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Gérard Oury
Writer 1919 - 2006

Gérard Oury

Paris, France

Gérard Oury (born Max-Gérard Houry Tannenbaum; 29 April 1919 – 20 July 2006) was a French film director, actor and writer. He is best known for a number of comedies he directed and co-wrote between the 1960s and 1980s, most notably The Sucker (1965), Don't Look Now... We're... Read full bio →

Filmography

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14 titles
La soif de l'or

La soif de l'or

Gérard Oury 1993 1h 21m 3.7

Urbain Donnadieu's first love is money. It's also his second, third and fourth love. The only reason he married - a tax inspector named Fleurette - was to avoid a fine for tax evasion. For several years, he has been stealing money from his construction company and buying gold bars with his ill-gotten gains.

La vengeance du serpent à plumes

La vengeance du serpent à plumes

Gérard Oury 1984 1h 44m 2.7

An international intrigue with terrorists threatening to blow up the presidents of the most powerful countries.

L'as des as

L'as des as

Gérard Oury 1982 1h 40m 4.5

Jo Cavalier, entraîneur national, doit accompagner l'équipe de boxe aux J.O. de Berlin. Durant le voyage il prend en charge un enfant de dix ans poursuivi par la Gestapo.

Le coup du parapluie

Le coup du parapluie

Gérard Oury 1980 1h 35m 4.0

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.

La carapate

La carapate

Gérard Oury 1978 1h 40m 6.0

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.

Les aventures de Rabbi Jacob

Les aventures de Rabbi Jacob

Gérard Oury 1973 1h 40m 7.8

The racist industrialist Victor Pivert by accident gets kidnapped by an Arabic revolutionist. Pivert dresses up as a Rabbi in order to confuse them and gets mistaken for Rabbi Jacob as a Parisian neighborhood in New York celebrates his return. A screwball comedy.

La folie des grandeurs

La folie des grandeurs

Gérard Oury 1971 1h 48m 7.7

In 17th-century Spain, the Minister of Finance tries to dishonor the queen with an overly complex plan.

Le cerveau

Le cerveau

Gérard Oury 1969 1h 55m 7.0

Arthur and Anatole are two little robbers. They want to rob money, money that will travel in a special train from Paris to Bruxelles. They don't know that other people have planned to do the same thing.

La grande vadrouille

La grande vadrouille

Gérard Oury 1966 2h 12m 8.5

During World War II, two French civilians and a downed English Bomber Crew set out from Paris to cross the demarcation line between Nazi-occupied Northern France and the South. From there they will be able to to escape to England. First, they must avoid German troops - and the consequences of their own blunders.

Le corniaud

Le corniaud

Gérard Oury 1965 1h 51m 8.2

In this Franco-Italian gangster parody, a shopkeeper on his way to an Italian holiday suffers a crash that totals his car.

La menace

La menace

Gérard Oury 1961 1h 24m

Josepha is on the verge eighteen living with her drunken washed up actor uncle. She longs for the companionship of a group of her mo-ped riding peers who dabble in activities on the shady side of a legal dividing line.

Voulez-vous danser avec moi?

Voulez-vous danser avec moi?

Michel Boisrond 1959 1h 31m 6.5

Handsome dentist Herve Dandieu, temporarily separated from his new, delectable wife Virginie by a lovers' tiff, is picked up by sexy dance teacher Anita Flores...object blackmail. Sensing trouble, Virginie follows him to the dance school, only to find him circumstantially incriminated in murder.

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.

Le miroir a deux faces

Le miroir a deux faces

André Cayatte 1958 1h 36m

A teacher runs an ad in the newspaper to find a wife. Afraid of beautiful ladies, he weds an ugly woman. After a car accident, he meets a doctor who offers to reveal his wife's beauty.

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