Bruno Cremer Movies
Handsome, versatile French actor Bruno Cremer has played leads as well as supporting and character roles. He began his career on-stage and first appeared in films in 1957. Through much of the subsequent decade, Cremer played small supporting roles, but by the end of the '60s, he began playing more substantial parts. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide- 1983
In this run-of-the-mill thriller, a frenetic, sexually dysfunctional thief loses it and shoots two employees and his accomplices during a bank robbery then escapes to the Riviera. Once there, he gets a room in a hotel and takes a couple hostage -- he needs some sort of shield from the police while he makes his getaway. But the more he runs, the more it seems there is nowhere to turn. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Marlène Jobert, Jacques Villeret, (more)
- 1982
- R
An acting couple is forced to assess their life together when the wife falls for a wealthy horse-breeder while shooting a film. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Miou-Miou, Claude Brasseur, (more)
- 1982
Despite a fast-paced story that slams the broadcast industry and lotto mentality, this sci-fi action thriller emphasizes action over anxiety, and so its hunt-and-kill premise is less exciting than it sounds. Based on a Robert Sheckley tale, the action is brought about by a television show invented by money-motivated executives with ratings on the brain. The idea is to choose someone from the vast sea of the unemployed and cast them as the "hunted," while five others are the "hunters." The prey receives a million dollars if he or she can outsmart the five hunters, and a hunter gets $100,000 for finding and killing their human target. François Jacquemard (Gerard Lanvin) is chosen to be the man who has to outsmart the five hitmen, and when he proves to be too good at it, the TV executives have to find a way to outsmart him. All the drama, from beginning to end, is played out under the watchful eyes of multiple TV cameras, on the ground and in the air, while blood-thirsty viewers stay glued to their sets like Romans watching the gladiators -- but unlike the Romans, they are regularly interrupted by those annoying commercial breaks. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Gérard Lanvin, Michel Piccoli, (more)
- 1982
Sebastien Grenier (Lino Ventura), a former French spy, is working as a financial analyst in Zurich and cultivating an on-going relationship with Anna Gretz (Krystyna Janda), a German teaching at the university. Then his peaceful existence starts to disintegrate when he is recruited by a top French intelligence operative (Michel Piccoli) to discover how one of their own secret agents was found out and executed in broad daylight by a gang of terrorists. Sebastien starts to work but is immediately put off by the fact that his contacts are being murdered before he can reach them. As he gets deeper and deeper into the case, he comes to realize that he is being used in an elaborate political scheme, a scheme that leads to the death of Anna and a vow to get the killers who have now ruined what is left of his life. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Lino Ventura, Krystyna Janda, (more)
- 1981
Val Brosse (Bruno Cremer) is a private eye gets who gets involved with Francoise (Catherine Alric) and what seems to be the murder of a wealthy old man, Mathieu (Charles Vanel). The story develops along the lines of romance and intrigue, until both threads are woven into a final denouement. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Bruno Cremer, Catherine Alric, (more)
- 1980
The French Foreign Legion intervenes on behalf of 3,000 European and American civilian hostages in the town of Kolwezi, Zaire. Kantangese rebel forces hold the hostages in the small mining town and subject their victims to various ordeals. The military springs into action to save the captives in this uneven adventure that pays homage to military valor and dedication. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Giuliano Gemma, Bruno Cremer, (more)
- 1980
The "black robe" in the title of this suspense film belongs to a female lawyer, Florence Nat (Annie Girardot) who has just lost a case in which she defended Simon Risler (Claude Brasseur), a man wrongly accused of murder. Risler escapes before he can be put in prison, and seeks help from attorney Nat in finding the real killer, partly by going after the police inspector who framed him in the first place. A retired surgeon, in the process of setting up a drug rehab clinic gets involved in solving Risler's case, and soon the solution seems to be pointing to high-ranking figures with every desire and ample means to keep the truth well-hidden. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Annie Girardot, Claude Brasseur, (more)
- 1980
The pushes and pulls of an emerging post-war society are behind the antagonisms in this routine, slow-paced story set in a Jesuit school in 1952. A somewhat old-fashioned priest has his own ideas about how to train the boys in his charge and at the same time, the director of the school is faced with serious financial and moral decisions. The one boy who tends to follow the priest's viewpoints is, in the end, too troubled to live up to his expectations and in a dramatic turn-around, the priest becomes victimized. A sliding moral scale not only allows the victimization to occur but raises larger questions about ethics and one's adjustment to a changing world. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Bruno Cremer, Jean Bouise, (more)
- 1978
In the film, Helen (Laure Dechasnel), a married woman, leaves Paris for Zurich after breaking up with her lover. Near the border, a fellow passenger, mistakenly takes her passport. This sets up a situation which plunges her into the midst of international intrigue, a violent struggle between multinational corporations abetted by national secret agencies. This production features such international stars as Joesph Cotten, Donald Pleasence, Dennis Hopper and Bruno Cremer. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Bruno Cremer, Donald Pleasence, (more)
- 1978
Unknown to him, a journalist's girlfriend has been known to harbor terrorists sought by the police. He is a reporter for a leftist French journal, and the police have traced the girlfriend to him. He gets involved with both the police and underground organizations when his girl goes missing after being seen leaving a mysterious group of men. Now that he is the subject of police inquiries, his newspaper is beginning to make noises that he is not entirely welcome with them. The reporter eventually finds his supposed girlfriend at a sex show, for all the good it does him. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Yves Beneyton, Christine Pascal, (more)
- 1978
Nominated for an Academy Award, Claude Sautet's A Simple Story (Une Histoire Simple) examines the behavior of its characters as dictated by their environment. Romy Schneider plays Marie, a fortysomething working woman whose tiresome existence has prompted her to inaugurate an affair. Marie eventually parts with her lover, aborting the pregnancy resulting from her liaison. She pauses long enough to take stock of her current situation, and to muse on its possible outcome. Though exuding star quality throughout, Romy Schneider is thoroughly believable as the essentially ordinary, nonspectacular heroine. Her behavior is not that of a wealthy play-actress but a genuine bourgeois woman emotionally hemmed in by her social strata. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Romy Schneider, Bruno Cremer, (more)
The plot of William Friedkin's suspense thriller originated with the same Georges Arnaud novel that inspired Henri-Georges Clouzot's French suspense classic The Wages of Fear (1953). Roy Scheider, Bruno Cremer, Francisco Rabal, and Amidou play four men who, for various reasons, cannot return to their own countries. They end up in a dismal South American town where an American oil company is seeking out courageous drivers willing to haul nitroglycerin over 200 miles of treacherous terrain. The four stateless men have nothing to lose -- and, besides, they'll be paid 10,000 dollars apiece, and be granted legal citizenship, if they survive. The suspense is almost unbearable at times, even outdistancing the tension level of The Wages of Fear in certain scenes. Sorcerer had all the earmarks of a moneymaker, but this picture bombed for a rather odd and silly reason: its glaringly inappropriate title. Fans of Friedkin's The Exorcist may have gone home disappointed that not one sorcerer ever rears its ugly head. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Roy Scheider, Bruno Cremer, (more)
- 1976
In France, the slang-word for "bounty hunter" is "alpagueur." When the police are working on cases where they do not want their presence officially known, they arrange for private individuals who specialize in this work to perform certain services, such as setting up major arrests. In this film, L'Alpageur is Jean-Paul Belmondo, who does his work with a considerable sense of humor, great charm, and in as "clean" a way as possible. First, he busts a drug-trafficking ring operating out of Rotterdam by observing that a certain "pregnant" woman moves in an unusual fashion. Her "baby" turns out to be a large, specially shaped package of heroin. The drug kingpins stung by his operation seek to find the man who thwarted them, but because L'Alpageur is known only to a few in the police department, the drug barons' corrupt police friends cannot determine who he is. Later, he busts the leaders of a prostitution ring. While they were all gathered in one room, he fed nitrous oxide into that space, and they all fell unconscious following a few giddy, laugh-filled moments. This made it possible for him to arrest them without their ever seeing him. His most important case, however, is his search for "The Hawk," a bank-robber who uses local juvenile delinquents in each town to help him set up his thefts. After each robbery, he kills his helpers. One of them, however, has survived and has been put in jail. L'Alpageur is given a false identity and is put into jail alongside the youth. His job is to help the lad escape, and find the elusive, murderous bank robber. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Jean-Paul Belmondo, Bruno Cremer, (more)
- 1976
Bolstered by the buoyant performance by Jacques Dutronc as a car-mechanic turned pro-thief, this French film follows the exploits of Jacques (Dutronc) and his Jewish co-conspirator Simon (Jacques Villeret) as their robberies, beginning well before the Second World War, take on a political coloration under the occupation. Tempted into thievery when their auto-repair business handles a car which can outrun police vehicles, they are constantly pursued by the hard-working policeman Blanchot (Bruno Cremer). During the occupation, the duo lend their skills to the resistance, and the policeman briefly becomes their ally, only to resume his pursuit of these charming criminals after the war. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Jacques Dutronc, Marlène Jobert, (more)
- 1975
- R
The heiress Claire (Charlotte Rampling) in this movie is the daughter of the Miss Blandish of the film No Orchids for Miss Blandish. She has been raised under the unsympathetic eye of her aunt (Edwige Feuillere), who has no intention of seeing her receive her large inheritance. A somewhat violent girl (her father was a mentally retarded killer), she has been confined in a mental asylum. All the men who help her meet tragedy and death in the course of the film, but Claire gets help from other quarters, and her prospects look good. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Charlotte Rampling, Bruno Cremer, (more)
- 1975
Based on a true story, Costa-Gavras' Special Section (Section Speciale) is set in wartime France, but the parallels to contemporary political persecution are inescapable. A young German naval officer is killed in occupied Paris. The supplicative Vichy government sets about to locate the perpetrators. Four idealistic young Frenchman are arrested, tortured and slated for execution. It is clear that it doesn't matter whether they're guilty or not: the flames of totalitarianism must be stoked, even with the blood of the innocent. And it's especially convenient if the accused are thoroughly expendable in the eyes of the authorities. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Louis Seigner, Michel Lonsdale, (more)
- 1974
When he gets out of prison, Sam (Georges Gerret) seeks to track down his little girl, now a grown woman (Juliet Berto). After a series of violent encounters, he discovers that she has been sold into prostitution -- and likes it. She marries one of her procurers, and that would seem to be that. However, when she is killed, the father has the opportunity to exact his revenge on at least some of the people responsible for the deplorable condition he found his daughter in. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Georges Géret, Bruno Cremer, (more)
- 1974
When an American tourist is murdered in the south of France, the police must investigate. In this movie, the police inspector re-creates the girl's journeys through France until the murder is solved. Suspicions are narrowed down to four possible perpetrators early on, and flashbacks illuminate the roles each one played in the girl's vacation. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Mimsy Farmer, Paul Meurisse, (more)
- 1973
In this French crime/action feature, Maury (Maurice Ronet) has been booted out of the police force for failing to understand which side of the toast his butter is on: he pursued the prosecution of an important police official's son who was involved in the drug trade. Even more important people in politics have their own private armies of mercenary soldiers, and when Maury is seen by them to be one of their sort, he goes along. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Maurice Ronet, Mario Adorf, (more)
- 1972
L'Attentat is a political thriller based largely on a true story (the Ben Barka affair), which recounts how the French government and the American CIA connived to have a socialist in exile murdered before he could return to his homeland and start a revolution. Darien, a French journalist (Jean-Louis Tritignant), lures his friend Sadiel (Gian Maria Volonte) from his safe refuge in Geneva to appear on an American-made TV show. In doing so he is, perhaps unwittingly, setting him up for murder. Captured at the border by the French police, Sadiel is given over to a mysterious general from another country who tortures him to try to find out who his supporters are. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Michel Piccoli, Jean-Louis Trintignant, (more)
- 1972
The Algerian War is the subject of this French documentary, as is only proper, because that war gave the French a new government, a new constitution, and resulted in the repatriation of over a million French colonists from Algeria. It also figures in French politics to this day. This war, and the French-Indochina War marked France's final period as a colonial power. This documentary, narrated by Bruno Cremer and Jacques Roubaix, examines the role of the OAS in the spread of terrorism to France. The internal forces in Algeria and France which led to the conflict are also discussed. The French colonists who were forced to leave Algeria had in many cases been there for generations, and their resettlement in France was disruptive for them, as well as for the French and Algerian economies. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- 1971
Based on the novel Biribi, by Georges Darrien, this French film brings to the screen the story of Froissard (Michel Tureau), a young French soldier in the late 19th century who is assigned to Biribi, a disciplinary battalion in North Africa. Disciplinary battalions, then as now, were alternatives to prisons and court martials. Misfits and "hard cases" that the military is unable or unwilling to deal with in some other way are assigned to Biribis. However, a somewhat similar group of problem soldiers are often assigned to run such units. In this case, the young soldier Froissard, guilty of nothing much, is assigned to the battalion because of the indifferent negligence of his superior officers. He is placed under the leadership of sadists, rapists, and tough cases of all kinds. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
