Biography
Gérard Xavier Marcel Depardieu (born 27 December 1948) is a French actor, film-maker, businessman and vineyard owner. He is one of the most prolific character actors in film history, having completed approximately 170 movies since 1967. He has twice won the César Award for Best Actor as well as the Golden Globe award for Best Actor in Green Card. After he garnered huge critical acclaim for the title role in Cyrano de Bergerac, which landed him a nomination for an Academy Award, Depardieu acted i...
Known For
Complete Filmography

L'Âge d'or de la pub
2023
as Self (archive footage)
55 years ago, on October 1 1968, the first brand advertising spot appeared on the French television screen. Over the next three decades, thousands of ...

Umami
2023
as Gabriel
Following a near-death experience France's leading chef throws himself into a quest seeking the flavor that has confounded his life since he was defea...

The Green Shutters
2022
as Jules Maugin
The twilight of a sacred monster, Jules Maugin, an actor at the height of his glory. Beneath the famous personality, the big mouth, and the social she...

Employee of the Month
2022
as Gérard Depardieu
Vincent, a civil servant, has always enjoyed the benefits of his family's status. When the government votes on a massive savings plan, Vincent is push...

Patrick Dewaere, My Hero
2022
as Self (archive footage) - actor
The actress Lola Dewaere recounts the film career and traumatic life of celebrated actor Patrick Dewaere, the father she never knew, under the watchfu...

Robust
2022
as George
When his right-hand man and only mate has to go away for a few weeks, Georges - an ageing film star - is given a substitute, Aïssa. The disillusioned ...

Les Pieds dans la mayonnaise : Les Irrévérencieux des années 70
2022
as Self - actor (archive footage)

Maigret
2022
as Jules Maigret
In Paris, a young girl is found dead in a Parisian square, wearing an evening dress. Commissioner Maigret will try to identify her and then understand...

Retirement Home
2022
as Lino Vartan
A story of friendship between a young convict who is forced to work in a retirement home and a group of crazy old people. Together they organize their...

Adieu Paris
2022
as Michael
An old Parisian bistro with eternal charm. Eight gentlemen at the table, eight great figures. They were the “kings of Paris”… National treasures, mast...

La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
2022
as Self (archive footage)
In May 1974, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing became President of the Republic and wanted to bring about a new era of modernity. One of his first decisions wa...

Lost Illusions
2021
as Dauriat
Lucien de Rubempré, a young, lower-class poet, leaves his family's printing house for Paris. Soon, he learns the dark side of the arts business as he ...

Sous le soleil de Pialat
2021
as Self
In just ten films, Maurice Pialat painfully rose to the top of the cinema, draining into his legend a mad demand for truth as much as memorable fury t...

Do You Do You Saint-Tropez
2021
as Maurice Lefranc
Every summer, the Billionaire Tranchant and his wife Eliane host the glamorous world of celebrities in their luxurious mansion in the south of France....

Creators: The Past
2020
as Master of Faith
Where do we come from and where do we go ? The eternal question of humanity which religions have tried to answer over the centuries - lt's the end of ...

Home Front
2020
as Feu-de-Bois
Burgundy, France. Solange's 60th birthday celebrations are violently interrupted by her estranged brother, Bernard. His outburst will reawaken painful...

Fahim
2019
as Sylvain Charpentier
Fahim Mohammad, a Bangladeshi immigrant, becomes a world junior chess champion in France.

Thalasso
2019
as Gérard Depardieu
Provocative French writer Michel Houellebecq meets Gérard Depardieu at a sea water therapy centre in Cabourg. Together, they try to survive the health...

Crystal Frog
2019
as Benjamin
Benjamin visits Tokyo to see Miko. At her place, he finds a photo that caught his attention. It was taken at the winery 40 years ago. There are Benjam...

André Téchiné: A Passion for Cinema
2019
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
A walk through the career of French filmmaker André Téchiné, from his own point of view and that of those who worked with him: Catherine Deneuve, Dani...

Wide Load
2019
as Taupin
This is the story of a guy who goes too fast and a big guy who is too slow. Foster meets Taupin. All this would be trivial if one of them had a scary ...

To the Ends of the World
2018
as Saintonge
Indochina, 1945. While the French are harassed by both the Japanese army and the Vietnamese rebels, private Robert Tassen, driven by the memory of a t...

The Brand New Adventures of Aladdin
2018
as Christopher Colombus
After freeing Baghdad from its terrible ruler, Aladin delays his marriage to the princess until a new dictator arrives to take over the city.

Saving My Pig
2018
as Vania
The delicate story of the friendship between a man and a piglet, taking place in contemporary Bulgaria.

Private Eye
2018
as Camionneur
At the Swiss border, a detective is responsible for investigating a woman whose whereabouts worry her husband. The spinning takes place, the night fal...

Kadyrov, The Dictator of Chechnya
2018
as Self (archive footage)
The lifestyle, self-styling and political opinions of Chechen dictator Ramsan Kadyrov are examined in this documentary.

The Other Woman
2018
as Patrick
When Daniel and Isabelle invite Patrick and his new flame, Emma, to dinner, it’s with some misgivings. After all, Patrick has just dumped his ex-wife ...

Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero
2018
as Gaston Baptiste (voice)
The true story of the most decorated dog in American military history -- Sgt. Stubby -- and the enduring bonds he forged with his brothers-in-arms in ...
The Force of Destiny
2017
This documentary on the making of JEAN DE FLORETTE and MANON OF THE SPRING features director Claude Berri; actors Yves Montand and Gérard Depardieu; a...

Carbone
2017
as Aron Goldstein
In danger of losing his business, Anthony Roca, an ordinary man, develops a scam that will become the heist of the century. Overtaken by the crime, he...

Michel Sardou – Dernier show
2017
as Self

Mečiar: The Lust For Power
2017
The film Mečiar is the confession of the young director Tereza Nvotová about Vladimír Mečiar and the influence that this politician had on Slovak soci...

Let the Sunshine In
2017
as Clairvoyant
Isabelle, Parisian artist, divorced mother, is looking for love, true love, at last.

À la recherche de... Pierre Richard
2017
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
Follow in the footsteps of burlesque actor Pierre Richard, a key figure in French cinema in the 1970s and 1980s.

Nobody's Perfect!
2017
as Gérard, dit Bonne Pomme
Gerard is tired of being taken for a good apple by his beautiful family. He leaves everything and starts a garage in a village nestled at the bottom o...

You Only Live Once
2017
as Duges
Leo is the wrong man in the wrong place at the wrong time. After taping a murder and keeping the evidence he runs away to stay alive and, in order to ...

French Tour
2016
as Serge
Far’Hook is a 20-year-old rapper. Following a violent dispute with a rival, he’s forced to leave Paris for a while. His producer, Bilal, suggests that...

Stalin's Couch
2016
as Joseph Staline
Set in the 1950s Soviet Union, centers on a young artist who is commissioned to create Stalin's monument and must go through KGB scrutiny.

A Mighty Team
2016
as Jacques Belloc
Sadoun is France’s best soccer player whose extra-curriculum pleasures are damaging his play and new contract negotiations. Dispatched by his scheming...

A Mighty Team
2016
Co-Producer
Sadoun is France’s best soccer player whose extra-curriculum pleasures are damaging his play and new contract negotiations. Dispatched by his scheming...

Saint Amour
2016
as Jean
Every year, Bruno makes a tour of all the wine stands, without setting foot outside the Show’s premises and without ever finishing his wine trail. Thi...

Saint Amour
2016
Co-Producer
Every year, Bruno makes a tour of all the wine stands, without setting foot outside the Show’s premises and without ever finishing his wine trail. Thi...

The End
2016
as L'homme
Depardieu plays an unnamed hunter and we join him and his dog as they depart for a nearby forest to snare some rabbits - or perhaps he's hunting for s...

Rhapsody
2016
as Gérard
A lonely 60-year-old man lives in a small apartment on the top floor of a tower. Every day, a young woman entrusts her baby to him. A natural and unus...

Le Magicien et les Siamois
2015
as Borach
Le Rustre et le Juge
2015
as Charpentevich
An obnoxious man ends up in court facing a familiar judge after a dispute over archery.
Agafia
2015
as Savka
A local hobo carries a strange attraction for the women of a village, including the train conductor's wife Agafia.

Valley of Love
2015
as Gérard
A story of two famous actors who used to be a couple. They reunite after the son's death and receive a letter asking them to visit five places at Deat...

Fifty Shades of Erotica
2015
Before Fifty Shades of Grey and beyond the limits of desire, Nucleus Films draw back the veil on Fifty Shades of Erotica. Now, in the privacy of your...

Sex, Coffee, Cigarettes
2014
as He (segment 'Two, Deux')
Eleven comedic vignettes featuring conversations – some important, some less so – held in restaurants over coffee and cigarettes (how quickly time fli...

Viktor
2014
as Victor Lambert
After spending seven years in jail for an art heist, Frenchman Victor Lambert returns to Moscow to uncover the circumstances behind his son Jeremy's b...

Welcome to New York
2014
as Devereaux
Mr. Devereaux is a powerful man. A man who handles billions of dollars every day. A man who controls the economic fate of nations. A man driven by a f...

The Term. Beginning of a Big Story
2014
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The documentary project The Term was conceived in May 2012. When the directing trio commenced mapping the Russian sociopolitical landscape, Vladimir P...

Duras and Cinema
2014
as Self [archive footage]
Documentary on famous writer Marguerite Duras and her paradoxical relation to the seventh art by her former film editor.

United Passions
2014
as Jules Rimet
An epic, untold story that brings to life the inspiring saga of the World Cup and the three determined men who created it. Driven by their vision and ...

La voix des steppes
2014
as Anatole
A little boy Anatole lives in 1960s in the steppe in Kazakhstan with his parents-archaeologists. One day he witnesses the accidental death of his brot...

La voix des steppes
2014
Director
A little boy Anatole lives in 1960s in the steppe in Kazakhstan with his parents-archaeologists. One day he witnesses the accidental death of his brot...

Retour au Caucase: Gérard Depardieu dans les pas d'Alexandre Dumas
2014
as Himself
Gérard Depardieu following the steps of Alexandre Dumas in Caucasus.

Obsessive Rythms
2014
as Père Villedieu
On the night of New Year's Eve, a small group penetrates into the room of an old hotel in ruins. Carmine, the oldest of the group, poses a challenge t...

The World Petanque Tour
2013
as Jacky
Momo has one dream buried for years: become a petanque champion. When an international tournament is announced, he drops his ordinary life to win the ...

Miserere
2013
as Lionel Kasdan
Paris, December. A conductor of a choir is found mysteriously murdered, with burst eardrums. Lionel Kasdan, a police inspertor the verge of retirement...

Nothing Can Stop Us Now
2013
as Henry
The training trip of 4 "special" boys, one narcoleptic, one internet-dependent, one suffering from Tourette's Syndrome and one obsessed with hygiene t...

A Farewell to Fools
2013
as Ipu
Set during World War II, somewhere in Eastern Europe. A German soldier is found dead near the village. The local authorities must find the culprit, or...

Turf
2013
as Monsieur Paul
This is the story of four French friends: the Greek (an osteopath), Fifi (who lives with his mother), Fortuné (a West Indian) and Freddy (a gambler). ...

The Man Who Laughs
2012
as Ursus
During a winter storm, Ursus offers shelter to two orphans, Gwynplaine and Déa; some years later, they are still living together. Gwynplaine has becom...

Life of Pi
2012
as Cook
The story of an Indian boy named Pi, a zookeeper's son who finds himself in the company of a hyena, zebra, orangutan, and a Bengal tiger after a shipw...

Asterix & Obelix: God Save Britannia
2012
as Obélix
Asterix crosses the channel to help second-cousin Anticlimax face down Julius Caesar and invading Romans.

Frank-Etienne Towards Beatitude
2012
as Frank-Étienne Boulard
Frank-Étienne is a door-to-door salesman on a mission to sell empty boxes in the middle of nowhere. Things go awry when he meets a young woman who is ...

My Sinful Angel
2012
The hardships encountered by Aisha, a young Kazakh singer, whose dream is to sing in Paris.

The Big Night
2012
as Juvénal
An ageing punk-with-a-dog and his brother the conformist decide to get their revenge on a shopping mall. Directing duo Benoit Delepine and Gustave Ke...

Rasputin
2011
as Grigori Raspoutine
A group of Russian noblemen want to maintain the monarchy and plan to kill Rasputin.

Fucking Kassovitz
2011
as Self
A making-of of the chaotic production of Mathieu Kassovitz's Babylon A.D. (2008).

Glenn, the Flying Robot
2011
as TV reporter
Henry and Jack are two famous and talented pianists: they are rivals and try to outdo each other in the various music events where they regularly comp...

A Butterfly Kiss
2011
as le médecin de Manon
Billie and Louis have the good fortune of loving each other passionately and of having a family. But then one day terrible news turns their existence ...

Il était une fois... Vincent, François, Paul et les autres
2011
as Self (archive footage)

A Frog in Winter
2011
as Benjamin
Benjamin's wife died in his arms after a long fight against a disease. He can't take suicide off his mind but a young Japanese woman will help him tho...

Small World
2010
as Conrad Lang
Conrad Lang, a handyman in a rich family - he has been raised like a brother with Thomas, who has the same age -, accidentally puts fire to the big ho...

Trophy Wife
2010
as Maurice Babin
In 1977 France, tightfisted factory owner Robert Pujol is so shocked when his workers strike for higher wages that he suffers a heart attack. His acqu...

Late Love
2010
as Gueorgui
In the center of the plot are three friends, three old men who swore in the name of the happiness of their friend Kaltay to marry him, no matter what....

My Afternoons with Margueritte
2010
as Germain
An illiterate and lonely man bonds with an older and well-read woman.

My Afternoons with Margueritte
2010
Executive Producer
An illiterate and lonely man bonds with an older and well-read woman.

Mammuth
2010
as Serge Pilardosse, dit Mammuth
Serge Pilardosse has just turned 60. He has worked since the age of 16, never unemployed, never sick. But the hour of retirement has come, and it is d...

Mammuth
2010
Co-Producer
Serge Pilardosse has just turned 60. He has worked since the age of 16, never unemployed, never sick. But the hour of retirement has come, and it is d...

Catherine Deneuve, belle et bien là
2010
as Self (archive footage)
Catherine Deneuve couldn’t care less about being a celebrity, but fame made her an icon long ago and she occupies a special place in our imagination. ...

The Great Restaurant
2010
as Gérard - un client du restaurant
Fragments of the lives of the customers of a great restaurant and the inconvenience of its manager.

The Other Dumas
2010
as Alexandre Dumas
Alexandre Dumas, at the height of his career, takes Auguste Maquet, his chief literary collaborator or 'ghost writer' ten years his junior, to meet a ...

In the Beginning
2009
as Abel
France, present day. A professional conman passes himself off as the boss of a construction site building a highway extension. He cons the whole regio...

Coco
2009
as Le cardiologue
Coco is a French comedy released in 2009 and produced by Gad Elmaleh. This is the first embodiment of the actor, adapted from a sketch in the show La ...

Gérard Depardieu, blessures secrètes
2009
as Gérard Depardieu

Diamond 13
2009
as Mat
A cop goes up against his lifelong friend, who has become one of the city's biggest drug traffickers.

Bellamy
2009
as Paul Bellamy
A well known Parisian inspector becomes involved in an investigation while on holiday.

L'Abolition
2009
as Henry Torrès
The story of Robert Badinter who was the major architect of the abolition of the death penalty in France .

Trouble at Timpetill
2008
as Le général Igor
The children of a small European mountain village end up being its only residents, soon after the adults cannot take their behavior any longer.

The Beaches of Agnès
2008
as Le beatnik (archive footage)
Filmmaking icon Agnès Varda, the award-winning director regarded by many as the grandmother of the French new wave, turns the camera on herself with t...

Hello Goodbye
2008
as Alain Gaash
French film icons Gérard Depardieu and Fanny Ardant star in this romantic comedy about a Parisian couple in their fifties who share a comfortable life...

Final Arrangements
2008
as Hugo
An American funeral director is recruited to a job in Paris.

Mesrine: Killer Instinct
2008
as Guido
Jacques Mesrine, a loyal son and dedicated soldier, is back home and living with his parents after serving in the Algerian War. Soon he is seduced by ...

Babylon A.D.
2008
as Gorsky
A veteran-turned-mercenary is hired to take a young woman with a secret from post-apocalyptic Eastern Europe to New York City.

The Easy Way
2008
as Le chef
Albert Spaggiari is arrested in Nice and brought to a judge's office for interrogation, but he escapes to South America where he meets a journalist wh...

The Easy Way
2008
Thanks
Albert Spaggiari is arrested in Nice and brought to a judge's office for interrogation, but he escapes to South America where he meets a journalist wh...

Disco
2008
as Jean-François
Didier Travolta is a 40-year-old disco music fan who has no job, lives with his mother, and has a son he hasn't seen for a while. The mother of his so...

Kings Can Do Everything
2008
On a visit to Russia, a young princess escapes her handlers for an adventure in the city.

Asterix at the Olympic Games
2008
as Obélix
Astérix and Obélix have to win the Olympic Games in order to help their friend Alafolix marry Princess Irina. Brutus uses every trick in the book to h...

L'abbuffata
2007
as Gérard Depardieu
A pair of Italian filmmakers go to Rome to find a star for their first project.
Lebo, l'ombre et la lumière
2007

Michou d'Auber
2007
as Georges
Set in France during the struggle for Algerian independence, Messaoud's mother is terminally ill and his father, needing to work long hours in the fac...

La Vie en Rose
2007
as Louis Leplée
From the mean streets of the Belleville district of Paris to the dazzling limelight of New York's most famous concert halls, Edith Piaf's life was a c...

The Singer
2006
as Alain Moreau
Alain Moreau sings for one of the few remaining dance-bands in Clermont-Ferrand. Though something of an idol amongst his female audience he has a mela...

Journey of the Dissidents
2006
as Narrator
The forgotten history of "dissidents", the men and women of Martinique and Guadeloupe who left their islands between 1940 and 1943. The film features ...

Paris Je T'aime
2006
as Le patron (Quartier Latin)
Olivier Assayas, Gus Van Sant, Wes Craven and Alfonso Cuaron are among the 20 distinguished directors who contribute to this collection of 18 stories,...

Paris Je T'aime
2006
Director
Olivier Assayas, Gus Van Sant, Wes Craven and Alfonso Cuaron are among the 20 distinguished directors who contribute to this collection of 18 stories,...

Last Holiday
2006
as Chef Didier
The discovery that she has a terminal illness prompts introverted department store saleswoman Georgia Byrd to reflect on what she realizes has been an...

Olé !
2005
as François Veber
Ramon Holgado is the driver of a big boss, as well as his confidant, his golf partner, and the alibi of his escapades. His wife, Carmen, dreams of ret...

Pierre Richard, l'art du déséquilibre
2005
as Self
This documentary brings a lighting on the originality and the specificity of the actor-author Pierre Richard, improbable synthesis of the talking ant ...

How Much Do You Love Me?
2005
as Charly
After winning the lottery, François goes to a bar in Pigalle and offers one hundred thousand Euros per month to a prostitute named Daniela to live wit...

Boudu
2005
as Boudu
A modern remake of Renoir's classic film. Aix-en-Provence, a spring night. Christian Lespinglet, an over-indebted gallery owner, rescues a homeless ma...

Let's Be Friends
2005
as Serge
The two friends Claude and Serge are fundamentally different in their temperament. Similarities arise only when they try to have a relationship with a...

La vie de Michel Muller est plus belle que la vôtre
2005
as Gérard Depardieu
A documentary crew follow a minor TV star with a giant ego in is everyday life.

Changing Times
2004
as Antoine Lavau
In Tangiers where he traveled for his work, a man finds the woman he loved, and attempts to revive their romance though it ended some 30 years earlier...

Volpone
2004
as Volpone
A version of Ben Johnson's play: A Venetian swindler goes from town to town pretending to be a dying millionaire in order to attract (and dispose of) ...

36th Precinct
2004
as Denis Klein
In Paris, two cops are competing for the vacant job of chief of police, in the middle of the search for a gang of violent thieves. The movie is direct...

Battle of the Brave
2004
as Father Thomas Blondeau
In the mid-18th Century, as England and France battle over control of Canada, an epic romance between a peasant woman and a trapper unfurls

San Antonio
2004
as l'inspecteur Bérurier
While a terrorist epidemy strikes the world leaders, the commissaire San-Antonio and his partner, the lieutenant Bérurier, have to escort the French a...

RRRrrrr!!!
2004
as Le chef des Cheveux Sales
In 35,000 BC, the tribe of the Dirty Hairs is at war against the tribe of the Clean Hairs for eight hundred years, trying to get their shampoo. The ch...

The Car Keys
2003
as Cheesemaker
Who would think losing car keys could lead us that far ? Be careful, adventure is on every street corner...

Ruby & Quentin
2003
as Quentin
After hiding his loot and getting thrown in jail, brooding outlaw Ruby befriends Quentin, a dim-witted and garrulous giant. After Quentin botches a so...

Nathalie...
2003
as Bernard
Paris doctor Catherine starts to think her husband, Bernard, is having an affair when she hears an unfamiliar woman's message on his voice mail. Hopin...

Crime Spree
2003
as Daniel Foray
An out-of-town heist becomes a nightmare for a crew of French burglars when they mistakenly rob the head of the Chicago mafia. Unaccustomed to the way...

Bon Voyage
2003
as Jean-Étienne Beaufort
On the eve of World War II four Parisians cope with the impending invasion of their city by German forces. While the French government braces for impa...

The Pact of Silence
2003
as Joachim
Everyone has a secret. Twins Sarah and Gaëlle near 25; for ten years, Sarah has been a fundamentalist Carmelite in a Brazilian convent, and Gaëlle has...

A Loving Father
2002
as Léo Shepherd
Writer Léo Shepherd lives in rural France together with his daughter Virginia, who manages his affairs. One day Virginia gets a call from the Swedish ...

A Loving Father
2002
Producer
Writer Léo Shepherd lives in rural France together with his daughter Virginia, who manages his affairs. One day Virginia gets a call from the Swedish ...

Ruy Blas
2002
as Don Salluste
Chased out of the Spanish court, a nobleman uses the services of his valet to take revenge. He orders him to seduce the queen in order to better compr...

Blanche
2002
as D'Artagnan
In 17th century France, cardinal Mazarin's death squad kills young Blanche's parents. She grows up to become a thief and steels a substance called Pow...

City of Ghosts
2002
as Emile
A con man who is on the run from law enforcement in the U.S. travels to Cambodia to collect his share in an insurance scam but discovers more than he...

Between Strangers
2002
as Max
Three women confront their pasts which changes their futures.

How we made Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra
2002
as Self
Behind the scenes of Chabat's take on Asterix.
A Day in the Life of French Cinema
2002
as Self
Documentary showing one day of work of over 90 actors and filmmakers from French cinema on the same day. On 27 March 2002, 27 teams filmed actors, dir...

I Am Dina
2002
as Jacob
In Northern Norway during the 1860s, a little girl named Dina accidentally causes her mother's death. Overcome with grief, her father refuses to raise...

Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra
2002
as Obélix
History's favorite Gauls assist Queen Cleopatra when she wagers that the Egyptian people can build a palace for Julius Caesar in just three months.

Streghe verso nord
2001
as Self
Gallio and Teo are two witch defusers. Their task is to track them down and fight them by any means. The second is secretly in love with his sister-in...

Vidocq
2001
as Vidocq
Paris, 1830. In the heart of the town, Vidocq, a famous detective, disappears as he fights the Alchemist, an assassin that he has been pursuing for a ...

CQ
2001
as Andrezej
A young filmmaker in 1960s Paris juggles directing a cheesy sci-fi debacle, directing his own personal art film, coping with his crumbling relationshi...

Unfair Competition
2001
as Professor Angelo
Two linen fabric dealers with their shops close to one another, battle against each other for more and more costumers. Umberto constantly loses client...

The Closet
2001
as Félix Santini
A man spreads the rumor of his fake homosexuality with the aid of his neighbor, to prevent his imminent firing at his work.

The Envy of Gods
2000
as Bernard
Sonia is a television editor, she is married to successful Soviet writer Sergey and they have a son in a high school. Their life was almost perfect......

102 Dalmatians
2000
as Jean Pierre Le Pelt
Get ready for a howling good time as an all new assortment of irresistible animal heroes are unleashed in this great family tail! In an unlikely allia...

Bérénice
2000
as Titus
An adaptation of Jean Racine's tragedy which depicts the thwarted loves of Antiochus, Titus (the future emperor of Rome) and Berenice (the queen of Pa...

Vatel
2000
as Francois Vatel
In 1671, with war brewing with Holland, a penniless prince invites Louis XIV to three days of festivities at a chateau in Chantilly. The prince wants ...

Actors
2000
as Gérard Depardieu
Les Acteurs is the absurd story of Jean-Pierre Marielle desperately waiting for a cup of hot water, the story of a conspiracy against actors, the stor...

Tutto l'amore che c'è
2000
as Molotov
The story takes place in an unspecified town in Apulia. We are in the '70s. The arrival of three beautiful and uninhibited girls from the North, the d...

Mirka
2000
as Strix
The isolated lives of people on a farm at the top of the mountains are changed by a ten-year-old child named Mirka.

Balzac: A Life of Passion
1999
as Honoré de Balzac
This is the sprawling saga of Honoré de Balzac, a man who created a great literary oeuvre from the dramas and adventures of his own life - a life that...

The Bridge
1999
as Georges
Mina is a movie buff with a husband, Georges, who's out of work, and a 15-year-old son, Tommy. While Mina works part-time as a domestic for Claire Dab...

The Bridge
1999
Director, Producer
Mina is a movie buff with a husband, Georges, who's out of work, and a 15-year-old son, Tommy. While Mina works part-time as a domestic for Claire Dab...

Asterix & Obelix Take on Caesar
1999
as Obélix
Set in 50 B.C., Asterix and Obelix are living in a small but well-protected village in Gaul, where a magic potion concocted by Druids turns the townsf...

Bimboland
1998
as Laurent Gaspard
A shy French anthropologist who happens to be secretly in love with her college superior, chooses "bimbos" as the subject of her thesis. She becomes o...

Junket Whore
1998
as Self
A documentary film that explores the relationship between publicists and journalists in Hollywood.

Notes of Love
1998
as Levi
A woman suffering from compulsive-type psychological problems falls for an older divorced neighbour. Will her love be returned? A slow story of confus...

The Man in the Iron Mask
1998
as Porthos
Years have passed since the Three Musketeers, Aramis, Athos and Porthos, have fought together with their friend, D'Artagnan. But with the tyrannical K...

XXL
1997
as Jean Bourdalou
Tunisian-Jewish businessman Alain Berrebi (Michel Boujenah) courts Ashkenazi princess Arlette Stern (Elsa Zylberstein). Her father David (Maurice Chev...

Pitch
1997
as Self
A Canadian documentary featuring two young filmmakers attending the Toronto Film Festival to pitch a film concept to various celebrities. Their film i...

She's So Lovely
1997
Executive Producer
After being released from a psychiatric institution, a man tries to redeem himself in the eyes of his now-ex wife from the events that led up to his i...
Roberto Rossellini: Il mestiere di uomo
1997
as Self
Documentary about the life and works of Italian filmmaker Roberto Rossellini.

Hamlet
1996
as Reynaldo
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, returns home to find his father murdered and his mother now marrying the murderer... his uncle. Meanwhile, war is brewing.

The Best Job in the World
1996
as Laurent Monier
To be closer to his children following his divorce, Laurent Monier, a history and geography teacher in a peaceful provincial high school, accepts a po...

The Secret Agent
1996
as Ossipon
In 1880s London, pornographic bookseller Verloc is a double agent for the Russian government, providing information to Chief Inspector Heat about a la...

Bogus
1996
as Bogus
Recently orphaned, a young boy is taken in by his godmother who is shocked to realize that she can see the boy's imaginary friend: a flamboyant, Frenc...

Unhook the Stars
1996
as Big Tommy
Widowed mother Mildred must suddenly redefine herself and find an outlet for her nurturing side when her adult daughter moves out of the family home. ...

The Son Of...
1995
as Gerard
A self-centered man (Gérard Depardieu) with many diversions occasionally visits his 4-year-old son (Antoine Pialat) and the boy's mother (Géraldine Pa...

Guardian Angels
1995
as Carco / M. Ciccolini / La « bonne conscience »
A sleazy Paris nightclub owner and ex-detective flies to Hong Kong to rescue the young son of a friend murdered by the Chinese mob.

The Horseman on the Roof
1995
as Police commissioner of Manosque
In a time of war and disease, a young officer gallantly tries to help a young woman find her husband.

Elisa
1995
as Jacques 'Lébovitch', Marie's father
Marie has had a tough childhood ever since her mother Elisa committed suicide. She has spent most of her life in an orphanage and now makes a living a...

One Hundred and One Nights
1995
as Self
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 ...

Colonel Chabert
1994
as Chabert
When Colonel Chabert returns from the war, he discovers that he has lost everything.

The Machine
1994
as Dr. Marc Lacroix
This deftly made French psychological thriller terrifies with its exploration of an experiment gone horribly wrong. Dr. Marc Lacroix, a psychiatrist s...

A Pure Formality
1994
as Onoff
Onoff is a famous writer, now a recluse. The Inspector is suspicious when Onoff is brought into the station one night, disoriented and suffering a kin...

My Father the Hero
1994
as Andre
A teenage girl on vacation in the Bahamas with her divorced father tries to impress a potential boyfriend by saying that her father is actually her lo...

Germinal
1993
as Toussaint Maheu
It's mid 19th century, north of France. The story of a coal miner's town. They are exploited by the mine's owner. One day the decide to go on strike, ...

Oh, Woe Is Me
1993
as Simon Donnadieu
This complex allegorical tale tells the story of man’s quest for spiritual meaning. When God enters the body of 1980s filmmaker Simon Donnadieu, his w...

François Truffaut: Stolen Portraits
1993
as Self
Twenty-six people - including two daughters, an ex-wife, his last lover, actors, fellow directors and writers, a neighbor, and boyhood friends - talk ...

1492: Conquest of Paradise
1992
as Christopher Columbus
1492: Conquest of Paradise depicts Christopher Columbus’ discovery of The New World and his effect on the indigenous people.

All the Mornings of the World
1991
as Marin Marais
Following the death of his wife, a renowned musician ostracises himself from the outer world and dedicates his life to music. However, his life change...

My Father the Hero
1991
as André Arnel
Veronique, living with her divorced mother, is going on holiday to Mauritius with her father. To impress a local boy, Benjamin, she manages to complic...

The Stranger
1991
Executive Producer, Producer
A well-off Indian family is paid an unexpected, and rather unwanted, visit by a man claiming to be the woman's long lost uncle. The initial suspicion ...

Thank You, Life
1991
as Marc Antoine Worms
Camille, a naïve schoolgirl, meets an intriguing influence in Joelle, a slightly older and much more experienced spirit. Camille follows her new frien...

Green Card
1990
as Georges Faure
Urban horticulturalist Brontë Mitchell has her eye on a gorgeous apartment, but the building's board will rent it only to a married couple. Georges Fa...

Uranus
1990
as Léopold
After World War II, a small French village struggles to put the war behind as the controlling Communist Party tries to flush out Petain loyalists. The...

The Branches of the Tree
1990
Producer
When a wealthy patriarch falls ill on his 70th birthday, three of his sons rush in from Calcutta, leading to a reunion filled with painful ironies and...

Cyrano de Bergerac
1990
as Cyrano de Bergerac
Famed swordsman and poet Cyrano de Bergerac is in love with his cousin Roxane. He has never expressed his love for her as he his large nose undermines...

Too Beautiful for You
1989
as Bernard Barthélémy
A car dealer, well-to-do and with a beautiful wife, finds himself attracted to his rather plain new temporary secretary. Despite her own commitments s...

I Want to Go Home
1989
as Christian Gauthier
Joey Wellman, an American cartoonist from Cleveland now largely forgotten at home, visits France with his partner Lena to attend an exhibition in Pari...

Deux
1989
as Marc Lambert
The manager of a contemporary music composer falls in love with the real estate agent with whom he is looking for a house in Paris. But both have been...

Deux
1989
Producer
The manager of a contemporary music composer falls in love with the real estate agent with whom he is looking for a house in Paris. But both have been...

Camille Claudel
1988
as Auguste Rodin
The life of Camille Claudel, a French sculptor who becomes the apprentice of Auguste Rodin and later his lover. Her passion for her art and Rodin driv...

Strange Place for an Encounter
1988
as Charles
France is a haughty, bourgeoise wife who is abandoned at the side of the road by her husband after a vicious quarrel. She meets Charles, a doctor. The...

Under the Sun of Satan
1987
as Donissan
Satan tempts Father Dossignan, who is trying to save the soul of a young girl who killed one of her lovers.

The Fugitives
1986
as Jean Lucas
Coming out from jail, Lucas has decided to change his life and behave like a good citizen. But when he is taken hostage in a bank by a hare-brained ro...

The Way Out
1986
as Father of Clara
Leaving prison, Paul goes to the port. That's where he lived and where he got caught. This is also where his father died. And before leaving to try hi...

Jean de Florette
1986
as Jean Cadoret, hunchback, son of Florette
In a rural French village, an old man and his only remaining relative cast their covetous eyes on an adjoining vacant property. They need its spring w...

Ménage
1986
as Bob
Bickering couple Monique and Antoine are interrupted by bisexual burglar Bob while fighting in a bar. With husband and wife in need of cash, Bob teach...

Police
1985
as Louis Vincent Mangin
Mangin, a police inspector in Paris, leans hard on informants to get evidence on three Tunisian brothers who traffic in drugs. He arrests one, Simon, ...

Vivement Truffaut
1985
as Self / Bernard (archive footage)
A tribute to the late, great French director Francois Truffaut, this documentary was undoubtedly named after his last movie, Vivement Dimanche!, relea...

One Woman or Two
1985
as Julien Chayssac
An ad executive impersonates an archeology professor to avoid a situation with an obsessed former lover. She enlists the help of a hapless archeologis...

17ème jour de tournage du film "Police"
1984
as Self

Rive droite, rive gauche
1984
as Paul Senanques
Longtime friends Guarrigue and Sénanques own a successful law practice in Paris. The dreaded businessman Pervillard is one of their clients. One night...

Le Tartuffe
1984
as Tartuffe
Orgon is a man of property duped by the false piety of the penniless Tartuffe. Orgon takes him into his house, believing him a paragon of virtue. Orgo...

Le Tartuffe
1984
Director, Writer
Orgon is a man of property duped by the false piety of the penniless Tartuffe. Orgon takes him into his house, believing him a paragon of virtue. Orgo...

Fort Saganne
1984
as Charles Saganne
In 1911, a willful and determined man from peasant stock named Charles Saganne enlists in the military and is assigned to the Sahara Desert under the ...

The ComDads
1983
as Jean Lucas
Unable to find her runaway son, a woman deceives two of her ex-lovers from her youth, a mild-mannered teacher and a tough journalist, that each is the...

The ComDads
1983
Producer
Unable to find her runaway son, a woman deceives two of her ex-lovers from her youth, a mild-mannered teacher and a tough journalist, that each is the...

The Moon in the Gutter
1983
as Gérard Delmas - un docker hanté par le suicide de sa soeur
A dockworker seeking revenge on the killer of his sister finds himself the object of desire for two women.

Danton
1983
as Georges Danton
Danton and Robespierre were close friends and fought together in the French Revolution, but by 1793 Robespierre was France's ruler, determined to wipe...

The Big Brother
1982
as Gérard Berger / Bernard Vigo
The plot in this story weaves around like a New Year's reveler at four in the morning, heading first in one direction and then in another, with the in...

The Return of Martin Guerre
1982
as Arnaud du Tilh
Village of Artigat, southern France, summer 1542, during the reign of Francis I. Martin Guerre and Bertrande de Rols marry. A few years later, accused...

Droit de Réponse
1981
as Self
"Droit de Réponse" (Right of Reply) is a French debate program broadcast between December 12, 1981 and September 19, 1987 on the TF1 channel, presente...

La Chèvre
1981
as Campana, private detective
When the boss' unlucky daughter is missing in South America, Campana is sent to watch the boss' most unlucky employee who is sent as a private detecti...

The Woman Next Door
1981
as Bernard Coudray
Madame Jouve, the narrator, tells the tragedy of Bernard and Mathilde. Bernard was living happily with his wife Arlette and his son Thomas. One day, a...

Choice of Arms
1981
as Mickey
A former crook is pulled out of retirement when a gang on the run turn to him for shelter after a prison break.

I Love You All
1980
as Patrick
Alice invites all four men she has loved in her life for the dinner of New Year's Eve at the same time and unites them all in her house. In sentimenta...

Inspector Blunder
1980
as Roger Morzini, public enemy number 1
A detective, fresh out of the academy (lowest mark in class), gets the assignment to bodyguard a spoiled rich girl reporter. She's been interviewed on...

The Last Metro
1980
as Bernard Granger
In occupied Paris, an actress married to a Jewish theater owner must keep him hidden from the Nazis while doing both of their jobs.

Loulou
1980
as Loulou
A bored wife leaves her husband for an unemployed, petty criminal.

My American Uncle
1980
as René Ragueneau
Prof. Henri Laborit uses the stories of the lives of three people to discuss behaviorist theories of survival, combat, rewards and punishment, and anx...

Hurricane Rosie
1980
as Raoul Lamarre
Raoul has best chances to become next boxing champion in light-heavy weight. For a bet he tries to beat through a door with his bare fist. He wins the...

Buffet Froid
1979
as Alphonse Tram
An absurd black comedy that cunningly reverses the conventions of the crime thriller to comment on the alienating and dehumanizing effects of contempo...

The Dogs
1979
as Morel
After several inhabitants of a new city were bitten by dogs, a young doctor tries to stop to the climb of violence.

Traffic Jam
1979
as Franco
A tremendous congestion hits the Rome highway ring. The biggest traffic jam ever seen lasts more than 36 hours. At the beginning the people blocked in...

Sugar
1978
as Raoul-Renaud Homecourt
Civil servant Adrien Courtois comes to Paris in order to make his money bear fruits.

The Left-Handed Woman
1978
as The Man with the T-Shirt
Mourning for a lost relationship can be every bit as devastating as mourning for someone who has died. In this drama based on the director's own novel...

Bye Bye Monkey
1978
as Gérard Lafayette
In metahistorical New York city electrotechnician Lafayette deals with a megalomaniac director of a wax museum of ancient Rome, an italian lonely anar...

Violanta
1978
as Fortunat
A young man raises the dead in a high valley where the power is held by Violanta.

Get Out Your Handkerchiefs
1978
as Raoul
Solange is seriously depressed, and her kindhearted husband, Raoul, makes it his mission to cure her doldrums. After many failed attempts to cheer her...

At Night All Cats Are Crazy
1977
as Philippe Larcher
Playwright Charles Watson entertains his niece Lily by telling her about the adventures of Philibert.Both these people have something to do with Phili...

Tell Her That I Love Her
1977
as David Martinaud
Industrious accountant David Martinaud claims to be visiting his parents every weekend, but it's merely a cover for the labor-intensive refurbishing o...

Baxter, Vera Baxter
1977
as Michel Cayre
In an empty villa, Vera Baxter sits and contemplates her life, as she recounts to a woman who was drawn to the villa when she heard the name Vera Baxt...

The Lorry
1977
as lui
In this most talky and personal of films, director Marguerite Duras and actor Gerard Depardieu do an on-camera read-through of a movie script. Occasio...

Rene the Cane
1977
as René Bornier
"René la Canne" was the second collaboration between Francis Girod and Ennio Morricone, coming after "Le Trio Infernal" (1974) and before "La Banquièr...

Barocco
1976
as Samson / Samson's Killer
A woman falls in love with the man who killed her former boyfriend.

1900
1976
as Olmo Dalcò
The epic tale of a class struggle in twentieth century Italy, as seen through the eyes of two childhood friends on opposing sides.

The Last Woman
1976
as Gérard
Psychological drama of the compelling relationship between a young French engineer and the girl he takes into his home after his wife has left him wit...

I Love You, I Don't
1976
as Horseman
The petite waitress Johnny works and lives in a truck-stop, where she's lonely and longs for love. She develops a crush on the garbage truck driver Kr...

The Cinema According to Bertolucci
1976
as Self
Documentary on the filming of Novecento by Bernardo Bertolucci

Maîtresse
1976
as Oliver
After breaking into a house he believes is empty, thief Olivier is caught by the owner, Ariane, who turns out to be a dominatrix. Improbably falling f...

Seven Deaths by Prescription
1975
as Dr Jean-Pierre Berg
Dr. Brézé and his sons, all surgeons with limited abilities fight any competition on their sector with all means.

Abicinema
1975
as Self

Vincent, Francois, Paul and the Others
1974
as Jean Lavallée, ami de Vincent
Three friends navigate mid-life crises: a blocked writer, a disillusioned doctor, and a charming man facing bankruptcy and divorce. As their struggles...

Stavisky...
1974
as Le jeune inventeur
Biarritz, 1933. Charm and talent help small-time swindler Serge Alexandre, alias Stavisky, to bribe his way into the centre of French political power....

Woman of the Ganges
1974
as Guy on the beach / "The Fool"
A man returns to the place he once lived a passionate love affair with a woman who is now dead. So powerful are the emotions that seize him that he i...

Going Places
1974
as Jean-Claude
Two whimsical, aimless thugs harass and assault women, steal, murder, and alternately charm, fight, or sprint their way out of trouble. They take what...

The Down-in-the-Hole Gang
1974
as le facteur
Here we find a group of misfits who've given up on humanity and have decided to dwell below the pavement. The group has its own hierarchy, of course, ...

The Wonderful Crook
1974
as Pierre
A manufacturer of furniture sees his business go down and decides to rob banks to pay his staff. Het gets romantically involved with one of his victim...

L'Inconnu
1973
as Gérard
The descent into hell begins for Edouard, a disillusioned marginal, when he loses his job, and his wife leaves with his son. His meeting with a myster...

Rude journée pour la reine
1973
as Fabien

Two Men in Town
1973
as Young mobster
A former bank robber is released after 10 years in prison. He gets help from a social-worker, but gets harassed by an old cop from his past.

Nathalie Granger
1973
as Le démarcheur
With little or no embellishment, filmmaker Marguerite Duras offers a simple, often wordless chronicle of a woman's day. She and her friend are seen do...

Un monsieur bien rangé
1973
as Jean Joseph Jenk

The Dominici Affair
1973
as Zézé Perrin
In August 1952, a family of British tourists is found by the roadside in Haute Provence, brutally murdered. In the ensuing, very public, investigation...

The Year 01
1973
as A traveler who does not take the train
The film narrates a utopian abandonment, consensual and festive of the market economy and high productivity. The population decides on a number of res...

At the Meeting with Joyous Death
1973
as Beretti
The premise deals with a family living in a country-house which turns out to be 'alive' – to the point where a TV crew is brought in to 'capture' the ...

The Pariah
1972
as Young crook
For more than 15 years, two Marseille friends and criminals battle the law, rival gangs, prison authorities and even mined beaches in order to survive...

Killer
1972
as Frédo Babasch, the sheep
Whilst being transferred to a psychiatric hospital, a ruthless serial killer Gassot makes a break and goes on the run. He arrives in Marseilles, inten...

The Annuity
1972
as Victor, le complice de Jo
In 1930, Louis Martinet, a peaceful sexagenarian, no longer has a long life to live according to the words of his doctor, Leon Galipeau, who sees to t...

La Vie sentimentale de Georges le tueur
1972
as 33 year old father
A hit man fails his contracts because of a young runner.

A Little Sun in Cold Water
1971
as Pierre
Gilles Lantier, a young reporter on the AFP newspaper, is suffering from a nervous breakdown. Realising that neither his friend Jean nor his girlfrien...

Le Cri du cormoran, le soir au-dessus des jonques
1971
as Henri
Alfred Mullanet, an unlucky player who lives on his wife's income, becomes in a few moments the object of interest of two thugs, Kruger and Mister K.

Nausicaa
1971
as Le voleur de livres
A girl, whose father is from Greece, studies ancient art in France. The film was made for television but never broadcast for political reasons related...

The Adventures of Zadig
1970
as Zadig
In the time of King Moabdar, in ancient Babylon, the young philosopher, Zadig, undergoes many misadventures.

La Pomme de son œil
1970
as Hamid
What father doesn't care for his daughter unconditionally? It's a real question for Roland de Mailly, a divorced father who, in spite of himself, is s...

Le Cyborg ou Le Voyage vertical
1970
as Gabriel

Tango
1970
as Edek
French TV dramatic film made early in Depardieu's career that includes Oscar winning character actress Gale Sondegaard in the supporting cast.
Le Beatnik et le minet
1967
as Le beatnik

Christmas Carole
1966
A moral fable, loosely based on Dickens.
Спорт без границ
N/A
as Sergei Romanov
In the film, Depardieu played the head coach of the Russian skiers, who takes the controversial step of firing all the Russian coaches and support tea...

Twins
N/A
as Bishop Tarcisi
The massacre of the Levi family, of which only adopted twins Eva and Greta survive, pits priests Father Michel and Father Paul against the powers of e...

70
N/A
Two french friends go on a sex tourism trip in North Korea to celebrate its 70th anniversary.
She Was Staring and Saw Nothing
N/A
Forget everything, or recover memory and remember. Let yourself fall and stop, or return to life and start again. Adrift, lost face-to-face, two women...