Jean Poiret

"La Cage aux Folles" es un club que tiene un espectáculo de travestis, protagonizada por Zaza (cuyo verdadero nombre es Albin). Forma renato de pareja homosexual de edad. Este último fue anteriormente un hijo, Laurent, quien anuncia su futuro matrimonio con la hija de un diputado. El encuentro con el político conservador es inevitable ...

Two business students hatch a perfect plan: buy their own school.

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.

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.

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.

El emperador austríaco se enamora de Isabel. A pesar de que es un amor a primera vista, su relación no será fácil, pues a la madre de él, no le gusta la chica. El director alemán Christoph Böll, quien ya había dirigido el corto "The Sprinter", debutó en el mundo del largometraje con este telefilme que recupera el mito de la emperatriz Sissí, recordada por su gran belleza, su rebeldía y su espíritu avanzado para su época.

On 9 January 1836, Pierre Lacenaire goes to the guillotine, a murderer and a thief. He gives Allard, a police inspector, his life story, written while awaiting execution. He also asks Allard to care for Hermine, a lass to whom he has been guardian for more than ten years. In flashbacks, from the prison as Lacenaire writes, from Allard's study as he and Hermine read, and from other readers' memory after the book is published, we see Lacenaire's childhood as he stands up to bullies, including priests, his youthful thieving, his first murder, his brief army career, his seduction of a princess, and his affair with Avril, a young man who dies beside him.

Martin Morel wants to spend Sylvester with both his wife and family and his girlfriend Agnes. So he asks his clumsy friend Bertin to pretend she'd be his wife. But the two can't stand each other... at first.

The leader of a nudist colony enlists the help of left-wing militant when he mistakenly believes he should receive the Legion of Honor.

Charles and Emmanuelle organize as every year, the congress of perfumers who distribute their products in their castle. Garibaldi, their mutilated and somewhat disturbed son-in-law, will be the butler.

Faking an injury for insurance money, a peddler seeks out a cure to support his claims while a suspicious investigator tries to expose the scam.

A Hollywood studio is producing another spectacular when the top billed male stars suddenly show up as corpses, killed before the critics could ever put pen to paper. Under suspicion is a talent agent. Is he guilty or not? These macabre events have everyone off their feed, from the producers down to the lowest gofer.

El cadáver de Raoul Mons aparece un día completamente desnudo en la playa con la palabra cerdo escrita sobre su cuerpo. Mons, era hasta entonces un famoso escritor católico que llevaba una vida austera con su mujer Hélène, su hijastra Verónique, una joven adolescente fruto de un anterior matrimonio de Hélène y el hermano de ésta, Claude.

El califa de Bagdad llega a París en 1989 y decide ir a ver la exposición sobre los instrumentos del verdugo.

En una pequeña ciudad de provincias, el señor Lavoisier, el doctor Morasseau y el carnicero Filiol emprenden un importante negocio inmobiliario. El único obstáculo para llevarlo adelante lo plantean la señora Cuno y su hijo Louis, el cartero, que se niegan a vender su casa. Louis parece provocar la muerte del carnicero, lo que motiva la llegada del inspector Lavardin. La desaparición de la mujer del médico y de la amante del notario lo lleva a descubrir, mediante métodos poco convencionales, quién es el culpable.

Un periodista jubilado, Bastien Grimaldi, es víctima de unos asaltantes desconocidos, siendo asaltado y golpeado una noche, a raíz de lo cual empieza a recibir amenazas. Ni él ni su entorno pueden entenderlo. Bastien no tiene enemigos y no es un objetivo político. Se informa a la policía, pero careciendo de eficacia para esclarecer el asunto, será el propio Grimaldi el que tendrá que investigar por sí mismo el asunto.

Stéphane Margelle, un magnate de la Riviera francesa, está casado con una bella mujer. Es un seductor empedernido y ninguna mujer se resiste a sus encantos. Las cosas le han salido siempre bien, pues es un embustero tan hábil que ha logrado que su mujer ignore sus andanzas. Un día conoce a Julie, una dulce y atractiva muchacha de dieciocho años. Como de costumbre pone en marcha su plan de conquista, pero en esta ocasión ocurrirá algo insólito.

The cynical boss of a big insurance agency invites his top-salary employees to spend a week-end in his country house. A modest clerical worker, also invited, discovers the hidden reason for this party - and decides to take advantage of it.

Con la intención de dar celos a su compañero Renato (Tognazzi), el atractivo Albin (Serrault) se instala en un café vestido de mujer para ligar. Pero resulta que la mosca que atrapa en su red es, en realidad, un espía que lo utiliza, sin que él se dé cuenta, como mensajero de un microfilm secreto. Intentando escapar de los despiadados agentes que los persiguen, Albin y Renato huyen a Italia y se esconden en una granja como si fueran un matrimonio.

Con la intención de dar celos a su compañero Renato (Tognazzi), el atractivo Albin (Serrault) se instala en un café vestido de mujer para ligar. Pero resulta que la mosca que atrapa en su red es, en realidad, un espía que lo utiliza, sin que él se dé cuenta, como mensajero de un microfilm secreto. Intentando escapar de los despiadados agentes que los persiguen, Albin y Renato huyen a Italia y se esconden en una granja como si fueran un matrimonio.

Durante la ocupación de París por las tropas alemanas, un grupo de actores trata de sacar adelante una obra de teatro. Nadie sospecha que, en el sótano del edificio, se oculta el director del grupo, un hombre de origen judío que desde su escondrijo dirige la obra a través de las indicaciones que da a su mujer, que es la protagonista.

Martial Perrin is the president of a right-wing political party which is gearing itself up for a forthcoming election. When he learns that a notorious criminal named Kraus has escaped from prison, Perrin panics and goes into hiding. His deputy, Constant, hires Perrin’s cousin, Gilbert, an actor who is a perfect double of Perrin, to replace him. What Gilbert does no know is that the killer Kraus is bumping off the people who were implicated in the affair for which he was arrested, and that Perrin is next on his list.

Martial Perrin is the president of a right-wing political party which is gearing itself up for a forthcoming election. When he learns that a notorious criminal named Kraus has escaped from prison, Perrin panics and goes into hiding. His deputy, Constant, hires Perrin’s cousin, Gilbert, an actor who is a perfect double of Perrin, to replace him. What Gilbert does no know is that the killer Kraus is bumping off the people who were implicated in the affair for which he was arrested, and that Perrin is next on his list.

Maria, a great tragedian, has desires for radical change in her career. Singing, dancing, changing registers and getting younger: it has become an obsession. To get there, she calls on her ex-lover Simon whom she left in the past, who has become a popular choreographer for stars on Broadway. The reunion is somewhat tormented ...

Un maduro homosexual (Michel Serrault) vive desde hace veinte años con su compañero sentimental (Ugo Tognazzi). Cuando el hijo de éste decide casarse con la hija de un rancio funcionario del gobierno, la pareja tendrá que representar una auténtica farsa para disimular su homosexualidad y causar la mejor impresión posible a sus futuros consuegros, lo que dará lugar a situaciones en las que todo lo que puede salir mal, saldrá todavía peor.

Un maduro homosexual (Michel Serrault) vive desde hace veinte años con su compañero sentimental (Ugo Tognazzi). Cuando el hijo de éste decide casarse con la hija de un rancio funcionario del gobierno, la pareja tendrá que representar una auténtica farsa para disimular su homosexualidad y causar la mejor impresión posible a sus futuros consuegros, lo que dará lugar a situaciones en las que todo lo que puede salir mal, saldrá todavía peor.

Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945). Durante la ocupación de Francia por los alemanes, poco antes del desembarco de Normandía (1944), Léon Duchemin, un tranquilo restaurador, cuya mujer lo abandonó hace veinte años, vive con su hermana María y su hija Juliette, que está loca. Sus clientes son de lo más heterogéneo: desde el chófer de Rommel hasta los partisanos, pasando por los que se dedican al mercado negro.

Gabriel Pelletier's life is no bed of roses. Not because of his job: he is a successful sales manager. But on account of the various wrongdoings committed by his kin. First, there is his daughter Nicole, who has just developed an infatuation with a young man who is not only a revolutionary student but the the son of a Sicilian mobster as well. Then he has to cope with Bernard, his brother-in-law, a ladies'man who has been vamped by one of the sexy daughters of the Sicilian. Let's not forget Albert, his own brother, an avant-garde filmmaker also in trouble with Lombardi, the omnipresent gangster. To crown it all, Maryse, his domestic worker, is a Maoist militant!... In the end, poor Gabriel can't take it anymore. He hits the road and calls it quits.

A scientist from the East happens in France where it is supposed to improve one of his inventions. But it is much more interested in the fact to enjoy it and have fun ...

Pétepan se entera de que los hermanos Robinhoude han perdido su dinero. Le pide a su ayudante que retire su cuenta del banco.

Gaston Berrien y su primo, que regentan una sombrerería, parecen personas normales. Un día llega a la tienda un cliente más interesado por conocer las cifras del negocio que por encontrar un sombrero adecuado, lo que pone en guardia a Gastón, pues el negocio es sólo una tapadera. Por las noches se transforma en una salón de juego clandestino.

Two police inspectors Triquet and Vergus launch their investigations to arrest a dangerous escaped forger named Mickey Le Bénedictin.

A playwright has to murder if he does not want to be murdered.

An automobile tribute

Bad financial conditions compel an aristocratic family to do strange work.

The story of five girls that lose their virginity.

Cuatro historias, basadas en cuatro fábulas de Lafontaine, muestran a una mujer que intenta recuperar a su marido; a un infeliz que quiere suicidarse; a un hombre celoso que llega a asociarse con su rival, y a una pareja que se queda encerrada en un apartamento.

Auguste is about an eponymous bank clerk who finds fame and fortune. Auguste happens to be in the right place at the right time to save young starlet Francine from killing herself -- or more accurately, pretending to kill herself. His supposed heroism hits the news, and before Auguste knows what is happening, a Machiavellian publicist is using him for his own ends. The bank clerk is no fool and soon thinks of a way to come out on top.

Las aventuras de Cándido, un soldado francés, en 1940. Separado de su novia, le sucederán numerosas aventuras. (FILMAFFINITY)

The seven stages in the life of the modern Frenchwomen are disclosed by seven directors in a witty way: 1 - Childhood, 2 - Adolescence, 3 - Virginity, 4 - Marriage, 5 - Adultery, 6 - Divorce, 7 - The Single Woman.

Miguel foils a bank robbery and becomes a successful nightclub singer, but he doesn't know that his wife is being courted by an Italian fitness instructor.

A rich kid, the daughter of an oil tycoon, lives a life of luxury. Bad guys kidnap the heiress.

Un profesor se hace popular gracias a sus métodos de enseñanza poco ortodoxos.

Aimé Morin, a good-natured bookseller, is also one of the candidates in the local elections of his small town. He is well-liked by most but he also has political enemies. Among them is Lagarde, a journalist close to the latter. Lagarde takes advantage of Morin being on holiday in Paris to try and tarnish his reputation. His machination unfortunately works and poor Aimé finds himself mistaken for a sex maniac.

A man becomes the lover of his former persecutor's wife.

Una adolescente Brigitte Bardot es la no tan inocente hija de un conocido jefe criminal en esta condimentada comedia francesa, con una variedad de números musicales. Cuando es forzada a esconderse, su naturaleza indomable se convierte en una pesadilla para su guardián, un cantante de club nocturno enamorado de sus encantos.

Clarisse cheats on her husband with a vain insurance agent. Zamore, the cuckold (and a magician) wouldn't let his wife be stolen so easily. Poiret and Serrault play the rivals in this twisted love story. A poetic absurd fantasy.

Adaptación de la primera parte de la archifamosa novela de Dumas. En esta versión los elementos cómicos predominan sobre los dramáticos. D'Artagnan, con la ayuda de sus amigos Athos, Porthos y Aramis y su incondicional Planchet, tendrá que defender la reputación de la reina, la española Ana de Austria, frente a las turbias intrigas del Cardenal Richelieu y sus colaboradores, Rochefort y la peligrosísima Milady de Winter.

An accordionist playing in disreputable halls is mistaken for a gangster by a special envoy from the American crime syndicate in charge of investigating the French milieu. The American will prepare a hold-up with a gang of women specialized in scamming tourists. But the accordionist will make the hold-up fail and all the criminals will end up behind bars.