André WilmsFilmography

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The True Story of Puss'n Boots

Actors: Jerome Deschamps, Yolande Moreau, Louise Wallon, Arthur Deschamps, Jean-Claude Bolle-Reddat, Atmen Kelif, André Wilms

Synopsis: For generations, children around the world have enjoyed the classic fairy tale of Puss 'n' Boots (or, in France, Le Chat botté), the endlessly clever granary cat who uses a wealth of clever ploys (and a magic spell or two) to help his master gain fame, riches and true love with a princess. The Read More

4/1/09
Ricky

Actors: Alexandra Lamy, Sergi López, Mélusine Mayance, Arthur Peyret

Synopsis: Gallic director François Ozon's idiosyncratic Ricky represents an attempt to weld together two polar opposite and seemingly incompatible genres: kitchen-sink realist drama and high-concept Spielbergian fantasy. Loosely inspired by a Rose Tremain short story, the tale opens on a council estate just Read More

2/11/09
La Confiance Regne

Actors: Vincent Lindon, Cécile De France, Eric Berger, Anne Brochet, Jacques Boudet

2004
Bienvenue Chez Les Rozes

Actors: Carole Bouquet, André Wilms, Jean Dujardin, Lorant Deutsch, Clémence Poésy

Synopsis: Francis Palluau's directorial debut Bienvenue Chez les Rozes (Welcome to the Rozes) is a comedy about a hostage situation. Gilbert (Lorant Deutsch) and MG (Jean Dujardin) escape from prison and end up hiding out at the home of Daniel and Beatrice Roze (André Wilms and Carole Bouquet), who are Read More

2003
Une Part du Ciel

Actors: Séverine Caneele, Sofia Leboutte, Josiane Stoleru, Naima Hireche, Annick Keusterman

Synopsis: The harsh realities of prison life are parallelled with the day-to-day drone of factory work in director Bénédicte Liénard's dramatic study in compromise. Serving time in prison for an unspecified violent crime related to her employment at the factory, Joanna (Séverine Caneele) experiences the Read More

2002
Broceliande

Actors: Elsa Kikoine, Cylia Malki, Alice Taglioni

Synopsis: When an archeology student unearths some ancient Celtic stones in a mysterious forest, she comes face to face with the malevolent supernatural presence behind a spate of recent deaths at her nearby university. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

2002
Tanguy

Actors: Sabine Azéma, André Dussollier, Eric Berger, Helene Duc, Aurore Clément

Synopsis: The director of the celebrated black comedy Tatie Danielle, Étienne Chatiliez returns to the realm of dark humor with Tanguy. When their eponymous son is born, Paul and Edith Guetz (André Dussolier and Sabine Azema) are so besotted with the new arrival that they make him the fateful promise he can Read More

2001
Juha

Actors: Sakari Kuosmanen, Kati Outinen, André Wilms, Markku Peltola, Elina Salo

Synopsis: Aki Kaurismaki's Juha is the fourth adaptation of this love triangle involving a woman and two men. The original story took place in the 18th century and revolved around a former servant girl, Marja, who is married to plain, simple-minded and older Juha, but in love with Russian salesman and Read More

1999
Les Derniers jours d'Emmanuel Kant

Actors: David Warrilow, André Wilms, Roland Amstutz, Christian Rist

Synopsis: This French drama, based on an 1850s essay by Thomas De Quincey, examines a brief, fictionalized time period in the life of Professor Kant. The story is set in Kant's hometown, Konigsberg; it chronicles his last few years prior to his death in 1804 at the age of 80. The story looks more at the Read More

1994
L'Enfer

Actors: Emmanuelle Béart, François Cluzet, Marc Lavoine, Nathalie Cardone, André Wilms

Synopsis: This French drama about the relationship between an insanely jealous man and his wife took 30 years to make. Since its inception by the late director Henri-Georges Clouzot the film was plagued with bad luck. He began filming it in 1964. There are only two characters in the film and on the third Read More

1994
Leningrad Cowboys Meet Moses

Actors: Matti Pellonpää, Kari Väänänen, André Wilms, Nicky Tesco

Synopsis: This comedy is a sequel to Aki Kaurismaki's successful Leningrad Cowboys Go America. The Lennigrad Cowboys are billed as the "worst rock'n'roll band in the world." In the last film they went to the U.S. In this film they travel from Mexico back to Lennigrad. The story begins in Mexico. The band Read More

1994
Le Grand Blanc De Lambarene

Synopsis: This African comedy takes a sharp, satiric poke at one of the white colonialist's most sacred cows--the humanitarian work of Dr. Albert Schweitzer. The film was shot beside Ganon's Ogooue River in Lambarene, where the real Schweitzer did most of his work, and the settings are more realistic than Read More

1994
Equinox

Actors: Matthew Modine, Lara Flynn Boyle, Fred Ward, Tyra Ferrell, Tate Donovan, Marisa Tomei

Synopsis: Alan Rudolph wrote and directed this typically off-beat drama. A brief romantic liaison between a wealthy European and an American ballet dancer results in a pair of identical twins, who are separated and raised by others shortly after birth. Henry (Matthew Modine) was adopted by Pete (M. Emmet Walsh Read More

1993
Coupable d'innocence

Actors: Aleksander Bardini, Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu, Ute Lemper, Jan Peszek, Wojciech Pszoniak, André Wilms

Synopsis: In the late-18th century, it was unusual for anyone to become a master craftsman before the age of twenty, much less a master clockmaker. In this story, eighteen-year-old master clockmaker Max Bardo (Jonathan Zaccai) has come to the attention of a wealthy aristocratic inventor, who has hired him Read More

1992
Sexes Faibles!

Actors: François Cluzet, Valérie Lemercier, André Wilms, Michel Aumont, Marc Berman

Synopsis: One would think that Maud could divorce her completely unamorous husband: in ten years of marriage, they have never once had sex. In this comedy, based on Tom Sharpe's novel Blott on the Landscape, Maud's husband is the mayor of the town they live in, and she is the hereditary owner of an ancient Read More

1992
Missa On Musette?

Actors: Aki Kaurismäki, Matti Pellonpää, Kari Väänänen, André Wilms, Evelyne Didi

Synopsis: The makers of this laudatory documentary have caught filmmaker Aki Kaurismaki at work on his film La Vie de Boheme. Aki and his brother Mika have, between them, completely revitalized Finland's native film industry, and their wild, anarchic films have delighted audiences while smashing through old Read More

1992
La Vie De Bohème

Actors: Matti Pellonpää, Evelyne Didi, André Wilms, Kari Väänänen, Christine Murillo

Synopsis: This is a well-regarded contemporary dramatic retelling of the story most familiar to audiences from Puccini's great opera La Bohème and was made by the noted Finnish film director Aki Kaurismaki. Like the opera, it is based on the novel Scènes de la vie de bohème by Henri Murger. Despite their Read More

1992
Europa, Europa

Actors: Marco Hofschneider, Julie Delpy, René Hofschneider, André Wilms, Piotr Kozlowski, Aschley Wanninger, Hanns Zischler

Synopsis: This drama was based on the true story of a young German Jew who survived the Holocaust by falling in with the Nazis. Solomon Perel (Marco Hofschneider) is the son of a Jewish shoe salesman coming of age in Germany during the rise of Adolf Hitler. In 1938, a group of Nazis attack Solomon's family Read More

6/28/91
Isimeria

Actors: André Wilms, Antigone Amanitou, Vanni Corbellini

Synopsis: While a dying elderly philosopher recites the words of Agamemnon in glorious sites connected with Greece's ancient history, an archaeologist and his assistant are working a site on a Greek island. They are joined by the archaeologist's daughter, who has a series of romantic adventures while her Read More

1991
La Revolte Des Enfants

Actors: Michel Aumont, André Wilms, Clementine Amouroux

Synopsis: In the 19th century, children -- particularly the children of the poor -- were considered to be an exploitable resource of docile and cheap labor who were paid starvation (literally) wages. Anyone who had the effrontery to steal so much as a portion of a loaf of bread for any reason would (at the Read More

1991
Monsieur Hire

Actors: Michel Blanc, Sandrine Bonnaire, Luc Thuillier, André Wilms, Eric Berenger, Philippe Dormoy, Bernard Soufflet

Synopsis: Lonely and shy bachelor Monsieur Hire (Michel Blanc), suspected in the murder of a girl, secretly watches his young, attractive neighbor Alice (Sandrine Bonnaire) through the window. Once, when lightning flashes during a thunderstorm, she notices his face in the window and comes to him to find out Read More

4/20/90
Tatie Danielle

Actors: Tsila Chelton, Catherine Jacob, Isabelle Nanty, Eric Prat, Neige Dolsky, Laurence Fevrier

Synopsis: Tatie Danielle is a black comedy about a widow who is intent on ruining the lives of her great-nephew and his wife. Tsilla Chelton plays the title character, who mourns the death of her husband by tormenting everyone she meets. Eventually, she moves in with her nephew and his vain wife. Soon, her Read More

4/4/90
Aventure de Catherine C.

Actors: Fanny Ardant, Hanna Schygulla, Robin Renucci, André Wilms

1990
La Lectrice

Actors: Miou-Miou, Christian Ruche, Maria Casarés, Patrick Chesnais, Marianne Denicourt

Synopsis: At the suggestion of a friend, Constance (Miou-Miou) places an ad in the paper offering her services as a reader in this romantic comedy drama. Her job leads her to a variety of employers and occasional romantic involvement. Maria Casares plays the widow of an East European general who has Read More

4/21/89
Champ d'Honneur

Actors: Cris Campion, Pascale Rocard, Eric Wapler, Frederic Mayer, Marcelle Dessalles

Synopsis: In 19th century Europe, it was not uncommon in times of war for young aristocrats to hire peasant boys to fight in their place. Such a surrogate is portrayed by Cris Campion in the French Field of Honor (Champ d'Honneur). The conflict at hand is the Franco-Prussian war, which was virtually fought Read More

1/20/89
Drôle D'Endroit Pour Une Rencontre

Actors: Catherine Deneuve, Gérard Depardieu, André Wilms, Jean-Pierre Sentier

Synopsis: France (Catherine Deneuve) is a haughty, bourgeoise wife abandoned by her husband by the side of the road after a vicious quarrel. She meets Charles (Gerard Depardieu), a doctor who has spent the last two nights taking his car engine apart and now can't get it back together. The meeting of the two Read More

1988
Life Is a Long Quiet River

Actors: Daniel Gélin, Benoît Magimel, Valerie Lalande, Catherine Hiegel, Hélène Vincent, André Wilms, Christine Pignet

Synopsis: Life is a Long Quiet River is the satirically philosophical title for this French domestic comedy. Borrowing a page from The Corsican Brothers, the film begins with a castoff mistress spitefully switching a pair of newborn babies at the maternity ward managed by her doctor lover. As a result, the Read More

1988
Les Poings Fermes

Actors: André Wilms, Laurent Pahud, Marie-Helene Daste, Karen Rencurel

1985
Le Soldat Qui Dort

Actors: André Wilms, Laurent Pahud, Marie-Helene Daste, Karen Rencurel, Yvette Theraulaz

Synopsis: Pacifist and enigmatic throughout, Le Soldat Qui Dort opens with a little boy crawling along the floor of a hospital ward where his father lies in a coma. On a train, going to a remote village where it is safer, the boy sees the coach car filled with soldiers covered in dried mud, sitting like Read More

1984
Tartuffe

Actors: François Perier, Gérard Depardieu, Elisabeth Depardieu

Synopsis: Gérard Depardieu's version of Tartuffe brings no innovative cinematic flair to the story of an outrageous and daring imposter who passes himself off as a haughty, pious priest (Tartuffe, also played by Depardieu), in order to gain access to the fortune and properties - and daughter - of the Read More

1984
Flucht Aus Pommern

Actors: Armin Mueller-Stahl, Marie-Charlotte Schüler, André Wilms

Synopsis: This West German film chronicles the trials of a group of people fleeing the invading Russian army in 1944-45 in the area of Pomerania in eastern Germany. Caught in the dead of winter, several men, women and children load themselves and their belongings onto horse-drawn wagons to start their Read More

1983