Michel Blanc

Michel Blanc (April 1952 – 3 October 2024) was a French actor, writer and director. He is noted for his roles of losers and hypochondriacs. He is frequently associated with Le Splendid, which he co-founded, along with Thierry Lhermitte, Josiane Balasko, Christian Clavier, Marie-Anne Chazel and Gérard Jugnot. Michel Blanc has also shown his versatility by appearing in more serious roles, such as the title role in the Patrice Leconte film Monsieur Hire. Description above from the Wikipedia article Michel Blanc, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Works

Palace
6.7

Palace

The action takes place - as the title suggests - in a Palace, a really nice hotel. Funny scenes happen in different places: the kitchen, the reception, the elevator, the rooms, ...

Release Date1988-10-29

Charactersd Service des fraudes

Episode Count1

Vote Count6

4.4

The Adolescent

In the summer of 1939, 13-year-old Marie goes with her parents to visit her grandparents in a small town near Avignon. Marie discovers her femininity and falls for a young Jewish doctor, but he prefers Eva, Marie's mother.

Release Date1979-01-24

Charactersd M. Bertin

Vote Count9

Les Héritiers
10.0

Les Héritiers

Release Date1977-09-24

Charactersd Ivan

Episode Count16

Vote Count1

Rire et sourire : Le Splendid
8.0

Rire et sourire : Le Splendid

Release Date1978-11-19

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Charactersd Différents rôles (Jean Marchand, M. Cinoche)

Episode Count[ 1 ]

Vote Count1

Les 400 Coups de Virginie
4.5

Les 400 Coups de Virginie

Release Date1979-12-22

Charactersd l'antiquaire

Episode Count6

Vote Count1

Madame le Juge

Madame le Juge

Release Date1978-03-11

Charactersd un vigile

Episode Count6

5.7

R.A.I.D. Special Unit

The story of a woman who dreams to join an intervention group in the police department called RAID. Unfortunately, she is rather clumsy and both her family (and soon to be family-in-law) and a veteran of the RAID do not approve. However, Johanna is determined to prove them wrong.

Release Date2017-02-01

Charactersd Jacques Pasquali

Vote Count919

7.6

The Tenant

A quiet and inconspicuous man rents an apartment in Paris where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia.

Release Date1976-05-26

Charactersd Scope's Neighbor

Vote Count1161

7.3

French Fried Vacation 2

In this sequel to Les Bronzes (1978) summer has passed, but that doesn't mean the fun has to end for Bernard, Nathalie, Gigi, Jerome, Popeye, Jean-Claude, and Christiane.

Release Date1979-11-22

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Charactersd Jean-Claude Dusse

Vote Count1224

4.7

The New Adventures of Aladdin

A pair of losers working at department store plan to rob the place after it closes. When a bunch of kids show up begging for a story, the men launch into an improvised version of Aladdin.

Release Date2015-10-14

Charactersd Sultan

Vote Count875

4.1

French Fried Vacations 3: Friends Forever

After the Club Med and skiing, what happened to the Bronzés 27 years later? Early response: the same, and worse.

Release Date2006-02-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Charactersd Jean-Claude "Jessy" Dusse

Vote Count729

7.0

The Monster

A vicious serial sex killer is on the loose, and landscape gardener and shop-window outfitter Loris is the prime suspect, thanks to his unfortunate habit of getting caught in compromising situations (for which there is always a totally innocent explanation that the police fail to spot). Undercover policewoman Jessica is assigned by eccentric police psychologist Taccone to follow Loris.

Release Date1994-10-22

DepartmentWriting

JobAdaptation

Charactersd Paride Taccone, le psychiatre

Vote Count615

7.3

The Hundred-Foot Journey

A story centered around an Indian family who moves to France and opens a restaurant across the street from a Michelin-starred French restaurant.

Release Date2014-08-06

Charactersd Mayor

Vote Count1467

6.6

French Fried Vacation

Holidaymakers arriving in a Club Med camp on the Ivory Coast are determined to forget their everyday problems and emotional disappointments. Games, competitions, outings, bathing and sunburn accompany a continual succession of casual affairs.

Release Date1978-11-11

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Charactersd Jean-Claude Dusse, the frustrated

Vote Count912

5.2

Prêt-à-Porter

During Paris Fashion Week, models, designers and industry hot shots gather to work, mingle, argue and try to seduce one another.

Release Date1994-12-23

Charactersd Inspector Forget

Vote Count219

7.3

Santa Claus Is a Stinker

Two neurotics, working for a suicide hotline on the night of Christmas Eve, get caught up in a catastrophe when a pregnant woman, her abusive boyfriend, and a transvestite visit their office.

Release Date1982-08-25

Charactersd L'obsédé sexuel au téléphone (voice)

Vote Count1012

6.9

Gramps Is in the Resistance

It is 1943 in Paris. Like so many others, the Bourbelle family's home has been taken over by the Germans and they now live in their cellar. Little do they know that the son, Guy-Hubert Bourdelle, is far from being the cowardly hairdresser he pretends. He is in truth the Germans’ most feared opponent: le super-résistant!

Release Date1983-10-26

Charactersd Le père Lebœuf, résistant

Vote Count412

6.8

The Fugitives

Coming out from jail, Lucas has decided to change his life and behave like a good citizen. But when he is taken hostage in a bank by a hare-brained robber, no cops can believe he is not part of the action.

Release Date1986-12-17

Charactersd Doctor Bourdarias (uncredited)

Vote Count402

6.7

The Small Victories

Between her roles as mayor and teacher in the small village of Kerguen, Alice's days are very full. When an unexpected new student, 60-year-old Emile, finally decides to learn to read and write, her daily life threatens to become unmanageable. Especially since Alice will also have to save her village and her school...

Release Date2023-03-01

Charactersd Emile Menoux

Vote Count153

5.1

Christmas with the Tuches

After having resigned from his post as President of the Republic, Jeff and his family are happy to be back in their village of Bouzolles. As the end of the year holidays approach, Cathy asks for a unique gift: to reconnect with her sister Maguy, and her husband Jean-Yves, with whom Jeff has been angry for 10 years. The reconciliation could have gone smoothly, except that during a lunch, Jeff and Jean-Yves, will once again find a subject of contention: Christmas. This family feud, which should never have left Bouzolles, will turn into a standoff between Jeff and a giant of Internet distribution.

Release Date2021-12-08

Charactersd Jean-Yves Marteau

Vote Count250

5.9

I Love You, I Don't

The petite waitress Johnny works and lives in a truck-stop, where she's lonely and longs for love. She develops a crush on the garbage truck driver Krassky, although her sleazy boss Boris warns her that he's gay.

Release Date1976-03-10

Charactersd A worker

Vote Count68

5.8

The Day I Saw Your Heart

Justine, struggles with commitment, listens to old David Bowie covers, and uses her employer’s private MRI machines to make “X-Ray Art” After a trail of boyfriends, Justine thinks she has found The One, a hunky shoe salesman, but her temporary happiness is thrown when her neurotic 60-year-old Jewish father (Michel Blanc) suffers a delayed midlife crisis and announces that his young second wife is expecting a baby. Justine and her half-sister Dom, who is trying to adopt, are rather annoyed at the news. Coupled with resentment about her father’s absence when she was growing up, causes her to spiral into self-doubt. Overflowing with French charm, Justine gets by with the help of her family, friends, and newly discovered muse.

Release Date2011-04-20

Charactersd Eli Dhrey

Vote Count108

6.8

Prospero's Books

An exiled magician finds an opportunity for revenge against his enemies muted when his daughter and the son of his chief enemy fall in love in this uniquely structured retelling of the 'The Tempest'.

Release Date1991-08-30

Charactersd Alonso

Vote Count94

3.6

The Probability Factor

Fred works for an insurance company as a computer engineer. He is bored with enduring the trials of his shrewish wife, so, after using actuarial tables to calculate the most common means of death, he cleverly prepares the family bathroom and brings about her demise. For a while he is content with his new freedom, but then he recognizes that a friend is in a similar situation.

Release Date1976-04-07

Charactersd Choukroun

Vote Count10

6.5

A Good Doctor

On Christmas eve, Serge is the only on-call emergency doctor available. Struck by a crippling back-ache, he gets help from a pizza delivery boy who will need to step in the doctor's shoes.

Release Date2019-12-11

Charactersd Serge Mamou Mani, the doctor

Vote Count319

7.3

Monsieur Hire

A French man spies on a lovely younger woman across the way. When he's spotted by the woman shortly after being questioned by the police about a local murder, the man's simple life becomes more complicated.

Release Date1989-05-24

Charactersd Monsieur Hire

Vote Count164

5.9

Summer Things

Two couple of friends, one very rich, the other almost homeless, decide to go on Holiday. Julie, a single mother, joins them too. Once at seaside, it starts a complicate love cross among them that will involve also a transsexual, a jealous brother, a Latin Lover and another nervous stressed couple. Not to mention about the daughter of one of them that is secretly in Chicago with one of her father's employees... At the end of the summer, all of them will join the same party...

Release Date2002-03-04

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Jean-Pierre

Vote Count96

6.4

Take a Chance on Me

Marie-Line is juggling between odd jobs to support her agoraphobic father. Despite the precariousness of their lifestyle, she remains a lively and cheerful young woman. Yet, after a series of unfortunate events, she is fired from her job and sentenced by a judge to a small penalty. A few days later, this very judge will be in a position to help her get back on track – a chance for Marie-Line but also the beginning of an unlikely friendship.

Release Date2023-10-11

Charactersd Judge Gilles d'Outremont

Vote Count65

6.3

Spoiled Children

Successful writer/director Bernard Rougerie is at a creative dead end and decides to isolate himself from his wife in order to complete the script for his next film. Bernard moves into an apartment building whose tenants are in the midst of a revolt against their abusive landlord. Reluctant at first, he joins their cause and then becomes involved in an affair with young, unemployed resident Anne.

Release Date1977-09-06

Charactersd Agent immobilier véreux

Vote Count18

6.6

Ménage

Bickering couple Monique and Antoine are interrupted by bisexual burglar Bob while fighting in a bar. With husband and wife in need of cash, Bob teaches them the most efficient house burglary methods. Monique is attracted to the charismatic thief, but Bob is more interested in Antoine, who eventually succumbs to his attentions. As the trio continues living together, Monique grows unhappy about being ignored by both men.

Release Date1986-04-23

Charactersd Antoine

Vote Count238

6.1

Half-Sister

When Nénette discovers the identity of her father in a letter, she quickly goes off in search of him. But instead of finding her father, she is met by her half-brother, Paul. Paul, a bitter man who gave up his dream to take over his father’s pharmacy business, is less than thrilled at the arrival of his ‘embarrassing’ half-sister. After refusing to take her in, he soon gets a taste of his own medicine. Under the influence of a potent drug, for one day Paul is generous, happy and sensitive. The next morning, however, once the drug has worn off, his nasty side comes back...

Release Date2013-06-04

Charactersd Paul

Vote Count47

3.9

Let's Make a Dirty Movie

A bumbling film crew attempts to make a porno movie.

Release Date1976-02-17

Charactersd Un flic

Vote Count10

6.1

The Favour, the Watch and the Very Big Fish

A farce, Hoskins plays a photographer who specializes in religious pictures who searches for a model for Jesus. He does a favor for a friend and finds himself doing a voice track for a porno movie with Natasha Richardson. Hoskins finds his model for Jesus in Jeff Goldblum and a romantic triangle begins in which Goldblum finds adoring crowds believing him to be Jesus and then begins to believe it himself.

Release Date1991-05-01

Charactersd Norbert

Vote Count21

3.3

Dream One

Based on Winsor McCay's comic strip, a little boy embarks on a dream-like adventure. Also known as Dream One.

Release Date1984-12-12

Charactersd Boris / Nemo's Father

Vote Count6

6.6

Uranus

After World War II, a small French village struggles to put the war behind as the controlling Communist Party tries to flush out Petain loyalists. The local bar owner, a simple man who likes to write poetry, who only wants to be left alone to do his job, becomes a target for Communist harassment as they try and locate a particular loyalist, and he pushes back.

Release Date1990-12-12

Charactersd Gaigneux

Vote Count100

6.0

Dead Tired

Stressed and overworked, famous French movie star Michel Blanc is beginning to wear down, physically and mentally, from the pressure and demands of fame. Already in a fragile state of mind, strange events start to transpire all around him, and he gradually loses his grip. Taking the advice of a psychiatrist, Blanc retreats to the countryside with his friend Carole Bouquet, but Blanc still has not managed to escape all of his problems.

Release Date1994-05-18

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Michel Blanc / Patrick Olivier

Vote Count112

5.6

The Other One's Mug

Martial Perrin is the president of a right-wing political party which is gearing itself up for a forthcoming election. When he learns that a notorious criminal named Kraus has escaped from prison, Perrin panics and goes into hiding. His deputy, Constant, hires Perrin’s cousin, Gilbert, an actor who is a perfect double of Perrin, to replace him. What Gilbert does no know is that the killer Kraus is bumping off the people who were implicated in the affair for which he was arrested, and that Perrin is next on his list.

Release Date1979-12-12

Charactersd Taboureau

Vote Count34

6.4

The Minister

Transport Minister Bertrand Saint-Jean is awoken in the middle of the night by his head of staff. A bus has gone off the road into a gully. He has no choice but to go to the scene of the accident. Thus begins the odyssey of a politician in a world that is increasingly more complex and hostile.

Release Date2011-10-26

Charactersd Gilles, director of staff

Vote Count137

4.5

A Day at the Museum

Un conservateur terrorisé par les plantes vertes, une mère plastifiée pour être exposée, un ballet de Saintes Vierges, des gardiens épuisés par Rodin, un ministre perdu dans une exposition de sexes, une voiture disparue au parking Rembrandt, des provinciaux amoureux des Impressionnistes, touristes galopins galopant d'une salle à l'autre, passager clandestin dans l'art premier, Picasso, Gauguin, Warhol, ils sont tous là dans ce petit monde qui ressemble au grand, dans ce musée pas si imaginaire que ça, valsant la comédie humaine jusqu'au burlesque.

Release Date2008-11-19

Charactersd Mosk

Vote Count42

5.1

Singles

Abandoned by his wife, Bernard struggles to overcome his grief and settles in a residence for singles. Employed by "SOS Doctors", he provides night guards to occupy his insomnia. That's how he is brought one night to help a neighbor, Nadine Foulon, victim of discomfort in the elevator. It turns out that Nadine is also going through a difficult time, since her companion, Terry, a singer-guitarist, has left her. A professional photographer, she can not forget it and has since oscillated between depression and bulimia. Gathered by their pains of heart, these two beings will, with the wire of the confidences, become more intimate ...

Release Date1982-01-27

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Charactersd Bernard

Vote Count67

5.4

The Bottom Line

An advertising photographer, François, has agreed to sell the poetic script of one of his friends to a porn-maker without his knowledge. But Christine, François' fiance, doesn't want him to do so, especially when the naive friend has succeeded in recruiting the young daughter of his employer to play in what he thinks is a romantic love movie.

Release Date1976-06-16

Charactersd Un copain du café-théâtre

Vote Count45

5.0

Un bol d'air

Release Date1975-02-19

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Charactersd Michel

Vote Count2

6.3

Les Souvenirs

Twenty-three years old Romain would like to be a writer, but, for the moment, he's night watchman in a hotel. His sixty-two years old father is retired and seems to not give a damn about anything. He shares an apartment with a twenty-four-year-old guy whose sole purpose in life is to seduce a woman, no matter who, and no matter the cost. His eighty-five years old grandmother is living in an old people's home, and she wonders what on earth she is doing with stuck with all these old people. One day, Romain's father turns up in a fluster. His grandmother has disappeared. In fact, she kind of escaped. Romain sets out to find her, somewhere in his memories.

Release Date2014-08-23

Charactersd Le père de Romain

Vote Count110

5.9

The Safe House

An eccentric family portrait set during the May 1968 protests in Paris. A nine-year-old boy stays with his grandparents and uncles while his parents protest. When an illustrious guest seeks refuge in the apartment, the family’s dynamics change.

Release Date2025-03-19

Charactersd Père-Grand

Vote Count47

6.4

You Are So Beautiful

Aymé Pigrenet, a recently widowed farmer, is eager to find a new wife to help him run his farm. Desperate, he seeks the aid of a local matchmaker who suggest that he go to Romania to find a new wife. There he meets Elena.

Release Date2005-11-07

Charactersd Aymé Pigrenet

Vote Count175

5.3

Move Along, There Is Nothing to See!

Inspector Leroux is investigating the owner of a contemporary art gallery Helen Duvernet who is suspected of being involved in trafficking of stolen paintings. He is both intrigued and attracted by the young woman, follows her everywhere and finally falls in love...

Release Date1983-04-20

Charactersd Leroux

Vote Count38

Après tout ce qu'on a fait pour toi

Divorced parents are concerned about the behavior of their teenage son who is rebelling against society.

Release Date1983-02-03

Charactersd Pierre

5.8

Kiss & Tell

Sequel to 2002's "Summer Things" (Embrassez qui vous voudrez). This French comedy follows various people in two families. Bertrand and his wife, Elizabeth, are a wealthy couple who plan to vacation near the same coastal town as their friends, Jerome and Veronique, who are secretly struggling with financial problems. Meanwhile, Bertrand and his daughter, Emilie, have each been hiding a secret, and these deceptions are bound to have repercussions.

Release Date2018-10-10

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Jean-Pierre

Vote Count143

6.3

Thank You, Life

Camille, a naïve schoolgirl, meets an intriguing 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.

Release Date1991-03-13

Charactersd Raymond Pelleveau, le père jeune

Vote Count53

5.3

Heroes Are Not Wet Behind the Ears

Two brothers are fighting for a one girl attention...

Release Date1979-01-17

Charactersd Passerby who provides information

Vote Count24

6.4

The Witnesses

Paris, 1984. A group of friends contend with the first outbreak of the AIDS epidemic.

Release Date2007-03-07

Charactersd Adrien

Vote Count59

6.3

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

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Charactersd Guy

Vote Count142

7.5

The Defective Detective

Lewis plays a Las Vegas policeman visiting his ex-wife in France, only to be caught up in the shenanigans of a group of art thieves. His ex-wife has remarried and her husband is undercover among the art thieves, carrying out an assignment given him by his superiors in the police force. Inevitably, the current husband and the ex-husband are bound to clash.

Release Date1984-10-31

Charactersd Laurent Martin

Vote Count1

6.0

The Second Wind

Gu, a famous gangster, has just escaped from jail. All french police is after him. Before leaving the country with Manouche, the woman he loves, Gu needs a final job to get some money. The job works, but a police's scheming makes Gu appear as a traitor to his own accomplices. Gu will do whatever it takes to clean his honor...

Release Date2007-10-24

Charactersd le commissaire Blot

Vote Count41

6.1

The Horse of Pride

In early twentieth-century Brittany, two peasants marry, have a son, and live in traditional Breton ways: three generations under one roof, a division of labor between the sexes, elders' stories at night, politics and religion during their little free time. Times are hard: la Chienne du Monde drives some to suicide; Ankou (death) is close at hand. Pierre is born into this republican family, his lyric childhood interrupted by the outbreak of war and his father's conscription. He learns his catechism and, as a child of a Reds, also reveres school. His grandfather and father often put him on their shoulders, giving him a ride on the horse of pride.

Release Date1980-09-24

Charactersd Corentin Calvez

Vote Count8

6.7

The Best Way to Walk

In 1960, Marc and Philippe are counselors at a summer camp in the French countryside. One night, Marc finds Philippe dressed and made up as a woman, and from now on, he will keep on humiliating Philippe.

Release Date1976-03-03

Charactersd Deloux

Vote Count75

5.3

The Professional Secrets of Dr. Apfelgluck

This series of sketches introduces doctor Apfelglück and four of his patients... and their rather peculiar and disturbing problems.

Release Date1991-04-24

Charactersd L'hindou

Vote Count26

5.8

The Girl on the Train

The Girl on the Train is a 2009 French drama film directed by André Téchiné. Jeanne is a young woman, striking but otherwise without qualities. Her mother tries to get her a job in the office of a lawyer, Bleistein, her lover years ago. Jeanne fails the interview but falls into a relationship with Franck, a wrestler whose dreams and claims of being in a legitimate business partnership Jeanne is only too happy to believe. When Franck is arrested, he turns on Jeanne for her naivety; she's stung and seeks attention by making up a story of an attack on a train. Is there any way out for her?

Release Date2009-03-18

Charactersd Samuel Bleistein

Vote Count56

6.1

Odd Job

An unemployed factory worker takes a job as a hit man to make ends meet.

Release Date2016-08-31

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Charactersd Gardot

Vote Count185

6.4

Let Joy Reign Supreme

A look at 18th-century France, when the authorities depravity contributed to social oppression, and the uprisings flared up one after another.

Release Date1975-03-23

Charactersd The valet

Vote Count76

5.4

I Hate Actors

A Hollywood studio is producing another spectacular when the top billed male stars suddenly show up as corpses, killed before the critics could ever put pen to paper. Under suspicion is a talent agent. Is he guilty or not? These macabre events have everyone off their feed, from the producers down to the lowest gofer.

Release Date1986-09-10

Charactersd Monsieur Albert

Vote Count13

6.3

Cause toujours... tu m'intéresses

François Perrin is a journalist who reads the news on RTL radio. Alone in life, his only "amusement" is his neighbor from Africa, who makes mildly fun of him from time to time. One evening, François is bored, and decides to call a random telephone number. He gets Christine on the line, a bit of an old school pharmacist, who hesitates to put down the phone, and plays the game of seduction with the charming "Mr X"...

Release Date1979-04-18

Charactersd Construction site police officer

Vote Count29

4.8

You Won't Have Alsace-Lorraine

Whilst King Gros Pif I amuses himself at debauched banquets, his musketeers pursue their tax-collecting duties with a malicious zeal. Goaded by the court jester (who is also the Queen’s lover), the ministers decide to put an end to this regime and have the King locked up. Hearing the news, the famous Chevalier Blanc comes to his rescue. Aided by the knight and his cousin Lucienne, the King flees to Flanders, where he devises a scheme to win him back the throne of France...

Release Date1977-10-19

Charactersd Antremont

Vote Count62

5.4

Sans peur et sans reproche

Without fear and beyond reproach: the life of the brave knight de Bayard reviewed and corrected with humorous sauce.

Release Date1988-12-14

Charactersd Verdiglione, surgeon

Vote Count36

6.0

The Grand Dukes

Three aging and failed comedians, Georges Cox, Victor Vialat and Eddie Carpentier, hit the road again with a lousy production of a lousy play, of course under the worst possible conditions.

Release Date1996-02-21

Charactersd Shapiron

Vote Count54

3.2

Le beaujolais nouveau est arrivé...

Camadule is in charge of buying several barrels of the Beaujolais Nouveau. The Captain and Kamel will travel with him to get the divine beverage.

Release Date1978-03-26

Charactersd Le fils du capitaine

Vote Count4

4.4

Toxic Affair

In this erstwhile comedy, Penelope (Isabelle Adjani) is already sufficiently unsettled by the fact that she is no longer a top model, and must cast around for another occupation. When her boyfriend leaves her, she becomes quite hysterical, conjuring up schemes for revenge, contemplating suicide, and so on. These dramatics eventually exasperate her best friend Sophie (Clementine Celarie) so much that she contemplates killing Penelope, her ex-boyfriend, or the two of them together, just to stop the whining.

Release Date1993-05-26

Charactersd The suicidal

Vote Count7

5.6

93, rue Lauriston

93, rue Lauriston, in the 16th arrondissement de Paris, is an address of bleak memory. It was indeed the headquarter of the French Gestapo, which was active between 1941 and 1944 and was headed by Henri Lafont and Pierre Loutrel, two wanted criminals. On the day of 1940 he was demobilized, little did well-meaning Léon Jabinet know that he would be associated with such disreputable characters. And yet, some time later, Odile Panzer, the Jewish girl he has been hiding at his parents'place, is arrested by the Gestapo. On this occasion Léon is offered a deal for her release: collaborating with the Carlingue (another name for the French auxiliaries of the Nazi police) and Odile will be free. Or else... What should he do?

Release Date2004-12-14

Charactersd Inspecteur Blot

Vote Count17

7.0

L'Affaire Dominici

During the night of August 4-5, 1952, three Englishmen, Jack Drummond, his wife Anne and their daughter Elizabeth were murdered near their car near the farm of the Dominici family, in the commune of Lurs in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence. Denounced by two of his sons, the patriarch Gaston Dominici was judged and condemned without any real evidence.

Release Date2003-10-12

Charactersd Commissaire Sébeille

Vote Count32

6.0

Bunny's Bar

In the cloakroom of Bunny's Bar, a shabby striptease box, Anita, a cloakroom lady, celebrates her last night of work: she has to join Paul in Metz to start a new life.

Release Date1985-05-06

Charactersd Jacques, portier

Vote Count1

6.5

Marche à l'ombre

Two friends, one a musician the other constantly depressed wander around Greece and France till they get to Paris without a penny to their name. Here they spend nights in the underground, and squat in houses with the African immigrants. One day they both fall in love with Mathilde a blond dancer and follow her to New York.

Release Date1984-10-17

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Denis

Vote Count177

1.0

Drôle de samedi

Release Date1985-04-01

Charactersd Driving school student

Vote Count1

5.2

The Rookie Guide

Yann can’t find a job he likes or can keep, and dreams of a better life. One day he learns that the famous travel guide Le Routard pays its employees to travel the world. Surely the perfect free holiday! Smooth-talking his way through the door, Yann manages to get himself hired for a trial research trip to Morocco, but he rapidly comes to realise that he’s seriously underestimated the job… Beguiled by Sofia, a feisty tourist guide, Yann gets swept up in an art trafficking operation led by the infamous mobster art dealer Dr Charoux and is plunged into an adventure where nothing will go as planned!

Release Date2025-04-02

Charactersd Docteur Charoux

Vote Count5

3.6

Une nuit à l'Assemblée Nationale

The leader of a nudist camp enlists the help of left-wing militant when he mistakenly believes he should receive the Legion of Honor.

Release Date1988-06-08

Charactersd Walter Arbeit

Vote Count5

5.0

Focal Point

Reporter renowned photographer, Danièle Gaur is conducting an investigation into the alleged accident of her husband Michel. Her research is gradually leading her to discover the workings of a plot to assassinate US Foreign Secretary John W. Maxwell.

Release Date1977-10-25

Charactersd Policeman

Vote Count4

6.0

Bonne présentation exigée

Release Date1974-09-30

Charactersd L'homme qui arrive

Vote Count1

5.8

School's Out

A few days before the baccalaureate, a high school student decides to settle accounts with the most cowardly teacher in the school.

Release Date2008-07-16

Charactersd Professor Martineau

Vote Count173

5.3

Separate Bedrooms

Martin and Gert lead a very quiet life, until the day when their path crosses that of Marie and Francis. Martin, the shy one, lets himself be seduced by Marie. Gert wasted no time in understanding and dropped into Francis' arms.

Release Date1989-11-22

Charactersd Martin

Vote Count9

3.2

Like a Turtle on Its Back

Unable to put a single word on paper, a youngish man with one novel to his credit finds that his life is crumbling to ruins around him because of his severe case of writer's block. He tries every remedy known to man and makes up a few new ones in this comedy. All his efforts are futile: he loses his girlfriend and his apartment and has a succession of misadventures until finally, homeless and hospitalized, he rediscovers his inspiration.

Release Date1978-09-27

Charactersd le fêtard qui lit

Vote Count3

6.0

Out of Whack

Rien ne va plus is a series of comedy sketches of disparate quality, on the social, cultural, and political foibles that make the French, French. Various settings and character types are given a once-over, including pseudo-intellectuals, punk bikers, right-wingers, and patrons of a low-end cafe.

Release Date1979-12-12

Charactersd Marcel Dupin / Passager métro effrayé

Vote Count5

5.3

A Spot of Bother

Retired Englishman George Hall's hypochondria worsens and takes its toll on his family.

Release Date2010-01-12

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Charactersd Jean-Paul Muret

Vote Count52

4.4

Madame Edouard

In Brussels, one discovers the bodies of young women buried behind the tombs of famous painters… In each of them, it lacks the right forearm. Yarn needles, Commissioner Leon, whose secret passion is knitting, unravels the intrigue of this dark history, with the heart of this case Mrs. Edward Island, transvestite housekeeper bistro "In Sudden Death," where one encounters a high wildlife colors.

Release Date2004-06-02

Charactersd le commissaire Léon

Vote Count9

4.0

Surprise Sock

Following a car accident, four men find themselves in the hospital, where they sow discord. Meanwhile, their wives take full advantage of their newfound freedom.

Release Date1978-06-14

Charactersd L'interne

Vote Count3

5.5

Top Dogs

Antoine and Christian, two long-estranged brothers from Normandy, couldn’t be more different from each other: while the former is happily married with two kids and a successful boat driver, the latter is a facetious globe-trotting hustler who likes to engage in bar fights. But when Antoine starts getting involved in sleazy activities, Christian flies to his rescue. In an unexpected bonding-adventure they take upon themselves to defend the family they thought they’d never be.

Release Date2023-01-11

Charactersd Jean-Pierre Deloup

Vote Count45

5.4

Nuit d'ivresse

In a bar, ex-TV host Belin meets Frede, an ex-maid who just got out of prison. Between them, they manage to create panic everywhere they go. The next morning Belin has forgotten everything.

Release Date1985-01-01

Charactersd Jacques Belin

Vote Count22

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
6.0

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

A talk show presented by Michel Drucker

Release Date1975-01-12

Charactersd Self

Episode Count1

Vote Count1

Vivement dimanche
3.0

Vivement dimanche

Release Date1998-09-20

Charactersd Self

Episode Count2

Vote Count7

Coucou c'est nous !
6.5

Coucou c'est nous !

Release Date1992-09-22

Charactersd Self

Episode Count2

Vote Count1

Champs-Elysées
6.3

Champs-Elysées

Release Date1982-01-16

Charactersd Self

Episode Count5

Vote Count7

Spécial cinéma

Spécial cinéma

Release Date1974-09-25

Charactersd Self

Episode Count1

Sacrée soirée
6.5

Sacrée soirée

Release Date1987-09-02

Charactersd Self

Episode Count1

Vote Count3

Salut les Terriens !
3.5

Salut les Terriens !

Release Date2006-11-04

Charactersd Self - Guest

Episode Count1

Vote Count3

Les Nuls, l'émission
8.3

Les Nuls, l'émission

Release Date1990-10-13

Charactersd Self - Guest

Episode Count2

Vote Count5

C à vous
6.0

C à vous

Every day live on FRANCE 5, Anne-Élisabeth Lemoine and her team receive those who make the news. In the second part, the program welcomes, around a meal prepared by a qualified chef, artists in promotion.

Release Date2009-09-07

Charactersd Self

Episode Count1

Vote Count3

Faut Voir - L'hebdo cinéma

Faut Voir - L'hebdo cinéma

Release Date2023-09-22

Charactersd Self - Guest

Episode Count1

Têtàtête(s)

Têtàtête(s)

Release Date2023-10-01

Charactersd Self - Guest

Episode Count1

6.5

L'Âge d'or de la pub

55 years ago, on October 1 1968, the first brand advertising spot appeared on the French television screen. Over the next three decades, thousands of creative little films would seduce and build our collective memory. Kitschy or cult spots, humor, slogans, music, stars, gimmicks, grand spectacle or sex appeal: during its golden age, how did advertising convince? Thierry Ardisson has brought together almost 400 advertising clips to relive the era of the conquest of minds and wallets.

Release Date2023-06-02

Charactersd Self (archive footage)

Vote Count6

6.2

Des Bronzés au Père Noël, la folle histoire du Splendid

Release Date2014-01-31

Charactersd Self / Various characters

Vote Count4

Les Bronzés, le père Noël, papy et les autres

Les Bronzés, le Père Noël, Papy et les autres....Discover or rediscover the emblematic scenes of these cult films that have crossed generations without getting old. Go behind the scenes of these unusual films through completely unpublished anecdotes and funny stories told by the authors themselves.

Release Date2003-01-03

Charactersd Self

Sœur Thérèse.com
6.9

Sœur Thérèse.com

Release Date2002-09-30

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Vote Count4

5.3

The Escort

Fleeing from his wife in France to London, 45-year-old Pierre is barely able to support himself. He meets friendly Tom, who offers to help him make ends meet by working as a male escort.

Release Date1999-11-17

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count23

6.7

Espèces menacées

An accountant, presumed honest, inadvertently finds 7 million francs in his bag and decides to change his life.

Release Date2001-05-07

DepartmentWriting

JobAdaptation

Vote Count3

7.0

L'Excès contraire

Release Date1988-09-11

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

Merci Bernard

Merci Bernard

Release Date1982-04-04

Episode Count1

8.0

Les Enfoirés - Les Enfoirés en chœur de 1985 à aujourd'hui

Release Date2014-12-13

Vote Count2

6.5

Les Enfoirés 1993 - Les Enfoirés chantent Starmania

Show recorded on February 26, 1993 at the Grande Halle de la Villette in Paris for the benefit of the Restos du Coeur.

Release Date1993-03-06

Vote Count2

4.0

Pierrot mon ami

Pierrot, a short-sighted, indolent and distracted young boy gets involved in a carnival at the Palais de la Rigolade whose main attraction is to place the women in an ascending current of air which makes their skirts fly. A fight in this Palace makes him lose his job. Then he meets Yvonne, the daughter of Pradonet, the owner of the funfair. He falls in love with Yvonne who hardly seems to share his feelings.

Release Date1979-02-07

Vote Count1

4.5

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

Vote Count2

2.5

The Girl's Dead, Man

A young couple discover an ancient book in the attic and start reading the story of the Malemort family: a sombre household set in the nineteenth century in rural France. The old man Deroze plays his violin and tries to seduce the maid. His elder daughter Maxime "qui tue les mouches et deguste en cachette des fruits juteux". Underneath her bourgeois facade her senses are not yet put to rest. There is the rest of this upstairs/downstairs family who is visited by a sea captain who learns of a hidden treasure The storyline of this adult fairy tale is less important than the cinematography and the lyric fairy tale atmosphere that surrounds this movie. A little masterpiece still to be rediscovered.

Release Date1974-01-16

Vote Count3

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