7 Movies Starring Claude Brasseur

The Elusive Corporal

The Elusive Corporal

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1962-05-23

Languages:

French, German

Countries:

France

Runtime:

90 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.1 (500 Reviews)

Director:

Jean Renoir

Genres:

ComedyDrama

Cast:

Writer:

Guy Lefranc (adaptation)

Jacques Perret (novel)

Jean Renoir (adaptation)

Fullplot:

An upper-class corporal from Paris is captured by the Germans when they invade France in 1940. Assisted and accompanied by characters as diverse as a morose dairy farmer, a waiter, a myopic intellectual, a working-class Parisian, and a German dental assistant, the corporal tries to escape from prison camps, sometimes making it a few yards, sometimes reaching the French border.

Pardon Mon Affaire, Too!

Pardon Mon Affaire, Too!

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1977-11-09

Languages:

French

Countries:

France

Runtime:

110 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

(623 Reviews)

Director:

Yves Robert

Genres:

Comedy

Cast:

Writer:

Jean-Loup Dabadie

Yves Robert

Jean-Loup Dabadie (dialogue)

Fullplot:

Pardon Mon Affaire

Pardon Mon Affaire

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1976-09-22

Languages:

French

Countries:

France

Runtime:

105 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

7.1 (1095 Reviews)

Director:

Yves Robert

Genres:

Comedy

Cast:

Writer:

Jean-Loup Dabadie (scenario)

Yves Robert (scenario)

Jean-Loup Dabadie (dialogue)

Fullplot:

Quatre amis, Etienne, Daniel, Simon et Bouly ont du mal è grandir et, la quarantaine rèvolue, continuent de se jouer des tours. Etienne, qui est toujours restè fidèle è sa femme, tombe amoureux de Marthe après ne l'avoir vue qu'une seule fois et met le paquet pour la conquèrir, avec l'aide de ses amis, entre èquivoques et situations è la limite de la farce. A la fin, il va se retrouver sur une corniche au huitième ètage, en robe de chambre devant la foule, la tèlèvision et les sapeurs pompiers...

La boum 2

La boum 2

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1982-12-08

Languages:

French

Countries:

France

Runtime:

109 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.1 (2795 Reviews)

Director:

Claude Pinoteau

Cast:

Writer:

Danièle Thompson

Claude Pinoteau

Fullplot:

Two years after the first "Boum", Vic - now 15 and a half years old - has a very calm love life, actually no boyfriend at all. Her parents are happily together again, Grandma Poupette thinks about finally marring her long-term boyfriend. But then Vic meets Philippe and is overcome by his charm. She's in heaven again and considers going all the way this time - a step, that her girlfriend Penelope already has taken.

Le souper

Le souper

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1992-12-23

Languages:

French

Countries:

France

Runtime:

90 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.2 (262 Reviews)

Genres:

DramaHistory

Cast:

Writer:

Jean-Claude Brisville (play)

Jean-Claude Brisville (adaptation)

Yves Rousset-Rouard (adaptation)

èdouard Molinaro (adaptation)

Fullplot:

France, 1815. After his defeat at Waterloo, Napoleon heads for exile. Royalists occupy Paris and attempt to restore the monarchy. However, the battle doesn't seem to be over. On July 6, Talleyrand, a shrewd politician of flexible convictions, invites chief of police and zealous revolutionary Fouchè to supper and tries to convince him to serve the king. Over the meal they insult each other, accuse each other, and, at first sight, look like mortal enemies. But they definitely have one thing in common: they are both power-hungry.

Chouchou

Chouchou

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2003-03-19

Languages:

French

Countries:

France

Runtime:

105 min

IMDB Ratings:

4.6 (1599 Reviews)

Genres:

Comedy

Cast:

Writer:

Merzak Allouache

Gad Elmaleh (original stage sketch)

Gad Elmaleh (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Chouchou has just arrived in Paris from his home in North Africa. He is scatty and unworldly, and tries to get a bed for the night by spinning an implausible line about being a refugee from the Chilean dictator Pinochet. He is fortunate, because a kindly priest (Father Leon) in a working class suburb has some sympathy for him, and takes him in for a few nights. Father Leon also gets him a job with a lady psychoanalyst, Dr Milovavich, and the job is as receptionist and cleaner. Chouchou does the cleaning in a woman's dustcoat and when Dr Milovavich asks him what he would most like in the world, he replies that he would love to be a woman from head to toe. Dr M. is unabashed by this revelation, and tells him that from tomorrow he can come to work as a woman, Mlle Chouchou. He takes her at her word, and is startlingly convincing the next day, with good female body language, although let down by a marked dark beard shadow. Soon the doctor has to go away for a couple of days on business, and Chouchou is alone in the practice when an enraged client comes banging at the door; when he is let in, it turns out he is Inspector Gregoire of the police, having serious mental difficulties, due to the violent nature of his work. Chouchou has been reading the doctor's textbooks and tries a bit of amateur psychoanalysis but Gregoire becomes even angrier and storms out. When Chouchou leaves later on, Gregoire is waiting and Chouuchou only just escapes violence, ending up on the Metro and getting out at Clichy, the centre of the red light district in Paris. By coincidence Chouchou bumps into her cousin in the street, there. The cousin is male but is working at a bar called the Apocalypse, where he does an act as Vanessa. That night Chouchou goes with Vanessa to the bar; there are a couple of bouncers on the door, and as everyone kisses everyone else twice on each cheek, just getting past the door takes some time. There is also a customer (Stanislas de la Tour-Maubourg) hovering near the door, and he is evidently attracted to Chouchou. Chouchou starts work as a waitress in the club, and after some days, Stanislas comes in and approaches her. After some preliminaries, he takes her out for a meal, treating Chouchou as a girl. He is a perfect gentleman and very soon wants to take Chouchou to introduce her to his parents. Chouchou is a bit taken aback at this and consults Father Leon, but the kindly priest is not against it. So Chouchou goes with Stanislas to a seriously expensive hotel dining room where the parents are waiting to meet her. Stanislas has told his parents that Chouchou is herself a psychoanalyst, and Chouchou has to bluff her way out of it. Work at the club continues apace for Chouchou, but when she is back at the dcotor's consulting rooms, Gregoire turns up again, mad as ever. This time Doctor Milovavich is present; Gregoire is getting violent, so Chouchou knocks him out by hitting him with a large vase, that Milovavich told her earlier was of irreplaceable sentimental value. Chouchou now has to go on the run from Dr Milovavich because of the vase, and from Gregoire because of assaulting a policeman. Where and how will it all end?

Avenue Montaigne

Avenue Montaigne

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2007-04-27

Languages:

French, English, Japanese

Countries:

France

Runtime:

106 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

6.8 (3577 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Danièle Thompson (screenplay)

Christopher Thompson (screenplay)

Danièle Thompson (dialogue)

Fullplot:

Jessica, raised by her grandmother, comes to Paris and gets a job at a bar across from a performance complex where a play, a concert, and an art auction will occur the same evening. It's a world in flux: the play's star wants off a popular TV soap that's made her rich, and she covets the lead in a film about de Beauvoir and Sartre; the pianist hates the concert circuit, but his wife who's his manager may leave him if he quits; a self-made widower with a girlfriend less than half his age is selling his collection of modern art - his son, a professor, objects to his father's love life. The stage manager at the complex is resigning after 30 years. Jessica sets the tone for how all plays out.

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