Tchéky KaryoFilmography

Les Dents de la nuit

Synopsis: Sex, blood and rock 'n' roll are on the menu at one frantic bash in this over-the-top comedy from France. Alice (Frederique Bel), Prune (Julie Fournier) and Sam (Patrick Mille) are three close friends who are excited to learn they've been invited to La Nuit Medicis, a notoriously wild party held Read More

A Previous Engagement

Actors: Juliet Stevenson, Tchéky Karyo, Daniel Stern, Valerie Mahaffey, Kate Miles

Synopsis: A second honeymoon in Malta turns into a life-altering experience for a bored Seattle librarian and her unadventurous, insurance salesman husband in this mature romantic comedy starring Juliet Stevenson, Tchéky Karyo, and Daniel Stern. Twenty-five years ago, Julia (Stevenson) and her passionate Read More

The Lark Farm

Actors: Paz Vega, Arsinée Khanjian, Tchéky Karyo, Moritz Bleibtreu, Mohammad Bakri

Synopsis: As adapted from the roman by Antonia Arslan and co-directed by legendary Italian brothers Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, The Lark Farm marks one of the few international features to tackle the Armenian genocide head-on. The story (with its thematic parallels, in the early scenes, to De Sica's Read More

Jacquou le Croquant

Actors: Gaspard Ulliel, Leo Legrand, Marie-Josée Croze, Albert Dupontel, Tchéky Karyo

Boxes

Actors: Geraldine Chaplin, Michel Piccoli, Jane Birkin, Natacha Régnier

Synopsis: The French-language psychological drama Boxes - which represents veteran actress Jane Birkin's (Blow-up) directorial debut on a narrative feature - constitutes an extended, theatrically garrulous meditation on the rift of understanding inevitable between parents and children. In addition to Read More

The Gravedancers

Actors: Dominic Purcell, Josie Maran, Clare Kramer, Marcus Thomas, Megahn Perry

Synopsis: Three twentysomethings learn the hard way about how to behave in a cemetery in this independent horror story. Harris (Dominic Purcell), Sid (Marcus Thomas), and Kira (Josie Maran) are three longtime friends who are reunited under unfortunate circumstances when their pal Devin dies in an auto Read More

The 4 Musketeers

Actors: Vincent Elbaz, Emmanuelle Béart, Tchéky Karyo, Heino Ferch, Grégori Derangère

Synopsis: Inspired by Alexandre Dumas' classic adventure The Three Musketeers, director Pierre Aknine's period swashbuckler that adds a supernatural twist to the familiar tale. When the legendary Three Musketeers meet up with reckless romantic D'Artagnan and malevolent mystical forces begin to emerge from Read More

A Very Long Engagement

Actors: Audrey Tautou, Gaspard Ulliel, Jean-Pierre Becker, Dominique Bettenfeld, Clovis Cornillac

Synopsis: Audrey Tautou, who rose to international stardom with the title role in Jean-Pierre Jeunet's worldwide smash Amélie, reunites with the director for this drama, set during the darkest days of World War I and its immediate aftermath. Mathilde (Tautou) is a pretty but frail young women who was left Read More

Taking Lives

Actors: Angelina Jolie, Ethan Hawke, Tchéky Karyo, Olivier Martinez, Gena Rowlands

Synopsis: A female detective on the trail of a psychotic killer discovers love in a dangerous time in this thriller, based on the novel by Michael Pye. Illeana Scott (Angelina Jolie) is a special agent with the FBI who has a reputation for using offbeat methods, but also boasts a strong record as a criminal Read More

Renegade

Actors: Vincent Cassel, Juliette Lewis, Michael Madsen, Eddie Izzard, Djimon Hounsou

Synopsis: From Jan Kounen, the French director of the violent cult actioner Dobermann, comes this loose adaptation of Jean "Mobius" Giraud's comic series Blueberry. Vincent Cassel stars as Mike Blueberry, a lawman whose past comes back to haunt him when his town is invaded by the nefarious Blount (Michael Madsen Read More

Ne Quittez Pas!

Actors: Sergio Castellitto, Michel Serrault, Isabelle Gélinas, Rachida Brakni, Dominique Pinon

The Good Thief

Actors: Nick Nolte, Nutsa Kukhianidze, Tchéky Karyo, Saïd Taghmaoui, Gérard Darmon

Synopsis: Loosely based on Jean-Pierre Melville's French film noir Bob le Flambeur, this heist film from director Neil Jordan (Interview With the Vampire, The Crying Game) stars Nick Nolte as Bob, an aging American thief living in the French city of Nice. Addicted to both heroin and gambling, Bob is in the Read More

The Core

Actors: Aaron Eckhart, Hilary Swank, Delroy Lindo, Stanley Tucci, D.J. Qualls

Synopsis: An unlikely band of scientists and soldiers join forces to save the world from certain destruction in this action-drama. As the world is struck with a variety of inexplicable phenomena -- attacks by enormous swarms of birds in London, the explosion of the Colosseum in Rome, a potentially deadly Read More

Utopia

Actors: Leonardo Sbaraglia, Najwa Nimri, Tchéky Karyo, José Garcia, Emma Vilarasau

Kiss of the Dragon

Actors: Jet Li, Bridget Fonda, Tchéky Karyo, Laurence Ashley, Burt Kwouk

Synopsis: This action thriller co-written by filmmaker Luc Besson stars Jet Li as Liu Jian, a Chinese intelligence officer in Paris on an assignment that finds him in the midst of an international conspiracy. When Liu's investigation gets too close to uncovering the truth, his life is seriously jeopardized Read More

Saving Grace

Actors: Brenda Blethyn, Craig Ferguson, Martin Clunes, Tchéky Karyo, Jamie Forman

Synopsis: Waking Ned Divine (1998) meets Up in Smoke (1978) in this wacky British comedy about growing marijuana. Grace Trevethan (Brenda Blethyn is a cheerful upper-class housewife and gardening enthusiast who is blithefully unaware of business matters. This all changes when she learns that her husband Read More

The Patriot

Actors: Mel Gibson, Heath Ledger, Joely Richardson, Jason Isaacs, Chris Cooper

Synopsis: Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin, the director/producer team responsible for such sci-fi blockbusters as Independence Day, Stargate, and Godzilla, take a step back in time with this drama set during the American Revolution. Farmer Benjamin Martin (Mel Gibson) was born and raised in South Carolina Read More

The King Is Dancing

Actors: Benoît Magimel, Boris Terral, Tchéky Karyo, Colette Emmanuelle, Cecile Bois

Synopsis: While Louis XIV had the longest reign of any French monarch and used his nation's military might to significantly expand his nation's control of Europe, he was also a noted patron of the arts with a particular love for dance, and this historical drama looks at the unlikely relationship between the Read More

Arabian Nights

Actors: Mili Avital, Dougray Scott, Alan Bates, Jason Scott Lee, John Leguizamo

Synopsis: In this made-for-TV retelling of the classic tale A Thousand and One Nights, a woman discovers the ability to spin a good yarn is literally a matter of life and death. Schahriar (Dougray Scott), a powerful sultan who rules Bagdad, has developed a bitterness and distrust of women ever since he Read More

The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc

Actors: Timothy West, Milla Jovovich, John Malkovich, Faye Dunaway, Dustin Hoffman, Pascal Greggory, Richard Ridings, Desmond Harrington

Synopsis: In the 15th century, France is mired in the 100 Years War when a humble voice appears, claiming to have been instructed by the Lord to lead the French army into battle and defend their land against the British. The voice belongs to Jeanne d'Aragon, a teenage girl from a tiny village, and, to the Read More

My Life So Far

Actors: Colin Firth, Rosemary Harris, Irène Jacob, Tchéky Karyo, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio

Synopsis: Director Hugh Hudson, who made his directorial debut with the award-winning Chariots Of Fire, returns to the theme of British life in the 1920s in the bittersweet family drama My Life So Far. Gamma Macintosh (Rosemary Harris) is the matriarch of a family that inhabits Harewood House, a castle in Read More

Wing Commander

Actors: Freddie Prinze, Jr., Saffron Burrows, Matthew Lillard, Tchéky Karyo, Jürgen Prochnow

Synopsis: Based on a popular series of video games, Wing Commander introduces us to an elite fighter squadron in the year 2654. The Earth confederation is at war with a vicious race called the Kilrathi. The Kilrathi have captured a navigational device which will allow them to jump through worm-holes in Read More

Babel

Actors: Mitchell David Rothpan, Maria de Medeiros, Tchéky Karyo, Michel Jonasz, Sheena Larkin

Synopsis: An elaborate fantasy tale intended for family audiences, Babel tells the story of the Babels, a strange breed of four-foot-tall creatures who once coexisted happily with human beings on planet Earth. However, when the humans built a huge tower to taunt God, he became angry and drove the Babels Read More

Like a Fish Out of Water

Actors: Tchéky Karyo, Monica Bellucci, Dominique Pinon, Michel Muller, Mehmet Ulusoy

Synopsis: A crime comedy that pays sly tribute to spy films of the 1960s, Comme Un Poisson Hors De L'Eau (aka Like a Fish Out of Water concerns Desire (Michel Muller), the nervous and bookish son of a prominent restaurateur. Desire has been corresponding with a lovely Italian woman, Myrtille (Monica Bellucci 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

In and Out of Fashion

Actors: Delphine Seyrig, Sami Frey, Anémone, André Dussollier, Zouc

Synopsis: The Paris-based photographer-painter-actor-filmmaker William Klein looks back on five decades of his life and multi-careers in this French documentary. Born in 1926, Klein is a native New Yorker who began living in Paris in 1948, studied painting with Fernand Leger, photographed for Vogue from Read More

Foreign Land

Actors: Fernanda Torres, Fernando Alves Pinto

Synopsis: This beautifully photographed black and white Brazilian mystery chronicles the union between Paco, an aspiring actor living in Sao Paulo, and Brazil-born Alex, who works as a waitress in Lisbon, Portugal. Much of the tale is set in 1990 when Brazilian president Fernando Collor de Mello threw his Read More

Dobermann

Actors: Vincent Cassel, Monica Bellucci, Tchéky Karyo, Antoine Basler, Dominique Bettenfeld

Synopsis: The seedy, pscyho characters from author Joel Houssin's popular 1980s series of hip French crime novels come to vivid life in this rip roaring actioner. The directorial debut of French/Dutch video maker Jan Kounen, the film presents a super violent, drug ladened world ruled by ultramacho men and Read More

Và Dove Ti Porta Il Cuore

Actors: Virna Lisi, Margherita Buy, Galatea Ranzi

Synopsis: The complicated travails of several generations of Italian women provide the basis for this drama that is based on a novel by Susanna Tamaro. It begins with the peaceful death of Olga, the elderly family matriarch. Marta, her granddaughter returns from the US to attend the funeral and once in Read More

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

Habitat

Actors: Balthazar Getty, Tchéky Karyo, Alice Krige, Susan Almgren, Kris Holdenreid

Synopsis: This chilling sci-fi drama is set in a sun-ravaged world no longer protected by the ozone layer. Human life has managed to continue, but it isn't easy. The tale centers on the insanely brilliant Hank Symes, a scientist who disregards the rules of his laboratory and swipes some biological materials Read More

Addicted to Love

Actors: Meg Ryan, Matthew Broderick, Kelly Preston, Tchéky Karyo, Maureen Stapleton

Synopsis: In this slightly dark comedy about romantic obsession, Sam (Matthew Broderick) is an astronomer who likes his life in the small New England town he calls home and loves his fiancée, Linda (Kelly Preston). But one day, Linda tells Sam that she's moving to New York because she has found a new job Read More

The Thousand Wonders of the Universe

Synopsis: Professor Larsen, the director of the International Center for Astro Monitoring is listening to radio transmissions from deep space when he receives a disturbing string of code, that to him heralds the coming of alien invaders. When thousands of people suddenly disappear from the red-light Read More

To Have & to Hold

Actors: Tchéky Karyo, Rachel Griffiths, Steve Jacobs

Synopsis: This Australian melodrama of obsessive love and violence is as humid and brooding as the Papuan jungle in which most of was filmed. Set in a remote town in Papua, New Guinea (some scenes were shot in Northern Australia) the story begins as the bereaved widower Jack gets increasingly drunk with Sal Read More

Passaggio Per il Paradiso

Synopsis: This romantic Italian drama tells the offbeat love story of a somewhat senile but still feisty elderly American lady who escapes from the nursing home where her children put her and a world-weary private investigator who finds her on the road. The American, Martha, has lived in Tuscany for most of Read More

Albergo Roma

Synopsis: The discovery of an aborted fetus in a WW II-era Tuscan town nearly overloads the gossip mill in this black Italian comedy that is based on a play by director/screenwriter Ugo Chiti. The tale begins in 1939 just before Mussolini-controlled Italy entered the war. The fetus is unfortunately Read More

GoldenEye

Actors: Pierce Brosnan, Sean Bean, Izabella Scorupco, Famke Janssen, Joe Don Baker

Synopsis: Pierce Brosnan made his first appearance as James Bond in this action thriller, the 17th in the series (excluding the 1967 Casino Royale and the 1983 Never Say Never Again) featuring the suave British super-agent. As the story begins, Agent 007 and his partner, Agent 006 (Sean Bean), pull a daring Read More

Colpo di luna

Actors: Tchéky Karyo, Nino Manfredi, Isabelle Pasco, Jim Van Der Woude

Synopsis: In this Italian drama an astrophysicist returns to his birthplace and re-discovers his humanity. Lorenzo needs money. He stops his research in Milan and goes to his former childhood villa in Sicily to sell it. Because workers are renovating it, he must linger longer than he wanted. He begins to Read More

Bad Boys

Actors: Michael Imperioli, Martin Lawrence, Will Smith, Téa Leoni, Theresa Randle, Tchéky Karyo, Joe Pantoliano

Synopsis: Former video director Michael Bay had his first big hit with this action comedy, which also returned producers Jerry Bruckheimer and Don Simpson to the big-budget, high-violence movies that they successfully churned out in the '80s. Mike Lowrey (Will Smith) and Marcus Burnett (Martin Lawrence) are Read More

Operation Dumbo Drop

Actors: Danny Glover, Ray Liotta, Denis Leary, Doug E. Doug, Corin Nemec

Synopsis: This old fashioned service comedy is suitable for the whole family. It is set in Vietnam during the war and chronicles the efforts of a small band of Green Berets as they endeavor to help out a beleaguered village located next to a major supply route for the Viet Cong. The leader, Capt. Sam Cahill Read More

Crying Freeman

Actors: Mark Dacascos, Julie Condra, Tchéky Karyo, Masaya Kato

Synopsis: Based on a popular Japanese comic, this stylish, romantic French-Canadian actioner features many exciting pyrotechnic effects, elegantly executed murders, and some nifty-doodle gadgets, but very little on-screen bloodshed as it follows the adventures of Yo, one of the world's greatest hit men. Yo Read More

Of Love and Shadows

Actors: Jennifer Connelly, Antonio Banderas, Stefania Sandrelli, Camilo Gallardo, Patricio Contreras

Synopsis: The Spanish/Argentinian Of Love and Shadows (De Amor y Sombras) is a fragmentary adaptation of the Isabel Allende novel of the same name. The scene is Chile, during the dictatorial Pinochet regime of the early 1970s. Journalist Jennifer Connelly, insulated from the truth and enjoying the romantic Read More

Zadoc Et Le Bonheur

Actors: Tchéky Karyo, Bernadette Lafont, Consuelo de Havilland

Nostradamus

Actors: Tchéky Karyo, F. Murray Abraham, Rutger Hauer, Amanda Plummer, Julia Ormond

Synopsis: This period drama explores the life and times of the 16th century doctor and scientist who some believed could see into the future. Michel de Nostradamus (Tcheky Karyo) was the son in a Jewish family who posed as Catholics to be spared the wrath of the Inquisition. As a student of the renowned Read More

L'Ange Noir

Actors: Sylvie Vartan, Michel Piccoli, Tchéky Karyo, Alexandra Winisky, Lisa Heredia

Synopsis: In this stylish French drama fits well into the film noir genre. A visitor comes to the home of Stephane, the wife of an important magistrate. She, claiming attempted rape, calmly shoots him. The visitor is the legendary gangster Wadek Aslanian who was beloved as a latter day Robin Hood. Read More

La Cité de la Peur

Actors: Alain Chabat, Dominique Farrugia, Chantal Lauby, Gérard Darmon, Sam Karmann

Synopsis: This French comedy parodies horror movies and detective films. It is set at the Cannes Film Festival. There, Odile, a sincere publicist, tries to promote the horror movie "Red Is Dead." The movie tells of a killer in a welding mask who wields a hammer and sickle with deadly results. The trouble Read More

And the Band Played On

Actors: Richard Gere, Anjelica Huston, Alan Alda, Steve Martin, Lily Tomlin

Synopsis: The late journalist Randy Shilts' best-selling book on the burgeoning AIDS crisis was adapted for cable TV by Arnold Schulman. In 1981, researchers begin discerning a mysterious new disease that apparently affects only homosexual males (or so they thought at that time). Working independently, and Read More

L'Atlantide

Actors: Tchéky Karyo, Christopher Thompson, Victoria Mahoney, Anna Galiena

L'Affut

Actors: Tchéky Karyo, Dominique Blanc, Patrick Bouchitey, Carlo Brandt, Jean-Pierre Sentier

Synopsis: In this earnest drama, a rural schoolteacher who has become a strong advocate for ecological awareness and is a committed opponent of hunting in the local swamp becomes romantically embroiled with a single mother who has returned to her birthplace since just before her boy (now nine years old) was Read More

Trop Pres Des Dieux

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

Sketch Artist

Actors: Jeff Fahey, Sean Young, Drew Barrymore, Frank McRae, Tchéky Karyo

Synopsis: Sketch Artist is a made-for-cable thriller about a police sketch artist (Jeff Fahey) whose latest witness (Drew Barrymore) describes a suspect that looks exactly like his wife (Sean Young). Instead of revealing this information to the police, he suppresses the sketch while he does his own Read More

1492: Conquest of Paradise

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Armand Assante, Sigourney Weaver, Michael Wincott, Loren Dean, Ángela Molina

Synopsis: This, the second of 1992's 500th anniversary Christopher Columbus films (the first being Warner Bros. Christopher Columbus: The Discovery), adheres to the historical facts of Columbus's (Gerard Depardieu) possessed quest to discover the New World, and his solicitation of Queen Isabella (Sigourney Weaver Read More

Exposure

Actors: Peter Coyote, Tchéky Karyo, Amanda Pays

Synopsis: A normally gentle photojournalist becomes a raging vigilante down in Rio following the death of the gentle prostitute he had befriended. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

La Villa del Venerdi

Actors: Julian Sands, Joanna Pacula, Tchéky Karyo, Lara Wendel

Synopsis: Based on the Alberto Moravia novel, Husbands and Lovers examines a modern couple's untraditional open marriage. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

La Femme Nikita

Actors: Anne Parillaud, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Tchéky Karyo, Jeanne Moreau, Jean Reno

Synopsis:
The serpentine plotline of Luc Besson's La Femme Nikita begins its 117-minute slither when punkish, psychotic, and drug-ridden Nikita (Anne Parillaud) fires her gun into a cop's face following the stick-up of a drug store, and is promptly imprisoned. She is thrown into a dank cell, then Read More

Vincent and Me

Actors: Nina Petronzio, Tchéky Karyo, Christopher Forrest, Matthew Mabe, Paul Klerk, Anna-Maria Giannotti

Synopsis: A young woman's real talent gets her mixed up with crooks selling fake art treasures in this comedy for the whole family. Jo (Nina Petronzio) is a 13-year-old girl who loves to draw and has a very special talent -- she can sketch and paint in a style that bears a startling resemblance to the work Read More

Isabelle Eberhardt

Actors: Mathilda May, Tchéky Karyo, Peter O'Toole, Richard Moir, Arthur Dignam

Synopsis: Isabelle Eberhardt dramatizes the tragic true story of the iconoclastic Swiss-born writer, who gained notoriety for both her lifestyle and her work in North Africa at the turn of the twentieth century. Eberhardt (Mathilda May) began dressing as a man and converted to Islam in her teens. As the Read More

The Bear

Actors: Douce the Bear, Bart the Bear, Tchéky Karyo, Jack Wallace, André Lacombe

Synopsis: Jean-Jacques Annaud directed this unusual and compelling tale of animals in the wild, which tells its tale from the bears' point of view. A pair of carefully-trained bruins deliver remarkably effective "performances" (aided by clever editing and, in some sequences, the use of realistic animated Read More

Australia

Actors: Fanny Ardant, Jeremy Irons, Tchéky Karyo, Agnes Soral, Hélène Surgère

Synopsis: Widower Edouard Pierson (Jeremy Irons) fought for Australia in World War Two, but he was born (and married) in Belgium. For the past twelve years, he has been living in Australia with his daughter. His occupation as a wool merchant is in keeping with his family's tradition. He is determined to Read More

La Fille Des Collines

Actors: Florent Pagny, Nathalie Cardone, Tchéky Karyo, Laure Killing

Corps Perdus

Actors: Laura Morante, Tchéky Karyo, Georges Claisse, Gerardo Romano

Synopsis: An art restorer and (of neccessity) a bit of a historian, Eric (Tcheky Karyo) has been asked to come to a very spooky mansion to restore what looks to be a painting by a hideously deformed, mentally deranged artist who is only now becoming popular, years after his death. As he restores the Read More

Le Moine et la Sorcière

Actors: Tchéky Karyo, Christine Boisson, Jean Carmet, Raoul Billerey, Catherine Frot

Synopsis: Sorceress is not a remake of the 1982 erotic thriller of the same name. This 1987 film is set in medieval France, where, in certain quarters, witchcraft is accepted as a fact of life and an everyday occurrence. A travelling priest visits town after town, hoping to root out those still practicing Read More

Spirale

Actors: Richard Berry, Claire Nebout, Jean Bouise, Tchéky Karyo, Beatrice Camurat

Synopsis: Jerome (Richard Berry) is the manager of a photography lab who gets involved with the mysterious Simorre (Claire Nebout) in this suspenseful drama. Invited to her yacht in the South of France, Jerome meets the strange entourage that always accompanies Simorre. The trio consists of a former Read More

L'Unique

Actors: Tchéky Karyo, Sami Frey, Charles Denner, Jezabel Carpi

Synopsis: This routine drama's main distinctions are the musical numbers by Julia Migenes Johnson as a misbehaving singer and the computer-assisted scenes that are melded with actual scenes for the first time in French cinema. The singer has been missing her scheduled performances -- or just simply cuts out Read More

États D'Ame

Actors: Robin Renucci, Jean-Pierre Bacri, François Cluzet, Tchéky Karyo

Synopsis: In this political drama, five left-leaning friends gradually lose heart in the Socialist government elected in 1981 in France. One of the five men is a television broadcaster; the others are a teacher about to become an academic inspector, a tax man, the director of a cultural center, and a Read More

Bleu Comme L'Enfer

Actors: Lambert Wilson, Tchéky Karyo, Myriem Roussel, Agnes Soral, Sandra Montaigu

Synopsis: If the hunt that lends dramatic action to this fast-paced story could be notched up into a more harrowing adventure, then the fates of escaped thief Ned (Lambert Wilson) and Lilly (Myriem Roussel) the wife of his pursuer, would engage viewers' attention all the more. The half-psychotic cop Franck (Tcheky Karyo Read More

L'Amour Braque

Actors: Sophie Marceau, Francis Huster, Tchéky Karyo, Christiane Jean, Michel Albertini

Synopsis: Inspired by Fyodor Dostoyevsky's The Idiot and intended as "a homage to the great writer," this film is set in modern France rather than 19th century Russia. This is a story of Léon (Francis Huster), who has been recently released from a mental asylum and claims to be a descendant of a Hungarian Read More

Contes Clandestins

Actors: Rebecca Pauly, Daniel Mesguich, Tchéky Karyo

Full Moon in Paris

Actors: Pascale Ogier, Fabrice Luchini, Tchéky Karyo, Christian Vadim, Virginie Thévenet

Synopsis: A young woman looks for the true meaning of love and learns the truth of the old saw, "You don't know what you've got until it's gone," in this fourth installment in Eric Rohmer's Comedies and Proverbs series. The story opens with the proverb, "He who has two women loses his soul. He who has two Read More

L'Air Du Crime

Actors: Hélène Surgère, Tchéky Karyo, Jean Bouise, Laura Morante, Hanns Zischler

Synopsis: Ostensibly about the sudden disappearance of a businessman and the subsequent behavior of his wife Elena (Helen Surgere), his son Robert (Tcheky Karyo), and his accountant (Jean Bouise), this allegorical film is really a weighty statement on the nature of Swiss society. After her husband has Read More

La Java Des Ombres

Actors: Tchéky Karyo, France Camus, Anne Alvaro, Jean-Pierre Aumont

Synopsis: In this polemical look at a revolutionary released from prison and bent on getting back at the right-wing conservatives who got him into prison in the first place, director Romain Goupil uses a heavier hand than in his earlier, well-received film, Mourir a 30 Ans. There is a certain amount of Read More

Le Marginal

Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Henry Silva, Claude Brosset, Pierre Vernier, Tchéky Karyo

Synopsis: In another typical Jean-Paul Belmondo vehicle, the French action hero plays a policeman prone to advancing the cause of justice by any means necessary. On his agenda is a powerful drug cartel working out of Paris and Marseilles, with a drug lord (Henry Silva) who is essentially inaccessible -- but Read More

The Return of Martin Guerre

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Roger Planchon, Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, Nathalie Baye, Sylvie Meda

Synopsis: The Return of Martin Guerre is set in France during the Hundred Years' War. Imagining herself a widow, Nathalie Baye is astonished when her husband Gerard Depardieu returns after nine years. He looks like her husband and sounds like her husband, and certainly has a working knowledge of the Read More

Toute Une Nuit

Actors: Angelo Abazoglou, Natalie Akerman, Michele Blondeel

Synopsis: The English-language title of Toute Une Nuit is All Night Long, but don't confuse this film with the like-titled 1981 Gene Hackman-Barbra Streisand comedy. Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman uses a fragmentary approach to explore a series of personal relationships among a largely nonprofessional Read More

La Balance

Actors: Nathalie Baye, Philippe Léotard, Richard Berry, Christophe Malavoy, Maurice Ronet

Synopsis: In the French-made film (La Balance), a couple get caught between the French underworld and the cops who pledge to destroy it. The man is a one-time mobster, now pimp named Dede (Philippe Leotard) who's forced to squeal on some mob-land biggies in exchange for his acquittal from any connection to Read More

Que les Gros Salaires Levent le Doigt!!!

Actors: Jean Poiret, Daniel Auteuil, Michel Piccoli, Marie Laforêt, Francois Perrot

Synopsis: Andre Joeuf (Jean Poiret) is the coldly calculating president of an insurance company who, when faced with the imperative of firing some of his highly paid executives, invites them all over to his country estate for a weekend to indulge in a few games of musical chairs. Anyone left standing after Read More