Gérard DepardieuFilmography

Born:: December 27, 1948 in Chateauroux, France
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: Despite his unorthodox visage, Gérard Depardieu has made a profound mark on the acting world, earning a recognition as one of Europe's most accomplished performers and appealing leading men. Perhaps a contributor to his consistently intense performances, Depardieu's childhood was one of extreme...Read More

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Diamond 13

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Olivier Marchal, Asia Argento, Anne Coesens

Synopsis: Gerard Depardieu, Oliver Marchal, and Asia Argento star in this thriller about a Paris police officer who puts his own career on the line to help his lifelong friend, a crooked narcotics cop who does some drug trafficking on the side. Mat works the night beat in the city, and his best friend Read More

1/21/09
Bellamy

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Marie Bunel, Clovis Cornillac, Jacques Gamblin, Vahina Giocante

Synopsis: Two leading figures in the French cinema, actor Gerard Depardieu and director Claude Chabrol, collaborate for the first time in this breezy whodunit. Paul Bellamy (Depardieu) is a French police detective whose wife Francoise (Marie Bunel) has managed to persuade him to take a vacation for the Read More

2009
Les Enfants De Timpelbach

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Joel Demarty, Carole Bouquet, Marcus Vigneron Coudray, Armelle, Sasha Lecomte

Synopsis: French director Nicolas Bary's wacky, family-friendly fantasy comedy The Children of Timpelbach concerns the titular village, where the kids act so unruly and disobedient that all of the adults suddenly throw up their hands in disgust and decide to abandon the place. This, of course, leaves the Read More

12/17/08
Death Instinct

Actors: Vincent Cassel, Cécile De France, Gérard Depardieu, Gilles Lellouche

Synopsis: This tough and gritty French-language crime drama represents the premier installment in a two-part series of features on the life and doings of notorious Gallic hood Jacques Mesrine (1936-79). Mesrine is played, in both installments, by actor Vincent Cassel (Sa Majeste Minor), who reportedly Read More

11/19/08
Babylon A.D.

Actors: Vin Diesel, Mélanie Thierry, Michelle Yeoh, Lambert Wilson, Mark Strong

Synopsis: Hong Kong action icon Michelle Yeoh stars alongside American muscle Vin Diesel in this science fiction thriller concerning a nun who is charged with the task of caring for a young girl who may be the carrier of a deadly virus. Based on author Maurice Dantec's Babylon Babies, this tale of genetic Read More

8/29/08
Asterix at the Olympic Games

Actors: Clovis Cornillac, Gérard Depardieu, Benoît Poelvoorde, Alain Delon, Stéphane Rousseau

Synopsis: Rene Goscinny and Albert Uderzo's internationally popular cartoon characters Asterix and Obelix take on the world of athletics in this live-action comedy-adventure. It's 50 B.C., and short but wily Asterix (Clovis Cornillac) and his rotund sidekick Obelix (Gerard Depardieu) hit the road for Rome Read More

2008
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

2008
Hello Goodbye

Actors: Fanny Ardant, Gérard Depardieu, Jean Benguigui, Lior Ashkenazi, Sasson Gabay

Synopsis: A couple find they're fish out of water when they journey back to their ancestral homeland in this comedy from France. Alain (Gerard Depardieu) is a successful doctor in his mid-fifties who has been married to Gisele (Fanny Ardant) most of his adult life. Alain and Gisele have grown tired of life Read More

2008
Disco

Actors: Franck Dubosc, Gérard Depardieu

Synopsis: A guy who used to be the king of the dance floor tries to regain his title thirty years after the fact in this French comedy. In the mid-Seventies, Didier (Franck Dubosc) was a disco dancer who made the rounds of all the hottest nightspots in Le Havre with his pals Walter (Samuel Le Bihan) and Read More

2008
Final Arrangements

Actors: Didier Bourdon, Marc-André Grondin, Bérénice Bejo, Gérard Depardieu, Marthe Keller

Synopsis: A veteran undertaker has to learn how to keep up with the times in this comedy from France. Gervais (Didier Bourdon) has been working for an upscale funeral home in Paris for years, but the business isn't making as much money as it once did. The owners of the home think Gervais could use some Read More

2008
La Vie en Rose

Actors: Marion Cotillard, Sylvie Testud, Pascal Greggory, Emmanuelle Seigner, Jean-Paul Rouve, Clotilde Courau, Jean-Pierre Martins, Catherine Allegret, Marc Barbé, Gérard Depardieu

Synopsis: Writer/director Olivier Dahan (Crimson Rivers II) helmed La Vie en Rose, the screen biopic of tragic French songstress Edith Piaf. Marion Cotillard portrays Piaf, the superstar once raised as a young girl by her grandmother in a Normandy bordello, then discovered on a French street corner -- as a Read More

6/8/07
Paris, Je T'Aime

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Twenty acclaimed filmmakers from around the world look at love in the City of Lights in this omnibus feature. Paris, Je T'Aime features 18 short stories, each set in a different part of Paris and each featuring a different cast and director (two segments were produced by two filmmakers in Read More

5/4/07
Michou d'Auber

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Nathalie Baye

Synopsis: It is 1960. France encroaches on the wrap-up of the Franco-Algerian war, but for Gallic patriot and military veteran Georges (Gerard Depardieu), intense memories linger of hand-to-hand combat, and every Muslim - in France or abroad - is thus a potential enemy. Georges and his wife, Gisèle Read More

2007
The Feast

Actors: Diego Abatantuono, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Donatella Finocchiaro, Nino Frassica, Paolo Briguglia

Synopsis: Three aspiring moviemakers unexpectedly land a big break and their hometown comes out to celebrate in this warm comedy-drama. Gabriele (Paolo Briguglia), Nicola (Lele Nucera) and Marco (Lorenzo Di Ciaccia) are three young men growing up in Diamante, a small town in the Calabria region of Southern Read More

2007
Maurice Pialat: L'Amour Existe

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Maurice Pialat

Synopsis: This documentary details the life and career of French director Maurice Pialat through interviews with the filmmaker, and excerpts from his own films, as well as those that influenced him. With probing insights into Pialat's hopes, fears, and motivations, the film seeks to understand how each of Read More

2007
Nathalie...

Actors: Fanny Ardant, Emmanuelle Béart, Gérard Depardieu, Judith Magre, Vladimir Yordanoff

Synopsis: A middle-aged woman fears that her husband is cheating on her -- and chooses a very unlikely method for verifying her paranoia -- in this psychological drama from the writer of Une Liaison Pornographique. Catherine (Fanny Ardant) is a successful Parisian gynecologist whose long-term marriage to Read More

4/14/06
Last Holiday

Actors: Queen Latifah, LL Cool J, Timothy Hutton, Giancarlo Esposito, Alicia Witt

Synopsis: A woman learns to love life when she finds out she won't be around long in this comedy. Georgia Byrd (Queen Latifah) lives in New Orleans, where she works in the cookware department of an upscale gourmet supply shop. While Georgia carries a torch for Sean (LL Cool J), one of her co-workers, she Read More

1/13/06
The Singer

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Cécile De France, Mathieu Amalric, Christine Citti, Patrick Pineau

Synopsis: A small-time crooner of sentimental ballads enters into a May-December romance with a fragile young real-estate agent in this low-key romantic drama starring Gérard Depardieu and Cécile de France. Fifty-something Alain (Depardieu) is something of a local celebrity in Clermont-Ferrand, and few Read More

2006
Quartier Latin

Crew: Director

Actors: Gena Rowlands, Ben Gazzara, Gérard Depardieu

Synopsis: Gena Rowlands penned and stars opposite longtime friend and Cassavetes collaborator Ben Gazzara in this short film set in the titular section of Paris. The two play a long-separated married couple, reunited on the eve of their divorce. Directed by Gérard Depardieu and Frédéric Auburtin, Quartier Read More

2006
Let's Be Friends

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Jean-Paul Rouve, Annie Girardot, Isabelle Renauld, Yves Jacques

2005
Boudu

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

2005
Ole!

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Gad Elmaleh, Sabine Azéma, Valeria Golino, Bob Swaim

Synopsis: A group of students are eager to get an education while on a class trip in this comedy from Italy. Salvatore (Vincenzo Salemme) and Archimede (Massimo Boldi) are two teachers at a private high school for boys who have arranged for their students to travel to Spain for a learning holiday. While Read More

2005
How Much Do You Love Me?

Actors: Monica Bellucci, Bernard Campan, Gérard Depardieu, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Edouard Baer

2005
Bon Voyage

Actors: Isabelle Adjani, Gérard Depardieu, Virginie Ledoyen, Yvan Attal, Grégori Derangère, Peter Coyote

Synopsis: The last frantic days before the Germans seized France in 1940 provide an unlikely backdrop for this dark comedy. Viviane (Isabelle Adjani) is a glamorous and well-known film actress who attracts the attentions of many men -- often many she has no interest in knowing. One night, at a reception Read More

3/19/04
San Antonio

2004
RRRrrrr!!!

Actors: Maurice Barthelemy, Jean-Paul Rouve, Pef Martin Laval, Marina Fois, Elise Lanicol

2004
Epreuves d'Artistes

Actors: Pedro Almodóvar, Robert Altman, Michelangelo Antonioni, Roberto Benigni, Bernardo Bertolucci

2004
Changing Times

Actors: Catherine Deneuve, Gérard Depardieu, Gilbert Melki, Malik Zidi, Lubna Azabal

Synopsis: A worldly construction supervisor travels to Tangier to ensure that a complicated job is completed by the projected date, only to find the torch he carries for a long-lost love rekindled with melancholy passion in director Andre Techine's pensive romantic drama. It's been thirty-years since Read More

2004
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

2004
Battle of the Brave

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
Tais-toi!

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

10/22/03
City of Ghosts

Actors: James Caan, Matt Dillon, Natascha McElhone, Gérard Depardieu, Sereyvuth Kem, Stellan Skarsgård

Synopsis: Leading man Matt Dillon makes his directorial debut with the crime thriller City of Ghosts. Jimmy (Dillon) is a New York con man fleeing the U.S. for Bangkok in order to avoid an insurance scam investigation. He goes to Cambodia to meet up with his former business partner, Marvin (James Caan), to Read More

4/25/03
La Femme Musketeer

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Michael York, Nastassja Kinski, Susie Amy, John Rhys-Davies, Christopher Cazenove, Casper Zafer, Alan Corduner

Synopsis: The legend of Jacques D'Artagnan (Michael York) gets a gender-bending update in this swashbuckling adventure from stuntman-turned-director Steve Boyum. Though legendary swordsman Jacques D'Artagnan's best days may be well behind him, he has schooled his daughter Valentine (Susie Amy) well in the Read More

2003
Crime Spree

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Johnny Hallyday, Renaud, Harvey Keitel, Richard Bohringer

Synopsis: The directorial-debut of screenwriter Brad Mirman (Truth or Consequences, N.M.), Crime Spree stars Gerard Depardieu as Daniel, the head of a trio of French crooks who cross the pond for a job in Chicago. Unfortunately, what was to have been a routine heist turns ugly when Daniel and his cohorts Read More

2003
Le Clefs de Bagnole

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

2003
The Pact of Silence

Actors: Carmen Maura, Isaac Sharry, Gérard Depardieu, Élodie Bouchez

Synopsis: Sarah (Élodie Bouchez) a young Carmelite nun, collapses in pain, dazed and spouting a nonsense phrase. Concurrently, a great distance away, her identical twin sister, Gaëlle (also Bouchez), in prison, wakes up to find her cell in flames. While Gaëlle, the victim of an attack by her fellow Read More

2003
CQ

Actors: Jeremy Davies, Élodie Bouchez, Gérard Depardieu, Giancarlo Giannini

Synopsis: The feature debut of Roman Coppola (son of Oscar-winning director Francis Ford Coppola) centers around an international film crew making a low-budget, Barbarella-like feature in Paris in 1969. The film is called Dragonfly and is being directed by Andrzej (Gérard Depardieu), who wishes to make a Read More

5/24/02
Astérix et Obélix: Mission Cléopâtre

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Christian Clavier, Jamel Debbouze, Monica Bellucci, Claude Rich

Synopsis: Based on the original '60s French comic books by René Goscinny, Astérix & Obélix: Mission Cléopâtre is the big-budget sequel to the 1999 box-office hit Astérix and Obélix vs. Caesar. Empress Cleopatra (Monica Bellucci) makes a wager with Julius Caesar (played by writer/director Alain Chabat) that Read More

1/30/02
Between Strangers

Actors: Sophia Loren, Mira Sorvino, Deborah Kara Unger, Pete Postlethwaite, Klaus Maria Brandauer

Synopsis: Three women living in Toronto find themselves confronting emotional crises regarding the men in their lives in this drama. Olivia (Sophia Loren) is a woman who spends her days looking after her husband, John (Pete Postlethwaite), who is confined to a wheelchair. Olivia has long aspired to a career Read More

2002
I Am Dina

Actors: Maria Bonnevie, Gérard Depardieu, Christopher Eccleston, Pernilla August, Bjørn Floberg

Synopsis: Ole Bornedal directs the drama I Am Dina, based on the novel by Herbjørg Wassmo. In Northern Norway during the 1860s, a little girl named Dina accidentally causes her mother's death. Overcome with grief, her father (Bjørn Floberg) refuses to raise her, leaving her in the care of the household Read More

2002
A Loving Father

Synopsis: A father and his estranged son hit the road under less than ideal circumstances in Jacob Berger's 2002 film A Loving Father. Famed novelist Leo Shepherd (Gérard Depardieu) has just been notified, via his daughter Virginia (Sylvie Testud), that he is to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Read More

2002
Napoleon

Crew: Producer

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
Blanche

Actors: Lou Doillon, Roschdy Zem, Jean Rochefort, Carole Bouquet, José Garcia

Synopsis: A young woman bent on revenge becomes a legendary thief in the vein of Robin Hood in director Bernie Bonvoisin's 2002 comic swashbuckler Blanche. When she was 14, young Blanche de Perrone's family was massacred by the Cardinal Mazarin's (Jean Rochefort) right-hand man, Captain KKK (Antoine de Caunes Read More

2002
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

1/17/01
Concorrenza Sleale

Actors: Diego Abatantuono, Sergio Castellitto, Gérard Depardieu, Jean-Claude Brialy, Claude Rich

Synopsis: The insidious emergence of state-sanctioned anti-Semitism in Fascist Italy sets the stage for this historical drama. In 1938, Umberto (Diego Abatantuono) is a tailor who is beginning to lose business to Leone (Sergio Castellito), a haberdasher whose shop is next door to Umberto's. Leone offers Read More

2001
Streghe Verso Nord

Actors: Teo Mammucari, Paul Sorvino, Emmanuelle Seigner, Gérard Depardieu, Daniele Liotti

2001
Dark Portals: The Chronicles of Vidocq

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Guillaume Canet, Ines Sastre, André Dussollier, Edith Scob

Synopsis: Vidocq (1775-1857) was a noted French detective who was one of the great trailblazers of modern criminal investigation; he's been credited with establishing the first private investigation firm, and pioneered a number of scientific techniques that are still being used today. Vidocq was also a Read More

2001
102 Dalmatians

Actors: Glenn Close, Ioan Gruffudd, Alice Evans, Tim McInnerny, Ian Richardson, Gérard Depardieu

Synopsis: Glenn Close goes to the dogs once again in this sequel to 101 Dalmatians, Disney's 1996 live-action adaptation of their beloved animated classic. After three years in prison, Cruella De Vil (Close) is judged to have paid her debt to society and is set free, as she pledges to have nothing to do Read More

11/22/00
The Bridge

Crew: Director

Actors: Carole Bouquet, Gérard Depardieu, Charles Berling, Stanislas Crevillen, Dominique Reymond

Synopsis: Actor Gerard Depardieu co-directed (with Frederic Auburtin) this drama about a married woman who falls in love with another man, which stars Depardieu and Carole Bouquet. Mina (Bouquet) is a movie buff with a husband, Georges (Depardieu), who's out of work, and a 15-year-old son, Tommy (Stanislas Crevillen Read More

10/20/00
Vatel

Actors: Féodor Atkine, Hywel Bennett, Gérard Depardieu, Arielle Dombasle, Julian Glover, Tim Roth, Uma Thurman

Synopsis: A man hoping to win the favor of a King finds that his heart has gotten in the way in this lavishly-produced comedy-drama. In 1671, the Prince du Conde (Julian Glover) is a figure of French nobility who is deep in debt and suffering from gout. Hoping to buoy his fortunes and his reputation, du Read More

5/12/00
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

4/5/00
Tutto l'amore che c'è

Actors: Margherita Buy, Gérard Depardieu

Synopsis: Italian actor and director Sergio Rubini spins this affable ensemble coming-of-age flick set in a small village in the southern region of Rubini. Teenaged Carlo (Damiano Russo) and his buddy are agog at the arrival of three northern beauties when their father is transferred in to run the local Read More

2000
Zavist Bogov

Actors: Vera Alentova, Alexander Feklistov, Gérard Depardieu

Synopsis: A woman finds new love, but with the wrong man and at the wrong time, in this drama set in the former Soviet Union in the mid-1980s. Sonya (Vera Alentova) is a 44-year-old woman who is unhappy in her two-decades-old marriage to an author, who is open-minded where Sonya is repressed and guarded. Read More

2000
Mirka

Actors: Barbora Bobulova, Gérard Depardieu, Franco Nero, Vanessa Redgrave

Synopsis: Algerian-born filmmaker Rachid Benhadj directs this bleak drama about the aftermath of wartime rape. Set in an unidentified Balkan nation, the film focuses on ruff, world-weary Kalsan (Vanessa Redgrave), who heads an isolated mountain farm with her 24-year-old soon-to-be-married granddaughter Read More

2000
Les Miserables

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, John Malkovich, Virginie Ledoyen, Christian Clavier, Enrico Lo Verso

Synopsis: Victor Hugo's classic story of one man's struggle to redeem himself -- and another man's efforts to bring him down -- is brought to the screen again (there have been at least 18 previous screen adaptations) in this epic-scale television production with a distinguished international cast. Jean Read More

2000
Astérix et Obélix contre César

Actors: Christian Clavier, Gérard Depardieu, Roberto Benigni, Laetitia Casta, Arielle Dombasle

Synopsis: Asterix and Obelix, the French comic book heroes created by René Goscinny and Albert Underzo (their adventures have sold 280 million copies to date in Europe), are brought to the big screen in their first live-action adventure. Set in 50 B.C., Asterix (Christian Clavier) and Obelix (Gérard Depardieu Read More

2/3/99
Balzac

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Jeanne Moreau, Virna Lisi, Fanny Ardant

Synopsis: Gérard Depardieu stars as the great French author Honoré de Balzac in this historical biography produced for French television. Balzac's childhood is marked by a difficult relationship with his mother, Charlotte-Laure (Jeanne Moreau), whose strident criticism and inability to show affection are Read More

1999
Bimboland

Actors: Judith Godrëche, Aure Atika, Gérard Depardieu, Armelle

Synopsis: In this broadly comic variation on the old saw of the female scientist who is beautiful when she takes her glasses off, anthropologist Cecile (Judith Godreche) has spent some time tracking what she believes to be a lost tribe only to find out that they're really just the employees of a firm with a Read More

12/23/98
La Parola Amore Esiste

Actors: Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Marina Confalone, Emanuela Macchniz, Giovanna Giuliani

Synopsis: Former documentary filmmaker Mimmo Calopresti (The Second Time) made this Italian-French romantic drama that focuses on fragile and phobic 30-year-old Angela (Valeria Bruni Tedeschi). She should have a comfortable life, yet she sinks into solitude, hungers for love, can't communicate with her Read More

1998
The Count of Monte Cristo

Actors: Michel Aumont, Georges Moustaki, Stanislas Merhar, Jean Rochefort, Gérard Depardieu, Ornella Muti

Synopsis: Gerard Depardieu stars in this made-for-TV adaptation of the classic adventure story by Alexandre Dumas. Edmond (Depardieu) has been held in a French prison for nearly 20 years for daring to love Mercedes (Naike Rivelli), a woman who has also been wooed by a man in power, Mondego (Jean Rochefort). Read More

1998
The Man in the Iron Mask

Actors: Leonardo DiCaprio, Jeremy Irons, John Malkovich, Gérard Depardieu, Gabriel Byrne

Synopsis: Oscar-nominated Randall Wallace (Braveheart) made his directorial debut with this adaptation of the 1848 classic by Alexandre Dumas (1802-70), featuring Leonardo DiCaprio in a dual role. Years have passed since the Three Musketeers, Aramis (Jeremy Irons), Athos (John Malkovich), and Porthos (Gerard Depardieu Read More

1998
XXL

Actors: Michel Boujenah, Gérard Depardieu, Elsa Zylberstein, Catherine Jacob, Maurice Chevit

Synopsis: Ariel Zeitoun directed this French comedy depicting Ashkenazic-Sephardic rivalries in the Jewish garment district of Paris. Tunisian-Jewish businessman Alain Berrebi (Michel Boujenah) courts Ashkenazi princess Arlette Stern (Elsa Zylberstein). Her father David (Maurice Chevit) learns of the death Read More

12/10/97
She's So Lovely

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Sean Penn, Robin Wright Penn, John Travolta

Synopsis: Written by the late John Cassavettes in 1987 and filmed by his son Nick a decade later, the comic drama She's So Lovely (originally and more appropriately titled She's De Lovely in honor of the Cole Porter composition central to the movie) stars real-life couple Sean Penn and Robin Wright-Penn as Read More

1997
Unhook the Stars

Actors: Tom Proctor, Gena Rowlands, Marisa Tomei, Gérard Depardieu, Jake Lloyd, Moira Kelly

Synopsis: The great overlooked actress Gena Rowlands was cast in the starring role of Mildred in this film directed by her son, Nick Cassavetes. Rowlands appeared in several of John Cassavetes's remarkable films, notably A Woman Under the Influence. Mildred is a wealthy widow who lives with her daughter Ann Read More

1996
Le Plus Beau Métier du Monde

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
Bogus

Actors: Whoopi Goldberg, Gérard Depardieu, Haley Joel Osment, Denis Mercier, Andrea Martin

Synopsis: Albert Franklin (Haley Joel Osment) is the son of stage magician Lorraine Franklin, and has learned to do a few magic tricks of his own. However, when his mother dies and he is sent to live with his aunt Harriet (Whoopi Goldberg), it becomes clear that for him the boundary between stage magic and Read More

1996
Hamlet

Actors: Richard Attenborough, Kenneth Branagh, Julie Christie, Brian Blessed, Derek Jacobi, Kate Winslet, Richard Briers

Synopsis: At least the 22nd time William Shakespeare's most famous tragedy has been brought to the screen, Kenneth Branagh's film adaptation of Hamlet was the first to preserve Shakespeare's entire text, uncut and unabridged. Moving the action into the 19th century, Branagh cast himself in the title role Read More

1996
The Secret Agent

Actors: Bob Hoskins, Patricia Arquette, Gérard Depardieu, Robin Williams, George Spelvin, Jim Broadbent

Synopsis: In this adaptation of the novel by Joseph Conrad, Mr. Verloc (Bob Hoskins) runs a shabby corner shop in London that serves as a front for his more profitable sideline, selling pornography. However, selling sex photos is not Verloc's main order of business; he is a member of an anarchist Read More

1996
Elisa

Actors: Vanessa Paradis, Gérard Depardieu, Clotilde Courau, Sekkou Sall, Florence Thomassin

Synopsis: A troubled young woman goes in search of the father she never knew in this French drama. In 1979, Elisa (Florence Thomassin) is an unhappy and unstable woman who -- after trying to strangle her two year old daughter Marie -- kills herself on Christmas Eve. Sixteen years later, Marie (Vanessa Paradis Read More

1995
A Hundred and One Nights

Actors: Michel Piccoli, Marcello Mastroianni, Henri Garcin, Julie Gayet

Synopsis: This homage to the cinema by venerated movie-maker Agnes Varda, often dubbed the "grandmother" of the French New Wave, features an all-star international cast. The story is based upon the memories and insights of the 100-year old Mr. Simon Cinema. He lives in a magnificent house filled with movie Read More

1995
Le Garcu

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Géraldine Pailhas, Antoine Pialat, Dominique Rocheteau, Fabienne Babe

Synopsis: In this French drama, a selfish father disrupts the life of his four-year-old son to make himself feel better. The boy, Antoine, is the result of the much-older Gerard's union with young Sophie. Soon after conception, the relationship withers and she goes on to live with Jeannot, who helps raise Read More

1995
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

1995
Les Anges Gardiens

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Christian Clavier, Eva Grimaldi, Yves Renier

Synopsis: Two men find themselves pulled away from their natures by otherworldly forces in this French comedy. While they're very different people, Antoine Carco (Gerard Depardieu), the owner of a strip club in Paris, and Father Tarain (Christian Clavier), a straight-laced man of the cloth, have one thing Read More

1995
My Father The Hero

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Katherine Heigl, Dalton James, Lauren Hutton, Faith Prince

Synopsis: Disney not only recycled the French farce Mon Pere, Ce Heros but brought back the lead actor of the original, Gerard Depardieu, for the Americanized remake My Father, the Hero. Depardieu plays Andre, the loving but neglectful French father of fourteen-year old Nicole (Katherine Heigl), who now Read More

1994
Colonel Chabert

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Fanny Ardant, Fabrice Luchini, André Dussollier, Daniel Prévost

Synopsis: This metaphorical drama, about the changes brought to French society by revolution, stars Gérard Depardieu as Chabert, a French soldier who served under Napoleon in 1807 and was thought to have died in battle. In fact, Chabert was nearly buried in a mass grave with a large number of deceased Read More

1994
A Pure Formality

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Roman Polanski, Sergio Rubini, Nicola di Pinto, Paolo Lombardi

Synopsis: The sweet sentimental gauze of director Giuseppe Tornatore's international hit Cinema Paradiso (1988) is nowhere to be found in this dark, Kafkaesque crime thriller that takes place, stage play-style, mostly in the confines of one room. Gerard Depardieu stars as Onoff, a famed author who has Read More

1994
La Machine

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Nathalie Baye, Didier Bourdon, Natalia Woerner, Erwan Baynaud

Synopsis: This deftly made French psychological thriller terrifies with its exploration of an experiment gone horribly wrong. Dr. Marc Lacroix, a psychiatrist specializing in brain functions, is obsessed with the link between mind and spirit. To find his link he studies the criminally insane. He builds a Read More

1994
Hélas Pour Moi

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Laurence Masliah, Bernard Verley

Synopsis: Hélas pour moi is the story of journalist Abraham Klimt (Bernard Verley)'s investigation of a case of divine possession. In 1989 God enters the body of filmmaker Simon Donnadieu (Gérard Depardieu). When Simon returns home, his wife Rachel (Laurence Masliah) realizes something is amiss but sticks Read More

8/9/93
Francois Truffaut: Portraits Volés

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Claude Chabrol

Synopsis: In homage to one of France's great directors, this highly personal documentary features those that knew him best, including his daughter Ewa and fellow filmmaker Claude Chabrol as they offer their comments and analysis of his career and his fascinating life. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1993
Germinal

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Miou-Miou, Jean Carmet, Judith Henry

Synopsis: Claude Berri's angry, ambitious epic, based on the 19th-century novel by Emile Zola, re-creates, as does the novel, the gut-wrenching poverty and the intense day-by-day struggles of striking French coal-miners in 1884 at the Voreux mines of France. The film centers upon the bitter toils of Maheu (Gerard Depardieu Read More

1993
1492: Conquest of Paradise

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Armand Assante, Sigourney Weaver, Michael Wincott, Loren Dean, Ángela Molina

Synopsis: This, the second of 1992's 500th anniversary Christopher Columbus films (the first being Warner Bros. Christopher Columbus: The Discovery), adheres to the historical facts of Columbus's (Gerard Depardieu) possessed quest to discover the New World, and his solicitation of Queen Isabella (Sigourney Weaver Read More

1992
All the Mornings of the World

Actors: Jean-Pierre Marielle, Gérard Depardieu, Anne Brochet, Guillaume Depardieu, Caroline Sihol

Synopsis: Jazzman-turned-director Alain Corneau brings his extensive musical savvy to All the Mornings of the World. Jean-Pierre Marielle stars as legendary 17th-century baroque composer and cellist M. de Saint Colombe. Believing the only "true" music is that which is written down, Sainte Colombe is Read More

12/18/91
Merci La Vie

Actors: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Anouk Grinberg, Gérard Depardieu, Michel Blanc, Jean Carmet

Synopsis: In this frequently surrealistic romp, a satire on sex, politics, and the business of filmmaking, two young women get together after discovering sufficient provocations in their lives to deliberately set out to wreak havoc in the world around them. Joelle (Anouk Grinberg) has just been thrown out Read More

3/13/91
The Stranger

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Utpal Dutt, Dhritiman Chatterjee

Synopsis: Satyajit Ray's final film is a deceptively simple modern fable about a mysterious and world-weary old man (Utpal Dutt), who comes to stay with a middle-class Calcutta family, claiming to be the wife's long-lost uncle, Manmohan Mitra. Anila (Mamata Shankar), the wife, wants to believe him, but her Read More

1991
Mon Père Ce Héros

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Marie Gillain, Patrick Mille, Catherine Jacob, Charlotte de Turckheim

Synopsis: In this comedy, Andre is anxious to please his fourteen-year old daughter when he picks her up from her mother (whom he's divorced from) for a vacation on Maritius. She is full of romantic notions, and when she spies a cute windsurfer at the resort, she concocts a story to win him to her side. Read More

1991
Green Card

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Andie MacDowell, Bebe Neuwirth, Gregg Edelman, Robert Prosky

Synopsis: Green Card fuses the template of a light romantic comedy with a classic fish-out-of-water scenario. In order to retain her beautiful rent-controlled Manhattan apartment, a beautiful, socially-conscious American woman (Andie MacDowell) has to be married, so she decides to marry a burly French Read More

12/23/90
Uranus

Actors: Philippe Noiret, Gérard Depardieu, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Michel Blanc, Florence Darel, Michel Galabru

Synopsis: Uranus is set in a post-war French village that has been all but obliterated by the bombing. Jean-Pierre Marielle plays a middle-class family man who agrees to shelter many of those who've lost their homes. The polyglot of political beliefs held by these new tenants sows the seeds of discontent. Read More

12/12/90
Cyrano De Bergerac

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Anne Brochet, Vincent Perez, Jacques Weber, Roland Bertin

Synopsis: Edmond Rostand's classic drama of inner and outer beauty is given a lavish treatment in this acclaimed French production. Gérard Depardieu portrays the title character, a brilliant, charismatic swordsman with a generous spirit and a genius for poetry. It would seem that such a man would have no Read More

11/16/90
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

3/2/90
Camille Claudel

Actors: Isabelle Adjani, Gérard Depardieu, Laurent Grévill, Alain Cuny, Madeleine Robinson

Synopsis: The troubled life of French sculptor Camille Claudel and her long relationship with legendary sculptor Auguste Rodin are portrayed in this passionate biographical drama, featuring an acclaimed performance by Isabelle Adjani. Beginning in the 1880s with a young Claudel's first meeting with Rodin Read More

12/21/89
Under the Sun of Satan

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Sandrine Bonnaire, Maurice Pialat, Alain Artur, Yan Dedet

Synopsis: A slow, complex and involving tale of a French priest and his moral trials and tribulations, Under the Sun of Satan is adapted from the Georges Bernanos novel of the same name. Father Donissan (Gerard Depardieu) struggles to save the soul of the 16-year-old pregnant woman Mouchette (Sandrine Bonnaire Read More

1/20/89
I Want to Go Home

Actors: Adolph Green, Gérard Depardieu, Linda Lavin, Laura Benson, Micheline Presle

Synopsis: American humorist Jules Feiffer and French director Alain Resnais are oddly paired for this satirical comedy about an American cartoonist in Paris. Adolph Green is a stunner as Joey Wellman, a cantankerous American cartoonist traveling abroad for the first time. In tow is Lena Apthrop (Linda Read More

1989
Je Hais les Acteurs

Actors: Jean Poiret, Michel Blanc, Bernard Blier, Patrick Floersheim, Michel Galabru

Synopsis: This adaptation of Ben Hecht's novel is a satire that unfolds as a mystery story. A Hollywood studio is producing another spectacular when the top billed male stars suddenly show up as corpses, killed before the critics could ever put pen to paper. Under suspicion is a talent agent. Is he guilty Read More

4/29/88
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

1988
Drôle D'Endroit Pour Une Rencontre

Actors: Catherine Deneuve, Gérard Depardieu, André Wilms, Jean-Pierre Sentier

Synopsis: France (Catherine Deneuve) is a haughty, bourgeoise wife abandoned by her husband by the side of the road after a vicious quarrel. She meets Charles (Gerard Depardieu), a doctor who has spent the last two nights taking his car engine apart and now can't get it back together. The meeting of the two Read More

1988
One Woman or Two

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Sigourney Weaver, Michel Aumont, Dr. Ruth Westheimer, Zabou

Synopsis: Basically an updated take on "Bringing Up Baby," this screwy French comedy centers on the travails of a paleontologist (Gerard Depardieu) whose delight at finding the skeleton of the first French woman is dampened by the presence of an aggressive advertising executive (Sigourney Weaver) who is Read More

2/6/87
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

11/19/86
Police

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Sophie Marceau, Richard Anconina, Pascale Rocard, Sandrine Bonnaire

Synopsis: This strange crime-cum-romance story starts out with the ordinary work-a-day life of Mangin, an apparently straight-and-narrow cop (Gerard Depardieu), and then segues into a love story after he meets Noria, a beautiful Arab woman (Sophie Marceau) who has just been arrested during a drug raid. Read More

10/10/86
Tenue de Soirée

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Michel Blanc, Miou-Miou, Bruno Cremer, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Caroline Sihol

Synopsis: Menage begins as a comedy of sorts, but be warned: it develops into a very dark, very confusing probe into the seamier aspects of Parisian life. Gerard Depardieu plays a crude but charismatic thief, whose own gayness does not prevent his commiserating with those of the opposite sex. Miou-Miou Read More

10/3/86
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

8/27/86
Les Fugitifs

Actors: Pierre Richard, Gérard Depardieu, Jean Carmet, Michel Blanc, Maurice Barrier

Synopsis: Francis Veber directs this hilarious comedy about Francois (Pierre Richard), a desperate, novice, bumbling bank robber who takes an ex-con hostage during his attempted hold-up. They are both chased by the police. Jean (Gerard Depardieu) plays the convicted bank robber just released from jail and Read More

1986
Rue Du Départ

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

1986
Fort Saganne

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Philippe Noiret, Catherine Deneuve, Sophie Marceau, Michel Duchaussoy

Synopsis: In spite of spending three hours developing the story of French peasant Charles Saganne (Gérard Depardieu), the sweep of this epic skims over the qualities that transformed Saganne from an ordinary officer to a great military leader. Saganne was first sent to a garrison town in North Africa before Read More

1984
Rive Droite, Rive Gauche

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Nathalie Baye, Carole Bouquet, Bernard Fresson, Charlotte de Turckheim

Synopsis: In this clichéd, uneven, confusing melodrama about love and politics by Philippe Labro, Sacha (Nathalie Baye) is a divorced woman from the Left Bank of the Seine, out of a job because she refused to bestow sexual favors in the line of duty, and Paul (Gérard Depardieu) is a lawyer from the Right Read More

1984
Tartuffe

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: François Perier, Gérard Depardieu, Elisabeth Depardieu

Synopsis: Gérard Depardieu's version of Tartuffe brings no innovative cinematic flair to the story of an outrageous and daring imposter who passes himself off as a haughty, pious priest (Tartuffe, also played by Depardieu), in order to gain access to the fortune and properties - and daughter - of the Read More

1984
The Moon in the Gutter

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Nastassja Kinski, Victoria Abril, Vittorio Mezzogiorno, Dominique Pinon

Synopsis: Filmmaker Jean-Jacques Beineix followed up the surprise international success of his first feature, Diva, with this stylish but downbeat drama. Gerard (Gerard Depardieu) is a dock worker who becomes an emotional wreck following the rape and suicide of his sister. As his relationships with his Read More

5/18/83
Wajda's Danton

Actors: Andrzej Wajda, Igor Luther, Gérard Depardieu, Angela Winkler, Wojciech Pszoniak

Synopsis: In this documentary on the filming of director Andrzej Wajda's movie Danton, Polish director Tomasz Pobog-Malinowski went to France and documented the filming of the confrontation between Robespierre and Danton in the French National Assembly and the guillotine scenes (both men were guillotined a Read More

1983
Les Compères

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
The Return of Martin Guerre

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, Roger Planchon, Nathalie Baye, Sylvie Meda

Synopsis: The Return of Martin Guerre is set in France during the Hundred Years' War. Imagining herself a widow, Nathalie Baye is astonished when her husband Gerard Depardieu returns after nine years. He looks like her husband and sounds like her husband, and certainly has a working knowledge of the Read More

5/15/82
Le Grand Frère

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Roger Planchon, Souad Amidou, Jean Rochefort

Synopsis: The plot in this story weaves around like a New Year's reveler at four in the morning, heading first in one direction and then in another, with the intention of going home if things would just stop moving. Bernard (Gerard Depardieu) is a doctor whose Hippocratic oath was a hypocritic failure Read More

1982
Danton

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Wojciech Pszoniak, Patrice Chéreau, Angela Winkler, Boguslaw Linda

Synopsis: In 1982, legendary Polish filmmaker Andrzej Wajda fled his homeland and relocated in France to direct this powerful story about the ethical boundaries of power and leadership, which had many parallels to Poland's volatile political situation in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Danton (Gérard Depardieu Read More

1982
The Woman Next Door

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Fanny Ardant, Henri Garcin, Michele Baumgartner, Véronique Silver

Synopsis: François Truffaut's The Woman Next Door continues his fascination with obsessive love. It was also his first collaboration with Fanny Ardant, who would become his favored leading lady for the last phase of his career and offscreen love for the last years of his life. Bernard Coudray (Gerard Read More

1981
La Chèvre

Actors: Pierre Richard, Gérard Depardieu, Corynne Charbit, Michel Robin, André Valardy

Synopsis: One the best, most serious detectives in France (Gérard Depardieu) is teamed up with a luckless stumble-bum (Pierre Richard) and sent off to Central America to search for the klutzy daughter of a powerful magnate in this fast-paced and funny French farce. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1981
Le Choix des armes

Actors: Yves Montand, Gérard Depardieu, Catherine Deneuve, Michel Galabru, Gérard Lanvin

Synopsis: This French production concerns a gangster (Yves Montand) who retires to the countryside after living a full life of traditional crime. After settling into his new residence with his wife (Catherine Deneuve), his home is invaded by an unruly punk (Gerard Depardieu) who has some new-fangled ideas Read More

1981
Temporale Rosy

1/4/80
Inspecteur la Bavure

Actors: Coluche, Gérard Depardieu, Dominique Lavanant, Julien Guiomar

Synopsis: In one of Coluche's earlier films, the late French comedian stars in this standard comedy by Claude Zidi as the inept police inspector, Michel Clement. The senior Clement was a spectacular policeman, and Michel finds it particularly difficult to try and walk in his father's footsteps without Read More

1980
The Last Metro

Actors: Catherine Deneuve, Gérard Depardieu, Jean Poiret, Heinz Bennent, Andréa Ferréol

Synopsis: The Last Metro is set virtually in its entirety in a crumbling French theatre. During the Nazi occupation, Jewish director Lucas Steiner (Heinz Bennent) hides in the basement of the theatre, while his wife Marion (Catherine Deneuve) stars in its latest production. Marion is enamored of leading man Read More

1980
Loulou

Actors: Isabelle Huppert, Gérard Depardieu, Guy Marchand, Humbert Balsan, Bernard Tronczyk

Synopsis: Maurice Pialat's character study eschews traditional plot development in its examination of the power of sex and passion to overturn class restrictions and social conventions. Isabelle Huppert is Nelly, a middle-class Parisian housewife, married to possessive husband Andre (Guy Marchand). When she Read More

1980
Mon Oncle d'Amérique

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Nicole Garcia, Roger-Pierre, Marie Dubois

Synopsis: Alain Resnais' Mon Oncle D'Amerique is presented in the form of a "case history," replete with a pedantic narrator, played by real-life behavioral scientist Henri Laborit. Gerald Depardieu plays a plant manager whose behavior is inspired by the films of "macho" French film star Jean Gabin. Nicole Garcia Read More

1980
Je Vous Aime

Actors: Catherine Deneuve, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Gérard Depardieu, Alain Souchon, Christian Marquand

Synopsis: Claude Berri abandons his usual straightforward brand of filmmaking for the French I Love All of You. Catherine Deneuve plays a 35-year-old career woman who doesn't think she has time for a lasting relationship. Thus, her love life has been, and probably always will be, a series of trysts and Read More

1980
L'Ingorgo

Actors: Alberto Sordi, Orazio Orlando, Annie Girardot, Fernando Rey, Miou-Miou

Synopsis: A large international cast takes part in this comedy in which the stories of numerous individuals whose cars are stalled in a massive Roman traffic jam are told. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide Read More

1/12/79
Buffet Froid

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Bernard Blier, Jean Carmet, Geneviève Page, Carole Bouquet

Synopsis: Buffet Froid is an absurd black comedy that cunningly reverses the conventions of the crime thriller to comment on the alienating and dehumanizing effects of contemporary urban life. It starts with Alphonse Tram (Gérard Depardieu) discovering that his casual subway acquaintance (Michel Serrault) Read More

1979
Bye Bye Monkey

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Marcello Mastroianni, James Coco, Gail Lawrence, Geraldine Fitzgerald

Synopsis: Lafayette (Gerard Depardieu), a young-ish misfit Frenchman and Nocello (Marcello Mastroianni), an older misfit Italian, live in a run-down section of New York City and are friends. Lafayette works for Flaxman (James Coco), an excitable antiquarian who owns and runs something called the "Roman Read More

2/24/78
Les Chiens

Actors: Victor Lanoux, Nicole Calfan, Gérard Depardieu, Pierre Vernier

Synopsis: In a sterile housing development, newly arrived Dr. Ferret (Victor Lanoux) becomes aware that nearly everyone in his community has purchased attack dogs from Morel (Gerard Depardieu), to protect themselves from what they perceive to be a disastrous crime wave. The presence of these growling Read More

1978
Le Sucre

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Jean Carmet, Michel Piccoli, Nelly Borgeaud, Roger Hanin

Synopsis: In this story, the ambitions of the get-rich-quick crowd come crashing down around their ears as they hitch a ride on a speculation bubble involving sugar-commodities pricing. Raoul (Gerard Depardieu) is a hot-shot commodities broker who sweet-talks Adrien (Jean Carmet), a quiet and unassuming Read More

1978
Get Out Your Handkerchiefs

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Patrick Dewaere, Carole Laure, Riton Liebman, Michel Serrault, Elenore Hirt

Synopsis: The lightly mocking title Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (Préparez Vos Mouchoirs) sets the tone for this Bertrand Blier-directed amalgam of the sentimental and sardonic. Gérard Depardieu plays an at-wit's-end husband, Raoul, who'll go to any lengths to sexually satisfy his wife, Solange (Carole Read More

1978
René la Canne

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Michel Piccoli, Sylvia Kristel, Jean Rigaux

Synopsis: In this sardonic crime comedy, Rene (Gerard Depardieu) and Marchand (Michel Piccoli) are best friends. What makes their friendship special is that Rene is a professional thief, and Marchand is a policeman, albeit somewhat corrupt. They have even shared the same girlfriend, for Krista (Sylvia Kristel Read More

2/16/77
Dites-Lui Que Je L'Aime

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Christian Clavier, Jacques Denis, Dominique Laffin, Miou-Miou

Synopsis: French filmmaker Claude Miller's This Sweet Sickness is based on a suspense novel by Patricia Highsmith, of Strangers on a Train fame. In the original, the murder-protagonist was a psychotic, pure and simple (if such words are appropriate here!) In Miller's version, the "hero," David, is a Read More

1977
Violanta

Actors: Lucia Bosé, Lou Castel, Ingrid Caven, François Simon

Synopsis: Set in the 19th century, and based on the classic Swiss novel Die Richterin by C. F. Meyer, this film tells a story of ghosts, incest and murder in a mountain village. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide Read More

1977
La Nuit Tous les Chats Sont Gris

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Robert Stephens, Laura Betti, Charlotte Crow, Ann Zacharias

Synopsis: The stories that Charles (Robert Stephens) tells his adoring niece are vivid and full of life, as they should be, for he is a professional writer. They all concern a charming ladies man and his adventures. When the tales mysteriously take on a life of their own in the real world, and Philibert (Gerard Depardieu Read More

1977
Die Linkshändige Frau

Actors: Edith Clever, Markus Muhleisen, Bruno Ganz, Michel Lonsdale, Angela Winkler, Gérard Depardieu

Synopsis: Mourning for a lost relationship can be every bit as devastating as mourning for someone who has died. In this drama based on the director's own novel, a couple with an unhappy marriage agree to a trial separation. They try to patch things up, and at the same time other relationships begin to Read More

1977
Le Camion

Actors: Marguerite Duras, Gérard Depardieu

Synopsis: In this most talky and personal of films, director Marguerite Duras and actor Gerard Depardieu do an on-camera read-through of a movie script. Occasionally, the director comments about the characters or their motivations, and sometimes the actor does. That's all -- there is no action, there are no Read More

1977
L'Ultima Donna

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Ornella Muti, Michel Piccoli, Renato Salvatori, Zouzou

Synopsis: This otherwise straightforward movie that chronicles the conflict between a man's romantic urges and the feminist ideal and a custody battle over the man's young son has a cataclysmic ending which is not for the fainthearted. In the story, Gerard (Gerard Depardieu) is an engineer who has just been Read More

9/4/76
1900

Actors: Robert De Niro, Gérard Depardieu, Burt Lancaster, Sterling Hayden, Donald Sutherland, Dominique Sanda

Synopsis: Bernardo Bertolucci's 255-minute 1900 was a gargantuan undertaking, requiring the resources of three European countries and a trio of American movie studios. Set in the Italian town of Parma, the film's continuity backtracks from Liberation Day in 1945 to the occasion of composer/patriot Giuseppe Verdi Read More

8/16/76
Maîtresse

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Bulle Ogier, André Rouyer, Tony Taffin

Synopsis: For a change, the character portrayed by Gérard Depardieu in Maîtresse is relatively normal; it is the world around him which has gone slightly mad. Looking for a measure of affection and companionship, Olivier (Depardieu) crosses the path of the lovely Ariane (Bulle Ogier). She happens to be a Read More

1976
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

1976
Baxter, Vera Baxter

Actors: Claudine Gabay, Delphine Seyrig, Gérard Depardieu, Noelle Chatelet

Synopsis: Vera Baxter (Claudine Gabay) is talking to a woman in a bar. It seems that the woman was attracted to her by hearing her name called out: "Baxter, Vera Baxter." In response to her new friend's queries, Vera recounts the story of her life, beginning with marrying her no-good husband Cayre (Gerard Depardieu Read More

1976
Sept Morts Sur Ordonnance

Actors: Michel Piccoli, Gérard Depardieu, Marina Vlady, Jane Birkin, Charles Vanel

Synopsis: Losseray (Michel Piccoli) is a surgeon who has recently suffered a heart attack but has returned to work. He is being hassled by the owner of a nearby medical clinic and becomes obsessed with the story of Berg (Gerard Depardieu), another surgeon who was similarly hassled by the same man some years Read More

1975
Bertolucci Secondo Il Cinema

1975
Je T'aime, Moi Non Plus

Actors: Jane Birkin, Joe Dallesandro, Hugues Quester, René Kolldehoff, Gérard Depardieu

Synopsis: Two men are driving a refuse truck to a dump site and stop for a hamburger. Krassky (Joe Dallesandro), one of the two, strikes an acquaintance with Johnny (Jane Birkin), the girl who works in the restaurant. They swiftly become lovers. However, Krassky is basically a homosexual, and must Read More

1975
Vincent, François, Paul et les Autres

Actors: Yves Montand, Michel Piccoli, Serge Reggiani, Gérard Depardieu, Stéphane Audran

Synopsis: Vincent, Francois, Paul and the Others is a gentle character study of a group of friends who meet each weekend in the country for food, drink and conversation. Over the course of the film, the three main characters undergo a variety of personal and professional struggles, which are all vividly Read More

10/20/74
Stavisky

Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, François Perier, Charles Boyer, Anny Duperey, Michel Lonsdale, Roberto Bisacco

Synopsis: This film by French director Alain Resnais (Last Year in Marienbad) is loosely based on a true story from the 1930s about financier, con-man and swindler Stavisky who was arrested in 1934 for selling phony stock but was never brought to trial. While in jail, he continued to engage in doubtful Read More

5/15/74
Going Places

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Miou-Miou, Patrick Dewaere, Jeanne Moreau, Jacques Chailleux

Synopsis: Director Bertrand Blier's Les Valseuses features Gerard Depardieu and Patrick Dewaere as a pair of sociopaths wending their way across France. Though Depardieu is the more dominant of the two, both men are equally culpable in their disregard for common decency. They are particularly rough on Read More

3/20/74
The Holes

Actors: Michel Serrault, Gérard Depardieu, Philippe Noiret, Annie Cordy

Synopsis: The title refers to the means of entry into the sewers of Paris. Here we find a group of misfits who've given up on humanity and have decided to dwell below the pavement. The group has its own hierarchy, of course, and soon the conditions that drove them underground begin to manifest themselves Read More

1974
Pas Si Méchant Que Ça . . .

Actors: Marlène Jobert, Gérard Depardieu, Dominique Labourier, Philippe Léotard, Jacques Debary

Synopsis: In this comedy, a newly married groom finds himself overwhelmed by business expenses and becomes a crook. The trouble really begins when he falls in love with his victims. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1974
Deux Hommes Dans La Ville

Actors: Jean Gabin, Alain Delon, Michel Bouquet, Mimsy Farmer

Synopsis: In this French psychological drama, a bank robber is finally released after serving 10 years. His being paroled is due to the influence of his old friend, a social worker. The ex-convict returns to his wife and begins living an honest life. Unfortunately, his old crook friends begin trying to lure Read More

10/25/73
L'Affaire Dominici

Actors: Jean Gabin, Paul Crauchet, Gérard Depardieu, Victor Lanoux

Synopsis: In 1950s France, an old peasant patriarch was tried for the murder of a family of British campers. At the time, the case was a cause célèbre all over France. This movie made the old case famous all over again. At the time of his capture, Dominici (Jean Gabin) was adamant that he committed the Read More

3/7/73
La Femme du Gange

1973
Au Rendez-Vous de la Mort Joyeuse

Actors: Jean-Marc Bory, Françoise Fabian, Yasmine Dahm, Jean-Pierre Darras

Synopsis: This French occult thriller marks the directing debut of Juan Buñuel, the son of the famous filmmaker, Luis Buñuel. Sophie is a pubescent adolescent girl, and when her family moves into a new house, poltergeist effects begin to appear: paint cans tip over, tin soldiers disappear. Upset after being Read More

1/1/73
Rude Journee Pour la Reine

Actors: Simone Signoret, Jacques Debary, Orane Demazis, Olivier Perrier

Synopsis: In this French film, Jeanne (Simone Signoret) is a poorly regarded (and treated) second wife, who serves as more of a servant to her new family than as anyone important. This movie screens both her Thurber-esque fantasies of gaining status and revenge, and her actual activities, which generally do Read More

1973
La Scoumoune

Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Claudia Cardinale, Michel Constantin, Michel Peyrelon, Aldo Bufi-Landi

Synopsis: In 1934, Roberto Borgo (Jean-Paul Belmondo) leaves Sicily for Marseille, where his childhood friend Xavier (Michel Constantin) has just been condemned to 20 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit. Indeed, local gang leader, Villanova, has framed Xavier. Roberto confronts the mobster and Read More

10/28/72
Le Tueur

Actors: Jean Gabin, Fabio Testi, Bernard Blier

Synopsis: In this French police thriller, Le Guen (Jean Gabin) is an old-style police inspector, near retirement. When Gassot (Fabio Testi) escapes from the mental institute for the criminally insane, Le Guen is the best man to track him down. After all, he put him away years before. Gassot leaves behind a Read More

3/1/72
Nathalie Granger

Actors: Nathalie Bourgeois, Dionys Mascolo, Jeanne Moreau, Lucia Bosé, Gérard Depardieu, Valerie Mascolo

Synopsis: With little or no embellishment, filmmaker Marguerite Duras offers a simple, often wordless chronicle of a woman's day. She and her friend are seen doing yard work, talking about their families and receiving the occasional visitor. The brightest spot in the day is when a washing machine salesman Read More

1972
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

1972
La Vie Sentimentale De Georges Le Tue

Actors: Miou-Miou, Patrick Dewaere, Gérard Depardieu, Romain Bouteille

1971
A Few Hours of Sunlight

Actors: Claudine Auger, Marc Porel, Bernard Fresson, Barbara Bach

Synopsis: Based on a melancholy romance by Francoise Sagan, this film recounts the circumstances of a relationship from start to tragic finish. Among other things, it features an early film appearance by Gerard Depardieu in a small role. Gilles (Marc Porel) works for a news agency and has an American Read More

1971
Le Beatnik et le Minet

1965

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