2011
Type: Movie
On April 13, 2011, Les Films 13 production company turned 50. How can one celebrate an anniversary of this sort ? By simply making "another" film that would sum up all the earlier ones. D'un film à l'autre is hence a kind of anthology of the films produced Les Films 13 since the 1960s (short and feature films written and directed for the main part by Claude Lelouch), a best-of of half a century of cinema, going from Le Propre de l'homme to What Love May Bring. A biography in images of a filmmaker as admired as he is criticized. In reality, D'un film à l'autre is more than a series of film excerpts, interviews, and making-of documents (some of which possess an undeniable historical value, like that from A Man and A Woman, or the final performances of Patrick Dewaere).
bee
Title: Blood of the Vine
Released: February 12, 2011
Type: TV
Benjamin Lebel, an internationally-acclaimed wine expert, finds himself helping the local police inspector on cases combining murders and Grand Crus.
bee
Title: Blood of the Vine
Character: Benjamin Lebel
Released: February 12, 2011
Type: TV
Benjamin Lebel, an internationally-acclaimed wine expert, finds himself helping the local police inspector on cases combining murders and Grand Crus.
bee
Fric, Krach et geule de bois : le roman de la crise
Title: Fric, Krach et geule de bois : le roman de la crise
Character: Narrator
Released: November 16, 2010
Type: Movie
bee
Roses on Credit
Title: Roses on Credit
Character: M. Georges
Released: September 9, 2010
Type: Movie
A young couple marry in France in the 1940s and the film follows the arc of their marriage over the next decade. As France recovers from the trauma of the war, the wife finds herself increasingly caught up in acquiring material possessions while the husband prefers a more traditional lifestyle.
bee
Together Is Too Much
Title: Together Is Too Much
Character: Henri
Released: February 17, 2010
Type: Movie
Imagine, if you will, a somewhat contented married woman finding out her husband's infidelity during the celebration of a birthday party. That is what happens to Marie-France, when her husband, Henri, pulls out panties from his pocket to be used as a handkerchief. Marie-France becomes furious, storming out of the house. His son, Sebastian and his wife, Clementine, a struggling couple, decide to take Marie-France to their tiny apartment, something they feel it is a temporary arrangement. Little did they know what they were getting into...
bee
Being Fidel Castro
Title: Being Fidel Castro
Character: Récitant / Narrator (voice)
Released: January 19, 2010
Type: Movie
Through the voice of an impersonator, the cuban hero will recount with us his political career. This tender, caustic yet authentic portrait will take us through his life from euphoria to revolt, from hollow laugh to genuine cheerfulness. Here comes... "En la Piel de Fidel".
bee
Sentiments provisoires
Title: Sentiments provisoires
Character: Marc
Released: January 1, 2010
Type: Movie
A young woman announces to the man she has lived with for ten years that she is leaving him ... and that she is leaving him for his best friend. But is it so easy to break up a couple and lose a friend? ... "
bee
L'Éloignement
Title: L'Éloignement
Character: Charles
Released: November 4, 2009
Type: Movie
bee
Title: C à vous
Character: Self - Guest
Released: September 7, 2009
Type: TV
Every day live on FRANCE 5, Anne-Élisabeth Lemoine and her team receive those who make the news. In the second part, the program welcomes, around a meal prepared by a qualified chef, artists in promotion.
bee
Park Benches
Title: Park Benches
Character: Mr. Borelly
Released: July 8, 2009
Type: Movie
As she does every morning, Lucie takes advantage of her journey to work to lose herself for a while in the pages of a good book. And as she does every morning, she joins her colleagues at the office with a smile. It's a working day just like any other. Then suddenly all activity in the office stops. All attention is turned towards the window of the opposite building opposite and abanner reading: Man Alone. Is it a hoax? A cry for help? Everyone has his own interpretation, and will try, by any means possible, to discover what lies behind this mysterious message.
bee
Bambou
Title: Bambou
Character: Reynald Van Nuyten
Released: July 8, 2009
Type: Movie
Alain hopes to have a baby with his wife Anna. However, Anna believes she is destined to become a famous pianist rather than a housewife and mother. Everything changes when they adopt a female puppy named Bambou. After successfully passing an audition, Anna leaves on a concert tour with a world famous conductor. Being apart takes its toll on the couple and they decide to break up. Alain finds himself alone, without a wife or a baby--just a dog, that he is not sure he wants to keep.
bee
You'll Miss Me
Title: You'll Miss Me
Character: Marcel Hanri
Released: June 10, 2009
Type: Movie
In an airport, six destinies, during a short moment, will change, separate and meet. And if these characters were going through, without knowing it, the most important moment of their lives? Olivier and Lila ... Will he miss his love or will she miss the plane? Julia and Marcel ... Will she avoid death or will he mess up his life? Fanny and Max ... Will she lack of courage or will he be out of luck?
bee
La Traversée du désir
Title: La Traversée du désir
Character: Self
Released: March 16, 2009
Type: Movie
What was your first desire? What did you long for most? Arielle Dombasle put these questions to a wide circle of famous people.
bee
Title: Au siècle de Maupassant, contes et nouvelles du XIXe
Character: Méchinet
Released: March 10, 2009
Type: TV
bee
Change of Plans
Title: Change of Plans
Character: Henri
Released: February 18, 2009
Type: Movie
So called friends at a dinner party end up acting like a dysfunctional family.
bee
A Day at the Museum
Title: A Day at the Museum
Character: Henri Province
Released: November 19, 2008
Type: Movie
Un conservateur terrorisé par les plantes vertes, une mère plastifiée pour être exposée, un ballet de Saintes Vierges, des gardiens épuisés par Rodin, un ministre perdu dans une exposition de sexes, une voiture disparue au parking Rembrandt, des provinciaux amoureux des Impressionnistes, touristes galopins galopant d'une salle à l'autre, passager clandestin dans l'art premier, Picasso, Gauguin, Warhol, ils sont tous là dans ce petit monde qui ressemble au grand, dans ce musée pas si imaginaire que ça, valsant la comédie humaine jusqu'au burlesque.
bee
Tu peux garder un secret ?
Title: Tu peux garder un secret ?
Character: Pierre Grimaux
Released: May 7, 2008
Type: Movie
bee
Tailleur pour dames
Title: Tailleur pour dames
Character: Moulineaux
Released: May 3, 2008
Type: Movie
bee
The Great Alibi
Title: The Great Alibi
Character: Henri Pages
Released: April 30, 2008
Type: Movie
Like every weekend senator Henri Pagès and his wife entertain guests at their beautiful mansion in a peaceful village near Paris. But this time around, things go awry: Pierre Collier, a psychoanalyst and consummate womanizer, is brutally murdered. Claire, his wife, dazed and confused by his corpse, with a smoking gun still in her hand, seems to be the ideal culprit...
bee
Mitterrand à Vichy
Title: Mitterrand à Vichy
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: April 22, 2008
Type: Movie
The dark years, those of war. This film, which combines fiction and archives, tells the story of the unusual trajectory of a young man from the provinces. Prisoner of war, escaped at the age of 24, he found himself in Vichy, capital of the French state. A convinced Pétainist, he will become a leading resistance fighter.
bee
Batailles
Title: Batailles
Released: February 20, 2008
Type: Movie
"Resumption of a play created in 1983. Two shipwrecked people on a makeshift raft in the middle of a social conflict, a mountaineering fight on Mount Paterhorn, improbable friction between two men and a woman in the Yvelines ... The places, the situations change, but each time there is a confrontation. The question is not so much who will win, but to take pleasure in the arguments provided by the opponents. Cunning, bad faith, all blows are allowed in what is primarily a fight of words. "
bee
Faisons un rêve
Title: Faisons un rêve
Character: Lui
Released: November 3, 2007
Type: Movie
bee
Aller retour dans la journée
Title: Aller retour dans la journée
Character: François Villedieu-Lacour
Released: May 30, 2007
Type: Movie
bee
Our Earthmen Friends
Title: Our Earthmen Friends
Character: Le narrateur (voix)
Released: April 18, 2007
Type: Movie
What on earth would extraterrestrials think if they could observe us? This is the movie they made.
bee
Les Liens du sang
Title: Les Liens du sang
Character: Antoine Meyer
Released: March 28, 2007
Type: Movie
bee
The Big Apartment
Title: The Big Apartment
Character: Adrien
Released: December 27, 2006
Type: Movie
Francesca and her husband, Martin, are dreamers. They live a carefree existence oblivious to the increasingly hostile world closing in on them. Their huge Parisian apartment is a refuge for an array of colorful characters in need of a roof over their heads and in particular for Adrien, a filmmaker who turns their home into his office, studio and love-nest. When their mean landlady tries to evict them all and Martin succumbs to the charms of a beautiful vamp, Francesca comes up with some original and entertaining solutions in the defense of her and everybody else's happiness.
bee
Private Fears in Public Places
Title: Private Fears in Public Places
Character: Lionel
Released: November 22, 2006
Type: Movie
In Paris, six people all look for love, despite typically having their romantic aspirations dashed at every turn.
bee
Title: Salut les Terriens !
Character: Self (guest)
Released: November 4, 2006
Type: TV
bee
The Separation
Title: The Separation
Character: Aristide Briand
Released: December 2, 2005
Type: Movie
On March 21, 1905, the hemicycle of the Palais-Bourbon resounded with the first session of a crucial and animated parliamentary debate, which was to last nearly ten months and occupy 48 sessions in the Chamber of Deputies. They have to study the bill of separation of the Churches and the State. This law, which founded laicity in France, was adopted on December 9, 1905.
bee
The Perfume of the Lady in Black
Title: The Perfume of the Lady in Black
Character: Frédéric Larsan
Released: September 14, 2005
Type: Movie
Newly married, Mathilde and Robert are honeymooning at a resort owned by their friends Edith and Arthur, the Chateau d'Hercule. But an unpleasant shock is in store for them.
bee
The Courage to Love
Title: The Courage to Love
Character: Pierre
Released: June 29, 2005
Type: Movie
A picture of humankind in Paris: singers, shows, social gatherings, businessmen, nightclub barmen, bums, shoppers.
bee
One Stays, the Other Leaves
Title: One Stays, the Other Leaves
Character: Alain
Released: January 12, 2005
Type: Movie
A story about two couples, longtime friends in which both husbands engage in long-term affairs and, as the title says, ultimately one remains with his wife and one makes a new life with another woman.
bee
Julie, chevalier de Maupin
Title: Julie, chevalier de Maupin
Character: Charles de Florensac
Released: January 10, 2005
Type: Movie
Agnès Dormes, a famous opera singer, saves Julie, a baby girl who was about to be sacrificed during a black mass. Twenty years later, the baby has turned into a beautiful energetic twenty-year-old young lady determined to find out about her origins. In Avignon, Julie manages to meet Agnès and discovers on the occasion she is not her real mother. A series of adventures will ensue and at a time Julie is nearly burned on the stake. But she eventually achieves her end and can marry, a street performer close to her heart.
bee
Victoire
Title: Victoire
Character: le père
Released: December 22, 2004
Type: Movie
Victoire is sweet, sensitive, nice and understanding. She leads an existence which doesn't leave her much time to wonder.
bee
The First Time I Turned Twenty
Title: The First Time I Turned Twenty
Character: Oncle Jérémy
Released: October 6, 2004
Type: Movie
In 1960s France, 16-year-old Hannah Goldman is experiencing a painful adolescence. Her Jewish background and plain appearance make her an object of ridicule, but she has a talent for music and is determined to fulfil her ambition to play in the school jazz band.
bee
Why (Not) Brazil?
Title: Why (Not) Brazil?
Character: le pédiatre
Released: September 15, 2004
Type: Movie
A film director, whose career is going downhill, reluctantly decides to adapt an inadaptable best selling novel. Will she succeed or will the book adapt her in the process?
bee
The Car Keys
Title: The Car Keys
Character: Un comédien qui refuse de tourner avec Laurent
Released: December 10, 2003
Type: Movie
Who would think losing car keys could lead us that far ? Be careful, adventure is on every street corner...
bee
Not on the Lips
Title: Not on the Lips
Character: Georges Valandray
Released: December 3, 2003
Type: Movie
A musical drawing room farce set in Paris in October, 1925. Gilberte, in middle-age, flirts with men but loves her husband Georges, wishing he were more demonstrative. He's negotiating a deal with an American, Eric Thomson, who turns out to be Gilberte's first husband from an annulled and secret stateside marriage. Along with her sister Arlette, Gilberte begs Eric not to tell Georges about the marriage. Meanwhile, a young artist, Charly, pursues Gilberte while Arlette tries to match him with the young Huguette, who loves him. Will Eric play along or try to re-win Gilberte's affection? Can Gilberte play one off against another? And who will manage to kiss whom on the lips?
bee
Une villa pour deux
Title: Une villa pour deux
Character: François
Released: November 5, 2003
Type: Movie
After the death of his father Daniel Tessard has convinced his mother Marion to come to live with him in his apartment in Paris.One year has passed and Marion is still living in the apartment.Daniel is now convincing his mother to go to live in a nice villa (that exists only in the pictures) and has contracted François Ferardini, a real estate entrepreneur for the last construction works.When he goes to see the villa,nothing has be done, it's a real disaster.Besides François tells him a lot of stories about the delay of the construction.What will Daniel do ?
bee
The Mystery of the Yellow Room
Title: The Mystery of the Yellow Room
Character: Inspecteur Frédéric Larsan
Released: June 11, 2003
Type: Movie
Joseph Rouletabille, a reporter for a local newspaper, investigates the attempted killing of Mathilde Stangerson, who uses the yellow room of the title as her bedroom. At the time of the revolver shots her room was locked and the windows were barred, but when her father enters after having forced the door, there is no-one there except for Mathilde. So who did it and how did he get away?
bee
Le Carnaval des animaux
Title: Le Carnaval des animaux
Character: Présentateur
Released: January 1, 2003
Type: Movie
bee
Une Ferrari pour deux
Title: Une Ferrari pour deux
Character: Vincent Saulnier
Released: April 3, 2002
Type: Movie
A boss decide to bring a Ferrari to a footballer and meet on the trip an ex-employee he fired few months ago. Since the boss get stopped by the police because he drove to fast, they have got no choice except to help each other.
bee
Joyeuses Pâques
Title: Joyeuses Pâques
Character: Stéphane
Released: January 23, 2002
Type: Movie
bee
Patron sur mesure
Title: Patron sur mesure
Character: Philippe Roussel
Released: January 1, 2002
Type: Movie
bee
Tout va bien c'est Noël!
Title: Tout va bien c'est Noël!
Character: Joachim
Released: December 24, 2001
Type: Movie
Christmas? The joy of rejoining the family and spending the most anticipated holiday of the whole year. Seeing family members you haven't seen for a long time and spending the holidays together like when the children were little. But the children have grown up and have new things to tell. This news will turn the traditional family reunion into a hurricane. The coming out of the homosexual son is almost an outing, but one that testifies to the love that binds the two gay lovers together.
bee
Remembrance of Things to Come
Title: Remembrance of Things to Come
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: September 22, 2001
Type: Movie
Through photos made by the French photographer Denise Bellon, a personal history of France.
bee
Title: Sauveur Giordano
Character: Sauveur Giordano
Released: September 3, 2001
Type: TV
bee
The Blue Island
Title: The Blue Island
Character: Alexandre, Mellie's father
Released: June 18, 2001
Type: Movie
France, 1940. German troops have just invaded the country, but in the rural idyll of the family chateau inhabited by 20-year-old Mellie with her impoverished aristocrat father Alexandre and adolescent cousin Robinson, the war still seems far away, apart from the fact that Mellie's rich and unpopular fiancé André has been drafted into the army. For Robinson and his friends the same age, including the temperamental Bertrand, the war is merely a game they play in the remoteness of the blue island in the lake.
bee
Un couple modèle
Title: Un couple modèle
Character: Thomas
Released: June 11, 2001
Type: Movie
Two men on the brink of divorce are thrown together, yet everything opposes them: their tastes, habits, personalities. They have only one thing in common: their desire to get their wives back.
bee
On n'est pas là pour s'aimer
Title: On n'est pas là pour s'aimer
Character: Maxime Vergnaud
Released: October 16, 2000
Type: Movie
Frédérique Letheil, who heads the research department of the Emmerson oil group, has sacrificed her private and sentimental life to her experiments. The management, which sees her work as a financial drain, has her unjustly dismissed by the group's general manager, Maxime Vergnaud. When the company realizes its mistake and the economic and ecological potential of Frédérique's research, it asks Maxime to bring her back at all costs.
bee
Le dernier plan
Title: Le dernier plan
Character: Ludovic
Released: September 27, 2000
Type: Movie
Virgil Ioan, a Romanian journalist, comes to Paris to find out what happened to Constantin Dolinescu, a renowned dissident writer, who disappeared after arriving in France in 1987.
bee
Title: Les enfants du printemps
Character: Jean Charlet
Released: May 22, 2000
Type: TV
bee
Actors
Title: Actors
Character: Self
Released: April 5, 2000
Type: Movie
Les Acteurs is the absurd story of Jean-Pierre Marielle desperately waiting for a cup of hot water, the story of a conspiracy against actors, the story of aging actors whose careers are slowly less active than they used to be, but a stunning tribute to French actors and their cinema.
bee
The False Servant
Title: The False Servant
Character: Trivelin
Released: March 8, 2000
Type: Movie
A young woman disguises herself as a knight to expose a gold-digging man divided between her and a Countess.
bee
Chacun chez soi
Title: Chacun chez soi
Character: Pierre Bazeilles
Released: January 1, 2000
Type: Movie
Pierre Bazeille, a writer seeking a quiet place to work, sublets Félice's home, artist / sculptor in the Lot. While he is manic, meticulous and discreet, she is messy, cyclothymic and unpredictable. Living together will not go peacefully.
bee
A Monkey's Tale
Title: A Monkey's Tale
Character: Le Roi (Voice)
Released: June 2, 1999
Type: Movie
Kom is from a tribe of monkeys who live in a canopy. He rejects elders' authority as well as the superstition that the lower world would be inhabited by demons. But he accidentally falls from the trees…
bee
« Art »
Title: « Art »
Character: Yvan
Released: December 28, 1998
Type: Movie
bee
Un amour de cousine
Title: Un amour de cousine
Released: December 21, 1998
Type: Movie
bee
Chance or Coincidence
Title: Chance or Coincidence
Character: Pierre Turi
Released: November 18, 1998
Type: Movie
Once a successful dancer, Miriam has abandoned her career to bring up her son, Serge, after her boyfriend walked out of her.
bee
La passion du docteur Bergh
Title: La passion du docteur Bergh
Character: Bernard Letechin
Released: October 16, 1998
Type: Movie
A respected German doctor, head surgeon of a hospital, sees his career jeopardized when a childhood love reappears.
bee
Title: Vivement dimanche
Character: Self
Released: September 20, 1998
Type: TV
bee
Title: Tout le monde en parle
Character: Self
Released: September 19, 1998
Type: TV
Tout le monde en parle is a French talk show broadcast on France 2 from September 5, 1998 to July 8, 2006. It was hosted by Thierry Ardisson and produced by Catherine Barma. During its first season, the show took the form of societal debates; it was in September 1999 that it was re-formatted into a talk-show. The show features guests who are making news at the moment, including actors, writers, singers, politicians and athletes. Guests discuss their life and engage in thematic interviews. The show gradually acquired a provocative reputation, notably since the host does not hesitate to ask political guests questions about their private and sexual lives. With Thierry Ardisson as the main host, he was first accompanied by Laurent Ruquier and Linda Hardy. Later, he turned to duos Éric and Ramzy, then Kad and Olivier. Finally, he opted for comedian Lauren Baffie as co-host, until the end of the show.
bee
Title: Vivement dimanche prochain
Character: Self
Released: September 11, 1998
Type: TV
bee
Title: The Count of Monte Cristo
Character: Gérard de Villefort
Released: September 7, 1998
Type: TV
A TV mini-series adaptation of the classic Alexandre Dumas novel. Edmond Dantes is unjustly sent to prison for 18 years. He escapes to reclaim his fiancée Mercedes and revenge against his nemesis, Mondego.
bee
Der Graf von Monte Christo
Title: Der Graf von Monte Christo
Character: Gérard de Villefort
Released: September 7, 1998
Type: Movie
bee
Let There Be Light!
Title: Let There Be Light!
Character: La voix de Dieu l'invisible (voix seulement)
Released: July 8, 1998
Type: Movie
God comes to Earth in order to make a film.
bee
Same Old Song
Title: Same Old Song
Character: Claude
Released: November 12, 1997
Type: Movie
Odile is a business executive looking for a new, bigger apartment. Her younger sister Camille has just completed her doctoral thesis in history and is a Paris tour guide. Simon is a regular on Camille's tours because he's attracted to her. Camille has fallen for Marc, and they begin an affair. Nicolas is also looking for an apartment, since he hopes to eventually have his family join him in Paris.
bee
Gentlemen Children
Title: Gentlemen Children
Character: Joseph / Pope
Released: October 1, 1997
Type: Movie
To punish three troublemakers, Albert Castraing, their French teacher, gives them an essay to do, in which they must imagine what their lives would be if they were suddenly transformed into adults. The next morning, the three twelve-year-old boys realize to their amazement that...they HAVE BEEN transformed into adults! As for they parents they have become...KIDS! It is the beginning of a series of mishaps for Joseph, a Jew, Igor, a catholic and Nourdine, an Arab...
bee
Une clinique au soleil
Title: Une clinique au soleil
Character: Bernard Letéchin
Released: December 19, 1996
Type: Movie
bee
Men, Women: A User's Manual
Title: Men, Women: A User's Manual
Character: Professeur Lerner
Released: August 28, 1996
Type: Movie
Benoit Blanc loves living, he loves women, he loves daring. He is a famous businessman who suffers from stomach-ache. Fabiolini, a would-be actor, is a policeman and he too suffers from the same sickness. The two man face suffering in opposite ways: Benoit Blanc is optimistic while Fabiolini, always unsure of himself, is persuaded he is seriously ill. The two men meet by chance while doing a gastroscopy and become friends. After having known their real different conditions, they will change and will understand better their lives. Around them, other people, women and men, will see their lives changed, by chance, by love or solely by the life stream.
bee
Beaumarchais the Scoundrel
Title: Beaumarchais the Scoundrel
Character: Narrateur (non crédité)
Released: March 20, 1996
Type: Movie
Beaumarchais the Scoundrel is a biopic film based on the life of the French playwright, financier and spy Pierre Beaumarchais depicting his activities during the American War of Independence and his authorship of the Figaro trilogy of plays.
bee
Title: Passeur d'enfants
Character: Alex
Released: October 3, 1995
Type: TV
bee
The Horseman on the Roof
Title: The Horseman on the Roof
Character: Monsieur Peyrolle
Released: September 20, 1995
Type: Movie
In a time of war and disease, a young officer gallantly tries to help a young woman find her husband.
bee
L'Affaire Dreyfus
Title: L'Affaire Dreyfus
Character: Col. Esterhazy
Released: May 18, 1995
Type: Movie
In 1894, the French Army discovered the existence of a traitor Alsatian and Jewish, the French officer Alfred Dreyfus makes an ideal culprit. For lack of evidence, the War Ministry creates a damning document Dreyfus overwhelming. Judged and sentenced, Dreyfus is deported to Devil's Island. In 1896, the Army flushed out the real culprit. The truth broke out in 1898 thanks to the mobilization of intellectuals shaken by Zola's "J'accuse!"
bee
Art
Title: Art
Character: Yvan
Released: October 28, 1994
Type: Movie
How much would you pay for a white painting? Would it matter who the painter was? Would it be art?
bee
Couchettes express
Title: Couchettes express
Character: Jack London (voice)
Released: August 10, 1994
Type: Movie
Antoine steward on the night train Paris-Venice. He must cards and identity documents of travelers in 'his' pick wagon. One day, a passenger, Jean-Bernard, for protection. He suffers from an unknown illness and he is not alone on the run for scholars who want to use him as a guinea pig, but also for Brandeburg, a trader in human organs.
bee
Smoking
Title: Smoking
Character: Toby Teasdale / Miles Coombes / Lionel Hepplewick / Joe Hepplewick
Released: December 15, 1993
Type: Movie
"Smoking" and "No Smoking" are two segments of the film which are based on closely connected plays. The original plays covered eight separate stories, which have been pared down to three each for these movies. At a certain point in the story of each segment, the five female characters (all played by Sabine Azema) and the four male characters (all played by Pierre Arditi) have their lives skillfully recapped in terms of "what might have happened" if they had made or failed to make certain choices. For example, "No Smoking" focuses chiefly on the relationship between the mild-mannered Miles Coombes and his infinitely more aggressive and ambitious wife, Rowena.
bee
No Smoking
Title: No Smoking
Character: Toby Teasdale / Miles Coombes / Lionel Hepplewick / Joe Hepplewick
Released: December 15, 1993
Type: Movie
"Smoking" and "No Smoking" are two segments of the film which are based on closely connected plays. The original plays covered eight separate stories, which have been pared down to three each for these movies. At a certain point in the story of each segment, the five female characters (all played by Sabine Azema) and the four male characters (all played by Pierre Arditi) have their lives skillfully recapped in terms of "what might have happened" if they had made or failed to make certain choices. For example, "No Smoking" focuses chiefly on the relationship between the mild-mannered Miles Coombes and his infinitely more aggressive and ambitious wife, Rowena.
bee
Smoking / No Smoking
Title: Smoking / No Smoking
Character: Toby Teasdale / Miles Coombes / Lionel Hepplewick / Joe Hepplewick
Released: December 15, 1993
Type: Movie
"Smoking" and "No Smoking" are two segments of the film which are based on closely connected plays. The original plays covered eight separate stories, which have been pared down to three each for these movies. At a certain point in the story of each segment, the five female characters (all played by Sabine Azema) and the four male characters (all played by Pierre Arditi) have their lives skillfully recapped in terms of "what might have happened" if they had made or failed to make certain choices. For example, "No Smoking" focuses chiefly on the relationship between the mild-mannered Miles Coombes and his infinitely more aggressive and ambitious wife, Rowena.
bee
The Little Apocalypse
Title: The Little Apocalypse
Character: Henri
Released: February 10, 1993
Type: Movie
In this cynical comedy, an renowned, out-of-work, unpublished “underground” writer from formerly Communist Poland is driven to unusually desperate measures in order to get his work published. Stan has been living in the attic apartment of his ex-wife’s home, which he shares with a journalist friend. One day, he has an accident which convinces his ex-wife and her current husband that he's suicidal, and they hastily contact a media representative to see if some sort of publicity can't be arranged so that Stan’s work can be published and they can benefit, if not from the money, then from their association with him. The organization they contact says that they will be happy to publish his writings, if he will commit suicide live, on television, in St. Peter’s square, while the Pope is delivering an address.
bee
Les clés du paradis
Title: Les clés du paradis
Character: Gaspard Cavaillac
Released: October 30, 1991
Type: Movie
Two brothers, one very successful and the other not, switch places with each other, exchanging jobs and wives.
bee
Les gens ne sont pas forcément ignobles
Title: Les gens ne sont pas forcément ignobles
Character: Eric
Released: June 15, 1991
Type: Movie
A fight happens during a a big party organized by a couple for their housewarming
bee
The Pleasure of Love
Title: The Pleasure of Love
Character: Guillaume de Burlador
Released: April 10, 1991
Type: Movie
Guillaume de Burlador is a private tutor who hits a low point sufficiently severe for him to contemplate a somewhat theatrical suicide. Instead he is taken off by flying boat to a mad French colonial possession bedecked by mad servants and crazy decor. Three educated and rather gorgeous women live there, and they hire him to tutor a young teenager, but more with plans to seduce him in mind.
bee
La Femme et le Pantin
Title: La Femme et le Pantin
Character: Mathieu
Released: December 9, 1990
Type: Movie
Matthieu, a mature and wealthy French businessman, meets Estrella in Barcelona, a teenager with a humble family, who is subjugated by his youth, spontaneity, candor and mischief.
bee
Duo
Title: Duo
Character: Michel
Released: May 16, 1990
Type: Movie
A couple who appears to have the perfect relationship finds their future in jeopardy following a scorching night of lust and debauchery in this erotic drama adapted from the controversial novel by French author Colette.
bee
Vanille fraise
Title: Vanille fraise
Character: Antoine Boulanger
Released: November 29, 1989
Type: Movie
Husband finds out that his wife is a secret agent and that she has a handsome partner.
bee
Natalia
Title: Natalia
Character: Paul Langlade
Released: April 12, 1989
Type: Movie
WW2: in an occupied France, a young Jewish girl wants to become a movie star.
bee
Radio corbeau
Title: Radio corbeau
Character: Duval, l'inspecteur
Released: February 1, 1989
Type: Movie
This fast-paced mystery is in part based on a novel by Yves Ellena and is at least equally based on the 1943 classic Le Corbeau, which in 1951 was produced in English by Otto Preminger as The Thirteenth Letter. In this movie, someone is using a pirate radio broadcast to dish the dirt on the lives of the elite of a small French town.
bee
Les Grandes Familles
Title: Les Grandes Familles
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: Movie
A clear-cut and ruthless depiction of the French ruling class between the two World Wars. Whether it's the circles of literature, medicine, journalism, theater or politics, the trait is fierce and portraits without concession.
bee
Title: Palace
Character: Le client du Dream service
Released: October 29, 1988
Type: TV
bee
Title: Palace
Character: L'homme qui se dispute avec sa femme
Released: October 29, 1988
Type: TV
bee
Title: Palace
Character: L'homme qui aime un chœur
Released: October 29, 1988
Type: TV
bee
Title: Palace
Character: Promoteur du billet de 500 francs
Released: October 29, 1988
Type: TV
bee
Title: Palace
Character: L'homme à la boule de pétanque dans son potage
Released: October 29, 1988
Type: TV
bee
Title: Palace
Character: Georges
Released: October 29, 1988
Type: TV
bee
Bonjour l'angoisse
Title: Bonjour l'angoisse
Character: Jean-Hugues Aymeric
Released: August 17, 1988
Type: Movie
Anxious and shy, Michaud works for a company that specializes in alarms, safes and other security devices.
bee
Poker
Title: Poker
Released: January 13, 1988
Type: Movie
Helene loves to play poker for big money in men's company. But one day she looses big time against bar manager Antonio. He grants her 24 hours to come up with the 50,000 Francs. She asks all of her friends, but nobody will help her. When she finally steals the money from her brother Stephane, she gets them into serious trouble -- she didn't know where he got it.
bee
The Catwalk
Title: The Catwalk
Character: Jean Nevers
Released: January 1, 1988
Type: Movie
Neighbors overcome, Cora and John meet in the favor of an accident - a fall from the balcony of the family apartment - which has suffered the son of Cora. Taking the man responsible for the state of her child, the mother yet close to John. A strange relationship develops between them.
bee
Engagements of the Heart
Title: Engagements of the Heart
Character: Jérôme
Released: December 16, 1987
Type: Movie
Alice is the widow of a Jewish surgeon who helps the former diplomat Jerome smuggle Jews out of Austria to save them from the Nazis. The duo recruits Charles, a shoe manufacturer whose uncle is a Nazi sympathizer in the Vichy government. Charles and Alice become lovers when they are picked up in Paris by Nazi soldiers on a curfew violation.
bee
Flag
Title: Flag
Character: Commissaire Pierre Tramoni
Released: October 6, 1987
Type: Movie
A repentant gambler, Simon is a senior inspector in the banditry repression brigade headed by his friend Pierre Tramoni. Pierre is brilliant and wants to go far. Simon has no ambition and only one passion: gambling. For several months, Simon has been trying to catch the Djian brothers, young and dangerous bank robbers, in the act. He fails but discovers, through an informer, strange links between Pierre and the Djians, during his investigation which leads him back to the gambling halls. When the Djians finally fall, the treachery of Commissioner Tramoni is revealed.
bee
Title: Nulle part ailleurs
Character: Self
Released: August 31, 1987
Type: TV
bee
Agent Trouble
Title: Agent Trouble
Character: Stanilas
Released: August 19, 1987
Type: Movie
Amanda Weber is a museum employee. Her nephew, Victorien, who feels that wild animals should not be kept in zoos, while hitchhiking saw a mysterious bus with 50 dead tourists that later was found by autorities at the bottom of a lake. When Victorien gets in very serious problems due to what he saw Amanda seeks to find out what happened and soon also becomes a target.
bee
The Little Coquette
Title: The Little Coquette
Character: Armand
Released: August 12, 1987
Type: Movie
Fifteen-year-old Camille is a vulnerable and a strong-willed seductress- she chooses, she takes, she leaves; she can go very far in her desire for freedom. She is the daughter of disunited parents, Armand, a professor and Colette, an intellectual bourgeois. She manages to seduce Jean-Louis, a professor of letters of thirty-seven years, friend and colleague of her father. She makes him commit a lot of extravagance - he even dyed blond. Later she had a passion for Samuel, a former student of Jean-Louis, lout and trafficker. She is not easy, men learn at their expense, either sentimentally, as with the teacher, or that the first sexual experience come to ignite the relationship with Samuel.
bee
State of Grace
Title: State of Grace
Character: Jean-Marc Vannier-Buchet
Released: December 24, 1986
Type: Movie
She is Florence Vannier-Buchet. Married to Protestant banker Jean-Marc Buchet. Florence leads a major sporting goods company with happiness and firmness. He is Antoine Lombard, Professor, son of a teacher, he is Secretary of State at the Universities. He divides his time between his ministerial activity and his riding in the working class suburb of Chartres. An elected member of the "pink wave". They met during a stormy assembly of the CNPF. The action takes place in 1983. Florence is engaged in a daring industrial and financial operation, while Antoine is putting the finishing touches to a bill for the renovation of Higher Education. Everything separates them and yet they do not manage to live separated from each other ...
bee
Un métier de seigneur
Title: Un métier de seigneur
Character: Cousin / Arvers
Released: December 6, 1986
Type: Movie
bee
Mélo
Title: Mélo
Character: Pierre Belcroix
Released: September 3, 1986
Type: Movie
Pierre Belcroix and Marcel Blanc are violinists and lifelong friends living in Paris in the 1920s. While Marcel has become famous and Pierre has not, both are happy with their lives. Pierre is happily married to Romaine, a stylish young flapper. However, Marcel meets and falls in love with her, which Marcel little suspects.
bee
Follow My Gaze
Title: Follow My Gaze
Character: The publicist
Released: April 23, 1986
Type: Movie
A long parade of actors and actresses pop up in an unconnected series of skits, vignettes, and sight gags in this comedy anthology by Jean Curtelin. Among the sketches performed is one with Jean Carmet playing a man from the sticks woefully burdened with the challenge of getting through a dog food commercial on less than one tank of intelligible French. Another skit shows a silent duel between an airport custodian and an automatic door, while another with the renowned Michel Galabru sets up a strange teacher-student exchange.
bee
La répétition ou L'amour puni
Title: La répétition ou L'amour puni
Character: Héro
Released: March 19, 1986
Type: Movie
bee
Triple sec
Title: Triple sec
Released: January 1, 1986
Type: Movie
A César award nominated short comedy.
bee
Tailleur pour dames
Title: Tailleur pour dames
Character: Moulineaux
Released: September 15, 1985
Type: Movie
bee
Strictement personnel
Title: Strictement personnel
Character: Jean Cottard
Released: August 21, 1985
Type: Movie
The crimes and tragedies that tear apart one family seem overblown in the telling, yet this psychological drama about the miseries of one French policeman is compelling throughout. Jean (Pierre Arditi) is a cop and also a failed novelist who was abandoned by his father, brother, and sister after his mother died. The trio move to Paris where they set up an art scam that nets them considerable cash -- something Jean begins to figure out when he joins them for a family reunion. Little by little, he learns that his father is an expert forger, his stepmother's art gallery seems to be involved in the scam, his brother is a derelict and into drugs, his stepmother is a hooker in addition to all of this, and his sister runs an exercise gym for keeping prostitutes in shape. Things get worse -- just when everything seems bad enough, the stepmother is murdered and it is up to Jean to find the killer.
bee
The Children
Title: The Children
Character: Le journaliste
Released: February 1, 1985
Type: Movie
Ernesto, a seven-year-old boy who has the body of a thirty-year-old man, decides, upon attending his first day of school, that he no longer wishes to attend, because he does not wish to be taught matters that he does not know.
bee
Farewell Fred
Title: Farewell Fred
Character: La Grenouille
Released: January 30, 1985
Type: Movie
Fred is a gambler and deep in debt. He owes crime boss Victor a lot of money and the time to pay has come. He decides to take a massive risk to refund his debts and agrees to kill a man. Fred knows he has to pay his debt and that the only way to do it is to carry out the hit arranged by Victor.
bee
Title: Télématin
Character: Self
Released: January 10, 1985
Type: TV
Télématin is a French breakfast television news show, broadcast on France 2 since January 7, 1985. It is broadcast in Metropolitan France weekdays from 6:30 to 9:00 am CET. TV5 broadcast the show in Canada in its entirety until September 2011: it now shows a 90 minute version between 6:30 and 8:00 am Eastern Time, when the French original version is now 2h30 long. Télématin is hosted by William Leymergie. The show is daily seen by around 40% of the French morning audience, a very high percentage for French TV. In Metropolitan France, the newscasts are presented at 7:00, 7:30 and 8:00, with newsflashes at 6:30 and 8:50, and two press reviews at 7:20 and 8:30. The 6:30, 7:30 and 8:50 newscasts are usually presented by a female reader and the hourly newscasts by a male. The usual readers are Nathanaël de Rinquesen, Sophie Le Saint, Julien Benedetto, Sophie Gastrain, Patrice Romedenne and Frédéric Vion.
bee
Love Unto Death
Title: Love Unto Death
Character: Simon Roche
Released: September 5, 1984
Type: Movie
A man is haunted after waking up from his sleep, during which he was pronounced dead by his doctor.
bee
Mademoiselle ma mère
Title: Mademoiselle ma mère
Character: Georges Letournel
Released: August 11, 1983
Type: Movie
bee
Life Is a Bed of Roses
Title: Life Is a Bed of Roses
Character: Robert Dufresne
Released: April 20, 1983
Type: Movie
In this whimsical fable, Resnais deftly interweaves three story lines: the creation of an early-20th-century utopia; romantic high jinks at a school conference; and a fantasy sparked by F/X pioneer Georges Méliès.
bee
Les Secrets de la princesse de Cadignan
Title: Les Secrets de la princesse de Cadignan
Character: Emile Blondet
Released: June 9, 1982
Type: Movie
bee
Nestor Burma, détective de choc
Title: Nestor Burma, détective de choc
Character: Lecuyer
Released: April 14, 1982
Type: Movie
Detective Nestor Burma begins an investigation into the corrupt drug-ridden punk rock music world.
bee
Title: Champs-Elysées
Character: Self
Released: January 16, 1982
Type: TV
bee
L'Arme au bleu
Title: L'Arme au bleu
Character: Le Sergent-chef
Released: September 5, 1981
Type: Movie
bee
Le Traité d'Auteuil
Title: Le Traité d'Auteuil
Character: André
Released: August 2, 1981
Type: Movie
bee
Une sacrée famille
Title: Une sacrée famille
Character: Gaston Brevannes
Released: May 1, 1981
Type: Movie
bee
Le rat noir d'amérique
Title: Le rat noir d'amérique
Released: January 1, 1981
Type: Movie
A César award nominated short drama.
bee
Heads or Tails
Title: Heads or Tails
Character: Pierre Larrieu
Released: August 30, 1980
Type: Movie
Since his wife died, Inspector Louis Baroni (Philippe Noiret) has become a virtual recluse, preferring the solitude of his quiet house to the company of others. His period of mournful contemplation is broken when he is called out to look into the suspicious death of Madame Morlaix who, according to her husband Edouard (Michel Serrault), fell from an upstairs window. Curious to find out more, Baroni begins his inquiry.
bee
Légitime défense
Title: Légitime défense
Character: Bertrand
Released: July 18, 1980
Type: Movie
bee
My American Uncle
Title: My American Uncle
Character: Zambeaux, le représentant de la direction générale à Paris
Released: May 21, 1980
Type: Movie
Prof. Henri Laborit uses the stories of the lives of three people to discuss behaviorist theories of survival, combat, rewards and punishment, and anxiety. René is a technical manager at a textile factory and must face the anxiety caused by corporate downsizing. Janine is a self-educated actress/stylist who learns that the wife of her lover is dying and must decide to let them reunite. Jean is a controversial career-climbing writer/politician at a crossroads in life.
bee
Rape of Love
Title: Rape of Love
Character: Julien
Released: January 10, 1978
Type: Movie
Nicole, nurse in Grenoble, is raped one night by four men. Deeply scarred, emotionally and physically, she thinks she will never recover from the trauma. Following a friend's advice, she decides to file a lawsuit.
bee
la femme rompue
Title: la femme rompue
Released: January 1, 1978
Type: Movie
bee
Title: Midi Première
Character: Self
Released: January 6, 1975
Type: TV
Midi Première is a French variety show presented by Danièle Gilbert, directed by Jacques Pierre and broadcast from January 6, 1975 until January 1, 1982 on TF1. The program was generally broadcast between 12:15 p.m. and 12:55 p.m., then giving way to the 1:00 p.m. TV news. However, the broadcast schedule could change, depending on the guests, and the setting where the recording of the program was shot. Certain performances by artists who have become cult like the one where Ringo jostles with a demonstrator in interpretation (1977), that of Dalida with the title There is always a song with the soundtrack that does not start, twice, at the right speed (1978), Claude François and his Clodettes, who, in the provinces, are unable to join "the set" in order to interpret his song, the latter being taken by the crowd of delirious fans (summer 1977) . The group Supertramp performed there with the title "Dreamer" on March 8, 1975.
bee
Le funambule
Title: Le funambule
Released: November 26, 1974
Type: Movie
bee
Title: Spécial cinéma
Character: Self
Released: September 25, 1974
Type: TV
bee
Les oiseaux de la lune
Title: Les oiseaux de la lune
Character: Grindot
Released: April 28, 1974
Type: Movie
Valentin, the general supervisor of a sub-prefecture cram school, has a strange power: all he has to do is wish for a certain person to turn into a bird, and the metamorphosis takes place and his victims grow wings. He's in love with Sylvie, the young lady coveted by all the local males. This is how an entire small population loses its human appearance.
bee
Blaise Pascal
Title: Blaise Pascal
Character: Blaise Pascal
Released: May 16, 1972
Type: Movie
In this evocative, atmospheric biography, Roberto Rossellini brings to life philosopher and mathematician Blaise Pascal, who, amid religious persecution and ignorance, believed in a harmony between God and science.
bee
The Adventures of Zadig
Title: The Adventures of Zadig
Released: December 29, 1970
Type: Movie
In the time of King Moabdar, in ancient Babylon, the young philosopher, Zadig, undergoes many misadventures.
bee
Title: Un mystère par jour
Character: Michel Falgoux
Released: October 5, 1970
Type: TV
bee
Alyse et Chloé
Title: Alyse et Chloé
Character: Le mage adepte du nombril
Released: September 30, 1970
Type: Movie
Alyse, a successful cover girl, has had an affair with Luc Bordier, an advertising photographer, for one year now. But although Luc loves her truly, he tends to neglect her as he is too busy with his work. Chloé, who runs an advertising agency, takes advantage of these off-days to seduce Alyse. Alyse tries to hide the situation from Luc but the latter realizes what is happening. He urges Alyse to go with him on a trip to the West Indies but she refuses and joins Chloé, not without suffering from being separated from Luc...
bee
Last Leap
Title: Last Leap
Released: June 7, 1970
Type: Movie
A veteran paratrooper murders his Vietnamese wife when he finds her in the arms of a younger man. Garal (Maurice Ronet) makes it back to the army base where his drunken roommate provides him with an iron clad alibi. Jauran (Michel Bouquet) is the local police inspector who befriends the Garal, unaware he is the killer. The younger man is accused of the woman's murder, but the paratrooper begins to feel overwhelmed with guilt. The longer he remains silent about the crime, the more psychological torture he must endure.
bee
L'illusion comique
Title: L'illusion comique
Character: Clindor
Released: April 14, 1970
Type: Movie
bee
Title: L'Homme du Picardie
Character: Lucien
Released: December 16, 1968
Type: TV
bee
La 99ème minute
Title: La 99ème minute
Released: August 23, 1966
Type: Movie
Death live! In the middle of filming a detective drama, the main actor Gérard Gérard dies from a gunshot. This returning star was hated by her partners... So, suicide, accident or crime? The investigation takes place before our eyes until the 99th minute. Let the masks fall!
bee
Le vieux juif Blonde
Title: Le vieux juif Blonde
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
bee
A fixed idea by Paul Valéry
Title: A fixed idea by Paul Valéry
Character: Moi
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
A beach on the shores of the Mediterranean, crushed by the sun, under an implacable blue sky, isolated on a rock like Sisyphus rolling away his bitterness, a man is on the verge of suicide. While ruminating on his fixed idea, he is disturbed by an intruder, a doctor on vacation like him. The man with a fixed idea (Pierre Arditi) declares "I felt in a state of inhumanity", the doctor (Bernard Murat) decked out in all the holidaymaker's accessories: a landing net, an easel and a colored box, comes to invade the morbid loneliness. The importunate debonair begins a conversation that will turn into a philosophical joust where we approach science, Einstein, politics, and the verb. THE MATERIALIST AND THE PHILOSOPHER scrap at speckled foils with the sharpest and most divinely French spirit. Conversation is a balm, an intellectual bandage. The good doctor is a good practitioner and a brave man!
bee
L'école des femmes
Title: L'école des femmes
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie