Gérard Jugnot

Set in 1948, a professor of music, Clement Mathieu, becomes the supervisor at a boarding school for the rehabilitation for minors. What he discovers disconcerts him -- the current situation is repressive. Through the power of song, Clement tries to transform the students. (imdb)

France, 1965 - An aging mamma's boy becomes the replacement leader of a rowdy group of teenage boy scouts who make his life miserable. (imdb)

Yvon Rance, a born hairdresser and an elegant middle-aged man with a perfect toupee reigns in his native Brittany over a clientele of little old ladies (imdb)

Félix, disguised as Father Christmas, hands out leaflets advertising a sexy Christmas party. His place is taken by an African Santa Claus and he returns to his caravan only to find his girlfriend Josette about to leave him. When he comes after her, she takes refuge at "SOS Distress", run by two neurotics, Thérèse and Pierre. (imdb)

Paris, 1942. Robert Klein cannot find any fault with the state of affairs in German-occupied France. He has a well-furnished flat, a mistress, and business is booming. Jews facing discrimination because of laws edicted by the French government are desperate to sell valuable works of art - and it is easy for him to get them at bargain prices... (imdb)

A 2005 remake of the classic 1932 Renoir film "Boudu Saved from Drowning".

Son grows up with father, leaves to go to big city in 1979. Father follows and tries to survive as a vampire in a modern world. Son finds girl, decides not to be a vampire anymore. Great ending! (imdb)

In 1942, in an occupied Paris, the grocer Edmond Batignole lives with his wife and daughter in a small apartment. When his future son-in-law and collaborator of the German calls the Nazis to arrest the Jewish Bernstein family, they move to the confiscated apartment. Some days later, the young Simon Bernstein escapes and comes to his former home. Batignole finds him, feels sorry for the boy and lodges him, hiding Simon from Pierre-Jean and also from his wife.

Holidaymakers arriving in a Club Med camp on the Ivory Coast are determined to forget their everyday problems and emotional disappointments. Games, competitions, outings, bathing and sunburn accompany a continual succession of casual affairs. (imdb)

Michel Mortez is going to France to compere a radio game he created 25 years ago.He is famous among the average Frenchmen. But he is also a poker. Rivetot, his assistant and technician, always goes with him. He is the only one to know what really lies under Mortez's appearance of playful don Juan.When the programme is condemned by the managers, Rivetot delays as long as possible the moment he will have to announce it to Mortez...Both malicious and tender, this bitter comedy also shows nostalgia. (imdb)

It is 1936. Léon Blum is in power, the Socialist Party is active, workers are striking and the weight of the Great Depression is beginning to be felt. When the owner of the local theatre falls behind on a debt, proprietorship passes to the local mob boss. For Pigoil (Gérard Jugnot), a stagehand, this is bad news. His wife has just left him, taking their adorable son Jojo (Maxence Perrin), so when the gangster closes the failing theatre, Pigoil finds himself alone and unemployed... (www.movie-list.com)

France, 1893. Joseph Bouvier, a former Sergeant in the French military, shoots his beloved and attempts to kill himself. Having survived with two bullets in his brain, he is released from the Dole medical facility. Then begins a five-year period of wandering on the roads of the South East of France, during which Bouvier rapes and eventually kills two dozen defenseless shepherds and farm servants of both sexes. (imdb)

Two middle-aged victims of the war of the sexes, Paul and Albert (Jean-Pierre Marielle and Jean Rochefort) run away from their families at the same time. They indulge themselves by eating what they want to, when and where it pleases them. Trouble finds them in the form of their abandoned wives, and the film moves very much into the realm of symbolic and sexual fantasy from this point onward. (Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide)

Sequel to Les Bronzés (French Fried Vacation). A group of friends who met in a Club Med for single people reunite to go ski together. (imdb)

After getting screwed over by life (again), two losers decide that enough is enough. Using stolen ski masks and stolen toy guns, they take hostages in their local bank, holding them for ransom. Things go well until the hostages learn what's going on, and demand a piece of the action for themselves. (imdb)

Maxime and Gerard are a couple of white-collar criminals condemned to 5 years in prison. Sandrine Athan, an honest and principled young police officer, is assigned the banal task of escorting them to the nearest prison in Melun. Things get complicated when killers try to knock them off. Meanwhile, they must contend with strikes which have paralyzed the country and make travelling a nightmare. Added to this mess are the prisoners' many botch escape attempts... (imdb)

Pierre Richard stars as Gregorie, a down-and-out actor anxious to find a job. He wanders into the office of a talent agent and signs a contract to work in a mega-buck action thriller, or so he thinks. In fact, he has actually signed a contract as a hitman with a mafioso that he mistook for a talent agent. The misunderstandings and close calls start flying right and left as Gregorie and the gangsters head for a wild finale at a St. Tropez hotel. (allmovie.com)

A touching portrait of modern life, whether showing the human dimension of large issues, or deftly detailing the intimate reverberations of a casual love affair. (imdb)

Inspired to a true story, on November 5th 1991, Rita Atria a young 17-year-old Sicilian girl, goes to see an anti-Mafia judge Paolo Borsellino to denounce the Mafia system that was responsible for the murder of her father and her brother. It is the first time that such a young woman from a Mafia family rebels and betrays the Mafia. From that moment on, Rita's days are numbered. She only has nine months to live...

This comedy follows the misadventures of a group of military goofballs who nonetheless manage to help the Resistance following the brief French war effort against the Nazis. They inadvertently stumble on a Resistance operation while out hunting and are forced to get involved.

While hiding from the royal authorities, Jacomo Casanova, the famous romancer, encounters his look-alike: Jacomino, a fugitive petty con man. Meanwhile, the Arabian Caliph and his wife are arriving in Venice for a state visit, and she insists on a night with the legendary lover. Through a series of erotic encounters and mistaken-identity comedies, Jacomo and Jacomino make their way back to Venice for their appointment with the Caliph's wife. (imdb)

Max and Riton, two lousy thugs, acting under the direction of Fano. After a missed break, he dismisses them before offering them to remember the biggest coup of the century : to steal funds from the pension fund of SNCF stored in a safe in the Gare de l'Est. To steal money, they imagine opening the chest through the toilets of the station. Thus, under various disguises, they manage to win the booty at the same time as full of surprises will arise during their long and audacious operation ... (Wikipédia)

In this satire, Coluche plays an inept king of France who is continually in danger of overthrow or murder by his scheming court and is kept on the throne by the efforts of his Musketeers, who also serve by wringing extra taxes out of the already hard-pressed population. (Allmovie)

Gaspard lives in Paris and has an ex-wife and a career as a well-respected novelist. However, he is thoroughly bored with his life and is also short of funds for paying alimony. He decides to go to Brittany to visit his goofy brother and renew his ongoing affair with his brother's wife. Paul is equally at loggerheads with his life as a schoolteacher and is tired of forever adoring his wife and getting a cool response from her in return. On a whim, the two men decide to change places. (Allmovie)

A chauffeur for a corrupt CEO, and a few hours later, his boss himself, are killed by the industrialist's associate. But their ghosts remain on Earth, and they try to tell the millionaire's teenage son the identity of the killer. (imdb)

Two frowsty middle-aged men, cousins, live and work together. In this ironic satire/drama, they are cowardly, tricky and mean-spirited, but at least they have each other. When they take to testing the alarm system of the bank that they work in after what is for them a particularly scary moment, their boss sends them away on a holiday. They manage to pick up and seduce a pretty hitchhiker before discovering that she is a runaway minor with a reward pending for her return. (Allmovie)

In 1940, at the start of Nazi occupation of France, the Bourdelles, a family of musicians, refuse to perform in public until after their country has been liberated. Three years later, their Paris mansion is requisitioned by German soldiers and they are forced to live in the cellar. Whilst the General Spontz makes overtures with her daughter, Héléna Bourdelle, an ageing opera singer and her father, Papy, get caught up in resistance activity. (Allmovie)

Following a car chase and shootout, a man stumbles into a girl's apartment and dies. Frantic to be rid of this encumbrance, and wishing to avoid getting involved with the police, the girl finds a willing lad in a bar who will help her with her predicament. He loads the body into the back of his father's car. Before he can find a place to dump the body, his father takes off in it to see his mistress. (Allmovie)

The characters from the first two films get together again, 27 years on. Bernard and Nathalie Morin, are the parents of a son who reveals a homosexual liaison; J.C. and Gigi are living together; Jérome Tarayre is divorced and seems unhappy in his new life; Christiane Weissmuller has joined an esoteric sect and wants revenge on Jérome who messed up an operation he performed on her; Popeye has become the proprietor of the hotel where the group has re-assembled, and is as unfaithful as ever. (Wikipedia)

Michel (Gérard Jugnot) has worked for years as an executive at a company that sells mattresses. He lives quietly in the suburbs with his wife (Victoria Abril) and their children. One day everything changes when Michel is fired and his secure lifestyle rapidly deteriorates.

Ferdinand (Gérard Jugnot), a long-term unemployed man living in a slum in the suburbs of Paris, accidentally meets Bonnie (Anemone) on the road.

An advertising photographer (Francois) has agreed to sell the poetic script of one of his friends to a porn-maker without his knowledge. But Christine, Francois' fiance, doesn't want him to do so, especially when the naive friend has succeeded in recruiting the young daughter of his employer to play in (he thinks) a love movie. (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)

Paris, 1830. Valentin loses himself in alcohol, gambling and women. He does not believe in life and especially not in love. His uncle Van Buck believes only in the virtues of money and trade. Everything separates them until the day when Van Buck, to improve his public image, wants to make Valentin marry the young and impoverished Baroness Cécile. (imdb)

Gilbert is employed as the incinerator of used tickets at the Bank of France. Serge, his childhood friend, comes from a long stay in Australia. With Mark, the brother of Gisèle (Gilbert's wife), they will try to get help from Gilbert to steal the tickets intended for destruction in order to repay their creditors, manipulating Gilbert.

Paul Martin and François Leroux are brothers-in-law, friends, room-mates and gagmen without fame. But one day, one of the most famous television comics, Gaëtan, who has just laid off two his gagmen considered too old and not original enough, finds himself in the little theater where Paul and François where they produce themselves under the name of "Gagsters". (Wikipedia)

All five stories in this anthology comedy are tied together by their theme: they concern the encounters of a youthful psychiatrist (Thierry Lhermitte) with his patients, or with people so crazy they ought to be his patients. Each one is filmed by a different director. (Allmovie)

Dracula Junior is annoyed. Only a woman like his mother may seize the elixir giving it its powers. He throws the detective Gaston Lepope looking for him. After some searching, he finally finds one he sought. She is working on a market with Phil, Jean and Gérard. (cinema-francais.fr)

At the end of the fifteenth century, the armies of King Charles VIII go through Italy to conquer the Kingdom of Naples. One of the French captains, Bellabre defeated and ridiculed in a parade tournament by a young unknown, Pierre Terrail de Bayard, takes under his control, to take revenge by making him know the harsh reality of war. (Wikipedia)

Adrien Blausac comes out of prison, where he has just served an eight-year sentence. But he has the unpleasant surprise of discovering that his wife, Theresa, has made a life with Roger, a bus driver at the RATP, while his daughter, Odile, spends his time in the nightclubs and that his son, Gilles, steals mopeds.

Adventures of Sheherazade through the legends of the 1001 nights. She meets all the great heroes and kings, and is helped on her journey by a Genie who's living in 1990 London and uses his TV to reach Sheherazade. (imdb)

Married to Jeremie, Marie wants desperately to have a child. She has a 20 year old daughter from a former marriage with the police commissioner. When the gynecologist confirms they are unable to conceive a child together, they opt for adoption. However, it is a very lengthy and difficult process. When her daughter meets Joanna, a pregnant teenager willing to give up her child for adoption, Marie is thrilled. And so Joanna moves in... (imdb)

Paris 1577 - King Henri III gives famous couturier Pic Saint Loup a crucial diplomatic mission. He must go to Spain to make a magnificent gown for the wedding of the King's nephew to the daughter of a Spanish noble. The trouble is that the real creative brains behind Saint Loup's outfit is his Moorish assistant, while his perfumer is a Marano Jew and his hairdresser is out, loud and very proud. (imdb)

Film of Jacques Doillon, who entrusts a sequence on Nigeria to Jean Rouch and one on New York to Alain Resnais. The film has one complete duration of 87 minutes; script by Gébé with Gerard Depardieu, Josiane Balasko, Jacques Higelin and the team of Splendid. Originally a comic strip published in Charlie-monthly magazine, this film is an ecological and "tiers-mondiste" utopia . (KG)

When his mother (70 years) tells him she wants a divorce, Thierry is bewildered, he is doing everything to dissuade her. One night, while his father is sleeping, he surprises doing his bags. At the end of arguments, he then dangled him the possibility of a trip. And the next day, the Range Rover line on the motorway towards Rome to see the Pope! The mother has never traveled in his life! So for this septuagenarian kid, everything has the taste of surprise. (Wikipedia)

The son of a director of a matrimonial agency, Paul, a modest accountant, falls in love with Barbara, a journalist who must marry an owner of an animal reserve. When Paul discovers that the two previous women died in strange conditions, he decides to do everything possible to protect Barbara from a possible threat ...

Tired of having to work hard for a hypothetical retirement, a couple suddenly ends their professional activities. The two young people decide to make a breakaway to make money without effort ...

Investment bank manager FRANK BERNDSSEN (c. 40), based in Berlin, believes life to be just a matter of careful advance planning. Currently, he works for a Swiss investor group keen on taking over the French nation-wide meat production chain of Charcuteries Albert. If everything turns out well, Frank's bank will earn billions, and he'll be promoted to a director's post. He just needs the French side to agree to his plan, which is why he's on his way to Paris. (imdb)

Serge Renart, a french TV journalist, and Natacha, a war reporter, find themselves investigating on a case that will take them to Thailand.

The main story revolves around a trio of cops coming from the minority living in France (1 African Arab, 1 black African and 1 Asian) who are assigned the task to find a serial killer, who kills and rapes women in the french town Villeneuve. Their investigation leads to many comical and absurd situations, which are used to complete the main plot of the movie. (imdb)

At age 17, Eglantine is troubled by a number of things. Her argumentative parents comprise an absentee and philandering father and an overprotective, occasionally alcoholic mother. Her boyfriend Sébastien is a couple of years older; he's ready, but she isn't. Frequent furtive visits to her therapist help her to see that these issues are not 'problems', but 'difficulties', which she has the strength to overcome (imdb.com).

Nicky Larson, the best private investigator in the business, is called for a high-risk mission: to recover the perfume of Cupid, a perfume that would make irresistible the one who uses it. (imdb)

In the 19th century Pyrénées, a stagecoach stops for the night at an isolated inn run by a couple of murderous thieves. The husband wants to kill and rob them all, but one of them is a priest whom the wife refuses to see harmed. (imdb)

This year, Patrick decided to test carpooling - Thinking of crossing France with Vanessa, he finds himself with three young dijonnais: Robert the charmer, Benji the beautiful kid and José the big mouth. Obviously, after the car-sharing, Patrick is forced to test the co-sleeping.

New back to school for Ducobu student. But this year, a major rival for Ducobu arrives at school: "TGV", the king of cheating. The two dunces will have to unite their creativity to win a song contest and save their school. (imdb)

France mobilizes to gain the release of two kidnapped journalists in Iraq, but only the victims know the crime has been faked.

A millionaire wants to help his spoiled children be better people, so he tricks them and pretends that the family lost the fortune on which the entitled young people had relied.

Twin brothers born under X are separated at birth. They suddenly discover each other's existence. For Grégoire and Anthony, now in their thirties, the surprise is all the greater because one is white, the other is black! There was a one in a million chance that this rare genetic phenomenon would occur. But as a result of their radically different life paths, neither of them really feels that they have hit the jackpot by meeting the other...

Greg's life had been pretty quiet after the agency closed, until he decides to propose to Flo and has to introduce her to his crooked father and ex-actress mother. With no choice but to reopen the agency and find fake parents. (imdb)