Jacques Penot
Know for: Acting
Born: 1959-03-20
Place of birth: Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France
Also know as:
Letter to my brother Guy Gilles, filmmaker who passed away too soon (1999)
Posthumous tribute paid by actor Luc Bernard to his older brother, director Guy Gilles ( 1938 - 1996 ). Documentary composed of interviews with some...
Les Nouveaux Tricheurs (1987)
Adolescents or young adults, Franck, Christine and the others meet, bond, leave each other. But the drama lurks.
Strictement personnel (1985)
The crimes and tragedies that tear apart one family seem overblown in the telling, yet this psychological drama about the miseries of one French...
Sale destin (1987)
Francois Marboni is a butcher who is being blackmailed for having an affair with the prostitute Rachel in this black comedy. He decides to hire a hit...
The Cry of the Owl (1987)
Robert is an architect and artist, in Vichy after separating from his Parisian wife. Robert finds it calms him to stand in the shadows of the home of...
For Those I Loved (1983)
Polish Martin Gray recalls the Holocaust, New York prosperity, and losing his wife and family.
Diesel (1985)
A prostitute, released from prison, tries to change her life, but a murderous slave organization, the Consortium, is determined to bring her back to...
Jour après jour (1989)
Two would be producers launch a singer's career.
Après la pluie (1989)
In this melodrama, a woman whose husband has begun seeing a wholly unsuitable woman runs away and attempts to support her son and herself by doing...
Charly (1985)
Charly, a young man in his thirties, is illiterate. He hides this handicap by combining humor and a sense of trickery. Charly found his mode of...
Bezness (1992)
Roufa is an attractive young man, and that works out well for him because he is a practitioner of "bezness:" he's a sex-for-hire boy for the tourists...
Derborence (1985)
Antoine leaves his new bride behind to go on a skiing excursion with his uncle up the mountain behind their village of Derborence. Nine weeks after...
L'Apprentissage de la ville (1982)
Reduced to poverty, a young man is taken in by a rich lady who asks him for some dangerous services in exchange.
Le Crime d'amour (1982)
To emerge from anonymity, a young man assumes responsibility for a crime he did not commit.
Farewell Fred (1985)
Fred is a gambler and deep in debt. He owes crime boss Victor a lot of money and the time to pay has come. He decides to take a massive risk to...
La balle au bond (1998)
A mother, depressed since the birth of her twin daughters, sinks into alcoholism, but her eldest son decides to do everything to save his family.
Marie's Counter (1998)
A bistro counter will decide the fate of two women. The first, Marie, the owner of a cafe for forty years in a Breton village, wants to realize her...
Milena (1991)
Prague, 1920. Milena's father wants her to follow in his footsteps and be one of the first female doctors in Czechoslovakia, but she is determined to...
The Long Winter (1992)
In 1939, Ramón was a young man, caught up in his Barcelona family's involvement on the Republic side in the brutal Spanish Civil War. He and...
Le Matelot 512 (1984)
Max, who dreams of adventures, abandons his studies at 18 to become involved in the navy. He becomes the sailor 512.
The Revolving Doors (1988)
A quiet painter, separated from his wife for a year, receives a suitcase in the mail from his mother, whom he hasn't seen since infancy. He believes...
Pas d'amour sans amour! (1993)
After her gynecologist tells her that her current involuntary celibacy could result in her being unable to enjoy sex in the future, Eva begins to...
Ma soeur, mon amour (1992)
In 1929, Mr. Messier, owner of a small print shop in a village in Quebec became a widower, he lives with his two children, Rachel, 9 years old, and...
Blessure (1985)
A young rock singer, Morgan, falls in love with the pretty Julie. But Dimitri, Julie's "ex", doesn't see it that way.