José GarciaFilmography

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Asterix at the Olympic Games

Actors: Clovis Cornillac, Gérard Depardieu, Benoît Poelvoorde, Alain Delon, Stéphane Rousseau

Synopsis: Rene Goscinny and Albert Uderzo's internationally popular cartoon characters Asterix and Obelix take on the world of athletics in this live-action comedy-adventure. It's 50 B.C., and short but wily Asterix (Clovis Cornillac) and his rotund sidekick Obelix (Gerard Depardieu) hit the road for Rome Read More

2008
Pars vite et Reviens tard

Actors: José Garcia, Lucas Belvaux, Marie Gillain, Olivier Gourmet

Synopsis: The bleakest and most claustrophobic nightmare of many a European actualizes in director Régis Wargnier's apocalyptic thriller Pars vite et reviens tard (AKA Have Mercy on Us All). Not long after his abandonment by his girlfriend, French police captain Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg is confronted by a Read More

1/24/07
His Majesty Minor

Actors: José Garcia, Vincent Cassel, Sergio Peris-Mencheta, Melanie Bernier, Claude Brasseur

Synopsis: Jean-Jacques Annaud directed and co-wrote this wildly offbeat comic fantasy set in an ancient land in the Aegean Sea thousands of years ago. Minor (José Garcia) was abandoned by his parents as a child and was raised by a pack of pigs; he speaks in porcine grunts and lives and loves much like his Read More

2007
Quatre étoiles

Actors: Isabelle Carré, José Garcia, François Cluzet, Jean-Paul Bonnaire, Michel Vuillermoz

Synopsis: French helmer Christian Vincent's quirky labyrinthine comedy Quatre étoiles (AKA Stars, 2005) opens with a comely young girl named Franssou (nicknamed France) stumbling into a highly promising set of circumstances. Though France's great-great aunt feels less than completely enchanted with her Read More

2006
GAL

Actors: José Garcia, Natalia Verbeke, Jordi Mollà, Ana Alvarez, Merce Llorens

Synopsis: A pair of reporters uncover a secret war that threatens the peace of two nations in this thriller based on actual events. In the 1980s, the Grupos Antiterroristas de Liberacion (or GAL) was an anti-terrorist organization sponsored by the Spanish government that was launched in response to attacks Read More

2006
Après Vous...

Actors: Daniel Auteuil, José Garcia, Sandrine Kiberlain, Marilyne Canto, Michèle Moretti

Synopsis: Antoine (Daniel Auteuil of The Closet), the busy manager of a fancy restaurant, cuts through a park in his rush to meet his frustrated girlfriend, Christine (Marilyne Canto), when he stumbles across Louis (José Garcia) attempting to hang himself. Antoine foils his efforts and takes the intensely Read More

6/3/05
The Ax

Actors: José Garcia, Karin Viard, Olivier Gourmet, Ulrich Tukur, Yvon Back

2005
The Black Box

Actors: José Garcia, Marion Cotillard, Michel Duchaussoy, Bernard Le Coq, Gérald Laroche

2005
The 7th Day

Actors: Juan Diego, José Luis Gómez, José Garcia, Victoria Abril, Yohana Cobo

2004
People

Actors: Rupert Everett, José Garcia, Ornella Muti, Elie Semoun, Rossy de Palma

Synopsis: Jet Set writer/director Fabien Onteniente returns to craft this sequel set against the backdrop of hedonistic Ibiza, and starring Rupert Everett as a Parisian party planner whose career has been sabotaged by a jealous rival. If you want your party to pop, you call on Charles (Everett). Charles has Read More

2004
Rire et Chatiment

Actors: José Garcia, Isabelle Doval, Laurent Lucas, Benoît Poelvoorde

Synopsis: French director Isabelle Doval directs her husband, popular comedic actor José Garcia, in the comedy Rire et Chatiment (Laughter and Punishment). Vincent (Garcia) is a popular physician whose aggressive need to be funny and get people's attention annoys his girlfriend, Camille (Doval), to the Read More

2003
Utopia

Actors: Leonardo Sbaraglia, Najwa Nimri, Tchéky Karyo, José Garcia, Emma Vilarasau

2003
Blanche

Actors: Lou Doillon, Roschdy Zem, Jean Rochefort, Carole Bouquet, José Garcia

Synopsis: A young woman bent on revenge becomes a legendary thief in the vein of Robin Hood in director Bernie Bonvoisin's 2002 comic swashbuckler Blanche. When she was 14, young Blanche de Perrone's family was massacred by the Cardinal Mazarin's (Jean Rochefort) right-hand man, Captain KKK (Antoine de Caunes Read More

2002
Quelqu'un de Bien

Actors: Marianne Denicourt, Patrick Timsit, Natacha Lindinger, José Garcia, Elise Tielrooy

2002
Le Boulet

Actors: Gérard Lanvin, Benoît Poelvoorde, José Garcia, Djimon Hounsou, Rossy de Palma

Synopsis: French filmmakers Alain Berberian and Frédéric Forestier direct the buddy action comedy Le Boulet (Dead Weight). Tough criminal Moltes (Gérard Lanvin) lands in jail after killing the brother of the Turk (José Garcia). Prison guard Reggio (Benoît Poelvoorde) lets Moltes have a weekly lottery ticket Read More

2002
Trouble Every Day

Actors: Vincent Gallo, Tricia Vessey, Béatrice Dalle, Alex Descas, Florence Loiret

Synopsis: Two strangers share a strange and terrible bond in this stylish horror tale that juggles sex and graphic bloodshed. Shane Brown (Vincent Gallo) is a strange man with a forbidding nature who has just married lovely but nervous June (Tricia Vessey), and they've decided to go to Paris for their Read More

3/1/01
La Verite Si Je Mens! 2

Actors: Richard Anconina, José Garcia, Bruno Solo, Gad Elmaleh, Gilbert Melki

Synopsis: The Sephardic Jewish characters who headlined the riotous 1997 comedy Would I Lie To You? - all employees in the garment business - return for this laugh-filled 2001 sequel. At the center of the farce are Dov (Gad Elmaleh), Patrick (Gilbert Melki), Serge (Jose Garcia), Yvan (Bruno Solo) and Eddie Read More

2001
Le Velo De Ghislain Lambert

Actors: Benoît Poelvoorde, Antoine de Caunes, José Garcia, Daniel Ceccaldi, Sacha Bourdo

Synopsis: One man's slow climb up the ladder to modest success is thwarted at every rung in this lightly downbeat comedy-drama. Ghislain Lambert (Benoit Poelvoorde) is a amateur bicycle racer who lives on a small farm in Belgium with his brother, Claude (Jose Garcia), and a hired hand who cannot speak Read More

2001
Love Bites

Actors: Guillaume Canet, Gérard Lanvin, Asia Argento, Gilbert Melki, Jean-Marie Winling

Synopsis: Former French television star Antoine de Caunes turns his sights on the horror genre in his first feature in this goth comedy about trendy nightlife and new-millennium vogue. Antoine (Guillaume Canet is a layabout slacker who lives in a lounge at a health club where a friend lets him stay. After Read More

2001
En Face

Actors: Jean-Hugues Anglade, Clotilde Courau, Christine Boisson, José Garcia, Jean Benguigui

Synopsis: Mathias Ledoux directs this atmospheric erotic thriller. Author Jean Dorset (Jean-Hugues Anglade) has suffered from a bad case of writer's block since his first novel became a bestseller. He lives in a small apartment in Paris with his wife Michelle (Clotilde Courau) and, in spite of their Read More

2000
Les Freres Soeur

Actors: José Garcia, Denis Podalydès, Jackie Berroyer, Edouard Baer, Alexandra London

Synopsis: Frederic Jardin directs this enjoyably nasty showbiz farce starring a veritable who's who of Gallic comedy. Elderly milquetoast Jacques Soeur (Denis Podalydes) has written a 450-page tome which his brother Charlies Souer (Jose Garcia) longs to direct. After making no progress in the tried and true Read More

2000
Jet Set

Actors: Samuel Le Bihan, Lambert Wilson, Ornella Muti, Ariadna Gil, Bruno Solo

Synopsis: In the working-class Paris suburb of Montreuil, Jimmy's (Bruno Solo) restaurant, the Bombay Bar, is on the verge of being closed down by creditors. Jimmy is despondent -- the fact that his wife is about to have a baby isn't helping matters -- when he and his business partner Fifi (Lorant Deutsch) Read More

2000
Cinq Minutes De Detente

Actors: José Garcia, Richard Bohringer, Susan Anbeh

Synopsis: A college student discovers that no good deed goes unpunished in the black comedy Cinq Minutes de Detente (aka A Five Minute Break). Phillippe (Jose Garcia) is a pre-law student at what is described as "a French University in North America." One day during gym class, Phillippe lets a stranger who Read More

1999
Like a Fish Out of Water

Actors: Tchéky Karyo, Monica Bellucci, Dominique Pinon, Michel Muller, Mehmet Ulusoy

Synopsis: A crime comedy that pays sly tribute to spy films of the 1960s, Comme Un Poisson Hors De L'Eau (aka Like a Fish Out of Water concerns Desire (Michel Muller), the nervous and bookish son of a prominent restaurateur. Desire has been corresponding with a lovely Italian woman, Myrtille (Monica Bellucci Read More

1999
Extension du domaine de la lutte

Actors: Philippe Bianco, Philippe Harel, José Garcia, Catherine Mouchet

Synopsis: Philippe Harel both starred in and directed this existential tale of angst, sex, and mass consumption. The protagonist, known only as Our Hero, is a lonely computer programmer who earns enough money but has no friends and has not had sex in over two years. Depressed, he basks in his sullen Read More

1999
Que La Lumière Soit

Actors: Hélène de Fougerolles, Tchéky Karyo, Ticky Holgado, Pierre Arditi, Gordon Tootoosis

Synopsis: Arthur Joffe directed this French comic fantasy, in French and English dialogue, about God (voice of Pierre Arditi), invisible and spinning through Heavenly space on an asteroid, along with his sidekick angel Rene (Ticky Holgado). God observes Earthly events on His television set. After hacking Read More

7/8/98
La Vérité Si Je Mens!

Actors: Richard Anconina, Amira Casar, Vincent Elbaz, Elie Kakou, José Garcia

Synopsis: In this French box-office smash, director Thomas Gilou once again trains his sights on working-class immigrants living in metropolitan Paris, as he did with Black Mic-Mac. This time the subjects are the Sephardic Jews working in the garment district of Sentier. Eddie Vuibert (Richard Anconina) is Read More

4/30/97
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
The Arrival

Actors: Charlie Sheen, Ron Silver, Lindsay Crouse, Teri Polo, Richard Schiff

Synopsis: A shy radio telescope operator named Zane Ziminski (Charlie Sheen) picks up a series of regular signals coming from space -- and deliberately pointed toward Earth. Convinced that he has discovered alien transmissions, Ziminski is first chastised and then fired by his boss (Ron Silver). Obsessed Read More

1996