Julien Guiomar Filmography

Léolo

Actors: Maxime Collin, Ginette Reno, Roland Blouin, Julien Guiomar, Pierre Bourgault

Synopsis: Jean-Claude Lauzon's highly praised film tells the strange story of Léolo, a young boy from Montréal. Told from Léolo's point-of-view, the film depicts his family of lunatics and Léolo's attempts to deal with them. Not one individual in the boy's life is well adjusted. His brother, after being Read More

Je M'appelle Victor

Actors: Jeanne Moreau, Micheline Presle, Dominique Pinon, Julien Guiomar

Synopsis: No one knows, or is ever likely to know how many disabled or handicapped relatives have been hidden from the outside world in attics and basements over the years. In this wry comedy, Basile (Claudio Bucella) is an eleven-year old boy living in a rural French town (along with his mother) with his Read More

Ripoux Contre Ripoux

Actors: Philippe Noiret, Thierry Lhermitte, Guy Marchand, Line Renaud, Grace de Capitani

Synopsis: A "ripoux" is, in French slang, a policeman who accepts bribes, shakes down "honest" criminals for a cut of their action, at a level which can range from the familiar (U.S.) paradigm of accepting free donuts, to serious criminal activity. This comic police thriller is a sequel to the hugely Read More

Plein Fer

Actors: Serge Reggiani, Francois Negret, 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

African Timber

Actors: Heiner Lauterbach, Deborah Lacey, Julien Guiomar, Kofi Baba Bucknor

Synopsis: Filmed on location in Ghana, African Timber concerns dirty work in the lumber industry. Heiner Lauterbach plays the new manager of a West German lumber company. The manager's predecessor has died under mysterious circumstances. The apparent reason for the man's death, which the new manager does Read More

Asterix et le coup du menhir

Actors: Roger Carel, Pierre Tornade, Henri Labussiere, Marie-Anne Chazel, Julien Guiomar

Synopsis: For those unfamiliar with Asterix, a popular character in European cartoons and comic books, he is a courageous but humorous-looking warrior of the Gauls in Roman times, and often single-handedly fights off the encroachments of the Romans. In this feature-length cartoon, the Romans have conquered Read More

Terre Sacree

Actors: Joaquim de Almeida, Isabel Otero, Julien Guiomar, Maria Teresa Fricke

Dernier Ete A Tanger

Actors: Valeria Golino, Thierry Lhermitte, Roger Hanin, Vincent Lindon, Jean Bouise

Synopsis: Valeria Golino plays a double role in this thrilling crime drama. A woman returns years later to Tangiers in order to track down the thugs responsible for the gangland-style massacre that killed her father. Corrigan (Thierry Lhermitte) is the local detective recruited to find the international Read More

Les Deux Crocodiles

Actors: Jean-Pierre Marielle, Jean Carmet, Julien Guiomar, Marie-Christine Adam, Catherine Lachens, Annie Savarin, Dora Doll

Synopsis: Rene (Jean-Pierre Marielle) is a small-time crook who tries to shake down storekeeper Emile (Jean Carmet) in this uneven and humorless comedy. Things change when Rene starts to fall for the terminally boring and provincial Emile. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide Read More

Flagrante Delicto

Actors: Richard Bohringer, Pierre Arditi, Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu, Philippe Pouchain, Anne Letourneau

Synopsis: Simon (Richard Bohringer) is a veteran cop who suspects his boss Tramoni (Pierre Arditi) is on the take in this dramatic thriller. When he orders Simon off the job of tracking some notorious thieves, the detective begins to gather more evidence by hanging out in the seedy gambling dives. ~ Dan Read More

Le Debutant

Actors: Francis Perrin, Christiane Jean, Julien Guiomar, Dominique Lavanant, Jean-Claude Brialy

Synopsis: In this semi-autobiographical comedy by Francis Perrin, he plays a character partially based on himself in the guise of Francois Veber, a lowly electrician from the provinces who finds success as an actor in the Comedie-Francaise. Veber/Perrin goes to study acting at the Paris Conservatoire and Read More

Le Matou

Actors: Serge Dupire, Monique Spaziani, Jean Carmet, Guillaume Lemay-Thivierge, Julien Guiomar

Synopsis: Le Matou is based on a novel by Yves Beauchemin. The title translates freely to "Alley Cat", in reference to a pet owned by a Canadian street kid. Cat and kid are but two of several eccentrics with whom restauranteurs Jean Carmet and Monique Spaziani come in contact. Others include a bombastic Read More

L'Arbre Sous la Mer

Actors: Christophe Malavoy, Julien Guiomar

Synopsis: Based on a book by Nikos Athenassiadis titled A Naked Young Girl, this slight, uneven fantasy-romance takes place on an isolated Greek island with a unique, petrified tree -- a part of the reason why Mathieu, a geologist (Christophe Malavoy) has arrived to do some research there. Other than the Read More

Carmen

Actors: Julia Migenes, Plácido Domingo, Ruggero Raimondi, Faith Esham, Jean-Philippe Lafont

Synopsis: Georges Bizet's 1875 opera about Carmen, the colorful cigarette factory worker whose flirtations with the soldier Don José are forgotten in her love for the matador Escamillo, is the source for director Francesco Rosi's cinematic version of the same story. Plácido Domingo sings the part of Don Read More

Les Ripoux

Actors: Philippe Noiret, Thierry Lhermitte, Regine, Grace de Capitani, Julien Guiomar

Synopsis: This run-of-the-mill police comedy drama focuses on two policemen, René (Philippe Noiret), a somewhat grubby plainclothes policeman who has lived on bribes and minor racketeering for the last 20 years, and his new partner François (Thierry Lhermitte), especially honest and certainly naive. René is Read More

Un Chien dans un Jeu de Quilles

Actors: Pierre Richard, Jean Carmet, Julien Guiomar, Sylvie Joly, Sylvie Jolie, Beatrice Camurat

Synopsis: In this rural comedy Pierre Cohen (Pierre Richard) is a sophisticated Parisian psychologist who travels to his brother's farm in Britanny to save it from a hostile takeover by a local landlord. The psychologist decides to save the farm by using the tricks of his trade -- psychological warfare, as Read More

Papy Fait de la Resistance

Actors: Christian Clavier, Michel Galabru, Gérard Jugnot, Martin Lamotte, Dominique Lavanant

Synopsis: In this uneven take-off on some reluctant resistance fighters in World War II, a family of musicians find themselves the unwilling hosts of a segment of the German High Command when their Paris mansion is taken over by the occupying forces. What happens next is a series of individual skits, cameo Read More

Equateur

Actors: Barbara Sukowa, Francis Huster, René Kolldehoff, Francois Dyrek, Julien Guiomar, Jean Bouise

Synopsis: Although based on a novel by Georges Simenon, director (and songwriter) Serge Gainsbourg has superimposed several dark emotions and a subtle brutality over the weak plot about a man's trip to Africa and his unfortunate passion for a murderess whose amorality sends the disillusioned fellow back to Read More

Est-Ce Bien Raisonnable?

Actors: Miou-Miou, Gérard Lanvin, Renée Saint-Cyr, Julien Guiomar, Michel Galabru

Synopsis: Gerard Louvier (Gerard Lanvin), a young criminal trying to stay a few steps ahead of a police manhunt, winds up with Julie Boucher (Miou-Miou), a journalist searching out another story -- who thinks he is an up-and-coming judge with leads on her own case. The confusion is a catalyst for some Read More

Inspecteur la Bavure

Actors: Coluche, Gérard Depardieu, Dominique Lavanant, Julien Guiomar

Synopsis: In one of Coluche's earlier films, the late French comedian stars in this standard comedy by Claude Zidi as the inept police inspector, Michel Clement. The senior Clement was a spectacular policeman, and Michel finds it particularly difficult to try and walk in his father's footsteps without Read More

Le Bar du Telephone

Actors: Daniel Duval, François Perier, Georges Wilson, Julien Guiomar, Raymond Pellegrin

Synopsis: Director Claude Barrois based this crime thriller on an actual 1978 barroom massacre. When a yahoo criminal (Daniel Duval) offends a gangland don, the don hires a group of thugs to eliminate the lone upstart. The thugs invade the bar and shoot everyone in sight, but unfortunately their sole target Read More

Caro Papà

Actors: Vittorio Gassman, Aurore Clément, Andrée LaChapelle, Stefano Madia, Julien Guiomar

Synopsis: Dear Father and Dear Papa are the English-language titles for the Italian domestic drama Caro Papa. Vittorio Gassman plays a flint-hearted industrialist who thinks as little of destroying his business partner as he does of cheating on his wife. Gassman's son is an apparently weak-willed lad, who Read More

Milo-Milo

Ils Sont Fous Ces Sorciers

Actors: Jean Lefebvre, Henri Guybet, Renée Saint-Cyr, Julien Guiomar, Catherine Lachens

Synopsis: During a vacation to a remote tropical hideaway on the African Maurice Islands, two Parisians (Jean Lefebvre and Henri Guybet), rather the worse for wear, urinate on a sacred totem statue. This irreverent act brings them to the attention of the local gods, who punish them by making them invisible Read More

La Zizanie

Actors: Louis de Funès, Annie Girardot, Maurice Risch, Julien Guiomar, Jean-Jacques Moreau

Synopsis: An inventor and a small-time industrialist, Guillaume (Louis De Funes) has come up with something which will take advantage of air pollution and manages to confuse a delegation of Japanese into placing an order for 3,000 of the things. Just a few obstacles stand in the way of his delivering on the Read More

Les Ringards

Actors: Mireille Darc, Aldo Maccione, Julien Guiomar, Charles Gerard, Georges Wilson

Synopsis: Though they are surprisingly ill-suited for their chosen vocation of thievery, the three men (Aldo Maccione, Charles Gerard and Julien Guiomar) in this story are sufficiently charming to intrigue the wife (Mireille Darc) of a police inspector (Georges Wilson) who is persecuting them based on his Read More

Je Vous Ferai Aimer la Vie

Actors: Marie Dubois, Julien Guiomar, Stephane Garcin

L'Animal

Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Raquel Welch, Charles Gerard, Dany Saval, Julien Guiomar

Synopsis: Jean-Paul Belmondo plays Michel Gauché, a stunt double and trickster who is crazy in love with his former fiancee, work-mate, and fellow stunt performer Jane (Raquel Welch). She, however, is so angry with him for landing her in the hospital due to a badly performed stunt that she breaks off the Read More

Mort d'un Pourri

Actors: Alain Delon, Ornella Muti, Stéphane Audran, Maurice Ronet, Mireille Darc

Synopsis: Xavier Marechal (Alain Delon) is a businessman whose long-time business partner and friend is Philippe Dubaye (Maurice Ronet) a member of the French parliamentary assembly. In the film, Philippe has just killed Cerrano, a fellow assemblyman who threatened to disclose Philippe's involvement in Read More

Mado

Actors: Michel Piccoli, Ottavia Piccolo, Jacques Dutronc, Romy Schneider, Charles Denner

Synopsis: Michel Piccoli plays Simon, a French businessman reluctantly venturing into middle age. As he deals with his own midlife crisis, Simon becomes virtually oblivious to the social changes around him. The businessman tries to counter advancing age with an increased sex life, but finds that women Read More

L'Aile Ou la Cuisse

Actors: Louis de Funès, Coluche, Ann Zacharias, Julien Guiomar, Claude Gensac

Synopsis: In this comedy, Louis de Funes is a top restaurant critic, the head of an important French culinary guide. At the beginning of the film, he and his son (Coluche) are at odds, as the son prefers working as a circus clown to studying the fine arts of gastronomy. The two join forces, however, to Read More

Barocco

Actors: Isabelle Adjani, Gérard Depardieu, Marie-France Pisier, Jean-Claude Brialy, Julien Guiomar

Synopsis: Former film critic André Téchiné directed and co-wrote this offbeat crime drama. Samson (Gérard Depardieu) is a down-on-his-luck boxer who manages to win a fortune thanks to a fixed fight. However, while Samson and his girlfriend Laure (Isabelle Adjani) are trying to get away with the money, he is Read More

Section Spéciale

Actors: Louis Seigner, Michel Lonsdale, François Maistre, Ivo Garrani, Henri Serre, Roland Bertin, Pierre Dux

Synopsis: Based on a true story, Costa-Gavras' Special Section (Section Speciale) is set in wartime France, but the parallels to contemporary political persecution are inescapable. A young German naval officer is killed in occupied Paris. The supplicative Vichy government sets about to locate the Read More

L'Incorrigible

Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Geneviève Bujold, Julien Guiomar, Charles Gerard, Capucine

Synopsis: Right after his release from prison, Victor (Jean-Paul Belmondo) resumes his con-man activities. He rents apartments he doesn't own, sells nonexistent fighter planes to African countries, and by turns pretends to be a gardener, lawyer, private detective, governmental official, and even a Read More

Adieu Poulet

Actors: Lino Ventura, Patrick Dewaere, Victor Lanoux, Françoise Brion, Claude Rich

Synopsis: In truth, there are two French Detectives in this European crime melodrama. Lino Ventura plays an aging, been-around gumshoe, while Patrick Dewaere is his young, callow and cynical associate. The two detectives don't like each other much at first, but this will change. Their current assignment Read More

Le Grande Trouille

Actors: Peter Cushing

Synopsis: When Macgregor (Peter Cushing) announces that he is no longer going to appear in horror films, but wants to work in romances, two screenwriters are sent to his eerie house to try to persuade the ghoulish man to keep doing horror films. They are not above dotting his house and the surrounding Read More

Une Baleine Qui Avait Mal Aux Dents

Actors: Bernadette Lafont, Francis Blanche, Henri Labussiere, Julien Guiomar

Synopsis: The friendship between three men and a woman who is the wife of one of them is explored in this French drama. The gentle equilibrium between them all is disturbed when a fourth man enters the picture. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide Read More

Souvenirs d'en France

Actors: Jeanne Moreau, Michel Auclair, Marie-France Pisier, Claude Mann, Julien Guiomar

Synopsis: Director André Téchiné brings his usual obsessions -- including a preoccupation with the fortunes of the bourgeoisie -- to this episodic drama, which serves as a thinly-veiled portrait of France's economic peaks and valleys from the 1930s through the 1970s. Jeanne Moreau stars as Berthe Pedret, a Read More

Dites-le Avec Des Fleurs

Actors: Delphine Seyrig, John Moulder-Brown, Fernando Rey, Rocio Dúrcal

Synopsis: In this bizarre psychological thriller, a handsome young boy (John Mouder-Brown), who is marred by a strange birthmark on his face, tells a disturbing tale about how his family died. The family had been living for some time in a villa which was overgrown with flowering vines. Some of the vines Read More

La Moutarde Me Monte Au Nez

Actors: Pierre Richard, Jane Birkin, Claude Piéplu, Danielle Minazzoli

Synopsis: Pierre (Pierre Richard) is a rumpled-looking fellow, consistently overlooked by the nubile girls at the college where he teaches mathematics. However, when he wins the affection of a movie star (Jane Birkin), he wins more attention than he bargained on: his stuffy father disapproves of the affair Read More

La Proprieta Non E Piu un Furto

Actors: Flavio Bucci, Ugo Tognazzi

Synopsis: Italian Director Elio Petri, best known for his film Investigation Of A Citizen Above Suspicion, here tells a complicated tale about a bank clerk who is literally allergic to money. Not only that, the clerk (Flavio Bucci) doesn't like the effect money has on people. For some reason, he steals Read More

La Raison du Plus Fou

Actors: Raymond Devos, Alice Sapritch, Jean Carmet, Julien Guiomar

Synopsis: When sanitarium cook Surveillant (Raymond Devos) liberates a couple of patients and takes them on a trip to gaze on the ocean for the first time, he lands in hot water with his boss the director, who is a hard-hearted harridan with no time for such nonsense. In any event, the bumbling cook has Read More

La Violenza: Quinto Potere

Home Sweet Home

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: This French thriller by first-time director Liliane de Kermadec follows the adventures of an amorous threesome on their bike tour through the countryside. When they visit an ominous country mansion, all is not as it seems. Are they dreaming of terror within, or is it real? ~ Clarke Fountain, All Read More

Doucement Les Basses!

Actors: Paul Meurisse, Natalie Delon, Julien Guiomar, Alain Delon

Synopsis: In this French comedy, Alain Delon is Simon, a young man who has entered the priesthood after learning of the death of his wife, Rita (Nathalie Delon). Problems abound when he discovers her among the living, and living as a hooker, no less. Paul Meurisse lends his dry humor to the proceedings as Read More

Les Mariés De L'An II

Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Marlène Jobert, Laura Antonelli, Sami Frey

Synopsis: This film is a French period comic romance, set in the time just surrounding the French Revolution (1789). "Year Two," of the French title refers to the second year following the revolution. Those who guided the French Revolution renamed the days of the week, the months of the year, and much more. Read More

L'Etrangleur

Actors: Jacques Perrin, Julien Guiomar, Nicole Courcel, Eva Simonet

Synopsis: Unhappy women are being murdered by Emile (Jacques Perrin), a psychotic young man suffering from the delusion that his acts are mercy killings. The detective (Julien Guiomar) assigned to track down the killer resorts to seriously unorthodox and even unethical methods to get his man. In one Read More

Borsalino

Actors: Alain Delon, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Michel Bouquet, Catherine Rouvel, Corinne Marchand

Synopsis: Based on a Eugene Saccomano novel entitled The Bandits of Marseilles, this movie was followed by a sequel entitled Borsalino and Co. This movie captures the mood of 1930 Marseilles beautifully with the use of ambience and music. Alain Delon and Jean-Paul Belmondo portray two gangsters who kill Read More

La Horse

Actors: Jean Gabin, Elenore Hirt, André Weber, Christian Barbier, Pierre Dux, Julien Guiomar

Synopsis: A grandfather (Jean Gabin) kills a gangster who comes looking for his grandson at the family farm. The boy was involved in hiding heroin for the mob, but the grandfather finds the dope before the gang can retrieve it. He buries the dead goon in the back yard and drives his car into the stream. Read More

La Voie Lactée

Actors: Laurent Terzieff, Paul Frankeur, Alain Cuny, Delphine Seyrig, Edith Scob, Bernard Verley

Synopsis: While arch surrealist Luis Bunuel never made a secret of his skepticism about the existence of God, he was also raised as a strict Spanish Catholic and remained fascinated with the church's teaching throughout his life, and his obsessions with both faith and the contradictions of dogma provided Read More

La Fiancée du Pirate

Actors: Bernadette Lafont, Georges Géret, Julien Guiomar, Michel Constantin, Jean Parédès, Frances Lax

Synopsis: Also known as La Fiancée du Pirate and Dirty Mary, this French comedy noir stars Bernadette Lafont as Marie, the title character. Early in the game, Marie learns how to use sex as a means to an end. She enjoys the favors of several of her town's leading citizens, not-too-subtly suggesting that her Read More

Z

Actors: Yves Montand, Irene Papas, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jacques Perrin, François Perier

Synopsis: Z is one of the most politically insightful films ever made, exposing government hypocrisy and cover-up in the wake of a political assassination. Zei (Yves Montand) is a scientist who is scheduled to give a speech against the use of the atomic bomb. On the way to the event, he is attacked outside Read More

Louve Solitaire

Actors: Daniele Gaubert, Michel Duchaussoy, Julien Guiomar, Sacha Pitoeff

Synopsis: Louve (Daniele Gaubert) is an accomplished cat burglar on the prowl for a new partner in crime. When she can find no one to share in her criminal adventures, the former acrobat uses her talents to walk on wires, scale walls and pull off a heist at the home of some wealthy patrons busily engaged in Read More

For a Distant Love

Actors: Jean Rochefort, Julien Guiomar, Jacques Jouanneau, Isabel Jardim, Cristina Jardim

Synopsis: A trio of French actors head to Rio in hopes of making decisions about their future. Instead, they end up contending with romance. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Ballade Pour Un Chien

Actors: Charles Vanel, Julien Guiomar, Claude Genia

Synopsis: Remi (Charles Vanel) is a man on the verge of old age who begins to have hallucinations. He believes he has found a dog, but the canine is just a product of his imagination. The man takes a turn for the worse when his only friend, his poet neighbor, moves. He is left alone with his hallucinations Read More

Pour Un Amour Lointain

Actors: Jean Rochefort, Julien Guiomar, Isabel Jardim

Le Voleur

Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Geneviève Bujold, Marie Dubois, Julien Guiomar, Paul Le Person

Synopsis: Louis Malle directed this light comedy about crime and class in the City of Light. Georges Randal (Jean-Paul Belmondo) is a young man living in Paris at the turn of the century who is due to inherit a considerable fortune. However, his uncle, who is acting as his guardian, manages to spend Read More

King of Hearts

Actors: Alan Bates, Geneviève Bujold, Julien Guiomar, Jean-Claude Brialy, Pierre Brasseur, Micheline Presle

Synopsis: The French/Italian/British King of Hearts (Le Roi de Coeur) takes place during World War I, but it might as well have been the Vietnamese conflict so far as its youthful "core" audience was concerned. Overacting outrageously, Adolfo Celi plays British colonel Alexander MacBibenbrook, who orders Read More