Philippe Noiret

A filmmaker recalls his childhood, when he fell in love with the movies at his village's theater and formed a deep friendship with the theater's projectionist.

Dir. Giuseppe Tornatore · With Philippe Noiret, Jacques Perrin, Marco Leonardi

Simple Italian postman learns to love poetry while delivering mail to a famous poet; he uses this to woo local beauty Beatrice.

Dir. Michael Radford · With Massimo Troisi, Philippe Noiret, Maria Grazia Cucinotta

Four inseparable friends try to face their midlife crisis with daytrips and pranks at the expense of their families and the people around them.

Dir. Mario Monicelli · With Ugo Tognazzi, Gastone Moschin, Philippe Noiret

The four old friends meet on the grave of the fifth of them, Perozzi, who died at the end of the first episode. Time has passed but they are still up for adventures and cruel jokes, and while they recall the one they created together with the late friend, new ones are on their way, starting right there at the cemetery.

Dir. Mario Monicelli · With Ugo Tognazzi, Adolfo Celi, Gastone Moschin

In Montauban in 1944, Julien Dandieu is a surgeon in the local hospital. Frightened by the German army entering Montauban, he asks his friend Francois to drive his wife and his daughter in the back country village where Julien has an old castle. One week later, Julien decides to meet them for the week end, but the Germans are already occupying the village.

Dir. Robert Enrico · With Philippe Noiret, Romy Schneider, Jean Bouise

The story of one shepherd's single-handed quest to re-forest a desolate valley in the foothills of the French Alps throughout the first half of the 20th century.

Dir. Frédéric Back · With Philippe Noiret

Michel Descombes is a watchmaker who lives in Lyon with his teenage son Bernard. When the police visit and inform him that Bernard has killed a man and is on the run with a girl, Michel realises that he knew far less about his son than he thought.

Dir. Bertrand Tavernier · With Philippe Noiret, Jean Rochefort, Jacques Denis

A pathetic police chief, humiliated by everyone around him, suddenly wants a clean slate in life, and resorts to drastic means to achieve it.

Dir. Bertrand Tavernier · With Philippe Noiret, Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Pierre Marielle

A German intelligence officer investigates a prostitute's killing in Warsaw during World War II. He lands on three major Nazi generals as suspects, two of whom are also involved in a plot to kill Adolf Hitler.

Dir. Anatole Litvak · With Peter O'Toole, Omar Sharif, Tom Courtenay

Alexandre, a young and honest farmer, is oppressed by an authoritarian wife, who makes him work like a dog. When she dies in a car crash, he decides to stay in bed, absolutely free and inactive. Just a dog is occupied to carry food and newspapers to him.

Dir. Yves Robert · With Philippe Noiret, Marlène Jobert, Françoise Brion

Four friends gather at a villa with the intention of eating themselves to death.

Dir. Marco Ferreri · With Marcello Mastroianni, Ugo Tognazzi, Michel Piccoli

Inside the Blue Note nightclub one night in 1959 Paris, an aged, ailing jazzman coaxes an eloquent wail from his tenor sax. Outside, a young Parisian too broke to buy a glass of wine strains to hear those notes. Soon they will form a friendship that sparks a final burst of genius.

Dir. Bertrand Tavernier · With Dexter Gordon, François Cluzet, Gabrielle Haker

A streetwise Paris policeman who takes kickbacks from the minor criminals on his beat to allow them to continue is assigned an idealistic new partner fresh from police academy. He sets out to corrupt him...

Dir. Claude Zidi · With Philippe Noiret, Thierry Lhermitte, Régine

France, 17th century, during the reign of Louis XIII. When a dear friend, the Duke of Nevers, is treacherously assassinated by a powerful relative, a skilled swordsman, the noble Henri de Lagardère, seeks his rightful vengeance as he tries to protect the innocent life of the duke's last heir.

Dir. Philippe de Broca · With Daniel Auteuil, Fabrice Luchini, Vincent Perez

A brash and precocious ten-year-old comes to Paris for a whirlwind weekend with her rakish uncle.

Dir. Louis Malle · With Catherine Demongeot, Philippe Noiret, Hubert Deschamps

France, 1893. Joseph Bouvier attempts to shoot his love who refused to marry him and to commit suicide. Upon release from the filthy asylum where he was placed, with bullets still remaining in his head, he wanders the country roads and rapes and murders many teenagers over years. The judge Rousseau captures him, but to serve his ambition seeks to avoid that Bouvier is simply declared insane.

Dir. Bertrand Tavernier · With Philippe Noiret, Michel Galabru, Isabelle Huppert

A penetrating study of a marriage on the rocks, set against the backdrop of a small Mediterranean fishing village. Both a stylized depiction of the complicated relationship between a married couple and a documentary-like look at the daily struggles of the inhabitants of Sète in the South of France.

Dir. Agnès Varda · With Philippe Noiret, Silvia Monfort, Marcel Jouet

After World War II, a small French village struggles to put the war behind as the controlling Communist Party tries to flush out Petain loyalists. The local bar owner, a simple man who likes to write poetry, who only wants to be left alone to do his job, becomes a target for Communist harassment as they try and locate a particular loyalist, and he pushes back.

Dir. Claude Berri · With Michel Blanc, Gérard Depardieu, Jean-Pierre Marielle

It's 1649: Mazarin hires the impoverished D'Artagnan to find the other musketeers: Cromwell has overthrown the English king, so Mazarin fears revolt, particularly from the popular Beaufort. Porthos, bored with riches and wanting a title, signs on, but Aramis, an abbé, and Athos, a brawler raising an intellectual son, assist Beaufort in secret. When they fail to halt Beaufort's escape from prison, the musketeers are expendable, and Mazarin sends them to London to rescue Charles I. They are also pursued by Justine, the avenging daughter of Milady de Winter, their enemy 20 years ago. They must escape England, avoid Justine, serve the Queen, and secure Beauford's political reforms.

Dir. Richard Lester · With Michael York, Oliver Reed, Frank Finlay

The partners are back and are in a tight spot! Francois is going through a moral crisis, and Rene is experiencing the same. But, honesty is not always the best policy. After being suspended for their actions, they return to face their far more crooked replacements.

Dir. Claude Zidi · With Thierry Lhermitte, Philippe Noiret, Grace de Capitani

Stressed and overworked, famous French movie star Michel Blanc is beginning to wear down, physically and mentally, from the pressure and demands of fame. Already in a fragile state of mind, strange events start to transpire all around him, and he gradually loses his grip. Taking the advice of a psychiatrist, Blanc retreats to the countryside with his friend Carole Bouquet, but Blanc still has not managed to escape all of his problems.

Dir. Michel Blanc · With Michel Blanc, Carole Bouquet, Philippe Noiret

It is 1654, in the South of France. When horsemen follow a runaway slave into the convent where he's taken sanctuary and kill both the fugitive and the Mother Superior, they little realise that one of the novices is the spirited daughter of retired musketeer D'Artagnan.

Dir. Bertrand Tavernier · With Sophie Marceau, Philippe Noiret, Claude Rich

Copenhagen, Denmark, 1962. When a high-ranking Soviet official decides to change sides, a French intelligence agent is caught up in a cold, silent and bloody spy war in which his own family will play a decisive role.

Dir. Alfred Hitchcock · With Frederick Stafford, Dany Robin, John Vernon