Gérard Darrieu

Gérard Darrieu

September 11, 1925 · 101 years old

Known For

12 titles
1
Elevator to the Gallows

Elevator to the Gallows

1958 · 1h 31m · Movie

A self-assured businessman murders his employer, the husband of his mistress, which unintentionally provokes an ill-fated chain of events.

7.9
2
The Professional

The Professional

1981 · 1h 48m · Movie

Victim of a plot which has resulted in his imprisonment in a Central African jail for two years, a French secret agent arrives in Paris to settle accounts.

7.4
3
My American Uncle

My American Uncle

1980 · 2h 6m · Movie

The intersecting stories of three people who face difficult choices in life-changing situations are used to illustrate the theories espoused by Henri Laborit about human behavior and the relationship between the self and society.

7.6
4
The Confession

The Confession

1970 · 2h 19m · Movie

A high-ranking official is forced to confess to high treason.

7.8
5
Don't Deliver Us from Evil

Don't Deliver Us from Evil

1971 · 1h 42m · Movie

Two bored Catholic schoolgirls spending summer in the countryside decide to become Satanists, and begin committing a series of morbid and increasingly dangerous crimes.

6.7
6
The Great Spy Chase

The Great Spy Chase

1964 · 1h 24m · Movie

A cold-war spy parody. After the death of an armaments manufacturer, an international group of spies is drawn into a high-stakes battle of wits to obtain the valuable military patents which have been inherited by the lovely widow.

6.8
7
Mademoiselle

Mademoiselle

1966 · 1h 43m · Movie

Residents of a small French town are quick to accuse Manou of arson because he seduced most of the town's women. No one suspects the real culprit, a woman committing random crimes, all in an attempt to draw Manou's attention to he...

7.1
8
The Elusive Corporal

The Elusive Corporal

1962 · 1h 30m · Movie

An upper-class corporal from Paris is captured by the Germans when they invade France in 1940. Assisted and accompanied by characters as diverse as a morose dairy farmer, a waiter, a myopic intellectual, a working-class Parisian, ...

7.0
9
La traque

La traque

1975 · 1h 37m · Movie

A young tourist is sexually assaulted by two men in the countryside. After she manages to escape, a party of local hunters agree to track her in order to cover up the scandal.

7.2
10
The Princes

The Princes

1983 · 1h 40m · Movie

Nara, a 30-year-old gypsy, lives with her nine-year-old daughter Zorka and her grandmother in a public housing project in the Paris region.

6.6
11
Les malabars sont au parfum

Les malabars sont au parfum

1966 · 1h 25m · Movie

A scientist massively increases the milk production of a cow, but his government sees this as a risk to agriculture and cans the project. The Soviet and US governments send inquisitive agents - all while the scientist is on his ho...

5.0
12
Dupont Barbès

Dupont Barbès

1951 · 1h 52m · Movie

Malou, a prostitute from Montmartre, and her pimp, have found a well laid scheme : whenever she (or he) wants to get rid of a lover, she announces to him in a tearful voice that she is pregnant. The reaction of the fall guy-is inv...

6.1