Michel Duchaussoy Filmography

La Demoiselle d'Honneur

Actors: Benoît Magimel, Laura Smet, Aurore Clément, Bernard Le Coq, Solene Bouton

Synopsis: The master of French suspense joins forces with the queen of English suspense fiction for this tense tale of the treacherous love affair between a disturbed bridesmaid and an unsuspecting young man. Philippe (Benoit Magimel) lives in a quiet French town with his hairdresser mother Christine Read More

The Black Box

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

Intimate Strangers

Actors: Sandrine Bonnaire, Fabrice Luchini, Michel Duchaussoy, Anne Brochet, Gilbert Melki

Synopsis: Directed by Patrice Leconte, Confidences Trop Intimes revolves around Anna (Sandrine Bonnaire), who, after suffering from an abusive relationship, approaches a psychiatrist for advice. Determined not to leave anything out, Anna immediately begins an intimate retelling of her life story; Read More

The Code

Actors: Samuel Le Bihan, Samy Naceri, Clotilde Courau, Marie Guillard, Michel Duchaussoy

Synopsis: French filmmaker Manuel Boursinhac directs the action thriller La Mentale. Samuel Le Bihan plays Dris, a criminal who wants to go straight. Major mob boss Yanis (Samy Naceri) is an old friend who desperately needs Dris' help. However, Dris has already spent enough time in jail and only wants to Read More

Amen

Actors: Ulrich Tukur, Mathieu Kassovitz, Ulrich Mühe, Michel Duchaussoy, Ion Caramitru

Synopsis: The collective crimes against humanity known as the Holocaust have been well-documented since the end of World War II, but lingering questions remain about how much was known about the Nazi mass-extermination schemes outside Germany, and what could have been done to prevent them. Political Read More

Dedales

Actors: Lambert Wilson, Sylvie Testud, Frédéric Diefenthal, Michel Duchaussoy, Edouard Montoute

Synopsis: The psychological thriller Dedales (Labyrinth), written and directed by René Manzor, concerns a psychiatrist treating a serial killer. Frederic Diefenthal portrays a police investigator with ESP who eventually plays a part in arresting Claude (Sylvie Testud), an unhinged woman who allows random Read More

Bienvenue Chez Les Rozes

Actors: Carole Bouquet, André Wilms, Jean Dujardin, Lorant Deutsch, Clémence Poésy

Synopsis: Francis Palluau's directorial debut Bienvenue Chez les Rozes (Welcome to the Rozes) is a comedy about a hostage situation. Gilbert (Lorant Deutsch) and MG (Jean Dujardin) escape from prison and end up hiding out at the home of Daniel and Beatrice Roze (André Wilms and Carole Bouquet), who are Read More

Tristan

Actors: Mathilde Seigner, Jean-Jacques Vanier, Jean-Louis Loca, Adina Cartianu, Daniel Cohen

The Widow of Saint-Pierre

Actors: Juliette Binoche, Daniel Auteuil, Emir Kusturica, Reynald Bouchard, Michel Duchaussoy, Christian Charmettant

Synopsis: Long-established director Emir Kusturica makes his acting debut in Patrice Leconte's 19th century tale of a loyal, strong-willed woman who follows her soldier husband to a desolate French territory off the coast of Newfoundland. Madame La (Juliette Binoche) lives in marital bliss on the island of Read More

Les Portes De La Gloire

Actors: Benoît Poelvoorde, Julien Boisselier, Michel Duchaussoy, Etienne Chicot, Yvon Back

Synopsis: Four salesmen hit the open road, searching for adventure and hoping to unload some encyclopedias in this eccentric comedy from France. Jerome (Julien Boisselier) is a timid man who lands a job that doesn't seem immediately appropriate for his temperament -- he's become a door-to-door salesman Read More

Lise Et Andre

Actors: Isabelle Candelier, Michel Duchaussoy, Aïssa Maïga, Hélène Surgère

Synopsis: A fallen woman seeks to renew her faith with the help of a clergyman who has nearly lost his in this French drama. Lise (Isabelle Candelier) is a Parisian prostitute who has a young son, Sebastien. Lise dotes on her boy, who has a gift for music and sings in a children's choir directed by aging Read More

Les Miserables

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, John Malkovich, Virginie Ledoyen, Christian Clavier, Enrico Lo Verso

Synopsis: Victor Hugo's classic story of one man's struggle to redeem himself -- and another man's efforts to bring him down -- is brought to the screen again (there have been at least 18 previous screen adaptations) in this epic-scale television production with a distinguished international cast. Jean Read More

Disparus

Actors: Grégoire Colin, Anouk Grinberg, Xavier Beauvois, Frederic Pierrot, Marcial Di Fonzo Bo

Synopsis: Sex, avant-garde art, and Communist ideology are at the heart of this compelling historical drama. The film opens just as the Soviet Empire crumbles in 1989. As Louise (Brigitte Catillon) mourns the death of her lover, she discovers the journal of Alfred Katz (Gregoire Colin), an earnest Jewish Read More

Cache Cash

Actors: Aurelien Wiik, Josephine Serre, Rose Thiéry, Sophie Broustal, Jean Carmet

Synopsis: This French family film is filled with action, animals, adventure, and suspense. The story is told from a child's viewpoint. One day, while playing in his secret tree house in the forest, 11-year old Antoine spies upon bank robbers stashing 40-million francs worth of loot. One of the robbers is Read More

3000 Scenarios Contre un Virus

Actors: Anémone, Daniel Gélin, Patachou, François Cluzet, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi

Synopsis: This unique French offering is a compilation of 30 short films focused on AIDS. The mini-films were based on over 3,000 ideas put in by French school children and were made by filmmakers on a voluntary basis. Most of the vignettes deal with heterosexuality and AIDS, but one deals with drug-usage Read More

Le Diable A Quatre

Actors: Isabella Rossellini, Tom Conti, Zouc, Michel Duchaussoy

Road to Ruin

Synopsis: A rich American playboy falls for a woman in Paris but before tying the knot, he decides to test her true motives by arranging a scheme whereby he temporarily writes off his millions to a business partner. When the gal proves her love is for real, the playboy finds that the partner is out to Read More

Life and Nothing But

Actors: Philippe Noiret, Sabine Azéma, Pascale Vignal, Maurice Barrier, Francois Perrot

Synopsis: The grim post-World War I era in Europe is grist for director Bertrand Tavernier's mill in Life and Nothing But. Philipe Noiret portrays a French major who is supervising the gruesome task of counting and identifying the corpses still strewn over the battlefield. Noiret is obsessed with the Read More

May Fools

Actors: Michel Piccoli, Miou-Miou, Michel Duchaussoy, Dominique Blanc, Harriet Walter

Synopsis: This comic excursion from Louis Malle is set in May 1968, concurrent with a series of Parisian student uprisings. After the death of family matriarch Mme. Vieuzac (Paulette Dubost), the survivors converge on the French countryside for her funeral; they include her two sons, Milou (Michel Piccoli) Read More

Voir L'Elephant

Actors: Françoise Arnoul, Jean-Marc Thibault, Bernard Menez, Michel Duchaussoy

Bernadette

Actors: Sydney Penny, Jean-Marc Bory, Michele Simonnet, Roland Le Saffre, Bernard Dheran

Synopsis: This French historical drama is a retelling of the story of St. Bernadette, the young 19th-century girl who was ostracized and persecuted after she saw a vision of the Virgin Mary at Lourdes. Though she became a popular folk figure, the local politicians attempt to commit her to an asylum. Read More

Les Bois Noirs

Actors: Béatrice Dalle, Stéphane Freiss, Philippe Volter, Geneviève Page, Herve Laudiere

Synopsis: In this gothic romance based on a 1950s novel by Robert Margerit, after a whirlwind romance, Violette (Beatrice Dalle), a Parisian girl, has married Gustave Dupin (Philippe Volter), a charming aristocrat, and returned with him to live on his country estate. There, she begins to discover that all Read More

Equipe De Nuit

Actors: Michel Voita, Michel Duchaussoy, Simone Valere, Jean Desailly

Le Mome

Actors: Richard Anconina, Ambre, Michel Duchaussoy, Yan Epstein, Georges Montillier

Synopsis: In this action thriller, Richard Anconina is Willie, a young and lonesome cop who loves lonesome cowboy music. While on a drug case Willie comes across a mulatta named Jo (model Ambre of Senegalese extraction), who is trapped in a dismal life of prostitution by two abusive Lebanese brothers, who Read More

Suivez Mon Regard

Actors: Pierre Arditi, Andréa Ferréol, Michel Galabru, Féodor Atkine, Stéphane Audran, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Macha Beranger, Christian Barbier

Synopsis: A long parade of actors and actresses pop up in an unconnected series of skits, vignettes, and sight gags in this comedy anthology by Jean Curtelin. Among the sketches performed is one with Jean Carmet playing a man from the sticks woefully burdened with the challenge of getting through a dog food Read More

Partenaires

Actors: Nicole Garcia, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Michel Galabru, Michel Duchaussoy

Synopsis: This routine drama about a thespian couple, Marion (Nicole Garcia) and Gabriel (Jean-Pierre Marielle) takes place during the second half of their hit comedy, as the two try to work out their differences. Marion plays one of the leads in the comedy, opposite an actor of lesser abilities who also Read More

Fort Saganne

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Philippe Noiret, Catherine Deneuve, Sophie Marceau, Michel Duchaussoy

Synopsis: In spite of spending three hours developing the story of French peasant Charles Saganne (Gérard Depardieu), the sweep of this epic skims over the qualities that transformed Saganne from an ordinary officer to a great military leader. Saganne was first sent to a garrison town in North Africa before Read More

Surprise Party

Actors: Caroline Cellier, Michel Duchaussoy, Robert Hossein, Mylène Demongeot

Synopsis: Although written and directed by the well-known Roger Vadim (And God Created Woman), this movie about life and love among a group of high schoolers on vacation in the countryside has nothing to distinguish it beyond the typical couplings and uncouplings found in other movies in the same genre. Read More

Un Matin Rouge

Actors: Maurice Risch, Jacques Fabbri, Maurice Garrel, Victor Garrivier

Je Te Tiens Tu Me Tiens Par La Barbichette

Actors: Jean Yanne, Micheline Presle, Mimi Coutellier, Georges Beller, Claude Brosset, Carlos

Synopsis: Je Te Tiens Tu Me Tiens Par La Barbichette refers to a French children's game, where two children hold one another's chins and stare at one another. The one who laughs first, loses. In this satire, a police detective (played by Jean Yanne) is investigating the disappearance and kidnapping of the Read More

La Ville Des Silences

Actors: Jean-Pierre Cassel, Michel Galabru, Michel Duchaussoy, Jean-Marc Thibault

L'Homme Pressé

Actors: Alain Delon, Mireille Darc, Michel Duchaussoy, Monica Guerritore

Synopsis: Alain Delon rushes through the leading role of the French The Hurried Man. Delon plays a married man whose drive for success and power blinds him to conventional morality. If he can climb to the top of his profession by being cold and ruthless, why not satisfy his sexual appetites in the same Read More

Armaguedon

Actors: Alain Delon, Jean Yanne, Renato Salvatori, Michel Duchaussoy

Synopsis: When Carrier (Jean Yanne), a dangerous paranoid schizophrenic, receives an inheritance, it lends fuel to his violent fantasies. He has a relationship by mail with Ambrose (Alain Delon), the one man who can stop him from killing a theater full of people. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide Read More

Un Oursin Dans La Poche

Actors: Darry Cowl, Maurice Risch, Bernard Menez, René Lefèvre, Brigitte Gruel

Synopsis: Bachs, a clerk in a music store, has written a musical comedy. He is overjoyed to find someone who believes that it can be produced. In this comedy, the scheme concocted by the producer, who has no money of his own, is to cast rich people in leading roles with the hope that they will then sponsor Read More

Lejonet and Jungfrun

Actors: Sven-Bertil Taube, Agneta Eckemyr, Michel Duchaussoy

Synopsis: Leo (Sven-Bertil Taube) is a screenwriter. He goes to Paris and gets an assignment: to change an already written screenplay into something appropriate for Scandinavian audiences and to develop a romantic liaison in the story between an astrological Leo and a Virgo. He travels to an island off the Read More

La Jeune Fille Assassinée

Actors: Roger Vadim, Sirpa Lane, Mathieu Carrière, Michel Duchaussoy

Synopsis: Charlotte is better known by its original French title, La Jeune Fille Assassinee. The film combines Roger Vadim's overriding twin fascinations: eroticism and death. Charlotte (Sirpa Lane) dreams of dying violently while in the throes of an orgasm. This curious desire is the principal motivation 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

Femmes Femmes

Actors: Hélène Surgère, Sonia Saviange, Michel Duchaussoy, Noel Simsolo

Synopsis: The fantasies and dreams of two over-the-hill actresses are intertwined with their realities, as the two roommates struggle to survive their day-to-day lives in the expensive and difficult world of Paris. In the end, their struggles are eased when the widow of a man they had both been married to Read More

The Return of the Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe

Actors: Pierre Richard, Mireille Darc, Jean Rochefort, Jean Carmet, Michel Duchaussoy

Synopsis: Not quite in the same league as the runaway hit The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe, this 1974 sequel is still amiable and enjoyable on its own terms. Once more, innocent violinist Pierre Richard (the tall blonde man of the title) is up to his neck in espionage. Enemy spy boss Jean Rochefort Read More

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

Traitement De Choc

Actors: Alain Delon, Annie Girardot, Dr. Robert Hirsch, Jean-Francois Calve

Synopsis: Losing her young lover makes Helene (Annie Giradot) feel old, so she heads off to a health resort she has heard does wonders for people. The treatments really do make her and the other guests feel better, and for a while that is enough. She cavorts nude on the beach with the head of the clinic (Alain Delon Read More

L'Homme Au Cerveau Greffe

Synopsis: In this drama, a famed dying surgeon has his brain transplanted into the body of a race car driver who is dying of brain trauma. The operation is a success and the surgeon is happy--until he discovers that the racer's lover is his own daughter. Now what can he do? ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Aussi Loin Que l'Amour

Synopsis: In this French romance by documentary director Frederic Rossif, a young woman whose life has lost its savor after she has had an abortion, finds new reason for living as she embarks on a seaside romance with a married, bird-watching professor. The romance flowers in seaside walks and long Read More

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

Ils

Actors: Michel Duchaussoy, Charles Vanel, Alexandra Stewart, Pierre Massimi

Synopsis: An artist grows hateful of commercial demands on his questionable talents when his friend and artist commits suicide. He puts the blame for his friend's death on an art critic and a shady art dealer. He is able to take out his frustrations on the pretentious critic at a party. When an elderly man Read More

Les Stances A Sophie

Actors: Bernadette Lafont, Michel Duchaussoy, Bulle Ogier, Serge Marquand

Synopsis: Celine (Bernadette Lafont) is a free-spirited woman who marries a dull, middle manager named Philippe (Michel Duchaussoy) in this comedy drama. The union results in her being pegged as a household ornament for her husband by her husband's coworker. She makes friends with a woman who shows her how Read More

La Main

Actors: Natalie Delon, Henri Serre, Michel Duchaussoy, Roger Hanin, Pierre Dux

Synopsis: This suspense story finds a severed hand leading to the psychological demise of the people who come in contact with it. The hand is removed when the murderers fail to stuff all of the victim's body into a trunk. The mastermind of the killing is murdered by his wife and her lover in a macabre scene Read More

Que la Bête Meure

Actors: Michel Duchaussoy, Caroline Cellier, Jean Yanne, Anouk Ferjac, Marc di Napoli

Synopsis: Claude Chabrol directs the tense psychological thriller Que la Bête Meure (This Man Must Die). When his young son is the victim of a hit-and-run car accident, writer Charles Thenier (Michel Duchaussoy) is determined to find the killer. Obsessed with avenging his son's death, he carefully records Read More

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

Bye Bye Barbara

Actors: Ewa Swann, Philippe Avron, Bruno Cremer, Alexandra Stewart, Michel Duchaussoy

Synopsis: In this thriller a beautiful girl approaches a journalist in a Parisian bar. Her clothing is in tatters and she seems dazed. She tells him that someone has drugged her and that she needs a place to rest. The gentlemanly journalist obliges and takes her home. The following day, she has fully 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

Jeu De Massacre

Actors: Jean-Pierre Cassel, Claudine Auger, Michel Duchaussoy, Elenore Hirt, Guy Saint Jean

Synopsis: Released in France as Jeu De Massacre, The Killing Game tips its hat to the "Op-Art" generation by offering two comic strip artists as its protagonists. Husband-and-wife cartoonists Jean-Pierre Cassel and Claudia Auger make the acquaintance of eccentric playboy Michel Duchaussoy. So avid a fan of Read More