Pierre Arditi

Pierre Arditi

Nacimiento : 1944-12-01, Paris, France

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Pierre Arditi (born 1 December 1944) is an award-winning French film and stage actor. He is the brother of French actress Catherine Arditi. He has often played romantic, womanizing roles, similar to those played by Marcello Mastroianni. In 1987 he won a César Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for his role in Mélo, and in 1994, a César Award for Best Actor for his role in Smoking/No Smoking. Although his work has primarily been in French film and theater, Arditi is known in the Anglophone world as the French voice of Christopher Reeve. Arditi dubbed Christopher Reeve on the French-language version of the three first Superman movies by Richard Donner and Richard Lester (See the French Wikipedia article on Pierre Arditi for more information). Because of the added footage in the DVD Special Edition of Donner's Superman, the movie had to be re-dubbed with a different voice actor, much to the chagrin of the generation of moviegoers who had grown up with the original soundtrack and identified Superman's voice with Arditi's. He also provided the French voice for Reeve in the comedy/whodunit Deathtrap. Finally, he was the voice of the documentary serie Untamed Africa, written and produced by Frederic Lepage. He was made Chevalier (Knight) of the Légion d'honneur in 2002. He was made Chevalier (Knight) of the Ordre national du Mérite on 7 April 1994, and promoted Officier (Officer) in 2005. Description above from the Wikipedia article Pierre Arditi, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Pierre Arditi

Películas

Le Voyage en pyjama
Wahou !
Maestro
François
Biopic sobre el legendario Leonard Bernstein, compositor, pianista y director de orquesta estadounidense
Alain Resnais, l'audacieux
A genius inventor of forms, Alain Resnais is one of the fathers of cinematic modernity. This portrait, rich in archives, looks back on the career of a discreet non-conformist, in perpetual search of renewal to fight against anxiety.
They Love Each Other... Well, Almost!
Martin
Follows the intertwined stories of five couples and their entourage, living in the same opulent Parisian building, over the four seasons of the year.
Mémoire trouble
Pierre Garlat
Garlat, a former cop, agrees with Voltaire's maxim, but when confronted with evidence manipulation in one of his former investigations, he is forced to ask himself other questions. Is memory selective? Did he really fabricate evidence? So who is he? And is this man in prison guilty? With his son, Nicolas, a cop like him, Garlat returns to Paris and takes up the investigation again.
Adieu Paris
Jacques
An old Parisian bistro with eternal charm. Eight gentlemen at the table, eight great figures. They were the “kings of Paris”… National treasures, masterpieces in peril. A well-honed ritual ... A sense of humor and self-deprecation intact. Tenderness and cruelty. Eight old friends who hate and love each other. And suddenly an intruder ...
El acusado
Jean
Los Farel son una pareja poderosa: Jean es un destacado experto francés y su esposa Claire una ensayista conocida por su feminismo radical. Juntos tienen un hijo ejemplar, Alexandre, que estudia en una prestigiosa universidad estadounidense. Durante una breve visita a París, Alexandre conoce a Mila, la hija de la nueva pareja de su madre, y la invita a una fiesta. Al día siguiente, Mila presenta una denuncia contra Alexandre por violación, que destruye la armonía familiar y pone en marcha una inextricable máquina judicial mediática que confronta versiones opuestas.
Little Nicholas' Treasure
M. Moucheboume
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. How can he imagine life without his best friends?
Mitterrand, président culturel
Self (archive footage)
On the occasion of the fourty years anniversary of François Mitterand's election, a look back to the relationship between the President and artists, from admiration to manipulation.
The Grand Restaurant III
The actor who rehearses
He had opened his Great Restaurant twice, in 2010 and 2011, as part of an entertainment broadcast on France 2. Pierre Palmade “reopens it after work” in the form of a fiction offered by M6. Exit the brewery. The artist has chosen to shoot his film at the Froufrou, the restaurant at the Théâtre Édouard-VII, in Paris, a chic establishment with rococo decor, more solemn and therefore more appropriate to important moments in life, to his big announcements that make the subject of a series of sketches. They are interpreted by a cast of stars just as prestigious as that of his comrade Muriel Robin a few weeks ago in I Love you coiffure , on TF1. As a common thread, Pierre Palmade in the role of the host busy satisfying his customers, while ensuring that his mother (Marthe Villalonga), his competitor (Florence Foresti) and her cook husband (Jean Leduc) do not transform the evening in disaster.
I Love You Coiffure
François Fleury (segment "Le Psychanalyste")
Liliane and Maud are twin sisters. The first is a modest provincial hairdresser while the second leads the great life in Paris. They both fight over their mother's custody.
Compromis
2 thirty year old friends in an empty apartment. One is a mediocre comedian, the other a failed playwright. The former sold his apartment and asked the latter to be present when the compromise was signed, to reassure the buyer. Because if he writes very bad plays, he still has a reassuring face. It’s its great quality. We're waiting for the buyer. Besides, buyer or pigeon?
Saint-Germain-des-Prés, un paradis perdu
Self
La Belle Époque
Pierre
Víctor, un sexagenario desilusionado, ve su vida trastornada el día en que Antoine, un brillante empresario, le ofrece un nuevo tipo de atracción: mezclando artificios teatrales y reconstrucción histórica, la empresa de Antoine ofrece a sus clientes la oportunidad de sumergirse de nuevo en una era de su elección. Victor decide entonces revivir la semana más memorable de su vida: aquella en la que, 40 años antes, conoció a su gran amor.
Quand sort la recluse
le docteur Cauvert
After three elderly men are bitten by spiders, everyone assumes that their deaths are tragic accidents. But at police headquarters in Paris, Inspector Adamsberg begins to suspect that the case is far more complex than first appears.
La casa de verano
Jean
Anna va con su hija de vacaciones a pasar unos días a una gran casa situada en la Costa Azul. Allí tendrá que buscar un tiempo para estar a solas y así escribir el guión de su próxima película. Para ello, deberá evitar a familia, amigos y empleados. Detrás de la risa, la ira y los secretos se encuentran unas relaciones de dominación, miedos y deseos. Llega un punto en el que todas las personas tienen que dejar de escuchar los sonidos de su alrededor para enfrentarse al misterio de su propia existencia.
Quelque chose a changé
Louis-Régis Dupont-Moreau
Outvoted by his board of directors and hounded by the press, the Parisian CEO of a large company finds refuge for the weekend in a country inn run by his ex-wife.
Mémoires d'un condamné
Narrateur (Voice)
Señor y señora Adelman
Claude de Richemont
Cuando Sarah conoce a Víctor en 1971, aún no sabe que van a pasar juntos 45 años de una vida llena de pasión y secretos, penas y sorpresas. La vida de una pareja.
Vermeer: Beyond Time
Narrator (voice)
Narrator Steve Martin explains Vermeer's fall into obscurity and rebound into worldwide sensation, all while examining themes in his paintings, comparisons to Renaissance masters, and relevant history of Europe's politics and art market.
The Sweet Escape
Fisherman who looks like Pierre Arditi
Michel, a fifty year old man, graphic designer, decides to change the urban lifestyle and go on an adventure. Fascinated by airmail, he dreams at Jean Mermoz when he's on scooter. One day, Michel sees a picture of a kayak.
Una corazonada
Jean-Pierre Berthelot
Jean-Pierre es un brillante cirujano que se preocupa poco por el estado de ánimo de los enfermos. Tras sufrir un problema cardíaco, ahora es él quien se pone en la piel de sus pacientes
Comme s'il en pleuvait
Bruno
En la flor de la vida
Gaspard Dassonville
Gaspard Dassonville tiene 63 años, pero vive como si fuera joven. Es un famoso productor de TV, que colecciona novias treintañeras y se niega a reconocer signo alguno de envejecimiento. Gaspard se ve obligado a acoger en su casa a su padre, que ya no puede vivir solo, pero el indómito anciano fastidia los juveniles planes de su hijo. La llegada de Zana, una extravagante cuidadora de imaginación galopante, acaba enfrentando a padre e hijo, pues cada uno a su manera se siente atraído por ella. (FILMAFFINITY)
You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet
Orphée #1
Tras la muerte de un famoso dramaturgo, los actores más próximos a él acuden a su casa para hacer una última representación de Eurídice. Son también los intérpretes habituales de Alain Resnais, que ha rodado una película de tintes nostálgicos, que combina teatro y cine: personajes que mudan de piel, espacios que surgen de la nada... Adaptación de la obra "Eurídice" del dramatugo francés Jean Anouilh. (FILMAFFINITY)
Granny's Funeral
Le père d'Armand
A provincial chemist in the throes of a mid-life crisis must choose between burying his dearly departed grandmother and cremating her in this quirky comedy of manners starring Valerie Lemercier, Denis Podalydes, and Isabelle Candelier.
La danse de l'albatros
Thierry
La Vérité
Michel
Vivace
Gilles Vasseur
A young couple, Pauline and Alex, moves from Paris to a quiet neighbourhood in the French countryside. Pauline loves to take care of her garden and the plants. She is also fascinated with her older neighbour Gilles who lives alone. They spend much time together and he helps her with her garden. Finally, he gives her a special plant from Brasil as a gift. The plant needs a lot of attention and is sensitive to the mood around it. As the plant grows, it takes up all of Paulines time which endangeres her relationship with Alex.
D'un film à l'autre
Self (archive footage)
Documental sobre la filmografía de Claude Lelouch haciendo hincapié en sus títulos más relevantes.
Fric, Krach et geule de bois : le roman de la crise
Narrator
Roses on Credit
M. Georges
A young couple marry in France in the 1940s and the film follows the arc of their marriage over the next decade. As France recovers from the trauma of the war, the wife finds herself increasingly caught up in acquiring material possessions while the husband prefers a more traditional lifestyle.
Juntos es demasiado
Henri
Clémentine y Sébastien son una pareja desbordada por el trabajo y los hijos. Además, la madre de Sébastien, tras descubrir que su marido le es infiel, decide mudarse con ellos.
Being Fidel Castro
Récitant / Narrator (voice)
Through the voice of an impersonator, the cuban hero will recount with us his political career. This tender, caustic yet authentic portrait will take us through his life from euphoria to revolt, from hollow laugh to genuine cheerfulness. Here comes... "En la Piel de Fidel".
Sentiments provisoires
Marc
A young woman announces to the man she has lived with for ten years that she is leaving him ... and that she is leaving him for his best friend. But is it so easy to break up a couple and lose a friend? ... "
L'Éloignement
Charles
Park Benches
Mr. Borelly
As she does every morning, Lucie takes advantage of her journey to work to lose herself for a while in the pages of a good book. And as she does every morning, she joins her colleagues at the office with a smile. It's a working day just like any other. Then suddenly all activity in the office stops. All attention is turned towards the window of the opposite building opposite and abanner reading: Man Alone. Is it a hoax? A cry for help? Everyone has his own interpretation, and will try, by any means possible, to discover what lies behind this mysterious message.
Bambou
Reynald Van Nuyten
Alain hopes to have a baby with his wife Anna. However, Anna believes she is destined to become a famous pianist rather than a housewife and mother. Everything changes when they adopt a female puppy named Bambou. After successfully passing an audition, Anna leaves on a concert tour with a world famous conductor. Being apart takes its toll on the couple and they decide to break up. Alain finds himself alone, without a wife or a baby--just a dog, that he is not sure he wants to keep.
You'll Miss Me
Marcel Hanri
In an airport, six destinies, during a short moment, will change, separate and meet. And if these characters were going through, without knowing it, the most important moment of their lives? Olivier and Lila ... Will he miss his love or will she miss the plane? Julia and Marcel ... Will she avoid death or will he mess up his life? Fanny and Max ... Will she lack of courage or will he be out of luck?
La Traversée du désir
Self
What was your first desire? What did you long for most? Arielle Dombasle put these questions to a wide circle of famous people.
Cena de Amigos
Henri
Una noche de verano varios amigos se reúnen para cenar. Cada uno de ellos trata de enmascarar sus problemas personales y pasar una agradable noche de comida, vino y amistad. Sin embargo, las parejas empiezan muy pronto a mostrar su verdadero estado de ánimo, su insatisfacción mutua, y queda de manifiesto que lo que realmente pretenden es vivir una aventura amorosa.
Musée haut, musée bas
Henri Province
Un conservateur terrorisé par les plantes vertes, une mère plastifiée pour être exposée, un ballet de Saintes Vierges, des gardiens épuisés par Rodin, un ministre perdu dans une exposition de sexes, une voiture disparue au parking Rembrandt, des provinciaux amoureux des Impressionnistes, touristes galopins galopant d'une salle à l'autre, passager clandestin dans l'art premier, Picasso, Gauguin, Warhol, ils sont tous là dans ce petit monde qui ressemble au grand, dans ce musée pas si imaginaire que ça, valsant la comédie humaine jusqu'au burlesque.
Tu peux garder un secret ?
Pierre Grimaux
Tailleur pour dames
Moulineaux
The Great Alibi
Henri Pages
Like every weekend senator Henri Pagès and his wife entertain guests at their beautiful mansion in a peaceful village near Paris. But this time around, things go awry: Pierre Collier, a psychoanalyst and consummate womanizer, is brutally murdered. Claire, his wife, dazed and confused by his corpse, with a smoking gun still in her hand, seems to be the ideal culprit...
Mitterrand à Vichy
Narrator (voice)
The dark years, those of war. This film, which combines fiction and archives, tells the story of the unusual trajectory of a young man from the provinces. Prisoner of war, escaped at the age of 24, he found himself in Vichy, capital of the French state. A convinced Pétainist, he will become a leading resistance fighter.
Batailles
"Resumption of a play created in 1983. Two shipwrecked people on a makeshift raft in the middle of a social conflict, a mountaineering fight on Mount Paterhorn, improbable friction between two men and a woman in the Yvelines ... The places, the situations change, but each time there is a confrontation. The question is not so much who will win, but to take pleasure in the arguments provided by the opponents. Cunning, bad faith, all blows are allowed in what is primarily a fight of words. "
Faisons un rêve
Lui
Aller retour dans la journée
François Villedieu-Lacour
Our Earthmen Friends
Le narrateur (voix)
What on earth would extraterrestrials think if they could observe us? This is the movie they made.
Les Liens du sang
Antoine Meyer
The Big Apartment
Adrien
Thanks to the law of 1948 and to her grandmother, the nominal tenant who is always absent, Francesca Cigalone and all her tribe (thoughtless husband, orphan sister, self-centered film maker and his mistress of the day, eccentric granny, friends, friends of the friends, daughter...) live on a shoestring in a very big apartment. Which is not to the liking of supercilious bitchy owner Charlotte Falingard, who has been intent for some time on having them evicted for obvious speculative reasons. But suing Francesca is no bed of roses. The lady is tenacious. Moreover she once studied law... Written by Guy Bellinger
Asuntos privados en lugares públicos
Lionel
Dan, un soldado recientemente expulsado del ejército, se refugia en la bebida para evadirse del mundo que lo rodea. A pesar de ello, su novia Nicole cree que aún pueden salvar su amor.
The Separation
Aristide Briand
On March 21, 1905, the hemicycle of the Palais-Bourbon resounded with the first session of a crucial and animated parliamentary debate, which was to last nearly ten months and occupy 48 sessions in the Chamber of Deputies. They have to study the bill of separation of the Churches and the State. This law, which founded laicity in France, was adopted on December 9, 1905.
The Perfume of the Lady in Black
Frédéric Larsan
Newly married, Mathilde and Robert are honeymooning at a resort owned by their friends Edith and Arthur, the Chateau d'Hercule. But an unpleasant shock is in store for them.
The Courage to Love
Pierre
A picture of humankind in Paris: singers, shows, social gatherings, businessmen, nightclub barmen, bums, shoppers.
One Stays, the Other Leaves
Alain
A story about two couples, longtime friends in which both husbands engage in long-term affairs and, as the title says, ultimately one remains with his wife and one makes a new life with another woman.
Julie, la espada del rey
Charles de Florensac
Francia, 1656. Julie decide disfrazarse de espadachín para buscar a su verdadera familia después de que unos hombres hayan asesinado a su padre adoptivo, Gastón de Maupin. En su búsqueda tendrá que enfrentarse a miles de obstáculos y peligros. (FILMAFFINITY)
Victoire
le père
Victoire is sweet, sensitive, nice and understanding. She leads an existence which doesn't leave her much time to wonder.
The First Time I Turned Twenty
Oncle Jérémy
In 1960s France, 16-year-old Hannah Goldman is experiencing a painful adolescence. Her Jewish background and plain appearance make her an object of ridicule, but she has a talent for music and is determined to fulfil her ambition to play in the school jazz band.
Why (Not) Brazil?
le pédiatre
A film director, whose career is going downhill, reluctantly decides to adapt an inadaptable best selling novel. Will she succeed or will the book adapt her in the process?
En la boca no
Georges Valandray
París, 1925. Georges Valandray, un próspero hombre de negocios, cree que es el primer y único hombre en la vida de su esposa Gilberte; ignora que ella estuvo casada con un americano llamado Eric Thomson. Este secreto está a salvo, pues sólo lo conoce la hermana de Gilberte. Pero, un día, Thomson llega a París para hacer un negocio con Georges, y la tempestad estalla cuando Thomson confiesa que quiere volver con Gilberte a cualquier precio.
Une villa pour deux
François
After the death of his father Daniel Tessard has convinced his mother Marion to come to live with him in his apartment in Paris.One year has passed and Marion is still living in the apartment.Daniel is now convincing his mother to go to live in a nice villa (that exists only in the pictures) and has contracted François Ferardini, a real estate entrepreneur for the last construction works.When he goes to see the villa,nothing has be done, it's a real disaster.Besides François tells him a lot of stories about the delay of the construction.What will Daniel do ?
The Mystery of the Yellow Room
Inspecteur Frédéric Larsan
Joseph Rouletabille, a reporter for a local newspaper, investigates the attempted killing of Mathilde Stangerson, who uses the yellow room of the title as her bedroom. At the time of the revolver shots her room was locked and the windows were barred, but when her father enters after having forced the door, there is no-one there except for Mathilde. So who did it and how did he get away?
Une Ferrari pour deux
Vincent Saulnier
Joyeuses Pâques
Stéphane
Patron sur mesure
Philippe Roussel
Tout va bien c'est Noël!
Joachim
Christmas? The joy of rejoining the family and spending the most anticipated holiday of the whole year. Seeing family members you haven't seen for a long time and spending the holidays together like when the children were little. But the children have grown up and have new things to tell. This news will turn the traditional family reunion into a hurricane. The coming out of the homosexual son is almost an outing, but one that testifies to the love that binds the two gay lovers together.
Remembrance of Things to Come
Narrator (voice)
Through photos made by the French photographer Denise Bellon, a personal history of France.
The Blue Island
Alexandre, Mellie's father
France, 1940. German troops have just invaded the country, but in the rural idyll of the family chateau inhabited by 20-year-old Mellie with her impoverished aristocrat father Alexandre and adolescent cousin Robinson, the war still seems far away, apart from the fact that Mellie's rich and unpopular fiancé André has been drafted into the army. For Robinson and his friends the same age, including the temperamental Bertrand, the war is merely a game they play in the remoteness of the blue island in the lake.
Un couple modèle
Thomas
Two men on the brink of divorce are thrown together, yet everything opposes them: their tastes, habits, personalities. They have only one thing in common: their desire to get their wives back.
On n'est pas là pour s'aimer
Maxime Vergnaud
Frédérique Letheil, who heads the research department of the Emmerson oil group, has sacrificed her private and sentimental life to her experiments. The management, which sees her work as a financial drain, has her unjustly dismissed by the group's general manager, Maxime Vergnaud. When the company realizes its mistake and the economic and ecological potential of Frédérique's research, it asks Maxime to bring her back at all costs.
Le dernier plan
Ludovic
Virgil Ioan, a Romanian journalist, comes to Paris to find out what happened to Constantin Dolinescu, a renowned dissident writer, who disappeared after arriving in France in 1987.
Actors
Self
Les Acteurs is the absurd story of Jean-Pierre Marielle desperately waiting for a cup of hot water, the story of a conspiracy against actors, the story of aging actors whose careers are slowly less active than they used to be, but a stunning tribute to French actors and their cinema.
La falsa criada
Trivelin
Una joven doncella decide disfrazarse de caballero para poder investigar la vida de su prometido Lelio antes de casarse con él. Aprovechándose de su disfraz entabla una relación amistosa con su novio.
Chacun chez soi
Pierre Bazeilles
Pierre Bazeille, a writer seeking a quiet place to work, sublets Félice's home, artist / sculptor in the Lot. While he is manic, meticulous and discreet, she is messy, cyclothymic and unpredictable. Living together will not go peacefully.
El castillo de los monos
Le Roi (Voice)
Kom is from a tribe of monkeys who live in a canopy. He rejects elders' authority as well as the superstition that the lower world would be inhabited by demons. But he accidentally falls from the trees…
« Art »
Yvan
Un amour de cousine
Chance or Coincidence
Pierre Turi
Once a successful dancer, Miriam has abandoned her career to bring up her son, Serge, after her boyfriend walked out of her.
La passion du docteur Bergh
Bernard Letechin
A respected German doctor, head surgeon of a hospital, sees his career jeopardized when a childhood love reappears.
Let There Be Light!
La voix de Dieu l'invisible (voix seulement)
God comes to Earth in order to make a film.
Same Old Song
Claude
Famosas canciones populares francesas son interpretadas por los protagonistas de esta película en la que una joven se enamora, como consecuencia de un equívoco, del jefe de su admirador. Los malentendidos entre los diversos personajes provocan divertidas situaciones.
Gentlemen Children
Joseph/Pope
To punish three troublemakers, Albert Castraing, their French teacher, gives them an essay to do, in which they must imagine what their lives would be if they were suddenly transformed into adults. The next morning, the three twelve-year-old boys realize to their amazement that...they HAVE BEEN transformed into adults! As for they parents they have become...KIDS! It is the beginning of a series of mishaps for Joseph, a Jew, Igor, a catholic and Nourdine, an Arab...
Une clinique au soleil
Bernard Letéchin
Men, Women: A User's Manual
Professeur Lerner
Benoit Blanc loves living, he loves women, he loves daring. He is a famous businessman who suffers from stomach-ache. Fabiolini, a would-be actor, is a policeman and he too suffers from the same sickness. The two man face suffering in opposite ways: Benoit Blanc is optimistic while Fabiolini, always unsure of himself, is persuaded he is seriously ill. The two men meet by chance while doing a gastroscopy and become friends. After having known their real different conditions, they will change and will understand better their lives. Around them, other people, women and men, will see their lives changed, by chance, by love or solely by the life stream.
Beaumarchais the Scoundrel
Narrateur (non crédité)
Beaumarchais the Scoundrel is a biopic film based on the life of the French playwright, financier and spy Pierre Beaumarchais depicting his activities during the American War of Independence and his authorship of the Figaro trilogy of plays.
El húsar en el tejado
Monsieur Peyrolle
En 1832, el cólera devasta la Provenza francesa. Al mismo tiempo, los italianos intentan librarse del control de Austria. En medio de esta situación, el coronel Angelo Pardi, un joven oficial italiano, encuentra a Pauline de Theus, una bella mujer que busca a su marido.
L'Affaire Dreyfus
Col. Esterhazy
In 1894, the French Army discovered the existence of a traitor Alsatian and Jewish, the French officer Alfred Dreyfus makes an ideal culprit. For lack of evidence, the War Ministry creates a damning document Dreyfus overwhelming. Judged and sentenced, Dreyfus is deported to Devil's Island. In 1896, the Army flushed out the real culprit. The truth broke out in 1898 thanks to the mobilization of intellectuals shaken by Zola's "J'accuse!"
Couchettes express
Jack London (voice)
Antoine steward on the night train Paris-Venice. He must cards and identity documents of travelers in 'his' pick wagon. One day, a passenger, Jean-Bernard, for protection. He suffers from an unknown illness and he is not alone on the run for scholars who want to use him as a guinea pig, but also for Brandeburg, a trader in human organs.
No Smoking
Toby Teasdale / Miles Coombes / Lionel Hepplewick / Joe Hepplewick
"Smoking" and "No Smoking" are two segments of the film which are based on closely connected plays. The original plays covered eight separate stories, which have been pared down to three each for these movies. At a certain point in the story of each segment, the five female characters (all played by Sabine Azema) and the four male characters (all played by Pierre Arditi) have their lives skillfully recapped in terms of "what might have happened" if they had made or failed to make certain choices. For example, "No Smoking" focuses chiefly on the relationship between the mild-mannered Miles Coombes and his infinitely more aggressive and ambitious wife, Rowena.
Smoking
Toby Teasdale / Miles Coombes / Lionel Hepplewick / Joe Hepplewick
"Smoking" and "No Smoking" are two segments of the film which are based on closely connected plays. The original plays covered eight separate stories, which have been pared down to three each for these movies. At a certain point in the story of each segment, the five female characters (all played by Sabine Azema) and the four male characters (all played by Pierre Arditi) have their lives skillfully recapped in terms of "what might have happened" if they had made or failed to make certain choices. For example, "No Smoking" focuses chiefly on the relationship between the mild-mannered Miles Coombes and his infinitely more aggressive and ambitious wife, Rowena.
Smoking / No Smoking
Toby Teasdale / Miles Coombes / Lionel Hepplewick / Joe Hepplewick
"Smoking" and "No Smoking" are two segments of the film which are based on closely connected plays. The original plays covered eight separate stories, which have been pared down to three each for these movies. At a certain point in the story of each segment, the five female characters (all played by Sabine Azema) and the four male characters (all played by Pierre Arditi) have their lives skillfully recapped in terms of "what might have happened" if they had made or failed to make certain choices. For example, "No Smoking" focuses chiefly on the relationship between the mild-mannered Miles Coombes and his infinitely more aggressive and ambitious wife, Rowena.
The Little Apocalypse
Henri
In this cynical comedy, an renowned, out-of-work, unpublished “underground” writer from formerly Communist Poland is driven to unusually desperate measures in order to get his work published. Stan has been living in the attic apartment of his ex-wife’s home, which he shares with a journalist friend. One day, he has an accident which convinces his ex-wife and her current husband that he's suicidal, and they hastily contact a media representative to see if some sort of publicity can't be arranged so that Stan’s work can be published and they can benefit, if not from the money, then from their association with him. The organization they contact says that they will be happy to publish his writings, if he will commit suicide live, on television, in St. Peter’s square, while the Pope is delivering an address.
Les clés du paradis
Gaspard Cavaillac
Two brothers, one very successful and the other not, switch places with each other, exchanging jobs and wives.
Les gens ne sont pas forcément ignobles
Eric
A fight happens during a a big party organized by a couple for their housewarming
The Pleasure of Love
Guillaume de Burlador
Guillaume de Burlador is a private tutor who hits a low point sufficiently severe for him to contemplate a somewhat theatrical suicide. Instead he is taken off by flying boat to a mad French colonial possession bedecked by mad servants and crazy decor. Three educated and rather gorgeous women live there, and they hire him to tutor a young teenager, but more with plans to seduce him in mind.
La mujer y el pelele
Mathieu
Matthieu, un maduro y acaudalado hombre de negocios francés, conoce en Barcelona a Estrella, una adolescente de familia humilde, de la que queda subyugado por su juventud, espontaneidad, candor y picardía.
Duo
Michel
A couple who appears to have the perfect relationship finds their future in jeopardy following a scorching night of lust and debauchery in this erotic drama adapted from the controversial novel by French author Colette.
Vanille fraise
Antoine Boulanger
Husband finds out that his wife is a secret agent and that she has a handsome partner.
Natalia
Paul Langlade
WW2: in an occupied France, a young Jewish girl wants to become a movie star.
Radio Corbeau
Duval, l'inspecteur
This fast-paced mystery is in part based on a novel by Yves Ellena and is at least equally based on the 1943 classic Le Corbeau, which in 1951 was produced in English by Otto Preminger as The Thirteenth Letter. In this movie, someone is using a pirate radio broadcast to dish the dirt on the lives of the elite of a small French town.
Bonjour l'angoisse
Jean-Hugues Aymeric
Anxious and shy, Michaud works for a company that specializes in alarms, safes and other security devices.
Poker
Helene loves to play poker for big money in men's company. But one day she looses big time against bar manager Antonio. He grants her 24 hours to come up with the 50,000 Francs. She asks all of her friends, but nobody will help her. When she finally steals the money from her brother Stephane, she gets them into serious trouble -- she didn't know where he got it.
The Catwalk
Jean Nevers
Neighbors overcome, Cora and John meet in the favor of an accident - a fall from the balcony of the family apartment - which has suffered the son of Cora. Taking the man responsible for the state of her child, the mother yet close to John. A strange relationship develops between them.
Engagements of the Heart
Jérôme
Alice is the widow of a Jewish surgeon who helps the former diplomat Jerome smuggle Jews out of Austria to save them from the Nazis. The duo recruits Charles, a shoe manufacturer whose uncle is a Nazi sympathizer in the Vichy government. Charles and Alice become lovers when they are picked up in Paris by Nazi soldiers on a curfew violation.
Velvet Paws
Poltergeist
Bernadette Lafont and Michel Bouquet reteam with Kaplan as, respectively, a clairvoyant and a criminologist drawn into the orbit of widow Caroline Sihol; when the latter’s late husband Pierre Arditi turns out to yet have surprises up his sleeve for all of them, Kaplan hones in on the women’s by-necessity connection. The director foregoes her own cameo in favor of ones for colleagues Jean Chapot and Claude Makovski, both as nurses.
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Commissaire Pierre Tramoni
A repentant gambler, Simon is a senior inspector in the banditry repression brigade headed by his friend Pierre Tramoni. Pierre is brilliant and wants to go far. Simon has no ambition and only one passion: gambling. For several months, Simon has been trying to catch the Djian brothers, young and dangerous bank robbers, in the act. He fails but discovers, through an informer, strange links between Pierre and the Djians, during his investigation which leads him back to the gambling halls. When the Djians finally fall, the treachery of Commissioner Tramoni is revealed.
Agent Trouble
Stanilas
Amanda Weber is a museum employee. Her nephew, Victorien, who feels that wild animals should not be kept in zoos, while hitchhiking saw a mysterious bus with 50 dead tourists that later was found by autorities at the bottom of a lake. When Victorien gets in very serious problems due to what he saw Amanda seeks to find out what happened and soon also becomes a target.
The Little Coquette
Armand
Fifteen-year-old Camille is a vulnerable and a strong-willed seductress- she chooses, she takes, she leaves; she can go very far in her desire for freedom. She is the daughter of disunited parents, Armand, a professor and Colette, an intellectual bourgeois. She manages to seduce Jean-Louis, a professor of letters of thirty-seven years, friend and colleague of her father. She makes him commit a lot of extravagance - he even dyed blond. Later she had a passion for Samuel, a former student of Jean-Louis, lout and trafficker. She is not easy, men learn at their expense, either sentimentally, as with the teacher, or that the first sexual experience come to ignite the relationship with Samuel.
State of Grace
Jean-Marc Vannier-Buchet
She is Florence Vannier-Buchet. Married to Protestant banker Jean-Marc Buchet. Florence leads a major sporting goods company with happiness and firmness. He is Antoine Lombard, Professor, son of a teacher, he is Secretary of State at the Universities. He divides his time between his ministerial activity and his riding in the working class suburb of Chartres. An elected member of the "pink wave". They met during a stormy assembly of the CNPF. The action takes place in 1983. Florence is engaged in a daring industrial and financial operation, while Antoine is putting the finishing touches to a bill for the renovation of Higher Education. Everything separates them and yet they do not manage to live separated from each other ...
Un métier de seigneur
Cousin / Arvers
Mélo
Pierre Belcroix
Año 1926. Después de seducir a Marcel, un violinista amigo de su marido Pierre, Romaine intenta envenenar a su pareja.
Follow My Gaze
The publicist
A long parade of actors and actresses pop up in an unconnected series of skits, vignettes, and sight gags in this comedy anthology by Jean Curtelin. Among the sketches performed is one with Jean Carmet playing a man from the sticks woefully burdened with the challenge of getting through a dog food commercial on less than one tank of intelligible French. Another skit shows a silent duel between an airport custodian and an automatic door, while another with the renowned Michel Galabru sets up a strange teacher-student exchange.
La répétition ou L'amour puni
Héro
Tailleur pour dames
Moulineaux
The Children
Le journaliste
Ernesto, a seven-year-old boy who has the body of a thirty-year-old man, decides, upon attending his first day of school, that he no longer wishes to attend, because he does not wish to be taught matters that he does not know.
Farewell Fred
La Grenouille
Fred is a gambler and deep in debt. He owes crime boss Victor a lot of money and the time to pay has come. He decides to take a massive risk to refund his debts and agrees to kill a man. Fred knows he has to pay his debt and that the only way to do it is to carry out the hit arranged by Victor.
El amor ha muerto
Simon Roche
Elisabeth y Simón viven una romántica historia de amor, pero, dos meses después de iniciar su relación, Simón muere repentinamente, aunque muy pronto volverá a la vida.
Mademoiselle ma mère
Georges Letournel
La vida es una novela
Robert Dufresne
En 1919, tres jóvenes pasan sus vacaciones en el castillo de un amigo. Los cuatro serán protagonistas de diversas historias que, inevitablemente, acabarán entrelazándose.
Les Secrets de la princesse de Cadignan
Emile Blondet
Nestor Burma, détective de choc
Lecuyer
Detective Nestor Burma begins an investigation into the corrupt drug-ridden punk rock music world.
L'Arme au bleu
Le Sergent-chef
Le traité d'Auteuil
André
Une sacrée famille
Gaston Brevannes
Heads or Tails
Pierre Larrieu
Since his wife died, Inspector Louis Baroni (Philippe Noiret) has become a virtual recluse, preferring the solitude of his quiet house to the company of others. His period of mournful contemplation is broken when he is called out to look into the suspicious death of Madame Morlaix who, according to her husband Edouard (Michel Serrault), fell from an upstairs window. Curious to find out more, Baroni begins his inquiry.
Légitime défense
Bertrand
Mi tío de América
Zambeaux, le représentant de la direction générale à Paris
El profesor Henry Laborit explica una teoría sobre el comportamiento humano por medio del estudio de tres historias que acontecen paralelamente: René (Gérard Depardieu), empleado en una industria textil, debe afrontar la posibilidad de ser despedido. Janine (Nicole García) es una actriz que, al descubrir que la mujer de su amante está gravemente enferma, decide que él debe estar a su lado en esos momentos. Jean (Roger Pierre) es un polifacético escritor y político que debe tomar una decisión que implica renunciar a su carrera.
El amor violado
Julien
Cuatro hombres violan una noche a una enfermera en Grenoble. La mujer cree que jamás se recuperará del trauma. Sigue el consejo de una amiga y presenta una demanda.
Le funambule
Les oiseaux de la lune
Grindot
Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal
In this evocative, atmospheric biography, Roberto Rossellini brings to life philosopher and mathematician Blaise Pascal, who, amid religious persecution and ignorance, believed in a harmony between God and science.
Alyse et Chloé
Le mage adepte du nombril
Una modelo de éxito, amante de un fotógrafo de desnudos, se siente atraída al mismo tiempo por la directora de una agencia publicitaria...
Last Leap
A veteran paratrooper murders his Vietnamese wife when he finds her in the arms of a younger man. Garal (Maurice Ronet) makes it back to the army base where his drunken roommate provides him with an iron clad alibi. Jauran (Michel Bouquet) is the local police inspector who befriends the Garal, unaware he is the killer. The younger man is accused of the woman's murder, but the paratrooper begins to feel overwhelmed with guilt. The longer he remains silent about the crime, the more psychological torture he must endure.
L'illusion comique
Clindor
Un padre busca desesperadamente a su hijo, que huyó de la casa hace diez años, cansado de la tiranía paterna. Un corresponsal misterioso, Alcandre, "el hombre con llaves de oro" de un gran hotel parisino y detective aficionado.
L'école des femmes
Le Premier venu
André
Clémenceau et Marguerite
Georges Clémenceau
A fixed idea by Paul Valéry
Moi
A beach on the shores of the Mediterranean, crushed by the sun, under an implacable blue sky, isolated on a rock like Sisyphus rolling away his bitterness, a man is on the verge of suicide. While ruminating on his fixed idea, he is disturbed by an intruder, a doctor on vacation like him. The man with a fixed idea (Pierre Arditi) declares "I felt in a state of inhumanity", the doctor (Bernard Murat) decked out in all the holidaymaker's accessories: a landing net, an easel and a colored box, comes to invade the morbid loneliness. The importunate debonair begins a conversation that will turn into a philosophical joust where we approach science, Einstein, politics, and the verb. THE MATERIALIST AND THE PHILOSOPHER scrap at speckled foils with the sharpest and most divinely French spirit. Conversation is a balm, an intellectual bandage. The good doctor is a good practitioner and a brave man!
Le vieux juif Blonde