Roland GiraudFilmography

18 Ans Apres

Actors: André Dussollier, Michel Boujenah, Roland Giraud, Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu, Madeleine Besson

Synopsis: Coline Serreau's 18 Ans Apres (18 Years Later) is a sequel to her 1985 film Three Men and a Cradle, which was re-made in America as Three Men and a Baby. Marie (Madeleine Besson) is now on the verge of turning 18. She decides to spend a summer vacation with her mother Sylvia. Joining them are Read More

Bon Plan

Actors: Ludivine Sagnier, Veronique Balme

Synopsis: In this comedy, five French students in their early twenties decide it's time they saw a bit more of the world, so Clementine (Ludivine Sagnier), Caroline (Veronique Balme), Lionel (Pascal Reneric), Bruno (Thomas Blanchard), and Brigitte (Marie Gili-Pierre) buy cut-price rail passes and set out to Read More

Une Leçon Particulière

Actors: Clotilde Courau, Roland Giraud, Julien Riviere

La Chambre 108

Actors: Roland Giraud, Jean Carmet, Grace de Capitani, Jean Barney

Je T'aime Quand Meme

Actors: Roland Giraud, Pierre Palmade, Danièle Lebrun, Gerard Hernandez

Sup de Fric

Actors: Jean Poiret, Anthony Delon, Cris Campion, Roland Giraud, Valérie Mairesse

Synopsis: Victor Dargelas is smart but for some reason wasn't accepted at one of France's top universities, so he has taken a scholarship to begun study at a business-management school instead. He is a computer whiz, and his scholarship is based on his ability to straighten out a glitch in the school's Read More

Les Secrets Professionnels Du Docteur Apfelgluck

Actors: Thierry Lhermitte, Jacques Villeret, Roland Giraud, Gérard Jugnot

Synopsis: All five stories in this anthology comedy are tied together by their theme: they concern the encounters of a youthful psychiatrist (Thierry Lhermitte) with his patients, or with people so crazy they ought to be his patients. Each one is filmed by a different director. The first situation occurs Read More

Simple Mortel

Actors: Philippe Volter, Christophe Bourseiller, Nathalie Roussel, Roland Giraud

Synopsis: Stéphane is a linguist whose work in obscure and ancient languages has permitted him to become the only person who knows one of the languages. When all sorts of electronic equipment begin serving as conduits for messages in that very language, messages which are instructing him personally, to Read More

Mister Frost

Actors: Jeff Goldblum, Alan Bates, Kathy Baker, Roland Giraud, Jean-Pierre Cassel

Synopsis: Directed by Philip Sebton, Mister Frost chronicles the life of serial killer Mr. Frost (Jeff Goldblum), who, after stashing 125 tortured corpses in and around his property, is caught by a British detective (Alan Bates) and brought to a mental institution. Strange things begin to happen immediately Read More

Le Provincial

Actors: Roland Giraud, Gabrielle Lazure, Michel Galabru

Corentin, Ou Les Infortunes Conjugales

Actors: Roland Giraud, Muriel Brener, Andréa Ferréol, Patrick Chesnais, Olivia Brunaux

Synopsis: When Corentin (Roland Giraud) marries a young woman, he is unable to consummate the marriage in this costumed comedy. He is threatened under church law with seizure of his property and annulment of the marriage unless he can consummate before the eyes of a prying public tribunal. The film is based Read More

Les Cigognes N'en Font Qu'a Leur Tete

Actors: Marlène Jobert, Patrick Chesnais, Claude Rich

Synopsis: In this light French comedy, Marie and Jerome (Marlene Jobert) and Patrick Chesnais) are a middle aged couple desperate to have a child. They have tried to deal with the official adoption agencies, but the bureaucracies are so hidebound that they'll likely reach their dotage before a child becomes Read More

Perigord Noir

Actors: Roland Giraud, Jean Carmet, Odette Laure

Synopsis: The recolonization of Africa, this time by the very blacks who had to flee it as exiles during the time of the original French occupation, is the theme of this political comedy. Adiza, who has been living well in France, has decided that she will return and buy the plantation she and her Read More

Sans Peur et Sans Reproche

Actors: Gérard Jugnot, Remi Martin, Victoria Abril, Gérard Darmon, Martin Lamotte, Ann-Gisele Glass, Gerard Klein, Ticky Holgado

Synopsis: Bayard (Remi Martin) is a lowly squire who joins the army of King Charles (Patrick Timsit) after he is rejected by the noblewoman Blanche de Savoie (Anne-Gisel Glass). Bellabre (Gerard Jugnot) is the army captain who trains Bayard for the proposed invasion of Naples. Bayard returns a conquering Read More

Promis ... Jure!

Actors: Roland Giraud, Michel Morin, Christine Pascal, Stephane Legros, Andréa Ferréol, Manfred Andrae

Synopsis: Young Pierre Marie (Michel Morin) and his school chums find a German deserter in this World War II comedy. He allows the soldier to stay in the family basement until the end of the war. With the arrival of the Allied troops, Pierre becomes a hero when he marches out the German at the point of a Read More

Cross

Actors: Roland Giraud, Patrick Bauchau, Marie-Anne Chazel, Stephane Jobert

Synopsis: French pop singer Michel Sardou plays detective Thomas "Cross" Crosky in this uneven thriller. When Cross's ex-wife and daughter are kidnapped, he hires notorious hit man Eli Cantor (Roland Giraud) to help carry out his plan of vengeance. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide Read More

La Petite Allumeuse

Actors: Roland Giraud, Pierre Arditi, Tanya Lopert

Tant Qu'il Y Aura des Femmes

Actors: Roland Giraud, Fanny Cottençon, Marianne Basler, Fiona Gelin, Martin Lamotte

Synopsis: Sam (Roland Giraud) enjoys his romantic rendezvous with his ex-wife Vanessa (Fanny Cortencon) and others in this routine sex farce. He lives with up-and-coming actress Elodie (Fiona Gelin), but quickly falls for pretty female physician Joanna (Marianne Basler). Sam soon is globe-trotting after the Read More

La Vie Dissolue de Gerard Floque

Actors: Roland Giraud, Marie-Anne Chazel, Jacqueline Maillan, Clémentine Célarié, Gérard Rinaldi

Synopsis: Advertising executive Gerard Floque (Roland Giraud) has the worst day of his life in this routine comedy. He comes home after losing his job to find his daughter arrested on drug charges and his wife Cecile (Clementine Celaire) in bed with a famous television personality (Gerard Rinaldi). Gerard Read More

Three Men and a Cradle

Actors: Roland Giraud, Michel Boujenah, André Dussollier, Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu, Dominique Lavanant

Synopsis: A trio of inept bachelors receives an unexpected lesson in the challenges of fatherhood when a young infant turns up on their doorstep in this popular, appealing French comedy. The child was unknowingly fathered by one of the roommates, but the mother, who had relationships with each man, leaves Read More

Paulette

Actors: Luis Rego, Catherine Leprince, Gerard Desarthe, Charles Schmitt

Synopsis: With embarrassing dialogue and a theatrical style, this feature-length comedy is based on cartoon characters and is equally two-dimensional. After some misguided attempts at mixing with the riff-raff, the young rich heiress Paulette (Jeanne Marine) decides to start giving her money away to anyone Read More

Le Complexe du kangourou

Actors: Roland Giraud, Clémentine Célarié, Zabou, Stéphane Freiss, François Berléand

Synopsis: In this comedy-drama, a young but sterile man suddenly wants to be a father. A friend calls this the "kangaroo complex," because male kangaroos do not have pouches to carry their offspring. So Loic (Roland Giraud, just out of his starring role in Trois Hommes et une Couffin later to be remade in Read More

Liberte, Egalite, Choucroute

Actors: Jean Poiret, Michel Serrault, Jean Yanne, Mimi Coutellier, Ursula Andress

Synopsis: This is an often wilted, occasionally flat spoof of the French Revolution by Jean Yanne, France's answer to Mel Brooks. The revolution, used as a foil for politics in the 1980s, has Robespierre Roland Giraud) in love with Charlotte Corday (Mimi Coutellier) who works for Marat (Jean Yanne) and Read More

Vaudeville

Actors: Marie-Christine Barrault, Guy Marchand, Roland Giraud, Jean-Marc Thibault, Annie Jouzier

Synopsis: In this amusing, entertaining tale of three men and the two dominant women in their lives, a potpourri of individual frustrations first appear to have easy answers, and then they don't. Gaston (Guy Marchand has been married to Madeleine (Marie-Christine Barrault) for twenty years, and though they Read More

À Nous Les Garcons

Actors: Sophie Carle, Valerie Allain, Jean-Noel Broute

Vive les Femmes!

Actors: Maurice Risch, Roland Giraud, Catherine Leprince, Michele Brousse, Pauline Lafont

Synopsis: Following a trend that may have begun with the first Blondie movie in 1938, this is an acted interpretation of a popular comic strip by the acerbic cartoonist Jean-Marc Reiser, who wrote the dialog for Vive Les Femmes but died before shooting was completed. Reiser's comic strip emphasized the Read More

Et La Tendresse?... Bordel! No 2

Actors: Diane Bellego, Fabrice Luchini, Ronny Coutteure

Synopsis: The interwoven love stories in Et La Tendresse?... Bordel! No 2 contrast three different ways of being together in modern French life. Carole is the mistress of Francois, a man who not only has a wife and children, but who makes a habit of having sexual liaisons with women besides his mistress and Read More

Attention, Une Femme Peut En Cacher une Autre

Actors: Miou-Miou, Roger Hanin, Eddy Mitchell, Charlotte de Turckheim, Dominique Lavanant

Synopsis: The French My Other Husband (Attention! Une Femme Peut en Cacher une Autre) would eventually suffer the indignity of an American TV-movie remake, which will go unnamed here to protect the guilty. The original film is a sprightly vehicle for the delectable Miou-Miou. Thanks to her resourcefulness Read More

Elle Voit Des Nains Partout

Actors: Thierry Lhermitte, Philippe Bruneau, Marilyne Canto, Christian Clavier

Synopsis: Essentially a performance video, this is made at the French "Cafe Theatre Show," where fairy tales are updated and revised to fit modern themes. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

Papy Fait de la Resistance

Actors: Christian Clavier, Michel Galabru, Gérard Jugnot, Martin Lamotte, Dominique Lavanant

Synopsis: In this uneven take-off on some reluctant resistance fighters in World War II, a family of musicians find themselves the unwilling hosts of a segment of the German High Command when their Paris mansion is taken over by the occupying forces. What happens next is a series of individual skits, cameo Read More

Signes Exterieurs de Richesse

Actors: Claude Brasseur, Josiane Balasko, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Charlotte de Turckheim, Roland Giraud

Synopsis: In this routine romantic comedy, a veterinarian who mingles with humans of a higher pedigree gets an unwelcome visit from a female tax inspector -- and tries to seduce her as a way out of his dilemma. His screwball accountant's version of keeping books is no help, and so in desperation, the Read More

Le Maitre d'Ecole

Actors: Coluche, Josiane Balasko, Jacques Debary, Roland Giraud, Charlotte de Turckheim

Synopsis: Gerard Barbier (Michel Coluche) has taken on a temporary job at a small elementary school and soon finds himself involved in sticky situations that challenge his inventiveness. In one such instance, a suicidal fellow-teacher has to be rushed to the hospital and the only available vehicle is an Read More

Vous N'Aurez Pas l'Alsace et la Lorraine

Actors: Coluche, Dominique Lavanant, Jean Jacques, Michel Blanc, Martin Lamotte, Gérard Lanvin

Synopsis: In this satire, Coluche plays an inept king of France who is continually in danger of overthrow or murder by his scheming court and is kept on the throne by the efforts of his Musketeers, who also serve by wringing extra taxes out of the already hard-pressed population. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Read More