Jean Poiret
Jean Poiret, born Jean Poiré, (17 August 1926 – 14 March 1992) was a French actor, director, and screenwriter. He is primarily known as the author of the original play La Cage Aux Folles. Jean Poiret was born in Paris, France, where he died of a heart attack in 1992. He is... Read full bio →
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Une nuit à l'Assemblée Nationale
The leader of a nudist colony enlists the help of left-wing militant when he mistakenly believes he should receive the Legion of Honor.
Les saisons du plaisir
Charles and Emmanuelle organize as every year, the congress of perfumers who distribute their products in their castle. Garibaldi, their mutilated and somewhat disturbed son-in-law, will be the butler.
Le miraculé
Faking an injury for insurance money, a peddler seeks out a cure to support his claims while a suspicious investigator tries to expose the scam.
Je hais les acteurs
Hollywood in the 1940s. A tyrannical producer, a paranoid director, a starlet engaged twenty-four times, an actor who refuses to age - all against a backdrop of a series of murders.
Inspecteur Lavardin
Inspector Lavardin is called to a provincial village to investigate a murder – only to find that one of his ex-lovers is the victim’s widow.
Poulet au vinaigre
In a small provincial French town, Dr Morasseau, Mr Lavoisier and butcher Filiol decide to create a significant estate business but Mrs Cuno and her son Louis do not want to sell their house. Louis presumably provokes the death of Filiol.
La 7ème cible
The writer Bastien (Lino Ventura), is beaten up by strangers. After another attack, a blackmailer asks for $ 1 million. After Bastien learns why the gigantic sum is demanded, the hunt for the criminal leads him up to the Berlin Wall.
Que les gros salaires lèvent le doigt!
The cynical boss of a big insurance agency invites his top-salary employees to spend a week-end in his country house. A modest clerical worker, also invited, discovers the hidden reason for this party - and decides to take advantage of it.
Le dernier métro
In occupied Paris, an actress married to a Jewish theater owner must keep him hidden from the Nazis while doing both of their jobs.
La gueule de l'autre
Martial Perrin is the president of a right-wing political party which is gearing itself up for a forthcoming election. When he learns that a notorious criminal named Kraus has escaped from prison, Perrin panics and goes into hiding. His deputy, Constant, hires Perrin’s cousin, Gilbert, an actor who is a perfect double of Perrin, to replace him.
Le mur de l'Atlantique
1944. Léon Duchemin tient un restaurant avec sa sœur. Ses clients sont allemands, résistants et trafiquants. Le pauvre devient malgré lui résistant quand un pilote de la R.A.F. abattu trouve refuge chez lui et quand il dérobe aux services d'Hitler les plans de ses missiles V1.
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.
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...
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...
C'est pas moi, c'est l'autre
A seedy music hall troupe, which collects nothing but failures during its tour, meets a tourist on vacation who looks strangely like Fernand Raynaud.
Candide ou l'optimisme au XXe siècle
The film is a 20th-century adaptation of Voltaire's 1759 social satire novel Candide, ou l’Optimisme.
Vous n'avez rien à déclarer?
Married against her will to the Comte de Trivelin, Paulette Dupont shares her anxieties with her childhood friend Labaule. Warned too late to prevent the ceremony from taking place, Labaule follows the couple on their honeymoon and prevents the consummation of the marriage by repeatedly intruding on the couple's privacy.
Messieurs les ronds de cuir
The gifts and bequests department is particularly eccentric, including Lahrier, a fervent absentee and songwriter in his spare time.
Assassins et voleurs
A man becomes the lover of his former persecutor's wife.
Cette sacrée gamine
Nightclub entertainer Jean Clery discovers too late that the 'baby' he agreed to take care of is a wild, shapely sex kitten.