Jean-Paul Bonnaire

Acting

Jean-Paul Bonnaire

Born 1943-10-03 · Chaux, Côte-d'Or, France

Jean-Paul Bonnaire (3 October 1943 - 28 March 2013) was a French actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films from 1975 to 2013. Source: Article "Jean-Paul Bonnaire" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Acting credits

The Chorus poster
7.7

In 1940s France, a new teacher at a school for disruptive boys gives hope and inspiration.

The Chorus

2004

RRRrrrr!!! poster
6.3

In 35,000 BC, the tribe of the Dirty Hairs is at war against the tribe of the Clean Hairs for eight hundred years, trying to get their shampoo. The chief of the Dirty Hairs sends his daughter Guy disguised to the enemy tribe to get some shampoo for his tribe. When the healer of the Clean Hairs tribe surprisingly kills two cavemen of his tribe, their imbecile chief assigns Pierre with curled hair and Pierre blonde to investigate the murder and find the criminal.

RRRrrrr!!!

2004

Trivial poster
4.2

An inspector who just suffered a family tragedy is looking for a missing older man. Man's family is of no help, or are they hiding something? He is helped by a ghost of an actress who died 30 years ago, or is he slowly going insane?

Trivial

2007

Quatre étoiles poster
5.5

Franssou, a charming Parisian English teacher, who shares part of her life with a boring middle-aged lover, dreams of another life. So, when she unexpectedly inherits 50,000 euros, she grasps the opportunity and goes to the French Riviera in order to take it easy in luxury. In the four-star hotel where she rents a room she comes across Stéphane, a strange guy who is in the process of arranging Elton John's next coming to the place. Intrigued by the noisy ostentatious fellow, she follows him until she finally comes into contact with him. She knows Stéphane is at bay and decides to take advantage of it.

Quatre étoiles

2006

No artwork available
5.5

The film follows a young Achab and the events that inspire his eventual journey to the sea.

Capitaine Achab

2004

The Second Wind poster
6.0

Gu, a famous gangster, has just escaped from jail. All french police is after him. Before leaving the country with Manouche, the woman he loves, Gu needs a final job to get some money. The job works, but a police's scheming makes Gu appear as a traitor to his own accomplices. Gu will do whatever it takes to clean his honor...

The Second Wind

2007

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

Camping à la ferme poster
5.7

Six jeunes en difficulté de la banlieue parisienne débarquent au fin fond de la campagne française, escortés par leur éducateur. Ils doivent montrer leur bonne volonté en effectuant des travaux d'intérêts généraux décidés par la pétillante juge d'application des peines, qui veut ainsi leur donner une dernière chance. Entre le portable vissé à l'oreille de l'un, le pit-bull de l'autre ou encore les prières musulmanes du troisième, ces adolescents vont bouleverser la vie paisible du petit village.

Camping à la ferme

2005

Never Twice poster
10.0

After much hesitation, a gigolo decides to take a shot of a radical remedy to save his failing virility.

Never Twice

1995

Ducoboo poster
5.0

Ducoboo is a very inventive dunce and joker, he is very resourceful at finding new ways to copy from his neighbor, to cheat or to defy the teacher's authority.

Ducoboo

2011

I Can't Sleep poster
6.4

Ninon is a spirited hotel-manager who teaches self-defense classes to her terrified eldery neighbors. Daiga, an aspiring Lithuanian actress newly arrived to Paris, becomes fascinated with the life of a mysteriously beautiful drag performer.

I Can't Sleep

1994

Kill the Referee poster
5.5

Michel, a referee has to suffer the consequences of having whistled a penalty against a team which is supported by football hooligans.

Kill the Referee

1984

Le lac et la rivière poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Le lac et la rivière

2003

A Butterfly Kiss poster
5.0

Billie and Louis have the good fortune of loving each other passionately and of having a family. But then one day terrible news turns their existence and that of their friends' upside down. Marie, a famous actress who is Billie's friend and confidant, redoubles her determination to give life, while Alice, her nurse, fighting for freedom, maintains that life 'is here and now and in the moment.' A film about love, hope, and the conviction that the force of life, despite the toughest tests, will always gain the upper hand.

A Butterfly Kiss

2011

Just a Game poster
7.0

Emile Michel, Lapland, orphan, is obliged to bring back within the tribe the ancestral totem: a gold plumb line "borrowed" formerly by his grandfather Raymond Michel. His quest will take him aboard a floating boat that crosses Baffin Bay in the icy waters of Greenland.

Just a Game

1992

Marty's World poster
8.5

One morning Martin Sauvier ten years, said Marty opens the door of the room Berrant Antoine, Permanent resident service geriatrics. This septuagenarian paralyzed and mute most of his time going to search for Alzheimer's is definitely appropriate password. Retaining all its lucidity, he shares his emotions and his thoughts through a voice that we are alone has heard. This meeting will be born an unusual friendship.

Marty's World

2000

Nickel and Dime poster
5.8

Jacques is coming home after a long stretch behind bars. The boys are waiting, especially hi longtime friend Francis and new kid on the block Didier. They have a job lined up. but Jacques wants out of the life, Francis would rather be on the stage and wannabe mobster Didier has loser written all over him. Looks like someone's heading for a fall.

Nickel and Dime

2003

le mariage de figaro poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

le mariage de figaro

1981

The Poisoner poster
7.6

Loudun, October 1947. Leon Besnard and Marie celebrate their eighteenth wedding anniversary with friends and Ady, a former German prisoner they have "adopted". A few days later, Leon dies. Louise, a friend of the couple's and probably Leon's mistress claims that, on his deathbed, the deceased told her that Marie was poisoning him. The whole town soon condemns Marie and she is arrested and sent to jail. Did she really kill Léon as well as twelve other members of her family as she finds herself charged with?

The Poisoner

2006

Le péril rampant poster
9.0

The film follows the villain “The Serpent” in his fight to conquer the world at any cost. Close to the best B series, Yaccelini runs through its plot of scientists, chases and highly suspenseful endings, aware that the most intense adventure is the one that never manages to hit the brakes.

Le péril rampant

1982

The First Man poster
6.5

Based on a novel that Albert Camus was working on when he died, we follow Jacques Comery as he travels back to Algeria in 1957, a place full of childhood memories. The country is split between those wanting to remain a part of France, and those demanding independence. Reminiscences of his mother, his stern grandmother and a young Arab boy come flooding back.

The First Man

2011

Double Gentlemen poster
6.1

In a routine look at what it means to finally leave adolescence behind — even in one’s mature years — this series of mood swings and sequences focuses on two grown men. Francois (Jean Francois Stevenin, the director) and Leo (Yves Alonso) are old friends, and at one point they decide to go out and search for one of their childhood buddies, the brunt of several of their practical jokes. In true form, the men opt for playing yet another practical joke on their friend, but their plans backfire when his wife Helene (Carole Bouquet) comes into the picture instead. Her presence forces them to reconsider their shenanigans in a new light.

Double Gentlemen

1986

La merveilleuse odyssée de l'idiot Toboggan poster
7.0

This program of short films by Vincent Ravalec (Never twice, Le Masseur and Les Mots de l'amour) deals with themes such as desire and death through the journey of a group of characters.

La merveilleuse odyssée de l'idiot Toboggan

2002

Guardian of the Night poster
6.0

With an off-beat sense of humor to match its erratic central character, this original comedy-drama features Jean-Philippe Ecoffey as Yves, a young man who works as a cop at night. The catch is that Yves turns to petty crime during the day, partly to impress Aurore (Aurelle Doazan), a nurse he idolizes from afar. His criminal hobby seems hard to understand, since it's doubtful that they will really get him anywhere with Aurore; besides, she already has a boyfriend. Nevertheless, Yves starts out by robbing a post office and ends up trying to run over Aurore's boyfriend, an act which finally gets him into serious trouble.

Guardian of the Night

1986