
Acting
Jacques Penot
Born — Died
1959-03-20 — 2016-12-17
Place of birth
Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France
Known for
Acting
Credits
35 titles
Known for
6.8No synopsis available yet.
Champs-Elysées
1982
NRLes Cinq Dernieres Minutes is a crime based French television series
Les Cinq Dernières Minutes
1958
5.3The Cordier fight in family against the crime: the father is police captain, the son, investigating judge and the girl, a journalist.
Les Cordier, juge et flic
1994
8.7Based on Captain James Cook's three voyages. It was on his first voyage, in 1770 (while in the South Pacific region to observe the transit of Venus), that Captain Cook discovered the east coast of Australia. He later recommended Australia as a future British colony. The series was financed by $5 million from Revcom France, $2.25 million from the ABC and the rest from 10BA tax money.
Captain James Cook
1988
7.0Martin Gray, whose life has been marked by tragedy and who has overcome terrible hardships, has decided to share his story.
Au nom de tous les miens
1985
5.3Robert is an architect and artist, in Vichy after separating from his Parisian wife. Robert finds it calms him to stand in the shadows of the home of Juliette and Patrick and watch her cook. She thinks he's a prowler and confronts him, then invites him in...
The Cry of the Owl
1987
Film credits
1990s · 10 titles
3.8After her gynecologist tells her that her current involuntary celibacy could result in her being unable to enjoy sex in the future, Eva begins to consider ways that she could take active steps to get some action going in that area. Unfortunately, none of the men she currently knows are interested in going to bed with her, including her business partner, who just might be sexually attracted to trees but certainly isn't to her. That being the case, it is particularly galling that he gets jealous at the very notion of her having sex with business clients. Eva discusses these issues (and a great deal more) with her similarly forty-ish gal-pals.
Pas d'amour sans amour!
1993
9.0In 1929, Mr. Messier, owner of a small print shop in a village in Quebec became a widower, he lives with his two children, Rachel, 9 years old, and Gaëtan, 7 years old. In this closed universe and in the absence of their mother, a great complicity is established between the children.
Ma soeur, mon amour
1992
7.0A bistro counter will decide the fate of two women. The first, Marie, the owner of a cafe for forty years in a Breton village, wants to realize her dream and go to the city. The second, Joelle, wants to leave town for the countryside.
Marie's Counter
1998
4.3Prague, 1920. Milena's father wants her to follow in his footsteps and be one of the first female doctors in Czechoslovakia, but she is determined to be a writer. She elopes to Vienna with the Jewish music critic Ernst Pollak, and starts a correspondence with Franz Kafka. She leaves Pollak and returns to Prague with her father, where she befriends and translates Kafka. As a journalist, Milena covers the 1923 Ruhr worker's strike and meets the communist architect Jaromir.
Milena
1991
NRPosthumous tribute paid by actor Luc Bernard to his older brother, director Guy Gilles ( 1938 - 1996 ). Documentary composed of interviews with some of his brother's friends and some actors from his main films, excerpts of which we see.
Letter to my brother Guy Gilles, filmmaker who passed away too soon
1999
5.4In 1939, Ramón was a young man, caught up in his Barcelona family's involvement on the Republic side in the brutal Spanish Civil War. He and his family fled into exile ahead of Franco's troops. Now it is many years later, and he has come back to see how his old homestead fared in the intervening years. The only person he can find who is able to remember those years clearly is his family's old butler Claudio.
The Long Winter
1992
No synopsis available yet.
Fourteen Stations
1991
8.0A mother, depressed since the birth of her twin daughters, sinks into alcoholism, but her eldest son decides to do everything to save his family.
La balle au bond
1998
7.0A female reporter goes undercover to catch a serial killer who lethally injects victims he meets through a dating agency.
Connections
1996
4.3Fred, a photographer, is in Tunisia to report on the « Bezness » (male prostitutes). Thanks to Roufa, Fred will discover this surprising environment where young men are confronted with the contradictions between tradition and modernity.
Bezness
1992
1980s · 18 titles
5.3Robert is an architect and artist, in Vichy after separating from his Parisian wife. Robert finds it calms him to stand in the shadows of the home of Juliette and Patrick and watch her cook. She thinks he's a prowler and confronts him, then invites him in...
The Cry of the Owl
1987
7.0Polish Martin Gray recalls the Holocaust, New York prosperity, and losing his wife and family.
For Those I Loved
1983
5.1A prostitute, released from prison, tries to change her life, but a murderous slave organization, the Consortium, is determined to bring her back to the fold or kill her, which forces her to seek help from Liberty, an anti-Consortium group.
Diesel
1985
No synopsis available yet.
Rosette prend sa douche
1984
4.9To emerge from anonymity, a young man assumes responsibility for a crime he did not commit.
Le Crime d'amour
1982
4.7Francois Marboni is a butcher who is being blackmailed for having an affair with the prostitute Rachel in this black comedy. He decides to hire a hit man when the blackmailer demands that he start cutting his profit margin to the bone. Francois soon becomes a target of the hitman he hired.
Sale Destin
1987
NRA nuclear explosion has devastated France. Since then, Thomas and hundreds of other survivors have been struggling to stay alive underground. But the world above keeps calling to him; ignoring countless warnings, he ventures to the surface. There, a terrifying discovery awaits him: some people are still alive
Les Voleurs de lumière
1987
4.8Max, who dreams of adventures, abandons his studies at 18 to become involved in the navy. He becomes the sailor 512.
Le Matelot 512
1984
6.1A quiet painter, separated from his wife for a year, receives a suitcase in the mail from his mother, whom he hasn't seen since infancy. He believes she abandoned him to his wealthy, paternal grandparents. The suitcase contains mementos and a diary, a long letter to him, written over the years, with details of her youth, her first job as a pianist at a cinema, the coming of talkies, her marriage, and how he came to live with his grandparents. As he reads through the materials and her story comes to life, his son Antoine, who's about 10 or 12, tries to break through his father's silence and sorrow by taking matters into his own hands.
The Revolving Doors
1988
6.7On 2 January 1899, starting from the French Sudan, a French column under the command of the captains Voulet and Chanoine is sent against the black Sultan Rabah in what is now the Cameroon. Those captains and their African mercenary troops destroy and kill everything they find on their path. The French authorities try to stop them sending orders and a second troop but the captains kill the emissaries who reach them. Sarraounia, queen of the Aznas, have heard about the exactions. Clever in war tactics and in witchcraft, she decides to resist and stop those mad men.
Sarraounia
1986
5.3Antoine leaves his new bride behind to go on a skiing excursion with his uncle up the mountain behind their village of Derborence. Nine weeks after an avalanche apparently buries them alive, Antoine returns home. Certain that his uncle has also survived, he resolves to go back up and look for him—leaving his now-pregnant wife behind once more.
Derborence
1985
9.0Two would be producers launch a singer's career.
Jour après jour
1989
7.0Charly, a young man in his thirties, is illiterate. He hides this handicap by combining humor and a sense of trickery. Charly found his mode of expression: music, for which and by which he lives while searching in the metro with his friends. It is there that he will meet Marie, seduced by this marginal sax player. Marie, despite the tricks deployed by Charly, will quickly realize that he is illiterate. But love has already given Charly the desire to learn to read...
Charly
1985
4.0Adolescents or young adults, Franck, Christine and the others meet, bond, leave each other. But the drama lurks.
Les Nouveaux Tricheurs
1987
7.0The crimes and tragedies that tear apart one family seem overblown in the telling, yet this psychological drama about the miseries of one French policeman is compelling throughout. Jean (Pierre Arditi) is a cop and also a failed novelist who was abandoned by his father, brother, and sister after his mother died. The trio move to Paris where they set up an art scam that nets them considerable cash -- something Jean begins to figure out when he joins them for a family reunion. Little by little, he learns that his father is an expert forger, his stepmother's art gallery seems to be involved in the scam, his brother is a derelict and into drugs, his stepmother is a hooker in addition to all of this, and his sister runs an exercise gym for keeping prostitutes in shape. Things get worse -- just when everything seems bad enough, the stepmother is murdered and it is up to Jean to find the killer.
Strictement personnel
1985
5.0Fred is a gambler and deep in debt. He owes crime boss Victor a lot of money and the time to pay has come. He decides to take a massive risk to refund his debts and agrees to kill a man. Fred knows he has to pay his debt and that the only way to do it is to carry out the hit arranged by Victor.
Farewell Fred
1985
9.0Reduced to poverty, a young man is taken in by a rich lady who asks him for some dangerous services in exchange.
L'Apprentissage de la ville
1982
7.0In this melodrama, a woman whose husband has begun seeing a wholly unsuitable woman runs away and attempts to support her son and herself by doing construction work. Many years later, after the death of his mother, the boy makes his father's acquaintance once again.
Après la pluie
1989
Series credits
6.8No synopsis available yet.
Champs-Elysées
1982
NRLes Cinq Dernieres Minutes is a crime based French television series
Les Cinq Dernières Minutes
1958
5.3The Cordier fight in family against the crime: the father is police captain, the son, investigating judge and the girl, a journalist.
Les Cordier, juge et flic
1994
8.7Based on Captain James Cook's three voyages. It was on his first voyage, in 1770 (while in the South Pacific region to observe the transit of Venus), that Captain Cook discovered the east coast of Australia. He later recommended Australia as a future British colony. The series was financed by $5 million from Revcom France, $2.25 million from the ABC and the rest from 10BA tax money.
Captain James Cook
1988
7.0Martin Gray, whose life has been marked by tragedy and who has overcome terrible hardships, has decided to share his story.
Au nom de tous les miens
1985
4.3No synopsis available yet.
Tarendol
1980

