Direction: Claude Berri

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Claude Berri. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


Jean de Florette

1986 · Movie · 122 min. · France

Direction Claude Berri

Cast Yves Montand · Gérard Depardieu · Daniel Auteuil · Elisabeth Depardieu

Plot A greedy landowner and his backward nephew conspire to block the only water source for an adjoining property in order to bankrupt the owner and force him to sell.

7.7

2K votes

7.7

2K votes

Manon of the Spring (Jean de Florette II)

1986 · Movie · 120 min. · France

Direction Claude Berri

Cast Yves Montand · Daniel Auteuil · Emmanuelle Béart · Hippolyte Girardot

Plot In this, the sequel to Jean de Florette, Manon (Beart) has grown into a beautiful young shepherdess living in the idyllic Provencal countryside. She determines to take revenge upon the...

7.5

2K votes

7.5

2K votes

The Two of Us

1967 · Movie · 85 min. · France

Direction Claude Berri

Cast Michel Simon · Luce Fabiole · Alain Cohen · Roger Carel

Plot Claude is a Jew. Because of the risks of an arrest (France is occupied by the Nazis), his parents send him away to an elderly couple in the country. Pepe,...

7.0

324 votes

7.0

324 votes

Germinal

1993 · Movie · 150 min. · France

6.8

3K votes

6.8

3K votes

So Long, Stooge

1983 · Movie · 93 min. · France

Direction Claude Berri

Cast Coluche · Richard Anconina · Agnès Soral · Mahmoud Zemmouri

Plot Lambert, a burned-out case, works the night shift at a gas station, rarely speaking, living alone, drinking. Bensoussan, raised in foster homes, now a small-time pusher for a bar owner...

6.7

71 votes

6.7

71 votes

Uranus

1990 · Movie · 100 min. · France

6.6

117 votes

6.6

117 votes

Hunting and Gathering

2007 · Movie · 97 min. · France

Direction Claude Berri

Cast Audrey Tautou · Guillaume Canet · Laurent Stocker · Françoise Bertin

Plot Four survivors —people ill-treated by life whose encounter will save them from an almost-sure life-wreck: Camille, an office cleaner; Franck, a bad-tempered cook; Philibert, an aristocrat in love with history;...

6.5

7K votes

6.5

7K votes

The Chicken (S)

1963 · Movie · 15 min. · France

Direction Claude Berri

Cast Jacques Marin · Viviane Bourdonneux · Martin Serre

Plot In this 15-minute black-and-white film, which was Claude Berri's directorial debut, a boy "hatches" a scheme to save a chicken from becoming his family's Sunday dinner.

6.5

32 votes

6.5

32 votes

I Love You All

1980 · Movie · 100 min. · France

Direction Claude Berri

Cast Catherine Deneuve · Jean-Louis Trintignant · Gérard Depardieu · Serge Gainsbourg

Plot A woman invites all four men she loved in her life for the dinner of New Year's Eve at the same time and unites them all in her house. In...

6.0

31 votes

6.0

31 votes

Lucie Aubrac

1997 · Movie · 115 min. · France

Direction Claude Berri

Cast Carole Bouquet · Daniel Auteuil · Patrice Chéreau · Jean-Roger Milo

Plot Based on Lucie Aubrac's autobiographic novel, the movie tells the story of a couple of participants in the French Resistance to German occupation during World War II. Passion and wit...

6.0

151 votes

6.0

151 votes

A Housekeeper

2002 · Movie · 88 min. · France

5.6

73 votes

5.6

73 votes

One Stays, the Other Leaves

2005 · Movie · 109 min. · France

Direction Claude Berri

Cast Daniel Auteuil · Charlotte Gainsbourg · Nathalie Baye · Pierre Arditi

Plot About two couples, longtime friends un which both husbands engage un long-term affairs

5.5

48 votes

5.5

48 votes

Le maître d'école

1981 · Movie · 95 min. · France

Direction Claude Berri

Cast Coluche · Josiane Balasko · Jacques Debary · Charlotte de Turckheim

Plot Because he wanted to defend a little boy who was stealing a pair of boots in the clothes shop where he used to work, Gérard Barbier (Coluche) is fired from...

5.4

55 votes

5.4

55 votes

Trésor

2009 · Movie · 89 min. · France

Direction Claude Berri · François Dupeyron

Cast Alain Chabat · Mathilde Seigner · Hélène Vincent · Isabelle Nanty

Plot Jean-Pierre and Nathalie have been together for five years. To celebrate this momentous event, Jean-Pierre decides to buy his wife a very special present, a British bulldog. As soon as...

4.0

662 votes

4.0

662 votes

Marry Me! Marry Me!

1968 · Movie · 100 min. · France

Direction Claude Berri

Cast Grégoire Aslan · Claude Berri · Louisa Colpeyn · Prudence Harrington

Plot Claude and Isabella met on a beach one summer and got easily involved. But while he has dreams of settling down with a family, she just wants to have fun....

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The First Time

1976 · Movie · 83 min. · France

Direction Claude Berri

Cast Alain Cohen · Charles Denner · Zorica Losic · Delphine Lévy

Plot Claude is in his last year of high-school, but he doesn't care much for school. Instead all his thoughts circle around girls and getting laid. But since he doesn't look...

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The Man with Connections

1970 · Movie · 91 min. · France

Direction Claude Berri

Cast Guy Bedos · Yves Robert · Rosy Varte · Georges Géret

Plot It's the story of a private, who does not feel like going to war, not at all. But duty calls. To avoid it, he tries to get somebody to pull...

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In a Wild Moment

1977 · Movie · 81 min. · France

Direction Claude Berri

Cast Jean-Pierre Marielle · Victor Lanoux · Christine Dejoux · Agnès Soral

Plot Pierre, 44, contentedly divorced, takes his teen daughter to the Côte d'Azur along with his friend Jacques and Jacques' own teen daughter, Françoise. On the topless beaches of Saint-Tropez, Jacques...

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Les baisers

1964 · Movie · 97 min. · France

Direction Claude Berri · Charles L. Bitsch · Jean-François Hauduroy · Bertrand Tavernier

Cast Marie-France Boyer · Catherine Sola · Charles Sébrien · Eric Schlumberger

Plot A portmanteau film in which the producer, instead of as usual using already well known directors with a commercial draw, allowed five new young directors to each have a crack...

Not rated

Not rated