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Producer 1921 - 2009

Jacques Bar

Châteauroux, Indre, France

Jacques Bar (12 September 1921, Châteauroux – 19 January 2009, Boulogne-Billancourt) was a French film producer who made more than 80 films. Source: Article "Jacques Bar" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.

Filmography

Every title this person produced

25 titles
Eros

Eros

Steven Soderbergh, Michelangelo Antonioni 2004 1h 49m 6.3

Three short films, one each from Directors Michelangelo Antonioni, Steven Soderbergh, and Wong Kar Wai, address the themes of love and sex.

My Father the Hero

My Father the Hero

Steve Miner 1994 1h 30m 5.7

A teenage girl on vacation in the Bahamas with her divorced father tries to impress a potential boyfriend by saying that her father is actually her lover. Remake of the 1991 French film Mon père, ce héros.

Parole de flic

Parole de flic

José Pinheiro 1985 1h 33m

Cop's Honor (Parole de Flic) is a 1985 French crime movie directed by José Pinheiro and starring Alain Delon as retired police officer Daniel Pratt. His teenager daughter was killed by a gang of mysterious hooded killers so Pratt began his own investigation to avenge the killers and their backroom leader.

La baby sitter

La baby sitter

René Clément 1975 1h 50m 5.0

Michelle, a French sculptor living in Rome, is told of a job babysitting a rich man's son by her new friend Ann, an actress. When she arrives at the boy's house, she discovers that he in fact has been kidnapped...

Au-delà de la peur

Au-delà de la peur

Yannick Andrei 1975 1h 32m

A group of outlaws takes a man's wife and child hostage. He must walk a fine line between working with the police to rescue his family and not angering the kidnappers to the point where they might hurt or kill them.

Les suspects

Les suspects

Michel Wyn 1974 1h 30m

When an American tourist is murdered in the south of France, the police must investigate. In this movie, the police inspector re-creates the girl's journeys through France until the murder is solved. Suspicions are narrowed down to four possible perpetrators early on, and flashbacks illuminate the roles each one played in the girl's vacation.

Un homme est mort

Un homme est mort

Jacques Deray 1972 1h 51m 5.0

A French hit man is hired by a crime family to end the life of a rival mobster, but things fall apart when the boss who hired him is killed.

Un aller simple

Un aller simple

José Giovanni 1971 2h

After a bank robbery gone wrong, a crook goes on the run across Belgium to escape the police, clear himself of a crime that he did not commit, and protect his girlfriend from a shady lawyer.

Dernier domicile connu

Dernier domicile connu

José Giovanni 1970 1h 42m 7.0

Après avoir reçu la Légion d'Honneur pour acte de bravoure, un policier est mis sur le banc de touche , pour avoir arrêté en état d'ivresse la mauvaise personne...

La bataille de San Sebastian

La bataille de San Sebastian

Henri Verneuil 1968 1h 51m

Leon Alastray is an outlaw who has been given sanctuary by Father John, whom he then escorts to the village of San Sebastian. The village is deserted, with its cowardly residents hiding in the hills from Indians, who regularly attack the village and steal all their supplies.

Svegliati e uccidi

Svegliati e uccidi

Carlo Lizzani 1966 2h 4m 6.0

A petty hoodlum pulls jewellery store heists in broad daylight. The cop on his tail knows he has accomplices and focuses on the gangster's girl friend is his attempt to catch him.

Once a Thief

Once a Thief

Ralph Nelson 1965 1h 47m 6.0

Ex-convict Eddie and his wife, Kristine, attempt to build a new life for themselves and their daughter Kathy in San Francisco, but police officer Mike Vido is determined to send Eddie back to prison.

Les félins

Les félins

René Clément 1964 1h 37m 7.3

A small-time con man on the run from the gangster husband of his girlfriend hides out in a strange, brooding mansion run by two mysterious women. There he finds himself trapped in deception between the two women. Shot on location in the French Riviera.

Mélodie en sous-sol

Mélodie en sous-sol

Henri Verneuil 1963 2h 2m 7.4

Charles, fresh out of jail, rejects his wife's plan for a quiet life of bourgeois respectability. He enlists a former cell mate, Francis, to assist him in pulling off one final score, a carefully planned assault on the vault of a Cannes casino.

Le jour et l'heure

Le jour et l'heure

René Clément 1963 1h 50m

In Nazi-occupied France during WWII, a French woman helps two downed Allied airmen to evade capture by the Germans and make their way into neutral Spain.

Un singe en hiver

Un singe en hiver

Henri Verneuil 1962 1h 45m 8.4

The story of a man who has stopped drinking- and then dreaming- and who thanks to a young man who tries to forget a lost love in alcohol will turn drunk again during an exciting night.

Le président

Le président

Henri Verneuil 1961 1h 50m 4.0

Agé de 73 ans, l'ex président français Emile Beaufort joue toujours un rôle central dans la vie politique du pays. La rédaction de ses mémoires lui permet de revenir sur son parcours et d'évoquer ses relations avec Philippe Chamalont, sur le point de devenir président du conseil.

Bridge to the Sun

Bridge to the Sun

Étienne Périer 1961 1h 53m

Tells the true story of Gwen Terasaki, who falls in love with, then marries a Japanese diplomat. When war breaks out they find animosity and trouble from both sides.

Meurtre en 45 tours

Meurtre en 45 tours

Étienne Périer 1960 1h 22m

Danielle Darrieux stars in this French thriller as a singer having an affair with her accompanist. When her husband dies in an automobile accident, the two lovers suspect each other of having murdered him. Soon after, they receive 45 rpm records with the dead man’s voice, threatening to come back.

Les vieux de la vieille

Les vieux de la vieille

Gilles Grangier 1960 1h 25m 8.0

Three friends leave their village for a retirement home travelling the countryside

La legge

La legge

Jules Dassin 1959 1h 50m

The moral standards of a small Italian village fall to decay.

La fièvre monte à El Pao

La fièvre monte à El Pao

Luis Buñuel 1959 1h 37m 7.0

After Caribbean despot Mariano Vargas is murdered at the hands of his enraged populace, his secretary Ramón Vázquez takes not just control but also Vargas' widow Inés, with whom he's been having an affair. Special military unit leader Alejandro Gual arrives to overthrow Vázquez by turning the people and Inés against him.

Le rouge est mis

Le rouge est mis

Gilles Grangier 1957 1h 25m

Monsieur tout le monde pour beaucoup, Louis est en réalité un dangereux gangster. Son frère Pierre, également truand, surprend les préparatifs d'un prochain coup. Louis est arrêté, et son associé Pépito, pense que c'est Pierre qui a trahi...

I vitelloni

I vitelloni

Federico Fellini 1953 1h 43m 7.8

A character study of five young men at crucial turning points in their lives in a small town in Italy.

Le passe-muraille

Le passe-muraille

Jean Boyer 1951 1h 30m 6.5

Léon Dutilleul est un excellent homme qui se découvre le don de passe-muraille. Un jour, il tombe éperdument amoureux d'une souris d'hôtel qu'il essaye de subjuguer en se faisant passer pour le fameux gangster Garou-Garou. Cela le mène tout droit en prison... Une rigolade pour lui de s'en échapper.

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