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Jean de Florette (1986)
, 2hDirected by Claude Berri, Pascal Baeumler, Xavier Castano
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Western
Themes La provence, Films about the labor movement
Actors Yves Montand, Gérard Depardieu, Daniel Auteuil, Élisabeth Depardieu, Margarita Lozano, Hippolyte Girardot
Au milieu des années 1920 dans un petit village fictif de Provence perdu dans la garrigue, Les Bastides Blanches, Ugolin revient du service militaire. Ce jeune paysan a un rêve : gagner de l'argent en cultivant des œillets. Son oncle, César Soubeyran, dit « le Papet », est un vieux célibataire prêt à tout pour que son neveu réussisse et se marie, afin que se transmette son nom, dont Ugolin est l'unique héritier. L'aboutissement de ces projets nécessite une source sur ses terres, un bien extrêmement précieux. La « ferme des Romarins » conviendrait parfaitement.
Germinal (1993)
, 2h40Directed by Claude Berri, Frédéric Auburtin
Origin Belgique
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about the labor movement, La précarité
Actors Gérard Depardieu, Miou-Miou, Renaud, Jean Carmet, Anny Duperey, Judith Henry
Vers la fin du XIX siècle, Étienne Lantier, machineur au chômage, arrive à la mine « Le Voreux », dans le nord de la France. Après la mort d'une mineuse du nom de Fleurance, il est engagé. Il est envoyé dans un petit groupe dirigé par Toussaint Maheu, qui devient son ami. La famille Maheu compte dix personnes : Maheu, mineur, son père, travaillant également à la mine, sa femme, la Maheude, et leurs enfants. Zacharie, Catherine et Jeanlin, les ainés, travaillent eux aussi à la mine ; Alzire, bossue, garde le lit ; Léonore, Henri et le petit dernier sont encore trop petits pour travailler.
Ruby & Quentin (2003)
, 1h27Directed by Francis Veber
Origin France
Genres Comedy, Comedy thriller, Crime
Themes Prison films, Buddy films
Actors Gérard Depardieu, Jean Reno, Richard Berry, André Dussollier, Leonor Varela, Loïc Brabant
Quentin, a dim-witted small-time thief, holds up a foreign exchange booth. Unable to get the money he wants, he asks for directions to the nearest bank. When the police are given this tip-off, Quentin runs into a cinema where Ice Age is showing. He is caught when instead of continuing to run, he sits down and enjoys the film.
, 1h22Directed by Jean Becker
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes L'adolescence, Films about education, Films about children, L'enfance marginalisée, Films about school violence
Actors Gérard Depardieu, Gisèle Casadesus, Jean-François Stévenin, Patrick Jean Marie Bouchitté, Maurane, François-Xavier Demaison
Germain is a 45-year-old illiterate handyman who has not had much luck in his life so far. He was bullied at school, both by the teacher and the other pupils because he was a slow reader. His mother never gave him love and affection, and kept reminding him that he was clumsy and an unwanted child, the result of fling at the French national holiday. But he ks loyal, with a good heart, and still parks his trailer close to her house where he maintains his lovely vegetable garden. He earns some extra money by taking his vegetables to the weekly farmer's market, in the truck borrowed from the bar where he relaxes every day with his friends, joking and chatting. His girl friend Annette is a younger woman who drives the local bus, and very much in love with this sweet, simple and loving man.
My Father the Hero (1991)
, 1h45Directed by Gérard Lauzier
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Le thème des vacances
Actors Gérard Depardieu, Marie Gillain, Catherine Jacob, Charlotte de Turckheim, Patrick Mille, Éric Berger
The story introduces André (Gérard Depardieu), a Frenchman who is divorced from his wife. He takes his beautiful teenage daughter, Véronique (Marie Gillain), on vacation to a paradise island with him. She is desperate to appear as a woman and not a girl, so in order to impress a local boy, she makes up more and more fascinating, yet intriguing stories, starting with André being her lover - a sugar Daddy. André is desperate to make Véronique happy and so plays along with her elaborate games, the stories they make up get increasingly bizarre, funnily consistent.
Cyrano de Bergerac (1990)
, 2h15Directed by Jean-Paul Rappeneau
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Historical, Romance
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Gérard Depardieu, Anne Brochet, Vincent Pérez, Jacques Weber, Roland Bertin, Philippe Morier-Genoud
Cyrano de Bergerac (Gérard Depardieu) is a Parisian poet and swashbuckler with a large nose of which he is self-conscious, but pretends to be proud of. He is madly in love with his "friendly cousin" (they were not actually related as cousins), the beautiful Roxane (Anne Brochet); however, he does not believe she will requite his love because he considers himself physically unattractive, because of his over large nose. Soon, he finds that Roxane has become infatuated with Christian de Neuvillette (Vincent Pérez), a dashing new recruit to the Cadets de Gascogne, the military unit in which Cyrano is serving. Christian however, despite his good looks, is tongue-tied when speaking with women. Seeing an opportunity to vicariously declare his love for Roxane, he decides to aid Christian, who does not know how to court a woman and gain her love.
Camille Claudel (1988)
, 2h55Directed by Bruno Nuytten
Origin France
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical, Romance
Themes Sculpture
Actors Gérard Depardieu, Isabelle Adjani, Alain Cuny, Laurent Grévill, Madeleine Robinson, Maxime Leroux
The film recounts the troubled life of French sculptor Camille Claudel and her long relationship with legendary sculptor Auguste Rodin. Beginning in the 1880s with a young Claudel's first meeting with Rodin, the film traces the development of their intense romantic bond. The growth of this relationship coincides with the rise of Claudel's career, helping her overcome prejudices against female artists. However, their romance soon sours, due to the increasing pressures of Rodin's fame and his love for another woman. These difficulties combine with her increasing doubts about the value of her work drive Claudel into an emotional tumult that threatens to become insanity.
, 1h55Directed by Alain Corneau
Origin France
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about classical music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Jean-Pierre Marielle, Gérard Depardieu, Anne Brochet, Guillaume Depardieu, Michel Bouquet, Jean-Claude Dreyfus
Ageing court composer Marin Marais recalls his former master and un-equalled viol player, the jansenist Monsieur de Sainte Colombe. Sainte Colombe buried himself in his music after the death of his wife bringing up his two daughters on his own, and teaching them to be musicians, and playing in a consort with them for local noble audiences. His reputation reaching the court of Louis XIV, the king sent an envoy, Caignet, to request him to play at court. But Sainte Colombe sent the envoy away as well as the abbé Mathieu, and shut himself away in a cabin in his garden in order to perfect the art of viol playing.
The ComDads (1983)
, 1h29Directed by Francis Veber
Origin France
Genres Comedy
Themes La provence, Buddy films
Actors Gérard Depardieu, Pierre Richard, Anny Duperey, Michel Aumont, Gisèle Pascal, Stéphane Bierry
A teenaged boy has run away from home. His father is ineffective at finding him, so his mother contacts two former lovers from around the time her son was conceived, telling them both that the child is their son and asking them to look for him. One of them (Depardieu) is a tough journalist investigating the Mafia, while the other (Richard) is a timid former teacher who was on the verge of committing suicide when he received the telephone call. The two former boyfriends finally meet, and together they locate the son. They both argue who is really the father. In the end the son tells both Depardieu and Richard (while the other is out of earshot) that his mother thinks that he is the father. Thus, the son adopts both of them as his fathers, and also reconciles with his real father.
Seven Years of Marriage (2003)
, 1h37Directed by Didier Bourdon
Origin France
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about marriage
Actors Didier Bourdon, Catherine Frot, Jacques Weber, Jacques Herlin, Claire Nadeau, Yan Duffas
Pour tenter de sauver son couple à la dérive tant sexuellement que sentimentalement après 7 ans de mariage, Alain, qui est médecin urgentiste dans une clinique parisienne, consulte un ami sexologue. Celui-ci, à force de grandes théories pseudo-freudiennes sur le point D (le point du Désir qui ne doit pas devenir le point de la Déprime) le persuade que la solution ne passe que par la réalisation des fantasmes refoulés et la libération des mœurs (sex-shops, échangisme, films porno...), et lui conseille de mettre ses fantasmes à exécution avec sa femme, Audrey, employée de banque, femme devenue froide et ayant totalement cessé d'aimer son mari, ne maintenant sa vie de couple que par habitude installée au fil des années et pour l'éducation de leur fille Camille.