Maurice Risch

In occupied Paris, an actress married to a Jewish theater owner must keep him hidden from the Nazis while doing both of their jobs. (imdb)

Guillaume (Louis de Funes) has made it: a machine which can clean dirty air by simply sucking all dirt into balloons and then shipping them far, far away. Some Japanese businessmen, after dinner with a lot of alcohol, order 5000 pieces. His only problem: production capacity is way too small, so he has to produce the machines in his private house... (imdb)

The bungling inspector Cruchot (Funès) finds himself trying to save the residents of St. Tropez from some oil-drinking humanoid aliens. The only way to tell the aliens from the real people, besides their constant thirst for oil-products, is that they sound like empty garbage cans when you touch them. Chaos is ahead. (imdb)

Cruchot's police office moves into a new building. They do not only get high tech equipment, but also four young female police officers to educate. All of them scramble to work with them -- and cause pure chaos while being distracted by the fine ladies. Then they get into real trouble when one after the other of their female colleagues is kidnapped. (imdb)

The diminutive Asterix and his rather larger companion Obelix, warriors of the last village in Gaul still free after the Roman invasion, set out on a mission to deliver a barrel of their druid's famous magic potion to help Asterix's cousin in Britain fight off the invading Roman army. (imdb)

The film delves deeply into the last days of an affair between a married man and a young woman who have been together for six years. (BFI)

A 14-year-old girl, Marion, moves in with her stepfather, Rémi, after her mother remarries. Rémi is initially reluctant to have Marion in his life, but he eventually grows to love her. However, Marion begins to develop feelings for Rémi, and he is eventually seduced by her. Their relationship is fraught with tension and guilt, and it has a profound impact on both of their lives.

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)

Bonaventure (Richard) is a semi-competent travel agent who makes up stories about his great romantic adventures to tell to the girls in his office. One evening, he meets a woman who has the same name as one of his made-up romances, and they share a for-real one-night encounter. Afterward, he thinks up a scheme for a unique tour situation in which people might pay for a limited-time visit to a completely undeveloped island where they will be forced to become modern-day Robinson Crusoes. (allmovie.com)

Bosquier (Louis De Funes) is the director of a private boarding school in this routine situation comedy. He and his wife (Claude Gesnac) try to run the institution with a tyrannical hand, but the tighter the grip, the more control he loses over the students and the school. Soon he is chasing his wayward son and the daughter of a wealthy British aristocrat when the two run away together. (allmovie.com)

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)

France and Germany are in war, Adolf Hitler defied the Allies to play the fate of the war during a football game. The French troops are training in the sport, but the commander was particularly upset by three incompetent rookies : Johnny, Harry and Toto. He decides to get rid of them by sending them on missions into German territory. The three players fall on an armored tank division, and they meet Adolf Hitler himself. The Führer takes them for sports professionals and hiring his own team. (Wikipedia)

A Claude Chabrol remake of M by Fritz Lang for French television.

In this wartime comedy, Robert Lamoureux plays a General in the Resistance. With an unlikely team of French patriots, he easily outwits the buffoonish Germans and steals the master copy of their plans to invade England. By doing so, he prevents the invasion and makes it more likely that the Allies will win the war. (Allmovie)

Because he dishonored the daughter of a mafia boss, Ernesto must leave Rome and take shelter with his uncle in Paris. There, he thinks of only one thing: to seduce girls. (imdb)

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)

Thanks to the law of 1948 and to her grandmother, the nominal tenant who is always absent, Francesca and all of her family and friends live on a shoestring in a very big apartment. This is not to the liking of supercilious owner Charlotte, who has been intent for some time on having them evicted for obvious speculative reasons.

In this film, Bernard Menez, Jacques Villeret, Maurice Risch and Jeanne Maud embody babies. The idea came from a famous Laurel and Hardy shortfilm: Brats.