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
Direction Claude Berri
Cast Gérard Depardieu · Renaud · Miou-Miou · Jean Carmet
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
Direction Claude Berri
Cast Gérard Depardieu · Philippe Noiret · Jean-Pierre Marielle · Michel Blanc
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
Direction Claude Berri
Cast Jean-Pierre Bacri · Émilie Dequenne · Brigitte Catillon · Jacques Frantz
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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La chance et l'amour
1964 · Movie · 105 min. · France
Direction Claude Berri · Charles L. Bitsch · Eric Schlumberger · Bertrand Tavernier
Cast Michel Auclair · Francis Blanche · Bernard Blier · Raffaella Carrà
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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...
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