Jacques Villeret Filmography

Les Parrains

Actors: Gérard Lanvin, Jacques Villeret, Gérard Darmon

Malabar Princess

Actors: Jacques Villeret, Jules Angelo Bigarnet, Michèle Laroque, Claude Brasseur, Clovis Cornillac

Vipere Au Poing

Actors: Catherine Frot, Jacques Villeret, Jules Sitruk, William Touil, Pierre Stevenin

Effroyables Jardins

Actors: Jacques Villeret, André Dussollier, Thierry Lhermitte, Benoît Magimel, Isabelle Candelier

Synopsis: Jean Becker's Effroyables Jardins (Strange Gardens) is a tale of survival during WWII. At the beginning of the 1960s, French teenager Lucien (Damien Jouilleot) is deeply embarrassed by the quirky behavior of his father Jacques (Jacques Villeret), as well as Jacques' ongoing performances as a clown Read More

Un crime au Paradis

Actors: Jacques Villeret, Josiane Balasko, André Dussollier, Suzanne Flon, Gerard Hernandez

Synopsis: When a man kills his wife -- who happened to be the most hated woman in the village -- no one is sure if he should be punished or congratulated in this darkly farcical comedy. Jojo (Jacques Villeret) runs a small farm in rural France, and asks for little from life; all he wants to do is finish his Read More

Les Acteurs

Actors: André Dussollier, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Jacques Villeret, Claude Rich

Synopsis: The son of actor Bernard Blier, director Bertrand Blier is known throughout France for his documentaries and dark depictions of sex and its impact on society. Though his influences and personal opinions clearly shine through, Les Acteurs is a satirical take on the ups, downs, and numerous Read More

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

Mookie

Actors: Jacques Villeret, Eric Cantona, Emiliano Suarez, Victor Sanchez Ramirez, Michel Elias

Synopsis: A talking chimp, a jolly monk and a boxer on the run make an unlikely team in this French comedy for children. Brother Benoit (Jacques Villeret), a French monk working with underprivileged youth in Mexico, one day finds a sick chimpanzee in need of water and medical attention. He brings the chimp Read More

The Dinner Game

Actors: Thierry Lhermitte, Jacques Villeret, Francis Huster, Alexandra Van Der Noot, Daniel Prévost

Synopsis: Francis Veber wrote and directed this film adaptation (with animated opening credits) of his own play, Le diner de cons, about a competition among a group of friends to see who can find the stupidest person to bring to dinner (as indicated by the original French title, since "con" means someone Read More

Golden Boy

Actors: Jacques Villeret, Martin Lamotte

Synopsis: In this French comedy, Antoine is a Union delegate at a factory that is falling on hard times. With business in a slump, it looks like the factory will have to close its doors, but when Antoine wins the lottery, he uses his new fortune to buy the company and keep the business going. However, it Read More

Wacko

Actors: Smain, Jacques Villeret, Patrick Bouchitey, Jean-François Stévenin, Alain Chabat

Synopsis: The conversations of an ill-suited couple who came together through personal ads form the framework of this French film that is comprised of a series of five strange, outworldly tales. The first tale, "Burning Revenge," tells of a man who pours gasoline over a service station in the dead of night Read More

The Favour, the Watch, and the Very Big Fish

Actors: Bob Hoskins, Jeff Goldblum, Natasha Richardson, Michel Blanc, Jacques Villeret

Synopsis: In this hectic farce, Louis Aubinard (Bob Hoskins) is at the bottom of every totem pole he's ever come near, a nebbish and unattractive man who makes a poor living as a photographer of religious tableaux. His sister doesn't respect him and deliberately cooks awful food just to makes his life more Read More

Le Bal des Casse-Pieds

Actors: Jean Rochefort, Miou-Miou, Jean Carmet, Odette Laure, Hélène Vincent

Synopsis: In this comedy, veterinarian Henri Sauveur (Jean Rochefort) maintains his dignity and calm in the face of an incredible number of irritating or even genuinely upsetting encounters with inveterate pains-in-the-neck. He suffers from the rudeness (and worse) of Parisian drivers, his relatives, and Read More

Les Secrets Professionnels Du Docteur Apfelgluck

Actors: Thierry Lhermitte, Jacques Villeret, Roland Giraud, Gérard Jugnot

Synopsis: All five stories in this anthology comedy are tied together by their theme: they concern the encounters of a youthful psychiatrist (Thierry Lhermitte) with his patients, or with people so crazy they ought to be his patients. Each one is filmed by a different director. The first situation occurs Read More

Le Fils du Mekong

Actors: Jacques Villeret, Jacques Francois

Le Batteur Du Bolero

Actors: Jacques Villeret

Trois Années

Actors: Sabine Azéma, Jacques Villeret, Philippe Volter, Lucas Belvaux

Synopsis: This film is based on a short novel by Russian author Anton Chekhov, with the settings changed to 1870 France. It concerns the romantic frustration of two extremely pleasant and civilized people. Alexandre (Jacques Villaret) is a middle-aged bachelor, pleasant and well-to-do, who fears the Read More

Mangeclous

Actors: Pierre Richard, Charles Aznavour, Jacques Villeret, Jean-Luc Bideau, Bernard Blier, Jacques Dufilho

Synopsis: French/Israeli filmmaker Moshe Mizrahi wrote and directed this adapation of the fanciful comic novel by Albert Cohen. Set in 1938, it tells the farcical story of a band of five French speaking Greek Jews who seek to have their status as self-appointed ambassadors of a Palestinian Zionist state 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

Dernier Ete A Tanger

Actors: Valeria Golino, Thierry Lhermitte, Roger Hanin, Vincent Lindon, Jean Bouise

Synopsis: Valeria Golino plays a double role in this thrilling crime drama. A woman returns years later to Tangiers in order to track down the thugs responsible for the gangland-style massacre that killed her father. Corrigan (Thierry Lhermitte) is the local detective recruited to find the international Read More

Soigne Ta Droite

Actors: Dominique Lavanant, Jean-Luc Godard, Jacques Villeret, François Perier, Les Rita Mitsouko, Jane Birkin, Michel Galabru

Synopsis: Jean-Luc Godard wrote, directed, and starred in this offbeat comedy. He appears as a bumbling cinematographer who drops film cannisters as he rushes to a screening, and he and others board a plane helmed by a pilot who is reading a self-help book about suicide. A philosophical narration Read More

Sale Temps

Actors: Jacques Villeret

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

La Galette Du Roi

Actors: Jean Rochefort, Roger Hanin, Pauline Lafont, Jacques Villeret, Eddy Mitchell

Synopsis: In this conventional, broadly comic farce of greed and royal matrimony, nearly bankrupt businessman Victor Harris (Roger Hanin) is marrying Maria-Helena (Pauline Lafont), a princess who comes with a dowry that is made up of one half of her island kingdom. Her father, the cowardly King Arnold III (Jean Rochefort Read More

Black Mic-Mac

Actors: Jacques Villeret, Isaach de Bankolé, Felicite Wouassi, Khoudia Seye, Cheikh Doukouré

Synopsis: This is a charming and successful farce from director Thomas Gilou, featuring a witty screenplay co-authored by producer Monique Annaud. When a group of African squatters in Paris are threatened with eviction, they find themselves fighting against a bureaucracy that few French citizens understand Read More

Les Freres Petard

Actors: Gérard Lanvin, Jacques Villeret, Josiane Balasko, Michel Galabru, Valérie Mairesse

Synopsis: In this comedy-drama, Manu (Gerard Lanvin) and Momo (Jacques Villeret) are two men who are at first unwittingly involved in a drug deal, but then get quite wittingly involved when they realize that there may be some money to be had in the sale of illegal substances. Once they decide to launch into Read More

Dialogue De Sourd

Actors: Pierre Richard, Jacques Villeret

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

Drôle de Samedi

Actors: Francis Huster, Carole Laure, Jacques Villeret, Michel Blanc

Les Morfalous

Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jacques Villeret, Michel Constantin, Michel Creton, Francois Perrot, Matthais Habich

Synopsis: Considered more as a vehicle to display Jean-Paul Belmondo than as an independent, wartime action story, Les Morfalous rides the crest of the French actor's popularity and delivers a tale that highlights his persona. Belmondo is a member of the French Foreign Legion sent with others to Tunisia in Read More

Garçon!

Actors: Yves Montand, Jacques Villeret, Nicole Garcia, Bernard Fresson, Rosy Varte, Marie Dubois

Synopsis: Yves Montand stars in this French seriocomedy as a middle-aged waiter. He has long harbored dreams of becoming a singer, and is also anxious to prove he's as virile as he was when he started pushing plates. Montand gets a chance to rev up his sexual energy and his musical skills when an old flame (Nicole Garcia Read More

First Name: Carmen

Actors: Maruschka Detmers, Jacques Bonnaffé, Myriem Roussel, Christophe Odent, Jean-Luc Godard

Synopsis: First Name: Carmen tells the parallel stories of a quartet rehearsing Beethoven and a group of young people robbing a bank, supposedly to get the funds to make a film. Director Jean-Luc Godard attempts to make a film that resembles a string quartet, each of whose parts serves an abstract whole. Read More

Edith et Marcel

Actors: Evelyne Bouix, Marcel Cerdan, Jr., Jacques Villeret, Jean-Claude Brialy, Francis Huster

Synopsis: This tragic musical drama chronicles the star-crossed love between beloved French singer Edith Piaf and World Middleweight boxing champion Marcel Cerdan who died in a plane crash. The tumultuous affair is paralleled by the love affair of a French POW and his young pen pal who get engaged after Read More

Effraction

Actors: Marlène Jobert, Jacques Villeret, Bruno Cremer, Jean-Pierre Dravel

Synopsis: In this run-of-the-mill thriller, a frenetic, sexually dysfunctional thief loses it and shoots two employees and his accomplices during a bank robbery then escapes to the Riviera. Once there, he gets a room in a hotel and takes a couple hostage -- he needs some sort of shield from the police while Read More

Circulez Y'a Rien a Voir

Actors: Jane Birkin, Michel Blanc, Jacques Villeret, Michel Robbe, Gaelle Legrand

Synopsis: This routine farce is about a lowly police inspector who falls for a sophisticated woman, unaware that she is involved in fencing stolen art. He pursues her with undying diligence until they finally get together -- but by that time they are on the wrong side of the law and in trouble. As usual Read More

Papy Fait de la Resistance

Actors: Christian Clavier, Michel Galabru, Gérard Jugnot, Martin Lamotte, Dominique Lavanant

Synopsis: In this uneven take-off on some reluctant resistance fighters in World War II, a family of musicians find themselves the unwilling hosts of a segment of the German High Command when their Paris mansion is taken over by the occupying forces. What happens next is a series of individual skits, cameo Read More

Les Folles Annees Du Twist

Actors: Mustapha El Anka, Malik Lakhdar-Hamina, Faouzi Saichi, Jacques Villeret

Synopsis: The "years of the twist" dance craze in Algeria coincided with the years that ended in the liberation from French colonial rule and finally won independence for the nation. As two young men of 20 or so are learning how to "twist" and how to snatch money without working for it, political realities Read More

Danton

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Wojciech Pszoniak, Patrice Chéreau, Angela Winkler, Boguslaw Linda

Synopsis: In 1982, legendary Polish filmmaker Andrzej Wajda fled his homeland and relocated in France to direct this powerful story about the ethical boundaries of power and leadership, which had many parallels to Poland's volatile political situation in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Danton (Gérard Depardieu Read More

Le Grand Frère

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Roger Planchon, Souad Amidou, Jean Rochefort

Synopsis: The plot in this story weaves around like a New Year's reveler at four in the morning, heading first in one direction and then in another, with the intention of going home if things would just stop moving. Bernard (Gerard Depardieu) is a doctor whose Hippocratic oath was a hypocritic failure Read More

La Soupe Aux Choux

Actors: Jean Carmet, Jacques Villeret, Christine Dejoux

Les Uns et les autres

Actors: Robert Hossein, Nicole Garcia, Geraldine Chaplin, Daniel Olbrychski, Jacques Villeret

Synopsis: Claude Lelouch's Bolero covers a time span of half a century, concentrating on several generations of music lovers, all hailing from different nations and cultural backgrounds. Each of the principal actors plays multiple characters. Among the cast-members is James Caan, Robert Hossein and Read More

Malevil

Actors: Michel Serrault, Jacques Dutronc, Robert Dhéry, Jacques Villeret, Hanns Zischler

Synopsis: In this French science fiction thriller, nuclear war breaks out over Europe, and a group of visitors to a local chateau take cover in the basement. When they venture outside after the fighting stops, they discover that the chateau has sustained serious damage and the surrounding lands have been Read More

Rien Ne Va Plus

Actors: Jacques Villeret, Eva Darlan, Roland Blanche, Philippe Khorsand, Tonie Marshall

Synopsis: Rien ne va plus, by director Jean-Michel Ribes, is a series of comedy sketches of disparate quality, on the social, cultural, and political foibles that make the French, French. Various settings and character types are given a once-over, including pseudo-intellectuals, punk bikers, right-wingers Read More

Robert et Robert

Actors: Charles Denner, Jacques Villeret, Jean-Claude Brialy, Macha Meril, Germaine Montero, Regine

Synopsis: Robert #1 is played by Charles Denner, while Robert #2 is played by Jacques Villeret. Beyond their common name, the two Roberts are as different as night and day. Oh, there is one more resemblance: both Roberts are lonely, and both hope to meet suitable mates through a computer dating service. As Read More

Bete Mais Discipline

Actors: Jacques Villeret, Kelvine Dumour, Celeste Bollack, Michel Aumont

Synopsis: Jacques (Jacques Villeret) is a soldier who is called away from his military leave in order to take part in a secret mission. It couldn't have come at a worse time, as he was just about to propose to his girlfriend. With considerable cunning and guile, this dull-seeming super-soldier gets the Read More

À Nous Deux

Actors: Jacques Dutronc, Catherine Deneuve, Jacques Villeret, Paul Preboist, Bernard Crombey

Synopsis: Françoise has gone into business seducing men whose wives want to divorce them, and who need incriminating evidence against them. In addition, she has a little blackmail operation going on on the side with politicians who can't afford a scandal. She got started on this business after she was Read More

Passe Montagne

Actors: Jacques Villeret, Jean-François Stévenin, Texandre Barberat

Synopsis: This film marks the directorial debut of actor Jean-François Stevenin. Serge (Stevenin) is a dweller in the French provinces who happens upon Georges (Jacques Villeret), a Parisian motorist in distress. Serge arranges for the car to be taken to a nearby garage. Georges' friends, who were with him Read More

Mon Premier Amour

Actors: Anouk Aimée, Richard Berry, Gabriele Ferzetti, Jacques Villeret, Nathalie Baye

Synopsis: This sentimental drama is the story of the relationship between a lovely mother and her 20-year-old son who never really knew her. When he learns that she is dying of leukemia, he tries to get to know her. By the end of the film, the two have reconciled and she dies feeling at peace. ~ Sandra Read More

Un Autre Homme Une Autre Chance

Actors: James Caan, Geneviève Bujold, Francis Huster, Susan Tyrrell, Jennifer Warren

Synopsis: Claude Lelouch's Another Man, Another Chance is set in 1870. Fleeing from the Franco-Prussian war, Jeanne (Genevieve Bujold) and boyfriend Francis (Francis Huster) escape to the American west. Their course does not run smooth, and soon Jeanne is left alone to care for her baby. Meanwhile, American Read More

Les Naufrages de l"Ile de la Tortue

Actors: Pierre Richard, Maurice Risch, Jacques Villeret, Caroline Cartier

Synopsis: Bonaventure (Pierre Richard) is a semi-competent travel agent who makes up stories about his great romantic adventures to tell to the girls in his office. One evening, he meets a woman who has the same name as one of his made-up romances, and they share a for-real one-night encounter. Afterward Read More

Le Bon et les Méchants

Actors: Jacques Dutronc, Marlène Jobert, Bruno Cremer, Jacques Villeret, Brigitte Fossey

Synopsis: Bolstered by the buoyant performance by Jacques Dutronc as a car-mechanic turned pro-thief, this French film follows the exploits of Jacques (Dutronc) and his Jewish co-conspirator Simon (Jacques Villeret) as their robberies, beginning well before the Second World War, take on a political 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

La Gueule Ouverte

Actors: Nathalie Baye, Hubert Deschamps, Philippe Léotard, Monique Melinand

Synopsis: When cancer strikes the mother of the family in this French film, everyone in the family expresses a previously invisible caring and tolerance of the others. The father has always been a bit of a drunk, and is forever chasing younger women. Despite that, he and his wife care for each other, and he Read More