Movies & TV Shows/Series by Little Bear at a glance

25 movies found (page 1/1):

In the Electric Mist(2009)

1h 57min | Thriller, Drama, Crime, Mystery

3.1/5 (with 181 votes)

Lt. Dave Robicheaux, a detective in New Iberia, Louisiana, is trying to link the murder of a local hooker to New Orleans mobster Julie (Baby Feet) Balboni, who is co-producer of a Civil War film. At the same time, after Elrod Sykes, the star of the film, reports finding another corpse in the Atchafalaya Swamp near the movie set, Robicheaux starts another investigation, believing the corpse to be the remains of a black man who he saw being murdered 35 years before.

Directed by Bertrand Tavernier - With Tommy Lee Jones, John Goodman, Peter Sarsgaardd, Kelly Macdonald, Mary Steenburgen, Levon Helm, ...

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'Round Midnight(1986)

2h 13min | Drama

3.6/5 (with 37 votes)

Inside the Blue Note nightclub one night in 1959 Paris, an aged, ailing jazzman coaxes an eloquent wail from his tenor sax. Outside, a young Parisian too broke to buy a glass of wine strains to hear those notes. Soon they will form a friendship that sparks a final burst of genius.

Directed by Bertrand Tavernier - With Dexter Gordon, François Cluzet, Lonette McKee, Bobby Hutcherson, Herbie Hancock, Christine Pascal, ...

The French Minister(2013)

1h 53min | Comedy

3.1/5 (with 128 votes)

Alexandre Taillard de Vorms is a force to be reckoned with. With his silver mane and tanned, athletic body, he stalks the world stage as Minister of Foreign Affairs for France, waging his own war backed up by the holy trinity of diplomatic concepts: legitimacy, lucidity, and efficacy. Enter Arthur Vlaminck. Hired to write the minister's speeches, Arthur must contend with the sensibilities of his boss and the dirty dealings within the Quai d'Orsay, the ministry's home.

Directed by Bertrand Tavernier - With Thierry Lhermitte, Niels Arestrup, Didier Bezace, Jane Birkin, Joséphine de La Baume, Anaïs Demoustier, ...

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Captain Conan(1996)

2h 9min | Drama, War

3.3/5 (with 37 votes)

The last days of World War I, Eastern front. Captain Conan, a lone wolf, a true warrior, leads a band of ruthless French fighters who love hand-to-hand combat; they are not fit for peacetime, they only feel really alive in the chaos of the battlefield.

Directed by Bertrand Tavernier - With Samuel Le Bihan, Claude Rich, André Falcon, Bernard Le Coq, Catherine Rich, Cécile Vassort, ...

L.627(1992)

| 2h 21min | Drama, Thriller

3.6/5 (with 39 votes)

In Paris, Lulu, a passionate policeman, works with the faith of a rookie, despite the sclerotic bureaucracy and the incompetence or negligence of some of his colleagues. In his new position as a narcotics inspector, he tries to keep his sanity as he witnesses the worst of the human condition.

Directed by Bertrand Tavernier - With Cécile Garcia-Fogel, Charlotte Kady, Claude Brosset, Didier Bezace, Francis Girod, Francis Lax, ...

Coup de Torchon(1981)

2h 8min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

3.5/5 (with 77 votes)

A pathetic police chief, humiliated by everyone around him, suddenly wants a clean slate in life, and resorts to drastic means to achieve it.

Directed by Bertrand Tavernier - With Philippe Noiret, Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Stéphane Audran, Daniel Langlet, Eddy Mitchell, ...

Fresh Bait(1995)

1h 57min | Drama, Crime

3.3/5 (with 33 votes)

With the ambition to start a boutique overseas but without the means to do so, Nathalie finds herself in a desperate situation, where she would do anything to acquire what she needs. Along with her boyfriend, Eric, and his friend Bruno, she concocts a plan where she seduces clueless men and accompanies them to their places, then allows Eric and Bruno to break in. But the three soon encounter trouble after one of their schemes ends in murder.

Directed by Bertrand Tavernier - With Marie Gillain, Olivier Sitruk, Bruno Putzulu, Richard Berry, Clotilde Courau, Alain Sarde, ...

Death Watch(1980)

| 2h 11min | Drama, Science Fiction

3.2/5 (with 41 votes)

In a future world where the disease has been finally defeated and everything can be sold, even the crude spectacle of death, the rare case of a dying woman becomes the morbid theme of a revolutionary reality show, broadcast through the curious eyes of a peculiar camera.

Directed by Bertrand Tavernier - With Romy Schneider, Harvey Keitel, Harry Dean Stanton, Max von Sydow, Bernhard Wicki, Thérèse Liotard, ...

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Life and Nothing But(1989)

2h 15min | War, Drama

3.6/5 (with 34 votes)

January, 1920. 350,000 French soldiers remain missing in action. Major Dellaplane tirelessly matches the dead and the wounded with families' descriptions. Honor and ethics drive him; he hates the idea of "the unknown soldier." Into his sector, looking for her husband, comes a haughty, politically connected Parisian, Madame Irène de Courtil. Brusquely, Dellaplane offers her 1/350,000th of his time, but as their paths cross and she sees his courage and resolve, feelings change. After he finds a surprising connection between her missing husband and a local teacher, Irène makes Dellaplane an offer. This man of action hesitates: has he missed his only chance?

Directed by Bertrand Tavernier - With Philippe Noiret, Sabine Azéma, Michel Duchaussoy, Philippe Uchan, Daniel Russo, Charlotte Kady, ...

A Sunday in the Country(1984)

1h 30min | Drama, Kids & Family

3.5/5 (with 32 votes)

In France, before WWI. As every Sunday, an old painter living in the country is visited by his son Gonzague, coming with his wife and his three children. Then his daugther Irene arrives. She is always in a hurry, she lives alone and does not come so often... An intimist chronicle in which what is not shown, what is guessed, is more important than how it looks, dealing with what each character expects of life.

Directed by Bertrand Tavernier - With Sabine Azéma, Louis Ducreux, Geneviève Mnich, Michel Aumont, Monique Chaumette, Claude Winter, ...

The Old Lady Who Walked in the Sea(1991)

1h 35min | Comedy

3.0/5 (with 8 votes)

A con artist couple takes a young, handsome petty thief under their wing, but jealousies flare when the woman develops an interest in him.

Directed by Laurent Heynemann - With Géraldine Danon, Jeanne Moreau, Lara Guirao, Luc Thuillier, Michel Serrault, Mattia Sbragia, ...

It All Starts Today(1999)

1h 57min | Drama

3.5/5 (with 20 votes)

Set in a forlorn mining town near Valencienne in the north of France, the story is about one man's struggle to bring life to his once prosperous village and its inhabitants. Philippe Torreton, who won a César for Best Actor with his title role in Capitaine Conan, plays Daniel, the head teacher of a nursery school in a town demoralized by unemployment. Daniel is determined against all odds to bring life to the community. When a parent who has come to pick up her children collapses at the school grounds due to alcohol abuse, and social services turns a deaf ear to all pleas for help, Daniel decides to take the law into his own hands. Despite resistance from the townspeople, in the long run his efforts are not fruitless.

Directed by Bertrand Tavernier - With Philippe Torreton, Christine Citti, Daniel Delabesse, Didier Bezace, Emmanuelle Bercot, Françoise Bette, ...

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Daddy Nostalgia(1990)

1h 45min | Drama

3.6/5 (with 8 votes)

A half English, half French screenwriter visits her parents on the Riviera after her father's heart surgery. Once there, she begins to connect with him in a way she never did before, as each member of the family tries to cope with his imminent death.

Directed by Bertrand Tavernier - With Dirk Bogarde, Jane Birkin, Odette Laure, Charlotte Kady, Louis Ducreux

Father and Sons(2003)

1h 37min | Comedy

3.3/5 (with 12 votes)

Léo, un vieux père de famille ancien représentant de commerce, est prêt à tout pour retrouver l'affection de ses trois fils, David, Max et Simon. Il va même jusqu'à invoquer une maladie et une intervention chirurgicale pour les convaincre de l'accompagner dans un voyage au Canada, où il tentera de refaire l'unité du clan familial. Le quatuor de Français y fera la rencontre d'une guérisseuse et de sa fille.

Directed by Michel Boujenah - With Bruno Putzulu, Charles Berling, Geneviève Brouillette, Jacques Boudet, Marie Tifo, Matthieu Boujenah, ...

Safe Conduct(2002)

2h 50min | War, Drama, History

3.3/5 (with 11 votes)

The film is about the French film industry from 1942 to 1944 during the Nazi occupation. The film focuses on assistant director and resistance fighter Jean Devaivre and screenwriter Jean Aurenche. Aurenche is on the move so that he doesn't have to write anything collaborationist. Devaivre is in dangerous political activity. Devaivre also works for the German production company Continental where he is respected. On the other hand, Aurenche's scriptwriting doesn't help how he lives and he is a womanizer which causes him to procrastinate.

Directed by Bertrand Tavernier - With Jacques Gamblin, Denis Podalydès, Marie Gillain, Charlotte Kady, Marie Desgranges, Maria Pitarresi, ...

My Little Business(1999)

1h 36min | Comedy

3.1/5 (with 17 votes)

A wood worker is trying hard to make his company survive every day... But a fire in his workshop leaves him in a lot of trouble when he realizes his insurer was swindling him - he does not have any insurance... That's when a crazy idea grows in his mind - he will need all his friends and their different talents to make it work...

Directed by Pierre Jolivet - With Albert Dray, Anne Le Ny, Catherine Davenier, Catherine Mendez, Catherine Mouchet, François Berléand, ...

A Week's Vacation(1980)

1h 39min | Drama

3.1/5 (with 9 votes)

Laurence, a young schoolteacher from Lyon, takes a week's leave. During the break, she reflects on her career and her personal life.

Directed by Bertrand Tavernier - With Nathalie Baye, Gérard Lanvin, Michel Galabru, Philippe Noiret, Philippe Léotard, Jean Dasté, ...

Beatrice(1987)

2h 11min | Drama

2.8/5 (with 9 votes)

Somewhere in France during the Middle Ages. Béatrice is impatient to see her father return from English captivity. She doesn't expect however that the father whom she loves from distance will be the most hateful person who will submit her and her family to abuse and humiliation.

Directed by Bertrand Tavernier - With Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, Julie Delpy, Monique Chaumette, Robert Dhéry, Maxime Leroux, Claude Duneton, ...

The Question(1977)

1h 52min | War, Drama

2.9/5 (with 3 votes)

1957. For several months, Henri Charlègue, the ex-director of the newspaper "Alger democratic", banned, has been living in hiding. Suspected of belonging to the FLN, he is actively sought by paratroopers.

Directed by Laurent Heynemann - With Jacques Denis, André Rouyer, Christian Bouillette, Christian Rist, François Dyrek, Fred Personne, ...

Fred(1997)

1h 24min | Crime

2.9/5 (with 3 votes)

Fred (Vincent Lindon) is a former crane driver who was a victim of the closure of his factory. He takes care of the little boy of his girlfriend (Clotilde Courau), does the housework and sometimes goes to the job center but boredom is inescapable. One day, because he accepted to drive a truck for a friend to a warehouse, he's caught up in a vicious spiral that goes beyond him. It's all the more serious as shady men want to eliminate him an the police is on his back.

Directed by Pierre Jolivet - With Albert Dray, Atmen Kelif, Catherine Hiegel, Clotilde Courau, François Berléand, Laura Favali, ...

The Murderous Months of April(1987)

1h 28min | Crime

3.8/5 (with 3 votes)

When an informer is executed, his dismembered remains found in several bin bags, Fred, a resilient police inspector, leads the murder investigation with his customary dogged determination.

Directed by Laurent Heynemann - With Brigitte Roüan, Christian Bouillette, François Berléand, Jacques Poitrenaud, Jean Cherlian, Jean-Gabriel Nordmann, ...

The Troubles We've Seen(1994)

3h 44min | Documentary

2.5/5 (with 2 votes)

We follow Marcel Ophuls' two journeys to Sarajevo in 1993. He is starting a documentary about war correspondants. But this also becomes a reflexion about truth and life. The form consists in many interviews of mostly French and American journalists and reporters of television or newspapers.

Directed by Marcel Ophuls

Histoires de vies brisées: les 'double peine' de Lyon(2001)

1h 50min | Documentary

In December 1997, Bertrand Tavernier supported a group of undocumented migrants in Lyon who went on hunger strike to protest against the double penalty. An agreement was reached, but the strike resumed a few months later, for lack of a real solution. The director then decides to take his camera and to give a long speech to these men and women that nobody wants to listen to.

Directed by Bertrand Tavernier