A well-to-do French family living in Calais deal with a series of setbacks and crises while paying little attention to the grim conditions in the refugee camps within a few miles of their home.

Kalinka

2016

French

7.1

♡ 23

Vincent Garenq Director

Daniel Auteuil as André Bamberski

Christelle Cornil as Cécile

Marie-Josée Croze as Dany

Sebastian Koch as Dieter Krombach

In 1982, André Bamberski learns about the death of his 14 year-old daughter, Kalinka, while she was on vacation with her mother and stepfather in Germany. Convinced that Kalinka’s death was not an accident, Bamberski begins to investigate. A botched autopsy report raises his suspicions and leads him to accuse Kalinka’s stepfather, Dr Dieter Krombach, as the murderer. Unable to indict Krombach in Germany, Bamberski attempts to take the trial to France, where he will dedicate his life to Kalinka’s justice and the imprisonment of Krombach.

On Guard

1997

French

6.9

♡ 7

88%

77%

Action

Adventure

based on novel or book

older man younger woman relationship

swashbuckler

Philippe de Broca Director

Marie Gillain as Aurore

Claire Nebout as Blanche

Vincent Perez as Duc de Nevers

Daniel Auteuil as Lagardère / Le bossu

France, 17th century, during the reign of Louis XIII. When a dear friend, the Duke of Nevers, is treacherously assassinated by a powerful relative, a skilled swordsman, the noble Henri de Lagardère, seeks his rightful vengeance as he tries to protect the innocent life of the duke's last heir.

Jean de Florette

1986

French

8.1

♡ 25

93%

95%

Action

avarice

based on novel or book

Claude Berri Director

Yves Montand as Cesar Soubeyran dit 'Le Papet'

Gérard Depardieu as Jean de Florette

Clement Cal as Méderic

Daniel Auteuil as Ugolin

In a rural French village, an old man and his only remaining relative cast their covetous eyes on an adjoining vacant property. They need its spring water for growing their flowers, and are dismayed to hear that the man who has inherited it is moving in. They block up the spring and watch as their new neighbour tries to keep his crops watered from wells far afield through the hot summer. Though they see his desperate efforts are breaking his health and his wife and daughter's hearts, they think only of getting the water.

The Adversary

2002

French

6.7

♡ 3

69%

Nicole Garcia Director

Anne Benoît as

Catherine Chevallier as

Daniel Auteuil as Jean-Marc Faure

Bernard Fresson as Le père de Christine

Based on the 2000 book of the same name by Emmanuel Carrère, it is inspired by the real-life story of Jean-Claude Romand. L'Adversaire's protagonist Jean-Marc Faure (Auteuil) pursues an imaginary career as a doctor of medicine in a plot more closely based on Romand's life and Carrère's book than was Laurent Cantet's 2001 film L'Emploi du Temps. The film was nominated for a Palme d'Or at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival.

Lucie Aubrac

1997

French

6.6

♡ 3

74%

occupied france (1940-44)

War

world war ii

Claude Berri Director

Peter Bonke as

Heino Ferch as Barbie

Jean-Roger Milo as Maurice

Daniel Auteuil as Raymond

A love story or a tale of the resistance, this poignant movie tells both the haunting story of a French resistance cell in Lyon but also the love of Lucie Aubrac for her husband...

Fanny

2013

French

6.8

♡ 5

56%

53%

Action

Drama

Daniel Auteuil Director

Daniel Auteuil as César

Edmonde Franchi as La dame cour

Raphaël Personnaz as Marius

Alexandre Boumbou as Un docker

"Fanny" is the second part of the "Marseille trilogy", made by Marcel Pagnol with the generic name of "Marius, Fanny and César". Fanny falls in love and is abandoned by Marius. Now she discovers she is pregnant. Her mother and Marius's father, César, persuade her to accept the romantic advances of a much older man. To save face, Fanny accepts to marry Honoré Panisse, a rich merchant of the Vieux Port, 30 years her senior who will recognize her son.

Marius

2013

French

6.7

♡ 3

50%

57%

Action

Drama

Daniel Auteuil Director

Daniel Auteuil as César

Laurent Fernandez as Le premier marin du Coromandel

Jean-Pierre Darroussin as Panisse

Jean-Jérôme Esposito as Un poivrot

"Marius" takes place in Marseilles' Old Port, at the La Marine Bar, owned by César and his son Marius. Marius' biggest dream is to embark on one of the boats passing by his dad's bar and to set off to a faraway land. Fanny, a young and pretty seafood peddler, has secretly been in love with Marius since her childhood; Marius, never admitting it, has always loved Fanny. One day, a sailor drops by La Marine and offers him a job on an exploratory ship. Trying to hold him off and to make him jealous, Fanny confesses his love to him and provokes a fight between Marius and one of César's old friends, Panisse, a boat merchant, who despite his old age, has been courting Fanny for a while. Torn between the call of the sea and his love for her, Marius abandons his dream to be with Fanny who gives herself to him. As César and Honorine, Fanny's mother, are getting ready for the wedding, Marius changes his mind, drawn back to the call of the sea.

L'Élégant Criminel

1990

French

6.1

♡ 4

Francis Girod Director

Philippe Uchan as Douchy

Isild Le Besco as Hermine

Maïwenn as Hermine

Daniel Auteuil as Pierre-François Lacenaire

On 9 January 1836, Pierre Lacenaire goes to the guillotine, a murderer and a thief. He gives Allard, a police inspector, his life story, written while awaiting execution. He also asks Allard to care for Hermine, a lass to whom he has been guardian for more than ten years. In flashbacks, from the prison as Lacenaire writes, from Allard's study as he and Hermine read, and from other readers' memory after the book is published, we see Lacenaire's childhood as he stands up to bullies, including priests, his youthful thieving, his first murder, his brief army career, his seduction of a princess, and his affair with Avril, a young man who dies beside him.

Que les gros salaires lèvent le doigt!

5.5

Denys Granier-Deferre Director

Tchéky Karyo as

Christian Charmetant as Blampain

Daniel Auteuil as Jean-Baptiste Lumet, aka Lum

Michel Piccoli as José Viss

The cynical boss of a big insurance agency invites his top-salary employees to spend a week-end in his country house. A modest clerical worker, also invited, discovers the hidden reason for this party - and decides to take advantage of it.

Pour cent briques t'as plus rien

1982

French

6.1

Comedy

Édouard Molinaro Director

Jean-Pierre Castaldi as Henri

Édouard Molinaro as Le marchand de journaux

Didier Haudepin as Le spectateur du premier hold-up

Daniel Auteuil as Sam

After getting screwed over by life (again), two losers decide that enough is enough. Using stolen ski masks and stolen toy guns, they take hostages in their local bank, holding them for ransom. Things go well until the hostages learn what's going on, and demand a piece of the action for themselves.

The Valet

2006

French

6.6

♡ 8

70%

Francis Veber Director

Kristin Scott Thomas as Christine

Virginie Ledoyen as Émilie

Daniel Auteuil as Levasseur

Dany Boon as Richard

Caught by tabloid paparazzi with his mistress Elena, a famous and beautiful fashion model, billionaire Pierre Levasseur tries to avoid a divorce by inventing a preposterous lie. He uses the presence of a passerby in the photo to claim to his wife that it's not him Elena is seeing but the other man, one François Pignon. Pignon is a modest little man who works as a parking valet. To make the story convincing, Elena has to move in with Pignon.

A Heart in Winter

1992

French

7.6

♡ 14

85%

Claude Sautet Director

Stanislas Carré de Malberg as Brice

Elizabeth Bourgine as Hélène

Myriam Boyer as Mme. Amet

Daniel Auteuil as Stéphane

Beautiful violin virtuoso Camille has two obsessions: the music of Ravel, and a friend of her husband's who crafts violins. But his heart seems to be as cold as her playing is passionate.

My Favorite Season

1993

French

6.9

♡ 4

93%

André Téchiné Director

Daniel Auteuil as Antoine

Catherine Deneuve as Emilie

Michèle Moretti as La directrice

Roschdy Zem as Medhi

Elderly woman Berthe leaves her house to live with her daughter Emilie. Emilie and her brother Antoine had a falling out three years ago and have not seen each other since, but Emilie invites him for Christmas. Memories will resurface and impact both Berthe's destiny and the strange relationship between Emilie and Antoine.

The Eighth Day

1996

French

7.5

♡ 5

67%

Jaco Van Dormael Director

Daniel Auteuil as Harry

Miou-Miou as Julie

Dominic Gould as le collègue de Harry

Gérard Hernandez as (voice)

Georges has Down syndrome, living at a mental-institution, Harry is a busy businessman, giving lectures for young aspiring salesmen. He is successful in his business life, but his social life is a disaster since his wife left him and took their two children with her. This weekend his children came by train to meet him, but Harry, working as always, forgot to pick them up. Neither his wife or his children want to see him again and he is driving around on the country roads, anguished and angry. He almost runs over Georges, on the run from the institution since everybody else went home with their parents except him, whose mother is dead. Harry tries to get rid of Georges but he won't leave his new friend. Eventually a special friendship forms between the two of them, a friendship which makes Harry a different person.

The Second Wind

2007

French

5.7

♡ 3

36%

Alain Corneau Director

Philippe Nahon as Commissaire Fardiano

Daniel Auteuil as Gustave 'Gu' Minda

Monica Bellucci as Simona - dite 'Manouche'

Jacques Dutronc as Stanislas Orloff

Gu, a famous gangster, has just escaped from jail. All french police is after him. Before leaving the country with Manouche, the woman he loves, Gu needs a final job to get some money. The job works, but a police's scheming makes Gu appear as a traitor to his own accomplices. Gu will do whatever it takes to clean his honor...

The Confessions

2016

Italian

6.1

♡ 1

55%

Roberto Andò Director

Connie Nielsen as Claire Seth

Daniel Auteuil as Daniel Roché

Julian Ovenden as Matthew Price

Aleksey Guskov as Ministro russo

A G8 meeting is being held at a luxury hotel on the German coast. The world's most powerful economists are gathered to enact important provisions that will deeply influence the world economy. One of the guests is a mysterious Italian monk, invited by Daniel Rochè, the director of the International Monetary Fund. He wants the monk to receive his confession, that night, in secret. The next morning, Rochè is found dead...

36th Precinct

2004

French

7.1

♡ 15

Olivier Marchal Director

Valeria Golino as Camille Vrinks

Gérard Depardieu as Denis Klein

Mylène Jampanoï as Jade

Daniel Auteuil as Léo Vrinks

In Paris, two cops are competing for the vacant job of chief of police, in the middle of the search for a gang of violent thieves. The movie is directed by Olivier Marchal, a former police officer who spent 12 years with the French police before creating this story, taken in part from real events of the 1980s.

Queen Margot

1994

French

7.4

♡ 8

82%

88%

Action

based on novel or book

marriage of convenience

Patrice Chéreau Director

Asia Argento as Charlotte of Sauve

Daniel Auteuil as Henri de Navarre

Grégoire Colin as Jeune Egorge

Isabelle Adjani as Marguerite de Valois dite La Reine Margot

Paris, Kingdom of France, August 18, 1572. To avoid the outbreak of a religious war, the Catholic princess Marguerite de Valois, sister of the feeble King Charles IX, marries the Huguenot King Henry III of Navarre.

The Last Deadly Mission

2008

French

6.6

♡ 5

56%

Crime

Drama

Thriller

Olivier Marchal Director

Louise Monot as Blandine

Philippe Nahon as Charles Subra

Daniel Auteuil as Louis Schneider

Anne Charrier as Vétérinaire

A washed-up Marseilles cop (Auteuil) earns a chance at redemption by protecting a woman from the man who killed her parents as he is about to be released from prison.

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Pour cent briques t'as plus rien

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