The best Michel Bouquet’s drama movies

Michel Bouquet

Michel Bouquet

06/11/1925 (98 años)
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Elisa

Elisa
6.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/02/1995
  • Character: Samuel
Marie has had a tough childhood ever since her mother Elisa committed suicide. She has spent most of her life in an orphanage and now makes a living as a small time criminal in Paris. Now she wants to unravel her past and find her father whom she blames for her mother's death.

The Unfaithful Wife

The Unfaithful Wife
7.4/10
  • Genre: DramaThriller
  • Release: 01/01/1969
  • Character: Charles Desvallées
Insurance executive Charles suspects his wife Hélène of playing the field, so he has a private detective locate his wife's lover, author Victor Pegala.

Les Misérables

Les Misérables
7.3/10
The story of Jean Valjean, a Frenchman convicted of minor crimes, who is hounded for years by an unforgiving and unrelenting police inspector, Javert.

The Bride Wore Black

The Bride Wore Black
7.2/10
Julie Kohler is prevented from suicide by her mother. She leaves the town. She will track down, charm and kill five men who do not know her. What is her goal? What is her purpose?

Chicken with Vinegar

Chicken with Vinegar
6.5/10
Unorthodox detective Jean Lavardin is called to a provincial French town after a prank turns deadly.

This Special Friendship

This Special Friendship
7.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 04/09/1964
  • Character: Father Trennes
A tale of the tender relationship between a twelve-year-old boy and the upperclassman who is the object of his desire. All set in the rigid atmosphere of a Jesuit-run school.

Mississippi Mermaid

Mississippi Mermaid
6.9/10
Adapted from a story by William Irish, it's a noirish tale of a man who orders a mail-order bride but receives instead a con woman.

Renoir

Renoir
6.5/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 02/07/2012
  • Character: Auguste Renoir
The Côte d’Azur. 1915. In his twilight years, Pierre-Auguste Renoir is tormented by the loss of his wife, the pains of arthritic old age and the terrible news that his son Jean has been wounded in action. But when a young girl miraculously enters his world, the old painter is filled with a new, wholly unexpected energy. Blazing with life, radiantly beautiful, Andrée will become his last model, and the wellspring of a remarkable rejuvenation. Back at the family home to convalesce, Jean too falls under the spell of the new, redheaded star in the Renoir firmament. In their Mediterranean Eden - and in the face of his father's fierce opposition - he falls in love with this wild, untameable spirit... and as he does so, within weak-willed, battle-shaken Jean, a filmmaker begins to grow.

Borsalino

Borsalino
6.8/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 19/05/1970
  • Character: Maître Rinaldi
In 1930 Marseilles two small-time crooks join forces when they meet brawling over a woman. Starting with fixed horse races and fights, they start to find themselves doing jobs for the local gangster bosses. When they decide to go into the business for themselves, their easy-going approach to crime starts to change.

Toto the Hero

Toto the Hero
7.4/10
Thomas and Alfred were born around the same time; a fire in the nursery had nurses scrambling to save the newborns. Because he felt that he deserved Alfred's good fortune at being born into a wealthy family, Thomas conceives the idea that he and Alfred were switched at birth, and he can't help seeing that his unhappiness should be Alfred's, from the loss of his sister to his inability to have a relationship with the woman Evelyne. So, as his life is ending, he formulates a plan of revenge against his bitter enemy, his lifetime adversary, the man who stole his existence.

All the Mornings of the World

All the Mornings of the World
7.5/10
It's late 17th century. The viola da gamba player Monsieur de Sainte Colombe comes home to find that his wife died while he was away. In his grief he builds a small house in his garden into wich he moves to dedicate his life to music and his two young daughters Madeleine and Toinette, avoiding the outside world. Rumor about him and his music is widespread, and even reaches to the court of Louis XIV, who wants him at his court in Lully's orchestra, but Monsieur de Sainte Colombe refuses. One day a young man, Marin Marais, comes to see him with a request, he wants to be taught how to play the violin.

Manon

Manon
6.8/10
A World War II French freedom fighter falls under a devious woman's spell.

Le Complot

Le Complot
6.1/10
  • Genre: ActionDrama
  • Release: 01/05/1973
  • Character: Lelong
Paris 1960. DeGaulle determines to end a bitter war in Algeria by granting its independence. Millions oppose him, including a group of DeGaulle's disenchanted Arm Officers. In a desperate attempt to save the colony for France, they plan a daring jailbreak of their imprisoned leader. A network of snitches inform a tenacious detective leading to an explosive three-way cat-and-mouse game among the rebels, the Gaullist politicos and the police.

Two Men in Town

Two Men in Town
7.3/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 24/10/1973
  • Character: Commissioner Goitreau
A former bank robber is released after 10 years in prison. He gets help from a social-worker, but gets harassed by an old cop from his past.

Villa Caprice

Villa Caprice
5.8/10
  • Genre: DramaThriller
  • Release: 02/06/2021
  • Character: Marcel Germon
Famous lawyer, Luc Germon adds Gilles Fontaine, one of the most powerful bosses in France, to his clients. He is suspected of having acquired a magnificent property, Villa Caprice, under questionable conditions.

Malpertuis

Malpertuis
6.7/10
Malpertuis is the name of an old, rambling mansion which is in reality a labyrinth where characters from Greek mythology are imprisoned by the bedridden Cassavius (Welles). He manages to keep them (as well as his nephew and niece) prisoners even after his death, through a binding testament. As Jan, the nephew, (Carrière) unravels the mystery, he discovers that he cannot escape the house because Malpertuis is far more significant than he was led to believe.

Just Before Nightfall

Just Before Nightfall
7.2/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 31/03/1971
  • Character: Charles Masson
A married man who killed the wife of his best friend during a tryst feels compelled to turn himself in.

Adorable Sinner

Adorable Sinner
5.8/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 22/12/1959
  • Character: Bibesco
The Tsar Alexandre II meets a young student, Katia. He understands that he loves her and try to send her away but they end up seeing each other again and becomes his mistress. With the help of Katia, Alexandre prepares a liberal constitution, but these reforms make him hostile to the more privileged subjects without satirising the revolutionaries against the regime.

The Cop

The Cop
6.8/10
A crackdown on drugs leads a burned out cop (Michel Bouquet) to take the law into his own hands and seek revenge against villainous drug dealers. Word comes down from above that the United States feels French authorities have been lax on their arrests of the dealers. A violent action feature finds the harried inspector battling his colleagues as much as the criminal element targeted for extermination.

Monsieur Vincent

Monsieur Vincent
7/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 05/11/1947
  • Character: Le tuberculeux
The life of Vincent de Paul, the 17th-century author and priest who founded two religious orders.

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