Bernard Ménez

Acting

Bernard Ménez

Born 1944-08-08 · Mailly-le-Château, Yonne, France

Bernard Ménez (born 8 August 1944, in Mailly-le-Chateau) is a French actor. He has appeared in more than seventy films since 1969. Source: Article "Bernard Ménez" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Acting credits

La Grande Bouffe poster
7.1

Four friends gather at a villa with the intention of eating themselves to death.

La Grande Bouffe

1973

The Miser poster
6.3

The children of Harpagon, Cléante and his sister Elise, are each in love but they still haven’t spoken to their father yet. Harpagon is a miser who wants to choose the right man and the right woman for his children. Based on Molière’s play.

The Miser

1980

Sélection Officielle poster
1.8

Ulysses, an idealistic, novice film director, invites Clothilde, his young and pretty neighbor, to accompany him to the Love Film Festival on Réunion Island, where his debut film has been selected. Unfortunately, the day before they're due to leave, Ulysses learns that his film has been removed from the program. Afraid of disappointing Clotilde, he hides the truth and flies with her to Réunion, determined to do everything in his power to get his film back in the official selection and, at the same time, win the favors of the young woman, who dreams of becoming an actress. But Ulysses must cope with internal rivalries and struggles behind the scenes if he wants love and cinema to triumph.

Sélection Officielle

2017

Love Lasts Three Years poster
5.7

A heartbroken literary critic turns his despair into creativity following a bitter divorce, only to encounter an enchanting beauty who poses a major challenge to his newfound cynicism. Marc Marronnier thought his marriage was going well until his wife deemed him immature, and left him for a high-profile writer. Devastated, he began filtering all of his heartache into a misanthropic manuscript decrying the virtues of true love. But later, when Marc falls hard for his cousin's radiant and gorgeous wife, his entire life is turned upside down. Louise Bourgoin and Gaspard Proust star in a film by actor and author-turned-director Frederic Beigbeder.

Love Lasts Three Years

2011

Day for Night poster
7.8

A committed filmmaker struggles to complete his latest project while coping with a myriad of crises, personal and professional, among the cast and crew.

Day for Night

1973

Big Kids poster
7.0

A café terrace. Couples of teenagers are sitting here and there. They discuss things in life, but curiously with the experience of people much older than they seem. The watchful and caring waiter of the café responds to them in song, offering a touching and poetic filmed fantasy.

Big Kids

2023

Maine-Ocean Express poster
5.8

"Maine-Ocean" is the name of a train that rides from Paris to Saint-Nazaire (near the ocean). In that train, Dejanira, a Brazilian, has a brush with the two ticket inspectors. Mimi, another traveler and also a lawyer, helps her. The four of them will meet together later and live a few shifted adventures with a strange-speaking sailor (Mimi's client).

Maine-Ocean Express

1986

Dracula and Son poster
5.8

With angry villagers driving them away from their castle in Transylvania, Dracula and his son Ferdinand head abroad. Dracula ends up in London, England where he becomes a horror movie star exploiting his vampire status. His son, meanwhile, is ashamed of his roots and ends up a night watchman in Paris, France where he falls for a girl. Naturally, tensions arise when father and son are reunited and both take a liking to the same girl.

Dracula and Son

1976

God Save the Tuches poster
5.1

When Jeff and Cathy’s grandson Jiji is selected for a training camp with Arsenal, it’s a dream opportunity for the whole family to head over to England and meet the royal family.

God Save the Tuches

2025

Marketing Mix poster
NR

A young, ambitious, and comically naive business school graduate takes a job as a sales rep and aims to ascend the corporate ladder as quickly as possible by way of a new marketing strategy.

Marketing Mix

1979

Nono Nénesse poster
5.3

Two adults play babies and wild antics ensue.

Nono Nénesse

1976

Public Affairs poster
6.0

A television director decides to use his own life and marriage as an inspiration for his latest project.

Public Affairs

2003

Duets on Sofa poster
4.8

The former spouses Jacqueline and Bernard are still living in the same apartment. And now each of them has a new "half"...

Duets on Sofa

1979

Near Orouët poster
6.4

A patient observation on the adventures of three young girls spending their three-week summer vacation at a small village, a quotidian that includes cooking, excursions, playing cards, and going out with guys, enjoying life's simple pleasures.

Near Orouët

1973

Je t'aime, filme-moi ! poster
NR

This film is a tribute to love, a tribute to cinema. Our two main characters take us with them into the intimacy of "real people". We cross the roads of France with them, in their different vans and pick-up trucks transformed for the occasion into mini movie studios. Their concept: to film "declarations of love" and to deliver them directly by van to their recipients. And we discover, as we go along, that our duo and their own personal adventures are subtly intertwined with the people they film. This mix of genres offers several universes to the spectator in order to make him question himself about love.

Je t'aime, filme-moi !

2022

The Four Charlots Musketeers poster
5.3

This French slapstick comedy stars the musician/comedian foursome Les Charlots, as valets to the Four Musketeers. One of the film's highlights is a mutual kicking session between Cardinal Richelieu, the King, and a monk. This comedy foursome was enormously popular in 1970s France, and they made a huge number of films during that period.

The Four Charlots Musketeers

1974

The Car Keys poster
5.2

Who would think losing car keys could lead us that far ? Be careful, adventure is on every street corner...

The Car Keys

2003

On dînera au lit poster
4.7

No synopsis available yet.

On dînera au lit

2008

Don't Cry with Your Mouth Full poster
6.1

Annie, a 16 years old girl, loves Frédéric who is away doing his national service. During her holidays in the country, she meets Alexandre. He's older, owns a car and she experiences the "first time" with him. Back during a leave, Frédéric finds his sweetheart in the arms of this clumsy oaf and eventually hits it off with him.

Don't Cry with Your Mouth Full

1973

La frisée aux lardons poster
4.0

It’s summer in a small port town in Brittany. Isabelle (Pascale Rocard), who has just graduated from high school, comes to join her mother Micheline (Bernadette Lafont). Micheline is being courted by a beach boy, Maurice—whom everyone calls Doudoune (Bernard Menez). Isabelle soon begins a sweet romance with one of his friends, Pascal (Pascal Meynier). Meanwhile, her father (Michel Aumont) has stayed behind in Soissons, where he runs a medical laboratory, and is bored to death. Every weekend, he comes to spend 48 hours with Micheline and sometimes splurges a little extra in Paris, hitting on girls in nightclubs. Efforts that are not crowned with success. On the contrary, in Brittany, that ladies’ man Doudoune gets what he wants... But when the family man comes to join his loved ones, the blunders and misunderstandings multiply...

La frisée aux lardons

1979

Le Chêne d'Allouville poster
5.8

The small Norman village of Allouville is proud of its thousand-year-old oak tree. But one day, a project of enlargement threatens the tree. The deputy Charles Crétois was keen on this project, which allowed him to continue the speculation he had been indulging in on certain lands. He is supported by the mayor of Allouville to whom he promised the Legion of Honor. But the whole village protests: they want to save the oak tree.

Le Chêne d'Allouville

1981

Nice and Easy poster
6.6

Sebastian has one ambition in life: to do nothing. His horizon is his couch. His life he does not want to live but contemplate. But today, if you do nothing - You are nothing. So driven by his two roommates, that chain internships and odd jobs, decided to Anna and not quite decided Bruno, Sebastien will have to - A little.

Nice and Easy

2014

Trop c'est trop poster
6.3

Philippe, Didier, Georges and Edina were born on the same day. The three boys have always been in love with Edina, but she's always put them off. They set off in search of her and find her posing for a photographer. Seeing them, she flees and dies in the process. By mutual agreement, the three boys commit suicide to join her.

Trop c'est trop

1975

The Seasons of Pleasure poster
4.6

Charles and Emmanuelle organize as every year, the congress of perfumers who distribute their products in their castle. Garibaldi, their mutilated and somewhat disturbed son-in-law, will be the butler.

The Seasons of Pleasure

1988

Behind the camera