Jean-Michel Ribes

Bacri, comme un air de famille

Jean-Pierre Bacri was never happy about anything. But beyond the caricature of the grumpy man, from his apprenticeship years to his death in January 2021, this film tells the story of this quintessential Frenchman: a man turned towards others, an actor by accident, a moralist by vocation, who was left unaffected by flattery and false honors by success, and ready for all kinds of anger when it was necessary to speak out against injustice and stupidity. The film tells the story of how Jean-Pierre Bacri's life changed several times: from Algeria to France when he was eleven years old in 1962; from bank clerk to apprentice theater actor; from Pieds-noirs film star to screenwriter for Alain Resnais; and from Cannes playboy to Agnès Jaoui's mad lover, the most decisive encounter for his life as well as for his work

Release Date:2022-01-14

Character:Self

Vote Count:5

Ça repart !

Release Date:2021-11-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Michel Sardou une vie en chantant

Release Date:2021-09-19

Kadoc

Release Date:2021-02-08

Department:Directing

Job:Director

We're Live

On est en direct is the place where we talk about news and culture, where we host singers, actors, writers, and where surprises, and humor are par for the course! It's freedom of speech, with guests coming to speak on the news for debates without filter. It's also an opportunity to discover new talents ...

Release Date:2020-09-26

Character:Self - Guest

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:1

Palace sur scène

Release Date:2020-09-12

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:1

Snowlidays

Wanda's life has gone awry since she had phlebitis. This mannequin legs is found unemployed. On a holiday in the mountains, she can not ski. Her husband does not understand her anymore. His children either. But her real problem is named: the ski instructor's syndrome.

Release Date:2019-01-23

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:35

Muriel Robin, oser être soi...

Release Date:2018-11-23

Character:Self

Brèves de comptoir

A small, old-fashioned cafe in a suburban square, opposite the cemetery, the Hirondelle. Every day at half past six, the customers dance with their stories and tirades, totally amazing.

Release Date:2014-09-24

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:18

28 minutes

Release Date:2012-01-09

Character:Self

Episode Count:3

Vote Count:1

Wild Grass

Marguerite loses her wallet, and it's found by Georges, a seemingly happy head of family. As he looks through the wallet and examines the photos of Marguerite, he finds he's fascinated with her and her life, and soon his curiosity about her becomes an obsession.

Release Date:2009-05-20

Character:le 2ème patient

Vote Count:82

A Day at the Museum

Un conservateur terrorisé par les plantes vertes, une mère plastifiée pour être exposée, un ballet de Saintes Vierges, des gardiens épuisés par Rodin, un ministre perdu dans une exposition de sexes, une voiture disparue au parking Rembrandt, des provinciaux amoureux des Impressionnistes, touristes galopins galopant d'une salle à l'autre, passager clandestin dans l'art premier, Picasso, Gauguin, Warhol, ils sont tous là dans ce petit monde qui ressemble au grand, dans ce musée pas si imaginaire que ça, valsant la comédie humaine jusqu'au burlesque.

Release Date:2008-11-19

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:42

Batailles

"Resumption of a play created in 1983. Two shipwrecked people on a makeshift raft in the middle of a social conflict, a mountaineering fight on Mount Paterhorn, improbable friction between two men and a woman in the Yvelines ... The places, the situations change, but each time there is a confrontation. The question is not so much who will win, but to take pleasure in the arguments provided by the opponents. Cunning, bad faith, all blows are allowed in what is primarily a fight of words. "

Release Date:2008-02-20

Department:Directing

Job:Stage Director

The Maiden and the Wolves

Not long before World War I, in a French Alpine town near the Italian border, a pack of slaughtered wolves is delivered to local taxidermist Leon (Patrick Chesnais). A surviving black cub comes down from the mountains looking for his family, and is saved from discovery and certain death by Leon’s young daughter Angele, who releases him back into the wild. The Great War comes and goes, making local foundry owners the Garcins rich. Family patriarch Albert Garcin (Michel Galabru), who happens to be Angele’s godfather, has given a free lifetime’s lease of a shack in the hills to a gypsy woman (played in flashbacks by Elisa Tovati in which she’s seen, literally, having dances with wolves on stage). Her son Guiseppe (Stefano Accorsi), who appears to be slightly mentally handicapped, guards the wolves he’s befriended up there, especially the black pack leader he calls Carbone.

Release Date:2008-02-13

Character:Le directeur de l'école vétérinaire

Vote Count:36

Private Fears in Public Places

In Paris, six people all look for love, despite typically having their romantic aspirations dashed at every turn.

Release Date:2006-11-22

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:68

Musée haut, musée bas

A staging of Jean-Michel Ribes' play "Musée haut, musée bas" by himself.

Release Date:2005-01-01

Department:Directing

Job:Stage Director

Le Complexe de Thénardier

A staging of José Pliya's play "Britannicus" by Jean-Michel Ribes.

Release Date:2004-04-12

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Guy Bedos à l'Olympia

Release Date:2002-10-08

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Patrick Bosso - Les talons devant

Release Date:2002-09-04

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:2

Rêver peut-être

A staging of Jean-Claude Grumberg's play "Rêver peut-être" by Jean-Michel Ribes.

Release Date:2000-10-02

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Les nouvelles brèves de comptoir

Release Date:2000-01-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Balkanisateur

Two friends from a small Greek town travel to Bulgaria and Switzerland, hoping they can gain money from the difference in foreign exchange rates.

Release Date:1997-04-16

Vote Count:15

Every Man for Yourself

Georges Flavier, once renowned Parisian hairdresser, lives alone since the death of his son and the departure of his wife. One night, he saves a stranger from drowning in the Canal Saint-Martin.

Release Date:1994-01-24

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:1

Brèves de comptoir

Release Date:1993-09-13

Department:Directing

Job:Director

The Favour, the Watch and the Very Big Fish

A farce, Hoskins plays a photographer who specializes in religious pictures who searches for a model for Jesus. He does a favor for a friend and finds himself doing a voice track for a porno movie with Natasha Richardson. Hoskins finds his model for Jesus in Jeff Goldblum and a romantic triangle begins in which Goldblum finds adoring crowds believing him to be Jesus and then begins to believe it himself.

Release Date:1991-05-01

Character:Beggar

Vote Count:20

The Elegant Criminal

On 9 January 1836, Pierre Lacenaire goes to the guillotine, a murderer and a thief. He gives Allard, a police inspector, his life story, written while awaiting execution. He also asks Allard to care for Hermine, a lass to whom he has been guardian for more than ten years. In flashbacks, from the prison as Lacenaire writes, from Allard's study as he and Hermine read, and from other readers' memory after the book is published, we see Lacenaire's childhood as he stands up to bullies, including priests, his youthful thieving, his first murder, his brief army career, his seduction of a princess, and his affair with Avril, a young man who dies beside him.

Release Date:1990-12-19

Character:Lebel

Vote Count:8

Francois Rollin - Hirondelles de saucisson

Release Date:1990-03-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:1

Palace

The action takes place - as the title suggests - in a Palace, a really nice hotel. Funny scenes happen in different places: the kitchen, the reception, the elevator, the rooms, ...

Release Date:1988-10-29

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:6

Vote Count:6

Ça, c'est Palace

Release Date:1988-01-01

Nulle part ailleurs

Release Date:1987-08-31

Character:Self

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:7

La Galette du roi

In this conventional, broadly comic farce of greed and royal matrimony, nearly bankrupt businessman Victor Harris is marrying Maria-Helena, a princess who comes with a dowry that is made up of one half of her island kingdom. Her father, the cowardly King Arnold III is counting on the money this marriage will bring him. The country is now almost bankrupt because of the king's gambling debts. As Harris and the king look forward to their illusory profits from the royal merger, other characters add some liveliness to the otherwise predictable story.

Release Date:1986-01-29

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:10

Télématin

Télématin is a French breakfast television news show, broadcast on France 2 since January 7, 1985. It is broadcast in Metropolitan France weekdays from 6:30 to 9:00 am CET. TV5 broadcast the show in Canada in its entirety until September 2011: it now shows a 90 minute version between 6:30 and 8:00 am Eastern Time, when the French original version is now 2h30 long. Télématin is hosted by William Leymergie. The show is daily seen by around 40% of the French morning audience, a very high percentage for French TV. In Metropolitan France, the newscasts are presented at 7:00, 7:30 and 8:00, with newsflashes at 6:30 and 8:50, and two press reviews at 7:20 and 8:30. The 6:30, 7:30 and 8:50 newscasts are usually presented by a female reader and the hourly newscasts by a male. The usual readers are Nathanaël de Rinquesen, Sophie Le Saint, Julien Benedetto, Sophie Gastrain, Patrice Romedenne and Frédéric Vion.

Release Date:1985-01-10

Character:Self

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:1

Move Along, There Is Nothing to See!

Inspector Leroux is investigating the owner of a contemporary art gallery Helen Duvernet who is suspected of being involved in trafficking of stolen paintings. He is both intrigued and attracted by the young woman, follows her everywhere and finally falls in love...

Release Date:1983-04-20

Character:Le patron du tabac

Vote Count:37

The Big Brother

The plot in this story weaves around like a New Year's reveler at four in the morning, heading first in one direction and then in another, with the intention of going home if things would just stop moving. Bernard (Gerard Depardieu) is a doctor whose Hippocratic oath was a hypocritic failure -- the not-so-good doctor kills his wife because she is having an affair, and he kills her lover too. Then he joins the French Foreign Legion. On his way to the former French colonies in Africa, the plane he is in crashes, and Rossi, a "friend" on the plane with some overweight in carry-on money, shoots Bernard and takes off, leaving him for dead. He is nursed back to life and health by friendly villagers and just his luck, he not only manages to make his fortune in Africa, he also nabs a French passport from a dying man who will clearly not need it anymore unless the Pearly Gates have a French guard.

Release Date:1982-09-08

Character:Client de Zina

Vote Count:11

Merci Bernard

Release Date:1982-04-04

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:43

Singles

Abandoned by his wife, Bernard struggles to overcome his grief and settles in a residence for singles. Employed by "SOS Doctors", he provides night guards to occupy his insomnia. That's how he is brought one night to help a neighbor, Nadine Foulon, victim of discomfort in the elevator. It turns out that Nadine is also going through a difficult time, since her companion, Terry, a singer-guitarist, has left her. A professional photographer, she can not forget it and has since oscillated between depression and bulimia. Gathered by their pains of heart, these two beings will, with the wire of the confidences, become more intimate ...

Release Date:1982-01-27

Character:Commissaire

Vote Count:63

L'Apprentissage de la ville

Reduced to poverty, a young man is taken in by a rich lady who asks him for some dangerous services in exchange.

Release Date:1982-01-03

Character:Doctor

The Lady Banker

Ambitious Emma Eckhert successfully makes her way into a world previously reserved for men: that of high finance. She quickly becomes popular with small savers, but leads a scandalous life that will cost her.

Release Date:1980-08-27

Character:Clerk

Vote Count:39

Out of Whack

Rien ne va plus is a series of comedy sketches of disparate quality, on the social, cultural, and political foibles that make the French, French. Various settings and character types are given a once-over, including pseudo-intellectuals, punk bikers, right-wingers, and patrons of a low-end cafe.

Release Date:1979-12-12

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:5

The Bit Between the Teeth

Three men with a penchant for gambling on the horses soon find themselves in trouble because of their addiction. Pierre (Michel Piccoli) is the math whiz who uses his talent for picking the winners. Charles (Michel Galabru) is the wealthy scrap-iron magnate who has embarrassing evidence on many prominent political figures. Loic (Jacques Dutronc) is the aspiring politico who seeks to further his career by any means possible. Charles approaches Loic and asks his political party for a loan in hopes of fixing an upcoming race....

Release Date:1979-09-01

Vote Count:7

Private Collections

Three stories. A solitary sailor falls from his boat and washes ashore on a tropical island. While seeking rescue, he's found by a nearly naked woman who is playful and compliant. He decides to erase his signs of distress and remain on the island. What awaits? In the second, an adolescent searches for the words of a nursery rime he remembers bits of. His journey takes him into dreams, sexual awakening, and Oedipal fantasy. Third, a man of wealth in late-nineteenth century Paris hires a prostitute for the night. She's also cabaret performer and takes him to her room. He fears he's about to be robbed. What's her secret?

Release Date:1979-06-27

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:21

First Time with Feeling

It's summer in the south of France. A family decides to organize a big fest. There is Bernard, a doctor, and his sister Lise, a libertine architect, also teens Patrick and his brother Julien, both attracted to 15 year old Dina

Release Date:1975-04-17

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:3

B comme Bolo

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

A talk show presented by Michel Drucker

Release Date:1975-01-12

Character:Self

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:1

To Be Twenty in the Aures

A group of refractory and pacifist Bretons is sent to Algeria. These beings confronted with the horrors of war gradually become killing machines. One of them did not accept it and deserted, taking with him an FLN prisoner who was to be executed the next day. International Critics Prize at the 1972 Cannes Film Festival. Copy restored in 2012

Release Date:1972-05-12

Character:Le Curé

Vote Count:14

Le Grand Échiquier

Release Date:1972-01-12

Character:Self

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:2

Troubleshooters

The day he is released from jail, Serge is expected by four killers sent by Count Charles Varèse assigned to make him confess where he has hidden the jewels stolen during his last stickup. On the other hand the police inspector who arrested him offers him protection on condition he gives him the same piece of information. Serge refuses and is about to be tortured by Varèse's henchmen when Michel, a friendly hood, comes to his rescue. His friendship will result in... a heap of corpses! —Guy Bellinger

Release Date:1971-04-07

Character:Carlo

Vote Count:34