The best Jacques Charrier’s movies
We present our ranking of the best Jacques Charrier’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Jacques Charrier.
Babette Goes to War
6.1/10
Comedy about a naive French country girl in London who helps the war effort by parachuting into German-occupied France to help kidnap an important German general. She bungles through to a heroic finish of plot and counter-plot.
The Creatures
6.4/10
After a road accident, a writer, Edgar, and his wife, Mylène, take up residence on an island off the coast of France to recuperate. Edgar soon recovers from his injuries and begins writing his next novel, seeking inspiration from the local people. His wife, however, has lost her voice and can only communicate through written notes. The islanders grow suspicious of the reclusive couple, their unease soon turning to aggression. Edgar is equally anxious about his neighbors, particularly a solitary widower, Ducasse, who has taken charge of a large consignment of crates. What secret project is Ducasse engaged in – and can it explain the strange behavior of the islanders?
The Chasers
6.8/10
Two men spend a night in Paris trying to pick up women.
The Oldest Profession
5.4/10
A collection of sketches that tells the story of prostitution through the ages.
The Third Lover
7/10
The story of a journalist in southern Germany who stays with a novelist and his wife and gradually begins to destroy the young couple's lives.
The Cheaters
7.1/10
Bob Letellier, a good looking rich kid who studies science, makes the acquaintance of Alain, a cynical and immoral young man. The latter introduces him to the existentialist circles of Saint-Germain-des-Prés. Bob is invited to a party and becomes Clo's lover, a rich heiress.
Anatomy of a Marriage: My Days with Jean-Marc
7.2/10
The story of the couple from the very first meeting to break up told from a view of a man, Jean-Marc. The film shares the same plot with "Françoise ou La vie conjugale", that tells the same story from another perspective.
The American Beauty
6.3/10
Marcel, a simple-minded factory worker, is tricked into buying a high-priced American convertable car by a widow determined not to let it fall into the hands of her late husband's secretary/secret lover. Once in pocession of the car, Marcel only encounters one bad luck episode after another with the excessive gasoline consumtion, his wife trying to sell it to make ammends meet, getting into traffic jams, accidently riding into a car wash with the top down, and more
Closed Shutters
5/10
1930. Adelaide is fed up with Paris and founds a 'retreat' for her women friends in a Breton port. They live well and take their pleasure seriously, until the attractive sailor Thomas arrives and nothing is ever the same again.
Anatomy of a Marriage: My Days with Françoise
7.1/10
The story of the couple from the very first meeting to break up told from a view of a woman, Francoise. The film shares the same plot with "Jean-Marc ou La vie conjugale", that tells the same story from another perspective.
Pigeon Shoot
6.7/10
Young man Marco Laudato, after the '8/9/1943's WW2 armistice, enlists in the Italian Social Republic army, attending the last days of the old regime in decay.
Because, Because of a Woman
6.7/10
A young man is a collector of feminine conquests. One morning, leaving one of his mistresses he is addressed by one of his past flirts. As revenge, she denounces him later to the police as the murderer of her fiance who was found dead the same morning. With the help of his mistresses and some new ones he makes on the road, the young man goes in search of the man he thinks is the killer, then his blond consort with whom he fell in love at the first sight the evening before.
The Suns of Easter Island
5.8/10
Six people find a mysterious mark in the center of their left hand and all independently go to Easter Island in hopes to uncover the mystery.
À belles dents
4.6/10
An orphaned young woman goes to Paris looking for work and love. Working as an au-pair, she is discovered by a fashion photographer and becomes a model. She falls in love with an architect but leaves him to marry a rich man.
Dreyfus: The Intolerable Truth
7.9/10
Since the contemporary turn of the century short subjects of Georges Melies, the first French-made film to discuss the long taboo topic of the Dreyfus Case.
Carmen di Trastevere
6/10
