Charles BerlingFilmography

Summer Hours

Actors: Juliette Binoche, Charles Berling, Jérémie Renier, Edith Scob, Dominique Reymond

Synopsis: Three siblings must come to terms with their mother's mortality as they decide what to do with her valuable belongings in this warm family drama from filmmaker Olivier Assayas. Hélène Berthier (Edith Scob) is about to turn 75, and her children are gathering at her home in the country for a party. Read More

Cycles

Actors: Miou-Miou, Charles Berling, Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Shulamit Adar, Dominique Reymond

Synopsis: A brother and sister face the traumas of middle age while their mother loses her battle with Alzheimer's in this comedy-drama from France. Simon (Charles Berling) is a writer in his mid-forties who is getting his life back on track after a divorce; he's also looking after his teenage daughter Read More

The Man of My Life

Actors: Bernard Campan, Charles Berling, Léa Drucker, Niels Lexcellent

Synopsis: A man vacationing in the country with his wife and children finds his sexuality unexpectedly challenged in director Zabou Breitman's intimate drama. Frédéric is a family man who needs a vacation. Upon arriving at his cottage in the country, Frédéric makes the acquaintance of Hugo -- the gay Read More

L'homme de sa vie

Actors: Charles Berling, Bernard Campan

Synopsis: An idyllic family vacation is unexpectedly thrown into jeopardy with the arrival of an amiable visitor whose casual disregard for the family mold causes a notable rift in the once-happy household in director Zabou Breitman's assured sophomore feature. Frédéric (Bernard Campan) is a middle-class Read More

Made in Paris

Actors: Edouard Baer, Charles Berling

I Saw Ben Barka Get Killed

Actors: Charles Berling, Simon Abkarian, Josiane Balasko, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Fabienne Babe

Synopsis: The kidnapping and assassination of Moroccan political activist Mehdi Ben Barka, fictionalized in Yves Boisset's L'Attentat in 1972, gets a more historically accurate treatment in Serge Le Péron's noirish docudrama, the tabloid-headline-titled I Saw Ben Barka Get Killed. The film is narrated by Read More

La Maison de Nina

Actors: Agnès Jaoui, Sarah Adler, Katia Lewkowicz, Arie Elmaleh, Charles Berling

Synopsis: Richard Dembo's third directorial effort, La Maison De Nina, concerns a group of Jewish children living in an orphanage in Paris at the end of WWII. Soon there is an influx of children at the orphanage whose parents did not survive the concentration camps. Eventually those newcomers and the Read More

Les Ames Fortes

Actors: Laetitia Casta, Frédéric Diefenthal, Arielle Dombasle, John Malkovich, Charles Berling

Synopsis: One woman's actions inspire a variety of reactions among those around her in this period drama. Therese (Laetitia Casta) and Firmin (Frédéric Diefenthal) are a young couple of modest means living in France in 1882. Firmin earns a living as a blacksmith, while Therese finds work at an inn. At the Read More

Agents Secrets

Actors: Vincent Cassel, Monica Bellucci, André Dussollier, Charles Berling, Bruno Todeschini

Demonlover

Actors: Connie Nielsen, Charles Berling, Chloë Sevigny, Gina Gershon, Jean-Baptiste Malartre

Synopsis: French director Olivier Assayas departs from his usual dramas with Demonlover, a wild thriller about corporate intrigue, hardcore sex Internet sites, and Japanese animé. Wealthy French business man Henri-Pierre Volf (Jean-Baptise Malartre) assigns Diane de Monx (Connie Nielson) to make a deal with Read More

Pere et Fils

Actors: Philippe Noiret, Charles Berling, Bruno Putzulu, Pascal Elbe, Marie Tifo

Synopsis: Directed by Michel Boujenah, Pere et Fils (Father and Son) centers around retired traveling salesman Leo Serano's (Philippe Noiret) decision to become closer to his three children, albeit late in life. Leo's first son, David (Charles Berling), is a longtime overachiever who runs his own plumbing Read More

Je Reste!

Actors: Sophie Marceau, Vincent Perez, Charles Berling, Pascale Roberts, Francois Perrot

Le Soleil Assassine

Actors: Charles Berling, Mehdi Dehbi, Ouassini Embarek, Abbes Zahmani, Clotilde de Bayser

Synopsis: Algerian filmmaker Abdelkrim Bahloul writes and directs the drama The Assassinated Sun, based on actual events in the newly independent Algeria of the 1970s. Following the country's liberation in 1962, the police didn't take kindly to gay poet Jean Senac (Charles Berling). Nevertheless, he was Read More

My Father and I

Actors: Michel Bouquet, Charles Berling, Natacha Régnier, Amira Casar, Stephane Guillon

Synopsis: When the grown-up children of a missing parent are reunited with their father, they discover it raises more questions than it answers in a well-crafted mood piece from writer/director Anne Fontaine. Jean-Luc (Charles Berling) is a well-to-do physician whose practice is devoted to older patients Read More

Les Destinées

Actors: Emmanuelle Béart, Charles Berling, Isabelle Huppert, Olivier Perrier, Dominique Reymond

Synopsis: Acclaimed French filmmaker Olivier Assayas follows up on the international success of Fin Août, Début Septembre and Irma Vep with this sweeping adaptation of the sprawling three-volume tome by Jacques Chardonne. Set in three chapters spanning from the beginning of the 1900s to after WWI, the first Read More

Filles Perdues, Cheveux Gras

Actors: Amira Casar, Marina Fois, Olivia Bonamy, Charles Berling, Sergi López

Synopsis: Claude Duty's feature-length debut Filles Perdues, Cheveux Gras (Hypnotized and Hysterical, (Hairstylist Wanted)) is an offbeat comedy about three women. Elodi (Olivia Bonamy) is a struggling single mother. Natacha (Marina Fois) is an upbeat alcoholic hair stylist whose beloved pet cat has Read More

A Matter of Taste

Actors: Bernard Giraudeau, Jean-Pierre Lorit, Florence Thomassin, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Artus de Penguern

Synopsis: A waiter discovers that good taste can be dangerous in this offbeat psychological drama from France. Nicolas (Jean-Pierre Lorit) is a young man living in bohemian poverty in Lyon, sharing a flat with his girlfriend Beatrice (Florence Thomassin) and three of their friends. Nicolas works part-time Read More

Un Jeu D'Enfants

Actors: Karin Viard, Charles Berling, Ludivine Sagnier

Synopsis: This is a dark, sinister second feature from the director of the 1995 film The Rock of Acapulco, featuring Charles Berling and Karin Viard as a married couple in Paris enjoying the fruits of their careers. He works in an executive post and she works out of a spacious Paris apartment she has Read More

Stardom

Actors: Jessica Paré, Dan Aykroyd, Charles Berling, Thomas Gibson, Frank Langella

Synopsis: French Canadian director Denys Arcand pushes the boundaries of the mockumentary with Stardom, the tale of a fictional neophyte supermodel (Jessica Pare) told entirely through clips of her appearances on talk shows, television interviews, and documentaries. Originally titled 15 Moments Read More

The Bridge

Actors: Carole Bouquet, Gérard Depardieu, Charles Berling, Stanislas Crevillen, Dominique Reymond

Synopsis: Actor Gerard Depardieu co-directed (with Frederic Auburtin) this drama about a married woman who falls in love with another man, which stars Depardieu and Carole Bouquet. Mina (Bouquet) is a movie buff with a husband, Georges (Depardieu), who's out of work, and a 15-year-old son, Tommy (Stanislas Crevillen Read More

The Comedy Of Innocence

Actors: Isabelle Huppert, Jeanne Balibar, Nils Hugon, Charles Berling, Edith Scob

Synopsis: A woman begins to wonder if her young son is who she thinks he is in this psychological suspense story. Ariane and Pierre (Isabelle Huppert and Denis Podalydes) are the busy parents of a nine-year-old son, Camille (Nils Hugon). Camille feels neglected by his hard-working mom and dad and often Read More

Scenes De Crimes

Actors: Charles Berling, André Dussollier, Eva Darlan, Camille Japy

Synopsis: As the title would suggest, this film, directed by Frederic Schoendoerffer, is a noirish crime drama about two forensic cops on the trail of serial murderer. Georges Fabian (Charles Berling) and Jean-Louis Gomez (Andre Dussollier) are put on the case when Marie -- the teenaged daughter of a couple Read More

Love Etc.

Actors: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Yvan Attal, Charles Berling, Thibault de Montalembert

Synopsis: Though unemployed, Pierre is buoyant, outgoing, affable, and experienced with women. This last is a point he never fails to drive home to Benoit, his gentle, hapless best friend. In an effort to compensate for his romantic failures, Benoit turns to the newspaper personals ads, and meets Marie. Read More

Fait d'hiver

Actors: Claude Brasseur, Jean-François Stévenin, Charles Berling

Synopsis: This is a psychological drama about Louis Riquier (Charles Berling), a veteran of the Algerian war and a divorced father whose wife (Beatrice Palme) has custody of their children and who barricades himself with the kids in his country house. The police and the press surround the house, but he does Read More

L'Ennui

Actors: Charles Berling, Sophie Guillemin, Arielle Dombasle, Robert Kramer, Alice Grey

Synopsis: Cedric Kahn directed this erotic French drama about sexual obsession. Separated from his wife, Martin (Charles Berling) is intrigued when he sees an elderly painter with plump teen Cecilia (Sophie Guillemin). When he later learns that the man has died, Martin meets Cecilia, and asks her intimate Read More

L'Inconnu de Strasbourg

Actors: Ornella Muti, Charles Berling, Johan Leysen, Christian Vadim

Synopsis: Chilean-born Valeria Sarmiento directed this improbable French thriller. Madeleine (Ornella Muti) is with her lover, Jean-Paul (Charles Berling), when her husband arrives home and catches the two together. Madeleine kills her husband and tells Jean-Paul to flee before the police arrive. After Read More

Those Who Love Me Can Take The Train

Actors: Pascal Greggory, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Charles Berling, Bruno Todeschini

Synopsis: Patrice Chereau (Queen Margot) directed this French drama about a train trip to an artist's funeral. Friends of painter Jean-Baptiste Emmerich (Jean-Louis Trintignant, seen in flashbacks) gather at a Paris railroad station for a four-hour journey to Limoges, where Emmerich wanted to be buried. The Read More

Dry Cleaning

Actors: Miou-Miou, Charles Berling, Stanislas Merhar, Mathilde Seigner

Synopsis: This French-Spanish drama depicts a flat marriage that picks up a few new wrinkles. Nicole (Miou-Miou) and Jean-Marie Kunstler (Charles Berling) have run their small-town dry-cleaning shop for 15 years. When they visit a local night club, they see the brother-sister act of Loic (Stanislas Merhar) Read More

Les Palmes de Monsieur Schutz

Actors: Isabelle Huppert, Philippe Noiret, Charles Berling, Christian Charmettant

Synopsis: Based on an award-winning play by Jean-Noel Fenwick, this fact-based drama offers a lively account of the lives and professional struggles of Noble prize-winning research scientists Pierre and Marie Curie. The two meet at the Paris School of Physics & Chemistry in a frosty laboratory. There Pierre Read More

Obsession

Actors: Heike Makatsch, Charles Berling, Daniel Craig, Seymour Cassel, Allen Garfield

Synopsis: In order to solve a family mystery, John, a stonemason from Zimbabwe, travels to Berlin to search for 1928 footage of a tightrope walker at Niagara Falls. While there, he becomes romantically obsessed with Miriam, a French rock musician in an all-girl band. Unfortunately, Miriam is totally in love Read More

Ridicule

Actors: Charles Berling, Fanny Ardant, Judith Godrëche, Jean Rochefort, Bernard Giraudeau

Synopsis: This is a French costume drama from director Patrice Leconte that recalls both Dangerous Liaisons (1988) and Restoration (1995). Gregoire Ponceludon de Malavoy (Charles Berling) is a baron of the 18th century French countryside, wealthy in property and high in social position but poor in cash. Read More

Tabu: Dernier Voyage

Crew: Intertitle Writer

Synopsis: This French documentary chronicles the last few months in the life of seminal filmmaker F.W. Murnau (known for such silent films as Nosferatu). Carefully researched by scholar Bernard Eisenschitz, the film features considerable archival footage and original comments from the great director. The Read More

L'Age des Possibles

Actors: Anne Cantineau, Christele Tual, Anne Caillere, Isabelle Olive

Synopsis: Set in contemporary Strasbourg, France, this comedy-drama offers episodes from the lives of five women and five men, all in their 20s, and all searching for their niches in the adult world. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Dernier Stade

Actors: Anne Richard, Philippe Volter, Siemen Ruhaack, Charles Berling

Synopsis: The negative physical and psychological effects of anabolic steroids, growth hormones, and masking agents are examined in this European drama which focuses upon the conflict felt by a young runner whose fear of failure exceeds her fear of the drugs. Catherine Delaunay, a 25-year old runner, has Read More

Pullman Paradis

Actors: Dominique Valadie, Charles Berling

Synopsis: Sixteen passengers aboard a Paris tour bus bound for Normandy provide the framework for this French ensemble drama. The trip takes 48 hours; in that time the disparate passengers begin forming a unique bond. Among the riders are a pair of snobs who have decided to "slum it" and take the bus; a Read More

Nelly & Monsieur Arnaud

Actors: Emmanuelle Béart, Michel Serrault, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Charles Berling, Claire Nadeau, Danièle Lebrun

Synopsis: Almost a follow-up to director Claude Sautet's Un Coeur en Hiver (1992), Nelly & Monsieur Arnaud further explores repressed emotions and failed relationships. Nelly (Emmanuelle Béart), an attractive young woman, is six months behind in her rent and struggling with odd jobs, while her husband (Charles Berling Read More

Petits Arrangements avec les Morts

Actors: Didier Sandre, Alexandre Zloto, Charles Berling, Catherine Ferran, Sabrina Leurquin

Synopsis: A handful of people find themselves haunted on an idyllic summer afternoon by memories of death and loss in this contemplative drama from France. Siblings Zaza (Catherine Ferran) and Francois (Charles Berling) are enjoying a day at the beach with their brother Vincent (Didier Sandre) when Zaza and Read More

Consentement Mutuel

Actors: Richard Berry, Anne Brochet, Adrienne Winling, Christiane Cohendy, Jean-Claude Bouillon, Marine Delterme

Synopsis: Is there such a thing as an amicable divorce? This French drama, explores the subject in depth as it examines the post marital relations between Jeanne, Romain, and their ten year old daughter Mado. Jeanne and Romain had been married ten years before they mutually agreed to call it quits. Mado Read More

Desire

Actors: Greta Scacchi, Vincent D'Onofrio, Claudine Auger

Synopsis: Greta Scacchi plays a famous feminist activist, while Vincent D'Onofrio portrays a humble Scots fisherman in this film from director Andrew Birkin. Despite the obvious ideological chasm between them, the two fall in love. The couple spend the rest of the film running away from commitment, only to Read More

Just Friends

Actors: Josse de Pauw, Ann-Gisele Glass, Sylvie Milhaud, Charles Berling

Synopsis: This buddy-movie chronicles the exploits of two aspiring artists and their girlfriends as they try to achieve their dreams. The film is set in Antwerp during 1959. Jack is a sax player and his girl, Anita, a singer. As the story begins, they are seen practicing a bee-bop song in a small hall. Jack Read More