Charles Denner

Acting

Charles Denner

Born — Died

1926-05-29 — 1995-09-10

Place of birth

Tarnow, Poland

Known for

Acting

Credits

54 titles

Charles Denner (29 May 1926 – 10 September 1995) was a French actor born to a Jewish family in Poland. During his 30-year career he worked with some of France's greatest directors of the time, including Louis Malle, Claude Chabrol, Jean-Luc Godard, Costa-Gavras, Claude Lelouch and François Truffaut who gave him two of his most memorable roles, as Fergus in The Bride Wore Black (1968) and Bertrand Morane in The Man Who Loved Women (1977). Description above from the Wikipedia article Charles Denner, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known for

Film credits

1980s · 9 titles

Golden Eighties poster
6.5

In a lively shopping center, proprietors and customers are bustling, including three women vying for a man's heart with song and dance.

Golden Eighties

1986

A Thousand Billion Dollars poster
6.9

A young journalist uncovers an assassination disguised as a suicide, linked to an American multinational seeking to dominate French industries. Determined to expose the truth, he races against time to gather evidence before more lives—and his own—are at stake.

A Thousand Billion Dollars

1982

Le Cœur à l'envers poster
6.3

Laure is a 40-year-old psychologist who doesn't know her son, Jean. But the latter comes back to Paris and finds a brand new woman when he sees his mother.

Le Cœur à l'envers

1980

A Captain's Honor poster
6.1

During a televised debate on the Algerian war in the early 1980s, Professor Paulet denounced the methods of Captain Caron, killed in action in 1957. The widow of the captain, Patricia, decided to file a defamation suit.

A Captain's Honor

1982

The Truth on the Savolta Affair poster
5.5

Barcelona between 1917 and 1923. Is the era of gangsterism, during which gunmen clash between anarchists and thugs paid by The Patronal showed a shocking number of deaths. The confrontation between anarchists and workers of the factory owners Savolta arms worsens when Savolta family decides to end the rebellion hiring murderers hired and plotting to hide their illegal transactions with Germany. Adapted from the novel by Eduardo Mendoza.

The Truth on the Savolta Affair

1980

Rock and Torah poster
6.5

This film tells the story of a young Jewish man who starts a rock group and achieves success. That is because he is actually an incarnation of a Biblical patriarch who was once more enthused by music than by sculpting holy icons.

Rock and Torah

1983

Vivement Truffaut poster
7.5

A tribute to the late, great French director Francois Truffaut, this documentary was undoubtedly named after his last movie, Vivement Dimanche!, released in 1983. Included in this overview of Truffaut's contribution to filmmaking are clips from 14 of his movies arranged according to the themes he favored. These include childhood, literature, the cinema itself, romance, marriage, and death.

Vivement Truffaut

1985

Stella poster
7.0

During the Second World War, Yvon joins the Gestapo to save his Jewish girlfriend, Stella, from deportation. When France is liberated, he has to answer for his past. Hunted, he decides to escape to Spain, but Stella refuses to go with him.

Stella

1983

L'unique poster
7.0

A famous rock singer is being overtaken. Vox, the album and live producer of the singer, prepares a real revolution with the help of a scientist. With holography, they would like to create the perfect copy of the star.

L'unique

1986

1970s · 17 titles

The Night Caller poster
7.2

A serial-killer frightens Paris by phoning young ladies at night, telling them insults about their lives. Minos, as he calls himself, wants to prevent the world from free women and he targets at first these ones. Commissaire Letellier is given the investigation and he has hard work with the maniac.

The Night Caller

1975

The Down-in-the-Hole Gang poster
6.5

Here we find a group of misfits who've given up on humanity and have decided to dwell below the pavement. The group has its own hierarchy, of course, and soon the conditions that drove them underground begin to manifest themselves without the influences of the Outside World.

The Down-in-the-Hole Gang

1974

The Man Who Loved Women poster
7.1

At Bertrand Morane's burial there are many of the women that the 40-year-old engineer loved. In flashback Bertrand's life and love affairs are told by himself while writing an autobiographical novel.

The Man Who Loved Women

1977

The Married Couple of the Year Two poster
6.5

Nicolas Philibert goes to America after killing a French aristocrat. On his return he tries to divorce his wife, Charlotte, but when he sees others trying to woo her his own interest is rekindled.

The Married Couple of the Year Two

1971

Money Money Money poster
6.7

When they realize the times are changing, five crooks decide to switch from bank robberies to personality abductions.

Money Money Money

1972

A Gorgeous Kid Like Me poster
6.2

Young sociologist Stanislas Previne is writing a thesis on criminal women, so he visits Camille Bliss in prison for an interview. Accused of murdering her husband and her lover, Camille recounts her life and love affairs.

A Gorgeous Kid Like Me

1972

The Crook poster
7.1

A thief known as Simon the Swiss faces up and downs in his criminal profession.

The Crook

1970

The Inheritor poster
6.4

After his father is killed in a plane crash, Bart Cordell returns back home to France to claim his inheritance: to lead the industrial empire his father built. But when a prostitute tries to set him up for a drug smuggling charge, he is forced to accept that his father may have been assassinated and that the killers are out to get him as well...

The Inheritor

1973

Law Breakers poster
5.5

A judge investigating police corruption finds that the deeper he digs, the more roadblocks he finds.

Law Breakers

1971

A Second Chance poster
6.3

Imprisoned as an accessory to murder, Catherine gives birth to a son she conceived in prison. Eighteen years later, her sentence served, she is reunited with the boy, Simon, who has remained in an orphanage the entire time. She is accompanied by toothsome prison buddy Sarah, and gradually these people whose lives have been frozen in time "thaw" and get on with the business of living.

A Second Chance

1976

A Police Officer Without Importance poster
7.0

Camille, Dov and Joëlle live on the edge of society and are involved in petty theft helping them to buy their drug doses and to survive as best they can. One day, while attempting to rob a movie theater, they activate the alarm signal and it is Pierre, Camille's brother, who is doing a heist in the same building, who is arrested red-handed. The three young people decide to kidnap a police officer and exchange him for Pierre.

A Police Officer Without Importance

1973

Mado poster
6.4

A middle-aged businessman faces bankruptcy after his partner's suicide and a rival's unscrupulous offer to buy his company. Determined to avoid the trap, he finds an unexpected solution through a prostitute.

Mado

1976

And Now My Love poster
6.0

The movie follows the lives of a woman and a man starting from several generations earlier. The story spans a whole century and several continents.

And Now My Love

1974

Défense de savoir poster
5.9

When a woman is accused of murder, the investigation slowly reveals numerous political connections. Laubret, the court-appointed defense lawyer, does everything in his power to expose the truth.

Défense de savoir

1973

Robert et Robert poster
6.3

Robert #1 is played by Charles Denner, while Robert #2 is played by Jacques Villeret. Beyond their common name, the two Roberts are as different as night and day. Oh, there is one more resemblance: both Roberts are lonely, and both hope to meet suitable mates through a computer dating service. As they await the arrival of their new dates, Robert et Robert become fast friends. Of the three favorite film subjects of writer/director Claude Lelouch--romance, crime, and politics--Robert et Robert falls firmly into the first category.

Robert et Robert

1978

The First Time poster
5.3

Claude is in his last year of high-school, but he doesn't care much for school. Instead all his thoughts circle around girls and getting laid. But since he doesn't look very studly, he has a hard time realizing his fantasies. When he's finally got an invitation to a steamy afternoon by Carole, his father intercepts the letter...

The First Time

1976

Vous ne l'emporterez pas au paradis poster
5.5

After the death of one of his clients, a Swiss industrialist decides to call his brother to transport the corpse to Switzerland. The journey will not be easy.

Vous ne l'emporterez pas au paradis

1975

1960s · 21 titles

The Bride Wore Black poster
7.1

Julie Kohler is prevented from suicide by her mother. She leaves home with the intent to track down, charm and kill five men who do not know her. What is her goal? What is her purpose?

The Bride Wore Black

1968

The Sleeping Car Murders poster
6.9

Six people travel by overnight train from Marseilles to Paris. When they arrive, one of them, a young woman, is found dead in a sleeping berth. The police, led by Inspector Grazzi, investigate the other five passengers, suspecting that one among them was responsible. However, as the investigation is stepped up, the others start turning up dead. It's up to the remaining two to solve the case, lest they become the next victims.

The Sleeping Car Murders

1965

Bluebeard poster
6.4

Paris, France, during the First World War. While thousands of soldiers die every day on the battlefields, Henri Landru, a seemingly respectable furniture dealer, married and father of four children, relentlessly feeds his own sinister factory of death.

Bluebeard

1963

Z poster
7.8

A prominent politician is murdered during a demonstration. The government and army are trying to suppress the truth, but a tenacious magistrate is determined not to let them get away with it.

Z

1969

The Two of Us poster
7.6

A story of the caring friendship formed between a crusty, old anti-Semite and an eight-year-old Jewish boy who goes to live with him during World War II.

The Two of Us

1967

The Blue Panther poster
5.0

Marie-Chantal travels by train to her cousin's place to spend a winter holiday, when a stranger entrusts her with false jewels that contain a virus powerful enough to destroy all humankind.

The Blue Panther

1965

The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers poster
5.4

Five swindle stories, taking place in five international cities: Tokyo, Japan ("Fumiko's Five Benefactors" by Hiromichi Horikawa); Amsterdam, The Netherlands ("A River of Diamonds" by Roman Polanski); Naples, Italy ("The Road Map" by Ugo Gregoretti); Paris, France ("The Man Who Sold the Eiffel Tower" by Claude Chabrol); and Marrakesh, Morocco ("The Confidence Man" by Jean-Luc Godard). Godard's segment was not included in the original French cinema release, and Polanski's segment was not included on the 2016 home disc release.

The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers

1964

The Devil's Toy poster
6.4

Dedicated “to all victims of intolerance,” "The Devil’s Toy" is a faux–public service documentary that chronicles the early days of skateboarding in Montreal. Framed as mock anti-skateboarding propaganda, Claude Jutra contrasts official hostility with the exhilaration and freedom experienced by youths racing downhill through city streets, shortly before the activity was banned.

The Devil's Toy

1966

The Thief of Paris poster
6.7

In turn-of-the-century Paris, Georges Randal is brought up by his wealthy uncle, who steals his inheritance. Georges hopes to marry his cousin Charlotte, but his uncle arranges for her to marry a rich neighbour. In retaliation, Georges steals the fiancé's family jewels, and enjoys the experience so much that he embarks upon a lifetime of burglary.

The Thief of Paris

1967

Mata Hari, Agent H21 poster
5.7

Ordered to seduce French captain and steal from him classified papers, Mata Hari, an exotic dancer and a spy, instead falls in love with him and blows the cover.

Mata Hari, Agent H21

1964

The Idiot poster
NR

Prince Myshkin is a good man, yet his goodness borders on naivety—or even idiocy. After spending his youth in a Swiss sanatorium being treated for epilepsy and autism, he returns to Russia to enter social circles riddled with hypocrisy and greed. One emerges from the experience dazed, as if waking from a troubled dream.

The Idiot

1968

Life Upside Down poster
6.7

A Paris real estate developer feels compelled to withdraw from his seemingly perfect life into a world of his own. Is the man going insane? By conventional standards, maybe, but it's clear that the life he's fleeing is madder still from his point of view, and since that point of view is unfailingly witty and astute, we even come to accept his delusions as more "real" than reality.

Life Upside Down

1964

Les fourberies de Scapin poster
NR

Two youths have secretly married ladies but not the ones their fathers who are away on trips had selected.A mischievous valet plays tricks to see that the lovers can stay together.

Les fourberies de Scapin

1965

Les Joueurs poster
5.5

Ikhariev is a professional gambler who made his fortune by cheating. Having just won eighty thousand roubles, he comes to try his luck again at a new inn. He is accosted by three men, also cheaters, who offer to join forces with him to ruin their new prey: young Glov, heir to a rich landed estate.

Les Joueurs

1960

Diane's Body poster
5.0

Diane is married to Julien, an architect. The two met in Czechoslovakia before marrying and moving to France. Julien becomes extremely jealous when he suspects Diane of having a lesbian affair with a ballet dancer. His incessant questions and insane jealousy make Diane resentful to the point she considers pushing him off a cliff.

Diane's Body

1969

La Plaie et le Couteau, Charles Baudelaire poster
NR

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La Plaie et le Couteau, Charles Baudelaire

1967

Les Pieds nickelés poster
6.2

Three tramps in search of adventure and fortune decide to try their luck at swindling. After an initial failure at shoplifting, they take over a bateau-mouche and exploit tourists in their own way.

Les Pieds nickelés

1964

Heraclitus the Dark poster
4.0

Deval shot “Héraclite l’obscur” in Tunisia in 1967, with his then-girlfriend and editor Jackie Raynal, in 35 mm and in color. He was the first Zanzibar member to shoot a film not only outside of Paris but also in an exotic location. “Héraclite l’obscur” is described by its author as a “philosophical peplum”. – spectacle theater

Heraclitus the Dark

1967

YUL 871 poster
6.1

An engineer from Paris flies to Montreal, partly on business, partly in search of parents displaced by World War II, and partly because of the prevailing restlessness of the age.

YUL 871

1966

Le Grand Escroc poster
7.7

Patricia Leacock, reporter for an American television, is in Morocco on the trail of a counterfeiter-philanthropist. Based on a real story which Chaplin had already thought to adapt into a film.

Le Grand Escroc

1964

The Truce poster
9.0

A nightclub owner and his stripper girlfriend take a country ride, meet another rival underworld guy along the way, and team up to thwart a third gangster who's on their tails.

The Truce

1968

1950s · 4 titles

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