The best Daniel Duval’s drama movies

Daniel Duval

Daniel Duval

28/11/1944- 09/10/2013
Today we present the best Daniel Duval’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Daniel Duval’s movies.

Caché

Caché
7.3/10
A married couple is terrorized by a series of videotapes planted on their front porch.

A Gang Story

A Gang Story
6.9/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 10/11/2011
  • Character: Christo
After growing up in a poor gypsy camp, Edmond Vidal, aka Momon, has retained a sense of family, unfailing loyalty and pride in his origins. Most of all, he has remained friends with Serge Suttel, with whom he first discovered prison life - for stealing cherries. The two of them inevitably got involved in organized crime. The team they formed, the Ganf Des Lyonnais, made them the most notorious armed robbers of the early 1970s. Their irresistible rise ended in 1974 with a spectacular arrest. Today, as he nears 60, Momon would like to forget that part of his life. He has found peace by retiring from the "business". He tends to his wife Janou, who suffered so in the past, and to his children and grandchildren, all of whom have great respect for this man of simple and universal values, so clear-headed and full of kindness. But then Serge Suttel, who has disowned nothing of his past, comes back into the picture.

36th Precinct

36th Precinct
7.1/10
The film takes place in Paris, where two cops are competing for the vacant seat of chief of police while in the middle of a search for a gang of violent thieves. The movie is directed by Olivier Marchal, a former police officer who spent 12 years with the French police before creating this story, which is taken in part from real facts that happened during the 1980s in France.

Time to Leave

Time to Leave
7.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 16/05/2005
  • Character: Père
Romain, 31, a gay photographer, learns that a malignancy may kill him within a few months. Decisions: treatment? work? how to tell his lover and his family. He remembers the sea and himself as a child. He stares in the mirror. He's cruel: facing death, he pushes people away - what's the point? He visits his grandmother to tell her; on the way, he chats briefly with a waitress. He looks at old photos, visits a childhood tree house. He takes pictures. Returning from his grandmother's, he stops for food and sees the waitress, Jany, again. She makes a request. He returns to an empty flat - his lover has left. Can Jany's proposition give him a way to move past self-pity?

Time of the Wolf

Time of the Wolf
6.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 28/08/2003
  • Character: Georges Laurent
When Anna and her family arrive at their holiday home, they find it occupied by strangers. This confrontation is just the beginning of a painful learning process.

The Second Wind

The Second Wind
5.7/10
Gu, a famous gangster, has just escaped from jail. All french police is after him. Before leaving the country with Manouche, the woman he loves, Gu needs a final job to get some money. The job works, but a police's scheming makes Gu appear as a traitor to his own accomplices. Gu will do whatever it takes to clean his honor...

Act of Aggression

Act of Aggression
5.3/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 16/04/1975
  • Character: Un motard
After his wife and daughter are raped and killed by a motorbike gang a man sets out to take revenge.

Memoirs of a French Whore

Memoirs of a French Whore
6.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 17/10/1979
  • Character: Gérard
A girl, Marie is led into prostitution by her pimp boyfriend, Gerard. She must not only give money to him but to the gangsters that explore him as well. Marie, together with a friend, Maloup, will try to become independent. They start to work the streets on their own but they will meet physical and sexual violence. They return to the brothels, and Marie goes back to her pimp, but Gerard has his caprices and wants more and more – he's in a spiral downwards and he's leading Marie with him. There's seems to be no escape.

The Grocer's Son

The Grocer's Son
7/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 15/06/2007
  • Character: Père d’Antoine
Antoine Sforza, a thirty-year-old young man, left his village ten years before in order to start a new life in the big city, but now that his father, a traveling grocer, is in hospital after a stroke, he more or less reluctantly accepts to come back to replace him in his daily rounds.

How to Draw a Perfect Circle

How to Draw a Perfect Circle
5.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 23/09/2009
  • Character: Paul
Guilherme and Sofia, brother and sister, grow up sharing experiences and slowly discovering their sexuality. The thing that Sofia doesn't know is how far Guilherme will go to keep her inside his own perverse, dark and perfect circle.

Les déferlantes

Les déferlantes
6.6/10
Holed up in a small Normandy town, Louise hides from her ghosts as she looks after grumpy old Theo, the retired lighthouse keeper who shares her passion for ornithology. As she wanders the twisted shores, observing birds and people alike, Louise also keeps track of old Florelle, another broken soul who searches the beaches, seemingly waiting for the crashing waves to return something to her. Observing the locals' reactions to Lambert's return, the heir of a family lost at sea, Louise is intrigued by his past but, at the same time, attracted to him. As their relationship deepens, they start to unravel the web of secrets that have haunted the small village for decades. Together, they struggle to uncover the truth that could set them both free.

A Year in My Life

A Year in My Life
6.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 08/03/2006
  • Character: Le psychologue
In 1950s France, a young boy is taken in by a couple after spending a few months in the care of social service.

La Ville-bidon

La Ville-bidon
6.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/01/1971
  • Character: Mario
A fake documentary on the life forms of the Paris Suburbs, viewed through the eyes of homeless, unemployed people the sharks of politics and building societies push to hopeless life.

Les Loups entre eux

Les Loups entre eux
5.1/10

Will It Snow for Christmas?

Will It Snow for Christmas?
7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 25/12/1996
A woman and her seven children live on a farm in Southern France. In spite of the hard work and the mediocre accommodation, their life would be a happy one, but for one person: the owner of the farm, an egotistic and authoritarian individual who is also the lover of the woman and the father of all her children. The farmer handles them as his property, uses them as cheap labour to work in the fields, and denies them the right to leave the farm. It is only the love of the woman for her children that allows them to endure their situation; but even for her, disenchantment has set in. – IMDb

Nefertiti: Daughter of the Sun

Nefertiti: Daughter of the Sun
5.3/10
Tadushepa grows from a young princess from the Mitanni kingdom to the legendary Queen Nefertiti of Egypt. The film starts with the discovery of her bust by a German archaeologist in 1912 and then turns the time back to the moment just before she is married to the old Pharaoh Amanophis III. She must say goodbye to her lover, the sculptor Yame. But in Egypt she appears to have a great talent for power. After the death of Amanophis she collapses on the heir to the throne Akhematon.

Night Wind

Night Wind
6.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 03/03/1999
  • Character: Serge
A housewife's affair with a younger man goes nowhere.

One Day You'll Understand

One Day You'll Understand
5.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/01/2008
  • Character: Georges Gornick
A man endeavors to collect memories of his grandparents who died in a concentration camp during the Holocaust.

L'amour trop fort

L'amour trop fort
5.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 15/04/1981
Max is an old and unsuccessful actor while Charlie is an ambitious young director, yet they are bound together by close friendship. Until the day Rose-Marie, a rather conservative young antique dealer, walks into Charlie's life. When Max's wife walks out on him, he clings to the young couple like ivy. However he soons becomes a dead weight and Rose-Marie threatens to leave if Charlie doesn't choose between her and Max.

Process

Process
5.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 10/02/2004
A woman is on the verge of killing herself, in reverse.

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