Francis Didelot

Movies

Le 7ème juré
Writer
Qui êtes-vous Monsieur Renaudot ?
Writer
La 99ème minute
Writer
Death live! In the middle of filming a detective drama, the main actor Gérard Gérard dies from a gunshot. This returning star was hated by her partners... So, suicide, accident or crime? The investigation takes place before our eyes until the 99th minute. Let the masks fall!
Sechs Stunden Angst
Novel
Le Septieme Jure
Author
In a moment of madness a respectable pharmacist kills a young woman who is sun-bathing by a lake. When the murdered woman's boyfriend is falsely accused of her murder, the murderer is chosen to serve on the jury. Based on Francis Didelot's novel "Le Septième Juré".
The Seventh Juror
Novel
In a moment of madness a middle-aged, married and respectable pharmacist kills a young woman who is sun-bathing by a lake. Unable to take in what he has done, he flees from the scene of the crime and behaves as if nothing has happened. Eventually her boyfriend is charged with the crime and, in a strange twist of fate, the killer finds himself serving on the jury.
Minuit treize
Writer
Adam Is... Eve
Writer
In this comedy, a man gets a sex change to fulfil his wish to become a cabaret artiste.
The Kids Are Leading the Investigation
Novel
When Monsieur Crauqual, the supervisor, is found hanging, all wonder why this rather rich person decided to kill himself. And when a pupil is found hanging too, François and his friends decide to investigate. They are certain there is a killer within the walls of Collège François 1er and determined to prevent him from going on running wild.
Un gosse en or
Dialogue
Two villagers have adopted a child abandoned on the road. A jealous kid drags him away from the village. He is collected by a traveling circus where his kindness attracts him the affection of all and especially that of the animals. One day he finds his mother and his two adopted fathers.
Prince de mon cœur
Dialogue
One of the subjects of the Prince of Slopoldavia, followed him to Paris, not out of love but to take revenge for the monarch's betrayal of one of his friends. Involuntary architect of a plot, she forces the prince to return to the throne and agrees to share the burdens of power with him.
La fille de la Madelon
Adaptation
The widow of a soldier in the 1914-1918 war, running an inn called "Au rendez-vous des veterans", is happy to see her daughter in love with an officer whose father was once in love with La Madelon.
Bouboule 1er, roi nègre
Writer
Georges Vinot nicknamed Bouboule, a colorful but naive Parisian, falls prey to a gang of diamond thieves. Not only do they manipulate him into smuggling stolen precious stones into Senegal but they have bought life insurance on his head, which means they are prepared to do anything to liquidate him. But Bouboule succeeds in thwarting all their traps and eventually decides to settle down in a Senegalese village, of which he becomes... king!