Philippe de BrocaFilmography

Amazone

Crew: Director

Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Arielle Dombasle, Patrick Bouchitey, André Penvern

Synopsis: Craving a change in lifestyle, jewel thief and eight times-divorced Edouard (Jean-Paul Belmondo) leaves Paris for the Patagonian jungle. One day, while out gathering grubs, he makes the acquaintance of an extraterrestrial little girl (Thylda Bares) who materializes out of nowhere and proceeds to Read More

On Guard

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Daniel Auteuil, Fabrice Luchini, Vincent Perez, Marie Gillain, Yann Collette

Synopsis: This period swashbuckler, set during the years 1699 to 1716, is the seventh screen adaptation of Paul Feval's 1857 serialized novel. Trained in circus stunts and fencing, Lagardere (Daniel Auteuil) becomes the bodyguard of the Duke of Nevers (Vincent Perez), whose cousin is the greedy Gonzague (Luchini Read More

Jardin de Plantes

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Claude Rich, Salomée Stevenin, Samuel Labarthe, Catherine Jacob, Zoltan Gera

Synopsis: In this French drama, set during the last months of the Nazi occupation of Paris, a caring grandfather disguises the truth to protect his granddaughter who worships her absent father. Phillippine is only 8-years old. She lives with her dad and her grandparents. One night her father is executed by Read More

Les Clés Du Paradis

Crew: Director

Actors: Gérard Jugnot, Pierre Arditi, Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu, Fanny Cottençon

Synopsis: Gaspard lives in Paris and has an ex-wife and a career as a well-respected novelist. However, he is thoroughly bored with his life and is also short of funds for paying alimony. He decides to go to Brittany to visit his goofy brother and renew his ongoing affair with his brother's wife. Paul is Read More

Les 1001 Nuits

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Catherine Zeta-Jones, Thierry Lhermitte, Gérard Jugnot, Stéphane Freiss, Vittorio Gassman

Synopsis: The tale of this movie is familiar enough, Sheherazade (Catherine Zeta-Jones) has been married to a ruler (Thierry Lhermitte) who wants many wives, but only one at a time. Consequently, as soon as he has bedded them, he has them put to death. In most retellings, the girl staves off this Read More

Chouans!

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Philippe Noiret, Sophie Marceau, Lambert Wilson, Stéphane Freiss, Jean-Pierre Cassel

Synopsis: Celine (Sophie Marceau) must choose between Tarquin (Lambert Wilson) and Aurele (Stephane Fries) in this historical drama set during the French Civil War of 1793. The Republican Army decimated Western France when an insurgence of peasants, clergy, and aristocrats loyal to the Royalists staged a Read More

La Gitane

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Claude Brasseur, Valérie Kaprisky, Clémentine Célarié, Stéphane Audran, Valerie Rojan

Synopsis: The clash in this Philippe De Broca comedy between a bored middle-class stiff and a much more exciting, lawless female offers no new insights into the genre. Hubert Durieux (Claude Brassuer) works in a staid bank job and has to put up with demands from his ex-wife and a daughter who may not have Read More

Louisiane

Crew: Director

Actors: Margot Kidder, Ian Charleson, Victor Lanoux, Andréa Ferréol, Lloyd Bochner

Synopsis: This epic story about a Louisiana plantation owner trying to hold on to her estate before, during, and after the American Civil War, a place ironically called "Bagatelle," rides on the illustrious fame of Tara and its more famous mistress in another Southern state. Virginia Tregan (Margot Kidder) Read More

L'Africain

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Catherine Deneuve, Philippe Noiret, Jean-François Balmer, Joseph Momo, Vi Reed

Synopsis: Searching for the ideal place for a new resort in Central Africa, Catherine Deneuve stumbles into an ex-lover, Philippe Noiret, who is the store owner and pilot for the small African village. They clash at first, but soon begin to look past each the other's shortcomings. But trouble comes to Read More

Psy

Crew: Director

Actors: Patrick Dewaere, Anny Duperey, Michel Creton, Catherine Frot, Jennifer

Synopsis: The cartoonist Gerard Lauzier wrote this satire of psychologists, their practice, and the whole idea of group therapy, around Marc (Patrick Dewaere), a psychologist who may need more help than he gives. Right now, Marc is living in the countryside with Colette (Anny Duperey), but not without Read More

On a Volé la Cuisse de Jupiter

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Philippe Noiret, Catherine Alric, Francis Perrin, Marc Dudicourt

Synopsis: This sequel to Dear Detective suffers from the same trouble as most sequels in that it does not live up to the original film. Police director Lise Tanquerelle (Annie Girardot) marries Antoine Lemercier (Philippe Noiret), an expert in Greek history. While honeymooning in Greece, they are approached Read More

Le Cavaleur

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

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

Julie - Pot de Colle

Crew: Director

Actors: Marlène Jobert, Jean-Claude Brialy, Alexandra Stewart, Alain David, Christian Alers

Synopsis: During a business trip to Morocco to finalize a deal to build an ugly modern tourist village on the site of a lovely local town, Jean-Luc (Jean-Claude Biraly), the bank representative, is called on by the architect's wife. She has, it seems, accidentally killed her husband during a spat and needs Read More

Tendre Poulet

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Annie Girardot, Philippe Noiret, Catherine Alric, Hubert Deschamps, Paulette Dubost

Synopsis: Dear Inspector and Dear Detective were the English-language titles of Philippe De Broca's Tendre Poulet. Annie Girardot plays the old flame of Greek professor Philippe Noiret. The prof tries to rekindle the flames of passion, but Girardot seems curiously preoccupied. It turns out that she's a Read More

L'Incorrigible

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Geneviève Bujold, Julien Guiomar, Charles Gerard, Capucine

Synopsis: Right after his release from prison, Victor (Jean-Paul Belmondo) resumes his con-man activities. He rents apartments he doesn't own, sells nonexistent fighter planes to African countries, and by turns pretends to be a gardener, lawyer, private detective, governmental official, and even a Read More

Le Magnifique

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jacqueline Bisset, Vittorio Caprioli, Monique Tarbes

Synopsis: In this parody of James Bond movies, a dullard of a spy novelist finds himself the subject of an English sociology student's term papers. She travels to his Paris apartment to do her research and their relationship is interspliced with episodes from the writer's newest book that features his Read More

Chère Louise

Crew: Director

Actors: Jeanne Moreau

Synopsis: In this French romance, Louise (Jeanne Moreau) lives alone and seems to like it that way. She has been through a divorce and the recent death of her mother. Recently, she has moved to Annecy, a moderate-sized city, to take work as a schoolteacher. She encounters a much younger man, Luigi (Julian Negulesco Read More

La Poudre d'escampette

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Marlène Jobert, Michel Piccoli, Michael York, Louis Velle

Synopsis: Before the Allied invasion of North Africa in World War II, there was still plenty of confusion, and wartime national alliances often conflicted with personal friendships. Valentin (Michel Piccoli), a French black marketer, rescues Basil (Michael York), an English fighter pilot, off the coast of Read More

Les Caprices de Marie

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Marthe Keller, Valentina Cortese, Bert Convy, Fernand Gravey, Philippe Noiret, François Perier

Synopsis: Marie (Marthe Keller) is the most beautiful girl in her small village. She enters a beauty contest in a nearby town and wins the top prize. Broderick (Bert Convey) is the young American businessman who falls in love with the newly crowned beauty queen. She agrees to marry him but states she cannot Read More

Le Diable Par La Queue

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Yves Montand, Maria Schell, Madeleine Renaud, Jean Rochefort

Synopsis: An eccentric family in need of money turns their crumbling chateau into a hotel in order to renovate the old place. Repairs are made to the aging structure, but they only have one guest and too many empty rooms. The young granddaughter, with the help of her mechanic boyfriend, manages to make sure Read More

The Oldest Profession

Crew: Director

Actors: Michele Mercier, Elsa Martinelli, Enrico Maria Salerno, Jeanne Moreau, Gabriele Tinti, Raquel Welch, Gastone Moschin

Synopsis: In this anthology, six French filmmakers each contributed a vignette, offering their take on the history of prostitution. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Ne Jouez Pas Avec Les Martians

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Jean Rochefort, Macha Meril, Haydee Politoff, Pierre Dac

Synopsis: This light comedy finds an inept reporter keeping his job only because his uncle owns the paper he works for. He is assigned to cover the story of a woman giving birth to sextuplets on a small island off the coast of France. The gullible reporter is given a false story, by a social worker, that Read More

O Salto

Crew: Producer

Actors: Marco Pico, Antonio Passalia, Ludmila Mikael

Synopsis: Director Christian De Chalonge uses a docudrama-styled approach to tell the lonely story of Portugese workers in France. In hopes of avoiding the Army, a boy leaves Portugal bound for Paris to find a job. He meets other Portugese upon his arrival but spends most of his time wandering the streets Read More

King of Hearts

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Alan Bates, Geneviève Bujold, Julien Guiomar, Jean-Claude Brialy, Pierre Brasseur, Micheline Presle

Synopsis: The French/Italian/British King of Hearts (Le Roi de Coeur) takes place during World War I, but it might as well have been the Vietnamese conflict so far as its youthful "core" audience was concerned. Overacting outrageously, Adolfo Celi plays British colonel Alexander MacBibenbrook, who orders Read More

Les Tribulations D'Un Chinois En Chine

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Ursula Andress, Jean Rochefort, Darry Cowl, Maria Pacome, Valerie Lagrange

Synopsis: Arthur Lempereur (Jean-Paul Belmondo of Breathless) is a globe-hopping millionaire, engaged to Alice (Valérie Lagrange), a beautiful young woman. As the film opens, Arthur has cut the break line on his fine automobile and proceeds to drive it off a cliff. This, we learn, is his ninth suicide Read More

Un Monsieur de Compagnie

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jean-Pierre Cassel, Irina Demick, Jean-Claude Brialy, Catherine Deneuve, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Sandra Milo, André Luguet

Synopsis: Following up 1964's Academy Award nominated L'Homme de Rio, French filmmaker Philippe de Broca wrote and directed this big-screen adaptation of André Couteaux's novel Un monsieur de compagnie. Jean-Pierre Cassel stars as Antoine, a young man who holds the philosophy "Laziness is the mother of all Read More

L'Homme de Rio

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Françoise Dorléac, Jean Servais, Milton Ribeiro, Simone Renant

Synopsis: An eight-day pass, a kidnapping, and a greedy group of South American Indians provide the basic ingredients of this madcap adventure. A French air force pilot has the pass and plans to use it to see his girl friend in Paris. He gets there just in time to see a gang of South American Indians, who Read More

Cartouche

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Claudia Cardinale, Jean Rochefort, Odile Versois, Marcel Dalio

Synopsis: Jean-Paul Belmondo romps his way through the role of 18th century French bandit chief Cartouche. At first robbing from everyone in sight (he has to -- he's head man of a Parisian crime syndicate) Cartouche is rechanneled into becoming a Gallic Robin Hood by beauteous gypsy Venus (Claudia Read More

Les Sept Péchés Capitaux

Crew: Director

Actors: Jacques Charrier, Marie-José Nat, Eddie Constantine, Nicole Mirel, Dany Saval, Marina Vlady, Claude Brasseur

Synopsis: The seven major sins receive treatment from some of France's greatest directors in this lively portmanteau. "Anger" by Dhomme, chronicles a single horrific day when every bowl of soup in France is found to contain a fly. This causes a devastating nationwide revolt. "Envy" by Molinaro tells the Read More

Les Veinards

Crew: Director

Actors: Francis Blanche, Darry Cowl, François Perier

L'Amant de Cinq Jours

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jean Seberg, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Micheline Presle, François Perier

Synopsis: American actress Jean Seberg, stars as Claire, a wayward wife, in this routine sex comedy by director Philippe de Broca. Claire's husband is not especially exciting -- he is a button-down civil servant -- and so it is not unusual that she lapse into an affair with Antoine (Jean-Pierre Cassel). Read More

Breathless

Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg, Daniel Boulanger, Jean-Pierre Melville, Liliane David, Henri-Jacques Huet

Synopsis: The first feature film directed by Jean-Luc Godard and one of the seminal films of the French New Wave, Breathless is story of the love between Michel Poiccard, a small-time hood wanted for killing a cop, and Patricia Franchini, an American who sells the International Herald Tribune along the Read More

Les Jeux de l'amour

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jean-Pierre Cassel, Geneviève Cluny, Jean-Louis Maury, Robert Vattier

Synopsis: Victor (Jean-Pierre Cassel) and Suzanne (Genevieve Cluny) are a couple at odds about commitment in this light, fast-paced comedy-drama by Philippe de Broca. Suzanne needs more reassurance from Victor about the future of their relationship. He is a painter with an inspired creative side who finds Read More

Le Farceur

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Anouk Aimée, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Geneviève Cluny, Anne Tonietti, Palau

Synopsis: The joie de vivre of a young Parisian provides the basis for this romantic tale. The hero truly loves everything about life. He is especially fond of young women with he frequently falls in love. The lad lives with his supportive uncle, his brother, and his brother's wife, a former lover of the Read More

The 400 Blows

Crew: First Assistant Director

Actors: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Robert Beauvais, Claire Maurier, Albert Remy, Guy Decomble, Patrick Auffay

Synopsis: For his feature-film debut, critic-turned-director François Truffaut drew inspiration from his own troubled childhood. The 400 Blows stars Jean-Pierre Léaud as Antoine Doinel, Truffaut's preteen alter ego. Misunderstood at home by his parents and tormented in school by his insensitive teacher (Guy Decomble Read More

Les Cousins

Crew: First Assistant Director

Actors: Gérard Blain, Jean-Claude Brialy, Juliette Mayniel, Claude Cerval, Geneviève Cluny

Synopsis: This was the first of several films that would win international awards for French New Wave director Claude Chabrol. His aloof, innovative approach to the simple story says as much as the plot itself in which two cousins symbolize polar opposites. Charles (Gerard Blain ) is the cousin from the Read More

Le Beau Serge

Crew: First Assistant Director

Actors: Gérard Blain, Jean-Claude Brialy, Michele Meritz, Bernadette Lafont, Edmond Beauchamp

Synopsis: Le Beau Serge was the first film of French critic-turned-director Claude Chabrol. Though not a murder melodrama, the film is heavily influenced by the works of Chabrol's idol Alfred Hitchcock, Shadow of a Doubt in particular. Ailing city dweller Francois (Jean-Claude Brialy) makes a therapeutic Read More