Albert Dupontel

In November 1918, a few days before the Armistice, when Lieutenant Pradelle orders a senseless attack, he causes a useless disaster; but his outrageous act also binds the lives of two soldiers who have nothing more in common than the battlefield: Édouard saves Albert, although at a high cost. They become companions in misfortune who will attempt to survive in a changing world. Pradelle, in his own way, does the same.

Dir. Albert Dupontel · With Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Albert Dupontel, Laurent Lafitte

When 43-year-old hairdresser Suze Trappet finds out that she's seriously ill, she decides to go looking for a child she was forced to abandon when she was only 15. On her madcap bureaucratic quest she crosses paths with JB, a 50-year-old man in the middle of a burnout, and Mr. Blin, a blind archivist prone to overenthusiasm. The unlikely trio set off on a hilarious and poignant helterskelter journey across the city in search of Suze's long-lost child.

Dir. Albert Dupontel · With Virginie Efira, Albert Dupontel, Nicolas Marié

A woman’s lover and her ex-boyfriend take justice into their own hands after she becomes the victim of a rapist. Because some acts can’t be undone. Because man is an animal. Because the desire for vengeance is a natural impulse. Because most crimes remain unpunished.

Dir. Gaspar Noé · With Monica Bellucci, Vincent Cassel, Albert Dupontel

Bernie, a 30 years old orphan, decides to leave his orphanage and find his parents. After an investigation, he meets Marion, a young heroin addict and falls in love with her. He believes that his family was victim of a plot and this is why they deserted him.

Dir. Albert Dupontel · With Claude Perron, Roland Blanche, Albert Dupontel

Antoine Méliot is around 40 years old and has everything he needs to be happy: a beautiful wife, two adorable children, friends he can count on, a pretty house in the Yvelines and money. But one day he decides to ruin everything in one weekend.

Dir. Jean Becker · With Albert Dupontel, Marie-Josée Croze, Pierre Vaneck

A robber escapes from prison with a single objective in mind: to track down his former cellmate, a serial killer who intends to pin his crimes on him. A cop is sent after the robber who, despite his best efforts, soon becomes Public Enemy Number One. As the protagonists are driven to their limits, it becomes increasingly unclear who is the hunter and who is the prey.

Dir. Eric Valette · With Albert Dupontel, Alice Taglioni, Stéphane Debac

Vigilante, a small armored truck company, is in full crisis mode. Victim of three violent hold-ups in a year, which left no survivors, the company is on the verge of bankruptcy and its employees are extremely worried. Some even suggest a complicity between the robbers and the firm. It is in this difficult context that a man, Alexandre Demarre, one morning presents himself to start his first day of work at Vigilante.

Dir. Nicolas Boukhrief · With Albert Dupontel, Jean Dujardin, François Berléand

Set in France at the end of World War II Albert Dehousse finds out his father wasn't a war hero and his mother is a collaborator.

Dir. Jacques Audiard · With Mathieu Kassovitz, Anouk Grinberg, Sandrine Kiberlain

Ariane Felder is pregnant! This is surprising with her being a young hardened judge with strict morals. But what is more surprising is that, according to paternity testing, the child's father is none other than Bob, a criminal from the prosecution charged with an atrocious attack! Ariane doesn't remember any of what has happened, so she has no idea what to expect...

Dir. Albert Dupontel · With Sandrine Kiberlain, Albert Dupontel, Nicolas Marié

In 1815, young Jacquou lives an idyllic peasant life with his parents in the Périgord region of France. But one day, his childhood happiness is cruelly ended when his father is arrested, after a dispute with the arrogant Count de Nansac. With both his parents dead, Jacquou is adopted by Bonal, a kind priest, under whose influence he grows into an assured, morally upright young man. Now an adult, Jacquou has one desire. To repay the Count de Nansac for the evil he once inflicted on his parents...

Dir. Laurent Boutonnat · With Gaspard Ulliel, Marie-Josée Croze, Albert Dupontel

With gun-toting rivals on his tail, a daring bank robber takes refuge in the quiet residential street here he grew up and where his mother, Maniette, still lives. An unscrupulous property developer, Korazy, is buying up the neighborhood to turn it into a gleaming new banking district, but to her son's disgust Maniette leads the inhabitants resistance. Her ingenious methods provoke her boy's admiration, but he fights back with sneaky traps and underhand tricks when Maniette tries to force him to do the right thing just once in his life.

Dir. Albert Dupontel · With Albert Dupontel, Catherine Frot, Bouli Lanners

A disgraced political journalist placed in the soccer section, Miss Pove is asked to follow the presidential campaign in progress. The front-runner is a fifty-year-old heir to a powerful French family and a political novice. Troubled by this candidate, whom she has known to be less smooth in the past, Miss Pove embarks on an investigation that is as surprising as it is jubilant.

Dir. Albert Dupontel · With Albert Dupontel, Cécile de France, Nicolas Marié

Once upon a time, somewhere... a homeless guy finds a policeman's uniform...

Dir. Albert Dupontel · With Albert Dupontel, Claude Perron, Nicolas Marié

A young woman arrives in Paris where she finds a job as a waitress in bar next on Avenue Montaigne that caters to the surrounding theaters and the wealthy inhabitants of the area. She will meet a pianist, a famous actress and a great art collector, and become acquainted with the "luxurious" world her grandmother has told her about since her childhood.

Dir. Danièle Thompson · With Cécile de France, Valérie Lemercier, Albert Dupontel

Pierre, a professional dancer, suffers from a serious heart disease. While he is waiting for a transplant which may (or may not) save his life, he has nothing better to do than look at the people around him, from the balcony of his Paris apartment.

Dir. Cédric Klapisch · With Juliette Binoche, Romain Duris, Fabrice Luchini

A self-conscious and self-referential adventure into the (pretend) lives of legendary actors in Paris.

Dir. Bertrand Blier · With Pierre Arditi, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Claude Brasseur

An alcoholic writer is visited by an incarnation of his cancer.

Dir. Bertrand Blier · With Jean Dujardin, Albert Dupontel, Anne Alvaro

An ageing punk-with-a-dog and his brother the conformist decide to get their revenge on a shopping mall. Directing duo Benoit Delepine and Gustave Kervern, longstanding comic crusaders against capitalism, again set out to surprise and shock the bourgeois audience.

Dir. Benoît Delépine, Gustave Kervern · With Benoît Poelvoorde, Albert Dupontel, Areski Belkacem

Objectively, Odette Toulemonde has nothing to be happy about, but is. Balthazar Balsan has everything to be happy about, but isn’t. Odette, awkwardly forty, with a delightful hairdresser son and a daughter bogged down in adolescence, spends her days behind the cosmetic’s counter in a department store and her nights sewing feathers on costumes for Parisian variety shows. She dreams of thanking Balthazar Balsan, her favorite author, to whom – she believes – she owes her optimism. The rich and charming Parisian writer then turns up in her life in an unexpected way.

Dir. Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt · With Catherine Frot, Albert Dupontel, Jacques Weber