The best Patrick Dewaere’s movies

Patrick Dewaere

Patrick Dewaere

26/01/1947- 16/07/1982
Today we present the best Patrick Dewaere’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 Patrick Dewaere’s movies.
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Beau Pere

Beau Pere
6.9/10
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.

The French Detective

The French Detective
6.8/10
When political thugs murder an opponent's volunteer and also kill a cop, chief inspector Verjeat believes the politician who hired them is as guilty as the murderous goon. Verjeat's pursuit of the councilman, Lardatte, gets him a warning from his superiors. When he embarrasses Lardatte while disarming a hostage (the dead volunteer's father), Verjeat is told he's being transferred within a week. He speeds up his hunt for the goon and, with Lefévre, one of his young detectives, he engineers a complicated scheme to buy more time before the transfer. How should Verjeat play out his values of honor and duty?

Is Paris Burning?

Is Paris Burning?
6.8/10
  • Genre: DramaHistoryWar
  • Release: 26/10/1966
  • Character: A young resister (uncredited)
Near the end of World War II, Gen. Dietrich von Choltitz receives orders to burn down Paris if it becomes clear the Allies are going to invade, or if he cannot maintain control of the city. After much contemplation Choltitz decides to ignore his orders, enraging the Germans and giving hope to various resistance factions that the city will be liberated. Choltitz, along with Swedish diplomat Raoul Nordling, helps a resistance leader organize his forces.

Going Places

Going Places
7.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 20/03/1974
  • Character: Pierrot
Two whimsical, aimless thugs harass and assault women, steal, murder, and alternately charm, fight, or sprint their way out of trouble. They take whatever the bourgeoisie holds dear, whether it’s cars, peace of mind, or daughters. Marie-Ange, a jaded, passive hairdresser, joins them as lover, cook, and mother confessor. She’s on her own search for seemingly unattainable sexual pleasure.

Get Out Your Handkerchiefs

Get Out Your Handkerchiefs
7/10
Solange is depressed: she's stopped smiling, she eats little, she says less. She has fainting fits. Her husband Raoul seeks to save her by enlisting Stephane, a stranger, to be her lover. Although he listens to Mozart and has every Pocket Book arranged in alphabetical order, Stephane fails to cheer Solange. She knits. She does housework. Everyone, including their neighbor a vegetable vendor, agrees that she needs a child, yet she fails to get pregnant by either lover. The three take a job running a kids' summer camp where they meet Christian, the precocious 13-year-old son of the local factory manager. It is Christian who restores Solange to laughter

Hothead

Hothead
7.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 14/02/1979
  • Character: François Perrin
Delightful French comedy about a talented soccer player whose foul temper causes him to be cut from the team, lose his job and even be banned from his favorite bar.

Heat of Desire

Heat of Desire
5.6/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 29/04/1981
  • Character: Serge Lainé
In France in the near future, revolt and chaos erupt. A right-wing politician, Philippe Muphand, is set to take control when his lady friend Caroline walks out, announcing she will take up with the first fool she sees. The fool is Serge Laine, a professor and author of the prize-winning "Le voyage qui ne finit pas," headed to the train station for tickets to Barcelona where he and his wife will enjoy a second honeymoon and he will lecture at the university. Caroline seduces Serge, and he soon abandons wife, family, job, and honesty to embrace Caroline, the romanticism of Jack London, and murder.

Traffic Jam

Traffic Jam
6.9/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 12/01/1979
  • Character: Mara's Lover
A large international cast takes part in this comedy in which the stories of numerous individuals whose cars are stalled in a massive Roman traffic jam are told.

Serie Noire

Serie Noire
7.3/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 25/04/1979
  • Character: Franck Poupart
Franck Poupart is a slightly neurotic door-to-door salesman in a sinister part of Paris' suburbs. He meets Mona, a teenager, who's been made a prostitute by her own aunt. Franck would like to change his life and also save Mona from her aunt. Murder is the only solution.

The Best Way to Walk

The Best Way to Walk
7.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 03/03/1976
  • Character: Marc
In a vacation camp somewhere in the French country, 1960. Marc et Philippe are two of the counsellors. Marc is very virile, while Philippe is more reserved. A night, Marc surprises Philippe dressed and made-up like a woman. From now on, he will keep on humiliating Philippe.

The Married Couple of the Year Two

The Married Couple of the Year Two
6.5/10
Nicolas Philibert goes to America after killing a French aristocrat. On his return he tries to divorce his wife, Charlotte, but when he sees others trying to woo her his own interest is rekindled.

Themroc

Themroc
7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 22/02/1973
Made without proper language, just gibberish and grunts, "Themroc" is an absurdist comedy about a man who rejects every facet of normal bourgeois life and turns his apartment into a virtual cave.

Mille milliards de dollars

Mille milliards de dollars
7/10
  • Genre: Thriller
  • Release: 09/02/1982
  • Character: Paul Kerjean
A young journalist stumbles across something much more sinister than a simple suicide in the death of a politician - the death seems to be an assassination contrived by an American multinational company intent on taking over several French industries. The journalist's objective is to garner enough evidence to expose the American corporation for what it really is, before French companies start disappearing - and before any more corpses accumulate, including his own.

Psy

Psy
6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 04/02/1981
  • Character: Marc
Marc runs a psychotherapy course at a large country house belonging to his wife Colette. His clients are depressed and his job is to cure them of their neuroses.

Hotel America

Hotel America
6.4/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 02/12/1981
  • Character: Gilles Tisserand
Helene, a pill-addicted anesthesiologist, is mourning the death of her boyfriend when, through a car accident she causes, she chances to meet the lethargic Gilles, a young man who lives for free at his mother's hotel. Gilles pursues Helene romantically, and she eventually softens up. Gilles, however, is also devoted to Bernard, a petty crook who revels in mugging gay men. All three struggle with relationships that seem to be going nowhere.

A Bad Son

A Bad Son
7.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 14/10/1980
  • Character: Bruno Calgagni
Bruno is released from prison. He looks for a job and tries to start a new life. His first stop is at his father's apartment.

The Deadly Trap

The Deadly Trap
5.5/10
  • Genre: DramaMystery
  • Release: 09/06/1971
  • Character: l'Homme à l'echarpe jaune
An industrial-espionage group calls on a retired spy living with his wife and children in Paris.

The Bishop's Bedroom

The Bishop's Bedroom
6.4/10
Mario, a rich and eccentric war hero befriends Marco, a loner with a sailboat, and takes him home to meet his estranged wife Cleofe and sexually repressed sister in law Matilde. Mario confesses his love for Matilde and so ensues a love triangle.

Judge Fayard Called the Sheriff

Judge Fayard Called the Sheriff
7/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 12/01/1977
  • Character: Fayard
Jean-Marie Fayard is a young examining magistrate in a large provincial french city. He belongs to that generation of judges who are endeavoring to re-adapt the notion of justice to our changing times. His methods are not agreeable to every one. Criticism and pressure are brought to bear upon him but he is aware of his value, professionally, and refuses to make any concessions. He follows an unwavering course. He uses dynamic methods and takes uncustomary initiatives. He behaves like a crusader, a battler, whence the nickname given him by the reporters : the sheriff.

Victory March

Victory March
6.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 12/03/1976
  • Character: 2nd Lt. Baio
The drawbacks and difficulties of military life are explored in this film. Paolo Passeri is a college graduate, somewhat spoiled, somewhat effete, who finds himself in an officer training program under the stern martinet, Captain Asciutto. He gradually becomes acclimated to the military mind-set, and when the Captain's wife decides to take a romantic interest in him, he does not report her dangerous peculiarities to anyone.

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