Jean Rochefort
          Actor  
	
	Films to Rent 
				 
	  
	        
Delirious Fictions of William Klein, The (Who are You, Polly Maggoo?; Mr. Freedom; The Model Couple) (1966-1977) 
- Feat. Anemone , Jacques Boudet, Eddie Constantine…
 
- An American photographer in new wave Paris; Dir. Klein has been making challenging cinema for more than forty years. In his three obscure fiction…
 
Inheritor, The (L'Heritier) (1972) 
- Dir. Philippe Labro
Feat. Jean-Paul Belmondo, Carla Gravina, Jean Rochefort 
- Shadowy thriller in which a wealthy industrialist dies in an air crash but his son suspects foul play. Soon he finds his own life in peril.
Set…
 
Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe / Return of the Tall Blond Man (1973) 
- Dir. Yves Robert
Feat. Pierre Richard, Bernard Blier, Jean Rochefort 
- A secret service chief arranges for his assistant to investigate an innocent person chosen at random in order to prove him inept. 
A little dated…
 
I'm the King of the Castle (1988) 
- Dir. Regis Wargnier
Feat. Jean Rochefort, Dominic Blanc, Regis Arpin 
- The young sons of a rich widowed industrialist and his house matron enter into an increasingly dangerous power play as their parents become close.…
 
Hairdresser's Husband, The (1991) 
- Dir. Patrice Leconte
Feat. Jean Rochefort, Anna Galiena 
- Everything you may love or loathe about French movies is taken to an (intentional?) extreme in this whimsical venture into the one–track mind…
 
Wild Target (1992) 
- Dir. Pierre Salvadori
Feat. Jean Rochefort, Guillaume Depardieu 
- Jean Rochefort is a fastidious hitman whose mania for control, both at home and on assignment, is dangerously weakened when he apprentices Gerard…
 
Ridicule (1996)
 
- Dir. Patrice Leconte
Feat. Charles Berling, Jean Rochefort, Fanny Ardant… 
- Delightful Cesar–winning comedy set in the Court of Louis XVI in 1700s France where the King grants favours to those endowed with only the…
 
Never Ever (Circle of Passion) (1998) 
- Dir. Charles Finch
Feat. Sandrine Bonnaire, Jane March, Charles Finch… 
- Mediocre, if elegantly framed, this drama has an American couple (Finch and March) move to Paris and diverging into romance (with Sandrine Bonnaire)…
 
Count of Monte Cristo, The (2001) 
- Dir. Josee Dayan
Feat. Gerard Depardieu, Ornella Muti, Jean Rochefort 
- The classic tale of injustice and revenge (by Alexander Dumas), gets respectful treatment in this French TV mini–series starring Gerard…
 
Closet, The (Le Placard) (2001)
 
- Dir. Francis Veber
Feat. Daniel Auteuil, Gerard Depardieu, Thierry Lhermitte… 
- More comic gold from the king of French farce, Francis Veber, who understands the value of a good premise, great actors, and simple, unpretentious…
 
Lost in La Mancha (2002)
 
- Dir. Keith Fulton, Louis Pepe
Feat. Terry Gilliam, Johnny Depp, Jean Rochefort 
- A cautionary fable of filmmaking in the mould of HEARTS OF DARKNESS, concerning director Terry Gilliam’s (BRAZIL) attempt to film a version of…
 
L'Homme du Train (Man on the Train) (2002)
 
- Dir. Patrice Leconte
Feat. Jean Rochefort, Johnny Hallyday 
- An elegantly amusing role–switching tale that's equal parts social comedy, existential drama and subtle thriller, tinged with melancholy…
 
L'Enfer (Hell) (2005) 
- Dir. Danis Tanovic
Feat. Emmanuelle Beart, Karin Viard, Marie Gillain… 
- Intense and twisting family psychodrama based on a script by Krystof Kieslowski (THREE COLOURS) has three French sisters finding their lives…
 
Tell No One (Ne le dis à Personne) (2006) 
- Dir. Guillaume Canet
Feat. Francois Cluzet, Marie-Josee Croze, Andre Dussollier… 
- Convoluted yet propulsive French thriller about a man whose deceased wife contacts him eight years after her supposed murder, triggering a quest to…
 
Mr. Bean's Holiday (2007) 
- Dir. Steve Bendelack
Feat. Rowan Atkinson, Emma de Caunes, Willem Dafoe… 
- Rubber–faced Rowan Atkinson returns to the big–screen with the bumbling Bean, his most accessible, successful comic hero.
This time…
 
Twice Upon a Time (Désaccord parfait) (2007) 
- Dir. Antoine de Caunes
Feat. Jean Rochefort, Charlotte Rampling, Isabelle Nanty… 
- Agreeable Pan–Euro comedy recounting what happens when a former showbiz couple – a director and his actress muse – reunite thirty years…
 
Asterix and Obelix in Britain (God Save Britannia) (2012) 
- Dir. Laurent Tirard
Feat. Gerard Depardieu, Edouard Baer, Valérie Lemercier… 
- Another big–budget, live action outing for the Franco comic duo, here aligning with the British to repel the Julius Caesar's invading Roman…
 
April and the Extraordinary World (2015)
 
- Dir. Christian Desmares, Franck Ekinci
Feat. Marion Cotillard, Jean Rochefort, Olivier Gourmet… 
- Steampunk–infused tale set in an alternate world where France is a country under the iron rule of Napoleon V, a young girl goes in search of…