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Jacques Villeret

Jacques Villeret

French actor (1951-2005)
February 6, 1951 (January 28, 2005)
Fr. 2005. Police comedy by Frédéric Forestier with Gérard Lanvin, Jacques Villeret, Gérard Darmon. Separated for 25 years, three burglars plan a major robbery with the son of their former partner who died in prison.
Runtime: 101 min.
Fr. 2005. Crime drama by Yves Angelo with Jean-Pierre Marielle, Jacques Villeret, Marina Hands. In 1917, the old rivalry between a prosecutor and a judge resurfaces during a police investigation into the murder of a child.
Runtime: 106 min.
Fr. 2005. Comedy by Vincent de Brus with Christian Clavier, Jacques Villeret, Agnès Soral. The CEO of a multinational company is plagued by violent anxiety attacks and only manages to control himself in the presence of a modest accountant.
Runtime: 107 min.
Fr. 2005. Fantasy comedy by Patrick Braoudé with Michaël Youn, Jacques Villeret, Elsa Pataky. The minister of a Caliph tries to take away the latter
Runtime: 95 min.

Viper in the Fist

V.O.: Vipère au poing
Fr. 2004. Dramatic comedy by Philippe de Broca with Jules Sitruk, Catherine Frot, Jacques Villeret. In the 1920s, a kid from a penniless bourgeois family rebels against his authoritarian, cruel mother.
Runtime: 96 min.
Runtime: 88 min.
Fr. 2003. Dramatic comedy by Gilles Legrand with Jules-Angelo Bigarnet, Jacques Villeret, Michèle Laroque. A boy living with his gradnfather at Mont Blanc sets out to find his mother who disappeared in the area five years ago.
Fr. 2002. Dramatic comedy by Jean Becker with Jacques Villeret, André Dussollier, Thierry Lhermitte. A teenager learns from his father
Runtime: 97 min.
Fr. 2001. Dramatic comedy by Laurent Heynemann with Jacques Villeret, Lorant Deutsch, Barbara Schulz. A depressed civil servant takes a young undocumented immigrant back to Morocco, even though he was born in France.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 2000. Dramatic comedy by Jean Becker with Jacques Villeret, Josiane Balasko, André Dussollier. In 1980, a farmer who wants to kill his hateful wife gets a brilliant lawyer to give him a recipe for the perfect crime.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 1999. Satire by Bertrand Blier with Jean-Pierre Marielle, Jacques Villeret, André Dussollier. Various aging actors struggle together against oblivion, while committing small treasons against each other.
Runtime: 100 min.

The Dinner Game

V.O.: Le Dîner de cons
Fr. 1998. Mores comedy by Francis Veber with Jacques Villeret, Thierry Lhermitte, Francis Huster. The guest of a dinner party, for which as a rule everyone must be accompanied by a fool of their choice, sees his life turned upside down by his latest guest.
Runtime: 80 min.

Children of the Marshlands

V.O.: Les Enfants du marais
Fr. 1998. Dramatic comedy by Jean Becker with Jacques Villeret, Jacques Gamblin, André Dussollier. The encounters and friendships of several people living next to a swamp.
Runtime: 115 min.
Fr. 1998. Comedy by Hervé Palud with Jacques Villeret, Eric Cantona, Emiliano Suarez. To prevent scientists from getting their hands on a talking monkey, a French monk flees with it to Mexico City in the company of a boxer.
Runtime: 87 min.
Fr. 1997. Biography by Claude Goretta with Jacques Villeret, Catherine Frot, Émilie Delaunay. The story of Georges Mandel, an anti-Nazi French parliamentarian who refused to abdicate to the Vichy regime.
Runtime: 85 min.
Runtime: 91 min.
Fr. 1993. Sketches by Yann Piquer, Alain Robak, Manuel Flèche, Anita Assal, John Hudson with Gustave Parking, Smaïn, Patrick Bouchitey. A beautiful young girl tells a shy man some disturbing stories.
Runtime: 81 min.
Runtime: 84 min.
Fr. 1991. Chronicle by Henri Verneuil with Richard Berry, Claudia Cardinale, Omar Sharif. After the death of his father, a successful author of Armenian origin returns with his mother to where he spent his childhood in Marseilles.
Runtime: 130 min.
Fr. 1991. Sketches by Hervé Palud, Alessandro Capone, Mathias Ledoux, Stéphane Clavier, Thierry Lhermitte with Thierry Lhermitte, Jacques Villeret, Micha Bayard. A psychiatrist recounts the misadventures of some of his clients.
Runtime: 95 min.
Fr. 1990. Dramatic comedy by Fabrice Cazeneuve with Sabine Azéma, Jacques Villeret, Lucas Belvaux.
Runtime: 93 min.
Fr. 1988. Mores comedy by Luc Béraud with Jean Poiret, Jacques Villeret, Agnès Blanchot. During a winter sports trip, a contractor asks an architect to pretend to be his young mistress
Runtime: 87 min.
Fr. 1988. Comedy by Moshé Mizrahi with Pierre Richard, Bernard Blier, Jacques Villeret. Five Mediterranean Jews, victims of a prank by their cousin in Geneva, set out to find an unlikely treasure.

Keep Your Right Up!

V.O.: Soigne ta droite
Fr. 1987. Comedy by Jean-Luc Godard with Jean-Luc Godard, Jacques Villeret, Michel Galabru. The tribulations of a film writer struggling to deliver his latest work to a distributor.
Runtime: 81 min.
Fr. 1986. Mores drama by Gérard Krawczyk with Jean-Pierre Bacri, Jacques Villeret, Pauline Lafont. Despite the neighbours' envy, a man decides to settle with his girlfriend in the family house where his brother lives.
Runtime: 102 min.

The Joint Brothers

V.O.: Les Frères Pétard
Fr. 1986. Comedy by Hervé Palud with Gérard Lanvin, Jacques Villeret, Josiane Balasko. Two friends try to sell marijuana in the margins of society in Paris that they stole from a trafficker.
Runtime: 90 min.

Last Summer in Tangier

V.O.: Dernier Été à Tanger
Fr. 1986. Crime drama by Alexandre Arcady with Valeria Golino, Thierry Lhermitte, Roger Hanin. Having witnessed the murder of her father as a child, a young woman wants to avenge him by calling on a private detective to help her find the murderers.
Runtime: 122 min.
Fr. 1986. Comedy by Thomas Gilou with Jacques Villeret, Isaach de Bankolé, Félicité Wouassi. In Paris, a resourceful young Black man posing as a marabout manages to circumvent a health inspector.
Runtime: 93 min.
Fr. 1985. Comedy by Jean-Michel Ribes with Jean Rochefort, Roger Hanin, Pauline Lafont. Hoping to save himself from bankruptcy, a king gives his daughter in marriage to the son of a financier who made a fortune in food.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 1985. Police comedy by Alexandre Arcady with Jean-Paul Belmondo, Guy Marchand, Kim Cattrall. An ingenious bank robbery is committed in Montreal, but obstacles make it difficult for the criminals to escape to the airport.
Runtime: 112 min.
Fr. 1984. Psychological drama by Bernard Bouthier with Jacques Villeret, Micky Sébastian, Jean-Pierre Sentier. A popular comedian makes life difficult for those around him.
Suis. 1983. Sketches by Tunç Okan with Francis Huster, Carole Laure, Jacques Villeret. One Saturday in a small town, a couple experiences a series of unpredictable events.
Fr. 1983. Sentimental drama by Claude Lelouch with Évelyne Bouix, Marcel Cerdan Jr., Jacques Villeret. At the end of the 1940s, the famous love story between singer Edith Piaf and boxer Marcel Cerdan.
Runtime: 162 min.
Fr. 1983. War drama by Henri Verneuil with Jean-Paul Belmondo, Marie Laforêt, Mathias Habich. During the Tunisian campaign, French legionnaires fight with Germans over a treasure of gold bars.
Runtime: 107 min.
Fr. 1983. Dramatic comedy by Claude Sautet with Yves Montand, Nicole Garcia, Jacques Villeret. The emotional tribulations of a former dancer turned waiter.
Runtime: 102 min.

The Big Brother

V.O.: Le Grand Frère
Fr. 1982. Crime drama by Francis Girod with Gérard Depardieu, Roger Planchon, Hakim Ghanem. A young Arab hides a murderer in his home in order to avenge the death of his brother, killed by a police officer.
Runtime: 115 min.
Fr. 1982. Police comedy by Patrice Leconte with Michel Blanc, Jane Birkin, Jacques Villeret. Fascinated by a young woman he meets during a routine investigation, a police inspector creates more opportunities to see her.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 1982. History by Andrzej Wajda with Gérard Depardieu, Wojciech Pszoniak, Patrice Chéreau. The political rivalry between Danton and Robespierre during the French Revolution.
Runtime: 136 min.
Fr. 1982. Crime drama by Daniel Duval with Jacques Villeret, Marlène Jobert, Bruno Cremer. Hunted by the police, a criminal takes a couple of lovers as hostages and leads them on a chase into the mountains.
Runtime: 95 min.
Runtime: 119 min.
Fr. 1981. Fantasy comedy by Jean Girault with Louis de Funès, Jean Carmet, Jacques Villeret.
Runtime: 100 min.
Fr. 1981. Dramatic comedy by Franck Apprederis with Jacques Villeret, Eddy Mitchell, Evelyne Dress. Upon his release from prison, a shy and self-conscious former accountant becomes involved in the theft of a painting.
Runtime: 90 min.

Adventure for Two

V.O.: À nous deux
Runtime: 110 min.
Runtime: 102 min.
Runtime: 95 min.
Runtime: 162 min.
Runtime: 110 min.
Fr. 1978. Comedy by Claude Lelouch with Charles Denner, Jacques Villeret, Jean-Claude Brialy. A shy man befriends a lonely cab driver who has signed up to a dating agency.
Runtime: 105 min.
Fr. 1978. Sentimental drama by Élie Chouraqui with Anouk Aimée, Richard Berry, Gabriele Ferzetti. A student learns that his mother is suffering from leukemia and works to ease her final days.
Runtime: 100 min.

Second Chance

V.O.: Si c'était à refaire
Fr. 1976. Dramatic comedy by Claude Lelouch with Catherine Deneuve, Anouk Aimée, Jean-Jacques Briot. Upon her release from prison, a young woman regains custody of her fifteen-year-old son and takes in a former cellmate.
Runtime: 100 min.
Runtime: 140 min.
Fr. 1975. Dramatic comedy by Claude Lelouch with Jacques Dutronc, Marlène Jobert, Brigitte Fossey. The war brings three thieves into working for the French Resistance.
Runtime: 120 min.
Fr. 1974. Social drama by Yves Boisset with Jean Carmet, Pierre Tornade, Michel Peyrelon. A vacationer arranges for Arab workers to be suspected of a murder he committed.
Runtime: 103 min.
Fr. 1973. War drama by Yves Boisset with Jacques Spiesser, Jacques Weber, Jean-François Balmer. Three conscripts bound by friendship meet a sad fate during the Algerian war.
Runtime: 112 min.

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