6 Movies Starring Jean Bouise

The Things of Life

The Things of Life

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1970-03-13

Languages:

French

Countries:

France, Italy, Switzerland

Runtime:

89 min

Rated:

GP

IMDB Ratings:

7.8 (2496 Reviews)

Director:

Claude Sautet

Genres:

DramaRomance

Cast:

Writer:

Sandro Continenza (dialogue: Italian version)

Jean-Loup Dabadie (adaptation)

Paul Guimard (novel)

Paul Guimard (screenplay)

Claude Sautet (adaptation)

Fullplot:

Pierre, a successful engineer in building highways has a traffic accident. Being seriously wounded, he is lying waiting for death and remembering his past in flashbacks.

The Common Man

The Common Man

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1975-02-26

Languages:

French

Countries:

France

Runtime:

100 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.4 (521 Reviews)

Director:

Yves Boisset

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Jean-Pierre Bastid

Yves Boisset

Jean Curtelin

Michel Martens

Fullplot:

As every summer, Georges Lajoie, his wife Ginette and grown-up son Lèon go on holiday to Loulou's campsite. They join old friends, the Schumachers and the Colins. Brigitte Colin, the daughter, is quite a pretty young girl now. One day, Georges rapes and murders her. He hides the body near the barracks of the immigrant Arab workers. The racism of the campers will do the rest... A virulent lampoon against the average Frenchman's racism.

The Old Gun

The Old Gun

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1975-08-22

Languages:

French, German

Countries:

France, West Germany

Runtime:

103 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.7 (2335 Reviews)

Director:

Robert Enrico

Cast:

Writer:

Robert Enrico

Pascal Jardin

Claude Veillot

Fullplot:

In Montauban in 1944, Julien Dandieu in a surgeon in the local hospital. Frightened by the German army entering Montauban, he asks his friend Francois to drive his wife and his daughter in the back country village where Julien has an old castle. One week later, Julien decided to meet then for the week end, but the Germans are already occupying the village.

Un papillon sur l'èpaule

Un papillon sur l'èpaule

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1978-05-03

Languages:

French

Countries:

France

Runtime:

95 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.8 (413 Reviews)

Director:

Jacques Deray

Cast:

Writer:

Jean-Claude Carrière (scenario written by)

Tonino Guerra (scenario written by)

John Gearon (based on the novel "The Velvet Well" by)

Fullplot:

Mystery film about a man who finds there is another world to the one we know.

Hècate

Hècate

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1982-11-24

Languages:

French, German

Countries:

Switzerland, France

Runtime:

105 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.7 (91 Reviews)

Director:

Daniel Schmid

Genres:

DramaRomance

Cast:

Writer:

Paul Morand (novel)

Pascal Jardin (adaptation)

Daniel Schmid (adaptation)

Pascal Jardin (dialogue)

Fullplot:

Le Dernier Combat (The Last Battle)

Le Dernier Combat (The Last Battle)

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1984-06-12

Languages:

French

Countries:

France

Runtime:

92 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.9 (4132 Reviews)

Director:

Luc Besson

Genres:

Sci-Fi

Cast:

Writer:

Luc Besson

Pierre Jolivet

Fullplot:

In the post-apocalyptic future, only a few humans are left. No one is able to speak; the film contains no dialogue, and characters communicate non-verbally. A determined loner befriends a reclusive older man and these two battle against vicious thugs for food, shelter and life itself.

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