François Berléand

Date of Birth: 22 Apr 1952
Country: France
Biography: François Berléand is a French actor.
Total Credits at Criticker: 85 (Actor)
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Set in 1948, a professor of music, Clement Mathieu, becomes the supervisor at a boarding school for the rehabilitation for minors. What he discovers disconcerts him -- the current situation is repressive. Through the power of song, Clement tries to transform the students. (imdb)
For years, friends and actors Maurice, Sami, Simon, Elie, and Edouard have been waiting for their big break. The future looks bright when famous American director Rudolph Grichenberg (Coyote) offers Maurice the part of Shylock in his Yiddish screen adaptation of "The Merchant of Venice". But his fortunes reverse quickly when Maurice learns that his beloved wife Perla is seriously ill. With his friends' help, Maurice takes on the greatest role of his life, and in playing his part, illuminates the meaning of art, love, and truth. (First Run Features)
A provocative portrait of a young French woman, Marie (Trousselard), and her journey to gain control of her life. Marie embarks on an escalating sexual journey that tests her own physical and emotional limits, and which, through an ironic twist-of-fate, eventually leads to her fulfillment. (Trimark Pictures)
Fashion executive Dominique's obsession for Quentin, a young bisexual hustler, fills her desire for physical love but leaves her taxed emotionally. Twists and turns in the relationship, along with the man's violent and abusive nature, force Dominique to reconcile the conflicts created by her passion. In this quest, Dominique is aided [and sometimes hindered] by friends, clients, and Quentin's former and current acquaintances. (imdb)
Ex-Special Forces operator Frank Martin lives what seems to be a quiet life along the French Mediterranean, hiring himself out as a mercenary "transporter" who moves goods - human or otherwise - from one place to another. No questions asked. Frank's newest transport seems no different from the countless ones he's done in the past. He has been hired by an American known only as "Wall Street" (see Rule Two) to make a delivery, but when Frank stops along route, he notices his "package" is moving... (imdb)
Jason Statham returns in his signature role as ex-Special Forces operative Frank Martin, aka "The Transporter." Now retired in Miami, Martin makes a living driving for a wealthy family, including the young son, with whom he has unexpectedly bonded. But when the boy is abducted, Martin must use all his skills to bring him to safety and discover the kidnapper's master plan. (20th Century Fox)
Biography of Camille Claudel. Sister of writer Paul Claudel, her enthusiasm impresses already-famous sculptor Auguste Rodin... (imdb)
Bulgaria near the end of World War I: Conan, warrior and wolf, leads a band of 50 ruthless French fighters who love hand-to-hand combat... (imdb)
Les Acteurs is a satirical take on the ups, downs, and numerous implications of life in showbiz as told by a variety of real-life French actors. (Tracie Cooper, Rovi)
A French boarding school run by priests seems to be a haven from World War II until a new student arrives... (imdb)
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. He leaves his wife and goes to Paris. Gradually he inveigles himself with the resistance movement. They trust him and he helps them trace collaborators. (imdb)
Originally released in France in 2006. Eight years ago, Margot Beck has been murdered by a serial killer. If the killer has confessed eight of these murders, he has always denied to be responsible for Margot's one. Anyway the specific mutilations found on her body made all doubts disappear... (imdb)
Like Vanya, in Malle's last film, Milou never left the family estate. His mother dies during the May 1968 student uprising in Paris. The brother who is the London correspondent for Le Monde keeps turning up the volume of the radio for the latest news... (imdb)
Louise, younger sister, natural and straightforward, lives in province; Martine, older sister, beautiful and aloof, lives in the Parisian upper middle class. Louise has written a novel. On Monday she will go for an appointment with a publisher in Paris, which may change her life. She comes to live with Martine for three days. During three days, Louise and her obvious happiness exasperate Martine and set her life in glares..... (imdb)
In this comic adventure, a small-time swindler gets mixed up with the wrong bad guys, and has to rely on the help of his tough brother, Cash.
Narco is a French film about Gus, a narcoleptic, whose life is made difficult by his inability to keep a job because of his narcolepsy.
A black comedy centered around a TV weather girl and the two very different men who pursue her. (imdb)
Three adolescents, a girl who serves as the priming and two boys, kill two men cold blooded who were known by the girl only for to steal the money of them. With the money the three want to open a shop for clothing in the United States. But their dream turns out to be more difficult to realize than the assassination. (imdb)
Jason Statham returns as Frank Martin, the ex-Special Forces operative who specializes in high-risk deliveries.
This European drama, set in Paris, follows a brilliant musician as he suddenly forsakes his career, to live and love amongst the common populace. Armand is the violinist who yearns to experience that life and to share his music with everyone, not just the wealthy and the elite. He leaves the glittering world of classical music without a backward glance and takes up residence in the Paris metro where he is surrounded by beggars and tramps... (All Movie Guide)
Young Bastien is very pleased when his hugely successful TV producer boss Jean-Louis Broustal begins to recognize him for his talents and then invites him to his country house for the weekend to work on a new show. But gradually it becomes clear that no work is going to be done. In fact, Broustal and his much younger pretty wife seem to want Bastien for something very different than for his television talents. But can he accept their offer? Can he afford not to? (imdb)
In France, the disturbed and mysterious Alexandre Demarre is hired as security guard for the Vigilante armored truck company earning 1,200 euros per month and lodges in a hotel nearby the company for 1,450 euros for a month. He becomes close to his colleagues, actually a group of losers, without motivation or perspective, paranoids, depressed and substances addicted men, and prepares a personal file with the profile of each one. Along the days, the real intentions of Alex in working at Vigilante (imdb)
A wood worker is trying hard to make his company survive every day... But a fire in his workshop leaves him in a lot of trouble when he realizes his insurer was swindling him - he does NOT have any insurance... That's when a crazy idea grows in his mind - he will need all his friends and their different talents to make it work... (imdb)
13th century France. Two brothers, separated long ago, must do battle. Thomas, the mercenary, left the family farm many years ago. When he returns, his mother, the local healer, is dead. She passed on her skills to her younger son, Arnaud. But he has lost his memory after a beating from a gang of ruthless outlaws. And so, Arnaud's young and defiantly resourceful wife, Guillemette, must persuade Thomas to help her in the quest for lost knowledge. (imdb)
During a fair, a young woman is seduced by a man who then stabs her to death. She's the fifth victim of this kind. Two detectives, Nathan and Saule, believe she has been murdered by a serial killer (unlike their superiors). Nathan then goes to the U.S.A. to meet a profiler specialized in such cases... (TonyS.)
Capt. Alfred de Morsac is a French naval officer who is sent to Tahiti in 1914, to persuade the natives to join the French army. However, he finds that the island is ruled with an iron hand by Lefebvre, the French military governor. Morsac attempts to intervene; while earning the admiration of the Tahitians, he ends up in prison for his troubles. But Reia is convinced that Morsac is "Tefa'aora," a leader of local legend who will rise up to lead the Tahitians in a revolt to win their freedom. (answers.com)
Andrei Filipov, former conductor of the Bolshoi of Moscow, was fired for hiring Jewish musicians and therefore become a family man. One day, he intercepts an official invitation from the prestigious Théâtre du Châtelet. Through a series of mad antics, he reunites his old orchestra, now composed of old alcoholic musicians, and flies to perform in Paris and complete the Tchaikovsky concerto interrupted 30 years earlier. (Wikipedia)
Edy is one of the best insurance salesmen around - especially when it comes to helping some of his clients get their hands on the life insurance of their spouses. But, it's been a while now that Edy has lost his desire to live. When he tries to put an end to it, fate plays a strange trick on him. Not only does he survive, but he finds himself with a corpse on his hands. Edy has only one solution - but yet again, fate makes fun of him. (marion-cotillard.org)
Forty-three-year-old Lucas, a rich, divorced industrialist, is irresistibly attracted to thirty-eight-year-old Elsa, a renowned ceramist whom he's commissioned to create a fresco for his office foyer. But, still smarting from a recent disappointment in love, he asks Roland Christin, a private detective from his company, to discover the reasons why this lovely woman is still single.Without the slightest scruple, Roland puts the most modern of surveillance methods into operation...
With an interval of fifty years in between, the film brings the experience of the start of a war in Sarajevo. "Remake" tells three tragic stories in one. The first is about the young Bosniak Tarik, who is working in Paris in 1993 on a film script about the life of his father Ahmed. The second story is about Ahmed, who experienced the outbreak of the Second World War in Sarajevo. And finally there is the story of Tarik during the siege of Sarajevo in 1992. (Wikipedia)
Two friends, one a musician the other constantly depressed wander around Greece and France till they get to Paris without a penny to their name. Here they spend nights in the underground, and squat in houses with the African immigrants. One day they both fall in love with Mathilde a blond dancer and follow her to New York. (imdb)
After a shoplifter finds herself unexpectedly released on parole, she pays a call on the judge at her flat. The judge, Carole Rewinsky, does not tell Tina that her elease was only a clerical error. The two find they share things in common other than the judicial system, like a mutual interest in shoes. Carole allows Tina to crash on her chesterfield... Carole spots a pimp trolling for young girls at a café. (imdb)
Lydie has just paid a considerable rent deposit for a new flat when her boyfriend breaks up with her. Now she is alone in a flat she cannot afford. So she starts looking for a flatmate and finally chooses Eva, a model. Eventually Lydie gets to know Eva's friends and that changes her life. (Wikipedia)
A man set for execution finds out that he can prolong his life by telling his life story as his last words.
Parisian Thomas Platz is suddenly made the guardian of a baby - then pretends to be its real father in order to win back Marie, the girlfriend who dumped him a year before. Stuck between staying a man-child forever, and proving he is ready to take the next steps of marriage and family with the love of his life, Thomas goes on an unexpectedly hilarious adventure getting the girl of his dreams to believe he has changed.
Main basse sur une île (2010) - TV Movie
A former corsican detective tells his biographer about a murder he witnessed and how this put his life in danger.
Seven childhood friends did not suspect that their friendly annual hike at the Iseran summit would be transformed this time into an unlikely Police of France at their heels.
The Red Orchestra which was implanted right into the very heart of the nazi empire was considered the most important espionage net of World War II. (imdb)
Max, a 6-year-old girl living with her father, invites Rose, a prostitute, to move into their apartment.
Le boiteux: Baby blues (1999) - TV Movie
The bones of a young child are unearthed in the outskirts of a remote French town, prompting an extensive investigation by determined authorities. As a detective arrives in town in search of the clues that will help him solve this troubling mystery, his deductive skills are constantly subverted by the highly secretive and ominously eccentric behavior of the suspicious small-town denizens. (rottentomatoes.com)
Cannes, the French Riviera. Armand Teillard is happy with life; a busy store downtown, a delightful girlfriend, a magnificent record collection and lunch every day at Sofia and Martial's family restaurant with a perfect sea view. So when Sofia tells Armand that Zapetti, a property developer with mafia connections, is putting the squeeze on her to sell up, he is horrified. Armand is an easy-going guy, but when he gets mad... actually, Armand never gets mad. (imdb)
Alex, a prison guard, is offered a large sum by a VIP prisoner to seduce and defraud his wife, who dumped him and ran off with his loot after he was put behind bars. Once the plan is underway though, Alex begins to fall for her.
Valentin D is a hot designer architect who claims to be an orphan because he is too ashamed to admit he is the son of working-class scrap metal merchants from the north of France. (imdb)
Transporter: The Series (2012) - TV Series
Frank Martin is an ex special ops, who now spends his life as a transporter on the other side of the law. With three rules, he always completes his contracts. One way, or the other.
Rémy and Mélanie are thirty years old and live in the same district in Paris. She multiplies missed appointments on social networks while he struggles to meet. Both victims of this loneliness of the big cities, at the time hyper connected where one thinks however that to meet should be simpler
Two individuals, two courses. Without knowing it, they take two roads that will lead them in the same direction
that of a love story? (letterboxd.com)
Pour s'en sortir, Willy et son pote Tony, endettés de naissance, ont une idée de génie : voler un chien de la brigade des stups. Mais, les choses ne se passent pas tout à fait comme ils l'avaient prévu. La seule solution : s'associer avec Caro, une flic totalement corrompue. (https://www.unifrance.org/film/47972/lucky)
Fred is a former crane driver who was a victim of the closure of his factory. He takes care of the little boy of his girlfriend, does the housework and sometimes goes to the job center but boredom is inescapable. One day, because he accepted to drive a truck for a friend to a warehouse, he's caught up in a vicious spiral that goes beyond him. It's all the more serious as shady men want to eliminate him and the police is on hot on his heels. (imdb)
On the island of Saint Helena, a prisoner Napoleon resisted allies who, through the voice of the English governor, Hudson Lowe, tried to humiliate him, break him, poison him in the figurative sense of the word, and perhaps literally. (imdb)
A hired labourer, Joseph, works on a farm inhabited by Monique, a war widow, and Jeanne, her captivating daughter who longs to escape to the big city.
After resigning from his position as president of the republic, Jeff and his family are happy to return to their village of Bouzolles. As the holidays approach, Cathy asks for a unique gift: to renew ties with her sister Maguy, and her husband Jean-Yves, with whom Jeff has been angry for 10 years... The reconciliation could have gone smoothly, except that during a lunch, Jeff and Jean-Yves, will once again find a subject of discord: CHRISTMAS. This family quarrel, which should never have left Bo
François Maurey, the head of a computer company, has developed a product that's sought after by the Americans, but he refuses to sell it to them. While his wife Caroline is preparing to leave him after 25 years of marriage, François has to face various people in his life, including new arrival, Florence, a troubled and mysterious young woman who enters François's life and causes havoc. (themoviedb.org)
A married Frenchwoman living in Brazil returns to her native country to visit her ailing elderly mother. There, she ends up rekindling a love affair with a man whom she hadn't seen in twelve years. (imdb)
When an elderly priest died, the people in charge of his diocese discovered that it was a woman. Without anyone suspecting it, she had been practicing her vocation for years.
Sans rires (1990) - Short Film
A retired clown goes back to visit the neighbourhood where he used to live, for the funeral of his ex-wife. There he finds old friends with whom he had lost contact. (imdb)
A bisexual good-nature girl with a movie critic, a husband who is hoping to win back his wife, a spirited young man with twisted situations a little too excited. A mysterious brothel that offers shock treatments, led by dominatrices, "to relieve all problems of libido".
The Rainbow is a genuine associative place in Marmande that welcomes ordinary people but abused by life. Its members support each other in their struggle against daily difficulties. (imdb)
A married couple planned on spending the year traveling abroad. Instead, their 27-year-old daughter and her boyfriend lose their apartment and move in, derailing any plans for the big trip. (imdb)
At the beginning of the 80s, Patrick, son of daddy casual, goes, after his first amorous failure, to become a talented entrepreneur. Dov, whose mother expects brilliant studies, leaves high school to work in the Path while seducing his boss's wife. Yvan is reassuring over the professional events. And Serge does not stop inventing hacks to seduce the most beautiful girls. (imdb)
A professional killer decides to change his job, convinced that this decision will bring his wife out of the coma into which he accidentally plunged him. (imdb)
Paul and Léa should never have met. But they have been irresistibly attracted to each other ever since. Raphaëlle and Gabriel, two angels who have nothing in common, are forced to work together to put things right and prevent the two people from falling in love. (imdb)
The friendship between Richard, Gilles and Philippe is tested during a cruise to Corsica with their companions.The cohabitation was difficult because of the bad weather and each couple problems.Some truths surface : jealousy, laughs, griefs, confessions, ... (imdb)
The story of Robert Hughes-Lambert, who was captured by Nazis when his active homosexuality was discovered during the filming of Mermoz (1943). (imdb)
Stanislas, a Parisian trader, who lives without worrying about the consequences of climate change, suddenly finds himself confronted with it. It's the crisis, everything stops: no more water, no more electricity, no more network. Despite his urban culture, he is forced to take refuge with his wife and son in a farm recently acquired for speculative purposes and as part of a greenwashing process. (wikipedia)
18th century. Anne has to "change her clothes" because of her attraction to women. Now a man, he marries and loves his wife, until his past catches up with him. The shocking story of Anne Grandjean, born inter-sex, and their trial. (imdb)
After his wife dies, a 75 year old retiree has to put up with the intrusion into his idle life of other family members. (imdb)
After five years enduring horrible work conditions, Sophia finally gets chosen for a long-awaited transfer from her thankless teaching job at a rough middle school. Ecstatic to start a new life teaching at the French Lycée in Barcelona, her hopes are dashed to bits when a well- connected, over-qualified teacher at an upscale Paris school cuts in to take the position. (imdb)
A fifty-year old history professor who discovers that he's losing his hearing and starts having a recluse life because of his handicap. His encounter with Claire, a widow whose daughter is mute, will help him open up again to the world. (imdb)
A 50-year-old suffers excruciating backaches. All the doctors, radiologists and osteopaths in the world can't help: the root of his illness is psychological. But what changes are needed in his job, his wife or his family to get better? (imdb)
Lila had a dream to become a dancer since she's a little. She went to Paris trying to make her dream come true. But soon she found out it's not what she thought, her dream was disillusioned. Then she decided to be as a stand-up comedian and a famous one to make her father proud. (imdb)
A young woman is searching, today, in Paris, for the collection of paintings stolen from her Jewish family during WWII. (imdb)
Charles is retiring. Charles and his friend Pierrot have always dreamed of being able to do big stupid things, retirement is the moment or never for that. Drinking, lousy flirting, hoaxes, and other amusements of all kinds, little by little the idea comes to them to move up a gear, and they then germinate the plan to steal the bank branch in which Charles worked. (imdb)
Chloe is going to marry the perfect guy, but lacks the perfect father. Despite having hired an actor to play the role of her father, everything changes with the arrival of Gustave and Bernard, her "real" parents. (imdb)
Not so easy for a policeman to get into the skin of an actor. Tough luck for officer Arthur Blanpin, who is forced to infiltrate a small group of artists suspected to be dangerous terrorists. The shadow of public enemy number one continues to hover over the city. (imdb)
In a spirit of solidarity, the inhabitants of a neighborhood get together and decide to put on a show for the benefit of a homeless person. (imdb)
When a group of charming teenagers ring the bell of their high school headmistress with a big bouquet of flowers and a birthday present, we are far from thinking that they are the protagonist of a machiavellian plan. (imdb)
Alain, of North African origin, lives with the memory of his sister, kidnapped before his eyes by a neo-Nazi group when they were children. Added to this is the murder of his best friend by the head of security of "La Ligue patriotique", a powerful far-right party. Alain then decides, both out of personal vengeance and political conviction, to assassinate Hugues Henry Lègle, the leader of this movement. (imdb)
Jean-Claude, a bent night-club owner, on his way escaping to Mexico, unfortunately had an accident with a young couple on a motorcycle. But Cédric has witnessed the accident.... (imdb)
The incredible and eventful adventures of two friends, in their twenties, who are happily struggling in a city, in love with all the girls. (imdb)
A psychoanalyst gives a strange advice to a mechanic whose marriage is falling apart: to take the blame for a murder, any murder, to impress his beautiful and indifferent wife, and his patient does just that. (imdb)
Not too excited Arthur asks marriage Lola. What should have been a quiet ceremony evolves in something bigger, expensive and overwhelming as family is involved. The organization of the best day of their lives threatens to destroy them. (imdb)
Philippe Le Tallec, a scientist living in the USA, has to come back to France to look after his young girl Eglantine. But it seems Eglantine cares more about parties and boyfriends than her uncool dad ... (imdb)
Jacques, painter and great seducer, is about to receive for dinner the charming Claire, a young girl of 20. In his forties, penniless but astute, Jacques has prepared a sumptuous meal. (imdb)