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Jean-Pierre Darroussin

Jean-Pierre Darroussin

French actor and film director
December 4, 1953 (70 years old)
Can. 2023. History by Jean-Claude Barny with Mathieu Kassovitz, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Lyès Salem. In the 1950s in Algeria, Frantz Fanon, a psychiatrist of Martinique origin, defended a discourse of decolonization that irritated the French authorities.

All Your Faces

V.O.: Je verrai toujours vos visages
Fr. 2023. Drama by Jeanne Herry with Élodie Bouchez, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Leïla Bekhti. To overcome the trauma that turned their lives upside down, a rape victim and three victims of violent crime embark on a restorative justice process.
Runtime: 118 min.

And the Party Goes On

V.O.: Et la fête continue!
Fr. 2023. Dramatic comedy by Robert Guédiguian with Ariane Ascaride, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Gérard Meylan. A 60-year-old woman is torn between her political career and the temptation of a romantic relationship.
Runtime: 106 min
Fr. 2023. Drama by Anna Novion with Ella Rumpf, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Clotilde Courau. The only girl in her class, a brilliant mathematics student falls apart when she realizes she made a mistake during her thesis defense.
Runtime: 112 min.

Rumba Therapy

V.O.: Rumba la vie
Fr. 2022. Comedy by Franck Dubosc with Franck Dubosc, Louna Espinosa, Jean-Pierre Darroussin. A school bus driver who abandoned his wife and child 20 years ago enrolls incognito in a dance class given by his daughter, hoping to reconnect with her.
Runtime: 102 min.
Fr. 2021. Comedy by Julien Rappeneau with Ilan Debrabant, Jean-Paul Rouve, Audrey Lamy. In the peaceful world of Little Nicholas, there is Dad, Mom, school, but above all, his group of friends, called The Invincibles.
Runtime: 103 min.
Fr. 2020. Drama by Lucas Belvaux with Gérard Depardieu, Catherine Frot, Jean-Pierre Darroussin. Following a violent incident, an antisocial 60-year-old man, his sister, and his cousin revisit their painful memories of the Algerian war.
Runtime: 101 min.
Fr. 2019. Drama by Sarah Suco with Céleste Brunnquell, Camille Cottin, Jean-Pierre Darroussin. In a small provincial town, a couple and their four children join the ranks of a Catholic community led by a charismatic and manipulative priest.
Runtime: 100 min.

Promise at Dawn

V.O.: La Promesse de l'aube
Fr. 2017. Biography by Éric Barbier with Pierre Niney, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Pawel Puchalski. From the 1920s to the end of the war, the experiences of the future writer Romain Gary, whose life was marked by his relationship with his intrusive mother, who had high hopes for his future.
Runtime: 130 min.
Fr. 2017. Drama by Robert Guédiguian with Ariane Ascaride, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Gérard Meylan. In a cove near Marseille, the difficult reunion of a theater actress with her brothers, gathered at the bedside of their father paralyzed by a stroke.
Runtime: 107 min.
Fr. 2016. Chronicle by Stéphane Brizé with Judith Chemla, Swann Arlaud, Jean-Pierre Darroussin. In the 19th century, a Norman baroness finds herself in a precarious situation when, years after the death of her unfaithful husband, she pays off her irresponsible son
Runtime: 119 min.
Fr. 2015. Drama by Raphaël Jacoulot with Karim Leklou, Grégory Gadebois, Carole Franck. During a heat wave, the simple-minded son of a scrap metal dealer is found dead in the family home
Runtime: 102 min.
Fr. 2015. Crime drama by Denis Malleval with Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Antoine Duléry, Bruno Solo. In Paris in 1965, three brothers are torn apart over the untraceable inheritance of their father, a successful restaurant owner in the Halles District.
Runtime: 92 min.

Paris Follies

V.O.: La Ritournelle
Fr. 2014. Dramatic comedy by Marc Fitoussi with Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Michael Nyqvist. A farm girl from Normandy decides on a whim to join a young man in Paris, without suspecting that her husband has followed her and is discreetly watching her.
Runtime: 98 min.
Runtime: 100 min.
Fr. 2014. Comedy by Jean Becker with Gérard Lanvin, Fred Testot, Jean-Pierre Darroussin. A misanthropic, grouchy widower, hospitalized after an accident he has no memory of, is visited by a host of colorful characters who lead him to look on the bright side of life.
Runtime: 81 min.
Runtime: 124 min.
Fr. 2013. Sentimental comedy by Marc Esposito with Bernard Campan, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Éric Elmosnino.
Runtime: 114 min.
Fr. 2013. Animation by Alain Ughetto. Thirty years after the Islamic revolution, a French-born animator illustrates the love affair he once had with an Iranian student.
Runtime: 70 min.
Fr. 2012. Drama by Anna Novion with Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Anastasios Soulis, Claes Ljungmark. A Parisian architect takes the road to Swedish Lapland to identify the remains of the son he never wanted to acknowledge.
Fr. 2012. Sentimental drama by Daniel Auteuil with Daniel Auteuil, Victoire Bélézy, Jean-Pierre Darroussin. Pregnant by her lover who has gone to sea, a seafood merchant from Marseille marries a widowed merchant who is ready to recognize the child as his own.
Runtime: 102 min.
Fr. 2012. Dramatic comedy by Daniel Auteuil with Daniel Auteuil, Raphaël Personnaz, Victoire Bélézy. In Marseilles, the son of a bar owner in the Old Port is torn between his love for the daughter of a seafood merchant and his desire to go to sea.
Runtime: 94 min.

The Well-Digger's Daughter

V.O.: La Fille du puisatier
Fr. 2011. Sentimental drama by Daniel Auteuil with Daniel Auteuil, Astrid Berges-Frisbey, Kad Merad. In the 1940s, a widowed well-digger chases away his eldest daughter, who is pregnant with the child of an airman missing at the front, and whose wealthy family refuses to recognize the unborn child.
Runtime: 107 min.

The Snows of Kilimanjaro

V.O.: Les Neiges du Kilimandjaro
Fr. 2011. Social drama by Robert Guédiguian with Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Ariane Ascaride, Gérard Meylan. After being laid off from his shipyard in Marseilles, a union delegate is robbed by a colleague, who was also fired and has two younger brothers to support.
Runtime: 107 min.
Fin. 2011. Dramatic comedy by Aki Kaurismäki with André Wilms, Blondin Miguel, Kati Outinen. In Le Havre, a shoeshiner whose wife is in hospital comes to the rescue of a young African who has emerged from a container in the port.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 2011. Drama by Jean-Marc Moutout with Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Valérie Dréville, Xavier Beauvois. An account executive in a large bank shoots two of his superiors and then returns to his office, where he recalls the circumstances that led him to commit this act.
Runtime: 94 min.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 2010. Police comedy by Guillaume Nicloux with Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Judith Godrèche, Josiane Balasko. A dentist is accused of murdering the owner of the country hotel where he was staying with his frigid wife and wild mother-in-law.
Runtime: 90 min.

22 Bullets

V.O.: L'Immortel
Fr. 2010. Crime drama by Richard Berry with Jean Reno, Kad Merad, Marina Foïs. Having survived an assassination attempt, a former mafia boss from Marseille tries to identify and eliminate those who wanted him dead.
Runtime: 117 min.

The Army of Crime

V.O.: L'Armée du crime
Fr. 2009. History by Robert Guédiguian with Simon Abkarian, Virginie Ledoyen, Robinson Stévenin. In 1941 in Paris, a group of young resistance fighters of various nationalities, led by a poet of Armenian origin, tries to destabilize the occupying Germans.
Runtime: 149 min.

Bank Error

V.O.: Erreur de la banque en votre faveur
Fr. 2009. Comedy by Gérard Bitton, Michel Munz with Gérard Lanvin, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Philippe Magnan. A 50-year-old man who dreams of opening a restaurant uses confidential information to gamble his savings on the stock market.
Runtime: 96 min.
Fr. 2008. Comedy by Arnaud Larrieu, Jean-Marie Larrieu with Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Sabine Azéma, Arly Jover. The strange experiences of a famous couple of actors, who came to spend three days in the mountains to cure the nymphomania of the lady.
Runtime: 100 min.
Fr. 2008. Dramatic comedy by Anna Novion with Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Anaïs Demoustier, Judith Henry. A Frenchman and his daughter who have come to spend a fortnight's vacation in Sweden must share the house they have rented with two strangers.
Runtime: 84 min.
Fr. 2008. Mores drama by Robert Guédiguian with Ariane Ascaride, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Gérard Meylan. An ex-burglar calls on her two former accomplices to find her kidnapped son.
Runtime: 102 min.
Fr. 2007. Dramatic comedy by Martin Valente with François Berléand, Caroline Cellier, Jean-Pierre Darroussin. Six lonely Frenchmen who do not know each other are destined to cross paths in their travels.
Runtime: 107 min.

Frenchmen 2

V.O.: Le Coeur des hommes 2
Fr. 2007. Dramatic comedy by Marc Esposito with Bernard Campan, Gérard Darmon, Jean-Pierre Darroussin. Four friends in their fifties who are having marital issues get their lives in order during a weekend at the sea.
Runtime: 115 min.

Conversations With My Gardener

V.O.: Dialogue avec mon jardinier
Fr. 2007. Dramatic comedy by Jean Becker with Daniel Auteuil, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Fanny Cottençon. A Parisian painter moves to his family home in the countryside and hires a gardener who turns out to be a childhood friend.
Runtime: 108 min.

Waiting For Someone

V.O.: J'attends quelqu'un
Fr. 2007. Dramatic comedy by Jérôme Bonnell with Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Emmanuelle Devos, Sylvain Dieuaide. A divorced man, owner of a small café-restaurant, a married teacher and a mysterious young man question their own emotional lives.
Runtime: 96 min.
Fr. 2007. Court drama by Édouard Niermans with Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Isabelle Habiague, Pascal Elso. In 1962, a provincial pharmacist who killed a young woman finds himself on jury duty at the trial of the wrongly accused man, an Arab worker who was dating the deceased.
Runtime: 90 min.

Armenia

V.O.: Le Voyage en Arménie
Fr. 2006. Psychological drama by Robert Guédiguian with Ariane Ascaride, Gérard Meylan, Chorik Grigorian. A cardiologist from Marseilles arrives in Armenia in search of her sick father and is transformed by the encounters she has.
Runtime: 120 min.
Fr. 2006. Sentimental comedy by Marc Esposito with Marc Lavoine, Zoé Felix, Jean-Pierre Darroussin. In Bali, a French importer of exotic woods tries to win the heart of a French woman who is inconsolable since her husband died.
Runtime: 100 min.

The Premonition

V.O.: Le Pressentiment
Fr. 2006. Psychological drama by Jean-Pierre Darroussin with Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Valérie Stroh, Amandine Janin. Disappointed by his superficial existence, a middle-class lawyer leaves his family for a humble apartment in a working-class neighbourhood.
Runtime: 104 min.

How Much Do You Love Me?

V.O.: Combien tu m'aimes?
Fr. 2005. Mores comedy by Bertrand Blier with Monica Bellucci, Bernard Campan, Gérard Depardieu. Claiming to have won the lottery, an ugly man convinces a beautiful prostitute to move in with him.
Runtime: 94 min.

Start Walking

V.O.: Saint-Jacques... La Mecque
Fr. 2005. Dramatic comedy by Coline Serreau with Muriel Robin, Artus de Penguern, Pascal Légitimus. To get their mother's inheritance, two brothers and a sister at odds with each other must join a group of pilgrims walking to Santiago de Compostela.
Runtime: 112 min.
Fr. 2004. Drama by Robert Guédiguian with Ariane Ascaride, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Gérard Meylan. A doctor returns to Marseilles to care for his childhood sweetheart, a pediatrician who is plagued by mutism and imagines herself as a pregnant Virgin Mary.
Runtime: 108 min.

A Very Long Engagement

V.O.: Un Long Dimanche de fiançailles
Fr. 2004. Drama by Jean-Pierre Jeunet with Audrey Tautou, Gaspard Ulliel, Albert Dupontel. In 1919, a young Breton woman who refuses to believe that her fianc
Runtime: 134 min.
Fr. 2003. Dramatic comedy by Marc Esposito with Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Gérard Darmon, Bernard Campan. Four long-time friends in their fifties experience various mishaps that lead them to take stock of their lives.
Runtime: 100 min.

Red Lights

V.O.: Feux rouges
Fr. 2003. Thriller by Cédric Kahn with Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Carole Bouquet, Vincent Deniard. While searching for his wife who secretly ran away in the night, a drunk driver picks up a disturbing passenger.
Runtime: 106 min.
Fr. 2002. Comedy by Gérard Bitton, Michel Munz with Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Richard Berry. A salesman in the midst of a divorce who won 10 million euros in the lottery hides the truth from his wife so he can win her back easier.k.
Fr. 2002. Melodrama by Robert Guédiguian with Ariane Ascaride, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Gérard Meylan. In Marseille, a forty-year-old ambulance driver is torn between her husband and her lover.
Runtime: 124 min.
Runtime: 90min.
Fr. 2002. Mores comedy by Jeanne Labrune with Sandrine Kiberlain, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Dominique Blanc. A phone call from an old acquaintance causes a series of misunderstandings in the life of a wealthy young woman and her husband.
Runtime: 99 min.
Fr. 2001. Mores comedy by Patrick Alessandrin with Richard Berry, Charles Berling, Jean-Pierre Darroussin. Their wives having left on a vacation, three men must take care of the children and the household chores alone.
Fr. 2000. Social drama by Robert Guédiguian with Ariane Ascaride, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Gérard Meylan. In Marseille, the connected destinies of various people confronted with drugs, prostitution, unemployment and racial violence.
Fr. 2000. Mores comedy by Robert Guédiguian with Ariane Ascaride, Frédérique Bonnal, Jean-Pierre Darroussin. Two screenwriters write a film about a working-class family in Marseilles whose garage is on the verge of bankruptcy.
Fr. 2000. Mores comedy by Jeanne Labrune with Nathalie Baye, Jeanne Balibar, Jean-Pierre Darroussin. The routine life of a bourgeois couple is shaken up when an unstable woman gives them an old chest of drawers as a gift.
Fr. 1999. Dramatic comedy by Michel Couvelard with Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Catherine Frot, Fabienne Babe. Going through a nagging existential crisis, a desolate actor returns to his hometown in the hope of finding solace.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 1999. Dramatic comedy by Christine Carrière with Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Garance Clavel, Elsa Dourdet. When their mother dies, two sisters decide to take care of their depressed and suicidal father.
Fr. 1999. Mores drama by François Dupeyron with Éric Caravaca, Jacques Dufilho, Isabelle Renauld. The ups and downs of three generations of farmers struggling with the problems of modern life.
Runtime: 115 min.
Fr. 1998. Crime drama by Guillaume Nicloux with Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Clotilde Courau, Julie Delarme. In a harbour town, a nonchalant and anarchic amateur investigator looks into the desecration of the graves of his bisexual and nymphomaniac girlfriend's grandparents.
Runtime: 100 min.
Fr. 1998. Psychological drama by Jeanne Labrune with Nathalie Baye, Daniel Duval, Jean-Pierre Darroussin. A novelist begins a destructive relationship with a jealous and violent hysterical man.

Family Resemblances

V.O.: Un Air de famille
Runtime: 110 min.
Fr. 1996. Sentimental drama by Robert Guédiguian with Ariane Ascaride, Gérard Meylan, Pascale Roberts.
Runtime: 102 min.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 1993. Dramatic comedy by Thierry Chabert with Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Henri Virlojeux, Laure Duthilleul. In a small provincial town, the tribulations of an eccentric young man with a passion for cycling.
Fr. 1992. Mores comedy by Robert Guédiguian with Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Ariane Ascaride, Pierre Banderet. A suburban priest has his work cut out for him since his parishioners are divided into two gangs.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 1992. Comedy by Cédric Klapisch with Fabrice Luchini, Antoine Chappey, Jean-Pierre Darroussin. The new manager of a Parisian department store encourages group activities among employees who have always ignored each other.
Runtime: 93 min.
Fr. 1989. Psychological drama by Robert Guédiguian with Ariane Ascaride, Pierre Banderet, Jean-Pierre Darroussin. A successful writer returns to his hometown of Marseille, where he reconnects with three childhood friends.
Runtime: 100 min.
Fr. 1989. Crime drama by Christian de Chalonge with Jean Poiret, Bruno Cremer, Bulle Ogier. An eccentric police officer thinks that a rich industrialist in a seaside resort was involved in a double murder.
Runtime: 90 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. 1984. Dramatic comedy by Bertrand Blier with Alain Delon, Nathalie Baye, Michel Galabru. A man experiences various tribulations after moving in with a stranger he met on a train.
Runtime: 111 min.
Fr. 1982. Mores drama by Jacques Fansten with Marie-Christine Barrault, Michel Blanc, Jean-Luc Azra. Divorced parents worry about their teenage son's behavior and his rebellion against society.
Runtime: 92 min.
Runtime: 95 min.

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