Jacques Spiesser — Actor (12)

Movie

She's One of Us (2003)
Elle est des nôtres
other title: Elle est des nôtres / Ella es uno de nosotros
At the start, Christine Blanc is a temp, her boyfriend has gone. Near the story's end, she's been offered a steady job, she has a fiancé, other men seem interested in her, she's passed her driving test, and, after she wins 1000 Euros in a scratch-off, her colleagues sing that she's a jolly good fellow ("one of us"). But something's askew: her gaze is too direct, her eyes open too widely; conversational gambits hit odd notes; she parrots others' words; she cooks too much food when she invites a supervisor to dinner. When the supervisor takes Christine on a spontaneous outing that disorients her, her oddities become something else. Can things ever be normal?

TV

The Blue Bicycle (2000)
La Bicyclette bleue IMDb TMDB
other title: Pigen med den blå cykel / Das blaue Fahrrad …
Léa, the daughter of a wealthy Bordeaux family, is spending happy days at the Montillac family estate at the end of the 1930s. Radiant with youth, she charms all the men who meet her on the blue bicycle offered to her by her father. She is in deep love with Laurent, when she tells him, he lets her down. He is in love with Camille, Lea's best friend. The war sounds the death knell of her carelessness. She takes refuge in Paris. There, she finds Laurent, his secret love, who has just married Camille. During a party given him, she meets mysterious François -a friend of Laurent who works for the government. He goes right on and starts to win Lea's heart, but she is not interested. Laurent has to go to the front-line. He asks Lea to stay with Camille in Paris, to look after her and the unborn baby. But the German troops are progressing, and Léa and Camille are forced to leave the capital.

Movie

The Devil in the Heart (1976)
Le Diable au cœur WikiData IMDb TMDB
Bernard Queysanne actor: Jane Birkin / Jacques Spiesser …
other title: Collage / Le Diable au cœur …
It takes place in a chic milieu, where both the father and the son are in love with the au pair girl (but she sleeps with the dad). The young student is far from the post May 68 clichés and the movie walks a fine line off the beaten path. Philippe Lemaire and Emmanuelle Riva are ideally cast as the bourgeois parents who urge their offspring to attend the grandma's Christmas meal.

Movie

Judge Fayard Called the Sheriff (1977)
Le Juge Fayard dit Le Shériff WikiData IMDb TMDB
Yves Boisset actor: Patrick Dewaere / Aurore Clément …
other title: Il giudice d'assalto / Der Richter, den sie Sheriff nannten …
Jean-Marie Fayard is a young examining magistrate in a large provincial french city. He belongs to that generation of judges who are endeavoring to re-adapt the notion of justice to our changing times. His methods are not agreeable to every one. Criticism and pressure are brought to bear upon him but he is aware of his value, professionally, and refuses to make any concessions. He follows an unwavering course. He uses dynamic methods and takes uncustomary initiatives. He behaves like a crusader, a battler, whence the nickname given him by the reporters : the sheriff.

Movie

Stavisky (1974)
Stavisky... IMDb TMDB
Alain Resnais actor: Jean-Paul Belmondo / François Périer …
other title: Stavisky, il grande truffatore / Stavisky...
Biarritz, 1933. Charm and talent help small-time swindler Serge Alexandre, alias Stavisky, to bribe his way into the centre of French political power. But when his great scam involving millions gets exposed, he brings the government to the verge of collapse and the country to the brink of civil war.

Movie

Baxter (1989)
Baxter IMDb TMDB Douban NeoDB
Jérôme Boivin actor: Lise Delamare / Jean Mercure …
other title: Bell mir das Lied vom Tod / 家有酷狗 …
A white Bull Terrier named Baxter is given to an elderly woman by her daughter. As time passes, the dog develops aggressive and murderous behavior in order to be adopted by another family.

Movie

The Man Who Sleeps (1974)
Un homme qui dort
Bernard Queysanne actor: Jacques Spiesser / Ludmila Mikaël
other title: Un uomo che dorme / Un homme qui dort …
A young student decides to have no more interaction with the world than is needed to minimally sustain life. His increasingly automaton-like behavior is coupled with a strange clarity of insight about the world around him.

Movie

Black and White in Color (1976)
La Victoire en chantant IMDb TMDB Skybridge
Jean-Jacques Annaud actor: Jean Carmet / Jacques Dufilho …
other title: Bianco e nero a colori / La Victoire en chantant …
French colonists in Africa, several months behind in the news, find themselves at war with their German neighbors. Deciding that they must do their proper duty and fight the Germans, they promptly conscript the local native population. Issuing them boots and rifles, the French attempt to make "proper" soldiers out of the Africans. A young, idealistic French geographer seems to be the only rational person in the town, and he takes over control of the "war" after several bungles on the part of the others.