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JCVD

Crew: Casting

Actors: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Francois Damiens, Zinedine Soualem, Karim Belkhadra, Jean-Francois Wolff

Synopsis: Jean-Claude Van Damme plays himself in this meta-crime comedy that finds him garnering mores headlines than he's had in years after stumbling into an in-progress bank heist. Down and out, with only straight-to-DVD titles under his belt and a recent job lost out to fellow has-been Steven Seagal Read More

11/7/08
I've Loved You So Long...

Crew: Casting

Actors: Kristin Scott Thomas, Elsa Zylberstein, Serge Hazanavicius, Laurent Grévill, Frederic Pierrot

Synopsis: Their relationship fractured when older sister Juliette is sentenced to 15 years in prison, two siblings wage an emotional battle to rebuild their relationship, overcome the secrets that keep them apart, and finally express the thoughts that have lain dormant for well over a decade. The moment Read More

10/24/08
Ca Se Soigne?

Crew: Casting

Actors: Thierry Lhermitte, Julie Ferrier, Michel Vuillermoz, Isabelle Gélinas, Stéphane Freiss

Synopsis: Laurent Chouchan's comedy Ca Se Soigne? follows the plight of Tom Bledish (Thierry Lhermitte of The Dinner Game), a musician who appears to have everything going for him; with a ravishing wife and a covetable new appointment to a job as the head of the Parisian symphony orchestra, it seems that Read More

2/6/08
The Valet

Crew: Casting

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

4/20/07
Jacquou le Croquant

Crew: Casting

Actors: Gaspard Ulliel, Leo Legrand, Marie-Josée Croze, Albert Dupontel, Tchéky Karyo

2007
French Film

Crew: Casting Director

Actors: Eric Cantona, Hugh Bonneville, Anne-Marie Duff, Jean Dell, Victoria Hamilton, Douglas Henshall

Synopsis: English hang-ups about romance get satirically filtered through the perspective of French movies in this witty, cinematically-literate comedy helmed by British director Jackie Oudney and scripted by Aschlin Ditta. The creators set up two narratives: in a framing device, Eric Cantona stars as the Read More

2007
The Price to Pay

Crew: Casting

Actors: Christian Clavier, Nathalie Baye, Gérard Lanvin, Géraldine Pailhas, Patrick Chesnais

2007
My Angel

Crew: Casting

Actors: Vanessa Paradis, Vincent Rottiers, Eduardo Noriega, Eric Ruf, Claude Perron, Thomas Fersen

2005
Boudu

Crew: Casting

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Catherine Frot, Gérard Jugnot, Constance Dolle, Bonnafet Tarbouriech

2005
Never Say Never!

Crew: Casting

Actors: Gérard Jugnot, Jean Dujardin, Mélanie Doutey, Marie-France Santon, Michele Garcia

2005
Battle of the Brave

Crew: Casting

Actors: Noemie Godin Vigneau, David La Haye, Sebastien Huberdeau, Juliette Gosselin, Gérard Depardieu

Synopsis: Gerard Depardieu, Vincent Perez, and Jason Isaacs star in director Jean Beaudin's historical account of the battle waged between England and France in hopes of gaining a geopolitical foothold in Canada. When a fur-trapper (David La Haye) and a young widow (Noemie Godin-Vigneau) find themselves Read More

2004
Les Fautes d'orthographe

Crew: Casting

Actors: Carole Bouquet, Olivier Gourmet, Damien Jouillerot, Franc Bruneau, Anthony Decadi

Synopsis: A budding misfit finds his troubles are just beginning when he's sent to a school run by his mom and dad in this comedy from France. Daniel (Damien Jouillerot) is the overweight and socially inept son of Pierre (Olivier Gourmet) and Genevieve (Carole Bouquet), a couple who run a boarding school Read More

2004
The Daltons

Crew: Casting

Actors: Eric Ramzy, Said Serrari, Romain Berger, Marthe Villalonga, Javivi

2004
Me and My Sister

Crew: Casting

Actors: Isabelle Huppert, Catherine Frot, François Berléand, Brigitte Catillon, Michel Vuillermoz

2004
Tais-toi!

Crew: Casting

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Jean Reno, Richard Berry, André Dussollier, Leonor Varela

10/22/03
3 zéros

Crew: Casting

Actors: Gérard Lanvin, Samuel Le Bihan, Lorant Deutsch, Gérard Darmon, Ticky Holgado

Synopsis: When diminutive soccer player Tibor (Lorant Deutsch) is placed in a prison cell with dimwitted giant Manu (Samuel Le Bihan) the duo soon begin to forge a friendship based on their mutual love of soccer. Agreeing that upon their release Manu will serve as Tibor's manager, Manu attempts to use his Read More

2002
Le Boulet

Crew: Casting

Actors: Gérard Lanvin, Benoît Poelvoorde, José Garcia, Djimon Hounsou, Rossy de Palma

Synopsis: French filmmakers Alain Berberian and Frédéric Forestier direct the buddy action comedy Le Boulet (Dead Weight). Tough criminal Moltes (Gérard Lanvin) lands in jail after killing the brother of the Turk (José Garcia). Prison guard Reggio (Benoît Poelvoorde) lets Moltes have a weekly lottery ticket Read More

2002
Napoleon

Crew: Casting

Actors: Christian Clavier, Isabella Rossellini, Gérard Depardieu, John Malkovich

Synopsis: Filmed in France, Hungary, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Morocco, and Canada, this ambitious biographical TV miniseries chronicles the life and times of the "Little Corporal" from Corsica who managed to conquer nearly all of Europe within a period of a dozen years. The narrative begins in the Read More

2002
Embrassez Qui Vous Voudrez

Crew: Casting

Actors: Charlotte Rampling, Jacques Dutronc, Carole Bouquet, Michel Blanc, Karin Viard

Synopsis: A group of friends and mutual acquaintances embark on a number of vacations -- concealed or otherwise -- for relaxation and unexpected romantic hijinks in French actor/director Michel Blanc's fourth directorial effort, the romantic ensemble comedy See How They Run. While hosting a dinner party Read More

2002
The Closet

Crew: Casting

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

1/17/01
Cuisine Americaine

Crew: Casting

Actors: Eddy Mitchell, Irène Jacob, Jason Lee, Thibault de Montalembert, Michel Muller

Synopsis: French-born, UCLA-trained screenwriter Jean-Yves Pitoun made his directorial debut with this French comedy in which self-taught cook Lorenzo, aka Loren (Jason Lee) is discharged from the U.S. Navy after hitting a superior who accused him of serving "sissy food" to the Admiral's guests. Back in Read More

10/21/98
The Dinner Game

Crew: Casting

Actors: Thierry Lhermitte, Jacques Villeret, Francis Huster, Alexandra Van Der Noot, Daniel Prévost

Synopsis: Francis Veber wrote and directed this film adaptation (with animated opening credits) of his own play, Le diner de cons, about a competition among a group of friends to see who can find the stupidest person to bring to dinner (as indicated by the original French title, since "con" means someone Read More

4/15/98
Les Couloirs Du Temps - Les Visiteurs II

Crew: Casting

Actors: Christian Clavier, Jean Reno, Muriel Robin, Marie-Anne Chazel, Christian Bujeau

Synopsis: At $23 million, this sequel cost three times as much as the earlier Les Visiteurs (1993), France's second largest postwar success (with 13.6 million tickets sold). The follow-up features a voiceover summary of the first film while pages flip in an illuminated book. In the 1993 film, a magic potion Read More

2/11/98
Les Palmes de Monsieur Schutz

Crew: Casting

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

4/9/97
C'est Pour la Bonne Cause

Crew: Casting

Actors: Antoine de Caunes, Dominique Blanc, Loic Freynet, Laurie Lefret

Synopsis: When 12-year-old Tonin's teacher announces that he is looking for volunteers to house one of several orphan African refugees for a month during their visit to Paris, the exuberent, well-meaning youth immediately offers his own abode. His classmates cheer and he feels happy until he broaches the Read More

2/5/97
Le Jaguar

Crew: Casting

Actors: Jean Reno, Patrick Bruel, Harrisson Lowe, Patricia Velasquez

Synopsis: In this fast-paced French comedy, a gambler, anxious to escape the thugs who pursue him after her reneged on a bet, mistakenly agrees to enter the safety of the Amazon jungle with an ethnologist's son to search for the missing soul of an ailing Indian. Perrin's ordeal begins in an elevator where Read More

1996
Le Plus Beau Métier du Monde

Crew: Casting

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Michèle Laroque, Souad Amidou, Ticky Holgado

Synopsis: A genteel teacher finds himself out of his element when his request to be assigned to a Parisian school lands him in an impoverished, multi-cultural ghetto suburb outside of Paris. There Laurent Monier (Gerard Depardieu) finds himself forced to live in a project apartment and teach classes full of Read More

1996
Fiesta

Crew: Casting

Actors: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Grégoire Colin, Marc Lavoine

Synopsis: A young aristocratic military cadet gets a dose of reality that shakes his high ideals to the core when he is called to fight in the Spanish Civil War in this French anti-war drama. Rafael, is the boy. He comes from a prominent Spanish family of military heroes and has spent his teens studying in Read More

1995
Dieu que les Femmes Sont Amoureuses

Crew: Casting

Actors: Catherine Jacob, Etienne Chicot, Yves Beneyton, Mathieu Carrière, Grace de Capitani, Pascale Audret

Synopsis: A working mother deals with the people involved in her life in this French comedy. Anne is a TV series editor. She is mother to a teenage boy by her ex-husband Daniel, and to twin 8-year old daughters by a mysterious other man. The girls' father, Arthur an irresponsible musician, shows up suddenly Read More

1994
Cache Cash

Crew: Casting

Actors: Aurelien Wiik, Josephine Serre, Rose Thiéry, Sophie Broustal, Jean Carmet

Synopsis: This French family film is filled with action, animals, adventure, and suspense. The story is told from a child's viewpoint. One day, while playing in his secret tree house in the forest, 11-year old Antoine spies upon bank robbers stashing 40-million francs worth of loot. One of the robbers is Read More

1994
Tattle Tale

Crew: Casting

Actors: C. Thomas Howell, Ally Sheedy

Synopsis: In this comedy, an actor masquerades as another more appealing man in hopes that his ex-wife will fall in love with him. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1992
Near Misses

Crew: Casting

Actors: Judge Reinhold, Casey Siemaszko, Cecile Paoli, Rebecca Pauly, Muriel Combeau

Synopsis: A lusty executive for a high-tech company tries to juggle his life between two disparate wives and his mistress. He is also in the Army Reserves and it is while serving his annual two weeks that he gets into big trouble. Actually, he is not actually serving; instead, he convinced his buddy to Read More

1991
Road to Ruin

Crew: Casting

Synopsis: A rich American playboy falls for a woman in Paris but before tying the knot, he decides to test her true motives by arranging a scheme whereby he temporarily writes off his millions to a business partner. When the gal proves her love is for real, the playboy finds that the partner is out to Read More

1991
Does This Mean We're Married?

Crew: Casting

Actors: Patsy Kensit

Synopsis: An American comic (Patsy Kensit) is trying to make it in the comedy dens of Paris, but her soon-to-expire visa forces her to visit a marriage broker. He fixes her up with a songwriter (Stephane Freiss), but French immigration remains suspicious even after the marriage. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

1990
The Maid

Crew: Casting

Actors: Martin Sheen, Jacqueline Bisset, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Victoria Shalet, James Faulkner

Synopsis: Martin Sheen and Jacqueline Bisset star in this romantic comedy based and filmed in Paris. An American businessman (Sheen) travels to France to work at a bank, and falls in love with its president (Bisset). He then poses as her new housekeeper to see more of her, and must try to keep up the Read More

1990
May Wine

Crew: Casting

Actors: Lara Flynn Boyle, Joanna Cassidy, Guy Marchand

Synopsis: While on vacation in Paris, a mother (Joanna Cassidy) and daughter (Lara Flynn Boyle) fall for the same doctor (Guy Marchand). Both pursue the man without knowing the truth. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

1990
Sweet Revenge

Crew: Casting

Actors: Rosanna Arquette, Carrie Fisher, John Sessions, François-Eric Gendron, Myriam Moszko

Synopsis: Sweet Revenge is a made-for-television comedy about a female lawyer (Carrie Fisher) who is ordered to pay alimony to her ex-husband. She hires an actress (Rosanna Arquette) to marry him, in hopes that she will be able to stop paying alimony. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

1990
Stroke of Midnight

Crew: Casting

Actors: Rob Lowe, Jennifer Grey, Elisabeth Vitali, Andréa Ferréol, Rebecca Potok

Synopsis: A wallflower who makes her living dressing haute-couture models by day is a fantastic shoe designer by night. Unfortunately, no one has ever seen her work, not even her arrogant fashion-designer boss. This romantic comedy follows what happens when she does someone a good deed and is visited by a Read More

1990
The Music Teacher

Crew: Casting

Actors: Jose van Dam, Anne Roussel, Philippe Volter, Sylvie Fennec, Johan Leysen

Synopsis: The title character in the Belgian-French The Music Teacher is a retired opera star, played by Jose Van Dam. The teacher's most gifted pupil is singer/musician Anne Roussel. Her love for her teacher is one of the motivating factors of the story, as is Roussel and Van Dam's relationship with Read More

7/7/89
La Soule

Crew: Casting

Actors: Richard Bohringer, Christophe Malavoy, Marianne Basler, Roland Blanche, Jean-Pierre Sentier

Synopsis: La Soule is the name of a once-popular and now long-forgotten extremely violent sport with an ancient history, which somewhat resembles rugby. It was not uncommon for players to be left on the playing field after a game, dead or maimed. In this unusual drama, Pierre Cursey (Christophe Malavoy), a Read More

1989
L'Etudiante

Crew: Casting

Actors: Sophie Marceau, Vincent Lindon, Elisabeth Vitali, Elena Pompei, Jean-Claude Leguay, Roberto Attias

Synopsis: Twenty-one-year-old Valentine (Sophie Marceau) works part time as a teacher while she prepares for her all-important final exams. She meets Edouard (Vincent Lindon), a rock musician who hopes to someday be a composer. Despite the fact that the two have different schedules and career agendas, they Read More

10/5/88
Les Compères

Crew: Casting

Actors: Pierre Richard, Gérard Depardieu, Anny Duperey, Michel Aumont, Stephane Bierry

Synopsis: When her teen-aged son (Stephane Bierry) runs away and the police are noncommittal, a woman (Anne Duperey) convinces two old flames -- a crusading journalist (Gerard Depardieu) and a hypochondriac (Pierre Richard) -- that each is the father of her son in order to spur someone into action. Both Read More

1983

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