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6.2

♡ 20

71%

Patrice Leconte Director

Pierre-François Martin-Laval as Le joli garçon

Eric Métayer as Le SDF

Jacques Mathou as Monsieur Calmel / Monsieur Dead for Two

Jules Poisson as Un copain d'Alan

In a cold French city where suicide is a common urge, there is a colorful shop, managed for many years by the Tuvache family, where it is very easy to obtain the necessary tools to satisfy the sinister desires of so many depressed citizens.

Partir, revenir

1985

6.2

♡ 1

War

Claude Lelouch Director

Jacques Mathou as

Annie Girardot as Hélène Rivière

Françoise Fabian as Sarah Lerner

Michel Piccoli as Simon Lerner

Salomé Lerner just finished writing an autobiography. She goes to a TV show called "Apostrophes", hosted by French TV showman Bernard Pivot. Pivot then imagines a film that could be created from her gripping story. A film entirely made of music because after seeing the young pianist Erik Berchot, Salomé believes seeing her long lost brother, who was a musician as well. A brother she had lost along with her parents in 1943. However, the Lerners did in fact escape the gestapo and might have based themselves in Paris...

The Son of the Shark

1993

6.7

♡ 2

Agnès Merlet Director

Jacques Mathou as

Olivier Saladin as

Jean-Pol Brissart as

Jean-François Perrier as

Brothers Martin and Simon, not yet teens, are incorrigible vandals; Martin runs away from reform school, Simon from foster homes, and they always find each other in a seacoast town of Lignan, where their destructive behavior is infamous. (It may date to their mother's leaving the family.) Martin is philosophical, romantic, and poetic: he dreams of being the son of a shark; he holds tight to a book about goldfish his mother gave him. In both halting and wild ways, he tries to court Marie, a neighbor girl. Simon, with a pocketknife and an intractable will, seems more dangerous to others. What, on earth, is there for these children-becoming-men?

The Bodyguard

1984

4.8

♡ 6

François Leterrier Director

Jane Birkin as Barbara Penning

Sami Frey as Julien Duchemin

Jacques Mathou as Le gardien du parc animalier

François Siener as Martial

Barbara marries Julien a charming and sexy man. Barbara's old flame Paul is highly suspicious of Julien. It seems Julien's previous two wives died under dubious circumstances and he collected a wad of insurance money as a result. Paul cannot ignore his misgivings, and so he follows Barbara and Julien to Morocco on their honeymoon, intent on preventing any harm to the woman he still loves.

Je vais craquer!!!

1980

5.6

♡ 1

François Leterrier Director

Patricia Millardet as

Diane Bellego as (as Evelyne Bellego)

Christian Clavier as Jérôme Ozendron

Jacques Mathou as Le serveur

Young dynamic executive, married and father of two children, Jérôme Ozendron dreams of writing and escaping a life he considers mediocre. The meeting with a former comrade, who had become an actor, brought him into contact with the world of cinema. He meets, Natacha, a cover girl, for whom he is ready to give up, wife and children. Then he becomes the lover of Lilianne, a marginal who persecutes and pursues him. He quit his job to devote himself to writing a novel. But nothing goes as he wants.

The Wing or The Thigh?

1976

7.2

♡ 17

Claude Zidi Director

François Guillaume as Le reporter

Ann Zacharias as Marguerite #2 - la secrétaire intérimaire

Jacques Mathou as (uncredited)

Vittorio Caprioli as Vittorio - le patron d'un restaurant

Charles Duchemin, a well-known gourmet and publisher of a famous restaurant guide, is waging a war against fast food entrepreneur Tri- catel to save the French art of cooking. After having agreed to appear on a talk show to show his skills in naming food and wine by taste, he is confronted with two disasters: his son wants to become a clown rather than a restaurant tester and he, the famous Charles Duchemin, has lost his taste!

Voir la mer

2011

5.6

♡ 2

37%

Romance

Patrice Leconte Director

Clément Sibony as Clément

Jacques Mathou as Jacky Novion, le cascadeur

Jean-Claude Aubrun as Le patron du garage

Pauline Lefèvre as Prudence

Two brothers live in Montbard, Burgundy. For their summer vacation, they decide to visit their mother in Saint-Jean-de-Luz, because it’s been a long time, because it would make her happy… There’s no shortage of reasons. They buy a second-hand motor home and plan to stay open to whatever the road brings them, embarking on a brothers’ journey across France. Just the two of them. But then an endearing young woman crosses their path...

Betty Blue

1986

7.3

♡ 28

78%

90%

borderline personality disorder

self-inflicted injury

Jean-Jacques Beineix Director

Béatrice Dalle as Betty

Jacques Mathou as Bob

Richard Epcar as (voice)

Jean-Hugues Anglade as Zorg

A lackadaisical handyman and aspiring novelist tries to support his younger girlfriend as she slowly succumbs to madness.

A Soldier's Tale

1989

English

5.9

♡ 2

67%

Romance

War

Larry Parr Director

Bernard Farcy as Andre

Gabriel Byrne as Saul

Judge Reinhold as The Yank

Jacques Mathou as Wolf

In the days following the D-Day invasion in Normandy, France, a British platoon leader named Saul (Gabriel Byrne) and his corporal (Paul Wyett) reach an isolated farmhouse and encounter a beautiful French girl named Belle (Marianne Basler). Love blooms between Saul and Belle, but the grim realities of war catch up with them when a French Resistance trio claims that Belle is a Nazi collaborator. Judge Reinhold appears briefly as the token Yank.

Special Section

1975

7.6

♡ 5

81%

based on novel or book

Costa-Gavras Director

Guy Mairesse as Léon Redondeau

Henri Serre as Le préfet Ingrand, délégué du ministère de l'Intérieur en zone occupée

Jacques Mathou as M. Montillot, l'avocat d'Octave Lamand

Costa-Gavras as Un milicien

In occupied France during the WWII, a German officer is murdered. The collaborationist Vichy government decides to pin the murder on six petty criminals. Loyal judges are called in to convict them as quickly as possible.

Ridicule

1996

♡ 13

80%

Patrice Leconte Director

Jacques Mathou as Abbé de l'Epée

Albert Delpy as Baron de Guéret

Jean Rochefort as Bellegarde

Judith Godrèche as Mathilde

To get royal backing on a needed drainage project, a poor French lord must learn to play the delicate games of wit at court at Versailles.

L'été en pente douce

1987

6.5

♡ 5

Gérard Krawczyk Director

Jacques Mathou as Jeannot

Laurent Gendron as L'américain

Pauline Lafont as Lilas

Georges Vaur as M. Bressoul

When he inherits the family house and property after his mother's death, aspiring novelist Fane returns home with his bimbo girlfriend Lilas. He must care for his idiot brother Mo and contend with a greedy garage owner who covets Fane's property to expand his business. When efforts to buy the property are fruitless, the mechanic incites the townsfolk against the strange trio.

Mon meilleur ami

2006

6.6

♡ 7

75%

Patrice Leconte Director

Anne Le Ny as Femme casting Réponse à tout

Daniel Auteuil as François

Elizabeth Bourgine as Julia

Jacques Mathou as Père Bruno

Catherine refuses to believe that her business partner, the unlikeable François, has a best friend, so she challenges him to set up an introduction. Scrambling to find someone willing to pose as his best pal, François enlists the services of a charming taxi driver to play the part.

Police

1985

6.5

♡ 9

51%

Maurice Pialat Director

Jacques Mathou as Gauthier

Gérard Depardieu as Louis Vincent Mangin

Sophie Marceau as Noria

Richard Allan as (scenes deleted) (as Richard Lemieuvre)

Mangin, a police inspector in Paris, leans hard on informants to get evidence on three Tunisian brothers who traffic in drugs. He arrests one, Simon, and his girl-friend Noria. Simon's brothers go to their lawyer. He springs Noria, who promptly steals 2 million francs that belong to the Tunisians. They suspect her of the theft; her life as well as the lawyer's is in danger. Meanwhile, Noria is playing with both the lawyer and Mangin's affections. Mangin is mercurial anyway: intimidating and bloodying suspects, falling for a police commission trainee before flipping for Noria, wearing his emotions on his sleeve. Can he save the lawyer and Noria, and can he convince her to love?

Les grands ducs

1996

5.9

♡ 1

Patrice Leconte Director

Jean Rochefort as Eddie Carpentier

Albert Delpy as Harry

Jacques Mathou as Janvier

Philippe Noiret as Victor Vialat

Three aging and failed comedians, Georges Cox, Victor Vialat and Eddie Carpentier, hit the road again with a lousy production of a lousy play, of course under the worst possible conditions.

The Hairdresser's Husband

1990

7.1

♡ 11

92%

man woman relationship

Romance

suicide

told in flashback

Patrice Leconte Director

Jean Rochefort as Antoine

Albert Delpy as Donecker

Jacques Mathou as Julien Gora

Anna Galiena as Mathilde

Antoine has always been fascinated by a hairdresser's delicate touch, the beguiling perfume, and the enticing figure of a woman with an opulent bosom. After all, he had always known he would marry one, completing his idealized love fantasy.

Après la guerre

6.8

Jean-Loup Hubert Director

Marie Pillet as

Jesse Joe Walsh as

Richard Bohringer as Le caporal-chef Franz Joseph Burnher

Jacques Mathou as Paul Leblau

The film is set in France in August 1944 at the end of the war. German troops are in retreat as the allies are coming in. Two French boys run from home and on their journey they stumble upon a German soldier. Soon they become friends and together they head towards Lyon...

The Visitors II: The Corridors of Time

1998

6.1

♡ 15

Jean-Marie Poiré Director

Jean Reno as Comte Godefroy de Montmirail, dit Godefroy le Hardi

Christian Clavier as Jacquouille la Fripouille / Jacques-Henri Jacquard / Prosper le Purineur / Jacouillet

Philippe Nahon as Le gérant du supermarché

Jacques Mathou as Monsieur Lumeau-Péricard

The sequel to The Visitors reunites us with those lovable ruffians from the French Medieval ages who - through magic - are transported into the present, with often drastic consequences. Godefroy de Montmirail travels to today to recover the missing family jewels and a sacred relic, guarantor of his wife-to-be's fertility. The confrontation between Godefroy's repellent servant Jack the Crack and his descendent, the effete Jacquart, present-day owner of the chateau, further complicates the matter.

Delicatessen

1991