Philippe Monnier (Director)
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Works
Joséphine, Guardian Angel
Josephine Delamarre is a guardian angel that Heaven sends to earth. With her psychological insight, ability of persuasion and magical powers, she manages to help people who have problems. She appears at the beginning of each mission; when the mission is completed, she disappears with a click of her fingers.
Release Date1997-12-15
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count6
Vote Count27
A Pain in the Ass
Ralf Milan, a hitman, arrives in Montpellier to kill an important witness. He checks in a hotel without knowing that his neighbour has become neurotic after his wife left him.
Release Date1973-09-20
DepartmentDirecting
JobAssistant Director
Vote Count239
Oscar
This film originated as a play in Paris. The story focuses on the one-day adventures of Bertrand Barnier played with a genius of French cinema, Louis de Funes. In the same morning he learns that his daughter is pregnant, an employee stole a large amount of money from his company, his maid is about to resign in order to marry a wealthy neighbor and his body builder is interested in marrying his daughter. The seemingly complicated story-line is full of comedy or errors and some of the most hilarious mime scenes of the French cinema.
Release Date1967-10-11
DepartmentDirecting
JobAssistant Director
Vote Count518
To Commit a Murder
A writer gets wrapped up in espionage.
Release Date1967-04-07
DepartmentDirecting
JobAssistant Director
Vote Count5
The Burned Barns
The body of a young woman is discovered near a farm. The judge, Larcher is in charge and thinks that the farmers have something to do with the murder.
Release Date1973-05-30
DepartmentDirecting
JobFirst Assistant Director
Vote Count61
The Pink Telephone
A small industrialist from Toulouse, goes to Paris to negotiate the buyout of his company from an American financial group. During his stay, the representative of the large firm calls on a luxury call girl to facilitate their "business".
Release Date1975-10-15
DepartmentDirecting
JobFirst Assistant Director
Vote Count19
Hibernatus
Hubert de Tartas' life becomes a complete muddle when his wife's grandfather is unearthed after having spent 65 years in frozen hibernation in the polar circle. After being de-frosted, the Hibernating Man believes it is still the beginning of the century. Nothing is spared to keep that illusion alive. At the end of his rope, Hubert blurts out the truth and takes the man from Edwardian times on a crazy spree through an ultramodern Twentieth Century.
Release Date1969-09-10
DepartmentDirecting
JobAssistant Director
Vote Count499
Z
A prominent politician is murdered during a demonstration. The government and army are trying to suppress the truth. But, a tenacious magistrate is determined to not to let them get away with it.
Release Date1969-02-26
DepartmentDirecting
JobAssistant Director
Vote Count599
Mr. Klein
Paris, France, 1942, during the Nazi occupation. Robert Klein, a successful art dealer who benefits from the misfortunes of those who are ruthlessly persecuted, discovers by chance that there is another Robert Klein, apparently a Jewish man; someone with whom he could be mistakenly identified, something dangerous in such harsh times.
Release Date1976-09-23
DepartmentDirecting
JobAssistant Director
Vote Count277
The Saint Lies in Wait
Oscar Chartier plays a dangerous double game by selling secret plans to the German and American secret services, to ensure a comfortable future for his daughter, Sophie. But the plans are fake and Chartier decides to get help from his good friend Simon Templar.
Release Date1966-10-26
DepartmentDirecting
JobAssistant Director
Vote Count3
Chez Maupassant
"Chez Maupassant" is a French anthology television series based on short stories by Guy de Maupassant. Created by Gérard Jourd'hui and Gaëlle Girre, it ran on France 2 in three seasons in 2007, 2008 and 2011. It consists of a total of 24 episodes of which half are 60 minutes long and half are 30 minutes.
Release Date2007-03-06
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count3
Monsieur
Left heartbroken by the death of his beloved wife, a rich banker tries to commit suicide. When he learns from his former maid that his wife was unfaithful, he fakes his own death and comes back under a new identity.
Release Date1964-04-22
DepartmentDirecting
JobAssistant Director
Vote Count22
A Tale of Two Cities
A pair of lookalikes, one a former French aristocrat and the other an alcoholic English lawyer, fall in love with the same woman amongst the turmoil of the French Revolution.
Release Date1989-05-21
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count2
Vote Count2
Monsieur Papa
In this family comedy, Papa has no end of trouble getting his young son to accept his new girlfriend.
Release Date1977-08-23
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count2
The Algerian War
A French historical documentary that retraces the events leading up to Algeria's war of independence from 1954 to 1962, based on archive footage and testimonies from key players of the period.
Release Date1972-03-22
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
The Irony of Chance
A series of events beginning during the German occupation of France showing what might have happened if one thing had gone differently. The premise concerns the assassination of a German officer by a young member of the Resistance.
Release Date1974-04-30
DepartmentDirecting
JobAssistant Director
Vote Count7
Des grives aux loups
Release Date1984-10-05
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count6
Tender Moment
An eighteen-year-old student is infatuated with an older woman, the mistress of a famous racing driver. Taking advantage of a misunderstanding between the two lovers, he manages to seduce her and falls in love.
Release Date1968-12-20
DepartmentDirecting
JobAssistant Director
Vote Count6
L'Enfant des loups, Vanda
Release Date1991-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
Jalna
Release Date1994-06-27
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count8
Vote Count1
Les Enquêtes Caméléon
Release Date1987-04-12
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count5
Brigade mondaine: Vaudou aux Caraïbes
Corentin and Brichot investigate drug trafficking in Fort-de-France, Martinique.
Release Date1980-07-23
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count2
Un cœur oublié
Monsieur de Fontenelle has resisted feelings of love and passion all his life, but at an advanced age he meets a young woman who makes him discover the feeling he has always wanted to ignore: love.
Release Date2001-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
Des grives aux loups
Release Date1984-10-05
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
La Veuve de l'architecte
Release Date1995-05-19
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector