Gerard SetyFilmography

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La Mere

Actors: Nathalie Baye, Claude Winter, Gerard Sety

1995
The Visitors

Actors: Christian Clavier, Jean Reno, Valérie Lemercier, Marie-Anne Chazel, Christian Bujeau

Synopsis: A modern farce about medieval life, this is a time-travel comedy by French director Jean-Marie Poire. A 12th-century nobleman, Godefroy (Jean Reno), and his squire Jacquouille (Christian Clavier) are the victims of a mistake by an aging wizard. While trying to work another spell, the sorcerer Read More

1/27/93
Fanfan

Actors: Sophie Marceau, Vincent Perez, Marine Delterme, Gerard Sety, Micheline Presle

Synopsis: Alexandre (Vincent Perez) has been through the cycle of seeing the initial passion in romantic encounters burn off and having the relationship become routine and boring. He thinks that this happens for two reasons: the courtship and wooing dance ends, and mere sex enters the picture. He is Read More

1993
Delit Mineur

Actors: Caroline Cellier, Claude Brasseur, Niels Arestrup, Christopher Thompson, Macha Meril

Synopsis: Adultery and the possibility of patricide provide the motives behind this French drama, set in a Parisian suburb. Claire is in her earlier forties and is married to Claude, an alcoholic whom she once passionately loved. Together they have a young daughter and 15-year old Guillaume. Claire is Read More

1993
Van Gogh

Actors: Jacques Dutronc, Alexandra London, Gerard Sety, Bernard Le Coq, Corinne Bourdon

Synopsis: Running nearly three hours, Maurice Pialat's Van Gogh is a leisurely paced look at the famous painter's final year. Pialat's portrait differs from many other films in that he shows Van Gogh (Jacques Dutronc) as being reasonably sane and he focuses on the everyday events of the painter's life and Read More

10/30/91
L'Argent des Autres

Actors: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Claude Brasseur, Michel Serrault, Catherine Deneuve, Francois Perrot

Synopsis: The most powerful officers of a bank are implicated in a financial scandal, despite their efforts to disassociate themselves from it. When the top brass fire Henri Rainier (Jean-Louis Trintignant) because one of his clients has been accused of fraud, he doesn't take it lying down. He knows that Read More

1978
Les Filles Du Regiment

Actors: Gerard Sety, Jean Obe

1978
Il Faut Vivre Dangereusement

Actors: Claude Brasseur, Annie Girardot, Sydne Rome, Hans-Christian Blech

Synopsis: Diquet (Claude Brasseur) is a private investigator. Usually, he just follows people around and records what he sees them doing. His latest case becomes progressively stranger. After he is hired to follow a man's young mistress, the detective finds that her journeys begin to tie into his own life Read More

1975
La Guerre Est Finie

Actors: Yves Montand, Ingrid Thulin, Geneviève Bujold, Michel Piccoli, Jean Bouise

Synopsis: La Guerre est Finie represents one of the few "linear" films of French director Alain Resnais. Instead of indulging in his beloved flashbacks and flashforwards, Resnais sticks to a logical progression of events in relating this jaundiced tale of political activism. Yves Montand plays a tired Read More

1966
Aimez-Vous Les Femmes?

Actors: Sophie Daumier, Guy Bedos, Gregoire Aslan, Edwige Feuillère

Synopsis: While visiting a vegetarian restaurant, a young writer finds a corpse in the restroom. When he returns with the police, the body is gone. The writer is left with the unlucky fellow's hat -- which leads a certain beautiful woman to believe that his identity is the same as the dead man's. Not only Read More

5/13/64
My Son, the Hero

Actors: Pedro Armendáriz, Jacqueline Sassard, Antonella Lualdi

Synopsis: My Son the Hero started out in 1961 as a straightforward Italian sword and sandal affair titled Arrivano i Titani, all about the quest for a magic helmet in ancient Thebes. Well cast (Pedro Armendariz is the star) and extremely well photographed, the original film was still not sufficient Read More

1963
Seul A Corps Perdu

Actors: Gisèle Pascal, Yves Massard, Gerard Sety

1962
Pas Si Folles Les Guepes

Actors: Jean Valerie, Simone Renant, Noël Roquevert, Gerard Sety

1961
Les Pique Assiette

Actors: Darry Cowl, Francis Blanche, Gerard Sety, Pierre Dac

1960
Le Travail C'Est La Liberte

Actors: Raymond Devos, Gerard Sety, Sami Frey, Jacques Dufilho

Synopsis: One of the several types of "New Wave" cinema emerging from France at this time, Le Travail C'est La Liberte does not make a very big splash. The story, meant to be amusing, involves three prison inmates who because of their good behavior are given the responsibility -- under strict police Read More

1959
Montparnasse 19

Actors: Gérard Philipe, Anouk Aimée, Lilli Palmer, Lino Ventura, Lea Padovani, Gerard Sety

Synopsis: Montparnasse 19 is better known as Modigliani, which is also the name of its protagonist. In broad, melodramatic strokes, screenwriter Max Ophuls and director Jacques Becker offer their spin on the tragic, troubled life of Italian abstract painter Amedeo Modigliani. As played by Gerard Philipe Read More

4/4/58
Maigret Tend un Piege

Actors: Jean Gabin, Annie Girardot, Jean Desailly, Lucienne Bogaert, Oliver Hussenot, Jeanne Boitel

Synopsis: The French-made Inspector Maigret offers one of the best-ever Maigrets in the form of veteran tough guy Jean Gabin, who played the character three times throughout the 1950s. In Maigret Sets a Trap, the inspector tackles the case of a psychopathic serial killer. The female victims have all been Read More

1/29/58
Les Espions

Actors: Curd Jürgens, Gerard Sety, Véra Clouzot, Sam Jaffe, Peter Ustinov

Synopsis: Filmed in 1955, Les Espions (The Spies) was based on Midnight Patient, a novel by Egon Hostowsky. The scene is a rundown sanitarium, which is subtly but thoroughly taken over by a ruthless gang of international spies. One of the new "patients" is purportedly the inventor of a new nuclear explosive Read More

10/11/57
L'Amant de Lady Chatterley

Actors: Danielle Darrieux, Erno Crisa, Leo Genn, Jean Murat, Berthe Tissen

Synopsis: It took over thirty years for D. H. Lawrence's "forbidden" novel Lady Chatterly's Lover to make it to the big screen, courtesy of director Marc Allegret. Updated to the 1950s, the film stars Danielle Darrieux as Lady Constance Chatterly, comfortably married to wealthy invalid Lord Clifford Read More

1955
Le Rouge et le Noir

Actors: Gérard Philipe, Danielle Darrieux, Jean Martinelli, Antonella Lualdi, Jean Mercure

Synopsis: Stendhal's brilliant but difficult novel Le Rouge et le Noir all but defies transfer to film, but adaptor/director Claude Autant-Lara comes within shouting distance of full success. Stripped to essentials, the plot concerns Julien Sorel (Gerard Philipe), a carpenter's son who becomes a tutor. Read More

10/29/54