Pierre Lary (Director)
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Works
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
In Luis Buñuel’s deliciously satiric masterpiece, an upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but never eats, their attempts continually thwarted by a vaudevillian mixture of events both actual and imagined.
Release Date1972-09-15
DepartmentDirecting
JobAssistant Director
Charactersd (uncredited)
Vote Count848
The Phantom of Liberty
This Surrealist film, with a title referencing the Communist Manifesto, strings together short incidents based on the life of director Luis Buñuel. Presented as chance encounters, these loosely related, intersecting situations, all without a consistent protagonist, reach from the 19th century to the 1970s. Touching briefly on subjects such as execution, pedophilia, incest, and sex, the film features an array of characters, including a sick father and incompetent police officers.
Release Date1974-09-10
Charactersd The Acquitted Murderer
Vote Count308
Les Secrets de la mer Rouge
Release Date1968-05-05
DepartmentDirecting
JobAssistant Director
Charactersd Torcill
Episode Count26
Vote Count1
Come to My Place, I Live at a Girlfriend's
Guy is fired from is job, and asks to stay with his friend and his girlfriend in their apartment. The longer he stays, the more disaster he creates.
Release Date1981-01-25
Charactersd Le conducteur
Vote Count144
Once Upon a Time... 'The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie'
A documentary about the making of Luis Bunuel's 1972 film.
Release Date2013-02-03
Charactersd Self
Portrait of an Impatient Filmmaker: Luis Buñuel
A documentary about the making of Luis Buñuel's 1977 film THAT OBSCURE OBJECT OF DESIRE, featuring interviews with the assistant director and cinematographer.
Release Date2013-01-29
Charactersd Self
Belle de Jour
Beautiful young housewife Séverine Serizy cannot reconcile her masochistic fantasies with her everyday life alongside dutiful husband Pierre. When her lovestruck friend Henri mentions a secretive high-class brothel run by Madame Anais, Séverine begins to work there during the day under the name Belle de Jour. But when one of her clients grows possessive, she must try to go back to her normal life.
Release Date1967-05-24
DepartmentDirecting
JobAssistant Director
Vote Count956
Diary of a Chambermaid
Celestine has a new job as a chambermaid for the quirky M. Monteil, his wife and her father. When the father dies, Celestine decides to quit her job and leave, but when a young girl is raped and murdered, Celestine believes that the Monteils' groundskeeper, Joseph, is guilty, and stays on in order to prove it. She uses her sexuality and the promise of marriage to get Joseph to confess -- but things do not go as planned.
Release Date1964-03-04
DepartmentDirecting
JobAssistant Director
Vote Count211
That Obscure Object of Desire
After dumping a bucket of water on a beautiful young woman from the window of a train car, wealthy Frenchman Mathieu, regales his fellow passengers with the story of the dysfunctional relationship between himself and the young woman in question, a fiery 19-year-old flamenco dancer named Conchita. What follows is a tale of cruelty, depravity and lies -- the very building blocks of love.
Release Date1977-08-17
DepartmentDirecting
JobAssistant Director
Vote Count413
Farewell, Friend
After serving together in the French Foreign Legion, a mercenary and a doctor leave the service and go their separate ways. Later, they are reunited and become involved with a caper involving millions in a high-security safe. The two men become locked in during a holiday weekend as they attempt to crack the safe's combination.
Release Date1968-08-14
DepartmentDirecting
JobAssistant Director
Vote Count95
Tintin and the Mystery of the Golden Fleece
After the death of Captain Thémistocle Paparanic, Captain Haddock's old friend, he inherits a ship called the Golden Fleece. Once Tintin and the captain arrive in Istanbul, where the ship is anchored, they meet Mr. Karabine, a businessman who stubbornly insists on buying it even though it is in a dilapidated state.
Release Date1961-12-06
DepartmentDirecting
JobAssistant Director
Vote Count102
Médecins de nuit
Release Date1978-09-22
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count38
Vote Count1
Love at First Sight
Release Date1992-02-12
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count1
Tristana
As a young woman, Tristana is orphaned and taken under the guardianship of Don Lope, a respected member of the community, who takes advantage of his innocent charge. When Tristana falls in love with artist Horacio, she must learn to be more assertive in order to achieve independence from her nefarious guardian, or her blossoming relationship with Horatio is doomed.
Release Date1970-03-29
DepartmentDirecting
JobAssistant Director
Vote Count255
Les Bœuf-carottes
The TV series relates the investigations of a pair made up of a divisional commissioner and a lieutenant from the General Inspectorate of Services (IGS), also called Police Force or carrot beef.
Release Date1995-09-21
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count6
The Milky Way
Two men, part tramp, part pilgrim, are on their way to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. On their way they meet a whole assortment of people—some truculent, some violent, and some bizarre; they experience many adventures—some mysterious, some erotic, some even supernatural.
Release Date1969-02-28
DepartmentDirecting
JobFirst Assistant Director
Vote Count172
Her Bridal Night
A country girl is discovered by a Paris magazine, and becomes a top model.
Release Date1956-10-25
DepartmentDirecting
JobAssistant Director
Vote Count8
And Hope to Die
A crook on the run hooks up with a criminal gang to commit a kidnapping. However, things don't go quite as planned.
Release Date1972-09-15
DepartmentDirecting
JobFirst Assistant Director
Vote Count22
Girl on the Third Floor
A Parisian reporter tries to exonerate a fugitive neighbor of charges he murdered his wife.
Release Date1955-08-02
DepartmentWriting
JobAdaptation
Vote Count5
Attack of the Robots
Al Pereira, a wise-cracking superspy, investigates a series of assassinations being performed by ruthless killers with bronze skin and horn-rimmed glasses. The trail of these mindless automata leads him to the lair of a seductive villainess who has formulated a computer-powered plot to overthrow the governments of Europe. 'Cartes sur table' is at once an homage to classical Hollywood thrillers and a playful riff on the newly-popular James Bond films.
Release Date1966-04-27
DepartmentDirecting
JobAssistant Director
Vote Count13
La Revanche
Jeanne Jouvert, a crime writer, has won the Quai des Orfèvres prize. Her publisher devises a clever publicity ploy that results in her husband, Alfred, head of the anti-gang squad, being honored in her place. The policeman finds himself quite comfortable as a best-selling author and takes advantage of the situation. Tired of having been submissive for too long, Jeanne plans her revenge. She asks for help from her friend Anne Beaufort, herself disappointed by her husband, who pretends to help Third World countries by selling them weapons. The two of them will prove what they are capable of by organizing a hold-up of the central post office in Paris.
Release Date1981-12-16
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count5
My Priest Among the Poor
Abbé Pellegrin, parish priest of Sableuse, sells an ancient Christ to an unknown man, M. de Saint Preux. Summoned to the bishop's palace, he learns that he has been the victim of a swindler. The Christ, exchanged for a "mouthful of bread", is a valuable antique. Not wanting to compromise his wartime comrade La Goupille, who had introduced him to Saint Preux, Pellegrin proposed to his bishop that he himself carry out the search for the Christ. For the occasion, he swapped his cassock for a "civilian" outfit and landed in Paris. He recovers the treasure in the midst of a series of adventures and misadventures involving Cousinet, the former squire of Sableuse. He takes in the tenants Cousinet has just evicted from his hotel.
Release Date1956-05-04
DepartmentDirecting
JobAssistant Director
Vote Count1
L'Indiscrétion
An innocent man stumbles across a political intrigue, when he discovers that his neighbours apartment is bugged. They are then found dead and their killers description resembles the man.
Release Date1982-07-21
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count5
The Devil in the Box
Alain Brissot, an executive in a major company, was made redundant following a redundancy plan, but decided to put up a fight by continuing to occupy his office against all odds... He soon went on hunger strike, and, after many ups and downs, ended up taking back the job of his former manager, who had himself been ousted following the failure of a lucrative contract with an African country.
Release Date1977-04-19
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count2
Maid in Paris
Penelope Benson, known as Penny, is both romantic and determined. Put in a select boarding school by her mother, she takes advantage of a trip to Paris to get away from it all and live her own life. That's how she meets Antoine du Merlet, whom she takes for a young hoodlum when in fact he's a police superintendent. She spends the night at his place, which leads to a number of setbacks for poor Antoine, who is stigmatized by the headmistress, abandoned by his mistress and has to face a strip-tease session starring the unconscious Penny... But Penny's a spicy one and Antoine's a nice guy, so... !
Release Date1956-01-20
DepartmentDirecting
JobAssistant Director
Les Lavandières du Portugal
Two French advertising agencies vying for a contract with a manufacturer of washers. The manager decides to hire the agency submitting the best advertising campaign. Jean Francois, head of the A.P.N., has the great idea of looking for an authentic Portuguese washerwoman to present the ads. But competition, the O.P.I., led by the attractive Catherine, on a trip to Portugal, check the washer ideal. It is a shy girl who is happy with life in Portugal and refuses to accept the proposals of Catherine. And here intervenes Jean François, who pretends to fall for her to take her to Paris ..
Release Date1957-08-23
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count1
La banquise
Release Date1998-10-14
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Enclosure
In a Nazi concentration camp, Karl, a German political prisoner, and David, a Jewish watchmaker, are confined in a small enclosure from which only one of them will be able to go out alive.
Release Date1961-07-18
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count13
It Only Happens to the Living
A young garage owner, Henri, whose business is not going well, fixes the lovely Gloria's car on the road. She suggests he let part of his garage to her friends.
Release Date1959-05-06
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count1
Ni vue ni connue
Directed by Pierre Lary. With Mireille Darc, Christophe Odent, Jean-Marie Winling, Hugues Boucher.
Release Date1997-05-16
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Le manège de Pauline
Release Date1991-10-20
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Les pieds dans le plâtre
A butcher's boy, in love with the daughter of one of his neighbors, a penniless baron, finds himself in financial difficulties as he begins construction of a building on the land he has inherited.
Release Date1965-02-18
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charter 2020
Release Date1980-04-19
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Birgit Haas Must Be Killed
"Hangar" is a new agency whose purpose is to carry out missions even too sensitive for the police or intelligence services. The agency must eliminate a German female terrorist by the name of Birgitt Haas. The murder is to be disguised as a crime of passion, so an agent must lure Birgitt into falling in love.
Release Date1981-09-02
Vote Count10