Michel Blanc

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 Date: 2025-04-02

Character: Docteur Charoux

Vote Count: 5

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 Date: 2025-03-19

Character: Père-Grand

Vote Count: 47

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 Date: 2023-10-11

Character: Judge Gilles d'Outremont

Vote Count: 65

Têtàtête(s)

Release Date: 2023-10-01

Character: Self - Guest

Episode Count: 1

Faut Voir - L'hebdo cinéma

Release Date: 2023-09-22

Character: Self - Guest

Episode Count: 1

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 Date: 2023-06-02

Character: Self (archive footage)

Vote Count: 6

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 Date: 2023-03-01

Character: Emile Menoux

Vote Count: 153

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 Date: 2023-01-11

Character: Jean-Pierre Deloup

Vote Count: 45

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 Date: 2021-12-08

Character: Jean-Yves Marteau

Vote Count: 249

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 Date: 2019-12-11

Character: Serge Mamou Mani, the doctor

Vote Count: 319

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 Date: 2018-10-10

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Character: Jean-Pierre

Vote Count: 143

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 Date: 2017-02-01

Character: Jacques Pasquali

Vote Count: 919

Odd Job

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

Release Date: 2016-08-31

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Character: Gardot

Vote Count: 185

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 Date: 2015-10-14

Character: Sultan

Vote Count: 875

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

Release Date: 2014-12-13

Vote Count: 2

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 Date: 2014-08-23

Character: Le père de Romain

Vote Count: 110

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 Date: 2014-08-06

Character: Mayor

Vote Count: 1466

Des Bronzés au Père Noël, la folle histoire du Splendid

Release Date: 2014-01-31

Character: Self / Various characters

Vote Count: 4

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 Date: 2013-06-04

Character: Paul

Vote Count: 47

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 Date: 2011-10-26

Character: Gilles, director of staff

Vote Count: 137

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 Date: 2011-04-20

Character: Eli Dhrey

Vote Count: 108

A Spot of Bother

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

Release Date: 2010-01-12

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Character: Jean-Paul Muret

Vote Count: 52

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 Date: 2009-09-07

Character: Self

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 3

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 Date: 2009-03-18

Character: Samuel Bleistein

Vote Count: 56

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 Date: 2008-11-19

Character: Mosk

Vote Count: 42

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 Date: 2008-07-16

Character: Professor Martineau

Vote Count: 173

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 Date: 2007-10-24

Character: le commissaire Blot

Vote Count: 41

The Witnesses

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

Release Date: 2007-03-07

Character: Adrien

Vote Count: 59

Salut les Terriens !

Release Date: 2006-11-04

Character: Self - Guest

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 3

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 Date: 2006-02-01

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Character: Jean-Claude "Jessy" Dusse

Vote Count: 729

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 Date: 2005-11-07

Character: Aymé Pigrenet

Vote Count: 175

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 Date: 2004-12-14

Character: Inspecteur Blot

Vote Count: 17

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 Date: 2004-06-02

Character: le commissaire Léon

Vote Count: 9

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 Date: 2003-10-12

Character: Commissaire Sébeille

Vote Count: 32

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 Date: 2003-01-03

Character: Self

Sœur Thérèse.com

Release Date: 2002-09-30

Department: Creator

Job: Creator

Vote Count: 4

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 Date: 2002-03-04

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Character: Jean-Pierre

Vote Count: 96

Espèces menacées

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

Release Date: 2001-05-07

Department: Writing

Job: Adaptation

Vote Count: 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 Date: 1999-11-17

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 23

Vivement dimanche

Release Date: 1998-09-20

Character: Self

Episode Count: 2

Vote Count: 7

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 Date: 1996-02-21

Character: Shapiron

Vote Count: 54

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 Date: 1994-12-23

Character: Inspector Forget

Vote Count: 219

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 Date: 1994-10-22

Department: Writing

Job: Adaptation

Character: Paride Taccone, le psychiatre

Vote Count: 615

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 Date: 1994-05-18

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Character: Michel Blanc / Patrick Olivier

Vote Count: 111

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 Date: 1993-05-26

Character: The suicidal

Vote Count: 7

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 Date: 1993-03-06

Vote Count: 2

Coucou c'est nous !

Release Date: 1992-09-22

Character: Self

Episode Count: 2

Vote Count: 1

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 Date: 1991-08-30

Character: Alonso

Vote Count: 94

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 Date: 1991-05-01

Character: Norbert

Vote Count: 21

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 Date: 1991-04-24

Character: L'hindou

Vote Count: 26

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 Date: 1991-03-13

Character: Raymond Pelleveau, le père jeune

Vote Count: 53

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 Date: 1990-12-12

Character: Gaigneux

Vote Count: 100

Les Nuls, l'émission

Release Date: 1990-10-13

Character: Self - Guest

Episode Count: 2

Vote Count: 5

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 Date: 1989-11-22

Character: Martin

Vote Count: 9

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 Date: 1989-05-24

Character: Monsieur Hire

Vote Count: 164

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 Date: 1988-12-14

Character: Verdiglione, surgeon

Vote Count: 36

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 Date: 1988-10-29

Character: Service des fraudes

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 6

L'Excès contraire

Release Date: 1988-09-11

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 1

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 Date: 1988-06-08

Character: Walter Arbeit

Vote Count: 5

Sacrée soirée

Release Date: 1987-09-02

Character: Self

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 3

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 Date: 1986-12-17

Character: Doctor Bourdarias (uncredited)

Vote Count: 401

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 Date: 1986-09-10

Character: Monsieur Albert

Vote Count: 13

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 Date: 1986-04-23

Character: Antoine

Vote Count: 238

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 Date: 1985-05-06

Character: Jacques, portier

Vote Count: 1

Drôle de samedi

Release Date: 1985-04-01

Character: Driving school student

Vote Count: 1

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 Date: 1985-01-01

Character: Jacques Belin

Vote Count: 22

Dream One

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

Release Date: 1984-12-12

Character: Boris / Nemo's Father

Vote Count: 6

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 Date: 1984-10-31

Character: Laurent Martin

Vote Count: 1

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 Date: 1984-10-17

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Character: Denis

Vote Count: 177

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 Date: 1983-10-26

Character: Le père Lebœuf, résistant

Vote Count: 412

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 Date: 1983-04-20

Character: Leroux

Vote Count: 38

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 Date: 1983-02-03

Character: Pierre

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 Date: 1982-08-25

Character: L'obsédé sexuel au téléphone (voice)

Vote Count: 1012

Merci Bernard

Release Date: 1982-04-04

Episode Count: 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 Date: 1982-01-27

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Character: Bernard

Vote Count: 67

Champs-Elysées

Release Date: 1982-01-16

Character: Self

Episode Count: 5

Vote Count: 7

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 Date: 1981-01-25

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Character: Guy

Vote Count: 142

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 Date: 1980-09-24

Character: Corentin Calvez

Vote Count: 8

Les 400 Coups de Virginie

Release Date: 1979-12-22

Character: l'antiquaire

Episode Count: 6

Vote Count: 1

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 Date: 1979-12-12

Character: Taboureau

Vote Count: 34

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 Date: 1979-12-12

Character: Marcel Dupin / Passager métro effrayé

Vote Count: 5

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 Date: 1979-11-22

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Character: Jean-Claude Dusse

Vote Count: 1224

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 Date: 1979-04-18

Character: Construction site police officer

Vote Count: 29

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 Date: 1979-02-07

Vote Count: 1

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 Date: 1979-01-24

Character: M. Bertin

Vote Count: 9

Heroes Are Not Wet Behind the Ears

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

Release Date: 1979-01-17

Character: Passerby who provides information

Vote Count: 24

Rire et sourire : Le Splendid

Release Date: 1978-11-19

Department: Creator

Job: Creator

Character: Différents rôles (Jean Marchand, M. Cinoche)

Episode Count: [ 1 ]

Vote Count: 1

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 Date: 1978-11-11

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Character: Jean-Claude Dusse, the frustrated

Vote Count: 911

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 Date: 1978-09-27

Character: le fêtard qui lit

Vote Count: 3

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 Date: 1978-06-14

Character: L'interne

Vote Count: 3

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 Date: 1978-03-26

Character: Le fils du capitaine

Vote Count: 4

Madame le Juge

Release Date: 1978-03-11

Character: un vigile

Episode Count: 6

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 Date: 1977-10-25

Character: Policeman

Vote Count: 4

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 Date: 1977-10-19

Character: Antremont

Vote Count: 62

Les Héritiers

Release Date: 1977-09-24

Character: Ivan

Episode Count: 16

Vote Count: 1

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 Date: 1977-09-06

Character: Agent immobilier véreux

Vote Count: 18

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 Date: 1977-04-19

Vote Count: 2

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 Date: 1976-06-16

Character: Un copain du café-théâtre

Vote Count: 45

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 Date: 1976-05-26

Character: Scope's Neighbor

Vote Count: 1159

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 Date: 1976-04-07

Character: Choukroun

Vote Count: 10

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 Date: 1976-03-10

Character: A worker

Vote Count: 68

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 Date: 1976-03-03

Character: Deloux

Vote Count: 75

Let's Make a Dirty Movie

A bumbling film crew attempts to make a porno movie.

Release Date: 1976-02-17

Character: Un flic

Vote Count: 10

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 Date: 1975-03-23

Character: The valet

Vote Count: 76

Un bol d'air

Release Date: 1975-02-19

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Character: Michel

Vote Count: 2

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

A talk show presented by Michel Drucker

Release Date: 1975-01-12

Character: Self

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 1

Bonne présentation exigée

Release Date: 1974-09-30

Character: L'homme qui arrive

Vote Count: 1

Spécial cinéma

Release Date: 1974-09-25

Character: Self

Episode Count: 1

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 Date: 1974-01-16

Vote Count: 3