
Alain Fromager
Known For & Full Filmography40 Titles

Drama Series - 1991, 16 episodes • as Destour
The pragmatic, reserved and refined Maigret investigates murders in his singular unhurried manner and inevitably discovers the truth.

Drama Series - 2015, 16 episodes • as Michel Chalard
Beneath her eccentric appearance, Captain Marleau is a formidable detective. Her Sherlock Holmes deerstalker cap, her character, her unusual appearance, her humor, her unpredictable behavior--Captain Marleau is not your average gendarme. She never rushes an investigation; she becomes the investigation and relentlessly pursues the suspects.

Movie - 1992, 2h 15m • as Dominique
In colonial Vietnam, dashing French naval captain Jean-Baptiste, wealthy plantation owner Éliane Devries, and her adopted Vietnamese daughter Camillevare form the three points of a cross-cultural romantic triangle. As the struggle against European imperialism sweeps Indochina, Jean-Baptiste and Camille have to choose sides and Éliane faces the emotionally difficult challenge of raising the child of her daughter and ex-lover.

Drama Series - 2007, 16 episodes • as Patrick
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.

Drama Series - 2020, 16 episodes • as André Desforges
Jeremy, 33, is a lonely Parisian. He's never felt like he belonged anywhere. One night, he discovers The Wonderland, a club with live music run by a charismatic manager called Tony. Jeremy starts bartending there, where dozens of photos cover the wall, telling the story of the club. One of them catch Jeremy's attention: the one of a woman on a beach, taken in Biarritz in 1960. After one night in the club, Jeremy finds himself in Biarritz, in the 1960s!

Movie - 2003, 2h 15m • as Le marchand de primeurs
30 ans, l'âge des responsabilités... Martin s'apprête à partir en vacances avec sa femme Ariane et sa fille Cerise, 4 mois... C'est alors qu'il croise Constance, son ex, son amour de jeunesse, elle-même flanquée de deux marmots. C'est décidé : on passera quelques jours ensemble, au soleil, dans la maison familiale. Comme au bon vieux temps.

Movie - 2011, 2h 15m • as Chasseur n°1
Two contempo Frenchmen of Antillean descent visit their ancestor's time as well as their land in the slavery-themed French era.

Drama Series - 2009, 16 episodes • as Philippe Lemaire
The story of Robert Badinter who was the major architect of the abolition of the death penalty in France.

Movie - 2023, 2h 15m • as Alain (diner à la brasserie)
In 2013, Vanessa Springora recounts how she found herself under the influence of a famous writer. In 1986, she was 13; him, almost 50. The victim of a triple predation: sexual, literary, and psychic, there's more beyond her individual story. She questions the excesses of an era, and the complacency of an environment blinded by talent and celebrity.

Movie - 2016, 2h 15m • as L'inspecteur
Okay, Marie is a little tired of the insouciance of her husband Sam, framework sup unemployed for 2 years. Agree, it is very tempted to be seduced by this beautiful stranger who made him the Court. Okay, there is also the daughter piano competition... If this balance light and crazy about standing, an unexpected event throws the family on an even crazier way.

Movie - 2024, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
French-American artist Niki de Saint-Phalle, from the age of 23, is a model and an aspiring actor who is married and has a two year old daughter. Together, they flee the U.S. during the oppressive McCarthy era and come to France, where they experience a short-lived euphoria. Soon, distant and frightening memories begin to emerge in Niki’s mind. Her vocation as an artist will be her salvation.

Movie - 2008, 2h 15m • as Jacques Dallier, journalist for Minute
After nearly two decades of legendary criminal feats, making him France's most notorious criminal while simultaneously feeding his desire for media attention and public adoration, Mesrine becomes increasingly paranoid and isolated, leading to a dramatic confrontation with the law that ultimately seals his fate as the nation's most infamous public enemy.

Drama Series - 2021, 16 episodes • as Bruno Ferrand
Police detective hunts serial killer while dealing with disintegrating marriage, teen daughter who hates her, and violent temper "blackouts".

Movie - 2016, 2h 15m • as Éric
Four separate stories deal with stereotypical ideas about Jews: their alleged influence on politics, the stereotype of Jewish business-mindedness, the Mossad, the Jewish world conspiracy and the memory of the Holocaust.

Movie - 1989, 2h 15m • as Marton
A company president gets framed with a food-poisoning scandal and the only person who can help him is the evening cleaning-woman, who always seems to be at the right place at the right time.

Movie - 2006, 2h 15m • as David
Marc and Emma move into a new house but have no idea that their basement was a gay nightclub. To make matters worse, the club was destroyed by fire, and now the house is haunted by the ghosts of five gay clubbers.

Movie - 2010, 2h 15m • as Marzin
A mild-mannered banker is forced to masquerade as a notorious gangster and pimp.

Movie - 2008, 2h 15m • as Claude Thieville
After the Liberation of France during the World War II, ten former Resistant fighters meet again during a dinner organized by Marie-Octobre...

Movie - 1993, 2h 15m • as Frederic Lombard
Zina, young theater opener, hesitates between the love of Slim, taxi driver who hopes to become a lawyer and that of Frederic, who holds the poster at the theater. Why not keep her two loves?

Movie - 1988, 2h 15m • as Le patient qui délire
Jeanne Quester is a psychologist-on-the-airwaves in a radio station. She got a raw deal when she was a child.

Movie - 1991, 2h 15m • as Georges
In this detective and crime comedy, the heir to a large fortune is an unknown, and nobody knows him or where he can be found. An occasional musician, Fred plans to pass himself off as that man. It's a goofy idea, but maybe it will work. However, before he can set up the con properly, he learns that his loser of a brother has, inexplicably, just gotten his first job in years as one of the detectives who is searching for the heir. At one time, the two brothers played together in an amateur rock band, but as a result of a heated disagreement about how to play the Ray Noble standard "Cherokee", the two haven't spoken in years. It's going to take a lot of persuading to pull this scam off.

Movie - 2007, 2h 15m • as Langlois
In Paris, many citizens go to the precinct after the doors of their apartments have been sprayed with a 4 and the letters "clt". When a dweller is found mysteriously dead in his apartment, Detective Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg and his partner Danglard investigate...

Movie - 2021, 2h 15m • as Christian
After the attacks that bloodied Paris, everyone is worried about terrorist acts. A man is running in the middle of the night. He has blood on his face. He arrives at the radio station and explains to his colleagues that he was investigating a cell of terrorists but that one of them has just committed suicide in front of him. Just before he told her that a bomb was on the 11 p.m. Paris-New York flight. It's scheduled for four in the morning: in one hour. Should they disseminate the information?

Movie - 2017, 2h 15m • as Jean-Marie Bolzi
The body of a shady businessman is found on the jetty in the port of Toga, in Bastia. The investigation, Commander Gabrielle Monti's first since returning to the country, begins on a tightrope between the past and the present.

Movie - 1996, 2h 15m • as Director
Ten young people (boys and girls) at the age at which all is possible. They meet, they love, they choose. The film comes and goes between all those people, revealing their anguish, their dreams, depicting the portrait of a generation of the '90s which has both the fury and the fear of life.

Movie - 1989, 2h 15m • as L'étudiant dans le bureau de Gauthier
Joey Wellman, an American cartoonist from Cleveland now largely forgotten at home, visits France with his partner Lena to attend an exhibition in Paris about the comic strip (bande dessinée) which features his work. He also hopes to be reconciled with his daughter Elsie who has been a student in Paris for two years, in flight from the American culture of which she sees her father as a typical example. Elsie is naively infatuated with French literature, and is trying to secure an introduction to the brilliant university professor Christian Gauthier, an expert on Flaubert but also an enthusiast for comic books. The meeting of father and daughter goes badly, but Elsie is persuaded to join Joey and Lena for the weekend at the country house of Gauthier's mother, Isabelle. During a comic-themed masquerade party, all of the characters are made to reconsider their present and past relationships.

Movie - 1989, 2h 15m • as Paul Zinyafski
Clara Bell is a busy Euro MP with a husband and child at home and a high powered career - but on a trip to Paris her ordered existence is overturned by a murder and a chance encounter.

Movie - 2013, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
A staging of Jean Racine's play "Britannicus" by Jean-Louis Martinelli.

Movie - 2016, 2h 15m • as Le Président du tribunal
Simon Varlet is an experienced, brilliant lawyer who says out loud what others only think. He is more devoted to his fees than to the interests of justice or the code of ethics. As a form of "punishment," his friend and bar president assigns him to defend Philippe Moreau, a young priest accused of killing one of his parishioners. Unconcerned by the case and allergic to religion and all forms of idealism, Simon is convinced that his client is guilty. Will he remain convinced?

Movie - 1995, 2h 15m • as Agamemnon
Hippolyte, the chef at the small Paris restaurant of the title, is losing his sense of smell - and without that, you can’t cook. Not in France. The restaurant has to close. Guests and customers of the ailing master chef gather for one last fabulous meal. Between courses, personal conflicts are explored and flashbacks flesh out incidents from the lives of the restaurant owners.

Movie - 2008, 2h 15m • as Antoine
1968. Catherine, Yves and Hervé are twenty years old. They're students in Paris and they love each other. The May student uprisings radically change their lives. Overtaken by communal utopia, they leave the city with a few friends to set up house in an abandoned farm in the Lot region. A desire for freedom and the search for individual fulfillment lead them to make choices that cause them to separate.

Movie - 2009, 2h 15m • as Philippe Lemaire
The story of Robert Badinter who was the major architect of the abolition of the death penalty in France .

Movie - 1996, 2h 15m • as BMW driver
After fatally shooting a stalker, Parisian bar-maid Lea must live the life of the title reptile. At the time of the killing she was living with Francis, a much older American ex-con. After committing the murder, the fleeing and frightened Lea is saved by Paris paper boys Jean and Luc. Later she tells her sad story to hard-drinking Moskowitz, a middle-aged cop who secretly desires her. His unrequited love leads to tragedy. Meanwhile, Lea continues living with Francis, but also shacks up with Luc while trying to avoid the jealous cop.

Movie - 2012, 2h 15m • as Rodolphe Kantor
Retired police detective Lola and her neighbor Ingrid investigate a murder.

Movie - 2007, 2h 15m • as Stéphan
When Franck, a cool and laid-back heartthrob, meets Lily, a trendy and pretty girl, sparks fly. After a sensual and tender dance, he walks her home... But the rude awakening comes... Together, they promise never to see each other again. But fate has other plans; they've both been chosen by Stephan, Franck's childhood friend, and Deborah, Lily's best friend, to organize their "Surprise Wedding"!

Movie - 2011, 2h 15m • as Grimm
Stéphane Leroy, a wealthy industrialist, is in a coma. His diabolical wife, Gabrielle, prepares to inherit everything when she discovers that Stéphane has a daughter, Blanche. During a casting, Blanche catches the eye of Adrien Neige, a famous photographer.

Movie - 2023, 2h 15m • as René
France has been living alone in her apartment since the death of her husband. When she hears on the radio that the Singa association puts homeless migrants in contact with people who can take them in, she decides, against the advice of her family, led by her son, to take in Reza, a young Afghan broken by war and exodus. This is the story of two worlds that collide, get used to each other and end up reaching out to each other.

Movie - 2021, 2h 15m • as Alain Brusch
The trawler Marie-Morgane sinks suddenly and inexplicably with all its crew, including Captain Lenormand and his son. When Nolwenn Lenormand hears the news she's convinced that a submarine on maneuvers must have been responsible.

Movie - 2010, 2h 15m • as Professeur Bertrand
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.

Movie - 1989, 2h 15m • as Antonin
Every year, the whole gather in the French region of Auvergne's home. During this 1944 summer, Louis falls in love with his cousin Laurence. The arrival of a British skydiver, Jack, will completely upset Laurence. Louis, jealous like crazy, will betray the skydiver who will die in front of his eyes. But his cousin François-Xavier has also seen what happened.