Jacques BoudetFilmography

A Comedy of Power

Actors: Isabelle Huppert, François Berléand, Patrick Bruel, Robin Renucci, Maryline Canto

Synopsis: Claude Chabrol's Comedy of Power stars Isabelle Huppert as a French judge who attempts to bring down the very powerful but corrupt CEO of a large corporation. As she digs deeper into the case, she uncovers criminal activity that stretches into the highest levels of government, and her life is Read More

Trivial

Actors: Christopher Lambert, Sophie Marceau, Nicolas Briancon, Simon Abkarian, Robert Hossein

Synopsis: A suicidal police detective travels from La Havre to Deauville at the behest of a mysterious femme fatale in the suspenseful sophomore feature from actress-turned-director Sophie Marceau. For Lt. Jacques Renard (Christopher Lambert), every night is a struggle. Rendered sleepless following the Read More

Lady Jane

Actors: Ariane Ascaride, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Gérard Meylan, Pascale Roberts, Jacques Boudet

Synopsis: Her daughter abducted by kidnappers who have demanded an exuberant ransom, a woman who used to dabble in stolen furs reunites with her former partners in crime in order to raise the cash needed to get her little girl back. Back in the days when Muriel, François, and René were selling stolen furs Read More

Those Happy Days

Actors: Jean-Paul Rouve, Marilou Berry, Omar Sy, Julie Fournier, Jean Benguigui

Synopsis: It's hard to say if the kids or the counselors need more supervision at the second-rate summer camp in this comedy from France. Vincent (Jean-Paul Rouve) runs "Ces Jours Heureux," a camp for kids in rural France, and as he gears up for the summer season, he has to round up a new staff of Read More

La Confiance Regne

Actors: Vincent Lindon, Cécile De France, Eric Berger, Anne Brochet, Jacques Boudet

My Father is an Engineer

Actors: Ariane Ascaride, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Gérard Meylan, Pascale Roberts, Jacques Boudet

Pere et Fils

Actors: Philippe Noiret, Charles Berling, Bruno Putzulu, Pascal Elbe, Marie Tifo

Synopsis: Directed by Michel Boujenah, Pere et Fils (Father and Son) centers around retired traveling salesman Leo Serano's (Philippe Noiret) decision to become closer to his three children, albeit late in life. Leo's first son, David (Charles Berling), is a longtime overachiever who runs his own plumbing Read More

Marie-Jo et ses 2 amours

Actors: Ariane Ascaride, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Gérard Meylan, Julie-Marie Parmentier, Jacques Boudet

Synopsis: Robert Guediguian's Marie-Jo and Her 2 Loves is an intimate, straightforward look at a woman having an affair. Marie-Jo (Ariane Ascaride) is married to Danielle (Jean-Pierre Darroussin). They have a teenage daughter, Julie (Julie-Marie Parmentier). For the last year, Marie-Jo has been involved Read More

The Town Is Quiet

Actors: Ariane Ascaride, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Gérard Meylan, Alexandre OGou, Pierre Banderet

Synopsis: Racism, violence, and drug abuse run rampant in this ensemble drama set in the southern French city of Marseilles. Michele (Ariane Ascaride) spends her days working in a fish factory, where she earns a living to support her unemployed husband and her teenage daughter Fiona (Christine Brucher). In Read More

Le Lait de la tendresse humaine

Actors: Patrick Bruel, Marilyne Canto, Dominique Blanc, Sergi López, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi

Synopsis: A woman discovers that the joys of parenthood are not making her especially happy in this dark comedy/drama. Christelle (Marilyne Canto) is a new mother who isn't dealing well with the anxieties of caring for her child. One day, she suffers a severe panic attack while alone with the baby, and her Read More

Le Conte du Ventre Plein

Actors: Andréa Ferréol, Jacques Boudet, Claude Perron

Synopsis: Maverick director Melvin Van Peebles translates his own satirical novel to the screen with this multi-national portrait of race, class, and hypocrisy. The film's title refers to the name of a haute cuisine restaurant run by a self-satisfied conservative couple, Henri (Jacques Boudet) and Read More

À l'attaque!

Actors: Ariane Ascaride, Pierre Banderet, Frederique Bonnal, Jacques Boudet

Les enfants du marais

Actors: Jacques Villeret, Jacques Gamblin, André Dussollier, Michel Serrault, Isabelle Carré

Synopsis: A lighthearted and nostalgic drama about life among a group of close-knit friends, Les Enfants du Marais/Children of the Marshland tells the tale of a girl named Cri-Cri, who in flashback recalls growing up in a community along a quiet marsh in France. Her father, Riton (Jacques Villeret), has a Read More

À la Place du Coeur

Actors: Ariane Ascaride, Christine Bruecher, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Gérard Meylan, Alexandre OGou

Synopsis: From the director of Marius et Jeannette, this story of two working-class families is a fable with an optimist streak. A young black man, Francois, is wrongly accused of rape by a racist policeman. The story is told in voiceover by his childhood friend, neighbor, and the mother of his future Read More

In and Out of Fashion

Actors: Delphine Seyrig, Sami Frey, Anémone, André Dussollier, Zouc

Synopsis: The Paris-based photographer-painter-actor-filmmaker William Klein looks back on five decades of his life and multi-careers in this French documentary. Born in 1926, Klein is a native New Yorker who began living in Paris in 1948, studied painting with Fernand Leger, photographed for Vogue from Read More

Marius et Jeannette

Actors: Ariane Ascaride, Gérard Meylan, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Pascale Roberts, Jacques Boudet

Synopsis: A couple puts faith in love to get them through times of extreme poverty in this comedy-drama that was a major box office success in its native France. Jeannette (Ariane Ascaride) is a single mother living in a working-class community in Marseilles; she tries to support herself and her two kids on Read More

Un Air Si Pur

Actors: Fabrice Luchini, André Dussollier, Jacques Boudet, Edith Scob, Jean-Pierre Lorit

Synopsis: In the midst of WW I, a doctor and a lawyer team up to turn a ramshackle old mountain chateau into a sanatorium/health spa that caters to the afflicted from most every stratum of European society, most of whom show up with false hope in their hearts and plenty of equally false identities. Even the Read More

Rainbow Pour Rimbaud

Actors: Laure Marsac, Bernadette Lafont, Michel Galabru

Synopsis: In this film, director/screenwriter Jean Teule adapts his novel Rainbow pour Rimbaud. Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891) was a leading light in the symbolist movement of French literature, which rejected the use of realism in the depiction of emotions and ideas. In this film, Robert (Robert MacLeod) is an Read More

À la vie, à la mort!

Synopsis: A down-and-out group of basically decent people band together to somehow survive in modern Paris in this fascinating French ensemble piece that employs humor and drama to present slices from their daily lives. Among the group is servant Marie-Sol, who prays to the Blessed Virgin for a baby; Read More

Les Misérables

Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Michel Boujenah, Alessandra Martines, Annie Girardot, Philippe Léotard

Synopsis: Not a strict adaptation of the oft-filmed Victor Hugo classic, director Claude Lelouch's ambitious epic instead focuses on the story of two men, a father and a son, whose life stories bear striking similarities to Hugo's character Jean Valjean. The father is Henri Fortin (Jean-Paul Belmondo), a Read More

Farinelli

Actors: Stefano Dionisi, Enrico Lo Verso, Elsa Zylberstein, Caroline Cellier, Jeroen Krabbé

Synopsis: The performer known as Farinelli, born Carlo Broschi (and played in this film by Stefano Dionisi), was famous in the 18th century as the world's greatest castrato, a male singer whose testicles were removed in childhood so that he would retain the high, clear voice of a child while gaining Read More

Le Retour de Casanova

Actors: Alain Delon, Fabrice Luchini, Elsa, Wadeck Stanczak, Delia Boccardo

Synopsis: If this had been a western, the older gunfighter would have taught his younger rival a thing or two about the perils of a scandalous reputation before passing on the torch and (more than likely) dying tragically just as he is about to reform. Instead, in this film based on a novel celebrating the Read More

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

La Femme Nikita

Actors: Anne Parillaud, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Tchéky Karyo, Jeanne Moreau, Jean Reno

Synopsis:
The serpentine plotline of Luc Besson's La Femme Nikita begins its 117-minute slither when punkish, psychotic, and drug-ridden Nikita (Anne Parillaud) fires her gun into a cop's face following the stick-up of a drug store, and is promptly imprisoned. She is thrown into a dank cell, then Read More

Un Week-End Sur Deux

Actors: Nathalie Baye, Joachim Serreau, Miki Manojlovic, Felicie Pasotti, Henri Garcin

Synopsis: Without undue melodrama or moral judgment, this evocative French drama paints a painfully realistic portrait of a woman who inexorably destroys her life with her constant fixation on her own needs. She is Camille Valmont, a woman whose lust for fame eclipses every other aspect of her life. By the Read More

Natalia

Actors: Pierre Arditi, Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu, Ludmila Mikael, Michel Voita, Dominique Blanc

Synopsis: The French/Swiss Natalia is set in France during the Nazi occupation. A Jewish film actress (Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu) successfully obscures her heritage, rising to the top of her profession. Some uncomfortable moments transpire when she is courted by several high-ranking German officials. The Read More

La Petite Amie

Actors: Jean Poiret, Jacques Villeret, Agnes Blanchot, Eva Darlan, Jacques Sereys

Synopsis: Martin Morel (Jean Poiret) is a philandering executive who talks his friend Guillaume (Jacques Villeret) into posing as the husband of his teenage mistress in this uneven romantic comedy. Morel's indulgent wife Beatrice (Eva Darlan) must decide whether or not to forgive Martin after Guillaume and Read More

Waiting for the Moon

Actors: Linda Hunt, Linda Bassett, Andrew McCarthy, Bernadette Lafont, Bruce McGill

Synopsis: Well into the 1930s, there was an expatriate community of Americans who lived in Paris or the French countryside, and who eventually became influential artists and writers. These included the painter Edward Hopper, the writer Ernest Hemingway, and the musician Virgil Thomson. Writer and poet Read More

Buisson Ardent

Actors: Jessica Forde, Jean-Claude Adelin, Alice de Poncheville, Simon de la Brosse, Anne Brochet

Synopsis: Julie (Jessica Forde) and her childhood sweetheart Jean (Jean-Claude Adelin) are separated in this uneven but prize-winning romantic drama. When Jean is shipped off to live with his aristocratic father, Julie later becomes engaged to Henri (Simon de la Brosse), a young man from her own social Read More

Cours Privé

Actors: Elizabeth Bourgine, Xavier DeLuc, Michel Aumont, Sylvia Zerbib, Emmanuelle Seigner

Synopsis: This drama, spiced with sexual innuendo, is directed by Pierre Granier-Deferre, and features Jeanne Kern (Elizabeth Bourgine) as a pretty, somewhat repressed schoolteacher who suffers a smear campaign at work. Someone has been sending her director (Michael Aumont) letters accusing her of lewd and Read More

Dangerous Moves

Actors: Michel Piccoli, Alexandre Arbatt, Leslie Caron, Liv Ullmann, Daniel Olbrychski

Synopsis: Michel Piccoli plays Akiva Liebskind, a Russian chess genius in the Swiss-filmed Dangerous Moves. He is pitted against Soviet exile Pavius Fromm (Alexandre Arbatt), who, since childhood, has dreamed of nothing but defeating Liebskind. Both men soon become obsessed with winning. Already suffering Read More

Swann in Love

Actors: Jeremy Irons, Ornella Muti, Alain Delon, Fanny Ardant, Marie-Christine Barrault

Synopsis: This ambitious attempt to film a portion of Marcel Proust's epic novel Remembrance of Things Past stars Jeremy Irons as Charles Swann, a Jewish intellectual who has managed to overcome growing anti-Semitism in 19th century France and travels in an elite social circle. But Swann has become obsessed Read More

Un Bruit Qui Court

Actors: Jean-Pierre Sentier, Pierre Baillot, Daniel Laloux, Alain Frerot, Josiane Stoleru

Synopsis: Jean-Pierre Sentier and Daniel Laloux joined forces to write, direct, and act in this zany comedy about two men who were sent to an island by the Ministry of Toil to make Camembert cheese boxes. Unfortunately, the men's papers fell behind a filing cabinet and it is many years before the government Read More

Une Pierre Dans la Bouche

Actors: Harvey Keitel, Michel Robin, Catherine Frot, Richard Anconina, Jeffrey Kime

Synopsis: This story about a wounded American gangster seeking refuge in the country villa of a blind, sophisticated, and aging actor has an uneven script that alternates sharp dialogue with slow segments. The plot thickens when the actor's nephew arrives with his new love interest, and she is quite taken Read More

Le Couple Temoin

Actors: André Dussollier, Anémone, Zouc, Eddie Constantine, Georges Descrieres

Synopsis: The French Ministry of the Future announces that it has computer-selected a so-called "average" French couple, Jean-Michel and Claudine (Andre Dussolier and Anemone), and will use what it finds out from them to determine how to manage housing and other government programs in the future. Overnight Read More

L'Important c'est d'aimer

Actors: Romy Schneider, Fabio Testi, Jacques Dutronc, Klaus Kinski, Claude Dauphin

Synopsis: Freelance photographer Servais (Fabio Testi) meets luckless Nadine Chevalier (Romy Schneider) an aging, world-weary, would-be movie star who thus far has only been able to find work in cheap exploitation movies. Trying to win her affection, Servais borrows the money from his underworld employers Read More