Jean-François Balmer Filmography

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Tokyo!

Actors: Ayako Fujitani, Ryo Kase, Ayumi Ito, Denis Lavant, Jean-François Balmer

Synopsis: Directors Michele Gondry, Bong Joon-ho, and Leos Carax each direct a segment of this triptych feature about life in 21st Century Tokyo. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

2008
A Comedy of Power

Actors: Isabelle Huppert, François Berléand, Patrick Bruel, Robin Renucci, Maryline Canto

Synopsis: Claude Chabrol's Comedy of Power stars Isabelle Huppert as a French judge who attempts to bring down the very powerful but corrupt CEO of a large corporation. As she digs deeper into the case, she uncovers criminal activity that stretches into the highest levels of government, and her life is Read More

1/5/07
The Very Big Apartment

Actors: Laetitia Casta, Mathieu Amalric, Pierre Arditi, Noemie Lvovsky, Carmen Durand

Synopsis: A caustic apartment owner finds her attempts to evict the ragtag occupants of a 3,000 square foot rent-controlled apartment challenged in a most unexpected way in director Pascal Thomas' communal comedy. Thanks to a legal loophole known as "the Law of 1948," a cap was placed on some rental units Read More

2007
Springtime in Paris

Actors: Eddy Mitchell, Sagamore Stévenin, Pascale Arbillot, Pierre Santini, Jean-François Balmer

Synopsis: With his Springtime in Paris, long-inactive French helmer Jacques Bral both resuscitates and pays homage to the classic European caper film, crafting a small, occasionally humorous crime thriller in the mold of Rififi and Bob le flambeur, that focuses almost entirely on the aftermath of a Read More

2006
Ce Jour-La

Actors: Bernard Giraudeau, Elsa Zylberstein, Jean-Luc Bideau, Jean-François Balmer, Christian Vadim

Synopsis: Master filmmaker Raúl Ruiz adds a black comedy to his far-reaching body of work with That Day, a playful meditation on money, death, and false spirituality. Livia (Elsa Zylberstein) and Pointpoirot (Bernard Girardeau) are, respectively, a spoiled society woman who suffers from delusional visions Read More

6/4/03
Ripoux 3

Actors: Philippe Noiret, Thierry Lhermitte, Lorant Deutsch, Chloe Flipo, Bernadette Lafont

2003
Belphegor: Phantom of the Louvre

Actors: Sophie Marceau, Michel Serrault, Frédéric Diefenthal, Julie Christie, Jean-François Balmer

Synopsis: The story of a vengeful ghost (which spawned both a popular silent thriller and a mid-'60s TV miniseries that drew record ratings in France) returns to the big screen in this adaptation of the story by Arthur Bernede. A collection of artifacts from an archeological dig in Egypt are brought to the Read More

2001
Charmant Garçon

Actors: Patrick Chesnais, Alexandra Van Der Noot, Jean-François Balmer, Bernard Crombey, Samuel Labarthe

Synopsis: Can a man find true love with a woman who could easily do a lot better? Octave (Patrick Chesnais) would seem to fit most people's working definition of a loser -- even though he's over 50, he doesn't have a steady job, still lives with his mother (Micheline Presle), and spends most of his time Read More

2001
Time Regained

Actors: Marcelo Mazzarella, Emmanuelle Béart, Vincent Perez, John Malkovich, Pascal Greggory, Catherine Deneuve

Synopsis: An ambitious project of Chile-born, Paris-based Raul Ruiz, this psychological drama brings to the screen the famous classic of Marcel Proust with fidelity to its interior monologues and streams of consciousness. Proust (Marcelo Mazzarella), on his deathbed in his small apartment on Rue Hamelin, is Read More

6/16/00
Saint-Cyr

Actors: Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Simon Reggiani, Jean-François Balmer

Synopsis: This historical drama is based on a true story from 17th century France. Madame de Maintenon (Isabelle Huppert) rises from humble beginnings to become a courtesan to the royal court and eventually marries King Louis XIV (Jean-Pierre Kalfon). With the king's indulgence, Maintenon opens a special Read More

2000
La Dilettante

Actors: Catherine Frot, Bernard Verley, Barbara Schulz, Didier Bezace, Marie-Christine Barrault

Synopsis: In the offbeat comedy La Dilettante, Pierette (Catherine Frot) is a woman who describes herself as having "opted for the temporary on a permanent basis." After 15 years of living the good life in Switzerland, Pierette one day packs her bags full of fashionable outfits and returns to her native Read More

1999
The Swindle

Actors: Isabelle Huppert, Michel Serrault, François Cluzet, Jean-François Balmer, Jackie Berroyer

Synopsis: The 50th film from legendary French New Wave writer and director Claude Chabrol is a typically Hitchcockian comic thriller about a pair of con artists. Up to now, the duo of Betty (Isabelle Huppert) and Victor (Michel Serrault) have contented themselves to small scams at hotel conventions, such as Read More

10/15/97
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

1996
XY, drôle de conception

Actors: Clémentine Célarié, Patrick Braoudé, Jenny Cleve, Maurice Chevit

Synopsis: An ice-cold, ruthless business woman, desperate to have a baby, makes a deal with a small manufacturer, desperate to save his business from being take over by the woman's larger company. This French comedy, filled with open discussions of the reproductive process, chronicles the result of their Read More

1996
Le Livre de Cristal

Actors: Jean-François Balmer, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Douglas Ranasinghe, Gamini Fonseka

Synopsis: This European thriller, set in Sri Lanka, attempts to expound upon the philosophical implications of life, death, and memory. JB, an academic famed for his studies of oriental culture and alcoholic who has never recovered from his wife's suicide, returns to Sri Lanka to translate a book written on Read More

1995
La Lumière Des Étoiles Mortes

Actors: Jean-François Balmer, Caroline Sihol, Richard Bohringer, Leonard Matton, Thomas Huber

Synopsis: This artistic French film is director Charles Matton's account of the time he spent as a 9-year old living with German soldiers who overtook his home during WW II. The story begins with the camera, from above, panning a set on a sound stage and moving downward into an artist studio where Matton Read More

1994
Ma Soeur Chinoise

Actors: Alain Bashung, Ru Ping, Jean-François Balmer

1994
Twiste a Popenguine

Actors: Ousmane Bo, Patrice Nassalang, Coura Ba, Jean-François Balmer, Marieme Fall

Synopsis: This Sengalese drama, set in the mid '60s, follows the exploits of two gangs of teenagers who adopt Western ways. Each gang only has three members. Les Ins take their names from French pop stars. The Kings are styled after American rhythm and blues players. Johnny Hallyday's gang controls the Read More

1994
Le Vent d'Est

Actors: Malcolm McDowell, Pierre Vaneck, Jean-François Balmer, Ludmila Mikael, Wojciech Pszoniak

Synopsis: After World War II, due to a longstanding prior agreement among the victorious Allies, displaced citizens of the various countries were returned to their homeland of origin whether or not they wanted to be. There were almost no exceptions to this rule. As a result, several million anti-communist Read More

1993
Moya Sestra Kitayanka

Actors: Alain Bashung, Ru Ping, Li Kheling, Jean-François Balmer, Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre

1993
Dîen Bîen Phu

Actors: Donald Pleasence, Patrick Catalifo, Ludmila Mikael, Jean-François Balmer, Maxime Leroux

Synopsis: Long before America was mired in an unwinnable conflict in Vietnam, the French had spent decades in an attempt to hold onto their Indochinese colonies, which included Vietnam. By the early 1950s, several generations of dedicated, independence-minded Vietnamese had fought the French to a Read More

1992
Sam Suffit

Actors: Aure Atika, Rossy de Palma, Jean-François Balmer, Claude Chabrol

Synopsis: After trying a job as a stripper in a Barcelona carnival, Eva (Aure Attika) is ready for something new, so she heads over to France and becomes the roommate of a gay American artist (Phillip Bartlett) and works as the housewife for two wealthy older homosexuals (Claude Chabrol and Jean-François Balmer Read More

1992
La Fenetre

Actors: Anne Letourneau, Jean-François Balmer, Albert Millaire

Synopsis: In this impressionistic drama, an artist (Anne Letourneau) comes back to her hometown of Montreal. However, her emotional state has become unstable, and as she observes the world through the windows of her home, she finds herself increasingly unable to distinguish fantasy from reality. La Fenetre Read More

1992
Madame Bovary

Actors: Isabelle Huppert, Christophe Malavoy, Jean-François Balmer, Jean Yanne, Lucas Belvaux

Synopsis: Director Claude Chabrol's 1991 version of Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary is closer to the source than Vincente Minnelli's Hollywoodized 1949 version, but far less lively and passionate. On the credit side, Isabelle Huppert is flawless as the tragic Emma Bovary. A crude country girl aspiring for Read More

12/25/91
La Revolution Française

Actors: Klaus Maria Brandauer, Jane Seymour, François Cluzet, Andrzej Seweryn, Jean-François Balmer

Synopsis: With its release timed to coincide with celebrations of the 200th anniversary of the French Revolution (1789-94), this film is actually two films released under one general title. The first, subtitled The Light Years, covers the period from the first stirrings of the revolution (e.g., the Read More

1989
Golden Eighties

Actors: Delphine Seyrig, Myriam Boyer, Fanny Cottençon, Lio, Marie Pillet, Pascale Salkin, Charles Denner, Isabelle Gruault, Jean-François Balmer, Francoise Goussard, Nicolas Tronc, John Berry

Synopsis: Fannie Cottencon stars as Lilli, beauty salon owner and uncrowned queen of the shopping mall where the film, in its entirety, takes place. Delphine Seyrig costars as a mall boutique owner, suddenly confronted with her wartime lover. Before we're quite aware of it, the film has become a New Age Romeo and Juliet Read More

1986
La Derniere Image

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

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

1986
Urgence

Actors: Richard Berry, Fanny Bastien, Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, Nathalie Courval, Jean-François Balmer

Synopsis: When a neo-Nazi group of terrorists is set to blow a pop concert off the face of the earth because it is an anti-racist benefit, they are faced with the intrepid Jean-Pierre Mougin (Richard Berry), a macho sports reporter with zero tolerance for Nazi hate crimes. Going along with Mougin to stop Read More

1985
L'Amour Ou Presque

Actors: Jean-François Balmer, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Elisabeth Depardieu, Hippolyte Girardot

1985
Le Transfuge

Actors: Bruno Cremer, Heinz Bennent, Jean-François Balmer

Synopsis: This West German spy drama moves along a fairly predictable course that begins when French industrialist Bernard Corain (Bruno Cremer) is asked to determine whether Heinz Steger (Heinz Bennent), an East German ex-intelligence officer, would be willing to defect. On his next business trip to East Read More

1985
The Blood of Others

Actors: Jodie Foster, Michael Ontkean, Sam Neill, Marie Bunel, Lambert Wilson, Stéphane Audran, Jean-Pierre Aumont

Synopsis: Produced on behalf of the HBO cable service, The Blood of Others is a rare venture into English-language filmmaking by Claude Chabrol. Set during World War II, the film stars Jodie Foster and Michael Ontkean as a pair of French resistance fighters. If you can swallow that, then you'll accept New Read More

1984
Le Roi De La Chine

Actors: Marylin Even, Jean-François Balmer, Roger Jendly

Synopsis: Three down-and-out characters animate this imaginative demi-monde of the dispossessed: Genie (Marylin Even), a young female alcoholic whose mental faculties have been damaged by her drinking; Gregor (François Balmer) the "King of China" who buys junk from the homeless; and Emile (Roger Jendly), an Read More

1984
Swann in Love

Actors: Jeremy Irons, Ornella Muti, Alain Delon, Fanny Ardant, Marie-Christine Barrault

Synopsis: This ambitious attempt to film a portion of Marcel Proust's epic novel Remembrance of Things Past stars Jeremy Irons as Charles Swann, a Jewish intellectual who has managed to overcome growing anti-Semitism in 19th century France and travels in an elite social circle. But Swann has become obsessed Read More

1984
Polar

Actors: Jean-François Balmer, Sandra Montaigu, Pierre Santini, Roland Dubillard, Claude Chabrol

Synopsis: This film noir tends to stay within very conventional plot lines, as the narration by the main protagonist, private detective Eugene Tarpon Jean-François Balmer, recites a dreary litany of how he wanted to chuck his profession until an attractive woman shows up asking him to investigate the murder Read More

1984
Les Fauves

Actors: Philippe Léotard, Daniel Auteuil, Gabrielle Lazure, Veronique Delbourg, Valérie Mairesse

Synopsis: In this embarrassment of an action thriller, the poor storyline and direction are only matched by the underpar acting, all to tell the tale of Berg (Daniel Auteuil), a young stunt car driver who leaves his profession and starts working at a private security service when his lover is killed in an Read More

1984
L'Africain

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

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

1983
La Derelitta

Actors: Daniel Olbrychski, Gérard Blain, Jean-François Balmer, Bulle Ogier

1983
Le Quart d'Heure Américain

Actors: Anémone, Gérard Jugnot, Jean-Pierre Bisson, Brigitte Catillon, Michel Dussarat

Synopsis: The physical imperfections of Bonnie (Anemone), a woman trying to work her way up the ladder at a radio station, do not stop her from going after Ferdinand (Gerard Jugnot), a reticent, bald, and mild fellow who at first resists Bonnie's overtures, but then slowly seems to change his mind. At Read More

1982
Bluff

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

1982
Neige

Actors: Juliet Berto, Jean-François Stévenin, Robert Liensol, Jean-François Balmer, Patrick Chesnais

Synopsis: This drama about a barmaid caught up in events beyond her control is the first film directed by Juliet Berto, and was also based on her own concept for the story. The barmaid, played by Berto, has been trying to take care of Bobby, a teenage drug pusher who is in over his head. Before she can put Read More

1981
Une Étrange Affaire

Actors: Gérard Lanvin, Nathalie Baye, Michel Piccoli, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Jean-François Balmer

Synopsis: Louis (Gerard Lanvin), an advertising executive in a Paris department store, is not the world's most ambitious man, but he has a good marriage and is content with his job -- until his world is turned upside-down by a new, manipulative, controlling manager (Michel Piccoli) who slowly starts to Read More

1981
Flic ou Voyou

Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Marie Laforêt, Georges Géret, Michel Galabru, Jean-François Balmer

Synopsis: When the local police inspector was found dead in a prostitute's house, police division commissioner Stan Borowitz (Jean-Paul Belmondo) is sent to investigate the situation. Posing as the prostitute's long-lost brother "Antonio Cerruti," he discovers a mare's nest of police corruption. In fact, in Read More

1979
Les Egouts du Paradis

Actors: Francis Huster, Jean-François Balmer, Lila Kedrova, Bérangere Bonvoisin, Clement Harari, Michel Subor

Synopsis: In July of 1976, the Societé Générale of France was robbed of well over $10 million dollars by a group burrowing through the sewers of Paris. This movie is based on a book by the thieves' mastermind, Albert Spaggiari. The famous theft won the nickname, "the great drain robbery," and this Read More

1979
L'Adolescente

Actors: Laetitia Chauveau, Simone Signoret, Jacques Weber, Edith Clever, Francis Huster

Synopsis: L'Adolescente (The Adolescent) was the second directorial stint for French film star Jeanne Moreau. This possibly autobiographical piece is set during the early war years. Laetitia Chauveau plays a twelve-year old girl whose future is determined by the events of one long summer holiday in the Read More

1978
Ils Sont Grands, Ces Petits

Actors: Catherine Deneuve, Claude Brasseur, Claude Piéplu, Eva Darlan, Jean-François Balmer

Synopsis: When a real-estate promoter attempts to take over the homes of two electronics whizzes and boot them out, they contrive ingenious ways to inconvenience and harass him. Louise (Catherine Deneuve) specializes in robots and artificial intelligence, and Leo (Claude Brasseur) makes miniature machines. Read More

1978
La Menace

Actors: Yves Montand, Marie Dubois, Carole Laure, Jean-François Balmer

Synopsis: After many years of managing a trucking concern for his lover Dominique (Marie Dubois), Savin (Yves Montand) is planning to leave her for the girl who is bearing his child. Hysterical, Dominique threatens suicide then goes to a meeting between Savin and the girl and tries everything she can think Read More

1977
Peur Sur La Ville

Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Charles Denner, Adalberto Maria Merli, Lea Massari

Synopsis: This crime thriller is about a psychotic who makes obscene phone calls to beautiful women and then murders them. ~ Steve Huey, All Movie Guide Read More

4/9/75
Love at the Top

Actors: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Romy Schneider, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Jane Birkin, Florinda Bolkan, Georges Wilson

Synopsis: In this French satire, a meek little bank (Jean-Louis Trintignant) clerk finds fame and fortune when he begins getting lessons from an impoverished novelist (Jean-Pierre Cassel) . Soon the clerk is wowing the Parisians with his ability to make the women swoon, and for his talent at attracting Read More

3/13/74
R.A.S.

Actors: Jacques Spiesser, Jacques Weber, Jacques Villeret, Jean-François Balmer

Synopsis: In this French film, soldiers in the Algerian war not only fight against the rebelling natives of that country, but fight an equally brutal battle among themselves. Three young army misfits are assigned to a brutal "disciplinary company" during the conflict. When the "discipline" becomes too harsh Read More

8/15/73
La Gueule Ouverte

Actors: Nathalie Baye, Hubert Deschamps, Philippe Léotard, Monique Melinand

Synopsis: When cancer strikes the mother of the family in this French film, everyone in the family expresses a previously invisible caring and tolerance of the others. The father has always been a bit of a drunk, and is forever chasing younger women. Despite that, he and his wife care for each other, and he Read More

1973

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