Jean-Pierre CasselFilmography

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Actors: Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Seigner, Marie-Josée Croze, Anne Consigny, Patrick Chesnais

Synopsis: The astonishing true-life story of Jean-Dominic Bauby -- a man who held the world in his palm, lost everything to sudden paralysis at 43 years old, and somehow found the strength to rebound -- first touched the world in Bauby's best-selling autobiography The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (aka La Read More

Counter Investigation

Actors: Jean Dujardin, Laurent Lucas, Agnes Blanchot, Aurélien Recoing, Jean-Pierre Cassel

Synopsis: Veteran screenwriter Franck Mancuso (36 Quai des Orfevres) helmed and penned the script for the French-language detective thriller Counter-Investigation (AKA Contre-enquête), loosely adapting for the screen American writer Lawrence Block's short story "Like a Bone in the Throat." The chilly tale Read More

J'aurais voulu etre un danseur

Last Investigation

Actors: Jean-Pierre Cassel, Philippe Nahon, Jean-Claude Brialy, Micheline Presle, Yolande Moreau

Synopsis: When a retired police officer is forcefully checked into a senior citizen's home, a fatal accident involving one of the residents leads him to suspect foul play in this lighthearted thriller written and directed by Romuald Beugnon. Simon may be up there in years, but he still feels like he's got Read More

Les Sapins bleus

Congorama

Actors: Olivier Gourmet, Paul Ahmarani, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Gabriel Arcand, Lorraine Pintal

Synopsis: Two men who live in different nations on different continents discover how closely their fates have followed the same path in this drama from filmmaker Philippe Falardeau. Belgian engineer Michel Roy (Olivier Gourmet) looks after his ailing father Herve (Jean-Pierre Cassel) with the help of his Read More

Fair Play

Actors: Benoît Magimel, Marion Cotillard, Jérémie Renier, Eric Savin, Mélanie Doutey

Synopsis: Filmmaker Lionel Bailliu expands his Academy Award-nominated short film Squash (2000) into a bitter and nail-biting commentary on the cutthroat nature of office politics with this feature debut concerning a shrewd businessman who takes his scheming employees on an ultra-competitive outing. Firm Read More

Bad Faith

Actors: Roschdy Zem, Cécile De France, Pascal Elbe, Leila Bekhti, Jean-Pierre Cassel

Synopsis: Roschdy Zem and Cecile de France star as a Muslim Arab and a Jewish woman who find their four-year love affair put to the ultimate test in director/co-writer Zem's 21st Century take on Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? Ishmael (Zem) is a music instructor at a Paris conservatory. His widowed mother Read More

In Your Dreams

Actors: Disiz LaPeste, Blandine Bury, Vincent Elbaz, Edouard Montoute, Béatrice Dalle

Bunker Paradise

Actors: Jean-Paul Rouve, François Vincentelli, Audrey Marnay, Bouli Lanners, Sacha Bourdo

Synopsis: A man is torn between his disgust for the decadence of the idle rich and his desire to get what he can from them in this drama from France. Mimmo (Francois Vincentelli) is a Parisian cab driver who one night picks up a young woman who has staggered out of a party at a posh estate. The girl is far Read More

Narco

Actors: Guillaume Canet, Zabou Breitman, Guillaume Gallienne, François Berléand, Jean-Pierre Cassel

Michel Vaillant

Actors: Barbara Schulz, Sagamore Stévenin, Peter Youngblood Hills, Diane Kruger, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Philippe Bas

Synopsis: A popular French comic strip of the 1950s becomes a candy-colored feature film in this race-car adventure. The Leaders and the Vaillants are rival families of Formula One car drivers, the former group devious and cutthroat, the latter benevolent and amiable. But when the hallowed Le Mans 24-hour Read More

The Wooden Camera

Actors: Jean-Pierre Cassel, Junior Singo

Synopsis: A young boy and his best friend learn that a simple choice can alter the entire course of a lifetime in this introspective English-language drama from South African filmmaker Ntshavheni Wa Luruli. When Madiba and Sipho discover the dead body of a man clutching a briefcase that contains a gun and a Read More

La Maison du canal

Actors: Isild Le Besco, Corentin Lobet, Nicolas Buysse, Gert Portael, Circe Lethem

The Crimson Rivers

Actors: Jean Reno, Vincent Cassel, Nadia Farès, Dominique Sanda, Karim Belkhadra

Synopsis: Two very different policemen seeking the truth about separate crimes find a terrible common link in this thriller from France. Pierre Niemans (Jean Reno) is a noted French detective assigned to investigate a brutal murder at a prestigious college located high in the Alps; the victim was first Read More

Sade

Actors: Daniel Auteuil, Marianne Denicourt, Jeanne Balibar, Grégoire Colin

Synopsis: Daniel Auteuil stars as the infamous Marquis de Sade, who at the beginning of Sade, is serving a sentence in Paris' grim Saint Lazarde prison. The year is 1794, and Sade is being persecuted for his steadfast atheism, which runs counter to the beliefs of Robespierre, France's terrifying Read More

The Ice Rink

Actors: Tom Novembre, Mireille Perrier, Dolores Chaplin, Bruce Campbell, Marie-France Pisier

Synopsis: Acclaimed Belgian novelist Jean-Philippe Toussaint drew attention to his directorial talents in 1990 with a remarkable satire on modern life, Monsieur. His third feature, La Patinoire, is about a film director who is shooting a highly symbolic film called 'Dolores' at an ice rink. He has hired a 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

Amores Que Matan

Actors: Carmen Maura, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Juanjo Puigcorbe

Synopsis: Set in the suburbs, this tale of seduction, philandering, vengeance and murder is told with an airy, comical twist. The tale begins in summer on the day in which jealous husband Marco chokes his wife to death and then buries her in his backyard. He killed her because he discovered that she was Read More

La Cérémonie

Actors: Isabelle Huppert, Sandrine Bonnaire, Jacqueline Bisset, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Virginie Ledoyen

Synopsis: When Catherine Lelievre (Jacqueline Bisset) hires mousy and taciturn Sophie (Sandrine Bonnaire) as a housemaid, she thinks that she found a treasure. Mr. Lelievre (Jean-Pierre Cassel) seems to agree with her, pointing out that the maid just has yet to learn how to serve dinner correctly. Wealthy Read More

Casque Bleu

Actors: Victoria Abril, Valérie Lemercier, Gérard Jugnot, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Micheline Presle

Synopsis: More than a dozen years ago, Patrick (Gerard Jugnot) and Alicia (Victoria Abril) began their relationship by chance at the Peace Inn Hotel on a Mediterranean island. However, despite the fact that they have returned to the place where they first fell in love, it will take more than that for their Read More

Prêt-à-Porter

Actors: Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Julia Roberts, Tim Robbins, Kim Basinger

Synopsis: This large, sprawling comedy directed by Robert Altman concerns a variety of romantic and personal intrigues that intersect against the backdrop of Paris's annual "Pret-a-Porter" fashion extravaganza. With 31 principal characters and a number of cameos from well known models, designers, actors and Read More

L'Enfer

Actors: Emmanuelle Béart, François Cluzet, Marc Lavoine, Nathalie Cardone, André Wilms

Synopsis: This French drama about the relationship between an insanely jealous man and his wife took 30 years to make. Since its inception by the late director Henri-Georges Clouzot the film was plagued with bad luck. He began filming it in 1964. There are only two characters in the film and on the third 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

Cha Forte Com Limao

The Favour, the Watch, and the Very Big Fish

Actors: Bob Hoskins, Jeff Goldblum, Natasha Richardson, Michel Blanc, Jacques Villeret

Synopsis: In this hectic farce, Louis Aubinard (Bob Hoskins) is at the bottom of every totem pole he's ever come near, a nebbish and unattractive man who makes a poor living as a photographer of religious tableaux. His sister doesn't respect him and deliberately cooks awful food just to makes his life more Read More

Notorious

Actors: John Shea, Jenny Robertson, Marisa Berenson, Jean-Pierre Cassel

Synopsis: In this adaptation of Hitchcock's 1946 classic, a CIA agent's cover is endangered by her sister-in-law who begins to suspect her true identity. This could be fatal as the agent married an arms-dealer to get information from him. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Sur La Terre Comme Au Ciel

Actors: Carmen Maura, Didier Bezace, Samuel Mussen, Jean-Pierre Cassel, André Delvaux

Synopsis: Maria Garcia (Carmen Maura) is a television journalist and she's about to be a single mother. Her career foremost in her mind, she doesn't slow down even for a minute, despite her pregnancy. She is, however, taking Lamaze classes and is quite competently coping with the romantic attentions of a Read More

Coup de Jeune

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

Aqui d'el Rei!

Mister Frost

Actors: Jeff Goldblum, Alan Bates, Kathy Baker, Roland Giraud, Jean-Pierre Cassel

Synopsis: Directed by Philip Sebton, Mister Frost chronicles the life of serial killer Mr. Frost (Jeff Goldblum), who, after stashing 125 tortured corpses in and around his property, is caught by a British detective (Alan Bates) and brought to a mental institution. Strange things begin to happen immediately Read More

Vincent and Theo

Actors: Tim Roth, Paul Rhys, Jip Wijngaarden, Kitty Courbois, Johanna ter Steege, Vladimir Yordanoff, Jean-Pierre Cassel

Synopsis: The relationship between the obsessive, brilliant painter Vincent Van Gogh and his more practical brother Theo is at the center of director Robert Altman's well-received biography, originally produced as a miniseries for European television. Now universally acknowledged as masterpieces, Vincent Read More

The Phantom of the Opera

Actors: Jean-Pierre Cassel, Ian Richardson, Burt Lancaster, Teri Polo, Charles Dance

Synopsis: This adaptation of Gaston Leroux's indefatigable "grand guignol" piece The Phantom of the Opera stars British actor Charles Dance as Erik the Phantom. This adaptation by playwright Arthur Kopit soft-pedals the horrific elements of the story to concentrate on the love the tragic Erik bears toward Read More

The Fatal Image

Synopsis: Fatal Image stars Michele Lee as a recent divorcee and Justine Bateman as her daughter. Forgetting their domestic travails, mother and daughter take a trip to Paris. Here things get pretty tense when the two accidentally witness a murder. Worse still, the daughter took a video of the crime. Fatal Read More

The Maid

Actors: Martin Sheen, Jacqueline Bisset, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Victoria Shalet, James Faulkner

Synopsis: Martin Sheen and Jacqueline Bisset star in this romantic comedy based and filmed in Paris. An American businessman (Sheen) travels to France to work at a bank, and falls in love with its president (Bisset). He then poses as her new housekeeper to see more of her, and must try to keep up the Read More

Les Jupons de la revolution: La Baionnette de Mirabeau

The Return of the Musketeers

Actors: Michael York, Oliver Reed, Frank Finlay, C. Thomas Howell, Richard Chamberlain, Kim Cattrall

Synopsis: Richard Lester returned to his double-barreled successes of the 1970s, The Three Musketeers and The Four Musketeers, with Return of the Musketeers, a film that was inexplicably shelved for several years, making its belated premiere on cable television. Based on Alexandre Dumas's novel Twenty Years Read More

Young Toscanini

Actors: C. Thomas Howell, Elizabeth Taylor, Sophie Ward, Pat Heywood, John Rhys-Davies

Synopsis: This biographical costume drama from director Franco Zeffirelli covers the early life of Arturo Toscanini and stars C. Thomas Howell as the famous composer. When Arturo lands a job with the orchestra of Claudio Rossi (John Rhys-Davies), he soon finds himself bound for a tour of South America and Read More

Il Segreto Del Sahara

Chouans!

Actors: Philippe Noiret, Sophie Marceau, Lambert Wilson, Stéphane Freiss, Jean-Pierre Cassel

Synopsis: Celine (Sophie Marceau) must choose between Tarquin (Lambert Wilson) and Aurele (Stephane Fries) in this historical drama set during the French Civil War of 1793. The Republican Army decimated Western France when an insurgence of peasants, clergy, and aristocrats loyal to the Royalists staged a Read More

Mangeclous

Actors: Pierre Richard, Charles Aznavour, Jacques Villeret, Jean-Luc Bideau, Bernard Blier, Jacques Dufilho

Synopsis: French/Israeli filmmaker Moshe Mizrahi wrote and directed this adapation of the fanciful comic novel by Albert Cohen. Set in 1938, it tells the farcical story of a band of five French speaking Greek Jews who seek to have their status as self-appointed ambassadors of a Palestinian Zionist state Read More

A Matter of Convenience

Tu Crois Pas Si Bien Dire

La Châine

Sentimental Journey

Casanova

Actors: Richard Chamberlain, Faye Dunaway, Frank Finlay

Synopsis: Decked out in powdered wig and pasty "dandy" makeup, Richard Chamberlain stars as legendary Venetian lover Giovanni Casanova (1725-1798) in this made-for-television biopic. The teleplay by George Macdonald Fraser (of "Flashman" fame) follows Casanova as his reputation for being catnip to women Read More

Ehrengard

Actors: Jean-Pierre Cassel, Audrey Matson, Lea Padovani, Alessandro Haber

Synopsis: In this imaginary tale set in 18th-century Europe, Cazotte (Jean-Pierre Cassel), a regaled court painter and womanizer is out to seduce the indomitable Ehrengard (Audrey Matson) -- not an easy task, as he is about to find out. Ehrengard has been sent to be a companion and lady-in-waiting to the Read More

Liberty

Synopsis: The struggle of Frederic Bartholdi to build the Statue of Liberty is presented in this dramatized biography. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Vive la Sociale!

Actors: François Cluzet, Robin Renucci, Elizabeth Bourgine, Jean-Yves Dubois, Yves Robert

Synopsis: In this charming, semi-autobiographical look at his politicized past, director Gerard Mordillat focuses on the ironic, the wistful, and the sometimes ludicrous events that spin off from the Communist/anarchist upbringing of his main character, Maurice Decques (François Cluzet). Maurice's tendency Read More

La Guerillera

Actors: Agostina Belli, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Maurice Ronet, Alexandra Stewart

Alicja

Synopsis: This stage adaptation and play on the Alice in Wonderland theme, finds Alice slipping into Wonderland when she faints after seeing an attempted murder. When she comes to, she's in another world, again chasing a rabbit. However this hopper is not the fuzzy, furry type; he's an attractive jogger 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

Nudo Di Donna

Actors: Nino Manfredi, Eleonora Giorgi

Synopsis: A situation that once (believe it or not) served as the premise for a Dick Van Dyke Show is taken several steps farther in the Italian Nudo di Donna. Nino Manfredi plays a prudish husband who is appalled to discover that his wife once posed nude for a painting. His shock is intensified when word Read More

La Vie Continue

Actors: Annie Girardot, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Pierre Dux, Michel Aumont, Giulia Salvatori

Synopsis: In this French melodrama, the unexpected, untimely death of her husband leaves Jeanne (Annie Girardot) struggling to come to terms with the implications of her new life and take care of her three children. Filmed in French, this movie is available with English subtitles or dubbing. ~ Iotis Read More

La Giacca Verde

Actors: Jean-Pierre Cassel, Renzo Montagnani, Senta Berger

Synopsis: Salvini (Jean-Pierre Cassel) is an orchestra conductor of some renown. While rehearsing for a performance of Verdi's Othello he has a psychological crisis, brought on by his recognition of the man playing tympani in his orchestra. Near the end of World War II, Salvini took a false identity and hid Read More

Le Soleil en Face

Actors: Jean-Pierre Cassel, Stéphane Audran, Alexandra Stewart, Beatrice Bruno

Synopsis: Le Soleil en Face is a somewhat glib drama about a serious matter -- death. In this case, the death of a writer. Marat (Jean-Pierre Cassel) is a retired novelist living in ease and comfort in his own villa in southern Portugal. His writing has essentially dried up, but he has a good life with his Read More

5% de Risque

Actors: Bruno Ganz, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Aurore Clément, Pierre Michael, Fernand Guiot

Cinq Pour Cent De Risque

Actors: Pierre Michael, Bruno Ganz, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Aurore Clément

Je Te Tiens Tu Me Tiens Par La Barbichette

Actors: Jean Yanne, Micheline Presle, Mimi Coutellier, Georges Beller, Claude Brosset, Carlos

Synopsis: Je Te Tiens Tu Me Tiens Par La Barbichette refers to a French children's game, where two children hold one another's chins and stare at one another. The one who laughs first, loses. In this satire, a police detective (played by Jean Yanne) is investigating the disappearance and kidnapping of the Read More

Grandison

La Ville Des Silences

Actors: Jean-Pierre Cassel, Michel Galabru, Michel Duchaussoy, Jean-Marc Thibault

Da Dunkerque alla Vittoria

Actors: George Peppard, George Hamilton, Horst Buchholz, Capucine, Anny Duperey, Sam Wanamaker

Synopsis: The internationally produced From Hell to Victory is evocative of the works of Erich Maria Remarque. Several close friends of varying nationalities are separated by WW II. German Jurgen Dietrich (Horst Buchholz) is isolated from his old chums by his loyalty to the Fatherland. Still, he and his Read More

Les Rendez-Vous D'Anna

Actors: Aurore Clément, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Lea Massari, Magali Noël, Helmut Griem

Synopsis: Anna (Aurore Clement) is a film director whose job takes her all over western Europe. In each place she either already has some intimate connection, or readily makes one. People seem drawn to her, but inevitably insist on sharing their inmost secrets and discontents with her, despite her obvious Read More

Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?

Actors: George Segal, Jacqueline Bisset, Robert Morley, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Philippe Noiret

Synopsis: Max (Robert Morley) is a wealthy, world-class conoisseur of fine food, who cannot stop himself from eating when the food is first-class. His doctor has given him stern warnings that he must lose over one hundred pounds, or he will die of heart failure. The presence of so many four-star chefs in Read More

Folies Bourgeoises

Actors: Bruce Dern, Stéphane Audran, Ann-Margret, Curd Jürgens, Sydne Rome, Jean-Pierre Cassel

Synopsis: French New Wave director Claude Chabrol steps away from his usual style of mysteries and psychological dramas for the sex comedy Folies Bourgeoises, based on the novel Le Malheur Fou by Lucie Faure. Bruce Dern is the American writer William Brandels and Stephane Audran is his French socialite Read More

The Killing of a Chinese Bookie

Actors: Ben Gazzara, Timothy Carey, Azizi Johari, Meade Roberts, Seymour Cassel

Synopsis: John Cassavetes takes a contemporary film noir turn (which he would return to in Gloria) after exploring domestic melodrama in A Woman Under the Influence with The Killing of a Chinese Bookie. Ben Gazzara plays Cosmo Vitelli, the owner of a sleazy Los Angeles strip joint, who loses $20,000 Read More

That Lucky Touch

Actors: Roger Moore, Susannah York, Shelley Winters, Lee J. Cobb, Jean-Pierre Cassel

Synopsis: Lee J. Cobb's last film is in this light romantic comedy starring Roger Moore as Michael Scott, an arms dealer who comes complete with a sophisticated playboy patter for the ladies. During war games, Michael attempts to sell weapons to NATO forces by trying to interest NATO general Steedman (Lee J. Cobb Read More

Docteur Françoise Gailland

Actors: Annie Girardot, Jean-Pierre Cassel, François Perier, Isabelle Huppert, William Coryn

Synopsis: A doctor gains a new perspective on her life and career when she faces a life-threatening illness in this drama. Francoise (Annie Girardot) is a French physician with a very busy schedule. While she's well respected by her patients and colleagues, she has precious little time to spend with her Read More

The Four Musketeers

Actors: Oliver Reed, Raquel Welch, Richard Chamberlain, Michael York, Frank Finlay

Synopsis: This comic interpretation of Alexandre Dumas's classic adventure saga picks up where 1974's The Three Musketeers left off, as D'Artagnan (Michael York), Athos (Oliver Reed), Aramis (Richard Chamberlain), and Porthos (Frank Finlay) scuttle the plans of Lady de Winter (Faye Dunaway) to remove Queen Read More

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

Murder on the Orient Express

Actors: Albert Finney, Lauren Bacall, Ingrid Bergman, Sean Connery, Vanessa Redgrave, Martin Balsam

Synopsis: Like many of Agatha Christie's mysteries, Murder on the Orient Express is predicated on an actual event, in this case the Lindbergh kidnapping. In the movie, everyone on board the Orient Express seems to have concluded that hateful financier Ratchett (Richard Widmark) was behind the abduction and Read More

The Three Musketeers

Actors: Oliver Reed, Charlton Heston, Raquel Welch, Faye Dunaway, Richard Chamberlain, Frank Finlay, Michael York

Synopsis: Richard Lester's adaptation of The Three Musketeers was only the latest of many when released in 1974, but it arrived with a spirit all its own, one influenced as much by Lester's '60s work as the Alexandre Dumas classic. Even so, it followed the plot of Dumas' novel fairly closely, its liberties Read More

Baxter!

Actors: Patricia Neal, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Britt Ekland, Lynn Carlin, Scott Jacoby

Synopsis: When actor Lionel Jeffries turned to directing in the 1970s, he exhibited a preference for whimsy, as witness The Railway Children. Jeffries' Baxter is a notable exception to this rule, though, as with his other directorial efforts, he shows a keen sensitivity for the travails of troubled Read More

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie

Actors: Fernando Rey, Delphine Seyrig, Stéphane Audran, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Paul Frankeur

Synopsis: In typical Luis Buñuel fashion, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie surrealistically skewers the conventions of society. Buñuel applies his surrealist touch to a mundane event: a dinner party that may never come to pass. A group of well-to-do friends attempt to gather for a social evening, but Read More

Malpertuis

Actors: Mathieu Carrière, Orson Welles

Synopsis: The story centers on a sailor who returns to shore to discover that his uncle has been capturing dying Greek gods and sewing them into human flesh. He then holds them hostage on an Ionian isle. Trouble ensues when the sailor falls in love with the Gorgon. Unfortunately, she turns him into stone. Read More

La Rupture

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

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

Le Bateau Sur L'herbe

Actors: Valentina Cortese, Claude Jade, John McEnery

Synopsis: In this gentle, tragic drama, Olivier (John McEnery) is a wealthy young man with a lively and attractive mother (Valentina Cortese), which is a pity, really, as he can't bear her, or the men she gets involved with. When he gets too upset with her escapades, he begins to break things, or runs off. Read More

Army of Shadows

Actors: Lino Ventura, Paul Meurisse, Simone Signoret, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Serge Reggiani

Synopsis: In this war drama set during the French Resistance of WW II, a courageous fighter escapes Gestapo headquarters and returns to Marseille. There he and his gang capture a traitor and throttle him. They then try to rescue a Resistance fighter in Lyons. As they do so, the hero is again captured and Read More

Oh! What a Lovely War

Actors: Ralph Richardson, Meriel Forbes, Wensley Pithey, Ruth Kettlewell, Ian Holm

Synopsis: Oh! What a Lovely War is an every-man-for-himself adaptation of Charles Chilton's 1963 play, as staged in London by Joan Littlewood. The tragedy of World War I is redefined in bawdy music-hall terms, beginning with a verbal free-for-all involving the Crowned Heads of Europe. The war is presented Read More

The Bear and the Doll

Actors: Brigitte Bardot, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Daniel Ceccaldi, Xavier Gélin

Synopsis: A gorgeous woman takes it upon herself to make a man fall for her, whether he likes it or not, in this romantic comedy. Gaspard (Jean-Pierre Cassel) is a successful musician who owns a large estate in the country; he lives a quiet life with few distraction, and prefers to keep it that way. Read More

Le Dolci Signore

Actors: Ursula Andress, Virna Lisi, Marisa Mell, Claudine Auger, Brett Halsey

Synopsis: Yet another entry in a long series of 1960s Italian sex comedies, this one has some clever moments in its study of four beautiful women (Ursula Andress, Marisa Mell, Virna Lisi, and Claudine Auger) who cheat on their husbands to relieve their marital discontent. Jean-Pierre Cassel also stars in Read More

Jeu De Massacre

Actors: Jean-Pierre Cassel, Claudine Auger, Michel Duchaussoy, Elenore Hirt, Guy Saint Jean

Synopsis: Released in France as Jeu De Massacre, The Killing Game tips its hat to the "Op-Art" generation by offering two comic strip artists as its protagonists. Husband-and-wife cartoonists Jean-Pierre Cassel and Claudia Auger make the acquaintance of eccentric playboy Michel Duchaussoy. So avid a fan of Read More

Is Paris Burning?

Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Charles Boyer, Leslie Caron, George Chakiris, Gert Fröbe, Kirk Douglas, Anthony Perkins, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Simone Signoret

Synopsis: In 1944, with Paris on the verge of Liberation by the allies, Adolph Hitler ordered that the City of Light be blown up and burned to the ground. General Dietrich Von Choltitz, after much rumination, decided that he didn't want to go down in history as the man who destroyed Paris. His refusal to Read More

Les Fetes Galantes

Actors: Jean-Pierre Cassel, Philippe Avron, Jean Richard, Marie Dubois, Genvieve Casil

Synopsis: Director René Clair pokes fun at the gentlemanly art of warfare that existed in the 18th century in this war comedy. Jean-Pierre Casell plays a soldier of fortune who tries to mediate in a conflict between two Dukes that led to battle. He mediates in the name of a fickle princess to negotiate 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

Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines

Actors: Stuart Whitman, Sarah Miles, James Fox, Alberto Sordi, Robert Morley

Synopsis: Ken Annakin's large-canvas comedy Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines is set in 1910. In order to boost circulation of his newspaper, Lord Rawnsley (Robert Morley) offers 10,000 pounds to the first person who can fly across the English Channel. A huge number of hopefuls enter the Read More

Les Plus Belles Escroqueries Du Monde

Actors: Jean-Pierre Cassel, Francis Blanche, Catherine Deneuve, Gabriella Giorgetti, Nicole Karen

Synopsis: This anthology helmed by four talented filmmakers, Claude Chabrol, Jean-Luc Godard, Hiromichi Horikawa, and Roman Polanski, allows viewers to meet and observe four international con artists. Each story is set within a different city. "Amsterdam" follows the attempts of a seductive Dutch woman to Read More

Alta Infedeltà

Actors: Nino Manfredi, Fulvia Franco, Monica Vitti, Jean-Pierre Cassel

Synopsis: In this comedy anthology, the sex-capades of several Italian couples are chronicled. In "The Scandal," a dull and insensitive husband is unaware that his lonely wife has been flirting with a young buck at a vacation resort. When the husband finally finds out, he gets jealous and the marriage is Read More

Cyrano and D'Artagnan

Actors: Mel Ferrer, José Ferrer, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Sylva Koscina, Daliah Lavi

Synopsis: The oddly featured poet Cyrano De Bergerac(Jose Ferrer, reprising an Oscar-winning role in Michael Gordon's Cyrano De Bergerac), he of the enormous nose, and musketeer D'Artagnan (Jean-Pierre Cassel) lend a hand to put down a revolution in 17th-century Paris. While they bravely fight for the Read More

Nunca Pasa Nada

Actors: Antonio Casas, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Corinne Marchand, Julia Gutierrez Caba

Synopsis: A sleepy Spanish town is turned upside down by the arrival of a French stripper. She undergoes an emergency appendectomy and is operated on by a married, middle-aged doctor. When he falls for the woman, he lengthens her recovery time because he wants her to stay. The man's wife leaves him as 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

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

Le Caporal Epinglé

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

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

L'Amant de Cinq Jours

Actors: Jean Seberg, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Micheline Presle, François Perier

Synopsis: American actress Jean Seberg, stars as Claire, a wayward wife, in this routine sex comedy by director Philippe de Broca. Claire's husband is not especially exciting -- he is a button-down civil servant -- and so it is not unusual that she lapse into an affair with Antoine (Jean-Pierre Cassel). Read More

La Gamberge

Actors: Jean-Pierre Cassel, Françoise Dorléac, Arletty, Jean Poiret

Synopsis: A young girl leaves her home in a small country town for the big city life in Paris. Her dreams of a career and her search for true love are exploited by a tabloid newspaper who publicize her search for Prince Charming. Comedy ensues when a local boy falls in love with the girl and is affected by Read More

Les Jeux de l'amour

Actors: Jean-Pierre Cassel, Geneviève Cluny, Jean-Louis Maury, Robert Vattier

Synopsis: Victor (Jean-Pierre Cassel) and Suzanne (Genevieve Cluny) are a couple at odds about commitment in this light, fast-paced comedy-drama by Philippe de Broca. Suzanne needs more reassurance from Victor about the future of their relationship. He is a painter with an inspired creative side who finds Read More

Candide

Actors: Pierre Brasseur, Daliah Lavi, Michel Simon, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Nadia Gray

Synopsis: Jean-Pierre Cassel is ideally cast as the hopelessly optimistic Candide in this noir updating of Voltaire's classic 18th-century social satire. Candide has been assured by his ivory-tower professor (Pierre Brasseur) that whatever fate befalls him, he will be all the better for it. Armed Read More

Le Farceur

Actors: Anouk Aimée, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Geneviève Cluny, Anne Tonietti, Palau

Synopsis: The joie de vivre of a young Parisian provides the basis for this romantic tale. The hero truly loves everything about life. He is especially fond of young women with he frequently falls in love. The lad lives with his supportive uncle, his brother, and his brother's wife, a former lover of the Read More

The Happy Road

Actors: Gene Kelly, Barbara Laage, Michael Redgrave, Bobby Clark, Brigitte Fossey

Synopsis: American in Paris star Gene Kelly returned to the City of Light as both star and director of The Happy Road. Kelly and Barbara Laage play single parents with one child each. Gene and Barbara don't know each other at the outset, but are drawn together when their kids run away from their Swiss Read More