Pierre Mondy
Pierre Mondy (born Pierre Cuq; 10 February 1925 – 15 September 2012) was a French film and theatre actor and director. He was married four times: to Claude Gensac, Pascale Roberts, Annie Fournier, and Catherine Allary, all actresses. He died on 15 September 2012, aged 87,... Read full bio →
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Le fils préféré
Jean-Paul Mantegna, the son of Italian immigrants now living in Nice, is a hunted man, riddled with debt and involved in borderline illegal companies. To extricate himself, he has to rely on Philippe and François, his two brothers, and on Raphaël, his father; a family torn by disputes and tragic events.
Astérix chez les Bretons
One little ancient British village still holds out against the Roman invaders. Asterix and Obelix are invited to help. They must face fog, rain, warm beer and boiled boar with mint sauce, but they soon have Governor Encyclopaedius Britannicus's Romans declining and falling. Until a wild race for a barrel of magic potion lands them in the drink.
Astérix et la surprise de César
Obelix falls for a new arrival in his home village in Gaul, but is heartbroken when her true love arrives to visit her.
Pinot simple flic
En voulant aider Marylou à sortir de la délinquance, Pinot, simple flic, va se retrouver confronté à Tony, son compagnon, un dealer.
Le braconnier de Dieu
A monk for thirty-seven years, Brother Gregory could not resist the temptation. Leaving the monastery for the first time to fulfill his duty as a voter, he catches up with pastis and women.
Le battant
Jacques Darnay exits prison after 10 years for a jewel robbery with missing diamonds. The jeweler's death is unresolved. Police, former accomplices investigate while Darnay conceals his motives.
La 7ème compagnie au clair de lune
Mark Bailey, known professionally as Bill Bailey, is an English stand-up comedian, musician and actor, known for appearing on Have I Got News for You, Never Mind the Buzzcocks, QI, and Black Books as well as his stand up comedy. He is a self proclaimed "confused hippie" known for his thin goatee and long hair.
On a retrouvé la 7ème compagnie!
The second part of the Seventh Company adventures.
Le téléphone rose
A small industrialist from Toulouse, goes to Paris to negotiate the buyout of his company from an American financial group. During his stay, the representative of the large firm calls on a luxury call girl to facilitate their "business".
Papa, les petits bateaux
Marc and his gang have a brilliant idea (or so they think!) : they will kidnap Vénus de Palma, a (very) rich heiress. Well Venus, also known as Cookie, is duly abducted but holding the lovely twenty-year-old beauty is a horse of another color.
Mais où est donc passée la 7ème compagnie
Pendant la débâcle française de 1940, la 7ème compagnie se réfugie dans les bois. Mais, elle est prise en embuscade par l'armée allemande. Seuls trois hommes partis en éclaireur en réchappent. Ils se retrouvent livrés à eux-mêmes dans une France occupée.
Les malheurs d'Alfred
Les aventures d'Alfred, architecte désespéré, qui au moment de mettre fin a sa vie, rencontre une presentatrice de télévision qui a eu la même idée.
The Night of the Generals
A German intelligence officer investigates a prostitute's killing in Warsaw during World War II. He lands on three major Nazi generals as suspects, two of whom are also involved in a plot to kill Adolf Hitler.
Les copains
Seven old pals live inseparable lives, dividing their time between hilarious pranks and memorable drinking bouts. Bénin is the mastermind, Broudier the enforcer and Lesueur the prankster. One evening, a grandiose plan was hatched: to wreak havoc in two peaceful sub-prefectures: Ambert and Issoire.
Compartiment tueurs
The witnesses of a train murder must take the investigation into their own hands if they want to survive.
Week-end à Zuydcoote
In June 1940, during the Dunkirk evacuation of Allied troops to England, French sergeant Julien Maillat and his men debate whether to evacuate to Britain or stay and fight the German troops that are closing-in from all directions.
Bébert et l'omnibus
L'espiègle Bébert échappe à la vigilance de son grand frère dans les rues de la capitale. Perdu, Bébert va vivre une nuit mémorable dans un train de banlieue.
Les mystères de Paris
The Marquis Rodolphe de Sombrueil accidentally runs over a working man with his carriage and helps his widow -- unjustly accused of robbery -- to find her missing daughter.
Le crime ne paie pas
A husband tries to kill his wife using the plan he saw in a film. But real life is not a film.
Le comte de Monte Cristo
Young sailor Edmond Dantès is wrongfully imprisoned, escapes, finds treasure, and reinvents himself as the wealthy Count of Monte Cristo to exact revenge on those who betrayed him.
Boulevard
A street prostitute takes in an abused young woman on the run from her misogynist boyfriend, leading to both facing off against the prostitute's dreaded pimp and a relentless police detective out to arrest all of them.
Austerlitz
The first half of this film covers Napoleon's coronation as Emperor and political manoeuvrings while the second half covers the actual battle.
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.
Le chemin des écoliers
This movie is a Marcel Aymé adaptation and it deals with the not-so-glorious side of the Occupation: black market, war profiteers, cracking open bottles of Champagne while most of the Parisians are almost starving.
Cigarettes, whisky et p'tites pépées
Martine runs a sports center for women ,but they are short of the readies .To avoid seizure,she turns her health club into a nightclub with plenty of whiskey and wild women.
Ni vu, ni connu
In a small French village, everything would be quiet if the local wildlife cop was not being ridiculed by a smart poacher.
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.
Les louves
Gervais and his friend Bernard, two prisoners of war, manage to escape from the camp where they are held. Bernard is determined to take refuge with Hélène, his war grandmother, a woman with whom he has been carrying on a romance by correspondence and Gervais agrees to accompany him.
Le triporteur
Antoine Peyralout is baker Mouillefarine's tricycle delivery man. Comical and stuttering, Antoine shows more interest in the local soccer team than in professional integrity. A wedding cake pays the price for it and the young man is dismissed.
La roue
Pierre is an engine driver who adopts a small girl, a WWI orphan. A widower, he sees in her the image of her mother.
Des gens sans importance
During a stay at a roadside inn, long-distance lorry driver Jean Viard meets a young woman Clothilde who works there. Their friendship soon develops into a passionate love affair, even though Jean is already married and is old enough to be Clothilde’s father.
L'affaire des poisons
Madame de Montespan, the Maîtresse-en-titre of Louis XIV, has been in disgrace since the King set eyes on a younger beauty, Marie-Angélique Scorailles.
Victor
Secretly in love with Françoise, the companion of his best friend Marc, Victor decides to go to prison in his place.
...Sans laisser d'adresse
Thérèse Ravenaz is a charming young woman but also the victim of a seducer who abandoned her as soon as she told him that she was expecting his baby. To trace her unworthy lover, she boards a taxi driven by friendly cabdriver Emile Gauthier, who agrees to help her.
Souvenirs perdus
Suppose lost and found objects could talk... But they can!
Rendez-vous de juillet
Hopes and love and ambitions and friendship in a group of young jazz-loving Parisians.