Search results for "Claude Piéplu"
The Centipede Is Tap Dancing

The Centipede Is Tap Dancing

The Centipede Is Tap Dancing
IMDb: 5.5
105

When they get wind that Herman Goering wants the Venus de Milo statue removed from the Louvre and added to his private collection of stolen artworks, three Frenchmen decide to…

Genre: Comedy
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IMDb: 6.6
100

Henri Serin (Jean-Pierre Marielle), an umbrella salesman, leads a quiet life between his work, his family and his passion for painting. During his many business trips, Henri indulges in a…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Spray of the Days

Spray of the Days

Spray of the Days
IMDb: 5.4
110

Chick fell in love with Alise because of a shared passion for writer Jean-Sol Partre who gradually devoured their relationship. Soon after, Colin, the main character, also falls in love…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Asterix & Obelix Take on Caesar

Asterix & Obelix Take on Caesar

Asterix & Obelix Take on Caesar
IMDb: 6
109

Set in 50 B.C., Asterix and Obelix are living in a small but well-protected village in Gaul, where a magic potion concocted by Druids turns the townsfolk into mighty soldiers….

La Galette du roi

La Galette du roi

La Galette du roi
IMDb: 4.4
90

In this conventional, broadly comic farce of greed and royal matrimony, nearly bankrupt businessman Victor Harris is marrying Maria-Helena, a princess who comes with a dowry that is made up…

Genre: Comedy
The King and the Mockingbird

The King and the Mockingbird

The King and the Mockingbird
IMDb: 7.7
83

The kingdom of Takicardie quakes under the rule of the tyrannical King Charles V-et-III-font-VIII-et-VIII-font-XVI, whose favourite pastime is shooting birds. His archenemy is a cheeky mockingbird, whose favourite pastime is…

This Sweet Sickness

This Sweet Sickness

This Sweet Sickness
IMDb: 6.6
102

Industrious accountant David Martinaud claims to be visiting his parents every weekend, but it’s merely a cover for the labor-intensive refurbishing of his country cottage. The reason for David’s secrecy…

The Best Way to Walk

The Best Way to Walk

The Best Way to Walk
IMDb: 7.1
82

In 1960, Marc and Philippe are counselors at a summer camp in the French countryside. One night, Marc finds Philippe dressed and made up as a woman, and from now…

Genre: Drama
The Tenant

The Tenant

The Tenant
IMDb: 7.6
126

A quiet and inconspicuous man rents an apartment in France where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia.

Femmes Fatales

Femmes Fatales

Femmes Fatales
IMDb: 6.4
81

Two men, fortyish, worn out by their wives, abandon everything to go and live in the back of beyond. There they meet a truculent priest, a boozer, Émile who recalls…

Genre: Comedy
Special Section

Special Section

Special Section
IMDb: 7.6
118

In occupied France during the WWII, a German officer is murdered. The collaborationist Vichy government decides to pin the murder on six petty criminals. Loyal judges are called in to…

It’s Tough for Everybody

It’s Tough for Everybody

It’s Tough for Everybody
IMDb: 5.3
88

After losing his job, an idealistic adman starts his own agency, putting himself in the crosshairs of his jaded ex-boss.

Genre: Comedy
The Phantom of Liberty

The Phantom of Liberty

The Phantom of Liberty
IMDb: 7.8
104

This Surrealist film, with a title referencing the Communist Manifesto, strings together short incidents based on the life of director Luis Buñuel. Presented as chance encounters, these loosely related, intersecting…

Genre: Comedy
Défense de savoir

Défense de savoir

Défense de savoir
IMDb: 5.7
99

When a woman is accused of murder, the investigation slowly reveals numerous political connections. Laubret, the court-appointed defense lawyer, does everything in his power to expose the truth.

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
IMDb: 7.8
101

In Luis Buñuel’s deliciously satiric masterpiece, an upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but never eats, their attempts continually thwarted by a vaudevillian mixture of events both actual and imagined.

Genre: Comedy
Hibernatus

Hibernatus

Hibernatus
IMDb: 6.6
82

The frozen body of Paul Fournier is discovered in Greenland where he had disappeared during a scientific expedition in 1905. Perfectly conserved he is brought back to life in the…

The Devil by the Tail

The Devil by the Tail

The Devil by the Tail
IMDb: 6.7
90

In this comedy, a run-down hotel drums up customers by sabotaging passing cars. The stuck motorists are then obliged to stay. Unfortunately, one of the sabotaged cars belongs to a…

Genre: Comedy
Woman in Chains

Woman in Chains

Woman in Chains
IMDb: 7.1
106

Gallery director Stanislas bolsters the development of modern art with his collection of surprising works. His newest acquisition is a sculpture by Gilbert, whose wife Josée is captivated by Stanislas….

Diabolically Yours

Diabolically Yours

Diabolically Yours
IMDb: 6
93

A wealthy amnesiac begins to suspect that his devoted wife is not really his wife and that he is not the man people keep telling him he is.

Genre: Crime, Thriller
The Man in the Buick

The Man in the Buick

The Man in the Buick
IMDb: 5.6
N/A

Mr Jo, nicknamed “the man with the Buick”, is the darling of the small town of Honfleur. But he is in fact a trafficker with a bad reputation who would…

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Let’s Rob the Bank

Let’s Rob the Bank

Let’s Rob the Bank
IMDb: 6.7
88

Shopkeeper Victor Garnier has naively invested his family’s life savings in an African mine, on his banker’s recommendation. When the mine is nationalized, rendering the stock worthless, he considers himself…

Genre: Comedy, Crime