Bernard BorderieFilmography

Catherine

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Olga Georges-Picot, Roger Van Hool, Claude Brasseur, Roger Pigaut, André Pousse

Synopsis: Catherine (Olga-George Picot) uses her feminine wiles to survive when enemy hordes attack Paris and kill her lover. The new chief desires her for his own, but she spurns his advances long enough to consort with rebels to plan her escape. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide Read More

Angelique et le Sultan

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Michele Mercier, Robert Hossein, Jean Pascal, Roger Pigaut, Renato de Carmine

Synopsis: A pretty lady in waiting from the court of King Louis XIV is sold to an evil Sultan. Angelique (Michele Mercier) is separated from her husband and suffers the indignities of sexual assault. She manages to survive until her husband (Robert Hossein) comes to her rescue. Although the Sultan's Read More

Indomptable Angelique

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Michele Mercier, Robert Hossein, Roger Pigaut

Sept Hommes Et Une Garce

Crew: Director

Actors: Jean Marais, Sydney Chaplin, Marilù Tolo, Guy Bedos

Synopsis: A French Army Captain (Jean Marais) and his adjunct (Sydney Chaplin) are separated from their unit during the Napoleonic Wars in this comedy adventure. Both men are caught behind enemy lines and have amorous romps with the comely Carlotta (Marilu Tolo), who charms them in various stages of Read More

Brigade Anti-Gangs

Crew: Director

Actors: Robert Hossein, Raymond Pellegrin, Gabriele Tinti, Pierre Clémenti

Synopsis: A kidnapped soccer player leads to a gang of young thugs demanding the release of a jailed comrade in this routine crime drama. The soccer player will be released only when a killer is set free. Meanwhile, a hard-boiled gumshoe suspects a respected restaurateur of being in cahoots with the mob. He Read More

Merveilleuse Angelique

Crew: Director

Actors: Michele Mercier, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jean Rochefort, Jacques Toja, Giuliano Gemma

Synopsis: Angelique (Michele Mercier) is saved by the king of the cutthroats (Giuliano Gemma) when she is endangered in the streets of Paris. After her hero is killed, she has many amorous affairs and becomes a successful businesswoman in this costume-drama sequel based on the book by Serge and Anne Golon. Read More

Angelique et le Roi

Crew: Director

Actors: Michele Mercier, Robert Hossein, Jacques Toja, Sami Frey, Jean Rochefort

Synopsis: Michelle Mercier continues in her role as Angelique, the beautiful woman in the court of King Louis XIV. She beds down several men before her husband, who she believed was dead, returns for her. This is the third in a series of romantic costumed dramas that chronicle Angelique's amorous Read More

Angelique Marquise Des Anges

Crew: Director

Actors: Michele Mercier, Robert Hossein, Jean Rochefort, Giuliano Gemma

Synopsis: Angelique (Michele Mercier), the beautiful daughter of a once-wealthy nobleman, is married off to their rich neighbor Joffray de Peyrac (Robert Hossein) in this provocative 17th-century costumed drama. Theirs is at first a marriage of convenience until she begins to fall for Joffray. When he is Read More

Hardi Pardaillan

Crew: Director

Actors: Gérard Barray, Valerie Lagrange, Philippe Lemaire, Jacques Castelot

Clash of Steel

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Gerard Barray heads the cast of the French swashbuckler Clash of Steel. Upon being ejected from his throne, King Henry of Navarre plots to regain his power. Upon this slight plot peg hangs a tapestry of fantastic swordplay and elaborate battle sequences. The film's 79-minute running time indicates Read More

Rocambole

Crew: Director

Actors: Channing Pollock, Edy Vessel, Alberto Lupo, Nadia Gray

Synopsis: This French-filmed trifle is based on the roguish character created by Ponson du Terrail. American actor Channing Pollock is Rocambole, living by wits in Paris. The film recounts his adventures as he goes from one swinging nightspot to another. Along the way, he breaks a few hearts, but holds out Read More

À Toi De Faire Mignonne

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Eddie Constantine, Christiane Minazzoli, Elga Andersen, Philippe Lemaire

Synopsis: In this suspenseful espionage adventure, Yankee super-sleuth Lemmy Caution must investigate the murder of a female agent and the disappearance of an important scientist. Caution's search leads him to Europe where he learns that the scientist was not kidnapped. He is instead the secret leader of a Read More

Le Chevalier De Pardaillan

Crew: Director

Actors: Gérard Barray, Gianna Maria Canale, Michele Grellier, Kirk Morris

Synopsis: An unexceptional cloak-and-sword adventure yarn by director Bernard Borderie, this tale is set in 16th-century France and features the exploits of a super-macho knight, Pardaillan (Gerard Barray). Pardaillan is in love with the beauteous Violetta (Michele Grellier), currently disguised as a gypsy Read More

Les Trois Mousquetaires - La Vengeance de la Malady

Crew: Director

Actors: Gérard Barray, Georges Descrieres, Daniel Sorano, Jacques Toja, Mylène Demongeot

Synopsis: This costume drama by director Bernard Borderie is the first part of a two-feature combination, set in 17th-century France. In this first, 100-minute installment, D'Artagnan (Gerard Barry) arrives in Paris and joins up with the king's Musketeers. Considerable sword fights and action scenes unfold Read More

Les Trois Mousquetaires - Les Ferrets De la Reine

Crew: Director

Actors: Gérard Barray, Mylène Demongeot, Perette Pradier, Georges Descrieres, Françoise Christophe

Lemmy Pour Les Dames

Crew: Director

Actors: Eddie Constantine, Françoise Brion, Robert Berri

Synopsis: Lead Eddie Constantine first began his stint as Lemmy, the hard-drinking, hard-fighting, womanizing American agent, back in 1951. He continues in that well-established role in this routine spy story about blackmail and state secrets. While Lemmy is relaxing on vacation, a woman is murdered and he Read More

Le Caid

Crew: Director

Actors: Fernandel, Barbara Laage, René Alié, Claude Piéplu

Synopsis: Between 1951 and 1972 Bernard Borderie directed many "B"-grade films, and this low-budget, rapidly made comedy is one of them. Fernandel stars as Migonnet, a philosophy instructor who happens to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. He unintentionally ends up with the loot from a high-end Read More

Comment Qu' Elle Est

Crew: Director

Actors: Eddie Constantine, André Luguet, Françoise Brion, Françoise Prevost

Synopsis: This "B"-grade spy drama features the ubiquitous Eddie Constantine as Lemmy (a favorite role), the special agent who has an unbounded capacity for Scotch and women, though not necessarily in that order. Lemmy has come to France to help the secret police track down a dangerous spy. His ability to Read More

Delit De Fuite

Crew: Director

Actors: Antonella Lualdi, Felix Marten, Aimé Clariond, Folco Lulli

Synopsis: A stock, provincial crime drama by Hollywood's glamorous standards, Delit de Fuite tells the story of Fred (Felix Marten) an unfortunate journalist who becomes attracted to and then enamored of, the young wife of an older business tycoon. Fred's involvement with her parallels a bit of nasty Read More

Le Gorille Vous Salue Bien

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Lino Ventura, Charles Vanel, René Lefèvre, Bella Darvi, Pierre Dux

Synopsis: Lino Ventura stars in this French espionager as a secret agent known only as "The Gorilla". While it's never fully explained how our hero earned this simian nickname, it is perfectly clear that The Gorilla is much sought after by the police and the criminal underworld. The cops suspect that the Read More

Sergent X

Crew: Director

Actors: Noëlle Adam, Christian Marquand, Paul Guers, Guy Mairesse

Synopsis: A remake and rewriting by director Bernard Borderie and scripters of a well-made 1932 film, this routine French drama seems a little outdated. The story has changed from a Russian officer who returns home from the war to find his wife has remarried, to a former paratrooper who tries to drive a Read More

La Valse Du Gorille

Crew: Director

Actors: Roger Hanin, Charles Vanel, Jess Hahn, Suzanne Dehelly

Synopsis: This is the third feature in a series about an intrepid French spy by the nickname of "The Gorilla," but unlike the earlier films, this time around Roger Hanin replaces Lino Ventura in the title role. A West German scientist has discovered a way to recover missiles shot into space, and the major Read More

Ces Dames Preferent Le Mambo

Crew: Director

Actors: Eddie Constantine, Pascale Roberts, Lise Bourdin, Lino Ventura

Synopsis: The "mambo craze"of the late 1950s was hardly confined to the Western hemisphere, as proven by the French adventure flick Ces Dames Preferent le Mambo. In truth, there's not much singing or dancing in this Eddie Constantine vehicle. Instead, two-fisted Eddie gets involved with a treasure hunt in Read More

Tahiti Ou La Joie De Vivre

Crew: Director

Actors: Roland Armontel, Pascale Petit

Fortune Carree

Crew: Director

Actors: Pedro Armendáriz, Folco Lulli, Paul Meurisse, Anna Maria Sandri

Synopsis: Fortune Carree (Square Fortune) was co-adapted by director Bernard Borderie from the novel by Joseph Kessel. Mexican film-favorite Pedro Armendariz plays Igricheff, an undisciplined soldier who opts for the life of a mercenary. Operating out of the North African desert, Igricheff offers his Read More

Les Femmes s'en balancent

Crew: Director

Actors: Eddie Constantine, Nadia Gray, Dominique Wilms, Jacques Castelot

Synopsis: Eddie Constantine makes his third appearance as Peter Cheney's two-fisted FBI agent Lemmy Caution in Les Femmes S'en Balancent (aka Dames Get Along). In this outing, Lemmy is on the trail of a counterfeiting gang. Somehow or other, the mission requires him to dally with a bevy of international Read More

La Môme vert-de-gris

Crew: Director

Actors: Eddie Constantine, Dominique Wilms, Howard Vernon, Jean-Marc Tennberg

Synopsis: The title of this French crime meller translates into The Gun Moll. Eddie Constantine makes the first of several appearances as Lemmy Caution, the two-fisted American government agent created by novelist Peter Cheney. In this outing, Lemmy is dispatched to Casablanca, there to put the kibosh on a Read More

Les Loups Chassent La Nuit

Crew: Director

Actors: Jean-Pierre Aumont, Carla Del Poggio, Fernand Ledoux, Marcel Herrand

Synopsis: Set in Venice, this espionage thriller concerns a gang of saboteurs who've been targeting French military installations. Gallic secret service agent Cyril (Jean Pierre Aumont) is sent to investigate. His progress is impeded by worldly-wise cabaret singer Katherine (Carla del Poggio), who may or Read More

Bon Voyage Mademoiselle

Crew: Director