Jean-Paul RoussillonFilmography

Kings and Queen

Actors: Emmanuelle Devos, Mathieu Amalric, Catherine Deneuve, Magalie Woch

Synopsis: The stories of two desperate characters turn out to share an important link in this drama from French filmmaker Arnaud Desplechin. Nora (Emmanuelle Devos) is a woman in her mid-thirties who wants people to believe that her life is going just the way she wants. But a look below the surface shows Read More

En Jouant 'Dans la Compagnie des Hommes'

Actors: Sami Bouajila, Jean-Paul Roussillon, Vladimir Yordanoff, Laszlo Szabo, Anna Mouglalis

The Girl From Paris

Actors: Michel Serrault, Mathilde Seigner, Jean-Paul Roussillon, Frederic Pierrot, Marc Berman

Synopsis: Can a thirtysomething gal from the city find happiness with a goat farm and its aging overseer? Sandrine (Mathilde Seigner) is a computer expert who has successfully pursued a career in business; however, her career path was chosen to please her family more than herself, and Sandrine has decided Read More

Les Plus Beau Pays du Monde

Actors: Claude Brasseur, Marianne Denicourt, Jean-Claude Adelin, Jacques Bonnaffé, Didier Bezace

Synopsis: The film is based on a true story of a young actor, Robert Hugues Lambert, who was hired to play the role of aviation hero Mermoz in occupied France during WW II. But his career came to a brutal end when his homosexuality was discovered and he was sent to a Nazi camp. The Vichy government's Read More

Same Old Song

Actors: Pierre Arditi, Sabine Azéma, Jean-Pierre Bacri, André Dussollier, Agnès Jaoui

Synopsis: In this homage to acclaimed TV scripter Dennis Potter (1935-1994), famed 75-year-old French director Alain Resnais (Hiroshima, Mon Amour, Last Year at Marienbad) has actors lip-synch in a manner instantly recalling Potter's Pennies from Heaven (1978 TV serial, 1981 movie) and The Singing Detective Read More

Les Truffes

Actors: Jean Reno, Christian Charmettant, Isabelle Candelier, Anne Roussel

Synopsis: In this French slapstick comedy, a boozy boxer, is again beaten to a pulp in the ring and decides to head for the Mediterranean resort of Norbonne where his brother owns a pizza wagon. En route he teams up with an aspiring con man, who has also been beaten up. As they travel southward, they meet Read More

Oui

Actors: Jean-Paul Roussillon, Isabel Otero, Cecile Sanz De Alba, Maurice Baquet

Revenge of the Musketeers

Actors: Sophie Marceau, Philippe Noiret, Claude Rich, Sami Frey, Jean-Luc Bideau, Raoul Billerey, Nils Tavernier

Synopsis: A brave and resourceful young woman keeps the spirit of the Three Musketeers alive in this historical adventure. Eloise (Sophie Marceau) is the daughter of the famed swordsman D'Artagnan (Philippe Noiret); while she has a remarkable gift with a blade herself, Eloise is devoting herself to her Read More

Tableau d'honneur

Actors: Evelyne Buyle, Claude Jade, Guillaume de Tonquedec, Philippe Khorsand, Cecile Pallas, François Berléand

Synopsis: In this pleasant, largely uneventful drama, Jules' problems outside the home with girls and school work are reflected by the on-again, off-again support he receives from his mother in their perpetual conflict with his controlling father. In a humorous moment, Jules' mom has an embarrassing time 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

Cherokee

Actors: Bernadette Lafont, Roland Blanche, Gerard Desarthe, Alain Fromager, Jean-Paul Roussillon, Daniel Rialet

Synopsis: In this detective and crime comedy, the heir to a large fortune is an unknown, and nobody knows him or where he can be found. An occasional musician, Fred plans to pass himself off as that man. It's a goofy idea, but maybe it will work. However, before he can set up the con properly, he learns Read More

Plein Fer

Actors: Serge Reggiani, François Négret, Olivier Martinez, Jean-Pierre Bisson

Synopsis: The Italians have bocce ball, and the French have a similar game, boules. This is played (generally in the southern part of the country) with steel balls on a packed-earth court. While these games have a bucolic, countrified and even genteel air about them, competition and betting are fierce. In Read More

Comedie d'amour

Actors: Michel Serrault, Annie Girardot, Aurore Clément, Patrick Bauchau, Roger Carel

Synopsis: The very busy actor Michel Serrault lends his talents to the depiction of a monstre sacree of French literature, the extremely repugnant but very clever Paul Leautaud, who was famous for his rude, clever observations and his epigrams. Although unkempt and very mean, his rapier-like wit and strong Read More

La Fille Du Magicien

Actors: Anouk Grinberg, Patrick Raynal, Jean-Paul Roussillon, Hélène Surgère

Baxter

Actors: Lise Delamare, Jean Mercure, Jacques Spiesser, Catherine Ferran, Jean-Paul Roussillon

Synopsis: The French-filmed Baxter is based on the American novel Hell Hound. The title character is a bull terrier, who in the course of the film has many masters--and for good reason. Baxter has been instrumental in the deaths or serious injuries of most of the human beings who've come in contact with Read More

Alouette, Je Te Plumerai

Actors: Claude Chabrol, Valerie Allain, Fabrice Luchini, Micheline Presle

Synopsis: Pierre Vergne (Claude Chabrol) is an opportunist who weasels his way into the lives of the nurse Francoise (Valerie Allain) and her husband Jacques (Fabrice Luchini), an ambulance driver. He convinces the couple he is wealthy and hasn't long to live and that they will become the sole heirs to his Read More

Hôtel de France

Actors: Laurent Grévill, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Vincent Perez, Laura Benson, Thibault de Montalembert

Synopsis: Noted stage director Patrice Chereau adds his stylistic flair to this drama loosely taken from a story by Anton Chekhov. A French family is shown as they go through the daily routines of life. Arguing, feasting, crying, and yearning for love are just some of the human emotions encountered. The 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

États D'Ame

Actors: Robin Renucci, Jean-Pierre Bacri, François Cluzet, Tchéky Karyo

Synopsis: In this political drama, five left-leaning friends gradually lose heart in the Socialist government elected in 1981 in France. One of the five men is a television broadcaster; the others are a teacher about to become an academic inspector, a tax man, the director of a cultural center, and a Read More

Les Clowns De Dieu

Actors: Daniel Kenigsberg, Jean-Paul Roussillon, Jean-Roger Milo, Nathalie Schmidt

Synopsis: The "clowns" in this downbeat, sometimes brutal drama are anything but. The story is set among the down and out of Paris, none of whom are wholly sane. Melies (Daniel Kenigsberg) is an alcoholic whose former purpose in life was to make films. Now he focuses on drinking and his love for the Read More

Hors La Loi

Actors: Isabelle Pasco, Nathalie Spilmont, Wadeck Stanczak, Clovis Cornillac

On Ne Meurt Que Deux Fois

Actors: Michel Serrault, Charlotte Rampling, Xavier DeLuc, Elisabeth Depardieu, Riton Liebman

Synopsis: On Ne Meurt Que Deux Fois, a French murder mystery based upon a novel of the same name, is an unusual, involving film with excellent performances by its entire cast. Police Inspector Staniland (Michel Serrault) is investigating the death of a pianist. While conducting his investigation and looking Read More

La Guerre Des Demoiselles

Actors: Jean-Paul Roussillon, Jean-Quentin Chatelain, Roger Souza

Synopsis: Without any plot to speak of, and no sequential, dramatic events, this film about young women who dress up as men and fight off the installation of new metal forges in their region in 1830 starts dragging quickly. The French peasants scare off a judge in the opening segment of the film, and at the Read More

La Truite

Actors: Isabelle Huppert, Jeanne Moreau, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Daniel Olbrychski, Lisette Malidor

Synopsis: This French sex farce is translated in English as The Trout. Joseph Losey directed and co-wrote the film, which stars Isabelle Huppert as Frederique, a young woman living on her family's rural trout farm. Frederique is trapped in a dull marriage to a rube. She decides to leave him and the trout Read More

Weekend à Zuydcoote

Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Catherine Spaak, François Perier, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Georges Géret

Synopsis: In this WW II drama set during a weekend in June of 1940, German invaders force British troops to flee Dunkirk. The French soldiers stationed on a nearby beach also want to withdraw so they too can battle the Germans, but they have been ordered to stay in place and the British are to use the boats Read More

Le Mariage de Figaro

Actors: Georges Descrieres, Yvonne Gaudeau, Micheline Boudet, Louis Seigner, Denise Gence

Synopsis: This legendary opera by Mozart is lavishly produced and comedically performed with great skill by the Comedie Francaise. Andre Cadou conducts the orchestra. The award winning troupe brings its own special brand of humor to the story without compromising the plot or the grandeur of this audio and Read More

Voici le Temps des Assassins

Actors: Jean Gabin, Danièle Delorme, Gérard Blain, Lucienne Bogaert, Robert Arnoux

Synopsis: Jean Gabin stars in Voici le Temps des Assassins as Chatelin, a soft-spoken, middle-aged restauranteur. His life is unexpectedly complicated when Catherine (Daniele Delorme), the daughter of his ex-wife, pays a visit. Catherine tells Chatelin that her mother is dead, and that she's all alone in Read More

Flesh and Desire

Actors: Viviane Romance, Rossano Brazzi

Synopsis: La Chair et le Diable (The Devil and the Pulpit) is a serviceable vehicle for the magnificent Vivienne Romance. The star plays the sensuous wife of farm-owner Peter Van Eyck, who has recently hired itinerant laborer Rossano Brazzi. Sure enough, Vivienne and Brazzi inaugurate a torrid affair, with Read More