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Édouard Molinaro
Director 1928 - 2013

Édouard Molinaro

Bordeaux, Gironde, France

He was born in Bordeaux, Gironde. He is best known for his comedies with Louis de Funès (Oscar, etc.), My Uncle Benjamin (with Jacques Brel and Claude Jade), Dracula and Son (with Christopher Lee), and the Academy Award-nominated La Cage aux Folles (with Michel Serrault and... Read full bio →

Directed Films

Every film this person directed

18 titles
Beaumarchais l'insolent

Beaumarchais l'insolent

Édouard Molinaro 1996 1h 40m 7.3

Beaumarchais the Scoundrel is a biopic film based on the life of the French playwright, financier and spy Pierre Beaumarchais depicting his activities during the American War of Independence and his authorship of the Figaro trilogy of plays.

À gauche en sortant de l'ascenseur

À gauche en sortant de l'ascenseur

Édouard Molinaro 1988 1h 23m 1.0

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.

La cage aux folles II

La cage aux folles II

Édouard Molinaro 1980 1h 41m 3.8

The titular gay couple become involved with local cops and foreign spies when one of them unwittingly obtains a roll of stolen microfilm.

La cage aux folles

La cage aux folles

Édouard Molinaro 1978 1h 32m 6.9

Two gay men living in St. Tropez have their lives turned upside down when the son of one of the men announces he is getting married. They try to conceal their lifestyle and their ownership of the drag club downstairs when the fiancée and her parents come for dinner.

L'homme pressé

L'homme pressé

Édouard Molinaro 1977 1h 31m 7.0

Art collector Pierre Niox (Alain Delon) rushes through life, lives a frantic life, does everything in full speed -- searching for and acquiring works of art or real estate, marrying or even dying -- and in total disregard for any kind of morality. His misdeeds finally turn on him and destroy him.

Dracula père et fils

Dracula père et fils

Édouard Molinaro 1976 1h 36m 5.7

With angry villagers driving them away from their castle in Transylvania, Dracula and his son Ferdinand head abroad. Dracula ends up in London, England where he becomes a horror movie star exploiting his vampire status. His son, meanwhile, is ashamed of his roots and ends up a night watchman in Paris, France where he falls for a girl.

Le téléphone rose

Le téléphone rose

Édouard Molinaro 1975 1h 35m

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".

L'emmerdeur

L'emmerdeur

Édouard Molinaro 1973 1h 25m 7.0

Ralf Milan, a hitman, arrives in Montpellier to kill an important witness. He checks in a hotel without knowing that his neighbour has become neurotic after his wife left him.

Mon oncle Benjamin

Mon oncle Benjamin

Édouard Molinaro 1969 1h 30m 6.0

In the amorous mid 18th century under Louis XV, a country doctor risks danger and prison to pursue his seduction of the women of the bourgeoisie.

Hibernatus

Hibernatus

Édouard Molinaro 1969 1h 22m 7.5

A rich businessman faces a quite weird problem - his wife's grandfather has been revived thanks to science. But he is not aware that many decades have passed.

Peau d'espion

Peau d'espion

Édouard Molinaro 1967 1h 33m

A writer gets wrapped up in espionage.

Oscar

Oscar

Édouard Molinaro 1967 1h 25m 7.3

This film originated as a play in Paris. The story focuses on the one-day adventures of Bertrand Barnier played with a genius of French cinema, Louis de Funes.

La chasse à l'homme

La chasse à l'homme

Édouard Molinaro 1964 1h 31m

A few stories about a marriages and it's problems.

Arsène Lupin contre Arsène Lupin

Arsène Lupin contre Arsène Lupin

Édouard Molinaro 1962 1h 51m

André Laroche, an industrialist, has just passed away. Face to his grave, as he is being buried, Anne de Vierne, the wife of a magistrate, confesses to her son François that Laroche was in fact Lupin and that he is his natural child. But he is not the gentleman thief's only offspring!

La mort de Belle

La mort de Belle

Édouard Molinaro 1961 1h 31m 8.0

Stéphane Blanchon teaches at International College and lives quietly in Geneva with his wife Christine. His love life is nonexistent until Belle arrives to stay in his villa.

Un témoin dans la ville

Un témoin dans la ville

Édouard Molinaro 1959 1h 29m 7.5

Industrialist Pierre Verdier kills his mistress Jeanne Ancelin by throwing her off a train. Her husband, Ancelin, decides to take revenge on his wife's murderer, who has been acquitted by justice.

Des femmes disparaissent

Des femmes disparaissent

Édouard Molinaro 1959 1h 25m

Pierre Rossi and Béatrice live in the same block of flats in Marseille and love each other. One night, Béatrice leaves her apartment. Pierre knows that his fiancée goes to a rendezvous, but she would not tell him more than just that.

Le dos au mur

Le dos au mur

Édouard Molinaro 1958 1h 33m

A wealthy industrialist discovers his wife is having an affair and decides to exact revenge by blackmailing her under an assumed identity.

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