Jacques PerrinFilmography

Paris 36

Crew: Producer

Actors: Gérard Jugnot, Clovis Cornillac, Kad Merad, Nora Arnezeder, Pierre Richard

Synopsis: A star is born in a time of both celebration and instability in this historical drama with music from director Christophe Barratier. In the spring of 1936, Paris is in a state of uncertainty; while the rise of the Third Reich in Germany worries many, a leftist union-oriented candidate, Léon Blum Read More

Modern Love

Crew: Producer

Actors: Alexandra Lamy, Stéphane Rousseau, Bérénice Bejo, Pierre-François Martin-Laval, Clotilde Courau

Synopsis: Love is in the air but not everyone is breathing easy in this romantic comedy with music from director Stephane Kazandjian. Eric Mericourt (Pierre Francois Martin-Laval) is a filmmaker who is given to wide mood swings and has trouble holding on to long-term relationships. Lately things are going Read More

Le Petit Lieutenant

Actors: Nathalie Baye, Jalil Lespert, Roschdy Zem, Antoine Chappey, Jacques Perrin

Synopsis: A young, inexperienced detective is inducted into an elite Paris plainclothes unit in Le Petit Lieutenant, directed by Xavier Beauvois (Don't Forget You're Going to Die). Antoine (Jalil Lespert or Human Resources) is as gung-ho as they come, and eager to learn everything he needs to know to be a Read More

The Chorus

Crew: Producer

Actors: Gérard Jugnot, François Berléand, Kad Merad, Jacques Perrin, Jean-Baptiste Maunier

Synopsis: French producer and musician Christophe Barratier makes his directorial debut with the drama Les Choristes, inspired by the 1947 film La Cage aux Rossignols. Wildly successful orchestra conductor Pierre Morhange (Jacques Perrin) returns home when his mother dies. He recollects his childhood Read More

Hell

Actors: Emmanuelle Béart, Karin Viard, Marie Gillain, Carole Bouquet, Guillaume Canet

Synopsis: Director Danis Tanovic picks up where the late-Krzysztof Kieslowski left off by taking on the second installment of Kieslowski's "Heaven," "Hell," and "Purgatory" trilogy (the first was adapted by Run Lola Run director Tom Tykwer) with this tale of a family whose dark past returns with a Read More

La Vie Comme Elle Va

Crew: Producer

Actors: Arnaud Barre, Hubert Bouyssieres, Christian Lombard, Celine Causse, Henri Sauzeau

Là-haut

Actors: Florence Darel, Bruno Cremer, Claude Rich, Jacques Perrin, Wojtek Psoniak

Synopsis: Pierre Schoendoerffer has made many film about the French in Indochina, and Above the Clouds finds the 75-year-old director covering that territory again. A female journalist (Florence Darel) becomes obsessed with finding out what happened to Henri Lanvern (Jacques Perrin), a filmmaker who Read More

Ti Voglio Bene, Eugenio

Actors: Giancarlo Giannini, Giuliana de Sio, Jacques Perrin, Chiara De Bonis, Giada Colonna

Synopsis: Winner of the Audience Award at the 2002 Palm Springs Film Festival, Eugenio, I Love You is the story of Eugenio (Giancarlo Giannini), a grown man with Downs Syndrome. Eugenio lives in a spacious country home where he takes care of Federico (Jacques Perrin), his older brother. He also spends his Read More

Cinema Paradiso: The New Version

Actors: Philippe Noiret, Salvatore Cascio, Marco Leonardi, Jacques Perrin, Antonella Attili, Agnese Nano, Pupella Maggio

Winged Migration

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Jacques Perrin

Synopsis: While practically everyone is aware of the fact that birds fly south for the winter, and return home in the spring, few are aware of just how arduous the journey can be. Jacques Perrin, a noted actor and film producer in his native France, decided to document this process, using flocks of birds Read More

Himalaya: L'Enfance D'Un Chef

Crew: Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Thilen Lhondup, Lhakpa Tsamchoe, Gurgon Kyap, Karma Tensing Nyama Lama, Karma Wangiel

Synopsis: Himalaya, l'Enfance d'un Chef is a fiction film about the forgotten people of Tibet, focusing on their daily lives and traditional customs. In a remote village in the Dolpo in the northwestern Himalayas of Nepal, Tinle, a charismatic old chief, has just lost his eldest son. He refuses to allow his Read More

Brotherhood of the Wolf

Actors: Samuel Le Bihan, Mark Dacascos, Émilie Dequenne, Vincent Cassel, Monica Bellucci

Synopsis: French legend has it that a creature known as the Beast of Gevaudan -- a huge, wolf-like monster -- was responsible for the violent deaths of over 100 persons in the mid-18th century, and this horror fantasy blends the lore of this fabled beast with a story of two men who set out to capture it. Read More

Scenes De Crimes

Actors: Charles Berling, André Dussollier, Eva Darlan, Camille Japy

Synopsis: As the title would suggest, this film, directed by Frederic Schoendoerffer, is a noirish crime drama about two forensic cops on the trail of serial murderer. Georges Fabian (Charles Berling) and Jean-Louis Gomez (Andre Dussollier) are put on the case when Marie -- the teenaged daughter of a couple Read More

The Trench

Crew: Co-producer

Actors: Paul Nicholls, Daniel Craig, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Danny Dyer, James D'Arcy

Synopsis: In 1916, the British Army suffered their bloodiest and most severe defeat ever in the Battle of the Somme; The Trench focuses on the awful prelude to the battle as seen through the eyes of a group of inexperienced soldiers. Billy Macfarlane (Paul Nicholls) is a 17-year-old boy who joined the Army Read More

Le Silence Des Fusils

Synopsis: Based on a true story, this murder mystery is steeped in accusation as it chronicles the investigation into the deaths of a pair of Montagnais Indian fisherman who may have been shot by white game wardens who find them illegally fishing for salmon. The story is set in 1984 along the northeastern Read More

MicroCosmos

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: Utilizing special macroscopic photographic techniques, filmmakers Claude Nuridsany and Marie Perennou created this fascinating and visually spectacular look at the hidden worlds in the life cycle of an ordinary meadow in France. When seen through the lens of Nuridsany and Perennou's cameras Read More

The World of Jacques Demy

Synopsis: Noted French filmmaker Demy's wife Agnes Varda helmed this intensely personal tribute to her late husband. It is her third such tribute and is the only one to look deeply into Demy's vision as a director and his filmmaking techniques. To do so, she uses perfectly preserved film clips from each of Read More

Les Enfants De Lumière

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: This French documentary is comprised of almost 300 clips from the past 100 years of cinema Francaise. The images within the documentary are free flowing and not in chronological order; they are also not hindered with unnecessary narration or lengthy introductions. The film represents the Read More

Les Hirondelles ne Meurent pas a Jerusalem

Synopsis: Both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are sensitively explored in the Tunisian-French drama. Richard, a French TV journalist has been assigned to do a political story in Jerusalem the night before Yitzhak Rabin and Yasir Arafat sign their peace accord. Richard is glad to go as it gives Read More

Montparnasse-Pondichery

Actors: Miou-Miou, Yves Robert, André Dussollier, Jacques Perrin, Maxime Leroux

Synopsis: After raising her daughter to be a beautiful young woman and developing a lively career as a wallpaper designer, one would think that Julie's (Miou-Miou) life was rather full. However, she recently got an offer from the French consul to a mission in Pondicherry, India to teach her skills to Read More

C'e Kim Novak al Telefono

Actors: Jacques Perrin, Joanna Pacula, Joachim Lombard, Sylva Koscina, Anna Falchi

Synopsis: This poignant Italian drama tells the tale of a producer who would do just about anything to have actress Kim Novak appear in his next film. Enrico, a producer, needs $250,000 so he can hire Kim Novak for his film. The problem is that he is almost broke. He wants to sell his palatial family home Read More

Guelwaar

Crew: Producer

Actors: Isseu Niang

Synopsis: This powerful, pointed and multi-layered political satire from Senegal's great director Ousman Sembene will provide considerable food for thought; especially amongst those who consider foreign charity a beneficial humanitarian action. It also provides insight into Sembene's thoughts on cultural Read More

Il Lungo Silenzio

Actors: Carla Gravina, Jacques Perrin, Alida Valli, Ottavia Piccolo, Giuliano Montaldo

Synopsis: The seemingly endless chain of assassinations of judges who seek to end (or at least curtail) the pervasiveness of organized crime and deep corruption in Italian political life, is the topic of this political thriller. As the film opens, Carla (Carla Gravina) is the gynecologist wife of a judge (Jacques Perrin Read More

Les Demoiselles Ont Eu 25 Ans

Actors: Mag Bodard, Catherine Deneuve, Bernard Evein, Michel Legrand

Synopsis: In 1967, the phenomenally successful director of the films Lola and the groundbreaking musical Les Parapluies de Cherbourg, Jacques Demy, arrived in the little port town of Rochefort and, together with his art director, decorated the whole town in cheerful, almost surreal fashion for the filming Read More

The Flight of the Innocent

Actors: Manuel Colao, Federico Pacifici, Nicola di Pinto, Francesca Neri, Jacques Perrin

Synopsis: Originally titled La Corsa Dell'Innocente, this Italian drama focuses on that country's ongoing wave of kidnappings. The early scenes focus on a large, outwardly normal Italian family who happen to make their living by abducting wealthy children and holding them for ransom. When the family is Read More

Everybody's Fine

Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Michèle Morgan, Valeria Cavalli, Marino Cenna, Roberto Nobile, Norma Martelli

Synopsis: In this sentimental, tragicomic drama, Matteo Scuro (Marcello Mastroianni) is an old widower living in Sicily. His five grown children have scattered all over Italy, and he has heard nothing but glowing reports from them about their lives and careers. One day he takes it into his head to visit Read More

Hors la Vie

Crew: Producer

Actors: Hippolyte Girardot, Habib Hammoud

Synopsis: Patrick (Hippolyte Girardot) is a news photographer in Lebanon who is captured and held hostage by one of the factions fighting in the civil war there. This hostage drama film is unusual in that it attempts to show what motivates the captors, as well as showing the brave attempts of the captive to Read More

Rien Que des Mensonges

Actors: Fanny Ardant, Alain Bashung, Jacques Perrin, Christine Pascal, Stanislas Carre de Malberg, Alexandra Kazan

Synopsis: Reviewers declared that the main attraction of this romantic drama was the chance to see the ever-elegant Fanny Ardent in action as a well-to-do woman who wants to put her life in better order. Muriel (Ardent) is married to a philandering publisher, who quite openly entertains mistresses. Read More

Touch and Die

Actors: Martin Sheen

Synopsis: Martin Sheen stars as an American newsman in Rome who begins to investigate the appearance of several corpses found throughout Europe with their hands cut off. He soon uncovers not only plots of plutonium theft, but also of nuclear arms deals and dark political schemes. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Read More

Fuga Dal Paradiso

Actors: Fabrice Josso, Ines Sastre, Horst Buchholz, Aurore Clément, Jacques Perrin

Synopsis: In this post-apocalpytic adventure story, narrated by Van Johnson), Teo (Fabrice Josso) lives underground in a cave with his father, who is a member of a ruling clan. Except for people within a family, all contacts between citizens are supposed to be electronic. However, Teo manages to contact and Read More

In Nome Del Popolo Sovrano

La Contre Allee

Actors: Caroline Cellier, Jacqueline Maillan, Jacques Perrin

Synopsis: Marie has always been somewhat independent and is considered by some to be a bit of a tomboy. Though she is not quite a teenager, her photographer father has no qualms about leaving her alone for a while when he has to go off on an assignment. One day, while she is walking along, she gets run down Read More

La Fuite Au Paradis

Actors: Aurore Clément, Fabrice Josso, Jacques Perrin, Ines Sastre

Vanille Fraise

Actors: Pierre Arditi, Sabine Azéma, Isaach de Bankolé, Jacques Perrin, Riccardo Cucciolla

Synopsis: In this romantic comedy/spy thriller, Clarissa Boulanger (Sabine Azema) is eager to take a breather from her deteriorating marriage, so when the French Secret Service asks her to team up with Hippolyte (Isaach de Bankole) and pose as a newlywed in order to thwart the shipment of powerful weapons Read More

Le Peuple Singe

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: This comprehensive documentary explores the lives and behavior in the wild of over a hundred different simians species. Footage from such diverse places as Ethiopia, Japan, Sri Lanka and Brazil brings macaques, baboons, monkeys, orangutans and many other relatives of humankind to the screen. Read More

Cinema Paradiso

Actors: Philippe Noiret, Salvatore Cascio, Marco Leonardi, Jacques Perrin, Antonella Attili, Pupella Maggio, Agnese Nano

Synopsis: Cinema Paradiso offers a nostalgic look at films and the effect they have on a young boy who grows up in and around the title village movie theater in this Italian comedy drama that is based on the life and times of screenwriter/director Giuseppe Tornatore. The story begins in the present as a Read More

L'Année Des Meduses

Actors: Valérie Kaprisky, Bernard Giraudeau, Caroline Cellier, Jacques Perrin, Béatrice Agenin

Synopsis: This standard erotic thriller set in St. Tropez involves an unusual ménage à trois first there is Claude, a mother approaching 40 who is also approaching a liaison with the second and pivotal figure in the trio; Romain (Bernard Giraudeau), a Don Juan who is not above pimping on occasion and Read More

Paroles Et Musique

Actors: Catherine Deneuve, Christopher Lambert, Richard Anconina, Jacques Perrin, Dayle Haddon

Synopsis: This routine French melodrama features Catherine Deneuve) as Margaux, an unhappily married recording-company executive with two children at home who starts an affair with Jeremy (Christophe Lambert), one of the singers she promotes through her company. Margaux's husband is away in New York working Read More

Parole De Flic

Actors: Alain Delon, Jacques Perrin, Fiona Gelin, Jean-François Stévenin, Vincent Lindon, Stephane Ferrara

Synopsis: The sentiments of producer, co-writer, and star Alain Delon provide the particular slant in this routine thriller about vigilante justice over other vigilantes. The angry hero (Delon) leaves France in a fury because of a technicality in the justice system that failed to convict the murderers of Read More

Le Juge

Actors: Jacques Perrin, Richard Bohringer, Daniel Duval, Andréa Ferréol, Michel Lonsdale

Synopsis: Based on the real-life assassination of a judge in Marseilles in 1981, this fictionalized account of how he came to die lacks the substance and drama that must have characterized the actual story as it happened. Judge François Müller (Jacques Perrin) was transferred from Vosges in northwest Read More

Les Quarantiemes Rugissants

Actors: Jacques Perrin, Julie Christie, Michel Serrault

Synopsis: The Last Strange Voyage of Donald Crowhurst is a non-fiction book by Ron Hall and Nicholas Tomblin about a man who first cheated to win an international sailing competition and then disappeared from his sailboat in the final lap of the race -- a story that serves as the inspiration for this film. Read More

L'Honneur d'un Capitaine

Actors: Jacques Perrin, Nicole Garcia, Charles Denner, Georges Wilson, Georges Marchal

Synopsis: When Patricia Caron (Nicole García) watches a television debate, she is shocked to hear her long-dead husband described as a war criminal and a torturer. Her husband Marcel (Jacques Perrin) had died more than two decades earlier when French troops fought in Algeria -- and although she had been Read More

Le Sang Du Flamboyant

Actors: Jacques Perrin, Sanvi Panou, Jean-Marc Henchoz

Synopsis: The legend of Alban, the rebel who fought French colonialists before the beginning of the independence movement in the Antilles, is the basis for this film that focuses on the years between 1943-1947 on Martinique. Alban was a black overseer on a French plantation when one day he saw his wife Read More

Une Robe Noire Pour un Tueur

Actors: Annie Girardot, Claude Brasseur, Bruno Cremer, Jacques Perrin, Jean de Coninck

Synopsis: The "black robe" in the title of this suspense film belongs to a female lawyer, Florence Nat (Annie Girardot) who has just lost a case in which she defended Simon Risler (Claude Brasseur), a man wrongly accused of murder. Risler escapes before he can be put in prison, and seeks help from attorney Read More

La Legion Saute Sur Kolwezi

Actors: Giuliano Gemma, Bruno Cremer, Laurent Malet, Jacques Perrin, Mimsy Farmer

Synopsis: The French Foreign Legion intervenes on behalf of 3,000 European and American civilian hostages in the town of Kolwezi, Zaire. Kantangese rebel forces hold the hostages in the small mining town and subject their victims to various ordeals. The military springs into action to save the captives in Read More

Raoni

Synopsis: This documentary profiles the indigenous people of the Megkronoti tribe who are being threatened with cultural extinction due to deforestation projects. Their chief and spokesman Raoni has brought international recognition to the problems of governmental policies concerning destruction of the Read More

L'Adoption

Actors: Geraldine Chaplin, Jacques Perrin, Patrick Norbert, Gerard Lorin

Synopsis: This grim, brutal drama chronicles the terrible fate of a childless couple whose only crime was caring. The trouble begins when their barn mysteriously catches fire. Upon their return to the house, they find an adolescent having an epileptic seizure. Without a thought, they take him in, get him to Read More

Le Crabe-Tambour

Actors: Jean Rochefort, Claude Rich, Jacques Perrin, Jacques Dufilho, Odile Versois

Synopsis: Le Crabe Tambour (The Crab Drum) stars Jacques Perrin as the title character. An officer in the French navy, Perrin has earned his nickname through his habit of beating his chest a la King Kong after consuming a crab dinner. Stories of this eccentric but courageous warrior remain in circulation Read More

La Part du Feu

Actors: Michel Piccoli, Claudia Cardinale, Jacques Perrin, Rufus, Roland Bertin

Synopsis: La Part du Feu is a French idiom, and has to do with making a sacrifice for some gain. Hansen (Michel Piccoli) is a wheeler-dealer and building developer, who apparently manipulates people and situations just for the joy of it. In this melodrama, it was his wife Catherine's (Claudia Cardinale) Read More

Le Désert des Tartares

Actors: Vittorio Gassman, Giuliano Gemma, Helmut Griem, Philippe Noiret, Jacques Perrin

Synopsis: With fear and trepidation, the military division encamped in a desert fort await the return of a Tartar army--which attacked the fort years ago. One young soldier (Jacques Perrin), however, can't wait for the boredom to end and the fighting to begin. Ennio Morricone provided the musical score. Read More

Black and White in Color

Crew: Producer

Actors: Jean Carmet, Jacques Dufilho, Catherine Rouvel, Jacques Spiesser, Dora Doll

Synopsis: The inaugural film effort of French director Jean-Jacques Annaud, Black and White in Color is set during World War I. Upon the outbreak of hostilities, a French trading post in West Central Africa finds itself at odds with a formerly peaceful German post, for no other reason than their parent Read More

Section Spéciale

Crew: Producer

Actors: Louis Seigner, Michel Lonsdale, François Maistre, Ivo Garrani, Roland Bertin, Henri Serre, Pierre Dux

Synopsis: Based on a true story, Costa-Gavras' Special Section (Section Speciale) is set in wartime France, but the parallels to contemporary political persecution are inescapable. A young German naval officer is killed in occupied Paris. The supplicative Vichy government sets about to locate the Read More

State of Siege

Crew: Producer

Actors: Yves Montand, Renato Salvatori, O.E. Hasse, Jacques Weber, Jean-Luc Bideau

Synopsis: Like most of Costa-Gavras' political thrillers, the French State of Siege is based on a true story. The incident dramatized herein is the kidnapping of a U.S. official somewhere in Latin America. The director's sympathies clearly lie with the kidnappers, especially since the official (played by Yves Montand Read More

La Fete A Jules

Actors: Jacques Perrin, Claude Jade, Ann Petersen

Home Sweet Home

Synopsis: The residents of the old-age home, in this Belgian/French film, have had altogether enough. Enough of unreasonable rules, regulations and restrictions which wreak havoc on their dignity and self-respect. Taking matters into their own hands, they stage a revolt which comes to the attention of the Read More

L'Etrangleur

Actors: Jacques Perrin, Julien Guiomar, Nicole Courcel, Eva Simonet

Synopsis: Unhappy women are being murdered by Emile (Jacques Perrin), a psychotic young man suffering from the delusion that his acts are mercy killings. The detective (Julien Guiomar) assigned to track down the killer resorts to seriously unorthodox and even unethical methods to get his man. In one Read More

Blanche

Actors: Michel Simon, Ligia Branice, Jacques Perrin, Georges Wilson, Lawrence Trimble

Synopsis: Walerian Borowczyk's Blanche is a tragic romantic tale set in 13th century France. While visiting the castle of an old landlord (Michel Simon), both the king (Georges Wilson) and his philandering page Bartolomeo (Jacques Perrin) try to seduce the landlord's young, naive wife Blanche (Ligia Read More

L'Invitata

Actors: Michel Piccoli, Joanna Shimkus, Jacques Perrin, Lorna Heilbron, Clotilde Joano

Synopsis: When she discovers her husband has come home with a mistress, Anne (Joanna Shimkus) leaves her home in Paris and spends the night in her office where she meets Francois (Michel Piccoli), an architect who, without asking any questions, invites her on a trip to the South of France. The two make the Read More

Donkey Skin

Actors: Catherine Deneuve, Jean Marais, Jacques Perrin, Delphine Seyrig, Fernand Ledoux

Synopsis: Originally titled Peau D'Ane, Jacques Demy's Dos Cruces en Danger Pass is better known by its English-language title Donkey Skin. Based on a fairy tale by Charles Perrault (of Cinderella fame), the bizarre story concerns the king (Jean Marais) of a strange, enchanted land. Catherine Deneuve plays Read More

Goya

Actors: Irina Demick, Francisco Rabal

Synopsis: This is a biography of the painter Francisco Jose de Goya (1746-1828) who went from being a portrait artist for royalty and the notables of his day to painting searing images embodying his wholehearted disapproval of the atrocities of his time. In the middle of his life, the artist had a Read More

L'Americain

Actors: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Simone Signoret, Marcel Bozzuffi, Jacques Perrin, Françoise Fabian

Synopsis: A man returns to France after living in America for 11 years to find the old hometown has changed. Bruno (Jean-Louis Trintignant looks up some old friends that he left behind. One man was killed in the war with Algeria, and others are resigned to live out their lives in a sullen acceptance of Read More

Z

Crew: Producer

Actors: Yves Montand, Irene Papas, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jacques Perrin, François Perier

Synopsis: Z is one of the most politically insightful films ever made, exposing government hypocrisy and cover-up in the wake of a political assassination. Zei (Yves Montand) is a scientist who is scheduled to give a speech against the use of the atomic bomb. On the way to the event, he is attacked outside Read More

Vivre La Nuit

Actors: Jacques Perrin, Catherine Jourdan, Georges Géret, Serge Gainsbourg, Estella Blain

Synopsis: Two young lovers are broken up when the young man's mobster boss forces him to take over a rock-and-roll nightclub. Philippe (Jacques Perrin) is under orders to incite riots at the club, which lead to a shutdown. His naive girlfriend Nora (Catherine Jourdan) loses faith in him until they are Read More

La Petite Vertu

Actors: Dany Carrel, Jacques Perrin, Pierre Brasseur, Robert Hossein, Raymond Gerome

Synopsis: A young woman living on the Left Bank of Paris is a pickpocket and a prostitute. Running away from a man she has robbed, she sees a young street photographer and plants the stolen wallet on him. Before she goes to prison, the two fall in love. Upon her release, they are married and things look Read More

L'Ecume Des Jours

Actors: Marie-France Pisier, Jacques Perrin, Sami Frey, Alexandra Stewart, Bernard Fresson

Synopsis: This uneven film has Colin (Jacques Perrin) marrying a delicate young girl who soon dies after their wedding. His friend Partre (Samy Frey) is an avid collector of objects belonging to his favorite author, often spending his remaining money on the souvenirs. After Colin's wife dies, he steals her Read More

Grand Dadais

Actors: Jacques Perrin, Eva Renzi, Daniele Gaubert, Yves Renier, Yvonne Clech

Synopsis: A young man who lives with his aunt falls for a free-spirited German model in this uninspired drama. Although he runs off with her for the summer, he returns to his aunt to live off her money after the model and an old flame rekindle their romance. The story unfolds in a series of flashbacks. Read More

The Young Girls of Rochefort

Actors: Catherine Deneuve, George Chakiris, Françoise Dorléac, Jacques Perrin, Grover Dale, Gene Kelly

Synopsis: Jacques Demy directed this frothy tribute to the Hollywood musicals of the 1940s, a follow-up to his earlier success The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964). Twin sisters Delphine and Solange (played by real-life sisters Catherine Deneuve and Françoise Dorleac) live in the small coastal town of Read More

Un Homme De Trop

Actors: Michel Piccoli, Bruno Cremer, Gérard Blain, Jean-Claude Brialy, Claude Brasseur

Synopsis: In this WW II drama, twelve captured French soldiers await their impending executions in a German prison camp. Fortunately, a wily resistance fighter and his men come to rescue the ill-fated dozen. The rescue attempt succeeds, but the rebels become worried when they discover a thirteenth prisoner Read More

L'Horizon

Actors: Jacques Perrin, Macha Meril, René Dary, Monique Melinand

Synopsis: Antonin (Jacques Perrin) is a young French soldier who returns home from World War I to recover from his wounds. When he falls in love with a young widow (Macha Meril), Antonin questions his role in battle and contemplates desertion as he recalls the horrors of war. He is pressured by his Read More

Ligne De Demarcation

Actors: Jean Seberg, Maurice Ronet, Stéphane Audran, Daniel Gélin, Jacques Perrin

Synopsis: The people of a small town in France react differently to the Nazi occupation in this World War II action drama directed by Claude Chabrol. Mary (Jean Seberg) is willing to risk her life to help the resistance movement in spite of her husband's acceptance of the situation. The movement is slowed Read More

The Sleeping Car Murders

Actors: Yves Montand, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Pierre Mondy, Simone Signoret, Catherine Allegret, Jacques Perrin

Synopsis: The first film directed by Costa-Gavras, The Sleeping Car Murders was based on a novel by Sebastien Japrisot. During a Marseilles-to-Paris overnight train trip, a girl is found dead in a sleeping car. As Paris detective Yves Montand steps up his investigation, more and more passengers turn up Read More

La 317e Section

Actors: Jacques Perrin, Bruno Cremer, Pierre Fabre, Manuel Zarzo

Synopsis: Set near the end of the bloody Indo-Chinese War in which the Vietnamese struggled to shuck off the yoke of French colonialism, this taut, provocative French war drama chronicles the events leading up to the slaughter of the French Army's 317th Platoon, a unit comprised of 41 Laotians and a quartet Read More

Un uomo a metà

Actors: Jacques Perrin, Ilaria Occhini, Rosemarie Dexter, Pier Paolo Capponi, Gianni Garko

Synopsis: Jacques Perrin was awarded Best Actor at the 1966 Venice Film Festival for his gripping portrayal of a young writer's descent into madness. Alienated, neurotic, and plagued by guilt, Perrin retreats from reality, loses interest in work, and comes to the brink of suicide before being sent to an Read More

Le Chevalier A La Rose Rouge

Actors: Jacques Perrin, Michéle Girardon, Raffaella Carrà, Carlos Estrada

All the Other Girls Do!

Actors: Rosemarie Dexter, Jacques Perrin, Folco Lulli, Magali Noël, Bice Valori

Synopsis: This sweet coming-of-age film concerns a pair of Italian teenagers, Gabriele (Jacques Perrin) and Giovenella (Rosemarie Dexter), whose parents attempt to keep them apart. Gabriele's father (Folco Lulli) goes so far as to take his son to a prostitute, and when that fails, considers letting the Read More

La Calda Vita

Actors: Catherine Spaak, Gabriele Ferzetti, Jacques Perrin, Fabrizio Capucci

Synopsis: Catherine Spaak (Il Sorpasso/The Easy Life, Le Treu/The Night Watch) stars as a young woman who is convinced to vacation on a tropical island with a couple of young and eager men (Jacques Perrin and Fabrizio Capuci). While she enjoys her time in paradise, they each attempt to win her affection. Read More

La Corruzione

Actors: Alain Cuny, Jacques Perrin, Rosanna Schiaffino

Synopsis: The young son of a wealthy industrialist eschews the material pleasures of life and decides to enter the priesthood. His father wishes his son to follow in his footsteps and recruits his young girlfriend to help change his mind. The girl seduces the inexperienced lad, and he quickly falls prey to Read More

The Scapegoat

Synopsis: In this Italian drama set during the 1500s, an impoverished youth becomes embroiled in politics when he is falsely accused of killing a Venetian nobleman. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Cronaca Familiare

Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Jacques Perrin, Salvo Randone

Synopsis: A touching story of brothers raised apart and then brought together under tragic circumstances, this drama by Valerio Zurlini remains true to Vasco Pratolini's novel. Told in a series of flashbacks as Enrico (Marcello Mastroianni) remembers the past, the brothers are separated after their mother Read More

First Taste of Love

Synopsis: In this romantic drama, an engineering student is quite upset to learn that his girlfriend has been seeing an older man on the side. In shock, he begins aimlessly walking through the Parisian streets. Along the way he meets a young nightclub stripper who works in a dive. Though she is but a Read More

Et Satan Conduit le Bal

Actors: Françoise Brion, Catherine Deneuve, Jacques Perrin, Bernadette Lafont

Synopsis: In a complex sequence of romantic musical chairs, this routine, New Wave style drama looks at a series of couples that have come together for awhile in the villa of a wealthy tycoon who has a few emotional hang-ups. The business magnate has fallen for a sudsy, superficial actress, but she is not Read More

Girl with a Suitcase

Actors: Claudia Cardinale, Jacques Perrin, Corrado Pani, Luciana Angelillo, Romolo Valli

Synopsis: The title character, played by Claudia Cardinale, is a young woman who heads out alone to the big city after being dumped by her lover. She is befriended and protected by her ex-suitor's younger brother Jacques Perrin, who eventually becomes her new romance, despite the difference in ages (Perrin Read More

Le Soleil Dans L'Oeil

Actors: Anna Karina, Jacques Perrin, Georges Descrieres, Nadine Alari

Synopsis: An unresolved love triangle is at the heart of this romance directed by Jacques Bourdon and starring Anna Karina as a woman who takes off for a vacation in Corsica, leaving her lover behind in Paris. While enjoying the sun and sand, she dutifully writes to her love back home but at the same time Read More

La Verité

Actors: Brigitte Bardot, Charles Vanel, Paul Meurisse, Marie-José Nat, Sami Frey

Synopsis: This French-Italian romantic crime thriller is titled The Truth in English. Henri-Georges Clouzot directed sexpot Brigitte Bardot as Dominique Marceau, who is accused of killing her boyfriend. The question for the jury is whether the murder was premeditated or a crime of passion. Marceau had come Read More

Les Nymphettes

Actors: Christian Pezy, Colette Descombes, Jacques Perrin

Synopsis: Relying mainly on its elements of sexual encounters and romance, this undistinguished drama by Henry Zaphiratos is about Lucien (Christian Pezey), a young man who longs to find the perfect woman for himself. He is not above actively searching for his female of choice, though he does want a Read More

La Verte Moisson

Actors: Claude Brasseur, Jacques Perrin, Dany Saval

Synopsis: Heightened by an emphasis on the action scenes and good visual effects, La Verte Moisson is otherwise a fairly standard wartime tale set during the German occupation of France. A group of teen-age friends accidentally get into the resistance movement when a game they are playing turns deadly Read More