Jackie BerroyerFilmography

Héros

Actors: Michaël Youn, Patrick Chesnais, Raphaël Benayoun, Élodie Bouchez, Jackie Berroyer

Synopsis: Turkish directors The Taylan Brothers (Yagmar and Durul) co-helm The Little Apocalypse, a psychological thriller with a distinctly supernatural twinge. The Taylans weave the narrative around the August 17, 1999 earthquake that rocked Istanbul and massacred thousands. The story opens with an Read More

Calvaire

Actors: Laurent Lucas, Jackie Berroyer, Philippe Nahon, Jean-Luc Couchard, Brigitte Lahaie

Synopsis: A traveling entertainer falls prey to a disturbed recluse in director Fabrice Du Welz's twisted, slow-burn riff on Deliverance and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Having finished his latest performance at a remote retirement home, wandering singer Marc Stevens (Laurent Lucas) packs his gear into his Read More

When the Sea Rises...

Actors: Yolande Moreau, Wim Willaert, Jackie Berroyer, Jacques Bonnaffé

Synopsis: When the Sea Rises... is the first film written and directed by actress Yolande Moreau (who also stars in the film) and cinematographer Gilles Porte (who also shot the film). Moreau stars as Irène, who is traveling the north of France performing her one-woman show. In the stage show, Irène plays a Read More

Jean-Philippe

Actors: Fabrice Luchini, Johnny Hallyday, Guilaine Londez, Antoine Dulery, Elodie Bollee

Synopsis: A bourgeois office drone whose raison d'état is the music of French rocker Johnny Hallyday awakens one day in an alternate universe where the famed musician never recorded a single song. When he's not at the office dutifully plugging-away, Fabrice (Fabrice Luchini) lives a deadly dull life in the Read More

Locked Out

Actors: Albert Dupontel, Claude Perron, Nicolas Marie, Roland Bertin, Philippe Duquesne

Synopsis: Albert Dupontel directs, writes, and stars in freewheeling French comedy concerning a glue-huffing homeless man who earns an unexpected modicum of respect after coming into possession of a police uniform. Roland (Dupontel) was wandering the shores of the Seine when he noticed a man hurling himself Read More

Three Dancing Slaves

Actors: Nicolas Cazalé, Stephane Rideau, Thomas Dumerchez

Synopsis: Three French-Algerian brothers deal with their grief following the death of their mother in their own different ways in this drama. Marc (Nicolas Cazale) is a angry and confused young man obsessed with drugs, working out, and capoeira, a Brazilian martial arts discipline. The only Read More

Sequins

Actors: Lola Naymark, Ariane Ascaride, Thomas Laroppe, Jackie Berroyer, Marie Felix

Synopsis: Claire (Lola Naymark of Monsieur Ibrahim) is a teenager who works as a supermarket cashier. She has moved out of her family's home and into a small apartment, partly because she doesn't get along with her parents, and partly because she doesn't want them to find out that she's pregnant. When Read More

Voisins Voisines

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Frédéric Diefenthal, Anémone, Jackie Berroyer, Mohamed Fellag, Gwendoline Hamon

Imposture

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Patrick Bouchitey, Laetitia Chardonnet, Isabelle Renauld, Patrick Catalifo, Ariane Ascaride

Vice & Versa

Crew: Screenwriter

Les Araignees de la nuit

Actors: Jean-Pierre Mocky, Patricia Barzyk, Michel Bertay, Francois Toumarkine, Francoise Michaud

Synopsis: Jean-Pierre Mocky, who also directed and produced Les Araignees de la Nuit ("Spiders of the Night"), stars as a police inspector busy investigating the deaths of several French presidential candidates. After hearing that the favorite contender was killed in the middle of a speech, Gordone's Read More

HS: Hors Service

Actors: Dieudonne, Lambert Wilson, François Berléand, Lorant Deutsch, Jackie Berroyer

Un Derangement Considerable

Actors: Chantal Banlier, Yasmine Belmadi, Jackie Berroyer, Bernard Blancan, Jalil Lespert

Synopsis: Bernard Stora directs this coming-of-age drama about a single-minded soccer player sidetracked by love. Laurant (Jalil Lespert) lives in a crowded little abode with his mother, a pair of half-brothers, and an Arabic-speaking grandmother. Laurent's soccer-playing prowess has garnered the attention Read More

Les Freres Soeur

Actors: José Garcia, Denis Podalydès, Jackie Berroyer, Edouard Baer, Alexandra London

Synopsis: Frederic Jardin directs this enjoyably nasty showbiz farce starring a veritable who's who of Gallic comedy. Elderly milquetoast Jacques Soeur (Denis Podalydes) has written a 450-page tome which his brother Charlies Souer (Jose Garcia) longs to direct. After making no progress in the tried and true Read More

La Chambre Obscure

Actors: Jackie Berroyer, Mathieu Demy, Caroline Ducey, Melvil Poupaud, Hugues Quester

Synopsis: Caroline Ducey, who previously gained fame by bearing it all in the 1999 dour erotic drama Romance, stars in this drama set in the 14th century. Alienor (Ducey) is provincial lass who puts her skill with herbal cures to use by healing the festering boil on the king's leg. He rewards her with Read More

Ça N'Empeche Pas Les Sentiments

Actors: Philippe Chevalier, Regis Laspales, Cecile Bois, Luis Rego, Jackie Berroyer

Synopsis: A former schoolteacher turned film distributor, Jean-Pierre Jackson made his directorial debut with this French comedy about two losers. When alimony payments catch up with Felix (Philippe Chevaillier), his furniture is seized. After a decade-long marriage, Raoul (Regis Laspales) leaves his wife. Read More

Je Ne Vois Pas Ce Qu'on Me Trouve

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Jackie Berroyer, Karin Viard, Tara Romer, Estelle Larrivaz, Zinedine Soualem

Synopsis: Comedian Pierre Yves (stand-up comic Jackie Berroyer, who co-scripted) has an act based on his sexual hang-ups. With his adult son Arthur (Tara Romer), Pierre travels to his childhood hometown, drab industrial Lievin in northern France, for an all-night comedy festival. Fest staffer Monica (Karin Viard Read More

Tempête Dans Un Verre D'eau

Crew: Book Author, Screenwriter

Actors: Jackie Berroyer, Arnold Barkus, Maria de Medeiros

Synopsis: American actor-director Arnold Barkus made this low-budget French film, a comedy set in New York, with scenes taking place in Chinatown, in a Franco-Greek cabaret, and on the Brooklyn Bridge. Brooklyn-born Max (Barkus) suspects his girlfriend Sophia has been cheating on him. His French pal Jean (Jackie Berroyer Read More

The Swindle

Actors: Isabelle Huppert, Michel Serrault, François Cluzet, Jean-François Balmer, Jackie Berroyer

Synopsis: The 50th film from legendary French New Wave writer and director Claude Chabrol is a typically Hitchcockian comic thriller about a pair of con artists. Up to now, the duo of Betty (Isabelle Huppert) and Victor (Michel Serrault) have contented themselves to small scams at hotel conventions, such as Read More

Le Silence De Rak

Actors: François Cluzet, Elina Löwensohn, Jackie Berroyer, Roland Amstutz, Brigitte Roüan

Synopsis: This French comedy-drama is loosely inspired by Crime and Punishment. The title refers to an unnamed country where lovers use silence to express their love for each other. Slightly unstable office worker Rak (Francois Cluzet) is not silent but rambles in monologues, describing himself in the third Read More

Encore

Actors: Jackie Berroyer, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Natacha Régnier, Laurence Côte

Synopsis: The mid-life crisis of a middle-aged, depressive college professor/author provides the center of this French character study. Abel Vichac has really let himself go. Though a successful writer, and supposedly working on a book about 'regret,' he is barely functioning. He can't sleep at night. Read More

Cameleone

Actors: Chiara Mastroianni, Seymour Cassel, Jackie Berroyer, Antoine Chappey

Synopsis: After fatally shooting a stalker, Parisian bar-maid Lea must live the life of the title reptile. At the time of the killing she was living with Francis, a much older American ex-con. After committing the murder, the fleeing and frightened Lea is saved by Paris paper boys Jean and Luc. Later she Read More

Visiblement Je Vous Aime

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Denis Lavant, Dominique Froh, Vanessa Guedj, Jean-François Gallotte

Synopsis: A misanthropic Parisian street punk learns some difficult lessons after being captured for assaulting and robbing a man in this interesting French drama. This has not been the first time young Denis Lavant has been in trouble, and this time the judge sentences him to the Coral, an experimental Read More

Fast

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Frederic Gelard, Jean-François Stévenin, Karin Viard, Nathalie Schmidt

Synopsis: In this snappy French comedy, a young man goes on a quest to find the enigmatic fast-food woman with "the hair the color of French fries" who gave him his first taste of l'amour. The fellow is the naive, amiable orphan Jean-Louis who spent his life with his elderly and very strict grandfather. Read More

Little Indian, Big City

Actors: Thierry Lhermitte, Patrick Timsit, Ludwig Briand, Miou-Miou

Synopsis: A jungle boy comes to Paris in this French adventure that while primarily aimed towards children, will be equally enjoyable to adult audiences. The film opens with Steph, an international trader, winging to Venezuela to formally divorce his estranged wife Patricia who left him thirteen years ago Read More

L'Eau Froide

Actors: Virginie Ledoyen, Cyprien Fouquet, Laszlo Szabo, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Dominique Faysse

Synopsis: Written and directed by French filmmaker Olivier Assayas, L'Eau Froide is a romantic drama about young, rebellious love in 1972 Paris. Christine (Virginie Ledoyen) and Gilles (Cyprien Fouquet) are 16-year-old lovers who have become frustrated with the aloofness of their families and the general Read More

Les Arcandiers

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Simon de la Brosse, Dominique Pinon, Charles Schneider, Géraldine Pailhas

Synopsis: In this surreal comedy, Tonio (Simon de la Brosse) works very hard for every bit of ill-gotten cash he can get his hands on, but he remains a poor criminal in both senses of the word. He and his buddies Bruno (Dominique Pinon) and Hercule (Charles Schneider) think they have the solution to their Read More

Lune Froide

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Jean-François Stévenin, Patrick Bouchitey, Jean-Pierre Bisson, Laura Favali, Marie Mergey

Synopsis: Simon and Dede are best friends: two aimless drunks who spend their days getting sloshed and any other available time getting laid. Simon is living on unemployment benefits in a trailer parked near his sister's apartment. Dede works at a fish-packing plant on the night shift. Neither man is Read More

Poule Et Frites

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Anémone, Luis Rego, Michel Galabru, Claire Nadeau, Carole Jacquinot

Synopsis: Luis Rego stars as a philandering husband who runs a concession stand in this uneven sex comedy. He is successful for years juggling his amorous adventures between his wife and mistress. When he falls for a sultry lounge singer with a sadomasochist streak, he takes on far more than he can handle. Read More

Double Messieurs

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Carole Bouquet, Yves Afonso, Jean-François Stévenin, Jean-Paul Bonnaire

Synopsis: In a routine look at what it means to finally leave adolescence behind -- even in one's mature years -- this series of mood swings and sequences focuses on two grown men. Francois (Jean Francois Stevenin, the director) and Leo (Yves Alonso) are old friends, and at one point they decide to go out Read More