Jean-Pierre KalfonFilmography

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Heartbeat Detector

Actors: Mathieu Amalric, Michael Lonsdale, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Lou Castel, Laetitia Spigarelli

Synopsis: As a Parisian petrochemical company forges on into the 21st century, the in-house human resources psychologist leads a probe that proves the ghosts of the previous century still hold sway over current events in director Nicolas Klotz's labyrinthine drama. Simon (Mathieu Amalric) is a human Read More

3/14/08
Parc

Actors: Sergi López, Jean-Marc Barr, Nathalie Richard, Laurent Delbecque, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Laszlo Szabo, Delphine Chuillot

Synopsis: A man slowly learns his new friend is no friend at all in this psychological thriller from France. Georges Clou (Sergi Lopez) seemingly leads a charmed life; he has a beautiful and loving wife, Helen (Nathalie Richard) and he has a fine home in an exclusive gated community, away from the growing Read More

2008
La Vie d'Artiste

Actors: Sandrine Kiberlain, Émilie Dequenne, Denis Podalydès, Valerie Benguigui, Marilyne Canto

Synopsis: A novelist, an actress, and a struggling young singer all attempt to make their mark in modern day Paris in director Marc Fitoussi's cynical entertainment industry satire. Bertrand (Denis Podalydes) is a French literary professor whose students all know that he is shacked up with pretty math Read More

2007
I Always Wanted to Be a Gangster

Actors: Sergi López, Anna Mouglalis, Edouard Baer, Jean Rochefort, Laurent Terzieff, Jean-Pierre Kalfon

Synopsis: Writer/director Samuel Benchetrit takes the helm for this laid-back crime comedy that weaves together four stories which all eventually convene at a roadside diner. Franck (Edouard Baer) is a petty criminal who is currently pondering the prospect of holding up a remote diner. When observant Read More

2007
The Dreamers

Actors: Michael Pitt, Eva Green, Louis Garrel, Robin Renucci, Anna Chancellor

Synopsis: Veteran Italian filmmaker Bernardo Bertolucci directs the erotic drama The Dreamers, adapted from the novel The Holy Innocents: A Romance by Gilbert Adair. American student Matthew (Michael Pitt) is studying in Paris during the politically turbulent late '60s. The story begins in 1968 with the Read More

2/6/04
The Bathers

Synopsis: A half-dozen erotic dancers take an unusually philanthropic interest in one of their troubled clients in this French erotic drama. The Bathers concerns the days and nights of women who work in peep booths in Paris and the lascivious men who pay money to drool in front of them. One such client Read More

2003
Lulu

Actors: Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Eli Medeiros, Gérard Meylan, Bruno Putzulu, Tony Gatlif

Synopsis: Jean-Henri Roger's Lulu stars Elli Medeiros as the title character. Lulu is a transsexual who lives with John (Gerard Meylan). One of the town drunks she serves at her bar accuses her of killing a local criminal. A detective (Bruno Putzulu) starts a quirky investigation into the charge. A Read More

2002
La Repetition

Actors: Emmanuelle Béart, Pascale Bussières, Dani Levy, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Sami Bouajila

Synopsis: Friendship turns to love, and unrequited love leads to a dangerous obsession in this moody drama. Nathalie (Emmanuelle Beart) and Louise (Pascale Bussieres) grew up together and had been close friends since childhood, but while both were studying drama in their early twenties, their friendship Read More

2001
G@mer

Actors: Saïd Taghmaoui, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Camille De Pazzis, Alexis Loret, Bruno Salomone, Maud Buquet

Synopsis: A video-game obsessed street thug imprisoned for a failed robbery attempts to turn over a new leaf by designing a revolutionary video game that could be his ticket to a brighter future. When twenty-two year old loser Tony (Saïd Taghmaoui) isn't out on the streets mugging people for local mob boss Read More

2001
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
Total Western

Actors: Samuel Le Bihan, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Jean-François Stévenin, Kahena Saighi, Alexia Stresi

Synopsis: In this tribute to the Spaghetti Western, amiable ex-con Gerard (Samuel Le Bihan) agrees to help his boss' nephew infiltrate an urban fortress to carry off a drug deal with representatives of mob boss Ludo Daes (Jean-Pierre Kalfon). Unfortunately, the nephew goes a bit nuts and causes a shoot-out Read More

2000
Le Jour et la Nuit

Actors: Alain Delon, Lauren Bacall, Xavier Beauvois, Arielle Dombasle

Synopsis: Ten years ago, distinguished French author Alexandre (Alain Delon) exchanged his stressful, hectic life in Paris for a more peaceful existence upon a Mexican hacienda with his wife Ariane (Marianne Denicourt). Lucien (Jean-Pierre Kalfon) also accompanies them. There, Alexandre meets the strange Read More

2/14/97
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

1995
Dieu, L'Amant de Ma Mere, et le Fils du Charcutier

Actors: Richard Bohringer, Lio, Francis Huster, Jean-Pierre Kalfon

Synopsis: This French ensemble comedy, is set in a small town where Gabrielle, a beautiful doctor's wife and mother of three prepares to play Elvira in a local production of Don Juan. The trouble begins when she finds herself sexually attracted to the town's womanizing hairdresser Serge, who plays the sexy Read More

1995
Et Demain Hollywood

Actors: Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Veronique Genest, Aladin Reibel, Jean-Claude Leguay

1992
Corps Z'a Corps

Actors: Philippe Khorsand, Stéphane Audran, Veronique Moest, Kate Johnson

Synopsis: In this routine sex comedy, Jean Chabert (Philippe Khorsand) is the newspaper editor called on to revive the fortunes of a magazine featuring nude women. He is continually distracted by sex-starved secretaries, erotically excited readers, and marital trouble. Jean's dream job soon turns onto a Read More

1989
Vent de Panique

Actors: Caroline Cellier, Bernard Giraudeau, Olivia Brunaux, Jean-Pierre Kalfon

1987
Securite Publique

Actors: Sophie Duez, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Daniel Gélin, Bernard Haller

1987
Septieme Ciel

Actors: Fiona Gelin, Cerise Leclerc, Jean-Pierre Kalfon

1987
The Cry of the Owl

Actors: Christophe Malavoy, Mathilda May, Jacques Penot, Virginie Thévenet, Jean-Pierre Kalfon

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Patricia Highsmith, Le Cri du Hibou concerns Robert (Christophe Malavoy), a commercial artist who has moved to a quiet neighborhood in Vichy, hoping to escape a severe depression brought on by the unpleasant breakup of his marriage to Veronique (Virginie Thevenet). Robert finds Read More

1987
L'Amour Par Terre

Actors: Jane Birkin, Geraldine Chaplin, André Dussollier, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Facundo Bo

Synopsis: The avant-garde founder of French New Wave Jacques Rivette, offers an on-going treatise of film versus theater in this basically non-story about two actresses and a director, or from another perspective, a play and a film. In the opening scenario, a couple come out of a bathroom and are surprised Read More

9/19/86
L'Amour Ou Presque

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

1985
Laisse-Beton

Actors: Julien Gangnet, Khalid Ayadi, Manuela Gourary

Synopsis: Young Brian (Julien Gangnet) and Nourredine (Khalid Ayadi) live in a miserably poor Paris suburb and both dream of making it to San Francisco to live the good life -- but they go about realizing their goal in the wrong way. Brian's father once toured San Francisco in the 1960s when he played with Read More

1984
Le Jumeau

Actors: Pierre Richard, Carey More, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Camilla More, Andréa Ferréol, Jacques Frantz

Synopsis: When a man decides to play the role of twins in order to romance another set of twins, life becomes much more complicated than he wants or needs in this interesting farce by Yves Robert, adapted from the much blacker comedy by Donald Westlake, Two Much. Matthias Duval (Pierre Richard) is a humble Read More

1984
Rue Barbare

Actors: Bernard Giraudeau, Christine Boisson, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Michel Auclair, Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu

Synopsis: In this run-of-the-mill crime drama, Bernard Giraudeau is Daniel Chetman, someone who wants to leave the life of violence he knew in his neighborhood -- and cannot do so because his nemesis, a strutting street gangster now involved with organized crime, continues to terrorize the inhabitants of Read More

1983
Liberty Belle

Actors: Jerome Zucca, Dominique Laffin, André Dussollier, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, Philippe Caroit

Synopsis: Julien (Jerome Zucca) is a left-leaning student whose politics and love interest end up clashing as the young man makes a long, epic journey through his years at a private school in Paris when Algeria is fighting France for its independence, up to his time spent as a courier for Algeria's National Read More

1983
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

1983
Confidentially Yours

Actors: Fanny Ardant, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Philippe Laudenbach, Caroline Sihol, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Philippe Morier-Genoud

Synopsis: In this light, sometimes tongue-in-cheek mystery based on a Charles Williams thriller -- with snippets of Hitchcock, Kubrick, and even Victor Hugo -- director François Truffaut showcases one of his favorite actresses, Fanny Ardant, as an enterprising secretary in love with her boss but up against Read More

1983
Nestor Burma, Detective de Choc

Actors: Michel Serrault, Jane Birkin, Guy Marchand, Alain Bashung, Pierre Arditi

Synopsis: Based on a mystery novel by Leo Malet, lead character Detective Burma (comic Michel Serrault) has luxurious office digs - shared with his oddball cat - but he himself is neither as sophisticated or as quick-witted as Malet's literary creation. Director Jean-Luc Miesch (29 years old), has missed Read More

1982
Jetzt und Alles

Actors: Richy Mueller, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, David Murray

Synopsis: Marcel Tiss (Richy Mueller) is a young punk rocker in Berlin whose main talent is spouting real fire in-between his lyrics every once in awhile. He has the requisite punk girlfriend, and spends his time in the requisite kicking of cans, pinball, and slightly anti-social antics. He runs into Rudy Read More

1982
Condorman

Actors: Michael Crawford, Oliver Reed, Barbara Carrera, James Hampton, Jean-Pierre Kalfon

Synopsis: The creator of a comic-book series (Michael Crawford) is recruited by a friend in the CIA (James Hampton) to rescue a beautiful Soviet defector (Barbara Carrera). He agrees, as long as he is permitted to don the persona of his most famous character, Condorman. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

1981
Hecate

Actors: Bernard Giraudeau, Lauren Hutton, Jean Bouise, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Gerard Desarthe

Synopsis: Clothilde de Watteville (Lauren Hutton) is compared to "Hecate," a three-headed Greek fertility goddess and a protector of witches who came to be associated with Persphone and Hades. Clothilde/Hecate runs into Julien Rochelle (Bernard Giraudeau), a very young French diplomat in north Africa just 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
The Dogs of War

Actors: Christopher Walken, Tom Berenger, Colin Blakely, Hugh Millais, Paul Freeman

Synopsis: Christopher Walken stars in John Irvin's graphic adaptation of Frederick Forsythe's novel about a mercenary sent to overthrow the government of an African country. Walken is Shannon, an American soldier of fortune who has staged incidents in Central America and Africa that helped topple Read More

1981
Mille Milliards de Dollars

Actors: Patrick Dewaere, Caroline Cellier, Anny Duperey, Jeanne Moreau, Fernand Ledoux

Synopsis: A young jounalist (Patrick Dewaere) stumbles across something much more sinister than a simple suicide in the death of a politician - the death seems to be an assassination contrived by an American multinational company intent on taking over several French industries. The journalist's objective is Read More

1981
La Guerre des Polices

Actors: Claude Rich, Claude Brasseur, Marlène Jobert, François Perier, Jean-François Stévenin

Synopsis: Fush (Claude Brasseur) and Ballestrat (Claude Rich) are the rival police detectives who head different departments trying to capture a notorious gangster in this crime thriller. Both are not above using underhanded and illegal means to attain their goals. Marie (Marlene Jobert) a the female cop in Read More

1979
La Femme Flic

Actors: Miou-Miou, Jean-Marc Thibault, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, François Simon

Synopsis: Corinne (Miou-Miou) is a Parisian detective who is transferred to a small village in Northern France when an investigation uncovers evidence that is potentially damaging to some powerful local politicians. She is temporarily given a desk job before she is called on to solve the murder of a little Read More

1979
Le Coup Du Singe

Crew: Director

Actors: Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Gerard Sergue

1978
La Chanson de Roland

Actors: Klaus Kinski, Dominique Sanda, Alain Cuny, Pierre Clémenti, Jean-Pierre Kalfon

Synopsis: Roland des Roncesvalles is a legendary knight from the age of chivalry in France. In the 11th-century epic La Chanson de Roland, he is depicted as a key figure in halting the advance of the Arabs into France. In this story, the 10th-century legend is staged by a group of 12th-century pilgrims Read More

1978
Les Apprentis Sorciers

Actors: Zouzou, Peter Chatel, Marie-France Pisier, Christian Marquand, Dennis Hopper

Synopsis: "Radical chic" was a phenomenon of the upper classes in the late '60s and early '70s: liberal, socially concerned and very wealthy people would emulate the attitudes, mannerisms and style of the radicalized and revolutionary poor. They would even go so far as to socialize with revolutionaries and Read More

1977
L'Apprenti Salaud

Actors: Robert Lamoureux, Christine Dejoux, Claude Piéplu, Georges Wilson, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze, Jean-Pierre Kalfon

Synopsis: Antoine (Robert Lamoureux) was a pleasant and agreeable man for years, until a small inheritance begins to give him some dangerous ideas about gaining wealth and women. Partly in order to win the affections of a young woman, he becomes a small-time con man on the basis of some ideas his accountant Read More

1977
Le Bon et les Méchants

Actors: Jacques Dutronc, Marlène Jobert, Bruno Cremer, Jacques Villeret, Brigitte Fossey

Synopsis: Bolstered by the buoyant performance by Jacques Dutronc as a car-mechanic turned pro-thief, this French film follows the exploits of Jacques (Dutronc) and his Jewish co-conspirator Simon (Jacques Villeret) as their robberies, beginning well before the Second World War, take on a political Read More

1976
Zig-Zig

Actors: Catherine Deneuve, Bernadette Lafont, Hubert Deschamps, Walter Chiari, Stephane Shandor

Synopsis: This off-beat drama is set within the sleazy Pigalle sector of Paris. The tale centers on a song-and-dance team who work in a night club. When not at the club, the two work as prostitutes. One of the women ends up entangled in a kidnapping and is killed. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1/1/75
Un Ange Passe

Actors: Laurent Terzieff, Maurice Garrel, Bulle Ogier, Jean-Pierre Kalfon

1974
Les Gants Blancs du Diable

Actors: Bernadette Lafont, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Yves Alfonso, Stephane Shandor

Synopsis: An enigmatic man, blind in one eye at first and later blind in both, is the hit man in this French thriller. The films opens with this man, in dark glasses, walking into a bar and shooting a barkeeper. With the help of an unscrupulous doctor, the gunman has donated one of his eyes to a government Read More

1973
La Vallée

Actors: Bulle Ogier, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Michael Gothard, Valerie Lagrange

Synopsis: An early film by director Barbet Schroeder, La Vallée stars Bulle Ogier as the wife of a diplomat who embarks on a journey through the jungles of New Guinea in order to locate a rarely seen type of bird feather. During the course of her quest, she meets up with a group of free-spirited hippies who Read More

1972
Jupiter

Actors: Martial Raysse

Synopsis: For reasons that never become clear, a hippie troupe rollicks around the countryside as the members search for a girl named Odalisque (Marsiale Giraudy). At the same time, Odalisque is traveling about looking for the head of their troupe, Jupiter (Martial Raysse). The film makes much of the Read More

1971
Paul

Actors: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Bernadette Lafont, Jean-Pierre Kalfon

Synopsis: Paul (Jean-Pierre Leaud) leaves his wealthy parents behind to go on a spiritual quest. He meets up with Yvan (Jean-Pierre Kalfon), leader of a vegetarian cult whose members survive by begging for food in uncomfortable robes. The religious fanatics draw the ire of local peasants when they are Read More

1969
La Bande a Bonnot

Actors: Jacques Brel, Bruno Cremer, Annie Girardot, Jean-Pierre Kalfon

Synopsis: A group of French anarchists are moved to violence when their leader Raymond (Jacques Brel) is captured. They take up with the notorious gangster Bonnot (Bruno Cremer) and the gang steals a car to use in a bank robbery. The non-violent anarchists soon turn to killing and murder the guards before Read More

10/30/68
Les Gauloises Bleues

Actors: Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Nella Bielski, Annie Girardot, Bruno Cremer, Henri Garcin

Synopsis: The harsh life of a troubled young man provides the basis of this grim French tragedy that begins when the fellow stops into a shop to buy a pack of the title cigarettes. There he meets a pretty shop girl with whom he falls in love and eventually marries. It was a foolish choice, for the two Read More

1968
Les Oiseaux Vont Mourir Au Peru

Actors: Jean Seberg, Maurice Ronet, Pierre Brasseur, Jean-Pierre Kalfon

Synopsis: This sexual psychodrama was the first film to receive an X-rating in the US. Written and directed by Romain Gary and starring his wife Jean Seberg, it is the chronicle of a nymphomaniac who feels compelled to have sex with every man she meets. As the sordid tale begins she is engaged in group sex Read More

1968
Les Idoles

Actors: Bulle Ogier, Pierre Clémenti, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Valerie Lagrange

Synopsis: This satire concerns three French singing idols and their attempt to stay in the public eye. A press conference, backstage hedonism, psychedelia, manipulative managers and disc jockeys are portrayed as the pop culture is thoroughly and effectively lampooned in this independent feature. ~ Dan Read More

1968
L'Amour Fou

Actors: Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Bulle Ogier, André S. Labarthe, Denis Berry

Synopsis: A director and his actress lover rehearse for a tragic play. Complications set in when their life at home affects their performances at work. The director professes his love for the woman while seeking comfort in the arms of other women in the stage production. The sensitive woman tries to Read More

1968
Weekend

Actors: Mireille Darc, Jean Yanne, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Valerie Lagrange, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Jean Eustache, Paul Gégauff

Synopsis: French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard's Le Weekend remains his most consistently relentless attack on the bourgeois values of his own country and the perceived imperialism of the United States. Mireille Darc plays the central character, an "average" woman who is systematically radicalized during a Read More

12/29/67
Mamaia

Actors: Adriana Bogdan, Chris Avram, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Pascal Aubier

Synopsis: Balthazar (Jean-Pierre Kalfon) is a scheming beatnik who has an affair with Nana (Adriana Bogdan), the young Rumanian woman who is unsure about her impending marriage to a conscientious student. The two meet in between their two very different worlds before resolving to go their separate ways. Read More

1967
Birds Do It

Actors: Soupy Sales, Tab Hunter, Arthur O'Connell, Edward Andrews, Doris Dowling

Synopsis: Comedian Soupy Sales makes his feature film debut in this silly outing as a janitor cleaning up at Cape Kennedy. He has been specially assigned to make sure that none of the nuclear warheads there get dusty. It's not easy because spies run around spreading dust. One day the janitor stumbles into Read More

1966
Une Fille Et Des Fusils

Actors: Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Pierre Barouh, Amidou, Jacques Portet

Synopsis: Four young Frenchmen enamored with romantic images of American movie gangsters, quit their jobs to become crooks themselves in this comedy. Unfortunately, none of the lads have the knack for pulling off capers. For example, when they try to abduct a movie star they end up with her stand in. Read More

1965
Le Concerto de la Peur

Actors: Hans Verner, Jean-Pierre Kalfon

Synopsis: In this French thriller, two rival mobsters fight for control of the local drug traffic. The film also includes a lesbian nightclub act. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1962

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