Jacques Bonnaffé
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Known For:Acting
Birthday:1958-06-22
Place of Birth:Douai, Nord, France
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Cockles and Muscles (2005)
Crustacés et coquillages is a fresh French comedy film with numerous surprise turnarounds and about the tolerance of a family of four. The...

Lemming (2005)
After the death of his boss's wife, a young engineer faces the sudden psychological metamorphosis of his own wife, seemingly possessed by the soul of...

The Page Turner (2006)
Mélanie Prouvost, a ten-year-old butcher's daughter, is a gifted pianist. That is why she and her parents decide that she sit for the...

Blanche and Marie (1985)
A little town in the north of France, 1941. Blanche has three children. She worries about her husband Victor, who often goes out at night. Actually,...

First Name: Carmen (1983)
The protagonist is Carmen X, a sexy female member of a terrorist gang. She asks her uncle Jean, a washed-up film director if she can borrow his...

The Devils (2002)
The story of the struggle of an autistic girl and her brother trying to survive without their parents.

Venus Beauty Institute (1999)
Aging beautician Angèle, already wounded by a long-ago romance, gets awkwardly dumped at a train station. Witnessing how she turns around a...

The Ponzi Scheme (2014)
Ponzi, from his arrival in Boston in 1903, to hi death in Rio in 1949. He made himself famous in inventing the first fraud of modern times on a large...

Marching Band (2024)
Diagnosed with leukemia, a successful orchestra conductor learns that he is adopted, and his younger brother is in a village marching band. The...

Staircase C (1985)
Story of a snooty young critic at the centre of several plotlines which run throughout his apartment block.

Captain Ahab (2008)
When Ahab's mother dies in childbirth, the infant's gruff father places his son in the care of his pious aunt. It is Rose who sparks the imagination...

When the Sea Rises (2004)
An actress, who goes all over rural France with her monologe "Sex and Crime", meets and falls in love with a man, since that moment starts helping...

Innocent (1999)
A French-Greek co-production, filmed in Paris, in which the forty-year-old Maxim is released from prison after five years in prison. As he tries to...

Lucie Aubrac (1997)
A love story or a tale of the resistance, this poignant movie tells both the haunting story of a French resistance cell in Lyon but also the love of...

Ballades (1983)
Anna lives with Philippe. Their couple has been formed since "belle lurette", and Anna is starting to get bored…

The Feelings Factory (2008)
A successful woman searches for romance by speed dating in this drama. Eloise has a great job and a great education, but she's looking for love. Can...

Va Savoir (Who Knows?) (2001)
After finding love and success in Italy, French actress Camille returns to Paris, the city she fled three years ago. She secretly dreads confronting...

The Art of Breaking Up (2005)
Lucette and Edouard: Two lovers passionate about sex, money and life. He is a spoiled but penniless child who wants it all while she is a celebrated...

The Second Wind (2007)
Gu, a famous gangster, has just escaped from jail. All french police is after him. Before leaving the country with Manouche, the woman he loves, Gu...

Around a Small Mountain (2009)
Vittorio stops to help Kate when her car breaks down on a mountain road. When they meet again, Vittorio discovers that Kate has rejoined a circus...

Behind the Walls (2011)
In 1922, a young novelist goes to the countryside to write her latest book and falls victim to terrifying hallucinations and nightmares.

The Repentant (2002)
A mysterious woman, dressed in black and carrying a small suitcase, arrives in Nice and tries in vain to get a job in a luxury goods shop. She ends...

Cross My Heart (1991)
Young Martin has been acting strange. At his school, his teacher and classmates notice that he is less talkative and more withdrawn. When those...

The Black Box (2020)
Fourteen years after the Paris Commune, a young man from the country meets former insurgents. He gives them an innovative device that violently...

Clemenceau (2012)
1917, German troups are moving forward to Paris, the French government calls a providential man : Clémenceau.

Coming Home (2012)
A young woman tries to adjust to freedom after she spends eight years as a prisoner to a strange man.

Baptême (1989)
In this film, director Rene Feret tells the story of his parents' lives. In 1935 his mother Aline works in her parents' cafe in a mining town in...

Blancs cassés (1989)
A young teacher, Pierre, arrives in Africa in the middle of the small French community. Pierre lets himself be won over by the physical and moral...

Les Enfants du vent (1991)
It is World War II, and the Nazis have taken over Poland. In this story, three citified children of Resistance fighters have taken refuge in the...

Violette (2013)
Born out of wedlock early in the last century, Violette Leduc meets Simone de Beauvoir in postwar Saint-Germain-des-Près. An intense lifelong...

My Name Is Hmmm... (2013)
Céline, 11, meets Peter, 40. Together they go on a "luminous journey" in his beautiful red truck. She, escaping her desperate and incestuous...

Anton Tchekhov 1890 (2015)
Summer 1890. In order to make some money to feed his family, Anton Chekhov, modest physician, wrote short stories for newspapers to sign Antosha...

Vincent Before Noon (2019)
A father pays his son a visit after years of conflict and turns up in the middle of his house move. The son, Vincent, reacts violently to that...

Les Williams (2009)
A César award nominated short drama.

The Takeover (2022)
Cédric works in a company specialized in precision mechanics. Its management, run by an investment fund, is disastrous. As another fund is...

A Better Life (1985)
Two quarreling lovers from opposite sides of the economic scale take central stage in this drama about Veronique and Adrien. Veronique is wealthy and...

The Place of Another (1993)
Thomas is an up-and-coming actor. His proud and loving father is watching him in a Shakespeare performance. Not long afterwards, his father dies,...

A Fox Blood (1996)
A story passes in a village and includes four main characters: a boy who is just at the age of the sexual activity, a mad man and two women.

Poison Friends (2006)
A group of college students are duped by a charming pathological liar.

Couples et amants (1993)
Seemingly, Paul (Jacques Bonaffee) and Isabelle (Marie Brunel) have a wonderful, harmonious marriage. Yet Isabelle is not averse to having a little...

Goodbye Vinyle (2023)
Late 1950s in France. One woman, two men. She, Ève Faugère, a glamorous diva at the peak of her career. The man, her husband, Maurice...

Au bout du rouleau (2002)
An aging captain who has spent his life sailing the China Sea agrees to do one last race for a crooked shipowner.

Jeanne and the Perfect Guy (1998)
Jeanne, a receptionist at a travel agency, is looking for the love of her life. She thinks she has finally found it with Olivier. However, Olivier...

Itinéraires (2005)
It is the end of the judicial control of Thierry Chartier, 18 years old. He was a virgin in Heuzecourt, a small village in the north of France...

The Temptation of Isabelle (1985)
Bruno devises a mean to test the love of his girlfriend Isabelle. Since Isabelle had been in love with Alain in the past, Bruno invites Alain to a...

Les frères Gravet (1996)
Gravet brothers meet in Beaune during their mother's funeral.

The Son of Joseph (2016)
A young man who lives with his mother and has never known his father, heads off to look for him. He finds a cynical and Machiavellian man who works...

La Campagne de Cicéron (1990)
In this romantic farce, former opera-singer and current music festival organizer Hermance (Judith Magre) is married to Charles-Henry (Jean Roquel)....

Seances (2016)
Seances, co-created with the National Film Board of Canada, presents a wholly new way of experiencing film narrative. By dynamically generating a...

The Year of Certificate (1996)
This certificate was formerly obtained by pupils at the end of primary school. The teacher of a small village has a dream: he wants his son to get...

The Chameleon Slayer (2015)
Pattern never changes. She finds lonely, anonymous, almost invisible women doing menial jobs, becomes their friend and confidante and then kills them...

Murder In The Auvergne Mountains (2017)
In a French thermal town, a man is found poisoned. His ex-girlfriend is arrested for the murder but her estranged cop daughter tries to prove her...

Mad Love (2015)
1959. Guilty of a double-murder, a man is beheaded. At the bottom of the basket that just welcomed it, the head of the dead man tells his story:...

The Mountains of the Moon (1987)
This visually striking drama is taken from the classic Japanese novel Tales Of Genji by Marasaki Shikibu. Set in modern Portugal, Joao (Luis Miguel...

The Secret Wife (1986)
It was during one of his missions in Norway that Antoine learned of his wife's death. He leaves his experimental submarine and returns to Paris....

Silent Streams (2019)
Women and men are lost in their thoughts at random hours of the day and streets of the city. From this sudden intimacy, the murmurs of their little...

Quand sort la recluse (2019)
After three elderly men are bitten by spiders, everyone assumes that their deaths are tragic accidents. But at police headquarters in Paris,...

As Happy As Possible (2019)
Salome gets a summer job in a junkyard somewhere in the country side. Under a western sun, in this place out of the world, her teenage rebellion...

She Spent So Many Hours Under the Sun Lamps (1985)
A young film director is turning a movie with his friend Christa. In the film-within-the-film there are two couples, one real, one imagined , and the...

Breakpoint: A Counter History of Progress (2019)
An account of the last two centuries of the Anthropocene, the Age of Man. How human beings have progressed so much in such a short time through war...

Drumont, histoire d'un antisémite français (2013)

For a Good Cause (1997)
When 12-year-old Tonin's teacher announces that he is looking for volunteers to house one of several orphan African refugees for a month during their...

Jeanne Moreau: Free Spirit (2018)
An account of the life of actress Jeanne Moreau (1928-2017), a true icon of the New Wave and one of the most idolized French movie stars.

Un fils de notre temps (2003)
Somewhere in Europe in the twentieth century, a young man decides to change his life by engaging in the army. A modern and quirky tale, with...

Come What May (2015)
In may 1940, the German troops enter France. Frightened by the progress of the enemy, the people of a small village of Pas-de-Calais decide on the...

Manipulations (1984)
Julien, an honest policeman, is asked to infiltrate a terrorist organization. He soon meets the charming Brigitte. But soon, manipulated by his...

Le Mental de l'équipe (2008)
A staging of Frédéric Bélier-Garcia and Emmanuel Bourdieu's play "Le Mental de l'équipe" by Frédéric...

La dernière douane (2020)
An update of the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, between night train and seaside resort, in the form of a cinema poem in relief.

The Happiest Place on Earth (1999)
The story of Robert Hughes-Lambert, who was captured by Nazis when his active homosexuality was discovered during the filming of Mermoz (1943).

O Pó da Terra (2024)
A man gets his chance to interview art.

Arthur Rimbaud, l'homme aux semelles de vent (1995)
After abandoning his poetry, from 1880 until his death in 1891, Arthur Rimbaud drifts between Yemen and Abyssinia as a shopkeeper, trader, explorer,...

Roulez jeunesse ! (1993)
After a missed burglary, deux young cads take refuge in a retiring-pension sowing terror. On the call of one of the pensioners, the police catch...

Les Zygs, le secret des disparus (2007)
On an island, clones are secretly raised.

The Churchmen (2012)
Five very different students navigate life at the Capuchin seminary, facing tough questions of faith under the guidance of a freethinking priest.