Best Tchéky Karyo movies

Original Title: Joan of Arc
Character: Jean de Dunois
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, War
Release: 1999
In 1429 a teenage girl from a remote French village stood before her King with a message she claimed came from God; that she would defeat the world's greatest army and liberate her country from its political and religious turmoil. Following her mission to reclaim god's diminished kingdom - through her amazing victories until her violent and untimely death.
Did you know that this movie is also one of best Faye Dunaway movies?

Character: Detective Netah
Genre: Action, Crime
Release: 1995
A lethal assassin for a secret Chinese organisation, who sheds tears of regret each time he kills, is seen swiftly and mercilessly executing three Yakuza gangsters by a beautiful artist. She is captivated by the grace of his kill and later falls in love with him. An intense power struggle for the leadership of the Yakuza Clans ensues as they seek vengeance for the death of their leader.
Did you know that this movie is also one of best Mark Dacascos movies?

Original Title: Jacquou le Croquant
Character: Le chevalier
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Release: 2007
In 1815, young Jacquou lives an idyllic peasant life with his parents in the Périgord region of France. But one day, his childhood happiness is cruelly ended when his father is arrested, after a dispute with the arrogant Count de Nansac. With both his parents dead, Jacquou is adopted by Bonal, a kind priest, under whose influence he grows into an assured, morally upright young man. Now an adult, Jacquou has one desire. To repay the Count de Nansac for the evil he once inflicted on his parents...
Did you know that this movie is also one of best Gaspard Ulliel movies?

Character: Jacques Chevalier
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Release: 2000
Unexpectedly widowed, prim and proper housewife Grace Trevethyn finds herself in dire financial straits when she inherits massive debts her late husband had been accruing for years. Faced with losing her house, she decides to use her talent for horticulture and hatches a plan to grow potent marijuana which can be sold at an astronomical price, thus solving her financial crisis.
Did you know that this movie is also one of best Dean Lennox Kelly movies?

Character: Insp. Richard
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Release: 2001
Liu Jian, an elite Chinese police officer, comes to Paris to arrest a Chinese drug lord. When Jian is betrayed by a French officer and framed for murder, he must go into hiding and find new allies.
Did you know that this movie is also one of best Ric Young movies?

Character: Fouchet
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Release: 1995
Marcus Burnett is a hen-pecked family man. Mike Lowry is a foot-loose and fancy free ladies' man. Both are Miami policemen, and both have 72 hours to reclaim a consignment of drugs stolen from under their station's nose. To complicate matters, in order to get the assistance of the sole witness to a murder, they have to pretend to be each other.
Did you know that this movie is also one of best Jon Seda movies?

Original Title: Le Retour de Martin Guerre
Character: Augustin
Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Mystery, Romance
Release: 1982
During the medieval times, Martin Guerre returns to his hometown in the middle of France, after being away in the war since he was a child. Nobody recognise him, and the people who knew him suspect he is not Martin, but he knows all about his family and friends, even the most unusual things. Is this man really Martin Guerre?

Original Title: Forces spéciales
Character: Amiral Guezennec
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Release: 2011
Afghanistan. War correspondent Elsa Casanova is taken hostage by the Taliban. Faced with her imminent execution, a Special Forces unit is dispatched to free her. In some of the world’s most breathtaking yet hostile landscapes, a relentless pursuit begins between her kidnappers who have no intention of letting their prey escape them and a group of soldiers who risk their lives in pursuit of their single aim – to bring her home alive. This strong, independent woman and these men of duty are thrown together and forced to confront situations of great danger that inextricably bind them – emotionally, violently and intimately.
Did you know that this movie is also one of best Djimon Hounsou movies?

Character: Inspecteur Sauveur Cristini
Genre: Action, Crime
Release: 1997
The charismatic criminal Dobermann, who got his first gun when he was christened, leads a gang of brutal robbers. After a complex and brutal bank robbery, they are being hunted by the Paris police. The hunt is led by the sadistic cop Christini, who only has one goal: to catch Dobermann at any cost.
Did you know that this movie is also one of best Vincent Cassel movies?

Original Title: Belle et Sébastien 3 : Le Dernier Chapitre
Character: César
Genre: Adventure, Family
Release: 2017
12 year-old Sebastian has decided not to follow his father and Angelina to Canada, deciding to stay in the alps to watch over Belle who has now become the mother of three beautiful pups. When a stranger arrives claiming to be Belle’s rightful owner, Sebastian will do all it takes to protect his best friend and her little ones.

Original Title: Le Roi Danse
Character: Molière
Genre: Drama, History, Music
Release: 2000
Louis XIV, the French sun-king has two passions, establishing absolute rule over the realm -after decades of religious/civil wars- by divine right and artistic brilliancy as a dancer

Character: Dr. Willy Rozenbaum
Genre: Drama, TV Movie
Release: 1993
The story of the discovery of the AIDS epidemic and the political infighting of the scientific community hampering the early fight with it.
Did you know that this movie is also one of best Clyde Kusatsu movies?

Character: Defense Minister Dmitri Mishkin
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Release: 1995
When a powerful satellite system falls into the hands of Alec Trevelyan, AKA Agent 006, a former ally-turned-enemy, only James Bond can save the world from an awesome space weapon that -- in one short pulse -- could destroy the earth! As Bond squares off against his former compatriot, he also battles Trevelyan's stunning ally, Xenia Onatopp, an assassin who uses pleasure as her ultimate weapon.
Did you know that this movie is also one of best Samantha Bond movies?

Original Title: Les Lyonnais
Character: Serge Suttel
Genre: Crime, Drama
Release: 2011
After growing up in a poor gypsy camp, Edmond Vidal, aka Momon, has retained a sense of family, unfailing loyalty and pride in his origins. Most of all, he has remained friends with Serge Suttel, with whom he first discovered prison life - for stealing cherries. The two of them inevitably got involved in organized crime. The team they formed, the Ganf Des Lyonnais, made them the most notorious armed robbers of the early 1970s. Their irresistible rise ended in 1974 with a spectacular arrest. Today, as he nears 60, Momon would like to forget that part of his life. He has found peace by retiring from the "business". He tends to his wife Janou, who suffered so in the past, and to his children and grandchildren, all of whom have great respect for this man of simple and universal values, so clear-headed and full of kindness. But then Serge Suttel, who has disowned nothing of his past, comes back into the picture.

Original Title: Les nuits de la pleine lune
Character: Remi
Genre: Drama, Romance
Release: 1984
"He who has two women loses his soul, he who has two houses loses his mind." So it goes with Louise played by Pascale Ogier who is dissatisfied with her mundane life in a bleak Parisian new-town. She rents a pied-à-terre in the city so she can experience independence.

Original Title: Belle et Sébastien
Character: César
Genre: Adventure
Release: 2013
Belle and Sebastian is set high in the snowy Alps during the Second World War. The resourceful Sebastian is a lonely boy who tames and befriends a giant, wild mountain dog, Belle – even though the villagers believe her to be ‘the beast’ that has been killing their sheep.
Did you know that this movie is also one of best Andreas Pietschmann movies?

Original Title: L'Ours
Character: Tom
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Release: 1988
An orphan bear cub hooks up with an adult male as they try to dodge human hunters.
Did you know that this movie is also one of best Reese Witherspoon movies?

Original Title: Le marginal
Character: Francis Pierron
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Release: 1983
In another typical Jean-Paul Belmondo vehicle, the French action hero plays a policeman prone to advancing the cause of justice by any means necessary. On his agenda is a powerful drug cartel working out of Paris and Marseilles, with a drug lord (Henry Silva) who is essentially inaccessible -- but not immortal. Stunts (performed by Belmondo) and chase scenes on land and water enliven the story, but the scenes with Belmondo's love interest are rather marginal themselves.
Did you know that this movie is also one of best Jean-Paul Belmondo movies?

Original Title: Belle et Sébastien, l'aventure continue
Character: César
Genre: Adventure, Family
Release: 2015
September, 1945. Sebastian impatiently waits for the return of his friend Angelina, whom he has not seen for two years. When the plane carrying the young woman to her small village in the Alps is reported to have crashed in the mountains, Sebastian is convinced that Angelina is still alive. Along with his faithful dog Belle, Sebastian embarks on the most dangerous adventure of his life.

Character: Marcel Rozier
Genre: Drama
Release: 2013
A true sports story that utterly defies the odds, Duguay’s film captures the wild ups and downs of the Olympics-bound career of legendary equine star Jappeloup and his troubled rider, locked in a tense relationship with his horseman father and forever uncertain of his own skills as an equestrian

Character: Jean Villeneuve
Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Release: 2000
After proving himself on the field of battle in the French and Indian War, Benjamin Martin wants nothing more to do with such things, preferring the simple life of a farmer. But when his son Gabriel enlists in the army to defend their new nation, America, against the British, Benjamin reluctantly returns to his old life to protect his son.

Character: Captain Henri
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Release: 2010
When his son dies while hiking the famed Camino de Santiago pilgrimage route in the Pyrenees, Tom flies to France to claim the remains. Looking for insights into his estranged child’s life, he decides to complete the 500-mile mountain trek to Spain. Tom soon joins up with other travelers and realizes they’re all searching for something.

Original Title: Nikita
Character: Bob
Genre: Action, Thriller
Release: 1990
A beautiful felon, sentenced to life in prison for the murder of a policeman, is given a second chance - as a secret political assassin controlled by the government.

Original Title: Un long dimanche de fiançailles
Character: Capitaine Favourier
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Release: 2004
In 1919, Mathilde was 19 years old. Two years earlier, her fiancé Manech left for the front at the Somme. Like millions of others he was "killed on the field of battle." It's written in black and white on the official notice. But Mathilde refuses to believe it. If Manech had died, she would know. She hangs on to her intuition as tightly as she would onto the last thread of hope linking her to her lover. A former sergeant tells her in vain that Manech died in the no man's land of a trench named Bingo Crepescule, in the company of four other men condemned to die for self-inflicted wounds. Her path ahead is full of obstacles but Mathilde is not frightened. Anything is possible to someone who is willing to challenge fate...

Original Title: La Cité de la Peur
Character: La première victime
Genre: Comedy
Release: 1994
A second-class horror movie has to be shown at Cannes Film Festival, but, before each screening, the projectionist is killed by a mysterious fellow, with hammer and sickle, just as it happens in the film to be shown.