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Philippe Noiret is a Actor French born on 1 october 1930 at Lille (France)

Philippe Noiret

Philippe Noiret
Philippe Noiret participated to 150 films (as actor, director or script writer).
Among those, 39 have good markets following the box office.

Here are the best films classified by number of entries :

Actor

The Postman, 1h48
Directed by Michael Radford, Massimo Troisi
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Films about writers, Poésie, Films about language and translation
Actors Philippe Noiret, Massimo Troisi, Maria Grazia Cucinotta, Renato Scarpa, Anna Bonaiuto, Anna Bonaiuto
Roles Pablo Neruda
Rating78% 3.901413.901413.901413.901413.90141
Set in the year 1950, Pablo Neruda, the famous Chilean poet, is exiled to a small island in Italy for political reasons. His wife accompanies him. On the island, local Mario Ruoppolo is dissatisfied with being a fisherman like his father. Mario looks for other work and is hired as a temporary postman with Neruda as his only customer. He uses his bicycle to hand deliver Neruda's mail (the island has no cars). Though poorly educated, the postman eventually befriends Neruda and becomes further influenced by Neruda's political views and poetry.
Very Happy Alexander, 1h40
Directed by Yves Robert
Origin France
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about animals, Cooking films, Films about the labor movement, Films about dogs, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Philippe Noiret, Françoise Brion, Marlène Jobert, Pierre Richard, Tsilla Chelton, Paul Le Person
Roles Alexandre Gartempe
Rating72% 3.631223.631223.631223.631223.63122
Alexandre, homme bon vivant et nonchalant, est cultivateur dans une ferme française de la Beauce. Cependant sa vie quotidienne est dirigée par « la Grande », son ambitieuse mais néanmoins tyrannique épouse, qui le pousse à bout de force en lui imposant chaque jour une liste de travaux démesurée. Devenu brutalement veuf, il éprouve un grand soulagement et se sent libéré de son labeur : il décide de s'accorder un repos qu'il juge mérité, afin de prendre le temps de savourer la vie. Son comportement sème rapidement le trouble dans le petit village par l'exemple qu'il donne, et une partie des habitants décide de le forcer à reprendre le travail. Mais ils échouent, et Alexandre commence à faire des émules…
Dead Tired
Dead Tired (1994)
, 1h32
Directed by Michel Blanc
Origin France
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about films
Actors Michel Blanc, Carole Bouquet, Philippe Noiret, Josiane Balasko, Christian Clavier, Marie-Anne Chazel
Roles Philippe Noiret
Rating63% 3.189973.189973.189973.189973.18997
Michel Blanc is a great film actor. However, he was accused of sexually abusing Josiane Balasko, Charlotte Gainsbourg and Mathilda May, had behaved like a cad at Cannes and accept poor seals, such as animations in supermarkets, secretly his agent. The evidence is obvious, but White knows he is innocent. He is assisted by Carole Bouquet to shed light on this matter, and he discovers that he has a perfect double, Patrick Olivier, who, having suffered in his life to be like Michel Blanc, decided to enjoy.
Fort Saganne, 3h
Directed by Alain Corneau, Samuel Bronston
Origin France
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Themes French war films, La colonisation française, Political films, Le désert, Histoire de France
Actors Gérard Depardieu, Philippe Noiret, Catherine Deneuve, Sophie Marceau, Michel Duchaussoy, Roger Dumas
Roles Dubreuilh
Rating62% 3.141723.141723.141723.141723.14172
In 1911, a willful and determined man from peasant stock named Charles Saganne (Gérard Depardieu) enlists in the military and is assigned to the Sahara Desert under the aristocratic Colonel Dubreuilh (Philippe Noiret). Saganne attracts the attentions of Madeleine (Sophie Marceau), the daughter of the regional administrator. In the Sahara, Saganne earns the respect of the Arabs, including Amajan, an independent warrior. After several campaigns, Saganne travels to Paris on a diplomatic mission. After having an affair with a journalist in Paris, Saganne returns to Africa, where he leads a valliant defense against Sultan Omar. He is awarded the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour, and marries Madeleine. The onset of World War I puts his success and happiness at risk.
Cinema Paradiso, 1h58
Directed by Giuseppe Tornatore
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes L'adolescence, Films about films, Films about children, Medical-themed films, Seafaring films, Transport films, Films about disabilities, La cécité
Actors Philippe Noiret, Salvatore Cascio, Marco Leonardi, Jacques Perrin, Brigitte Fossey, Antonella Attili
Roles Alfredo
Rating84% 4.249184.249184.249184.249184.24918
In Rome, in the 1980s, famous Italian film director Salvatore Di Vita returns home late one evening, where his girlfriend sleepily tells him that his mother called to say someone named Alfredo has died. Salvatore obviously shies from committed relationships and has not been to his home village of Giancaldo, Sicily in 30 years. As his girlfriend asks him who Alfredo is, Salvatore flashes back to his childhood.
Round Midnight, 2h13
Directed by Bertrand Tavernier, Philippe Bérenger
Origin France
Genres Drama, Musical theatre, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Jazz films, Musical films
Actors François Cluzet, Martin Scorsese, Lonette McKee, Philippe Noiret, Pierre Trabaud, Herbie Hancock
Roles Redon
Rating73% 3.6958753.6958753.6958753.6958753.695875
Dale Turner, a famous African-American tenor saxophone player in Paris in the 1950s is befriended by Francis, a struggling French graphic designer specialized in film posters, who idolizes the musician and who tries desperately to help him to escape alcohol abuse. As he succeeds, the budding friendship they develop changes their lives forever.
D'Artagnan's Daughter, 2h9
Directed by Bertrand Tavernier, Riccardo Freda
Origin France
Genres Comedy, Swashbuckler, Action, Adventure
Themes Films about sexuality, Transgender in film, Histoire de France, LGBT-related film, Cross-dressing in film
Actors Sophie Marceau, Philippe Noiret, Claude Rich, Sami Frey, Jean-Luc Bideau, Gigi Proietti
Roles D'Artagnan
Rating57% 2.899332.899332.899332.899332.89933
In the autumn of 1654, an escaped slave seeks refuge at a convent in southern France. After the nuns take him in, his pursuers break into the convent and assault the nuns, searching for the slave. After wounding the mother superior (Pascale Roberts), they close in on their prey. One feisty novitiate, Eloise (Sophie Marceau)—the daughter of the renowned swordsman D'Artagnan (Philippe Noiret) of the famed Three Musketeers—stands up to the intruders, but is shoved aside as they ride off after the frightened slave, who escaped from the evil Duke Crassac de Merindol. Eloise finds a blood-stained piece of paper (a simple laundry list) that the slave used to stop a bleeding wound, and believes it holds some secret code. Later, Eloise is with the mother superior when she dies from her wound. Swearing a sacred oath to avenge her and dressed in men's clothes, Eloise sets out for Paris to elicit the help of her father in tracking down the murderers.
On Guard
On Guard (1997)
, 2h
Directed by Philippe de Broca
Origin France
Genres Drama, Swashbuckler, Action, Adventure
Actors Daniel Auteuil, Fabrice Luchini, Vincent Pérez, Marie Gillain, Yann Collette, Philippe Noiret
Roles Duke Philippe d'Orléans
Rating68% 3.4437353.4437353.4437353.4437353.443735
In 1700 in Nevers, France, a skilled swordsman named Lagardère (Daniel Auteuil) challenges Duke Philippe de Nevers (Vincent Pérez) to a friendly duel in order to learn his secret lethal maneuver known as the "Nevers Attack". Nevers agrees and quickly dispatches the upstart whom he soon befriends. Nevers learns that he has a "son" by Blanche de Caylus—a fact previously concealed by his cousin and would-be heir, the wicked Comte de Gonzague (Fabrice Luchini). That night Nevers escapes an assassination attempt by Gonzague's men.
La Grande Bouffe, 2h10
Directed by Marco Ferreri, Rémy Duchemin
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Cooking films, Films about sexuality, Films about suicide, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Erotic thriller films
Actors Marcello Mastroianni, Ugo Tognazzi, Michel Piccoli, Philippe Noiret, Andréa Ferréol, Monique Chaumette
Roles Philippe
Rating71% 3.550583.550583.550583.550583.55058
The film tells the story of four friends who gather in a villa for the weekend with the express purpose of eating themselves to death. Bouffer is French slang for "excessive eating". (the Italian abbuffata means "great eating").
The Serpent, 2h4
Directed by Henri Verneuil
Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Spy
Themes Spy films, Radio, Political films
Actors Yul Brynner, Henry Fonda, Jean Desailly, Dirk Bogarde, Philippe Noiret, Michel Bouquet
Roles Lucien Berthon
Rating61% 3.0977553.0977553.0977553.0977553.097755
Aleksey Teodorovic Vlassov (Yul Brynner) is a high ranking KGB official who defects while in France. He has with him highly-classified information as part of a deal with Western intelligence for his arrival in the United States. The debriefing is held at Langley by DCI Allan Davies (Henry Fonda) and MI6 representative Philip Boyle (Dirk Bogarde). Vlassov hands off a list of enemy agents in Western Europe including a deep penetration into NATO. Davies wants to begin operations to arrest the agents; however, those on the list suddenly begin to die off. The CIA also has suspicions over the authenticity of Vlassov's claims. The CIA discovers that a defection photo of Vlassov was taken in the Soviet Union, not in Turkey, judging from the contours of Mt. Ararat in the background. Vlassov also fails a lie detector test after he angrily protests about sexual related questions asked by the CIA during the test.
The Old Gun, 1h43
Directed by Robert Enrico
Origin France
Genres Drama, Historical
Themes French war films, Films about sexuality, Rape in fiction, Erotic films, Rape and revenge films, Political films, Auto-justice, Histoire de France, L'Occupation allemande en France
Actors Philippe Noiret, Romy Schneider, Jean Bouise, Joachim Hansen, Karl Michael Vogler, Robert Hoffmann
Roles Julien Dandieu
Rating74% 3.747343.747343.747343.747343.74734
In Montauban in 1944, during the German retreat from France, Julien Dandieu is an ageing, embittered surgeon in the local hospital. Frightened by the German army entering Montauban, Dandieu asks his friend Francois to drive his wife and his daughter to the remote village where he owns a chateau. One week later, Dandieu sets off to meet them for the weekend, but the Germans have now occupied the village. He finds that all the villagers have been herded into the church and shot. In the château, he finds his daughter shot and his wife immolated by a flame-thrower.
Dear Inspector, 1h45
Directed by Philippe de Broca
Origin France
Genres Comedy, Action, Crime
Actors Annie Girardot, Philippe Noiret, Catherine Alric, Hubert Deschamps, Paulette Dubost, Brenda Vaccaro
Roles Antoine Lemercier
Rating66% 3.3249353.3249353.3249353.3249353.324935
Lise Tanquerelle (Annie Girardot), commissaire de police, a la surprise de constater que le cyclomotoriste qu'elle vient de heurter avec sa voiture n'est autre qu'Antoine Lemercier (Philippe Noiret), un ancien camarade de classe qu'elle n'a pas vu depuis 20 ans. Ces retrouvailles donnent lieu à un coup de foudre, mais Lise cache sa profession à Antoine, devenu professeur de grec et farouchement anti-police. Parallèlement à cette romance naissante, Lise doit enquêter sur une série de meurtres bizarres : trois députés assassinés successivement, un poinçon planté dans le dos.
Jupiter's Thigh, 1h36
Directed by Philippe de Broca, Emmanuel Gust
Origin France
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Adventure
Actors Annie Girardot, Philippe Noiret, Francis Perrin, Catherine Alric, Marc Dudicourt, Paulette Dubost
Roles Antoine Lemercier
Rating61% 3.0989253.0989253.0989253.0989253.098925
Antoine Lemercier et Lise Tanquerelle passent leur voyage de noces en Grèce. Ils y font la rencontre de Charles-Hubert Pochet, un jeune archéologue qui fait bientôt une grande découverte, mais la pièce est dérobée. Lorsque le voleur est retrouvé mort, c'est Charles-Hubert Pochet qui est accusé de meurtre avec la complicité d'Antoine Lemercier.
The African, 1h41
Directed by Philippe de Broca
Origin France
Genres Comedy, Adventure
Actors Catherine Deneuve, Philippe Noiret, Jean-François Balmer, Jean Benguigui, Jacques François, Vivian Reed
Roles Victor
Rating62% 3.101523.101523.101523.101523.10152
Charlotte (Catherine Deneuve) travaille pour une agence de voyages parisienne et doit créer un nouveau club de vacances. Elle décide de l'établir dans l'Afrique des grands lacs au contact des pygmées. Elle se rend en Afrique à la recherche d'un site, en compagnie de Paul Planchet (Jean-François Balmer) qui n'apprécie pas du tout de quitter son confort habituel.
Le Grand Carnaval, 2h10
Directed by Alexandre Arcady
Origin France
Genres Drama, War
Actors Philippe Noiret, Roger Hanin, Richard Berry, Peter Riegert, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Fiona Gélin
Roles Étienne Labrouche
Rating53% 2.6887952.6887952.6887952.6887952.688795
Pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, en 1942, les Américains débarquent en Algérie pour la bataille d'Afrique du Nord. Le débarquement se fait à proximité d'une petite ville nommée Tadjira. Cette sous-préfecture principalement composée de pieds-noirs et d'Algériens devra accueillir les soldats américains et vivre avec eux.