Jean-Pierre Kalfon
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Known For:Acting
Birthday:1938-10-30
Place of Birth:Paris, France
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The Dreamers (2003)
When Isabelle and Theo invite Matthew to stay with them, what begins as a casual friendship ripens into a sensual voyage of discovery and desire in...

Confidentially Yours (1983)
Claude Massoulier is murdered while hunting at the same place as Julien Vercel, an estate agent who knew him and whose fingerprints are found on...

A Thousand Billion Dollars (1982)
A young journalist uncovers an assassination disguised as a suicide, linked to an American multinational seeking to dominate French industries....

The Good and the Bad (1976)
The film follows the exploits of Jacques, a car-mechanic turned pro-thief, and his Jewish co-conspirator Simon as their robberies, beginning well...

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman (2023)
A lost cat, a giant talkative frog and a tsunami help a bank employee without ambition, his frustrated wife and a schizophrenic accountant to save...

Weekend (1967)
A supposedly idyllic weekend trip to the countryside turns into a never-ending nightmare of traffic jams, revolution, cannibalism and murder as...

To Be a Crook (1965)
Four young people, tired of working life, decide that they can earn money from crime than they can from work. The film follows their training at the...

I Always Wanted to Be a Gangster (2008)
Told in four vignettes, this existential comedy relates the exploits of four aspiring criminals who hope to improve their lot, but find that they...

Strange Affair (1981)
A young Parisian advertising executive becomes so captivated by the unsettling charm of his mysterious new employer that he eventually abandons his...

Heartbeat Detector (2007)
A psychologist discovers troubling links between Nazism and modern-day big business.

Bolero: Dance of Life (1981)
The film follows four families, with different nationalities (French, German, Russian and American) but with the same passion for music, from the...

The Valley (1972)
Viviane, a French Consul's wife, is in New Guinea to find exotic feathers for export to Paris. She encounters four European travelers who are en...

L'Amour fou (1969)
A troubled marriage is tested by the couple's involvement in a theatrical production of Racine’s Andromaque.

Hecate (1982)
Set amid the European community in an unspecified North African country, a colony on the verge of nationalism just before the war. And colonized is...

Bonnot's Gang (1968)
The story of a notorious French criminal gang of the 1910s.

Night of Lust (1963)
A French crime potboiler starring Verner and Kalfon as rival gang leaders who clash over control of the narcotics trade. Parisian drug gangs are...

Replay (2001)
Nathalie and Louise are friends from childhood. While studying drama at University Louise becomes hopelessly obsessed with her friend. Jealous of the...

The Cry of the Owl (1987)
Robert is an architect and artist, in Vichy after separating from his Parisian wife. Robert finds it calms him to stand in the shadows of the home of...

Paul (1969)
Paul leaves his wealthy parents behind to go on a spiritual quest. He meets up with a pilgrim, leader of a vegetarian cult whose members survive by...

Septième ciel (1987)
Vicky goes to Paris to become an actress and ends up as a hostess in a phone sex company. Her friend Jimmy, who lives in the Camargue, discovers her...

Long March (1966)
In June 1944, a young doctor, Chevalier, under the threat of guns, is forced to treat a wounded man in a camp of resistance fighters (maquisards). He...

The Twin (1984)
Matthias Duval is in love, but he can't choose between the two twin sisters Betty and Liz Kerner. To pick up the two sisters, he invents his own twin...

Condorman (1981)
Comic artist and writer Woody performs a simple courier operation for his friend Harry who works for the CIA. But when he successfully fends off...

Total Western (2000)
After a drug deal gone wrong, Bédé goes into hiding in the countryside at a reformative school for criminal youth. His location is...

Vent de panique (1987)
Roland and Martine, once child stars in a TV series, have sunk into a life of crime. Answering an ad from Isabelle, a young girl seeking work with...

Asylum (2008)
Jack, a young thug, mingles with a bunch of hard boiled gangsters and tries to outsmart them. He ends up tied to a tree on a chain like a dog. A new...

The Rabbi's Cat (2011)
The story of a rabbi and his talking cat, a sharp-tongued feline philosopher brimming with scathing humor and a less than pure love for the rabbi's...

Street of the Damned (1984)
In a desolate Paris suburb, no one dares challenge crime boss Hagen, who rules his turf with an iron fist. That includes his former friend Chet, who...

The King's Daughters (2000)
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...

Don't Do That! (2004)
Joël is jealous and violent. After one crisis too many, Nicole, his young wife, returns to live with her parents with their three-year-old son....

Nestor Burma, détective de choc (1982)
Detective Nestor Burma begins an investigation into the corrupt drug-ridden punk rock music world.

Day and Night (1997)
Ten years ago, distinguished French author Alexandre (Alain Delon) exchanged his stressful, hectic life in Paris for a more peaceful existence upon a...

Les grands moments (1966)
Four prisoners are gathered in the same cell. Each tells the others how he got there.

The Boy Soldier (1981)
In the 1930s a young fellow, Simon Chalumet, is sent to a military school by his overbearing father, an ex-soldier who has little sympathy for his...

Parc (2009)
Georges Nail lives in a new suburb. He's married, loves his wife, son and dog. Paul Hammer is good looking, rich and intelligent. But he is torn by...

God, My Mother's Lover and the Butcher's Son (1995)
The mother of three children seems to become romantically involved with the man playing Don Juan in the same local countryside theatre where she is...

In the Shadow of the Blue Rascal (1986)
300 kilos of heroin have disappeared in Necrocity, a city of terror—a city of night—where Captain Speed has a gang and the government...

Et demain... Hollywood (1992)
A director and a secretary conspire to swindle a banker who is blinded by his dream of becoming an actor.

Le 7ème jour de Saint-Malo (1960)
End of WW2 : the German officers lock all the men between 18 and 65 into the "Fort National" on an islet in Saint-Malo.

The Click (1985)
A man, Dr. Fez, is blackmailed into taking a fall for his boss. However, with a cruel invention that he created, Dr. Fez has plans of his own to seek...

Birds in Peru (1968)
A nymphomaniac young woman, unsatisfied by her husband, searches for sex in the brothels of a seaside town while he sets to kill her.

Gamer (2001)
Tony is crazy about video games. But he is arrested during a hold-up which failed, and he goes to prison for eight months. When he gets out, he...

The Idols (1968)
This satire concerns three French singing idols and their attempt to stay in the public eye. A press conference, backstage hedonism, psychedelia,...

The Expert Halima (1991)
Kamar, who just arrived at Bassra, falls in love with the young wife of the old Obeid. But, until now, nobody has survived to be able to praise...

A Second Chance (1976)
Imprisoned as an accessory to murder, Catherine gives birth to a son she conceived in prison. Eighteen years later, her sentence served, she is...

What I Did for Love (1998)
A man falls in love from afar with a woman who has just broken up acrimoniously with her husband and is disgusted with all men except her gay friends.

Funny Boy (1987)
Micky leaves his provincial and bourgeois background and leaves to live in Paris, where he performs as a transvestite singer in a cabaret.

The Inner Scar (1972)
A composition of symbolic, surreal and almost mystic images.

American Vertigo (2007)
A subjective documentary, a real logbook that follows the philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy in the U.S.A.

Miroir mon amour (2012)
The story starts where the tale ends: Snow White wakes up to the age of sexuality and discovers a world where the dwarves have become tall, and her...

Zig Zig (1975)
Two women work as entertainers and prostitutes to raise enough money for their dream home.

Suzanne (2007)
After the death of his musician wife, Franck, a septuagenarian hellenist, feels lost. His friend Max, a womanizer, and his daughter Sabine...

An Angel Passes (1975)
Nico is an ethereal poet haunting the gaps between scenes of Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Bulle Ogier, Laurent Terzieff, and Garrel’s father, Maurice,...

Lulu (2002)
It's the beginning of the bullfighting season and all paths seem to lead from the arena straight to Lulu's bar. Lulu is radiant. When she was...

L'Amour ou presque (1985)
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...

The Apprentice Heel (1977)
After a car accident in which his mother dies, Antoine Chapelote decides to change his life and become a con-artist. He meets a young girl Caroline...

Corps z'à corps (1988)
A newspaper editor attempts to save a failing girlie magazine.

Le Maître du temps (1971)
An alien, with the ability to travel through time, visits our planet at various eras.

Et la femme créa l'amour (1966)
Laurent, a young playboy, lives off his charms, maintained by wealthy women of the world. He becomes the lover of Sonia, a young woman painter, a...

Philippe Nahon, de l'acteur fétiche à l'icône (2005)
Since the beginning of the 70s, committed and willing, Philippe Nahon has been exploring the strangest roles and became at the dawn of the 90s, with...

The White Gloves of the Devil (1973)
Crime thriller.

Diamond Safari (1966)
Raphaël, a former paratrooper, is unable to adapt to the constraints of social life. One day, he becomes the unwilling accomplice of jewel...

The Virgin's Bed (1969)
30 year old child enters the new city, riding on a donkey. He says he is the Savior. He has spent no time among men. He is trembling with cold. His...

Cinema Redefined: Jacques Rivette's L'Amour Fou Revisited (2024)
Robert Fischer’s CINEMA REDEFINED: JACQUES RIVETTE’S L’AMOUR FOU REVISITED features new interviews with star Jean-Pierre Kalfon;...

The Dogs of War (1980)
Mercenary soldiers Jamie and Drew are hired by a large corporation to liberate Zangaro, a small African nation, from an iron-fisted despot. Once...

Jetzt und alles (1981)
A singer and a mysterious foreigner plan an abduction.

Bernadette Lafont, and God Created the Free Woman (2016)
A journey in the company of Bernadette Lafont, French Cinema’s most atypical actress. Tracing her career from pin-up girl, to New Wave model of...

Visa de censure n° X (1976)
Best known for his roles in Belle de jour, Sweet Movie, and many more, Pierre Clementi was also the architect behind a transgressive, high-minded,...

Love on the Ground (1984)
A playwright offers two actress friends the chance to appear in his new, unfinished play, which consists of only one female part.

Liberty Belle (1983)
Liberty Belle tells the story of a group of student's involvement with a group who oppose the French Algerian war. The film premiered at the 1983...

This Summer Feeling (2015)
In high summer, Sasha suddenly dies. Her death brings two virtual strangers, her boyfriend Lawrence and sister Zoé, closer together, sharing...

Rock (1982)
An eccentric, poor young couple who constantly lives in a dream world, desperately trying to make their existence feel like an adventure movie.

Public Security (1987)
Tempted by an important contract, Anna, a renowned writer, agrees to write a screenplay. But she lacks inspiration. She talks to her old university...

The Night Wears Suspenders (1985)
Jézabel, a worldly young woman, takes hold of Ariel, a shy and inexperienced young man, and leads him by hook or by crook through the wild...

La Garçonne (1988)
The neglected daughter of an industrialist who made his fortune in explosives supplies during the war and of a mother who was mostly concerned with...

Chassé-croisé (1982)
Passionate about music, Julien nevertheless works with a sculptor. One day, he meets young Hermine at a religious bookseller.

The Revolution Is Only a Beginning. Let's Continue Fighting. (1968)
Half family photo album, half ciné-tract, the film was shot in Paris during the events of May ‘68 and in Rome where the actor was...

Les Gauloises bleues (1969)
The harsh life of a troubled young man provides the basis of this grim French tragedy that begins when the fellow stops into a shop to buy a pack of...

Cinema, Sex, Politics: Bertolucci Makes ‘The Dreamers’ (2004)
The making of The Dreamers, its background and relation to the May 1968 student riots in Paris.

La deuxième femme (2008)
Over the course of more than fifteen years, Clémenti films a series of intimate diaries, starting from daily encounters. In La...

The Sorceror's Apprentice (1977)
A thriller in which the characters are Latin-American exiles living in Paris. It is also a comedy about artists who play at revolution rather than...

The Song of Roland (1978)
Roland des Roncesvalles is a legendary knight from the age of chivalry in France. In the 11th-century epic La Chanson de Roland, he is depicted as a...

Home Movie: On the Set of Philippe Garrel's 'Le lit de la vierge' (1968)
An experimental and poetic portrait of a woman.

Jesuit Joe (1991)
Canada, 1911. Narrated by a vulture, the story of Jesuit Joe, a mixed-race who belongs to a rebel Indian family, which have pay a lot for the defense...

Panthéon Discount (2016)
The year is 2050. Doctors have been replaced by a machine called Sherlock, a kind of super-scanner that not only diagnoses but also heals depending...

Film Français (2017)
A director from the French New Wave has a meeting with a young, fashionable female actor with a background in television. Nothing goes the way it...

Mamaia (1967)
The morning of her wedding day, Nana visits a hairdresser's shop in Mamaia, a popular Romanian resort on the Black Sea shore. Bumping into a band of...

Night Women (1963)
A mondo-movie on the theme of women, with interviews and mock reports: plastic surgery, transvestites, Victoria Nanquin stripper, divorce and...

La Femme flic (1980)
Young police inspector Corinne Levasseur interrogated a dealer without the judge's consent. Following an indiscretion of her lover, the substitute...

The Bathers (2003)
Sexy, gritty and as provocative as a lap dance, The Bathers takes an insider's look at the lives of six women working as dancers at a seedy Parisian...

The Police War (1979)
Fush and Ballestrat are the heads of each department of the French police. Both have the task of combating serious crime and cleaning up the...

Dog Day (1984)
A criminal shows up at a farmhouse with the law on his heels and several million dollars in his possession.

One Hundred and One Nights (1995)
Monsieur Cinema, a hundred years old, lives alone in a large villa. His memories fade away, so he engages a young woman to tell him stories about all...

Souvenirs souvenirs (2008)
Homemade footage of parties, travel, and everyday life.

Positano (2008)
Positano is an island of the Amalfi Coast that Neptune would have, according to legend, created for the love of a nymph. Perched on the rocks of the...

Laisse béton (1984)
Brian and Nourredine are two lousy young offenders. Their flights have a motive: a film brought back from San Francisco where the father of Brian,...

My Love, My Love (1967)
An architect has an affair with a young woman who aspires to be a pop singer. She ends up pregnant but does not tell her lover about her condition as...

Plato's Banquet (1989)
At house of Agathon get together many intellectuals and philosophers, including Socrates, to discuss the theme of love and sex: each of them...

On The Ropes (2007)
Story about two 18-year-old girls, Angie and Sandra, who want to dedicate themselves to women's professional boxing.

Witchcraft Through the Ages (1990)
An alternate, 82-minute, French cut of Häxan featuring narration by the Parisian actor Jean-Pierre Kalfon.

Les Hordes (1991)
In the near future, the poor and the underprivileged will come together to form roving road gangs. They form hordes that increasingly worry the...

Mafiosa (2006)
By the will of her dead uncle who was murdered Sandra Paoli is propelled to the head of a powerful mafia clan. She becomes a respected, but also...

Police Commissioner Moulin (1976)
The series follows the adventures of lighthearted Jean-Paul Moulin, a police Commissaire, and his team as they solve crimes.

La Rivière Espérance (1995)
La Rivière Espérance is a French TV series, 9 episodes of 90 minutes each, directed by Josée Dayan based on the novel by...

Softly from Paris (1986)
An anthology of erotic stories by famous writers like Guy de Maupassant, Nicolas Edme Restif de La Bretonne, Marquis de Sade, Giovanni Boccaccio,...

Bayard (1964)
At the end of the 15th century and the beginning of the next, the great deeds of the "Knight without Fear and without Reproach", Bayard, faithful...

Les Cinq Dernières Minutes (1958)
Les Cinq Dernieres Minutes is a crime based French television series