
Jean-Pierre Bisson
Actor · 1944 – 1995 · Charenton-le-Pont, Val-de-Marne, France
Movies23
Movie5.5ComedyRomanceAn ad executive impersonates an archeology professor to avoid a situation with an obsessed former lover. She enlists the help of a hapless archeologist who is at the airport to pick the real archeology professor. What follows is a series of conflicting and comical situations involving the "switcheroo."
Movie6.7DramaRomanceIt's mid 19th century, north of France. The story of a coal miner's town. They are exploited by the mine's owner. One day the decide to go on strike, and then the authorities repress them.
Germinal
1993 · 349 votes
Movie6.3DramaSimon and Dede are best friends: two aimless drunks who spend their days getting sloshed and any other available time getting laid. Simon is living on unemployment benefits in a trailer parked near his sister's apartment. Dede works at a fish-packing plant on the night shift. Neither man is sensitive, young, or good looking. However, their sang-froid (literally, "cold blood," referring to a quality of imperturbability) stands them in good stead as they go about their seedy lives, picking up one woman and having sex with her on the beach, or when Simon calmly has sex with a prostitute in front of the woman's brother. In the past, a bizarre necrophiliac situation led to Simon experiencing his only sense of what it might be to truly love someone.
Movie5.5DramaThe Italians have bocce ball, and the French have a similar game, boules. This is played (generally in the southern part of the country) with steel balls on a packed-earth court. While these games have a bucolic, countrified and even genteel air about them, competition and betting are fierce. In this sports/crime thriller, a young man whose father was killed for violating the unspoken roles of the game in professional competition trains with his grandfather to become a champion boules player just like his father.
Plein fer
1990 · 3 votes
Movie5.1HorrorDramaThriller about a psycho looking for revenge. Bronsky is a paraplegic because of an accident at a construction site that was partly due to the head architect, David Briand. Many years after the accident, Bronsky shows up at Briand's residence with his family and his trailer looking for assistance. He and his wife insinuate themselves into the household without revealing their true identity. They start to work for Briand and his wife Elaine as a gardener and a babysitter with the sole objective of wreaking havoc on their lives and avenging Bronsky's disabilities.
Movie6.5ThrillerClaire Rousset visits her ex-husband Pierre who lives in the Lyon region. For some time now, Pierre's health and that of the other inhabitants of the village has deteriorated to the point of becoming worrying.
Movie6.2DramaA long parade of actors and actresses pop up in an unconnected series of skits, vignettes, and sight gags in this comedy anthology by Jean Curtelin. Among the sketches performed is one with Jean Carmet playing a man from the sticks woefully burdened with the challenge of getting through a dog food commercial on less than one tank of intelligible French. Another skit shows a silent duel between an airport custodian and an automatic door, while another with the renowned Michel Galabru sets up a strange teacher-student exchange.
Movie3.7FantasyAn adaptation of La Sorcière from Jules Michelet
Movie4.6ThrillerComedyTwo members of the French Academy agree to help the attractive young veterinarian Esther investigate the suspicious death of her sister. Esther is convinced her brother-in-law is responsible, but soon it becomes apparent that those responsible are linked to the very highest echelons of power in the Vatican.
Movie9.0DramaRomanceJeanne runs a busy inn with her husband Georges, her two children and two sisters. There is perfect harmony and the constant sound of laughter coming from the kitchen and office. One day, Pierre, the landlord, takes up a room without a word of explanation. Jeanne gradually begins to feel a strong attraction toward the new guest.
Movie6.2DramaIn the middle of the Algerian war, Elise, from Bordeaux, “goes” to Paris to join her brother to earn her living in an automobile factory. There she meets Arezki, an Algerian nationalist activist with whom she falls in love. A chronicle of working life at the time and which highlights the extent of police repression against Algerians.
Movie5.8DramaComedyLouise, literary advisor to the Cercle Editions, receives a large manuscript from the United States. Upset by the reading of this book, she begins an epistolary relationship with Paul, the author.
Movie6.1MysteryCrimeThis fast-paced mystery is in part based on a novel by Yves Ellena and is at least equally based on the 1943 classic Le Corbeau, which in 1951 was produced in English by Otto Preminger as The Thirteenth Letter. In this movie, someone is using a pirate radio broadcast to dish the dirt on the lives of the elite of a small French town.
Radio corbeau
1989 · 11 votes
Movie6.4DramaCrimeOlivier Rohan, a young doctor, has just opened a general practice. However, having only a small clientele, he continues to work in the hospital's emergency room. One night, he will witness the unnatural death of a young man.
Movie7.0ComedyAn unemployed worker illegally sets up a toy assembly line in his home where his friends and neighbors work.
2 bis, rue de la Combine
1992 · 1 votes
Movie10.0DramaIdris is a young shepherd in the desert of Tunesia. One day a jeep drives by and a woman takes a picture of him; she says she's from Paris and promises to send him a copy. But when nothing arrives during the next months, Idris becomes worried. His father advises him to get his "face" back or bad things may happen to him. So he sets out to Paris... and discovers Paris as a world full of strange things and weird behavior.
La Goutte d'or
1990 · 1 votes
Movie8.0DramaRomanceBased on French writer Colette's 1923 novel, Le Blé en herbe focuses on the changing relationship between childhood friends Vinca and Phillipe. Both are on the verge of adulthood and beginning to recognize romantic feelings for one another when Phillipe meets a lascivious, wealthy older woman named Madam Dellaray. He is torn between his innocent but restricting affection for Vinca and satisfaction of his impatient lust for the new and mature world Madam Dellaray offers.
Movie3.8ComedyJoseph and Victor are two motorcyclists of the national police force and inseparable friends. If the first leads a tidy life with wife and child, the second, single, is always in search of a soul mate - And one day he finds her.
Movie3.0DramaTV MovieComme un bateau, la mer en moins
1993 · 3 votes
Movie8.0ComedyTV MovieLes genoux cagneux
1992 · 1 votes
Movie4.4DramaComedyA poll for an advertising agency during a working day resulting in a series of meetings with women and men from different social strata, each one of them with a different problem.
Movie5.7ComedyRomanceEverything starts when a journalist François decides to investigate the world of working class people. He gets into the lives of Claude, a worker and his wife Lily who has left him.
Lily, aime-moi
1975 · 11 votes
Movie8.0DramaAfter the disappearance at sea of a young fisherman, his childhood friend and his mother begin an ambiguous relationship.
La nuit de l'océan
1992 · 1 votes
Series6
TVCrimeLes Cinq Dernieres Minutes is a crime based French television series
TV7.1CrimeThe series follows the adventures of lighthearted Jean-Paul Moulin, a police Commissaire, and his team as they solve crimes.
TV6.7MysteryDramaA 1990 horror anthology series, with host Anthony Perkins presenting and screening tales based on Patricia Highsmith's short stories that display a sinister atmosphere, and delve into the darkest depths of human nature.
Chillers
1990 · 6 votes
- TV8.0Drama
A French-language anthology of seven famous, fantastic, and psychological stories by beloved American author Henry James.
TV7.0DramaTold by Colette, the famous woman of letters, her tumultuous life, from her childhood, her works, her loves and her scandals, her cats until the 1950s, a few years before her death in Paris in 1954.
Colette
1985 · 1 votes
TV10.0DramaSaccard, ready to use all means, however immoral or illegal, tries to gain back the fortune he lost three years ago. All involving business and the exchange market. He has a loyal accomplice, an indifferent son, maybe-friends, partners and investors and of course, enemies.
L'Argent
1988 · 1 votes