Jean-Claude Dreyfus Filmography

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

A Very Long Engagement

Actors: Audrey Tautou, Gaspard Ulliel, Jean-Pierre Becker, Dominique Bettenfeld, Clovis Cornillac

Synopsis: Audrey Tautou, who rose to international stardom with the title role in Jean-Pierre Jeunet's worldwide smash Amélie, reunites with the director for this drama, set during the darkest days of World War I and its immediate aftermath. Mathilde (Tautou) is a pretty but frail young women who was left Read More

Two Brothers

Actors: Guy Pearce, Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Freddie Highmore, Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu, Moussa Maaskri

Synopsis: Like The Bear, director Jean-Jacques Annaud's acclaimed animal picture released 15 years prior, Two Brothers offers a family-friendly epic as told through the eyes of its four-legged protagonists, who, in this case, are sibling tiger cubs Koumal and Sangha. Though a life in the jungles of French Read More

Lovely Rita: Sainte Patronne des Cas Désespérés

Actors: Christian Clavier, Julie Gayet, Eddy Mitchell, Arielle Dombasle, Pierre Mondy

Synopsis: French filmmaker Stephane Clavier directs the comedy Lovely Rita: Patron Saint of Lost Causes, based on the novel by Benjamin Legrand. The director's brother, French TV star Christian Clavier, is the comedic star. He plays accountant Edgar Lamarck, who gets unwittingly involved in criminal Read More

The Lady and the Duke

Actors: Laurent Le Doyen, Marie Rivière, Lucy Russell, Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Francois Marthouret, Leonard Cobiant, Caroline Morin

Synopsis: Having finished his acclaimed cinematic quartet "Contes des quatre saisons," legendary filmmaker Eric Rohmer takes DV camera in hand to recreate this idiosyncratic period piece adapted from the Grace Elliot memoirs. Concerned with faithfully evoking 18th century France, Rohmer uses two strategies Read More

The Target

Actors: Daniel Russo, Sagamore Stévenin, Hippolyte Girardot

Synopsis: A young French sailor falls in love with a Russian tourist during a passion-filled three-day furlough, but is whisked away for a months worth of submarine duty before he can learn her last name and Moscow address. When he is finally freed again, he embarks upon a search for his lost love. Read More

Tiré à part

Actors: Terence Stamp, Daniel Mesguich, Maria de Medeiros, Amira Casar, Jean-Claude Dreyfus

Synopsis: Edward (Terence Stamp) is an editor in a small English publishing house. The story concerns what happens when he receives a very good manuscript from Nicholas (Daniel Mesguich), an old friend, who up until now has been a hack writer. The manuscript sheds light on events both men lived through, and Read More

The Adventures of Pinocchio

Actors: Martin Landau, Jonathan Taylor Thomas

Synopsis: Unlike the more familiar animated Pinocchio by Disney, there are no song interludes here, and characters added to the story by Disney (such as Jiminy Cricket) are not included. Producer Francis Ford Coppola and director Steve Barron, (known for the first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film) closely Read More

En Mai, Fais Ce Qu'il Te Plait

Actors: Andrée Damant, Kristin Scott Thomas, Benoit Regent

Synopsis: This episodic French comedy chronicles 10 minutes in the lives of seven people living in the same apartment block. The stories are set in early May at 7:50 p.m., ten minutes before the name of the new president of France is to be announced on television. The episodes are all presented in real time Read More

Krim

Actors: Hammou Graia, Elisabeth Rose, Philippe Clay, Zakia Tahiri Gompertz

Synopsis: A prize-fighter spends 16 years in prison for killing his wife during a blind rage. Upon his release, he wanders the grim streets of an empty French housing project in search of his now teen-age daughter. His quest forms the basis of this gripping French drama. Krim is the fighter and Yasmine his 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

The City of Lost Children

Actors: Ron Perlman, Daniel Emilfork, Judith Vittet, Dominique Pinon, Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Genevieve Brunet

Synopsis: This visually inventive French sci-fi/fantasy tale began winning a cult following practically from the moment it was released. Krank (Daniel Emilfork) is a foul, monstrous creature who lords over the inhabitants of a small island; Krank's emotional being is every bit as ugly as his physical Read More

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

Petain

Actors: Jacques Dufilho, Jean Yanne, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Jean-Claude Dreyfus

Synopsis: The sorry story of the Vichy government of France from 1940 to 1945 is the subject of this thoughtful historical drama. In return for a swift surrender in 1940, the French government was allowed to retain, in Vichy an unoccupied portion of the country. There, at the Hotel du Parc, the government Read More

Bonsoir

Actors: Michel Serrault, Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Marie-Christine Barrault, Jean-Pierre Bisson

Un Vampire Au Paradis

Actors: Bruno Cremer, Brigitte Fossey, Farid Chopel, Laure Marsac

Synopsis: Is Nosfer Arbi a vampire? Or is he just a very emaciated, very strange and possibly quite lonely young man from an Arabic country with an obsession with death? On the other hand, why is the previously cheery Parisian teenager Nathalie Belfond throwing fits and speaking in Arabic? Her strange Read More

La Voix

Actors: Nathalie Baye, Sami Frey, Laura Morante, Jean-Claude Dreyfus

Synopsis: Lorraine and Gille are sharing a romantic dinner at a cafe in Rome while they celebrate their relationship with a vacation to that historic city. Gille is suddenly still, as he hears a voice out of sight that sounds familiar. Eventually he places it: it is the voice of his former flame Laura, a Read More

Le Piege A Sons

Actors: Jean-Claude Dreyfus

La Belle Histoire

Actors: Gérard Lanvin, Béatrice Dalle, Vincent Lindon, Marie-Sophie L., Patrick Chesnais

Synopsis: It is a commonplace that past actions affect our present circumstances. This ambitious movie attempts to show how truly distant actions from former lives affect the subsequent lives of the protagonists. In the story, beginning in Roman times, a wanderer (Gerard Lanvin) miraculously tames some wild Read More

La Fille de l'Air

Actors: Béatrice Dalle, Thierry Fortineau, Hippolyte Girardot, Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Roland Bertin

Synopsis: Who would have expected Brigitte to marry a prisoner with a long sentence in the first place? In this romantic action movie, that is only the first in a long line of surprising actions by the young woman. Somehow, she manages to get hooked to the young prisoner before realizing that he'll be Read More

All the Mornings of the World

Actors: Jean-Pierre Marielle, Gérard Depardieu, Anne Brochet, Guillaume Depardieu, Caroline Sihol

Synopsis: Jazzman-turned-director Alain Corneau brings his extensive musical savvy to All the Mornings of the World. Jean-Pierre Marielle stars as legendary 17th-century baroque composer and cellist M. de Saint Colombe. Believing the only "true" music is that which is written down, Sainte Colombe is Read More

Delicatessen

Actors: Dominique Pinon, Marie-Laure Dougnac, Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Karin Viard, Ticky Holgado, Pascal Benezech

Synopsis: A post-apocalyptic future becomes the setting for pitch black humor in this visually intricate French comedy. The action takes place within a single apartment complex, which is owned by the same man that operates the downstairs butcher shop. It's a particularly popular place to live, thanks to the Read More

Black Mic Mac 2

Actors: Eric Blanc, Marc Citti, Felicite Wouassi, Diana Bienvenu, Laurentine Milebo

Synopsis: This follow-up to the 1986 hit comedy follows the pattern of most sequels by failing to live up to the original. In his search for a jacket containing a wining lottery ticket, a white policeman makes contact with African immigrants living in Paris. He is followed by a black journalist and a big Read More

Radio Corbeau

Actors: Claude Brasseur, Pierre Arditi, Evelyne Bouix, Christine Boisson

Synopsis: This fast-paced mystery is in part based on a novel by Yves Ellena and is at least equally based on the 1943 classic Le Corbeau, which in 1951 was produced in English by Otto Preminger as The Thirteenth Letter. In this movie, someone is using a pirate radio broadcast to dish the dirt on the lives Read More

Tandem

Actors: Jean Rochefort, Gérard Jugnot, Julie Jezequel

Synopsis: A fading television personality and radio quiz-show host is shielded by his right-hand man from learning his show has been cancelled in this situation comedy. Rivetot (Gerard Jugnot) is the loyal longtime assistant to Mortez (Jean Rochefort) who believes the news of the show's demise will be fatal Read More

Liste Noire

Actors: Annie Girardot, Francois Marthouret, Bernard Brieux, Sandrine Dumas, Pascal Tedes

Synopsis: In cold-blooded, vigilante style, a mother exacts revenge for the deaths of her daughter and her daughter's lover in this run-of-the-mill thriller by Alain Bonnot. Jeanne Dufour (Annie Girardot) knows her daughter lives on the wrong side of the law, but when the daughter takes part in a bank Read More

Notre Histoire

Actors: Alain Delon, Nathalie Baye, Michel Galabru, Gérard Darmon, Sabine Haudepin

Synopsis: In this confusing, surreal, and slow-paced drama that swings back and forth from strange to farcical, Robert (Alain Delon) meets Donatienne (Nathalie Baye) on a train. She tells him a story about a woman and a man who meet on a train and subsequently spend a night - only one night - in a Read More

Cheech & Chong's The Corsican Brothers

Actors: Cheech Marin, Tommy Chong, Roy Dotrice, Shelby Fiddis, Rikki Marin

Synopsis: Filmed on location "Somewhere in France", this umpteenth version of Dumas' The Corsican Brothers stars the zoned-out comedy team of Cheech and Chong. Perhaps inspired by the Ritz Bros.' spin on The Three Musketeers, the duo retains enough of the original story (about twin brothers who feel one Read More

Le Marginal

Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Henry Silva, Claude Brosset, Pierre Vernier, Tchéky Karyo

Synopsis: In another typical Jean-Paul Belmondo vehicle, the French action hero plays a policeman prone to advancing the cause of justice by any means necessary. On his agenda is a powerful drug cartel working out of Paris and Marseilles, with a drug lord (Henry Silva) who is essentially inaccessible -- but 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

Le Prix du Danger

Actors: Gérard Lanvin, Michel Piccoli, Marie-France Pisier, Bruno Cremer, Andréa Ferréol

Synopsis: Despite a fast-paced story that slams the broadcast industry and lotto mentality, this sci-fi action thriller emphasizes action over anxiety, and so its hunt-and-kill premise is less exciting than it sounds. Based on a Robert Sheckley tale, the action is brought about by a television show invented Read More

Fitzcarraldo

Actors: Klaus Kinski, Jose Lewgoy, Miguel Angel Fuentes, Paul Hittscher, Claudia Cardinale

Synopsis: German filmmaker Werner Herzog has never done anything by halves. When Herzog tackled Fitzcarraldo, the story of an obsessed impresario (Klaus Kinski) whose foremost desire in life is to bring both Enrico Caruso and an opera house to the deepest jungles of South America, the director boldly Read More

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

La Dérobade

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

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

Schatten Der Engel

Actors: Ingrid Caven, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Klaus Löwitsch, Annemarie Düringer, Adrian Hoven

Synopsis: The anguish and suffering of a trio of outcasts is shown in this movie, based on Schatten der Engel Rainer Werner Fassbinder's controversial and possibly anti-Semitic stage play. A prostitute (Ingrid Craven) with a gift for eliciting confidences from her clients, her pimp (Fassbinder), and one of Read More