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Jean-Pierre Bacri

Jean-Pierre Bacri

French actor and screenwriter (1951–2021)
May 24, 1951 (January 18, 2021)

C'est la vie!

V.O.: Le Sens de la fête
Fr. 2017. Comedy by Olivier Nakache, Éric Toledano with Jean-Pierre Bacri, Eye Haidara, Vincent Macaigne. Divided by internal conflicts, a caterer and his team try to keep up appearances during a wedding being celebrated in a castle.
Runtime: 116 min.
Fr. 2017. Dramatic comedy by Agnès Jaoui with Agnès Jaoui, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Léa Drucker. At his producer’s housewarming party at a country estate, a fading entertainer is obnoxious to all the guests, including his ex-wife who is the hostess’s sister.
Runtime: 98 min.
Fr. 2013. Dramatic comedy by Agnès Jaoui with Agnès Jaoui, Agathe Bonitzer, Arthur Dupont. As in fairy tales, a young woman falls in love with a charming and talented pianist, but a fearsome seducer comes between them.
Runtime: 112 min.

Looking for Hortense

V.O.: Cherchez Hortense
Fr. 2012. Dramatic comedy by Pascal Bonitzer with Jean-Pierre Bacri, Kristin Scott Thomas, Isabelle Carré. Lacking the courage to ask his father, a state councilor, to prevent the deportation of an undocumented Serbian woman, a professor gets caught in a web of lies.
Runtime: 100 min.
Fr. 2010. Drama by Raphaël Jacoulot with Jean-Pierre Bacri, Vincent Rottiers, Ludmila Mikaël. His son involved in a fatal hit-and-run, the owner of a hotel in the mountains pays special attention to a trainee he suspects knows their secret.
Runtime: 101 min.
Fr. 2009. Drama by Nassim Amaouche with Jean-Pierre Bacri, Yasmine Belmadi, Dominique Reymond. In a derelict village, an ex-worker clashes with his son, who has been released from prison and is pursuing an affair with a neighbor whose teenager believes his father to be Gary Cooper.
Runtime: n/d

Let's talk about the rain

V.O.: Parlez-moi de la pluie
Fr. 2008. Dramatic comedy by Agnès Jaoui with Agnès Jaoui, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Jamel Debbouze. Back in her hometown to launch her political career, a feminist writer is challenged by two disorganized documentary filmmakers making a film about her.
Runtime: 102 min.
Fr. 2005. Psychological drama by Nicole Garcia with Jean-Pierre Bacri, Vincent Lindon, Benoît Poelvoorde. The return of a famous paleontologist to his hometown disrupts the lives of a few people in a more or less direct way.
Runtime: 115 min.

Look at Me

V.O.: Comme une image
Fr. 2004. Dramatic comedy by Agnès Jaoui with Agnès Jaoui, Marilou Berry, Jean-Pierre Bacri. An aspiring young opera singer with a complex faces lack of recognition from others and indifference from her father who is a famous writer.
Runtime: 110 min.
Fr. 2003. Dramatic comedy by Noémie Lvovsky with Nathalie Baye, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Isabelle Carré.
Runtime: 96 min.

The Housekeeper

V.O.: Une Femme de ménage
Fr. 2002. Dramatic comedy by Claude Berri with Jean-Pierre Bacri, Émilie Dequenne, Brigitte Catillon. After being dumped by his wife, a fifty-year-old sound engineer hires a young cleaning lady who soon falls in love with him.
Runtime: 88 min.

The Taste of Others

V.O.: Le Goût des autres
Fr. 2000. Dramatic comedy by Agnès Jaoui with Agnès Jaoui, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Anne Alvaro. An uncultured industrialist woos a theatrical actress by interfering in her circle of intellectual friends.
Runtime: 112 min.
Fr. 1999. Dramatic comedy by Sam Karmann with Jean-Pierre Bacri, Nicole Garcia, François Chattot. A depressed writer covets his psychoanalyst's watch, said to have been worn by John F. Kennedy on the day he died.
Fr. 1999. Science-fiction by Cédric Klapisch with Romain Duris, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Géraldine Pailhas. A young Parisian who hesitates to become a father finds himself projected into the future where he meets his 70-year-old-son.
Runtime: 106 min.
Fr. 1997. Fantasy comedy by Alain Chabat with Alain Chabat, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Caroline Cellier.
Runtime: 105 min.
Fr. 1997. Psychological drama by Nicole Garcia with Catherine Deneuve, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Emmanuelle Seigner. After the suicide of a jeweller, his alcoholic wife comes out of seclusion and starts selling stolen gemstones that he was holding.

Family Resemblances

V.O.: Un Air de famille
Runtime: 110 min.
Runtime: 93 min.
Fr. 1993. Dramatic comedy by Alain Resnais with Sabine Azéma, Pierre Arditi. The tribulations of an alcoholic school principal and his wife who is thinking of leaving him.
Runtime: 145 min.
Fr. 1993. Dramatic comedy by Alain Resnais with Sabine Azéma, Pierre Arditi. The tribulations of an alcoholic school principal and his wife who want to change his life.
Runtime: 140 min.

The Man of My Life

V.O.: L'Homme de ma vie
Fr. 1992. Sentimental comedy by Jean-Charles Tacchella with Maria de Medeiros, Thierry Fortineau, Jean-Pierre Bacri. Unable to find a job, a young woman decides to find a rich husband.
Runtime: 103 min.

Kitchen with Apartment

V.O.: Cuisine et dépendances
Fr. 1992. Mores comedy by Philippe Muyl with Zabou Breitman, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Agnès Jaoui. A bourgeois couple who receive friends for dinner, including a former comrade who became a celebrity, sees the evening turn sour.
Runtime: 96 min.
Fr. 1989. Comedy by Jean-Marie Poiré with Gérard Lanvin, Christian Clavier, Jean-Pierre Bacri. Over the course of a weekend, five men reminisce about their youth spent with their girl friend from Quebec who has come back to France to give a rock concert.
Runtime: 111 min.
Fr. 1988. Police comedy by Pierre Tchernia with Michel Serrault, Pierre Arditi, Jean-Pierre Bacri. A shy employee working for a firm specializing in anti-theft systems discovers that his superior has become the accomplice of bank robbers.
Runtime: 95 min.
Fr. 1987. Dramatic comedy by Stéphane Kurc with Jean-Pierre Bacri, Véronique Genest, Hervé Berdah.
Runtime: 86 min.
Fr. 1986. Crime drama by Joël Santoni with Nicole Garcia, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Jean-Pierre Bisson. Hired by an architect to maintain his house, a couple seeks revenge for an accident for which they believe him responsible.
Runtime: 112 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.
Fr. 1985. Chronicle by Jacques Fansten with Robin Renucci, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Sandrine Dumas. Five friends with the same political ideals experience various disappointments while their party is in power.
Runtime: 100 min.
Fr. 1985. Crime drama by Luc Besson with Christophe Lambert, Isabelle Adjani, Michel Galabru. Pursued by the henchmen of a dishonest businessperson, a young outsider takes refuge in the forbidden corridors of the subway.
Runtime: 102 min.
Fr. 1985. Crime drama by Jacques Deray with Michel Serrault, Charlotte Rampling, Xavier Deluc. A detective with unique methods investigates the murder of a famous pianist.
Runtime: 107 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. 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. 1984. Crime drama by Claude Pinoteau with Lino Ventura, Élizabeth Bourgine, Jean Poiret. An ex-journalist is forced to pay a large sum of money to a blackmailer if he doesn
Runtime: 108 min.
Fr. 1983. Dramatic comedy by Alexandre Arcady with Roger Hanin, Philippe Noiret, Fiona Gelin. In November 1942, the mayor of an Algerian village and his friend, a cafe owner, decide to take advantage of the arrival of American troops.
Runtime: 135 min.

Between Us

V.O.: Coup de foudre
Fr. 1983. Psychological drama by Diane Kurys with Isabelle Huppert, Miou-Miou, Guy Marchand. In 1952, two young women befriend each other and start to question their respective marriages.
Runtime: 110 min.

The Day of Atonement

V.O.: Le Grand Pardon
Fr. 1982. Crime drama by Alexandre Arcady with Roger Hanin, Bernard Giraudeau, Jean-Louis Trintignant. An ambitious young mobster seeks to harm a Jew who has taken over the rackets in a Paris neighborhood.
Runtime: 136 min.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 1979. Sentimental drama by Jean-Paul Carrère with Anna Karina, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Pascale Roberts.

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