Guy MarchandFilmography

Dans Paris

Actors: Romain Duris, Louis Garrel, Guy Marchand, Joana Preiss, Alice Butaud

Synopsis: French sex symbols Romain Duris and Louis Garrel join screen icons Guy Marchand and Marie-France Pisier in writer-director Christophe Honoré's four-character chamber drama Dans Paris (Inside Paris). Duris plays Paul, a young man in his early thirties who splits with his girlfriend. Feeling Read More

Après lui

Actors: Catherine Deneuve, Thomas Dumerchez, Guy Marchand, Élodie Bouchez, Eli Medeiros

Synopsis: Screen legend Catherine Deneuve stars as a grieving mother who forms an unusual relationship with the former best friend of her recently departed son in director Gaël Morel's melancholy drama. When Camille (Denuve)'s son was killed in a car accident, the devastating loss proved too much for Read More

Paid

Actors: Anne Charrier, Murilo Benicio, Tom Conti, Guy Marchand, Corbin Bernsen

Synopsis: Rival drug lords battle for the supremacy of the European narcotics trade in this noir flavored crime thriller starring Tom Conti and Corbin Bernsen. The race is on to become the most powerful drug kingpin in Europe, and in order to earn that title Rudi (Conti) and William (Bernsen) will use a Read More

My Wife Maurice

Actors: Alice Evans, Regis Laspales, Philippe Chevallier, Götz Otto, Anémone

Synopsis: In this broad farce from French director Jean-Marie Poire, a Parisian must scramble to save his house, marriage and livelihood -- all having been threatened as a result of his own dishonesty. Georges' (Philippe Chevallier) troubles began while vacationing in Italy with his hot young mistress Read More

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

Beaumarchais L'Insolent

Actors: Fabrice Luchini, Manuel Blanc, Jacques Weber, Sandrine Kiberlain

Synopsis: This sumptuous French drama offers episodes from the notorious life of 18th century socialite and playwright Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais. The story begins in the 1770s with a rehearsal of his "The Barber of Seville." Young friend of Voltaire, Philipp Gudin introduces himself to the great Read More

Ripoux Contre Ripoux

Actors: Philippe Noiret, Thierry Lhermitte, Guy Marchand, Line Renaud, Grace de Capitani

Synopsis: A "ripoux" is, in French slang, a policeman who accepts bribes, shakes down "honest" criminals for a cut of their action, at a level which can range from the familiar (U.S.) paradigm of accepting free donuts, to serious criminal activity. This comic police thriller is a sequel to the hugely Read More

May Wine

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

Bonjour L'Angoisse

Actors: Michel Serrault, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Geneviève Fontanel, Guy Marchand, Pierre Arditi

Synopsis: Michaud (Michel Serrault) is a timid and anxiety-ridden security-systems technician who is prone to daydreams like Walter Mitty. Continually teased by his colleagues and his taunting alter ego, Michaud is victimized by a fellow employee who tries to implicate him in a bank robbery. He emerges from Read More

Coupe Franche

Actors: Serge Reggiani, Julie Jezequel, Wojciech Pszoniak, Guy Marchand, Pierre-Loup Rajot

Synopsis: Francois (Pierre-Loup Rajot) has just moved into a small community in the French Pyrenees mountains. He applies for work at a small logging mill, run with great craftsmanship but indifferent business skill by Favier (Guy Marchand), the son-in-law of the owner, Mathieu (Serge Reggiani). Francois Read More

Try This One for Size

Actors: Michael Brandon, David Carradine, Arielle Dombasle, Guy Marchand, Mario Adorf

Synopsis: In this spy spoof and thriller, director Guy Hamilton seeks to renew the success he had with the James Bond thriller Goldfinger. The story (based on a novel by James Hadley Chase) concerns the efforts of the genial and deceptively tentative Lepski (Michael Brandon), an insurance company Read More

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

Les Maris, Les Femmes, Les Amants

Actors: Jean-François Stévenin, Susan Moncur, Emilie Thomas, Clement Thomas, Olga Vincent

Synopsis: This gentle, mildly satiric French comedy follows the romantic adventures of a group of men who have gone with their children to spend the summer in their vacation homes on the Atlantic coast. Some of the men are divorced, some still married, but all are open to meeting new women while their wives Read More

Un Pere Et Passe

Actors: Eddy Mitchell, Guy Marchand, Veronique Genest, Luc Thuillier

Synopsis: Camille (Penelop Schallenberg) is the only child of her unmarried journalist mother Marianne (Veronique Genest). She has never known who her father is, and her mother isn't telling. However, in her rush to get to an assignment in the Middle East, her mother left behind three letters addressed to Read More

Noyade Interdite

Actors: Philippe Noiret, Guy Marchand, Elizabeth Bourgine, Anne Roussel, Gabrielle Lazure

Synopsis: Molinat (Phillippe Noiret) and Leroyer (Guy Marchand) are two cops who hate each others guts but are called on to solve the gunshot deaths of victims found on an Atlantic beach resort. The two focus on some females who have a psychological problem with men who are breathing. Molinat sends Leroyer Read More

L'Ile Aux Oiseaux

Actors: Guy Marchand, Laure Duthilleul, Benoit Regent, Philippe Besson

La Rumba

Actors: Roger Hanin, Michel Piccoli, Niels Arestrup, Guy Marchand, Patachou

Synopsis: The carefree life at a decadent cabaret in Paris is overshadowed by the darkening cloud of war in this thrilling drama. Beppo (Roger Hanin) is a club owner with ties to the mob who wages a secret war against the evil forces of fascism who control the local police. Vivian Reed gives a memorable Read More

L'Été En Pente Douce

Actors: Pauline Lafont, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Jacques Villeret, Guy Marchand, Jean Bouise

Synopsis: When he inherits the family house and property after his mother's death, aspiring novelist Fane (Jean-Pierre Bacri) returns home with his bimbo girlfriend Lilas (Pauline Lafont). He must care for his idiot brother Mo (Jacques Villeret) and contend with a greedy garage owner (Guy Marchand) who Read More

Charlie Dingo

Actors: Guy Marchand, Caroline Cellier, Laurent Malet, Niels Arestrup, Maurice Barrier

Synopsis: Charlie (Guy Marchand) returns home after being declared legally dead to reclaim his wife Georgia (Caroline Cellier) and cash in on a lucrative life insurance policy in this shadowy drama. He finds Georgia is married to the crooked cop William (Niels Arestrup), who has his eye on the insurance Read More

Chateauroux District

Actors: Nathalie Nell, Guy Marchand, Anais Jeanneret, Edward Meeks

Grand Guignol

Actors: Guy Marchand, Caroline Cellier, Jean-Claude Brialy, Michel Galabru, Olivia Brunaux

Synopsis: A traveling theater troupe is divided by the romantic unrest of several couples in this sometimes macabre and uneven comedy drama. Baptiste (Guy Marchand) is the troupe's director who finds his creativity has been drained and who is in the process of splitting with his actress-wife Sarah (Caroline Cellier Read More

Conseil De Famille

Actors: Johnny Hallyday, Fanny Ardant, Guy Marchand, Laurent Romor, Remi Martin

Synopsis: Renowned director Constantin Costa-Gavras (whose 1969's feature Z won multiple international awards and was a box office success) tries his hand at an unusual mix of comedy and crime in this story. When a father (Johnny Hallyday) gets out of prison, he comes home to his wife (Fanny Ardant) and two Read More

Vaudeville

Actors: Marie-Christine Barrault, Guy Marchand, Roland Giraud, Jean-Marc Thibault, Annie Jouzier

Synopsis: In this amusing, entertaining tale of three men and the two dominant women in their lives, a potpourri of individual frustrations first appear to have easy answers, and then they don't. Gaston (Guy Marchand has been married to Madeleine (Marie-Christine Barrault) for twenty years, and though they Read More

Hold-Up

Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Kim Cattrall, Guy Marchand, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Tex Konig

Synopsis: This French/Canadian "caper" comedy stars Jean-Paul Belmondo as an oh-so-clever bank robber. Disguised as a clown, Belmondo robs a major Montreal bank, taking Guy Marchand and Kim Cattrall as a hostages. We soon learn that both Marchand and Cattral are actually Belmondo's accomplices in his Read More

P'tit Con

Actors: Bernard Brieux, Guy Marchand, Caroline Cellier, Eric Carlos, Philippe Khorsand

Synopsis: Director Gérard Lauzier shoots diatribes at "liberals" from his own conservative perspective in this movie about a rebellious teenager leaving his bourgeois parents. Humor lightens the theme more than once, as when the besieged father -- after listening to a garbled harangue on Marx from his Read More

La Tete Dans le Sac

Actors: Guy Marchand, Marisa Berenson, Fanny Bastien, Patrick Bruel, Riton Liebman

Synopsis: A misanthropic comedy by Gérard Lauzier, Tête Dans Le Sac satirizes the arrogance of a 50-year-old owner of a prosperous ad agency as he tries to join a swinging, twentysomething clique of fast-living friends. Romain (Guy Marchand) drives a Jaguar, lives in an opulent bachelor pad, and has a Read More

Stress

Actors: Carole Laure, Guy Marchand, André Dussollier, Anne Meson, Isabelle Mergault

Synopsis: This is a rather complex thriller that fails to deliver very much suspense or fear, in spite of the requisite shock scenes and mystery over who is perpetrating them. The story opens with a pending marriage, tragically aborted when the groom dies under suspicious circumstances, and continues Read More

Mortelle Randonnée

Actors: Michel Serrault, Isabelle Adjani, Geneviève Page, Guy Marchand, Stéphane Audran, Sami Frey

Synopsis: In this suspense thriller inspired by the novel Eye of the Beholder by Marc Behm, Catherine (Isabelle Adjani), a serial killer, seduces men and then murders them just before moving on to the next victim. She spreads her mayhem through various countries in Europe, only slightly ahead of the Read More

Entre Nous

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

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

Save the Lady

Actors: Robert Clarkson, Miranda Cartledge, Matthew Excell, Kim Clifford, Wallas Eaton

Synopsis: A bunch of kids fall in love with a moth-balled ferry that is marked for the junk yard. They organize a fix-up committee that sets out to repair the old boat. With the ship's original captain, they make it sea-worthy and take it out for a spin. Of course the encrusted city officials are outraged Read More

Nestor Burma, Detective de Choc

Actors: Michel Serrault, Jane Birkin, Guy Marchand, Alain Bashung, Pierre Arditi

Synopsis: Based on a mystery novel by Leo Malet, lead character Detective Burma (comic Michel Serrault) has luxurious office digs - shared with his oddball cat - but he himself is neither as sophisticated or as quick-witted as Malet's literary creation. Director Jean-Luc Miesch (29 years old), has missed Read More

T'es Heureuse Moi Toujours

Actors: Dominique Labourier, Guy Marchand, Claude Brasseur, Michel Galabru

Rends Moi La Cle

Actors: Jane Birkin, Jacques Dutronc, Guy Marchand, Nathalie Nell

Les Sous Doues En Vacances

Actors: Daniel Auteuil, Guy Marchand, Grace de Capitani, Charlotte de Turckheim

Coup de Torchon

Actors: Philippe Noiret, Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Stéphane Audran, Eddy Mitchell

Synopsis: Based on pulp master Jim Thompson's Pop. 1280, Bertrand Tavernier's Coup de Torchon is a sardonic thriller that remains true to its source's spirit, even as it transposes the action from the American South to colonial West Africa. Lucien (Philippe Noiret) is the bumbling police chief of Bourkasa Read More

Garde à Vue

Actors: Lino Ventura, Michel Serrault, Guy Marchand, Romy Schneider

Synopsis: This is a minimalist interrogation drama about a wealthy, influential attorney (Michel Serrault) in a small French town falls under suspicion in a double rape/murder case. The police bring the lawyer in for questioning; at first politely, and then less so, the interrogation team (Lino Venture, Guy Marchand Read More

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

Plein Sud

Actors: Patrick Dewaere, Clio Goldsmith, Jeanne Moreau, Guy Marchand, Pierre Dux

Synopsis: In his final film before taking his own life, Patrick Dewaere stars as Serge, a writer whose life is disrupted by an affair with the enigmatic Carol (Clio Goldsmith). ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

L'Hotel de la Plage

Actors: Daniel Ceccaldi, Myriam Boyer, Martine Sarcey, Michele Grellier, Rosine Cadoret

Synopsis: In this sex comedy, the summer vacationers staying at a beach hotel have only one thing on their minds: sex. Whether they are pre-adolescent boys, mature housewives, young shopkeepers or bemused old-timers, they are all either thinking about it, doing something about having it, or watching with Read More

Le Maitre Nageur

Actors: Guy Marchand, Stefania Sandrelli, Jean-Claude Brialy, Moustache

Synopsis: A down-on-her-luck dreamer finds her fantasies drifting into reality in the second film from actor-turned-director Jean-Louis Trintignant. Marie's (Stefania Sandrelli) dreams seem to have a way of coming true, a fact that she clings to given her onetime vision that she would fall madly in love and Read More

Holiday Hotel

Synopsis: This French sex comedy focuses on a group of randy vacationers on holiday at a seaside hotel along the coast of Brittany. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Tendre Poulet

Actors: Annie Girardot, Philippe Noiret, Catherine Alric, Hubert Deschamps, Paulette Dubost

Synopsis: Dear Inspector and Dear Detective were the English-language titles of Philippe De Broca's Tendre Poulet. Annie Girardot plays the old flame of Greek professor Philippe Noiret. The prof tries to rekindle the flames of passion, but Girardot seems curiously preoccupied. It turns out that she's a Read More

L'Acrobate

Actors: Claude Melki, Marion Game, Laurence Bru, Guy Marchand, Micheline Dax

Synopsis: Leon (Claude Melki), bored with his life as a bathhouse attendant, is too timid to be more than just friends with the prostitutes in his quarter, though he has a real crush on one of them (Marion Game). One night, she takes him to see a ballroom dancing competition, and he is impressed both by the Read More

Cousin Cousine

Actors: Marie-Christine Barrault, Victor Lanoux, Marie-France Pisier, Guy Marchand, Ginette Garcin

Synopsis: Love turns out to be all in the family in this romantic comedy from France. When an elderly couple decides to marry, their families come together for a wedding banquet that turns into a raucous, wine-soaked celebration. Marthe (Marie-Christine Barrault) and Ludovic (Victor Lanoux) are distant Read More

Attention les Yeux

Actors: Claude Brasseur, André Pousse, Jean-Pierre Darras, Robert Castel, Guy Marchand

Synopsis: The difficulty experienced by a softcore porn film producer, who must somehow transform an academically praised novel into an erotic thrill-fest, is the subject of this comedy. In the film, Claude Brasseur is Manuel, who confronts vain but..incapable..male stars, an inane and silly script Read More

Such a Gorgeous Kid Like Me

Actors: Bernadette Lafont, Charles Denner, Claude Brasseur, Guy Marchand

Synopsis: Bernadette Lafont is as alluring as all get out in Such a Gorgeous Kid Like Me (original title: Une Belle Fille Comme Moi). She plays a crafty murderess who uses her not inconsiderable charms to disarm her victims and trap unwitting males into helping her. Claude Brasseur plays the ingenuous Read More

Boulevard du Rhum

Actors: Brigitte Bardot, Lino Ventura, Jess Hahn, Guy Marchand

Synopsis: This broad French comedy includes some affectionate parodies of silent film features. Corny (Lino Ventura) is the captain of a rum-running boat during the U.S. Prohibition era, which ended before talking pictures were introduced. In his spare time, he haunts his local cinema, and his favorite Read More