Claude BrasseurFilmography

His Majesty Minor

Actors: José Garcia, Vincent Cassel, Sergio Peris-Mencheta, Melanie Bernier, Claude Brasseur

Synopsis: Jean-Jacques Annaud directed and co-wrote this wildly offbeat comic fantasy set in an ancient land in the Aegean Sea thousands of years ago. Minor (José Garcia) was abandoned by his parents as a child and was raised by a pack of pigs; he speaks in porcine grunts and lives and loves much like his Read More

Camping

Actors: Gérard Lanvin, Mathilde Seigner, Franck Dubosc, Claude Brasseur, Mylène Demongeot

Family Hero

Actors: Gérard Lanvin, Catherine Deneuve, Géraldine Pailhas, Emmanuelle Béart, Miou-Miou

Synopsis: A down-and-out sleight-of-hand artist tries to pull off the trick of a lifetime by keeping a decaying cabaret in business in this comedy-drama with music from director Thierry Klifa. Gabriel Stern (Claude Brasseur) has spent over four decades running the Blue Parrot, a Parisian nightclub where he Read More

The Handy Man

Actors: Elsa Zylberstein, Kad Merad, Claude Brasseur, Patrick Chesnais, Guillaume Toucas

Synopsis: A talented trompe l'oeil artist finds her dedication to her slacker husband slipping until the aimless but amiable spouse develops an invention that could lead bring the pair fame and fortune in writer/director Michel Leclerc's breezy romantic comedy. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

Malabar Princess

Actors: Jacques Villeret, Jules Angelo Bigarnet, Michèle Laroque, Claude Brasseur, Clovis Cornillac

Chouchou

Actors: Gad Elmaleh, Alain Chabat, Claude Brasseur, Roschdy Zem, Catherine Frot

Synopsis: The comedy Chouchou has a cross-dressing gay immigrant as a main character. Chouchou (Gad Elmaleh) arrives illegally in Paris, where he finds a home thanks to a pair of kindly priests. He eventually finds work with a parishioner who allows him to clean her house while dressed in women's clothing. Read More

Le Lait de la tendresse humaine

Actors: Patrick Bruel, Marilyne Canto, Dominique Blanc, Sergi López, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi

Synopsis: A woman discovers that the joys of parenthood are not making her especially happy in this dark comedy/drama. Christelle (Marilyne Canto) is a new mother who isn't dealing well with the anxieties of caring for her child. One day, she suffers a severe panic attack while alone with the baby, and her Read More

Les Acteurs

Actors: André Dussollier, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Jacques Villeret, Claude Rich

Synopsis: The son of actor Bernard Blier, director Bertrand Blier is known throughout France for his documentaries and dark depictions of sex and its impact on society. Though his influences and personal opinions clearly shine through, Les Acteurs is a satirical take on the ups, downs, and numerous Read More

Toreros

Actors: Olivier Martinez, Claude Brasseur

Synopsis: Bullfighting runs in the family in writer/director Eric Barbier's tale of a rising young corrida star whose promising career is cut tragically short. Manuel Balestera (Oliver Martinez) was a natural star in the ring until a fateful miscalculation sent his life into a downward spiral. Later, after Read More

La Taule

Actors: Claude Brasseur, Olivier Martinez, Bernard Le Coq, Saïd Taghmaoui, Gilbert Melki

Synopsis: This French prison drama focuses on a penitentiary inmate known as the Mute (Olivier Martinez), who either cannot or will not speak, even though he can apparently hear well enough. When the Mute's cellmate escapes, both the Warden (Bernard Le Coq) and the Chief Guard (Claude Brasseur) try to get Read More

La Debandade

Actors: Claude Berri, Fanny Ardant, Claude Brasseur, Alain Chabat, Danièle Lebrun

Synopsis: This French romantic comedy-drama concerns Claude Langmann (Claude Berri, who is also the director) a middle-aged auctioneer who is in a loving marriage with his second wife of 15 years. Though he is deeply in love with his wife and has remained faithful to her, he finds himself unable to perform 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

Matrimoni

Actors: Francesca Neri, Diego Abatantuono, Stefania Sandrelli, Claude Brasseur, Cecilia Dazzi

Synopsis: Matrimony is a drama about the complexity of relationships. On Christmas Eve, perfect housewife Giulia ($Francesca Neri} is worried about a family heirloom which has cracked and rushes to the junk shop to get it repaired -- little anticipating her perfect marriage is about to fall to pieces as Read More

Les Plus Beau Pays du Monde

Actors: Claude Brasseur, Marianne Denicourt, Jean-Claude Adelin, Jacques Bonnaffé, Didier Bezace

Synopsis: The film is based on a true story of a young actor, Robert Hugues Lambert, who was hired to play the role of aviation hero Mermoz in occupied France during WW II. But his career came to a brutal end when his homosexuality was discovered and he was sent to a Nazi camp. The Vichy government's Read More

L'Autre Coté De La Mer

Actors: Claude Brasseur, Roschdy Zem, Marthe Villalonga

Synopsis: An Algeria born and raised French citizen (known as a pied noir) finds himself forced to choose between his beloved but still war-torn homeland and a new life in Paris after he leaves his olive farm and goes to France for a cataract operation. Georges Montero initially only plans to spend a Read More

Delit Mineur

Actors: Caroline Cellier, Claude Brasseur, Niels Arestrup, Christopher Thompson, Macha Meril

Synopsis: Adultery and the possibility of patricide provide the motives behind this French drama, set in a Parisian suburb. Claire is in her earlier forties and is married to Claude, an alcoholic whom she once passionately loved. Together they have a young daughter and 15-year old Guillaume. Claire is Read More

Un, Deux, Trois Soleil

Actors: Anouk Grinberg, Marcello Mastroianni, Myriam Boyer, Olivier Martinez

Synopsis: This experimental drama is something of an actor's challenge: see if you can convincingly play an age range from six to thirty six without any makeup or costume changes, just by using your gifts as a performer. In this film, the role of Victorine poses just such a challenge to Anouk Grinberg, who Read More

A Linha Do Horizonte

Actors: Claude Brasseur, Andréa Ferréol, Ana Padrão, Antonio Valero

Synopsis: Spino (Claude Brasseur) is in his late middle age, working as a mere attendant at the morgue. One day the corpse of a murdered man comes in which shocks him into a frenzy of activity: it looks exactly the way he looked as a young man, right down to the clothing. He enlists the help of his Read More

Le Souper

Actors: Claude Brasseur, Claude Rich, Ticky Holgado, Yann Collette, Stephane Jobert

Synopsis: France, 1815. After his defeat at Waterloo, Napoleon heads for exile. Royalists occupy Paris and attempt to restore the monarchy. However, the battle doesn't seem to be over. On July 6, Talleyrand (Claude Rich), a shrewd politician of flexible convictions, invites chief of police and zealous Read More

Le Bal des Casse-Pieds

Actors: Jean Rochefort, Miou-Miou, Jean Carmet, Odette Laure, Hélène Vincent

Synopsis: In this comedy, veterinarian Henri Sauveur (Jean Rochefort) maintains his dignity and calm in the face of an incredible number of irritating or even genuinely upsetting encounters with inveterate pains-in-the-neck. He suffers from the rudeness (and worse) of Parisian drivers, his relatives, and Read More

Sale Comme un Ange

Actors: Claude Brasseur, Lio, Nils Tavernier, Roland Amstutz

Synopsis: Georges Deblache (Claude Brasseur) is a police inspector who is past middle age and who is so despondent about his life that he refuses to have a medical check-up, even though he suspects he has cancer. His partner is Didier Theron (Nils Tavernier), who has recently married a woman whom he has Read More

Dancing Machine

Actors: Alain Delon, Claude Brasseur, Patrick Dupond, Tonya Kinzinger

Synopsis: In the Dancing Machine, Alain Delon is Alan Wolf, a former great name in the world of dance, who has been forced by injuries to retire and become an instructor. He trains talented young people who hope for a career as dancers. In particular, despite an incredibly harsh and demanding demeanor, he Read More

L'Orchestre Rouge

Actors: Claude Brasseur, Daniel Olbrychski, Dominique Labourier, Etienne Chicot

Synopsis: This spy thriller tells the story of the real-life Soviet superspy Leopold Trepper (Claude Brasseur), who set up an espionage ring (L'Orchestre Rouge) right under the noses of the Nazis in occupied Western Europe. The information they gathered gave Stalin advance warning of Hitler's invasion of Read More

L'Union Sacree

Actors: Richard Berry, Patrick Bruel, Bruno Cremer, Said Amadis, Corinne Dacla, Claude Brasseur

Synopsis: In this thriller, Karim Hamida (Richard Berry), an undercover agent for an Arab government, and Simon Atlan (Patrick Bruel), a Jewish cop, join forces to fight terrorism. To begin with they are paired by their superiors to bust up an international heroin ring operating in French high schools. At Read More

Radio Corbeau

Actors: Claude Brasseur, Pierre Arditi, Evelyne Bouix, Christine Boisson

Synopsis: 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 Read More

Dandin

Actors: Zabou, Claude Brasseur, Daniel Gélin, Nelly Borgeaud, Jean-Claude Adelin

Synopsis: Claude Brasseur stars in this cinemadaptation of the Moliere play Georges Dandin, ou le mari confondu. Written in 1668, the play has been somewhat dwarfed by such like-vintage Moliere classics as The Imaginary Invalid. Still, it was popular enough in its time to inspire imitation, most notably Read More

L'Argent

Taxi Boy

Actors: Claude Brasseur, Richard Berry, Charlotte Valandrey, Evelyne Didi, Isaach de Bankolé

Synopsis: An unusual assortment of characters is brought together in this film noir influenced story: Petrus (Claude Brasseur) spends his life escaping the gamblers he cheated at the card table. Manuel (Richard Berry) has an ambition to open a tango school, but in the meantime he drives a cab for a living. Read More

Descente Aux Enfers

Actors: Claude Brasseur, Sophie Marceau, Gérard Rinaldi, Sidiki Bakaba, Hippolyte Girardot

Synopsis: In this routine psychological thriller, a husband and wife try to jump start their failing marriage by taking a vacation in Haiti, only to find more problems waiting for them after they arrive. Alan (Claude Brasseur) is an older and experienced writer who is suffering from serious writer's block Read More

La Gitane

Actors: Claude Brasseur, Valérie Kaprisky, Clémentine Célarié, Stéphane Audran, Valerie Rojan

Synopsis: The clash in this Philippe De Broca comedy between a bored middle-class stiff and a much more exciting, lawless female offers no new insights into the genre. Hubert Durieux (Claude Brassuer) works in a staid bank job and has to put up with demands from his ex-wife and a daughter who may not have Read More

Palace

Actors: Claude Brasseur, Daniel Auteuil, Gudrun Landgrebe, Jean-Pierre Castaldi

Synopsis: In a standard story of brotherly conflict during the severity of detention in a German prison camp at the end of World War II, Robert (Claude Brasseur) has privileges that make him want to keep his status quo intact, while his brother Lucien (Daniel Auteuil) is anxious to escape and get back to Read More

Les Loups Entre Eux

Actors: Claude Brasseur, Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, Gérard Darmon, Niels Arestrup

Synopsis: Set up along the general plot lines of films like The Dirty Dozen, this routine spy-action drama of espionage and counter-espionage involves ten men trained by NATO attache Straub (Edward Meeks) for a dangerous special mission. The men include leader Larcier (Claude Brasseur), a Romani, a man who Read More

Souvenirs Souvenirs

Actors: Christophe Malavoy, Pierre-Loup Rajot, Gabrielle Lazure, Claude Brasseur, Marlène Jobert

Synopsis: This well-articulated, engaging story about the differing fortunes of two brothers just after Algeria's war for independence is conventional in its outlines, and may have several more characters than can be developed in a short time, but its subtle handling by director Ariel Zeitoun helps to Read More

Détective

Actors: Claude Brasseur, Nathalie Baye, Johnny Hallyday, Laurent Terzieff, Stephane Ferrara, Jean-Pierre Léaud

Synopsis: After several years of making films to please only himself, French director Jean-Luc Godard once more invites the audience to the party with The Detective. Not that there's anything so blase as a linear plot or appealing characters, but at least some of Godard's isolated vignettes are accessible Read More

Le Leopard

Actors: Claude Brasseur, Dominique Lavanant, Marius Weyers, Max Megy, Nini Crepon

Synopsis: In this French drama, a Secret Service agent becomes a novelist after he is forced to retire. He writes about experiences he had as a spy in his novel. Adventure ensues when he and his editor, also a writer, whom the ex-spy regards as too stuffy for his own good, wind up in Africa where they must Read More

Rallye Paris - Dakar

La Crime

Actors: Claude Brasseur, Jean-Claude Brialy, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Gabrielle Lazure

Synopsis: Violent scenes, such as a woman doused with gasoline and set on fire, do nothing to help this melodramatic crime-drama rise above others in its genre. When a police commissioner is determined to track down sources of corruption that reach up to the higher echelons of government he has no idea who Read More

Signes Exterieurs de Richesse

Actors: Claude Brasseur, Josiane Balasko, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Charlotte de Turckheim, Roland Giraud

Synopsis: In this routine romantic comedy, a veterinarian who mingles with humans of a higher pedigree gets an unwelcome visit from a female tax inspector -- and tries to seduce her as a way out of his dilemma. His screwball accountant's version of keeping books is no help, and so in desperation, the Read More

Legitime Violence

Actors: Claude Brasseur, Veronique Genest, Thierry Lhermitte, Roger Planchon, Michel Aumont

Synopsis: A man is left grieving for his dead family after they were shot down in a train station, innocent bystanders to a robbery gone wrong. They were never vindicated since the police seem unable (if not reluctant) to solve the case. Driven in part because he survived and they did not, and frustrated Read More

Josepha

Actors: Miou-Miou, Claude Brasseur, Bruno Cremer, Catherine Allegret

Synopsis: An acting couple is forced to assess their life together when the wife falls for a wealthy horse-breeder while shooting a film. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

La Boum 2

Actors: Sophie Marceau, Claude Brasseur, Brigitte Fossey, Pierre Cosso

Synopsis: This sequel to La Boum, a teenage romantic comedy that was a big box-office success in Europe, revisits Vic (Sophie Marceau), who is now 15 years old and living in a slightly more stable home, since her parents (Brigitte Fossey and Claude Brasseur) have resolved their differences and stopped Read More

T'es Heureuse Moi Toujours

Actors: Dominique Labourier, Guy Marchand, Claude Brasseur, Michel Galabru

Guy De Maupassant

Actors: Claude Brasseur, Jean Carmet, Simone Signoret, Miou-Miou, Anne-Marie Philipe

Synopsis: This fictionalized biography of Guy de Maupassant uses his dying days, suffering under the last ravages of syphilis, to anchor a series of flashbacks that bring his life into view -- though much of that view is tempered by the famed author's passion for sexual encounters. The rest of the vignettes Read More

Une Affaire d'hommes

Actors: Claude Brasseur, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jean Carmet, Eva Darlan, Patrice Kerbrat

Synopsis: Servolle (Claude Brasseur) is a police inspector and Faguet (Jean-Louis Trintignant) is a real estate dealer who become good friends because of their shared love of bicycling -- something they do each Sunday with others of like mind, circling a wooded park area. While they are pedaling away one Read More

La Boum

Actors: Claude Brasseur, Brigitte Fossey, Sophie Marceau, Denise Grey, Dominique Lavanant

Synopsis: La Boum stars Sophie Marceau as a 13-year-old French girl, coping with domestic problems. Her parents, played by Claude Brasseur and Brigitte Fossey, are on the verge of a marital breakup. This is coupled by a traumatic move to Paris, and Marceau's problems in adjusting to her new surroundings and Read More

L'Ombre Rouge

Actors: Claude Brasseur, Jacques Dutronc, Nathalie Baye, Andréa Ferréol

Synopsis: The time is the 1930s and two Soviet spies (both Frenchmen by nationality) have been helping Communist factions during the Civil War in Spain. It is the time of Stalin's iron rule in the USSR, and the two agents are suddenly called to Moscow by the KGB. Knowing that they are in trouble for no Read More

Une Robe Noire Pour un Tueur

Actors: Annie Girardot, Claude Brasseur, Bruno Cremer, Jacques Perrin, Jean de Coninck

Synopsis: The "black robe" in the title of this suspense film belongs to a female lawyer, Florence Nat (Annie Girardot) who has just lost a case in which she defended Simon Risler (Claude Brasseur), a man wrongly accused of murder. Risler escapes before he can be put in prison, and seeks help from attorney Read More

La Banquière

Actors: Romy Schneider, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jean-Claude Brialy, Claude Brasseur, Daniel Mesguich

Aragosta a Colazione

Synopsis: Though it seems impossible that anyone but another lobster could be offended by the Italian-American domestic comedy Lobster for Breakfast, viewers should be warned that the film is rife with bathroom humor. But, hey, it's justified: the hero, played by Enrico Montesano is a travelling toilet Read More

La Guerre des Polices

Actors: Claude Rich, Claude Brasseur, Marlène Jobert, François Perier, Jean-François Stévenin

Synopsis: Fush (Claude Brasseur) and Ballestrat (Claude Rich) are the rival police detectives who head different departments trying to capture a notorious gangster in this crime thriller. Both are not above using underhanded and illegal means to attain their goals. Marie (Marlene Jobert) a the female cop in Read More

Au Revoir...à Lundi

Actors: Carole Laure, Claude Brasseur, Miou-Miou, David Birney, Frank Moore

Synopsis: Two francophones have become roommates in Montreal. One is from France, the other is from Quebec. Their love-lives revolve around affairs with married men who leave them on the weekends for their families in the countryside. Nicole thinks she has finally found a "live one" when she discovers that Read More

L'État Sauvage

Actors: Marie-Christine Barrault, Jacques Dutronc, Michel Piccoli, Claude Brasseur, Doura Mane

Synopsis: L'Etat Sauvage is based on the novel by Georges Conchon which won the highly esteemed Prix de Goncourt. The story chronicles the mindless racism of both the departing French colonial overlords and the emergent black Africans in a newly emerging African state. Laurence (Marie-Christine Barrault) Read More

Une Histoire Simple

Actors: Romy Schneider, Bruno Cremer, Claude Brasseur, Roger Pigaut, Sophie Daumier, Arlette Bonnard

Synopsis: Nominated for an Academy Award, Claude Sautet's A Simple Story (Une Histoire Simple) examines the behavior of its characters as dictated by their environment. Romy Schneider plays Marie, a fortysomething working woman whose tiresome existence has prompted her to inaugurate an affair. Marie Read More

Ils Sont Grands, Ces Petits

Actors: Catherine Deneuve, Claude Brasseur, Claude Piéplu, Eva Darlan, Jean-François Balmer

Synopsis: When a real-estate promoter attempts to take over the homes of two electronics whizzes and boot them out, they contrive ingenious ways to inconvenience and harass him. Louise (Catherine Deneuve) specializes in robots and artificial intelligence, and Leo (Claude Brasseur) makes miniature machines. Read More

L'Argent des Autres

Actors: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Claude Brasseur, Michel Serrault, Catherine Deneuve, Francois Perrot

Synopsis: The most powerful officers of a bank are implicated in a financial scandal, despite their efforts to disassociate themselves from it. When the top brass fire Henri Rainier (Jean-Louis Trintignant) because one of his clients has been accused of fraud, he doesn't take it lying down. He knows that Read More

Monsieur Papa

Actors: Claude Brasseur, Nathalie Baye, Catherine Lachens

Synopsis: In this family comedy, Papa (Claude Brasseur) has no end of trouble getting his young son to accept his new girlfriend. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide Read More

Nous Irons Tous au Paradis

Actors: Jean Rochefort, Claude Brasseur, Guy Bedos, Victor Lanoux, Danièle Delorme

Synopsis: This French comedy is the sequel to the well-regarded Pardon Mon Affaire. This version centers on the sexual fantasies of a quartet of four married, middle-class men attempting to deal with the onset of middle-age. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Le Grand Escogriffe

Actors: Yves Montand, Claude Brasseur, Agostina Belli, Valentina Cortese

Synopsis: When he is not working as a stage performer, Emile (Yves Montand) works as a small-time con-man. He has a brand-new plan for a big job and needs the services of one of his former assistants. He also persuades a young actress to help out with part of the plan: kidnapping the child of a very shady Read More

Le Guêpier

Actors: Claude Brasseur, Marthe Keller, Gabriele Ferzetti, John Steiner

Synopsis: In this caper film, two separate individuals become embroiled in a search for a courier's illegal million-dollar haul. They wind up sharing the loot, and during the ensuing chase, the various factions searching for the money kill themselves off, leaving the duo happily well-off. ~ Clarke Fountain Read More

Barocco

Actors: Isabelle Adjani, Gérard Depardieu, Marie-France Pisier, Jean-Claude Brialy, Julien Guiomar

Synopsis: Former film critic André Téchiné directed and co-wrote this offbeat crime drama. Samson (Gérard Depardieu) is a down-on-his-luck boxer who manages to win a fortune thanks to a fixed fight. However, while Samson and his girlfriend Laure (Isabelle Adjani) are trying to get away with the money, he is Read More

Pardon Mon Affaire

Actors: Jean Rochefort, Claude Brasseur, Guy Bedos, Victor Lanoux, Danièle Delorme

Synopsis: When this French romantic comedy was released in English-speaking countries, its French title was changed to Pardon Mon Affaire. The four buddies in this picture help one another out, especially when it concerns affairs of the heart. Etienne (Jean Rochefort) is happily married, but when he sees a Read More

L'Agression

Actors: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Catherine Deneuve, Claude Brasseur, Milena Vukotic, Jacques Rispal

Synopsis: An ordinary man is driven to violence in the name of revenge in this drama. Paul Varlin (Jean-Louis Trintignant) is a businessman who decides to take his wife and daughter on a vacation. While stopping for gas, Varlin's wife is accosted by a gang of motorcycle thugs, who progress from ogling her Read More

Attention les Yeux

Actors: Claude Brasseur, André Pousse, Jean-Pierre Darras, Robert Castel, Guy Marchand

Synopsis: The difficulty experienced by a softcore porn film producer, who must somehow transform an academically praised novel into an erotic thrill-fest, is the subject of this comedy. In the film, Claude Brasseur is Manuel, who confronts vain but..incapable..male stars, an inane and silly script Read More

Il Faut Vivre Dangereusement

Actors: Claude Brasseur, Annie Girardot, Sydne Rome, Hans-Christian Blech

Synopsis: Diquet (Claude Brasseur) is a private investigator. Usually, he just follows people around and records what he sees them doing. His latest case becomes progressively stranger. After he is hired to follow a man's young mistress, the detective finds that her journeys begin to tie into his own life Read More

Les Seins de Glace

Actors: Claude Brasseur, Alain Delon, Nicoletta Machiavelli, Mireille Darc

Synopsis: This French film noir stars Alain Delon as a lawyer who thought he'd heard everything. But even Delon is not fully prepared for the cold, calculating manner of his beautiful client Mireille Darc. With sociopathic aplomb, Darc has been quietly killing every man who has ever gotten close to Read More

Gli Eroi

Actors: Claude Brasseur, Rod Steiger, Terry-Thomas, Rosanna Schiaffino

Synopsis: A group attempts to embezzle and hide a fortune of 2,000,000 pounds while outwitting the British Intelligence during World War II in this action movie. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Bel Ordure

Actors: Claude Brasseur, Bulle Ogier, Jean Rochefort, Andréas Voutsinas

Synopsis: In this French psychological drama, the tensions of show business parallel and increase the tensions on a married couple, both of whom are performers. The stage magician "Magico" (Claude Brasseur) is married to a singer (Bulle Ogler). Their lives are already somewhat complicated, but as they Read More

Le Viager

Actors: Michel Serrault, Michel Galabru, Rosy Varte, Jean-Pierre Darras

Synopsis: This French comedy is the first feature film directed by the well-known television-director Pierre Tcherina. In the film, the most elaborate designs of a greedy family are unwittingly undone by an ailing old man. The family has made a complicated financial arrangement which will result in their Read More

Un Cave

Actors: Claude Brasseur, Pierre Tornade

Synopsis: In this humorous French crime drama, Cave (Claude Brasseur) is a small-time hood, doing jail time for his deeds. While there, he makes friends with a much bigger criminal, and promises to help him out when they leave prison. The big-time hood is killed soon after his release from prison, but by Read More

Such a Gorgeous Kid Like Me

Actors: Bernadette Lafont, Charles Denner, Claude Brasseur, Guy Marchand

Synopsis: Bernadette Lafont is as alluring as all get out in Such a Gorgeous Kid Like Me (original title: Une Belle Fille Comme Moi). She plays a crafty murderess who uses her not inconsiderable charms to disarm her victims and trap unwitting males into helping her. Claude Brasseur plays the ingenuous Read More

Le Portrait De Marianne

Actors: Bernard Fresson, Claude Brasseur, Karen Blanguernon

Synopsis: Two men search for the wife of one of the men when he falsely claims she left him earlier that morning. The distraught husband attempts suicide before returning home to find his wife has not left him. This plodding and talkative film tries to be funny but fails miserably. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Read More

Trop Petit Mon Ami

Actors: Michael Dunn, Bernard Fresson, Jane Birkin, Claude Brasseur, André Pousse

Synopsis: Three social rejects plan an elaborate bank robbery. Ticky (Michael Dunn) is the dwarf and mastermind of the caper who is hopelessly in love with his female accomplice. They plan to murder the daughter of a bank president and replace her with a look-alike at the victim's private school. She Read More

Catherine

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

La Chasse Royale

Actors: Sami Frey, Claude Brasseur, Jean Champion

Un Homme De Trop

Actors: Michel Piccoli, Bruno Cremer, Jean-Claude Brialy, Gérard Blain, Claude Brasseur

Synopsis: In this WW II drama, twelve captured French soldiers await their impending executions in a German prison camp. Fortunately, a wily resistance fighter and his men come to rescue the ill-fated dozen. The rescue attempt succeeds, but the rebels become worried when they discover a thirteenth prisoner Read More

Du Rififi à Paname

Actors: Jean Gabin, George Raft, Nadja Tiller, Mireille Darc, Claudio Brook

Synopsis: In this crime drama, two middle-aged gangsters attempt to run an international smuggling ring and begin looking for new people to sneak their illicit gold across Europe. They take on a jobless journalist to assist, not realizing he is really a US government agent who is looking to see if the two Read More

Le Chien Fou

Actors: Claude Brasseur, Dany Carrel, Prudence Harrington, Oliver Hussenot

Synopsis: The friend of a diamond thief kills the man who refuses to call for medical help after a shootout in this low-budget crime drama, the first directed by Eddy Matalon. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide Read More

Lucky Jo

Actors: Eddie Constantine, Pierre Brasseur, Georges Wilson, Claude Brasseur

Synopsis: Jo (Eddie Constantine) is a gangster who is down on his luck. His cronies avoid him like the plague because his presence brings them misfortune as well. Jo gets in plenty of fights as he tries to press his luck in the right direction. The role is a departure for American actor Constantine, who Read More

Bande à Part

Actors: Anna Karina, Claude Brasseur, Sami Frey, Louisa Colpeyn

Synopsis: One of pioneering director Jean-Luc Godard's most accessible films is this French spin on Dolores Hitchens' novel Fool's Gold. It tells the tale of three disaffected youths who plan a burglary, leading to deadly results. The alienated young trio is marvelous, particularly Anna Karina, and the Read More

Peau De Banane

Actors: Jeanne Moreau, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Claude Brasseur, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Gert Fröbe

Synopsis: In this lightweight French comedy a pair of sharpers, Cathy (Jeanne Moreau) and her ex-husband Michel (Jean-Paul Belmondo) attempt to bilk a miserly millionaire out of his fortune during his visit to the French Riviera. Unfortunately for them, he is just as crafty as they are. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Read More

Germinal

Actors: Jean Sorel, Berthe Grandval, Claude Brasseur, Bernard Blier, Lea Padovani

Synopsis: Etienne (Jean Sorel) is a young man who seeks work in the coal mines of South France. After experiencing the harsh working conditions, he becomes a labor activist and tries to organize a strike to improve wages and conditions. He is tormented by the mine owner, whose promiscuous wife steps out on Read More

Dragées Au Poivre

Actors: Guy Bedos, Sophie Daumier, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Francis Blanche, Jacques Dufilho

Synopsis: Director Jacques Baratier's Sweet and Sour is an independently produced project with a surprising amount of European movie-industry input. Guy Bedos, a Brando wannabe, plays one of several young French cineastes who take to the streets to make improvisational movies. The "cinema verite" quality of Read More

La Soupe Aux Poulets

Actors: Jean Servais, Claude Brasseur, Gérard Blain, Maurice Biraud

Les Ennemis

Actors: Pascale Audret, Dany Carrel, Claude Brasseur, Roger Hanin

Synopsis: A few years before he was to gain a name as the French secret agent "Tiger" in spy spoofs by Claude Chabrol, Roger Hanin appeared as Jean, a serious secret agent who is teamed with Vigo (Claude Brasseur) in a case involving a stolen Russian code. One of the attachés in the Russian embassy has come Read More

Le Caporal Epinglé

Actors: Jean-Pierre Cassel, Claude Brasseur, Claude Rich, Jean Carmet, Jacques Jouanneau

Synopsis: The eponymous French corporal, played by Jean-Pierre Cassel, is ensconced in a German POW camp. Cassel plots with his friends Claude Brasseur and Claude Rich to escape, but all three are recaptured. When the corporal plans another getaway, he finds that one of his chums isn't interested anymore. Read More

Les Sept Péchés Capitaux

Actors: Marie-José Nat, Jacques Charrier, Eddie Constantine, Nicole Mirel, Dany Saval, Marina Vlady, Claude Brasseur

Synopsis: The seven major sins receive treatment from some of France's greatest directors in this lively portmanteau. "Anger" by Dhomme, chronicles a single horrific day when every bowl of soup in France is found to contain a fly. This causes a devastating nationwide revolt. "Envy" by Molinaro tells the Read More

Un Clair de Lune a Maubeuge

Actors: Sophie Hardy, Claude Brasseur, Michel Serrault

Nous Irons a Deauville

Actors: Michel Serrault, Claude Brasseur, Pascale Roberts

Please Not Now!

Actors: Michel Subor, Jacques Riberolles, Claude Brasseur, Brigitte Bardot

Synopsis: In this romantic comedy, voluptuous Parisian model Sophie (Brigitte Bardot) is angered when she learns that her boyfriend Phillipe, a photographer, has been playing around with Barbara, an American heiress. Alain, another man, who has secretly loved her for years, suggests she get even by making Read More

Les Menteurs

Actors: Dawn Addams, Jean Servais, Claude Brasseur, Francis Blanche

Synopsis: In this mystery, a nouveau-riche Frenchman returns to his Parisian home after finding a fortune in Africa. He is looking for a wife and begins advertising in the newspaper. Instead he finds himself victimized by con-artists. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Les Distractions

Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Alexandra Stewart, Sylva Koscina, Claude Brasseur

Synopsis: In this drama, two lifelong buddies find their friendship tested when one of them hits the road after being accused of murder. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Eyes Without a Face

Actors: Pierre Brasseur, Alida Valli, Edith Scob, Francois Guerin, Juliette Mayniel

Synopsis: French director Georges Franju's Eyes Without a Face (Les Yeux Sans Visage) is an unsettling, sometimes poetic horror film. Pierre Brasseur plays a brilliant plastic surgeon, Prof. Genessier, who has vowed to restore the face of his daughter, Christiane (Edith Scob), who was mutilated in an Read More

Pierrot la Tendresse

Actors: Michel Simon, Dany Saval, Claude Brasseur, Marie Daems

Synopsis: In this routine crime drama, popular French actor and comic Michel Simon is cast as Pierrot, an elderly gangster who does not fit the stereotype -- he is soft-hearted. After a petty criminal betrays his cohorts by taking off with the loot from a big robbery, he is caught and sent to jail. Now he Read More

Rue des Prairies

Actors: Jean Gabin, Claude Brasseur, Roger Dumas, Marie-José Nat

Synopsis: Life in a one-parent family with a focus on the parent, Henri Neveu (Jean Gabin), is the topic of this standard drama with a dash of comedy. While Henri was a POW during the war, his wife passed away and he returned to face the challenges of bringing up three children alone. Henri may get drunk Read More

La Verte Moisson

Actors: Claude Brasseur, Jacques Perrin, Dany Saval

Synopsis: Heightened by an emphasis on the action scenes and good visual effects, La Verte Moisson is otherwise a fairly standard wartime tale set during the German occupation of France. A group of teen-age friends accidentally get into the resistance movement when a game they are playing turns deadly Read More

Le Pays, d'ou Je Viens

Actors: Gilbert Becaud, Françoise Arnoul, Claude Brasseur

Synopsis: The old "mistaken identity" device is given a fresh slant in Marcel Carne's Le Pays d'Ou Ja Viens (The Country I Live In). Gilbert Becaud essays the dual role of a mild-mannered nobody and his exact double, a self-confidant musician. Mistaken for his more brash lookalike, the meek Becaud slowly Read More