Henri Garcin

Henri Garcin

Nacimiento : 1929-04-11, Antwerp, Belgium

Muerte : 2022-06-13

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Henri Garcin

Películas

The Holy Family
Marceau
Jean, an anthropologist with no history, is appointed Minister of the Family. While he discovers the backstage of the political world, he must also deal with the events that shake his own family, with the discovery of his brother's homosexuality, and the unexpected pregnancy of his wife.
Tonio
Natan
Basada en la novela de A.F. Th. van der Heijden, (con más de 200.000 copias vendidas hasta la fecha). El 23 de mayo de 2010, a los 21 años de edad, Tonio van der Heijden (interpretado por Chris Peters) fue atropellado por un coche y llevado en estado crítico al hospital, donde murió. Un trágico suceso que cambió drásticamente la vida de sus padres (Pierre Bokma y Rifka Lodeizen), que vieron a su único hijo fallecer en cuidados intensivos. La vida de Tonio dejó un legado de dolor en sus padres, que lucharán para impedir que sus propias vidas sean arrastradas a una espiral descendente de tristeza. (FILMAFFINITY)
Schneider vs. Bax
Gerard
Dos hombres, un asesino a sueldo y un escritor, tendrán que luchar entre ellos por la supervivencia. A Schneider, asesino a sueldo y hombre devoto de la familia, se le encarga justo en la mañana de su cumpleaños que liquide a Ramon Bax. Bax es un escritor de 50 años que vive recluido en una cabaña junto a un lago. Lo que en principio parecía un trabajo fácil, acabará convirtiéndose en mucho más de lo que cabría esperar.
Leaving
Renata's heroine silently walks through the fields, an autumn garden, an old mansion, an abandoned greenhouse to the lyric melody of Ludwig van Beethoven, only occasionally turning to the camera. In the frame, Litvinova appears as a brunette who wears long dresses to the floor, capes, hats and expensive jewelry.
It's all so quiet
Father
Narra la historia de Helmer, un granjero homosexual que se da cuenta de que su vida ha sufrido enormemente la negativa influencia de su anciano padre, al que ahora tiene que cuidar.
The girl and death
Marcus
Narra la vida de un doctor ruso llamado Nicolai, quien después de un tiempo vuelve a un viejo burdel, donde conoció a una cortesana llamada Elise. Nicolai revive su historia de amor y el pasado y el presente encajan.
Ça se soigne ?
Bernard - le père d'Adrienne
Mi mejor amigo
Delamotte
Un marchante de arte (Daniel Auteuil) hace una apuesta: si en el plazo de diez días no encuentra al amigo perfecto, tendrá que entregar un valioso jarrón de su propiedad. Se pone manos a la obra rápidamente y acaba eligiendo a un taxista (Dany Boon), una persona entrañable pero algo débil. Con tal de ganar la apuesta, se esfuerza por seducirlo. Pero con la amistad no se juega impunemente.
Sweet Mud
Stephan
Set in mid-70's, 12-year old Dvir Avni navigates between the equality values of his home-born Kibbutz and the relationship with his undermined mother, whom the Kibbutz members will to denounce.
La pantera rosa
President
Cuando el entrenador de un equipo de fútbol es asesinado en un estadio, su valioso anillo con el diamante Pantera Rosa es robado. El ambicioso Director Dreyfus asignará el caso al torpe Clouseau para que lo resuelva, nombrándole al mismo tiempo inspector. Sin embargo, su verdadera intención es distraer a la prensa mientras trata de resolver el mismo el caso.
Nunca digas nunca
El Cojo
París, 1830. Valentin es un joven mujeriego especialmente interesado en el juego. No cree en la vida y, menos aún, en el amor. Su tío Van Buck sólo venera el dinero y los negocios. Nada tienen en común hasta el día en que Van Buck para darse importancia se empeña en casar a Valentin con una joven baronesa venida a menos. Pero Valentin piensa en todo menos en casarse.
Aux abois
Sarrebry
Paul, a former insurer, is struggling to make ends meet. He agrees to meet Sarrebry, a loan shark introduced to him by his friend Daubelle. Paul mortally knocks out the disgusting crook and steals a large sum of money from him.
The Ninth Hour
Edward Schneider is asked to sing the St Matthew Passion in Amsterdam's Concertgebouw. This is a great opportunity for him to avenge the eternal mockery to which he is subjected. However what no one sees is that the is having trouble with himself. He is not able to come to terms with the music of Bach and sing it credibly. Then there is Schneider's prostitute, Miriam. While she despises her client, she is also financially dependent on him. Miriam is also at a turning point in her life through her battles with her daughter, who does not have much respect for her mother's profession.
The Freelancers
Hanz Swarovski
In this off-beat French comedy-drama, a quirky band of classical musicians prepare to play at a nobleman's New Year's Eve gala.
Un amour de cousine
La voisine
A retired woman befriends her neighbor without suspecting that it is her own daughter whom she abandoned at birth.
The Proprietor
Interviewer
An expatriated French novelist returns to Paris when she learns that her childhood home is being placed on the auction block.
El octavo día
Bank manager
La historia retrata el encuentro entre dos mundos: el de Georges, un hombre con Síndrome de Down , y el de Harry, un ejecutivo . Harry, cuyo único alimento cotidiano es la artificialidad del pensamiento positivo, tiene mucho que aprender de Georges. El octavo día, ese que no figura en ningún calendario, que nunca termina, se manifiesta en el choque entre el orden y la anarquía, la razón y la locura.
The Dress
Van Tilt
The story of a summer dress and those who have to do with it, especially the train conductor (played by van Warmerdam, the director). The dress functions as catalyst for the whimsical events, which turns out to be either tragic or hilarious.
Las cien y una noches
Fermin, le majordome
Fábula que celebra el centenario del cine. En ella intervienen de forma desinteresada Harrison Ford, Depardieu, De Niro, Jane Birkin, Belmondo, Anouk Aimée, Deneuve, Delon, Moreau, Lollobrigida, Di Caprio, Martin Sheen, Dean Stanton, Léaud y muchos otros.
Vincennes Neuilly
Jacques
Jérôme and Sophie are "foreigners". They evolve in a world whose rules seem to them as many constraints and adopt unusual behaviors which can disorientate their interlocutors. They say they are brother and sister and many people prefer to believe them and be satisfied with this version for fear of supporting a situation that is too scabrous. Only Olivia accepts to assume the situation. Her taste for derision and her humor allow her to overcome the provocations of the couple and to take an ascendancy on them.
Every Other Weekend
l'agent de Camille
Camille, a mercurial César-winning actress, has seen better times. Estranged from her husband, she's with her children only every other weekend. It's her weekend, but her agent has booked her to MC a Rotary club dinner in Vichy. She takes them with her, and when her husband learns this, he demands to pick them up at once. She bolts in a rented car to the seaside, trying to improve her relations with the children, especially the precocious and distant Vincent. He loves astronomy. A rare meteor shower is due in a few days, so she suggests they go to a plateau in Spain hoping to see it. He agrees, but the relationship remains difficult, and her husband is on their trail.
Koko Flanel
Didier de Merengue
Placide's dad tells him on his deathbed he'll haunt Placide if he doesn't find a wife soon. Placide cautiously agrees, but he only wants to settle for a very beautiful woman. That might be easier said than done, since he is a vagabond. When he accidentally enters a photo shoot, Placide meets Sarah. He falls in love, but she is way out of his reach.
Si t'as besoin de rien, fais-moi signe
Blanchard - Le producteur
Once inseparable, Charles the artist and Daniel the schemer reunite after 15 years of separation and confess their mutual misfortune. Determined to start over, the two friends and Sylvie, a friend of Charles, take on the movie business. But they come up against the well-established laws of the business and create havoc wherever they go. But their optimism will save them.
Abel
Victor
A well-to-do, thirty-something shut-in faces city life, family secrets and his own quirks when he is finally thrown out by his parents.
Vivement Truffaut
Self / Husband (archive footage)
A tribute to the late, great French director Francois Truffaut, this documentary was undoubtedly named after his last movie, Vivement Dimanche!, released in 1983. Included in this overview of Truffaut's contribution to filmmaking are clips from 14 of his movies arranged according to the themes he favored. These include childhood, literature, the cinema itself, romance, marriage, and death.
Les parents ne sont pas simples cette année
Albert Dupuy
Parents are not easy this year. That's what 16-year-old Marie realized when she saw the mess her father, a general practitioner, and her mother were in. But Marie is more interested in dancing. The arrival of Laurent, a young student, will reveal her passion for choreography and, as a result, awaken the unconscious but tenacious love she has for Paul, her childhood friend.
Charlots' Connection
M. Marcaud
Three friends begin to work the rent collectors. Fee collection goes with a lot of comic episodes...
La mujer de al lado
Philippe Bauchard
En una pequeña población, cerca de Grenoble, Mathilde Bauchard (Fanny Ardant) se encuentra a Bernard Coudray (Gérard Depardieu), un hombre con el que mantuvo una relación años atrás. A pesar de que ambos están casados, no pueden evitar volver a vivir un romance.
Faut s'les faire!... Ces légionnaires
Colonel Berger
Locura homicida
Hans Schwartz
Un cineasta lleva a su novia y amigos a la mansión familiar a conocer a su madre...pero años atrás algo horrible sucedió allí, y la pesadilla vuelve a comenzar...
Il est important d'être aimé
Algernoon
Remarie-moi
Bruno
Cocktail Molotov
Bernard, Anne's stepfather
Tres jóvenes con ansias de libertad, en tiempos de la revolución estudiantil del 68. Frédéric y Anne, de diecisiete años, son novios y vienen de estratos sociales muy diferentes. Están dispuestos a sortear cualquier obstáculo que les impida ser felices, así que Anne, presionada por problemas familiares, convence a Frédéric para marcharse de casa. Junto a Bruno, un amigo, los tres parten en coche rumbo a Venecia, desde donde pretenden ir hacia Israel. El padre de Frédéric está enfermo y éste desea regresar. En Italia sufren unos cuantos percances y cuando se enteran de los levantamientos de estudiantes y trabajadores de París, deciden volver...
An Almost Perfect Affair
Lt. Montand
Un desconocido realizador americano viaja a Cannes para promocionar su película. Allí, la esposa de un productor se interesa en la historia y comienzan un romance.
Trocadero Lemon Blue
Georges Lépervier
Ten years old Phil who is living with his mother and likes skateboarding with his friends has fallen in love with a girl of his age.
Take It from the Top
Vincent
Tired of being a housewife, Annie wants to work. Between her professional life and her responsibilities as a parent, she can no longer cope. She decides to leave and starts writing a memoir of her life...
Eróticos juegos de la burguesía
Edouard Jesufard
Pignon y Melville son dos inspectores de policía encargados de investigar la violación y el asesinato de una joven a las afueras de una ciudad al sur de Francia. El curso de la investigación les lleva a la residencia de un rico industrial, cercana al lugar en el que ocurrió el crimen. (FILMAFFINITY)
Ajuste de cuentas
Picot
Jean-Marie Fayard es un juez que tiene un expediente que implica a un rico industrial en una serie de muertes inexplicables. Un juez joven, apodado "el sheriff" por su integridad y sus métodos poco ortodoxos en el mundo de la investigación judicial a Saint-Etienne en un negocio difícil: un caso de robo gasolinera con asalto, lo que implicaría indirectamente de los de arriba. Fayard está convencido que un antiguo comisario está protegiendo a los principales sospechosos. Cuando se dispone más pruebas con las que acorralar a este antiguo comisario, éste es hallado muerto.
Catherine & Co.
Robert Grandin
Catherine, una joven prostituta que vive en París, decide hacer una empresa de sí misma después de aprender los conceptos básicos de las grandes empresas con sus clientes. Encontrará interés y reveses en su búsqueda de inversores.
Crónica de una violación
le haut fonctionnaire
Durante unas vacaciones en un camping de la Costa Azul, un pequeño burgués parisino se siente fascinado por una jovencita a la que corteja su propio hijo. Dominado por la obsesión, acaba por violarla y, accidentalmente, la chica resulta muerta. Conmocionada por el asesinato, la gente del lugar sospecha de unos inmigrantes árabes. (FILMAFFINITY)
El veredicto
Maître Lannelongue
Teresa Leoni (Sophia Loren) es la desconsolada viuda de un hombre al que siempre se la ha señalado como un importante gánster, un capo de la mafia con importantes negocios en vida e influencia ilimitada durante sus años en vida. Cuando su hijo André (Michel Albertini) es acusado de asesinato en primer grado, la reputación de su padre le precede lo que al pobre joven le asegura una sentencia de culpabilidad. En un acto tan desesperado como inconsciente, Teresa secuestra a Nicole Leguen (Gisèle Casadesus), la esposa del juez que dictará la sentencia de su hijo.
Black Thursday
Ernst Jünger
In Paris, in 1942, on a Thursday, the Parisian police herded together some 13,000 Jews for deportation to German territory. In this story, Paul (Christian Rist) is a teenager who tries to prevent this from happening. At first he attempts to save two elderly Jews, but they are resigned to their fate and comply with the order to assemble. For a short while, he is able to keep Jeanne (Christine Pascal) from joining them, but, after a long and strenuous day, she finally escapes from him he is too tired to chase after her.
El trepa
Berthoud
Nicolas Mallet, empleado de banca, tiene un carácter tan introvertido que apenas se relaciona socialmente. Pero un día, inexplicablemente, se siente capaz de abordar a una atractiva mujer a la que conoce en plena calle. Tras conocer lo ocurrido su amigo Claude le propone un curioso plan que consiste en buscar a millonarias para seducirlas.
Ursule and Grelu
Aingrain
Eeeny, Meeny, Miney, Moe
Le pasteur
La Nuit bulgare
Paul Tarset
A youngish sales employee of a computer firm is blackmailed into helping a group of mysterious Bulgarian industrialists who have come to his office. A government contract is being sought for a businessman who is in danger of bankruptcy.
Kill: matar
Lawyer
Interpol investiga una serie de extraños asesinatos cuyas víctimas son traficantes y pornógrafos.
On the Lam
L'avocat d'Annick
A young couple of burglars, waiting for trial, marry in jail. Annick writes down her observations of the women's ward. When she hears that her lover must serve a twice as long prison sentence, she plans their escape.
Alguien detrás de la puerta
Paul Damien
El doctor Jeffries, un psiquiatra dedicado a la investigación, pasa poco tiempo con su mujer Frances. Ella le abandona por su amante, Paul Damien. Cuando Jeffries recibe la visita de un extraño con amnesia, le convence de que Frances es su esposa, que planea ponerle celoso, vengándose así de su mujer con este extraño como intermediario.
Un condé
Georges Duval, dit "Georgy Beausourire"
Mientras investiga un caso de drogas, un inspector de policía es asesinado a tiros por un gánster. Su colega, el Inspector Favenin es responsable de aclarar este crimen. Él está dispuesto a hacer cualquier cosa para salvar el honor de su colega, incluyendo violar la ley.
Dix petits nègres
Lombard
Destroy, She Said
Max Thor
Un profesor, su joven esposa, una mujer de mediana edad que se recupera de un aborto, y un pensativo judío extranjero se encuentran en un hotel rural. Mientras el resto de huéspedes hacen otro tipo de vida más turística, buscando los supuestos maravillosos paisajes que la película no tienen intención de ofrecer, estas cuatro personas exploran el potencial destructivo de sus deseos.
Les gauloises bleues
L'ambulancier rabatteur
The harsh life of a troubled young man provides the basis of this grim French tragedy that begins when the fellow stops into a shop to buy a pack of the title cigarettes. There he meets a pretty shop girl with whom he falls in love and eventually marries. It was a foolish choice, for the two cannot get along and constantly fight. Things get worse when the husband resumes his criminal activities and gets caught. The two are about to divorce when the woman gets pregnant. The time comes for their baby to be born and while sitting in the waiting room, the husband reflects upon his past activities, which are revealed via flashback.
The Nail Clippers
Le réceptionniste de l'hôtel
A bourgeois couple check into a hotel. All seems fine until a man loses his nail clippers
Sorrel Flower
Jo de Fréjus
Catherine is left unmarried and pregnant when her mobster sweetheart is killed in this gangster comedy. With the help of another unmarried mother-to-be, Catherine goes looking for the stash of cash buried by her lover before his death. Soon other thugs and her suspicious neighbors are following their every move in an attempt to recover the lost loot...
Judoka-Secret Agent
Jacques Mercier
Marc is a French secret agent whose only weapons are judo and karate. With the help of his sidekick Jacques, the duo goes to protect a noted scientist from falling into the hands of a gang of underworld thugs. Marc finds love with one of the female gang members who turns out to be a double agent with the British Secret Service.
Esposa ingenua
Julien
A finales de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, Marie (Catherine Deneuve) y su marido Jerôme (Philippe Noiret) viven en un castillo cerca de Normandía. Marie sueña con ir a París, pero Jerôme, intimidado por la guerra y preocupado por la fidelidad de su esposa, prefiere permanecer aislado en el campo. Un paracaidista de la resistencia y un grupo de soldados alemanes ponen fin a la tranquilidad de los habitantes del castillo.
Me and the Forty Year Old Man
le voisin de Bénéchol
A story about Caroline, a young girl who decides to start dating only men after forty.
The Lovers of the France
Pasquin
Seeing an opportunity to make a financial recovery for the family, a nobleman attempts to wed his son to his wealthy friend's daughter. His plan is to send the boy for a cruise on the SS France with the prospective female. Upon arriving to meet the lovely girl, the young man switches places with his valet. Unbeknownst to him, however, is the fact that the girl has pulled a similar deception. Though Jean-Marc Ripert is responsible for much of the cinematography in this New Wave comedy, it is Francois Reichenbach who handled the camera for many of the ocean-liner scenes.
Encuentro en París
Policeman (uncredited)
Un productor de Hollywood encarga al escritor Richard Benson (William Holden) el guión de su última película. Benson se instala en un apartamento de París, pero, en vez de escribir, se dedica a la buena vida. Cuando se da cuenta de que sólo le quedan dos días para acabar el trabajo, contrata a Gabrielle (Audrey Hepburn) como secretaria para poder cumplir el encargo.
Mata-Hari, agente H-21
Gaston
París 1917. Mientras se habla de una guerra que no termina, Mata Hari, un espía con un gran poder de seducción, utilizará sus encantos para conseguir arrebatar importantes secretos militares. Su principal objetivo: seducir a un capitán francés…
The Sword and the Balance
Acteur
Three young men are suspected of kidnapping and murdering a little boy. Most likely, two of them are really involved, but one is not. All of their pasts are questionable, riddled with violence and controversy. Neither the police nor the court can decide how to solve that puzzle.
Arsène Lupin vs. Arsène Lupin
Hans
André Laroche, an industrialist, has just passed away. Face to his grave, as he is being buried, Anne de Vierne, the wife of a magistrate, confesses to her son François that Laroche was in fact Lupin and that he is his natural child. But he is not the gentleman thief's only offspring! Lupin had indeed another son by a housemaid, Gérard Dagmar, a dancer, magician and - occasionally - burglar. Which complicates the task of François who, to respect the last wishes of the testator, has gone in search of the treasure of Poldavia. For he keeps finding Gérard on his way and his efforts are constantly thwarted by his half-brother. Will Gérard prevent François from becoming the worthy successor to their father or will the two young men decide to join forces? That is the question.
Sénéchal the Magnificent
L'auteur de la pièce (uncredited)
Sénéchal, an actor touring the provinces with the "Tournées Carlini" does not meet the success he thinks he deserves. One night in Dreux, he finds himself without his luggage and dressed up as a Foreign Legion officer, he is invited to a party thrown by a colonel. He creates a sensation there and does not leave the colonel's wife ... indifferent! Back in Paris, Sénéchal goes through a similar experience. This time around, wearing tuxedo and top hat, he gets mistaken for a diplomat and charms the guests of a wedding party. Arrested by the police, he chooses to do without an attorney at his trial and his brilliant eloquence has him acquitted. A question remains unanswered though : will all those people who give an ovation in real life ever go to see him on stage ?