Bruno Cremer Movies

Novelist and filmmaker Jose Giovanni turned to the remarkable true story of how his father helped him escape a date with the guillotine for this drama, which is based closely on events from his own life. During World War II, Manu (Vincent Lecoeur, as a character Giovanni modeled after himself) fought with the French Resistance, but near the end of the war he fell into a life of crime, and in 1947, 22-year-old Manu was arrested for his part in a bungled robbery that left a man dead. While Manu did not pull the fatal trigger, he refuses to say who did, since it would mean implicating his uncle, one of the few members of his family who has stood by him; Manu's brother is dead, and he turned his back on his father Joe (Bruno Cremer) years ago. Manu is sentenced to death, and while he protests his innocence, his attempts to escape from prison do little to convince anyone that he's telling the truth. To keep himself sane while waiting on Death Row, Manu begins writing a novel, but unknown to him, the father he will not speak with has been researching his son's case, and spends the better part of the next four years searching for a way to prove his son's innocence and earn him a clemency that would set him free. In real life, Jose Giovanni was unaware of his father's role in his release from prison until after his death; years later, Giovanni wrote an acclaimed biography of his father's own remarkable life, which included a very successful career as a professional gambler and a spell as official translator to renowned U.S. general "Black Jack" Pershing during World War I. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

It is only a few years into the future, but the face of France has changed drastically, due to its takeover by a moralistic, hypocritical and totalitarian regime. Women with children who want to divorce their husbands are not allowed to do so, all political parties have been outlawed, smoking is illegal and everyone must work. After a spat with her boyfriend, Carole (Laure Marsac) hails a taxi, not realizing that she has done so without any of the money or identification papers she needs. Her driver (Bruno Cremer) attempts to help her, but a variety of mishaps bring her to the attention of the police, who proceed to arrest her on made-up charges and a phoney HIV-positive result on tests given at the time of arrest. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide

Is Nosfer Arbi a vampire? Or is he just a very emaciated, very strange and possibly quite lonely young man from an Arabic country with an obsession with death? On the other hand, why is the previously cheery Parisian teenager Nathalie Belfond throwing fits and speaking in Arabic? Her strange behavior began with the appearance of a caped and cadaverous man outside her window. Mr. & Mrs. Belfond have their hands full trying to sort this mess out, in this extremely unusual and award-winning comedy which puts a new wrinkle on the vampire mythos. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide

Stars and famous locations abound in this multinational production, a would-be "financial thriller" about swindles and betrayals among jet-set gazillionaires, which takes place in glamor spots all over the globe. Somebody has stolen millions of dollars from his father, and Frank Cimballi (Eric Stoltz) means to find out who. To that end, he enlists the help of a variety of people, including a man (Mario Adorf) who is wealthy in his own right, and a French private eye (Bruno Cremer) who appears to have read too many American detective novels. The bad guys seem to have Nazi connections, which adds spice to the chase, but reviewers discounted this movie, based on a best-selling French novel, for its slapdash storytelling. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide

In this thriller, Karim Hamida (Richard Berry), an undercover agent for an Arab government, and Simon Atlan (Patrick Bruel), a Jewish cop, join forces to fight terrorism. To begin with they are paired by their superiors to bust up an international heroin ring operating in French high schools. At first, they haven't got anything good to say to each other, but when they catch wind of a terrorist hiding out at an embassy, they join forces. This same terrorist is posing as the director of an "Islamic cultural center" which is actually a school for mayhem. These two men infiltrate the center and disrupt its operations, nearly losing their lives in the process. The bad guy swears vengance, and begins a campaign of terrorism aimed specifically at these two men. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide

In an apparently empty airport, a Jewish family has gathered to greet one of its members who has come there to be with them. However, the airport is actually the ante-room of Death, and the family member is a recently deceased American survivor of the Holocaust. Although the party begins by greeting the man with warmth and affection, the gathering soon degenerates into a squabble about why most of those assembled failed to heed the warnings about the Holocaust and flee Germany. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide

Menage begins as a comedy of sorts, but be warned: it develops into a very dark, very confusing probe into the seamier aspects of Parisian life. Gerard Depardieu plays a crude but charismatic thief, whose own gayness does not prevent his commiserating with those of the opposite sex. Miou-Miou and Michel Blanc are young, impoverished lovers who fall under Depardieu's influence. He gains their confidence by introducing them to kinky sex, then sucks them into a vortex of crime. Director Bertrand Blier, who in most of his films has explored the awesome power (rather than pleasure) of sex, nearly outdoes himself in Menage (aka Tenue de Soiree). ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

In a simple story, told as a local legend and set against the breathtakingly awesome Swiss Alps, a young man and his uncle go mountain climbing one day and mysteriously disappear after an avalanche -- or do they? Antoine (Jacques Penot) has just gotten married and leaves his bride behind to go on a skiing excursion with his uncle (Bruno Cremer) up the mountain behind their village of Derborence. After an avalanche apparently buries them alive, nine weeks go by and then Antoine comes back to the village. At first, everyone thinks he is a ghost, they cannot believe he really survived all that time. The catch is that Antoine is certain his uncle is still alive, and is determined to go back up and look for him -- leaving his now-pregnant wife behind him once more. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide

This vicious crime thriller tells the story of Fanny (Fanny Cottençon), a cold-blooded woman who has served several prison sentences for petty crimes. Her hatred for Andrés (Bruno Cremer), an even more brutal policeman who once knocked out her teeth, is the emotional axis around which the story evolves. Andrés also killed Fanny's lover, and because of his violation of police regulations in his abusive treatment of Fanny, he was thrown out of the police force and now works as a guard for an armored car company. One day Fanny is told that Andrés is in Barcelona again, and she drops everything to go to the city with a few friends and rob the armored car that he is guarding. Her plans work out, and she exacts revenge on Andrés, but does not kill him. A mistake, perhaps, because he is soon back in full force against her and her companions -- and the gore and brutality continue with no hope of resolution, not even at the end of the film. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide