Laurent MaletFilmography

Ce Jour-La

Actors: Bernard Giraudeau, Elsa Zylberstein, Jean-Luc Bideau, Jean-François Balmer, Christian Vadim

Synopsis: Master filmmaker Raúl Ruiz adds a black comedy to his far-reaching body of work with That Day, a playful meditation on money, death, and false spirituality. Livia (Elsa Zylberstein) and Pointpoirot (Bernard Girardeau) are, respectively, a spoiled society woman who suffers from delusional visions 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

Arthur Rimbaud

Synopsis: Arthur Rimbaud, the title character of this film, was a noted French poet who at the age 26 abandoned his profession to become a North African trader/wanderer. This epic biopic tells his strange and tragic tale. A rather depressive and tormented soul, Rimbaud began his adventures in the early Read More

First Circle

Actors: F. Murray Abraham, Victor Garber, Laurent Malet, Christopher Plummer, Robert Powell, Robert Joy

Synopsis: Based on a Solzhenitsyn book, this is the story of a Moscow official in Stalinist Russia whose future freedom depends on a technological break-through. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

Les Possédés

Actors: Jean-Philippe Ecoffey, Isabelle Huppert, Lambert Wilson, Jutta Lampe, Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Bernard Blier, Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu

Synopsis: This political drama is taken from the classic story from Feodor Dostoyevsky, but liberties have been taken and many secondary characters eliminated. The author's condemnation of a godless society and his disdain of those who follow blindly to popular political causes remains intact. ~ Dan Read More

Charlie Dingo

Actors: Guy Marchand, Caroline Cellier, Laurent Malet, Niels Arestrup, Maurice Barrier

Synopsis: Charlie (Guy Marchand) returns home after being declared legally dead to reclaim his wife Georgia (Caroline Cellier) and cash in on a lucrative life insurance policy in this shadowy drama. He finds Georgia is married to the crooked cop William (Niels Arestrup), who has his eye on the insurance Read More

Sword of Gideon

Actors: Steven Bauer, Michael York, Peter Dvorsky, Robert Joy, Rod Steiger

Synopsis: In the made-for-cable thriller Sword of Gideon, a team of anti-terrorist commandos, led by Steven Bauer, sets out to avenge the deaths of Israeli athletes killed during the Munich Olympics of 1972. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

La Puritaine

Actors: Sandrine Bonnaire, Michel Piccoli, Sabine Azéma, Laurent Malet, Brigitte Coscas

Synopsis: This portrayal of the reunion of an estranged father and daughter is set against the backdrop of a theatrical production. The father Pierre (Michel Piccoli) is the artistic director of a theater, and when his daughter Manon (Sandrine Bonnaire) lets him know that she is coming to see him after a Read More

Parking

Actors: Francis Huster, Laurent Malet, Keiko Ito, Gerard Klein, Marie-France Pisier

Synopsis: Parking is director Jacques Demy's homage to Jean Cocteau's 1948 masterwork Orpheus. As in the Cocteau film, Demy relates the Orpheus and Euridyce legend in a contemporary setting. Now a rock 'n' roll sensation (instead of the poet of the Cocteau film) Orpheus falls in love with Eurydice, who in Read More

Viva la Vie!

Actors: Charlotte Rampling, Michel Piccoli, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Evelyne Bouix, Charles Aznavour

Synopsis: Through a series of convoluted turns, like a tornado going through Kansas, director Claude Lelouch has managed to keep a vacuum at the center of his film. A corporate executive (Michel Piccoli and a young actress (Evelyne Bouix) suddenly disappear and reappear and disappear, almost as fast as Read More

Tir a Vue

Actors: Sandrine Bonnaire, Laurent Malet, Jean Carmet, Michel Jonasz

Synopsis: One of the more forgettable action films, especially for the talented Sandrine Bonnaire who plays Marilyn the anti-heroine, this cops-and-evil-couple story has very little to offer the viewer, other than a murderous, amoral duo hunted down by a pair of policemen with their powers of deduction Read More

À Mort l'Arbitre

Actors: Michel Serrault, Eddy Mitchell, Carole Laure, Laurent Malet, Jean-Pierre Mocky

Synopsis: The mindless frenzy of sports fans is expertly captured in the first half of this action film by Jean-Pierre Mocky on soccer buffs gone mad. After Maurice, a referee in a soccer match, has retired to spend the night with his lover Martine (Carole Laure) a crowd of angry fans disrupts their plans Read More

Cuore

Actors: Johnny Dorelli, Bernard Blier, Giuliana de Sio, Andréa Ferréol, Laurent Malet

Synopsis: Originally a six-hour mini-series, Cuore lost four hours after being cut down to this sentimental feature-length film on life before the turn of the 20th century. Four soldiers meet in the army and reminisce about their childhoods in a bygone era, and these are the scenes that unfold for the Read More

Invitation Au Voyage

Actors: Laurent Malet, Nina Scott, Aurore Clément, Mario Adorf, Raymond Bussières

Synopsis: After his twin sister is killed in an accident, her distraught brother (Laurent Malet) jams her corpse in a cello case and hits the road. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Jacko and Lise

Synopsis: This French comedy stars Laurent Malet as Jacko, an aging delinquent who falls for businessman's fiancee Lise (Evelyne Bouix). ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Querelle

Actors: Brad Davis, Franco Nero, Jeanne Moreau, Laurent Malet, Hanno Pöschl

Synopsis: A sailor learns to take, and give, it like a man in this surrealistic adaptation of writer and thief Jean Genet's novel Querelle de Brest by avant-garde German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder. In a colorful brothel in the port of Brest, proprietor Nono (Gunther Kaufmann) is known for wagering Read More

Jig Saw

Actors: Lino Ventura, Angie Dickinson, Laurent Malet, Hollis McLaren, Donald Pleasence

Synopsis: A man who received false notice that his son had been murdered sets out to uncover the truth about his missing boy in this thriller starring Lino Ventura and Angie Dickinson. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

La Legion Saute Sur Kolwezi

Actors: Giuliano Gemma, Bruno Cremer, Laurent Malet, Jacques Perrin, Mimsy Farmer

Synopsis: The French Foreign Legion intervenes on behalf of 3,000 European and American civilian hostages in the town of Kolwezi, Zaire. Kantangese rebel forces hold the hostages in the small mining town and subject their victims to various ordeals. The military springs into action to save the captives in Read More

Le Coeur a l'Envers

Actors: Annie Girardot, Laurent Malet, Charles Denner, Stéphane Audran

Synopsis: A potentially destructive relationship between mother and son is the topic of this drama by Franck Apprederis. Laure (Annie Girardot) has held her own as a successful child psychiatrist for many years. When her adult son Julien (Laurent Malet) shows up after a twelve-year absence, it leads to a Read More

Bobo, Jacco

Actors: Laurent Malet, Annie Girardot, Michel Montanary, Evelyne Bouix, Jean-Claude Brialy

Synopsis: Jacco (Laurent Malet) and his buddy Freddie (Michel Montanary) are the shiftless louts who frequent a bar run by Madga (Annie Girardot). Magda is Jacco's mistress, and she looks out for him like a surrogate mother. When Jacco meets Magda's daughter Lise (Evelyne Bouix), he drops Magda and Freddie Read More

Les Routes Du Sud

Actors: Yves Montand, Laurent Malet, Miou-Miou, France Lambiotte, José Luis Gómez

Synopsis: Roads to the South is often omitted from the "official" lists of Joseph Losey's films, principally because it was made for French television rather than theatres. Conceived by screenwriter Jorge Semprun and star Yves Montand as a sequel to Alain Resnais' La Guerre est Finie, the film details the Read More

L'Homme en Colère

Actors: Lino Ventura, Angie Dickinson, Laurent Malet, Hollis McLaren, Donald Pleasence

Synopsis: Romain (Lino Ventura) lost his wife in a forest fire, and his son, who blamed him for the death, left France for Canada. Romain is called to Canada to identify the corpse of a murder victim believed to his son. When the murdered man turns out to be someone else, his son automatically becomes the Read More

Haro

Actors: Jean-Claude Bouillon, Nathalie Courval, Laurent Malet, Valérie Mairesse

Synopsis: The plight of a misfit living in the countryside is compounded by his never having been properly registered at birth, which has brought him endless hassles from officialdom. In addition, he has a chip on his shoulder. Though he has committed many thefts and other small crimes in his rural Read More

Les Liens de Sang

Actors: Donald Sutherland, Stéphane Audran, Micheline Lanctôt, Lisa Langlois, Laurent Malet, Aude Landry, Donald Pleasence

Synopsis: Making a rare visit to Canada, Claude Chabrol cowrote and directed the low-pressure psychological melodrama Blood Relatives (Les Liens de sang). Donald Sutherland and Donald Pleasence head the cast in this story of the aftermath of a brutal murder. The victim, a 17-year-old girl, was apparently Read More

Comme Un Boomerang

Actors: Charles Vanel, Alain Delon, Carla Gravina, Louis Julien, Dora Doll

Synopsis: Alain Delon stars in this French/Italian prison-break film. When his son is falsely imprisoned, Delon contrives to bust the boy out. As the title indicates, what comes around goes around in this tense programmer. Delon also cowrote and co-produced. The film was released in Europe as Comme Un Read More