Jean-François Balmer
Birthday: 1946-04-18
Place of Birth: Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Biography: Jean-François Balmer (born 18 April 1946 in Valangin) is a Swiss actor. He has worked extensively in French cinema, television and stage productions since the early 1970s. Source: Article "Jean-François Balmer" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
Movies
Madame Bovary
Bored with the limited and tedious nature of provincial life in 19th-century France, the fierce and ...
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The French Revolution
A history of the French Revolution beginning from the decision of the king to convene the Etats-Gene...
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The Blood of Others
In the German-occupied Paris, Helene is torn between the love for her boyfriend Jean, working for th...
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Strange Affair
A young Parisian advertising executive becomes so captivated by the unsettling charm of his mysterio...
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The Night Caller
A serial-killer frightens Paris by phoning young ladies at night, telling them insults about their l...
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Cop or Hood
When the local police inspector was found dead in a prostitute's house, police division commissioner...
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Folie suisse
Adrien Daubigny, director at INSEE, warns his wife Anna that he now wants to lead his life by chance...
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Love at the Top
A shy bank employee unexpectedly invites a young woman to a café, leading to a one-night stand. When...
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Mumu
The story a rescue, the rescue of a bad brat's life in the post-WWII period. In 1947, Roger reaches ...
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The Swindle
Betty and Victor are a pair of scam artists. One day Betty brings in Maurice, a treasurer of a multi...
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The Castaways of Turtle Island
Jean-Arthur has been working as a clerk in a travel agency. One day, he, along with his colleague co...
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Beaumarchais the Scoundrel
Beaumarchais the Scoundrel is a biopic film based on the life of the French playwright, financier an...
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L'Infiltré
A notorious French ex-felon becomes an informant and infiltrates a Mexican drug cartel....
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T'aime
Zef, twenty years old, is a simple-minded man who can only say one word: "love you". Always happy, l...
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Ladies' Choice
As a result of an automobile accident, a sophisticated TV producer meets her car mechanic/blue colla...
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The African
Charlotte flies to East Africa to build a tourist center near Lake Williams where the pygmies live. ...
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Diên Biên Phu
Vietnam, 1954. An American reporter finds himself in the middle of the battle of Điện Biên Phủ, betw...
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La Menace
Henri Savin has managed a trucking company for his lover, Dominique Montlaur, for many years. Now he...
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The King's Daughters
Late 17th Century: Anne de Grandcamp and Lucie de Fontenelle, two little girls from Normandy, arrive...
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La Dilettante
Pierrette is a woman who describes herself as having "opted for the temporary on a permanent basis."...
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A Winter in Paris
After being released from prison, a burglar is convinced by a former accomplice to participate in th...
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Charming Fellow
Octave and his friends, Achille and Hector, wander around at night in the grocery stores, the regula...
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Colère
The town of Carzac Shakespeare suffered a violent attack that caused a fire in the local factory. Ma...
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In the House
A sixteen-year-old boy insinuates himself into the house of a fellow student from his literature cla...
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Snow
Anita is a barmaid at the center of a community of street preachers, prostitutes, dealers and users....
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East Wind
The true story of General Smyslovsky and the anti-Communist 1st Russian National Army receiving shel...
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Le Chandelier
Jacqueline is married to Maître André, but is in love with her lover Clavaroche, a fiery officer sta...
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La Joie de vivre
At the end of the 19th century, an orphan comes to live with her aunt and uncle in Normandy. The gir...
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Nothing to Report
In 1956, the professional army of France lacks the manpower to keep the peace in Algeria, the colony...
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Juliette dans son bain
Ronny Kandiotis, a billionaire and art lover, is the guest of a major museum, on the occasion of a d...
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Polar
This film noir tends to stay within very conventional plot lines, as the narration by the main prota...
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Bluff
A César award winning short film about a group of men playing poker until, at precisely 6pm, a brigh...
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These Kids Are Grown-Ups
When a real-estate promoter attempts to take over the homes of two electronics whizzes and boot them...
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La Lumière des étoiles mortes
June 1940. The Wechrmacht appropriates the houses in which are living Pierre, his wife Magdeleine, t...
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Crystal Book
This European thriller, set in Sri Lanka, attempts to expound upon the philosophical implications of...
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Last Image
Seen through the filtered lens of boyhood memories, award-winning director Mohamed Lakhdar-Hamina cr...
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Urgence
When a neo-Nazi group of terrorists is set to blow a pop concert off the face of the earth because i...
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La Vallée delle ombre
Matteo, a boy from the city, goes to visit his grandfather in a secluded mountain village, where pre...
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Wild Animals
Berg and Bela are married stunt drivers, but one night Bela dies in an accident. Jaded and reclusive...
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Mise au Vert
To strengthen family ties, to free his teenagers from their digital addiction, to reconnect with his...
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That Day
A father is scheming to have his slightly mental daughter from an earlier marriage killed by allowin...
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My New Partner III
It's been ten years since the paths of René and François parted ways. From the glorious era when, as...
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La vérité est un vilain défaut
The trials and tribulations of a good guy who feels obliged to confess the truth to his wife or his ...
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The Worst Man in London
In Victorian London lives a man of adventurous spirit and great wit, Charles Augustus Howell, art ag...
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Cosmos
Two young men seek the solitude of the country; their peace is disturbed when a set of random occurr...
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Tokyo!
Three distinct tales unfold in the bustling city of Tokyo. Merde, a bizarre sewer-dweller, emerges f...
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The Sewers of Paradise
In July of 1976, the Societé Générale of France was robbed of well over $10 million dollars by a gro...
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L'Amour ou presque
Without warning, Mélie disembarks on the cargo ship where her father has the sailor's blues. He reme...
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The Mouth Agape
Monique is dying of cancer, lying in bed in the apartment above the store her family owns. Her phila...
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My Chinese Sister
In 1977, one year after Mao died, a French man ( played by Alain Bashung) comes back to China to wor...
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Time Regained
In early 1920s France, an author, lying on his deathbed, looks at various photographs and is flooded...
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Totally Nuts
Diane, a young woman in search of a child, is looking for money to go to the sperm bank. She crosses...
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Pierre et Jean
In the 1930s, on the eve of the Popular Front, Pierre and Jean harmoniously combine their brotherhoo...
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The Adolescent
In the summer of 1939, 13-year-old Marie goes with her parents to visit her grandparents in a small ...
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Mountain Pass
Serge (Stevenin) is a dweller in the French provinces who happens upon Georges (Jacques Villeret), a...
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Comedy of Power
Magistrate Jeanne Charmant-Killman doggedly investigates CEO Michel Humeau, who is accused of partic...
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Lucky Luke
Fearless gunslinger, Lucky Luke, is ordered by the President to bring peace to Daisy Town....
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It's Not Me
This free-form film is a self-portrait, which revisits more than 40 years of the author’s filmograph...
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Le Transfuge
A French industrialist, Bernard Corain, who frequently travels on business to the German Democratic ...
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En attendant Godot
Two vagabonds, Vladimir and Estragon, meet on stage in a non-place ("Country road with tree") at dus...
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Rocking Poponguine
A tale of growing up in 1960s Senegal. Bacc narrates his early years of living in Popenguine, a town...
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Little Marcel
A homeless young man, living in his delivery truck, is simultaneously adopted by a pranksome group o...
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The Sacha Guitry Affair
On the morning of 23 August 1944 Sacha Guitry was arrested at his Paris appartment, as the French ca...
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Spender : The French Collection
Spender Christmas Special: Spender is sent to France to escort Tommy Thornton who has been extradite...
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An Unlikely Adventurer
Carole is ready to do anything to save the Guyanese forest and the Wayanas Indians from the pollutio...
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Murder on Omaha Beach
Captain Eloïse Gentil, of Caen police, hasn't been on speaking terms with her father Robert, an expe...
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Une page d'amour
In Passy, Paris, 1895. The young widow Hélène calls the doctor Henri Deberle during the night, whe...
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Swann in Love
In Belle Époque Paris, a 19th-century Parisian aristocrat falls in love with a lower-class prostitut...
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Waiting for Anya
During the harrows of WWII, Jo, a young shepherd along with the help of the widow Horcada, helps to ...
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Golden Eighties
Three young women at a hair salon all like the son of the clothing store proprietors across the mall...
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Lou Didn’t Say No
Moments and aspects of the life of a contemporary married couple undergoing a metamorphosis....
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Belphegor, Phantom of the Louvre
A collection of artifacts from an archeological dig in Egypt are brought to the famous Louvre museum...
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Dead Europe
In Greece to scatter his father's ashes, Isaac hears of a curse that hangs over the head of his fami...
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Sidecar
The gloomy life of a high school censor is turned upside down the day he meets an old classmate....
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Sam's Enough
After trying a job as a stripper in a Barcelona carnival, Eva (Aure Attika) is ready for something n...
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Henry Dunant: Red on the Cross
Henry Dunant, son of a Geneva francophone upper class bourgeoisie family, works for a Swiss exploita...
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Elephant Tales
A tale of two elephant brothers, Tutu and Zef, in search of their mother, and the menagerie of wild ...
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Visiting Card
Based on fourteen poems by Max Jacob put to music by Henri Sauguet and Robert Caby, Carte de visite ...
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