Jacques Gamblin
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1957-11-16
Locus Natus: Granville, Manche, France
Et ut: Žaks Gamblins
D'un film à l'autre
On April 13, 2011, Les Films 13 production company turned 50. How can one celebrate an anniversary of this sort ? By simply making "another" film...
release : 2011.04.13popularis : 2.256
Holy Lola
The story of a young couple, Pierre and Geraldine, and their desire for a child, which leads them on a journey of initiation to Cambodia. On their...
release : 2004.10.16popularis : 5.87
What a Drag
A closeted gay man's attempt to "act straight" for the sake of his job has unexpected consequences.
release : 1996.03.27popularis : 6.514
The First Day of the Rest of Your Life
A sprawling drama centered on five key days in a family's life.
release : 2008.07.23popularis : 11.812
Say Cheese
Thierry is convinced that the best is behind him. When Claire, his wife, tired of «it was better before», announced that she is leaving...
release : 2022.05.11popularis : 2.765
All That... for This?!
The plot is about a trial against three men who tried to earn loads of money by illegal methods to get to Canada and about the lawyers and the judge...
release : 1993.06.09popularis : 3.567
The Merry Widow
Anne-Marie lives an easy life with Gilbert, a rich plastic surgeon: a beautiful house, a doggy, a cleaning lady, expensive furniture, the lot. Not so...
release : 2007.11.01popularis : 7.502
Just The Three of Us
1970s, six-and-a-half-year-old Sébastien is a sensitive, highly imaginative child. Despite the affection he feels for his father, a dreamy...
release : 2010.03.17popularis : 1.527
Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno
In 1964, Henri-Georges Clouzot's production of L'Enfer came to a halt. Despite huge expectations, major studio backing and an unlimited budget, after...
release : 2009.10.01popularis : 5.568
The Children of the Marshland
The film is set in Marais, a quiet region along the banks of Loire river in 1918. Riton is afflicted with a bad-tempered wife and three unruly...
release : 1999.03.03popularis : 7.323
Carnage
After a bull is killed in a bullfight, its body parts are transported across Spain, France, Italy and Belgium. The bull's parts fall into the wide...
release : 2002.05.17popularis : 2.686
Bellamy
A well known Parisian inspector becomes involved in an investigation while on holiday.
release : 2009.02.25popularis : 4.341
Home
In 200,000 years of existence, man has upset the balance on which the Earth had lived for 4 billion years. Global warming, resource depletion,...
release : 2009.06.03popularis : 10.797
The Tiger Brigades
The film, set in 1912, is about the exploits of France's first motorized police brigade.
release : 2006.04.14popularis : 12.061
The Color of Lies
In a small Breton town, a 10-year-old girl is found murdered. René, her art teacher, a professional painter, is the last person to have seen...
release : 1999.01.13popularis : 4.742
The Beautiful Story
A film with emphasis on visuals and music, the plot concerns characters who meet in present time, mainly the male gypsy Jesus, and the female thief...
release : 1992.03.18popularis : 4.572
Fragile(s)
Six characters cross paths in Paris and Lisbon.
release : 2007.06.20popularis : 4.946
Hell
Three sisters share a connection to a violent incident from their childhood reunite to for the chance to come to terms with their past.
release : 2005.11.16popularis : 6.331
Nickel and Dime
Jacques is coming home after a long stretch behind bars. The boys are waiting, especially hi longtime friend Francis and new kid on the block Didier....
release : 2003.06.25popularis : 2.139
Dr. Akagi
At the end of WWII, Japanese doctor Akagi searches for the cure for hepatitis in the prisoner-of-war camp.
release : 1998.05.17popularis : 7.848
My Man
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...
release : 1996.01.31popularis : 5.394
L'Infiltré
A notorious French ex-felon becomes an informant and infiltrates a Mexican drug cartel.
release : 2011.06.21popularis : 0.976
Les Irréductibles
On the day that his son fails his baccalaureate, Michel loses his job. He has been employed at the same factory for twenty years and now he has no...
release : 2006.06.14popularis : 5.525
The Names of Love
Bahia Benmahmoud, a free-spirited young woman, has a particular way of seeing political engagement, as she doesn't hesitate to sleep with those who...
release : 2010.11.24popularis : 11.021
Safe Conduct
The film is about the French film industry from 1942 to 1944 during the Nazi occupation. The film focuses on assistant director and resistance...
release : 2002.01.09popularis : 4.913
The Car Keys
Who would think losing car keys could lead us that far ? Be careful, adventure is on every street corner...
release : 2003.12.10popularis : 5.727
There Were Days... and Moons
How can moon and time affect human mood and fate? In the manner of a Greek tragedy , this movie shows how the chaos of life ineluctably propels its...
release : 1990.04.11popularis : 3.049
Blind Man
A police inspector must solve two grisly murders. The problem is that his only suspect is a blind man.
release : 2012.03.06popularis : 10.523
The First Man
Based on a novel that Albert Camus was working on when he died, we follow Jacques Comery as he travels back to Algeria in 1957, a place full of...
release : 2011.09.09popularis : 3.069
Van Gogh: Brush with Genius
An artistic view of Van Gogh as if this movie is self narrated by himself.
release : 2009.03.25popularis : 5.507
Mademoiselle
Claire is a young woman who leads a somewhat formatted life. Pierre is an improviser, but not an actor. Brief encounter, brief romance, doomed or...
release : 2001.03.21popularis : 4.201
La femme à abattre
A policeman discovers during a case that he is investigating himself. His wife has witnessed a terrorist attack committed by her lover.
release : 1993.07.07popularis : 1.602
Les Miserables
In France during World War II, a poor and illiterate man, Henri Fortin, is introduced to Victor Hugo's classic novel Les Misérables and begins...
release : 1995.03.22popularis : 7.896
À la Mode
Fausto enters an orphanage and is initially bullied, but then makes friends with a new bunkmate, Raymond. He is apprenticed to Mietek, a tailor in...
release : 1993.09.10popularis : 1.171
Hell Train
Hell Train is a French film based on a true story. One evening at a ball in a small town, a fight breaks out in an atmosphere tinged with racism....
release : 1985.01.09popularis : 2.117
Vaines recherches
An anonymous phone call puts Commissioner Schneider's entire career and personal life in question. While his couple suffers from his impossible...
release : 1987.11.15popularis : 0.495
Dissonances
Nat drives on the interstate with his two young daughters in the back seats, when a car drives by and an unknown guy shoots one of his daughters dead...
release : 2004.02.20popularis : 1.868
In Your Wake
An estranged father returns with plans to open a bar with the son who still harbors resentment towards him.
release : 2007.09.17popularis : 1.277
25 Degrees in Winter
An Ukranian woman enters Belgium illegally and hides in the van of a driver abandoned by his wife. He ends up helping her to find her husband who had...
release : 2004.07.21popularis : 4.5
Holidays by the Sea
A comedy about funny adventures of the group of French people during the summer vacation.
release : 2011.06.29popularis : 2.284
Le Salsifis du Bengale
Bad as a scab and stupid as a serin, the Bengal salsify terrorises his palace. Closely, all he eats does not make him happy: if he sleeps he would...
release : 2015.09.30popularis : 0.925
Proper Attire Required
His estranged wife is worth millions, but poor Paris resident Richard is homeless and jobless. He applied for unemployment benefits and now faces...
release : 1997.03.21popularis : 2.406
The Tiger and The President
1920. Georges Clémenceau just lost the french presidential elections to the unknown Paul Deschanel, an idealistic who wants to change the...
release : 2022.09.07popularis : 5.858
L'Homme debout
Clémence Alpharo, who, in order to get a permanent contract in the company that has just hired her, must push Henri Giffard, a sales...
release : 2023.05.17popularis : 4.795
Girls with Guns
In Montelimar, four young women whom life has not spared want to emerge from mediocrity. They decide to rob a bank, but everything is not so simple...
release : 1994.06.22popularis : 4.728
'Till Death Do Us Part
À la vie, à la mort ! (1995) In Estaque, a northern suburb of Marseilles, stuck between oil refinery smokestacks and the Mediterranean...
release : 1995.10.11popularis : 4.74
Paris Countdown
Unable to repay their debts, Milan and Victor, best friends and co-owners of a Paris nightclub, are lured into a drug deal that goes bad. Tortured by...
release : 2013.07.24popularis : 3.357
Les brouches
Somewhere in the Drôme Valley, there is a farm where old shepherd Fernand lives with his two sons. A young woman arrives at the farm to learn...
release : 1994.03.26popularis : 0.881
Mauvais Genre
The film's title is a pun, the double meaning referencing both the "wrong genre" and a person with distasteful motives. Insecure novelist Martial Bok...
release : 1997.05.27popularis : 2.609
Les clients d'Avrenos
Istambul, 1967. Two women meet at Avrenos, a tavern in the old city. Nouchi, the brunette, is mourning the death of Bernard de Jonsac, an employee of...
release : 1996.09.20popularis : 0.359
Verdon secret
Two young adults, Clara and Hidalgo, meet in the Verdon canyon. Everything opposes them: interests, skin color, openness to others. Hidalgo decides...
release : 2016.03.27popularis : 0.902
The Finishers
Julien, 17, is wheelchair-bound due to cerebral palsy. Despite their love for him, his family is gradually falling apart under the strain of dealing...
release : 2013.09.07popularis : 8.805
Bella ciao
A man struggles to support his family while remaining true to his ideals in this drama set in Europe during the 1930s. Orfeo Mancini and his wife...
release : 2000.06.04popularis : 3.231
Une vie française
When Paul Blick, 54, a renowned photographer, returns from a long trip abroad, he learns that his daughter Marie had been interned in a psychiatric...
release : 2011.09.14popularis : 2.268
La mesure des choses
Political film essay in which events happening around the Mediterranean Sea are compared to the myth of Icarus.
release : 2022.11.09popularis : 1.044
Week-ends
It sometimes takes little to spoil a weekend in the country. A simple misunderstanding in a supermarket parking lot, a bad reaction, and there you...
release : 2014.02.26popularis : 1.131
Himalayan Gold rush
At an altitude of 5000 meters in the Himalayas is found Yarsagumba, a caterpillar-fungus that is worth more than its weight in gold. Thousands of...
release : 2011.12.01popularis : 0.634
24 Days
When Ilan Halimi is kidnapped for ransom because Jewish and supposedly rich, his family and the police start a race against time to save him from the...
release : 2014.04.30popularis : 6.439
Hippocrates
Benjamin is meant to be a great doctor, he’s certain of it. But his first experience as a junior doctor in the hospital ward where his father...
release : 2014.09.03popularis : 9.821
My Father's Secrets
Brussels, Belgium, 1959. Michel and Charly Kichka, two Jewish brothers, enjoy a happy childhood with their parents and their two sisters. Henri,...
release : 2022.09.21popularis : 2.755
Christian Dior: The Man Behind the Myth
Documentary about the life of Christian Dior and the founding of his fashion house in Paris.
release : 2005.01.08popularis : 0.93
I Have Dreamed Of You So Much
Based on the poem of Robert Desnos "J'ai tant rêvé de toi" A film about The Horizon and his impossible love...
release : 2015.11.19popularis : 1.263
Father Son Therapy
A cop and his son have to put away their differences while undercover on a therapeutic trip.
release : 2016.12.28popularis : 7.702
Pétain, such a popular hero
On October 24, 1940, Philippe Pétain met Adolf Hitler in Montoire and led the French into collaboration with the Nazis. A black page in the...
release : 2010.11.15popularis : 1.667
Serko
In 1889, mounted on a small gray horse named Serko, Dimitri leaves his garrison on the Asian borders of the Russian Empire on the banks of the Amur...
release : 2006.03.29popularis : 1.59
A Volcano Odyssey
The epic story of the life of a volcano, capable of both causing the extinction of all things and helping the evolution of species, over 60 million...
release : 2012.11.18popularis : 3.131
Yarsagumbu, l'or de l'Himalaya
Every spring, tens of thousands of men, women and children leave their villages for a dangerous trek to the high Himalaya to collect Yarsagumbu, a...
release : 2011.09.29popularis : 0.527
The Ideal Palace
Follows Joseph Ferdinand Chavel a French postman who built a palace in the French countryside over 33 years.
release : 2019.01.16popularis : 7.13
Au petit Marguery
Hippolyte, the chef at the small Paris restaurant of the title, is losing his sense of smell - and without that, you can’t cook. Not in France....
release : 1995.11.08popularis : 2.632
Au cœur des robots
A captivating and vertiginous documentary on the relations between man and machines, in the heart of the laboratories where the humanoids of tomorrow...
release : 2015.06.30popularis : 1.376
Le voyageur sans bagage
We see how a man, who has no memory of his past, deals with his past when he finds out about it.
release : 2004.09.25popularis : 1.131
Goodbye Princess
Mitó lives in a small village and is the son of the local Comunist Party leader, she is 18 years-old and is about to graduate from the...
release : 1992.05.01popularis : 1.007
Couchettes express
Antoine steward on the night train Paris-Venice. He must cards and identity documents of travelers in 'his' pick wagon. One day, a passenger,...
release : 1994.08.10popularis : 1.16
The Life and Work of Claude Chabrol
Spring 2004, a house with a large garden welcomes filmmaker Claude Chabrol. He is about to celebrate his 54 films and 74 years of age. Thomas...
release : 2006.02.21popularis : 1.32
A Grain of Sand in the Gear
A chronicle of a year of health crisis. A film that travels to the four corners of the planet to question us about our model of society. The grain of...
release : 2021.06.06popularis : 1.656
Périgord noir
The recolonization of Africa, this time by the very blacks who had to flee it as exiles during the time of the original French occupation, is the...
release : 1989.06.21popularis : 2.554
Une histoire d'amour à la con
The love story of Pascal and Hélène who meet at Françoise's birthday party and the love story of Gérard, Pascal's...
release : 1996.07.10popularis : 1.154