Afirma Pereira 1996  N/R, 104 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
aka: Pereira Declares
According to Pereira
Director: Roberto Faenza
Cast: Marcello Mastroianni, Daniel Auteuil, Stefano Dionisi, Nicoletta Braschi, Marthe Keller, Joaquim de Almeida, Teresa Madruga, Nicolau Breyner, Filipe Ferrer, Joao Grosso
Elderly Joe Pereira (Marcello Mastroianni) is a dying man, burying his head in the sand, ignoring Spain's civil war and the Fascist power structure in Portugal–no easy task for the editor of the cultural section of a Lisbon daily newspaper. But when a young Italian subversive, Monteiro Rossi (Stefano Dionisi), comes on board, he forces Pereira to reckon with the political world.
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Apres Vous... 2003  R, 110 min.
Genre: Foreign / Comedy
aka: After You
Director: Pierre Salvadori
Cast: Daniel Auteuil, Jose Garcia, Sandrine Kiberlain, Marilyne Canto, Michele Moretti, Garance Clavel, Fabio Zenoni, Ange Ruze, Andree Tainsy, Jean-Luc Abel, Jean-Charles Dumay, Jean-Claude Lecas
Antoine (Daniel Auteuil) is employed as a maitre d' in Paris when he saves Louis (Jose Garcia) from committing suicide. He takes Louis under his wing, and Louis' quality of life improves. But, meanwhile, Antoine begins a downhill slide in his own relationships.
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Cache 2005 R, 117 min.
Genre: Foreign / Thriller
aka: Hidden
Director: Michael Haneke
Cast: Daniel Auteuil, Juliette Binoche, Maurice Benichou, Annie Girardot, Bernard Le Coq, Lester Makedonsky, Walid Afkir, Daniel Duval, Nathalie Richard, Denis Podalydes, Caroline Baehr, Christian Benedetti
Georges Laurent (Daniel Auteuil) hosts a literary review roundtable and lives a comfortable life in his book-filled townhouse with wife Anne (Juliette Binoche) and 12-year-old son Pierrot (Lester Makedonsky). One day, they receive a two-hour video tape of their home. More video tapes appear, often with childish drawings, giving the family a sense of danger hanging over them as it is apparent someone is monitoring their house. Tensions mount as Georges (and viewers as well) tries to solve the mystery.
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The Eighth Day 1996 N/R, 118 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Jaco Van Dormael
Cast: Daniel Auteuil, Pascal Duquenne, Miou-Miou, Isabelle Sadoyan, Henri Garcin, Michele Maes, Fabienne Loriaux
Professional actor, Georges (Pascal Duquenne), with Downs Syndrome resides in an institution. He decides to take off on his own and meets Harry (Daniel Auteuil), a corporate manager who has had it with life. The two become friends in this enchanting story. The two men were co-winners of the 1996 Cannes Film Festival award for Best Actor.
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The Girl on the Bridge 1999 R, 92 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama / Comedy / Romance
Director: Patrice Leconte
Cast: Vanessa Paradis, Daniel Auteuil, Frederic Pfluger, Demetre Georgalas, Catherine Lascault, Isabelle Petit-Jacques, Mireille Mosse, Didier Lemoine, Bertie Cortez, Stephane Metzger, Claude Aufaure, Farouk Bermouga, Nicolas Donato, Enzo Etokyo, Giorgios Gatzios
Desperately in need of rescue, the romantically disillusioned Adele (Vanessa Paradis) is saved by Gabor (Daniel Auteuil) one night on a Paris bridge as she contemplates suicide. Gabor offers her an opportunity to become part of his knife-throwing act, and, together, they become soul mates in this emotional romantic comedy that does not necessarily have a happy ending. In French.
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A Heart in Winter 1992  N/R, 105 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama / Romance
Director: Claude Sautet
Cast: Daniel Auteuil, Emmanuelle Beart, Andre Dussollier, Elisabeth Bourgine, Brigitte Catillon, Maurice Garrel, Myriam Boyer, Stanislas Carre de Malberg, Dominique De Williencourt, Jean-Luc Bideau, Jean-Claude Bouillaud, Van Doude
Stephane (Daniel Auteuil) and Maxime (Andre Dussollier) are partners in a violin repair shop. Troubles arise when Maxime's young girlfriend, Camille (Emmanuelle Beart), enters the scene, and Maxime tells Stephane that he is leaving his wife for Camille. A romantic, but repressed, triangle forms as Stephane enters into a platonic relationship with Camille.
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La Reine Margot 1994 R, 143 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
aka: Queen Margot
Director: Patrice Chereau
Cast: Isabelle Adjani, Daniel Auteuil, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Vincent Perez, Virna Lisi, Dominique Blanc, Pascal Greggory, Claudio Amendola, Miguel Bose, Asia Argento, Jean-Claude Brialy, Jean-Philippe Ecoffey
Based on a historical novel by Alexandre Dumas, this lavish adaptation tells of the events leading up to the "Massacre of St. Bartholomew" in 1572. Religious strife was prevalent during the reign of the Catholic King, Charles IX (Jean-Hugues Anglade). In an effort to appease the Protestants, the real power behind the throne, Catherine de Medici (Virna Lisi), initiates a marriage between her daughter Margot (Isabelle Adjani), the heiress to the throne, and Protestant Henri of Navarre (Daniel Auteuil). But this only leads to further violence.
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La Separation 1994 N/R, 88 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
aka: The Separation
Director: Christian Vincent
Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Daniel Auteuil, Jerome Deschamps, Karin Viard, Laurence Lerel, Louis Vincent, Nina Morato, Jean-Jacques Vanier, Christian Benedetti, Frederic Gelard
Anne (Isabelle Huppert) and Pierre (Daniel Auteuil) are in the middle of a relationship breakdown when Anne confesses that she is in love with another man. Although past the point of reconciliation, the couple is still reluctant to part.
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Le Placard 2000 R, 86 min.
Genre: Foreign / Comedy
aka: The Closet
Director: Francis Veber
Cast: Daniel Auteuil, Gerard Depardieu, Thierry Lhermitte, Michele Laroque, Michel Aumont, Jean Rochefort, Alexandra Vandernoot, Stanislas Crevillen, Edgar Givry, Thierry Ashanti
To save his neighbor, Francois Pignon (Daniel Auteuil), from being fired from his job at a condom factory, Belone (Michel Aumont) sends "evidence" to Pignon's employer that Pignon is gay. This sets off a series of hilarious moments that make the film well worth seeing.
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Les Voleurs 1996  R, 117 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
aka: Thieves
Director: Andre Techine
Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Daniel Auteuil, Laurence Cote, Benoit Magimel, Ivan Desny, Chiara Mastroianni, Didier Bezace, Fabienne Babe, Julien Riviere, Regis Betoule
Set in Northern France, this is the intriguing story of Juliette (Laurence Cote) and her relationships with a cop (who had arrested her for shoplifting and then let her go) (Daniel Auteuil) and Marie (Catherine Deneuve), a professor who loves her.
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Lucie Aubrac 1997  R, 116 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Claude Berri
Cast: Carole Bouquet, Daniel Auteuil, Patrice Chereau, Jean-Roger Milo, Eric Boucher, Heino Ferch, Bernard Verley, Jean Martin, Marie Pillet, Maxime Henry
This love story is based on the true story of a French Resistance fighter, Lucie Aubrac (Carole Bouquet), who organized a rescue mission in 1943 to save her husband, Raymond (Daniel Auteuil), slated by the Nazis for execution in a Lyon prison.
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Ma Saison Preferee 1993 N/R, 125 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
aka: My Favorite Season
Director: Andre Techine
Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Daniel Auteuil, Marthe Villalonga, Jean-Pierre Bouvier, Chiara Mastroianni, Carmen Chaplin, Anthony Prada, Michele Moretti, Jacques Nolot, Bruno Todeschini, Jean Bousquet, Roschdy Zem, Ingrid Caven
Emilie (Catherine Deneuve) and Antoine (Daniel Auteuil) are a sister and brother who tend to the problems confronting their aged mother Berthe (Marthe Villalonga) when Berthe comes to live with Emilie. They reflect on their past, present, and future relationships with each other in this delicately perceptive examination of family bonds.
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Manon of the Spring 1986 PG, 113 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Claude Berri
Cast: Yves Montand, Daniel Auteuil, Emmanuelle Beart, Hippolyte Girardot, Elisabeth Depardieu, Gabriel Bacquier, Margarita Lozano, Yvonne Gamy, Ticky Holgado, Jean Bouchaud
Manon (Emmanuelle Beart) seeks revenge against Cesar (Yves Montand) and his nephew, Ugolin (Daniel Auteuil), for the death of her father in this excellent follow-up to "Jean de Florette."
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My Best Friend 2006 PG-13, 90 min.
Genre: Foreign / Comedy
Director: Patrice Leconte
Cast: Daniel Auteuil, Dany Boon, Julie Gayet, Julie Durand, Henri Garcin, Jacques Mathou, Marie Pillet, Elisabeth Bourgine, Jacques Spiesser, Audrey Marnay, Anne Le Ny, Pierre Aussedat, Philippe Du Janerand
Business partners Francois Coste (Daniel Auteuil) and Catherine (Julie Gayet) deal in antiques, and Francois is a ruthless workaholic who has no friends. Catherine makes a deal with Francois: if he can produce one true friend, she will give him a valuable ancient vase they just purchased for their business. And the fun and games begin as Francois treks through the Paris streets and finds big-hearted cab driver Bruno (Dany Boon) who just might be the one to pull off the pretense that will result in Francois getting the vase.
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On Guard! 1997 N/R, 128 min.
Genre: Foreign / Adventure
Director: Philippe de Broca
Cast: Daniel Auteuil, Fabrice Luchini, Vincent Perez, Marie Gillain, Yann Collette, Jean-Francois Stevenin, Didier Pain, Philippe Noiret, Claire Nebout, Charlie Nelson, Renato Scarpa
Set in the late-17th century, this swashbuckling story involves the efforts of Lagardere (Daniel Auteuil) to regain the family inheritance for Aurore (Marie Gillain). During the greedy Gonzague's (Fabrice Luchini) plot to gain the family fortune 20 years earlier, Lagardere was a survivor–along with the rightful heir: an infant girl, Aurore. Now, Lagardere schemes to avenge the earlier atrocities.
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Sade 2000 N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Benoit Jacquot
Cast: Daniel Auteuil, Marianne Denicourt, Jeanne Balibar, Gregoire Colin, Isild Le Besco, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Philippe Duquesne, Vincent Branchet, Raymond Gerome, Jalil Lespert
In 1794, the imprisoned Marquis de Sade (Daniel Auteuil) was transferred–after 13 years in grim Saint Lazarde prison–to a luxury prison where he relived his youth by "educating" the beautiful, young Emilie de Lancris (Isild Le Besco).
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The Valet 2006 PG-13, 85 min.
Genre: Foreign / Comedy
Director: Francis Veber
Cast: Gad Elmaleh, Alice Taglioni, Daniel Auteuil, Kristin Scott Thomas, Richard Berry, Virginie Ledoyen, Dany Boon, Michel Jonasz, Michel Aumont, Laurent Gamelon, Patrick Mille, Michele Garcia
Francois Pignon (Gad Elmaleh) is a parking valet working at a Paris restaurant who just happens to get in the frame of an incriminating picture the paparazzi take of wealthy businessman Pierre Lavasseur (Daniel Auteuil) and his mistress Elina (Alice Taglioni). To convince his wife Christine (Kristin Scott Thomas) that there is nothing going on between him and Elena, Lavasseur convinces Francois and Elena to move in together and pretend that they are in love when out in public. As the games begin, tensions increase, and complications ensue–especially when Christine learns the truth and joins in on the "games."
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The Widow of Saint-Pierre 2000 R, 113 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Patrice Leconte
Cast: Juliette Binoche, Daniel Auteuil, Emir Kusturica, Michel Duchaussoy, Philippe Magnan, Christian Charmetant, Philippe Du Janerand, Reynald Bouchard, Yves Jacques, Catherine Lascault
Based on court records, this is the story of events following a murder when the perpetrator (Emir Kusturica) is arrested and awaits the guillotine. He is placed in custody of an army captain (Daniel Anteuil) whose wife sets out to redeem the prisoner.
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| 1. Afirma Pereira (1996)
aka: Pereira Declares
aka: According to Pereira
2. Apres Vous... (2003)
aka: After You
3. Cache (2005)
aka: Hidden
4. The Eighth Day (1996)
5. The Girl on the Bridge (1999)
6. A Heart in Winter (1992)
7. Jean de Florette (1986)
8. La Reine Margot (1994)
aka: Queen Margot
9. La Separation (1994)
aka: The Separation
10. Le Placard (2000)
aka: The Closet
11. Les Voleurs (1996)
aka: Thieves
12. Lucie Aubrac (1997)
13. Ma Saison Preferee (1993)
aka: My Favorite Season
14. Manon of the Spring (1986)
15. My Best Friend (2006)
16. On Guard! (1997)
17. Sade (2000)
18. The Valet (2006)
19. The Widow of Saint-Pierre (2000)
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