Didier HaudepinFilmography

Born:: France
Occupation:: Actor, Director, Producer, Screenwriter

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Parting Shot

Crew: Executive Producer, Producer

Actors: Isild Le Besco, Steven De Almeida, Lio, Yves Verhoeven, Philippe Villeumier

Synopsis: When a suicidal nurse living in a nondescript town near the French-Swiss border walks into the woods with the intention of taking her own life, a surprise turn of events forces her to connect with the surrounding community in a way she could have never imagined. Frederique Bornoz (Isild Le Besco) Read More

2007
Le Harem De Mme Osmane

Crew: Producer

Actors: Nadia Kaci, Carmen Maura

Synopsis: An off-beat comedy that takes an unconventional look at the problems of contemporary Algeria, writer-director Nadir Mokneche's debut feature is set in 1993 Algiers. As the country veers toward civil war, Madame Osmane (Spanish actress and former Almodóvar mainstay Carmen Maura) exercises a casual Read More

2000
L'Autre Coté De La Mer

Crew: Producer

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

5/21/97
En la Puta Calle

Crew: Producer

Actors: Ramon Barea, Luis Alberto Garcia, Patricia Garcia Mendez, Magalis Gainza, Marga Escudero

Synopsis: Unemployed electrician Juan (Ramon Barea) leaves his family behind when he travels to Madrid in search of work. Beginning illegal construction work, Juan meets Caribbean mulatto Andy (Luis Alberto Garcia), an illegal immigrant. Juan's landlady Margarita (Marga Escudero) suggests sex for his rent Read More

1997
Le Livre de Cristal

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Jean-François Balmer, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Douglas Ranasinghe, Gamini Fonseka

Synopsis: This European thriller, set in Sri Lanka, attempts to expound upon the philosophical implications of life, death, and memory. JB, an academic famed for his studies of oriental culture and alcoholic who has never recovered from his wife's suicide, returns to Sri Lanka to translate a book written on Read More

1995
Le Plus Bel Age...

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Élodie Bouchez, Melvil Poupaud, Sophie Aubry, Gael Morel

Synopsis: The grueling, emotionally torturous world of French preparatory schools provides the framework for this mystery. The deliberately rigorous courses are designed to prepare students to take the brutal examinations for entry into the elite Grand Ecoles, where a select few will gain the skills and Read More

1995
Personne ne m'aime

Crew: Producer

Actors: Bernadette Lafont, Bulle Ogier, Lio, Michèle Laroque, Maaike Jansen

Synopsis: In this romantic comedy from France, Annie (Bernadette Lafont), a middle-aged single mother who hasn't seen her grown-up daughter Marie (Lio) in years, has just been shown the door by her boyfriend. Given her bad luck with men over the years, Annie ought to be used to this by now, but sadly that's Read More

1994
Grossesse Nerveuse

Crew: Producer

Actors: Tom Novembre, Sabine Haudepin, Isabelle Townsend, Catherine Samie, Patrick Braoudé

Synopsis: This smart, upbeat French comedy explores the differing attitudes surround children. Martin, a 35-year old advertising executive, is busily working upon ad campaigns for the Floppy dog-food company. It was his ex-wife's idea that he work for them. When the family au pair, 23-year old Sally tells Read More

1994
Regarde les Hommes Tomber

Crew: Producer

Actors: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jean Yanne, Mathieu Kassovitz, Bulle Ogier, Christine Pascal

Synopsis: This French crime thriller was the directorial debut of screenwriter Jacques Audiard and won three Césars. Jean Yanne stars as Simon Hirsch, a bored, middle-aged salesman who accompanies his best friend, cop Mickey (Yvon Back), on a stakeout for the sake of excitement. When Mickey is shot and put Read More

1994
Elsa, Elsa

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: François Cluzet, Lio, Catherine Frot, Tom Novembre, Christine Pascal

Synopsis: This light romantic comedy is set up as a film-within-a-film, and features Francois Cluzet as Ferdinand, a screenwriter and director who has been in the business since he debuted as a child actor. (The same can be said of this film's director and co-scripter, Didier Haudepin). Ferdinand is working Read More

1985
Le Bar du Telephone

Crew: Art Director

Actors: Daniel Duval, François Perier, Georges Wilson, Julien Guiomar, Raymond Pellegrin

Synopsis: Director Claude Barrois based this crime thriller on an actual 1978 barroom massacre. When a yahoo criminal (Daniel Duval) offends a gangland don, the don hires a group of thugs to eliminate the lone upstart. The thugs invade the bar and shoot everyone in sight, but unfortunately their sole target Read More

1980
Paco l'Infaillible

Crew: Dialogue Writer, Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Alfredo Landa, Christine Pascal, Jean Bouise, Patrick Dewaere

Synopsis: Paco (Alfredo Lando) is a middle-aged glass blower who has a lucrative after-hours business as a male stud in this unusual comedy drama. His wife Maria (Christine Pascal) is the supposedly barren woman who approves of her husband's sideline. Paco meets Pocapena (Patrick Dewaere) in a local bar and Read More

1979
Écoute Voir...

Actors: Catherine Deneuve, Sami Frey, Anne Parillaud, Didier Haudepin

Synopsis: In this detective thriller, Alphand (Catherine Deneuve) is a private detective called upon to rescue the kidnapped daughter of Arnaud (Sami Frey), an sinister inventor. Arnaud has developed a hypnotizing ray which enables its user to make powerful suggestions to people about their behavior without Read More

1978
The Innocent

Actors: Laura Antonelli, Giancarlo Giannini, Jennifer O'Neill, Marc Porel, Massimo Girotti

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Gabriele d'Annunzio, The Innocent (L'Innocente) is set amongst the aristocracy of 19th-century Italy. Wealthy Tullio (Giancarlo Giannini) thinks nothing of squiring his mistress (Jennifer O'Neill) in full view of his friends and the public. But when Giannini's cast-off wife (Laura Antonelli Read More

5/18/76
Le Juge et l'Assassin

Actors: Philippe Noiret, Michel Galabru, Jean-Claude Brialy, Renée Faure, Isabelle Huppert

Synopsis: Le Juge et L'Assassin probes a curious relationship between condemner and condemnee. Philippe Noiret plays Rousseau, a French judge who holds the fate of convicted child killer Bouvier (Michel Galabru) in his hands. Should Rousseau decide that Bouvier is insane, the killer will not go prison. As Read More

1975
Les Anges

Actors: Didier Haudepin, Madeleine Ozeray

Synopsis: Two lonely young men rebelling against their middle-class backgrounds become friends in this French drama. Both of them are named Larry, which becomes a joke between them. Larry I (Bruno Pradal) can only stare in awe at the deadly pranks of Larry II (Didier Haudepin). When Larry II looks like he Read More

1973
Le Droit d'aimer

Actors: Omar Sharif, Florinda Bolkan, Pierre Michael, Gilles Segal

Synopsis: This thin French drama takes place on a barren prison island. Pierre (Omar Sharif) has been sentenced to a life of hard labor on an island which lacks even a proper prison building: the men live in tents year 'round. Despite the grim conditions and brutal guards, he manages to hold his temper in Read More

8/14/72
Hellé

Actors: Didier Haudepin

Synopsis: Despite his best efforts, Julian (Bruo Bradei) cannot resist goading his younger brother Fabrice (Didier Haudepin) into doing something dumb. They are returning together to their mother's country home for a holiday break. Julian fought in Indochina when it was still French, and the war still Read More

1972
Les Assassins de l'Ordre

Actors: Jacques Brel, Catherine Rouvel, Charles Denner, Roland Le Saffre

Synopsis: In France, the position of "magistrate" resembles that of the American district attorney; those in either post have broad investigatory and prosecutory powers. In this French language drama, Magistrate Level (Jacques Brel) is one of the rare few who will prosecute the police for abuse of power. He Read More

5/7/71
Hello Goodbye

Actors: Michael Crawford, Genevieve Gilles, Ira Furstenberg

Synopsis: In this British sex-comedy, a car salesman journeys to France and encounters an apparently lonely woman. He immediately begins to successfully woo her only to learn that she is actually a baron's wife. Fortunately, the baron believes in open marriages and winds up hiring the Englishman to teach Read More

1970
La Promesse de L'Aube

Actors: Melina Mercouri, Didier Haudepin, Assi Dayan, Francois Raffoul, Fernand Gravey

Synopsis: Nina (Melina Mercouri) is a former silent-film star from Russia who abandons her career to care for her son. She is a single mother -- the boy's father is a famous actor who wants nothing to do with either Nina or her child. She joins an acting troupe where she impersonates a famous French fashion Read More

1970
Top Crack

3/24/67
Los Pianos Mecanicos

Actors: Melina Mercouri, Hardy Kruger, James Mason, Didier Haudepin, Renaud Verley

Synopsis: French novelist Henri-Francois Rey adapted his novel Les Pianos Mecaniques with director Juan Antonio Bardem for this French/Italian/Spanish co-production, set in Spain. Vincent (Hardy Kruger) is recovering from a nervous breakdown in a seaside village on the Costa Brava. He enters into an affair Read More

8/26/65
El Niño y el Lobo

Actors: Vicente Parra

1965
Les Amitiés Particulieres

Actors: Didier Haudepin, Francis Lacombrade, Michel Bouquet, Louis Seigner, Lucien Nat

Synopsis: Jean Delannoy's This Special Friendship (Les Amities partculieres) is set in a boy's boarding school of the early 1930s. Two of the students, Francis Lacombrade and Francois Leccia, become close friends. Lacombrade has definite ideas concerning homosexuality: he's dead set against it, and is Read More

1964
Moderato Cantabile

Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Didier Haudepin, Jeanne Moreau, Pascale de Boysson

Synopsis: In this drama, an industrialist's wife finds herself bored by her opulent existence. One day, while she waits for her son to finish his music lesson, she hears a woman scream at a nearby bistro. She then sees a man being hauled away from a woman's body. Her curiosity piqued, she becomes a regular Read More

5/25/60