Jean-Pierre Kalfon

Jean-Pierre Kalfon

1938-10-30 Paris, France 112 Credits

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Jean-Pierre Kalfon (born 30 October 1938) is a French actor and singer. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jean-Pierre Kalfon, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Cinema Redefined: Jacques Rivette's L'Amour Fou Revisited

Cinema Redefined: Jacques Rivette's L'Amour Fou Revisited

2024

as Self

Acting

Robert Fischer’s CINEMA REDEFINED: JACQUES RIVETTE’S L’AMOUR FOU REVISITED features new interviews with star Jean-Pierre Kalfon; writer/director and R...

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

2023

as Old Man (voice)

7.0
Acting

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 Tok...

Finale

Finale

2020

as Jean-Pierre

Acting
Film Français

Film Français

2017

as The director

Acting

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 shou...

Panthéon Discount

Panthéon Discount

2016

as M. Bove

7.5
Acting

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 Doctors have been replaced by a machine called Sherlock, a kind of super-scanner that not only diagnoses but also heals depending on...

Bernadette Lafont: And God Created the Free Woman

Bernadette Lafont: And God Created the Free Woman

2016

as Self

6.9
Acting

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 sexual...

This Summer Feeling

This Summer Feeling

2015

as Faris

5.7
Acting

In high summer, Sasha suddenly dies. Her death brings two virtual strangers, her boyfriend Lawrence and sister Zoé, closer together, sharing their gri...

Miroir mon amour

Miroir mon amour

2012

as le roi Jacob

5.2
Acting

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 Pr...

The Rabbi's Cat

The Rabbi's Cat

2011

as Malka of the lions (voice)

7.0
Acting

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 te...

Parc

Parc

2009

as le propriétaire

3.9
Acting

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 hi...

La deuxième femme

La deuxième femme

2008

as Self

Acting

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

Souvenirs souvenirs

Souvenirs souvenirs

2008

as Self

Acting

Homemade footage of parties, travel, and everyday life.

Positano

Positano

2008

as Self

6.0
Acting

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 i...

Asylum

Asylum

2008

as Le grand patron

6.0
Acting

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 a...

I Always Wanted to Be a Gangster

I Always Wanted to Be a Gangster

2008

as Max

7.3
Acting

Told in four vignettes, this existential comedy relates the exploits of four aspiring criminals who hope to improve their lot, but find that they migh...

Heartbeat Detector

Heartbeat Detector

2007

as Karl Rose

5.6
Acting

A psychologist discovers troubling links between Nazism and modern-day big business.

American Vertigo

American Vertigo

2007

as Narrator

1.0
Acting

A subjective documentary, a real logbook that follows the philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy in the U.S.A.

On The Ropes

On The Ropes

2007

as Henri

4.2
Acting

Story about two 18-year-old girls, Angie and Sandra, who want to dedicate themselves to women's professional boxing.

Suzanne

Suzanne

2007

as Max

6.0
Acting

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

S.A.C. : Des hommes dans l'ombre

S.A.C. : Des hommes dans l'ombre

2005

as Pierre Debizet

7.5
Acting
Philippe Nahon, de l'acteur fétiche à l'icône

Philippe Nahon, de l'acteur fétiche à l'icône

2005

as Narrator (voice)

Acting

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 "...

Don't Do That!

Don't Do That!

2004

as le monologuant au comptoir

2.1
Acting

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. Joël h...

Cinema, Sex, Politics: Bertolucci Makes ‘The Dreamers’

Cinema, Sex, Politics: Bertolucci Makes ‘The Dreamers’

2004

as Self

7.0
Acting

The making of The Dreamers, its background and relation to the May 1968 student riots in Paris.

The Dreamers

The Dreamers

2003

as Jean-Pierre Kalfon

7.2
Acting

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 wh...

The Bathers

The Bathers

2003

as Lebel

4.0
Acting

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 p...

Lulu

Lulu

2002

as Simon

2.0
Acting

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 seventee...

Replay

Replay

2001

as Walter Amar

5.1
Acting

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

Gamer

Gamer

2001

as Albert

2.8
Acting

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 contac...

Total Western

Total Western

2000

as Ludo

6.2
Acting

After a drug deal gone wrong, Bédé goes into hiding in the countryside at a reformative school for criminal youth. His location is found out, and he a...

The King's Daughters

The King's Daughters

2000

as Louis XIV

5.1
Acting

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 Main...

What I Did for Love

What I Did for Love

1998

as Anderson

5.0
Acting

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.

Day and Night

Day and Night

1997

as Lucien

2.2
Acting

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

God, My Mother's Lover and the Butcher's Son

1995

as Henri Larrieux

4.5
Acting

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 ac...

One Hundred and One Nights

One Hundred and One Nights

1995

as The First Jean-Pierre (uncredited)

6.2
Acting

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 ...

Et demain... Hollywood

Et demain... Hollywood

1992

as Jean-Philippe Chaumont

Acting

A director and a secretary conspire to swindle a banker who is blinded by his dream of becoming an actor.

Jesuit Joe

Jesuit Joe

1991

as Le vautour (Récitant) (voice)

6.0
Acting

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 ...

The Expert Halima

The Expert Halima

1991

as Narrator

Acting

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 himsel...

Witchcraft Through the Ages

Witchcraft Through the Ages

1990

as Narrator

Acting

An alternate, 82-minute, French cut of Häxan featuring narration by the Parisian actor Jean-Pierre Kalfon.

Plato's Banquet

Plato's Banquet

1989

as Eryximaque

5.2
Acting

At house of Agathon get together many intellectuals and philosophers, including Socrates, to discuss the theme of love and sex: each of them intervene...

La Garçonne

1988

as Marly

4.5
Acting

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 he...

Corps z'à corps

Corps z'à corps

1988

as President-Director

Acting

A newspaper editor attempts to save a failing girlie magazine.

The Ray Bradbury Theater: And So Died Riabouchinska

The Ray Bradbury Theater: And So Died Riabouchinska

1988

as Lt. Krovitch

Acting

S02E12 of “The Ray Bradbury Theater.” A ventriloquist is implicated in the murder of a man at a theater.

Septième ciel

Septième ciel

1987

as Eddie

Acting

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 o...

Vent de panique

Vent de panique

1987

as Humphries

3.9
Acting

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 chi...

The Cry of the Owl

The Cry of the Owl

1987

as Le commissaire / Police commisionneer

5.3
Acting

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 ...

Funny Boy

Funny Boy

1987

as Aboulkian

2.5
Acting

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

Public Security

Public Security

1987

as Francis

Acting

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

Le Cimetière des durs

1986

as Rayner

Acting

Criminals Rayner and Simon organize a diamond heist, but are outsmarted by Jean and Rémy, two aspiring crooks.

In the Shadow of the Blue Rascal

In the Shadow of the Blue Rascal

1986

as Captain Speed

7.6
Acting

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 hides the dead. ...

L'Amour ou presque

L'Amour ou presque

1985

as Max

Acting

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 used to ge...

The Night Wears Suspenders

The Night Wears Suspenders

1985

5.1
Acting

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 side of Par...

The Click

The Click

1985

as Dr. Fez

4.5
Acting

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 ...

Love on the Ground

Love on the Ground

1984

as Clémont Roquemaure

6.1
Acting

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

The Twin

The Twin

1984

as Ernest Volpinex

5.9
Acting

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 ...

Laisse béton

Laisse béton

1984

as Gilles More

5.0
Acting

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, sin...

Dog Day

Dog Day

1984

as Marcel Torontopoulos

5.2
Acting

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

Street of the Damned

Street of the Damned

1984

as Paul Chetman, dit 'Rocky Malone', un rocker has been, frère de Chet

5.0
Acting

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 v...

Liberty Belle

Liberty Belle

1983

as Brinon

3.1
Acting

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 Cann...

Hughie

1983

as Alex Leclerc

Acting
Confidentially Yours

Confidentially Yours

1983

as Massoulier's brother (The Priest)

7.1
Acting

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 Masso...

Rock

Rock

1982

as Serge

Acting

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

Hecate

Hecate

1982

as Massard

5.4
Acting

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 wh...

Nestor Burma, détective de choc

Nestor Burma, détective de choc

1982

as Delpierre

4.2
Acting

Detective Nestor Burma begins an investigation into the corrupt drug-ridden punk rock music world.

Chassé-croisé

Chassé-croisé

1982

2.0
Acting

Passionate about music, Julien nevertheless works with a sculptor. One day, he meets young Hermine at a religious bookseller.

A Thousand Billion Dollars

A Thousand Billion Dollars

1982

as Bronsky, then Stan Hankins, the informant

6.9
Acting

A young journalist uncovers an assassination disguised as a suicide, linked to an American multinational seeking to dominate French industries. Determ...

Strange Affair

Strange Affair

1981

as François Lingre

6.2
Acting

A young Parisian advertising executive becomes so captivated by the unsettling charm of his mysterious new employer that he eventually abandons his fa...

Condorman

Condorman

1981

as Morovich

5.5
Acting

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 hosti...

Bolero

Bolero

1981

as Père Antoine

7.0
Acting

The film follows four families, with different nationalities (French, German, Russian and American) but with the same passion for music, from the 1930...

The Boy Soldier

The Boy Soldier

1981

as Commandant de la Mazardière

7.4
Acting

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 son...

Jetzt und alles

1981

as Rudy Smirak

Acting

A singer and a mysterious foreigner plan an abduction.

The Dogs of War

The Dogs of War

1980

as Benny

5.8
Acting

Mercenary soldiers Jamie and Drew are hired by a large corporation to liberate Zangaro, a small African nation, from an despot. Havoc ensues.

La Tisane de sarments

La Tisane de sarments

1980

as Sabbas

7.0
Acting
La Femme flic

La Femme flic

1980

as Backmann, le directeur de la MJC

6.2
Acting

Young police inspector Corinne Levasseur interrogated a dealer without the judge's consent. Following an indiscretion of her lover, the substitute Ber...

New Old

New Old

1979

Original Music Composer

6.2

"Chronicles of the Present Times" - An experimental trilogy. New Old flows together footage from more than a decade of his wandering between scenes, s...

The Police War

The Police War

1979

as Marc

6.2
Acting

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 underworl...

Le coup du singe

1979

Director

Directing
Destins parallèles

Destins parallèles

1979

Acting
The Song of Roland

The Song of Roland

1978

as Marsile / Turold / Charlemagne

4.8
Acting

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 k...

The Sorceror's Apprentice

1977

as Robespierre

6.0
Acting

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 act...

The Apprentice Heel

The Apprentice Heel

1977

as Robert Forelon, le directeur du journal

6.0
Acting

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 wh...

A Second Chance

A Second Chance

1976

as Le bijouter

6.0
Acting

Imprisoned as an accessory to murder, Catherine gives birth to a son she conceived in prison. Eighteen years later, her sentence served, she is reunit...

Visa de censure n° X

Visa de censure n° X

1976

as (uncredited)

6.8
Acting

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, and...

The Good and the Bad

The Good and the Bad

1976

as Lafont

5.6
Acting

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

Zig Zig

Zig Zig

1975

as Le guitariste

5.3
Acting

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

An Angel Passes

An Angel Passes

1975

6.0
Acting

Nico is an ethereal poet haunting the gaps between scenes of Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Bulle Ogier, Laurent Terzieff, and Garrel’s father, Maurice, discussi...

La Dolce Vita Grande

La Dolce Vita Grande

1973

Acting

Taylor plays Carlo, a famous Italian film producer, and Cyrinda Fox plays his wife Sophia, a famous Italian movie star. Sophia, who has fired his driv...

The White Gloves of the Devil

The White Gloves of the Devil

1973

as Le député Caron

4.2
Acting

A murder at the Whisky Bar leads a Buddhist policeman on the trail of a strange deal that links the owner to a crooked politician. A zany, satirical d...

The Valley

The Valley

1972

as Gaëtan

5.9
Acting

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 route...

The Inner Scar

The Inner Scar

1972

as Fire-keeper / King

6.7
Acting

A composition of symbolic, surreal and almost mystic images.

Le Maître du temps

Le Maître du temps

1971

5.0
Acting

An alien, with the ability to travel through time, visits our planet at various eras.

Jupiter

1971

as Hippie

Acting
Paul

Paul

1969

as Evariste

5.6
Acting

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 be...

Les Gauloises bleues

1969

as Ivan à 30 ans

5.4
Acting

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 t...

The Virgin's Bed

The Virgin's Bed

1969

as Horseman

5.7
Acting

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 cl...

L'Amour fou

L'Amour fou

1969

as Sébastien-Pyrrhus

6.5
Acting

A troubled marriage is tested by the couple's involvement in a theatrical production of Racine’s Andromaque.

Home Movie: On the Set of Philippe Garrel's 'Le lit de la vierge'

Home Movie: On the Set of Philippe Garrel's 'Le lit de la vierge'

1968

as Self

8.1
Acting

An experimental and poetic portrait of a woman.

Bonnot's Gang

Bonnot's Gang

1968

as Garnier

5.0
Acting

The story of a notorious French criminal gang of the 1910s.

Birds in Peru

Birds in Peru

1968

as Chauffeur

4.8
Acting

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

The Idols

The Idols

1968

as 'Simon le Magicien'

5.7
Acting

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

The Revolution Is Only a Beginning. Let's Continue Fighting.

1968

6.7
Acting

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 featuring in the fil...

Weekend

Weekend

1967

as Le Chef du Front de Libération de la Seine et Oise

7.0
Acting

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

My Love, My Love

My Love, My Love

1967

as Yan

6.2
Acting

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 ...

Mamaia

Mamaia

1967

as Balthazar

Acting

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 j...

Les grands moments

Les grands moments

1966

as Jean Mafitte

Acting

Four prisoners are gathered in the same cell. Each tells the others how he got there.

Diamond Safari

Diamond Safari

1966

as Éric

1.0
Acting

Raphaël, a former paratrooper, is unable to adapt to the constraints of social life. One day, he becomes the unwilling accomplice of jewel thieves and...

Long March

Long March

1966

as Pitou

Acting

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 ...

Et la femme créa l'amour

Et la femme créa l'amour

1966

as Kardec

1.0
Acting

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 love...

La vie très étrange de Madame Anastasie

1966

Acting
To Be a Crook

To Be a Crook

1965

as Jean-Pierre

5.6
Acting

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 f...

Night Women

Night Women

1964

as 2nd friend at the funeral (uncredited)

Acting

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

Night of Lust

Night of Lust

1963

as Sacha Markriff

3.8
Acting

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

Le 7ème jour de Saint-Malo

Le 7ème jour de Saint-Malo

1960

as The young priest

1.0
Acting

End of WW2 : the German officers lock all the men between 18 and 65 into the "Fort National" on an islet in Saint-Malo.