The best Henri-Jacques Huet’s movies

Henri-Jacques Huet

Henri-Jacques Huet

27/03/1930- 04/06/2009
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Henri-Jacques Huet’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Henri-Jacques Huet.
Genre:

Beau Pere

Beau Pere
6.9/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 15/09/1981
  • Character: le Gérant du restaurant
Rémi is a man trapped in a deteriorating marriage. When his wife is unexpectedly killed in a car accident, Rémi is left with his stepdaughter, Marion, who chooses to stay with him rather than live with her birth father. After the initial shock passes, Rémi is caught off-guard when Marion begins expressing her attraction to him. Initially repulsed, Marion's mature beauty wears him down as he finally caves to her seductions.

Breathless

Breathless
7.7/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 16/03/1960
  • Character: Antonio Berrutti
A small-time thief steals a car and impulsively murders a motorcycle policeman. Wanted by the authorities, he attempts to persuade a girl to run away to Italy with him.

Le Viager

Le Viager
6.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 19/01/1972
  • Character: Le chef du maquis
In 1930, Louis Martinet, a peaceful sexagenarian, no longer has a long life to live according to the words of his doctor, Leon Galipeau, who sees to take advantage of the very interesting situation of the "future deceased". This one indeed has a small house in Saint-Tropez. Galipeau sniffs the windfall. Following his advice, Martinet agrees to give it in life to the brother of the doctor, Emile, and then rushes back to a health of iron. Worse, he even survives the war. Galipeau, exhausted, decide to use the great means to get rid of the importunce who persists in thwarting their project ...

Cesar and Rosalie

Cesar and Rosalie
7.3/10
Rosalie, a beautiful young woman gets involved with successful businessman Cesar. One day, Rosalie's former flame David appears and attempts to win her back. Cesar reacts with a jealous intensity never before seen by Rosalie, and because of that, she returns to David. She remains conflicted regarding her choice of partner, but eventually, one of the men does something which resolves the situation.

Max and the Junkmen

Max and the Junkmen
7.3/10
Max is a Paris detective, aloof, independently wealthy, and frustrated by gangs of robbers whom he cannot catch. To re-establish his stature and save face, he decides to inveigle a group of petty thieves (led by an old acquaintance) to rob a bank. A reluctant captain provides Max intelligence and Max starts spending evenings with Lilly, a prostitute who's the girlfriend of the group's leader. He poses as a rich banker with money to burn and encourages Lilly to think about her future. He hints at a payroll that comes through his bank. The plot works, the petty thieves think they're ready for a big score, and the cops are in place. What could go wrong with Max's cold plan? Who's entrapped?

Fear Over the City

Fear Over the City
6.9/10
A serial-killer frightens Paris by phoning young ladies at night, telling them insults about their lives. Minos, as he calls himself, wants to prevent the world from free women and he targets at first these ones. Commissaire Letellier is given the investigation and he has hard work with the maniac.

Violette

Violette
7.1/10
Paris, 1933. The daughter of a respectable lower middle class couple, Violette Nozière, leads a disreputable double life. Far from being the innocent 18-year-old her parents mistake her for, she spends her nights with dissolute young men in the less salubrious areas of the city.

Le Petit Soldat

Le Petit Soldat
7.1/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 25/01/1963
  • Character: Jacques
During the Algerian war for independence from France, a young Frenchman living in Geneva who belongs to a right-wing terrorist group and a young woman who belongs to a left-wing terrorist group meet and fall in love. Complications ensue when the man is suspected by the members of his terrorist group of being a double agent.

Love Is My Profession

Love Is My Profession
6.7/10
  • Genre: CrimeDramaRomance
  • Release: 17/09/1958
  • Character: Un employé de la prefecture (uncredited)
Married French lawyer Andre defends succesfully the case of Yvette, who committed a robbery. He falls in love with her, but she isn't true to him.

The Prize of Peril

The Prize of Peril
6.6/10
In a futuristic society, contestants pit their survival skills against each other in a fight to the death for cash prizes, and the contest is aired live on television.

Madame Claude 2

Madame Claude 2
4.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 26/08/1981
  • Character: Pierre Roques
A notorious French madam, whose business serves many of the nation's most powerful individuals, plans to go international until she becomes the focus of media scrutiny.

OSS 117 Is Unleashed

OSS 117 Is Unleashed
5.5/10
  • Genre: ActionCrime
  • Release: 18/06/1963
  • Character: Renotte
An American agent disappears after a scuba diving reconnaissance mission in Corsica. The Secret Service sends agent code name OSS 117 to investigate.

Slogan

Slogan
5.8/10
Commercial director Serge Faberge is having an affair with Evelyne, the 18 year old fiancee of friend Hugh. His own pregnant wife Francoise usually does not mind his dalliances, until he actually walks out on her and their newborn baby to move in with Evelyne. The shoe is on the other foot when dashing stuntman Dado catches Evelyne's eye in Venice.

Slices of Life

Slices of Life
4.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 06/02/1985
  • Character: Le passager de l'avion
A series of humorous sketches on life: "A Night to Remember", "Summit Showdown", and "A Book? That's personal!"

The Case of Dr. Laurent

The Case of Dr. Laurent
6.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 03/04/1957
  • Character: Antonin Escallin
Le Cas Du Dr. Laurent (The Case of Dr. Laurent) stars Jean Gabin as a Paris-based doctor who tries to spread the gospel of Natural Childbirth. Working in a cloistered rural community, Gabin runs up against the stone walls of fear and prejudice. His theories are proven sound when unwed mother Nicole Courcel gives birth within Gabin's methodology. The childbirth sequence is filmed straight-on with a delicate combination of taste and frankness. Nonetheless, the lurid ad campaign of Cas Du Dr. Laurent sensationalized this sequence all out of proportion.

Women's Prison

Women's Prison
5.6/10
Alice Rémon, a pharmacist, is a prostitute who managed to leave the streets by getting married. Her husband dies one day, poisoned. Her mother-in-law, who hates her, accuses her of murder.

And Satan Calls the Turns

And Satan Calls the Turns
5.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 24/10/1962
  • Character: Jean-Claude
On a sun-kissed beach, six people linger lazily, each confident of fulfilling his or her desires before the day is out. A wealthy heiress, Emmanuelle, has designs on a handsome adolescent, Ivan, but his interests lie elsewhere. Having gratified Emmanuelle’s womanly needs, Ivan immediately sets out to make his next conquest, the mistress of a well-known writer...

One Night at the Beach

One Night at the Beach
5.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 14/06/1961
  • Character: Michel Saint Hamand
Un soir sur la plage is relatively interesting; the cast includes highly talented Jean Dessailly, Martine Carol, a cast against type Michel Galabru as the cop.The biggest surprise is sixties starlet Daliah Lavi as a simple-minded nymphomaniac girl who is murdered on the beach. The story is essentially a whodunit: in Martine Carol's house, there are many people (too many people actually) and they all have a reason to get rid of her.

Exterior Night

Exterior Night
6.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 10/09/1980
  • Character: a musician
Hoping to make a fresh start, Léo, a jazz musician, takes up temporary residence with his friend Bony, a young writer who is struggling to get his work published. One evening, Léo strikes up an acquaintance with a woman taxi driver, Cora; in spite of her impulsive and moody temperament, he cannot help being attracted to her. On the spur of the moment, Cora invites Léo to make love to her. When Bony meets Cora, he too finds her irresistible, but he lacks Léo’s self-confidence to make his move. Cora is not a woman that any man can possess readily. She is like a wild animal, a creature that revels in its freedom. Will either Léo or Bony be able to tame her...?

Le Fric

Le Fric
5.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/07/1959
  • Character: Interpol

Related actors