Farid Chopel

Les princes (1983)

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.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Tony Gatlif
CAST:  Muse Dalbray  •  Céline Militon  •  Concha Tavora  •  Gérard Darmon

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.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Tony Gatlif
CAST:  Muse Dalbray  •  Céline Militon  •  Concha Tavora  •  Gérard Darmon

Plato's Banquet (1989)

At house of Agathon get together many intellectuals and philosophers, including Socrates, to discuss the theme of love and sex: each of them intervenes to support its argument dialogical rules, within the context symposial.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Marco Ferreri
CAST:  Lucas Belvaux  •  Jean Benguigui  •  Irene Papas  •  Philippe Khorsand

At house of Agathon get together many intellectuals and philosophers, including Socrates, to discuss the theme of love and sex: each of them intervenes to support its argument dialogical rules, within the context symposial.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Marco Ferreri
CAST:  Lucas Belvaux  •  Jean Benguigui  •  Irene Papas  •  Philippe Khorsand

The Vengeance of the Winged Serpent (1984)

An international intrigue with terrorists threatening to blow up the presidents of the most powerful countries.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Gérard Oury
CAST:  Coluche  •  Josiane Balasko  •  Maruschka Detmers  •  Luis Rego

An international intrigue with terrorists threatening to blow up the presidents of the most powerful countries.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Gérard Oury
CAST:  Coluche  •  Josiane Balasko  •  Maruschka Detmers  •  Luis Rego

Jane B. by Agnès V. (1988)

The interests, obsessions, and fantasies of two singular artists converge in this inspired collaboration between Agnès Varda and her longtime friend the actor Jane Birkin. Made over the course of a year and motivated by Birkin’s fortieth birthday—a milestone she ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Agnès Varda
CAST:  Jane Birkin  •  Jean-Pierre Léaud  •  Agnès Varda  •  Philippe Léotard

The interests, obsessions, and fantasies of two singular artists converge in this inspired collaboration between Agnès Varda and her longtime friend the actor Jane Birkin. Made over the course of a year and motivated by Birkin’s fortieth birthday—a milestone she ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Agnès Varda
CAST:  Jane Birkin  •  Jean-Pierre Léaud  •  Agnès Varda  •  Philippe Léotard

My Best Friend's Girl (1983)

The charming Pascal, owner of a clothing store in Courchevel, and the chubby and scruffy Micky, disc jockey in a nearby club, are best of friends. Pascal accumulates women, much to the chagrin of Micky, who is consoled of his failures by listening to his friend ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Bertrand Blier
CAST:  Coluche  •  Isabelle Huppert  •  Thierry Lhermitte  •  François Perrot

The charming Pascal, owner of a clothing store in Courchevel, and the chubby and scruffy Micky, disc jockey in a nearby club, are best of friends. Pascal accumulates women, much to the chagrin of Micky, who is consoled of his failures by listening to his friend ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Bertrand Blier
CAST:  Coluche  •  Isabelle Huppert  •  Thierry Lhermitte  •  François Perrot

All Mixed Up (1985)

After the death of her little boy, Anita wants to take her own life.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Josiane Balasko
CAST:  Isabelle Huppert  •  Josiane Balasko  •  Farid Chopel  •  Jean Carmet

After the death of her little boy, Anita wants to take her own life.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Josiane Balasko
CAST:  Isabelle Huppert  •  Josiane Balasko  •  Farid Chopel  •  Jean Carmet

L'Addition (1984)

For having wanted to defend a young girl accused of theft, a comedian finds himself in prison. Embarked in spite of himself in an escape attempt, he is condemned by a particularly incompetent court which follows without thinking the pleadings of an overzealous ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Denis Amar
CAST:  Richard Bohringer  •  Richard Berry  •  Victoria Abril  •  Farid Chopel

For having wanted to defend a young girl accused of theft, a comedian finds himself in prison. Embarked in spite of himself in an escape attempt, he is condemned by a particularly incompetent court which follows without thinking the pleadings of an overzealous ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Denis Amar
CAST:  Richard Bohringer  •  Richard Berry  •  Victoria Abril  •  Farid Chopel

The Flesh (1991)

A beautiful film which is basically about a man, a piano player, who meets and falls in love with a beautiful and voluptuous woman, who, by some strange procedure, leaves the man unable to move but with a permanent priapism! After some time he becomes sick of it ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Marco Ferreri
CAST:  Sergio Castellitto  •  Francesca Dellera  •  Petra Reinhardt  •  Philippe Léotard

A beautiful film which is basically about a man, a piano player, who meets and falls in love with a beautiful and voluptuous woman, who, by some strange procedure, leaves the man unable to move but with a permanent priapism! After some time he becomes sick of it ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Marco Ferreri
CAST:  Sergio Castellitto  •  Francesca Dellera  •  Petra Reinhardt  •  Philippe Léotard

It's Gradiva Who Is Calling You (2007)

An English historian travels to Morocco to work on a study of the painter Delacroix. He hears of a rare series of engravings and embarks on a search for them that takes him through the mysterious streets of the ancient medina. He becomes obsessed with the figure of ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Alain Robbe-Grillet
CAST:  James Wilby  •  Arielle Dombasle  •  Dany Verissimo-Petit  •  Farid Chopel

An English historian travels to Morocco to work on a study of the painter Delacroix. He hears of a rare series of engravings and embarks on a search for them that takes him through the mysterious streets of the ancient medina. He becomes obsessed with the figure of ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Alain Robbe-Grillet
CAST:  James Wilby  •  Arielle Dombasle  •  Dany Verissimo-Petit  •  Farid Chopel

A City Is Beautiful at Night (2006)

Adapted from the best-seller, the films is a road movie full of music and poetry, driving us from the hot districts of Marseille, to Paris, Montrealand Dakar. Paulo, the young writer, follows Richard, the old musician, in his wanderings, encounters, love stories ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Richard Bohringer
CAST:  Richard Bohringer  •  Romane Bohringer  •  Robinson Stévenin  •  François Négret

Adapted from the best-seller, the films is a road movie full of music and poetry, driving us from the hot districts of Marseille, to Paris, Montrealand Dakar. Paulo, the young writer, follows Richard, the old musician, in his wanderings, encounters, love stories ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Richard Bohringer
CAST:  Richard Bohringer  •  Romane Bohringer  •  Robinson Stévenin  •  François Négret

Wild Animals (1984)

Berg and Bela are married stunt drivers, but one night Bela dies in an accident. Jaded and reclusive, Berg becomes a nighttime security guard where he befriends a young woman, Mimi, who works nights too. Soon a shadowy figure from Bela's past comes into Berg and ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jean-Louis Daniel
CAST:  Daniel Auteuil  •  Philippe Léotard  •  Véronique Delbourg  •  Florent Pagny

Berg and Bela are married stunt drivers, but one night Bela dies in an accident. Jaded and reclusive, Berg becomes a nighttime security guard where he befriends a young woman, Mimi, who works nights too. Soon a shadowy figure from Bela's past comes into Berg and ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jean-Louis Daniel
CAST:  Daniel Auteuil  •  Philippe Léotard  •  Véronique Delbourg  •  Florent Pagny

Follow My Gaze (1986)

A long parade of actors and actresses pop up in an unconnected series of skits, vignettes, and sight gags in this comedy anthology by Jean Curtelin. Among the sketches performed is one with Jean Carmet playing a man from the sticks woefully burdened with the ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jean Curtelin
CAST:  Darry Cowl  •  Pierre Arditi  •  Jean-Pierre Bacri  •  Stéphane Audran

A long parade of actors and actresses pop up in an unconnected series of skits, vignettes, and sight gags in this comedy anthology by Jean Curtelin. Among the sketches performed is one with Jean Carmet playing a man from the sticks woefully burdened with the ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jean Curtelin
CAST:  Darry Cowl  •  Pierre Arditi  •  Jean-Pierre Bacri  •  Stéphane Audran

Irena and the Shadows (1987)

Costa, a projectionist in a porno cinema, plunges into a dark story of abduction, following a phone call that was not intended for him. Is Mome Pralier dead? Has the ransom been paid? Who killed Baumgartner? What's the doc up to in his clinic? AND SURTOUT - who is ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Alain Robak
CAST:  Farid Chopel  •  Denise Virieux  •  Jean-Louis Foulquier  •  Claude Sitruk

Costa, a projectionist in a porno cinema, plunges into a dark story of abduction, following a phone call that was not intended for him. Is Mome Pralier dead? Has the ransom been paid? Who killed Baumgartner? What's the doc up to in his clinic? AND SURTOUT - who is ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Alain Robak
CAST:  Farid Chopel  •  Denise Virieux  •  Jean-Louis Foulquier  •  Claude Sitruk

A Vampire in Paradise (1992)

Is Nosfer Arbi a vampire? Or is he just a very emaciated, very strange and possibly quite lonely young man from an Arabic country with an obsession with death? On the other hand, why is the previously cheery Parisian teenager Nathalie Belfond throwing fits and ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Abdelkrim Bahloul
CAST:  Bruno Cremer  •  Brigitte Fossey  •  Laure Marsac  •  Farid Chopel

Is Nosfer Arbi a vampire? Or is he just a very emaciated, very strange and possibly quite lonely young man from an Arabic country with an obsession with death? On the other hand, why is the previously cheery Parisian teenager Nathalie Belfond throwing fits and ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Abdelkrim Bahloul
CAST:  Bruno Cremer  •  Brigitte Fossey  •  Laure Marsac  •  Farid Chopel

Water War (1998)

The tribulations of an engineer and an archaeologist who search for a lost city in the desert of the United Arab Emirates.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Marc F. Voizard
CAST:  Rosemarie La Vaullée  •  Christian Brendel  •  Simon MacCorkindale  •  Randy Quaid

The tribulations of an engineer and an archaeologist who search for a lost city in the desert of the United Arab Emirates.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Marc F. Voizard
CAST:  Rosemarie La Vaullée  •  Christian Brendel  •  Simon MacCorkindale  •  Randy Quaid

La Goutte d'or (1990)

Idris is a young shepherd in the desert of Tunesia. One day a jeep drives by and a woman takes a picture of him; she says she's from Paris and promises to send him a copy. But when nothing arrives during the next months, Idris becomes worried. His father advises ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Marcel Bluwal
CAST:  Lilah Dadi  •  Farid Chopel  •  Jean-Pierre Bisson  •  Rufus

Idris is a young shepherd in the desert of Tunesia. One day a jeep drives by and a woman takes a picture of him; she says she's from Paris and promises to send him a copy. But when nothing arrives during the next months, Idris becomes worried. His father advises ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Marcel Bluwal
CAST:  Lilah Dadi  •  Farid Chopel  •  Jean-Pierre Bisson  •  Rufus