Jean-Pierre Lorit

Jean-Pierre Lorit

Birth : 1960-11-29, Paris, France

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Jean-Pierre Lorit (born 29 November 1960) is a French actor. His most recognizable role is in the film Three Colors: Red. In 2005, he performed August Strindberg's Créanciers directed by Hélène Vincent, with Lambert Wilson and Emmanuelle Devos. And he got nominated for a 2006 Molière Awards Best supporting role. Source: Article "Jean-Pierre Lorit" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

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Jean-Pierre Lorit
Jean-Pierre Lorit

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Sixteen
Nora and Leo, 16, live in the same town, in the same suburbs, go to the same highschool, but everything opposes them: their social backgrounds, their families religions, their everyday lives. Yet, they fall in love at first sight. But from a theft accusation bringing into conflict their respective families, their love story will have to face a series of trials and dramas.
Rose
Jacques
Follows two sisters, Inger and Ellen, and how their relationship is challenged on an anticipated coach trip to Paris.
La Garçonnière
Jeff D Sheldrake
The Age of the Stateless
Jean-Paul Millier
Sira, a former refugee, works as a translator for OFPRA (the French Office for the Protection of Stateless Persons and Migrants). She unscrupulously fleeces her clients, selling them fictions she creates to convince the authorities.
Submergence
Captain Anctil
While James More is held captive by terrorists in Somalia, thousands of miles away on the Greenland Sea, his lover Danny Flinders prepares to dive herself in a submersible into the deep bottom of the ocean, tormented by the memories of their brief encounter in France and her inability to know his whereabouts.
The Teacher
Minister's Chief of Staff
Teacher in the most prestigious highschool in the country, François enjoys the life he’s always known, in the intellectual and bourgeois society of Paris. Trapped in a situation where he’s forced to accept a job in a school of a tough underprivileged suburb, he finds himself confronted to his own limits and to the upheaval of his values and certainties.
War Machine
Pierre Giteau
A rock star general bent on winning the “impossible” war in Afghanistan takes us inside the complex machinery of modern war. Inspired by the true story of General Stanley McChrystal.
Mr & Mme Adelman
Marc Danchelier
How did Sarah and Victor get along for more than 45 years? Who was this enigmatic woman living in the shadow of her husband? Love, ambition, betrayals and secrets feed the story of this extraordinary couple, as they experience both the large and small moments of the last century's history.
Our Summer in Provence
Adrien's father
Lea, Adrian, and their little brother Theo, born deaf, go on holiday in Provence with their grandfather, Paul "Oliveron" they never met because of a family quarrel. It is not the holidays they dreamed, especially their father announced yesterday that he was leaving the house. In less than 24 hours, it is the clash of generations between teenagers and a grandfather they believe psycho. A wrong. Because the turbulent past will resurface and Paul Seventies will land deep in the Alpilles. During this summer tormented both generations will be processed one by the other.
Silent Night, Bloody Night
Pierre
Pierre and Patricia have some friends around for Christmas Eve. But the evening is not going to unfold exactly as intended. A stranger bursts in and threatens each guest until they confess their little secrets and lies...
True Friends
Philippe Valette
The bonds of a 30-year friendship are tested when Walter's 20-year-old daughter, Clemence, falls in love with his friend Paul.
Pour toi, j'ai tué
Dr. Christian Tellier
And They Call It Summer
Ing. Laudani
Dino and Anna are a couple in their forties. Their relationship is hardly conventional: in fact, it is unconsummated. Dino gets out of it, gratifying himself with prostitutes and swingers. He reaches his nadir when he looks up Anna’s old boyfriends to ask about their sexual relations with her, and even begs them to take her back, as a way to end their relationship. Anna can’t find a way out herself; she can’t bring herself to end this one-of-a-kind, tormented love affair. In the end, Dino’s angst is what makes her feel loved, feel unique. No solution seems to be waiting in the wings.
Melting Love
Gérard Hagopian
The paths of Sophie and Gerard cross following a traffic accident; as for their children, they meet during a school outing. Two encounters, two love stories.
Outside the Law
Picot
After losing their family home in Algeria in the 1920s, three brothers and their mother are scattered across the globe. Messaoud joins the French army fighting in Indochina; Abdelkader becomes a leader of the Algerian independence movement in France and Saïd moves to Paris to make his fortune in the shady clubs and boxing halls of Pigalle.
The Round Up
Docteur Jousse
A faithful retelling of the 1942 "Vel' d'Hiv Roundup" and the events surrounding it.
Trenhotel
Olivier
Olivier Suarez is married and a father while working as is a chemical engineer in Paris. Each week for several months now, he has been travelling by night train to Barcelona for work. One evening, while dining alone at the restaurant wagon, Olivier stumbles across Elisa's eyes, an attractive and brilliant lawyer who also divides her time between Paris and the Catalan capital. Olivier is both intrigued and captivated by the young woman's extreme nervousness. Over the weeks, travel after travel, their conversation will become more personal and intense. Soon a passionate idyll will be born between them.
Tell No One
Adjudant-chef Lavelle
A man receives a mysterious e-mail appearing to be from his wife, who was murdered years earlier. As he frantically tries to find out whether she's alive, he finds himself being implicated in her death.
Mer belle à agitée
Laurent Bertignac
A Perfect Friend
Lucas Jäger
"Julien Rossi wakes up in a hospital bed and finds he has no memory of the events that left him in a coma in the early hours of New Year's Day. Was he attacked? Or was his head injury caused in an accident? This is only the first of many mysteries Julien has to resolve. Who is Marl?ne, the beautiful woman who claims to be his girlfriend? Why doesn't his real girlfriend, Anna, return his calls? What made him walk out on his job as a leading investigative reporter? Julien relies on Lucas, his best friend and
The White Countess
Antoine Jacquier
In 1930s Shanghai, 'The White Countess' is both Sofia—a fallen member of the Russian aristocracy—and a nightclub created by a blind American diplomat, who asks Sofia to be the centerpiece of the world he wants to create.
La nuit du meurtre
Philippe Laclos
On a cold fall morning, Nathalie Castellane is found murdered near a swamp. The night before she was at the restaurant with Louis and Hélène, her rich parents, and Eric, her brother. There she had told them about her intention to marry Philippe Laclos, the manager of the Castellane group. When leaving the restaurant, Nathalie had looked very worried... After being notified of Nathalie's death, all the protagonists sink into silence. Which will not help police inspector Tourneur to establish the truth...
Troubled Waters
Clara takes her daughter and her friends to a weekend visit at her grandfather's village. They all have a great time, but after they return home people start dying. First Clara's grandfather mysteriously drowns, then the children start getting sick and one, her goddaughter, dies. Around same time clients at the spa she teaches aqua-aerobics start getting sick with one dying. She finds some mysterious algea, related to Caulerpa taxifolia, planted near where her grandfather supposedly drowned. Clara suspects the algea and all of these illnesses and deaths are related to some sort of poisonings of fish caught near her Grandfather's village.
Mythe et mystère : La Joconde
Narrateur (voice)
Un fils de notre temps
Hauptmann
Somewhere in Europe in the twentieth century, a young man decides to change his life by engaging in the army. A modern and quirky tale, with Jérémie Renier and Bernard Le Coq.
Hôpital souterrain
During a weekend on the small island of Roz Ven, Marine, an eight-year-old girl who had come with her parents, disappeared while the three of them were visiting a mysterious underground museum. The police are immediately put in charge of the investigation, but it stalls: despite numerous hypotheses, none of them seems to fit and the disappearance remains unexplained.
Alexandria
Albert
Nina, daughter of a Greek woman who left Egypt in 1956, goes for the first time to Alexandria, discovers the city and the longing of her mother to tell her an old love story that she had years ago with a French. but the mother doesn't tell her the truth, who knows why.
A Matter of Taste
Nicolas Rivière
Nicolas, a handsome, young waiter, is befriended by Frédéric Delamont, a wealthy middle-aged businessman. Delamont, a man of power, influence and strictly refined tastes, is immediately smitten by Nicolas' charm. Lonely and phobic, Delamont offers Nicolas a lucrative job as his personal food taster. In spite of their differences, a close friendship begins to emerge between the two men. However, their bond of trust and admiration soon spirals downward into a dangerous game of deceit and obsession for which neither is prepared.
Alice and Martin
Frederic Sauvagnac
Twenty-year-old Martin seems to be living the dream. After moving from the French countryside to Paris, he quickly found professional success as a fashion model and romantic fulfillment in dating his half-brother's fiery roommate, Alice. Deep down, however, he is avoiding inner turmoil that stems from his tumultuous upbringing. But when Alice becomes unexpectedly pregnant, the full force of his repression is let loose, wreaking havoc on his life.
Bruits d’amour
Francois, an architect together with Florence and Caro, his two sisters spends a weekend in their family house, where they spent their childhood. Soon, a railway for a express train will be built at this place, so the house will have to be demolished. In the past there were some things that he would prefer to hide, but he has many difficulties to do this. It is a happy reunion, but the reunion of being united by the bonds that will open. Francois and Florence immediately resume gestures, frankly sensual gestures, which he experienced with annoyance and which she persistently sought. Then they will reveal to Caro, the eldest, that they loved each other with forbidden love.
Tapage nocturne
Antoine Fauvel
La vérité est un vilain défaut
François
The trials and tribulations of a good guy who feels obliged to confess the truth to his wife or his boss every time he makes a mistake.
Crédit bonheur
Vergnes
Settled in Brittany with their four children in an old semi-decayed house, a couple of slightly idealistic Parisians is sucked into a spiral of credits.
Jeunes gens
Antoine
Céramique and Louis are a carefree and charming young couple. But soon the whims of love appear. They have to face up to it.
Nelly and Monsieur Arnaud
Christophe
Nelly leaves her lazy, unemployed husband to work for retired judge Mr Arnaud, forty years her senior, after he offers to clear her bills for her. While she types his memoirs the two develop a close friendship, but Arnaud becomes jealous when Nelly begins dating his good-looking young publisher.
Three Colors: Red
Auguste Bruner
Valentine, a student model in Geneva, struggles with a possessive boyfriend and a troubled family. When she runs over a dog, she discovers that its owner, a retired judge, is illegally wiretapping and eavesdropping on his neighbors' phone calls. Although Valentine is outraged, she develops a strange bond with the judge – and as the two become closer, she finds herself caught in the middle of events that could change her life.
Joan the Maid I: The Battles
Jean d'Alançon
Jeanne the Maid leaves her childhood home in Domremy after hearing what she is sure was the voice of God. She believes that she can help lead France to victory on the battlefield, and she persuades Charles, dauphin of France to allow her to guide his troops.
Joan the Maid II: The Prisons
Jean d'Alençon
Joan has succeeded in lifting the siege on Orléans and Charles VII has been ordained King of France. However, she is injured in her failed attempt to take Paris, weakening her position at court. When she is finally captured and put on trial, she finds both her life and the sanctity of her body at stake.
Le Moulin de Daudet
Alphonse Daudet
Based on the life of French novelist Alphonse Daudet.