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Jean-Pierre Améris

Jean-Pierre Améris

French film director
July 26, 1961 (63 years old)

Take A Chance On Me

V.O.: Marie-Line et son juge
Fr. 2023. Dramatic comedy by Jean-Pierre Améris with Louane Emera, Michel Blanc, Victor Belmondo. A waitress in Le Havre agrees to become the chauffeur of the judge who fined her for assaulting her former lover.
Runtime: 103 min.
Fr. 2021. Dramatic comedy by Jean-Pierre Améris with Benoît Poelvoorde, Jules Lefebvre, Audrey Dana. In the early 1960s, a 12-year-old boy is drawn into the political conspiracy fantasies of his father, an embittered, unemployed, pathological liar.
Runtime: 106 min.
Fr. 2018. Drama by Jean-Pierre Améris with Kevin Azaïs, Sabrina Ouazani, Annie Cordy. After he’s injured at work because of his illiteracy, a young worker swallows his pride and accepts the help of his ‏neighbour, a nurse, who teaches him to read and write.
Runtime: 85 min.
Fr. 2017. Dramatic comedy by Jean-Pierre Améris with Éric Elmosnino, Ary Abittan, Judith El Zein. Suffering from terrible back pain with psychosomatic origins, a fifty-year-old man sets out to settle his accounts with those around him.
Runtime: 86 min.
Fr. 2015. Sentimental comedy by Jean-Pierre Améris with Benoît Poelvoorde, Virginie Efira, François Morel. A wealthy and lonely business person rents the family of a young, indebted, and extroverted mother, hoping to be happier.
Runtime: 96 min.
Fr. 2014. Biography by Jean-Pierre Améris with Isabelle Carré, Ariana Rivoire, Brigitte Catillon. At the end of the 19th century, a nun in poor health manages to teach sign language to a young, deaf, and blind girl, who was previously considered deficient.
Runtime: 95 min.

The Man Who Laughs

V.O.: L'Homme qui rit
Fr. 2012. Drama by Jean-Pierre Améris with Marc-André Grondin, Christa Theret, Gérard Depardieu. A boy with a mutilated face sees his fate change when his former captor reveals his true identity to the world.
Runtime: 94 min.
Runtime: 85 min.

Romantics Anonymous

V.O.: Les Émotifs anonymes
Fr. 2010. Dramatic comedy by Jean-Pierre Améris with Isabelle Carré, Benoît Poelvoorde, Lorella Cravotta. A shy chocolate maker falls in love with her new boss who, underneath his authoritarian exterior, hides paralyzing sensitivities.
Runtime: 80 min.
Fr. 2007. Social drama by Jean-Pierre Améris with Isabelle Carré, Marc Citti, Nazmi Kirik. A young mother from the North of France comes in contact with a Kurdish refugee and decides to get involved in the network helping undocumented migrants.
Runtime: 95 min.
Fr. 2006. Psychological drama by Jean-Pierre Améris with Alba Gaia Bellugi, Stéphane Freiss, Yolande Moreau. A ten-year-old girl hides an escaped patient from her father's psychiatric hospital in their garden shed.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 2004. Psychological drama by Jean-Pierre Améris with Nicolas Duvauchelle, Bernard Campan, Mai Anh Le. Still recovering from the death of his parents, a young funeral worker channels his destructive impulses by becoming a boxer at night.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 2001. Psychological drama by Jean-Pierre Améris with Jacques Dutronc, Sandrine Bonnaire, Emmanuelle Riva. In a palliative care center, a cancer patient falls in love with a volunteer, a young single mother who hides a deep unhappiness with life.
Runtime: 112 min.
Runtime: 98 min.
Fr. 1997. Psychological drama by Jean-Pierre Améris with Sophie Aubry, Samuel Le Bihan, Josy Bernard.
Runtime: 95 min.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 1992. Psychological drama by Jean-Pierre Améris with Laurent Grévill, Florence Pernel, Marie Bunel. In 1940, in a small village spared by the occupation, a tidy teacher marries a young woman with a rebellious temperament.
Runtime: 94 min.

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