Francis Blanche
François Jean Blanche, known as "Francis Blanche" (20 July 1921 – 6 July 1974) was a French actor, singer, humorist and author. He was a very popular figure on stage, radio and in films, during the 1950s and 1960s. His two daughters, Barbara & Dominique, are artists with their... Read full bio →
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Un linceul n'a pas de poches
In the newspaper he has just founded, journalist Dolannes exposes all the wheeling and dealing and scandals that go on in his town.
France société anonyme
In the year 2222, a former drug dealer is kept in a state of hibernation. Reanimated, he tells his story. Leader in the narcotics market, his situation was prosperous until, during a political change, the government legalized its use.
L'histoire très bonne et très joyeuse de Colinot Trousse-Chemise
Colinot's world is turned upside down when his fiancee is kidnapped.
Nonostante le apparenze... e purchè la nazione non lo sappia... all'onorevole piacciono le donne
Senator Pupis feels a strong and uncontrollable urge to grab women's bottoms, a habit than can lead to embarrassment, especially if the woman in question is head of another state and the occasion a state visit. In his desperation Pupis turns to the clergy for spiritual and psychological help.
La grande java
Five friends come to the city Brizul. Here they want to find Mr Auguste Kougloff who owns them money, namely 20 million.
L'étalon
Veterinary surgeon William Chaminade is having a peaceful holiday in the South of France when he is witness to an event that will change not only his life but the destiny of France! A young woman tries to kill herself by jumping from the upstairs window of the hotel where he is staying.
Poussez pas grand-père dans les cactus
A man who left his wife finds himself chased by the police and a killer who take him for an American mobster.
Les gros malins
Paul Blanc, a butcher who loves betting on horses, once takes one of the sleeping pills his brother has sent him from Argentina. Thanks to it, he sees in his sleep the race unfold complete with the winning horses. When his secret is unveiled, everybody wants the miracle medicine.
Salut Berthe!
Adrien Chautard, a major industrialist from Abidjan, has been chosen to replace an expert on the official Ivory Coast delegation sent to Paris to discuss the country's association with the Common Market. Chautard is delighted at the prospect of this trip, where he will be reunited with the woman of his dreams: Elisabeth.
La grande lessive (!)
Révolté par l'apathie de ses élèves, qu'il attribue à leur surconsommation de télévision, Armand Saint-Just, professeur de lettres, entreprend de neutraliser les antennes réceptrices sur les toits de Paris.
Les compagnons de la marguerite
Jean-Louis Matouzec works for French National Library as an expert looking after the restoration of old manuscripts.He falsifies marriage certificates as his wife refuses divorce.
Le plus vieux métier du monde
A collection of sketches that tells the story of prostitution through the ages.
La grande sauterelle
While he is trying to escape from a hit man, Carl is setting up a kidnapping in Beirut. He gets lost on his way, falling in love with Salène, a.k.a. "La grande sauterelle"...
Du mou dans la gâchette
Nicolas Pappas and Léon Dubois, two particularly calamitous killers, arrive in Paris, where a gangster boss in need of "staff", Jo Laguerre, hires them to cover the escape of the perpetrators of a hold-up. They get away with it as best they can and then find themselves in charge of liquidating a certain "Magnum"...
Belle de jour
A bored wife of a wealthy doctor spends her afternoons exploring exciting escapades as a call-girl in a chic Paris brothel.
Les plus belles escroqueries du monde
Four swindle stories, taking place successively in Tokyo - Japan (Les cinq bienfaiteurs de Fumiko), Amsterdam - The Netherlands (La riviere de diamants), Italie (La feuille de route), and Paris - France (L'homme qui vendit la tour Eiffel).
Les pieds nickelés
Three tramps in search of adventure and fortune decide to try their luck at swindling. After an initial failure at shoplifting, they take over a bateau-mouche and exploit tourists in their own way.
Les gros bras
Madame Andromèze's diamond bracelet has been stolen from the plane taking Nicole from Rome to Paris. Slipped by the thief into her bag, the bracelet undergoes many vicissitudes... Found and appraised, it is declared a fake! Nicole's brother and fiancé chase after the real bracelet, disrupting the life of a grand palace.
Les gorilles
A confused pair of airport luggage carriers get involved in the disappearance of some suitcases.
Les Barbouzes
A cold-war spy parody. After the death of an armaments manufacturer, an international group of spies is drawn into a high-stakes battle of wits to obtain the valuable military patents which have been inherited by the lovely widow.
La tulipe noire
French Revolution-era count leads double life as bandit "Black Tulip," robbing village. Injured, he has brother impersonate him. Brother discovers count's selfish motives, sparking conflict between their principles and truth.
La grande frousse
Simon Triquet est un policier débonnaire qui arrête bien malgré lui un dangereux criminel qui est condamné à mort. Triquet est loin d'être fait pour le métier de policier, et se sent bourré de remords. Il l'est d'avantage, lorsque le fou dangereux s'échappe...
Des pissenlits par la racine
Jockey Jack has a bill open with a gangster just released from jail. He somehow manages to parry the gangster's knife attack backstage at a theatre and the latter ends up dead being put into a double bass case.
Un drôle de paroissien
Georges Lachaunaye, qui appartient à une famille bourgeoise à présent ruinée et pour laquelle l'oisiveté est un principe sacré, est un jour saisi par une révélation ; il décide d'assurer le train de vie des siens en montant une entreprise de pillage de troncs d'églises...
Les tontons flingueurs
La vie de Fernand Naudin, ex-truand devenu depuis petit propriétaire d'une usine de tracteurs, est bouleversée quand son ami d'enfance, un gangster notoire, l'appelle à son chevet...
Dragées au poivre
Gerard, a young man from a "good family" dreams of becoming an actor. To do this, he follows everywhere his sister Frédérique who is infatuated with cinéma vérité.
Tartarin de Tarascon
Tartarin lives in Tarascon, a small southern town, among his friends who, like him, adore hunting parties.
Snobs!
Four vice-presidents fight among themselves to reach the top post after the president dies. Their wives take part in the various schemes to downgrade the opposition by unorthodox means.
Le septième juré
In a moment of madness a respectable pharmacist kills a young woman who is sun-bathing by a lake. Unable to take in what he has done, he flees from the scene of the crime and behaves as if nothing has happened.
La vendetta
During the course of a vendetta on Corsica, a mainlander is persuaded to stand for election as mayor.
La planque
Set during World War II in France, the story begins when a resistance fighter is given shelter in an asylum by a friend who manages the institution. Soon after, the manager is arrested by the Gestapo, which gets the resistance fighter involved. He finds the informer who set his friend up and kills him.
Il ratto delle sabine
Based on the Roman foundation myth during the mid-8th century BC. Romulus leads a daring plan to abduct women from the neighboring Sabines. A conflict evolves into a struggle for peace, unity, and the survival of a rising civilization.
La jument verte
A green mare makes the fortune of her owner, the horse dealer Haudouin. Shortly after his death, war broke out in 1870. One day, his neighbor Zèphe Maloret denounces Honoré, Haudouin's son, a maverick, to the Prussians.
Babette s'en va-t-en guerre
Comedy about a naive French country girl in London who helps the war effort by parachuting into German-occupied France to help kidnap an important German general. She bungles through to a heroic finish of plot and counter-plot.
Tous peuvent me tuer
Five French criminals pull a jewelry heist, hide the loot and create an alibi by getting themselves sent to prison for a minor infraction but there they are targeted by someone who seeks information about their hidden loot.
Honoré de Marseille
Honoré vit tranquillement à Marseille, exerçant un métier indéterminé, mais peu fatiguant, aux cotés d'une femme joviale, qu'il aime tendrement. Comme Honoré est le prototype du pur Marseillais, c'est lui que viendra interviewer un ethnologue célèbre
Ah! les belles bacchantes
La police enquête sur la moralité d'un spectacle de music-hall. L'inspecteur Leboeuf entre en coulisses, questionne , suspecte et devient acteur du show.
Minuit... Quai de Bercy
Having recently moved into her new apartment, Irène Cazenave, the widow of a well-known police officer, is forced by one of her husband's colleagues to take part in an investigation. The building's provocative concierge has been found murdered. We watch a parade of suspects, only to learn at the end that Irène killed the janitor under blackmail.
Frédérica
Gilbert, poet and singer, is about to marry Lilette but deep inside himself he is not quite sure that she is the woman he needs. That is the reason why he has made up an imaginary woman, Frédérica" to whom he writes love letters, actual ones this time. When Lilette finds one of these, she sees red.