Gérard Dessalles

Acting

Gérard Dessalles

Born 1952-01-01

Acting credits

April and the Extraordinary World poster
7.1

It's 1941, but France is trapped in the 19th Century, governed by steam and Napoleon V. Avril, a teenage girl, goes in search of her missing scientist parents.

April and the Extraordinary World

2015

The French Detective poster
6.7

When political thugs murder an opponent's volunteer and also kill a cop, chief inspector Verjeat believes the politician who hired them is as guilty as the murderous goon. Verjeat's pursuit of the councilman, Lardatte, gets him a warning from his superiors. When he embarrasses Lardatte while disarming a hostage (the dead volunteer's father), Verjeat is told he's being transferred within a week. He speeds up his hunt for the goon and, with Lefévre, one of his young detectives, he engineers a complicated scheme to buy more time before the transfer. How should Verjeat play out his values of honor and duty?

The French Detective

1975

The Apparition poster
6.1

Jacques Mayano, a French journalist who has lived a traumatic experience, is recruited by the Vatican to be part of a task force that must investigate the veracity of a supernatural apparition allegedly happened in a small French village.

The Apparition

2018

Le temps de la désobéissance poster
NR

In 1942, Edouard and Lucas are two childhood friends, both policemen in Nancy in different police stations. Soon the beautiful friendship between the two policemen will shatter with all the suffering and disappointment that implies.

Le temps de la désobéissance

2006

588 rue Paradis poster
7.2

A successful playwright reflects on his journey from his Armenian roots to adapting in France, forty years after his family's move to Marseilles. He now goes by a new name to fit in better with French society.

588 rue Paradis

1992

Dossier 51 poster
6.4

A French diplomat is surveilled by a secret service to find a weakness for political control, his private life becoming 'File No. 51'.

Dossier 51

1978

Don't Take God's Children for Wild Geese poster
5.9

Rita is a girl that lives on taking gangsters as lovers. But when the money stops coming, she swears revenge.

Don't Take God's Children for Wild Geese

1968

La force de l'âge poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

La force de l'âge

2015

Far from Dallas poster
7.3

Thriller centered round the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

Far from Dallas

1972

Agatha Christie contre Hercule Poirot : Qui a tué Roger Ackroyd ? poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Agatha Christie contre Hercule Poirot : Qui a tué Roger Ackroyd ?

2017

Vous êtes jeunes, vous êtes beaux poster
6.5

No synopsis available yet.

Vous êtes jeunes, vous êtes beaux

2019

Courts mais Gay : Tome 4 poster
NR

A collection of gay short films. The 9 short films are: The Glider [Le planeur] (1999); Family according to Mathieu [La famille selon Mathieu] (2002); Chicken (2001); Lust [Utukt] (2000); Space 2 [Espacio 2] (2001); The End of the Night [La fin de la nuit] (1997); The Burning Boy (2001); Family Outing (2001); Saint (1997).

Courts mais Gay : Tome 4

2002

Envoyez les violons poster
5.5

Fred, a commercial director, decides to learn the flute to relieve his stress. His music teacher is none other than Isabelle, a flutist he once saw playing in the subway. He falls under her charm.

Envoyez les violons

1988

Family according to Mathieu poster
10.0

What should have been a simple family reunion turns into a settling of scores.

Family according to Mathieu

2002

French Blood 1 - Mr. Pig poster
5.4

FRENCH BLOOD tells the story of a woman who was raped and left for dead by a gang of five men hiding behind masks: Mr. Pig, Mr. Rabbit, Mr. Frog, Mr. Sheep and Mr. Wolf. It’s now up to her to take up the mask and her revenge… This is the thread that leads from one movie to the other: HER revenue. In the first five chapters, she finds each one of her five abusers, and so wearing her mask she lets her anger and hurt loose. Every chapter of FRENCH BLOOD includes three to four short films, all of them dealing with the single storyline of the main character. In this butcher's shop, a young geek addicted to horror films is stripped naked by a pervert zombie, a group of friends is murdered with a machete by a couple of degenerates, and an old successful author is found dead in his mansion, while a pedophile psychopath prowls around.

French Blood 1 - Mr. Pig

2020

Hé M'sieur poster
6.3

A former history teacher-turned-municipal librarian tries to help local young people.

Hé M'sieur

2006

Engrenage poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Engrenage

1980

L'attentat poster
6.5

André is a loser. He dreams of becoming a great writer and being sought after by wonderful women. To make something interesting happen in his life he visits political meetings.

L'attentat

1966

We Are All Naked poster
3.7

A poverty-stricken family lives in a rundown shack on the coast of Northern France--Dad (Jacques Normand) is a foul-mouthed drunk, Mom (Rita Maiden) likes to make it with random strangers on the beach, their son (Gérard Dessalles) is mentally handicapped and their six-year-old daughter (Isabelle Pierson) is oversexed.

We Are All Naked

1966

Out of Time poster
NR

This time, Felix is risking a lot. The director summoned his mother and threatened to deny him the access to the establishment. But what could Felix have done? And what kind of establishment is it exactly?

Out of Time

2021

The Madman poster
8.0

Two young delinquents run away from a reformatory, across France with a front-wheel drive (Citroën) and live on thefts made here and there in a very crazy way...the police are on their heels, love for one of them is on their way, but so is the drama.

The Madman

1973

Killing Mélanie Machin poster
NR

Two men dressed up as the Dardenne's brothers go to a very select film buff club to be admitted. But they understand quickly that their references are not the good ones.

Killing Mélanie Machin

2014

Just Enough Time poster
7.3

A pivotal work for video art of the 1980s. Fragments of time during a journey where the changing landscapes become full players in a story shown in shadowy backplay, which relates the imagined encounter of two passengers.

Just Enough Time

1983