Michel AumontFilmography

Bancs publics

Synopsis: Directed by Bruno Podalydes (who helmed the "Montmartre" segment of the omnibus Paris, I Love You), Bancs publics chronicles three intersecting stories in the city of Versailles: an office worker who hangs a banner reading "Lonely Man" beneath his window, the feuding families and couples in a busy Read More

L'Empreinte de l'ange

Actors: Catherine Frot, Sandrine Bonnaire, Vladimir Yordanoff, Antoine Chappey

Synopsis: In a dramatic setup that recalls the opening act of Robert Wise's chiller Audrey Rose (1977), Sandrine Bonnaire (Monsieur Hire) stars as Claire, a mother terrified by the discovery that a strange woman has begun systematically following her little girl, locked within the grip of obsession. In the Read More

A Pain In the Ass

Actors: Richard Berry, Patrick Timsit, Michel Aumont, Virginie Ledoyen, Pascal Elbe

Synopsis: A man saves the life of a stranger and lives to regret it in this dark comedy from France. Jean (Richard Berry) is a hired killer who has checked himself into a Paris hotel as he waits to complete his latest assignment -- Randoni (Michel Aumont), a former mob boss turned police informant, is going Read More

The Valet

Actors: Gad Elmaleh, Alice Taglioni, Daniel Auteuil, Kristin Scott Thomas, Richard Berry

Synopsis: French farce master Francis Veber (The Dinner Game) combines slapstick laughs with rapid-fire dialogue as he tells the tale of a Parisian valet unwittingly drawn into the affairs of a wealthy industrialist. François Pignon (Gad Elmaleh) is a simple valet employed by a posh Paris restaurant. Read More

Autumn

Actors: Laurent Lucas, Irène Jacob, Benjamin Rolland, Michel Aumont, Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Dinara Droukarova, Samuel Dupuy

Synopsis: A conflicted hitman recently who has reconnected with his childhood soul mate finds his quest for redemption becoming increasingly complicated when the girl steals an important briefcase in director Ra'up McGee's stark crime drama. Jean-Pierre is looking to get out of the life of crime when he Read More

Rene Bousquet Ou Le Grand Arrangement

Actors: Daniel Prévost, Philippe Magnan, Ludmila Mikael, Michel Aumont, Macha Meril

Synopsis: In the 1970s, as French citizens make long-delayed attempts to come to terms with the Nazi collaboration of World War II for the first time, the country buckles beneath the weight of collective guilt. One man - the former Collaborationist police head René Bousquet (Daniel Prevost) - bears primary Read More

Palais Royal!

Actors: Valérie Lemercier, Lambert Wilson, Catherine Deneuve, Michel Aumont, Mathilde Seigner

Synopsis: Valerie Lemercier's royal comedy Palais Royal! stars Valerie Lemercier as a commoner who is married to a prince (Lambert Wilson). When the king dies, the queen (Catherine Deneuve) pulls strings to have the Prince jump the order of succession and take control. The wife has little aptitude for being Read More

Clara et Moi

Synopsis: Arnaud Viard's 2003 French-language feature Clara et Moi chronicles the eccentric romance between the 33-year-old struggling actor Antoine (Julien Boisselier of Le Convoyeur) and Clara (Julie Gayet Les Menteurs), a girl he happens to meet on the subway. Clara happens along at exactly the right Read More

Tais-toi!

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Jean Reno, Richard Berry, André Dussollier, Leonor Varela

The Closet

Actors: Daniel Auteuil, Gérard Depardieu, Thierry Lhermitte, Michèle Laroque, Michel Aumont

Synopsis: While there are plenty of stories about gay men who have pretended to be straight for the sake of their careers, this tart comedy from France considers the dilemma of a straight man doing just the opposite. Francois Pignon (Daniel Auteuil) is an accountant whose personality is bland to the point Read More

1 Chance Sur 2

Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Alain Delon, Vanessa Paradis, Eric Defosse, Alexandre Iakovlev

Synopsis: This French comedy-thriller is directed by Patrice Leconte, who was Oscar-nominated for Ridicule (1996). The film reunites Jean-Paul Belmondo and Alain Delon, almost three decades after they appeared together in Borsalino (1970). Unaware of her father's identity, car thief Alice Tomaso (Vanessa Paradis Read More

L'Homme Est Une Femme Comme Les Autres

Actors: Antoine de Caunes, Elsa Zylberstein, Gad Elmaleh, Michel Aumont, Maurice Bénichou

Synopsis: British TV host Antoine de Caunes (Eurotrash) stars in this French comedy about gay clarinetist Simon. His mother and wealthy uncle know he's gay, so the uncle says he'll give him $2 million dollars and a house if he will get married. Simon, who can barely survive on his income as a piano-bar Read More

The Count of Monte Cristo

Actors: Michel Aumont, Jean Rochefort, Georges Moustaki, Stanislas Merhar, Gérard Depardieu, Ornella Muti

Synopsis: Gerard Depardieu stars in this made-for-TV adaptation of the classic adventure story by Alexandre Dumas. Edmond (Depardieu) has been held in a French prison for nearly 20 years for daring to love Mercedes (Naike Rivelli), a woman who has also been wooed by a man in power, Mondego (Jean Rochefort). Read More

Le Pique-nique de Lulu Kreutz

Actors: Niels Arestrup, Michel Aumont, Carole Bouquet, Johan Leysen, Judith Magre

Synopsis: This is a comedy with an edge about a world-famous cellist, Jascha Steg, in love with Ana, a violinist. Jascha's world tour with a Schumann concerto brings him to perform a concert in Evian. His parents, whom he has not seen for a long time, have come with his uncle to see him perform. But Jascha Read More

Mauvais Genre

Actors: Jacques Gamblin, Elina Löwensohn, Monica Bellucci, Christiane Cohendy, Michel Aumont

Synopsis: The film's title is a pun, the double meaning referencing both the "wrong genre" and a person with distasteful motives. Insecure novelist Martial Bok (Jacques Gamblin) promotes his new sexy novel La Fille de Dos ("Girl Observed From the Rear") with a round of book-signings and talk-shows. When Read More

Tortilla Y Cinema

Actors: Carmen Maura, Marc Duret, Michel Aumont

Synopsis: Benjamin Ballon wants to be a filmmaker, and has devoted a large part of his life for the past few years to getting to the point of filming an independent movie. He has been encouraged by Carmen Maura (playing herself), an established star, who has agreed to appear in his first film, and it is her Read More

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

Le Roi de Paris

Actors: Philippe Noiret, Jacques Roman, Manuel Blanc

Synopsis: This French film is an old-fashioned melodrama with a love triangle, a talented starlet, and a duel. It is set in 1930 when talking films were just coming into vogue and threatening to overshadow theatrical plays. The film features cameos by famed French actors of that time period. Victor Derval Read More

Au Petit Marguery

Actors: Stéphane Audran, Michel Aumont, Marie Bunel

Synopsis: For 30 years the title eatery has delighted its customers with good family style French cooking, but as with many good things, its time has come and it must close. This semi-autobiographical French drama, adapted from screenwriter/director Laurent Benegui's novel, chronicles the final meal served Read More

L'Ombre du Doute

Actors: Mireille Perrier, Alain Bashung, Sandrine Blancke, Emmanuelle Riva, Josiane Balasko, Luis Issermann

Synopsis: Eleven-year old Alexandrine (Sandrine Blancke) may be making something more out of what is happening in her family than is really there, but she appears to be afraid to be touched by her father (Alain Bashung), and gets really edgy when her mother (a nurse) has to work late. When one of her Read More

Sexes Faibles!

Actors: François Cluzet, Valérie Lemercier, André Wilms, Michel Aumont, Marc Berman

Synopsis: One would think that Maud could divorce her completely unamorous husband: in ten years of marriage, they have never once had sex. In this comedy, based on Tom Sharpe's novel Blott on the Landscape, Maud's husband is the mayor of the town they live in, and she is the hereditary owner of an ancient Read More

La Revolte Des Enfants

Actors: Michel Aumont, André Wilms, Clementine Amouroux

Synopsis: In the 19th century, children -- particularly the children of the poor -- were considered to be an exploitable resource of docile and cheap labor who were paid starvation (literally) wages. Anyone who had the effrontery to steal so much as a portion of a loaf of bread for any reason would (at the Read More

Sushi Sushi

Actors: André Dussollier, Jean-François Stévenin, Sandrine Dumas

Synopsis: Maurice (André Dussollier) was once a devoted socialist and followed his principles very nicely while he was an art professor. However, the lure of making money has drawn him into business with his girlfriend and a Japanese student. They have set up a sushi delivery business in the heart of Paris. Read More

Alberto Express

Actors: Sergio Castellitto, Nino Manfredi, Jeanne Moreau, Marco Messeri, Marie Trintignant

Synopsis: Alberto's family traditions are quite unusual. Living in Paris with his pregnant wife, he is now expected to return to Rome to pay back every cent that his family spent raising him. Totally without the kind of money expected of him, as Alberto speeds by train toward his family he tries to raise Read More

Les Annees Sandwiches

Actors: Wojciech Pszoniak, Thomas Langmann, Nicolas Giraudi, Michel Aumont, Clovis Cornillac

Synopsis: Max (Wojtek Pszoniak) is a Polish Jew who survived World War II and runs a second-hand store in the suburbs of Paris. He gives war orphan Victor (Thomas Langmann) a job and a place to stay after the conflict ends. Victor and his young cronies dabble in the black market as he is ignored by his Read More

One Woman or Two

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Sigourney Weaver, Michel Aumont, Dr. Ruth Westheimer, Zabou

Synopsis: Basically an updated take on "Bringing Up Baby," this screwy French comedy centers on the travails of a paleontologist (Gerard Depardieu) whose delight at finding the skeleton of the first French woman is dampened by the presence of an aggressive advertising executive (Sigourney Weaver) who is Read More

La Septieme Dimension

Actors: Jean-Michel Dupuis, Marie-Armelle de Guy, Francis Frappat, Michel Aumont

Sale Destin!

Actors: Victor Lanoux, Pauline Lafont, Marie Laforêt, Jacques Penot, Michel Aumont

Synopsis: Francois Marboni (Victor Lanoux) is a butcher who is being blackmailed for having an affair with the prostitute Rache (Pauline Lafont) in this black comedy. He decides to hire a hit man when the blackmailer demands that he start cutting his profit margin to the bone. Francois soon becomes a target Read More

Poussière D'Ange

Actors: Bernard Giraudeau, Fanny Bastien, Jean-Pierre Sentier, Fanny Cottençon, Michel Aumont

Synopsis: Simon Blount (Bernard Giraudeau) is a weary cop who takes solace in the bottle after his wife leaves him for another man. His spirit is lifted when he meets Violet (Fanny Bastien), the wispy, mysterious female he considers somewhat of an angel. Simon is unaware she has systematically murdered the Read More

Cours Privé

Actors: Elizabeth Bourgine, Xavier DeLuc, Michel Aumont, Sylvia Zerbib, Emmanuelle Seigner

Synopsis: This drama, spiced with sexual innuendo, is directed by Pierre Granier-Deferre, and features Jeanne Kern (Elizabeth Bourgine) as a pretty, somewhat repressed schoolteacher who suffers a smear campaign at work. Someone has been sending her director (Michael Aumont) letters accusing her of lewd and Read More

Prunelle Blues

Actors: Michel Boujenah, Vincent Lindon, Valerie Steffen, Karim Allaoui, Michel Aumont

Synopsis: This thriller concerns Freddy (Michel Boujenah), the unsophisticated manager of a porno theater who has fallen in love with the young striptease artist who supplies entertainment between hardcore films. But unknown to Freddy, she is also involved in a drug ring. One day Freddy is shot during a Read More

Escalier C

Actors: Robin Renucci, Catherine Leprince, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Jacques Bonnaffé, Jacques Weber

Synopsis: Based on the prize-winning novel by Elvire Mural, the French Escalier C (Staircase C) stars Robin Renucci as a cynical, spiteful art critic. The critic learns the error of his ways through the catharsis of disturbing life experiences. Though many of his friends and neighbors try to crack the shell Read More

Le Mariage Du Siècle

Actors: Anémone, Thierry Lhermitte, Jean-Claude Brialy, Michel Aumont, Dominique Lavanant

Synopsis: Weak in script and plot, this comedy about the differences (or not) between royalty and the commoners that toil for a living has little to recommend it. Princess Charlotte (Anemone) is scheduled to marry a boring duke, but before that event happens, Paul (Thierry Lhermitte) has taken a bet that he Read More

Dangerous Moves

Actors: Michel Piccoli, Alexandre Arbatt, Leslie Caron, Liv Ullmann, Daniel Olbrychski

Synopsis: Michel Piccoli plays Akiva Liebskind, a Russian chess genius in the Swiss-filmed Dangerous Moves. He is pitted against Soviet exile Pavius Fromm (Alexandre Arbatt), who, since childhood, has dreamed of nothing but defeating Liebskind. Both men soon become obsessed with winning. Already suffering Read More

Liste Noire

Actors: Annie Girardot, Francois Marthouret, Bernard Brieux, Sandrine Dumas, Pascal Tedes

Synopsis: In cold-blooded, vigilante style, a mother exacts revenge for the deaths of her daughter and her daughter's lover in this run-of-the-mill thriller by Alain Bonnot. Jeanne Dufour (Annie Girardot) knows her daughter lives on the wrong side of the law, but when the daughter takes part in a bank Read More

A Sunday in the Country

Actors: Louis Ducreux, Sabine Azéma, Michel Aumont, Genevieve Mnich, Monique Chaumette

Synopsis: French stage actor Louis Ducreux makes his film debut as a 76-year-old traditionalist painter, Monsieur Ladmiral, in this bittersweet portrait of a brooding artist. A widower, Ladmiral lives on an estate in the countryside near Paris with only his housekeeper, Mercedes (Monique Chaumette), and his Read More

Le Grain de Sable

Actors: Delphine Seyrig, Geneviève Fontanel

Synopsis: Delphine Seyrig plays a middle-aged woman coping with an ungovernable present and holding out hopes of escaping to a more pleasant past. She leaves her current residence to retreat to her provincial French hometown. Here she dreams of locating and rekindling an old love. Seyrig is less inscrutable Read More

Les Compères

Actors: Pierre Richard, Gérard Depardieu, Anny Duperey, Michel Aumont, Stephane Bierry

Synopsis: When her teen-aged son (Stephane Bierry) runs away and the police are noncommittal, a woman (Anne Duperey) convinces two old flames -- a crusading journalist (Gerard Depardieu) and a hypochondriac (Pierre Richard) -- that each is the father of her son in order to spur someone into action. Both Read More

Legitime Violence

Actors: Claude Brasseur, Veronique Genest, Thierry Lhermitte, Roger Planchon, Michel Aumont

Synopsis: A man is left grieving for his dead family after they were shot down in a train station, innocent bystanders to a robbery gone wrong. They were never vindicated since the police seem unable (if not reluctant) to solve the case. Driven in part because he survived and they did not, and frustrated 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

L'Oeil du Maitre

Actors: Patrick Chesnais, Olivier Granier, Dominique Laffin, Marina Vlady, Michel Aumont

Synopsis: A hot topic might be overly simplified for some viewers in this first-time political drama by Stephane Kurc. Marc (Patrick Chesnais) is a leftist and leans more towards militancy than compromise in his work at a Paris television station. Unlike Marc, his friend Françoise (Olivier Granier) is Read More

Bete Mais Discipline

Actors: Jacques Villeret, Kelvine Dumour, Celeste Bollack, Michel Aumont

Synopsis: Jacques (Jacques Villeret) is a soldier who is called away from his military leave in order to take part in a secret mission. It couldn't have come at a worse time, as he was just about to propose to his girlfriend. With considerable cunning and guile, this dull-seeming super-soldier gets the Read More

Courage Fuyons

Actors: Jean Rochefort, Catherine Deneuve, Philippe Leroy-Beaulieu, Robert Webber

Synopsis: Martin (Jean Rochefort) is a coward who is swept up in the revolt by French students in May, 1968 in this Gallic comedy of errors. He helps the rioters destroy his own auto as his wife and children watch the proceedings in disbelief. Martin wakes up in a student commune and sees the beautiful Eva Catherine Deneuve Read More

Coup de tete

Actors: Patrick Dewaere, France Dougnac, Michel Aumont, Jean Bouise, Paul Le Person, Corinne Marchand

Synopsis: Like other young men in his soccer-obsessed town, a belligerent and rebellious factory worker Francois Perrin plays on a local team. His obnoxious tendencies endear him to no one. Trouble brews when a woman cries rape and the team's star player becomes the chief suspect. To protect the valued Read More

La Frisee Aux Lardons

Actors: Bernadette Lafont, Michel Aumont, Bernard Menez, Pascale Rocard

Pourquoi Pas!

Actors: Michel Aumont, Sami Frey, Mario Gonzalez, Nicole Jamet, Christine Murillo

Synopsis: A threesome becomes a foursome in this sensitive drama. The tale begins with the relationship between a recently divorced man and woman (from different marriages) and the bisexual they get involved with. At first all three are happy in their new arrangement, but then the divorced fellow suddenly 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

Des Enfants Gatés

Actors: Michel Piccoli, Christine Pascal, Michel Aumont, Gérard Jugnot, Arlette Bonnard

Synopsis: Spoiled Children (Des enfants gates) finds director Bertrand Tavernier tempering his New Wave impulses with an overwhelming desire to entertain a mass audience. The "children" of the title are actually artistically inclined grown-ups. Filmmaker Bernard (Michel Piccoli), who is suffering a creative 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

Mr. Klein

Actors: Alain Delon, Jeanne Moreau, Suzanne Flon, Michel Lonsdale, Juliet Berto

Synopsis: Alain Delon plays Mr. Klein, a French-Catholic art dealer during the Nazi occupation. Strapped for cash, Klein takes financial advantage of his Jewish neighbors, knowing that they have no legal recourse. Ironically, Klein is himself mistaken for a missing Jew, a man who has been using Mr. Klein's Read More

Le Petit Marcel

Actors: Jacques Spiesser, Isabelle Huppert, Yves Robert, Michel Aumont, Anouk Ferjac

Synopsis: A homeless young man, living in his delivery truck, is simultaneously adopted by a pranksome group of youngsters and made into a police informer. Believing that he is doing something good both for the other kids and for himself, he has no qualms. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide Read More

Le Jouet

Actors: Pierre Richard, Michel Bouquet, Jacques Francois

Synopsis: In this French farce, a wealthy young boy decides to teach his father a lesson by buying a man and employing him as his living plaything. The film was later remade in America and called The Toy, starring Richard Pryor and Jackie Gleason. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Les Oeufs Brouilles

Actors: Jean Carmet, Jean-Claude Brialy, Anna Karina, Michel Lonsdale, Michel Aumont

Synopsis: After a computer-tested set of features is found to be the face most likely to win the confidence of the French people, Marcel (Jean Carmot), who recently turned down a promotion at his bank in order to spend time with his wife, finds himself swept up into the schemes and shenanigans of the Read More

La Course a l'Echalote

Actors: Pierre Richard, Jane Birkin, Michel Aumont, Henri Deus, Claude Dauphin, Amadeus August

Synopsis: Pierre Richard and Jane Birkin star in this madcap slapstick comedy. The director of the bank he works at has induced Pierre (Richard) to impersonate him for a brief time. During that time, some tough, muscular transvestites come in and steal some important papers under his care. In order to save Read More

Parlez-moi d'Amour

Actors: Louis Julien, Nathalie Roussel, Andréa Ferréol, Michel Aumont, Joelle Bernard

Synopsis: Adolescence and sexuality hits Daniel (Louis Julien) particularly hard, and the romantic hypocrisy of the adult world nearly drives him to distraction. He drops out of school, sponges off his father (Michel Aumont), who has divorced his mother, and has a brief romance with an older woman, an Read More

Le Futur Aux Trousses

Actors: Bernard Fresson, Claude Rich, Andréa Ferréol, Michel Aumont

Monsieur Balboss

Actors: Michel Galabru, Michele Simmonet, Michel Aumont, Julie

Synopsis: By day, Monsieur Balboss (Michel Galabru) is a respectable policeman. By night, he seeks solace with prostitutes. Neither life enables him to make much sense of the sickness he sees in himself and in the world around him. Indeed, he is a complex, tricky man. In his work he is accustomed to Read More

1=2?

Actors: Bernard Fresson, Claude Rich, Andréa Ferréol, Rita Renoir, Michel Aumont

Synopsis: The desire that many people have to live life with another more glamorous identity is the focus of this French satire. The head programmer at a computer data firm comes up with a scheme which enables subscribers, for a fee, to have an alternate identity. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide Read More

La Gifle

Actors: Lino Ventura, Annie Girardot, Isabelle Adjani, Nicole Courcel

Synopsis: In this film, a group of French kids face the difficult transition from childhood to adulthood as they struggle through their teenage years. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Nada

Actors: Fabio Testi, Maurice Garrel, Mariangela Melato, Michel Duchaussoy, Michel Aumont

Synopsis: Also known as Nada, The Nada Gang is a lesser effort from director Claude Chabrol. A group of European terrorists calling themselves the Nada kidnaps an American ambassador. Their hideout is besieged by a sadistic police official and his minions. Thanks to the official's eagerness to pull the Read More

The Woman In Blue

Actors: Michel Piccoli, Lea Massari, Michel Aumont, Simone Simon

Synopsis: In this French tragicomedy, once Pierre sees Auriele, he cannot rest until he finds her. Pierre is just minding his own business, when this woman walks by. He does not know who she is, where she lives, what she does or anything. Pierre, a music critic and TV commentator, uses his resources to try Read More

Un Ange Au Paradis

Actors: Michel Aumont, Catherine Samie, Valerie Wilson