Patrick Catalifo

Patrick Catalifo

Born: July 1, 1957
in Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis, France

Movies for Patrick Catalifo...

Magnificat
Title: Magnificat
Character: L'auxiliaire
Released: June 21, 2023
Type: Movie
When an elderly priest died, the people in charge of his diocese discovered that it was a woman. Without anyone suspecting it, she had been practicing her vocation for years. Dismayed, the bishop decided to launch an investigation and asked the chancellor of the diocese to find out how, why and with what complicity such a deception was possible.
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Rogue City
Title: Rogue City
Character: Georges Campana
Released: October 30, 2020
Type: Movie
Caught in the crosshairs of police corruption and Marseille’s warring gangs, a loyal cop must protect his squad by taking matters into his own hands.
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Un enfant
Title: Un enfant
Character: Le père
Released: December 12, 2019
Type: Movie
Adrien is twenty years old. He lives alone with his father, a famous actor with an overbearing personality. Adrien's summer in Paris is a succession of small failures and disillusions. More than ever, Adrien is a young man struggling with his self-confidence and his future... Unless he eliminates his father, who he considers the cause of all his setbacks.
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Title: The Crimson Rivers
Character: Gerichtsmediziner
Released: November 26, 2018
Type: TV
Old-school police detective Pierre Niemans and his former student Camille Delaunay tackle complex, brutal murder cases.
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Title: Crimson Wedding
Character: Guy Pavane
Released: August 28, 2018
Type: TV
There is a party atmosphere in Provence: Sandra, the daughter of a couple of renowned local restaurant owners, is getting married, and her sister Alice comes home for the occasion. The family reunion is initially a carefree affair… but then tragedy strikes. A few hours after the ceremony, the bride is found dead at the bottom of a cliff. What at first looks like suicide could well be murder. When Vincent, a family friend, investigates, behind the veil of appearances, he stumbles on some very dark secrets…
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Title: Souviens-toi
Character: Richard Vasseur
Released: January 10, 2018
Type: TV
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Title: Crimes parfaits
Character: Damien
Released: December 19, 2017
Type: TV
Murderers think they have committed the perfect crime. But the investigators will do everything to find the flaw in the Machiavellian plan devised by each killer.
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Carbone
Title: Carbone
Character: Franck Moser
Released: November 1, 2017
Type: Movie
In danger of losing his business, Anthony Roca, an ordinary man, develops a scam that will become the heist of the century. Overtaken by the crime, he will have to deal with betrayal, murder and settling.
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Le viol
Title: Le viol
Character: Emile Mancini
Released: September 19, 2017
Type: Movie
21 August 1974. In Marseille, two Belgian tourists, Nicole and Malia, are savagely attacked and raped by three men. Their attackers claim that the women consented and are allowed to remain free. Though their friends and family advise them to forget the ordeal, Nicole and Malia instead decide to fight. Helped by their lawyer, Gisèle Halimi, they request that the attackers be judged at the assize court. On 8 May 1978, after a long battle, they finally obtain justice. A trial which made history as until then rape had been considered simply as a misdemeanor, whereas now it became a crime.
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Title: Cassandre
Character: André Berthaud
Released: November 28, 2015
Type: TV
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Borderline
Title: Borderline
Character: Michel Neyret
Released: October 7, 2015
Type: Movie
A police superintendent, after 25 years of a flawless professional career, is arrested by internal affairs for 4 days, before being indicted for criminal conspiracy, drug trafficking, theft and embezzlement by the magistrate in charge.
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L'Homme de ta vie
Title: L'Homme de ta vie
Character: Nicolas Corto
Released: August 7, 2014
Type: Movie
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The Father
Title: The Father
Character: Pierre
Released: July 24, 2014
Type: Movie
TV drama.
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C'est pas de l'amour
Title: C'est pas de l'amour
Character: Nicolas
Released: February 5, 2014
Type: Movie
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Title: Murders in...
Character: Julien Forest
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.
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Title: No Limit
Character: Lucas Sartène
Released: November 15, 2012
Type: TV
A terminally ill French secret service agent is hired by Hydra, a mysterious black ops organization set up by the government, to fight crime by any means necessary and receive experimental treatment in return. Also, his daughter hates him.
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Le Jour de la grenouille
Title: Le Jour de la grenouille
Character: Peter Morel
Released: September 12, 2012
Type: Movie
A dedicated archaeologist, Anna Brahé, is stubbornly engaged in exploring an underground site, convinced that she will soon come across some important burial artefacts. Her superior is more sceptical and, his patience exhausted, sends Peter Morel, a renowned archaeologist, to make an assessment of Anna’s discoveries so far. Despite their differences Anna and Peter cannot help being drawn to one another as the site collapses around them...
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A Gang Story
Title: A Gang Story
Character: Commissaire Max Brauner
Released: November 10, 2011
Type: Movie
After growing up in a poor gypsy camp, Edmond Vidal, aka Momon, has retained a sense of family, unfailing loyalty and pride in his origins. Most of all, he has remained friends with Serge Suttel, with whom he first discovered prison life - for stealing cherries. The two of them inevitably got involved in organized crime. The team they formed, the Ganf Des Lyonnais, made them the most notorious armed robbers of the early 1970s. Their irresistible rise ended in 1974 with a spectacular arrest. Today, as he nears 60, Momon would like to forget that part of his life. He has found peace by retiring from the "business". He tends to his wife Janou, who suffered so in the past, and to his children and grandchildren, all of whom have great respect for this man of simple and universal values, so clear-headed and full of kindness. But then Serge Suttel, who has disowned nothing of his past, comes back into the picture.
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J'ai peur d'oublier
Title: J'ai peur d'oublier
Character: Patrick
Released: September 21, 2011
Type: Movie
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La France qui se lève tôt
Title: La France qui se lève tôt
Character: Le policier séduisant
Released: August 23, 2011
Type: Movie
Souleymane has been living and working in France for years, with no residence permit. One day, his boss reports him. A musical about illegal immigrants.
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Fracture
Title: Fracture
Character: Vidal
Released: November 29, 2010
Type: Movie
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Title: Profiling Paris
Character: Bertrand Fouchet
Released: April 23, 2009
Type: TV
Chloé Saint-Laurent is a profiler and works with a police team to solve murders in Paris. She's very sweet, she wears very colored clothes and a huge yellow bag. She looks like a little girl who need a doll, but she's very smart and a very good profiler. Step by step, she fit in the team and her colleagues, very reserved at first, became her best friends.
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Guy Môquet, un amour fusillé
Title: Guy Môquet, un amour fusillé
Character: Lieutenant Parrain
Released: October 21, 2008
Type: Movie
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Title: The Rookies
Character: Daniel Santamaria
Released: September 19, 2007
Type: TV
The cases of five young and well-intentioned police recruits often turn into catastrophes.
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Title: La Louve
Character: Alexis Attar
Released: March 3, 2007
Type: TV
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The Year After
Title: The Year After
Character: Roland Benoît
Released: February 7, 2007
Type: Movie
Emmanuelle lives in the suburbs near a shopping mall. Since her father's death, she feels increasingly out of sync with the world around her. Her mother is distracted, high school bores her. She has just turned 17 and, this particular year, her life will take an entirely different turn.
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President
Title: President
Character: Le Gahennec
Released: September 20, 2006
Type: Movie
State secrets, sincere convictions, ecstatic crowds, a regal lifestyle, prying journalists, suspicious disappearances: what goes on behind the scenes in the halls of power or the daily life of a President.
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Maldonne
Title: Maldonne
Character: Marc Vaillant
Released: February 1, 2006
Type: Movie
Juliette is a wheelchair-bound nine-year-old who sees life as one big card game. She thinks it is her fault that her father abandoned her mother, Sandrine, when she was diagnosed with myopathy as a child. So when Juliette and her mom move into a new house, she decides she' s personally going to find her a new man. Juliette picks the writer next door to be his mother's new deal. Unfortunately not only does this reluctant player prove to be a child- hating bachelor, but his brother happens to be Sandrine's employer and landlord - who wants more than just gratitude from her.
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Passés troubles
Title: Passés troubles
Character: Marc Lorca
Released: January 1, 2006
Type: Movie
A former police officer, Marc Lorca, sees his wife die from a terrible car accident, which occurred while he was driving. Previously alcoholic, Lorca seems to collapse under the weight of guilt. But a former colleague, Marianne Duriez, recently become a police captain, shows him that the accident is not accounted by any negligence on his part. The survey of experts has indeed revealed that the steering axis of the vehicle was sabotaged. Gradually, the suspect list is expanding. Lorca realizes he knows nothing of the past of his deceased wife, who was obviously part of a small extreme left group.
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Trois jours en juin
Title: Trois jours en juin
Character: Henri Dragance
Released: September 19, 2005
Type: Movie
June 1940. While the Germans advance inexorably on the French territory, the army is in full debacle. While the top brass played "sauve qui peut", a handful of French soldiers desperately resisted on the banks of the Loire. On one side, a company of Senegalese riflemen and a few French soldiers, on the other side, the armored tanks of the Wehrmarcht. An act with no real future, it was considered heroic by some and useless by others. But for their leader, Henri Dragance, there was no alternative but to resist or die.
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Imposture
Title: Imposture
Character: Roland
Released: May 25, 2005
Type: Movie
A literary professor who suffers from writer's block decides to kidnap one of his female students in order to promote her brilliant essay that reminds him of his own work as his own.
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The Pleasure Is All Mine
Title: The Pleasure Is All Mine
Character: Paul
Released: August 18, 2004
Type: Movie
A beautiful, self-centered young woman's life turns upside down when she suddenly "loses her clitoris" (i.e. her ability to have an orgasm).
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Le Choix de Macha
Title: Le Choix de Macha
Character: Eduardo
Released: January 21, 2004
Type: Movie
An emancipated young woman has a string of one-night stands, out of fear of commitment. Until the day she meets Eduardo... She confides her feelings to her grandmother in the greatest secrecy, but, by mistake, the latter reveals the love relationship that her granddaughter has with her new lover. The situation suddenly becomes complicated.
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Mister V.
Title: Mister V.
Character: Luigi
Released: November 12, 2003
Type: Movie
Lucas is a young scientist obsessed with the analysis of movement: that of the horses he studies in his laboratory, that of the clappers he practices as an amateur. His professional and sentimental life seems like a stalemate when his brother Luigi, a passionate horse breeder and little crook,who is accidentally killed by a stallion, Mister V. He knows that the animal is the subject of an insurance scam and must be shot against the will of his brother, who had seen in him a future champion. He then decides to take care of the farm and his sister-in-law, for whom he has always had an attraction. Tugged between his feelings, Luigi's memory and the pressures of the former crook partner, he will draw strength and power from the murderous stallion whose savagery fascinates him.
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Jean Moulin, une affaire française
Title: Jean Moulin, une affaire française
Character: Frenay
Released: January 6, 2003
Type: Movie
Drama set in the Second World War, focused on Jean Moulin, hero, martyr and symbol of the French resistance and the patriotism during the dark years of Nazi occupation.
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La Source des Sarrasins
Title: La Source des Sarrasins
Character: Jean-Louis
Released: May 20, 2002
Type: Movie
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Traquée
Title: Traquée
Character: Paul Mantoux
Released: January 1, 2002
Type: Movie
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L'Oiseau rare
Title: L'Oiseau rare
Character: Forest
Released: May 14, 2001
Type: Movie
A woman in her forties takes stock of her past years. She has led a full life, with lots of outings with her friends. She has certainly not had time to be bored and has built the life that suits her. Professionally, she has an interesting job and her friends find her beautiful and funny. The only shadow in this almost idyllic picture is the absence of a child. Unfortunately, she has not yet found the rare pearl who would be a perfect father for her descendants. Determined to remedy the situation, she sets out to find the ideal man. Several male representatives are on the starting line.
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Title: Ladies of the Law
Character: Commandant Morand
Released: June 22, 2000
Type: TV
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Stand-by
Title: Stand-by
Character: Gérard
Released: May 29, 2000
Type: Movie
A woman remains in an airport after her husband announces he wants a divorce, just before they are to board a plane for Argentina. Unwilling to turn to her sister and emotionally traumatized she makes the airport her home, making money by working as a prostitute. She strikes up a friendship with a café worker Marco.....
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L'Eté des hannetons
Title: L'Eté des hannetons
Character: Jean Jouvence
Released: January 1, 2000
Type: Movie
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Lovers
Title: Lovers
Released: December 8, 1999
Type: Movie
A French woman falls in love with a Yugoslavian man, not realizing that he is an illegal immigrant.
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From Behind
Title: From Behind
Character: Jean-François
Released: April 28, 1999
Type: Movie
Frédérique's mother has died recently leaving her the family stud farm. She's never met her father, doesn't even know his name. But she finds it on the back of an old photo. She sets off for Paris. She stays with her gay dancer pal Marc. Marc and friends decide to go to their favourite gay bar... but it's men only. So Frédérique becomes Frédéric, an effeminate gay boy... Frédérique follows her father. Pierre Arroux is an art curator - and gay. She introduces herself to him, but as Frédéric. So while Frédéric is quite an awkward young man and an embarrassment to his father, Frédérique is secretly meeting with her old boyfriend now living in Paris..
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L'Onzième Commandement
Title: L'Onzième Commandement
Released: September 15, 1998
Type: Movie
The perpetrator of a murder refuses to denounce himself, which results in the conviction of one of his friends. On leaving prison, 20 years later, he goes in search of his former boyfriend.
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Don't Let Me Die on a Sunday
Title: Don't Let Me Die on a Sunday
Character: Boris
Released: September 13, 1998
Type: Movie
Ben works in a morgue. Ben's wife left him and he is into various kinds of alternative sexuality. Teresa dies of an ecstasy overdose on the dance floor. When she is brought to the morgue, she is resurrected -how shall I say?- in Ben's arms (that part based on a true story). From this starting point, the film revolves around the interactions between them and Boris (orgy fan), Abdel (no sentimental life), Ducon (wants to kill himself), Nico (dying of AIDS), etc... A social study of the 90s with heavy references to sex and deat
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Chaos technique
Title: Chaos technique
Character: François Bara
Released: March 8, 1998
Type: Movie
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Title: Joséphine, Guardian Angel
Character: Pierre Schaeffer
Released: December 15, 1997
Type: TV
Josephine Delamarre is a guardian angel that Heaven sends to earth. With her psychological insight, ability of persuasion and magical powers, she manages to help people who have problems. She appears at the beginning of each mission; when the mission is completed, she disappears with a click of her fingers.
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Mordbüro
Title: Mordbüro
Character: Inspecteur Raoul
Released: July 9, 1997
Type: Movie
The neologistic title of this film translates as "Death Bureau," a secret vigilante organization used by ordinary working folk to rid the city of criminals through secret executions. Woodworker Leo Stoychev (Maurice Bennichou) goes to the organization for help because his boss Branco (Herve Briaux) won't repay a loan and may have had something to do with the accident that crippled Leo. The Mordburo is responsible for the death of a crooked lawyer, and Inspector Raoul (Patrick Catalifo) becomes suspicious.
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I Hate Love
Title: I Hate Love
Character: Jean-Jacques
Released: June 11, 1997
Type: Movie
Independent Parisian doctor Annie finds herself in an emotional tangle when she tries to help single-minded HIV-positive patient Laurent and embarks on a brief affair with conceited actor Richard.
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Mon amour
Title: Mon amour
Released: March 10, 1997
Type: Movie
Three years after the wedding husband Richard starts to set up his wife, the teacher Marion, with his love and jealousy. He wants to have a baby too. Her best friend and the head of the school only see the nice husband. Antoine, the fiend's brother, is the only one believing her. Everyone else starts to believe that Marion is getting insane is about to become a mental case. Marion moves out, but it's not over. Richards terrorizes her and even starts to get violent. Her only solution is to move to Antoine but that doesn't make it only worse ...
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Title: Florence Larrieu : Le juge est une femme
Character: Commissaire Saintigny
Released: November 11, 1993
Type: TV
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Title: Regards d'enfance
Character: Jean-Louis Bardin
Released: May 5, 1993
Type: TV
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Diên Biên Phu
Title: Diên Biên Phu
Character: Captain Jégu de Kerveguen
Released: March 4, 1992
Type: Movie
Vietnam, 1954. An American reporter finds himself in the middle of the battle of Điện Biên Phủ, between the French army and the Vietminh.
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Children of Chaos
Title: Children of Chaos
Character: Patrick
Released: November 22, 1989
Type: Movie
Is there still a chance for Marie, an unwed young mother and a former drugs addicted prostitute, who is sent to a reformatory school?
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Let Sleeping Cops Lie
Title: Let Sleeping Cops Lie
Character: Peret
Released: November 10, 1988
Type: Movie
This movie tells the story of a group of right-wing cops have begun carrying out vigilante justice on drug dealers and other crime figures who might otherwise avoid punishment for their misdeeds. Police inspector Grindel (Delon) understands the feelings which motivate these deeds, but does not approve. However, he is not highly motivated to put an end to the group's activities until it begins to appear that they are now attacking fellow cops for reasons which are unclear.
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Sand and Blood
Title: Sand and Blood
Character: Francisco Jimenez
Released: May 26, 1988
Type: Movie
Bullfighting, music, medicine, change, and homoerotic possibilities mix in this study of friendship. Francisco is a bullfighter on his way up, so focused even sex doesn't hold his interest. After a minor road accident, he meets a doctor, Manuel, who attends a bullfight, leaving early, retching. His wife, who is also his partner in a string quartet, worries about him: Manuel has a history of breakdown. Manuel, for his part, hates bullfighting and the memories it brings of Franco's Spain. His harsh views undermine Francisco's focus. He accompanies the young fighter to Spain for an important corrida. Will Francisco succeed? And what becomes of this friendship?
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The Cheat
Title: The Cheat
Character: Un voyou
Released: August 8, 1984
Type: Movie
In the docks of Bordeaux a well-known homosexual was murdered. Police Inspector Michel Verta starts investigating, when he falls in love with Bernard, a handsome young musician. This not only threatens his family life but also his integrity, for he is married with a child and Bernard is one of the murder suspects.