Jean Carmet

After the death of her little boy, Anita wants to take her own life.

This parody of the detective-story genre merrily detours into spoofing French foibles as well, making it more of an exercise in verbal gymnastics than a narrative with a mission (imdb)

Every holiday Marcel and his family go to their cottage in the Provence (France). He likes the hills in this region. Before they arrive at the cottage they have to walk about 5 miles. With the co-operation of an ex-pupil of Marcels father, who's a teacher, they only have to walk 1 mile, since they can take a shortcut along a canal, through the backyards of some excentric people. During one of these holidays he meets Isabelle, a pretty but conceited girl... (imdb)

Pierre Richard plays Alfred, about whom it may be said, "if it weren't for bad luck, he'd have no luck at all." Unlucky in love, he tries to commit suicide, only to be thwarted by police efforts to prevent a simultaneous attempt by a nearby young woman... (All Movie Guide)

2 buddy farmers are visited by aliens who like their domestic cabbage soup. (imdb)

French colonists in Africa, several months behind in the news, find themselves at war with their German neighbors. Deciding that they must do their proper duty and fight the Germans, they promptly conscript the local native population... (imdb)

Claude Chabrol's Violette was based on the true story of 19-year-old Violette Noziere, who in the 1930s was tried and convicted for the poisoning of her father and the attempted murder of her mother. (All Movie Guide)

Jean Lucas, a former bank robber, is taken hostage by François Pignon, an amateurish and desperate bank robber right after being released from prison. Since Jean realizes no-one will believe he had nothing to do with the robbery, the two of them must flee from the police together.

It's mid 19th century, north of France. The story of a coal miner's town. They are exploited by the mine's owner. One day the decide to go on strike, and then the authorities repress them (imdb)

A fugitive on the run from the law and carrying several million dollars hides out in the house of a farm family. The tables turn when the family turns out to be even more criminally oriented than he is, and begins to terrorize him instead of the other way around. (imdb)

Black comedy about solitude and dishumanization of the modern world, through the adventures of three men. (IMDB)

Charles Masson, an advertising executive, is having an affair with Laura, the wife of his best friend, the architect François Tellier. Charles strangles Laura when one of their S&M games goes too far. Dazed, Charles walks out of the borrowed apartment in Paris and soon bumps into François in a nearby bistro. They drive back together to Versailles, where they have beautiful neighboring houses designed by François. (imdb)

Two factions of the French Secret Service involve a seemingly normal orchestra player, Francois Perrin, into their battle as one side uses him as a decoy. Soon, agents are all over the place, and one of them, Christine, is sent to seduce Francois. Meanwhile, Francois has his own problems, tangled up in an affair with his best friend's wife. (imdb)

Camille, a naive schoolgirl meets an intiguing influence in Joelle, a slightly older and much more experienced spirit. Camille follows her new friend through the discovery of sex and the darker side of life. As the film progresses Camille discovers Aids and the fear that she may have picked up the disease in her early encounters. (imdb)

Helene Regnier's husband Charles, who is mentally ill, injures their son Michel in a rage. Charles moves back in with his wealthy and manipulative parents, who blame Helene for their son's condition and vow to win custody of Michel. While the boy is in hospital, Helene rents a room in a boarding house nearby. The Regniers hire Paul Thomas, a family acquaintance who needs money, to find dirt on Helene before the court hearing on custody... (imdb)

As every summer, Georges Lajoie, his wife Ginette and grown-up son Léon go on holiday to Loulou's campsite. They join old friends, the Schumachers and the Colins. Brigitte Colin, the daughter, is quite a pretty young girl now. One day, Georges rapes and murders her. He hides the body near the barracks of the immigrant Arab workers. The racism of the campers will do the rest... A virulent lampoon against the average Frenchman's racism. (imdb)

Charles (Jean Gabin), a sixtyish career criminal fresh out of jail, rejects his wife's plan for a quiet life of bourgeois respectability. He enlists a former cellmate, Francis (Alain Delon), to assist him in pulling off one final score, a carefully planned assault on the vault of a Cannes casino. Bad luck and Francis's lack of professionalism set the caper maddeningly askew, and the stolen cash resurfaces in an unexpected manner. (imdb)

Alexandre, a young and honest farmer, is oppressed by an authoritarian wife, who makes him work like a dog. When she dies in a car crash, he decides to stay in bed, absolutely free and inactive. Just a dog is occupied to carry food and newspapers to him. (imdb)

A nun and a hooker strike up an unusual friendship together.

A series of sketches depicting the consequences of breaking one or more of the ten commandments.

Victor (Jean Gabin) an old man, is a grocer and an obnoxious boss. He has always told his family tales of sea travel and sailing, even though they believe he never was at sea. When his nephew wins a prize for building a model boat, and gets orders to build the boat he's modelled, uncle Victor knows enough to help supervise the construction, much to the relief of his employees. The nephew's boss stops funding the boat, but Victor takes up the slack and it is finally built.

Doctor Galipeau has a brother, Emile, whose wife has just given birth to a baby boy and who dreams of owning a house. He has just examined Louis Martinet, an old man who, according to him, is in the last stages. That is why he advises Emile to purchase Martinet's house for an annuity. Unfortunately for the Galipeaus, not only does Martinet recover but, month after month, year after year, the "dying man" proves hale and hearty as well! (imdb)

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.

The story of Jean Valjean, a Frenchman convicted of minor crimes, who is hounded for years by an unforgiving and unrelenting police inspector, Javert.

This offbeat satirical comedy finds a beautiful and talkative housekeeper (Annie Girardot) working for several colorful employers. One is a former prostitute living with a prominent politician. Also included is a ribald bank teller and a strange man who helps out at a church for wayward boys and sings at a homosexual nightclub. The housekeeper's verbose nature leads to blackmail for her clients, with the two men meeting their deaths and the ex-prostitute wedding plans put in jeopardy. (Allmovie)

With the 'little captain' raising serious doubt on the reality of the super spy, the colonel Toulouse kidnap Christine and bind Francois to play again the character of the Tall Blond in some fake adventures. All this to stop the investigation on the death of the colonel Milan. (imdb)

Running away from her uncaring boyfriend, Alice's car breaks down in a rainstorm and she takes shelter in a country mansion inhabited by an old man and his butler. Over the next 48 hours, events will get stranger and stranger...

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)

Delphine receives word she will inherit a sizeable fortune provided she is a widow. Her love for her husband Antoine is soon overtaken by her lust for money. A Jewish charitable organization will get the money if the husband lives. He goes to a local gangster for protection while his wife contacts a mob hitman to murder the man. In the shadows, the couple consorts with gangsters as they jockey for position to collect the coveted coin. (Allmovie)

Alfred doesn't work. He lets his wife do that. Instead, he plays the horses, and wanders about, hitchhiking. His sly laziness serves him in good stead when he is kidnapped by people he thought were giving him a ride. He wakes from unconsciousness in a coffin in Istanbul, pockets full of counterfeit cash. Another gang, not the one that kidnapped him, accosts him and tries to find out what kind of smuggling scheme would send him in the coffin; (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)

Henri-Pierre, Bob and Dimitri are three seedy gangsters who venture from Frankie Strong, king of show business to rob him. Unfortunately, like all rich people, Strong and his friends have no money on them, only credit cards. Henri-Pierre ends up accepting a check, before realizing that, Friday night, the banks open only on Monday. The robbers are deflected and then spend the weekend together as a family, and roles will sometimes be reversed ... (Wikipedia)

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.

Alfonso, a jaded and brutal agent of the Protection Service of the High Personalities, is forced to team with Walter, inexperienced young rookie, fascinated by the world of showbiz. This unlikely duo is responsible for the protection of Jal-Y, a young R&B star, threatened by her ex, a criminal on the run.

Pétepan learns that his money has been lost by Robinhoude brothers.He asks his assistants to withdraw his amount from the bank. (imdb)

Marcel, a simple-minded factory worker, is tricked into buying a high-priced American convertable car by a widow determined not to let it fall into the hands of her late husband's secretary/secret lover. Once in pocession of the car, Marcel only encounters one bad luck episode after another with the excessive gasoline consumtion, his wife trying to sell it to make ammends meet, getting into traffic jams, accidently riding into a car wash with the top down, and more. (imdb)

Emma Eckhert, from a modest background, became a big sensation between 1914 and 1938 as a banker and the head of a financial paper specialized in public savings. (imdb)

Pierre Cohen (Pierre Richard) is a sophisticated Parisian psychologist who travels to the farm of his brother (Jean Carmet) in Britanny to save it from a hostile takeover by a local landlord. The psychologist decides to save the farm by using the tricks of his trade -- psychological warfare, as it were. In spite of his efforts, he cannot control every situation as he had envisioned. (Allrovi)

Three little criminals get a tip for a great coup with lots of money in it. Unfortunately they lack the starting funds to buy the required welding torch. So they persuade their successful colleague Alphonse to join their team. But the well thought-out coup fails, and Alphonse is the only one of them who ends up in jail for several years. When he's released, he's out for revenge. (imdb)

A French rugby supporter in England for a match at Twickenham is knocked out and loses two teeth. He goes to the dentist and during waiting he wears a uniform of another patient, a police officer. He saves by chance Diana Dors, a nextdoor movie star. He is congratulated by his chiefs who take him for true police officer. Many misunderstandings follow after. He becomes lost in London. Not speaking a word of English, he needs to return home to France urgently as he is due to be married.

While he visits his mother in Britain, Emile made ​​the acquaintance of René, owner of a box of striptease. It proposes to show him around the region. (Allocine)

A widow is in search of the drug hidden by her late husband. While a policeman conducts the investigation, other people try to find the famous product.

Penniless and vegetating as a clerk, Baron Yves de Kerfuntel incidentally learns the death of a wealthy uncle. Believing himself the sole heir, he rushes to the castle, and discovered 7 other candidates to fortune. The opening of the will they learn that Louise de Kerfuntel, crippled old woman and authoritarian, is the only one heir. She allows all family members to live in the castle, but announces that it intends to squander his fortune to games and by conducting a grand scale. (Wikipedia)

Goubi, the simpleton of his village in the French Department Allier, has but one wish: to see Paris. One day, the truckers Grafouillère deposit a drunk Goubi in the biggest market of Paris (the "Halles"). The poor man is completely lost, but the meat merchant Dessertine takes him under his wings when he hears that Goubi was likewise 'raised by the State'... (imdb)

People annoy and bore a Paris veterinarian (Jean Rochefort), until he meets someone (Miou-Miou) new and awkwardly falls in love.

Saint-Maurice, an ordinary peaceful village, lived healthily so much so that the local doctor's practice was scant. But that was before Dr. Parpalaid retired and was replaced by a charlatan by the name of Knock. A real genius this one, for he soon managed to persuade everyone that they were ill. And not only didn't they resent him but they even loved their physician, who made a fortune and brought prosperity to the village by turning it into a big hospital. (imdb)

Moreau and Dubois, two friends decide to take a few days holiday in Deauville with their wives and the niece of one of them. However, the stay does not go as planned: a complicated journey, a home more than uncomfortable and uninhabitable villa come to torment the lives of two friends. (Allocine)

Set in 1938, it tells the farcical story of a band of five French speaking Greek Jews who seek to have their status as self-appointed ambassadors of a Palestinian Zionist state recognized by the League of Nations in Geneva. The film follows their rambling odyssey from their native Greek island to Marseilles to Geneva, where they involve a Polish Jewish immigrant in their scheme.

Marilyn and Richard live on hold-ups and miscellaneous flights, but one day the game goes wrong and they find themselves the perpetrators of a murder.

Michel Dolannes resigns from a major newspaper as a journalist to launch a new journal 'Le Cosmopolite' which reveals all kinds of shady deals.One day, he is killed but who is the killer ? (imdb)

Jean Brevent has never been able to work out why his wife Catherine walked out on him. Five years later, he meets her by chance on a bus, but they are soon separated again. (imdb)

Civil servant Adrien Courtois comes to Paris in order to make his money bear fruits. (imdb)

A Dominican friar visits a 13th-century French village in search of heretics. Despite the opposition of the local priest and the indifference of the villagers, he finds a seemingly perfect suspect: a young woman who lives in a forest outside the village and cures people with herbs and folk remedies. (imdb)

18th century adventures of the rescue of two orphan girls, kidnapped and maltreated in Paris by a wicked uncle, by a handsome hero. (BFI)

During the broadcast of a live game show, a surprise guest is shot by an armed assassin. The victim, Martin Gaillard, recounts the bizarre series of events that led to this extraordinary denouement. (imdb)

In 1960, in a coastal town near to Nantes, Jean Ripoche lives with his wife Liliane, their four children and Liliane's father Lucien. Jean divides his time between running his plumbing business and making a float for the Nantes carnival. (imdb)

A 16-year-old girl feels detached from her family, which consists of a grumpy father, a loving mother, a 12-year-old sister and a 19-year-old brother. (imdb)

Gros-Câlin (Italian: Cocco mio) is a 1979 French-Italian comedy film written and directed by Jean-Pierre Rawson and starring Jean Carmet and Nino Manfredi. It is loosely based on the novel with the same name by Romain Gary (wikipedia)

This is a coming of age drama adapted from the 1952 Yves Gibeau novel of the same title. A young anti-militarist is forcibly sent to military school by his father. He's a bookish pacifist who endures being bullied by his superiors all throughout school, not out of weakness rather out of strength to deny violence it's coveted reciprocity. (imdb)

Somewhere in Tunisia, commandos of the First French Army are training, in preparation for the August 1945 landings on the southern coast of France. Lt. Claude Legrand (Georges Marchal), who leads the commando, finds among his men a former resistance fighter, Serge Duhamel (André Valmy), who feels nothing but contempt for the lieutenant. Some years earlier, Lt. Legrand and Duhamel had quarreled over Legrand's wife Simone, who had an affair with Duhamel.

It is with a heavy heart that Monsieur Charles has to close his Parisian brothel in 1946, following new legislation outlawing such establishments. As a parting gift, he offers the brothel's red lantern to one of his star employees, Lucette.

In 1956, before African independence, in a small colorful village where tradition, colonialism, healers and medicine coexist, everyday life is full of politics, love, sex and alcohol... Kwao is a war veteran who, after the setbacks of a marriage with a white woman, has been waiting for ten years with his second wife for a happy event: a child. This one will be born with six fingers on each hand! According to the tradition of his society, this child is a bad luck charm. It must be sacrificed.

A smooth criminal, who turns to be Manuel Ismora, and his gang successfully and peacefully pull off con after heist. Elsewhere a timid office worker, Gabriel Dupon, is pressured by his boss into making a sale. A chain of events causes him to get mixed up with the criminal, and get arrested. Lack of evidence ensures Dupon's release, but brings him to the attention of the criminal who persuades him into cooperation. Ismora exploits the fact that Dupon looks so much like him.