Jean BenguiguiFilmography

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Being Jewish in France

Synopsis: Jews have long played a major role in French culture, but they've also found themselves welcomed or rejected by Gallic society and government at different points in history, and filmmaker Yves Jeuland offers a provocative look at the history of French Jews in this documentary. Being Jewish in Read More

5/13/09
Hello Goodbye

Actors: Fanny Ardant, Gérard Depardieu, Jean Benguigui, Lior Ashkenazi, Sasson Gabay

Synopsis: A couple find they're fish out of water when they journey back to their ancestral homeland in this comedy from France. Alain (Gerard Depardieu) is a successful doctor in his mid-fifties who has been married to Gisele (Fanny Ardant) most of his adult life. Alain and Gisele have grown tired of life Read More

2008
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

2006
Turn Left at the End of the World

Actors: Aure Atika, Jean Benguigui, Liraz Charchi, Neta Garty, Ruby Porat Shoval

2004
The Daltons

Actors: Eric Ramzy, Said Serrari, Romain Berger, Marthe Villalonga, Javivi

2004
Moi César 10 Ans 1/2 M 39

Actors: Jules Sitruk, Jean-Philippe Ecoffey, Maria de Medeiros, Mabo Kouyate, Josephine Berry

2003
Astérix et Obélix: Mission Cléopâtre

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Christian Clavier, Jamel Debbouze, Monica Bellucci, Claude Rich

Synopsis: Based on the original '60s French comic books by René Goscinny, Astérix & Obélix: Mission Cléopâtre is the big-budget sequel to the 1999 box-office hit Astérix and Obélix vs. Caesar. Empress Cleopatra (Monica Bellucci) makes a wager with Julius Caesar (played by writer/director Alain Chabat) that Read More

1/30/02
Le Boulet

Actors: Gérard Lanvin, Benoît Poelvoorde, José Garcia, Djimon Hounsou, Rossy de Palma

Synopsis: French filmmakers Alain Berberian and Frédéric Forestier direct the buddy action comedy Le Boulet (Dead Weight). Tough criminal Moltes (Gérard Lanvin) lands in jail after killing the brother of the Turk (José Garcia). Prison guard Reggio (Benoît Poelvoorde) lets Moltes have a weekly lottery ticket Read More

2002
En Face

Actors: Jean-Hugues Anglade, Clotilde Courau, Christine Boisson, José Garcia, Jean Benguigui

Synopsis: Mathias Ledoux directs this atmospheric erotic thriller. Author Jean Dorset (Jean-Hugues Anglade) has suffered from a bad case of writer's block since his first novel became a bestseller. He lives in a small apartment in Paris with his wife Michelle (Clotilde Courau) and, in spite of their Read More

2000
Merci Mon Chien

Actors: Atmen Kelif, Jean Benguigui, Yolande Moreau, Laurent Olmedo, Abbes Zahmani

Synopsis: This is a light comedy about Amir, a young Pakistani who has been working for Jo for six years. Jo has a ready-to-wear clothes shop in the Sentier area and his business is prospering. He promised Amir that he would help him get his legal papers, but he has never kept his promise. Now he is sending Read More

1998
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

10/15/97
Mefi-Toi De L'Eau Qui Dort

Synopsis: Despite his lifelong efforts, Jean is one of those unfortunate men who can never understand women. This arty, metaphorical French film presents three examples of Jean's difficulties over the course of his long life. Each of the three episodes takes place beside the same river. He is first seen as Read More

1996
Mefie Toi De L'Eau Qui Dort

Actors: Maruschka Detmers, Robin Renucci, Jean Benguigui

Synopsis: Despite his lifelong efforts, Jean is one of those unfortunate men who can never understand women. This arty, metaphorical French film presents three examples of Jean's difficulties over the course of his long life. Each of the three episodes takes place beside the same river. He is first seen as Read More

1996
Tango

Actors: Richard Bohringer, Thierry Lhermitte, Philippe Noiret, Miou-Miou, Judith Godrëche

Synopsis: If such a thing as gentle humor can be wrung from murderous misogyny, this all-star comedy is the embodiment of it. The basic point of the film seems to be this: unattached men long to live with women, and once they do, they long to live without them. In this story, Paul (Thierry Lhermitte) is Read More

1993
Le Grand Pardon II

Actors: Roger Hanin, Richard Berry, Gérard Darmon, Christopher Walken, Jill Clayburgh

Synopsis: The war for control of a lucrative international drug trade provides the focus of this drama. The trouble begins when a kingpin is released after serving a ten year prison sentence and discovers that his relatives are engaging in a bloody battle for control. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1992
La Totale!

Actors: Thierry Lhermitte, Miou-Miou, Eddy Mitchell, Michel Boujenah, Jean Benguigui

Synopsis: François (Thierry Lhermitte) has convinced his wife and nearly everyone else that he is a pleasant, downtrodden civil servant who has been immured in a dead-end job. In reality, he is a very competent secret operative for the government. Meanwhile, Helene (Miou-Miou), the mother of his two Read More

1991
Ma Vie Est un Enfer

Actors: Daniel Auteuil, Josiane Balasko, Richard Berry, Michel Lonsdale, Catherine Samie

Synopsis: Léah (Josiane Balasko) has been longing to be beautiful for years, but the best she's been able to accomplish on her own is dowdy but neat. When she inadvertently conjures up Abar (Daniel Auteuil), one of the devil's own representatives, she's more than willing to sell her soul for a Read More

1991
Aujourd'hui Peut-Etre...

Actors: Giulietta Masina, Véronique Silver, Eva Darlan, Jean Benguigui, Jean-Paul Muel

Synopsis: Bertille (Giuletta Masina) has a lovely home in the French countryside -- and plenty of grab-happy children and relatives who want a piece of the inheritance they expect from her. That's why, even though she's not their favorite relative (nor they hers) they all appear at one final reunion on the Read More

1991
Loulou Graffiti

Actors: Anémone, Jean Reno, Jean Benguigui

1991
Une Nuit a L'Assemblee Nationale

Actors: Michel Blanc, Jacqueline Maillan, Jean Poiret, Roland Blanche, Darry Cowl, Sophie Moyse

Synopsis: Walter (Michel Blanc), the leader of a nudist colony, enlists the help of left-wing militant Henriette (Jacqueline Maillan) in this political satire. He feels he has been snubbed by the government when he mistakenly believes he should receive the Legion of Honor. The release of the film coincided Read More

1989
Docteur M.

Actors: Alan Bates, Jennifer Beals, Jan Niklas, Hanns Zischler, Benoit Regent

Synopsis: Noted French director Claude Chabrol helmed this oddity, a remake of German director Fritz Lang's 1922 classic Dr. Mabuse. The film features an all-star international cast as it tells the futuristic horror story of a bizarre epidemic which has swept West Berlin leaving a grim trail of grisly Read More

1989
Milan Noir

Actors: Isabelle Huppert, Joaquim de Almeida, David Warrilow, Hanns Zischler, Jean Benguigui

Synopsis: Isabelle Huppert stars in this thriller as Sarah, a woman who has settled into a more or less normal life in Milan after her lover, a much-wanted terrorist, left the scene. Her life becomes complicated indeed when she becomes aware that he is about to return. The difficulty is that not only is she Read More

1987
Control

Actors: Burt Lancaster, Kate Nelligan, Ben Gazzara, Kate Reid

Synopsis: Fifteen strangers who have volunteered for an experiment in isolation are forced to deal with an even larger problem in this film from Italian director Giuliano Montaldo. A research group in Germany wants to study the effects of isolation in a nuclear shelter on human subjects and assembles a Read More

1987
Les Fugitifs

Actors: Pierre Richard, Gérard Depardieu, Jean Carmet, Michel Blanc, Maurice Barrier

Synopsis: Francis Veber directs this hilarious comedy about Francois (Pierre Richard), a desperate, novice, bumbling bank robber who takes an ex-con hostage during his attempted hold-up. They are both chased by the police. Jean (Gerard Depardieu) plays the convicted bank robber just released from jail and Read More

1986
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

1984
Souvenirs Souvenirs

Actors: Christophe Malavoy, Pierre-Loup Rajot, Gabrielle Lazure, Claude Brasseur, Marlène Jobert

Synopsis: This well-articulated, engaging story about the differing fortunes of two brothers just after Algeria's war for independence is conventional in its outlines, and may have several more characters than can be developed in a short time, but its subtle handling by director Ariel Zeitoun helps to Read More

1984
La Garce

Actors: Isabelle Huppert, Richard Berry, Vittorio Mezzogiorno, Jean Benguigui

1984
Le Vol du Sphinx

Actors: Alain Souchon, Miou-Miou, Jean Benguigui, Francois Perrot, Robin Renucci

Synopsis: Stereotyped and predictable, this is a feeble romantic adventure story about Laura (Miou-Miou), her estranged husband Tournier (Robin Renucci), her erstwhile lover-to-be Tom (Alain Souchon), and the arms dealer they are out to foil (François Perrot). Laura and Tournier are in southern Morocco Read More

1984
L'Africain

Actors: Philippe Noiret, Catherine Deneuve, Jean-François Balmer, Joseph Momo, Vi Reed

Synopsis: Searching for the ideal place for a new resort in Central Africa, Catherine Deneuve stumbles into an ex-lover, Philippe Noiret, who is the store owner and pilot for the small African village. They clash at first, but soon begin to look past each the other's shortcomings. But trouble comes to Read More

1983
Le Jeune Marie

Actors: Richard Berry, Brigitte Fossey, Zoe Chauveau, Richard Anconina, Daniel Russo

Synopsis: In this comic and perceptive story, Billy mistakes another apartment for his own on the eve of his wedding and wanders in to meet a woman who immediately mesmerizes him, causing all sorts of problems in what used to be an uncomplicated life. After Billy (Richard Berry) and his bride-to-be Nina (Zoe Chauveau Read More

1983
Le Grand Carnaval

Actors: Philippe Noiret, Roger Hanin, Fiona Gelin, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Gérard Darmon

Synopsis: Set against the Allied invasion of North Africa in 1942, this overly-ambitious, comedy-drama focuses on the relationship between its two central characters, Leon Castelli (Roger Hanin) a half-Algerian, half-French bartender, talkative, but with a generous soul, and Etienne Labrouche (Philippe Noiret Read More

1983
Le Grand Pardon

Actors: Roger Hanin, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Bernard Giraudeau, Richard Berry, Robert Hossein, Clio Goldsmith

Synopsis: A Jewish Mafia-like family is running a prostitution ring, selling "protection," and operating gambling casinos -- more or less with impunity, and at peace with their Arab counterparts -- until a young gangster (Bernard Giraudeau) decides to pit the two ethnic factions against each other. Jewish Read More

1981
Buffet Froid

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Bernard Blier, Jean Carmet, Geneviève Page, Carole Bouquet

Synopsis: Buffet Froid is an absurd black comedy that cunningly reverses the conventions of the crime thriller to comment on the alienating and dehumanizing effects of contemporary urban life. It starts with Alphonse Tram (Gérard Depardieu) discovering that his casual subway acquaintance (Michel Serrault) Read More

1979
La Dérobade

Actors: Miou-Miou, Maria Schneider, Daniel Duval, Niels Arestrup

Synopsis: Marie (Miou-Miou) is a young girl from a working-class family who falls for Gerard (Daniel Duval) before she discovers he is a vicious, sadistic pimp. She is degraded, abused, and beaten regularly by Gerard as she is forced into a life of prostitution. Marie later decides she must leave her pimp Read More

1979