Jean-François Balmer
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 2.188 |
| Birthday | 1946-04-18 |
| Place of Birth | Neuchâtel, Switzerland |
| Also Known As |
1991
Madame Bovary
6.3/130
Bored with the limited and tedious nature of provincial life in 19th-century France, the fierce and sensual Emma Bovary finds herself in calamitous de...
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Madame Bovary
1989
The french revolution: Years of rage
7.5/46
Second part of the revolutionary historical drama, which takes up the events that occurred from August 10, 1792 until the end of the reign of terror w...
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The french revolution: Years of rage
1984
The Blood of Others
5/10
In the German-occupied Paris, Helene is torn between the love for her boyfriend Jean, working for the resistance and the German administrator Bergmann...
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The Blood of Others
1981
Strange Affair
6.2/40
A young Parisian advertising executive becomes so captivated by the unsettling charm of his mysterious new employer that he eventually abandons his fa...
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Strange Affair
1975
The Night Caller
7.2/250
A serial-killer frightens Paris by phoning young ladies at night, telling them insults about their lives. Minos, as he calls himself, wants to prevent...
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The Night Caller
1979
Cop or Hood
6.4/181
When the local police inspector was found dead in a prostitute's house, police division commissioner Stan Borowitz is sent to investigate the situatio...
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Cop or Hood
1985
Folie suisse
0/0
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Folie suisse
1974
Love at the Top
6.2/46
A shy bank employee unexpectedly invites a young woman to a café, leading to a one-night stand. When he shares this with his disillusioned friend, the...
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Love at the Top
2010
Mumu
6/17
The story a rescue, the rescue of a bad brat's life in the post-WWII period. In 1947, Roger reaches 11 years old. He's a kid badly loved, mischievous...
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Mumu
1997
The Swindle
6.488/82
Betty and Victor are a pair of scam artists. One day Betty brings in Maurice, a treasurer of a multinational company. Maurice is due to transfer 5 mil...
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The Swindle
1976
The Castaways of Turtle Island
5.8/20
Jean-Arthur has been working as a clerk in a travel agency. One day, he, along with his colleague comes to a brilliant idea: what if I offer tourists...
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The Castaways of Turtle Island
1996
Beaumarchais the Scoundrel
6.6/68
Beaumarchais the Scoundrel is a biopic film based on the life of the French playwright, financier and spy Pierre Beaumarchais depicting his activities...
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Beaumarchais the Scoundrel
2011
L'Infiltré
5.2/5
A notorious French ex-felon becomes an informant and infiltrates a Mexican drug cartel.
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L'Infiltré
2000
T'aime
2.2/5
Zef, twenty years old, is a simple-minded man who can only say one word: "love you". Always happy, loving everyone, he lives with his sister Sophie on...
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T'aime
1982
Ladies' Choice
6/39
As a result of an automobile accident, a sophisticated TV producer meets her car mechanic/blue collar nemesis. They start a comic affair, but can they...
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Ladies' Choice
1983
The African
6.3/62
Charlotte flies to East Africa to build a tourist center near Lake Williams where the pygmies live. Here she meets her husband Victor, a devoted conse...
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The African
1992
Diên Biên Phu
6.4/35
Vietnam, 1954. An American reporter finds himself in the middle of the battle of Điện Biên Phủ, between the French army and the Vietminh.
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Diên Biên Phu
1977
La Menace
5.8/40
Henri Savin has managed a trucking company for his lover, Dominique Montlaur, for many years. Now he is planning to leave her for Julie Manet, the wom...
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La Menace
2000
The King's Daughters
4.9/17
Late 17th Century: Anne de Grandcamp and Lucie de Fontenelle, two little girls from Normandy, arrive at the Saint-Cyr school founded by Madame de Main...
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The King's Daughters
1999
La Dilettante
5.9/35
Pierrette is a woman who describes herself as having "opted for the temporary on a permanent basis." After 15 years of living the good life in Switzer...
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La Dilettante
2006
A Winter in Paris
5.5/8
After being released from prison, a burglar is convinced by a former accomplice to participate in the theft of a precious jewel belonging to a rich he...
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A Winter in Paris
2001
Charming Fellow
4/3
Octave and his friends, Achille and Hector, wander around at night in the grocery stores, the regulars' restaurants and the creepy bars. Octave meets...
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Charming Fellow
2010
Colère
0/0
The town of Carzac Shakespeare suffered a violent attack that caused a fire in the local factory. Many dead and wounded. Two citizens investigate the...
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Colère
2012
In the House
7.25/823
A sixteen-year-old boy insinuates himself into the house of a fellow student from his literature class and writes about it in essays for his French te...
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In the House
1981
Snow
5.65/10
Anita is a barmaid at the center of a community of street preachers, prostitutes, dealers and users. When a beloved friend (and young drug dealer) is...
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Snow
1993
East Wind
3/2
The true story of General Smyslovsky and the anti-Communist 1st Russian National Army receiving shelter in Liechtenstein in 1945 and successfully resi...
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East Wind
1977
Le Chandelier
0/0
Jacqueline is married to Maître André, but is in love with her lover Clavaroche, a fiery officer stationed in the city. In order to avert Master André...
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Le Chandelier
2011
La Joie de vivre
4.8/6
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La Joie de vivre
1973
Nothing to Report
5.8/17
In 1956, the professional army of France lacks the manpower to keep the peace in Algeria, the colony which the country is determined to hold on to at...
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Nothing to Report
2022
Juliette dans son bain
5.3/10
Ronny Kandiotis, a billionaire and art lover, is the guest of a major museum, on the occasion of a donation to France of two paintings, one by Gauguin...
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Juliette dans son bain
1984
Polar
5.8/5
This film noir tends to stay within very conventional plot lines, as the narration by the main protagonist, private detective Eugene Tarpon Jean-Franç...
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Polar
1982
Bluff
0/0
A César award winning short film about a group of men playing poker until, at precisely 6pm, a bright light suddenly invades their room...
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Bluff
1979
These Kids Are Grown-Ups
4.3/12
When a real-estate promoter attempts to take over the homes of two electronics whizzes and boot them out, they contrive ingenious ways to inconvenienc...
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These Kids Are Grown-Ups
1994
La Lumière des étoiles mortes
7/3
June 1940. The Wechrmacht appropriates the houses in which are living Pierre, his wife Magdeleine, their son Charles, their two servants Louise and Le...
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La Lumière des étoiles mortes
1994
Crystal Book
0/0
This European thriller, set in Sri Lanka, attempts to expound upon the philosophical implications of life, death, and memory. JB, an academic famed fo...
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Crystal Book
1986
Last Image
0/0
Seen through the filtered lens of boyhood memories, award-winning director Mohamed Lakhdar-Hamina crafted this half-fictional, half-autobiographical a...
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Last Image
1985
Urgence
4.8/10
When a neo-Nazi group of terrorists is set to blow a pop concert off the face of the earth because it is an anti-racist benefit, they are faced with t...
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Urgence
2009
La Vallée delle ombre
4/1
Matteo, a boy from the city, goes to visit his grandfather in a secluded mountain village, where preparations for a local ancient festival are under w...
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La Vallée delle ombre
1988
Mer de Chine: Le pays pour mémoire
0/0
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Mer de Chine: Le pays pour mémoire
1984
Wild Animals
4.6/8
Berg and Bela are married stunt drivers, but one night Bela dies in an accident. Jaded and reclusive, Berg becomes a nighttime security guard where he...
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Wild Animals
2023
Mise au vert
5/1
To strengthen family ties, to free his teenagers from their digital addiction, to reconnect with his roots in the region of his childhood; this is why...
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Mise au vert
2011
Mort d'un président
5.5/1
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Mort d'un président
2003
That Day
5.5/14
A father is scheming to have his slightly mental daughter from an earlier marriage killed by allowing a murderous psychopath to be released from the a...
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That Day
2003
My New Partner III
5.2/77
It's been ten years since the paths of René and François parted ways. From the glorious era when, as cops, they roamed the Montmartre district, they o...
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My New Partner III
1997
La vérité est un vilain défaut
0/0
The trials and tribulations of a good guy who feels obliged to confess the truth to his wife or his boss every time he makes a mistake.
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La vérité est un vilain défaut
2024
The Worst Man in London
4/1
In the Victorian era of the late 19th century, Charles Augustus Howell moves through London’s art circles as the assistant of famous art critic John R...
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The Worst Man in London
2015
Cosmos
6.6/83
Two young men seek the solitude of the country; their peace is disturbed when a set of random occurrences suggest to their susceptible minds a pattern...
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Cosmos
2008
Tokyo!
6.933/223
Three distinct tales unfold in the bustling city of Tokyo. Merde, a bizarre sewer-dweller, emerges from a manhole and begins terrorizing pedestrians....
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Tokyo!
1979
The Sewers of Paradise
6.3/11
In July of 1976, the Societé Générale of France was robbed of well over $10 million dollars by a group burrowing through the sewers of Paris. This mov...
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The Sewers of Paradise
1985
L'Amour ou presque
0/0
Without warning, Mélie disembarks on the cargo ship where her father has the sailor's blues. He remembers his drifts and his friend Max who used to ge...
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L'Amour ou presque
1974
The Mouth Agape
6.5/30
Monique is dying of cancer, lying in bed in the apartment above the store her family owns. Her philandering husband carries on with life, her son rema...
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The Mouth Agape
1994
My Chinese Sister
9/1
In 1977, one year after Mao died, a French man ( played by Alain Bashung) comes back to China to work as a school teacher with his daughter. He quickl...
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My Chinese Sister
1999
Time Regained
6.2/58
In early 1920s France, an author, lying on his deathbed, looks at various photographs and is flooded with memories of the people and events that have...
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Time Regained
2004
Totally Nuts
0/0
Diane, a young woman in search of a child, is looking for money to go to the sperm bank. She crosses paths with Arthur, a bank robber.
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Totally Nuts
2004
Pierre et Jean
0/0
In the 1930s, on the eve of the Popular Front, Pierre and Jean harmoniously combine their brotherhood. Pierre has just finished his medical studies, J...
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Pierre et Jean
1979
The Adolescent
5.4/8
In the summer of 1939, 13-year-old Marie goes with her parents to visit her grandparents in a small town near Avignon. Marie discovers her femininity...
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The Adolescent
2009
Lucifer et moi
0/0
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Lucifer et moi
2016
Dieumerci !
5.9/32
A 44 year old guy gets out of jail and wants to become an actor.
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Dieumerci !
1978
Mountain Pass
5.3/10
Serge (Stevenin) is a dweller in the French provinces who happens upon Georges (Jacques Villeret), a Parisian motorist in distress. Serge arranges for...
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Mountain Pass
2006
Comedy of Power
6.217/69
Magistrate Jeanne Charmant-Killman doggedly investigates CEO Michel Humeau, who is accused of participating in massive corporate malfeasance. As her i...
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Comedy of Power
2009
Lucky Luke
4.469/511
Fearless gunslinger, Lucky Luke, is ordered by the President to bring peace to Daisy Town.
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Lucky Luke
2024
It's Not Me
7.4/13
This free-form film is a self-portrait, which revisits more than 40 years of the author’s filmography and questions the major stations of his life, wh...
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It's Not Me
1985
Le Transfuge
0/0
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Le Transfuge
1989
En attendant Godot
1/1
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En attendant Godot
1994
Rocking Poponguine
5.4/5
A tale of growing up in 1960s Senegal. Bacc narrates his early years of living in Popenguine, a town divided by culture and musical tastes.
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Rocking Poponguine
1976
Little Marcel
0/0
A homeless young man, living in his delivery truck, is simultaneously adopted by a pranksome group of youngsters and made into a police informer. Beli...
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Little Marcel
2007
The Sacha Guitry Affair
0/0
On the morning of 23 August 1944 Sacha Guitry was arrested at his Paris appartment, as the French capital was being liberated. Accused of collaborati...
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The Sacha Guitry Affair
1993
Spender : The French Collection
0/0
Spender Christmas Special: Spender is sent to France to escort Tommy Thornton who has been extradited to the UK.
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Spender : The French Collection
1997
An Unlikely Adventurer
5/1
Carole is ready to do anything to save the Guyanese forest and the Wayanas Indians from the pollution of the Gerson laboratories! Fearless and determi...
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An Unlikely Adventurer
2018
Murder on Omaha Beach
5.5/10
Captain Eloïse Gentil, of Caen police, hasn't been on speaking terms with her father Robert, an expert on WWII, for twenty years. But the two are brou...
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Murder on Omaha Beach
1980
Une page d'amour
5.5/2
In Passy, Paris, 1895. The young widow Hélène calls the doctor Henri Deberle during the night, when her daughter Jeanne suddenly gets breathless. To...
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Une page d'amour
1984
Swann in Love
5.7/38
In 19th-century Paris, Charles Swann risks his social standing in his obsessive pursuit of prostitute Odette. His overwhelming desire for her comes, i...
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Swann in Love
2020
Waiting for Anya
6.3/82
During the harrows of WWII, Jo, a young shepherd along with the help of the widow Horcada, helps to smuggle Jewish children across the border from sou...
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Waiting for Anya
1986
Golden Eighties
6.4/16
Three young women at a hair salon all like the son of the clothing store proprietors across the mall. Although Robby is selfish and shallow, he's appe...
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Golden Eighties
1994
Lou Didn't Say No
7.3/3
Moments and aspects of the life of a contemporary married couple undergoing a metamorphosis.
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Lou Didn't Say No
2001
Belphegor, Phantom of the Louvre
4.6/223
A collection of artifacts from an archeological dig in Egypt are brought to the famous Louvre museum in Paris, and while experts are using a laser sca...
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Belphegor, Phantom of the Louvre
2012
Dead Europe
5.6/19
In Greece to scatter his father's ashes, Isaac hears of a curse that hangs over the head of his family. Dismissing the idea, his trip begins to unveil...
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Dead Europe
2011
Celles qui aimaient Richard Wagner
0/0
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Celles qui aimaient Richard Wagner
1997
Sidecar
1/1
The gloomy life of a high school censor is turned upside down the day he meets an old classmate.
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Sidecar
1992
Sam's Enough
3.5/2
After trying a job as a stripper in a Barcelona carnival, Eva (Aure Attika) is ready for something new, so she heads over to France and becomes the ro...
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Sam's Enough
1989
The french revolution: Years of hope
8/1
First part that includes the beginnings of the French Revolution. The film begins by recounting the events that led to the convocation of the States...
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