Jacques Spiesser Filmography

My Best Friend

Actors: Daniel Auteuil, Dany Boon, Julie Gayet, Julie Durand, Jacque Mathou

Synopsis: A businessman tries to belatedly learn the fine art of friendship in this comedy from French filmmaker Patrice Leconte. François (Daniel Auteuil) is an antique dealer who runs an upscale shop with his business partner, Catherine (Julie Gayet). François is a gently ruthless trader who will do Read More

One Summer

Actors: Catherine Frot, Grégori Derangère, Laura Smet, François Berléand, Mathilde Seigner

Synopsis: A woman finds a new and unexpected romance with a younger man in this romantic drama set in France in 1950. Monique (Catherine Frot) is a woman in her late forties who has been left to run the family farm after her ne'er do well husband abandoned her during the war. Monique does nearly all the Read More

Fissures

Actors: Émilie Dequenne, Ludmila Mikael, Mathieu Demy, Jacques Spiesser, Etienne Chicot

Synopsis: A young sound engineer whose mother has recently been murdered uses her expertise in audio to launch her own investigation into the case, only to find that the sounds of the past could prove key to solving a mystery of the present in director Alanté Kavaïté's poetic thriller. Charlotte's mother Read More

C'est Beau une Ville La Nuit

Synopsis: This French-language feature, starring and directed by the acclaimed blues maestro Richard Bohringer, was loosely adapted from the musician's roman-a-clef, and almost completely omits a central narrative. In it, a young writer pursues an idolized artist through the various experiences and exotic Read More

In Your Wake

Actors: Nicolas Giraud, Jacques Gamblin, Gérald Laroche, Jacques Spiesser, Marie Denarnaud

Synopsis: Director David Oelhoeffen's French-language picture Nos retrouvailles - a resolutely disturbing psychological drama with an added element of crime - explores the damage wrought by an über-dysfunctional father on his straight-laced son. Jacques Gamblin stars as Gabriel, a thuggish character Read More

She's One of Us

Actors: Sasha Andres, Carlo Brandt, Catherine Mouchet, Eric Caravaca, Pierre-Felix Graviere

Synopsis: Christine Blanc (Sasha Andres) is a single woman working as a temp. She lies to co-workers, and her parents, telling them she lives with her boyfriend. She's socially awkward, and spends hours wandering the misty outskirts of town or sitting at the mall alone, observing people. She tries to talk Read More

Je Suis un Assassin

Actors: François Cluzet, Bernard Giraudeau, Karin Viard, Anne Brochet, Jacques Spiesser

L'Ete Rouge

Actors: Georges Corraface, Natacha Lindinger, François-Eric Gendron, Valeria Cavalli, Agathe de la Boulaye

Apres La Reconciliation

Actors: Claude Perron, Anne-Marie Miéville, Jacques Spiesser, Jean-Luc Godard

Synopsis: Four people discuss love and life, learning (and revealing) more about each other than they ever imagined in this intimate drama from director Anne-Marie Mieville. A middle-aged woman (Mieville) and her younger, attractive friend Cathos (Claude Perron) return home from an evening out with elderly Read More

De l'historie ancienne

Actors: Olivier Gourmet, Brigitte Catillon, Martine Audrain, Jocelyne Desberchere

La Vie moderne

Actors: Juliette Andres, Lolita Chammah, Jean-Pierre Gos, Isabelle Huppert, Robert Kramer

Synopsis: Noted French filmmaker Laurence Ferreira Barbosa directs this loosely-structured triptych about a trio of unconnected people who struggle through the loneliness of their lives. Impetuous 17-year-old Marguerite (Lolita Chammah), who feels cut off from both her family and classmates, passes the time Read More

Rembrandt

Actors: Klaus Maria Brandauer, Romane Bohringer, Jean Rochefort, Johanna ter Steege, Jean-Philippe Ecoffey

Synopsis: Klaus Maria Brandauer stars in this gorgeously photographed French-German-Dutch biopic on the life of 17th century Dutch master Rembrandt van Rijn. Told in flashbacks from the point-of-view of the aged artist, the film opens as the young van Rijn arrives in Amsterdam. Soon after establishing his Read More

La vie ne me fait pas peur

Actors: Magalie Woch, Ingrid Molinier, Julie-Marie Parmentier, Camille Rousselet, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi

Synopsis: In this bittersweet look back at the trials of growing up in the late 1970s and early 1980s, Emilie (Magali Woch), Ines (Ingrid Molinier), Stella (Julie-Marie Parmentier), and Marion (Camille Rousselet) become friends as they share the humiliations that are a part of adolescent life -- going to Read More

Madame Jacques Sur La Croisette

Actors: Nathan Cogan, Shulamit Adar, Jacques Spiesser

Synopsis: Winner of the 1997 French Cesar award for "Best Short Film," this evocative moment between an Ashkenazi Jew and a woman from Israel -- both in their later years -- is portrayed with delicacy, sensitivity, and an understanding of a culture that is disappearing. The Ashkenazi Jews who have retired Read More

L'Affaire Seznec

Baxter

Actors: Lise Delamare, Jean Mercure, Jacques Spiesser, Catherine Ferran, Jean-Paul Roussillon

Synopsis: The French-filmed Baxter is based on the American novel Hell Hound. The title character is a bull terrier, who in the course of the film has many masters--and for good reason. Baxter has been instrumental in the deaths or serious injuries of most of the human beings who've come in contact with Read More

L'Homme Imagine

Actors: Jacques Spiesser, Marie Carre, Paul Blain

Synopsis: In this psychologically rich but fairly uneventful drama, Marie (Marie Carre) is a woman with two kittens, a demanding job, an obtrusive mother, and no men in her life. Eventually she and a somewhat bedraggled older man meet and become lovers for a while. Just when she thinks they may have Read More

Peaux de Vaches

Actors: Sandrine Bonnaire, Jean-François Stévenin, Jacques Spiesser, Laure Duthilleul

Synopsis: This brooding, enigmatic story won the 1989 Prix George Sadoul at the Cannes Film Festival, in the category "Un Certain Regard," which focuses on "smaller" films. In the story, Gerard and his wife Annie have made a nice life for themselves on their farm. That life is disturbed by the arrival of Read More

Preuve D'Amour

Actors: Gérard Darmon, Anais Jeanneret, Philippe Combenegre, Sylvie Orcier, Jean Rougerie

Synopsis: Gerard Darmon and Anais Jeanneret star in this low-budget thriller from director Miguel Courtois. A journalist wrongly accused of murder enlists the help of a femme fatale to track down the real killer. The late Michel Auclair plays a shady film producer in his last screen role, and the feature is Read More

On A Vole Charlie Spencer

Actors: Francis Huster, Béatrice Dalle, Isabelle Nanty, Jacques Spiesser, Jean-Pierre Aumont

Synopsis: Students of film history will appreciate the many tributes to famous films of yore which appear in this first-time feature directed and written by former drama teacher Francis Huster. In the story, a mild-mannered bank clerk has heroic dreams of being a real he-man. Given his diffident, shy Read More

La Truite

Actors: Isabelle Huppert, Jeanne Moreau, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Daniel Olbrychski, Lisette Malidor

Synopsis: This French sex farce is translated in English as The Trout. Joseph Losey directed and co-wrote the film, which stars Isabelle Huppert as Frederique, a young woman living on her family's rural trout farm. Frederique is trapped in a dull marriage to a rube. She decides to leave him and the trout Read More

Le Juge Fayard Dit le Sheriff

Actors: Patrick Dewaere, Aurore Clément, Philippe Léotard, Michel Auclair, Jean Bouise

Synopsis: Fayard (Patrick Dewaere) is a magistrate of the French courts, who is unusually enthusiastic in seeking justice. For instance, when his girlfriend is trapped in a store-front bordello, he has no qualms about arranging (and joining) a police raid on the place. This stunt earned him the nickname Read More

Lumière

Actors: Francine Racette, Jeanne Moreau, Lucia Bosé, Caroline Cartier, Marie Henriau

Synopsis: Actress Jeanne Moreau made her directorial debut with this tale about a gathering of actresses who, over the course of an all-night conversation, come to reassess their careers and romantic lives. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Le Petit Marcel

Actors: Jacques Spiesser, Isabelle Huppert, Yves Robert, Michel Aumont, Anouk Ferjac

Synopsis: A homeless young man, living in his delivery truck, is simultaneously adopted by a pranksome group of youngsters and made into a police informer. Believing that he is doing something good both for the other kids and for himself, he has no qualms. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide Read More

Black and White in Color

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

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

Je Suis Pierre Rivière

Actors: Jacques Spiesser, Michel Robin, Isabelle Huppert

Synopsis: Based on a groundbreaking 19th-century French trial, this movie recreates the courtroom controversy surrounding a young man who, after losing his religious faith, killed his mother and other siblings in order to assist his father. The trial was the first in French history to permit psychological Read More

Un Animal Doue De Deraison

Actors: Jean-Claude Brialy, Alexandra Stewart, Jacques Spiesser, Jose Valadao

La Gifle

Actors: Lino Ventura, Annie Girardot, Isabelle Adjani, Nicole Courcel

Synopsis: In this film, a group of French kids face the difficult transition from childhood to adulthood as they struggle through their teenage years. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Stavisky

Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, François Perier, Charles Boyer, Anny Duperey, Michel Lonsdale, Roberto Bisacco

Synopsis: This film by French director Alain Resnais (Last Year in Marienbad) is loosely based on a true story from the 1930s about financier, con-man and swindler Stavisky who was arrested in 1934 for selling phony stock but was never brought to trial. While in jail, he continued to engage in doubtful Read More

Un Homme Qui Dort

Actors: Jacques Spiesser, Ludmila Mikael

Synopsis: In this French tour-de-force a young student (Jacques Speisser) decides to have no more interaction with the world than is needed to minimally sustain life. His increasingly automaton-like behavior is coupled with a strange clarity of insight about the world around him. His inner musings as he Read More

L'Ironie du Sort

Actors: Pierre Clémenti, Jacques Spiesser, Marie-Helene Breillat, Claude Rich

Synopsis: This quirky French film examines a series of events during the German occupation of France and shows what might have happened if one thing had gone differently in each instance. The first story given this treatment concerns the assassination of a German officer by a young member of the Resistance. Read More

R.A.S.

Actors: Jacques Spiesser, Jacques Weber, Jacques Villeret, Jean-François Balmer

Synopsis: In this French film, soldiers in the Algerian war not only fight against the rebelling natives of that country, but fight an equally brutal battle among themselves. Three young army misfits are assigned to a brutal "disciplinary company" during the conflict. When the "discipline" becomes too harsh Read More

Faustine et le Bel Été

Actors: Muriel Catala

Synopsis: Faustine (Muriel Catala) suffers the wounds of first love in this gentle French film. During a summer when she is staying with her grandmother, she comes to know the nearby neighbors. Two brothers live in the large house. One is divorced and one has recently remarried, both of them live there with Read More