The Monocle's Sour Laugh (1964)
ジャンル : コメディ, スリラー
上映時間 : 1時間 40分
演出 : Georges Lautner
脚本 : Jacques Robert, Albert Kantoff
シノプシス
A French agent goes after a gang of Asian terrorists who plan to blow up an American nuclear aircraft carrier.
A man spreads the rumor of his fake homosexuality with the aid of his neighbor, to prevent his imminent firing at his work.
アクション・スター、ジャック・スレイターの大ファンである少年が、魔法のチケットを手に映画を観ていると、突然スクリーンの中にトリップ。憧れのヒーローとともに悪党を追う大冒険が始まる。
The film consists of seven roughly 15 minute episodes, each showing what will happen if one or more of the Ten Commandments will be broken: Jérome Chambard is warned that he will lose his job if he continues to swear; Françoise Beaufort enamored of a stripper calls on her only to find her married to a janitor who doesn't know what kind of dancing his wife performs; Denis, a Jesuit novice, leaves the order to avenge his sister's suicide, which was provoked by Garigny, who seduced her into prostitution and drug addiction; Philip buys a necklace for Micheline though he is bored with her; a young man find out that his real mother is not Madeleine, but actress Clarisse Ardant; Didier Marin, cashier of a bank, was fired by his boss; the Devil appears as a serpent for Jérome Chambard and the bishop are eating.
A shaman from the South American rain forest visits France for a public relations campaign. In a hotel's elevator in Paris he meets a French good-for-nothing named Perrin he's fascinated with. He follows Perrin to his flat and although Perrin is not very enthusiastic about so much interest in his person, he lets the shaman spend the night in his flat. After an official meeting on the next day being part of the PR campaign the shaman suffers from a heart attack. Hardly being able to speak and laying in a hospital bed he demands to see Perrin. The latter is not very interested in meeting the shaman again. However it looks like it is to late for animosities as the shaman and Perrin seem to be tied mentally somehow since they've met in the elevator.
Thomas Gardesse, a traveling alarm systems salesman, is arrested for a minor offense and sentenced to six months imprisonment. To win the respect of his fellow inmates, he claims he is "The Marquis," a brilliant robber whose identity has remained a mystery. Two weeks before his release, an armed robber named Quentin Tasseau helps him escape and takes him to Manila so he can take part in a robbery whose mastermind requires the talents of the Marquis.
Propelled to the head of the W Group after the death of his adoptive father, Largo Winch decides, to everyone's surprise, to sell it, and use the proceeds to create an ambitious humanitarian foundation. But on the very same day, he finds himself accused of crimes against humanity by a mysterious witness. To prove his innocence, Largo will have to retrace the steps of his past life, in the heart of the Burmese jungle.
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 transvestite club downstairs when the fiancée and her parents come for dinner.
フランス映画界の伝説のスター、ジャン=ポール・ベルモンドが主演したハードボイルド・リベンジ・アクション。アフリカでの暗殺作戦中に国家に裏切られてしまった男が生き延び、帰国して復讐を繰り広げる。
Two rival "brothers-in-law" make a bet that they can stop smoking for 2 weeks. But, it's just not that easy...
Une bande de jeunes voyous inoffensifs vivote de petits coups. Après un braquage loupé, ils se trouvent dans l'impossibilité de régler leurs dettes au caïd du coin, qui, pour le rembourser, leur propose le cambriolage d'une fondation d'art moderne. Mais rien ne se passe comme prévu et tout s'enchaîne... mal.
A talking chimp, a jolly monk and a boxer on the run make an unlikely team in this French comedy for children. Brother Benoit, a French monk working with underprivileged youth in Mexico, one day finds a sick chimpanzee in need of water and medical attention. He brings the chimp back to his mission and nurses her back to health, naming her Mookie. A year later, Brother Benoit discovers Mookie can not only play basketball, but she can talk, the result of an exposure to radiation from a meteor crash. Primate experts from America are eager to get their hands on the little ape, but the Brother will allow no experiments to be performed on her. The Brother recruits Antoine, a boxer down on his luck, to help Mookie and the Brother flee to Mexico City, but when it turns out Antoine is wanted by the Mexican Mafia for not throwing a fight, all three must make tracks to insure their safety.
Charles, fresh out of jail, rejects his wife's plan for a quiet life of bourgeois respectability. He enlists a former cell mate, Francis, to assist him in pulling off one final score, a carefully planned assault on the vault of a Cannes casino.
かつてボリショイ交響楽団の天才指揮者だったアンドレ(アレクセイ・グシュコフ)は、今はさえない劇場清掃員として働いていた。ある日、出演できなくなった楽団の代わりのオーケストラを探しているというFAXを目にした彼は、とんでもないことを思いつく。それは、いまや落ちぶれてしまったかつての仲間を集めて楽団を結成し、コンサートに出場するというものだった。
It is 1943 in Paris. Like so many others, the Bourbelle family's home has been taken over by the Germans and they now live in their cellar. Little do they know that the son, Guy-Hubert Bourdelle, is far from being the cowardly hairdresser he pretends. He is in truth the Germans’ most feared opponent: le super-résistant!
Stephen, an international trader, tracks down his ex-wife Patricia in some Amazonian backwater. He needs her consent to a divorce so that he can marry Charlotte. Unfortunately, he discovers a son he didn’t know he had – Mimi-Siku. The young jungle boy yearns to see Paris so Stephen reluctantly agrees to take him back home with him for a few days. How will Mimi-Siku react to life in the great metropolis?
ハイテクと変装を駆使する怪盗セイント。そんな彼に、低温核融合の方程式を女性科学者から奪うよう依頼がある。彼女に近づくセイントだったが……。1960年代に放映されたアメリカのTVドラマの映画化。
On his 50th birthday, a man who's been watching his weight, health and temper all his life suffers a heart attack. He's been doing everything he was told he should do and it still didn't help. He decides to turn the page and let loose.
結婚17年目にして破局が訪れた夫婦。夫に我慢できずに離婚しようとする妻と、それを拒否し妻へいやがらせをする夫の闘いの行方は!? 離婚戦争をコミカル&ハイ・テンションに描いたブラック・コメディ。
A second-class horror movie has to be shown at Cannes Film Festival, but, before each screening, the projectionist is killed by a mysterious fellow, with hammer and sickle, just as it happens in the film to be shown.
1890年代のニューヨーク。大学教授のアレクサンダーは、ある日、婚約者のエマを暴漢に殺されてしまう。現実をどうしても受け入れられないアレクサンダーは過去に遡ってエマを救い出したいとの一念で、ついにタイムマシンを発明してしまうのだった。しかし、エマの死んだ日に戻ったアレクサンダーはそこで、エマの運命そのものはどうやっても変えようがないことを知る。諦めきれないアレクサンダーはその理由を解き明かすため、今度は一転、未来へ向け時間移動し2030年の世界へと降り立つのだったが……。