Pierre Richard
Pierre Richard (born Pierre-Richard Maurice Charles Léopold Defays (originally de Fays, his grandfather changed the spelling for unknown reasons), 16 August 1934 in Valenciennes, Nord) is a popular French actor best known for the roles of a clumsy daydreamer in comedy films.... Read full bio →
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Jeanne du Barry
The life of Jeanne Bécu, who was born as the illegitimate daughter of an impoverished seamstress in 1743 and went on to rise through the Court of Louis XV to become his last official mistress.
Astérix & Obélix : L'empire du milieu
Gallic heroes and forever friends Asterix and Obelix journey to China to help Princess Sa See save the Empress and her land from a nefarious prince.
Les vieux fourneaux 2: Bons pour l'asile
To come to the aid of migrants he was hiding in Paris, Pierrot takes them to the South-West to Antoine, who himself is already welcoming Mimile, in the midst of reconquering love for Berthe. Expecting to find calm and voluptuousness in the countryside, the six refugees will taste above all the legendary hospitality of a French village.
Les vieux fourneaux
Two septuagenarians go to Tuscany to prevent their old friend from killing the man who cuckolded him fifty years ago.
La ch'tite famille
Valentin D is a hot designer architect who claims to be an orphan because he is too ashamed to admit he is the son of working-class scrap metal merchants from the north of France.
Un profil pour deux
An elderly widower pretends to be a young man on a dating site.
Le petit Spirou
Petit Spirou, like all his family before him, has a career destiny all traced. When his mother announces that he will integrate the bellhop school at the beginning of the new school year, Petit Spirou, with the help of his friends, will take advantage of his last days of class to declare his love to Suzette. And no matter how.
Paris pieds nus
Fiona visits Paris for the first time to assist her myopic Aunt Martha. Catastrophes ensue, mainly involving Dom, a homeless man who has yet to have an emotion or thought he was afraid of expressing.
Et si on vivait tous ensemble?
Five old friends decide to move in together as an alternative to living in a retirement home. Joining them is an ethnology student whose thesis is on the aging population.
Victor
Alice, jeune stagiaire dans un magazine people, se prend d'affection pour son voisin de palier, Victor, charmant vieillard érudit abandonné de tous et sur le point d'être expulsé de son logement. Elle va bientôt trouver une solution à son problème: organiser un concours au sein de son journal dont le gain sera l'adoption de Victor.
King Guillaume
Magalie and Guillaume are just as much in love as the day they met, living a quiet life in the suburbs, between modest dreams and a long awaited pregnancy. Yet everything gets complicated when Guillaume's contacted by his estranged father.
Cinéman
Professeur de mathématiques, Régis Deloux a un jour le pouvoir de voyager dans les films où il rencontrera enfin la femme de ses rêves... Trois ans après le succès phénoménal de Podium, Yann Moix choisit la comédie d’aventures pour son deuxième long métrage
Mia et le Migou
One night Mia has a premonition. So after saying a few words of parting at her mother’s grave, she sets out on a cross continent journey, though mountains and jungles in search of her father, who has been trapped in a landslide at a construction site on a remote tropical lake.
Faubourg 36
A star is born in a time of both celebration and instability in this historical drama with music from director Christophe Barratier.
Surf's Up
Cody is a surfing penguin from Shiverpool who dreams of making it big and being like his idol Big Z. On his journey he discovers his talents are not all he thinks they are and he must learn to accept that their is more to surfing than fame and fortune.
Le serpent
Fashion photographer Vincent Mandel, in the midst of a difficult divorce, is suddenly being accused of rape and extorted. What does his former classmate Joseph Plender want from him?
Essaye-moi
Quand Yves-Marie, 9 ans, demande à Jacqueline, qui a son âge : "Epouse-moi", elle répond par une pirouette : "Le jour où tu vas dans les étoiles, je te donne ma main."
Les clefs de bagnole
Who would think losing car keys could lead us that far ? Be careful, adventure is on every street corner...
Droit dans le mur
Pierre Richard directed, co-scripted and stars in this French comedy.
Shekvarebuli kulinaris ataserti retsepti
The story of Pascal Ichak, a larger-than-life French traveller, bon vivant, and chef, who falls in love with Georgia and a Georgian princess in the early 1920s. All is well until the arrival of the Red Army of the Caucasus, as the Soviet revolution that has swept Russian comes to Georgia.
On peut toujours rêver
A billionaire Charles de Boisleve becomes a friend of a petty criminal Rachid after two of them meet in the supermarket.
Promotion canapé
Two women who want a raise, realize that they can easily get what they want, if they sleep with their boss.
À gauche en sortant de l'ascenseur
Yan is a successful artist. One day he is waiting for his date Florence to turn up at his apartment. As the doorbell rings, he finds another young woman in underwear on his doorstep: his neighbor Eva! She tells him she locked herself out of her apartment and insists that he helps her.
Les fugitifs
Coming out from jail, Lucas has decided to change his life and behave like a good citizen. But when he is taken hostage in a bank by a hare-brained robber, no cops can believe he is not part of the action.
Les rois du gag
Paul Martin and François Leroux are brothers-in-law and comics without fame. One day, the famous television comics, Gaëtan, finds himself in the little theater where Paul and François produce themselves under the name of "Gagsters".
Le jumeau
Matthias Duval is in love, but he can't choose between the two twin sisters Betty and Liz Kerner. To pick up the two sisters, he invents his own twin brother and will play both characters.
Un chien dans un jeu de quilles
Pierre Cohen, a sophisticated Parisian psychologist, goes to his brother's farm in order to protect it from very hostile local landowners.
Les compères
Unable to find her runaway son, a woman deceives two of her ex-lovers from her youth, a mild-mannered teacher and a tough journalist, that each is the real father in order to obtain their help.
La chèvre
When the boss' unlucky daughter is missing in South America, Campana is sent to watch the boss' most unlucky employee who is sent as a private detective in hopes he can duplicate the daughter's mistakes.
Le coup du parapluie
Grégoire Lecomte, acteur raté, se retrouve confondu avec un dangereux tueur à gages dont il est chargé du nouveau contrat : tuer à l'aide de la pointe d'un parapluie un riche industriel.
C'est pas moi, c'est lui
Pierre Renard is the blackboy of the writer George Vallier. At the time of a reception, the Italian actor Aldo Barazutti takes him for the writer and proposes to him to come to work with him in Tunisia with the development of a scenario. In fact Barazutti wants only to flee her wife to find her mistress Valerie.
La carapate
The lawyer is visiting a prison to meet with a violent criminal who has been condemned to death. During the visit, things turn bad, there is a riot where prisoners escape and the criminal escapes taking a lawyer hostage.
Je suis timide... mais je me soigne
Pierre is a hotel cashier in Vichy, so shy that he answers an ad from the Psychology Institute and can't say no to the salesman, Aldo; he spends 6,000 francs on tapes, books, and a punching bag. Soon after, he's smitten by Agnes, a hotel guest with a model's looks and photographers wherever she goes.
On aura tout vu...
Un photographe publicitaire veut réaliser un film poétique, beau et pur. Lorsqu'il trouve enfin un producteur, ce dernier veut transformer le sujet pour en faire un film pornographique.
Les naufragés de l'île de la Tortue
Jean-Arthur has been working as a clerk in a travel agency. One day, he, along with his colleague comes to a brilliant idea: what if I offer tourists real extreme recreation? So the group of tourists land on a deserted island with no food, no shelter, nothing.
Le jouet
When Francois, a journalist, tours a big store for an article, he is chosen by the son of the newspaper's owner, Rambal-Cochet, as his new toy. Needing money and unwilling to quit his job, Francois agrees to this ridiculous assignment.
La Course à l'échalote
An awkward banker tracks down cabaret performers, who stole the ownership title of their nightclub.
Un nuage entre les dents
Malisard is a reporter at "Soir de Paris", his colleague Prévot is a photographer. Together, they roam the streets of Paris.
Le retour du grand blond
With "little captain" Cambrai raising serious doubts about the reality of the so-called "super spy," Colonel Toulouse kidnaps Christine and forces Francois to play again the character of "The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe" in some fake adventures. All this to stop the investigation into the death of Colonel Milan.
La moutarde me monte au nez
Pierre is a clumsy, overly serious math teacher at an all-girls high school. His life is thrown into chaos after encountering a beautiful British actress and the paparazzi that follow her around.
La raison du plus fou
The supervisor of a nursing home accompanies in their escape two young loving residents who dream of seeing the sea.
Je sais rien, mais je dirai tout
Pierre Gastié-Leroy is the son of a wealthy director of a weapons factory.
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.
Le grand blond avec une chaussure noire
A hapless orchestra player becomes an unwitting pawn of rival factions within the French secret service after he is chosen as a decoy by being identified as a super secret agent.
Sur un arbre perché
Henry Roubier, a French promoter, and Enrico Mazzini, an Italian, have signed an agreement guaranteeing them a stranglehold on European highways. While driving on the roads of the south, Roubier takes two young hitchhikers, but an unfortunate swerve the car rushes by Henri and its occupants on the top of a pine tree onto the side of a cliff.
Le distrait
Le destin de Pierre Malaquet, dont la distraction légendaire l'amène à vivre de nombreuses aventures.
La prisonnière
An art gallery owner's photography hobby reveals a dark side, catching the attention of an artist's wife who's drawn to him despite her stable marriage.
Alexandre le bienheureux
Alexandre est cultivateur dans une petite ferme française, mais sa femme le pousse à bout de force en lui imposant chaque jour une liste de travaux démesurée. Devenu brutalement veuf, il éprouve un grand soulagement et se sent libéré de son labeur : il décide de s'accorder un repos qu'il juge mérité, afin de prendre le temps de savourer la vie.
Un idiot à Paris
Goubi, the simpleton of his village in the French Department Allier, has but one wish: to see Paris. One day, the truckers Grafouillère deposit a drunk Goubi in the biggest market of Paris (the "Halles").
Les amants de Montparnasse (Montparnasse 19)
Biographic film chronicling the last year of the life of the Italian painter Amedeo Modigliani, 1919, who falls in love with a girl from a wealthy family. Her parents are against this relationship and stop financial help. Modigliani worked and died in abject poverty in the Montparnasse Quarter of Paris, France.