# The best Gérard Depardieu movies

From Going Places to Cyrano de Bergerac, by way of Pialat, Truffaut and Berri: the Gérard Depardieu roles that appear most often in the rankings of Cinetrafic, Le Comptoir du cinéphage and French Learner.

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## Top 12

1. **Loulou (1980)** (6 · ▲6 ▼0) — Maurice Pialat, with Isabelle Huppert.
2. **Police (1985)** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — Pialat again: an inspector and a young woman tied to drug dealers.
3. **Danton (1983)** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — Andrzej Wajda and the Terror, Depardieu facing Robespierre.
4. **Tous les matins du monde (1991)** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — Alain Corneau, the viola da gamba and Marin Marais.
5. **Uranus (1990)** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — Claude Berri adapts Marcel Aymé: a small town just after the Liberation.
6. **1900 (1976)** (3 · ▲5 ▼2) — Bernardo Bertolucci's epic, with Robert De Niro.
7. **The Last Metro (1980)** (3 · ▲4 ▼1) — François Truffaut, with Catherine Deneuve, in a theatre under the Occupation.
8. **Cyrano de Bergerac (1990)** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — Jean-Paul Rappeneau: best actor at Cannes and the César for best actor.
9. **Going Places (1974)** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — Bertrand Blier launches the Depardieu-Dewaere duo.
10. **Under the Sun of Satan (1987)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Pialat adapts Bernanos, with Sandrine Bonnaire: Palme d'Or.
11. **Camille Claudel (1988)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Bruno Nuytten, with Isabelle Adjani; Depardieu plays Rodin.
12. **The Return of Martin Guerre (1982)** (1 · ▲4 ▼3) — Daniel Vigne: a man returns to his village after years away. Is it really him?
13. **Jean de Florette (1986)** (1 · ▲3 ▼2) — Claude Berri adapts Pagnol: a hunchback from the city and a hidden spring.
14. **Buffet froid (1979)** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — Bertrand Blier's absurd black comedy with Bernard Blier and Jean Carmet.

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