Jean CarmetFilmography

Cache Cash

Actors: Aurelien Wiik, Josephine Serre, Rose Thiéry, Sophie Broustal, Jean Carmet

Synopsis: This French family film is filled with action, animals, adventure, and suspense. The story is told from a child's viewpoint. One day, while playing in his secret tree house in the forest, 11-year old Antoine spies upon bank robbers stashing 40-million francs worth of loot. One of the robbers is Read More

Germinal

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Miou-Miou, Jean Carmet, Judith Henry

Synopsis: Claude Berri's angry, ambitious epic, based on the 19th-century novel by Emile Zola, re-creates, as does the novel, the gut-wrenching poverty and the intense day-by-day struggles of striking French coal-miners in 1884 at the Voreux mines of France. The film centers upon the bitter toils of Maheu (Gerard Depardieu Read More

La Chambre 108

Actors: Roland Giraud, Jean Carmet, Grace de Capitani, Jean Barney

Eugenie Grandet

Roulez Jeunesse

Actors: Jean Carmet, Daniel Gélin, Grégoire Colin, Youssef Diawara

Coup de Jeune

Actors: Martin Lamotte, Ludmila Mikael, Jean Carmet, Daniel Gélin

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

Merci La Vie

Actors: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Anouk Grinberg, Gérard Depardieu, Michel Blanc, Jean Carmet

Synopsis: In this frequently surrealistic romp, a satire on sex, politics, and the business of filmmaking, two young women get together after discovering sufficient provocations in their lives to deliberately set out to wreak havoc in the world around them. Joelle (Anouk Grinberg) has just been thrown out Read More

La Reine Blanche

Actors: Catherine Deneuve, Richard Bohringer, Bernard Giraudeau, Jean Carmet

Les Carnassiers

My Mother's Castle

Actors: Philippe Caubère, Julien Ciamaca, Nathalie Roussel, Didier Pain, Therese Liotard

Synopsis: This charming motion picture relives the beautiful childhood memories of noted film director and writer Marcel Pagnol. While attending school in Marseilles, Marcel Julien Ciamaca daydreams about the nearby hills where he and his family spend vacations at a cottage. It is not enough to sojourn Read More

Le Sixieme Doigt

Actors: Naky Sy Savane, Jean Carmet, Patrick Chesnais

L'Invite Surprise

Actors: Victor Lanoux, Eric Blanc, Jean Carmet, Michel Galabru

Synopsis: Eric Blanc plays a man who has witnessed a car-bombing and become a major media celebrity. He just can't say enough about what he saw, and his speculations about it are extremely discomfiting to the French secret service. They wish he would just shut up. Instead, he tackles the task of finding out Read More

Un Jeu D'Enfant

Actors: Dominique Lavanant, Laura Morante, Jean Carmet

La Vouivre

Actors: Lambert Wilson, Jean Carmet, Suzanne Flon, Macha Meril, Jacques Dufilho

Synopsis: This poetic French drama about the inner experience of a returning World War I soldier, is based on the much-loved and highly regarded novel La Vouivre by Marcel Ayme. Georges Wilson, a well-established presence on the French stage, makes his filmmaking debut as a screenwriter and director. A Read More

Le Moine et la Sorcière

Actors: Tchéky Karyo, Christine Boisson, Jean Carmet, Raoul Billerey, Catherine Frot

Synopsis: Sorceress is not a remake of the 1982 erotic thriller of the same name. This 1987 film is set in medieval France, where, in certain quarters, witchcraft is accepted as a fact of life and an everyday occurrence. A travelling priest visits town after town, hoping to root out those still practicing 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

L'Age De Monsieur Est Avance

Actors: Jean Carmet, Nicole Calfan, Pierre Etaix

Synopsis: An author (Pierre Etaix), an actress (Nicole Calfan) and a stage manager (Jean Carmet) star in this plotless story about the preparation of a new play. Scenes of the audience are inserted to move along this story within a story. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide Read More

Secret Obsession

Actors: Ben Gazzara, Julie Christie, Patrick Bruel, Jean Carmet

Synopsis: Long ago, in what seems like another lifetime to him, Paul (Ben Gazzara) had an illegitimate son by a local North African woman. For many years now he has lived in French Algeria with his wife Betty (Julie Christie), an English-born chanteuse. Now on the eve of independence, the dangers of Read More

Perigord Noir

Actors: Roland Giraud, Jean Carmet, Odette Laure

Synopsis: The recolonization of Africa, this time by the very blacks who had to flee it as exiles during the time of the original French occupation, is the theme of this political comedy. Adiza, who has been living well in France, has decided that she will return and buy the plantation she and her Read More

La Brute

Actors: Xavier DeLuc, Assumpta Serna, Jean Carmet, Georges Claisse, Rosette, Paul Crauchet

Synopsis: This mystery is taken from the novel by best-selling author Guy des Cars. While on a voyage with his philandering wife (Assumpta Serna), Jacques (Xavier Deluc), in spite of the fact that he is blind, deaf, and mute, is accused of murdering an oily lounge singer. Deliot (Jean Carmet) is the defense Read More

Miss Mona

Actors: Jean Carmet, Ben Smail, Albert Delpy, Albert Klein, Francis Frappat

Synopsis: This unflinching, provocative drama is set in the slums of Gay Paree, where dwells the dregs and fringe of French society. There Miss Mona, an aging drag queen, dreams of becoming a real woman before he dies. Unfortunately, an old lover stole all the money he was saving so he could become a she Read More

Les Deux Crocodiles

Actors: Jean-Pierre Marielle, Jean Carmet, Julien Guiomar, Marie-Christine Adam, Annie Savarin, Catherine Lachens, Dora Doll

Synopsis: Rene (Jean-Pierre Marielle) is a small-time crook who tries to shake down storekeeper Emile (Jean Carmet) in this uneven and humorless comedy. Things change when Rene starts to fall for the terminally boring and provincial Emile. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide Read More

La Châine

Suivez Mon Regard

Actors: Pierre Arditi, Andréa Ferréol, Michel Galabru, Féodor Atkine, Stéphane Audran, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Macha Beranger, Christian Barbier

Synopsis: A long parade of actors and actresses pop up in an unconnected series of skits, vignettes, and sight gags in this comedy anthology by Jean Curtelin. Among the sketches performed is one with Jean Carmet playing a man from the sticks woefully burdened with the challenge of getting through a dog food Read More

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

Mon Beau-Frere A Tue Ma Soeur

Actors: Michel Serrault, Michel Piccoli, Juliette Binoche, Jean Carmet, Milva Biolcati

Synopsis: This parody of the detective-story genre merrily detours into spoofing French foibles as well, making it more of an exercise in verbal gymnastics than a narrative with a mission. Esther (Juliette Binoche) is a veterinarian who is certain that her sister has been murdered by her brother-in-law. She Read More

Champagne Amer

Actors: Patrick Bruel, Jean Carmet, Julie Christie, Ben Gazzara

Synopsis: Ridha Behi's Champagne Amer (Bitter Champagne) is about a son who carries on an affair with his father's mistress, without realizing the connection that they share. The film is also known as Secret Obsession. Julie Christie and Ben Gazzara co-star. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More

Nuit Magique

Actors: Carole Laure, Nick Mancuso, Stéphane Audran, Jean Carmet

Night Magic

Actors: Nick Mancuso, Carole Laure, Stéphane Audran, Jean Carmet, Frank Augustyn

Synopsis: In this fantasy-drama-romance, forbidden love between an angel (Carole Laure) and a singer (Nick Mancuso) is set against the singer's attempts to resuscitate a fading theater. During the period of one night, the singer is visited by three different guardian angels out to help him succeed in Read More

Sac de noeuds

Actors: Josiane Balasko, Isabelle Huppert, Farid Chopel, Daniel Russo, Jean Carmet, Coluche

Synopsis: Josiane Balasko ("the housewife's heroine") has been writing and directing good roles for herself since first entering the acting profession, and this film about a woman on the run is one of her early efforts. Anita (Balasko) has just about had it with life -- she is ready to kill herself when a Read More

Le Matou

Actors: Serge Dupire, Monique Spaziani, Jean Carmet, Guillaume Lemay-Thivierge, Julien Guiomar

Synopsis: Le Matou is based on a novel by Yves Beauchemin. The title translates freely to "Alley Cat", in reference to a pet owned by a Canadian street kid. Cat and kid are but two of several eccentrics with whom restauranteurs Jean Carmet and Monique Spaziani come in contact. Others include a bombastic Read More

Tir a Vue

Actors: Sandrine Bonnaire, Laurent Malet, Jean Carmet, Michel Jonasz

Synopsis: One of the more forgettable action films, especially for the talented Sandrine Bonnaire who plays Marilyn the anti-heroine, this cops-and-evil-couple story has very little to offer the viewer, other than a murderous, amoral duo hunted down by a pair of policemen with their powers of deduction Read More

Le Crime d'Ovide Plouffe

Un Chien dans un Jeu de Quilles

Actors: Pierre Richard, Jean Carmet, Julien Guiomar, Sylvie Joly, Sylvie Jolie, Beatrice Camurat

Synopsis: In this rural comedy Pierre Cohen (Pierre Richard) is a sophisticated Parisian psychologist who travels to his brother's farm in Britanny to save it from a hostile takeover by a local landlord. The psychologist decides to save the farm by using the tricks of his trade -- psychological warfare, as Read More

Dog Day

Actors: Lee Marvin, Miou-Miou, Jean Carmet, Victor Lanoux, David Bennent

Synopsis: Dog Day was originally distributed in France as Canicule. In one of his last film appearances, Lee Marvin portrays a gunman on the lam with girlfriend Tina Louise. He briefly takes refuge with a farm family whose idiotic excesses make Marvin's former criminal associates seem like choirboys. The 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 Misérables

Actors: Lino Ventura, Michel Bouquet, Jean Carmet, Françoise Seigner, Evelyne Bouix

Synopsis: This screen version of Victor Hugo's classic novel stars Italian actor Lino Ventura as Jean Valjean, a French peasant who -- driven to desperation by poverty -- steals a loaf of bread only to be caught by the police. After serving a long prison term for this petty theft, Valjean is tempted to Read More

Guy De Maupassant

Actors: Claude Brasseur, Jean Carmet, Simone Signoret, Miou-Miou, Anne-Marie Philipe

Synopsis: This fictionalized biography of Guy de Maupassant uses his dying days, suffering under the last ravages of syphilis, to anchor a series of flashbacks that bring his life into view -- though much of that view is tempered by the famed author's passion for sexual encounters. The rest of the vignettes Read More

Une Affaire d'hommes

Actors: Claude Brasseur, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jean Carmet, Eva Darlan, Patrice Kerbrat

Synopsis: Servolle (Claude Brasseur) is a police inspector and Faguet (Jean-Louis Trintignant) is a real estate dealer who become good friends because of their shared love of bicycling -- something they do each Sunday with others of like mind, circling a wooded park area. While they are pedaling away one Read More

La Soupe Aux Choux

Actors: Jean Carmet, Jacques Villeret, Christine Dejoux

Circle of Deceit

Actors: Bruno Ganz, Hanna Schygulla, Jerzy Skolimowski, Gila Von Weitershausen, Jean Carmet

Synopsis: Bruno Ganz plays a West German journalist whose frequent assignments to war-torn nations have left him jaundiced. He is assigned to cover the civil war in Beirut. The combination of his harrowing experiences on the job and his after-hours relationship with widow Hannah Schygulla affects Ganz Read More

L'Amour Trop Fort

Actors: Daniel Duval, Marie-Christine Barrault, Jean Carmet, Hubert Deschamps

Allons Z'enfants

Actors: Lucas Belvaux, Jean Carmet, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Jean-François Stévenin, Jean-Claude Dreyfus

Synopsis: The Boy Soldier is set in the 1930s and is based on a novel by Yves Gibeau, a book that has the unusual distinction of being banned in military precincts in France. In the film, a young fellow, Simon Chalumet (Lucas Belvaux) is sent to a military school by his overbearing father, an ex-soldier who Read More

Il Y a Longtemps Que Je T'aime

Actors: Jean Carmet, Marie Dubois, Alain Doutey

Synopsis: After a 25-year marriage, a pleasant couple announce to their grown children that they intend to seek a divorce. The children are not amused. Nontheless, the two feel trapped in their routines and want greater freedom. They try a brief separation and attempt to appreciate the fruits of their Read More

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

Un Si Joli Village...

Actors: Victor Lanoux, Jean Carmet, Valérie Mairesse, Michel Robin, Jacques Richard

Synopsis: Bertin (Victor Lanoux) has accidentally killed his wife during an argument. He is the owner of a tannery which employs most of the inhabitants of the town he lives in. Rather than subject himself to the indignities of a police inquiry, he attempts to cover up the killing by saying that she has Read More

Le Sucre

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Jean Carmet, Michel Piccoli, Nelly Borgeaud, Roger Hanin

Synopsis: In this story, the ambitions of the get-rich-quick crowd come crashing down around their ears as they hitch a ride on a speculation bubble involving sugar-commodities pricing. Raoul (Gerard Depardieu) is a hot-shot commodities broker who sweet-talks Adrien (Jean Carmet), a quiet and unassuming Read More

Le Beaujolais Nouveau Est Arrive...

Actors: Jean Carmet, Michel Galabru, Pierre Mondy, Pascale Roberts

Synopsis: Every year, in France, there is a national celebration of sorts when that year's pressing of beaujolais grapes has become a wine fit to drink as an ordinary, daily beverage, vin ordinaire. In this gentle film, Camadule (Jean Carmet), the owner of a small Parisian cafe, entertains his Read More

Violette Nozière

Actors: Isabelle Huppert, Jean Carmet, Stéphane Audran, Jean-Francois Garreaud

Synopsis: Claude Chabrol's Violette was based on the true story of 19-year-old Violette Noziere, who in the 1930s was tried and convicted for the poisoning of her father and the attempted murder of her mother. As played by Isabelle Huppert (who won several awards for her performance), Violette is a Read More

Alice ou la Derniere Fugue

Actors: Sylvia Kristel, Charles Vanel, Jean Carmet, André Dussollier, Fernand Ledoux

Synopsis: While leaving her husband, whom she now detests, Alice (Sylvia Kristel) drives into the countryside but must stop at an old house when her windshield cracks mysteriously. She is received at the house as if expected, and spends the night there while her car is being fixed. The next day, she cannot Read More

Plus Ça Va, Moins Ça Va

Actors: Jean Carmet, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Niels Arestrup, Louis Jourdan, Henri Garcin

Synopsis: When they are called upon to investigate a sex murder, Melville and Pignon (Jean Carmet and Jean-Pierre Marielle), two rude and crude (not to mention racist) policemen, find themselves in the midst of the multicultural machinations of members of the international film community in fashionable St. Read More

Les Oeufs Brouilles

Actors: Jean Carmet, Jean-Claude Brialy, Anna Karina, Michel Lonsdale, Michel Aumont

Synopsis: After a computer-tested set of features is found to be the face most likely to win the confidence of the French people, Marcel (Jean Carmot), who recently turned down a promotion at his bank in order to spend time with his wife, finds himself swept up into the schemes and shenanigans of the 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

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

Ursule et Grelu

Actors: Annie Girardot, Bernard Fresson, Roland Dubillard, Henri Garcin

Synopsis: The on-again, off-again relationship between a man and a woman who first meet during a shipwreck (she is a Salvation Army soldier, he is a sailor, both are adrift) is the subject of this French film. The two meet and separate numerous times during the movie, until they are finally able to Read More

Un Linceul n'a Pas de Poches

Actors: Jean-Pierre Mocky, Jean Carmet, Michel Constantin, Michel Galabru, Daniel Gélin

Synopsis: Sometimes a reporter's urge to tell the truth is unquenchable, at least when the reporter is Dolannes (Jean-Pierre Mocky). Unfortunately, his newspaper is owned by corporations which like to keep things on an even keel, and his stories are often "spiked," (kept quiet). Frustrated, he leaves the Read More

Comment Reussir Quand On Est Con et Pleurinichard

Actors: Jean-Pierre Marielle, Stéphane Audran, Jean Carmet, Jean Rochefort

Synopsis: In this broad French satire, a thoroughly unappealing salesman manages not only to sell his wares, but succeeds in forging an idyllic life for himself through his artful manipulation of the lusts and greeds of those around him. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide 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

Bons Baisers A Lundi

Actors: Jean Carmet, Bernard Blier, Maria Pacome, Evelyne Buyle

The Holes

Actors: Michel Serrault, Gérard Depardieu, Philippe Noiret, Annie Cordy

Synopsis: The title refers to the means of entry into the sewers of Paris. Here we find a group of misfits who've given up on humanity and have decided to dwell below the pavement. The group has its own hierarchy, of course, and soon the conditions that drove them underground begin to manifest themselves Read More

La Raison du Plus Fou

Actors: Raymond Devos, Alice Sapritch, Jean Carmet, Julien Guiomar

Synopsis: When sanitarium cook Surveillant (Raymond Devos) liberates a couple of patients and takes them on a trip to gaze on the ocean for the first time, he lands in hot water with his boss the director, who is a hard-hearted harridan with no time for such nonsense. In any event, the bumbling cook has Read More

Pleure Pas la Bouche Pleine

Actors: Annie Cole, Frederic Duru, Bernard Menez, Jean Carmet

Synopsis: This coming-of-age drama chronicles one summer in a 15-year old girl's life. She lives in a peaceful French village with her eccentric grandma. During that time, she finds herself attracted to two boys, Frederic, a bicycle racer, and Alexander, a budding ladies' man. The first boy only has eyes Read More

Le Concierge

Actors: Bernard Le Coq, Maureen Kerwin, Michel Galabru, Daniel Ceccaldi

Les Grands Sentiments Font les Bons Gueuletons

Actors: Michel Bouquet, Jean Carmet, Anouk Ferjac

Synopsis: Two neighboring French families are going through major life-ceremonies at the same time: one is experiencing the funeral of the clan's mother, and the other is preparing for a wedding. In this comedy, the mix-up of flowers for the two parties is only a prelude to a mix-up of guests and some Read More

The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe

Actors: Pierre Richard, Bernard Blier, Jean Rochefort, Mireille Darc

Synopsis: In this wacky French spy comedy, the chief of the French secret service wants very much to keep his job and stoops to chicanery to prevent rivals from closing in. He points to a man chosen at random from a crowd of people (Pierre Richard), and identifies him to his rival as an important spy who Read More

Elle Cause Plus... Elle Flingue

Actors: Annie Girardot, Bernard Blier, Maurice Biraud, Roger Carel

Synopsis: In this satirical French comedy, Rosemunde (Annie Girardot) earns her living selling relics to the Catholic church. She manufactures them using a specialized machine made by her grandfather, which transforms corpses into bone. Needless to say, since she must have dead bodies in order to do this Read More

Les Yeux Fermes

Actors: Gerard Desarthe, Lorraine Rainer, Jean Carmet, Marcel Dalio

Synopsis: The one with the closed eyes, in this French film, would seem to be the rogue actor (Gerard Desarthe) who, out of boredom, decides to pretend that he is blind. His imposture soon puts him in a situation where he must continue it or risk exposure. As he falls, stumbles and bumps into things to keep Read More

Le Viager

Actors: Michel Serrault, Michel Galabru, Rosy Varte, Jean-Pierre Darras

Synopsis: This French comedy is the first feature film directed by the well-known television-director Pierre Tcherina. In the film, the most elaborate designs of a greedy family are unwittingly undone by an ailing old man. The family has made a complicated financial arrangement which will result in their Read More

Le Trefle a Cinq Feuilles

Actors: Philippe Noiret, Liselotte Pulver, Thalie Fruges, Jean Carmet

Synopsis: In this French family film, the worst-laid plans of an unpleasant, grasping family come to naught in the face of the goodness of Alfred and his crew of zanies. The evil family hopes to take over the house Alfred and his clan live in and would stop at nothing, including witchcraft and murder, to Read More

Just Before Nightfall

Actors: Michel Bouquet, Stéphane Audran, François Perier, Dominique Zardi, Jean Carmet, Henri Attal

Synopsis: Claude Chabrol, the French filmmaker known for his masterful explorations of crime, suspense, and the darker sides of human nature, directed this drama about a man forced to come to terms with his double life. Charles Masson (Michel Bouquet) is a successful ad man with a loving wife, Helene (Stephane Audran Read More

Les Malheurs d'Alfred

Actors: Pierre Richard, Anny Duperey, Pierre Mondy, Jean Carmet

Synopsis: The notable French comedian Pierre Richard stars in and directs this, his second feature film. Here he plays Alfred, about whom it may be said, "if it weren't for bad luck, he'd have no luck at all." Unlucky in love, he tries to commit suicide, only to be thwarted by police efforts to prevent a Read More

Les Novices

Actors: Brigitte Bardot, Annie Girardot, Jacques Jouanneau, Jean Carmet, Jess Hahn

Synopsis: Agnes (Brigitte Bardot) is the nun who follows the order to the beach for a swim in the ocean. They shed their habits to reveal bathing suits worn underneath the robes. After swimming away from the group, Agnes is fortunate enough to find some perfectly fitting mod garb complete with accessories. Read More

La Rupture

Actors: Stéphane Audran, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Michel Bouquet, Jean-Claude Drouot, Catherine Rouvel

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Charlotte Armstrong, the story concerns Helene (Stephane Audran), the wife of a hopeless would-be writer and drug addict. Her husband's best friend tries to lay a trap for Helene, so that she will be forced to pay dearly for a divorce settlement. Also conspiring against Helene Read More

Elle Boit Pas, Elle Fume Pas, Ell Drague Pas, Mais . . . Elle Cause!

Actors: Annie Girardot, Bernard Blier, Mireille Darc, Sim, Jean-Pierre Darras

Synopsis: This offbeat satirical comedy finds a beautiful and talkative housekeeper (Annie Girardot) working for several colorful employers. One is a former prostitute living with a prominent politician. Also included is a ribald bank teller and a strange man who helps out at a church for wayward boys and Read More

And Soon the Darkness

Actors: Pamela Franklin, Michele Dotrice, Sandor Eles, John Nettleton, Claire Kelly

Synopsis: Two British nurses -- Jane (Pamela Franklin) and Cathy (Michele Dotrice) -- take a vacation in the French countryside. Jane actually wants to tour the countryside, while Cathy wants to spend the time enticing men. After an argument while in a small French village, Jane leaves. When she returns Read More

Le Petit Theatre de Jean Renoir

Actors: Fernand Sardou, Nini Formicola, Marguerite Cassan, Françoise Arnoul

Synopsis: Jean Renoir's last completed work was this made-for-television effort, comprised of three short films along with a musical interlude courtesy of Jeanne Moreau. Included are The Last Christmas Dinner, The Electric Floor Waxer and A Tribute to Tolerance. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Le Petit Baigneur

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Louis de Funès, Robert Dhéry, Andréa Parisy, Colette Brosset, Michel Galabru

Synopsis: This comedy concerns an inventor (Robert Dhery) of a boat who is fired by his violent, irascible boss when the project is completed. The boat, christened Le Petit Baigneur, is wanted by the Boss (Louis De Funes), who pulls out all the stops to possess the coveted craft. Author-actor-director Dhery Read More

Alexandre le Bienheureux

Actors: Philippe Noiret, Françoise Brion, Marlène Jobert, Paul Le Person

Synopsis: This amiable French comedy stars Philipe Noiret as Alexander, an shiftless farmer who prefers sleep to work. After his nagging wife dies, Alexander becomes even lazier. The farmer becomes entranced by a beautiful young woman, and proposes marriage. But when his prospective wife gives evidence of Read More

La Bourse Et La Vie

Actors: Fernandel, Jean Poiret, Jean Carmet, Heinz Rühmann

The Counterfeit Constable

Synopsis: In this French comedy, one little white lie leads to a series of whoppers as a Frenchman visiting London soon discovers. The French fellow has gone to London with his friends to catch a soccer match. He then must go to the dentist where, just for fun, he puts on a British policeman's uniform. Read More

Les Bons Vivants

Actors: Louis de Funès, Jean Lefebvre, Bernadette Lafont, Mireille Darc, Bernard Blier, Jean Carmet, Andréa Parisy, Pierre Bertin

Synopsis: Louis De Funes stars in this two-part sexploitation comedy. Pleasure-seekers deal with the official closing of French bordellos after the passing of the 1949 legislation outlawing the houses of ill repute. Part two finds a former prostitute who is besieged by former associates after she pulls off Read More

Any Number Can Win

Actors: Jean Gabin, Alain Delon, Viviane Romance, Carla Marlier, Maurice Biraud

Synopsis: Jean Gabin plays Charles, an aging gangster, newly released from prison. In fine Bogart tradition, the unrepentant Charles immediately sets to work planning a major casino heist in Cannes. His go-between for this endeavor is a chorus girl, whom Charles's associate Francis (Alain Delon) beds in Read More

Le Diable Et Les Dix Commandements

Actors: Michel Simon, Françoise Arnoul, Jean-Claude Brialy, Danielle Darrieux, Charles Aznavour, Alain Delon, Fernandel, Georges Wilson

Synopsis: Filmmaker Julien Duvivier returns to the multistoried format of his earlier omnibus films Tales of Manhattan and Flesh and Fantasy with the 1962 French production The Devil and the Ten Commandments. Actually, there are only seven separate episodes in the film, covering such commandments as "Thou Read More

Nous Irons a Deauville

Actors: Michel Serrault, Claude Brasseur, Pascale Roberts

Un Clair de Lune a Maubeuge

Actors: Sophie Hardy, Claude Brasseur, Michel Serrault

Le Caporal Epinglé

Actors: Jean-Pierre Cassel, Claude Brasseur, Claude Rich, Jean Carmet, Jacques Jouanneau

Synopsis: The eponymous French corporal, played by Jean-Pierre Cassel, is ensconced in a German POW camp. Cassel plots with his friends Claude Brasseur and Claude Rich to escape, but all three are recaptured. When the corporal plans another getaway, he finds that one of his chums isn't interested anymore. Read More

La Belle Americaine

Actors: Robert Dhéry, Colette Brosset, Catherine Sola, Michel Serrault, Alfred Adam, Christian Marin

Synopsis: In this French variation on Mark Twain's Man with a Million story, a man's life is completely changed by the acquisition of a new car. Marcel, a Chaplainesque factory worker, sets out to buy an old motorcycle and ends up getting a new Cadillac convertible (the "beautiful American" of the title) Read More

Un Drôle de Dimanche

Actors: Danielle Darrieux, Bourvil, Arletty, Cathia Caro, Jean-Paul Belmondo

Synopsis: Un Drole de Dimanche (What a Sunday) stars Danielle Darrieux as Catherine and Bourvil as her ex-husband Jean. By chance, Catherine and Jean are reunited five years after she walked out of his life. In a fit of romantic nostalgia, Jean mentally reconstructs the events that led up to their Read More

Le Goût du massacre

Actors: Line Renaud, Philippe Nicaud, Jean Carmet, Christian Duvaleix

Trois De La Marine

Actors: Henri Genes, Jeanette Batti, Jean Carmet

Les Aventures de Till L'Espiegle

Actors: Gérard Philipe, Jean Vilar, Jean Carmet, Jean Debucourt, Fernand Ledoux, Nicole Berger

Synopsis: That merry prankster Till Eulenspiegel is at it again in this lively Franco-German production. Director Gerard Phillipe does double duty as Till, a fun-loving youth who turns freedom fighter after his father is burned as a heretic during the Spanish Inquisition. In public, Till is a carefree Read More

Mon Cure Champion Du Regiment

Actors: Jean Carmet

Ça Va Barder

Actors: Eddie Constantine, May Britt, Jean Danet, Jean Carmet

Synopsis: Eddie Constantine is the principal reason to see Ca Va Barder. Once more, Constantine plays a fellow of dubious ethics who nonetheless does the right thing when necessary. This time, he's trying to find out who's been stealing shipments from a gunrunner pal. Posing as his friend, Constantine Read More

Give 'Em Hell

Synopsis: In this action-filled crime drama, ace gangster Johnny Jordan plys his trade amid gun fire and fisticuffs. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Monsieur Taxi

Actors: Michel Simon, Jean Brochard, Jean Carmet, Jane Marken [Jeanne]

Synopsis: Slovenly Parisian cabdriver Pierre (Michel Simon) wants nothing more than to get through the day, go home, and knock off a bottle of wine. One day, Pierre looks into the back seat of his cab and finds a huge amount of money. Though he's never really done anything dishonest in his life, he is Read More

Elle et Moi

Actors: François Perier, Dany Robin, Jean Carmet

Les Quatre Sergents Du Fort Carre

Actors: Francois Patrice, Jean Gaven, Jean Carmet

Ils Etaient Cinq

Actors: Nicole Besnard, Jean Marchat, Jean Carmet

Knock

Actors: Louis Jouvet, Pierre Renoir, Pierre Bertin, Jean Brochard

Synopsis: Jules Romain's satirical theatre piece Dr. Knock was brought to the screen by director Guy Lefranc in 1950. Louis Jouvet plays the title character, a medical charlatan who banks upon the hypochondria of others. He convinces every resident in a small French village that they're suffering from some Read More

Le Roi Des Camelots

Actors: Robert Lamoureux, Yves Deniaud, Jean Carmet, Collette Ripert

Bille De Clown

Actors: Jean Wall, Jean Carmet, Robert Vattier

Confessions of a Rogue

Actors: Louis Jouvet, Suzy Delair, Annette Poivre, Jane Marken [Jeanne], Madeleine Suffel

Synopsis: This French comedy offers a tour-de-force for Jouvet who plays most of the major characters. His main role is that of a super con-artist whose newest con involves selling museums to naive clients. He is assisted by many shady look-a-likes. Trouble ensues when one of his assistants is arrested and Read More

Monsieur Vincent

Actors: Pierre Fresnay, Lise Delamare, Gabrielle Dorziat, Aimé Clariond, Jean Debucourt

Synopsis: Pierre Fresnay stars as St. Vincent De Paul in this reverent but realistic French biopic. The film traces "Monsieur Vincent's" progress from his days of forced servitude in Algiers to his entry into the priesthood, culminating with his Herculean efforts on behalf of the ill and destitute in early Read More

Le Destin S' Amuse

Actors: Dany Robin, Jean Carmet, Noël Roquevert

Copie Conforme

Actors: Louis Jouvet, Suzy Delair, Annette Poivre, Jean-Jacques Delbo

The Children of Paradise

Actors: Arletty, Jean-Louis Barrault, Pierre Brasseur, Marcel Herrand, Albert Remy, Pierre Renoir

Synopsis: Even in 1945, Marcel Carné's Children of Paradise was regarded as an old-fashioned film. Set in the Parisian theatrical world of the 1840s, Jacques Prévert's screenplay concerns four men in love with the mysterious Garance (Arletty). Each loves Garance in his own fashion, but only the intentions Read More