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'Round Midnight

'Round Midnight (1986) more movies like this

directed by Bertrand Tavernier
featuring Dexter Gordon, François Cluzet, Gabrielle Haker, Christine Pascal, Sandra Reaves-Phillips, John Berry, Lonette McKee

A French music lover befriends a once-great American jazz artist and attempts to save him from self-destruction in this moody drama. Saxophonist Dexter Gordon portrays Dale Turner, a fictional musician inspired by a number of famed jazz figures, including Bud Powell and Lester Young. Largely forgotten in his home country, Turner has moved to Paris ...

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Life and Nothing But

Life and Nothing But (1990) more movies like this

directed by Bertrand Tavernier
featuring Philippe Noiret, Sabine Azéma, Pascale Vignal, Maurice Barrier, Francois Perrot

The grim post-World War I era in Europe is grist for director Bertrand Tavernier's mill in Life and Nothing But. Philipe Noiret portrays a French major who is supervising the gruesome task of counting and identifying the corpses still strewn over the battlefield. Noiret is obsessed with the notion that, by doing his job above and beyond the call ...

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Safe Conduct

Safe Conduct (2002) more movies like this

directed by Bertrand Tavernier
featuring Jacques Gamblin, Denis Podalydès, Christian Berkel, Marie Gillain, Charlotte Kady

During the Nazi occupation of France during World War II, the nation's movie studios continued to operate; some filmmakers and technicians simply went along with what their new leaders demanded in hopes keeping themselves and their families safe, while others sought to subvert the messages of their captors through their work. Safe Conduct, ...

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It All Starts Today

It All Starts Today (2000) more movies like this

directed by Bertrand Tavernier
featuring Philippe Torreton, Maria Pitarresi, Nadia Kaci, Veronique Ataly, Nathalie Becue

Ça commence aujourd'hui, a social drama, is Bertrand Tavernier's first major film since winning a César (the Oscar of France) in 1996 for his epic Capitaine Conan. Set in a forlorn mining town near Valencienne in the north of France, the story is about one man's struggle to bring life to his once prosperous village and its inhabitants. Philippe ...

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Coup de Torchon

Coup de Torchon (1981) more movies like this

directed by Bertrand Tavernier
featuring Philippe Noiret, Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Stéphane Audran, Eddy Mitchell

Based on pulp master Jim Thompson's Pop. 1280, Bertrand Tavernier's Coup de Torchon is a sardonic thriller that remains true to its source's spirit, even as it transposes the action from the American South to colonial West Africa. Lucien (Philippe Noiret) is the bumbling police chief of Bourkasa, a dusty outpost in rural Senegal. Badgered by local ...

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A Sunday in the Country

A Sunday in the Country (1984) more movies like this

directed by Bertrand Tavernier
featuring Louis Ducreux, Sabine Azéma, Michel Aumont, Genevieve Mnich, Monique Chaumette

French stage actor Louis Ducreux makes his film debut as a 76-year-old traditionalist painter, Monsieur Ladmiral, in this bittersweet portrait of a brooding artist. A widower, Ladmiral lives on an estate in the countryside near Paris with only his housekeeper, Mercedes (Monique Chaumette), and his paintings to keep him company. The action of the ...

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Revenge of the Musketeers

Revenge of the Musketeers (1994) more movies like this

directed by Bertrand Tavernier
featuring Sophie Marceau, Philippe Noiret, Claude Rich, Sami Frey, Jean-Luc Bideau, Raoul Billerey, Nils Tavernier

A brave and resourceful young woman keeps the spirit of the Three Musketeers alive in this historical adventure. Eloise (Sophie Marceau) is the daughter of the famed swordsman D'Artagnan (Philippe Noiret); while she has a remarkable gift with a blade herself, Eloise is devoting herself to her studies at a convent. However, when a slave escapes ...

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Capitaine Conan

Capitaine Conan (1996) more movies like this

directed by Bertrand Tavernier
featuring Philippe Torreton, Catherine Rich

Bertrand Tavernier directed this hard-hitting anti-war drama. In November of 1918, just as World War I had come to a close, Capt. Conan (Phillippe Torreton) and his men await new assignments in Bucharest. Conan regards himself as a warrior, not a soldier: while a soldier will fight in a war, it takes a warrior -- unafraid to take risks, confront ...

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Daddy Nostalgia

Daddy Nostalgia (1991) more movies like this

directed by Bertrand Tavernier
featuring Dirk Bogarde, Jane Birkin, Odette Laure, Charlotte Kady, Emmanuelle Bataille, Michele Minns

In Bertrand Tavernier's Daddy Nostalgia, Caroline (Jane Birkin of Agnes Varda's Kung Fu Master), a Parisian screenwriter who has recently left her husband and their young son, travels to the countryside when she hears that her British father, Tony (Dirk Bogarde of Death in Venice, in his last film role) is in poor health and has just had a serious ...

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Fresh Bait

Fresh Bait (1995) more movies like this

directed by Bertrand Tavernier
featuring Marie Gillain, Olivier Sitruk, Bruno Putzulu, Richard Berry, Philippe Duclos

This drama examines three amoral young people living in Paris. 18-year-old Nathalie (Marie Gillain) works in a clothing store and dreams of opening her own boutique in the United States. She shares an apartment with her boyfriend Eric (Olivier Sitruk) and his slow-witted pal Bruno (Bruno Putzulu); she pays the rent while they stay home and watch ...

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Let Joy Reign Supreme . . . (1975) more movies like this

directed by Bertrand Tavernier
featuring Philippe Noiret, Jean Rochefort, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Christine Pascal, Marina Vlady

The humanistic actions of Philippe D'Orleans, the cultured gentle regent to young Louis the XV in pre-revolutionary France (1719) are chronicled in this French costumer. Though the regent endeavors to keep his subjects cultured and happy to stop the peasants from rising up, he knows he has no real royal authority. To assist, D'Orleans enlisted the ...

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Mississippi Blues (1984) more movies like this

directed by Bertrand Tavernier, Robert Parrish

A pleasant and sometimes off-the-wall journey through Southern culture, in a local manifestation, is offered in Mississippi Blues by the French co-director Bertrand Tavernier (with American Robert Parrish). A broad spectrum of politics, gospel and blues, literature (native son William Faulkner), religion, and social customs perceived from a ...

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The Clockmaker (1974) more movies like this

directed by Bertrand Tavernier
featuring Philippe Noiret, Jean Rochefort, Jacques Denis, Julien Bertheau

French film critic Bertrand Tavernier made his directorial debut in The Clockmaker. The title character, played by Tavernier's "alter ego" Philipe Noiret, is benumbed by the nihilistic activities of his son Sylvain Rougerie. Arrested on charges ranging from arson to murder, Rougerie offers the standard-issue explanation: the establishment is full ...

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La Mort En Direct (1980) more movies like this

directed by Bertrand Tavernier
featuring Romy Schneider, Harvey Keitel, Harry Dean Stanton, Therese Liotard, Max von Sydow

Director Bertrand Tavernier provides an unexpected feminist slant to the otherwise standard sci-fi trappings of Death Watch. Harvey Keitel plays a man of the future who has had a camera implanted in his brain. The mechanism, which is endowed with special X-ray properties, is activated by the user's eyes. Keitel is assigned by ruthless TV producer ...

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Holy Lola (2004) more movies like this

directed by Bertrand Tavernier
featuring Jacques Gamblin, Isabelle Carré, Lara Guirao, Bruno Putzulu, Frederic Pierrot

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Le Juge et l'Assassin (1975) more movies like this

directed by Bertrand Tavernier
featuring Philippe Noiret, Michel Galabru, Jean-Claude Brialy, Renée Faure, Isabelle Huppert

Le Juge et L'Assassin probes a curious relationship between condemner and condemnee. Philippe Noiret plays Rousseau, a French judge who holds the fate of convicted child killer Bouvier (Michel Galabru) in his hands. Should Rousseau decide that Bouvier is insane, the killer will not go prison. As they come to know each other better, both are given ...

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