Daniel AuteuilFilmography

Mr 73

Actors: Daniel Auteuil, Olivia Bonamy, Catherine Marchal, Francis Renaud, Gérald Laroche

Synopsis: A cop on the edge of an emotional collapse is on the trail of a violent madman in this edgy crime thriller from French writer and director Olivier Marchal. Charles Subra (Philippe Nahon) is a habitual criminal who, after serving twenty-five years in prison on a sentence for rape and murder, is up Read More

15 Ans et Demi

Actors: Daniel Auteuil, Juliette Lamboley, Francois Damiens

Synopsis: Recalling both Gerard Lauzier's Mon Père Ce Héros (1991) and Stan Dragoti's She's Out of Control (1989), this French-language comedy hones in on the adolescent complications that threaten to destroy a long-estranged dad's newfound relationship with his teen daughter. For years, scientist Philippe Read More

My Best Friend

Actors: Daniel Auteuil, Dany Boon, Julie Gayet, Julie Durand, Jacque Mathou

Synopsis: A businessman tries to belatedly learn the fine art of friendship in this comedy from French filmmaker Patrice Leconte. François (Daniel Auteuil) is an antique dealer who runs an upscale shop with his business partner, Catherine (Julie Gayet). François is a gently ruthless trader who will do Read More

The Valet

Actors: Gad Elmaleh, Alice Taglioni, Daniel Auteuil, Kristin Scott Thomas, Richard Berry

Synopsis: French farce master Francis Veber (The Dinner Game) combines slapstick laughs with rapid-fire dialogue as he tells the tale of a Parisian valet unwittingly drawn into the affairs of a wealthy industrialist. François Pignon (Gad Elmaleh) is a simple valet employed by a posh Paris restaurant. Read More

Conversations With My Gardener

Actors: Daniel Auteuil, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Hiam Abbass, Alexia Barlier, Élodie Navarre, Fanny Cottençon

Synopsis: Two men find themselves sharing a lifetime of experiences and observations over the course of a summer in this low-key comedy-drama from France. After the death of his mother, an artist (Daniel Auteuil) well known for his nature studies inherits his family's vacation house in the country. The Read More

Second Wind

Actors: Daniel Auteuil, Monica Bellucci, Michel Blanc, Jacques Dutronc, Eric Cantona

Synopsis: Adapted from the same José Giovanni story that spawned Jean-Pierre Melville's classic 1966 film of the same name, director/screenwriter Alain Corneau's nail-biting thriller stars Daniel Auteuil as iconic French gangster Gustav "Gu" Minda and Monica Bellucci as the smoldering Manouche -- whose love Read More

N (Napoleon and Me)

Actors: Daniel Auteuil, Elio Germano, Monica Bellucci, Francesca Inaudi, Sabrina Impacciatore

Synopsis: A young firebrand learns the hard way about the practical problems behind political assassination in this lavish period comedy. In 1814, with his reputation in tatters and his rule of France come to an inglorious end, Napoleon Bonaparte (Daniel Auteuil) flees to the Island of Elba, where his Read More

L'Entente cordiale

Caché

Actors: Daniel Auteuil, Juliette Binoche, Lester Makedonsky, Maurice Bénichou, Annie Girardot, Bernard Le Coq, Daniel Duval, Nathalie Richard

Synopsis: Paranoia grips a bourgeois European family when a series of menacing videotapes begin turning up on their doorstep in Piano Teacher director Michael Haneke's dark drama. From the outside, Georges (Daniel Auteuil), Anne (Juliette Binoche), and son Pierrot (Lester Makedonsky) are the typical Read More

Après Vous...

Actors: Daniel Auteuil, José Garcia, Sandrine Kiberlain, Marilyne Canto, Michèle Moretti

Synopsis: Antoine (Daniel Auteuil of The Closet), the busy manager of a fancy restaurant, cuts through a park in his rush to meet his frustrated girlfriend, Christine (Marilyne Canto), when he stumbles across Louis (José Garcia) attempting to hang himself. Antoine foils his efforts and takes the intensely Read More

To Paint or Make Love

Actors: Sabine Azéma, Daniel Auteuil, Amira Casar, Sergi López, Philippe Katerine

36 Quai des Orfevres

Actors: Daniel Auteuil, Gérard Depardieu, André Dussollier, Roschdy Zem, Valeria Golino

Synopsis: Euro screen legends Gérard Depardieu and Daniel Auteuil star, respectively, as French cops Denis Klein and Leo Vrinks, in Olivier Marchal's tough-as-steel policier 36 Quai des Orfevres. The story unravels at the titular Parisian police headquarters, where Klein (who heads up the department's Read More

Sotto Falso Nome

Actors: Daniel Auteuil, Greta Scacchi, Anna Mouglalis, Giorgio Lupano, Magdalena Mielcarz

Nos Amis les Flics

Petites Coupures

Actors: Daniel Auteuil, Kristin Scott Thomas, Ludivine Sagnier, Pascale Bussières, Catherine Mouchet

Synopsis: Pascal Bonitzer's heavily plotted comedy Petites Coupures (Small Cuts) opens with journalist Bruno (Daniel Auteuil) and his wife, Gaelle (Emmanuelle Devos), having it out over his affair with Nathalie (Ludivine Sagnier). After an invitation from Bruno's uncle Gerard (Jean Yanne), Bruno and Read More

Rencontre Avec Le Dragon

Actors: Daniel Auteuil, Nicolas Nollet, Sergi López, Emmanuelle Devos, Titoff

Synopsis: French filmmaker Hélène Angel directs the medieval drama Rencontre Avec le Dragon (The Red Knight). Daniel Auteuil stars as the titular knight, an immortal adventurer named Guillaume de Montauban who was scarred in a terrible fire. Naïve teenager Felix de Sisteron (Nicolas Nollet) wanders out to Read More

Le Clefs de Bagnole

Actors: Laurent Baffie, Daniel Russo, Claude Berri, Charles Gassot, Alain Terzian

L'Adversaire

Actors: Daniel Auteuil, Géraldine Pailhas, François Cluzet, Emmanuelle Devos, Bernard Fresson

Synopsis: With Laurent Cantet's Time Out (L'Emploi du Temps) as an inspiration, actress-turned-director Nicole Garcia's fourth feature film, L'Adversaire, is a fictionalized account of what may have gone through the mind of real-life serial killer Jean-Claude Romand. Daniel Auteuil portrays Jean-Marc Faure Read More

The Widow of Saint-Pierre

Actors: Juliette Binoche, Daniel Auteuil, Emir Kusturica, Reynald Bouchard, Michel Duchaussoy, Christian Charmettant

Synopsis: Long-established director Emir Kusturica makes his acting debut in Patrice Leconte's 19th century tale of a loyal, strong-willed woman who follows her soldier husband to a desolate French territory off the coast of Newfoundland. Madame La (Juliette Binoche) lives in marital bliss on the island of Read More

The Closet

Actors: Daniel Auteuil, Gérard Depardieu, Thierry Lhermitte, Michèle Laroque, Michel Aumont

Synopsis: While there are plenty of stories about gay men who have pretended to be straight for the sake of their careers, this tart comedy from France considers the dilemma of a straight man doing just the opposite. Francois Pignon (Daniel Auteuil) is an accountant whose personality is bland to the point Read More

Vajont

Actors: Michel Serrault, Daniel Auteuil, Laura Morante, Jorge Perugorría, Anita Caprioli

Sade

Actors: Daniel Auteuil, Marianne Denicourt, Jeanne Balibar, Grégoire Colin

Synopsis: Daniel Auteuil stars as the infamous Marquis de Sade, who at the beginning of Sade, is serving a sentence in Paris' grim Saint Lazarde prison. The year is 1794, and Sade is being persecuted for his steadfast atheism, which runs counter to the beliefs of Robespierre, France's terrifying Read More

The Girl On The Bridge

Actors: Daniel Auteuil, Vanessa Paradis, Demetre Georgalas, Isabelle Petit-Jacques, Frederic Pfluger

Synopsis: A woman's long history of bad luck starts to change when she puts her life on the line in this romantic drama. Adèle (Vanessa Paradis) is a 22-year-old woman whose life seems to have been a long series of miscalculations; she's never had much luck with love, life, or career, and is standing on a Read More

The Lost Son

Actors: Daniel Auteuil, Nastassja Kinski, Katrin Cartlidge, Ciarán Hinds, Marianne Denicourt

Synopsis: The Lost Son brings together talented British director Chris Menges with a well-known face of French cinema, Daniel Auteuil, who plays a detective in self-exile in London who deals mostly with cases of adultery. At the same time, he is trying to come to terms with the ghosts of his past. While Read More

Mauvaise Passe

Actors: Daniel Auteuil, Stuart Townsend, Liza Walker, Noah Taylor, Francis Barber

Synopsis: Writer-director Michel Blanc, whose previous works include the acclaimed Marche a l'ombre (1984) and Dead Tired (1994), creates this gritty drama about a middle-aged impoverished French writer in London who becomes a gigolo. The film opens with Pierre (Daniel Auteuil) getting worked over by an Read More

La Separation

Actors: Isabelle Huppert, Daniel Auteuil, Jerome Deschamps, Karin Viard, Laurence Lerel

Synopsis: French director Christian Vincent charts the dissolution of a long-term relationship with his third film, based on the novel by Dan Franck. Daniel Auteuil and Isabelle Huppert star as Pierre and Anne, a couple who have been living together as husband and wife for several years. Although they never Read More

On Guard

Actors: Daniel Auteuil, Fabrice Luchini, Vincent Perez, Marie Gillain, Yann Collette

Synopsis: This period swashbuckler, set during the years 1699 to 1716, is the seventh screen adaptation of Paul Feval's 1857 serialized novel. Trained in circus stunts and fencing, Lagardere (Daniel Auteuil) becomes the bodyguard of the Duke of Nevers (Vincent Perez), whose cousin is the greedy Gonzague (Luchini Read More

Lucie Aubrac

Actors: Carole Bouquet, Daniel Auteuil, Jean-Roger Milo, Patrice Chéreau

Synopsis: During the French Resistance, Lucie, a courageous wife, struggles to save her husband, Raymond Samuel, from a firing squad. He was arrested after blowing up a train during the war. Lucie is also a freedom fighter who goes by the moniker of Aubrac. She helps free Raymond by directly threatening a Read More

Les Voleurs

Actors: Daniel Auteuil, Catherine Deneuve, Laurence Côte, Benoît Magimel, Julien Riviere, Fabienne Babe

Synopsis: André Téchiné's complex and ambitious crime drama starts with a prologue in which a little boy is awakened in the middle of the night by two strangers bringing home his father's body. The story of the deceased, Ivan (Didier Bezace), and his involvement with car thieves unfolds in flashbacks as Read More

Afirma Pereira

Actors: Marcello Mastroianni

Synopsis: This drama, set in 1938, chronicles a month in the life of the Portuguese journalist Pereira. He is first seen as a lonely, widowed, and overweight editor of the culture page of a second-rate Lisbon newspaper. Earlier in his career, he had been a news reporter. Pereira is fascinated with old Read More

Passage a L'Acte

Actors: Daniel Auteuil, Patrick Timsit, Anne Parillaud, Michèle Laroque

Synopsis: A paranoiac's delight, this contemporary mystery thriller warns that psychotherapy can be dangerous for both doctor and patient. The twisted tale begins with a funeral and then moves to the office of Dr. Antoine Riviere, a noted psychiatrist and author who deep down is more interested in his own Read More

The Eighth Day

Actors: Daniel Auteuil, Pascal Duquenne, Miou-Miou, Isabelle Sadoyan, Henri Garcin

Synopsis: Two men with seemingly nothing in common become unlikely friends in this drama from France. Harry (Daniel Auteuil) is a salesman working for a large but faceless corporation, where he's become a success at the expense of his personal life. His wife Julie (Miou-Miou), frustrated by his lack of Read More

A French Woman

Actors: Emmanuelle Béart, Daniel Auteuil, Gabriel Barylli, Jean-Claude Brialy

Synopsis: One woman's conflicting emotions and the whims of fate prevent her from being faithful to the man she loves in this drama. In 1939, Jeanne (Emmanuelle Beart) marries Louis (Daniel Auteuil) shortly before he is called to duty during World War II. Jeanne does not deal well with loneliness, and she Read More

Queen Margot

Actors: Isabelle Adjani, Daniel Auteuil, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Vincent Perez, Virna Lisi

Synopsis: The historical novel by Alexandre Dumas was adapted for the screen with this lavish French epic, winner of 5 Césars and a pair of awards at the Cannes Film Festival. Isabelle Adjani stars as Marguerite de Valois, better known as Margot, daughter of scheming Catholic power player Catherine de Read More

My Favorite Season

Actors: Catherine Deneuve, Daniel Auteuil, Marthe Villalonga, Jean-Pierre Bouvier, Chiara Mastroianni

Synopsis: French critic and filmmaker André Téchiné directs the intense family drama Ma Saison Préférée (My Favorite Season), which he co-wrote with screenwriter Pascal Bonitzer. Family matriarch Berthe (Marthe Villalonga) is advancing in years and developing health problems, so she goes to live with her Read More

Un Coeur en Hiver

Actors: Daniel Auteuil, Emmanuelle Béart, André Dussollier, Elizabeth Bourgine, Myriam Boyer

Synopsis: Daniel Auteuil and Emmanuelle Béart from Manon of the Spring (1986) co-star once again in Un Coeur en Hiver, playing characters whose distance from each others' lives belies the enormous emotional impact they have on one another. Directed by Claude Sautet, whose 40-year career included the Read More

Ma Vie Est un Enfer

Actors: Daniel Auteuil, Josiane Balasko, Richard Berry, Michel Lonsdale, Catherine Samie

Synopsis: Léah (Josiane Balasko) has been longing to be beautiful for years, but the best she's been able to accomplish on her own is dowdy but neat. When she inadvertently conjures up Abar (Daniel Auteuil), one of the devil's own representatives, she's more than willing to sell her soul for a Read More

Lacenaire

Actors: Daniel Auteuil, Jean Poiret, Marie-Armelle de Guy, Maïwenn Le Besco, Jacques Weber

Synopsis: Pierre Lacenaire is among the most notorious killers in French history. This well-wrought drama, tells his story. It begins in 1836 as the icy but somehow charming and intellectual Lacenaire awaits his execution and through a series of flashbacks chronicles the events and reasons why he has ended Read More

Mama, There's a Man in Your Bed

Actors: Daniel Auteuil, Firmine Richard, Pierre Vernier, Maxime Leroux, Gilles Privat, Muriel Combeau

Synopsis: This easygoing French comedy -- originally and more wittily titled Romuald et Juliette -- is about conservative Parisian yogurt-company CEO named Romuald Blindet (Daniel Auteuil) who by circumstance finds himself drawing closer to his black cleaning woman Juliette Bonaventure (Firmine Richard). A Read More

Quelques Jours Avec Moi

Actors: Daniel Auteuil, Sandrine Bonnaire, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Vincent Lindon

Synopsis: Claude Sautet's A Few Days With Me (Quelque Jours avec Moi) stars Daniel Auteuil as the emotionally disturbed heir to a supermarket empire. Auteuil's mother Danielle Darrieux tries to give her son some purpose in life by assigning him the task of reinvigorating one of the supermarket chain's least Read More

Manon of the Spring

Actors: Yves Montand, Daniel Auteuil, Emmanuelle Béart, Hippolyte Girardot, Elisabeth Depardieu

Synopsis: Manon of the Spring (Manon des Sources) has also been released as Jean de Florette II in the US, as it is a sequel to Claude Berri's Jean de Florette. Both films are drawn from the same source: Filmmaker/novelist Marcel Pagnol's 1952 rural romance, also titled Jean de Florette. Manon (Emmanuelle Beart Read More

Jean de Florette

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Yves Montand, Daniel Auteuil, Elisabeth Depardieu, Ernestine Mazurowna

Synopsis: Co-adapted by director Claude Berri from a novel by Marcel Pagnol, this hugely successful French historical drama concerns a bizarre battle royale over a valuable natural spring in a remote French farming community. City dweller Jean Cadoret (Gérard Depardieu) assumes ownership of the spring when Read More

Le Paltoquet

Actors: Michel Piccoli, Jeanne Moreau, Daniel Auteuil, Richard Bohringer, Fanny Ardant, Jean Yanne, Philippe Léotard

Synopsis: With ingenious camera work, witty dialogue, and a setting that almost never wanders from the cavernous interior of a mod cafe-bar, this drama by Michel Deville has a lot of pluses. A woman (Jeanne Moreau) and a man (Michel Piccoli, the "nonentity" of the title) jointly run the vast cafe and every Read More

L'Amour En Douce

Actors: Daniel Auteuil, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Emmanuelle Béart, Sophie Barjac, Daniel Ceccaldi

Synopsis: In this standard romantic drama, a tangled web of relationships may not be that easy to straighten out for the people involved. Marc (Daniel Auteuil) is a lawyer married to Jeanne (Sophie Barjac), but his roving eye leads him into sexual encounters with other women on a regular basis -- and 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

P'tit Con

Actors: Bernard Brieux, Guy Marchand, Caroline Cellier, Eric Carlos, Philippe Khorsand

Synopsis: Director Gérard Lauzier shoots diatribes at "liberals" from his own conservative perspective in this movie about a rebellious teenager leaving his bourgeois parents. Humor lightens the theme more than once, as when the besieged father -- after listening to a garbled harangue on Marx from his Read More

L'Arbalete

Actors: Daniel Auteuil, Marisa Berenson, Marcel Bozzuffi, Daniel Ubaud, Michel Beaune

Synopsis: Meant to be an action-packed thriller about city gangs fighting for a piece of a lucrative drug shipment, this mindless, violent, stereotyped series of killings ruins credibility by its own excesses. A crooked, neo-Nazi police inspector supplies his gangland cohorts with weapons to slaughter the Read More

Les Fauves

Actors: Philippe Léotard, Daniel Auteuil, Gabrielle Lazure, Veronique Delbourg, Valérie Mairesse

Synopsis: In this embarrassment of an action thriller, the poor storyline and direction are only matched by the underpar acting, all to tell the tale of Berg (Daniel Auteuil), a young stunt car driver who leaves his profession and starts working at a private security service when his lover is killed in an Read More

L'Indic

Actors: Daniel Auteuil, Thierry Lhermitte, Pascale Rocard, Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, Michel Beaune

Synopsis: In this conventional detective-thriller, Dominique (Thierry Lhermitte) is the sidekick of the gangster Malaggione (Bernard Pierre Donnadieu), and when he falls in love with Sylvie (Pascale Rocard) -- a good-hearted, relatively naïve woman -- he promises he will do only "one last job" and then Read More

Pour 100 Briques, T'As Plus Rien Maintenant

Actors: Daniel Auteuil, Anémone, Gérard Jugnot, Georges Géret, Darry Cowl

Synopsis: Having just seen a successful robbery, a man (Daniel Auteuil) and his roommate (Gerard Jugnot) are inspired to rob a bank themselves for some ready cash. When they burst in on the bank with their toy machine guns, most of the tellers and staff are frightened and wary, but in one case, a member of Read More

Que les Gros Salaires Levent le Doigt!!!

Actors: Jean Poiret, Daniel Auteuil, Michel Piccoli, Marie Laforêt, Francois Perrot

Synopsis: Andre Joeuf (Jean Poiret) is the coldly calculating president of an insurance company who, when faced with the imperative of firing some of his highly paid executives, invites them all over to his country estate for a weekend to indulge in a few games of musical chairs. Anyone left standing after Read More

T'empeches Tout Le Monde De Dormir

Actors: Daniel Auteuil, Catherine Alric, Anne Jousset, Philippe Khorsand

Les Hommes Preferent les Grosses

Actors: Josiane Balasko, Ariane Larteguy, Luis Rego, Dominique Lavanant, Daniel Auteuil

Synopsis: This comedy features large French woman, Balasko, who, when dumped by her fiance, moves in with a silly model. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Les Sous Doues En Vacances

Actors: Daniel Auteuil, Guy Marchand, Grace de Capitani, Charlotte de Turckheim

Clara et les Chics Types

Actors: Daniel Auteuil, Josiane Balasko, Christophe Bourseiller, Thierry Lhermitte, Christian Clavier

Synopsis: The thin plot that ties the story of Clara (Isabelle Adjani) and Bertrand (Thierry Lhermitte), the man pursuing her, to a newly-formed rock band is fleshed out by the young actors, several of them cafe-theater players making a transition to the "big screen." The actors play six young Read More

Les Sous-Doués

Actors: Maria Pacome, Hubert Deschamps, Tonie Marshall, Michel Galabru, Raymond Bussières, Daniel Auteuil

Synopsis: A few bumps in modern education provide an underlying, tongue-in-cheek theme for this enjoyable comedy by Claude Zidi. The story centers around a graduating class of "less-gifted" students in a private Versailles high school. Only a miracle has brought the students this far along, and after a Read More

Les Heros N'Ont Pas Froid Aux Oreilles

Actors: Daniel Auteuil, Gérard Jugnot, Anne Jousset, Patricia Karim, Henri Guybet

Synopsis: Two frowsty middle-aged men, cousins, live and work together. In this ironic satire/drama, they are cowardly, tricky and mean-spirited, but at least they have each other. When they take to testing the alarm system of the bank that they work in after what is for them a particularly scary moment Read More

L'Amour Violé

Actors: Nathalie Nell, Alain Foures, Michele Simmonet, Marco Perrin, Pierre Arditi, Daniel Auteuil

Synopsis: Nicole is a nurse, with a boyfriend in the military, who lives at home with her mother. One night, while returning home on her motorcycle, she is forced off the road by four men driving a delivery van, and she is raped. Afterward, she is secretly sent by her family to a hospital to recover. Read More

La Nuit De Saint-Germain Des Pres

Actors: Michel Galabru, Mort Shuman, Chantal Dupuy, Daniel Auteuil, Alain Mottet

Synopsis: This French psychological detective drama owes much of its tone to Existentialism, even though that philosophy had its heyday at least a decade earlier. In the story, set in the 1950s, Nestor (Michel Galabru) is a small-time private detective who is doing a small-time job, searching for some 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

Le Sex Shop

Actors: Jean-Pierre Marielle, Claude Piéplu, Natalie Delon, Claude Berri

Synopsis: French director Claude Berri wrote, directed, and stars in this comedy as Claude, a bookstore owner whose personal life, like his struggling business, is failing. Claude is trapped in a loveless marriage to Isabelle (Juliet Berto), who does not seem to possess any sexual attraction to her husband Read More