Jean-Pierre Darroussin
Jean-Pierre Darroussin (born 4 December 1953) is a French actor and filmmaker. He was born in Courbevoie, France. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jean-Pierre Darroussin,licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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La pie voleuse
Maria, who's not as young as she used to be and who helps people older than her, is living from hand to mouth.
Le théorème de Marguerite
The future of Marguerite, a brilliant student in Mathematics at the prestigious Ecole Normale Supérieure, seems all planned out. The only woman from her year, Marguerite is finishing a thesis she has to present to an audience of researchers. On the big day, a mistake shakes all her certainties and all her foundations collapse.
Le trésor du petit Nicolas
In the peaceful world of Little Nicholas, there is Daddy, Mommy, the school, but above all, his band of friends. They are called The Invincibles, but above all they are inseparable. At least they think so. But when Dad gets a promotion and announces that the family is moving to the south of France, Nicolas' world falls apart.
Sic Transit Gloria Mundi
Daniel leaves prison. He returns to Marseilles where Mathilda, his daughter, has just given birth. Nicolas, her spouse, a self-employed driver, is exhausted while Mathilda is a sales assistant on a trial basis. But, one night, Nicolas is assaulted by taxi drivers determined to reduce unfair competition.
Les éblouis
Camille, is the eldest of a large family. One day, her parents enter a religious community which gradually, regimentation becomes sectarian and Camille will have to fight to assert her freedom and save her brothers and sisters.
La villa
By a little bay near Marseille lies a picturesque villa owned by an old man. His three children have gathered by his side for his last days. It’s time for them to weigh up what they have inherited of their father’s ideals and the community spirit he created in this magical place.
La promesse de l'aube
From his childhood in Poland to his adolescence in Nice to his years as a student in Paris and his tough training as a pilot during World War II, this tragi-comedy tells the romantic story of Romain Gary, one of the most famous French novelists and sole writer to have won the Goncourt Prize for French literature two times.
Une vie
Normandy, 1819. Jeanne is a young woman full of childish dreams and innocence when she returns home after finishing her schooling in a convent. She marries a local Viscount, Julien de Lamare, who soon reveals himself to be a miserly and unfaithful man. Little by little Jeanne’s illusions are stripped away.
Le Bureau des Légendes
Within the DGSE (General Directorate for External Security), a department called the Office Of Legends (BDL) forms and remote pilot the most important agents of the French intelligence services: Clandestine. Immersion in hostile country, their mission is to identify individuals who may be recruited as sources of information.
Coup de chaud
In a small village of the South of France, life is made difficult by a sweltering heat wave and its corollary, a worrisome lack of water. Everyone is under great pressure, especially the farmers whose fields are not irrigated.
La ritournelle
Brigitte and Xavier let routine and weariness set in after their children leave their cattle farm. When Brigitte is wooed by a young man, she takes a trip to Paris to see him, but things do not go according to plan.
Bon rétablissement !
After an accident, Pierre, a sixty years old grumpy man, ends up stuck on an hospital bed with a cast. While Pierre dreams of silence and solitude with his strong character, the whole world seems to invite himself to his hospital bed.
Marius
"Marius" takes place in Marseilles' Old Port, at the La Marine Bar, owned by César and his son Marius. Marius' biggest dream is to embark on one of the boats passing by his dad's bar and to set off to a faraway land.
Le coeur des hommes 3
Alex, Antoine and Manu meet Jean, a loner who ignores the pleasures of friendship. Little by little, they learn to know each other, to appreciate each other. Jean is moved by the complicity and affection that fuels the relationship with his new friends.
Fanny
Fanny is the second part of Marcel Pagnol's classic trilogy following the loves and losses of a Marseille port community.
Les neiges du Kilimandjaro
A union pensioner and his wife are robbed, but find that merely getting the assailants brought to justice is not enough for their consciences.
Le Havre
In the French harbor city of Le Havre, an elderly shoeshiner with an ailing wife crosses paths with a young African refugee pursued by the police for deportation.
La mer à l'aube
A teenager joins the resistance in Nazi-occupied France during World War II.
La fille du puisatier
It's the beginning of the WWII. South of France. Patricia, 18, is the oldest daughter of a well-digger, Pascal, who considers her a princess because of her moral qualities. She's kind, devoted. One day, she briefly meets a young man, Jacques, the son of Mazel, owner of the shop where her father buy his material. He's handsome and teasing.
De bon matin
Monday morning. Paul Wertret, 50, heads off to his job as a manager at the International Credit and Trade Bank. He arrives at 8 o'clock on the dot, as usual. He enters a meeting room, takes out a gun and kills two of his bosses. Then he locks himself in his office.
L'immortel
Charly Matteï has turned a new leaf on his past as an outlaw. Since three years he's living a comfortable life and devoting himself to his wife and two kids. However, one winter morning, he's left for dead in the underground parking of Marseille's Old Port with 22 bullets in his body. Against all odds, he will not die.
Holiday
After a crazy and tumultuous night embellished with singular encounters, Michel's awakening is brutal and painful. Not only does he find himself accused of murder, but his wife cannot be found.
Rien de personnel
La société Muller organise une réception à l’occasion du lancement d’un nouveau produit. Au cours de la soirée, on découvre qu’il s’agit en réalité d’un exercice de coaching pour les cadres de l’entreprise. Progressivement, les rumeurs sur le rachat prochain de la société vont bon train et chacun se retrouve à tenter de sauver sa place.
L'armée du crime
In Paris during WWII a very successful resistance group is led by Armenian exile Missak Manouchian.
Erreur de la banque en votre faveur
After working with the bank for a long time, Julien decides to open a restaurant with his best friend. Unfortunately, when the bank refuses to grant him a loan, he comes up with a plan.
Les grandes personnes
Every year, Albert buys his daughter an initiatory journey to a European country. For her 17th birthday he chooses a trip to Sweden to look for a Viking's treasure. When they arrive in the rented house, it is occupied by Anika and Christine, forcing them into an unusual cohabitation.
Lady Jane
Centers on three childhood friends: Muriel, Francois and Rene. Partners in crime (burglaries, to be precise), the three end their "criminal" activities after one of their attempted burglaries fails. They vow never to see each other again until, however, Muriel's son is kidnapped, which leads the three to join forces again to get the ransom money.
Le coeur des hommes 2
Alex, Antoine, Jeff and Manu. Four friends, four years later. Their relationships, friendship, shared secrets, feelings of guilt and their desire to change and improve.
Dialogue avec mon jardinier
A successful artist, weary of Parisian life and on the verge of divorce, returns to the country to live in his childhood house. He needs someone to make a real vegetable garden again out of the wilderness it has become. The gardener happens to be a former schoolfriend. A warm, fruitful conversation starts between the two men.
Toute la beauté du monde
This is the story of Franck and Tina. Franck loves Tina, but she can't love him. The man of her life has just died and she's having a nervous breakdown. During a journey to Asia, where Tina attempts rediscover her zest for life, Franck gradually becomes indispensable as a guide, traveling companion and, soon, friend...
Le voyage en Arménie
This is a story about returning to ones ancestral homeland. Anna is a cardiologist who discovers her father has fled to his native Armenia after being diagnosed with a heart problem. Despite their contentious relationship, she sets out to bring her father back for this operation.
Saint-Jacques... La Mecque
Three siblings who detest each other and hiking must complete together a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela in order to be eligible to inherit their mother's wealth.
Combien tu m'aimes?
After winning the lottery, François goes to a bar in Pigalle and offers one hundred thousand Euros per month to a prostitute named Daniela to live with him as his wife until his money runs out.
Un long dimanche de fiançailles
Young Frenchwoman Mathilde searches for the truth about her missing fiancé, lost during World War I, and learns many unexpected things along the way. The love of her life is gone. But she refuses to believe he's gone forever — and she needs to know for sure.
Mon père est ingénieur
Her parents and a former lover try to help a woman out of an apparently unjustified catatonic condition.
Feux rouges
A cross-country trip turns out to be a nightmare for a troubled couple.
Les clefs de bagnole
Who would think losing car keys could lead us that far ? Be careful, adventure is on every street corner...
Le coeur des hommes
The life of four best friends in Paris: Antoine (a gym school teacher), Jeff (director of a monthly journal), Alex (Jeff's associate in the monthly journal and a Don Juan) and Manu (owner of fine food store).
Une affaire privée
Private detective François Manéri investigates a student's six-month disappearance for her mother. With police giving up, he drifts between a wealthy family's mansion and the dark world of a swingers' club.
Marie-Jo et ses 2 amours
Marie-Jo is a middleaged woman living an ordinary life in Marseilles with her husband, Daniel and her daughter, Julie. Daniel runs a small construction business in which Marie-Jo helps. She also works at the local hospital. Outwardly their marriage is loving.
Ah! Si j'étais riche
Between Alice, a hospital nurse and Aldo, a shampoo sales representative, things have turned sour of late. Alice blames her husband for lacking ambition and contemplates divorce.One day Aldo wins the ten million euro lotto prize.
15 août
Three men are abandonned by their wives for a few days in the summer holidays. They are alone with five kids to feed and a house to maintain. And they will learn what they did wrong with their wives.
Ça ira mieux demain
Such an inconsequential event - the unfortunate purchase of a package of cling film - reveals the character and behavior of a small group of individuals caught up in the chaos of today's society. Though it creates arguments and inner questioning, this event - and its various consequences - also creates bonds.
À l'attaque!
Two friends with very different personalities decide to write a script for a movie. Their discussions and confrontations are constant, but the story slowly takes shape around a poor family that has a small car repair business. Times are hard and will have to fight to prevent a multinational tear down the garage.
Le goût des autres
Unpolished and ultra-pragmatic industrialist Jean-Jacques Castella reluctantly attends Racine's tragedy "Berenice" in order to see his niece play a bit part. He is taken with the play's strangely familiar-looking leading lady Clara Devaux.
La ville est tranquille
A dark tale of working-class life in Marseilles, a city in crisis. Interesting characters include a hard-bitten but compassionate fish market worker with a drug addicted daughter and a moody bartender with a shocking secret life.
À la place du coeur
Set in a working-class section of Marseille where racial tensions are common, Bébé, an 18-year-old black is wrongly accused of rape by a racist cop. Clim, his 16-year-old girlfriend discovers she is pregnant. Their families become close.
Le poulpe
Gabriel, dit Le Poulpe (The Octopus) is a laid-back private investigator who works on cases for his own pleasure. He is drawn to the fictional Loire Valley port of Angerneau, with his lover Clotilde who has been summoned by the police concerning the defacement of a deceased relative's grave.
On connaît la chanson
A musical story about how people find their love on the streets of beautiful Paris.
Marius et Jeannette
Marius è impiegato come guardiano in un cementificio e inizia una relazione sentimentale con Jeannette, madre di due figli avuti da uomini diversi. Vivono entrambi un'esistenza povera ma decorosa in un quartiere popolare di Marsiglia.
Un air de famille
An upper middle-class French family celebrates a birthday in a restaurant. In one evening and during one meal, family history, tensions, collective and separate grudges, delights, and memories both clash and coalesce.
À la vie, à la mort!
In Estaque, a northern suburb of Marseilles, stuck between oil refinery smokestacks and the Mediterranean sea, a handful of die-hards has taken refuge in a cabaret.
L'eau froide
Dans la France du début des années 70, le difficile apprentissage de la vie d'adulte pour deux adolescents mal aimés, Christine et Gilles. La première, placée en hôpital psychiatrique par son père, s'enfuit pour rejoindre le second à une soirée qui se tient dans une maison abandonnée. Là, les deux jeunes gens décident de partir en Lozère.
L'argent fait le bonheur
How the mothers of a deprived suburb of Marseille will create a solidarity committee under the aegis of the parish priest. Gathered in assembly, they will invent a solution to the endemic misery of their city.
Cuisine et dépendances
Jacques et Martine, couple de bourgeois ordinaires, ont invité à dîner un ami perdu de vue depuis dix ans et devenu depuis une vedette des médias.
Riens du tout
La vie d'un grand magasin parisien, les Grandes Galeries, dirigé par un nouveau PDG, M. Lepetit, qui va chercher à rentabiliser l'entreprise en basant sa politique sur le facteur humain.
Dieu vomit les tièdes
Three men and a woman from a city in the south of France made a pact as teenagers to never forget that they were children of the poor.
Mes meilleurs copains
They are the best friends of the world. Five friends who shared everything: may 68, hippies years, the rock and their love for Bernadette. This Bernadette has left them to become a rock-star, and is back 15 years later for a weekend.
Ki lo sa?
A group of children from the same neighborhood meet a few years later. When the day comes, they meet again and take stock of their lives.
On ne meurt que deux fois
Inspector Staniland investigates a pianist's murder. When Barbara, the victim's mistress, enters and confesses, he doubts her story. A man claiming to be her brother interferes with the case, while Staniland feels drawn to her.
Le père Noël est une ordure
La permanence parisienne SOS détresse-amitié est perturbée le soir de Noël par l'arrivée de personnage marginaux farfelus qui provoquent des catastrophes en chaîne.
Psy
Marc runs a psychotherapy course at a large country house belonging to his wife Colette. His clients are depressed and his job is to cure them of their neuroses.
Est-ce bien raisonnable?
Comedy/detective story, involving a young hood on the run and a woman journalist who thinks he's a judge who will help her investigate a case she is covering.
Celles qu'on n'a pas eues...
In a train compartment, 6 people who do not know each other tell the story of their troubles in love. Only one of those seems to be a positive one.
Coup de tête
François, a miserable football player, becomes a town hero after bringing victory in an extremely important game. He uses his fame for revenge on the team star for the previous mockeries.