Michel BouquetFilmography

Born:: November 6, 1925 in Paris, France
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: Putting his plans for a medical career in abeyance to work as a baker and bank clerk, Paris-born Michel Bouquet began taking acting lessons during the war years. Firmly established as a stage performer, Bouquet made his first film, Monsieur Vincent, in 1947. Years of slugging away in secondary...Read More

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The Last Mitterrand

Actors: Michel Bouquet, Jalil Lespert, Philippe Fretun, Anne Cantineau, Sarah Grappin

2005
L'apres-midi de Monsieur Andesmas

Actors: Michel Bouquet, Miou-Miou, Palomo Veinstein, Anne Issermann

2004
Les Côtelettes

Actors: Philippe Noiret, Michel Bouquet, Farida Rahouadj, Catherine Hiegel, Hammou Graia

Synopsis: Well into his sixties, iconoclast director Bertrand Blier continued to provoke Cannes audiences with this absurdist sex comedy in 2003. Les Côtelettes profiles the antics of two aging friends/antagonists who battle for the affections of one's maid. Leonce (Philippe Noiret) and Potier (Michel Bouquet Read More

2003
My Father and I

Actors: Michel Bouquet, Charles Berling, Natacha Régnier, Amira Casar, Stephane Guillon

Synopsis: When the grown-up children of a missing parent are reunited with their father, they discover it raises more questions than it answers in a well-crafted mood piece from writer/director Anne Fontaine. Jean-Luc (Charles Berling) is a well-to-do physician whose practice is devoted to older patients Read More

8/23/02
Leila

Actors: Melania Douteys, Arnaud Binard, Malika el-Omar, Azzedine Bouayad, Michel Bouquet

Synopsis: When Leila (Melanie Doutey), a beautiful 16-year-old Indian girl living in Marrakesh, falls in love with Danish tourist Nils (Arnaud Binard), she is not prepared for the torrent of family strife it results in. Leila's brother and father are so enraged by this cultural infraction that they consider Read More

2002
Il Manoscritto Del Principe

Actors: Michel Bouquet, Jeanne Moreau, Paolo Briguglia, Laurent Terzieff

Synopsis: Roberto Ando directs this biopic about Sicilian aristocrat Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa -- who gained posthumous fame with his novel The Leopard later made into a film by Luchino Visconti -- and his relationship with two young proteges. Set in Palermo during the 1950s, the film centers on Marco Read More

2000
Elisa

Actors: Vanessa Paradis, Gérard Depardieu, Clotilde Courau, Sekkou Sall, Florence Thomassin

Synopsis: A troubled young woman goes in search of the father she never knew in this French drama. In 1979, Elisa (Florence Thomassin) is an unhappy and unstable woman who -- after trying to strangle her two year old daughter Marie -- kills herself on Christmas Eve. Sixteen years later, Marie (Vanessa Paradis Read More

1995
La Joie de Vivre

Actors: Michel Bouquet, Patrick Catalifo, Marie Mergey, Henri Virlojeux, Michel Vitold

Synopsis: Monsieur Charme (Michel Bouquet) is an old man, and the love of his life passed away some years ago. Despite being wealthy and in relatively good health, he finds that life without her is no longer supportable. Determined to end it all, he approaches Reine (Gwennola Bothorel), a home-care nurse Read More

1993
The Eye of Vichy

Synopsis: Produced by French New Wave founder Claude Chabrol, The Eye of Vichy is an extraordinary 110-minute account of Nazi-occupied France during World War II. The film, narrated by Brian Cox, documents the pro-Nazi sentiments of Marshall Petain's Vichy regime and its efforts to spread propaganda against Read More

1993
Toto the Hero

Actors: Michel Bouquet, Jo de Backer, Thomas Godet, Mireille Perrier, Gisela Uhlen, Sandrine Blancke

Synopsis: Former circus performer Jaco Van Dormael made his feature-film directing bow with the Belgian/French/German coproduction Toto Le Héros. The title character is an fictional supersecret agent, idolized by a young boy named Thomas. The lad aspires to become Toto when he grows up; but thanks to a Read More

6/19/91
Babette's Feast

Actors: Stéphane Audran, Jean-Philippe Lafont, Gudmar Wivesson, Jarl Kulle, Bibi Andersson, Bodil Kjer, Birgitte Federspiel

Synopsis: The Danish/French Babette's Feast is based on a story by Isak Dinesen, also the source of the very different Out of Africa (1985). Stephane Audran plays Babette, a 19th century Parisian political refugee who seeks shelter in a rough Danish coastal town. Philippa (Bodil Kjer) and Martina (Birgitte Federspiel Read More

3/4/88
Pattes de velours

1985
Poulet Au Vinaigre

Actors: Jean Poiret, Stéphane Audran, Michel Bouquet, Caroline Cellier, Lucas Belvaux

Synopsis: In a routine murder mystery based on a novel by Dominique Roulet, a cruel, wheelchair-bound invalid (Stephane Audran) who consistently terrorizes her teen son Louis (Lucas Belvaux) into abject obedience, is threatened with the loss of her home by a conniving trio who want her property as part of a Read More

1984
La Fuite En Avant

Actors: Bernard Blier, Michel Bouquet, Laura Betti

1983
Les Misérables

Actors: Lino Ventura, Michel Bouquet, Jean Carmet, Françoise Seigner, Evelyne Bouix

Synopsis: This screen version of Victor Hugo's classic novel stars Italian actor Lino Ventura as Jean Valjean, a French peasant who -- driven to desperation by poverty -- steals a loaf of bread only to be caught by the police. After serving a long prison term for this petty theft, Valjean is tempted to Read More

1982
La Raison d'Etat

Actors: Jean Yanne, Monica Vitti, Michel Bouquet, François Perier, Jean-Claude Bouillon

Synopsis: In this political drama, the dirty undercover machinations behind the international arms trade are exposed when Angela (Monica Vitti) unsuspectingly accepts some documents from a friend. She becomes the object of a hunt by French government forces, headed by Leroi (Jean Yanne).The government feels Read More

4/26/78
L'Ordre et la Sécurité du Monde

Actors: Bruno Cremer, Donald Pleasence, Dennis Hopper, Joseph Cotten

Synopsis: In the film, Helen (Laure Dechasnel), a married woman, leaves Paris for Zurich after breaking up with her lover. Near the border, a fellow passenger, mistakenly takes her passport. This sets up a situation which plunges her into the midst of international intrigue, a violent struggle between Read More

1978
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

1976
Au-Dela De La Peur

Actors: Michel Bouquet, Michel Constantin, Marilù Tolo, Paul Crauchet, Michel Creton

Synopsis: Bourgeois family man Michel Bouquet inadvertently come into the possession of mobster information. The bad guys find out, and take over Bouquet's house, holding his family hostage. Bouquet is absent when this happens, but the crooks threaten to kill his loved ones if he doesn't come home and give Read More

8/8/75
Les Anneaux de Bicetre

1975
Vincent Mit l'Ane Dans un Pré

Actors: Michel Bouquet, Fabrice Luchini, Bernadette Lafont, Virginie Thévenet, Sandy Whitelaw

Synopsis: Living a dismal life taking care of his uncommunicative and nearly blind father, Vincent (Fabrice Luchini), a sculptor, tries to make life better for himself but fails for a variety of reasons. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide Read More

1975
Thomas

Actors: Nicole Courcel, Michel Bouquet, Patrick Le Mauff, Marie-Helene Daste, Frederic Duru

Synopsis: In this very low-key film, 20-year-old Thomas discovers that he is not a particularly nice fellow and has no special reason to like himself. His inquisitiveness is at least in part responsible for his parents' divorce, as he discovered the cache of love-letters which proved that his mother had an Read More

1975
Bloody Murder

Synopsis: A woman's former lover is killed. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1975
The Suspects

Actors: Mimsy Farmer, Paul Meurisse, Michel Bouquet, Bruno Cremer

Synopsis: When an American tourist is murdered in the south of France, the police must investigate. In this movie, the police inspector re-creates the girl's journeys through France until the murder is solved. Suspicions are narrowed down to four possible perpetrators early on, and flashbacks illuminate the Read More

11/27/74
La Main a Couper

Actors: Michel Serrault, Michel Bouquet, Bernard Blier, Lea Massari

Synopsis: Hélène (Lea Massari) has a lovely family, and lovely children. She is not discontented with things just as they are: her young lover is attentive, her husband is pleasant -- all is just as it should be. In this French suspense film, Hélène's cozy life begins to unravel when she finds her lover is Read More

3/6/74
Bon Baisers, a Lundi

Synopsis: In this broad, slapstick crime comedy, a trio of burglars rob the wrong apartment, but decide to hold the inhabitants hostage over the weekend, until they can get to the bank to cash a check written by their captive. Things don't work out smoothly, and they have to flee to the countryside. Read More

1974
France Société Anonyme

Actors: Michel Bouquet, Roland Dubillard, Ann Zacharias

Synopsis: Among the other interesting features of this French crime drama is a brief consideration of the dire consequences of the legalization of drugs. The Chief (Michel Bouquet) is a drug dealer whose empire ranges beyond the country guilty of legalizing drugs. He has been captured and nearly killed by Read More

1974
Deux Hommes Dans La Ville

Actors: Jean Gabin, Alain Delon, Michel Bouquet, Mimsy Farmer

Synopsis: In this French psychological drama, a bank robber is finally released after serving 10 years. His being paroled is due to the influence of his old friend, a social worker. The ex-convict returns to his wife and begins living an honest life. Unfortunately, his old crook friends begin trying to lure Read More

10/25/73
Defense de Savoir

Actors: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Bernadette Lafont, Juliet Berto, Michel Bouquet

Synopsis: The very modest lawyer (Jean-Louis Trintignant) in this case of murder finds much more than he is looking for and then must decide what to do with the unwelcome information. He is defending a woman who is accused of killing her lover. It turns out that the lover was actually killed during a Read More

8/30/73
Il N'y a Pas de Fumée Sans Feu

Actors: Annie Girardot, Bernard Fresson, Michel Bouquet, Mireille Darc

Synopsis: This French political thriller depicts the world of troubles that descend upon a relatively innocent doctor who decides to serve as a political candidate running against a thoroughly corrupt and devious mayor. In a recent campaign, the mayor and his henchmen were responsible for the murder of a Read More

5/16/73
Le Complot

Actors: Jean Rochefort, Michel Bouquet, Raymond Pellegrin, Marina Vlady

Synopsis: Le Complot is based on a true spy story of double-, triple- and quadruple-cross. The plot is galvanized by Charles DeGaulle's decision to pull French troops out of Algeria. The central characters include a group of pro-Gaullists, a gang of left-wing insurgents, and the police. It all sounds a Read More

5/10/73
Night Flight from Moscow

Actors: Yul Brynner, Henry Fonda, Dirk Bogarde, Philippe Noiret

Synopsis: In this convoluted spy thriller, a Russian ambassador places his life on the line when he steals classified documents and defects to the U.S. The papers he carries could rock the free world. Unfortunately, the C.I.A. must first prove that they are real. The film is also known as The Serpent. Read More

4/7/73
Les Anges

Actors: Didier Haudepin, Madeleine Ozeray

Synopsis: Two lonely young men rebelling against their middle-class backgrounds become friends in this French drama. Both of them are named Larry, which becomes a joke between them. Larry I (Bruno Pradal) can only stare in awe at the deadly pranks of Larry II (Didier Haudepin). When Larry II looks like he Read More

1973
Les Grands Sentiments Font les Bons Gueuletons

Actors: Michel Bouquet, Jean Carmet, Anouk Ferjac

Synopsis: Two neighboring French families are going through major life-ceremonies at the same time: one is experiencing the funeral of the clan's mother, and the other is preparing for a wedding. In this comedy, the mix-up of flowers for the two parties is only a prelude to a mix-up of guests and some Read More

1973
L'Attentat

Actors: Michel Piccoli, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jean Seberg, Gian Maria Volontè

Synopsis: L'Attentat is a political thriller based largely on a true story (the Ben Barka affair), which recounts how the French government and the American CIA connived to have a socialist in exile murdered before he could return to his homeland and start a revolution. Darien, a French journalist Read More

10/4/72
Trois Milliards Sans Ascenseur

Actors: Serge Reggiani, Michel Bouquet, Françoise Rosay, Amidou

Synopsis: Double and triple crosses complicate the lives of the amiable villains of this French crime-caper film. The story concerns a group of people living in a blue-collar neighborhood which is being demolished for a new office and housing development. In order to save their neighborhood, they get Read More

8/18/72
Malpertuis

Actors: Mathieu Carrière, Orson Welles

Synopsis: The story centers on a sailor who returns to shore to discover that his uncle has been capturing dying Greek gods and sewing them into human flesh. He then holds them hostage on an Ionian isle. Trouble ensues when the sailor falls in love with the Gorgon. Unfortunately, she turns him into stone. Read More

1972
Paulina 1880

Actors: Eliana de Santis, Olga Karlatos, Maximilian Schell, Sami Frey

Synopsis: This French film is a tragic tale of thwarted love, set among the upper classes in turn-of-the-century Italy. As the only daughter in a large household, surrounded by watchful relatives, Paulina (Olga Karlatos) can only dream of romance. Between her romantic dreams and her deep religious devotion Read More

1972
La Sainte Famille

Synopsis: Cults of noteworthy psychological unhealthiness exist in and around most countries. This French/Swiss tragedy, based on a true story, tells of a cult originating in Catholicism, which believed that the Virgin Mary communicated with them through a nun's automatic writing. As internal tensions grow Read More

1972
Just Before Nightfall

Actors: Michel Bouquet, Stéphane Audran, François Perier, Dominique Zardi, Jean Carmet, Henri Attal

Synopsis: Claude Chabrol, the French filmmaker known for his masterful explorations of crime, suspense, and the darker sides of human nature, directed this drama about a man forced to come to terms with his double life. Charles Masson (Michel Bouquet) is a successful ad man with a loving wife, Helene (Stephane Audran Read More

3/31/71
Comptes a Rebours

Actors: Simone Signoret, Serge Reggiani, Charles Vanel, Michel Bouquet

Synopsis: Nolan (Serge Reggiani) was set up to take the fall for a crime committed by his whole gang, and as a result, his brother is dead and he is forced to do a stint in prison. Nolan comes out of prison looking for his former compatriots, and not just to shake their hands. He runs into an old Read More

1/29/71
L'Humeur Vagabonde

Actors: Michel Bouquet, Jeanne Moreau, Madeleine Renaud, Erick Penet

Synopsis: This satirical French drama is based on a novel by Antoine Blondin. Fired by wanderlust and urged on by his mother, Taitro leaves his wife and children to seek work in Paris. The mother is hoping to break up the marriage, as she doesn't like her daughter-in-law. Thanks to his mother, Taitro has Read More

1971
Le Bonheur dans 20 Ans

Synopsis: This French documentary about Czechoslovakia covers the period following World War II, beginning with the Russian occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1945, up to 1970.The narration and historical commentary is by Nanterre University professor Kostas Papaioannou. The famous "defenestration of Prague" Read More

1971
Papa, les petits bateaux...

Actors: Sheila White

Synopsis: In this whimsical French comedy, Cookie (Sheila White) is a tough, sweet little rich girl, and is rather smart, too. She's smart enough and charming enough to outwit her kidnappers by setting one against the other until they have all killed each other or died trying to prove their worth to her. Read More

1971
La Rupture

Actors: Stéphane Audran, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Michel Bouquet, Jean-Claude Drouot, Catherine Rouvel

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Charlotte Armstrong, the story concerns Helene (Stephane Audran), the wife of a hopeless would-be writer and drug addict. Her husband's best friend tries to lay a trap for Helene, so that she will be forced to pay dearly for a divorce settlement. Also conspiring against Helene Read More

8/26/70
Le Dernier Saut

Actors: Maurice Ronet, Michel Bouquet, Cathy Rosier, Eric Penet, André Rouyer

Synopsis: A veteran paratrooper murders his Vietnamese wife when he finds her in the arms of a younger man. Garal (Maurice Ronet) makes it back to the army base where his drunken roommate provides him with an iron clad alibi. Jauran (Michel Bouquet) is the local police inspector who befriends the Garal Read More

5/6/70
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

3/20/70
Un Condé

Actors: Michel Bouquet, Françoise Fabian, Gianni Garko, Michel Constantin, Bernard Fresson

Synopsis: A crackdown on drugs leads a burned out cop (Michel Bouquet) to take the law into his own hands and seek revenge against villainous drug dealers. Word comes down from above that the United States feels French authorities have been lax on their arrests of the dealers. A violent action feature finds Read More

1970
Mississippi Mermaid

Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Catherine Deneuve, Michel Bouquet, Nelly Borgeaud

Synopsis: A rare mid-career flop for director François Truffaut when it was released, Mississippi Mermaid has become a cult favorite, thanks in part to the availability of the original French version, which added 13 minutes to the U.S. release running time. Adapted from a story by William Irish, it's a Read More

7/18/69
The Unfaithful Wife

Actors: Stéphane Audran, Michel Bouquet, Maurice Ronet, Michel Duchaussoy, Guy Marly

Synopsis: Stéphane Audran plays the title character, Hélène Desvallées, the bored wife of insurance executive Charles Desvallées (Michel Bouquet). Charles suspects Hélène of playing the field, so he has a private detective locate his wife's lover, author Victor Pegala (Maurice Ronet). Confronting Victor Read More

1/22/69
Dieu a Choisi Paris

Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo

Synopsis: This film documentary of Paris combines the earliest known photography with modern color. Famous personalities that have lived and worked in the city of lights will be more familiar to Parisian viewers. Jean-Paul Belmondo narrates the feature throughout. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide Read More

1969
The Bride Wore Black

Actors: Jeanne Moreau, Claude Rich, Jean-Claude Brialy, Michel Bouquet, Michel Lonsdale

Synopsis: This Francois Truffaut thriller is based ona novel by William Irish (aka Cornell Woolrich), whose books had been adapted by Alfred Hitchcock on many previous occasions. Jeanne Moreau stars as a woman whose fiancé is nastily murdered by five men. Utilizing a series of disguises, the cool-customer Read More

4/17/68
Who's Got the Black Box?

Actors: Maurice Ronet, Jean Seberg, Michel Bouquet, Christian Marquand, Saro Urzi

Synopsis: In this complex spy-thriller, the US radar installations in Greece are suddenly jammed and a NATO security agent is killed. The prime suspect is his own wife, who is innocent. She investigates on her own to prove it and ends up entangled in an espionage conspiracy. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Read More

10/27/67
Lamiel

Actors: Anna Karina, Jean-Claude Brialy, Michel Bouquet, Robert Hossein

Synopsis: Lamiel (Anna Karina) is a poor orphan girl who climbs her way to the social elite in this 19th-century costume drama. A doctor (Michel Bouquet) lives vicariously through Anna as he oversees the progress of his female protégé. Lamiel finds love with a young thief who steals into her bedroom after Read More

1967
Le Tigre Se Parfume a la Dynamite

Actors: Roger Hanin, Roger Dumas, Michel Bouquet, Margaret Lee

Synopsis: Tigre (Roger Hanin) is a French undercover agent sent to stop ex-Nazis in their attempt to take over Latin America. He is captured and flogged by henchmen for the group who assist in political revolutions with men and money. Marilyn Monroe-clone Margaret Lee co-stars in this routine spy thriller Read More

11/5/65
Our Agent Tiger

Synopsis: When a French secret agent is set the task of securing a shipment of sunken gold somewhere off Martinique, he finds that he first must outwit a band of rebels who are also after it. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

1965
Les Amitiés Particulieres

Actors: Didier Haudepin, Francis Lacombrade, Michel Bouquet, Louis Seigner, Lucien Nat

Synopsis: Jean Delannoy's This Special Friendship (Les Amities partculieres) is set in a boy's boarding school of the early 1930s. Two of the students, Francis Lacombrade and Francois Leccia, become close friends. Lacombrade has definite ideas concerning homosexuality: he's dead set against it, and is Read More

1964
Rodolphe Bresdin

1962
Katia

Actors: Romy Schneider, Curd Jürgens, Pierre Blanchar, Monique Melinand, Gabrielle Dorziat, Françoise Brion

Synopsis: Feeling hamstrung and confined by Hollywood, writer/director Robert Siodmak returned to Europe to make most of his latter-day films. Produced in France, Magnificent Sinner stars Curt Jurgens as Czar Alexander II, with Romy Schneider as schoolgirl Katja. The Czar takes Katja as his mistress Read More

1959
Night and Fog

Synopsis: Night and Fog represents the peak of director Alain Resnais' activities as a short-subject filmmaker. Framed as a documentary, the film is an unsettling view of life inside the Nazi concentration camps of World War II. As he would in his later features (Hiroshima Mon Amour, Last Year at Marienbad Read More

1955
Trois Femmes

Actors: Jacques Duby, René Lefèvre, Michel Bouquet, Agnes Delahaie

Synopsis: The short stories of Guy de Maupassant enjoyed a renaissance in the early 1950s, thanks in great part to the Max Ophuls production Le Plaisir. In Trois Femmes, three De Maupassant stories are dramatized, each conveying the central theme of women falling in love. In the first, a black female Read More

1952
Pattes Blanches

Actors: Fernand Ledoux, Suzy Delair, Paul Bernard, Michel Bouquet

Synopsis: In the traditions of Jean Renoir and Jean Cocteau, Pattes Blanches is a heady mixture of stark realism and fairytale artifice. The title translates to "white spats", said spats being worn constantly by the wealthy, eccentric Fernand Ledoux. Already an object of derision from the villagers, Ledoux Read More

1949
Monsieur Vincent

Actors: Pierre Fresnay, Lise Delamare, Gabrielle Dorziat, Aimé Clariond, Jean Debucourt

Synopsis: Pierre Fresnay stars as St. Vincent De Paul in this reverent but realistic French biopic. The film traces "Monsieur Vincent's" progress from his days of forced servitude in Algiers to his entry into the priesthood, culminating with his Herculean efforts on behalf of the ill and destitute in early Read More

1947

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