Acting
Jacques Serres
Born October 22, 1938 · Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, France (age 87)
No biography available.
Known For
No Pasaran · 2009No Pasaran
★ 5.02009
MovieComedy
Maxence Lafourcade raises pigs in the Pyrenees. His life changes when he learns that a highway will cross his his farm. To face the cynical deputy mayor and his project, he must make an unnatural alliance with a disillusioned lawyer, whose daughter Maxence falls in love with.
The French Detective · 1975The French Detective
★ 6.71975
MovieCrimeDrama
When political thugs murder an opponent's volunteer and also kill a cop, chief inspector Verjeat believes the politician who hired them is as guilty as the murderous goon. Verjeat's pursuit of the councilman, Lardatte, gets him a warning from his superiors. When he embarrasses Lardatte while disarming a hostage (the dead volunteer's father), Verjeat is told he's being transferred within a week. He speeds up his hunt for the goon and, with Lefévre, one of his young detectives, he engineers a complicated scheme to buy more time before the transfer. How should Verjeat play out his values of honor and duty?
Honorin et la Loreleï · 1992Honorin et la Loreleï
★ 8.31992
MovieComedy
During the inter-war period, a young German woman and her little girl arrive in a peaceful Provencal village. They have come to find the father of the latter, a Frenchman who was formerly a prisoner in Germany. But she arrives on the very day of his funeral. This unexpected arrival will cause trouble when the young German woman discovers that he had hidden his living conditions in Germany from the whole village, conditions that were not as uncomfortable as he claimed in his letters. Honorin, the mayor, will take in the two foreigners, while the village will be divided between those who are benevolent and those who are opposed to the presence of these two nationals of the former enemy country.
L'Inconnue de la Seine · 1973L'Inconnue de la Seine
★ 8.01973
MovieThriller
The mysterious events in the life of a young girl found murdered on the banks of the Seine are gradually elucidated by a police investigation. Will the culprit be unmasked?
Heliopolis · 2021Heliopolis
★ 7.82021
MovieDramaHistory
In the city of Guelma, which was once called Heliopolis in ancient times, the daily life of an Algerian family takes its usual course. But on May 8, 1945, the day the end of World War II was announced, demonstrations by the Algerian people against the French colonial power and for the country's independence took place, which were bloodily suppressed by the French army and French settler militias. The event went down in history as the Sétif and Guelma massacre.
La Ligne de démarcation · 1973La Ligne de démarcation
★ 6.01973
MovieDrama
Life the Way It Is · 1978Life the Way It Is
★ 5.91978
MovieDramaComedy
Agnes leaves school and moves with a friend to a housing project in Bagnolet. Engaged as a clerk, she becomes associate staff after the dismissal of a colleague.
The Last Role of Jacques Serres · 2013The Last Role of Jacques Serres
★ 7.02013
MovieComedy
Movies
No Pasaran · 2009No Pasaran
★ 5.02009
MovieComedy
Maxence Lafourcade raises pigs in the Pyrenees. His life changes when he learns that a highway will cross his his farm. To face the cynical deputy mayor and his project, he must make an unnatural alliance with a disillusioned lawyer, whose daughter Maxence falls in love with.
The French Detective · 1975The French Detective
★ 6.71975
MovieCrimeDrama
When political thugs murder an opponent's volunteer and also kill a cop, chief inspector Verjeat believes the politician who hired them is as guilty as the murderous goon. Verjeat's pursuit of the councilman, Lardatte, gets him a warning from his superiors. When he embarrasses Lardatte while disarming a hostage (the dead volunteer's father), Verjeat is told he's being transferred within a week. He speeds up his hunt for the goon and, with Lefévre, one of his young detectives, he engineers a complicated scheme to buy more time before the transfer. How should Verjeat play out his values of honor and duty?
Honorin et la Loreleï · 1992Honorin et la Loreleï
★ 8.31992
MovieComedy
During the inter-war period, a young German woman and her little girl arrive in a peaceful Provencal village. They have come to find the father of the latter, a Frenchman who was formerly a prisoner in Germany. But she arrives on the very day of his funeral. This unexpected arrival will cause trouble when the young German woman discovers that he had hidden his living conditions in Germany from the whole village, conditions that were not as uncomfortable as he claimed in his letters. Honorin, the mayor, will take in the two foreigners, while the village will be divided between those who are benevolent and those who are opposed to the presence of these two nationals of the former enemy country.
L'Inconnue de la Seine · 1973L'Inconnue de la Seine
★ 8.01973
MovieThriller
The mysterious events in the life of a young girl found murdered on the banks of the Seine are gradually elucidated by a police investigation. Will the culprit be unmasked?
Heliopolis · 2021Heliopolis
★ 7.82021
MovieDramaHistory
In the city of Guelma, which was once called Heliopolis in ancient times, the daily life of an Algerian family takes its usual course. But on May 8, 1945, the day the end of World War II was announced, demonstrations by the Algerian people against the French colonial power and for the country's independence took place, which were bloodily suppressed by the French army and French settler militias. The event went down in history as the Sétif and Guelma massacre.
La Ligne de démarcation · 1973La Ligne de démarcation
★ 6.01973
MovieDrama
Life the Way It Is · 1978Life the Way It Is
★ 5.91978
MovieDramaComedy
Agnes leaves school and moves with a friend to a housing project in Bagnolet. Engaged as a clerk, she becomes associate staff after the dismissal of a colleague.
The Last Role of Jacques Serres · 2013The Last Role of Jacques Serres
★ 7.02013
MovieComedy
Blue Country · 1977Blue Country
★ 5.81977
MovieComedy
Brigitte Fossey stars as a repressed young nurse who hopes that moving from the city to the country will open up new vistas in her life (thereby reversing the usual country-to-city route of most movie heroines!) She meets and falls in love with bachelor Jacques Serre, likewise a free spirit. Though Fossey and Serre are attracted to one another, both value their freedom too much to make a firm commitment. As they draw closer, the twosome compare their own lifestyles with those of the colorful country folk all around them.
The Savior · 1971The Savior
★ 4.11971
MovieDrama
This is rural France. It's the summer of 1943, the weather is fine and sunny and life is sweet. On one of these beautiful days, Nanette, a fourteen-year-old peasant girl, meets a slightly injured young man near the farm she lives on. Her life is about to change forever.
De la belle ouvrage · 1970De la belle ouvrage
★ 10.01970
MovieDrama
A highly qualified worker, exercising his trade as an artist, sees his family and professional life turned upside down by the installation of a robot machine in his workshop.
Les Voleurs de lumière · 1987Les Voleurs de lumière
1987
MovieScience FictionDrama
A nuclear explosion has devastated France. Since then, Thomas and hundreds of other survivors have been struggling to stay alive underground. But the world above keeps calling to him; ignoring countless warnings, he ventures to the surface. There, a terrifying discovery awaits him: some people are still alive
The Cocottes · 1991The Cocottes
★ 5.21991
MovieComedyRomance
A small village lies peacefully nestled in the hills beneath the Provence sun... until the arrival of an odd group of vacationers. Who are these gorgeous young women from the big city strolling on the village square under the watchful eye of a chaperone as beautiful as she is authoritarian? Scandal arises when it’s learned these dreamy creatures are none other than the employees of a Marseille brothel come to enjoy the good clean air of the country. All hell breaks loose as the villagers take a stand for or against the presence of these "ladies of pleasure". The mayor is called on to relay women of the moral rules of the region to the women. But the fact remains, they can’t be forced to leave: while they have no intention of plying their trade, no law exists to bring their country retreat to a premature end. Different mentalities are revealed, passions unbridled, love kindled... and doesn’t love always solve everything in the end?
Gorilla's Waltz · 1959Gorilla's Waltz
★ 4.31959
MovieActionThriller
This is the second feature in a series about an intrepid French spy by the nickname of "The Gorilla," but unlike the earlier films, this time around Roger Hanin replaces Lino Ventura in the title role. A West German scientist has discovered a way to recover missiles shot into space, and the major Western powers are after his secret. Even though the scientist is willing to pass his discovery on to NATO, it is guarded by an elite, undercover West German police force. As foreign agents, including the Russians and Americans, try to get their hands on the secret, "The Gorilla" is forced into the affair by his surly, aging boss -- he has to make sure that the scientist's discovery ends up with NATO.
La Guérilléra · 1982La Guérilléra
★ 9.01982
MovieWar
Travelling avant · 1987Travelling avant
★ 4.51987
MovieComedyDrama
Paris, October 1948. Nino, Gilles, Donald, Barbara and their friends are a new breed of spectators. They discover the cinema as art, they are moviegoers. They will try to realize their grand project: to found a film club. "My film first wants to be a testimony of young people who have lived for a passion. Cinema"
Croque la vie · 1981Croque la vie
★ 3.61981
MovieDramaComedy
Friendships and business do not mix, that's what we find with Theresa, Catherine and Alain, three longtime friends. Freshly graduated, they decided to start their own business, but work is scarce and a fight breaks out between the trio. Separated, married and scattered all over France, the once inseparable trio no longer keep in touch. But four years later, they decided to organize a big party for their reunion which serves as an opportunity for them to put things right and confess everything they have in their hearts.
Il pleut toujours où c'est mouillé · 1975Il pleut toujours où c'est mouillé
★ 9.01975
Movie
Focusing on the characters of those involved, this French drama explores a political campaign in a small town and the corruption which enters into it. Sex education gets the countrified locals all roused up against a citified school reformer, even though it is actually a side issue. The farmer whose concerns are picked up as a theme by the right-wing politicos figures out that he is being used.
L'Homme fragile · 1981L'Homme fragile
★ 7.01981
MovieDrama
A middle class leftist man of the Seventies decade, starting to show signs of aging and a loss of identity, runs away from his commitments.
Shadows · 1982Shadows
★ 8.31982
MovieDramaTV Movie
The life of an ordinary working class family in Bagnolet's block of council flats, Paris' suburb. "I've spent 17 years here. I sacrificed myself for you. Now it's over. " says the mother, who dreams of being a singer. Between a pre-teen rocker brother and a disillusioned father, daughter Nathalie brings balance into this breaking-down family.
Polly West est de retour · 1993Polly West est de retour
★ 8.01993
MovieComedy
Polly West, a very rich American star, has bought the castle of Sainte Apolline, a small village in Provence. As soon as she arrives, the dynamic actress causes trouble among the inhabitants. After having received her in confession, the priest seems to be taken by madness. To add to the turmoil, the country warden and the grocer enter her service. Honorin, the mayor, tries to cope and maintain order. While the people of the village keep asking questions, Polly flies to the rescue of the beautiful Italian girl Clara, who has been raped by the landlord Léonce. Soon, Honotin discovers that Polly is buying up the village's land using a few nominees. He then understands that this woman is not a stranger and that, a few years ago, the villagers chased her away because she was a mother, and these same villagers caused the death of her parents. Polly has returned to seek revenge.
Il faut marier maman · 2013Il faut marier maman
★ 5.02013
MovieComedyRomance
Nous n'étions pas des héros · 2017Nous n'étions pas des héros
★ 10.02017
MovieWar
The city of Lambèse is the scene of torture, both physical and moral, for the resistance fighters of the Algerian War. In the form of a fictional account adapted from the novel "Le camp" by Abdelhamid Benzine, the conditions in the special camps of the colonial army, where we accompany a group of detainees, in their daily life animated by violence are depicted. are former Nazi officers, whose mission is to abandon all resistance, and all ideological faith, through humiliation and drudgery.
Lorraine Cœur d'Acier, une radio dans la ville · 1981Lorraine Cœur d'Acier, une radio dans la ville
1981
MovieDocumentary
TV Shows
Police Commissioner Moulin · 1976Police Commissioner Moulin
★ 7.11976
SeriesCrime
The series follows the adventures of lighthearted Jean-Paul Moulin, a police Commissaire, and his team as they solve crimes.
Les Cinq Dernières Minutes · 1958Les Cinq Dernières Minutes
1958
SeriesCrime
Les Cinq Dernieres Minutes is a crime based French television series
30 millions d'amis · 197630 millions d'amis
★ 6.21976
SeriesDocumentary
La Brigade des maléfices · 1971La Brigade des maléfices
★ 6.71971
SeriesCrimeSci-Fi & Fantasy
A fictional division of the National Police is tasked with the investigation of supernatural cases
Le Vent des moissons · 1988Le Vent des moissons
★ 7.51988
SeriesDrama
Les Cœurs brûlés · 1992Les Cœurs brûlés
★ 7.01992
Series