Biography
Jean-Pierre Darroussin is a French film actor. He was born in Courbevoie, France on December 4, 1953. His films include the 2004 thriller Red Lights. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jean-Pierre Darroussin,licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Complete Filmography

Vultures
2025
as Christian
A father and daughter : Samuel, a journalist, and Ava, his intern, cover the murder of a girl attacked with acid for their magazine. Struck by the bru...

The Thieving Magpie
2025
as M. Moreau
Maria, who's not as young as she used to be and who helps people older than her, is living from hand to mouth. She can't quite accept her precarious s...

Juliette in Spring
2024
as Léonard
Juliette goes back in her hometown to spend some time with her family. She finds herself between a loving but moody father, a New Age mother, a sister...

And the Party Goes On
2023
as Henri
In Marseille, Rosa, 60, dedicated her life to family and politics with the same sense of duty. Everyone considers her unwavering, until the day she fa...

Marguerite's Theorem
2023
as Laurent Werner
The future of Marguerite, a brilliant student in Mathematics at the prestigious Ecole Normale Supérieure, seems all planned out. The only woman from h...

All Your Faces
2023
as Michel
Since 2014, France's restorative justice programmes have offered a safe space for supervised dialogue between offenders and victims. Grégoire, Nawelle...

The Grand Restaurant IV
2022
For this new year, Pierre, the director of the Grand Restaurant is thinking big to try to get the famous star from the famous Michalon guide! And for ...

School Society
2022
as Daniel
Virginie Thévenot, a somewhat special math teacher, takes advantage of a general strike in a college to try an extraordinary experiment with a small g...

Rumba Therapy
2022
as Gilles
Tony is a macho middle-aged school bus driver in the provinces with no friends or relations. A sudden heart attack throws him into a tailspin. Tony's ...

Little Nicholas' Treasure
2021
as Director
In the peaceful world of Little Nicholas, there is Daddy, Mommy, the school, but above all, his band of friends. They are called The Invincibles, but ...

The Grand Restaurant III
2021
as Jean-Jacques
He had opened his Great Restaurant twice, in 2010 and 2011, as part of an entertainment broadcast on France 2. Pierre Palmade “reopens it after work” ...

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

Monsieur Deligny, vagabond efficace
2020
as Narrator
Famous educator Fernand Deligny tries to find ways to communicate beyond language with troubled and autistic children in his care.

Gloria Mundi
2019
as Richard Benar
Daniel leaves prison. He returns to Marseilles where Mathilda, his daughter, has just given birth. Nicolas, her spouse, a self-employed driver, is exh...

The Dazzled
2019
as Le Berger
Camille, is the eldest of a large family. One day, her parents enter a religious community which gradually, regimentation becomes sectarian and Camill...

Chacun pour tous
2018
as Martin
In order to participate with medal options in the Sydney 2000 Paralympic Games, the national coach of France decides to form a basketball team compose...

Promise at Dawn
2017
as Zaremba
From his childhood in Poland to his adolescence in Nice to his years as a student in Paris and his tough training as a pilot during World War II, this...

The House by the Sea
2017
as Joseph
By a little bay near Marseille lies a picturesque villa owned by an old man. His three children have gathered by his side for his last days. It’s time...

La Loi de Julien, Le bon fils
2017
as Maître Julien Meunier

A Woman's Life
2016
as Le baron Simon-Jacques Le Perthuis des Vauds
Normandy, 1819. Jeanne is a young woman full of childish dreams and innocence when she returns home after finishing her schooling in a convent. She ma...

The Death of Auguste
2015
as Antoine Mature
When old Auguste drops dead among the customers in his restaurant, his heirs worry about the inheritance, suspicious of each other. However, an unexpe...

Heatwave
2015
as Daniel Huot-Marchand
In a small village of the South of France, life is made difficult by a sweltering heat wave and its corollary, a worrisome lack of water. Everyone is ...

Get Well Soon
2014
as Hervé Laurent
After an accident, Pierre, a sixty years old grumpy man, ends up stuck on an hospital bed with a cast. While Pierre dreams of silence and solitude wit...

Ariane's Thread
2014
as le chauffeur de taxi / Le metteur en scène
Ariane is having her birthday party but no one comes. She decides to leave at the seaside and take part with her life that disappointed her.

Il était une fois... « Marius et Jeannette »
2014
as Self

Paris Follies
2014
as Xavier Lecanu
Long married 50-somethings Brigitte and Xavier are prize cattle breeders in regional France. Life is good, but the departure of their children from ho...

Calme
2014

Frenchmen 3
2013
as Manu
Alex, Antoine and Manu meet Jean, a loner who ignores the pleasures of friendship. Little by little, they learn to know each other, to appreciate each...

One of a Kind
2013
as The father
When Frédi loses his mother, he realizes she has passed her healing gift on to him. Frédi rejects it totally, tangled up in his own unhappiness, until...

Fanny
2013
as Honoré Panisse
"Fanny" is the second part of the "Marseille trilogy", made by Marcel Pagnol with the generic name of "Marius, Fanny and César". Fanny falls in love a...

Marius
2013
as Honoré Panisse
"Marius" takes place in Marseilles' Old Port, at the La Marine Bar, owned by César and his son Marius. Marius' biggest dream is to embark on one of th...

Jasmine
2013
as (voice)
France, end of the 70s: Alain is the author of several cartoon films. His romantic meeting with a young Iranian student, Jasmine, changes the course o...

Rendez-vous à Kiruna
2013
as Ernest

Calm at Sea
2012
as Abbot Moyon
October 1941. Eighteen months into France’s occupation by German troops, young Communist members of the Resistance shoot dead an officer of the German...

The Snows of Kilimanjaro
2011
as Michel
A union pensioner and his wife are robbed, but find that merely getting the assailants brought to justice is not enough for their consciences.

Early One Morning
2011
as Paul
Monday morning. Paul Wertret, 50, heads off to his job as a manager at the International Credit and Trade Bank. He arrives at 8 o'clock on the dot, as...

Le Havre
2011
as Monet
In the French harbor city of Le Havre, fate throws young African refugee Idrissa into the path of Marcel Marx, a well-spoken bohemian who works as a s...

The Great Restaurant II
2011
as The bisexual swinger
The great restaurant reopens with new extravagent costumers and the same beloved manager.

The Well Digger's Daughter
2011
as André Mazel
It's the beginning of the WWII. South of France. Patricia, 18, is the oldest daughter of a well-digger, Pascal, who considers her a princess because o...

Holiday
2010
as Michel Trémois
After a crazy and tumultuous night embellished with singular encounters, Michel's awakening is brutal and painful. Not only does he find himself accus...

22 Bullets
2010
as Martin Beaudinard
A retired mobster goes on a revenge spree after being left for dead with 22 bullets in his body by his former childhood friend.

Ya basta !
2010
A specialised center is closing its doors. The mentally handicapped inhabitants helped by their educators are taking their destiny in their own hands.

The Queen of Clubs
2010
as Simon Sarasian
Aurélien and Argine have never been able to leave each other. Brother and sister, they have always lived together. Aurélien secretly makes ends meet f...

Army of Crime
2009
as Inspecteur Pujol
This gripping historical drama recounts the story of Armenian-born Missak Manouchian, a woodworker and political activist who led an immigrant laborer...

The Ordinary People
2009
as Bruno Couffe
The Muller company organizes a reception to mark the launch of a new product. During the evening, we discover that this is actually a coaching exercis...

Bulles de Vian
2009
as Self
"Vian Bubbles" - On June 23, 2009, fifty years to the day after the death of Boris Vian, a supernatural phenomenon crosses all of France: in the stree...

Bank Error in Your Favour
2009
as Étienne
After working with the bank for a long time, Julien decides to open a restaurant with his best friend. Unfortunately, when the bank refuses to grant h...

Grown Ups
2008
as Albert
Every year, Albert buys his daughter an initiatory journey to a European country. For her 17th birthday he chooses a trip to Sweden to look for a Viki...

Le Voyage aux Pyrénées
2008
as Alexandre Darou
Getting away from it all causes more problems than it solves in this comedy from the French writing-directing team of Jean-Marie Larrieu and Arnaud La...

Le Septième Juré
2008
as Grégoire Duval
The action takes place in a typical French town in the early sixties, at the end of the Algerian war. In a fit of criminal madness, a married, affluen...

Lady Jane
2008
as François
After having perpetrated a serious crime, Muriel, François and René, childhood friends born in the working-class streets of Marseille, go their separa...

Frenchmen 2
2007
as Manu
Alex, Antoine, Jeff and Manu. Four friends, four years later. Their relationships, friendship, shared secrets, feelings of guilt and their desire to c...

Fragile(s)
2007
as Yves
Six characters cross paths in Paris and Lisbon.

Conversations with My Gardener
2007
as Léo, the gardener aka 'Dujardin'
A successful artist, weary of Parisian life and on the verge of divorce, returns to the country to live in his childhood house. He needs someone to ma...

Waiting for Someone
2007
as Louis Renard
Three story-lines run in parallel in a town in Ile de France. Louis, a divorced café proprietor, flirts with every woman he bumps into, but doesn't de...

Premonition
2006
as Charles Bénesteau
A Parisian lawyer moves to a working-class neighborhood in an attempt to shed his social conditioning and bourgeois values.

Premonition
2006
Director, Screenplay
A Parisian lawyer moves to a working-class neighborhood in an attempt to shed his social conditioning and bourgeois values.

Armenia
2006
as Pierre
This is a story about returning to ones ancestral homeland. Anna is a cardiologist who discovers her father has fled to his native Armenia after being...

All the Beauty of the World
2006
as Michel
This is the story of Franck and Tina. Franck loves Tina, but she can't love him. The man of her life has just died and she's having a nervous breakdow...

Le Cactus
2005
as Renard
Sami and Patrick are long-time friends. Sami is a hypochondriac. One day, following a misunderstanding at the hospital, Sami thinks he has an incurabl...

How Much Do You Love Me?
2005
as André Migot
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...

Saint-Jacques… La Mecque
2005
as Claude
Three siblings who detest each other and hiking must complete together a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela in order to be eligible to inherit their...

Une année au front : dans les coulisses de "Un long dimanche de fiançailles"
2005
as Self

A Very Long Engagement
2004
as Benjamin Gordes
Young Frenchwoman Mathilde searches for the truth about her missing fiancé, lost during World War I, and learns many unexpected things along the way. ...

My Father is an Engineer
2004
as Jérémie / Joseph
Her parents and a former lover try to help a woman out of an apparently unjustified catatonic condition.

Cause toujours !
2004
as Bruno
This way-offbeat comedy from Gallic director Jeanne Labrune concerns two young French women, best friends Léa and Jacinthe. While Jacinthe develops a ...
Robert Guédiguian, cinéaste
2004
as Self
For over twenty years, Robert Guédiguian has been making films that occupy an essential place in French cinema. In film after film, he evokes the soci...

Red Lights
2004
as Antoine
A cross-country trip turns out to be a nightmare for a troubled couple.

The Car Keys
2003
as Actor who refuses to film with Laurent
Who would think losing car keys could lead us that far ? Be careful, adventure is on every street corner...

Frenchmen
2003
as Manu
The life of four best friends in Paris: Antoine (a gym school teacher), Jeff (director of a monthly journal), Alex (Jeff's associate in the monthly jo...

Les Bronzés, le père Noël, papy et les autres
2003
as Self
Les Bronzés, le Père Noël, Papy et les autres....Discover or rediscover the emblematic scenes of these cult films that have crossed generations withou...

Special Delivery
2002
as Raphaël
An unexpected phone call from a certain Kirsch sets off a crisis between Catherine and Raphaël that will affect all those around them, be they close f...

If I Were a Rich Man
2002
as Aldo
Between Alice, a hospital nurse and Aldo, a shampoo sales representative, things have turned sour of late. Alice blames her husband for lacking ambiti...

The Landlords
2002
as Patrick Bertil
Directed by Rémi Waterhouse, Mille Millièmes is centered around an eccentric ensemble of apartment residents. Kindness is noticeably absent among thei...

Marie-Jo and Her 2 Loves
2002
as Daniel
Marie-Jo is a middleaged woman living an ordinary life in Marseilles with her husband, Daniel and her daughter, Julie. Daniel runs a small constructio...

A Private Affair
2002
as Homme Apolus
Divorced private detective Francois Maneri is assigned by his agency to investigate the disappearance of Rachel, a young student who has been missing ...

August 15th
2001
as Raoul
Three men are abandonned by their wives for a few days in the summer holidays. They are alone with five kids to feed and a house to maintain. And they...

L'Art (délicat) de la séduction
2001
as Monsieur Hubert
The film follows Etienne, a 40-year-old car designer, who takes time off from work to study sexual mastery from a Zen master and several prostitutes, ...

Don't Make Trouble!
2001
as (segment "Poitiers, voiture 11")
Twelve short stories about racism in every day life.

Tomorrow's Another Day
2000
as Xavier
A group of Parisians frets over the minutiae of life in the course of one week.

The Town Is Quiet
2000
as Paul
A dark tale of working-class life in Marseilles, a city in crisis. Interesting characters include a hard-bitten but compassionate fish market worker w...

Charge!
2000
as Jean-Do
Two scriptwriter friends with opposing personalities fuss and fight as they cobble together a script for a modern political film. Their arguments seem...

The Taste of Others
2000
as Un spectateur au théâtre
Unpolished and ultra-pragmatic industrialist Jean-Jacques Castella reluctantly attends Racine's tragedy "Berenice" in order to see his niece play a bi...

Who Plucked the Feathers Off the Moon?
1999
as Lucien
Two sisters have to deal with the traditional issues of growing up and the unusual problem of caring for an unstable father in the drama Qui Plume La ...

Season's Beatings
1999
as Gilbert
Christmas, family, and infidelity. Yvette's husband has died, and her grown daughters join her at the grave: Sonia, wealthy, bourgeois, and generous; ...
Inséparables
1999
as Robert
Twenty years ago, Robert left his home in the provincial northern town of Boulogne to make it as an actor. His career never amounted to much, as he ma...

C'est quoi la vie ?
1999
as Marc, le père
In this drama, three generations of the same family work together on a farm in rural France. Elderly Noel takes pride in having worked this land nearl...

La Finale
1999
as Henri
A low-income housing estate in the south of France, at the time of the soccer World Cup. The daughter of the leader of an extreme right-wing party set...

Where the Heart Is
1998
as Joël Patché
From the director of Marius et Jeannette, this story of two working-class families is a fable with an optimist streak. A young black man, Francois, is...

The Octopus
1998
as Gabriel Lecouvreur, 'le Poulpe'
Gabriel, dit Le Poulpe (The Octopus) is a laid-back private investigator who works on cases for his own pleasure. He is drawn to the fictional Loire V...

Beware of My Love
1998
as Voyageur de commerce
Muriel, a writer nearing 50 whose older lover won't live with her in Paris, meets a man on a train - Samuel, an Arab. He's attracted to her and pursue...

Marius and Jeannette
1997
as Dédé
Jeannette is a single mother living in a working-class community in Marseilles; she tries to support herself and her two kids on her salary as a check...

Same Old Song
1997
as Le jeune homme au chèque
Odile is a business executive looking for a new, bigger apartment. Her younger sister Camille has just completed her doctoral thesis in history and is...

Family Resemblances
1996
as Denis
An upper middle-class French family celebrates a birthday in a restaurant. In one evening and during one meal, family history, tensions, collective an...

My Man
1996
as Client
In Lyon, where many are unemployed, Marie is a prostitute who loves her work: she's thoughtful and exuberant toward clients old and young, slim or fla...

'Till Death Do Us Part
1995
as Jaco
In Estaque, a northern suburb of Marseilles, stuck between oil refinery smokestacks and the Mediterranean sea, a handful of die-hards has taken refuge...

Madame Petlet's True Story
1995
as Hervé Reyter
In this mainstream French comedy, a television writer creates a hit series based on the experiences of her housekeeper. The writer Nathalie does this ...

La Page blanche
1994
as L'inspecteur
1972. Gilles and Christine are a young couple who is struggling with family difficulties and growing up. Christine convinces Gilles to run away togeth...

Cold Water
1994
as L'inspecteur
An outer suburb of Paris, 1972. Gilles and Christine, both sixteen, are classmates and lovers who have become frustrated with the aloofness of their f...

Cache Cash
1994
as Jean Messignac, cousin d'Antoine
Antoine, 11, is on holiday with his grandfather. One night he catches thieves hiding their booty in a pond. Antoine seizes the 40 million. But Liza, h...

L'argent fait le bonheur
1993
as Vicar
How the mothers of a deprived suburb of Marseille will create a solidarity committee under the aegis of the parish priest. Gathered in assembly, they ...

Kitchen with Apartment
1993
as Fred
Jacques and Martine, an ordinary bourgeois couple, invite to dinner a friend whom they have not seen the last ten years. Since then he has become a me...

Little Nothings
1992
as Domrémy
Lepetit, an ambitious and determined man, is named the new CEO of a department store. His mission is to improve the store's financial position. He dec...

White Nightmare
1992
as J.P.
Four racists plan to assault a local Arab man, but soon things get out of control.
L'Amour en deux
1991
as Matthias
Antoni Farrazzi, a seasonal worker in the maintenance of the ski lifts, is called to the resort of Nivance, run by a certain Matthias, who supports th...
Le Cri du cochon
1991
On vacation in the country, a group of friends are requisitioned by a city official to work at the slaughterhouse.

Dieu vomit les tièdes
1991
as Cochise
Three men and a woman from a city in the south of France made a pact as teenagers to never forget that they were children of the poor.

Mado, poste restante
1990
as Le berger
In this gentle comedy, Mado (Marianne Groves) is the letter-carrier for her small town, and she is constantly on the lookout for a good Catholic man w...

My Best Pals
1989
as Dany Péquou
They are the best friends of the world. Five friends who shared everything: may 68, hippies years, the rock and their love for Bernadette. This Bernad...

Ki lo sa?
1986
as Dada
A group of children from the same neighborhood meet a few years later. When the day comes, they meet again and take stock of their lives.

He Died with His Eyes Open
1985
as Moulard
Police Inspector Staniland is investigating the death of a pianist. While conducting his investigation and looking through the victim's apartment, he ...

Slices of Life
1985
as L'ami du dragueur / Le journaliste
A series of humorous sketches on life: "A Night to Remember", "Summit Showdown", and "A Book? That's personal!"

Our Story
1984
as le second passager
Robert Avranche, a middle-aged, alcoholic garage owner, is sitting on a train, reflecting on the emptiness of his life. An attractive young woman, Don...

Après tout ce qu'on a fait pour toi
1983
as The journalist
Divorced parents are concerned about the behavior of their teenage son who is rebelling against society.

Santa Claus Is a Stinker
1982
as L'homme qui téléphone lors du repas de réveillon
Two neurotics, working for a suicide hotline on the night of Christmas Eve, get caught up in a catastrophe when a pregnant woman, her abusive boyfrien...

Is This Reasonable?
1981
as Henri, Julie's depressed ex
A young journalist comes from Nice to Paris to meet with the famous judge, Simon, hoping he will help her understand a case. She does not know that, a...

The Ones That Got Away
1981
as Amédée
In a train compartment, 6 people who do not know each other tell the story of their troubles in love. Only one of those seems to be a positive one.

Psy
1981
as Jacques
Marc runs a psychotherapy course at a large country house belonging to his wife Colette. His clients are depressed and his job is to cure them of thei...

Hothead
1979
as Photographer (uncredited)
François, a miserable football player, becomes a town hero after bringing victory in an extremely important game. He uses his fame for revenge on the ...
Tiens ferme ta couronne
N/A
Monsieur
N/A
as Dassieux
Mauvaise Pioche
N/A
Une femme aujourd’hui
N/A