Jean-Pierre Bisson

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)

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)

An ad executive (Weaver) impersonates an archeology professor (Westheimer) to avoid a situation with an obsessed former lover. She enlists the help of a hapless archeologist (Depardieu) who is at the airport to pick the real archeology professor (Weaver sees her lover and needs to escape). What follows is a series of conflicting and comical situations involving the "switcheroo." (imdb)

Bronsky (Jean-Pierre Bisson) is a paraplegic because of an accident at a construction site that was partly due to the head architect, David Briand (Jean-Pierre Bacri). Many years after the accident, Bronsky shows up at Briand's residence with his family and his trailer looking for assistance. He and his wife insinuate themselves into the household without revealing their true identity. (imdb)

Simon and Dede are best friends: two aimless drunks who spend their days getting sloshed and any other available time getting laid. Neither man is sensitive, young, or good looking. However, their sang-froid (literally, "cold blood") stands them in good stead as they go about their seedy lives. (imdb)

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

In this movie, someone is using a pirate radio broadcast to dish the dirt on the lives of the elite of a small French town. Among the suspects for this increasingly damaging activity are a cynical journalist and an unusually honest cop. The story proceeds to a climax in the town's church, while the increasingly vituperative townspeople clash with one another. (Allrovi)

Thierry, Gerard, Francis and Daniel are friends, and former comrades of HEC Paris. If the first three have brilliantly succeeded in their lives, Daniel has not. When Daniel proposes another "business" to his friends, they refuse and decide to make him believe that he won the Lotto thanks to an ingeniously rigged and mounted edition.

Having first lost his wife then his job as a tweed tailor, Alex Ponttin (Michel Serrault from Happiness is in the field) has devised a novel way to keep himself in touch with society. He admits himself into people's homes, by pretending to be a relative or an official, and persuading his victims to give him a night's free board: He finds at first a lunch at the horrible couple Dumont (Jean-Pierre Bisson and Maike Jansen), where a thief follows him for a robbery.

Jean wants to avenge his father, killed in Marseille. (imdb)