Victor Lanoux Filmography

La Position d'escargot

Actors: Victor Lanoux, Pascale Montpetit

Synopsis: In this offbeat romance from Canada, Myriam (Mirella Tomassini) is a Tunian-born woman living in Montreal, where she's nursing a broken heart after her longtime boyfriend Theo (Henri Chasse) breaks up with her. Myriam is keeping watch over a friend's house for several weeks while they're out of Read More

Démons de Jésus

Actors: Yann Collette, Fabienne Babe, Nadia Farès, Thierry Frémont, Patrick Bouchitey, Victor Lanoux

Synopsis: Filled with references and language that will be most meaningful to those intimate with the French language and culture, this gritty outing attempts to paint a dignified but funny portrait of a poor, dysfunctional family during the winter of 1968. The Jacobs currently reside in a grim industrial Read More

Lifeline

Actors: Lorraine Bracco, Jean-Marc Barr, Stephen Shellen, Lisa Jakub, James Thierree

Synopsis: In this drama, a marine biologist launches a daring rescue after she learns her daughter has been kidnapped and sold into the European sex trade. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Le Bal des Casse-Pieds

Actors: Jean Rochefort, Miou-Miou, Jean Carmet, Odette Laure, Hélène Vincent

Synopsis: In this comedy, veterinarian Henri Sauveur (Jean Rochefort) maintains his dignity and calm in the face of an incredible number of irritating or even genuinely upsetting encounters with inveterate pains-in-the-neck. He suffers from the rudeness (and worse) of Parisian drivers, his relatives, and Read More

L'Invite Surprise

Actors: Victor Lanoux, Eric Blanc, Jean Carmet, Michel Galabru

Synopsis: Eric Blanc plays a man who has witnessed a car-bombing and become a major media celebrity. He just can't say enough about what he saw, and his speculations about it are extremely discomfiting to the French secret service. They wish he would just shut up. Instead, he tackles the task of finding out Read More

Le Lieu du Crime

Actors: Catherine Deneuve, Wadeck Stanczak, Nicolas Giraudi, Danielle Darrieux, Victor Lanoux

Synopsis: Scene of the Crime (Le Lieu du Crime) begins with a quote from Great Expectations. Thirteen-year-old Nicolas Giraudi, picking flowers in a cemetery, is surprised by escaped criminal Wadeck Stanczak, who orders the boy to bring him some money. Displaying no signs of fear, Giraudi does what he is Read More

Sale Destin!

Actors: Victor Lanoux, Pauline Lafont, Marie Laforêt, Jacques Penot, Michel Aumont

Synopsis: Francois Marboni (Victor Lanoux) is a butcher who is being blackmailed for having an affair with the prostitute Rache (Pauline Lafont) in this black comedy. He decides to hire a hit man when the blackmailer demands that he start cutting his profit margin to the bone. Francois soon becomes a target Read More

National Lampoon's European Vacation

Actors: Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo, Jason Lively, Dana Hill, Eric Idle

Synopsis: Chevy Chase as Clark Griswold and his wife, Ellen (Beverly D'Angelo) -- and their two generally repulsive children, Rusty (Jason Lively) and Audrey (Dana Hill) -- are off on a European vacation thanks to a winning stint on a quiz show. As the movie unfolds in brochures featuring London, Paris, and Read More

Louisiane

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

La Smala

Actors: Victor Lanoux, Josiane Balasko, Dominique Lavanant, Maurice Risch

Synopsis: In a satire on family values that tends to pass off human cruelty as amusing, this story about an odd family of five children, a father, grandmother, and neighbor is not particularly laugh-provoking. When the mother of this "tribe" of five children leaves for good, their inept father is not sure Read More

La Triche

Actors: Victor Lanoux, Anny Duperey, Xavier DeLuc, Michel Galabru, Valérie Mairesse

Synopsis: The social and personal conflicts that arise when a bisexual, married policeman takes a male lover are carefully handled by director Yannick Bellon in this crime drama. Michel Vera (Victor Lanoux) is investigating a murder at a local nightclub when he is attracted to the club's saxophone player Read More

Un Dimanche de Flics

Actors: Victor Lanoux, Jean Rochefort, Barbara Sukowa, Maurice Biraud, Jean-Roger Milo

Synopsis: This sometimes confusing yet predictable thriller is about two policemen who bust a heroin deal and, after dumping the white powder, take off with the money, but they cannot escape the mob boss hot on their trail -- he wants his money back. After a detective friend is murdered, one of the two Read More

Les Voleurs de la Nuit

Actors: Véronique Jannot, Bobby Di Cicco, Victor Lanoux, Claude Chabrol, Stéphane Audran

Synopsis: Sam Fuller (1911-1997) directed this rather mediocre crime story about a Bonnie-and-Clyde couple -- how they got together and how they are pursued for a murder they never committed. François (Bobby Di Cicco) and Isabelle (Veronique Jannot) meet in an unemployment office, a likely place to find Read More

Dog Day

Actors: Lee Marvin, Miou-Miou, Jean Carmet, Victor Lanoux, David Bennent

Synopsis: Dog Day was originally distributed in France as Canicule. In one of his last film appearances, Lee Marvin portrays a gunman on the lam with girlfriend Tina Louise. He briefly takes refuge with a farm family whose idiotic excesses make Marvin's former criminal associates seem like choirboys. The Read More

Stella

Actors: Nicole Garcia, Thierry Lhermitte, Victor Lanoux, Jean-Claude Brialy, Gerard Desarthe

Synopsis: Considering the passionate times (1944 -- when the Allies are about to liberate France with the consequent round-up of German collaborators), the two leading characters in this love story (Nicole Garcia as Stella, and Thierry Lhermitte as Yvon) could be more passionate in their feelings for each Read More

Y'a-t-il Un Francais Dans la Salle

Actors: Victor Lanoux, Marion Peterson, Jacques Dutronc, Dominique Lavanant, Jacqueline Maillan

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Frederic Dard who also co-scripted with director Jean-Pierre Mocky, this satire on French politics is centered around an official whose earlier rise to power had some sordid aspects that are about to be uncovered by the death of his uncle. While he is trying to contain any Read More

Boulevard des Assassins

Actors: Victor Lanoux, Marie-France Pisier, Stéphane Audran, Jean-Louis Trintignant

La Revanche

Actors: Annie Girardot, Dominique Labourier, Victor Lanoux, Claude Rich

Au Bout du Bout au Banc

Crew: Producer

Actors: Victor Lanoux, Jane Birkin, Henri Cremieux, Georges Wilson, Mathieu Kassovitz

Synopsis: In this tender and sentimental comedy, Ben (Victor Lanoux), a Parisian Jew, copes with the dramas in his everyday life against the background of his family's survival of the Holocaust. Things between him and his wife are not any too easy, and on top of it, he has to heed his father's concerns Read More

Une Sale Affaire

Actors: Marlène Jobert, Victor Lanoux, Patrick Bouchitey, Agnes Chateau

Synopsis: Novak (Victor Lanoux) is a police inspector to whom any means is fair in getting evidence on criminals - especially drug dealers. He is after a drug ring that includes a city official and desperately needs evidence to bring the corrupt politician to trial, and to close down the ring. To that end Read More

Retour En Force

Actors: Victor Lanoux, Bernadette Lafont, Pierre Mondy, Gérard Jugnot

Synopsis: The tendency for a life of crime to continue unabated is a part of this conventional crime comedy by director Jean-Marie Poire. When Adrien (Victor Lanoux) gets out of the slammer and heads home to his wife and kids, everything goes wrong. First, his wife is living with a deadbeat bus driver Read More

Un Si Joli Village...

Actors: Victor Lanoux, Jean Carmet, Valérie Mairesse, Michel Robin, Jacques Richard

Synopsis: Bertin (Victor Lanoux) has accidentally killed his wife during an argument. He is the owner of a tannery which employs most of the inhabitants of the town he lives in. Rather than subject himself to the indignities of a police inquiry, he attempts to cover up the killing by saying that she has Read More

Les Chiens

Actors: Victor Lanoux, Nicole Calfan, Gérard Depardieu, Pierre Vernier

Synopsis: In a sterile housing development, newly arrived Dr. Ferret (Victor Lanoux) becomes aware that nearly everyone in his community has purchased attack dogs from Morel (Gerard Depardieu), to protect themselves from what they perceive to be a disastrous crime wave. The presence of these growling Read More

Replay

Synopsis: In this drama, a woman recovering from amnesia receives no help from her husband who definitely has something to hide. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

On the Run

La Carapate

Actors: Pierre Richard, Victor Lanoux, Raymond Bussières, Jean-Pierre Darras

Synopsis: While he is visiting his client Marcial (Victor Lanoux) in prison, leftist lawyer Duroc (Pierre Richard) is caught up in a prison riot. When Marcial takes him along during his jailbreak, Duroc is assumed by the authorities to have engineered the escape. The two of them are now both on the run. It Read More

Le Passe Simple

Actors: Victor Lanoux, Marie-José Nat, Anne Lonnberg, Vania Vilers

Synopsis: When Francois' (Victor Lanoux) wife Cecile (Marie-Josee Nat) was leaving him because of his affairs with other women, she had an auto accident. In this drama, he makes uses of her amnesia to try to win her back and misleads her at every turn in her quest to recover her memories. ~ Clarke Fountain Read More

Nous Irons Tous au Paradis

Actors: Jean Rochefort, Claude Brasseur, Guy Bedos, Victor Lanoux, Danièle Delorme

Synopsis: This French comedy is the sequel to the well-regarded Pardon Mon Affaire. This version centers on the sexual fantasies of a quartet of four married, middle-class men attempting to deal with the onset of middle-age. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Un Moment d'Egarement

Actors: Jean-Pierre Marielle, Victor Lanoux, Christine Dejoux, Agnes Soral, Martine Sarcey

Synopsis: In this frothy and sexy French farce, a pair of middle-aged pals go on a vacation with their two teenage daughters. The trouble begins when one of the friends gets entangled with the others' daughter. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Servante et Maitresse

Actors: Victor Lanoux, Andréa Ferréol, Evelyne Buyle, Gabriel Cattand, David Pontremoli

Synopsis: When a rich man' dies and his maid Maria (Andrea Ferreol) unexpectedly becomes his heir, she is now the mistress of the man's household. In order to get revenge on the man's nephew Jerome (Victor Lannoux), for slights on her person which he committed while she was but a maid, she has kept him on Read More

Une Femme à Sa Fenetre

Actors: Romy Schneider, Philippe Noiret, Victor Lanoux, Umberto Orsini, Delia Boccardo

Synopsis: Social classes and different cultures collide as three disparate men try to court a wealthy young woman (Romy Schneider) in this French drama. One of them, an impoverished aristocrat marries her for her money. Though he is terribly cynical, he does, in some strange way, love her. She is also loved Read More

Pardon Mon Affaire

Actors: Jean Rochefort, Claude Brasseur, Guy Bedos, Victor Lanoux, Danièle Delorme

Synopsis: When this French romantic comedy was released in English-speaking countries, its French title was changed to Pardon Mon Affaire. The four buddies in this picture help one another out, especially when it concerns affairs of the heart. Etienne (Jean Rochefort) is happily married, but when he sees a Read More

Folle à Tuer

Actors: Marlène Jobert, Tomas Milian, Michel Lonsdale, Jean Bouise, Victor Lanoux

Synopsis: After having been sent to a mental asylum following being raped by a policeman, Julie (Marlene Jobert) is released to a job as a governess for a rich man's nephew. When Julie and the boy are kidnapped, it becomes clear that the kidnappers plan to frame her for the death of the boy. Before they can Read More

Adieu Poulet

Actors: Lino Ventura, Patrick Dewaere, Victor Lanoux, Françoise Brion, Claude Rich

Synopsis: In truth, there are two French Detectives in this European crime melodrama. Lino Ventura plays an aging, been-around gumshoe, while Patrick Dewaere is his young, callow and cynical associate. The two detectives don't like each other much at first, but this will change. Their current assignment Read More

Cousin Cousine

Actors: Marie-Christine Barrault, Victor Lanoux, Marie-France Pisier, Guy Marchand, Ginette Garcin

Synopsis: Love turns out to be all in the family in this romantic comedy from France. When an elderly couple decides to marry, their families come together for a wedding banquet that turns into a raucous, wine-soaked celebration. Marthe (Marie-Christine Barrault) and Ludovic (Victor Lanoux) are distant Read More

Mort d'Un Guide

Actors: Pierre Rousseau, Georges Claisse, Victor Lanoux, Jeanne Allard

Synopsis: Anxious to impress his colleagues, a young and not yet fully trained mountain guide attempts to scale the most difficult peak in his region, the Massif des Drus. This very detailed mountain-climbing drama reveals much about this sport. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide Read More

Deux Hommes Dans La Ville

Actors: Jean Gabin, Alain Delon, Michel Bouquet, Mimsy Farmer

Synopsis: In this French psychological drama, a bank robber is finally released after serving 10 years. His being paroled is due to the influence of his old friend, a social worker. The ex-convict returns to his wife and begins living an honest life. Unfortunately, his old crook friends begin trying to lure Read More

L'Affaire Dominici

Actors: Jean Gabin, Paul Crauchet, Gérard Depardieu, Victor Lanoux

Synopsis: In 1950s France, an old peasant patriarch was tried for the murder of a family of British campers. At the time, the case was a cause célèbre all over France. This movie made the old case famous all over again. At the time of his capture, Dominici (Jean Gabin) was adamant that he committed the Read More

Elle Court, Elle Court la Banlieue

Actors: Marthe Keller, Jacques Higelin, Victor Lanoux, Jean-Pierre Darras

Synopsis: This dark French comedy satirizes suburban living. Marthe Keller and Jacques Higelin play a newly married couple who have just moved into the suburbs. Nearly everything is oppressive: among other things, the walls of their house are too thin and their neighbors harangue them with complaints of all Read More

You Only Live Once

Synopsis: In this French drama, an aspiring photographer leaves his wife and daughter to seek his fortune in the City of Light. After three years, the wife grows tired of country life and also moves to Paris, but instead of looking for her husband, she becomes a model. Fortunately, by the story's end, she Read More

Tu Seras Terriblement Gentille

Actors: Karen Blanguernon, Frederic de Pasquale, Leslie Bedos, Victor Lanoux

Synopsis: A couple with a teenage daughter separate after failing to reconcile their marital discord. The moody husband goes off to Paris to try and find work as a photographer. Three years later, the wife and daughter come to Paris where the wife begins a highly successful career as a fashion model, and Read More

La Vie Normale

Actors: Monique Lejeune, Victor Lanoux, Denise Gence

Synopsis: Laurence (Monique Lejeune) is a young French woman who tries to find her friend, a member of the resistance, in this somber drama. Laurence has survived the concentration camp and tries to live a normal life after her harrowing experience, but when she finds her friend is married, she becomes a Read More

La Vieille Dame Indigne

Actors: Sylvie, Victor Lanoux, Malka Ribowska, Jean Bouise

Synopsis: The Shameless Old Lady should have been a wry French satire of society's misconceptions about the elderly; alas, the film is defeated by its own preciousness. That irreplaceable Gallic character actress Sylvie was honored with her first starring film role as a newly widowed 70-year-old woman (the Read More