Bernard Giraudeau

  • Patrick Schulmann – Et la tendresse?… Bordel! (1979)

    1971-1980ComedyCultFrancePatrick Schulmann

    Synopsis
    Three couples from three different backgrounds have three very different ideas about romance.
    Businessman François, the master seducer and man of power, regards women as mere objects to satisfy his over-inflated libido, a situation which his partner Carole accepts with resignation.
    Luc and Eva appear to be in a stable relationship – he spends his days interviewing people for surveys, she works in a psychiatric clinic – and their time together at home is warm and affectionate.
    Léo, an aspiring lawyer, and Julie, a shop assistant, are attracted towards one another but each finds it hard to make the first move – until their shyness yields to the needs of desire.
    Will any of the couples live happily ever after ?Read More »

  • Nicole Garcia – Le fils préféré (1994)

    1991-2000DramaFranceNicole Garcia

    Nicole Garcia’s film shows a family through an adult man’s figure, and his weekdays. The main character is one of the sons of an old and ill man who is in hospital nowadays. The father has 2 other sons too. Jean Paul visits his father all day. After he divorced his life is unexciting and troubled. He has a lot of dark suits, a good car, a big house but he has some debts, and his private life touch bottom. He has to call his brothers and ask them to help …Read More »

  • Gilles Béhat – Rue barbare AKA Barbarous Street (1984)

    1981-1990CrimeDramaFranceGilles Béhat

    In this run-of-the-mill crime drama, Bernard Giraudeau is Daniel Chetman, someone who wants to leave the life of violence he knew in his neighborhood — and cannot do so because his nemesis, a strutting street gangster now involved with organized crime, continues to terrorize the inhabitants of Chetman’s turf. After much spilled blood, a parade of ugly underground types, and various sexual scenes, Chetman reduces the forces of evil to a reasonable level of opposition — but who knows if the neighborhood will be different in the end.Read More »

  • Olivier Assayas – Une nouvelle vie AKA A New Life (1993)

    1991-2000DramaFranceOlivier Assayas

    Tina is a young warehousewoman in a supermarket. She is in love with Fred but still lives at her mother Nadine’s. When Nadine dies, Tina looks for meeting her father Ludovic, who she never knew. But she first meets her half-sister Lise, and Constantin, the unusual Ludovic’s lawyer.Read More »

  • Pierre Granier-Deferre – Le toubib AKA The Medic (1979)

    1971-1980DramaFrancePierre Granier-DeferreWar

    Synopsis:
    An unknown future. WWIII extends. Jean-Marie Despres, a prestigious surgeon, broken by life and his divorce supervises a field hospital, a few kilometers from the front. He meets the young and beautiful nurse Harmony. She is an idealist, she gives him hope.Read More »

  • Marc Lobet – Meurtres à domicile AKA The Apartment Murders (1982)

    France1981-1990Marc LobetMysteryThriller

    Synopsis:
    ‘Based on the novel “Hotel Meuble” by Thomas Owen, this suspense thriller has a female police inspector Aurelia Maudru living in a baroque apartment house in Brussels, the site of a nasty murder. All the inspector’s neighbors are suspects in the case, and she is hard-put to ferret out the reasons for the foul deed from among the building’s strange inhabitants, including a death-obsessed undertaker and an aging photographer. As the suspense builds to the final scenes, the solution to who did it is as unusual as the residents of the building.’
    – Eleanor MannikkaRead More »

  • Ettore Scola – Passione d amore aka Passion Of Love (1981)

    1981-1990DramaEttore ScolaItalyRomance

    Ettore Scola’s dark, romantic tale of a woman so stubborn and passionate that nothing can dissuade her from pursuing the object of her affections.

    When Captain Bachetti arrives at his new post in Northern Italy, he already resents the reassignment, which has separated him from his mistress, the exquisite Clara. And the situation becomes even more disturbing when this man with a taste for beautiful women finds himself subjected to the persistent attentions of the spectacularly ugly Fosca; everything about this brash, loud, impolite and unattractive creature fills him with horror.
    But the Captain has never before encountered the transformative power of love.Read More »

  • Daniel Schmid – Hécate (1982)

    1981-1990ArthouseDaniel SchmidDramaFrance

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    Daniel Schmid sets this amour fou in exquisite interiors against the glittering backdrop of a clash of cultures: European colonialism on the one hand and the dark, secretive labyrinth of the Arab world on the other.Read More »

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