Bernard Ménez

Acting

Bernard Ménez

Born August 8, 1944 · Mailly-le-Château, Yonne, France (age 82)

Bernard Ménez (born 8 August 1944, in Mailly-le-Chateau) is a French actor. He has appeared in more than seventy films since 1969. Source: Article "Bernard Ménez" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Known For

La Grande BouffeLa Grande Bouffe · 1973
La Grande Bouffe
7.11973
MovieDramaComedy
Four friends gather at a villa with the intention of eating themselves to death.
Day for NightDay for Night · 1973
Day for Night
7.81973
MovieComedyDrama
A committed filmmaker struggles to complete his latest project while coping with a myriad of crises, personal and professional, among the cast and crew.
The MiserThe Miser · 1980
The Miser
6.31980
MovieComedy
The children of Harpagon, Cléante and his sister Elise, are each in love but they still haven’t spoken to their father yet. Harpagon is a miser who wants to choose the right man and the right woman for his children. Based on Molière’s play.
Sélection OfficielleSélection Officielle · 2017
Sélection Officielle
1.82017
Movie
Ulysses, an idealistic, novice film director, invites Clothilde, his young and pretty neighbor, to accompany him to the Love Film Festival on Réunion Island, where his debut film has been selected. Unfortunately, the day before they're due to leave, Ulysses learns that his film has been removed from the program. Afraid of disappointing Clotilde, he hides the truth and flies with her to Réunion, determined to do everything in his power to get his film back in the official selection and, at the same time, win the favors of the young woman, who dreams of becoming an actress. But Ulysses must cope with internal rivalries and struggles behind the scenes if he wants love and cinema to triumph.
Love Lasts Three YearsLove Lasts Three Years · 2011
Love Lasts Three Years
5.72011
MovieRomanceComedy
A heartbroken literary critic turns his despair into creativity following a bitter divorce, only to encounter an enchanting beauty who poses a major challenge to his newfound cynicism. Marc Marronnier thought his marriage was going well until his wife deemed him immature, and left him for a high-profile writer. Devastated, he began filtering all of his heartache into a misanthropic manuscript decrying the virtues of true love. But later, when Marc falls hard for his cousin's radiant and gorgeous wife, his entire life is turned upside down. Louise Bourgoin and Gaspard Proust star in a film by actor and author-turned-director Frederic Beigbeder.
Maine-Ocean ExpressMaine-Ocean Express · 1986
Maine-Ocean Express
5.81986
MovieComedy
"Maine-Ocean" is the name of a train that rides from Paris to Saint-Nazaire (near the ocean). In that train, Dejanira, a Brazilian, has a brush with the two ticket inspectors. Mimi, another traveler and also a lawyer, helps her. The four of them will meet together later and live a few shifted adventures with a strange-speaking sailor (Mimi's client).
Dracula and SonDracula and Son · 1976
Dracula and Son
5.81976
MovieFantasyComedy
With angry villagers driving them away from their castle in Transylvania, Dracula and his son Ferdinand head abroad. Dracula ends up in London, England where he becomes a horror movie star exploiting his vampire status. His son, meanwhile, is ashamed of his roots and ends up a night watchman in Paris, France where he falls for a girl. Naturally, tensions arise when father and son are reunited and both take a liking to the same girl.
Big KidsBig Kids · 2023
Big Kids
7.02023
MovieMusic
A café terrace. Couples of teenagers are sitting here and there. They discuss things in life, but curiously with the experience of people much older than they seem. The watchful and caring waiter of the café responds to them in song, offering a touching and poetic filmed fantasy.

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La frisée aux lardonsLa frisée aux lardons · 1979
La frisée aux lardons
4.01979
MovieComedy
It’s summer in a small port town in Brittany. Isabelle (Pascale Rocard), who has just graduated from high school, comes to join her mother Micheline (Bernadette Lafont). Micheline is being courted by a beach boy, Maurice—whom everyone calls Doudoune (Bernard Menez). Isabelle soon begins a sweet romance with one of his friends, Pascal (Pascal Meynier). Meanwhile, her father (Michel Aumont) has stayed behind in Soissons, where he runs a medical laboratory, and is bored to death. Every weekend, he comes to spend 48 hours with Micheline and sometimes splurges a little extra in Paris, hitting on girls in nightclubs. Efforts that are not crowned with success. On the contrary, in Brittany, that ladies’ man Doudoune gets what he wants... But when the family man comes to join his loved ones, the blunders and misunderstandings multiply...

Maurice, dit Doudoune