Richard Bohringer Filmography

Transfixed

Actors: Richard Bohringer, Robinson Stévenin, Stephane Metzger, Micheline Presle, William Nadylam

Synopsis: A cross-dressing man allows himself to be used as bait to trap a killer in this crime-drama. Bo Ancelin (Robinson Stevenin) is a twentysomething man from Brussels who feels most comfortable dressing and living as a woman. Some might see Bo's lifestyle as a marked contrast to that of his father, a Read More

Young, Beautiful and Screwed Up

Actors: Matthias Van Khache, Mareva Galanter, Hervé Lassïnce, Stéphane Soo Mongo, Richard Bohringer

Crime Spree

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Johnny Hallyday, Renaud, Harvey Keitel, Richard Bohringer

Synopsis: The directorial-debut of screenwriter Brad Mirman (Truth or Consequences, N.M.), Crime Spree stars Gerard Depardieu as Daniel, the head of a trio of French crooks who cross the pond for a job in Chicago. Unfortunately, what was to have been a routine heist turns ugly when Daniel and his cohorts Read More

L'outremangeur

Actors: Eric Cantona, Rachida Brakni, Caroline Sihol, Richard Bohringer, Jocelyn Quivrin

Synopsis: French filmmaker Thierry Binisti directs the mystery drama The Over-Eater, based on the graphic novel by Jacques Ferrandez and Tonino Benacquista. Soccer player Eric Cantona stars as Richard Selena, a lonely 350-pound police investigator in Marseilles. His doctors tell him that he has a year to Read More

Total Kheops

Actors: Richard Bohringer, Marie Trintignant, Daniel Duval, Robin Renucci, Maurice Garrel

Synopsis: Alain Beverini's Total Kheops is a story about men on different sides of the law who are in love with the same woman. As young adults, Fabio (Richard Bohringer), Ugo (Robin Rnucci), and Manu (Daniel Duval) were friends and all had feelings for Lole (Marie Trintignant). Fabio ends up a policeman Read More

Cinq Minutes De Detente

Actors: José Garcia, Richard Bohringer, Susan Anbeh

Synopsis: A college student discovers that no good deed goes unpunished in the black comedy Cinq Minutes de Detente (aka A Five Minute Break). Phillippe (Jose Garcia) is a pre-law student at what is described as "a French University in North America." One day during gym class, Phillippe lets a stranger who Read More

Rembrandt

Actors: Klaus Maria Brandauer, Romane Bohringer, Jean Rochefort, Johanna ter Steege, Jean-Philippe Ecoffey

Synopsis: Klaus Maria Brandauer stars in this gorgeously photographed French-German-Dutch biopic on the life of 17th century Dutch master Rembrandt van Rijn. Told in flashbacks from the point-of-view of the aged artist, the film opens as the young van Rijn arrives in Amsterdam. Soon after establishing his Read More

Combat De Fauves

Actors: Richard Bohringer, Ute Lemper, Papa Wemba, Jacqueline Nicolas, Roland Depauw

Synopsis: Advertising executive Charles Cuvelier (Richard Bohringer) sees a classified ad and decides to check on a luxury apartment. However, he winds up trapped in the building' elevator and has to spend the night there. A psychosexual game begins in the morning when he meets Carole Valmer (German Read More

La Vérité Si Je Mens!

Actors: Richard Anconina, Amira Casar, Vincent Elbaz, Elie Kakou, José Garcia

Synopsis: In this French box-office smash, director Thomas Gilou once again trains his sights on working-class immigrants living in metropolitan Paris, as he did with Black Mic-Mac. This time the subjects are the Sephardic Jews working in the garment district of Sentier. Eddie Vuibert (Richard Anconina) is Read More

Pondichery, Dernier Comptoir des Indes

Actors: Charles Aznavour, Richard Bohringer, Frédéric Gorny

Tykho Moon

Actors: Johan Leysen, Julie Delpy, Tchéky Karyo, Michel Piccoli

Synopsis: Mirroring the style of French graphic novels and dramatic comic strips, this adventure is set in a rundown lunar city and chronicles an evil, rapidly aging dictator's desperate search for the man who unwillingly donated his brain cells to him 20 years before. The dictator Mac Bee begins his mad Read More

Saraka Bô

Actors: Richard Bohringer, Yvan Attal, Anne Roussel, Aïssa Maïga

Synopsis: A pair of French detectives enter a different world after they are assigned to solve a puzzling double homicide that occurred in an African neighborhood in Paris. The corpses of the two masked Malian women were discovered ritually mutilated and hanging from a ceiling. The detectives' search leads Read More

Le Montreur De Boxe

Actors: Richard Bohringer, Karl Makinen, Riccardo Cucciolla

Synopsis: Corruption on the boxing circuit at the turn of the century provides the basis of this French drama. The story centers on a talented young fighter, a logger that Abel Ginoux and his Italian partner Zipolino, a crooked doctor, discover during a fight in a woodland town. The logger, Passe Partout Read More

Les Caprices d'un Fleuve

Actors: Bernard Giraudeau, Richard Bohringer, Thierry Frémont, Anna Galiena

Synopsis: This peaceful French drama was filmed in the beautiful West African desert. Set in the 18th century, when the slave trade was still booming, it chronicles the complex relationships between Jean-Francois, an exiled French aristocrat, his mulatto lover, who is a widow and a slave trader, and the Read More

Dieu, L'Amant de Ma Mere, et le Fils du Charcutier

Actors: Richard Bohringer, Lio, Francis Huster, Jean-Pierre Kalfon

Synopsis: This French ensemble comedy, is set in a small town where Gabrielle, a beautiful doctor's wife and mother of three prepares to play Elvira in a local production of Don Juan. The trouble begins when she finds herself sexually attracted to the town's womanizing hairdresser Serge, who plays the sexy Read More

Le Cri du Coeur

Actors: Said Diarra, Richard Bohringer, Felicite Wouassi, Alex Descas, Clémentine Célarié

Synopsis: This drama focuses upon the psychological adjustment problems of a young boy whose family moves him from Africa to Paris, France. Moctar, a boy whose first 11 years were spent in a small village in Mali, is having difficulty adjusting to his new life in Paris. After several years in Paris, Moctar Read More

Le Sourire

Actors: Jean-Pierre Marielle, Richard Bohringer, Emmanuelle Seigner, Chantal Banlier, Nadia Barentin

Synopsis: The unbearable vanity of the human male facing death is one of the subtler themes of this French drama which tells the story of a dying man who finally finds and desires to conquer the perfect sex object. Poor Le Clainche is about ready to keel over from a heart attack. He's already had one and Read More

La Lumière Des Étoiles Mortes

Actors: Jean-François Balmer, Caroline Sihol, Richard Bohringer, Leonard Matton, Thomas Huber

Synopsis: This artistic French film is director Charles Matton's account of the time he spent as a 9-year old living with German soldiers who overtook his home during WW II. The story begins with the camera, from above, panning a set on a sound stage and moving downward into an artist studio where Matton Read More

Le Parfum d'Yvonne

Actors: Hippolyte Girardot, Sandra Majani, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Richard Bohringer, Josephine Sourdel, Isabelle Tinard, Laurence Lerel, Claude Aufaure, Paul Guers, Corinne Marchand

Synopsis: In this romantic French drama, an older man remembers a meaningful summer romance he had in 1958. It begins as Victor is seen staring into the flames of an apparent bonfire. He is remembering the day he met Yvonne in the luxurious lobby of a Swiss hotel on Lake Geneva. They encounter Dr. Meinthe Read More

Queen Margot

Actors: Isabelle Adjani, Daniel Auteuil, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Vincent Perez, Virna Lisi

Synopsis: The historical novel by Alexandre Dumas was adapted for the screen with this lavish French epic, winner of 5 Césars and a pair of awards at the Cannes Film Festival. Isabelle Adjani stars as Marguerite de Valois, better known as Margot, daughter of scheming Catholic power player Catherine de Read More

Soleil De Minuit

Crew: Director

Actors: Richard Bohringer

Tango

Actors: Richard Bohringer, Thierry Lhermitte, Philippe Noiret, Miou-Miou, Judith Godrëche

Synopsis: If such a thing as gentle humor can be wrung from murderous misogyny, this all-star comedy is the embodiment of it. The basic point of the film seems to be this: unattached men long to live with women, and once they do, they long to live without them. In this story, Paul (Thierry Lhermitte) is Read More

The Accompanist

Actors: Richard Bohringer, Yelena Safonova, Romane Bohringer, Samuel Labarthe

Synopsis: Romane Bohringer plays a young pianist ekeing out a living in Nazi-occupied Paris. When her favorite coworker, singer (Yelena Safonova), relocates to London, Bohringer goes along, much to the discomfort of Safonova's possessive husband-manager. The latter role is played by Romane Bohringer's Read More

Confessions d'un Barjo

Actors: Richard Bohringer, Anne Brochet, Hippolyte Girardot, Consuelo de Havilland

Synopsis: Cult science-fiction author Philip K. Dick's novel of 1950s suburban California, Confessions of a Crap Artist, is adapted to present-day France in this quirky comedy-drama. Hippolyte Girardot portrays the title character, who is known by the nickname "Barjo" -- a moniker loosely translatable as Read More

Trop Pres Des Dieux

Actors: Tchéky Karyo, Richard Bohringer, Féodor Atkine, Francois Hadji-Lazaro

Ville a Vendre

Actors: Michel Serrault, Tom Novembre, Richard Bohringer, Valérie Mairesse, Eddy Mitchell, Philippe Léotard

Synopsis: In this murder farce, a hitchhiker lopes into one of France's decaying industrial towns where unemployment is much higher than the national average (about ten percent). Still, the locals seem cheerful enough. When he gets to town, he sees most of the inhabitants are dressed up for a masquerade. He Read More

Une Epoque Formidable

Actors: Gérard Jugnot, Richard Bohringer, Victoria Abril, Ticky Holgado, Chick Ortega

Synopsis: Like the factory boss in The Full Monty, Berthier (Gérard Jugnot) is a former executive who finds it easier to pretend to his family that he wasn't fired than to suffer their concern and pity, and possibly the loss of their love. He goes off to "work" each day and returns home with presents for Read More

Ragazzi

Actors: Romane Bohringer

Synopsis: In this very light romantic comedy, two young men who are in search of the hypothetical perfect woman believe they have found her at a wedding reception. There, they see Lisa. Alexandre is the shy one, but he is also the one with the greatest yen to meet such a woman. He and Romain track Lisa down Read More

La Reine Blanche

Actors: Catherine Deneuve, Richard Bohringer, Bernard Giraudeau, Jean Carmet

The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover

Actors: Richard Bohringer, Michael Gambon, Helen Mirren, Alan Howard, Tim Roth

Synopsis: This is probably Peter Greenaway's most famous (or infamous) film, which first shocked audiences at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival and then on both sides of the Atlantic. A gang leader (Michael Gambon), accompanied by his wife (Helen Mirren) and his associates, entertains himself every night in a Read More

Dames Galantes

Actors: Richard Bohringer, Isabella Rossellini, Marie-Christine Barrault, Marianne Basler, Laura Betti, Robin Renucci

Synopsis: Despite being busy with his profession of soldiery, Brantome (Richard Bohringer) manages to find much more time for amorous dalliances with the ladies of the 16th-century French court than for battles. Unfortunately for him, his true love, Victoire (Isabella Rossellini), is beyond his reach most Read More

Stan the Flasher

Actors: Claude Berri, Aurore Clément, Richard Bohringer

Synopsis: Claude Berri, who usually participates in films by directing them, here returns to the screen as an over-the-hill lothario, much given to quoting Shakespeare, who occasionally goes around naked under his raincoat and exposes himself to strangers, who are usually not interested in his primitive Read More

Veraz

Actors: Kirk Douglas, Richard Bohringer, Jean-Michel Portal

Ada Dans La Jungle

Actors: Marie Louisa, Richard Bohringer, Victoria Abril, Isaach de Bankolé, Bernard Blier

Synopsis: This tepid actioner is taken from the popular comic strip by Francesco Altan. Ada (Marie Louisa) is the heir who promises her dying father she will look for the son he left behind in Africa 20 years before. Her scheming cousin Nancy (Charley Boorman) tries to get Ada disinherited. Ada runs into Read More

Apres la Guerre

Actors: Antoine Hubert, Richard Bohringer, Julien Hubert, Martin Toulis, Martin Lamotte, Isabelle Sadoyan

Synopsis: The conflict in question is World War II; even though hostilities have all but ceased, the Germans and the French are not precisely reconciled. German soldier Richard Bohlinger, absent without leave, is befriended by a couple of pre-teen boys (Antoine and Julien Hubert, sons of director Jean-Louis Hubert Read More

La Soule

Actors: Richard Bohringer, Christophe Malavoy, Marianne Basler, Roland Blanche, Jean-Pierre Sentier

Synopsis: La Soule is the name of a once-popular and now long-forgotten extremely violent sport with an ancient history, which somewhat resembles rugby. It was not uncommon for players to be left on the playing field after a game, dead or maimed. In this unusual drama, Pierre Cursey (Christophe Malavoy), a Read More

Le Grand Chemin

Actors: Anémone, Richard Bohringer, Antoine Hubert, Vanessa Guedj, Christine Pascal

Synopsis: Directed by French filmmaker Jean-Loup Hubert, Grand Chemin stars the director's young son Antoine Hubert. The lad plays a sickly eight-year-old who is shipped off to visit his country relatives while his mother has her baby. The boy's subsequent adventures run the gamut from delightful to Read More

À Gauche En Sortant De L'Ascenseur

Actors: Pierre Richard, Richard Bohringer, Emmanuelle Béart, Fanny Cottençon, Pierre Vernier

Synopsis: Yann (Pierre Richard) has his artistic eye on Florence (Fanny Cottencon), who desires her for more than her aesthetic beauty. His efforts are continually hampered by his neighbors Boris (Richard Bohringer), an insanely jealous layabout and his beautiful wife Eva (Emmanuelle Beart). Michel Creton Read More

Les Saisons Du Plaisir

Actors: Charles Vanel, Denise Grey, Jacqueline Maillan, Bernadette Lafont, Jean-Luc Bideau

Synopsis: Charles (Charles Vanel) is a 100-year-old perfume magnate who decides to marry the equally ancient Emmanuelle (Denis Grey) in the French sex comedy. Company executives and family members scramble for position in the wake of the surprising announcement. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide 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

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

Le Paltoquet

Actors: Michel Piccoli, Jeanne Moreau, Daniel Auteuil, Richard Bohringer, Fanny Ardant, Jean Yanne, Philippe Léotard

Synopsis: With ingenious camera work, witty dialogue, and a setting that almost never wanders from the cavernous interior of a mod cafe-bar, this drama by Michel Deville has a lot of pluses. A woman (Jeanne Moreau) and a man (Michel Piccoli, the "nonentity" of the title) jointly run the vast cafe and every Read More

Ubac

Actors: Richard Bohringer, Larry Lamb, Pierre Malet, Rufus

Kamikaze

Actors: Richard Bohringer, Dominique Lavanant, Michel Galabru, Riton Liebman, Kim Massee

Synopsis: A short and strange storyline emboldens this thriller with sci-fi overtones by Didier Grousset. Albert (Michel Galabru) is an electronics genius who gets the ax from his company and then goes over the edge. At first he packs off to his attic, turns on the television, and opts for vegetating. But Read More

L'Intruse

Actors: Richard Bohringer, Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, Laura Morante

Diesel

Actors: Gerard Klein, Agnes Soral, Richard Bohringer, Niels Arestrup, Magali Noël

Synopsis: Set in the near future when a subterranean world is ruled over by a totalitarian psycho, this tame story about the macho hero Diesel (Gerard Klein) and the woman he saves (Agnes Soral) is too cliched to convince for long. When the woman, a prostitute, has to run for her life because she witnessed Read More

Cent Francs L'Amour

Actors: Pierre-Loup Rajot, Valerie Steffen, Richard Bohringer

Le Pactole

Actors: Richard Bohringer, Pauline Lafont, Patrick Sebastien, Marie Laforêt, Bernadette Lafont

Synopsis: "Boodle" is illicit money, which is the objective of the young couple at the heart of this loose, uneven crime-comedy by Jean-Pierre Mocky. The couple pull off a robbery of a supermarket and escape with the cash, but their dreams of a life in the sun are dashed by an arrogant man who knows what 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

Du Sel Sur La Peau

Actors: Richard Bohringer, Catherine Frot, Yvette Merlin

Synopsis: The universally recognized topic of this light comedy is the struggle between refusing to fall in love only to be rejected, and falling in love, regardless. After a computer operator (Richard Bohringer) has been through a painful relationship, he is determined to look the other way every time any Read More

Subway

Actors: Isabelle Adjani, Christopher Lambert, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Richard Bohringer, Michel Galabru, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Jean Reno

Synopsis: Coming in on the heels of his internationally acclaimed first film, Le Dernier Combat, 26-year-old director Luc Besson created this tongue-in-cheek look at filmmaking and at the denizens in the tunnels of the Paris Metro -- a new kind of underground movie. Fred (Christopher Lambert) has just Read More

L'Addition

Actors: Richard Berry, Richard Bohringer, Victoria Abril, Farid Chopel, Fabrice Eberhard

Synopsis: This technically impressive throwback to the early days of film noir stars Richard Berry as Bruno, a young actor who seems to get blamed for everything. Spotting a gorgeous female shoplifter (Victoria Abril) in trouble, Bruno decides to help her and gets arrested in her place. While lamenting his Read More

Le Juge

Actors: Jacques Perrin, Richard Bohringer, Daniel Duval, Andréa Ferréol, Michel Lonsdale

Synopsis: Based on the real-life assassination of a judge in Marseilles in 1981, this fictionalized account of how he came to die lacks the substance and drama that must have characterized the actual story as it happened. Judge François Müller (Jacques Perrin) was transferred from Vosges in northwest Read More

Le Diable Et La Dame

Actors: Catherine Jourdan, Carlos Castanon, Richard Bohringer

Le Destin De Juliette

Actors: Laure Duthilleul, Richard Bohringer, Véronique Silver, Pierre Forget, Didier Agostini

Synopsis: In a simple story engagingly and carefully unveiled before one's eyes, director and co-writer Aline Issermann focuses on Juliette (Laure Duthilleul), a young woman who has grown up on a farm that is now under economic siege. In order to save her farm and her family, Juliette is forced into a Read More

Les Folles Annees Du Twist

Actors: Mustapha El Anka, Malik Lakhdar-Hamina, Faouzi Saichi, Jacques Villeret

Synopsis: The "years of the twist" dance craze in Algeria coincided with the years that ended in the liberation from French colonial rule and finally won independence for the nation. As two young men of 20 or so are learning how to "twist" and how to snatch money without working for it, political realities Read More

La Bete Noire

Actors: Richard Bohringer, Philippe Sfez, Sabine Haudepin, Georges Géret, Jean Bouise

Synopsis: In this creatively organized story of one "delinquent," director Patrick Chaput has put together a well-paced drama/thriller set in part against the dark by-ways of Paris. Seventeen-year-old Daniel (Philippe Sfez) grew up in foster homes in a rural area and those years contrast with his later Read More

Cap Canaille

Actors: Richard Bohringer, Jean-Claude Brialy, Juliet Berto, Patrick Chesnais, Bernadette Lafont

Synopsis: Directors Jean-Henri Roger and Juliet Berto begin this thriller with sequences on the contemporary politics of southern France and the infiltration of organized crime into real estate development there -- the crime bosses were torching forest tracts to make way for their development schemes in the Read More

El Diablo Y La Dama

Actors: Catherine Jourdan, Richard Bohringer

Synopsis: With little dialogue, no specific storyline, and subject matter dealing with murder, hate, sex, and an erotic nightclub act, this film focuses on a performer named America (Catherine Jourdan) who goes "on the road" with her new lover Jimmy (Carlos Castañon), a thief. America is dodging a former Read More

Debout les Crabes, la Mer Monte!

Actors: Martin Lamotte, Veronique Genest, Virginie Thévenet, Richard Bohringer, Valérie Mairesse

Synopsis: The action in this attempt at farce and drama starts moving when a prostitute just out of prison overwhelms a young man with her charms in their shared train compartment and ends up getting invited to his home. Once there, other than inducing some unusual behavior in the members of the family, she Read More

J'ai épousé une ombre

Actors: Nathalie Baye, Francis Huster, Richard Bohringer, Madeleine Robinson, Guy Tréjan

Synopsis: A young woman is abandoned by her lover after she tells him she is pregnant. Deeply depressed and longing for home, she boards a train out of town. Unfortunately a terrible train wreck ensues. She survives and ends up taking on the identity of one of the dead passengers. Now comfortable and secure Read More

Diva

Actors: Frederic Andréi,