Gérard LanvinFilmography

Erreur de la banque en votre faveur

Actors: Gérard Lanvin, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Philippe Magnan, Barbara Schulz

Synopsis: A couple of ne'er-do-wells fight the global economic setbacks of the early 21st century with a unique brand of crime - and establish themselves as modern-day Robin Hoods - in this zany caper comedy from France. After 17 years spent working in one of Paris's most elite banks, Julien (Gerard Lanvin) Read More

Envoyés Très Spéciaux

Actors: Gérard Lanvin, Gérard Jugnot, Omar Sy, Anne Marivin

Synopsis: The war in Iraq intensifying, a prominent radio journalist and his technician pretend to report live from Baghdad after losing their plane tickets and money in this adventure comedy starring Gerard Lanvin and Gerard Jugnot. As the duo hide out in the Barbes area of Paris in an attempt to pull off Read More

Secrets of State

Actors: Gérard Lanvin, Simon Abkarian, Vahina Giocante, Nicolas Duvauchelle, Rachida Brakni

Synopsis: Two people find their lives taking unexpected turns dictated by the war on terror in this thriller from French writer and director Philippe Haim. Diane (Vahina Giocante) has turned her back on life as a streetwalker and is working towards a new career as an Arabic translator. However, when Diane Read More

The Price to Pay

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

Public Enemy No. 1, Part 1

Actors: Vincent Cassel, Ludivine Sagnier, Mathieu Amalric, Gérard Lanvin, Samuel Le Bihan, Olivier Gourmet

Synopsis: This tough-as-nails, crime-themed docudrama constitutes the second installment in a four hour, two-part biopic on the doings of infamous French thug Jacques Mesrine (1936-79), officially regarded for many years as "Public Enemy #1" in Gaul. Here, he is played to the hilt by Vincent Cassel, who Read More

Camping

Actors: Gérard Lanvin, Mathilde Seigner, Franck Dubosc, Claude Brasseur, Mylène Demongeot

Family Hero

Actors: Gérard Lanvin, Catherine Deneuve, Géraldine Pailhas, Emmanuelle Béart, Miou-Miou

Synopsis: A down-and-out sleight-of-hand artist tries to pull off the trick of a lifetime by keeping a decaying cabaret in business in this comedy-drama with music from director Thierry Klifa. Gabriel Stern (Claude Brasseur) has spent over four decades running the Blue Parrot, a Parisian nightclub where he Read More

Les Parrains

Actors: Gérard Lanvin, Jacques Villeret, Gérard Darmon

Les Enfants

Actors: Karine Viard, Gérard Lanvin

San Antonio

A La Petite Semaine

Actors: Gérard Lanvin, Jacques Gamblin, Clovis Cornillac, Julie Durand, Florence Pernel

Synopsis: French filmmaker Sam Karmann directs the crime drama A La Petite Semaine (Nickel and Dime), co-written with actual ex-con Desir Carre. When fiftysomething Jacques (Gerard Lanvin) gets released after serving five years in prison, he goes right to his local hangout and reunites with his old hoodlum Read More

Le Clefs de Bagnole

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

Le Boulet

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

3 zéros

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

The Taste of Others

Actors: Jean-Pierre Bacri, Anne Alvaro, Agnès Jaoui, Gérard Lanvin, Alain Chabat

Synopsis: Agnes Jaoui co-writes and directs this romantic comedy of manners set in France's rustic Provence. Unpolished and ultra-pragmatic industrialist Jean-Jacques Castella (co-scripter Jean-Pierre Bacri) reluctantly attends Racine's tragedy "Berenice" in order to see his niece play a bit part. He is Read More

Love Bites

Actors: Guillaume Canet, Gérard Lanvin, Asia Argento, Gilbert Melki, Jean-Marie Winling

Synopsis: Former French television star Antoine de Caunes turns his sights on the horror genre in his first feature in this goth comedy about trendy nightlife and new-millennium vogue. Antoine (Guillaume Canet is a layabout slacker who lives in a lounge at a health club where a friend lets him stay. After Read More

Passionnement

Actors: Bérénice Bejo

Synopsis: Camille Claudel director Bruno Nuytten brings us a tale of the kind of l'amour fou that only the French can do so persistently. A moody, intense drama that opens with a present day car crash, Passionnement is told partially as an extended flashback centering on events that took place around Read More

En Plein Coeur

Actors: Gérard Lanvin, Virginie Ledoyen, Carole Bouquet, Guillaume Canet, Aurelie Verillon

La Femme Du Cosmonaute

Actors: Gérard Lanvin, Victoria Abril, Rossy de Palma, Bernard Verley

Anna Oz

Actors: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Gérard Lanvin, Sami Bouajila, Grégori Derangère

Synopsis: This taut psychological chiller tells the twisted story of Anna, a woman living in Paris, whose dreams of her Venetian counterpart, a secretive young woman who lives in a fine palace with her brother and an enigmatic older man, become frighteningly real. Anna's world begins coming apart after she Read More

Mon Homme

Actors: Anouk Grinberg, Gérard Lanvin, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Olivier Martinez, Sabine Azéma

Synopsis: A successful prostitute attempts to fashion a homeless man into her ideal pimp in this unconventional, darkly humorous French drama. Marie (Anouk Grinberg) has no real need for a pimp, being a self-reliant, unabashed woman so fond of her job as a hooker that she is able to convince strangers to Read More

Le Fils Préferé

Actors: Gérard Lanvin, Bernard Giraudeau, Jean-Marc Barr, Roberto Herlitzka, Margherita Buy

Synopsis: In this French drama, an irresponsible man is forced by circumstances beyond his control to communicate with the family he's kept at a distance. Jean-Paul (Gerard Lanvin) is the manager of a hotel in Nice whose shady business practices have put him seriously into debt; he needs to raise 300,000 Read More

Les Marmottes

Actors: Jean-Hugues Anglade, Christine Boisson, Gérard Lanvin, Jacqueline Bisset, André Dussollier

Synopsis: According to reviewers, an expert cast of character actors make this bedroom farce eminently watchable, despite glitches in the storytelling. In the story, a group of old friends and relations gather each year to celebrate Christmas together on the ski resort of Chamonix. They don't do much Read More

La Belle Histoire

Actors: Gérard Lanvin, Béatrice Dalle, Vincent Lindon, Marie-Sophie L., Patrick Chesnais

Synopsis: It is a commonplace that past actions affect our present circumstances. This ambitious movie attempts to show how truly distant actions from former lives affect the subsequent lives of the protagonists. In the story, beginning in Roman times, a wanderer (Gerard Lanvin) miraculously tames some wild Read More

Il y a des Jours...Et des Lunes...

Actors: Gérard Lanvin, Patrick Chesnais, Vincent Lindon, Francis Huster, Marie-Sophie L., Annie Girardot

Synopsis: In this somewhat odd exploration of human romantic difficulties, the people in the film are all put under extra stress by the fact that on the day in question, they have lost an hour to daylight savings time. In addition, it is a full moon. Neither factor improves their response to the mild Read More

Mes Meilleurs Copains

Actors: Gérard Lanvin, Christian Clavier, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Louise Portal, Philippe Khorsand

Synopsis: Long ago, when they were mere lads, the men of this movie had belonged to a rock group. When their lead singer, a woman many of them love, left the group to move to Canada, they broke up and the men went their seperate ways. They remained in contact, friendly, but somewhat distant. The impending Read More

Saxo

Actors: Gérard Lanvin, Akosua Busia, Richard Brooks, Laure Killing, Clement Harari

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Gilbert Tanugi, who co-wrote the screenplay, this noirish French drama is set within the Paris music scene and centers on the attempts of a dangerously indebted record producer to scrounge up a fortune to pay back the vengeful loan shark who is trying to destroy him. Producer Read More

Les Freres Petard

Actors: Gérard Lanvin, Jacques Villeret, Josiane Balasko, Michel Galabru, Valérie Mairesse

Synopsis: In this comedy-drama, Manu (Gerard Lanvin) and Momo (Jacques Villeret) are two men who are at first unwittingly involved in a drug deal, but then get quite wittingly involved when they realize that there may be some money to be had in the sale of illegal substances. Once they decide to launch into Read More

Les Specialistes

Actors: Gérard Lanvin, Bernard Giraudeau, Christiane Jean, Maurice Barrier, Daniel Jegou, Bertie Cortez

Synopsis: This is a standard cops-and-robbers caper with a slight twist: the good cops are robbing the drug-dealing robbers. Bernard Giraudeau is Paul Brandon, an undercover, daredevil cop, and Gerard Lanvin is Stephane Carella, the man Paul has to spring from jail to help in a grand larceny of a crooked Read More

Moi Vouloir Toi

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Gérard Lanvin, Jennifer, Daniel Russo, Corinne Marienneau, Bernard Giraudeau

Synopsis: Playing it strictly by the book all the way, this conventional love story follows the ups and downers in the relationship between a disk jockey (Gerard Lanvin) and the woman he loves (Jennifer Lanvin, the real-life Mrs. Lanvin). She is the artistic director of a major recording studio. After the Read More

Marche a l'ombre

Actors: Gérard Lanvin, Michel Blanc, Sophie Duez, Beatrice Camurat

Synopsis: In this standard, light drama about two friends adjusting to change, François (Gérard Lanvin) and his side-kick Denis (Michel Blanc) come back to Paris from the Mediterranean only to find that the jobs they had been promised are illusory -- now they must survive however they can. The two go to Read More

Ronde de Nuit

Actors: Gérard Lanvin, Eddy Mitchell, Françoise Arnoul, Raymond Pellegrin, Lisette Malidor

Synopsis: Jean-Claude Missiaen had a very brief career as a director in the mid-1980s, and this is one of his typical police dramas that allude to American movie tough guys and detectives, to previous films in the same genre, and to well-known police/criminal actors or types (such as Humphrey Bogart). The Read More

Le Prix du Danger

Actors: Gérard Lanvin, Michel Piccoli, Marie-France Pisier, Bruno Cremer, Andréa Ferréol

Synopsis: Despite a fast-paced story that slams the broadcast industry and lotto mentality, this sci-fi action thriller emphasizes action over anxiety, and so its hunt-and-kill premise is less exciting than it sounds. Based on a Robert Sheckley tale, the action is brought about by a television show invented Read More

Tir Groupe

Actors: Gérard Lanvin, Véronique Jannot, Michel Constantin, Mario David, Roland Blanche

Synopsis: Antoine (Gerard Lanvin becomes a cool, controlled vigilante when his lover is murdered by three psychotic men preying on their victims in subways and trains. After acquiring a gun, Antoine starts his hunt for the killers and as both he and the police make progress in their search, they eventually Read More

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

Une Étrange Affaire

Actors: Gérard Lanvin, Nathalie Baye, Michel Piccoli, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Jean-François Balmer

Synopsis: Louis (Gerard Lanvin), an advertising executive in a Paris department store, is not the world's most ambitious man, but he has a good marriage and is content with his job -- until his world is turned upside-down by a new, manipulative, controlling manager (Michel Piccoli) who slowly starts to Read More

Est-Ce Bien Raisonnable?

Actors: Miou-Miou, Gérard Lanvin, Renée Saint-Cyr, Julien Guiomar, Michel Galabru

Synopsis: Gerard Louvier (Gerard Lanvin), a young criminal trying to stay a few steps ahead of a police manhunt, winds up with Julie Boucher (Miou-Miou), a journalist searching out another story -- who thinks he is an up-and-coming judge with leads on her own case. The confusion is a catalyst for some Read More

L'Entourloupe

Actors: Jean-Pierre Marielle, Jacques Dutronc, Anne Jousset, Gérard Lanvin

Une Semaine de Vacances

Actors: Nathalie Baye, Gérard Lanvin, Michel Galabru, Flore Fitzgerald, Philippe Noiret, Philippe Léotard

Synopsis: French director Bernard Tavernier once again successfully translates the fragile intimacy of human relationships to the screen in A Week's Vacation, which he also co-produced and co-wrote. Nathalie Baye stars as a schoolteacher whose efficiency is compromised by her troubled private life. She Read More

Exterieur Nuit

Actors: Gérard Lanvin, Jean-Pierre Sentier, Christine Boisson, André Dussollier

Vous N'Aurez Pas l'Alsace et la Lorraine

Actors: Coluche, Dominique Lavanant, Jean Jacques, Michel Blanc, Martin Lamotte, Gérard Lanvin

Synopsis: In this satire, Coluche plays an inept king of France who is continually in danger of overthrow or murder by his scheming court and is kept on the throne by the efforts of his Musketeers, who also serve by wringing extra taxes out of the already hard-pressed population. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Read More