Nicole Garcia Filmography

Les Bureaux de Dieu

Actors: Anne Alvaro, Nathalie Baye, Rachida Brakni, Michel Boujenah, Isabelle Carré

Synopsis: A group of women struggling with their sexuality speak openly with the female counselors who wonder if such a thing as "sexual freedom" is truly possible in this tale of the incredible hidden in mundane, everyday events. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

Charlie Says

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jean-Pierre Bacri, Vincent Lindon, Benoît Magimel, Benoît Poelvoorde, Patrick Pineau

Synopsis: Like the American pictures Magnolia and Happy Endings, French helmer Nicole Garcia's ensemble drama Charlie Says interweaves a tapestry of mordant and miserable existences. Garcia zeroes in on six vice-ridden Gallic men, all generally average and unremarkable individuals, and several at the Read More

The Last Day

Actors: Gaspard Ulliel, Nicole Garcia, Bruno Todeschini, Christophe Malavoy, Melanie Laurent

Synopsis: Rodolphe Marcnoi's The Last Day concerns the troubled history of a family. Eighteen-year-old Simon (Gaspard Ulliel) meets the attractive 17-year-old Louise (Melanie Laurent) while he travels on a train to spend Christmas with his family. She joins him on his visit home. Simon's mother, Marie (Nicole Garcia Read More

La Petite Lili

Actors: Nicole Garcia, Bernard Giraudeau, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Ludivine Sagnier, Robinson Stévenin

Synopsis: Anton Chekhov's The Seagull receives an updated adaptation in this drama from veteran French filmmaker Claude Miller. Mado (Nicole Garcia) is a successful actress who is spending the summer at her country estate with her boyfriend, Brice (Bernard Giraudeau), a noted filmmaker who directed her Read More

Tristan

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

The Story of Marie and Julien

Actors: Emmanuelle Béart, Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Anne Brochet, Bettina Kee, Olivier Cruveiller

Synopsis: Jacques Rivette's Histoire de Marie et Julien (The Story of Marie and Julien) stars Emmanuelle Béart and Jerzy Radziwilowicz as a pair of ex-lovers who get back together after their lives change. Julien (Radziwilowicz) is a clock repairman whose girlfriend has left him. Marie (Béart) is a Read More

Alias Betty

Actors: Sandrine Kiberlain, Nicole Garcia, Mathilde Seigner, Luck Mervil, Edouard Baer

Synopsis: A woman's grief and her mother's madness lead to strange and unforeseen consequences in this offbeat drama based on a novel by Ruth Rendell. Betty Fisher (Sandrine Kiberlain) is a promising young writer who has a four-year-old son, Joseph (Arthur Setbon). Betty's mother, Margot (Nicole Garcia) Read More

L'Adversaire

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Daniel Auteuil, Géraldine Pailhas, François Cluzet, Emmanuelle Devos, Bernard Fresson

Synopsis: With Laurent Cantet's Time Out (L'Emploi du Temps) as an inspiration, actress-turned-director Nicole Garcia's fourth feature film, L'Adversaire, is a fictionalized account of what may have gone through the mind of real-life serial killer Jean-Claude Romand. Daniel Auteuil portrays Jean-Marc Faure Read More

Kennedy Et Moi

Actors: Jean-Pierre Bacri, Nicole Garcia, Patrick Chesnais, Sam Karmann

Synopsis: In Oscar-winning director Sam Karmann's feature debut, full-time novelist Simon (Jean-Pierre Bacri) slowly slides off the deep end. Bored and thoroughly self-absorbed, he spends more of his time playing with a revolver and performing oral surgery on himself than on his writing. In a series of Read More

Place Vendôme

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Catherine Deneuve, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Emmanuelle Seigner, Jacques Dutronc, Bernard Fresson

Synopsis: Nicole Garcia directed this French suspense thriller set in the posh Paris square of Place Vendôme, where the jewelers district includes the firm run by Vincent Malivert (Bernard Fresson) with his brother, Eric (François Berléand). Although Vincent has a top reputation in the field, his British Read More

Fugueuses

Actors: Marie Trintignant, Irène Jacob, Nicole Garcia, Stefano Dionisi

Synopsis: Sullen teenage orphan Johnny Miles (Josh Albee) is wrongfully accused of stealing from his foster parents. Running away from home, Johnny forms a bond with another youthful "runaway"--this one a leopard who has escaped from a nearby wild-animal compound. Both fugitives are sheltered by a harsh but Read More

Le Fils Préferé

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Gérard Lanvin, Bernard Giraudeau, Jean-Marc Barr, Roberto Herlitzka, Margherita Buy

Synopsis: In this French drama, an irresponsible man is forced by circumstances beyond his control to communicate with the family he's kept at a distance. Jean-Paul (Gerard Lanvin) is the manager of a hotel in Nice whose shady business practices have put him seriously into debt; he needs to raise 300,000 Read More

Aux Petits Bonheurs

Actors: Anémone, Xavier Beauvois, André Dussollier, Nicole Garcia, Sylvie Laporte

Synopsis: Helene (Anemone) is looking for her love of 25 years ago. She is 43 now, was 18 then. She has returned to the last place she saw him, a large house in the country. Once there, she finds Ariane making love to Matthieu. Matthieu is Sabine's husband; Sabine is younger than he is, she wants a child Read More

Un Week-End Sur Deux

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Nathalie Baye, Joachim Serreau, Miki Manojlovic, Felicie Pasotti, Henri Garcin

Synopsis: Without undue melodrama or moral judgment, this evocative French drama paints a painfully realistic portrait of a woman who inexorably destroys her life with her constant fixation on her own needs. She is Camille Valmont, a woman whose lust for fame eclipses every other aspect of her life. By the Read More

Outremer

Actors: Nicole Garcia, Marianne Basler, Brigitte Roüan, Philippe Galland, Yan Dedet

Synopsis: Set in French colonial Algeria, this is the story of three beautiful sisters over an 18-year period (1946-1964). Beginning in luxury, this movie tells the story of the social changes around them that bring about a loss of innocence for them. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

La Lumière Du Lac

Actors: Nicole Garcia, Wadeck Stanczak, Francesca Prandi, Jean-Louis Barrault, Madeleine Renaud

Synopsis: An urban gigolo on the run from a mobster hides out at the remote cabin of a female novelist in this plodding romantic drama. Her neighbors include an elderly man with a penchant for growing sunflowers and an unhappy neighbor girl with emotional problems. Love blossoms for the unlikely couple who Read More

A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later

Actors: Anouk Aimée, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Evelyne Bouix, Marie-Sophie Pochat, Richard Berry, Philippe Leroy-Beaulieu

Synopsis: It is possible to enjoy Claude Lelouch's Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later on its own merits, though we advise that to fully appreciate the film, it's best to catch Lelouch's 1966 blockbuster A Man and a Woman first. True to its word, the 1986 film brings us up to date with the protagonists of the Read More

Mort un Dimanche De Pluie

Actors: Nicole Garcia, Dominique Lavanant, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Jean-Pierre Bisson, Cerise Leclerc

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Joan Aiken, this is a routine story of a psycho looking for revenge. "Cappy" Bronsky (Jean-Pierre Bisson) is a paraplegic because of an accident at a construction site that was partly due to the head architect, David Briand (Jean-Pierre Bacri). Many years after the accident Read More

Quinze Aout

Crew: Director

Actors: Nicole Garcia, Ann-Gisele Glass, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jean Rochefort

L'Etat De Grâce

Actors: Nicole Garcia, Sami Frey, Pierre Arditi, Philippe Léotard

Synopsis: Antoine has a promising political career in front of him, if he can only keep from getting sidelined by inappropriate love affairs. He is a junior minister in France's socialist government, and he has had a hand in writing a number of important pieces of legislation. He has put his heart into Read More

Le Quatrieme Pouvoir

Actors: Philippe Noiret, Nicole Garcia, Jean-Claude Brialy, Roland Blanche, Michel Subor

Synopsis: In this political drama, freedom of the press, government intrigue, and the murder of an Arab diplomat form the knots of tension that challenge two crime-fighters: Yves Dorget (Philippe Noiret), a newspaper reporter, and Catherine Carre (Nicole Garcia), a TV anchorwoman. Both Yves and Catherine Read More

Péril en la Demeure

Actors: Christophe Malavoy, Nicole Garcia, Michel Piccoli, Anémone, Richard Bohringer

Synopsis: Mixing together the erotic and a theme of imminent death, director Michel Deville has fashioned an increasingly unsettling tale, based on the French novel Sur la Terre Comme au Ciel by Rene Belletto. When David (Christophe Malavoy) arrives at the home of Julia (Nicole Garcia) and Graham (Michel Piccoli 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

Via Degli Specchi

Actors: Nicole Garcia, Heinz Bennent, Milva, Claudio Bigagli

Synopsis: When Francesca (Nicole García), a magistrate in a local justice department, starts to investigate the suicide of a young woman she has no idea her own husband was indirectly involved. Once she learns more about the case, her marriage is placed in jeopardy. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide Read More

Stella

Actors: Nicole Garcia, Thierry Lhermitte, Victor Lanoux, Jean-Claude Brialy, Gerard Desarthe

Synopsis: Considering the passionate times (1944 -- when the Allies are about to liberate France with the consequent round-up of German collaborators), the two leading characters in this love story (Nicole Garcia as Stella, and Thierry Lhermitte as Yvon) could be more passionate in their feelings for each Read More

Les Mots Pour Le Dire

Actors: Nicole Garcia, Marie-Christine Barrault, Daniel Mesguich, Claude Rich, Jean-Luc Boutte

Synopsis: Based on an autobiographical novel by Marie Cardinal, this well-acted psychological drama details the tormented relationship between Marie (Nicole Garcia) and her mother, stemming from Marie's childhood on their estate in Algeria. The mother, Eliane (Marie-Christine Barrault) had lost a child Read More

Garçon!

Actors: Yves Montand, Jacques Villeret, Nicole Garcia, Bernard Fresson, Rosy Varte, Marie Dubois

Synopsis: Yves Montand stars in this French seriocomedy as a middle-aged waiter. He has long harbored dreams of becoming a singer, and is also anxious to prove he's as virile as he was when he started pushing plates. Montand gets a chance to rev up his sexual energy and his musical skills when an old flame (Nicole Garcia Read More

Qu-est-ce Qui Fait Courir David?

Actors: Francis Huster, Charles Aznavour, Magali Noël, Nicole Garcia, Nathalie Nell

Synopsis: In making this film about a director who is presently working on an autobiographical movie, real-life director Elie Chouraqui has played on a Jewish cultural theme (the "reel" director is Jewish) and the intermixing of 1960s movie-making techniques. In the film, director David is in his 30s and Read More

L'Honneur d'un Capitaine

Actors: Jacques Perrin, Nicole Garcia, Charles Denner, Georges Wilson, Georges Marchal

Synopsis: When Patricia Caron (Nicole García) watches a television debate, she is shocked to hear her long-dead husband described as a war criminal and a torturer. Her husband Marcel (Jacques Perrin) had died more than two decades earlier when French troops fought in Algeria -- and although she had been Read More

Beau-Père

Actors: Patrick Dewaere, Ariel Besse, Maurice Ronet, Nicole Garcia, Nathalie Baye

Synopsis: In French filmmaker Bertrand Blier's seriocomic Beau Pere, Ariel Besse plays a 14-year-old girl who is perversely attracted to her 30-year-old stepfather (Patrick Dewaere). Daddy fends off these unnatural attentions, but eventually gives in and allows himself to be seduced. ~ Hal Erickson, All Read More

Les Uns et les autres

Actors: Robert Hossein, Nicole Garcia, Geraldine Chaplin, Daniel Olbrychski, Jacques Villeret

Synopsis: Claude Lelouch's Bolero covers a time span of half a century, concentrating on several generations of music lovers, all hailing from different nations and cultural backgrounds. Each of the principal actors plays multiple characters. Among the cast-members is James Caan, Robert Hossein and Read More

Le Grand Paysage d'Alexis Droeven

Actors: Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Nicole Garcia, Maurice Garrel, Jan Decleir

Synopsis: At the core of this docudrama are six French-speaking villages that were transferred to the jurisdiction of a Dutch-speaking province when political lines were drawn. The director of Le Grand Paysage d'Alexis Droeven (Jean-Jacques Andrien) was born and raised in this area and filmed scenes of the Read More

Qu'est-Ce Qui Fait Courir David?

Actors: Francis Huster, Charles Aznavour, Anouk Aimée, Nicole Garcia

Mon Oncle d'Amérique

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Nicole Garcia, Roger-Pierre, Marie Dubois

Synopsis: Alain Resnais' Mon Oncle D'Amerique is presented in the form of a "case history," replete with a pedantic narrator, played by real-life behavioral scientist Henri Laborit. Gerald Depardieu plays a plant manager whose behavior is inspired by the films of "macho" French film star Jean Gabin. Nicole Garcia Read More

Le Cavaleur

Actors: Jean Rochefort, Nicole Garcia, Catherine Alric, Catherine Leprince, Lila Kedrova

Synopsis: A discontented concert pianist causes all sorts of heartbreak with his egotistical and womanizing antics, and all the people in his life attempt to force him to grow up in this French comedy/drama (with English subtitles). ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

Un Papillon sur l'Epaule

Actors: Lino Ventura, Nicole Garcia, Claudine Auger, Jean Bouise, Paul Crauchet

Synopsis: Roland Fériaud (Lino Ventura), on returning from a seaside vacation, discovers a corpse in a room adjoining his. He is abducted by a mysterious group who take him to a clinic of some kind, where he is interrogated. He is shown a small suitcase he has never seen before, and he tries in vain to Read More

Corrupt

Actors: Harvey Keitel, Nicole Garcia, Leonard Mann, John (Johnny Rotten) Lydon, Sylvia Sidney

Synopsis: A New York policeman (Harvey Keitel) imprisons and tortures an admitted cop-killer (John Lydon), but finds the tables turned when his victim refuses to break and in fact urges more punishment. Highlighted is the intense interplay between the irrepressible Keitel and Lydon, the sneering frontman of Read More

La Question

Actors: Jacques Denis, Nicole Garcia, Jean-Pierre Sentier, Francois Dyrek, Christian Rist

Synopsis: Charlegue (Jacques Denis) is a small-time publisher who ran a left-wing newspaper in Algeria and worked in support of that country's independence movement. When the country is taken over by right-wing French military types in the 1950s, he is forced to go underground. The country's rulers Read More

Les Indiens Sont Encore Loin

Actors: Isabelle Huppert, Mathieu Carrière, Christine Pascal, Chil Boiscuille, Anton Diffring

Synopsis: Jenny (Isabelle Huppert) is a disconnected 16-year old schoolgirl who is so taken with a story of Native Americans coming to take someone into their tribe that she wanders out into the snow in search of them and dies. Was it an accident, or suicide? This drama explores the last week of Jenny's Read More

Le Corps de Mon Ennemi

Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Marie-France Pisier, Bernard Blier, Daniel Ivernel

Synopsis: Francois (Jean-Paul Belmondo) was framed as a drug-trafficker by none other than the head trafficker himself and spent seven years in prison for his supposed crimes. Now an ex-con, the vengeful Francois carefully arranges things so that the kingpin's own henchmen murder him, as they believe that Read More

Duelle

Actors: Juliet Berto, Elisabeth Wiener, Bulle Ogier, Jean Babilee, Hermine Karagheuz, Nicole Garcia

Synopsis: This film chronicles the strange battle among a pair of beings from the sphere of the sun or moon, who take the form of women and fight over a young man in bars, hotels, and mystical power-spots. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide Read More

Let Joy Reign Supreme . . .

Actors: Philippe Noiret, Jean Rochefort, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Christine Pascal, Marina Vlady

Synopsis: The humanistic actions of Philippe D'Orleans, the cultured gentle regent to young Louis the XV in pre-revolutionary France (1719) are chronicled in this French costumer. Though the regent endeavors to keep his subjects cultured and happy to stop the peasants from rising up, he knows he has no real Read More

Des Garcons Et Des Filles

Actors: Francois Leccia, Nicole Garcia, Jean Maucorps

Synopsis: A group of young adults take over a house and implement a communal living system in this routine drama which makes a feeble attempt to provide a youthful perspective to the feature. Characters include a peppy female worker, a poor rich girl, an unwed mother, and some pseudo-intellectuals. They Read More