13 Movies Starring Michel Blanc

Mènage

Mènage

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1986-10-01

Languages:

French

Countries:

France

Runtime:

84 min

IMDB Ratings:

(1714 Reviews)

Director:

Bertrand Blier

Fullplot:

A bisexual petty criminal named Bob encounters a married couple arguing in a bar. Bob breaks up the fight and proceeds to seduce first the wife and then the husband. Then Bob teaches the couple how to be burglars and they join him in his criminal exploits.

Monsieur Hire

Monsieur Hire

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1990-06-01

Languages:

French

Countries:

France

Runtime:

81 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

7.7 (4126 Reviews)

Director:

Patrice Leconte

Cast:

Writer:

Georges Simenon (novel)

Patrice Leconte (scenario

adaptation and dialogue)

Patrick Dewolf (scenario

adaptation and dialogue)

Fullplot:

Monsieur Hire is a maladjusted, balding, middle-aged man living in France. He doesn't like to talk to people. A young woman is murdered and a police detective suspects M. Hire, just because his neighbors think he is strange.

Uranus

Uranus

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1991-10-01

Languages:

French

Countries:

France

Runtime:

100 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.9 (813 Reviews)

Director:

Claude Berri

Genres:

ComedyDrama

Cast:

Writer:

Marcel Aymè (novel)

Claude Berri

Arlette Langmann

Fullplot:

After World War II, a small French village struggles to put the war behind as the controlling Communist Party tries to flush out Petain loyalists. The local bar owner, a simple man who likes to write poetry, who only wants to be left alone to do his job, becomes a target for Communist harassment as they try and locate a particular loyalist, and he pushes back.

Prospero's Books

Prospero's Books

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1991-08-30

Languages:

English

Countries:

UK, Netherlands, France, Italy, Japan

Runtime:

124 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.9 (4904 Reviews)

Director:

Peter Greenaway

Genres:

FantasyDrama

Cast:

Writer:

William Shakespeare (play)

Peter Greenaway

Fullplot:

An exiled magician finds an opportunity for revenge against his enemies muted when his daughter and the son of his chief enemy fall in love in this uniquely structured retelling of the 'The Tempest'.

Dead Tired

Dead Tired

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1995-07-12

Languages:

French, English

Countries:

France

Runtime:

92 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.4 (1458 Reviews)

Director:

Michel Blanc

Genres:

Comedy

Cast:

Writer:

Michel Blanc (scenario and dialogue)

Bertrand Blier (original idea)

Fullplot:

What is going on here?!? French director, Michel Blanc (as Himself), just doesn't understand why his life is suddenly falling apart. This nightmarish comedy-thriller is all about identity. What defines a famous person? Is it their public self or their private self? What is the public's legitimate claim on their fame? With the glitterati of French Cinema starring as themselves, the anonymous faces in the audience gain a glimpse into the downside of public recognition.

The Monster

The Monster

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1996-04-19

Languages:

Italian

Countries:

Italy, France

Runtime:

112 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.5 (7055 Reviews)

Director:

Roberto Benigni

Cast:

Writer:

Vincenzo Cerami (story)

Roberto Benigni (story)

Michel Blanc (french adaptation)

Roberto Benigni (screenplay)

Fullplot:

A vicious serial sex killer is on the loose, and landscape gardener and shop-window outfitter Loris is the prime suspect, thanks to his unfortunate habit of getting caught in compromising situations (for which there is always a totally innocent explanation that the police fail to spot). Undercover policewoman Jessica is assigned by eccentric police psychologist Taccone to follow Loris and provide evidence for his arrest - but things don't quite go according to plan...

Summer Things

Summer Things

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2002-10-09

Languages:

French, English, German, Italian

Countries:

France, UK, Italy

Runtime:

103 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.7 (2053 Reviews)

Director:

Michel Blanc

Cast:

Writer:

Michel Blanc

Joseph Connolly (book)

Fullplot:

Two couple of friends, one very rich the other almost homeless, decides to go on Holiday. Julie, a single mother, joins them too. Once at seaside, it starts a complicate love cross among them that will involve also a transsexual, a jealous brother,a Latin Lover and another nervous stressed couple. Not to mention about the daughter of one of them that is secretly in Chicago with one of his father's employee... More, at the end of the summer all of them will join the same party...

Les bronzès 3: amis pour la vie

Les bronzès 3: amis pour la vie

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2006-02-01

Languages:

English, Italian, French

Countries:

France

Runtime:

97 min

IMDB Ratings:

(2302 Reviews)

Director:

Patrice Leconte

Genres:

Comedy

Cast:

Writer:

Josiane Balasko

Michel Blanc

Marie-Anne Chazel

Christian Clavier

Gèrard Jugnot

Thierry Lhermitte

Fullplot:

Movie about friends who reunite after 20 years and a lot of things have changed.

You Are So Beautiful

You Are So Beautiful

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2006-01-11

Languages:

French, Romanian

Countries:

France

Runtime:

97 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.7 (2353 Reviews)

Fullplot:

When farmer Aymè Pigrenet loses his wife, he is not exactly overwhelmed by sorrow, rather by the sheer amount of work that suddenly falls on his shoulders. Soon, he realizes he won't make it alone and he needs another companion to cope with it. But finding a new spouse is no simple task in his small rural town: Aymè turns to a matchmaker who quickly understands that he's not after a soul mate and advises him to go to Romania where young women will do anything to escape poverty. And indeed, it's in Romania that Aymè meets Elena...

The Witnesses

The Witnesses

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2007-03-07

Languages:

French, English

Countries:

France

Runtime:

112 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.9 (2106 Reviews)

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Andrè Tèchinè (scenario

adaptation and dialogue)

Laurent Guyot (scenario

adaptation and dialogue)

Viviane Zingg (scenario

adaptation and dialogue)

Michel Canesi (idea)

Jamil Rahmani (idea)

Fullplot:

June 1984 to June 1985, from happy days to war to summer's return. A middle-aged doctor in Paris, Adrien, meets Manu, a young gay man from the provinces who lives with his sister, an opera singer. Adrien likes Manu, loves him even, in a Platonic relationship. Sarah, a writer, and Mehdi, a vice-squad cop, have an infant. Sarah discovers she has no taste for parenthood. Adrien bring Manu to Sarah's country cabin where Mehdi saves Manu from drowning. Back in Paris, an affair begins as a plague descends on Parisian gays. There are tests, illness, anger, relief, separations, and death. A year later, these friends meet again at the summer place. They are witnesses to how happiness has changed.

The Girl on the Train

The Girl on the Train

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2009-03-18

Languages:

French

Countries:

France

Runtime:

97 min

Rated:

UNRATED

IMDB Ratings:

(1176 Reviews)

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Andrè Tèchinè (scenario

adaptation and dialogue)

Odile Barski (scenario

adaptation and dialogue)

Jean-Marie Besset (scenario

adaptation and dialogue)

Jean-Marie Besset (play)

Fullplot:

Jeanne is a young woman, striking but otherwise without qualities. Her mother tries to get her a job in the office of a lawyer, Bleistein, her lover years ago. Jeanne fails the interview but falls into a relationship with Franck, a wrestler whose dreams and claims of being in a legitimate business partnership Jeanne is only too happy to believe. When Franck is arrested, he turns on Jeanne for her naivety; she's stung and seeks attention by making up a story of an attack on a train. Is there any way out for her? In a subplot, Bleistein's grandson, Nathan, prepares for his bar mitzvah and, through an encounter with Jeanne, experiences intimations of manhood.

The Day I Saw Your Heart

The Day I Saw Your Heart

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2011-04-20

Languages:

French

Countries:

France

Runtime:

98 min

Rated:

NOT RATED

IMDB Ratings:

6.6 (1102 Reviews)

Genres:

ComedyDrama

Cast:

Writer:

Jennifer Devoldère

Romain Lèvy (collaboration)

Cècile Sellam (collaboration)

Fullplot:

The Minister

The Minister

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2011-10-26

Languages:

French

Countries:

France, Belgium

Runtime:

115 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.7 (1849 Reviews)

Genres:

Drama

Fullplot:

Transport Minister Bertrand Saint-Jean is awoken in the middle of the night by his head of staff. A bus has gone off the road into a gully. He has no choice but to go to the scene of the accident. Thus begins the odyssey of a politician in a world that is increasingly more complex and hostile. Speed, power struggles, chaos, economic crisis... Everything follows in quick succession and clashes. Emergencies follow on each other's heels. What sacrifices are men prepared to make? Just how long will they hold up in a state that devours those that work for it?

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