Thierry Lhermitte
Thierry Lhermitte (born 24 November 1952) is a French actor, director, writer and producer, best known for his comedic roles. He was a founder of the comedy troupe Le Splendid in the 1970s, along with, among others, Christian Clavier, Gérard Jugnot, and Michel Blanc. The... Read full bio →
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Ma famille t'adore déjà
A young man meets his soon-to-be in-laws but discovers behind their proud and wealthy appearances some deep issues and lies.
Quai d'Orsay
A young speechwriter working in the French Foreign Ministry learns the impure nature of the political world.
Thelma, Louise et Chantal
Chantal, Gabrielle et Nelly se rendent au mariage d'un ex à la Rochelle. Elles décident de faire le trajet ensemble. Au cours de cette virée pleine de péripéties, les trois femmes partageront coups de coeur, coups de gueule et coups de blues de la cinquantaine, tour à tour drôles, fragiles et émouvants.
Le siffleur
Cannes, the French Riviera. Armand Teillard is happy with life: a busy store downtown, a delightful girlfriend, a magnificent record collection, and lunch every day at Sofia and Martial's family restaurant with a perfect sea view.
Bancs publics (Versailles rive droite)
As she does every morning, Lucie takes advantage of her journey to work to lose herself for a while in the pages of a good book. And as she does every morning, she joins her colleagues at the office with a smile. It's a working day just like any other. Then suddenly all activity in the office stops.
La clef
One morning, Eric Vincent, a thirty-something without a past and reluctant about fatherhood, receives a phone call from a stranger proposing him to retrieve the ashes of his late father, whom he never met.
L'invité
Fifty years old, three years past of unemployment, benefits decreasing very quickly... Gerard is at the end of the rope when a position is offered him in Indonesia. To win the favor of his new employer, Gerard invites him to dinner at home. Fatal Error !
13 m²
Jose is looking for a way out of his small time banlieue deals. When he overhears a conversation between his girlfriend and his step-brother,he might just have found a very lucrative way.Together with his two best friends,he decides to attack an armored vehicle, full of cash.
Les bronzés 3: amis pour la vie
After the Club Med and skiing, what happened to the Bronzés 27 years later? Early response: the same, and worse.
Incontrôlable
Imaginez. Un beau matin, votre corps décide de ne plus vous obéir. Pire, il n'en fait qu'à sa tête, prend un malin plaisir à vous mettre dans les situations les plus humiliantes, et passe son temps à vous vanner avec la voix de l'âne de Shrek ! Cet étrange phénomène, c'est ce qui arrive au pauvre Georges, devenu incontrôlable bien malgré lui...
L'antidote
JAM (Christian Clavier), a French "master of the universe" is on the brink of a major takeover when he starts suffering from anxiety attacks. His doctor (Lhermite) thinks it is to do with childhood experiences and suggests he searches back in his mind to something that could be the trigger and will prove to be the antidote.
Ripoux 3
It's been ten years since the paths of René and François parted ways. From the glorious era when, as cops, they roamed the Montmartre district, they only have a handful of memories left, the money from their cronies having evaporated over time. Everything comes to an end. Until it starts again.
Qui perd gagne!
Serge Vaudier, a mathematics teacher, wins the lotto twice and claims he can do it again, thanks to an infallible system he has designed. Is a he genius or a con man? Angèle, the head of the the government's bureau, is determined to entrap him. She asks her secret lover, Jacques Loriot, an expert player in the casinos, for help.
Les clefs de bagnole
Who would think losing car keys could lead us that far ? Be careful, adventure is on every street corner...
Le divorce
French vs. American social customs and behaviors are observed in a story about an American visiting her Frenchman-wed sister in Paris.
Effroyables jardins
Lucien, 14, can’t understand why his father, a serious and respected teacher, makes a fool of himself by dressing up as a clown and giving a show. André, Lucien’s father’s best friend, feels for the teenager and decides to reveal something from their mutual past that will explain the reason for Lucien’s father’s strange behavior.
Cette femme-là
A strange investigation doesn’t erase the regrets of a grieving woman cop. Every four years, the past catches up with her. Every four years this woman is very afraid. Her fear is such that she feels it could kill her because in her dreams reality begins.
Une affaire privée
Private detective François Manéri investigates a student's six-month disappearance for her mother. With police giving up, he drifts between a wealthy family's mansion and the dark world of a swingers' club.
La bande du drugstore
Set in Paris during the 1960s, a group of stylish teenagers hang out at a club called the Drugstore.
And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen...
A jazz singer and a British jewel thief are brought together by their mutual desire to forget the past.
Meilleur espoir féminin
Yvon Rance, a born hairdresser and an elegant middle-aged man with a perfect toupee, reigns in his native Brittany over a clientèle of little old ladies. But his main reason for living, his masterpiece, is Laetitia, his only daughter, whom he has single-handedly brought up for eighteen years and whom he fondly pictures as heading a cutting-edge ...
Le placard
A man spreads the rumor of his fake homosexuality with the aid of his neighbor, to prevent his imminent firing at his work.
Le prince du Pacifique
French war ship is arriving to Polynesian shore during at 1918 - and adventures begin...
Les collègues
This is the story of a small Marseilles football club on the verge of extinction that ends up in an amateur tournament organised during the World Cup (inevitably referred to as "La Mondialette"). It's their opportunity to save the club. The team, made up of temperamental hotheads, will have to dodge all kinds of low blows.
Le dîner de cons
Each week, Pierre and his friends organize what is called as "un dîner de cons". Everyone brings the dumbest guy he could find as a guest. Pierre thinks his champ -François Pignon- will steal the show.
Quatre garçons plein d'avenir
The premise of four young men out to celebrate the end of their school exams has great promise as comedy material, a promise that is far from realized in this banal, unevenly paced, run-of-the-mill attempt at a supposedly funny story.
Marquise
The rise and fall of a beauteous actress. She rises from an impoverished background to become a favorite of the Sun King, Louis XIV.
An American Werewolf in Paris
An American man unwittingly gets involved with werewolves who have developed a serum allowing them to transform at will.
Augustin
Augustin Dos Santos is a benign simpleton with a slight stammer. He's serious about his part-time job as a clerk for an insurance company, and he also acts, with small parts under his belt in commercials and experimental films. An agent finds his serious innocence perfect for a part as an odd bellman.
Un indien dans la ville
Stephen, an international trader, tracks down his ex-wife Patricia in some Amazonian backwater. He needs her consent to a divorce so that he can marry Charlotte. Unfortunately, he discovers a son he didn’t know he had – Mimi-Siku.
Grosse fatigue
Stressed and overworked, famous French movie star Michel Blanc is beginning to wear down, physically and mentally, from the pressure and demands of fame. Already in a fragile state of mind, strange events start to transpire all around him, and he gradually loses his grip.
Tango
Vincent, a stunt pilot, is acquitted of murdering his wife and her lover. However, a few years later, L'Elegant, the Judge in the case, comes to blackmail him. The Judge's nephew, Paul, is having trouble with his wife and they demand that Vincent kill her.
Le zèbre
Hippolyte, the titular oddball, is a far from typical country lawyer. He has been happily married to the woman of his dreams for 15 years, but has an incurable penchant for practical (or rather impractical) jokes.
Un piede in paradiso
A taxi driver finds a winning $150M lottery ticket while fighting corporate takeover of his co-op. Heaven and Hell send representatives to influence his choices, leading to entertaining chaos where humans prevail.
Les secrets professionnels du Dr Apfelglück
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La totale !
To his family, François Voisin is nothing more than a humdrum civil servant. In truth, for the past twenty years he has been working as a secret agent. All goes well until circumstances put his secret in danger.
Ripoux contre ripoux
The partners are back and are in a tight spot! Francois is going through a moral crisis, and Rene is experiencing the same. But, honesty is not always the best policy. After being suspended for their actions, they return to face their far more crooked replacements.
Promotion canapé
Two women who want a raise, realize that they can easily get what they want, if they sleep with their boss.
Les 1001 nuits
This movie displays the adventures of Sheherazade throught the legends of the 1001 nights. She meets all the great heroes and kings, and is helped on her journey by a Genie who's living in 1990 London and uses his TV to reach Sheherazade.
Nuit d'Ivresse
Jacques Belin, presenter of a silly TV show, gets drunk after receiving an award and misses the train bringing his TV-soap-star fiancée.
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".
Les ripoux
René est inspecteur de police dans le 18ème arrondissement de Paris. Depuis des années, il tient son quartier à coups de combines. François jeune inspecteur fraîchement diplômé et droit comme la justice est le nouveau partenaire de René. La cohabitation s'annonce difficile...
La smala
When the mother of a "tribe" of five children leaves for good, their inept father is not sure how to keep the family clothed and fed, and without the help of his neighbor Simone, he would be nowhere. She is attracted to him but eventually gives up on the relationship.
Papy fait de la résistance
It is 1943 in Paris. Like so many others, the Bourbelle family's home has been taken over by the Germans and they now live in their cellar. Little do they know that the son, Guy-Hubert Bourdelle, is far from being the cowardly hairdresser he pretends. He is in truth the Germans’ most feared opponent: le super-résistant!
La femme de mon pote
The charming Pascal, owner of a clothing store in Courchevel, and the chubby and scruffy Micky, disc jockey in a nearby club, are best of friends. Pascal accumulates women, much to the chagrin of Micky, who is consoled of his failures by listening to his friend talk about his successes. Viviane arises, ravishing and icy, but she's seasonal.
Légitime violence
A man whose family were killed during an attempted robbery in a railway station decides to take the law into his own hands when the police do not track down the killers.
Le père Noël est une ordure
La permanence parisienne SOS détresse-amitié est perturbée le soir de Noël par l'arrivée de personnage marginaux farfelus qui provoquent des catastrophes en chaîne.
Elle voit des nains partout
La reine de France meurt en couche. Elle met au monde un petite fille prénommée Blanche-neige. Le roi deçu de n'avoir pas un fils est résolu à faire disparaître sa progéniture mais c'est sans compter sur la protection de nombreux personnages de la littérature enfantine : les fées, Tarzan, Robin des Bois ou d'autres encore...
Clara et les Chics Types
Three days in the lives of six friends who are nearly 30 years old, live in Grenoble, and have a rock band called the "Why Notes?". They're to play in Paris at Charles's school reunion.
La banquière
Ambitious Emma Eckhert successfully makes her way into a world previously reserved for men: that of high finance. She quickly becomes popular with small savers, but leads a scandalous life that will cost her.
Les bronzés font du ski
In this sequel to Les Bronzes (1978) summer has passed, but that doesn't mean the fun has to end for Bernard, Nathalie, Gigi, Jerome, Popeye, Jean-Claude, and Christiane.
Les bronzés
Holidaymakers arriving in a Club Med camp on the Ivory Coast are determined to forget their everyday problems and emotional disappointments. Games, competitions, outings, bathing and sunburn accompany a continual succession of casual affairs.
Vous n'aurez pas l'Alsace et la Lorraine
The King of France Gros Pif thinks only of stuffing himself, slumming and having fun and during this time overwhelms the tax people.
Des enfants gâtés
Successful writer/director Bernard Rougerie is at a creative dead end and decides to isolate himself from his wife in order to complete the script for his next film. Bernard moves into an apartment building whose tenants are in the midst of a revolt against their abusive landlord.
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.
F comme Fairbanks
André Fragman, nicknamed "Fairbanks" after his childhood idol by his film projectionist father, returns home from military service. He meets and falls in love with Marie, an aspiring actress who is rehearsing for a stage production of 'Alice in Wonderland'.
Que la fête commence...
A look at 18th-century France, when the depravity of the authorities contributed to social oppression, and the uprisings flared up one after another.
C'est pas parce qu'on n'a rien à dire qu'il faut fermer sa gueule...
Max and Riton, 2 thieves make plan to steal money in a train station office. They will operate through the wall in the public toilets.
Les valseuses
Two whimsical, aimless thugs harass and assault women, steal, murder, and alternately charm, fight, or sprint their way out of trouble. They take whatever the bourgeoisie holds dear, whether it’s cars, peace of mind, or daughters. Marie-Ange, a jaded, passive hairdresser, joins them as lover, cook, and mother confessor.
Les suspects
When an American tourist is murdered in the south of France, the police must investigate. In this movie, the police inspector re-creates the girl's journeys through France until the murder is solved. Suspicions are narrowed down to four possible perpetrators early on, and flashbacks illuminate the roles each one played in the girl's vacation.
L'an 01
The film narrates a utopian abandonment, consensual and festive of the market economy and high productivity. The population decides on a number of resolutions beginning with "We stop everything" and the second "After a total downtime will be revived-reluctantly-that the services and products including lack will prove intolerable.