François CluzetFilmography

Tell No One

Actors: François Cluzet, André Dussollier, Marie-Josée Croze, Kristin Scott Thomas, Nathalie Baye

Synopsis: An innocent man is on the run after he's accused of murder and his spouse seemingly returns from the grave in this thriller from France. Alex Beck (François Cluzet) is a doctor who has slowly been putting his life back together after his wife Margot was murdered by a serial killer. Eight years on Read More

Paris

Actors: Juliette Binoche, Romain Duris, Fabrice Luchini, Albert Dupontel, François Cluzet

Synopsis: Love and life pose dilemmas for a handful of friends in the City of Lights in this romantic drama from French filmmaker Cedric Klapisch. Pierre (Romain Duris) has enjoyed a successful career as a dancer performing in Parisian nightclubs, but when he's diagnosed with a serious heart condition, his Read More

In the Beginning

Actors: Soko, François Cluzet, Gérard Depardieu, Emmanuelle Devos

Synopsis: A confidence man stumbles into a scam that's not only lucrative but might actually help people in this comedy-drama inspired by a true story. Paul (Francois Cluzet) is a minor league swindler who after getting out of jail finds himself in a small town in Nord-Pas-de-Calais, where the economy has Read More

True Enough

Synopsis: Three couples wrestle with temptation and fidelity in this tart romantic comedy from France. Anne (Karin Viard) is a producer at a local television station in Lyons; she's edging into her forties and is wound a bit tighter than she needs to be. As Anne struggles to get ahead at work, she finds Read More

Les Liens du sang

Actors: Guillaume Canet, François Cluzet, Clotilde Hesme, Marie Denarnaud, Helene Foubert

Synopsis: Jacques Maillot's psychological drama Les Liens du sang observes the tense and fragile days following a difficult reunion between two very different siblings. François (Guillaume Canet) is a police inspector who spent years forcibly estranged from his issue-laden brother Gabriel (François Cluzet) Read More

Quatre étoiles

Actors: Isabelle Carré, José Garcia, François Cluzet, Jean-Paul Bonnaire, Michel Vuillermoz

Synopsis: French helmer Christian Vincent's quirky labyrinthine comedy Quatre étoiles (AKA Stars, 2005) opens with a comely young girl named Franssou (nicknamed France) stumbling into a highly promising set of circumstances. Though France's great-great aunt feels less than completely enchanted with her Read More

The Lost Domain

Je Suis un Assassin

Actors: François Cluzet, Bernard Giraudeau, Karin Viard, Anne Brochet, Jacques Spiesser

Mais Qui a Tue Pamela Rose?

Actors: Kad Merad, Olivier Barroux, Gérard Darmon, Jean-Paul Rouve, Benedicte Loyen

Synopsis: French filmmaker Eric Lartigau directs the anarchic buddy comedy Bullit and Riper, originally released as Mais qui a tue Pamela Rose? French comedic television stars Kad Merad and Olivier Barroux are both the protagonists and the screenwriters. As a parody of Hollywood cop films, the story is set Read More

Janis et John

Actors: Sergi López, Marie Trintignant, François Cluzet, Christopher Lambert, Jean-Louis Trintignant

Synopsis: First-time director Samuel Benmchetrit's 2003 debut Janis et John (Janis and John) follows the comedic exploits of a down-on-his luck insurance salesman as he attempts to make up for some very poor financial decisions. Pablo Sterni (Sergi Lopez), the aforementioned insurance salesman, has, until Read More

France Boutique

Actors: Karin Viard, François Cluzet, Nathalie Baye, Judith Godrëche, Bernard Menez

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

Dolce Far Niente

Actors: Margherita Buy, François Cluzet, Pierfrancesco Favino, Isabella Ferrari, Giancarlo Giannini

Synopsis: Nae Caranfil directs this playful movie about the two years that young French author Stendhal gallivanted about the Italian countryside. Stendhal (Francois Cluzet), then still known simply as Henri Beyle, is living the life of a gentleman-wanderer, looking for a direction in his life. He spends a Read More

Late August, Early September

Actors: Mathieu Amalric, Virginie Ledoyen, François Cluzet, Jeanne Balibar, Alex Descas, Arsinée Khanjian

Synopsis: Olivier Assayas directed this French drama, examining several relationships over a year's span, capturing varying textures and shades of feeling between people from late August of one year until early September of the next. Gabriel (Mathieu Amalric) and Jenny (Jeanne Balibar) separate, despite the Read More

L'Examen De Minuit

Actors: François Cluzet, Serge Riaboukine, Julie Depardieu, Daniele Dubroux, Jean-Christophe Bouvet

La Voie est libre

Actors: François Cluzet, Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu, Emma de Caunes, Eric Caravaca, Jean-Paul Muel

Synopsis: This is the first feature-length film by Stéphane Clavier (brother of Christian Clavier, the actor and screenwriter), and it does not fare as well as his 1987 short, Torero Hallucinogène. This comedy is about a Métro worker, Jules (François Cluzet), who penned seventeen unanswered letters to Read More

The Swindle

Actors: Isabelle Huppert, Michel Serrault, François Cluzet, Jean-François Balmer, Jackie Berroyer

Synopsis: The 50th film from legendary French New Wave writer and director Claude Chabrol is a typically Hitchcockian comic thriller about a pair of con artists. Up to now, the duo of Betty (Isabelle Huppert) and Victor (Michel Serrault) have contented themselves to small scams at hotel conventions, such as Read More

Le Silence De Rak

Actors: François Cluzet, Elina Löwensohn, Jackie Berroyer, Roland Amstutz, Brigitte Roüan

Synopsis: This French comedy-drama is loosely inspired by Crime and Punishment. The title refers to an unnamed country where lovers use silence to express their love for each other. Slightly unstable office worker Rak (Francois Cluzet) is not silent but rambles in monologues, describing himself in the third Read More

Le Déménagement

Actors: Danyboon, Emmanuelle Devos, Sami Bouajila, Marine Delterme, Dieudonne

Synopsis: In this zany French comedy, a writer chooses the day he and his family are to move out into the country to quit his publishing job and take a lucrative position writing for a television sitcom. On this day, everything possible goes haywire, beginning with the early arrival of the four Romanian Read More

Enfants De Salaud

Actors: Anémone, Nathalie Baye, François Cluzet, Molly Ringwald, Jean Yanne

Synopsis: In a Brussels courthouse, notoriously brutal killer Julius Mandenne stands trial for dismembering a woman and cryptically painting the letter "s" on a wall with her tongue. Attending the gruesome trial are his four illegitimate off-spring, none of whom knew the other existed. With grim Gallic Read More

Les Apprentis

Actors: François Cluzet, Guillaume Depardieu, Judith Henry, Claire Laroche

Synopsis: Two losers find an especially bad way to beat the high cost of living in this off-beat comedy from France. Antoine (Francois Cluzet) aspires to write plays, but in the meantime he scrapes together a living writing articles for a martial arts magazine and creating crossword puzzles; he spends his Read More

The Horseman on the Roof

Actors: Olivier Martinez, Juliette Binoche, Isabelle Carré, François Cluzet, Jean Yanne

Synopsis: In this beautifully mounted historical drama, Angelo Pardi (Olivier Martinez), an Italian soldier, is fleeing his country in 1832. After the fall of Napoleon, Austria is swooping down on Italy to take control of the nation, and like many patriots, Pardi is hoping to escape to France and fight for Read More

French Kiss

Actors: Meg Ryan, Kevin Kline, Timothy Hutton, Jean Reno, François Cluzet

Synopsis: An American woman discovers that Paris truly is the city of love -- though not in the manner she expected -- in this romantic comedy. Kate (Meg Ryan) is desperately afraid of flying, so when her fiancée Charlie (Timothy Hutton) flies to Paris on business, she must stay behind. Kate has been having Read More

3000 Scenarios Contre un Virus

Actors: Anémone, Daniel Gélin, Patachou, François Cluzet, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi

Synopsis: This unique French offering is a compilation of 30 short films focused on AIDS. The mini-films were based on over 3,000 ideas put in by French school children and were made by filmmakers on a voluntary basis. Most of the vignettes deal with heterosexuality and AIDS, but one deals with drug-usage Read More

L'Enfer

Actors: Emmanuelle Béart, François Cluzet, Marc Lavoine, Nathalie Cardone, André Wilms

Synopsis: This French drama about the relationship between an insanely jealous man and his wife took 30 years to make. Since its inception by the late director Henri-Georges Clouzot the film was plagued with bad luck. He began filming it in 1964. There are only two characters in the film and on the third Read More

Prêt-à-Porter

Actors: Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Julia Roberts, Tim Robbins, Kim Basinger

Synopsis: This large, sprawling comedy directed by Robert Altman concerns a variety of romantic and personal intrigues that intersect against the backdrop of Paris's annual "Pret-a-Porter" fashion extravaganza. With 31 principal characters and a number of cameos from well known models, designers, actors and Read More

Wind from Wyoming

Actors: François Cluzet, Michel Cote, Marc Messier

Synopsis: The "Wind From Wyoming" is a breeze said to contain erotic properties. This bizarre comedy, set in Montreal, has the feel and plotlines of a soap opera. Lea loves Reo, a rising boxer, but Reo loves Lea's mother Lizette. Lizette's husband, who is also Reo's trainer, is fit to be tied. Lea's sister Read More

À Demain

Actors: Jeanne Moreau, François Cluzet

Synopsis: In this affectionate feature, an adult child of a functional family recollects his largely satisfactory childhood in Paris in the 1960s. The large apartment Pierre grew up in not only housed his parents and himself, but his mother's aged mother and his grandfather. In addition, the premises serve Read More

Olivier, Olivier

Actors: François Cluzet, Brigitte Roüan, Jean-François Stévenin, Grégoire Colin, Marina Golovine

Synopsis: Olivier, the nine-year-old son of a country veterinarian, vanishes one afternoon on the way to his grandmother's house. The emotional aftermath of his disappearance sends his father packing from France to Africa and nearly destroys his mother, who clings to her remaining child, Nadine, and her Read More

L'Instinct de L'ange

Actors: Lambert Wilson, François Cluzet, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Hélène Vincent

Synopsis: As directed by Richard Dembo, the period adventure drama L'Instinct de l'ange (Angel's Wing) unfurls in early 20th century France, where Henry, a wealthy young Frenchman from an aristocratic family, undergoes an extensive cure for tuberculosis at a sanitarium and gets released soon afterward. He Read More

Sexes Faibles!

Actors: François Cluzet, Valérie Lemercier, André Wilms, Michel Aumont, Marc Berman

Synopsis: One would think that Maud could divorce her completely unamorous husband: in ten years of marriage, they have never once had sex. In this comedy, based on Tom Sharpe's novel Blott on the Landscape, Maud's husband is the mayor of the town they live in, and she is the hereditary owner of an ancient Read More

Too Beautiful for You

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Josiane Balasko, Carole Bouquet, Roland Blanche, François Cluzet

Synopsis: Bertrand Blier's films have explored the sometimes misogynistic sexuality of younger men, but here he offers an absorbing, funny, and moving take on a middle-aged man's adulterous affair. Gerard Depardieu stars as Bernard, an affluent car dealer who finds himself in the grip of a violent passion Read More

Story of Women

Actors: Isabelle Huppert, François Cluzet, Marie Trintignant, Nils Tavernier, Lolita Chammah

Synopsis: The women in this story are the customers of amateur abortionist Isabelle Huppert. The time is 1941, and the place is a Nazi-occupied French town. Struggling to survive, Huppert turns to illegally terminating unwanted pregnancies for a hefty fee. As her income increases, Huppert moves her family Read More

Chocolat

Actors: Isaach de Bankolé, Giulia Boschi, François Cluzet, Jean-Claude Adelin, Cécile Ducasse

Synopsis: Set in French Colonial Africa, Chocolat is told from the viewpoint of 8-year-old Cecile Ducasse. With no other frame of reference, the innocent Ducasse accepts the subjugation of the black natives by the white colonists as the natural order of things. The girl grows gradually aware of the social Read More

Force Majeure

Actors: Patrick Bruel, François Cluzet, Kristin Scott Thomas, Alan Bates, Sabine Haudepin

Synopsis: Force Majeure (Uncontrollable Circumstances) begins with a drug deal involving tourists Phillipe (Patrick Bruel) and Daniel (Francois Cluzet), and a Dutch stranger. Two years pass: the Dutchman has been arrested in an unspecified Asian country, where the penalty for drug trafficking is death. Read More

Jaune Revolver

Actors: Sandrine Bonnaire, François Cluzet, Laura Favali

La Revolution Française

Actors: Klaus Maria Brandauer, Jane Seymour, François Cluzet, Andrzej Seweryn, Jean-François Balmer

Synopsis: With its release timed to coincide with celebrations of the 200th anniversary of the French Revolution (1789-94), this film is actually two films released under one general title. The first, subtitled The Light Years, covers the period from the first stirrings of the revolution (e.g., the Read More

Un Tour De Manege

Actors: Juliette Binoche, François Cluzet, Thierry Gimenez, Daniel Jegou

Synopsis: Al (Francois Cluzet) and Elsa (Juliette Binoche) have been a couple for some time, now, but the chances that their relationship will be long-lived are few. For one thing, Al is apallingly dependent on Elsa for his every emotional need. For another, Elsa is an incredibly elusive person, extremely Read More

Deux

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Maruschka Detmers, Michelle Goddet, Philippe Leroy-Beaulieu, François Cluzet, Wojciech Pszoniak

Synopsis: The "two" of the title are concert promoter Gerard Depardieu and real estate agent Marushka Detmers. Thrown together by chance and indirection, Depardieu and Detmars begin a romance. Claude Zidi directs Deux with the same breezy aplomb he has applied on his earlier wacky comedies. Zidi also Read More

L'Association des Malfaiteurs

Actors: François Cluzet, Christophe Malavoy, Jean-Pierre Bisson, Jean-Claude Leguay, Claire Nebout

Synopsis: Christophe Malavoy and Francois Cluzet are business partners who are accused of stealing a safe from a wealthy tycoon in this situation comedy. A practical joke backfires when the two make their colleague (Jean -Claude Leguay) believe he has won the lottery. The owner of the safe calls the police Read More

'Round Midnight

Actors: Dexter Gordon, François Cluzet, Gabrielle Haker, Christine Pascal, Sandra Reaves-Phillips, John Berry, Lonette McKee

Synopsis: A French music lover befriends a once-great American jazz artist and attempts to save him from self-destruction in this moody drama. Saxophonist Dexter Gordon portrays Dale Turner, a fictional musician inspired by a number of famed jazz figures, including Bud Powell and Lester Young. Largely Read More

États D'Ame

Actors: Robin Renucci, Jean-Pierre Bacri, François Cluzet, Tchéky Karyo

Synopsis: In this political drama, five left-leaning friends gradually lose heart in the Socialist government elected in 1981 in France. One of the five men is a television broadcaster; the others are a teacher about to become an academic inspector, a tax man, the director of a cultural center, and a Read More

Rue Du Départ

Actors: François Cluzet, Christine Boisson, Ann-Gisele Glass, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Roger Coggio, Jean-Pierre Sentier

Synopsis: The protagonists in this drama are caught in the sleaze of the lower echelons of Paris life and are trying to get out. Clara (Ann-Gisel Glass) arrives in the underbelly of the city after escaping a dysfunctional middle-class family, and moves in with Mimi (Christine Boisson), a prostitute. Clara Read More

Elsa, Elsa

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

Les Enrages

Actors: Fanny Ardant, François Cluzet, Jean-Roger Milo, Marie Christine Rousseau

Synopsis: This is an overwrought drama about two repugnant petty criminals who terrorize a movie star in her home. Marc (Francois Cluzet) and Laurent (Jean-Roger Milo) have just committed a robbery and as they are speeding through the countryside to get away, they run out of gas. When they come across the Read More

Vive la Sociale!

Actors: François Cluzet, Robin Renucci, Elizabeth Bourgine, Jean-Yves Dubois, Yves Robert

Synopsis: In this charming, semi-autobiographical look at his politicized past, director Gerard Mordillat focuses on the ironic, the wistful, and the sometimes ludicrous events that spin off from the Communist/anarchist upbringing of his main character, Maurice Decques (François Cluzet). Maurice's tendency Read More

Entre Nous

Actors: Miou-Miou, Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Guy Marchand, Robin Renucci

Synopsis: French filmmaker Diane Kurys directs the period drama Coup de Foudre (distributed in the U.S. as Entre Nous), adapted from a book she co-wrote with Olivier Cohen. The semi-autobiographical story is based on the life of the director's mother. Lena (Isabelle Huppert) is a Jewish refugee from Belgium Read More

One Deadly Summer

Actors: Isabelle Adjani, Alain Souchon, Suzanne Flon, Jenny Cleve, François Cluzet

Synopsis: In this tragic tale of misunderstanding, obsession, and increasing madness, "she," a beautiful young woman (Isabelle Adjani) settles into a small town in the south of France with her introverted mother (Maria Machado) and physically handicapped father and soon becomes the subject of wild Read More

Les Fantomes du Chapelier

Actors: Michel Serrault, Charles Aznavour, Monique Chaumette, Aurore Clément, Christine Paolini

Synopsis: In this murder mystery, based on a Georges Simenon novel, a homicidal maniac goes on a killing spree beginning with his wife, whom he kept in the cellar. He then kills six of her aged friends and is preparing to murder a seventh when the intended victim dies naturally. As a substitute, he murders Read More

Le Cheval D'Orgeuil

Actors: Jacques Dufilho, Bernadette Lesache, François Cluzet, Dominique Lavanant, Paul Le Person

Synopsis: Based on a popular novel by Pierre-Jakez Helias, Horse of Pride is set in a hardscrabble peasant community in Brittany. Covering the years 1908 through 1918, the film concentrates on the lives, customs and aspirations of the community's populace. The visuals are complemented not by dialogue but by Read More

Cocktail Molotov

Actors: Elise Caron, Philippe Lebas, François Cluzet, Geneviève Fontanel

Synopsis: This youthful drama centers on a group of teens struggling to become adults without losing their youthful aspirations. It begins as Caron leaves the pressure of her home life for Venice in hopes of finding spontaneity and fun. She is followed by her boyfriend Lebas and his friend Cluzet. Lebas Read More