Jean-François Balmer
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Known For:Acting
Birthday:1946-04-18
Place of Birth:Neuchâtel, Switzerland
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Madame Bovary (1991)
Bored with the limited and tedious nature of provincial life in 19th-century France, the fierce and sensual Emma Bovary finds herself in calamitous...

The French Revolution: Years of Rage (1989)
Second part of the revolutionary historical drama, which takes up the events that occurred from August 10, 1792 until the end of the reign of terror...

The Blood of Others (1984)
In the German-occupied Paris, Helene is torn between the love for her boyfriend Jean, working for the resistance and the German administrator...

Strange Affair (1981)
A young Parisian advertising executive becomes so captivated by the unsettling charm of his mysterious new employer that he eventually abandons his...

The Night Caller (1975)
A serial-killer frightens Paris by phoning young ladies at night, telling them insults about their lives. Minos, as he calls himself, wants to...

Cop or Hood (1979)
When the local police inspector was found dead in a prostitute's house, police division commissioner Stan Borowitz is sent to investigate the...

Love at the Top (1974)
A shy bank employee unexpectedly invites a young woman to a café, leading to a one-night stand. When he shares this with his disillusioned...

Mumu (2010)
The story a rescue, the rescue of a bad brat's life in the post-WWII period. In 1947, Roger reaches 11 years old. He's a kid badly loved, mischievous...

The Swindle (1997)
Betty and Victor are a pair of scam artists. One day Betty brings in Maurice, a treasurer of a multinational company. Maurice is due to transfer 5...

The Castaways of Turtle Island (1976)
Jean-Arthur has been working as a clerk in a travel agency. One day, he, along with his colleague comes to a brilliant idea: what if I offer tourists...

Beaumarchais the Scoundrel (1996)
Beaumarchais the Scoundrel is a biopic film based on the life of the French playwright, financier and spy Pierre Beaumarchais depicting his...

L'Infiltré (2011)
A notorious French ex-felon becomes an informant and infiltrates a Mexican drug cartel.

T'aime (2000)
Zef, twenty years old, is a simple-minded man who can only say one word: "love you". Always happy, loving everyone, he lives with his sister Sophie...

Ladies' Choice (1982)
As a result of an automobile accident, a sophisticated TV producer meets her car mechanic/blue collar nemesis. They start a comic affair, but can...

The African (1983)
Charlotte flies to East Africa to build a tourist center near Lake Williams where the pygmies live. Here she meets her husband Victor, a devoted...

Diên Biên Phu (1992)
Vietnam, 1954. An American reporter finds himself in the middle of the battle of Điện Biên Phủ, between the French army and the Vietminh.

La Menace (1977)
Henri Savin has managed a trucking company for his lover, Dominique Montlaur, for many years. Now he is planning to leave her for Julie Manet, the...

The King's Daughters (2000)
Late 17th Century: Anne de Grandcamp and Lucie de Fontenelle, two little girls from Normandy, arrive at the Saint-Cyr school founded by Madame de...

La Dilettante (1999)
Pierrette is a woman who describes herself as having "opted for the temporary on a permanent basis." After 15 years of living the good life in...

A Winter in Paris (2006)
After being released from prison, a burglar is convinced by a former accomplice to participate in the theft of a precious jewel belonging to a rich...

Charming Fellow (2001)
Octave and his friends, Achille and Hector, wander around at night in the grocery stores, the regulars' restaurants and the creepy bars. Octave meets...

Colère (2010)
The town of Carzac Shakespeare suffered a violent attack that caused a fire in the local factory. Many dead and wounded. Two citizens investigate the...

In the House (2012)
A sixteen-year-old boy insinuates himself into the house of a fellow student from his literature class and writes about it in essays for his French...

Snow (1981)
Anita is a barmaid at the center of a community of street preachers, prostitutes, dealers and users. When a beloved friend (and young drug dealer) is...

East Wind (1993)
The true story of General Smyslovsky and the anti-Communist 1st Russian National Army receiving shelter in Liechtenstein in 1945 and successfully...

Le Chandelier (1977)
Jacqueline is married to Maître André, but is in love with her lover Clavaroche, a fiery officer stationed in the city. In order to...

Nothing to Report (1973)
In 1956, the professional army of France lacks the manpower to keep the peace in Algeria, the colony which the country is determined to hold on to at...

Juliette dans son bain (2022)
Ronny Kandiotis, a billionaire and art lover, is the guest of a major museum, on the occasion of a donation to France of two paintings, one by...

Polar (1984)
This film noir tends to stay within very conventional plot lines, as the narration by the main protagonist, private detective Eugene Tarpon...

Bluff (1982)
A César award winning short film about a group of men playing poker until, at precisely 6pm, a bright light suddenly invades their room...

These Kids Are Grown-Ups (1979)
When a real-estate promoter attempts to take over the homes of two electronics whizzes and boot them out, they contrive ingenious ways to...

La Lumière des étoiles mortes (1994)
June 1940. The Wechrmacht appropriates the houses in which are living Pierre, his wife Magdeleine, their son Charles, their two servants Louise and...

Crystal Book (1994)
This European thriller, set in Sri Lanka, attempts to expound upon the philosophical implications of life, death, and memory. JB, an academic famed...

Last Image (1986)
Seen through the filtered lens of boyhood memories, award-winning director Mohamed Lakhdar-Hamina crafted this half-fictional, half-autobiographical...

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...

La Vallée delle ombre (2009)
Matteo, a boy from the city, goes to visit his grandfather in a secluded mountain village, where preparations for a local ancient festival are under...

Wild Animals (1984)
Berg and Bela are married stunt drivers, but one night Bela dies in an accident. Jaded and reclusive, Berg becomes a nighttime security guard where...

Mise au Vert (2023)
To strengthen family ties, to free his teenagers from their digital addiction, to reconnect with his roots in the region of his childhood; this is...

That Day (2003)
A father is scheming to have his slightly mental daughter from an earlier marriage killed by allowing a murderous psychopath to be released from the...

My New Partner III (2003)
It's been ten years since the paths of René and François parted ways. From the glorious era when, as cops, they roamed the Montmartre...

La vérité est un vilain défaut (1997)
The trials and tribulations of a good guy who feels obliged to confess the truth to his wife or his boss every time he makes a mistake.

The Worst Man in London (2024)
In Victorian London lives a man of adventurous spirit and great wit, Charles Augustus Howell, art agent, art dealer, conspirator and master of...

Cosmos (2015)
Two young men seek the solitude of the country; their peace is disturbed when a set of random occurrences suggest to their susceptible minds a...

Tokyo! (2008)
Three distinct tales unfold in the bustling city of Tokyo. Merde, a bizarre sewer-dweller, emerges from a manhole and begins terrorizing pedestrians....

The Sewers of Paradise (1979)
In July of 1976, the Societé Générale of France was robbed of well over $10 million dollars by a group burrowing through the...

L'Amour ou presque (1985)
Without warning, Mélie disembarks on the cargo ship where her father has the sailor's blues. He remembers his drifts and his friend Max who...

The Mouth Agape (1974)
Monique is dying of cancer, lying in bed in the apartment above the store her family owns. Her philandering husband carries on with life, her son...

My Chinese Sister (1994)
In 1977, one year after Mao died, a French man ( played by Alain Bashung) comes back to China to work as a school teacher with his daughter. He...

Time Regained (1999)
In early 1920s France, an author, lying on his deathbed, looks at various photographs and is flooded with memories of the people and events that have...

Totally Nuts (2004)
Diane, a young woman in search of a child, is looking for money to go to the sperm bank. She crosses paths with Arthur, a bank robber.

Pierre et Jean (2004)
In the 1930s, on the eve of the Popular Front, Pierre and Jean harmoniously combine their brotherhood. Pierre has just finished his medical studies,...

The Adolescent (1979)
In the summer of 1939, 13-year-old Marie goes with her parents to visit her grandparents in a small town near Avignon. Marie discovers her femininity...

Dieumerci ! (2016)
A 44 year old guy gets out of jail and wants to become an actor.

Mountain Pass (1978)
Serge (Stevenin) is a dweller in the French provinces who happens upon Georges (Jacques Villeret), a Parisian motorist in distress. Serge arranges...

Comedy of Power (2006)
Magistrate Jeanne Charmant-Killman doggedly investigates CEO Michel Humeau, who is accused of participating in massive corporate malfeasance. As her...

Lucky Luke (2009)
Fearless gunslinger, Lucky Luke, is ordered by the President to bring peace to Daisy Town.

It's Not Me (2024)
This free-form film is a self-portrait, which revisits more than 40 years of the author’s filmography and questions the major stations of his...

Rocking Poponguine (1994)
A tale of growing up in 1960s Senegal. Bacc narrates his early years of living in Popenguine, a town divided by culture and musical tastes.

Little Marcel (1976)
A homeless young man, living in his delivery truck, is simultaneously adopted by a pranksome group of youngsters and made into a police informer....

The Sacha Guitry Affair (2007)
On the morning of 23 August 1944 Sacha Guitry was arrested at his Paris appartment, as the French capital was being liberated. Accused of...

Spender : The French Collection (1993)
Spender Christmas Special: Spender is sent to France to escort Tommy Thornton who has been extradited to the UK.

An Unlikely Adventurer (1997)
Carole is ready to do anything to save the Guyanese forest and the Wayanas Indians from the pollution of the Gerson laboratories! Fearless and...

Murder on Omaha Beach (2018)
Captain Eloïse Gentil, of Caen police, hasn't been on speaking terms with her father Robert, an expert on WWII, for twenty years. But the two...

Une page d'amour (1980)
In Passy, Paris, 1895. The young widow Hélène calls the doctor Henri Deberle during the night, when her daughter Jeanne suddenly...

Swann in Love (1984)
In 19th-century Paris, Charles Swann risks his social standing in his obsessive pursuit of prostitute Odette. His overwhelming desire for her comes,...

Waiting for Anya (2020)
During the harrows of WWII, Jo, a young shepherd along with the help of the widow Horcada, helps to smuggle Jewish children across the border from...

Golden Eighties (1986)
Three young women at a hair salon all like the son of the clothing store proprietors across the mall. Although Robby is selfish and shallow, he's...

Lou Didn’t Say No (1994)
Moments and aspects of the life of a contemporary married couple undergoing a metamorphosis.

Belphegor, Phantom of the Louvre (2001)
A collection of artifacts from an archeological dig in Egypt are brought to the famous Louvre museum in Paris, and while experts are using a laser...

Dead Europe (2012)
In Greece to scatter his father's ashes, Isaac hears of a curse that hangs over the head of his family. Dismissing the idea, his trip begins to...

Sidecar (1997)
The gloomy life of a high school censor is turned upside down the day he meets an old classmate.

Sam's Enough (1992)
After trying a job as a stripper in a Barcelona carnival, Eva (Aure Attika) is ready for something new, so she heads over to France and becomes the...

The French Revolution: Years of Hope (1989)
First part that includes the beginnings of the French Revolution. The film begins by recounting the events that led to the convocation of the States...

Henry Dunant: Red on the Cross (2007)
Henry Dunant, son of a Geneva francophone upper class bourgeoisie family, works for a Swiss exploitation company in French Algeria; when the...

Spender (1991)
Jimmy Nail plays tough cop Spender, forced to return to his native Newcastle after a failed undercover operation in London. He uses tough and...

The King’s Favorite (2022)
It follows Diane de Poitiers, an emeritus huntress whose unalterable beauty fuels rumors and legends during her lifetime - and even in her death.

Beauregard (2010)
The life of a small group of teenagers in a small 1961 French boarding school. In French Savoie, Pierre Hautefort, a literature teacher, is head of...

Capitaine Marleau (2015)
Beneath her eccentric appearance, Captain Marleau is a formidable detective. Her Sherlock Holmes deerstalker cap, her character, her unusual...

Cellule de crise (2020)
Newly elected president of one of the largest humanitarian organisations in the world, Suzanne Fontana is put to the test when a young delegate and a...