Richard Berry
Richard Berry (born Richard Élie Benguigui, 31 July 1950) is a French actor, film director and screenwriter. He has appeared in more than 100 films since 1972. He starred in The Violin Player, which was entered into the 1994 Cannes Film Festival. He has a daughter, Coline,... Read full bio →
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L'appât
1995
Eva
A playwright encounters a mysterious woman when he takes shelter in a chalet during a violent snowstorm.
Père fils thérapie!
A cop and his son have to put away their differences while undercover on a therapeutic trip.
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.
Les insoumis
A grizzled Parisian detective is sent to an outpost town in Southern France to dismantle a gang of killers which has freed a notorious criminal. The detective inherits a team of unmotivated and dishevelled detectives, and he makes connections nobody else ever saw because nobody else bothered to look.
L'emmerdeur
An unlikely friendship develops between a hitman and a suicidal guy who have both checked into the same hotel for different reasons.
Cliente
A married construction worker leads a double life as a male prostitute serving rich ladies.
Les aiguilles rouges
While hiking in the mountains, some boys are put to the test.
La doublure
A porter and a top-model have to pretend to be a couple in order to salvage a CEO's marriage.
Tais-toi!
After hiding his loot and getting thrown in jail, brooding outlaw Ruby befriends Quentin, a dim-witted and garrulous giant. After Quentin botches a solo escape attempt, they make a break together.
Les clefs de bagnole
Who would think losing car keys could lead us that far ? Be careful, adventure is on every street corner...
Corto Maltese: Under the Sign of Capricorn
In 1916, laconic adventurer Corto Maltese is in Paramaribo, Surinam visiting his mystic female friend Java. He helps a young heir haunted by voodoo spirits, delivers some weapons to rebels in Brazil and hunts for treasure with Rasputin.
Corto Maltese: The Guilded House of Samarkand
Hugo Pratt's famous comics adventurer, Corto Maltese while sojourning in Adana, Turkey, discovers a map to the treasure of Cyrus, an ancient king of Persia.
Corto Maltese: The Celts
Corto Maltese: The Ballad of the Salt Sea
In 1913, laconic sea captain Corto Maltese, adrift in the Pacific, gets rescued by his bandit friend Rasputin who's taking two rich shipwrecked teens to an island where his boss the Monk will hold them for ransom. WWI complicates things.
Le nouveau Jean-Claude
A young man, to whom life has never smiled, decides to change his destiny and begins by conquering the pretty woman with whom he fell in love.
Entre chiens et loups
The story of two ex-legionnaires in a mission of political assasination in Romania. A candid portrayal of the human side of assassins.
Corto Maltese: La cour secrète des Arcanes
At the end of 1918 while civil war is raging on in Russia, antagonism is slowly spreading to the East, between the Oral mountains and Shanghai.
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.
Un ange
Léa n'a pas froid aux yeux, mais en sortant de prison, elle a décidé de changer de vie. Elle voudrait oublier son père Vittorio Pastore, indifférent, son jeune et irresponsable frère Samy pour qui elle a 'plongé', la bande à Zach, le voyou qu'elle a aimé jadis. Mais rien ne se déroule comme elle se voudrait
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.
Quasimodo d'El Paris
Quasimodo the hunchback is mistaken as the serial killer of El Paris. Can he clear his name?
Pédale douce
A closeted gay man's attempt to "act straight" for the sake of his job has unexpected consequences.
L'univers de Jacques Demy
Agnès Varda's documentary portrait of her late husband, Jacques Demy. A companion piece to her Jacquot de Nantes.
L'appât
With the ambition to start a boutique overseas but without the means to do so, Nathalie finds herself in a desperate situation, where she would do anything to acquire what she needs.
Le grand pardon II
The mobster Raymond Bettoun gets out of prison and joins his son Maurice in Miami, a drug trafficker who is about to launch a huge operation. But he falls into a trap and a war begins in which Raymond will fight a last battle to try to save his son and what remains of his family.
588 rue Paradis
A successful playwright reflects on his journey from his Armenian roots to adapting in France, forty years after his family's move to Marseilles. He now goes by a new name to fit in better with French society.
Mayrig
Henri Verneuil was born Achod Malakian of Armenian parentage on October 15, 1920, in Rodosto, Turkey, and his family fled to France and settled in Marseilles when he was a young child. He later recounted his childhood experience in the novel Mayrig, which he dedicated to his mother and made into this 1991 film with the same name.
Ma vie est un enfer
La naïve et complexée Leah signe par erreur un pacte avec le diable Abargadon. Mais elle est sur les listes du Paradis, aussi l'Archange Gabriel intervientil pour causer la perte du démon. Mais Leah commence à trouver Abargadon séduisant et pas si mauvais que ça. Elle décide de sauver son âme...
La Baule-les-Pins
A story is about young teenage girl, with sister and brothers, a pleasant uncle and aunt, an annoying nanny, a young boy interested in kissing her, a close relationship with the imaginary addressee of her daily diary and her parents' disintegrating marriage - all this in a rented house in a summer resort.
L'union sacrée
Simon, a Jewish police inspector, arrests Karim, a Muslim, in the bust of a drug smuggling cargo ship, only to realize that Karim is an undercover agent from the military intelligence, whose mission he was not aware of. The two men pursue the narc investigation, which will lead them to confront middle eastern terrorists together.
Un homme et une femme, 20 ans déjà
Jean-Louis and Anne have had their fling and separated. Now 20 years have passed. He is still dating various women. She is now a big-time director whose most recent film was a very expensive bomb. She comes up with the idea of making a romance based upon her fling with Jean-Louis. She contacts him to gain his permission.
La garce
A policeman on night patrol picks up a young girl and rapes her. The following day she complains and he is given six years. On coming out of prison he gets work as a private detective, and is hired to watch a fashion seller - who turns out to be the girl he raped, who has never forgotten him.
Une chambre en ville
Set against the backdrop of an increasingly violent strike, a worker falls in love with the middle-class daughter of his landlady.
Le grand pardon
The Bettoun clan: Raymond (the patriarch), Maurice (the son), Jacky (the nephew), Roland (the nephew), Albert (Raymond's cousin), Pépé (Raymond's friend), Samy (the bodyguard) are a family clan of Jewish Blackfoot kingpins of French organized crime.
Le crime d'amour
To emerge from anonymity, a young man assumes responsibility for a crime he did not commit.
La balance
A Paris police detective plays rough with a prostitute and her pimp/lover, whom he wants as an informant.
Un assassin qui passe
A low-level bank clerk, Jacques is a solitary being who hides his unease deep inside. Friendless, he responds with violence that could turn him into a murderer. But Jacques harbors a secret passion for Pauline, a famous actress.
L'amour en fuite
In L’Amour en Fuite we witness Antoine Doinel right after his divorce from Christine still not grown up and continuing to flee after their love.
La gifle
A Parisian teacher loses his cool when his teenage daughter tells him she plans to drop out of school and move in with her boyfriend.
Absences répétées
François Naulet turns his bedroom into an island of drugs, loneliness and despair.