Jean BouiseFilmography

La Femme Nikita

Crew: Producer

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

De Guerre Lasse

Actors: Nathalie Baye, Christophe Malavoy, Pierre Arditi, Genevieve Mnich, Jean Bouise, Philippe Clevenot

Synopsis: Alice (Nathalie Baye) is the widow of a Jewish surgeon who helps the former diplomat Jerome (Pierre Arditi) smuggle Jews out of Austria to save them from the Nazis. The duo recruits Charles (Christophe Malavoy), a shoe manufacturer whose uncle is a Nazi sympathizer in the Vichy government. Charles Read More

The Big Blue

Actors: Jean-Marc Barr, Jean Reno, Rosanna Arquette, Paul Shenar, Griffin Dunne, Sergio Castellitto

Synopsis: Two men answer the call of the ocean in this romantic fantasy adventure. Jacques (Jean-Marc Barr) and Enzo (Jean Reno) are a pair of friends who have been close since childhood, and who share a passion for the dangerous sport of free diving. Professional diver Jacques opted to follow in the Read More

L'Oeuvre Au Noir

Actors: Gian Maria Volontè, Sami Frey, Jacques Lippe, Anna Karina, Johan Leysen

Synopsis: Andre Delvaux directed this stylish, yet ultimately empty adaptation of a historical novel by Marguerite Yourcenar. Gian Maria Volonte leads the cast as Zenon, a Belgian doctor and alchemist in the 1500s. Zenon travels across Europe for many years hiding from the Inquisition, which eventually 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

Spirale

Actors: Richard Berry, Claire Nebout, Jean Bouise, Tchéky Karyo, Beatrice Camurat

Synopsis: Jerome (Richard Berry) is the manager of a photography lab who gets involved with the mysterious Simorre (Claire Nebout) in this suspenseful drama. Invited to her yacht in the South of France, Jerome meets the strange entourage that always accompanies Simorre. The trio consists of a former Read More

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

Jenatsch

Actors: Michel Voita, Christine Boisson, Vittorio Mezzogiorno, Jean Bouise, Laura Betti

Synopsis: Cristophe (Michel Voita) is a reporter who is assigned to interview the prominent archaeologist Tober (Jean Bouise) in this combination fantasy drama. Tober has uncovered the coffin of the legendary 16t-century killer Jenatsch (Vittorio Mezzogiorno). After the interview, Cristophe begins to Read More

Chateauroux District

Actors: Nathalie Nell, Guy Marchand, Anais Jeanneret, Edward Meeks

Zone Rouge

Actors: Richard Anconina, Sabine Azéma, Hélène Surgère, Jacques Nolot, Dominique Reymond

Synopsis: Corruption in the rarified air of the corporate and governmental elite drives the action in this fast-paced thriller. Claire Rousset (Sabine Azema) heads to a small town to come to the aid of her ailing ex-husband, who has been poisoned by the town's drinking water. As Claire arrives, she sees a Read More

La Derniere Image

Actors: Véronique Jannot, Merwan Lakhdar-Hamina, Michel Boujenah

Synopsis: Seen through the filtered lens of boyhood memories, award-winning director Mohamed Lakhdar-Hamina crafted this half-fictional, half-autobiographical account of a brief period in the history of an Algerian village. It is 1940, and the quiet town is ruled by French colonialists appointed by the Read More

Partir, Revenir

Actors: Evelyne Bouix, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Richard Anconina, Annie Girardot, Michel Piccoli, Françoise Fabian

Synopsis: This melodrama, set in WW II during the French occupation, tells the story of the members of a Jewish family who flee the Germans and end up hiding in the country manse of two aristocrats. Unfortunately, the Gestapo finds them and they are sent to a concentration camp. The film then leaps ahead to Read More

Subway

Actors: Isabelle Adjani, Christopher Lambert, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Richard Bohringer, Michel Galabru, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Jean Reno

Synopsis: Coming in on the heels of his internationally acclaimed first film, Le Dernier Combat, 26-year-old director Luc Besson created this tongue-in-cheek look at filmmaking and at the denizens in the tunnels of the Paris Metro -- a new kind of underground movie. Fred (Christopher Lambert) has just Read More

Strictement Personnel

Actors: Pierre Arditi, Jacques Penot, Caroline Chaniolleau, Jean Reno, Robert Rimbaud

Synopsis: The crimes and tragedies that tear apart one family seem overblown in the telling, yet this psychological drama about the miseries of one French policeman is compelling throughout. Jean (Pierre Arditi) is a cop and also a failed novelist who was abandoned by his father, brother, and sister after Read More

L'Air Du Crime

Actors: Hélène Surgère, Tchéky Karyo, Jean Bouise, Laura Morante, Hanns Zischler

Synopsis: Ostensibly about the sudden disappearance of a businessman and the subsequent behavior of his wife Elena (Helen Surgere), his son Robert (Tcheky Karyo), and his accountant (Jean Bouise), this allegorical film is really a weighty statement on the nature of Swiss society. After her husband has 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

Equateur

Actors: Barbara Sukowa, Francis Huster, René Kolldehoff, Francois Dyrek, Julien Guiomar, Jean Bouise

Synopsis: Although based on a novel by Georges Simenon, director (and songwriter) Serge Gainsbourg has superimposed several dark emotions and a subtle brutality over the weak plot about a man's trip to Africa and his unfortunate passion for a murderess whose amorality sends the disillusioned fellow back to Read More

La Bete Noire

Actors: Richard Bohringer, Philippe Sfez, Sabine Haudepin, Georges Géret, Jean Bouise

Synopsis: In this creatively organized story of one "delinquent," director Patrick Chaput has put together a well-paced drama/thriller set in part against the dark by-ways of Paris. Seventeen-year-old Daniel (Philippe Sfez) grew up in foster homes in a rural area and those years contrast with his later Read More

Credo

Au Nom de Tous les Miens

Actors: Michael York, Brigitte Fossey, Macha Meril, Helen Hughes

Synopsis: Unfortunately bound by clichés and stereotypes rather than original insights and new viewpoints, this condensed movie version of an 8-hour television series does not do complete justice to its noble topic of courage in the face of the World War II holocaust. The story is based on the memoirs of Read More

Le Dernier Combat

Actors: Pierre Jolivet, Jean Bouise, Fritz Wepper, Jean Reno, Maurice Lamy

Synopsis: Unusual because it has no spoken dialogue, Dernier Combat effectively chronicles the fate of a handful of people after a worldwide disaster has left the planet desolate and bleak and the people physically unable to speak. A young man (Pierre Jolivet) longs for female companionship and so he puts Read More

Bluff

Actors: Jean-François Balmer, Roland Blanche, Jean Bouise

Hecate

Actors: Bernard Giraudeau, Lauren Hutton, Jean Bouise, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Gerard Desarthe

Synopsis: Clothilde de Watteville (Lauren Hutton) is compared to "Hecate," a three-headed Greek fertility goddess and a protector of witches who came to be associated with Persphone and Hades. Clothilde/Hecate runs into Julien Rochelle (Bernard Giraudeau), a very young French diplomat in north Africa just Read More

Cet Age Sans Pitie

Actors: Bruno Cremer, Jean Bouise, Roland Bertin, Jean-Paul Dubois, Jerome Zucca

Synopsis: The pushes and pulls of an emerging post-war society are behind the antagonisms in this routine, slow-paced story set in a Jesuit school in 1952. A somewhat old-fashioned priest has his own ideas about how to train the boys in his charge and at the same time, the director of the school is faced Read More

Anthracite

Actors: Bruno Cremer, Jean Bouise, Jerome Zucca, Jean-Paul Dubois

Paco l'Infaillible

Actors: Alfredo Landa, Christine Pascal, Jean Bouise, Patrick Dewaere

Synopsis: Paco (Alfredo Lando) is a middle-aged glass blower who has a lucrative after-hours business as a male stud in this unusual comedy drama. His wife Maria (Christine Pascal) is the supposedly barren woman who approves of her husband's sideline. Paco meets Pocapena (Patrick Dewaere) in a local bar and Read More

Coup de tete

Actors: Patrick Dewaere, France Dougnac, Michel Aumont, Jean Bouise, Paul Le Person, Corinne Marchand

Synopsis: Like other young men in his soccer-obsessed town, a belligerent and rebellious factory worker Francois Perrin plays on a local team. His obnoxious tendencies endear him to no one. Trouble brews when a woman cries rape and the team's star player becomes the chief suspect. To protect the valued Read More

Un Papillon sur l'Epaule

Actors: Lino Ventura, Nicole Garcia, Claudine Auger, Jean Bouise, Paul Crauchet

Synopsis: Roland Fériaud (Lino Ventura), on returning from a seaside vacation, discovers a corpse in a room adjoining his. He is abducted by a mysterious group who take him to a clinic of some kind, where he is interrogated. He is shown a small suitcase he has never seen before, and he tries in vain to Read More

Un Neveu Silenceiux

Actors: Lucienne Hamon, Jean Bouise, Coralie Seyrig, Sylvain Seyrig, Joel Dupuis, André Falcon

Synopsis: During a summer vacation spent together, tensions in a large family surface. Joel, one of the family members, has Down's syndrome and has a happy and winning disposition. Unfortunately, his great-grandmother and grandmother and grandfather are cold to the boy. They feel that his presence in their Read More

Les Petits Calins

Actors: Dominique Laffin, Caroline Cartier, Josiane Balasko, Roger Mirmont, Jacques Frantz

Les Routes Du Sud

Actors: Yves Montand, Laurent Malet, Miou-Miou, France Lambiotte, José Luis Gómez

Synopsis: Roads to the South is often omitted from the "official" lists of Joseph Losey's films, principally because it was made for French television rather than theatres. Conceived by screenwriter Jorge Semprun and star Yves Montand as a sequel to Alain Resnais' La Guerre est Finie, the film details the Read More

Le Point De Mire

Actors: Annie Girardot, Jacques Dutronc, Matthias Habich, Jean-Claude Brialy, Françoise Brion

Synopsis: Without knowing it, newspaper photographer Daniele (Annie Girardot) is caught up in a complex international situation involving super-secret conflicts between NATO, the CIA and the Pentagon. An American politician, whom she has been photographing, is the target of an assassination conspiracy. Her 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

Mort d'un Pourri

Actors: Alain Delon, Ornella Muti, Stéphane Audran, Maurice Ronet, Mireille Darc

Synopsis: Xavier Marechal (Alain Delon) is a businessman whose long-time business partner and friend is Philippe Dubaye (Maurice Ronet) a member of the French parliamentary assembly. In the film, Philippe has just killed Cerrano, a fellow assemblyman who threatened to disclose Philippe's involvement in Read More

Mado

Actors: Michel Piccoli, Ottavia Piccolo, Jacques Dutronc, Romy Schneider, Charles Denner

Synopsis: Michel Piccoli plays Simon, a French businessman reluctantly venturing into middle age. As he deals with his own midlife crisis, Simon becomes virtually oblivious to the social changes around him. The businessman tries to counter advancing age with an increased sex life, but finds that women Read More

Mr. Klein

Actors: Alain Delon, Jeanne Moreau, Suzanne Flon, Michel Lonsdale, Juliet Berto

Synopsis: Alain Delon plays Mr. Klein, a French-Catholic art dealer during the Nazi occupation. Strapped for cash, Klein takes financial advantage of his Jewish neighbors, knowing that they have no legal recourse. Ironically, Klein is himself mistaken for a missing Jew, a man who has been using Mr. Klein's Read More

Folle à Tuer

Actors: Marlène Jobert, Tomas Milian, Michel Lonsdale, Jean Bouise, Victor Lanoux

Synopsis: After having been sent to a mental asylum following being raped by a policeman, Julie (Marlene Jobert) is released to a job as a governess for a rich man's nephew. When Julie and the boy are kidnapped, it becomes clear that the kidnappers plan to frame her for the death of the boy. Before they can Read More

Section Spéciale

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

Dupont Lajoie

Actors: Jean Carmet, Pierre Tornade, Jean Bouise, Michel Peyrelon, Ginette Garcin

Synopsis: A boisterous, cheerful and lusty man, Lajoie (Jean Carmet) meets his friends every year at a family campsite. During the whole vacation, Lajoie has been eyeing his teenage son's nubile girlfriend. During an occasion which puts them alone together, he attempts to rape her. When she fights back, he Read More

Le Vieux Fusil

Actors: Philippe Noiret, Romy Schneider, Jean Bouise, Madeleine Ozeray

Synopsis: Old Gun (Le Vieux Fusil) stars Philippe Noiret as an aging, embittered French physician. During the occupation, Noiret loses his wife and daughter to Nazi bullets. He vows to personally kill every one of the Germans responsible (along with a few who weren't) in order to assuage his grief. Romy Schneider Read More

The Return of the Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe

Actors: Pierre Richard, Mireille Darc, Jean Rochefort, Jean Carmet, Michel Duchaussoy

Synopsis: Not quite in the same league as the runaway hit The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe, this 1974 sequel is still amiable and enjoyable on its own terms. Once more, innocent violinist Pierre Richard (the tall blonde man of the title) is up to his neck in espionage. Enemy spy boss Jean Rochefort Read More

La Brigade

Actors: Brigitte Fossey, Jean Valmont, Jean Bouise, Marcel Cuvelier

Synopsis: This film explores the experiences of some of the members of an anti-Nazi resistance group in France composed mostly of Polish immigrants, known as "La Brigade." Many of them also fought for the leftist cause during the Spanish Civil War, and for them the resistance is simply a continuation of Read More

Les Granges Brûlees

Actors: Fernand Ledoux, Alain Delon, Simone Signoret, Paul Crauchet

Synopsis: In this French film, Rose (Simone Signoret) is the pillar on which her family depends, and against which it pulls. These forces are held in equilibrium until a murdered woman's body is found near their farm, the Les Granges Brulees of the film's title. At first, Police Inspector Larcher (Alain Delon Read More

Les Feux de la Chandeleur

Actors: Annie Girardot, Bernard Fresson, Jean Rochefort, Bernard Le Coq

Synopsis: This tragic French melodrama brings to the screen the story of Marie-Louise (Anne Giradot), a woman whose love for her ex-husband will not die even though he seems to be a heartless cad. Alexandre left her, he says, because she attended a few leftist marches and demonstrations. However, he has set Read More

Les Caïds

Actors: Serge Reggiani, Jean Bouise, Michel Constantin, Juliet Berto

Synopsis: This French crime drama tells the story of an ill-fated quartet of burglars and hoodlums. Two older burglars, near retirement, dream of making one last big heist. One of them has a daughter, whom he has tried to keep away from his business. Still, when she falls in love with a young thug, her Read More

Out 1: Noli Me Tangere

Actors: Juliet Berto, Pierre Baillot, Michel Berto, Jean Bouise

La Poudre d'escampette

Actors: Marlène Jobert, Michel Piccoli, Michael York, Louis Velle

Synopsis: Before the Allied invasion of North Africa in World War II, there was still plenty of confusion, and wartime national alliances often conflicted with personal friendships. Valentin (Michel Piccoli), a French black marketer, rescues Basil (Michael York), an English fighter pilot, off the coast of Read More

Mourir d'aimer

Actors: Annie Girardot, Bruno Pradal, François Simon, Monique Melinand, Claude Cerval

Synopsis: Originally Mourir D'Aimer, this 1970 French film is an "a clef" treatment of the once-notorious Gabrielle Russier case. Annie Girardot stars as a thirtyish schoolteacher, who falls in love with teenaged student Bruno Pradal. The boy's parents bring charges against the teacher, and the subsequent Read More

L'Aveu

Actors: Yves Montand, Simone Signoret, Michel Vitold, Jean Bouise

Synopsis: This Costa-Gavras thriller stars Yves Montand as an East European government functionary, inexplicably imprisoned by his Communist superiors. He is not told why he has been arrested, nor has his wife (Simone Signoret) been informed of his fate. Undergoing psychological torture, Montand is grilled Read More

Les Choses de la Vie

Actors: Michel Piccoli, Romy Schneider, Lea Massari, Jean Bouise, Bobby Lapointe

Synopsis: After laboring in obscurity for several years, French filmmaker Claude Sautet finally struck a responsive chord with moviegoers in Les Choses de la Vie. The plot isn't much: the hero, businessman Michel Piccoli, must choose between his wife and his mistress, two women whom he loves with equal Read More

Z

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

Avec la Peau des Autres

Actors: Lino Ventura, Jean Bouise, Marilù Tolo, Wolfgang Preiss, Jean Servais, Adrian Hoven

Synopsis: A French secret agent Lino Ventura gets a license to kill when he is sent to Vienna to plug a security leak in this routine spy saga. He is caught in the crossfire of international enemy agents trying to eliminate the French. He dodges bullets fired by double-crossing double agents and a Read More

Panorama Du Film Policier Francais

Actors: Lino Ventura, Jean Bouise

La Guerre Est Finie

Actors: Yves Montand, Ingrid Thulin, Geneviève Bujold, Michel Piccoli, Jean Bouise

Synopsis: La Guerre est Finie represents one of the few "linear" films of French director Alain Resnais. Instead of indulging in his beloved flashbacks and flashforwards, Resnais sticks to a logical progression of events in relating this jaundiced tale of political activism. Yves Montand plays a tired Read More

La Vieille Dame Indigne

Actors: Sylvie, Victor Lanoux, Malka Ribowska, Jean Bouise

Synopsis: The Shameless Old Lady should have been a wry French satire of society's misconceptions about the elderly; alas, the film is defeated by its own preciousness. That irreplaceable Gallic character actress Sylvie was honored with her first starring film role as a newly widowed 70-year-old woman (the Read More

I Am Cuba

Actors: Sergio Corrieri, Salvador Wood, Jose Gallardo, Raul Garcia, Luz Maria Collaso, Jean Bouise

Synopsis: An unabashed exercise in cinema stylistics, I Am Cuba is pro-Castro/anti-Batista rhetoric dressed up in the finest clothes. The film's four dramatic stories take place in the final days of the Batista regime; the first two illustrate the ills that led to the revolution, the third and fourth the Read More

Tintin et les Oranges Bleues

Actors: Jean Bouise, Jenny Orleans, Felix Fernandez

El Otro Cristobal

Actors: Jean Bouise

El Otro Cristobal

Actors: Jean Bouise