Daniel Prévost

Each week, Pierre and his friends organize what is called as "un dîner de cons". Everyone brings the dumbest guy he could find as a guest. Pierre thinks his champ -François Pignon- will steal the show. (imdb)

The well-known little village from the Asterix and Obelix-comic books is in trouble: It is the last place not controlled by Rome... (imdb)

In the 1980 French countryside, farmer Jojo and his ill-tempered wife Lulu hate each other, though their respective interests speak against divorce. The only thing that keeps the oppressed Jojo from murder is the threat of the guillotine... (imdb)

Colonel Chabert (Gerard Depardieu) has been severely wounded in the French-Russian Napoleonic war to the point that the medical examiner has signed his death certificate. When he regains his health and memory, he goes back to Paris, where his "widow", Anne (Fanny Ardant) has married the Count Ferraud (Andre Dussollier) and is financing his rise to power using Chabert's money... (imdb)

Eddie, Dov, Yvan, Patrick and Serge are all friends and associates working in Paris' Le Sentier garment district. When their small shops become threatened by internet entrepreneurs and department store discounters, the clothing compatriots must fend off bankruptcy and keep their businesses afloat. To this end, Eddie and Yvan attempt to bargain with the enemy- chain store manager Vierhouten... (Yahoo! Movies)

A musical drawing room farce set in Paris in October, 1925. Gilberte, in middle-age, flirts with men but loves her husband Georges, wishing he were more demonstrative. He's negotiating a deal with an American, Eric Thomson, who turns out to be Gilberte's first husband from an annulled and secret stateside marriage. Along with her sister Arlette, Gilberte begs Eric not to tell Georges about the marriage...(imdb)

Young Bastien is very pleased when his hugely successful TV producer boss Jean-Louis Broustal begins to recognize him for his talents and then invites him to his country house for the weekend to work on a new show. But gradually it becomes clear that no work is going to be done. In fact, Broustal and his much younger pretty wife seem to want Bastien for something very different than for his television talents. But can he accept their offer? Can he afford not to? (imdb)

A mid-age high class teacher's life breaks down on his birthday, when the family finds out about a secret affair, and to be closer to his children he moves to Paris. He moves in to a trash-neighbourhood at the over-wild and rough high school he starts to work in. (imdb)

Hugo and Gigi, a couple of star actors, have been separated for a while, and their public has started to forget them. A producer tries to get their careers going again by uniting them in a play, but the aggression between the two is almost too much for the company to stand. (imdb)

Nicolas leads a peaceful existence. His parents love him, he's got a gang of great friends with whom he has a lot of fun, and he has no desire that anything should change... But one day, Nicolas overhears a conversation between his parents that leads him to believe that his mother is pregnant. He panics and imagines the worst: soon a little brother will be there who will take up so much space that his parents will no longer have time to take care of him. (unifrance.org)

Fearless gunslinger, Lucky Luke, is ordered by the President to bring peace to Daisy Town. (imdb)

Jean Yanne directs and stars in this French comedy. He plays a radio reporter who is fired when he recounts on the air just how his brave colleagues report on Latin American revolutions: from a lounge chair next to the pool of a luxury hotel, or from cabanas along the beach. He is briefly hired back to run the station but gets fired yet again when he airs an exposé of phony name-brand products. (Allmovie)

Rosemunde earns her living selling relics to the Catholic church. She manufactures them using a specialized machine made by her grandfather, which transforms corpses into bone. Needless to say, since she must have dead bodies in order to do this, the police take an interest in her affairs. In order to fend off their inquiries, she concocts a scheme using a hippyish Jesus-cultist, who is a dead-ringer for conventional notions of how Jesus looked. (Allmovie)

Antoine (Jean Carmet) is a crybaby. This is an asset in his trade (sales representative for drinks) and for seducing women. Thus he becomes, through a rich nymphomaniac, director of a luxury hotel.

After World War II, a small French village struggles to put the war behind as the controlling Communist Party tries to flush out Petain loyalists. The local bar owner, a simple man who likes to write poetry, who only wants to be left alone to do his job, becomes a target for Communist harassment as they try and locate a particular loyalist, and he pushes back. (imdb)

Come to the Village of the Dogs, it's easy to find. Just follow the avenue of crutches and the prosthetic legs hanging from the trees. It's where the Virgin Mary keeps appearing in the sky. And the local Marquis' hobby is burying people alive, sometimes rescued by Ellic. Sometimes not! (imdb)

The day he is released from jail, Serge is expected by four killers sent by Count Charles Varèse assigned to make him confess where he has hidden the jewels stolen during his last stickup. On the other hand the police inspector who arrested him offers him protection on condition he gives him the same piece of information. Serge refuses and is about to be tortured by Varèse's henchmen when Michel, a friendly hood, comes to his rescue. His friendship will result in... a heap of corpses! (imdb)

A curator terrified of green plants, a ballet of Virgin Saints, a minister of Culture lost in an exhibition of sex organs, a car that has disappeared in the Rembrandt car park, visitors in love with the Impressionists, Gilbert and George, Picasso, Gauguin and Warhol - all are connected with an art museum. (imdb)

There are exactly 11 different slices of life in this comedic look primarily at the French and their mores. (Allrovi)

Sophie, Viscountess of Valrude, thinks herself a widow since her husband disappeared in the Amazon. Bertrand, a real estate developer who now shares her life, invites the Minister of the Quality of Culture, whom he intends to use to address his flailing business. Thus the minister finds himself in the castle with his secretary and mistress...

After an unfortunate initiative the financial advisor Benoît Lepape is dismissed. He convinces his uncle, a union activist, to invest funds of the union and apply capitalist methods in a successful bicycle business, and then in a model electronics factory.

Overnight, Paris is invaded - although peacefully - but the Chinese Army, and millions of Chinese people... It's the Nazi occupation all over again, with modern - funny - twists. (imdb)

In April 1789, the commander of the faithful left Baghdad for Paris to acquire the salon equipment executioner (the Sicob) an infallible guillotine, because the pal no distracted him. Presentation follows a parody of the Revolution which will see Louis XVI to escape to get not to Varennes but in Baghdad . (Wikipedia)

Mr. Luke, the man of all bankruptcies must restore the dilapidated castle Montverdier. One solution: the relay into luxury tourism, Room Service. Funds miss him, when he learns that Fernand, the baker, just won 5 billion of cents at Loto. (Allocine)

Pierre Gastié-Leroy (Pierre Richard) is the son of a wealthy director of a factory of weapon manufacturing (Bernard Blier). Despite his parents, two generous uncles and a bishop godfather who try to inculcate him the rigid values of his social level, Pierre is a dreamer, antimilitaristic, social educator who dreams of saving three thugs, his "little guys" at the limit of delinquency. (Wikipedia)

Professor Landowski, Nobel Prize in Physics, accept the difficult task of giving his sperm to put to the test the new formula of artificial insemination of Professor Menzano. Nine months later, the fruit of his research is born: this is a charming toddler, an instant after childbirth starts talking ... (Allocine)

On a mission to loosen up, a miser's sets about buying a house in the country for his family. (imdb)

An old widower with a quiet and pleasant daily routine rediscovers the thrills of sentimental adventures. (imdb)

During World Business Forum,some influential guests have assembled at Hotel Charles VII including governor of Iowa's wife and her former husband who is waiting outside the hotel. (imdb)

Michel is happy with his wife and two children. They live in the suburbs of Maule. A promotion in his work obliges him to pass the driving license and to live alone in Paris. He tricks his wife and becomes a lover as expert as an awkward driver ...

In 1968, in a small village in the south of France, while the rest of the country lives in the insurgency fever and looking for a few liters of petrol, life flows peacefully. But the peace and happiness of all are challenged to the announcement of the transfer of the brigade in a less secluded place. (Allociné)

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. (imdb)

Sibylle, a young Parisian with long teeth, intends to shine in her new job by buying a hardware store in the Basque Country to establish a supermarket. She thinks she has "rolled" the old owner but he is under curatorship. Sibylle must do business with Ramon, the nephew, to get his money back or sign up as soon as possible. Otherwise, it is the ejection seat insured. She will quickly realize that the basques do not intend to let a Parisian make it, as pretty as it is. (imdb)

When Claire comes home to her dad Albert, living with his friend Gedeon, the house gets explosive. The three will see the past coming back when a cop investigates around the house.

This is at once very French and very anti-French. It is, more or less, the French post 1968 counter-culture making fun of (and hating) the old French values.

To avoid going to prison, Milann, 30, is forced to do 300 hours of community service in a retirement home, Les Mimosas. His first few weeks are a living hell! But he is quickly adopted by the pensioners, and in particular by a group of 7 inseparable friends who, each in their own way, teach him their vision of life. As the weeks go by, Milann discovers that the establishment is taking advantage of its residents' vulnerability to rip them off.

When the Lino Vartan home - which takes in young orphans and senior citizens - has to close for health reasons, Milann has no choice but to accept an invitation from an old people's home in the south of France that is hosting them for the summer. Everyone boards Alban's bus. The children and elders discover the Bel Azur Club, an idyllic villa by the sea: a dream come true! A godsend for these orphaned kids who have never had a holiday...

Romain, agent immobilier, se voit menacé de saisie par maître Grimbert, un huissier de justice plus que coriace. Il prend conscience de la nécessité de connaître les articles de la loi qui lui permettront de contrecarrer les offensives de Grimbert. La situation va s'aggraver lorsque les huissiers s'apprêtent à saisir la maison de la grand-mère de Romain, Symbole même de l'attachement des habitants à leur quartier.