Cast: Patrick Dewaere

Direction Alain Corneau

Cast Patrick Dewaere · Myriam Boyer · Marie Trintignant · Bernard Blier

Synopsis Frank is a small time salesman in a Paris industrial suburb who supplements his meager earnings by stealing from his boss, Staplin. The latter has Frank tossed in jail, whereupon Mona, the seventeen-year-old girl Frank's fallen for, pays Staplin to...

Direction René Clément

Cast Jean-Paul Belmondo · Charles Boyer · Leslie Caron · Jean-Pierre Cassel

Synopsis August 1944. The French and American armies are nearing the French capital. Hitler orders one of his generals to retain control of the city or else destroy it. After the massacre of some students, Colonel Rol incites the public to...

Direction Claude Sautet

Cast Patrick Dewaere · Brigitte Fossey · Jacques Dufilho · Yves Robert

Synopsis Former drug addict and dealer Bruno Calgagni (Patrick Dewaere) is released from prison in the U.S. and arrives back home in France. He looks for a job and tries to start a new life. His first stop is at his...

Direction Claude Faraldo

Cast Michel Piccoli · Béatrice Romand · Marilú Toló · Francesca Romana Coluzzi

Synopsis Made without proper language, just gibberish and grunts, this is an absurdist comedy about a man who rejects every facet of normal bourgeois life and turns his apartment into a virtual cave.

Direction Claude Miller

Cast Patrick Dewaere · Patrick Bouchitey · Christine Pascal · Claude Piéplu

Synopsis In a vacation camp somewhere in the French country, 1960. Marc et Philippe are two of the counsellors. Marc is very virile, while Philippe is more reserved. A night, Marc surprises Philippe dressed and made-up like a woman. From now...

Direction André Téchiné

Cast Catherine Deneuve · Patrick Dewaere · Etienne Chicot · Sabine Haudepin

Synopsis Hélène, a distracted pill-popping anesthetist, almost runs down Gilles one evening on a Biarritz street. She is still numb from the drowning death earlier that year of her lover, a visionary architect. Gilles presses for a relationship, then backs away,...

Direction H.G. Clouzot

Cast Curd Jürgens · Peter Ustinov · O.E. Hasse · Sam Jaffe

Synopsis A psychiatrist, desperate for money to keep his faltering practice running, makes a deal with a spy to hide a mysterious person in his clinic in return for a million francs. As soon as the deal is struck his place...

Direction Yves Boisset

Cast Patrick Dewaere · Aurore Clément · Philippe Léotard · Michel Auclair

Synopsis The young judge Fayard is not afraid of anybody as he does his work honestly.

Direction Bertrand Blier

Cast Patrick Dewaere · Ariel Besse · Maurice Ronet · Nicole García

Synopsis After her mother dies, fourteen-year-old Marion falls in love with her stepfather, Remy.

Direction Marco Bellocchio

Cast Michele Placido · Franco Nero · Miou-Miou · Patrick Dewaere

Synopsis Marco Bellocchio's trenchant movie is about the madness of military life and its children's power games. It deals with the psychological ravishing of a sensitive and literate young man during the first year in his service in the Italian army....

Direction Jean-Jacques Annaud

Cast Patrick Dewaere · France Dougnac · Dorothée Jemma · Maurice Barrier

Synopsis François Perrin plays football at the AS Trincamp. During a training session, he gets into a fight with Bertier, the team's star, and is ordered off the field. The club's boss, who is also a powerful businessman, takes advantage of...

Direction Bertrand Blier

Cast Gérard Depardieu · Patrick Dewaere · Miou-Miou · Jeanne Moreau

Synopsis Two whimsical, aimless thugs harass and assault women, steal, murder, and alternately charm, fight, or sprint their way out of trouble. They take whatever the bourgeois characters value: whether it's cars, peace of mind, or daughters. Marie-Ange, a jaded, passive...

Direction Henri Verneuil

Cast Patrick Dewaere · Mel Ferrer · Michel Auclair · Caroline Cellier

Synopsis One day, journalist Paul Kerjean receives an anonymous phone call implicating the politician Jacques Benoît-Lambert in a fraudulent business deal. Shortly after Paul has published an article exposing this scam, the politician is found dead, apparently a suicide. However, when...

Direction Pierre Granier-Deferre

Cast Lino Ventura · Patrick Dewaere · Victor Lanoux · Claude Rich

Synopsis In the French city of Rouen an election is marred by a fight between the supporters of two of the candidates. In the fracas a man is beaten to death and the killer then shoots a passing police officer. The...

Direction Luigi Comencini

Cast Alberto Sordi · Annie Girardot · Fernando Rey · Patrick Dewaere

Synopsis A tremendous congestion hit the Roma highway ring. The biggest traffic jam ever seen endures for more than 36 hours. People blocked in their cars react at the beginning normally. But the more the time advance the more we are...

Direction Gene Kelly

Cast Gene Kelly · Barbara Laage · Bobby Clark · Brigitte Fossey

Synopsis An American boy and a French girl run away from a Swiss school making for Paris to reunite with their parents. The boy's father (Gene Kelly) and the girl's mother (Barbara Laage) join forces, despite cultural differences, to search for...

Direction Bertrand Blier

Cast Gérard Depardieu · Patrick Dewaere · Carole Laure · Michel Serrault

Synopsis Thoroughly safe and mild compared to Going Places--the anarchic, something-to-offend-everyone earlier collaboration of Gérard Depardieu, Patrick Dewaere, and French director Bertrand Blier--the 1977 Get Out Your Handkerchiefs is an outwardly civilized satire with a heart so dark it's a wonder...

Direction Claire Laborey

Cast Laure Adler · Jacques Chancel · Danielle Darrieux · Laurent Delmas

Synopsis Her image as the cool and mysterious blonde notwithstanding, Catherine has freed herself from it by choosing her roles instinctively and working with her favorite directors to embrace her passion for cinema in a wide range of projects.

Direction Jean-Paul Rappeneau

Cast Jean-Paul Belmondo · Marlène Jobert · Laura Antonelli · Sami Frey

Direction Marc Allégret

Cast Brigitte Bardot · Daniel Gélin · Robert Hirsch · Jacques Dumesnil

Synopsis When ultra-respectable General Dumont discovers that his nubile daughter Agnes is "A.D.", author of a scandalous under-the-counter novel, he wants her shipped to a convent; but she escapes to Paris, planning to live with her brother, ostensibly a rich artist...