Jacques Bonnaffé
Date of birth: 1958-06-22
Place of birth: Douai, Nord, France
Known for: Acting
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Biography
Jacques Bonnaffé was born on June 22, 1958 in Douai, Nord, France. He is an actor, known for First Name: Carmen (1983), Ainsi soient-ils (2012) and Va Savoir (Who Knows?) (2001).
Movie Credits
Cockles and Muscles
2005-03-30
Crustacés et coquillages is a fresh French comedy film with numerous surprise turnarounds and about
Lemming
2005-05-11
After the death of his boss's wife, a young engineer faces the sudden psychological metamorphosis of
The Page Turner
2006-08-09
Mélanie Prouvost, a ten-year-old butcher's daughter, is a gifted pianist. That is why she and her pa
Blanche and Marie
1985-04-03
A little town in the north of France, 1941. Blanche has three children. She worries about her husban
Dans les pas de Marie Curie
2011-12-14
First Name: Carmen
1983-12-01
The protagonist is Carmen X, a sexy female member of a terrorist gang. She asks her uncle Jean, a wa
The Devils
2002-09-11
The story of the struggle of an autistic girl and her brother trying to survive without their parent
Venus Beauty Institute
1999-02-03
Aging beautician Angèle, already wounded by a long-ago romance, gets awkwardly dumped at a train sta
The Ponzi Scheme
2014-02-14
Ponzi, from his arrival in Boston in 1903, to hi death in Rio in 1949. He made himself famous in inv
The Marching Band
2024-11-27
Diagnosed with leukemia, a successful orchestra conductor learns that he is adopted, and his younger
Staircase C
1985-06-06
Story of a snooty young critic at the centre of several plotlines which run throughout his apartment
Captain Ahab
2008-02-13
When Ahab's mother dies in childbirth, the infant's gruff father places his son in the care of his p
When the Sea Rises
2004-10-27
An actress, who goes all over rural France with her monologe "Sex and Crime", meets and falls in lov
Innocent
1999-08-25
A French-Greek co-production, filmed in Paris, in which the forty-year-old Maxim is released from pr
Lucie Aubrac
1997-02-26
A love story or a tale of the resistance, this poignant movie tells both the haunting story of a Fre
Ballades
1983-05-01
Anna lives with Philippe. Their couple has been formed since "belle lurette", and Anna is starting t
The Feelings Factory
2008-02-06
A successful woman searches for romance by speed dating in this drama. Eloise has a great job and a
Va Savoir (Who Knows?)
2001-09-28
After finding love and success in Italy, French actress Camille returns to Paris, the city she fled
The Art of Breaking Up
2005-04-27
Lucette and Edouard: Two lovers passionate about sex, money and life. He is a spoiled but penniless
The Second Wind
2007-10-24
Gu, a famous gangster, has just escaped from jail. All french police is after him. Before leaving th
Around a Small Mountain
2009-09-09
Vittorio stops to help Kate when her car breaks down on a mountain road. When they meet again, Vitt
Behind the Walls
2011-07-06
In 1922, a young novelist goes to the countryside to write her latest book and falls victim to terri
The Repentant
2002-04-17
A mysterious woman, dressed in black and carrying a small suitcase, arrives in Nice and tries in vai
Cross My Heart
1991-02-27
Young Martin has been acting strange. At his school, his teacher and classmates notice that he is le
The Black Box
2020-12-01
Fourteen years after the Paris Commune, a young man from the country meets former insurgents. He giv
Clemenceau
2012-11-08
1917, German troups are moving forward to Paris, the French government calls a providential man : Cl
Capitaine au long cours
1997-08-27
Coming Home
2012-04-04
A young woman tries to adjust to freedom after she spends eight years as a prisoner to a strange man
Baptême
1989-08-23
In this film, director Rene Feret tells the story of his parents' lives. In 1935 his mother Aline wo
Blancs cassés
1989-04-05
A young teacher, Pierre, arrives in Africa in the middle of the small French community. Pierre lets
Les Enfants du vent
1991-12-11
It is World War II, and the Nazis have taken over Poland. In this story, three citified children of
Violette
2013-09-06
Born out of wedlock early in the last century, Violette Leduc meets Simone de Beauvoir in postwar Sa
My Name Is Hmmm...
2013-10-07
Céline, 11, meets Peter, 40. Together they go on a "luminous journey" in his beautiful red truck. Sh
Anton Tchekhov 1890
2015-03-18
Summer 1890. In order to make some money to feed his family, Anton Chekhov, modest physician, wrote
Vincent Before Noon
2019-01-28
A father pays his son a visit after years of conflict and turns up in the middle of his house move.
Les Williams
2009-03-29
A César award nominated short drama.
La république des enfants
2011-02-26
The Takeover
2022-10-19
Cédric is a worker in a precision mechanics factory in the French Alps. When he finds out that the
A Better Life
1985-05-22
Two quarreling lovers from opposite sides of the economic scale take central stage in this drama abo
The Place of Another
1993-11-17
Thomas is an up-and-coming actor. His proud and loving father is watching him in a Shakespeare perfo
A Fox Blood
1996-03-09
A story passes in a village and includes four main characters: a boy who is just at the age of the s
Poison Friends
2006-09-27
A group of college students are duped by a charming pathological liar.
Couples et amants
1993-09-14
Seemingly, Paul (Jacques Bonaffee) and Isabelle (Marie Brunel) have a wonderful, harmonious marriage
Goodbye Vinyle
2023-08-26
Late 1950s in France. One woman, two men. She, Ève Faugère, a glamorous diva at the peak of her care
Au bout du rouleau
2002-11-29
An aging captain who has spent his life sailing the China Sea agrees to do one last race for a crook
Kadoc
2021-02-08
Tiot Bout d’Carbon
2023-11-22
Jeanne and the Perfect Guy
1998-04-22
Jeanne, a receptionist at a travel agency, is looking for the love of her life. She thinks she has f
Itinéraires
2005-08-25
It is the end of the judicial control of Thierry Chartier, 18 years old. He was a virgin in Heuzecou
The Temptation of Isabelle
1985-10-23
Bruno devises a mean to test the love of his girlfriend Isabelle. Since Isabelle had been in love wi
Les frères Gravet
1996-04-01
Gravet brothers meet in Beaune during their mother's funeral.
The Son of Joseph
2016-04-20
A young man who lives with his mother and has never known his father, heads off to look for him. He
La Campagne de Cicéron
1990-03-14
In this romantic farce, former opera-singer and current music festival organizer Hermance (Judith Ma
Seances
2016-04-28
Seances, co-created with the National Film Board of Canada, presents a wholly new way of experiencin
The Year of Certificate
1996-06-01
This certificate was formerly obtained by pupils at the end of primary school. The teacher of a smal
The Chameleon Slayer
2015-10-16
Pattern never changes. She finds lonely, anonymous, almost invisible women doing menial jobs, become
Murder In The Auvergne Mountains
2017-03-14
In a French thermal town, a man is found poisoned. His ex-girlfriend is arrested for the murder but
Mad Love
2015-09-16
1959. Guilty of a double-murder, a man is beheaded. At the bottom of the basket that just welcomed i
The Mountains of the Moon
1987-09-01
This visually striking drama is taken from the classic Japanese novel Tales Of Genji by Marasaki Shi
The Secret Wife
1986-09-17
It was during one of his missions in Norway that Antoine learned of his wife's death. He leaves his
Silent Streams
2019-04-10
Women and men are lost in their thoughts at random hours of the day and streets of the city. From th
Quand sort la recluse
2019-04-10
After three elderly men are bitten by spiders, everyone assumes that their deaths are tragic acciden
As Happy As Possible
2019-07-31
Salome gets a summer job in a junkyard somewhere in the country side. Under a western sun, in this p
She Spent So Many Hours Under the Sun Lamps
1985-10-09
A young film director is making a movie with his friend Christa. In the film-within-the-film there a
Breakpoint: A Counter History of Progress
2019-07-14
An account of the last two centuries of the Anthropocene, the Age of Man. How human beings have prog
Drumont, histoire d'un antisémite français
2013-03-19
For a Good Cause
1997-02-05
When 12-year-old Tonin's teacher announces that he is looking for volunteers to house one of several
Jeanne Moreau: Free Spirit
2018-04-02
An account of the life of actress Jeanne Moreau (1928-2017), a true icon of the New Wave and one of
Un fils de notre temps
2003-01-09
Somewhere in Europe in the twentieth century, a young man decides to change his life by engaging in
Come What May
2015-11-04
In may 1940, the German troops enter France. Frightened by the progress of the enemy, the people of
Manipulations
1984-10-03
Julien, an honest policeman, is asked to infiltrate a terrorist organization. He soon meets the char
Le Mental de l'équipe
2008-02-19
A staging of Frédéric Bélier-Garcia and Emmanuel Bourdieu's play "Le Mental de l'équipe" by Frédéric
La dernière douane
2020-12-22
An update of the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, between night train and seaside resort, in the form o
The Happiest Place on Earth
1999-04-28
The story of Robert Hughes-Lambert, who was captured by Nazis when his active homosexuality was disc
Arthur Rimbaud, l'homme aux semelles de vent
1995-11-27
After abandoning his poetry, from 1880 until his death in 1891, Arthur Rimbaud drifts between Yemen
Roulez jeunesse !
1993-04-28
After a missed burglary, deux young cads take refuge in a retiring-pension sowing terror. On the cal
Les Zygs, le Secret des Disparus
2007-05-15
On an island, clones are secretly raised.
Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe
2016-06-02
Before Dawn charts the years of exile in the life of famous Jewish Austrian writer Stefan Zweig, his
Michael Kael vs. the World News Company
1998-02-18
A naive French reporter is sent to an African town to cover a sensational news story, unaware that i
Intruders
2025-04-12
Some foreign minors take refuge on the farm of a caring lady. They are looking for a home but get in
Il me semble que je serai toujours bien là où je ne suis pas…
Va savoir+
2001-10-10