List of French films of 1984
Table:
French films released in 1984

Title

Director

Cast

Genre

Notes

The Blood of Others
Claude Chabrol
Jodie Foster, Michael Ontkean, Sam Neill
Drama, war
French-Canadian co-production[1][2]

Boy Meets Girl
Leos Carax
Denis Lavant, Mireille Perrier, Carroll Brooks
Drama, romance
[3][4][5]

Carmen
Francesco Rosi
Julia Migenes Johnson, Placido Domingo, Ruggero Raimondi
Musical
French-Italian co-production[6][7][8]

Emmanuelle 4
Francis Leroi, Iris Letans
Sylvia Kristel, Mia Nygren, Patrick Bauchau
Adult
[9][10]

Fort Saganne
Alain Corneau
Gérard Depardieu, Catherine Deneuve, Philippe Noiret
Epic, romance
[11][12][13]

Full Moon in Paris
Éric Rohmer
Pascale Ogier, Tchéky Karyo, Fabrice Luchini
Comedy-drama
[14][15][16]

Happy Easter
Georges Lautner
Jean-Paul Belmondo, Sophie Marceau, Marie Laforêt
Comedy
[17][18][19]

Klassenverhältnisse
Straub-Huillet
Christian Heinisch, Mario Adorf, Nazzareno Bianconi
Drama
West German-French co-production

L'Amour à mort
Alain Resnais
Sabine Azéma, Pierre Arditi, Fanny Ardant
Drama
[20][21]

Le tartuffe
Gérard Depardieu
Gérard Depardieu, François Périer, Paule Annen
Comedy
[22][23][24]

Les Morfalous
Henri Verneuil
Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jacques Villeret, Michel Constantin
Adventure
[25][26]

Les Trottoirs de Bangkok
Jean Rollin
Yoko, Françoise Blanchard, Gérard Landry
Spy
[27][28]

Monster Shark
Lamberto Bava
Michael Sopkiw, Valentine Monnier, Gianni Garko
Horror
Italian-French co-production[29][30]

My New Partner
Claude Zidi
Philippe Noiret, Thierry Lhermitte, Grace de Capitani
Comedy
[31][32][33]

Paris, Texas
Wim Wenders
Harry Dean Stanton, Nastassja Kinski, Dean Stockwell

West German-French co-production[34][35]

The Perils of Gwendoline in the Land of the Yik-Yak
Just Jaeckin
Tawny Kitaen, Brent Huff, Jean Rougerie
Adventure
[36][37][38]

The Pirate
Jacques Doillon
Jane Birkin, Philippe Léotard, Maruschka Detmers
Drama
[39][40]

The Public Woman
Andrzej Żuławski
Francis Huster, Valérie Kaprisky, Lambert Wilson
Drama
[41][42][43]

Success Is the Best Revenge
Jerzy Skolimowski
Michael York, Joanna Szczerbic, Michael Lyndon

British-French co-production[44][45]

A Sunday in the Country
Bertrand Tavernier
Louis Ducreux, Sabine Azéma, Michel Aumont
Drama
[46][47][48]

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The Blood of Others ( French : Le sang des autres ) is a 1984 film directed by Claude Chabrol . It is based on the 1945 novel The Blood of Others by Simone de Beauvoir . The film was originally made as a three-hour television mini-series and then recut down 40 minutes for a theatrical release .
Claude Henri Jean Chabrol ( French : [ klod ʃabʁɔl ] ; 24 June 1930 - 12 September 2010 ) was a French film director and a member of the French New Wave ( nouvelle vague ) group of filmmakers who first came to prominence at the end of the 1950s . Like his colleagues and contemporaries Jean-Luc Godard , François Truffaut , Éric Rohmer and Jacques Rivette , Chabrol was a critic for the influential film magazine Cahiers du cinéma before beginning his career as a film maker . Chabrol 's career began with Le Beau Serge ( 1958 ) , inspired by Hitchcock 's Shadow of a Doubt ( 1943 ) . Thrillers became something of a trademark for Chabrol , with an approach characterized by a distanced objectivity . This is especially apparent in Les Biches ( 1968 ) , La Femme infidèle ( 1969 ) , and Le Boucher ( 1970 ) - all featuring Stéphane Audran , who was his wife at the time . Sometimes characterized as a mainstream New Wave director , Chabrol remained prolific and popular throughout his half-century career . In 1978 , he cast Isabelle Huppert as the lead in Violette Nozière . On the strength of that effort , the pair went on to others including the successful Madame Bovary ( 1991 ) and La Cérémonie ( 1996 ) . Film critic John Russell Taylor has stated that there are few directors whose films are more difficult to explain or evoke on paper , if only because so much of the overall effect turns on Chabrol 's sheer hedonistic relish for the medium.Some of his films become almost private jokes , made to amuse himself . James Monaco has called Chabrol the craftsman par excellence of the New Wave , and his variations upon a theme give us an understanding of the explicitness and precision of the language of the film that we do n't get from the more varied experiments in genre of Truffaut or Godard .
Alicia Christian Jodie Foster ( born November 19 , 1962 ) is an American actress , director , and producer . She has received two Academy Awards , three British Academy Film Awards , two Golden Globe Awards , and the Cecil B. DeMille Award . For her work as a director , she has been nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award . Foster began her professional career as a child model when she was three years old , and she made her acting debut in 1968 in the television sitcom Mayberry R.F.D . In the late 1960s and early 1970s , she worked in several television series and made her film debut with Disney 's Napoleon and Samantha ( 1972 ) . Following appearances in the musical Tom Sawyer ( 1973 ) and Martin Scorsese 's comedy-drama Alice Does n't Live Here Anymore ( 1974 ) , Foster 's breakthrough came with Scorsese 's psychological thriller Taxi Driver ( 1976 ) , in which she played a child prostitute ; at age 14 , she received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress . Her other roles as a teenager include the musical Bugsy Malone ( 1976 ) and the thriller The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane ( 1976 ) , and she became a popular teen idol by starring in Disney 's Freaky Friday ( 1976 ) and Candleshoe ( 1977 ) , as well as Carny ( 1980 ) and Foxes ( 1980 ) . After attending college at Yale , Foster struggled to transition into adult roles until she gained critical acclaim for playing a rape survivor in the legal drama The Accused ( 1988 ) , for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress . She won her second Academy Award three years later for the psychological horror The Silence of the Lambs ( 1991 ) , in which she portrayed Clarice Starling . Foster made her debut as a film director the same year with Little Man Tate , and founded her own production company , Egg Pictures , in 1992 . The company 's first production was Nell ( 1994 ) , in which she also played the title role , garnering her fourth nomination for an Academy Award . Her other successful films in the 1990s were the romantic drama Sommersby , western comedy Maverick ( 1994 ) , science fiction Contact ( 1997 ) , and period drama Anna and the King ( 1999 ) .
Michael Leonard Ontkean ( born January 24 , 1946 ) is a retired Canadian actor . Born and raised in Vancouver , British Columbia , Ontkean relocated to the United States to attend the University of New Hampshire on a hockey scholarship before pursuing a career in acting in the early 1970s . He initially came to prominence portraying Officer Willie Gillis on the crime drama series The Rookies from 1972-74 , followed by lead roles in the hockey sports comedy film Slap Shot ( 1977 ) and the romantic comedy Willie & Phil ( 1980 ) . In 1982 , he had a starring role opposite Harry Hamlin and Kate Jackson in the drama Making Love , in which he portrayed a married man who comes to terms with his homosexuality . Ontkean continued to appear in films , such as Clara 's Heart ( 1988 ) and Postcards from the Edge ( 1990 ) before being cast as Sheriff Harry S. Truman on David Lynch 's Twin Peaks ( 1990-1991 ) , the role for which he is probably best known .
Nigel John Dermot Neill DCNZM OBE ( born 14 September 1947 ) , known professionally as Sam Neill , is a Northern Irish-born New Zealand actor , writer , producer , and director . By family tradition , he enjoys an avocation as vigneron . Born in Omagh , Northern Ireland , he moved to Christchurch , New Zealand , with his family in 1954 . Neill first achieved recognition with his appearance in the 1977 film Sleeping Dogs , which he followed with leading roles in My Brilliant Career ( 1979 ) , Omen III : The Final Conflict , Possession ( both 1981 ) , A Cry in the Dark ( 1988 ) , Dead Calm ( 1989 ) , and The Piano ( 1993 ) . He came to international prominence as Dr. Alan Grant in Jurassic Park ( 1993 ) . Outside of film , Neill has appeared in numerous television series , including Reilly , Ace of Spies ( 1983 ) , Merlin ( 1998 ) , The Tudors ( 2007 ) , Crusoe ( 2008-2010 ) , Happy Town ( 2010 ) , Alcatraz ( 2012 ) , Peaky Blinders ( 2013-2014 ) and Rick & Morty ( 2019 ) . He has also presented and narrated several documentaries . Neill is the recipient of the Longford Lyell Award and the New Zealand Film Award and also the Logie Award for Most Outstanding Actor . He has three Golden Globe and two Primetime Emmy Award nominations . He lives in Queenstown and has three children and one stepchild .
Boy Meets Girl is a 1984 French drama film , written and directed by Leos Carax , starring Denis Lavant and Mireille Perrier . It was Carax 's first feature film . The plot follows the relationship between an aspiring filmmaker ( Denis Lavant ) , who has just been left by his lover , and a suicidal young woman ( Mireille Perrier ) , who is also reeling from a failed romance .
Alex Christophe Dupont ( born 22 November 1960 ) , best known as Leos Carax ( French : [ leɔs karaks ] ) , is a French film director , critic , and writer . Carax is noted for his poetic style and his tortured depictions of love . His first major work was Boy Meets Girl ( 1984 ) , and his notable works include Les Amants du Pont-Neuf ( 1991 ) and Holy Motors ( 2012 ) . His professional name is an anagram of his real name , 'Alex ' , and 'Oscar ' .
Denis Lavant ( born 17 June 1961 ) is a French actor known for his distinctive face and the physically demanding aspects of the roles he plays , which often involve slapstick , acrobatics or dance , as well as for his long-standing association with director Leos Carax . Lavant has played the lead role in all but one of Carax 's films . Lavant is also known for his roles in Claire Denis ' Beau Travail , and Harmony Korine 's Mister Lonely .
Mireille Perrier ( born 14 November 1959 ) is a French actress . Her first starring role was in Leos Carax 's Boy Meets Girl in 1983 . Since then , Perrier has had major roles in other films such as Un monde sans pitié , Netchaïev est de retour , Toto le Héros , À vendre , Le Comptoir , Un dérangement considérable and L'entraînement du champion avant la course . In 1991 , Perrier received a Joseph Plateau Award in the Best Belgian Actress category for her work in the Belgian film Toto le Héros .
Carmen is a 1984 French-Italian film directed by Francesco Rosi . It is a film version of Bizet 's opera Carmen . Julia Migenes stars in the title role , Plácido Domingo as Don José , Ruggero Raimondi as Escamillo , and Faith Esham as Micaela . Lorin Maazel conducts the Orchestre National de France . The film premiered in France on March 14 , 1984 , and in the U.S. on September 20 of that year . In 1985 , the film was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Film .
Francesco Rosi ( Italian pronunciation : [ franˈtʃesko ˈrɔːzi ] ; 15 November 1922 - 10 January 2015 ) was an Italian film director . His film The Mattei Affair won the Palme d'Or at the 1972 Cannes Film Festival . Rosi 's films , especially those of the 1960s and 1970s , often appeared to have political messages . While the topics for his later films became less politically oriented and more angled toward literature , he continued to direct until 1997 , his last film being the adaptation of Primo Levi 's book , The Truce . At the 2008 Berlin International Film Festival 13 of his films were screened , in a section reserved for film-makers of outstanding quality and achievement . He received the Honorary Golden Bear for Lifetime Achievement , accompanied by the screening of his 1962 film Salvatore Giuliano . In 2012 the Venice Biennale awarded Rosi the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement .
José Plácido Domingo Embil KBE [ a ] ( born 21 January 1941 ) is a Spanish opera singer , conductor and arts administrator . He has recorded over a hundred complete operas and is well known for his versatility , regularly performing in Italian , French , German , Spanish , English and Russian in the most prestigious opera houses in the world . Although primarily a lirico-spinto tenor for most of his career , especially popular for his Cavaradossi , Hoffmann , Don José , and Canio , he quickly moved into more dramatic roles , becoming the most acclaimed Otello of his generation . In the early 2010s , he transitioned from the tenor repertory into almost exclusively baritone parts , most notably Simon Boccanegra . He has performed 151 different roles . Domingo has also achieved significant success as a crossover artist , especially in the genres of Latin and popular music . In addition to winning fourteen Grammy and Latin Grammy Awards , several of his records have gone silver , gold , platinum and multi-platinum . His first pop album , Perhaps Love ( 1981 ) , spread his fame beyond the opera world . The title song , performed as a duet with country and folk singer John Denver , has sold almost four million copies and helped lead to numerous television appearances for the tenor . He also starred in many cinematically released and televised opera movies , particularly under the direction of Franco Zeffirelli . In 1990 , he began singing with fellow tenors Luciano Pavarotti and José Carreras as part of The Three Tenors . The first Three Tenors recording became the best-selling classical album of all time .
Ruggero Raimondi ( born 3 October 1941 ) is an Italian bass-baritone opera singer who has also appeared in motion pictures .
Emmanuelle 4 ( also released as Emmanuelle IV ) is 1984 French film directed by Francis Leroi and Iris Letans . It is the fourth official theatrical feature film in the Emmanuelle franchise . It is also the last film credit for 1962 Academy Award and Golden Globe nominee Michel Magne , as the film-score composer committed suicide in a hotel room ten months after its release .
Sylvia Maria Kristel ( 28 September 1952 - 17 October 2012 ) was a Dutch model and actress who appeared in over 50 films . She is best remembered as the eponymous character in five of the seven Emmanuelle films .
Patrick Nicolas Jean Sixte Ghislain Bauchau ( born 6 December 1938 ) is a Belgian actor best known for his role as Scarpine in the 1985 James Bond movie , A View to a Kill ; Sydney ( Jarod 's mentor ) in the TV series The Pretender ; and Doctor Rowan Chase , Doctor Robert Chase 's estranged father in the TV series , House .
Fort Saganne is a 1984 French war film directed by Alain Corneau and starring Gérard Depardieu , Philippe Noiret , Catherine Deneuve , and Sophie Marceau . Based on the 1980 novel of the same name by Louis Gardel , the film is about a soldier of humble beginnings who volunteers for service in the Sahara in 1911 . After falling in love with the beautiful young daughter of the regional administrator , he is ordered to go on missions in the desert , where he engages in several successful campaigns and experiences severe loneliness . Later , while on a diplomatic mission to Paris , he has a brief affair with a journalist . Returning to Africa , he leads a gallant defense against a feared sultan and is awarded the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour . He returns to his home a national hero and marries the young girl he 's not forgotten , but their happiness is interrupted by the onset of World War I. Fort Saganne was screened out of competition at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival . At the time of its production , Fort Saganne was France 's biggest-budget film . The film earned 2,157,767 admissions in France . In 1985 , the film was nominated for four César Awards , for Best Actor ( Gérard Depardieu ) , Best Cinematography ( Bruno Nuytten ) , Best Costume Design ( Corinne Jorry , Rosine Delamare ) , and Best Sound .
Alain Corneau ( 7 August 1943 - 30 August 2010 ) was a French film director and writer . Corneau was born in Meung-sur-Loire , Loiret . Originally a musician , he worked with Costa-Gavras as an assistant , which was also his first opportunity to work with the actor Yves Montand , with whom he would collaborate three times later in his career , including Police Python 357 ( 1976 ) and La Menace ( 1977 ) . He directed Gérard Depardieu in the screen adaptation of Tous les matins du monde in 1991 . Corneau died in Paris on 30 August 2010 from cancer , aged 67 and was interred at Père Lachaise Cemetery .
Gérard Xavier Marcel Depardieu ( UK : /ˈdɛpɑːrdjɜː , ˌdɛpɑːrˈdjɜː/ , US : /-ˈdjʌ , ˌdeɪpɑːrˈdjuː/ , French : [ ʒeʁaʁ ɡzavje maʁsɛl dəpaʁdjø ] ( listen ) ; born 27 December 1948 ) is a French actor . He is one of the most prolific character actors in film history , having completed more than 170 films since 1967 . [ citation needed ] He has received acclaim for his performances in The Last Metro ( 1980 ) , for which he won the César Award for Best Actor , in Police ( 1985 ) , for which he won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor , Jean de Florette ( 1986 ) , and Cyrano de Bergerac ( 1990 ) , winning the Cannes Film Festival for Best Actor , his second César Award for Best Actor , and his first Academy Award nomination for Best Actor . He co-starred in Peter Weir 's comedy Green Card ( 1990 ) , winning a Golden Globe Award and later acted in many big budget Hollywood movies including Ridley Scott 's 1492 : Conquest of Paradise ( 1992 ) , Kenneth Branagh 's Hamlet ( 1996 ) , Randall Wallace 's The Man in the Iron Mask ( 1998 ) , and Ang Lee 's Life of Pi ( 2012 ) . He is a Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur and Chevalier of the Ordre national du Mérite . He was granted citizenship of Russia in January 2013 ( officially adopted name in Russian : Жерар Депардьё , romanized : Zherar Depardyo ) , and became a cultural ambassador of Montenegro during the same month .
Catherine Fabienne Dorléac ( born 22 October 1943 ) , known professionally as Catherine Deneuve ( /dəˈnɜːv/ ; French : [ katʁin dənœv ] ( listen ) ) , is a French actress as well as an occasional singer , model and producer . She gained recognition for her portrayal of icy , aloof and mysterious beauties for various directors , including Luis Buñuel , François Truffaut and Roman Polanski . In 1985 , she succeeded Mireille Mathieu as the official face of Marianne , France 's national symbol of liberty . A 14-time César Award nominee , she won for her performances in Truffaut 's The Last Metro ( 1980 ) , for which she also won the David di Donatello for Best Foreign Actress , and Régis Wargnier 's Indochine ( 1992 ) . Deneuve made her film debut in 1957 and first came to prominence in Jacques Demy 's 1964 musical The Umbrellas of Cherbourg , before going on to star for Polanski in Repulsion ( 1965 ) , for Demy again in The Young Girls of Rochefort ( 1967 ) and Donkey Skin ( 1970 ) , and for Buñuel in Belle de Jour ( 1967 ) and Tristana ( 1970 ) . She was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress for Belle de Jour , and the Academy Award for Best Actress for Indochine . She also won the 1998 Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival for Place Vendôme . Other notable English-language films include The April Fools ( 1969 ) , Hustle ( 1975 ) , The Hunger ( 1983 ) and Dancer in the Dark ( 2000 ) .
Philippe Noiret ( French pronunciation : ​ [ filip nwaʁɛ ] ; 1 October 1930 - 23 November 2006 ) was a French film actor .
Full Moon in Paris ( French : Les nuits de la pleine lune ) is a 1984 French film directed and written by Éric Rohmer . The film stars Pascale Ogier , Tchéky Karyo and Fabrice Luchini . The score is by Elli et Jacno . Full Moon in Paris was Rohmer 's fourth installment in his Comedies and Proverbs series . The story opens with the proverb Qui a deux femmes perd son âme , qui a deux maisons perd sa raison ( He who has two women loses his soul . He who has two houses loses his mind . )
Jean Marie Maurice Schérer or Maurice Henri Joseph Schérer , known as Éric Rohmer ( French : [ eʁik ʁomɛʁ ] , 21 March 1920 - 11 January 2010 ) , was a French film director , film critic , journalist , novelist , screenwriter , and teacher . Rohmer was the last of the post-World War II French New Wave directors to become established . He edited the influential film journal , Cahiers du cinéma , from 1957 to 1963 , while most of his colleagues - among them Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut - were making the transition from film critics to filmmakers and gaining international attention . Rohmer gained international acclaim around 1969 when his film My Night at Maud 's was nominated at the Academy Awards . He won the San Sebastián International Film Festival with Claire 's Knee in 1971 and the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival for The Green Ray in 1986 . Rohmer went on to receive the Venice Film Festival 's Career Golden Lion in 2001 . After Rohmer 's death in 2010 , his obituary in The Daily Telegraph described him as the most durable filmmaker of the French New Wave , outlasting his peers and still making movies the public wanted to see late in his career .
Pascale Marguerite Cécile Claude Colette Nicolas ( 26 October 1958 - 25 October 1984 ) , better known as Pascale Ogier , was a French actress . She won the Volpi Cup , and posthumously received a César Award nomination for her role in the 1984 film , Full Moon in Paris .
Tchéky Karyo ( French : [ tʃeki kɑʁjo ] ; born 4 October 1953 ) is a Turkish-born French actor and musician who is known for playing leading French police investigator Julien Baptiste in the British drama The Missing ( 2014 ) and its spin-off series Baptiste ( 2019 ) . Beginning his career as an actor on stage in classical and contemporary works , he began to work as a character actor in films in the 1980s . He has acted in numerous films by Hollywood and French directors , including Luc Besson .
Fabrice Luchini ( French pronunciation : ​ [ fabʁis lykini ] ; born Robert Luchini ; 1 November 1951 ) is a French stage and film actor . He has appeared in films such as Potiche , The Women on the 6th Floor , and In the House . For his role in the 2015 film Courted he won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor at the 72nd Venice International Film Festival .
Happy Easter ( French : Joyeuses Pâques ) is a 1984 French comedy film directed by Georges Lautner .
Georges Lautner ( French : [ lotnɛʁ ] ; 24 January 1926 - 22 November 2013 ) was a French film director and screenwriter , known primarily for his comedies created in collaboration with screenwriter Michel Audiard . Lautner 's ventures into other genres were less successful though the thriller Le Professionnel starring Jean-Paul Belmondo was a big commercial hit in France in 1981 . He was born in Nice , the son of actress Renée Saint-Cyr .
Jean-Paul Belmondo ( French : [ ʒɑ̃pɔl bɛlmɔ̃do ] ; born 9 April 1933 ) is a French actor initially associated with the New Wave of the 1960s and one of the biggest French film stars of the 1960s , 1970s and 1980s . His best known credits include Breathless ( 1960 ) and That Man from Rio ( 1964 ) .
Sophie Marceau ( French : [ sɔfi maʁso ] ; born Sophie Danièle Sylvie Maupu , 17 November 1966 ) is a French actress , director , screenwriter , and author . As a teenager , Marceau achieved popularity with her debut films La Boum ( 1980 ) and La Boum 2 ( 1982 ) , receiving a César Award for Most Promising Actress . She became a film star in Europe with a string of successful films , including L'Étudiante ( 1988 ) , Pacific Palisades ( 1990 ) , Fanfan ( 1993 ) , and Revenge of the Musketeers ( 1994 ) . Marceau became an international film star with her performances in Braveheart ( 1995 ) , Firelight ( 1997 ) , and the 19th James Bond film The World Is Not Enough ( 1999 ) .
Marie Laforêt ( born Maïtena Marie Brigitte Doumenach , 5 October 1939 - 2 November 2019 ) was a French singer and actress , particularly well known for her work during the 1960s and 1970s . In 1978 , she moved to Geneva , Switzerland and acquired Swiss citizenship .
Klassenverhältnisse , known in English as Class Relations , in French as Amerika , rapports de classe , is a 1984 film by the French filmmaking duo of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet . It is based on Franz Kafka 's unfinished first novel , Amerika . The German filmmaker Harun Farocki appears as one of the leads , and the film also features a cameo from American experimental filmmaker Thom Andersen . A documentary was made about the filming process , Jean-Marie Straub und Danièle Huillet bei der Arbeit an einem Film .
Jean-Marie Straub ( French : [ stʁob ] ; born 8 January 1933 ) and Danièle Huillet ( pronounced [ ɥijɛ ] ; 1 May 1936 - 9 October 2006 ) were a duo of filmmakers who made two dozen films between 1963 and 2006 . Their films are noted for their rigorous , intellectually stimulating style and radical , communist politics . Though both were French , they worked mostly in Germany and Italy . From the Clouds to the Resistance ( 1979 ) and Sicilia ! ( 1999 ) are among the duo 's best regarded works .
Mario Adorf ( born 8 September 1930 ) is a German actor , considered to be one of the great veteran character actors of European cinema . Since 1954 , he has played both leading and supporting roles in over 200 film and television productions , among them the 1979 Oscar-winning film The Tin Drum . He is also the author of several successful mostly autobiographical books .
Love Unto Death ( original title : L'Amour à mort ) is a 1984 French drama film directed by Alain Resnais . The film was shot in Uzès , Gard , in the south of France .
Alain Resnais ( French : [ alɛ̃ ʁɛnɛ ] ; 3 June 1922 - 1 March 2014 ) was a French film director and screenwriter whose career extended over more than six decades . After training as a film editor in the mid-1940s , he went on to direct a number of short films which included Night and Fog ( 1956 ) , an influential documentary about the Nazi concentration camps . Resnais began making feature films in the late 1950s and consolidated his early reputation with Hiroshima mon amour ( 1959 ) , Last Year at Marienbad ( 1961 ) , and Muriel ( 1963 ) , all of which adopted unconventional narrative techniques to deal with themes of troubled memory and the imagined past . These films were contemporary with , and associated with , the French New Wave ( la nouvelle vague ) , though Resnais did not regard himself as being fully part of that movement . He had closer links to the Left Bank group of authors and filmmakers who shared a commitment to modernism and an interest in left-wing politics . He also established a regular practice of working on his films in collaboration with writers previously unconnected with the cinema such as Jean Cayrol , Marguerite Duras , Alain Robbe-Grillet , Jorge Semprún and Jacques Sternberg . In later films , Resnais moved away from the overtly political topics of some previous works and developed his interests in an interaction between cinema and other cultural forms , including theatre , music , and comic books . This led to imaginative adaptations of plays by Alan Ayckbourn , Henri Bernstein and Jean Anouilh , as well as films featuring various kinds of popular song . His films frequently explore the relationship between consciousness , memory , and the imagination , and he was noted for devising innovative formal structures for his narratives . Throughout his career , he won many awards from international film festivals and academies .
Sabine Azéma ( born 20 September 1949 ) is a French stage and film actress and director . Born in Paris , she graduated from the Paris Conservatory of Dramatic Arts . [ citation needed ]
Pierre Arditi ( born 1 December 1944 ) is a French actor . He is the brother of French actress Catherine Arditi .
Fanny Marguerite Judith Ardant ( born 22 March 1949 ) is a French actress . She has appeared in more than eighty motion pictures since 1976 . Ardant won the César Award for Best Actress in 1997 for her performance in Pédale douce .
Le tartuffe is a 1984 French comedy film directed by and starring Gérard Depardieu based on the play Tartuffe by Molière . It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival .
François Périer ( born François Pillu ; 10 November 1919 - 29 June 2002 ) , was a French actor renowned for his expressiveness and diversity of roles . He made over 110 film and TV appearances between 1938 and 1996 , with notable excursion into the French avant-garde . He was also prominent in the theatre . Among his best-known parts was that of Hugo in the first production of Jean-Paul Sartre 's Les Mains Sales in 1948 . He was the narrator of the French-language version of Fantasia , and made several commercial audio recordings ( with commentary ) popularizing classical music in France .
Les Morfalous ( literally The Greedy-Guts , in French argot ; English title : The Vultures ) is a 1984 French adventure film , starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and directed by Henri Verneuil , featuring the French Foreign Legion during the Second World War . It is a remake of the 1970 American war film Kelly 's Heroes .
Henri Verneuil , born Ashot Malakian ( 15 October 1920 - 11 January 2002 ) , was a French-Armenian playwright and filmmaker , who made a successful career in France . He was nominated for Oscar and Palme d'Or awards , and won Locarno International Film Festival , Edgar Allan Poe Awards , French Legion of Honor , Golden Globe Award , French National Academy of Cinema and Honorary Cesar awards . According to one obituary :
Jacques Villeret ( 6 February 1951 - 28 January 2005 ) was a French actor , best known internationally for his role as François Pignon in the comedy Le Dîner de Cons . During his career , he earned many awards including the prestigious medal and title of Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur .
Michel Constantin ( born Constantin Hokhloff , 13 July 1924 - 29 August 2003 ) was a French film actor .
Les Trottoirs de Bangkok ( English : The Sidewalks of Bangkok , also known as Bangkok Interdit ) is a 1984 erotic thriller film directed by Jean Rollin . The film was inspired by the 1932 Boris Karloff classic The Mask of Fu Manchu . In contrast to Rollin 's usual themes of vampires , dream-like atmosphere and crumbling châteaus , Les Trottoirs des Bangkok mixes themes of adventure , crime and mystery with comic book dialogue , while still featuring naked women and sex , which his films were known for .
Jean Michel Rollin Roth Le Gentil ( 3 November 1938 - 15 December 2010 ) was a French film director , actor , and novelist best known for his work in the fantastique genre . His career , spanning over fifty years , featured early short films and his achievements with his first four vampire classics Le viol du vampire ( 1968 ) , La vampire nue ( 1970 ) , Le frisson des vampires ( 1970 ) , and Requiem pour un vampire ( 1971 ) . Rollin 's subsequent notable works include La rose de fer ( 1973 ) , Lèvres de sang ( 1975 ) , Les raisins de la mort ( 1978 ) , Fascination ( 1979 ) , and La morte vivante ( 1982 ) . His films are noted for their exquisite , if mostly static , cinematography , off-kilter plot progression and poetic dialogue , their playful surrealism and recurrent use of well-constructed female lead characters . Outlandish denouments and abstruse visual symbols were trademarks throughout his 'dark fantasy ' career . Remarkably , in spite of their seeming high production values and precise craftsmanship , his films were made with very little money , and often under crushing deadlines . In the mid-1970s , lack of regular work led the director to direct mostly pornographic films under various pseudonyms , an activity he continued until the early 1980s .
Françoise Blanchard ( 6 June 1954 - 29 May 2013 ) was a French actress and voice dubbing artist . Her most notable work is that of her role in the 1982 French film La morte vivante , directed by Jean Rollin . Blanchard had collaborated with Rollin on several occasions in films Les trottoirs de Bangkok ( 1984 ) , À la poursuite de Barbara ( 1991 ) and La nuit des horloges ( 2007 ) . She had worked frequently with directors Richard Balducci and Jesús Franco . She was also known for her work as a voice artist , having dubbed several animated television series including Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Totally Spies !
Landry Fernand Charles Marrier de Lagatinerie ( 16 October 1912 - 18 September 1999 ) , known professionally as Gérard Landry , was an Argentinian actor . He began acting in 1932 with his first movie Mirages de Paris , acted for over fifty years and has been in over ninety films . Landry also starred in Les Trottoirs de Bangkok ( The Sidewalks of Bangkok ) , a film from French director Jean Rollin . [ citation needed ]
Monster Shark ( Italian : Shark - Rosso nell'oceano ) is a science fiction-horror film directed by Lamberto Bava . It was also released in various countries as Devil Fish , Monster from the Red Ocean , Devouring Waves and Shark : Red in the Ocean . The script was co-written by Dardano Sacchetti , based on a story idea contributed by Luigi Cozzi and producer Sergio Martino .
Lamberto Bava ( born 3 April 1944 ) is an Italian film director . Born in Rome , Bava began working as an assistant director for his director father Mario Bava . Lamberto co-directed the 1979 television film La Venere d'Ille with his father and in 1980 directed his first solo feature film Macabre . Bava continued working in the 1980s and collaborated with Dario Argento on films such as Demons . After 1990 , Bava 's work was predominantly involved with television , such as his Fantaghirò series .
Michael Sopkiw is a B movie American actor who has starred in four Italian movies in two years . He was born in 1954 in Connecticut . Sopkiw took modeling jobs , and he was employed in Italy by filmmaker Sergio Martino to star in 2019 , After the Fall of New York . Lamberto Bava ( the son of famous movie-maker Mario Bava ) then recruited Sopkiw in order to shoot two movies in the United States , Blastfighter and Monster Shark . He finally ended his film career in Massacre in Dinosaur Valley by Michele Massimo Tarantini . His movie career being unsuccessful , Michael gave up acting and went to study medicinal plant science . He launched a company , MIRON Violettglas , in California where he imports and distributes special glass bottles designed to protect the contents from the sun .
Valentine Monnier ( born 22 October 1956 , in Paris ) is a French actress , model , and photographer . She appeared on the September 1977 cover of Cosmopolitan magazine , and on the cover art of the album Chic , also in 1977 . In a November 2019 interview , she accused film director Roman Polanski of violently raping her in Switzerland in 1975 when she was 18 .
Gianni Garko ( born Giovanni Garcovich 15 July 1935 ) , often billed as John Garko and occasionally Gary Hudson , is an Italian actor who found fame as a leading man in 1960s Spaghetti Westerns . He is perhaps best known for his lead role as Sartana , starting with the first official film If You Meet Sartana Pray for Your Death and starring in four sequels as this character .
My New Partner is a 1984 French comedy film directed by Claude Zidi , starring Philippe Noiret and Thierry Lhermitte . Noiret plays a streetwise Paris policeman who takes kickbacks from the minor criminals on his beat to allow them to continue . At the start of the film , his partner is busted for corruption and he narrowly escapes . He is assigned an idealistic new partner fresh from police academy . He sets out to corrupt his new partner and , after a slow start , succeeds spectacularly . The original French title is Les Ripoux , which can be translated as the corrupt ones . The term is verlan , a type of slang where syllables of words are pronounced in reverse order ; ri-pou ( x ) thus inverts pou-rri ( s ) , which means rotten . ( The final x or s , making the word plural , is silent . ) The film is also known as Le Cop . It won the César Award for Best Film in 1985 . Two sequels were later made : Ripoux contre Ripoux ( 1990 ) and Ripoux 3 ( 2003 ) .
Claude Zidi ( born 25 July 1934 ) is a French film director and screenwriter who is noted for his mainstream burlesque comedies . Born in Paris , he started as a cameraman and then cinematographer , and made his directorial and screenwriting debut in 1971 . He won the César Award for Best Director for My New Partner , for which he was also nominated for Best Writing .
Thierry Lhermitte ( French pronunciation : ​ [ tjɛʁi lɛʁˈmit ] ; born 24 November 1952 ) is a French actor , director , writer and producer , best known for his comedic roles . He was a founder of the comedy troupe Le Splendid in the 1970s , along with , among others , Christian Clavier , Gérard Jugnot , and Michel Blanc . The group adapted a number of its stage hits for the cinema , and scored major successes with films such as Les Bronzés ( 1978 ) , Les Bronzés font du ski ( 1979 ) , Le Père Noël est une ordure ( 1982 ) and Un indien dans la ville ( 1994 ) .
Paris , Texas is a 1984 road movie directed by Wim Wenders and starring Harry Dean Stanton , Dean Stockwell , Nastassja Kinski , and Hunter Carson . The screenplay was written by L. M. Kit Carson and playwright Sam Shepard , while the distinctive musical score was composed by Ry Cooder . The film was a co-production between companies in France and West Germany , and was shot in the United States by Robby Müller . The plot focuses on a vagabond named Travis ( Stanton ) who , after mysteriously wandering out of the desert in a dissociative fugue , attempts to reunite with his brother ( Stockwell ) and seven-year-old son ( Carson ) . After reconnecting with his son , Travis and the boy end up embarking on a voyage through the American Southwest to track down Travis ' long-missing wife ( Kinski ) . At the 1984 Cannes Film Festival , the film won the Palme d'Or from the official jury , as well as the FIPRESCI Prize and the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury . It went on to win other honors and critical acclaim .
Ernst Wilhelm Wim Wenders ( German : [ ˈvɪm ˈvɛndɐs ] ; born 14 August 1945 ) is a German filmmaker , playwright , author , and photographer . He is a major figure in New German Cinema . Among many honors , he has received three nominations for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature : for Buena Vista Social Club ( 1999 ) , about Cuban music culture ; Pina ( 2011 ) , about the contemporary dance choreographer Pina Bausch ; and The Salt of the Earth ( 2014 ) , about Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado . One of Wenders ' earliest honors was a win for the BAFTA Award for Best Direction for his narrative drama Paris , Texas ( 1984 ) , which also won the Palme d'Or at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival . Many of his subsequent films have also been recognized at Cannes , including Wings of Desire ( 1987 ) , for which Wenders won the Best Director Award at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival . Wenders has been the president of the European Film Academy in Berlin since 1996 . Alongside filmmaking , he is an active photographer , emphasizing images of desolate landscapes . He is considered to be an auteur director .
Harry Dean Stanton ( July 14 , 1926 - September 15 , 2017 ) was an American actor , musician , and singer . In a career that spanned more than six decades , Stanton played supporting roles in the films Cool Hand Luke ( 1967 ) , Kelly 's Heroes ( 1970 ) , Dillinger ( 1973 ) , The Godfather Part II ( 1974 ) , Alien ( 1979 ) , Escape from New York ( 1981 ) , Christine ( 1983 ) , Repo Man ( 1984 ) , Pretty in Pink ( 1986 ) , The Last Temptation of Christ ( 1988 ) , Wild at Heart ( 1990 ) , The Straight Story ( 1999 ) , The Green Mile ( 1999 ) , Alpha Dog ( 2006 ) and Inland Empire ( 2006 ) . He was given rare lead roles in Wim Wenders ' classic Paris , Texas ( 1984 ) and Lucky ( 2017 ) , his last film .
Nastassja Aglaia Kinski ( née Nakszynski ; born 24 January 1961 ) is a German actress and former model who has appeared in more than 60 films in Europe and the United States . Her worldwide breakthrough was with Stay as You Are ( 1978 ) . She then came to global prominence with her Golden Globe Award-winning performance as the title character in the Roman Polanski-directed film Tess ( 1979 ) . Other notable films in which she acted include the erotic horror film Cat People ( 1982 ) , the Wim Wenders dramas Paris , Texas ( 1984 ) and Faraway , So Close ! ( 1993 ) , and the biographical drama film , An American Rhapsody ( 2001 ) . Kinski is fluent in four languages : German , English , French and Italian .
Robert Dean Stockwell ( born March 5 , 1936 ) is an American actor of film and television , with a career spanning over 70 years . As a child actor under contract to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer , he first came to the public 's attention in films such as Anchors Aweigh ( 1945 ) , The Green Years ( 1946 ) , Gentleman 's Agreement ( 1947 ) , and Kim ( 1950 ) . As a young adult , he played a lead role in the 1957 Broadway and 1959 screen adaptations of Compulsion and in 1962 , Stockwell played Edmund Tyrone in the film version of Long Day 's Journey into Night , for which he won a Best Actor award at the Cannes Film Festival . He appeared in supporting roles in such films as Paris , Texas ( 1984 ) , To Live and Die in L.A. ( 1985 ) , Blue Velvet ( 1986 ) , and Beverly Hills Cop II ( 1987 ) . He received further critical acclaim for his performance in Married to the Mob ( 1988 ) , for which he earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor . He subsequently had roles in The Player ( 1992 ) , and Air Force One ( 1997 ) . His television roles include playing Rear Admiral Albert Al Calavicci in Quantum Leap ( 1989-1993 ) and Brother Cavil in the Sci Fi Channel revival of Battlestar Galactica ( 2004-2009 ) . Following his roles on Quantum Leap and Battlestar Galactica , Stockwell appeared at numerous science fiction conventions .
The Perils of Gwendoline in the Land of the Yik-Yak ( original title Gwendoline ) is a 1984 French action comedy directed by Just Jaeckin , written by Jaeckin and John Willie and starring Tawny Kitaen and Brent Huff . The film is loosely based on the bondage-themed comics of Willie and on the character of Sweet Gwendoline . François Schuiten worked as a graphic designer for the movie .
Just Jaeckin ( born August 8 , 1940 , Vichy , Allier , France ) is a French film director .
Julie E. Tawny Kitaen is an American actress , comedian and media personality .
Brent Huff ( born March 11 , 1961 ) is a model , actor , writer and film director .
The Pirate ( French : La Pirate ) is a 1984 French drama film directed by Jacques Doillon . It was entered in the 1984 Cannes Film Festival .
Jacques Doillon ( French : [ dwajɔ̃ ] ; born 15 March 1944 ) is a French film director . He has a habit of giving lead roles to inexperienced young actresses in his films on family life and women . [ citation needed ] Some actresses to break through are Fanny Bastien , Sandrine Bonnaire , Judith Godrèche , Marianne Denicourt , Charlotte Gainsbourg and Juliette Binoche . Doillon was born in Paris . He has two daughters : Lola Doillon ( born 1975 ) , whose mother is film editor Noëlle Boisson , and Lou Doillon ( born 1982 ) , from his relationship with actress Jane Birkin in the 1980s . His 1989 film The 15 Year Old Girl was entered into the 16th Moscow International Film Festival . His 1990 film La vengeance d'une femme was entered into the 40th Berlin International Film Festival . The following year , his film Le Petit Criminel won an Honourable Mention at the 41st Berlin International Film Festival . In 1993 , his film Le Jeune Werther won the Blue Angel Award at the 43rd Berlin International Film Festival . In 1998 , his film Trop ( peu ) d'amour was entered into the 48th Berlin International Film Festival .
Jane Mallory Birkin , OBE ( born 14 December 1946 ) is an English actress , singer , songwriter , and model . She attained international fame and notability for her decade-long musical and romantic partnership with Serge Gainsbourg . She also had a prolific career as an actress in British and French cinema . A native of London , Birkin began her career as an actress , appearing in minor roles in Michelangelo Antonioni 's Blowup ( 1966 ) , and Kaleidoscope ( 1966 ) . In 1969 , she met Serge Gainsbourg while co-starring with him in Slogan , which marked the beginning of a years-long working and personal relationship . The duo released their debut album Jane Birkin/Serge Gainsbourg ( 1969 ) , and Birkin also appeared in the controversial film Je t'aime moi non plus ( 1976 ) under Gainsbourg 's direction . Birkin would attain further acting credits in Agatha Christie 's films Death on the Nile ( 1978 ) , and Evil Under the Sun ( 1982 ) . After separating from Gainsbourg in 1980 , Birkin continued to work as both an actress and a singer , appearing in various independent films and recording numerous solo albums . In 1991 , she appeared in the miniseries Red Fox , and in the American drama A Soldier 's Daughter Never Cries , in 1998 . In 2016 , she starred in the Academy Award-nominated short film La femme et le TGV , which she said would be her final film role . Birkin has resided mainly in France since the 1970s . She is the mother of photographer Kate Barry ( d. 2013 ) , with her first husband John Barry ; actress and singer Charlotte Gainsbourg , with Serge Gainsbourg ; and model Lou Doillon , with Jacques Doillon .
Philippe Léotard ( Ange Philippe Paul André Léotard-Tomasi ; 28 August 1940 - 25 August 2001 ) was a French actor , poet and singer . He was born in Nice , one of seven children - four girls , then three boys , of which he was the oldest - and was the brother of politician François Léotard . His childhood was normal except for an illness ( rheumatic fever ) which struck him and forced him to spend days in bed during which time he read a great many books . He was particularly fond of the poets - Baudelaire , Rimbaud , Lautréamont , Blaise Cendrars . He met Ariane Mnouchkine at the Sorbonne and in 1964 they formed the théâtre du soleil . He played Philippe , the tormented son of a woman with terminal illness , in the 1974 drama film La Gueule ouverte , by the controversial director Maurice Pialat . He won a César Award for Best Actor for his role in the 1982 movie La Balance . One of his few English-language roles was a cameo in the 1973 thriller The Day of the Jackal and he co-starred as Jacques in the 1975 John Frankenheimer movie French Connection II which starred Gene Hackman and Fernando Rey , ( sequel to The French Connection ) . Léotard died in 2001 of respiratory failure in Paris at the age of 60 . He was interred at the Montparnasse Cemetery in Paris .
Maruschka Detmers ( born 16 December 1962 , Schoonebeek ) is a Dutch actress . She moved to France as a teenager , where she captured the attention of director Jean-Luc Godard . In 1983 , she made her dramatic debut under Godard 's direction in Prénom Carmen . Other noteworthy films include Hanna 's War ( 1988 ) and The Mambo Kings ( 1992 ) , but she is best known for her role in Devil in the Flesh ( 1986 ) .
The Public Woman ( French : La femme publique ) is a 1984 French erotic drama film inspired by Dostoevsky 's novel Demons and directed by Andrzej Żuławski , starring Valérie Kaprisky , Lambert Wilson and Francis Huster as the lead actors . The film had a total of 1,302,425 admissions in France where it was the 28th highest-grossing film of the year .
Andrzej Żuławski ( Polish : [ ˈandʐɛj ʐuˈwafskʲi ] ; 22 November 1940 - 17 February 2016 ) was a Polish film director and writer . He was born in Lwów ( Lviv ) , Ukrainian SSR ( now Ukraine ) . Żuławski often went against mainstream commercialism in his films , and enjoyed success mostly with European art-house audiences . In the late 1950s , he studied cinema in France . His second feature , The Devil ( 1972 ) , was banned in Poland , and Żuławski went to France . After the success of That Most Important Thing : Love in 1975 , he returned to Poland where he spent two years making On the Silver Globe ( 1988 ) . The work on this film was interrupted by the Polish authorities . After that , Żuławski moved to France where he became known for controversial and violent art-house films . Żuławski is also known for his work with actresses including Romy Schneider , Isabelle Adjani and Sophie Marceau . His films have received awards at various international film festivals . Żuławski had also written several novels , for example : Il était Un Verger , Lity Bór ( a.k.a . La Forêt Forteresse ) , W Oczach Tygrysa , and Ogród Miłości .
Francis Huster ( born 8 December 1947 ) is a French stage , film and television actor , director and scriptwriter .
Valérie Kaprisky ( born 19 August 1962 ) is a French actress .
Lambert Wilson ( born 3 August 1958 ) is a French actor , singer and activist internationally best known for his portrayal of The Merovingian in The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions .
Success Is the Best Revenge ( French : Le succès à tout prix ) is a 1984 French-British drama film directed by Jerzy Skolimowski and starring Michael York . It was entered into the 1984 Cannes Film Festival .
Jerzy Skolimowski ( Polish : [ jɛʐɨ skɔliˈmɔfskʲi ] , born 5 May 1938 ) is a Polish film director , screenwriter , dramatist and actor . A graduate of the prestigious National Film School in Łódź , Skolimowski has directed more than twenty films since his 1960 début Oko wykol ( The Menacing Eye ) . In 1967 he was awarded Golden Bear for his film Le départ . His most famous film is Deep End ( 1970 ) , starring Jane Asher and John Moulder Brown . He lived in Los Angeles for over 20 years where he painted in a figurative , expressionist mode and occasionally acted in films . He recently returned to Poland , and to film making as a writer and director , after a 17-year hiatus with Cztery noce z Anną ( Four Nights with Anna ) in 2008 . He received the Golden Lion Award for Lifetime Achievement at the 2016 Venice Film Festival .
Michael York , OBE ( born Michael Hugh Johnson ; 27 March 1942 ) is an English actor and voice actor . A two-time Emmy Award nominee , for the ABC Afterschool Special : Are You My Mother ? ( 1986 ) and the AMC series The Lot ( 2001 ) , he has appeared in more than 70 films , including Romeo and Juliet ( 1968 ) , Cabaret ( 1972 ) , The Three Musketeers ( 1973 ) , Logan 's Run ( 1976 ) , and the Austin Powers film series ( 1997-2002 ) .
A Sunday in the Country ( French : Un dimanche à la campagne ) is a 1984 French film directed by Bertrand Tavernier .
Bertrand Tavernier ( born 25 April 1941 ) is a French director , screenwriter , actor and producer .
Louis Ducreux ( September 22 , 1911- December 19 , 1992 ) was a French actor , screenwriter and composer . He was born Louis Raymond Bordat in Marseille , France . He made his film debut in 1938 and worked until his death . He received a Best Actor nomination at the César Awards in 1985 for Bertrand Tavernier 's A Sunday in the Country . He also worked on Max Ophüls 's La Ronde as a composer . He died in Paris at the age of 81 .
Michel Henri Aumont ( 15 October 1936 - 28 August 2019 ) was a French theatre , film , and television actor . Throughout his career , he gained four Molière Awards and nominations for three César Awards . In 2015 , he was made Grand Officer of the National Order of Merit .