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Jacques Bonnaffé

Jacques Bonnaffé

French actor
June 22, 1958 (66 years old)
Sortie prévue en February 2025
Fr. 2024. Comedy by Emmanuel Courcol with Benjamin Lavernhe, Pierre Lottin, Sarah Suco. A famous orchestra conductor learns that he has been adopted and has a brother, a school canteen worker and trombone player in a brass band in northern France.
Runtime: 103 min.

Reves de jeunesse

V.O.: Rêves de jeunesse
Fr. 2019. Psychological drama by Alain Raoust with Salomé Richard, Yoann Zimmer, Estelle Meyer. A young carpenter gets a summer job at a village’s waste disposal centre in a town that she had visited ten years earlier.
Runtime: 95 min.

Sources assassines

V.O.: Sources vives
Fr. 2016. Crime drama by Bruno Bontzolakis with Julie de Bona, Marthe Keller, Jacques Bonnaffé. A Parisian police officer finds her mother, head doctor at a health resort in La Bourboule, who claims to be innocent of her ex-spouse
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 2015. Biography by René Féret with Nicolas Giraud, Lolita Chammah, Robinson Stévenin. Anton Chekhov, a successful doctor and writer, keeps the promise he made to his brother who died of tuberculosis to go to Sakhalin Island, one of the prisons of the Russian Empire.
Runtime: 96 min.
Runtime: 107 min.

Come What May

V.O.: En mai fais ce qu'il te plaît
Runtime: 114 min.
Fr. 2013. Biography by Martin Provost with Emmanuelle Devos, Sandrine Kiberlain, Catherine Hiegel. In 1945, Violette Leduc met the writer Simone de Beauvoir, who became her benefactor and introduced her into Parisian literary circles.
Runtime: 138 min.

Coming Home

V.O.: À moi seule
Fr. 2012. Drama by Frédéric Videau with Agathe Bonitzer, Reda Kateb, Hélène Fillières. Freed by her captor, a teenager tries to return to a normal life with her family while remembering her eight years of captivity.
Runtime: 91 min.
Runtime: 95 min.

Around a Small Mountain

V.O.: 36 Vues du pic Saint-Loup
Fr. 2009. Dramatic comedy by Jacques Rivette with Jane Birkin, Sergio Castellitto, André Marcon. A mysterious traveler helps the grieving daughter of a small circus owner make peace with a tragic event from her past.
Runtime: 90 min.
Runtime: 90 min.

The Second Wind

V.O.: Le Deuxième Souffle
Fr. 2007. Crime drama by Alain Corneau with Daniel Auteuil, Monica Bellucci, Michel Blanc. Before fleeing to Italy, a mobster on the run participates in a final robbery to bail himself out.
Runtime: 155 min.
Fr. 2007. Dramatic comedy by Jean-Marc Moutout with Elsa Zylberstein, Jacques Bonnaffé, Bruno Putzulu. The emotional tribulations of a single legal secretary, torn between her dream of adventure and her need for stability.
Runtime: 104 min.

The Page Turner

V.O.: La Tourneuse de pages
Fr. 2006. Thriller by Denis Dercourt with Déborah François, Catherine Frot, Pascal Greggory. A young woman becomes a page-turner for the famous concert pianist whose carelessness ruined her own career as a pianist ten years earlier.
Runtime: 85 min.
Fr. 2006. Chronicle by Hervé Baslé with Francis Renaud, Marina Golovine, Jacques Bonnaffé. Follows the social mobility of a boy at the end of the 19th century who started working at the age of 15 as a laborer in the metal factory with his father.
Fr. 2005. Psychological drama by Dominik Moll with Laurent Lucas, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Charlotte Rampling. The discovery by a young couple of a rodent in the drain pipe of their kitchen sink starts a series of disconcerting ordeals for them.
Runtime: 129 min.

The Art of Breaking Up

V.O.: Un Fil à la patte
Fr. 2004. Comedy by Michel Deville with Charles Berling, Emmanuelle Béart, Patrick Timsit. Before making a rich marriage, a penniless nobleman must first break up with his mistress, a beautiful music-hall singer.
Runtime: 79 min.

The Repentant

V.O.: La Repentie
Runtime: 125 min.
Fr. 2002. Adventures by Thierry Binisti with Richard Bohringer, Jacques Bonnaffé, Ronnie Lazaro. An aging captain who spent his life sailing the China Sea agrees to run one last race for a shady shipowner.

The Devils

V.O.: Les Diables
Fr. 2002. Psychological drama by Christophe Ruggia with Vincent Rottiers, Adèle Haenel, Jacques Bonnaffé. A delinquent kid, who can't stand being apart from his autistic sister, dreams of being reunited with their parents who abandoned them at birth.
Runtime: 111 min.
Fr. 2001. Sentimental comedy by Jacques Rivette with Jeanne Balibar, Sergio Castellitto, Jacques Bonnaffé. Sentimental crossroads around a French actress living in Rome who sees her ex-lover again during a tour of Paris.
Runtime: 154 min.
Fr. 1998. Musical by Olivier Ducastel, Jacques Martineau with Virginie Ledoyen, Mathieu Demy, Jacques Bonnaffé. A young switchboard operator, who already has two lovers, falls in love with a young HIV-positive man.
Runtime: 98 min.

Venus Beauty Institute

V.O.: Vénus Beauté (Institut)
Fr. 1998. Dramatic comedy by Tonie Marshall with Nathalie Baye, Bulle Ogier, Samuel Le Bihan. A forty-year-old single beautician is courted by a young man who has fallen in love with her at first sight.
Runtime: 105 min.
Fr. 1995. Dramatic comedy by Jacques Renard with Jacques Bonnaffé, Mireille Perrier, Jean Yanne.
Fr. 1993. Mores drama by John Lvoff with Marie Bunel, Jacques Bonnaffé, Bruno Todeschini. The erosion of a couple of yuppies comfortably installed in a beautiful apartment in Lyon.
Runtime: 99 min.
Fr. 1992. Dramatic comedy by Jacques Fansten with Daniel Gélin, Jean Carmet, Grégoire Colin. A group of retirees have an affair with two young delinquents whom they released from prison.
Runtime: 116 min.

Les Enfants de la guerre

V.O.: Les Enfants du vent
Fr. 1991. Drama by Krzysztof Rogulski with Jacques Bonnaffé, Thérèse Liotard, Marie Dubois. Forced to take refuge in the mountains during the Second World War, three young city dwellers and three countrymen put on a show that they perform from village to village.
Fr. 1991. Crime drama by Josée Dayan with Pierre-Loup Rajot, François Marthouret, Jacques Bonnaffé. A police officer beaten by a gang of gangsters during the war sets out to find his attackers and their leader.

Cross My Heart

V.O.: La Fracture du myocarde
Fr. 1989. Dramatic comedy by Jacques Fansten with Sylvain Copans, Nicolas Parodi, Cécilia Rouaud. A young boy requires the cooperation of his classmates to hide his mother's death from the authorities.
Runtime: 105 min.
Fr. 1989. Mores comedy by Jacques Davila with Tonie Marshall, Sabine Haudepin, Jacques Bonnaffé. An actor dismissed from the play he was rehearsing moves into a friend's villa, where he sows discord and sorrow.
Runtime: 110 min.
Fr. 1989. Chronicle by René Féret with Valérie Stroh, Jean-Yves Berteloot, Jacques Bonnaffé. The trials and tribulations of a coffee shop owner's daughter who marries a travelling salesman and decides to start a family.
Runtime: 123 min.
Fr. 1988. War drama by Fabrice Cazeneuve with Jacques Bonnaffé, Piotr Shivak, Alexandre Arbatt. In 1916, a French soldier sent on a mission to a Russian camp befriends a talkative soldier.
Runtime: 122 min.
Fr. 1987. Social drama by Frédéric Compain with Jacques Bonnaffé, Maria Schneider, François Siener. A guard hired by the tenants of a new building gradually takes control of their private lives.
Runtime: 100 min.
Fr. 1986. Comedy by François Dupont-Midy with Henri Tisot, Ronny Coutteure, Cerise. The matrimonial plans of a garage owner are disrupted by the arrival of a look-alike in his town.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 1986. Crime drama by Sébastien Grall with Jacques Bonnaffé, Clémentine Célarié, Philippe Noiret. After the alleged suicide of his wife, a professional diver discovers her hidden personality.
Runtime: 96 min.
Fr. 1985. Mores comedy by Jean-Charles Tacchella with Robin Renucci, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Catherine Leprince. A young art critic likes to intervene in the problems of his neighbors or friends.
Runtime: 102 min.
Fr. 1985. War drama by Jacques Renard with Miou-Miou, Sandrine Bonnaire, Maria Casarès. During the German Occupation, a worker's wife and a barber's teenage daughter join the French Resistance.
Runtime: 91 min.

The Temptation of Isabelle

V.O.: La Tentation d'Isabelle
Fr. 1985. Psychological drama by Jacques Doillon with Jacques Bonnaffé, Ann-Gisel Glass, Xavier Leduc. A man with a tormented mind tries to provoke an affair between his wife and a former lover.
Runtime: 91 min.
Fr. 1985. Crime drama by Daniel Van Cutsem with Fred Personne, Jacques Bonnaffé, Patrick Raynal. A commissioner and an inspector investigate the murder of a man on the first day of the carnival in Dunkirk.
Fr. 1984. Crime drama by Marco Pico with François Cluzet, Christine Dejoux, Paul Le Person. A police officer falls in love with a young girl who is a member of the revolutionary organization he has infiltrated.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 1984. Psychological drama by Renaud Victor with Sandrine Bonnaire, Jacques Bonnaffé, Jean-Marc Bory. The very unstable love affairs between a student and a letter carrier whose characters differ greatly.
Runtime: 96 min.

First Name: Carmen

V.O.: Prénom Carmen
Fr. 1983. Mores drama by Jean-Luc Godard with Jean-Luc Godard, Maruschka Detmers, Jacques Bonnaffé. Under the pretext of shooting a film, a young woman asks to borrow her uncle's apartment where she actually intends to take refuge after a hold-up.
Runtime: 85 min.

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