Pierre Arditi Filmography

The Great Alibi

Actors: Miou-Miou, Lambert Wilson, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Pierre Arditi, Anne Consigny

Synopsis: A man is shot dead, but is the woman with the gun really the killer? That's the all-important question in this thriller from France. Henri Pages (Pierre Arditi) is a successful politician who with his wife Elaine (Miou-Miou) has invited an eclectic group of guests to their country home for a Read More

Private Fears in Public Places

Actors: Laura Morante, Lambert Wilson, Pierre Arditi, Isabelle Carré, André Dussollier

Synopsis: A handful of characters struggle to hold on to relationships with the people they care for in this collaboration between playwright Alan Ayckbourn and filmmaker Alain Resnais. Dan (Lambert Wilson) has recently finished up a hitch in the Army, but rather than deal with his emotional issues, Dan Read More

The Very Big Apartment

Actors: Laetitia Casta, Mathieu Amalric, Pierre Arditi, Noemie Lvovsky, Carmen Durand

Synopsis: A caustic apartment owner finds her attempts to evict the ragtag occupants of a 3,000 square foot rent-controlled apartment challenged in a most unexpected way in director Pascal Thomas' communal comedy. Thanks to a legal loophole known as "the Law of 1948," a cap was placed on some rental units Read More

Our Earthmen Friends

Actors: Audrey Dana, Annelise Hesme, Thomas Le Douarec, Boris Ventura, Pierre Arditi

Synopsis: An alien race attempting to gain a greater understanding of mankind focus their studies on a temperamental painter and a brooding musician in speculative sci-fi author-turned-filmmaker Bernard Werber's ambitious sci-fi mockumentary. Fascinated by the human creature and determined to gain a greater Read More

Headrush

Actors: Pierre Arditi, Marie-Christine Barrault, Sandrine Le Berre, Bernard Haller, Jean-Paul Bazziconi

Synopsis: A widower's grief leads him down the road to madness in this drama from French filmmaker Jean Marboeuf. Pierre Valois (Pierre Arditi) is an elderly man who is still emotionally reeling from the death of his wife (Marie-Christine Barrault), and he visits her grave nearly every day, even though he Read More

Men and Women

Actors: Mathilde Seigner, Maiwenn, Arielle Dombasle, Agnes Soral, Massimo Ranieri

The Perfume of the Lady in Black

Actors: Denis Podalydès, Sabine Azéma, Pierre Arditi, Michel Lonsdale, Olivier Gourmet

La Premiere Fois Que J'ai Eu 20 Ans

Actors: Marilou Berry, Catherine Jacob, Serge Riaboukine, Myriam Moraly, Stephanie Pasterkamp

Le Souvenir d'un Avenir

Synopsis: Visual artist Chris Marker puts together the essay film Le Souvenir d'un Avenir (Remembrance of Things to Come). Through montage and narration, the film is a lesson in art history particularly focusing on the life and work of photographer Denise Bellon from 1935 to 1955 (co-director Yannick Bellon Read More

Le Mystere de la Chambre Jaune

Actors: Denis Podalydès, Sabine Azéma, Michel Lonsdale, Pierre Arditi, Claude Rich

Le Clefs de Bagnole

Actors: Laurent Baffie, Daniel Russo, Claude Berri, Charles Gassot, Alain Terzian

Les Acteurs

Actors: André Dussollier, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Jacques Villeret, Claude Rich

Synopsis: The son of actor Bernard Blier, director Bertrand Blier is known throughout France for his documentaries and dark depictions of sex and its impact on society. Though his influences and personal opinions clearly shine through, Les Acteurs is a satirical take on the ups, downs, and numerous Read More

La Fausse Suivante

Actors: Mathieu Amalric, Pierre Arditi, Isabelle Huppert, Sandrine Kiberlain, Alexandre Soulie

Synopsis: This droll comedy from France was based on a popular stage play by the 18th century author Marivaux. As a lark, an attractive young heiress (Sandrine Kiberlain) disguises herself as a man as she travels with a servant for a weekend getaway to the estate of her close friend the Countess (Isabelle Huppert Read More

Le Dernier Plan: Sur les pas de Constantin Dolinescu

Actors: Florin Piersic, Jr., Manuela Servais, Mihai Dinvale, Pierre Arditi, Jean-Michel Jarre

Synopsis: The first feature film of Benoit Peeters is a mystery drama involving a young director, an exiled writer, and the woman who comes between them. Virgil Iancu (Florin Piersic) is a Romanian director who arrives in Paris to make a documentary about Constantin Dolinescu (Mihai Dinvale), a famous Read More

Hasards ou Coïncidences

Actors: Alessandra Martines, Pierre Arditi, Marc Hollogne, Geoffrey Holder, Laurent Hilare

Synopsis: Claude Lelouch directed this French-Canadian romantic drama in which French futurologist Marc (Marc Hollander) declares luck and coincidence are not factors as he maintains math can be used to predict the future. Former classical dancer Myriam (Alessandra Martines), raising her young son Serge (Arthur Cheysson Read More

Que La Lumière Soit

Actors: Hélène de Fougerolles, Tchéky Karyo, Ticky Holgado, Pierre Arditi, Gordon Tootoosis

Synopsis: Arthur Joffe directed this French comic fantasy, in French and English dialogue, about God (voice of Pierre Arditi), invisible and spinning through Heavenly space on an asteroid, along with his sidekick angel Rene (Ticky Holgado). God observes Earthly events on His television set. After hacking Read More

Same Old Song

Actors: Pierre Arditi, Sabine Azéma, Jean-Pierre Bacri, André Dussollier, Agnès Jaoui

Synopsis: In this homage to acclaimed TV scripter Dennis Potter (1935-1994), famed 75-year-old French director Alain Resnais (Hiroshima, Mon Amour, Last Year at Marienbad) has actors lip-synch in a manner instantly recalling Potter's Pennies from Heaven (1978 TV serial, 1981 movie) and The Singing Detective Read More

Messieurs Les Enfants

Actors: Pierre Arditi, François Morel, Zinedine Soualem, Catherine Jacob, Jean-Louis Richard

Synopsis: This French family fantasy follows in the footsteps of the fine and funny Big (1988). Solemn French schoolteacher Albert Crastaing (Jean-Louis Richard) punishes a trio of 12-year-olds by having them write a Kafkaesque essay with a body-switching premise, cueing the film's storyline of kids Read More

Hommes, Femmes: Mode d'Emploi

Actors: Fabrice Luchini, Bernard Tapie, Alessandra Martines, Pierre Arditi

Synopsis: A feather-light and funny musing on the nature of love, fate and starting over, Claude Lelouch's comedy begins with the meeting of Fabio Lini, an actor turned undercover Paris cop and the notorious lawyer-cum-businessman Benoit Blanc . Both have come to the same clinic to have their ulcers Read More

The Horseman on the Roof

Actors: Olivier Martinez, Juliette Binoche, Isabelle Carré, François Cluzet, Jean Yanne

Synopsis: In this beautifully mounted historical drama, Angelo Pardi (Olivier Martinez), an Italian soldier, is fleeing his country in 1832. After the fall of Napoleon, Austria is swooping down on Italy to take control of the nation, and like many patriots, Pardi is hoping to escape to France and fight for Read More

La Petite Apocalypse

Actors: Jirí Menzel, André Dussollier, Pierre Arditi, Anna Romantowska

Synopsis: In this cynical comedy, an renowned, out-of-work, unpublished "underground" writer from formerly Communist Poland is driven to unusually desperate measures in order to get his work published. Stan (Jiri Menzel) has been living in the attic apartment of his ex-wife's home, which he shares with a Read More

Smoking/No Smoking

Actors: Sabine Azéma, Pierre Arditi

Synopsis: Since Smoking and No Smoking, though they are separate films, were conceived (and shown) in tandem, and since they are both based on a closely connected set of plays by the English dramatist Alan Ayckbourn, they are considered together here. When the two films were shown in France, viewers Read More

Les Clés Du Paradis

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

Plaisir d'amour

Actors: Pierre Arditi, Françoise Fabian, Dominique Blanc, Cecile Sanz De Alba

Synopsis: Flo is just thirteen and is away from home on vacation. Her mother Clo, her sister Jo, and her relative Do, are all very liberated women, very wealthy, and very determined to have their way. When they catch sight of Guillaume de Burlador (Pierre Arditi), a handsome, well-educated and somewhat Read More

La Femme et le pantin

Actors: Pierre Arditi, Maribel Verdú

Duo

Vanille Fraise

Actors: Pierre Arditi, Sabine Azéma, Isaach de Bankolé, Jacques Perrin, Riccardo Cucciolla

Synopsis: In this romantic comedy/spy thriller, Clarissa Boulanger (Sabine Azema) is eager to take a breather from her deteriorating marriage, so when the French Secret Service asks her to team up with Hippolyte (Isaach de Bankole) and pose as a newlywed in order to thwart the shipment of powerful weapons Read More

Bonjour L'Angoisse

Actors: Michel Serrault, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Geneviève Fontanel, Guy Marchand, Pierre Arditi

Synopsis: Michaud (Michel Serrault) is a timid and anxiety-ridden security-systems technician who is prone to daydreams like Walter Mitty. Continually teased by his colleagues and his taunting alter ego, Michaud is victimized by a fellow employee who tries to implicate him in a bank robbery. He emerges from Read More

De Guerre Lasse

Actors: Nathalie Baye, Christophe Malavoy, Pierre Arditi, Genevieve Mnich, Jean Bouise, Philippe Clevenot

Synopsis: Alice (Nathalie Baye) is the widow of a Jewish surgeon who helps the former diplomat Jerome (Pierre Arditi) smuggle Jews out of Austria to save them from the Nazis. The duo recruits Charles (Christophe Malavoy), a shoe manufacturer whose uncle is a Nazi sympathizer in the Vichy government. Charles Read More

Natalia

Actors: Pierre Arditi, Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu, Ludmila Mikael, Michel Voita, Dominique Blanc

Synopsis: The French/Swiss Natalia is set in France during the Nazi occupation. A Jewish film actress (Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu) successfully obscures her heritage, rising to the top of her profession. Some uncomfortable moments transpire when she is courted by several high-ranking German officials. The Read More

Mélo

Actors: Sabine Azéma, Fanny Ardant, Pierre Arditi, André Dussollier, Jacques Dacqmine

Synopsis: Director Alain Resnais faithfully adapted his script for Melo from a 1929 play by Henry Bernstein--the first time that Resnais handled his own screenplay. Violinists and lifelong friends Pierre Arditi and Andre Dussolier have each found happiness in adulthood, but only Dussolier has become famous. Read More

La Passerelle

Actors: Pierre Arditi, Mathilda May, Jany Holt, Aurelle Doazan, Jean-Marie Marion

Synopsis: Cora (Mathilde May) and her neighbor Jean (Pierre Arditi) meet for the first time when Cora's five-year-old son falls off the balcony in this drama. Jean is caught outside naked when a gust of wind slams the door closed, causing the frightened young boy to fall three stories. The two get to know Read More

Radio Corbeau

Actors: Claude Brasseur, Pierre Arditi, Evelyne Bouix, Christine Boisson

Synopsis: This fast-paced mystery is in part based on a novel by Yves Ellena and is at least equally based on the 1943 classic Le Corbeau, which in 1951 was produced in English by Otto Preminger as The Thirteenth Letter. In this movie, someone is using a pirate radio broadcast to dish the dirt on the lives Read More

La Petite Allumeuse

Actors: Roland Giraud, Pierre Arditi, Tanya Lopert

Flagrante Delicto

Actors: Richard Bohringer, Pierre Arditi, Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu, Philippe Pouchain, Anne Letourneau

Synopsis: Simon (Richard Bohringer) is a veteran cop who suspects his boss Tramoni (Pierre Arditi) is on the take in this dramatic thriller. When he orders Simon off the job of tracking some notorious thieves, the detective begins to gather more evidence by hanging out in the seedy gambling dives. ~ Dan Read More

Agent Trouble

Actors: Richard Bohringer, Catherine Deneuve, Pierre Arditi, Tom Novembre, Dominique Lavanant

Synopsis: Amanda Weber (Catherine Deneuve) is a museum employee who seeks to discover how and why her nephew (Tom Novembre) was murdered in this dull thriller. She knows her nephew was witness to a government project in which a busload of tourists were killed by a mysterious poisonous gas. Alex (Richard Bohringer 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

Poker

Actors: Caroline Cellier, Pierre Arditi, Jean-Philippe Ecoffey, Jacque Mathou

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

Triple Sec

Actors: Pierre Arditi, André Dussollier

Strictement Personnel

Actors: Pierre Arditi, Jacques Penot, Caroline Chaniolleau, Jean Reno, Robert Rimbaud

Synopsis: The crimes and tragedies that tear apart one family seem overblown in the telling, yet this psychological drama about the miseries of one French policeman is compelling throughout. Jean (Pierre Arditi) is a cop and also a failed novelist who was abandoned by his father, brother, and sister after Read More

Pattes de velours

L'Amour à Mort

Actors: Sabine Azéma, Fanny Ardant, Pierre Arditi, André Dussollier, Jean Dasté

Synopsis: Acclaimed French director Alain Resnais, winner of many international film awards for his ground-breaking creativity (Hiroshima, Mon Amour, L'Année Dernière à Marienbad), follows up his successful La Vie Est Un Roman with this continuing saga of love and death. This time, two principal actors from La Vie.. Read More

Les Enfants

Actors: Pierre Arditi, Martine Chevalier, André Dussollier, Daniel Gélin

Synopsis: More of a commentary on life as seen by Marguerite Duras than a movie on a family's internal relationships, this intriguing story focuses on Ernesto, a seven-year-old (played by the adult Alexander Bougosslavsky) who leaves school after several weeks because he is not interested in learning. Read More

Jane

Actors: Maria Pacome, Pierre Arditi, Catherine Samie

Femmes De Personne

Actors: Marthe Keller, Caroline Cellier, Fanny Cottençon, Jean-Louis Trintignant

Synopsis: Femmes De Personne is a French "feminist" film that comes off as slightly misogynistic (not to mention misanthropic) at times. Is it possible to be happy in business and still be happy in bed? The four leading ladies, all successful career women, don't seem particularly blissful. On the contrary Read More

La Vie Est Un Roman

Actors: Vittorio Gassman, Ruggero Raimondi, Geraldine Chaplin, Fanny Ardant, Sabine Azéma, Pierre Arditi

Synopsis: With Life is a Bed of Roses, filmmaker Alain Resnais wanted to create a lighthearted tribute to three important French directors, each of whom defined a particular era in his country's cinema Melies (the first French filmmaker to use narrative--his most famous film is A Trip to the Moon), the Read More

Nestor Burma, Detective de Choc

Actors: Michel Serrault, Jane Birkin, Guy Marchand, Alain Bashung, Pierre Arditi

Synopsis: Based on a mystery novel by Leo Malet, lead character Detective Burma (comic Michel Serrault) has luxurious office digs - shared with his oddball cat - but he himself is neither as sophisticated or as quick-witted as Malet's literary creation. Director Jean-Luc Miesch (29 years old), has missed Read More

L'Arme Au Bleu

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

Pile ou Face

Actors: Pierre Arditi, Michel Serrault, Philippe Noiret, Dorothée, André Falcon

Synopsis: The source for the French detective drama Heads or Tails? was the American novel Baroni by Alfred Harris. Phillipe Noiret plays a weary Bordeaux detective, hot on the trail of Michael Serrault. Serrault's domineering wife has allegedly committed suicide, but Noiret suspects murder. As hunter and Read More

L'Amour Violé

Actors: Nathalie Nell, Alain Foures, Michele Simmonet, Marco Perrin, Pierre Arditi, Daniel Auteuil

Synopsis: Nicole is a nurse, with a boyfriend in the military, who lives at home with her mother. One night, while returning home on her motorcycle, she is forced off the road by four men driving a delivery van, and she is raped. Afterward, she is secretly sent by her family to a hospital to recover. Read More

Blaise Pascal

Synopsis: Blaise Pascal was one of several historical films directed by Robert Rossellini for Italian television in the late 1960s to early 1970s. The film covers the life of 17th century French philosopher Blaise Pascal, from age 17 to his death, at 39, in 1662. Much is made of the agnostic Pascal's Read More