A greedy landowner and his backward nephew conspire to block the only water source for an adjoining property in order to bankrupt the owner and force him to sell.
Famed swordsman and poet Cyrano de Bergerac is in love with his cousin Roxane. He has never expressed his love for her as he his large nose undermines his self-confidence. Then he finds a way to express his love to her, indirectly.
Movie | Action, Biography | France, Canada | French, English
Director
Jean-Frana§ois Richet
Writer
Jacques Mesrine, Abdel Raouf Dafri, Jean-Frana§ois Richet
Cast
Vincent Cassel, Cecile de France, Gerard Depardieu
Plot
The story of the notorious French gangster Jacques Mesrine, with the focus on his life before the early 1970s and the events that led to him being declared Public Enemy No. 1 in France.
The intersecting stories of three people who face difficult choices in life-changing situations are used to illustrate the theories espoused by Henri Laborit about human behavior and the relationship between the self and society.
Camille Claude impresses already-famous sculptor Auguste Rodin. He hires her as an assistant, but soon Camille begins to sculpt for herself and she also becomes his mistress. But after a while, she would like to get out of his sha...
Movie | Biography, Drama | France, Poland | French
Director
Andrzej Wajda
Writer
Jean-Claude Carriere, Stanislawa Przybyszewska, Andrzej Wajda
Cast
Gerard Depardieu, Wojciech Pszoniak, Anne Alvaro
Plot
In 1793, as the Terror begins in France, Georges Danton, a champion-of-the-people, returns to clash against Maximilien Robespierre and his extremist party.
Movie | Adventure, Comedy | France, Mexico | French, Spanish
Director
Francis Veber
Writer
Francis Veber
Cast
Pierre Richard, Gerard Depardieu, Pedro Armenda¡riz Jr.
Plot
A daughter of a millionaire, distinguished by incredible bad luck, goes missing. The idea how to find her is either insane or brilliant - to send after her an equally unlucky person.
Onoff is a famous writer who hasn't published any new books for quite some time and has become a recluse. When he is picked up by the police one stormy night, without any identification, out of breath and running madly, without cl...
Gerard Depardieu, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Anne Brochet
Plot
The story of Monsieur de Sainte Colombe, fierce and somber man, grand master of the viola da gamba and professor of Marin Marais, prestigious musician in the court of Louis XIV.
Daniel Auteuil, Gerard Depardieu, Andre Dussollier
Plot
2 cops are promised by the retiring chief of the Paris police that the one, getting the violent gang robbing armored trucks, will get his job. The 2 will do whatever it takes to get the promotion, even if it means breaking the law.
Movie | Adventure, Comedy | France, Germany | French
Director
Alain Chabat
Writer
Rene Goscinny, Albert Uderzo, Alain Chabat
Cast
Gerard Depardieu, Christian Clavier, Jamel Debbouze
Plot
Cleopatra, queen of Egypt, believes she can build a temple in record time and makes a bet with Julius Caesar. Her architect, however, needs the help of Asterix and Obelix to fight Romans who try to stop the construction.
A tough criminal is arrested after hiding the loot from a Paris armored truck robbery. A talkative dimwit befriends him in prison and escapes with him - chased by police and his evil crime boss.
Alphonse lives in an empty building. Empty but for one neighbour, the police captain Morvandieu. When the man who has killed Alphonse's wife appears, the three men will be thrown in a series of events in a surrealist world.
Jean is taken hostage at a bank by a foolish bank robber. As Jean left prison an hour earlier, the police assume he's the robber. Everything goes comically wrong. The robber's little daughter joins the fugitives.
TV | Adventure, Biography | France, Germany | French, English
Cast
Christian Clavier, Isabella Rossellini, Gerard Depardieu
Plot
A masterful soldier, tactician, and statesmen, Napoleon Bonaparte, with courage and love for his country, rises from an unpaid general consumed with ambition to the most powerful man in Europe. But his life ends with a fall and ex...
TV | Drama, History | France, Italy | French, English
Cast
Gerard Depardieu, Christian Clavier, John Malkovich
Plot
Ex-convict Jean Valjean's pursuit of redemption and peace clashes with Javert's rigid enforcement of law. Their conflict impacts lives, including Fantine's daughter Cosette, against the backdrop of 19th-century France.
A worried husband finds a lover for his depressed wife, but she falls in love with a bullied thirteen-year-old math prodigy and wants to have the boy's baby.
Movie | Adventure, Comedy | France, Italy | French
Director
Claude Zidi
Writer
Rene Goscinny, Albert Uderzo, Claude Zidi
Cast
Christian Clavier, Gerard Depardieu, Roberto Benigni
Plot
In all of Roman territory, the village where Asterix and Obelix live is the only enclave that has not yet been dominated by the empire, thanks to the magic potion of the druid Panoramix. But Commander Detritus has a plan to change...
Paris, 1830: Vidocq is killed by a mirror masked man. A thief turned investigator, he was working on a case of men killed by lightning. His biographer tries to solve the case.
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 mid-nineteenth-century northern France, a coal mining town's workers are exploited by the mine's owner. One day, they decide to go on strike, and the authorities repress them.
Movie | Comedy, Romance | France, USA | English, French
Director
Steve Miner
Writer
Gerard Lauzier, Francis Veber, Charlie Peters
Cast
Gerard Depardieu, Katherine Heigl, Dalton James
Plot
A teenage girl on vacation in the Bahamas with her divorced father tries to impress a potential boyfriend by saying that her father is actually her lover.
A common thief (Depardieu) breaks into the house of a professional dominatrix (Ogier), and begins to help her "train" her clients. Though this world is alien to his experience, he finds himself falling in love with her. Eventually...
The powerful story of a reformed underworld kingpin whose stable lifestyle is turned upside-down when a desperate, escaped killer hides out at his rural estate.
Movie | Drama | Norway, Sweden | English, Norwegian
Director
Ole Bornedal, Tony Spataro
Writer
Ole Bornedal, Jonas Cornell, Herbja¸rg Wassmo
Cast
Maria Bonnevie, Gerard Depardieu, Christopher Eccleston
Plot
Dina grows up in a village at a fjord in 1860s north Norway. As child, she accidentally kills her mom and loses her rich dad's love. She grows up to be a clever, pretty, wild, and strange woman. She marries a rich Frenchman.
