Jean-Claude BrialyFilmography

Sir Max

Actors: Jean-Claude Brialy, Dominique Blanc, Guillaume Gallienne, Féodor Atkine, Nazim Boudjenah

Synopsis: Abandoned by the world and left to fend for himself as the Nazis continue their march across Europe, one-time bohemian turned Catholic convert Max Jacob finds help coming from the most unlikely of places as he awaits the train that will take him to a Concentration camp. The year is 1944, and as Read More

Les Contes Secrets ou les Rohmeriens

Actors: Féodor Atkine, Marie-Christine Barrault, Jean-Claude Brialy, Florence Darel, Arielle Dombasle

Synopsis: Eric Rohmer is one of the best-respected filmmakers in the history of the French cinema, as well as among the most elusive. Notoriously reluctant to talk about his own work, Rohmer rarely sits for filmed interviews, but documentary filmmaker Marie Binet has taken another route to gain a Read More

People

Actors: Rupert Everett, José Garcia, Ornella Muti, Elie Semoun, Rossy de Palma

Synopsis: Jet Set writer/director Fabien Onteniente returns to craft this sequel set against the backdrop of hedonistic Ibiza, and starring Rupert Everett as a Parisian party planner whose career has been sabotaged by a jealous rival. If you want your party to pop, you call on Charles (Everett). Charles has Read More

Le Clefs de Bagnole

Actors: Laurent Baffie, Daniel Russo, Claude Berri, Charles Gassot, Alain Terzian

Les Filles, Personne S'en Méfie

Actors: Thylda Bares, Nora Rotman, Agnes Soral, Roland Bertin, Georges Corraface

Synopsis: Charlotte Silvera's Girls Can Get Away With Anything is about a young girl who acted in a film. Eight-year-old Judith (Thylda Bares) was plucked from everyday life to act in a film that was made in Paris. After returning home from the experience, she finds that her parents' marriage is on the Read More

As Luck Would Have It

Synopsis: A closeted Swiss professor's closely guarded sexuality threatens to become front page news when he is appointed guardian to a recalcitrant teen in this light and lively comedy starring Jean-Calude Brialy and Sabine Haudepin. Swiss law states that any citizen can be appointed guardian to a child Read More

Concorrenza Sleale

Actors: Diego Abatantuono, Sergio Castellitto, Gérard Depardieu, Jean-Claude Brialy, Claude Rich

Synopsis: The insidious emergence of state-sanctioned anti-Semitism in Fascist Italy sets the stage for this historical drama. In 1938, Umberto (Diego Abatantuono) is a tailor who is beginning to lose business to Leone (Sergio Castellito), a haberdasher whose shop is next door to Umberto's. Leone offers Read More

South Kensington

Actors: Rupert Everett, Elle MacPherson, Judith Godrëche, Enrico Brignano, Giampaolo Morelli

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

La Bicyclette Bleue

Actors: Laetitia Casta, Georges Corraface, Silvia De Santis

Kennedy Et Moi

Actors: Jean-Pierre Bacri, Nicole Garcia, Patrick Chesnais, Sam Karmann

Synopsis: In Oscar-winning director Sam Karmann's feature debut, full-time novelist Simon (Jean-Pierre Bacri) slowly slides off the deep end. Bored and thoroughly self-absorbed, he spends more of his time playing with a revolver and performing oral surgery on himself than on his writing. In a series of Read More

Portraits Chinois

Actors: Helena Bonham Carter, Romane Bohringer, Marie Trintignant, Elsa Zylberstein, Yvan Attal

Synopsis: In this comedy, layers and layers of personal lies provide the glue that holds a trendy, shallow group of Parisians together. The story centers on Ada, a deeply indebted, but promising young fashion designer who has just purchased an apartment with her lover and holds a housewarming party to Read More

Ridicule

Actors: Charles Berling, Fanny Ardant, Judith Godrëche, Jean Rochefort, Bernard Giraudeau

Synopsis: This is a French costume drama from director Patrice Leconte that recalls both Dangerous Liaisons (1988) and Restoration (1995). Gregoire Ponceludon de Malavoy (Charles Berling) is a baron of the 18th century French countryside, wealthy in property and high in social position but poor in cash. Read More

Beaumarchais L'Insolent

Actors: Fabrice Luchini, Manuel Blanc, Jacques Weber, Sandrine Kiberlain

Synopsis: This sumptuous French drama offers episodes from the notorious life of 18th century socialite and playwright Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais. The story begins in the 1770s with a rehearsal of his "The Barber of Seville." Young friend of Voltaire, Philipp Gudin introduces himself to the great Read More

The Son of Gascogne

Actors: Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Grégoire Colin, Dinara Drukarova, Pascal Bonitzer

Synopsis: This gentle French comedy has a meandering plotline as it traces the exploits of a young man recognized as a the son of a star. The main protagonist is 23-year old Harvey who works as the guide for a group of Georgian singers who have a Paris gig. He is interested in Dinara, the 18-year old Read More

A Hundred and One Nights

Actors: Michel Piccoli, Marcello Mastroianni, Henri Garcin, Julie Gayet

Synopsis: This homage to the cinema by venerated movie-maker Agnes Varda, often dubbed the "grandmother" of the French New Wave, features an all-star international cast. The story is based upon the memories and insights of the 100-year old Mr. Simon Cinema. He lives in a magnificent house filled with movie Read More

A French Woman

Actors: Emmanuelle Béart, Daniel Auteuil, Gabriel Barylli, Jean-Claude Brialy

Synopsis: One woman's conflicting emotions and the whims of fate prevent her from being faithful to the man she loves in this drama. In 1939, Jeanne (Emmanuelle Beart) marries Louis (Daniel Auteuil) shortly before he is called to duty during World War II. Jeanne does not deal well with loneliness, and she Read More

Queen Margot

Actors: Isabelle Adjani, Daniel Auteuil, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Vincent Perez, Virna Lisi

Synopsis: The historical novel by Alexandre Dumas was adapted for the screen with this lavish French epic, winner of 5 Césars and a pair of awards at the Cannes Film Festival. Isabelle Adjani stars as Marguerite de Valois, better known as Margot, daughter of scheming Catholic power player Catherine de Read More

The Monster

Actors: Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi, Michel Blanc, Dominique Lavanant, Jean-Claude Brialy, Massimo Girotti

Synopsis: Grossly mistaken identity provides the impetus in this Italian farce. Loris is an anti-social fellow with a high sex drive. During a party he is pointed towards an "easy mark." Unfortunately he approaches the wrong woman. When he discovers his mistakes, he nervously apologizes for the attempted Read More

Tous les garçons

Actors: Jean-Claude Brialy, Thomas Langmann

Aout

Actors: Anouk Grinberg, Dominique Pinon, Jean-Claude Brialy, Jean-Louis Richard

Synopsis: Caroline can't get enough of the television coverage about an upcoming manned Mars landing, but it doesn't interest her no-good boyfriend Antoine, who is not only a suspicious lout but who never seems to have a good-humored moment. It's August and it's hot. Caroline leaves their apartment to get Read More

S'en Fout la Mort

Actors: Isaach de Bankolé, Alex Descas, Jean-Claude Brialy, Solveig Dommartin

Synopsis: The two black men in this tragedy live on the fringes of French society, and come from Africa and the Caribbean. Among the things they share in common is involvement in the illegal sport of cockfighting. The film follows their exploits and daily lives among the poor of France, as they train their Read More

Ripoux Contre Ripoux

Actors: Philippe Noiret, Thierry Lhermitte, Guy Marchand, Line Renaud, Grace de Capitani

Synopsis: A "ripoux" is, in French slang, a policeman who accepts bribes, shakes down "honest" criminals for a cut of their action, at a level which can range from the familiar (U.S.) paradigm of accepting free donuts, to serious criminal activity. This comic police thriller is a sequel to the hugely Read More

Comedie d'ete

Actors: Maruschka Detmers, Remi Martin, Jean-Claude Brialy, Nelly Borgeaud, Jessica Forde

Synopsis: Adrien (Remi Martin) does not see eye to eye with his patrician father about much. It is 1912, and the old man still believes in the old rules which strait-jacket "men of class." He believes that the elite have the right to conquer where they can, that they should refrain from publicizing their Read More

Les Innocents

Actors: Sandrine Bonnaire, Simon de la Brosse, Jean-Claude Brialy, Abdel Kechiche, Stephane Onfroy

Synopsis: The lines between love, sex, and politics become hopelessly blurred in this French drama from director Andre Techine. Jeanne (Sandrine Bonnaire), born and raised in Northern France, is visiting the Mediterranean for the first time, prompted by two events: the wedding of her sister, and the Read More

Le Moustachu

Actors: Jean Rochefort, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jean-Claude Brialy, Grace de Capitani, Jean-Claude Leguay

Synopsis: Duroc (Jean Rochefort) is a secret agent called on to deliver an exploding car to a gang of terrorists in this spy spoof. When someone leaks the plan to the terrorists, Duroc becomes the hunted rather than the hunter. He encounters several situations where people unwittingly interfere with his Read More

Levy et Goliath

Actors: Richard Anconina, Jean-Claude Brialy, Souad Amidou, Maxime Leroux

Synopsis: In this comedy, young Moses Levy is a Hassidic Jew who lives a quiet existence, avoiding entanglement with the modern world. However, his job requires that he travel between the diamond capital of Antwerp to Paris to deliver diamond powder to an auto assembly plant. Without his knowledge, a gang Read More

Maladie d'Amour

Actors: Nastassja Kinski, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Michel Piccoli, Nelly Borgeaud, Jean-Claude Brialy, Souad Amidou

Synopsis: Juliette (Nastassja Kinski) is a hairstylist who is diagnosed with cancer in this tearjerking romantic drama. Her illness leads her to oncologist Raoul Bergeron (Michel Piccoli), and she ends up as his mistress. When Juliette falls in love with Raoul's intern Clement (Jean-Hughes Anglade), the Read More

Le Debutant

Actors: Francis Perrin, Christiane Jean, Julien Guiomar, Dominique Lavanant, Jean-Claude Brialy

Synopsis: In this semi-autobiographical comedy by Francis Perrin, he plays a character partially based on himself in the guise of Francois Veber, a lowly electrician from the provinces who finds success as an actor in the Comedie-Francaise. Veber/Perrin goes to study acting at the Paris Conservatoire and Read More

Anna

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

Grand Guignol

Actors: Guy Marchand, Caroline Cellier, Jean-Claude Brialy, Michel Galabru, Olivia Brunaux

Synopsis: A traveling theater troupe is divided by the romantic unrest of several couples in this sometimes macabre and uneven comedy drama. Baptiste (Guy Marchand) is the troupe's director who finds his creativity has been drained and who is in the process of splitting with his actress-wife Sarah (Caroline Cellier Read More

Inspecteur Lavardin

Actors: Jean Poiret, Jean-Claude Brialy, Bernadette Lafont, Jacques Dacqmine, Jean-Luc Bideau, Hermine Claire

Synopsis: Inspecteur Lavardin is a mellow, take-your-time Claude Chabrol effort of the 1980s, partly financed by French television. Jean Poiret had previously played the role of Inspector Jean Lavardin in the 1984 Chabrol film Poulet au Vinaigre (aka Cop au Vin). This story is built completely around the Read More

Maschenka

Actors: Cary Elwes, Irina Brook, Sunnyi Melles, Jonathan Coy, Freddie Jones

Synopsis: The romantic drama Maschenka is a loose adaptation of a novel by Vladimir Nabokov done in a style reminiscent of a Merchant-Ivory production. Ganin (Cary Elwes) is a Russian refugee fleeing the 1917 Revolution who, at his Berlin boardinghouse, recalls his love for the beautiful Maschenka (Irina Brook Read More

Le Mariage Du Siècle

Actors: Anémone, Thierry Lhermitte, Jean-Claude Brialy, Michel Aumont, Dominique Lavanant

Synopsis: Weak in script and plot, this comedy about the differences (or not) between royalty and the commoners that toil for a living has little to recommend it. Princess Charlotte (Anemone) is scheduled to marry a boring duke, but before that event happens, Paul (Thierry Lhermitte) has taken a bet that he Read More

Le Telephone Sonne Toujours Deux Fois

Actors: Didier Bourdon, Seymour Brussel, Bernard Campan, Pascal Légitimus, Smain, Jean-Claude Brialy

Synopsis: In a first-time production by television comedians and café-theater actors, this is a slightly shallow comedy about a novice private detective and his cohorts, out to capture a feared "telephone killer" who strangles his victims (all female) with a phone cord. "The Commissioner" (Jean-Claude Brialy Read More

Le Quatrieme Pouvoir

Actors: Philippe Noiret, Nicole Garcia, Jean-Claude Brialy, Roland Blanche, Michel Subor

Synopsis: In this political drama, freedom of the press, government intrigue, and the murder of an Arab diplomat form the knots of tension that challenge two crime-fighters: Yves Dorget (Philippe Noiret), a newspaper reporter, and Catherine Carre (Nicole Garcia), a TV anchorwoman. Both Yves and Catherine Read More

L'Effrontée

Actors: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Bernadette Lafont, Jean-Claude Brialy, Clothilde Baudon, Raoul Billerey

Synopsis: The dreams and naivete of Charlotte, a young, working-class girl (Charlotte Gainsbourg in an award-winning performance) clash with reality as she meets the young pianist she admires (Clothilde Baudon), and a younger pest she would like to shed (Julie Glenn). Charlotte is surrounded by a drab life Read More

Pinot, Simple Flic

Actors: Gérard Jugnot, Fanny Bastien, Patrick Fierry, Jean-Claude Brialy, Jean Rougerie

Synopsis: With enough humor to make up for any minor shortcomings, this story about the bumbling Pinot (Gérard Jugnot), a Parisian patrolman with a heart of gold, works as both comedy and drama. Pinot is intent on straightening out the questionable lifestyle of Marylou (Josiane) (Fanny Bastien), a woman he 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

Le Demon dans I'Ile

Actors: Anny Duperey, Jean-Claude Brialy, Pierre Santini, Cerise, Gabriel Cattand

Synopsis: This French kitchen appliance horror film antedated some of the American releases (Attack of the Killer Refrigerator (1990), Ghost in the Machine (1993)) by nearly a decade, and might be the first of its type. An epidemic of appliance madness unrelated to discount sales strikes an island off the Read More

Sarah

Actors: Jacques Dutronc, Lea Massari, Heinz Bennent, Jean-Claude Brialy, Gabrielle Lazure

Synopsis: This self-conscious film with acting that is not quite up to par, is about an insurance investigator who meets an attractive woman in a hotel on his way to check out the causes of a fire that destroyed a movie set. The woman is still on his mind when he reaches the set, where contacts with the Read More

La Crime

Actors: Claude Brasseur, Jean-Claude Brialy, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Gabrielle Lazure

Synopsis: Violent scenes, such as a woman doused with gasoline and set on fire, do nothing to help this melodramatic crime-drama rise above others in its genre. When a police commissioner is determined to track down sources of corruption that reach up to the higher echelons of government he has no idea who Read More

Stella

Actors: Nicole Garcia, Thierry Lhermitte, Victor Lanoux, Jean-Claude Brialy, Gerard Desarthe

Synopsis: Considering the passionate times (1944 -- when the Allies are about to liberate France with the consequent round-up of German collaborators), the two leading characters in this love story (Nicole Garcia as Stella, and Thierry Lhermitte as Yvon) could be more passionate in their feelings for each Read More

Un Bon Petit Diable

Crew: Director

Actors: Alice Sapritch, Philippe Clay, Paul Preboist

Cap Canaille

Actors: Richard Bohringer, Jean-Claude Brialy, Juliet Berto, Patrick Chesnais, Bernadette Lafont

Synopsis: Directors Jean-Henri Roger and Juliet Berto begin this thriller with sequences on the contemporary politics of southern France and the infiltration of organized crime into real estate development there -- the crime bosses were torching forest tracts to make way for their development schemes in the Read More

Mortelle Randonnée

Actors: Michel Serrault, Isabelle Adjani, Geneviève Page, Guy Marchand, Stéphane Audran, Sami Frey

Synopsis: In this suspense thriller inspired by the novel Eye of the Beholder by Marc Behm, Catherine (Isabelle Adjani), a serial killer, seduces men and then murders them just before moving on to the next victim. She spreads her mayhem through various countries in Europe, only slightly ahead of the 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

La Ragazza di Trieste

Actors: Mimsy Farmer, Ben Gazzara, Ornella Muti

Synopsis: This ineffably bizarre drama stars Ben Gazzara as an American cartoonist who sees a beautiful woman named Nicole (Ornella Muti) being saved from drowning while he draws on the beach. He offers her a blanket, beginning a strange relationship with the obviously unbalanced woman which ends when she Read More

La Nuit De Varennes

Actors: Jean-Louis Barrault, Marcello Mastroianni, Hanna Schygulla, Harvey Keitel, Jean-Claude Brialy

Synopsis: This talky French costume drama chronicles the adventures of King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette as they attempt to flee Paris during the 1791 revolution. While en route to Varennes, the couple encounter and have philosophical debates with a number of fascinating historical figures including Read More

Jacko and Lise

Synopsis: This French comedy stars Laurent Malet as Jacko, an aging delinquent who falls for businessman's fiancee Lise (Evelyne Bouix). ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

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

L'Oeil du Maitre

Actors: Patrick Chesnais, Olivier Granier, Dominique Laffin, Marina Vlady, Michel Aumont

Synopsis: A hot topic might be overly simplified for some viewers in this first-time political drama by Stephane Kurc. Marc (Patrick Chesnais) is a leftist and leans more towards militancy than compromise in his work at a Paris television station. Unlike Marc, his friend Françoise (Olivier Granier) is Read More

La Banquière

Actors: Romy Schneider, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jean-Claude Brialy, Claude Brasseur, Daniel Mesguich

Les Malheurs De Sophie

Crew: Director

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

Bobo, Jacco

Actors: Laurent Malet, Annie Girardot, Michel Montanary, Evelyne Bouix, Jean-Claude Brialy

Synopsis: Jacco (Laurent Malet) and his buddy Freddie (Michel Montanary) are the shiftless louts who frequent a bar run by Madga (Annie Girardot). Magda is Jacco's mistress, and she looks out for him like a surrogate mother. When Jacco meets Magda's daughter Lise (Evelyne Bouix), he drops Magda and Freddie Read More

Le Maitre Nageur

Actors: Guy Marchand, Stefania Sandrelli, Jean-Claude Brialy, Moustache

Synopsis: A down-on-her-luck dreamer finds her fantasies drifting into reality in the second film from actor-turned-director Jean-Louis Trintignant. Marie's (Stefania Sandrelli) dreams seem to have a way of coming true, a fact that she clings to given her onetime vision that she would fall madly in love and Read More

Doppio Delitto

Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Agostina Belli, Ursula Andress, Peter Ustinov, Jean-Claude Brialy

Synopsis: Marcello Mastroianni plays the downtrodden Bruno Baldassare, a murder-squad investigator in Rome who gets no respect from his peers, who give him the least interesting cases. His bumbling aide, Cantalamessa, gets even less respect. While a lightning strike could have caused the deaths of two Read More

L'Imprecateur

Actors: Jean Yanne, Michel Piccoli, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Jean-Claude Brialy, Michel Lonsdale

Synopsis: In this sardonic comedy, after an executive is killed in a mysterious automobile accident, the French offices of his multinational company is inundated with mysteriously threatening be-ribboned anti-capitalist tracts, delivered overnight to everyone's desks. Later, the executive's body is brought Read More

Julie - Pot de Colle

Actors: Marlène Jobert, Jean-Claude Brialy, Alexandra Stewart, Alain David, Christian Alers

Synopsis: During a business trip to Morocco to finalize a deal to build an ugly modern tourist village on the site of a lovely local town, Jean-Luc (Jean-Claude Biraly), the bank representative, is called on by the architect's wife. She has, it seems, accidentally killed her husband during a spat and needs 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

The Holy Year

Actors: Jean Gabin, Danielle Darrieux, Jean-Claude Brialy, Henri Virlojeux

Synopsis: In this caper comedy, Jean Gabin plays Lambert, an escaped convict in search of some robbery money he hid a long time ago. He and a companion, disguised as priests, take a plane into Rome. On the way their plane is hijacked, and, in order to get to their money, they must stop the hijacking. 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

Barocco

Actors: Isabelle Adjani, Gérard Depardieu, Marie-France Pisier, Jean-Claude Brialy, Julien Guiomar

Synopsis: Former film critic André Téchiné directed and co-wrote this offbeat crime drama. Samson (Gérard Depardieu) is a down-on-his-luck boxer who manages to win a fortune thanks to a fixed fight. However, while Samson and his girlfriend Laure (Isabelle Adjani) are trying to get away with the money, he is Read More

Catherine et Cie.

Actors: Jane Birkin, Patrick Dewaere, Jean-Claude Brialy, Vittorio Caprioli, Jean-Pierre Aumont

Synopsis: Jane Birkin stars in this sex farce as a young British prostitute in Paris who, after her soft-core business fails, decides to go big-time and incorporate herself, selling stock to four disparate investors. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

Le Juge et l'Assassin

Actors: Philippe Noiret, Michel Galabru, Jean-Claude Brialy, Renée Faure, Isabelle Huppert

Synopsis: Le Juge et L'Assassin probes a curious relationship between condemner and condemnee. Philippe Noiret plays Rousseau, a French judge who holds the fate of convicted child killer Bouvier (Michel Galabru) in his hands. Should Rousseau decide that Bouvier is insane, the killer will not go prison. As Read More

Un Animal Doue De Deraison

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

The Phantom of Liberty

Actors: Jean-Claude Brialy, Monica Vitti, Paul Frankeur, Paul Le Person, François Maistre, Claude Piéplu, Jean Rochefort, Marie-France Pisier, Bernard Verley, Milena Vukotic, Michel Piccoli, Adriana Asti, Julien Bertheau

Synopsis: One of Luis Buñuel's most episodic films, The Phantom of Liberty focuses on no one particular narrative. In the beginning, a man sells postcards of French tourist attractions, calling them "pornographic." A sniper in Montparnasse is hailed as a hero for killing passersby. A "missing" child helps Read More

Un Amour de Pluie

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Romy Schneider, Nino Castelnuovo, Suzanne Flon

Synopsis: Elizabeth (Romy Schneider) and her daughter (Benedicte Bucher) take a holiday together, and each of them has a brief romance: the mother has an affair with a suitably mysterious Italian (Nino Castelnuovo) and the girl has a satisfying flirtation with a boy her own age (Alain David). ~ Clarke Read More

Comme un Pot des Fraises!

Actors: Jean-Claude Brialy, Nathalie Courval, Jean Lefebvre, Marcha Grant

Synopsis: When Joelle (Nathalie Courval) notices that the "one of a kind" watch given to her by her lover Norbert (Jean-Claude Brialy) is also being worn by Olivia (Marcha Grant), she and the other woman strike up an acquaintance. They discover that they had been told the same lie by the same man; not only Read More

L'Oiseau Rare

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jean-Claude Brialy, Micheline Presle, Anny Duperey, Jacqueline Maillan

Synopsis: This French comedy journeys with Armand (Jean-Claude Brialy), a valet, as he tries to find an appropriate employer for his specialized skills. Alas, the rich are not what they used to be. His first employer's husband is jailed for embezzlement and she can no longer afford him; his second employer Read More

Les Volets Clos

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Marie Bell, Jacques Charrier, Catherine Rouvel, Lucienne Bogaert

Synopsis: Thomas (Jacques Charrier) is a sailor who has deserted from the Navy in this gentle French drama. He has found refuge in a seaside bordello. Romantic difficulties blossom as he and Flora (Catherine Rouvert), one of the house's prostitutes, fall in love with each other. When he hurts her, however Read More

Un Meurtre Est un Meurtre

Actors: Michel Serrault, Catherine Spaak, Stéphane Audran, Robert Hossein

Synopsis: In this French suspense drama, Paul (Jean-Claude Brialy) is a decent man in an ugly situation. His wife (Stephane Audran), who was crippled in their second year of marriage, has become a bitter and unpleasant virago. Though he keeps company with a lovely mistress (Catherine Spaak), the wife is Read More

Eglantine

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: In this family drama, set in 1895, an 11-year old must spend the summer at his grandmother's house. Also there are his two female cousins. His grandmother keeps them well entertained with her fascinating stories. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Cose Di Cosa Nostra

A Season In Hell

Le Bal du Comte d'Orgel

Actors: Jean-Claude Brialy, Sylvie Fennec, Bruno Garcin, Micheline Presle, Gerard Lartigau

Synopsis: Nobles try desperately to cling to the crumbling aristocracy in the days following World War I. The Count (Jean-Claude Brialy) and his Countess Mahe (Sylvia Fennec) delight in throwing lavish costume balls. The couple develops a friendship with a young boy who delights in the parties thrown by the Read More

Claire's Knee

Actors: Jean-Claude Brialy, Aurora Cornu, Béatrice Romand, Laurence de Monaghan, Fabrice Luchini

Synopsis: The fifth of Eric Rohmer's "Six Moral Tales," Claire's Knee is a deliciously Rohmeresque story of sexual obsession. French diplomat Jerome (Jean-Claude Brialy), on a resort vacation, meets Claire (Laurence De Monaghan), the teen-aged daughter of a friend. Though engaged to be married, Jerome falls Read More

The Bride Wore Black

Actors: Jeanne Moreau, Claude Rich, Jean-Claude Brialy, Michel Bouquet, Michel Lonsdale

Synopsis: This Francois Truffaut thriller is based ona novel by William Irish (aka Cornell Woolrich), whose books had been adapted by Alfred Hitchcock on many previous occasions. Jeanne Moreau stars as a woman whose fiancé is nastily murdered by five men. Utilizing a series of disguises, the cool-customer Read More

Manon 70

Actors: Catherine Deneuve, Jean-Claude Brialy, Sami Frey, Elsa Martinelli, Robert Webber

Synopsis: Manon (Catherine Deneuve) is an amoral, free spirit who uses sex to surround herself in relatively luxurious surroundings. The mistress of a wealthy man, she meets a handsome young reporter (Sami Frey) on a flight from Hong Kong to Paris. She gives the older man the boot before slipping into a hot Read More

Caroline Cherie

Actors: Charles Aznavour

Synopsis: Caroline (France Anglade) is the heroine who is pushed by her father into a loveless marriage with a lawyer. Unknown to her new husband, she lost her virginity to a handsome young officer the day the peasants stormed the Bastille. When her husband flees the revolutionary fervor, Caroline engages Read More

Operazione San Pietro

Synopsis: An ingenious thief steals Michelangelo's Pieta, worth $30 billion in the farce. The trouble is, he has no buyers and so lets an American gangster have it for $40 and a spaghetti dinner. Meanwhile, the Vatican, not wanting the abduction to become public, sends out a priest to find the thieves and Read More

The Oldest Profession

Actors: Michele Mercier, Elsa Martinelli, Enrico Maria Salerno, Jeanne Moreau, Gabriele Tinti, Raquel Welch, Gastone Moschin

Synopsis: In this anthology, six French filmmakers each contributed a vignette, offering their take on the history of prostitution. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Un Homme De Trop

Actors: Michel Piccoli, Bruno Cremer, Jean-Claude Brialy, Gérard Blain, Claude Brasseur

Synopsis: In this WW II drama, twelve captured French soldiers await their impending executions in a German prison camp. Fortunately, a wily resistance fighter and his men come to rescue the ill-fated dozen. The rescue attempt succeeds, but the rebels become worried when they discover a thirteenth prisoner Read More

Lamiel

Actors: Anna Karina, Jean-Claude Brialy, Michel Bouquet, Robert Hossein

Synopsis: Lamiel (Anna Karina) is a poor orphan girl who climbs her way to the social elite in this 19th-century costume drama. A doctor (Michel Bouquet) lives vicariously through Anna as he oversees the progress of his female protégé. Lamiel finds love with a young thief who steals into her bedroom after Read More

King of Hearts

Actors: Alan Bates, Geneviève Bujold, Julien Guiomar, Jean-Claude Brialy, Pierre Brasseur, Micheline Presle

Synopsis: The French/Italian/British King of Hearts (Le Roi de Coeur) takes place during World War I, but it might as well have been the Vietnamese conflict so far as its youthful "core" audience was concerned. Overacting outrageously, Adolfo Celi plays British colonel Alexander MacBibenbrook, who orders Read More

Io la Conoscevo Bene

Actors: Stefania Sandrelli, Nino Manfredi, Ugo Tognazzi, Robert Hoffman, Jean-Claude Brialy, Mario Adorf

Synopsis: Adriana (Stefania Sandrelli) is a young woman from the country who gets caught up in the tempestuous temptations of the big city in this somber moral drama. She has a series of affairs that are just for fun, but she becomes depressed when she desperately looks for a more meaningful relationship. Read More

Mandragola

Actors: Philippe Leroy, Rosanna Schiaffino, Totò, Romolo Valli

Synopsis: A husband desperate for an heir, will do anything to produce one in this Italian drama, adapted from the long-banned Machiavelli classic. In desperation, the man sends his devoted wife to a man pretending to be a doctor. He convinces her to drink an infusion of mandrake weed, which he claims will Read More

Cent Briques et des Tuiles

Actors: Michel Serrault, Jean-Claude Brialy, Sophie Daumier, Pierre Clémenti, Marie Laforêt, Jean-Pierre Marielle

Synopsis: A inept group of crooks conspire to rob a department store before the Christmas holiday in this crime comedy. They get the money but it is dropped in glue and later taken by juvenile delinquents. The crooks get the money back and carefully wash the bills and hang them out to dry. A charging bull Read More

Un Monsieur de Compagnie

Actors: Jean-Pierre Cassel, Irina Demick, Jean-Claude Brialy, Catherine Deneuve, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Sandra Milo, André Luguet

Synopsis: Following up 1964's Academy Award nominated L'Homme de Rio, French filmmaker Philippe de Broca wrote and directed this big-screen adaptation of André Couteaux's novel Un monsieur de compagnie. Jean-Pierre Cassel stars as Antoine, a young man who holds the philosophy "Laziness is the mother of all Read More

La Bonne Occase

Actors: Edwige Feuillère, Marie-José Nat, Jean-Claude Brialy, Jean-Louis Trintignant

Synopsis: This comedy is built around a car and the various characters who own the vehicle throughout the feature. A Countess takes her terrified secretary on a wild ride in the country before she sells the car to a dealer. The auto serves as the connection for a series of predictable situations and sight Read More

How Not to Rob a Department Store

Synopsis: In this French comedy, a desperate gambler has one week to repay a large debt; and therefore, enlists the aide of a bungling thief to help him rob a large Paris department store. They choose to pull the heist on Christmas Eve. With the help of another, the gambler poses as Santa Claus. They fill a Read More

Tonio Kröger

Actors: Jean-Claude Brialy, Nadja Tiller, Werner Hinz, Theo Lingen, Walter Giller

Synopsis: This drama is taken from Thomas Mann's 1903 semi-autobiographical novel. Tonio (Jean Claude Brialy) is an aspiring writer and the son of a rigid aristocratic father and a music-loving mother. Wandering throughout Germany and Italy to "find himself," Tonio frequently remembers his childhood Read More

Comment Epouser Un Premier Ministre

Actors: Jean-Claude Brialy, Pascale Petit, Claude Gensac, Maurice Escande

La Ronde

Actors: Jean-Claude Brialy, Jane Fonda, Jean Sorel, Anna Karina, Catherine Spaak, Francine Bergé

Synopsis: This uneven remake of the 1950 Max Ophuls feature from the play by Arthur Schnitzler takes place in Paris just before World War I instead of Vienna at the turn of the 20th century. A soldier (Claude Giraud) sleeps with a prostitute (Marie Dubois) before he seduces Rose (Anna Karina), and a willing Read More

La Chasse A L'Homme

Actors: Jean-Claude Brialy, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Françoise Dorléac, Claude Rich, Catherine Deneuve, Marie Dubois

Synopsis: In this French comedy from director Edouard Molinaro, a young Jean-Paul Belmondo stars as Fernand, a groom-to-be who is dissuaded from stepping up to the altar by his two friends after they terrify him with their personal marriage horror stories. Antoine immediately ditches his bride and heads for Read More

La Bonne Soupe

Actors: Marie Bell, Annie Girardot, Claude Dauphin, Raymond Pellegrin, Jean-Claude Brialy

Synopsis: In this romantic drama, a middle-aged gambler tells a casino croupier her life story. The story is told in flashback and chronicles the woman's romantic exploits with men. Though she was involved with many men, only one really touched her heart. He was a bartender who was tragically shot and Read More

Un Château en Suède

Actors: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Monica Vitti, Jean-Claude Brialy, Curd Jürgens, Françoise Hardy

Synopsis: Nutty, Naughty Chateau is summed up in the encyclopedic book The United Artists Story as "Sex comedy drama." No more, no less. Actually, there is more: The film was originally titled Chateau en Suede, and it was directed by Roger Vadim. Based on a Francoise Sagan play, the film involves a group Read More

Carambolages

Actors: Jean-Claude Brialy, Louis de Funès, Michel Serrault, Anne Tonietti, Sophie Daumier, Alfred Adam

Synopsis: An overly ambitious young man hopes to rise to the top of the advertising business. When he feels his progress is being impeded, he conspires to murder his way up the corporate ladder. He uses the bodies of his victims as rungs to climb to the top in this macabre comedy of errors. ~ Dan Pavlides Read More

Le Glaive et la Balance

Actors: Anthony Perkins, Jean-Claude Brialy, Renato Salvatori, Pascale Audret, Marie Déa

Synopsis: The scene is the French Riviera. Based on eyewitness testimony, three identically dressed men are accused of kidnapping and murdering a child, but two of them can possibly be guilty. Is the innocent party Anthony Perkins, an American who has fled to France in the wake of a sex scandal? Is it 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

Arsene Lupin Contre Arsene Lupin

Actors: Jean-Claude Brialy, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Françoise Dorléac, Henri Garcin, Genevieve Grad

Synopsis: Arsene Lupin was a well-known French gentleman burglar who was active at the turn of the 20th century. In this routine costume drama and actioner by Edouard Molinaro, Lupin's two sons, François (Jean-Claude Brialy) and Gerard (Jean-Pierre Cassel) decide to go into their father's profession soon Read More

L'Education Sentimentale

Actors: Jean-Claude Brialy, Marie-José Nat, Dawn Addams, Pierre Dudan

Synopsis: Based on a novel by noted French author Gustave Flaubert, this routine love story centers on the romantic "education" of young student Frederic (Jean-Claude Brialy), who works for an important businessman and also lives in the servants' quarters in his boss's house. Frederic develops a passion for Read More

Cleo from 5 to 7

Actors: Corinne Marchand, Antoine Bourseiller, Dominique Davray, Dorothée Blanc, Michel Legrand

Synopsis: Cleo From 5 to 7 (Cleo de cinq a sept), per its title, concentrates on two hours in the life of a woman. Those hours are desperate ones, in that Cleo, a pop singer, awaits the results of her tests for cancer. Director Agnes Varda stages the film in "real" rather than subjective time, its various Read More

La Chambre ardente

Actors: Jean-Claude Brialy, Perette Pradier, Nadja Tiller, Claude Rich

Synopsis: Set in an old German castle where an elderly paterfamilias lies on his deathbed, this conventional murder mystery by director Julien Duvivier has a veneer of the supernatural about it. As the heirs to the dying man's estate come together at the castle, a woman among them stands out for her Read More

Les Sept Péchés Capitaux

Actors: Marie-José Nat, Jacques Charrier, Eddie Constantine, Nicole Mirel, Dany Saval, Marina Vlady, Claude Brasseur

Synopsis: The seven major sins receive treatment from some of France's greatest directors in this lively portmanteau. "Anger" by Dhomme, chronicles a single horrific day when every bowl of soup in France is found to contain a fly. This causes a devastating nationwide revolt. "Envy" by Molinaro tells the Read More

Vanina Vanini

Actors: Sandra Milo, Laurent Terzieff, Martine Carol, Paolo Stoppa

Synopsis: Robert Rossellini's Vanina Vanini was released in many US markets as The Betrayer. Based on a Stendhal novel, the film is set in Italy during the turbulent years of the mid-19th century. Princess Vanini (Sandra Milo) confronts a strange looking woman in her palace. The woman turns out to be a man (Laurent Terzieff Read More

Les Lions sont lachés

Actors: Jean-Claude Brialy, Claudia Cardinale, Danielle Darrieux, Michèle Morgan, Lino Ventura

Synopsis: Henri Verneuil directs a star-studded cast in this slight satire about love and life in the big city. Claudia Cardenale, in her first French film, appears as Albertine, a sexy divorced woman from the countryside who goes to Paris and becomes involved with the fashionable elite. Lino Ventura is Read More

Trois Vérités

Actors: Michèle Morgan, Jean-Claude Brialy, Catherine Spaak, Michel Etcheverry, Scilla Gabel

Synopsis: Skimming the surface of characterization, this romance-tragedy by François Villiers is based on a novel by Jean-Jacques Gautier and concerns the relationship between Laurent (Jean-Claude Brialy), a painter, and Renée (Michele Morgan) and her daughter Daniele (Catherine Spaak). Just when Renée and Read More

Godelureaux

Actors: Jean-Claude Brialy, Bernadette Lafont, Charles Belmont, Jean Tissier, Jean Galland

Synopsis: A generally destructive atmosphere settles over this New Wave drama about a trio of youths looking to debunk hypocrisy wherever they find it. One of the early films by Claude Chabrol, the tale looks at the relationship of Ronald (Jean-Claude Brialy), Ambroisine (Bernadette Lafont), and Arthur (Charles Belmont Read More

A Woman Is a Woman

Actors: Anna Karina, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean-Claude Brialy, Nicole Paquin, Marie Dubois

Synopsis: Director Jean-Luc Godard's deceptively blithe tribute to the musical comedy features Anna Karina as an exotic dancer who decides that it is time for her to have a child. When her lover refuses to commit to the decision, she turns her romantic attentions to his best friend. This being a Godard Read More

Paris Nous Appartient

Actors: Betty Schneider, Gianni Esposito, Françoise Prevost, François Maistre

Synopsis: Paris Nous Appartient begins at the end-with a mysterious suicide. Curious as to why a young Spaniard would take his own life, Betty Schneider visits many of the places frequented by the dead youth. She learns from theatre-director Giani Esposito that the suicide victim was part of a sinister Read More

Le Gigolo

Actors: Alida Valli, Jean-Claude Brialy, Jean Chevrier, Valerie Lagrange

Les Yeux De L'Amour

Actors: Danielle Darrieux, Jean-Claude Brialy, Françoise Rosay, Bernard Blier

Synopsis: In this standard wartime melodrama, forty-two-year-old Danielle Darrieux plays Jeanne, an unmarried, older woman with a miserable mother who harps on the supposed "fact" that Jeanne is ugly. Jeanne comes into close association with Pierre (27-year-old Jean-Claude Brialy) a young blind man who is Read More

La Notte Brava

Actors: Laurent Terzieff, Jean-Claude Brialy, Rosanna Schiaffino, Mylène Demongeot, Elsa Martinelli

Synopsis: The exploits of three young Roman criminals are chronicled in this socially conscious drama. The young men commit petty crimes all day begin with arms theft, and culminating with a night with three streetwalkers. After their pleasure, the boys try to cheat the hookers, but they ladies are smarter Read More

Le Chemin Des Ecoliers

Actors: Bourvil, Alain Delon, Lino Ventura, Françoise Arnoul, Jean-Claude Brialy

Synopsis: This well-acted-though routine wartime drama is the second such film in a row for young Jean Claude Brialy, who plays a member of one of two families who are experiencing the effects of the German Occupation. In general, both morals and morale have declined in the families so that a lonely married Read More

Les Cousins

Actors: Gérard Blain, Jean-Claude Brialy, Juliette Mayniel, Claude Cerval, Geneviève Cluny

Synopsis: This was the first of several films that would win international awards for French New Wave director Claude Chabrol. His aloof, innovative approach to the simple story says as much as the plot itself in which two cousins symbolize polar opposites. Charles (Gerard Blain ) is the cousin from the Read More

Le Bel Age

Actors: Jean-Claude Brialy, Françoise Brion, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze, Françoise Prevost

Synopsis: Director Pierre Kast is known for his cinematic portrayals of personal relationships, and this low-on-budget, high-on-talk drama focuses only on that theme. Episodes vary, as a small group of men tell their version of a romance and then the distaff side relives the same experiences from their Read More

The 400 Blows

Actors: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Robert Beauvais, Claire Maurier, Albert Remy, Guy Decomble, Patrick Auffay

Synopsis: For his feature-film debut, critic-turned-director François Truffaut drew inspiration from his own troubled childhood. The 400 Blows stars Jean-Pierre Léaud as Antoine Doinel, Truffaut's preteen alter ego. Misunderstood at home by his parents and tormented in school by his insensitive teacher (Guy Decomble Read More

Christine

Actors: Romy Schneider, Alain Delon, Sophie Grimaldi, Micheline Presle, Fernand Ledoux

Synopsis: Based on a play by Arthur Schnitzer, this is a rather flat remake of the 1932 film Liebelei that featured Magda Schneider as Christine. Director Pierre Gaspard-Huit keeps it all in the family by putting Schneider's daughter Romy Schneider in the top female slot. Opposite her is newcomer Alain Delon Read More

Everybody Wants to Kill Me

Synopsis: Francois Perier, Peter vanEyck, and Anouk Aimee star in this tense tale of five highly skilled thieves who all pool their resources in hopes of pulling off the perfect heist. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

Une Histoire D'Eau

Synopsis: Une histoire d'eau , also known as A Story of Water , was one of five shorts Jean-Luc Godard made in collaboration with his Cahiers du Cinema cohorts in the late '50s and early '60s, prior to embarking on feature films. François Truffaut originally wrote and directed this short, about a girl Read More

Le Triporteur

Actors: Darry Cowl, Beatrice Altariba, Jean-Claude Brialy, Pierre Mondy

Synopsis: Gifted comic actor Darry Cowl plays the title role in Le Triporteur (The Tricyclist). A football fanatic, young Antoine (Cowl) follows his favorite team from one game to the next madly peddling his tricycle to his various destinations. Antoine is later needed to "suit up" during a crucial game and Read More

Et Ta Soeur

Actors: Pierre Fresnay, Arletty, Sophie Grimaldi, Jean-Claude Brialy

Cargaison Blanche

Actors: Françoise Arnoul, Renée Faure, Jean-Claude Brialy, Jean-Claude Michel

Synopsis: Cargaison Blanche (White Cargo) bears no relation to the steamy tropical stage melodrama of the same name. The "cargo" referred to in the title consists of innocent young girls who are transported to parts unknown for immoral purposes. Female journalist Francoise Arnoul tries to catch the Read More

Le Beau Serge

Actors: Gérard Blain, Jean-Claude Brialy, Michele Meritz, Bernadette Lafont, Edmond Beauchamp

Synopsis: Le Beau Serge was the first film of French critic-turned-director Claude Chabrol. Though not a murder melodrama, the film is heavily influenced by the works of Chabrol's idol Alfred Hitchcock, Shadow of a Doubt in particular. Ailing city dweller Francois (Jean-Claude Brialy) makes a therapeutic Read More

Tous les Garcons S'Appellent Patrick

Actors: Jean-Claude Brialy, Ann Colette, Nicole Berger

Synopsis: Charlotte et Véronique, also known as Tous les garcons s'appellent Patrick, was one of five shorts Jean-Luc Godard made in collaboration with his Cahiers du Cinema cohorts in the late '50s and early '60s, prior to embarking on feature films. The script was written by Eric Rohmer and is a slight Read More

Un Amour de Poche

Actors: Jean Marais, Geneviève Page, Agnes Laurent, Regine Lovi, Amedee

Synopsis: Filmed in 1957 but not released in the U.S. until 1962, Girl in His Pocket was released to more liberal markets as Nude in His Pocket. Jean Marais plays Prof. Jerome, a researcher who is intrigued with the theory of suspended animation. With the help of his sexy assistant Monette (Agnes Laurent) Read More

Ascenseur Pour L'Echafaud

Actors: Jeanne Moreau, Maurice Ronet, Georges Poujouly, Lino Ventura, Jean Wall, Felix Marten, Yori Bertin

Synopsis: The feature-film debut of famed director Louis Malle is an interesting, modern film noir with the classic theme of lovers plotting to kill the husband and make it look like suicide (reminiscent of The Postman Always Rings Twice). Jeanne Moreau, as Florence Carala, gives an astonishing Read More

Le Coup du Berger

Actors: Anne Doat, Jean-Claude Brialy