Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu

Jeanne Devère (2011)

Jeanne writes during WW II for a French clandestine journal. She is engaged to resistant leader Victor Devère but has a love affair with the young resistant Marc Hétier. But is Marc really trustworthy? ...

Du cristal à la fumée (2010)

A staging of Jacques Attali's play "From Crystal to Smoke" by Daniel Mesguich. ...

L'Affaire Salengro (2009)

July 1936. Leon Blum's (Daniel Mesguich) left-wing coalition government is facing one of the hardest strikes paralyzing the whole country's economy. But one man alone is about to get the French people back to work, and peacefully: Roger Salengro (Bernard-P ...

Les Condés: Policiers à Marseille (2009)

Paris 36 (2008)

A star is born in a time of both celebration and instability in this historical drama with music from director Christophe Barratier. In the spring of 1936, Paris is in a state of uncertainty; while the rise of the Third Reich in Germany worries many, a lef ...

Antonio Vivaldi - A Prince in Venice (2007)

The life of Antonio Vivaldi, the great Italian composer and musician of the 17th century. ...

How Much We Hated Each Other (2007)

Paris, 1950. Jürgen is sent to Paris as a reporter to cover the preliminary negotiations for the establishment of the European Coal and Steel Community, where he unexpectedly meets Marie again. During the war, Jürgen, a Wehrmacht officer, was stationed i ...

Austerlitz, la victoire en marchant (2006)

Between epic and legend, this fictional documentary recounts the longest and fastest march in the history of war, a 'blitzkrieg' leading to a dazzling victory, that which Napoleon and his great army won ...

Allons petits enfants (2005)

In 1915, in the atmosphere of a French village during the First World War, we follow a teen boy who discovers the reality of war and leaves for the front in order to restore the sullied honor of his father who was executed for desertion. ...

Jusqu'au bout (2005)

Jobless after their boss fled, workers from a textile factory plan on blowing up everything if the government refuse to help them. ...

Un petit garçon silencieux (2004)

Failed Rugby player, turned medical-taxi driver, Feodor, makes friends with the strange mute child he has to drive to and from the children's psychiatric hospital. ...

Les Passeurs (2004)

Clochemerle (2004)

Druids (2001)

In the year 60 B.C. a group of Druids, including the arch-druid Guttuart (Max von Sydow), witness the passing of a comet and interpret it as the sign of the coming of a king for their country Gaul, which has not had a king for a long time. Guttuart goes to ...

Dormir avec le diable (2001)

Le Pantalon (1997)

Lucien is a young soldier in the French army during the First World War. Recently married and with a young daughter, his only aim is to get through the war unscathed and get back to his wife and daughter. But this world is turned upside down by a pair of t ...

Run for Your Life (1997)

Nicolas, 13 years old, lives in a suburb north of Paris with his mother, a cleaning lady, and his older sister, a cashier in a supermarket. Left to his own devices, he and his friends have created a fearless gang that does not hesitate to travel to the cap ...

Caboose (1996)

An abandoned caboose becomes a junkie's hideout, a multiple murder has been committed. A police investigation leads nowhere, the crime remains unsolved, and Marceau, a hardened cop, resigns in the aftermath. But his troubles don't end there: someone is sta ...

Happiness Is No Joke (1995)

What there is of a plot in this drama serves mainly as a vehicle for the exploration of character. In the story, Michel (Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu) is a recent widower. As the story opens, he and his friend Andre (Philippe Nahon) are sharing a drink on Chri ...

L'Affaire Dreyfus (1995)

In 1894, the French Army discovered the existence of a traitor Alsatian and Jewish, the French officer Alfred Dreyfus makes an ideal culprit. For lack of evidence, the War Ministry creates a damning document Dreyfus overwhelming. Judged and sentenced, Drey ...

Justinien Trouve, or God's Bastard (1993)

Set in the French countryside in the 1600s, a lone rider deposits a newborn baby boy on the steps of a monastery, having bitten his nose off. The child is bought up by an ex-pirate and his wife and is taught to read, write, count, joust and fence, and is a ...

Rosen-Emil (1993)

The ex-gymnast and survival artist Emil falls in love with the prostitute Lissy. Through her he meets some criminals whom he can help thanks to his gymnastic skills. But on his rise in the criminal hierarchy, Lissy might fall by the wayside. ...

Squadron (1992)

A young Russian aristocrat, Baron Fyodor Jeremin, volunteers to serve with a Dragon squadron to impress the girl who rejected his love. Just at this time the 1863 insurrection explodes in Poland. He enlists to serve in the army being sent to suppress the r ...

Shadow of the Wolf (1992)

In the 1930s, Agaguk lives his traditional Inuit life. But one day, there is a murder in the tribe and Agaguk becomes a suspect. Soon he becomes persecuted by Henderson, a mean mountie, and he must flee through the cold winter of Northern Quebec. ...

Miracle of Marcellino (1991)

In the 15th century, in a poor Italian village, the monks of a modest convent take up an abandoned baby. Unfortunately, for all their efforts, they prove unable to trace his parents. So they set up providing tender loving care to the little boy. Marcellino ...

Blanc d'ébène (1991)

The year is 1943 and the place is Balandou, a small village in Guinea. The plot revolves around Adjutant Mariani, some kind of a misfit. Despised by his superiors, hated by his wife Marie-France, he represents colonial France while dreaming of Africa and i ...

Fatal Lovers (1990)

Following a dark story of sheep theft, Loup, nephew of Mark, the leader of a small community living in a tent city by the ocean in Connemara (Ireland), confronts Morholt, leader of a neighboring tribe. Severely wounded, he kills his opponent. For homicide, ...

Cellini: A Violent Life (1990)

The story of Benvenuto Cellinin (1500-1571), a soldier and one of the most important craftsmen and artists of Renaissance Italy whose life was marked by many achievements and adventures, but also crimes. There is also the mini-series version consisted of ...

Christian (1989)

Nikolaj Christensen is a popular Danish folk-rock artist. In this teen-oriented film, Christian (Christensen) is a young man in search of love, who restlessly leaves his home in Denmark to search for it all over Europe, finally finding some semblance of it ...

The Vanishing (1988)

Rex and Saskia, a young couple in love, are on vacation when they stop at a busy service station. Saskia is abducted in broad daylight and three years pass with no answers or closure surrounding her disappearance. Rex has nearly given up all hope when he s ...

Les lutteurs immobiles (1988)

The consumer society is dead. Welcome to the preservation society! As of their first school year, children are taught to love objects, which most of them do. But not all citizens. To remedy the problem, The security forces crack down on vandals, bands of p ...

Beatrice (1987)

Somewhere in France during the Middle Ages. Béatrice is impatient to see her father return from English captivity. She doesn't expect however that the father whom she loves from distance will be the most hateful person who will submit her and her family t ...

Double Face (1987)

A deserter wants his disabled daughter supplies know: He uses his uncanny Resemblance to a Bank and robs his colleagues. But it can't go well... ...

Max My Love (1986)

The wife of a British diplomat in Paris takes a chimpanzee as her lover. ...

In the Shadow of the Wind (1986)

The story is of a young man, Stevens, who returns to his native village after a five year exile caused by a violent quarrel with his father. The story revolves around the women in Stevens life and the affects of his presence. ...

Flagrant désir (1986)

In the Médoc, a young woman is found drowned. An accident, her influential family of winegrowers maintains. Or rather murder, as the American inspector Morrison suspects. If so, why? What secrets this family keeps? ...

Among Wolves (1985)

An American general with highly confidential defence information has been kidnapped by terrorists and is being held in a cliff-top fortress in the Mediterranean. ...

Urgence (1985)

When a neo-Nazi group of terrorists is set to blow a pop concert off the face of the earth because it is an anti-racist benefit, they are faced with the intrepid Jean-Pierre Mougin, a macho sports reporter with zero tolerance for Nazi hate crimes. Going al ...

Street of the Damned (1984)

In a desolate Paris suburb, no one dares challenge crime boss Hagen, who rules his turf with an iron fist. That includes his former friend Chet, who vows to keep to himself in order to protect his loved ones. But Hagen keeps pushing his buttons… and Chet ...

Liberty Belle (1983)

The story of a group of students' involvement with a group who oppose the French-Algerian war. ...

The Death of Mario Ricci (1983)

A TV reporter and his assisstant go to a small Swiss village to do a programme with a reclusive scientist, an expert on world food shortages. During this time, an Italian immigrant worker is killed in a road crash and the reporter becomes involved in uncov ...

Life Is a Bed of Roses (1983)

In this whimsical fable, Resnais deftly interweaves three story lines: the creation of an early-20th-century utopia; romantic high jinks at a school conference; and a fantasy sparked by F/X pioneer Georges Méliès. ...

The Informer (1983)

The girlfriend of an associate of a gangland boss, is persuaded by a police detective to inform about her lover's associates. ...

Coup de feu (1983)

A César award nominated short feature. ...

The Return of Martin Guerre (1982)

Village of Artigat, southern France, summer 1542, during the reign of Francis I. Martin Guerre and Bertrande de Rols marry. A few years later, accused of having committed a robbery, Martin suddenly disappears. When, almost a decade later, a man arrives in ...

The Professional (1981)

Josselin Beaumont, a French secret agent, is tasked with assassinating Njala, the president for life of Malawi in Africa. A shift in French policy means that assassinating Njala is no longer an option. But instead of recalling their agent, high-ranking off ...

Bolero (1981)

The film follows four families, with different nationalities (French, German, Russian and American) but with the same passion for music, from the 1930s to the 1960s. The various story lines cross each other time and again in different places and times, wit ...

Twice a Woman (1979)

When a divorced museum director takes a young girl as a lover things quickly become more complicated when her ex-husband also engages in a relationship with the girl. ...

Such a Lovely Town... (1979)

Stephane (Victor Lanoux) is the mayor of a small village. He is also the manager of the tannery which provides the inhabitants with work. In a fit of anger, he kills his wife (Edith Scob). A judge (Jean Carmet) tries to prove his culpability, but it's not ...

Hothead (1979)

François, a miserable football player, becomes a town hero after bringing victory in an extremely important game. He uses his fame for revenge on the team star for the previous mockeries. ...

Judith Therpauve (1978)

A former hero of the French anti-Nazi resistance is approached by old comrades to lead a financially struggling liberal newspaper. Initially reluctant, she takes on the challenge, mortgaging her house to keep it afloat. As conservative forces intensify the ...

The Body of My Enemy (1976)

A man accused of murder discovers a trail of corruption leading to the powerful family of his former love. Going underground, he seeks allies in a town where trust is scarce. ...

Mr. Klein (1976)

Paris, France, 1942, during the Nazi occupation. Robert Klein, a successful art dealer who benefits from the misfortunes of those who are ruthlessly persecuted, discovers by chance that there is another Robert Klein, apparently a Jewish man; someone with w ...

The Tenant (1976)

A quiet and inconspicuous man rents an apartment in Paris where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia. ...