Jean-François Dérec

Acting

Jean-François Dérec

Born May 11, 1947 · La-Voulte-sur-Rhône, Ardèche, France (age 79)

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Known For

BoxerBoxer · 1995
Boxer
4.91995
MovieComedy
Patrick, a not so successful boxer, meets Nathaniel - and adventures started.
Le ZèbreLe Zèbre · 1992
Le Zèbre
5.51992
MovieRomanceComedy
Hippolyte, the titular oddball, is a far from typical country lawyer. He has been happily married to the woman of his dreams for 15 years, but has an incurable penchant for practical (or rather impractical) jokes.
The Seventh Company OutdoorsThe Seventh Company Outdoors · 1977
The Seventh Company Outdoors
6.71977
MovieComedy
The third part of Seventh Company adventures.
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.
The Grand HighwayThe Grand Highway · 1987
The Grand Highway
7.31987
MovieDrama
Louis, a nine-year-old boy from Paris, spends his summer vacation in a small town in Brittany. His mother Claire has lodged him with her girlfriend Marcelle and her husband Pelo while she's having her second baby. There Louis makes friends with Martine, the ten-year- old girl next door, and learns from her about life.
Hot ChocolateHot Chocolate · 1992
Hot Chocolate
3.21992
MovieComedy
B.J. Cassidy, a rich businesswoman, has to invest several billion dollars for fiscal reasons. She undertakes to buy back a small French factory, specialized in chocolate truffles...
Pardon Mon AffairePardon Mon Affaire · 1976
Pardon Mon Affaire
6.91976
MovieComedyRomance
On an otherwise normal day, Étienne, a happily married man and a good father, sees something that stops him dead in his tracks: a gorgeous woman in a billowing red dress. Long after she has left his vision, her memory continues to haunt his mind. He falls instantly in love with her and tries everything to get to know her better. Helping Étienne snare his elusive lady in red are his three bumbling buddies, which all have secret affairs and/or cheat on their wives.
Mia and the MigooMia and the Migoo · 2008
Mia and the Migoo
6.92008
MovieAnimationFamily
One night Mia has a premonition. So after saying a few words of parting at her mother’s grave, she sets out on a cross continent journey, though mountains and jungles in search of her father, who has been trapped in a landslide at a construction site on a remote tropical lake. In the middle of the lake stands the ancient Tree of Life, watched over by innocent, bumbling forest spirits called the Migoo, who grow and change shape as they please, morphing from small childlike beings to petulant giants. The Migoo have been disrupting the construction to protect this sacred site – and now together with Mia they join in a fight to find Mia’s father and save the Tree, with the future of life on Earth hanging in the balance.

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Mia and the MigooMia and the Migoo · 2008
Mia and the Migoo
6.92008
MovieAnimationFamily
One night Mia has a premonition. So after saying a few words of parting at her mother’s grave, she sets out on a cross continent journey, though mountains and jungles in search of her father, who has been trapped in a landslide at a construction site on a remote tropical lake. In the middle of the lake stands the ancient Tree of Life, watched over by innocent, bumbling forest spirits called the Migoo, who grow and change shape as they please, morphing from small childlike beings to petulant giants. The Migoo have been disrupting the construction to protect this sacred site – and now together with Mia they join in a fight to find Mia’s father and save the Tree, with the future of life on Earth hanging in the balance.

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Fall OutFall Out · 1996
Fall Out
4.81996
MovieComedyDrama
This film is an adaptation of Jean Amila's novel Le Boucher des Hurlus. The story, set in the aftermath of the war, is about Michel, a young man orphaned in this manner. He lives with his mother until she collapses under the wave of vituperation from the women in her community, who consider her murdered husband to have been a traitor. When he is sent to an orphanage, he discovers that many of the children in it are there for the same reason he is. Michel decides to escape his captivity and kill the general who ordered his father's death. He and the other children like him are able to get away from the orphanage, in the course of their journeys, they tour the grim battlefields of the recent war. Together, they return to Paris, determined to exact their revenge.

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