Self
Self (archive footage)
Mr. Mellifond
Jules
Alfred lives with his mother in a small village keeping chickens and selling eggs at the local market. He doesn't speak, except to his mother and to children. He has a girlfriend of sorts, although she shies away from any physical contact with her. But more than anything, Alfred wants a child. As natural fatherhood is out of the question he takes the next best option, and makes an application to adopt. With a very un-French lack of bureaucracy Alfred's adoptive son arrives, but turns out not to be the bouncing baby he was hoping for. [taken from London Film Festival 2006 catalogue]
Léo
Le Cou de la girafe (The Giraffe's Neck) is a 2004 French/Belgian film directed by Safy Nebbou.
Diane, a young woman in search of a child, is looking for money to go to the sperm bank. She crosses paths with Arthur, a bank robber.
Madame Foin
Главная героиня дважды вышла замуж — в США и во Франции, оба ее мужа об этом, само собой, не знают, но однажды встречаются и становятся друзьями.
Falco
В море моряки мечтают о земле, оказавшись на суше, стремятся снова в море. Но нет ничего хуже для них, чем оказаться между морем и сушей на поставленном на прикол брошенном судне, несколько месяцев торговый корабль «Альдебаран» стоит чужом порту. У оставшихся на нем моряков нет ни средств, ни возможности уехать. Им остаются только скромные развлечения последние деньги в портовых кабачках в обществе девиц легкого поведения. У троих мужчин, волею судьбы оказавшихся одной палубе, совершенно различные взгляды на жизнь, на дружбу, на любовь.
Monsieur Sylvain
Between Alice, a hospital nurse and Aldo, a shampoo sales representative, things have turned sour of late. Alice blames her husband for lacking ambition and contemplates divorce.One day Aldo wins the ten million euro lotto prize. But, unwilling to share the bonanza, he keeps mum about it, all the more as he finds out Alice has an affair with Gérard, Aldo's former friend and ... new boss. However, Aldo, leading a double life, starts spending his money ...
Jeff
A young man, to whom life has never smiled, decides to change his destiny and begins by conquering the pretty woman with whom he fell in love.
Humphries
When their behavior and brushes with the law drive their mother to abandon them, Jonathan and Vivi hire a private detective to find her.
Segment "La Purée"
René
The solitary and largely self-contained Augustin (Jean-Chretien Sibertin Blanc), on obscure young actor of bit-parts and advertisements, has but one ambition - to play the lead role in a Kung Fu epic. But hours of Kung Fu practice alone in his room are not enough. Augustin knows he must pack up and start a new life in China... or at least that part of China within bicycling distance: Chinatown in south-east Paris. There he meets Ling (Maggie Cheung), a young Chinese woman who practices ocupuncture, and little by little, Ling's needles awaken emotions in Augustin that his virginal body had never dreamed of. Where will this lead him? To Kung Fu stardom, maybe not, but to another destiny, a quirky but logical continuation of the same dream.
Georges Morin
After the death of his controlling wife, a retiree decides to take the trip of his dreams to Tahiti, in French Polynesia. All he needs is the money. Poker and the strange complicity of a talking cat will be his best assets to raise funds.
le patient
Pierre Richard directed, co-scripted and stars in this French comedy. Former top film comedian Romain (Richard) is on a downward spiral -- rehearsing a play directed by his sister while also dealing with his wife, mistress, taxes, low self-esteem, demands for attention from his two children, and a private detective attempting to snap incriminating photos. Producer Jean-Louis Levi appears in a cameo as a poverty-stricken bum.
Stéphane Lasser
Joanna Martin, a mid-life journalist, is investigating a marriage agency organizing white marriages. She uses her sister's identity to infiltrate.
Le bouquiniste / Bookseller
Экранизация романа В.Гюго (1862 года), действие которого перенесено авторами в первую половину двадцатого столетия. Лента начинается с момента самоубийства графа де Вильнева сразу после новогоднего бала, открывающего новое столетие. Арестован подозреваемый в его убийстве личный шофер Анри Фортэн (Жан-Поль Бельмондо). Пока супруг сидит в тюрьме, тщетно дожидаясь правосудия, его жена Кэтрин вынуждена податься в проститутки, а затем накладывает на себя руки. Сын Роджер, тем временем, становится известным боксером. Затем события переносят нас в начало 30-х годов, где в центре внимания оказываются Роджер (Жан-Поль Бельмондо), танцовщица Элиза, спасающаяся от преследования нацистов и студент-юрист Зиман.
Emilio Bingo, l'empailleur
A man comes to a small town in France and witness the apparent murder of a woman pharmacist. He teams up with the victim's vulgar assistant to try to solve the mystery.
Colin
Kayser
The leader of a nudist colony enlists the help of left-wing militant when he mistakenly believes he should receive the Legion of Honor.
Daniel D.
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.
Général Burnous
Rouget de l'Isle
A parody of the French Revolution, on Arabian Nights background. Bagdad Calif is in Paris in 1789, where he decides to visit the Executionner equipment exhibition.
L'agent de police
Marc Elbichon, a novice private sleuth, is investigating a wave of assassinations bearing a particular characteristic: the perpetrator, dubbed the "telephone killer" always strangles his female victims with a telephone cord.
Tête-de-Fer, le pirate
Maximin, priest in a little village in the South-West of France, inherits from his brother a brothel in Thailand, although he's always been told it was a very strict catholic school. The journey to Asia is full of surprises (a plane hi-jack, pirates...) and once in Thailand, Maximin is taken into 'political' turmoils.
Le Juge d'Instruction
Following a commonplace car accident, Antoine Malibran became involved in the armed robbery of the bank of the Seine.
Jack Renard, the Mayor
A macho junk shopkeeper, a lunar lawyer and a storekeeper meet by pure chance and develop the century's hold-up.
Faucuius
Цезарь помпезно готовится принять Клеопатру, в то время как жители его страны находятся на грани полной нищеты.
Le journaliste
The owner of a casino and the owner of a luxury hotel in Deauville are eternal rivals.
Julien's father
le prof de maths
Le colonel Boussardon
As soon as they arrive at the barracks, the new contingent reveals some characters who will give their officers a hard time. There is the handsome, resourceful man, the technocrat in love, the bootlicker, the "Jamaican" who only moves to music, the shortsighted man... and all the others. Sometimes to see the nurse undress, sometimes to arrange an appointment with a fiancée, sometimes to cuckold the obtuse non-commissioned officer whose wife is volcanic, sometimes to have a free lunch in a great restaurant, the handsome man invariably deploys a wealth of cunning. And each time it is the colonel's servile driver who gets caught instead of him.
Pépé
Père Blanc
A comedy directed by Jacques Besnard.
Colonel Lessard
Застряв на военных учениях в Германии, четверо друзей придумывают новые способы заполучить девушек и находят проблемы со своим полковником...
Le curé
In 1944, a retired German detachment found itself stranded in a French town. The inhabitants try to live in good harmony with the occupants. But one day kids, playing with a grenade, accidentally cause the death of an SS lieutenant.
Lucifer
Le livreur
When Charles Le Braque learns that his boss' 17 years old daughter is pregnant, he fears that his 16 years old nice Joel from France, who's spending her vacation with them in Canada, might fall into the same trap. So he and his wife decide to give her the lecture of plants and bees... but it turns out that she's already well informed, gives them a lecture about simultaneous orgasms. She inspires the sexually repressed couple to start experimenting with "modern" forms of sex.
Gaston
Two unemployed actors accept what they believe to be an acting job from a wealthy man without realizing that he needs two real private detectives.
le patron de l'Arquebuse
Jacques and Jean-Claude, unemployed actors, start experimenting with various creative petty scams to get by. More and more daring, with the help of Anne, a charming young girl, they blackmail the rich and influential in a different way.
Maj. Archibald
Финансовая элита молодой Америки решает одним махом покончить с индейцами. Те, по их мнению, существенно тормозят развитие американской экономики. Они подкупают генерала армии, и тот призывает знаменитого полковника Кастера, самодовольного фанатика-расиста, возглавить победоносную кампанию против коренного населения...
L'apothicaire
le commissaire Adrien Bondu
Rosemonde, hailed as "the Princess" reign over a slum in the Paris suburbs. Herbert, a reporter who came to investigate on the pollution, ends up in a grinding machine of her invention. Rosemonde resells the bones to the church authorities who use them as holy relics. Inspector Adrian Bondu is handling the case... But a young hippie who looks like Jesus will have Rosemonde suddenly feel very earthly feelings...
William Wilson
Albert Pelletier
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.
Le Docteur Braque
Perrugo
Monsieur Gentil runs a perfume factory. He is a shy man, bullied by Madame Marthe, the manager, and spurned by Cléo, the young travel agent he is in love with. He 'd rather be a tough guy than a wet blanket and his meeting with Durante, a gangster, will be decisive. Considering him a providential piggy bank, Durante, following the advice of his boss Spinosa, entrusts the" education" of Gentil to two experts, Perrugo and Bersone.
Didier
Harry
Compositors
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 ...
Albert Pelletier
Генеральный директор хочет завоевать американский рынок, пытаясь продать свою продукцию янки. Один из возможных компаньонов должен приехать во Францию для заключения сделки. Этот человек - пуританин, считающий, что французский образ жизни противоречит общепринятым нормам морали. К несчастью, шеф просит своего коммерческого директора мистера Пеллетье поселить американца в своем доме, где любимое занятие его зятя - флирт с красивыми женщинами, жена хозяина - женщина очень свободных нравов, служанка - маоистка, а дочь не прочь выпить и носит соблазнительные мини-юбки...
Marquy
Люсьен Пелепан, бизнесмен из Тулузы, должен доставить парижскому нотариусу десять миллионов франков. Казалось бы простое дело оборачивается полной катастрофой; путешествие таило в себе множество сюрпризов.
Léo
French comedy
Cassius 0001
Biscoton
Молодой скучающий богач Артур получил от жизни всё, что мог, и потерял к ней интерес. Поэтому он смело играет со смертью, провоцируя опасные для жизни ситуации, но все его попытки расстаться с жизнью оказываются неудачными.
L'agent André
An illegal gambling den where players can lose millions... and the owners make their fortune.
Le frère de la fiancée (segment 3 "La répétition")
Un invité
César Brandini
Edouard
A confused pair of airport luggage carriers get involved in the disappearance of some suitcases.
Director
Henri
Gratiopoulos
Жо и Ритон по кличке Чирик выходят из тюрьмы после нескольких лет заключения. За это время невеста Чирика Роки завела себе нового дружка по имени Жак. Чирик вне себя от злости и мечтает встретиться с Жаком для мужского разговора. У Жо совсем другая мечта - ему очень хотелось бы разбогатеть и жить с размахом, как до тюрьмы. Желая попытать счастья, он просит Чирика поставить для него на тотализаторе на 7, 9, 18. Сделав ставку, Чирик кладет билет в нагрудный карман и вдруг… видит Жака. Начинается погоня. Жак прячется в театре, в котором играет его кузен Жером.
Tom Jackson
I Brutos arrive in the town of Fresno during a gunfight and mistakenly think it is a celebration of their arrival and start shooting their guns and kill all the villains and the town undertaker. They take over the undertaking duties but bury the bodies in an Indian burial ground upsetting the local Indian tribe.
Ludovic Gabasse, le patron de l'agence de roman-photo
Le maître- bourreau Richardic
Отличная французская комедия с Фернанделем. Пародийно-гротескные зарисовки средневековой Франции, в правление короля Дагобера. Сюжет - поездка короля в Реймс, дабы опередить родного брата, претендующего на трон. А брат, соответственно, тоже не дремлет и подсылает, то и дело, разных убийц и отравителей.
Paul, le directeur du Crazy-Horse
Молодая девушка Ариан грезит танцем и мечтает стать прима-балериной шоу-балета, в котором она работает. В тот миг, когда ее меча уже практически осуществилась, судьба наносит девушке пощечину: на ее место берут другую, более известную танцовщицу. В отчаянии наша героиня увольняется из театра и все время проводит в поисках работы. Случайно встреченная старая знакомая предлагает ей устроиться в стриптиз-шоу. Сможет ли Ариан сохранить свое «я» и найти любовь в этом, новом для себя, мире? Мире, в котором все покупается и продается...
Music
Антуан Борпэр, владелец небольшого магазинчика в Лиможе, выиграл большой приз в национальной лотерее 100 миллионов франков. Вместе с женой и дочкой он отправляется за призом в Париж. Получив приз в виде денежной массы, он сложил всё в чемоданчик, с которым нигде не расставался. Но ему постоянно мерещится, что за ним следят, что его хотят ограбить. И он решает поместить своих «птичек» в клетку, в Лиможское отделение банка.
Simon Taquet (« Une nuit avec la vedette »)
Антуан Борпэр, владелец небольшого магазинчика в Лиможе, выиграл большой приз в национальной лотерее 100 миллионов франков. Вместе с женой и дочкой он отправляется за призом в Париж. Получив приз в виде денежной массы, он сложил всё в чемоданчик, с которым нигде не расставался. Но ему постоянно мерещится, что за ним следят, что его хотят ограбить. И он решает поместить своих «птичек» в клетку, в Лиможское отделение банка.
Campo Santos
Félix
le journaliste sportif au parapluie
"Les petits matins" is a story of eighteen-year old Agathe (Agathe Aëms) with a firm independence of men even if she uses them to get to the côte d'azur.
Along the way she meets a lot of people , mostly men. And the director does not spare the sterotypical image of early 60s middle aged male cliches to lampoon.
But this is all very light stuff, nothing too intellectual.
But it's often charming, and there's a bevy of well-known actors involved.
Jean -Claude Brialy (the pompous, self absorbed male lead of Rohmer's "Claire's Knee"), Claude Rich, Lino Ventura, François Perrier, Pierre Brasseur, and the couple Bernard Blier & Arletty, who team up here for the first time since Marcel Carné's "Hôtel du Nord" (1938).
Hubert Parker (segment "Ella")
Четыре новеллы о недостатках, достоинствах и очаровании парижанок разных возрастов и социального положения
Richard, le polytechnicien, amateur de voitures
Решив порвать с мужем, привлекательная провинциалка Альбертина приезжает в Париж. Она хочет развлечься и самоутвердиться в столице. Подруга Сесиль не разделяет энтузиазма Альбертины, но помогает ей устроиться в Париже и войти в светское общество. Альбертина встречается с несколькими мужчинами: своей давней симпатией Ришаром, автором популярных романов Дидье и известным доктором Шаламбером. Пройдя через ряд досадных и любовных приключений, Альбертина разочаровывается в светских львах, возвращается домой и счастливо воссоединяется с ничего не подозревавшим о ее похождениях мужем...
Édouard
Charles Renard
Charles and Jeanne Renard live with their young kids in a dormitory town. Everyday train and metro,work and return by train and metro to the dormitory town (the famous french sentence "Métro,boulot,dodo"). But how fragile is marital bliss ?
Pierre Dubois
The title role in the French comedy-fantasy A Martian in Paris is filled by Darry Cowl. The higher-ups in Mars want to learn all about that strange commodity, peculiar to the planet Earth, known as "Love". Darry soon figures out what makes the world go 'round when he meets the gorgeous Nicole Mirel. A Martian in Paris was obviously inspired by the 1960 American comedy A Visit to a Small Planet, which starred Jerry Lewis. Darry Cowl's imitation of Lewis is passable, but it certainly didn't fool the "Le Roi Crazy Jerry" idolators at Cahiers du Cinema and Positif magazine.
Gimenez
Les amours de Paris focuses on three disparate couples and their problems in the arena of romantic love. One couple is comprised of a faithful husband and a sick wife whose stay in the hospital is not so bad because she has taken a sudden interest in her doctor. In the second pairing, a womanizer comes to see that the model who is in love with him is worth more than yet another conquest. And to complete the trio, two zany people finally realize they are a couple.
Riri and JoJo
Le médecin ('L'enfance')
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.
Edouard
Martin
Antoine Peyralout
A modern re-telling of the Robinson Crusoe story. But, this time, our hero is a macguivering expert. So he creates himself a modern paradise based on his beloved delivery tricycle that we saw in the previous movie"The tricyclist".
Fernand Mouchette
Désiré Labaule
Arsène, un clochard
Ветеран-клошар Архимед уже казалось бы нашел теплое местечко накануне обещающей быть суровой зимы. Однако его изгоняют из строящегося здания, и теперь срочно требуется «запасной аэродром». Таковым могла бы стать… тюремная камера. Но оказывается, что получить «путевку» в нее не так уж и просто. Архимед подходит к этой задаче ответственно и изобретательно, но… безрезультатно. Ни воровство в кафе, ни вмешательство в ход военного парада, ни залихватский скандал в метро не приводят к нужному результату. И тогда Архимед решает отправиться на юг, к Лазурному берегу…
Jérôme
Series of sketches about two stuttering teachers.
Hubert, le Délégué du Gouvernement
A French animal lover protects a dog and a mouse wanted by Soviet scientists for their space program.
Gégène
A young Parisian woman attends a school for coquettes in order to rise in society.
l'inspecteur Jérôme, adjoint de Morel
Если девушка хороша собой, обладает заводным характером и не имеет ни гроша за душой, ей не стоит искать приключений на свою голову. Но героине фильма не сиделось на месте, и теперь она удирает и от бандитов, и от полиции…
Louis Stainval, laveur de voitures, gagnant à la Loterie
Jérôme Lenoir
A crime story writer comes to the French Alps for vacation. However, an envelope given by a strange man, would put him in a conflict between two teams of spies. A young blonde hotel burglar will help him get out of this mess.
Egisto
The fake private detective Mike Spillone is hired by two old ladies to find out if Brigitte, the wife of their nephew Otello Bellomo, has a lover. Brigitte is a physician but the two aunts are unaware of the fact. While investigating, Mike and his assistant Johnny discover Brigitte with a prospective patient, the marquis De Vitti who was shot by the husband of the woman he tried to seduce. Afterwards Spillone finds her with her husband who he believes to be her lover.
Le marchand d'échelles
Antoine Peyralout
Antoine Peyralout is baker Mouillefarine's tricycle delivery man. Comical and stuttering, Antoine shows more interest in the local soccer team than in professional integrity. A wedding cake pays the price for it and the young man is dismissed. Not dispirited in the least, Antoine decides to go to Nice, where his favorite team will play the final of the Cup. On his merry (and eventful) way, he has the opportunity to save a pretty camper, Popeline, with whom he falls in love. Once in Nice, he discovers that Dabek, the brilliant goal-keeper is not up to his task following bad news...
Emile Gachit
Sophie Mallet is the lively manager of a detective agency, assisted by Emile Gachit, her conscientious but not very effective right-hand man. One day a fellow named David entrusts her a pack of cigarettes that she is supposed to hand over to a certain John Smith. But David soon disappears while John Smith is murdered. Moreover, a lot of dubious characters prove "very interested" in the pack of cigarettes... Which will keep Sophie and Emile for some time...!
Paul
Two French advertising agencies vying for a contract with a manufacturer of washers. The manager decides to hire the agency submitting the best advertising campaign. Jean Francois, head of the A.P.N., has the great idea of looking for an authentic Portuguese washerwoman to present the ads. But competition, the O.P.I., led by the attractive Catherine, on a trip to Portugal, check the washer ideal. It is a shy girl who is happy with life in Portugal and refuses to accept the proposals of Catherine. And here intervenes Jean François, who pretends to fall for her to take her to Paris ..
Hubert
Сказка о любви богатого парня и девушки из простой семьи бухгалтера со счастливым концом…
Le détective amateur
Peter Simon, a famous American writer, deserts his girlfriend Eva to live incognito at a small Normandy inn. Eva shams her own murder for revenge. Meanwhile, a young reporter, Françoise, has tracked Peter down. The news of the crime quickly spreads and, believing Peter to be the murderer, the village is in an uproar. Despite misadventures galore, everything turns out right and Peter takes Françoise on their honeymoon.
Pierre Bernicaud
Philémon de Montfilet
Philémon De Montfilet came first in his year in the prestigious engineering school "Poly Art Technique" because of an epidemic which brought all the other examination candidates down.
Henri Valpreux, le réalisateur
Jojo’s ambition is to become a gangster, but to be admitted into a gang he has to prove himself by committing a daring act. To that end, he kills someone in broad daylight, not knowing that his victim is an actor who is playing a scene in a film directed by a cranky film-maker (Darry Cowl). The murder is caught on film, leading Commissaire Bernard (Michel Simon) to think that the killer will be easy to find. Sure enough, Bernard soon makes his arrest, a clown from a circus, but then he faces an almost insurmountable problem. The clown has an identical twin, who is also a clown with the same circus. Both men claim to be innocent…
Pater Noster
Manuel, a landowner in Jamaica, arrives in Paris on vacation. There he meets Olivia, a Spanish popular singer and falls in love. Olivia leaves Paris to play in a casino of the Riviera and Manuel follows her there. Maxime lives in Cannes, uncle of Olivia, a trickster who poses as a magician and has great influence on Annie, an eccentric billionaire. At the same time, Simeon, Annie's secretary tries to bribe the magician to influence Annie to accept to marry him, but as Maxime also wants to marry her, Simeon uses the services of a private detective. Manuel receives a telegram asking him to return to Jamaica. So, Annie proposes them a cruise aboard his yacht and invites Olivia.
Dédé
Jules Henri Lardenois, le témoin égaré
A man becomes the lover of his former persecutor's wife.
Hoyoyo
On Christmas Eve, Françoise, a manicurist at the Paris-Palace-Hotel, is invited to celebrate by Henri Delormel, an attractive fifty-something man. She later meets Gérard driving a Cadillac, and passes herself off as the wealthy Delormel's daughter. For his part, the young garage employee claims to own the vehicle.
Le réceptionniste de l'hôtel Lutécia
Герои фильма — мошенники, пытающиеся получить деньги всеми возможными способами: заключают пари, играют на скачках, обманывают друг друга…
Hubert Dumont
Аньез не только красивая, но и одаренная и, к тому же, написала скандальную книгу. Отец, генерал Дюмон, в ярости. Аньез оказывается в Париже, где совершает опрометчивый поступок: продает чужую редкую книгу. Расплата неизбежна, но… можно принять участие в любительском стриптизе, ведь первый приз составляет немалую сумму.
Un voisin
Georges Pinson, who wants to spend his holidays on the riviera with his wife and his two kids,buys a car.His neighbors and the drivers who overtake him gibe at him.
Man with Suitcase
Nightclub entertainer Jean Clery discovers too late that the 'baby' he agreed to take care of is a wild, shapely sex kitten.
M. Mathieu, le surveillant général
Jules Duraton is the headmaster of Chatelbourg's high school. He is happily married, has a teenage daughter named Solange, and everything would be for the best of all possible worlds if he and his family were not the namesakes of the protagonists of a famous comic series broadcast every day on Radio Monde "La Famille Duraton". Day after day, the real-life Duratons are made fun of because of their surname and Jules just can't take it any more. That is why he decides to sue the radio station responsible for his misfortune.
Daniel, le casseur d'assiettes
A young boarder meets a captain.
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