Luis Rego

Luis Rego (born 30 May 1943) is a French actor, comedian, writer and director, of Portuguese origins. He was a founding member of music/comedy group Les Charlots which he left after a few years. Source: Article "Luis Rego" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

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Parliament

Samy, a young parliamentary assistant, arrives in Brussels after the Brexit referendum. He is not fit for the job. Samy doesn't know much about European institutions and he hopes to get away with it thanks to his cleverness…

Release Date2020-04-09

Charactersd Jorge

Episode Count10

Vote Count35

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

Charactersd Georges Pelletier, aka 'Bobo', host of the Club

Vote Count918

Quatre étoiles

Franssou, a charming Parisian English teacher, who shares part of her life with a boring middle-aged lover, dreams of another life. So, when she unexpectedly inherits 50,000 euros, she grasps the opportunity and goes to the French Riviera in order to take it easy in luxury. In the four-star hotel where she rents a room she comes across Stéphane, a strange guy who is in the process of arranging Elton John's next coming to the place. Intrigued by the noisy ostentatious fellow, she follows him until she finally comes into contact with him. She knows Stéphane is at bay and decides to take advantage of it.

Release Date2006-01-20

Charactersd Robert

Vote Count99

Rookies Run Amok

Les Bidasses en Folie, a french movie from 1971, is a very short, easy to watch, slapstick hippie comedy.

Release Date1971-12-15

Charactersd Luis

Vote Count104

San Antonio

While a terrorist epidemy strikes the world leaders, the commissaire San-Antonio and his partner, the lieutenant Bérurier, have to escort the French ambassador in a British hotel. But after a negligence of Bérurier (one more little sex affair...), San-Antonio witnessed, helpless, to the ambassador's abduction, organized by a gorgeous Italian girl. Back to Paris, San-Antonio is dismissed by the police chief, Achille Hachille. A real godsend for Bérurier, who get promoted... But soon, the situation degenerates, when the president of the Republic mysteriously disappears. Immediate reaction from Police Minister : San-Antonio is the only one who can save the day. He has 48 hours and a secret squad to find the president. At the Elysée, San-Antonio finds Bérurier, the official investigator. But now, it's every man for himself : who will be the first to find the President ?

Release Date2004-07-21

Charactersd Pinaud

Vote Count48

Raining Cats and Frogs

It's a catastrophe! A flood has hit our planet and an unusual group of people are all that remains. Led by Ferdinand, a modern day Noah, this little group have managed to defy the furiously raging elements. People and animals alike are dragged through this incredible whirlpool of an adventure.

Release Date2003-12-03

Charactersd René Lamotte (voice)

Vote Count138

Day Off

Wednesday is the day when children are not in school and stay at home. It is also the day when the parents are not there. In Nantes, in the spring, twenty or so carefree and boisterous kids between the ages of three and eleven take advantage of this day to make their parents go crazy. Emma, 9 years old and naturally romantic, decides that Roland, the little boy she met in the street, is unhappy and persuades her friends to adopt him. Victoria spends the day with Martin Socoa, an often distant father whom she learns to love. There are also Muriel, Bruno, Colette and Henri who take off and create panic in their parents' home, while Marylin lives the founding drama of her childhood with a mother of an unreal sweetness. Throughout these little stories, we realize that the world of children has its own logic, totally different from that of adults.

Release Date2001-03-28

Charactersd Mercier

Vote Count20

The Wild Goose Chase

The whole intrigue is centered around carte-blanche documents kept in a vault. Whoever fills in the blank becomes the owner of a revue. Big money is involved. The nephew of the owner of the vault is trying to cheat his uncle and have his name in the documents. Everything is even more complicated because the manager of the bank has a finger in the pie, too. Who but a humble bank-teller (Pierre Richard) will ruin the scheme?

Release Date1975-10-08

Charactersd Franz

Vote Count77

Maine-Ocean Express

"Maine-Ocean" is the name of a train that rides from Paris to Saint-Nazaire (near the ocean). In that train, Dejanira, a Brazilian, has a brush with the two ticket inspectors. Mimi, another traveler and also a lawyer, helps her. The four of them will meet together later and live a few shifted adventures with a strange-speaking sailor (Mimi's client).

Release Date1986-04-16

Charactersd Contrôleur Lucien Pontoiseau

Vote Count121

Meet the Leroys

A man takes his wife and their teenage children on a road trip down memory lane while facing divorce.

Release Date2024-04-10

Charactersd Marcel Leroy

Vote Count262

Ça n'empêche pas les sentiments

A former schoolteacher turned film distributor, Jean-Pierre Jackson made his directorial debut with this French comedy about two losers. When alimony payments catch up with Felix (Philippe Chevaillier), his furniture is seized. After a decade-long marriage, Raoul (Regis Laspales) leaves his wife. The two team for a job with Le Gai Vendangeur (The Jolly Vintner) as sales reps, but they score zero while tooling around Brittany in a silly station wagon decorated with an immense wine bottle atop the vehicle's roof. However, when they're joined by friendly, sexy Eliane (Cecile Bois), sales surge. The wine pours, and so does the money. Life is sweet, but it all turns sour when an affair begins between Felix and Eliane, much to Raoul's regret.

Release Date1998-03-01

Charactersd Bernard, bistro owner

Vote Count3

Rire et sourire : Le Splendid

Release Date1978-11-19

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Charactersd Différents rôles (Joseph Lewis)

Episode Count[ 1 ]

Vote Count1

Attila Marcel

Paul is a sweet man-child, raised — and smothered — by his two eccentric aunts in Paris since the death of his parents when he was a toddler. Now thirty-three, he still does not speak. Paul's aunts have only one dream for him: to win piano competitions. Although Paul practices dutifully, he remains unfulfilled until he submits to the interventions of his upstairs neighbour. Suitably named after the novelist, Madame Proust offers Paul a concoction that unlocks repressed memories from his childhood and awakens the most delightful of fantasies.

Release Date2013-11-06

Charactersd M. Coelho

Vote Count63

Nocturama

Some young folks, tired of the society they're living in, plan a bomb attack over Paris before taking shelter for a night in a shopping center.

Release Date2016-08-31

Charactersd Jean-Claude

Vote Count240

Le Roi des cons

Georges Le Roi lives odd jobs and shares his life between two girlfriends. One day, he falls in love with Sophie and records a message of love. The tape is mistakenly broadcast in the company. In the face of success, Sophie founded the company Tell me about love and spread the messages of Georges, who soon became a sex symbol.

Release Date1981-02-18

Charactersd L'homme sur la terrasse du Trocadéro

Vote Count9

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 Le second capitaine des mousquetaires

Vote Count63

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 M. Gomez

Vote Count26

The Big Bang

In 1995, Italy annihilates Libya, which destroys Israel. Africa bombs Germany, which in turn attacks France. Luxembourg conquers England. Sweden, Monte Carlo and Switzerland immolate themselves.The Russians decide to liquidate the Americans, who unleash their nuclear fleet, leaving only two continents on the verge of World War IV.

Release Date1987-03-06

Charactersd Fred (voice)

Vote Count14

Slices of Life

A series of humorous sketches on life: "A Night to Remember", "Summit Showdown", and "A Book? That's personal!"

Release Date1985-02-06

Charactersd L'interprète

Vote Count19

The Wolf at the Door

Chronicling a period of time in Paul Gauguin's life, this film follows him through his struggles in love and the financial problems caused by the inability to sell his artwork.

Release Date1986-09-05

Charactersd Paco

Vote Count11

The Charlots Return

Antonio returned to Portugal ten years ago with his lovely (and quite thin) French wife. She has since become quite a hefty specimen of womanhood, and his eye has lately been wandering to others. When his strong-tempered wife catches him with another woman (their neighbor), she bonks him on the head. In order to avoid further embarrassment, he pretends this has induced amnesia. He does so well in his pretense that his worried wife calls his old Parisian buddies (the rest of the Charlots) and asks them to come and help revive his memory.

Release Date1992-06-17

Charactersd Antonio

Vote Count16

Copacabana

Babou seems to be able to shrug off anything. Real jobs, husbands, responsibilities, who needs them? But when she finds out that her own daughter is too ashamed of her to invite her to her wedding, she decides to make some changes.

Release Date2010-05-16

Charactersd Patrice

Vote Count42

I Don't Know Much, But I'll Say Everything

Pierre Gastié-Leroy is the son of a wealthy director of a factory of weapon manufacturing. Despite his parents, two generous uncles and a bishop godfather who try to inculcate him the rigid values of his social level, Pierre is a dreamer, antimilitaristic, social educator who dreams of saving three thugs, his "little guys" at the limit of delinquency. After several resounding failures that sent him to prison, Pierre is ordered by his father to join his factory to direct the social service. Tired of the venality of his father and the foolishness of the "little guys", Pierre hires them at the factory...

Release Date1973-09-11

Charactersd Luis, cas social

Vote Count62

Flowers of Blood

In custody after she murders her middle aged photographer lover, a fourteen year old Pam reflects back on the bohemian life she spent with her mother Lily, a free spirited cabaret performer. Lily tried to elevate her stripper performances from the level of erotic spectacle to artistic expression as she dragged her young daughter from nightclub to nightclub and hotel to hotel, but ultimately lost her at nine to the Paris child authorities.

Release Date2002-05-01

Charactersd Director of erotic festivsl

Vote Count7

The Landlords

Directed by Rémi Waterhouse, Mille Millièmes is centered around an eccentric ensemble of apartment residents. Kindness is noticeably absent among their quarters, as demonstrated by a dating pair of neighbors whose request to have their apartments connected was flatly denied. To make matters worse, beggars gathering at a charity event are cruelly tormented by various tenants during the Christmas season. Last but not least is the Portuguese concierge whose services are in danger of being replaced by a more cost-effective alternative, and a widow whose recent loss earns her no sympathy from the rent-demanding landlords.

Release Date2002-08-07

Charactersd M. Da Silva

Vote Count2

Men Prefer Fat Girls

Lydie, a physically unattractive young woman, is brutally dumped by her fiancé when she had just acquired the lease of an apartment to live with him.

Release Date1981-08-19

Charactersd Gérard Langlois

Vote Count52

Rookies Run Amok 2

The sequel of a successful French comedy "Rookies Run Amok" (1971) again with "Les Charlots" group.

Release Date1983-02-02

Charactersd Lucien, le sergent

Vote Count17

The Vengeance of the Winged Serpent

An international intrigue with terrorists threatening to blow up the presidents of the most powerful countries.

Release Date1984-11-28

Charactersd Alvaro

Vote Count74

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 Reska

Vote Count39

My Life Is Hell

The naive and self-conscious Leah mistakenly signs a pact with the devil Abargadon. But she's on Heaven's hit list, so the Archangel Gabriel intervenes to bring about the demon's demise. But Leah begins to find Abargadon attractive and not so bad. She decides to save his soul.

Release Date1991-12-04

Charactersd Pazou

Vote Count54

The Great Java

Five friends come to the city Brizul. Here they want to find Mr Auguste Kougloff who owns them money, namely 20 million.

Release Date1971-01-13

Charactersd Luis

Vote Count15

La Smala

When the mother of a "tribe" of five children leaves for good, their inept father is not sure how to keep the family clothed and fed, and without the help of his neighbor Simone, he would be nowhere. She is attracted to him but eventually gives up on the relationship. Meanwhile, the father grabs his brood and they take off for Paris in search of the wife. But Simone accidentally ends up on the same train...

Release Date1984-08-29

Charactersd L'interne alcoolo

Vote Count45

Stand Up Crabs, the Sea Is Rising!

Barely out of prison, where she spent five long years, a pretty prostitute sows disorder in the life of a hitherto peaceful couple.

Release Date1983-08-17

Charactersd L'avocat

Vote Count9

The Fuhrer Runs Amok

France and Germany are at war. Adolf Hitler challenges the Allies to seal the fate of the war by playing a football match.

Release Date1974-04-12

Charactersd Harry

Vote Count4

Nuts

François has everything he could ever want, until he is kicked out of the house by his wife after his umpteenth slip up; after moving back in with his parents, he vows to win her back.

Release Date2013-02-27

Charactersd Le père de François

Vote Count8

Poule et frites

Roger, a chip seller on a Cote d’Azur beach, divides his life between his wife, a painter with a flair for originality whose work is unrecognized, and his mistress Bébé, a beautician on vacation. But his encounter with a third woman, a picaresque singer with whom he falls madly in love, will be accompanied by numerous adventures.

Release Date1987-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Roger / Antoine

Vote Count6

The Dark Room

In 14th-century France, Aliénor breaks with the codes governing girls’ behavior and does as she wishes. The King of France grants her the hand of her childhood love, but her new husband deserts her immediately after the ceremony. Undeterred, she sets out after him, traveling to Siena to bring him back.

Release Date2000-11-29

Charactersd The confessor

Vote Count4

Superlove

The Virgin Mary appears to Mario, a provincial barber who dreams of becoming a successful singer. He introduces her to his parents who decide to adopt her and give her a room in their house. The presence of the Holy Mother will soon break the monotony of the household. Teresa, Mario’s mother, starts to talk to a chandelier. Carolina, his sister, thinks she has become invulnerable and begins to hit her teacher. As for Mario, he thinks he has been invested with a special mission, to tell the truth at all times to everyone he meets. It soon turns out the Virgin is not what she pretends to be…

Release Date1999-06-09

Charactersd Maurice

El Cantor

William’s great surprise, his cousin Clovis, whom he did not see again since around thirty years, arrives from New York to visit him. Reunion between both men creates one thousand memories: always so collusive, they become fast inseparable, living again, the space of moment, their young years… Only Elizabeth, wife of William, who has just lost her father, does not share their cheerfulness.

Release Date2005-05-19

Charactersd William Stern

Life Doesn't Scare Me

We follow how four ordinary little girls learn about life, love and all that sort of things.

Release Date1999-01-01

Charactersd Ines' father

Vote Count8

The Phantom Heart

Philippe is a middle-aged painter, he lives with Annie : they have two kids. Just after they split up, Philippe meets Justine. He starts thinking about love, the relationship between former lovers..

Release Date1996-03-27

Charactersd Philippe

Vote Count6

Le croc-note show

Le croc-note show

Release Date1986-08-30

Charactersd (Voices)

Episode Count6

Get a Life

During one winter night, a Portuguese teenager, Alvaro, loses his life in a fight between a youth gang and the cops in a suburb of Paris. Cidalia, a 36 year old cleaning woman, his mother, decides to defy the code of silence of the Portuguese community and tries to find the truth. She losses her friends, her job and her family but gains a life.

Release Date2001-05-04

Charactersd Adérito

Vote Count6

Mauvaise Blague

Release Date2022-03-11

Charactersd Le Juge

Ivre-Mort pour la Patrie

Professor Choron recounts with his memories as a child of a barrier guard, the 2nd World War with its horrors and the trains he saw during those years leaving for Germany or coming from there, full of French or German soldiers, in conquest or in rout according to the period

Release Date1999-01-22

Charactersd Fernand

Vote Count1

Tribunal des flagrants délires : Jean-Marie Le Pen

Release Date1982-09-27

Charactersd L'avocat

Villa Marguerite

Release Date2008-09-25

Charactersd Etienne Grandclément

Vote Count4

Le monde d'Angelo

Angelo believes his father works with extraterrestrials on a top secret project.

Release Date1998-01-01

Charactersd Robert

Objectif bac

Release Date2001-05-01

Charactersd Adolpho Pereira

Little Girls

Inès, Stella, Marion and Emilie are four young women who become friends and never leave each other. They band together during their teenage years. This film discusses their first meeting and what happens afterward.

Release Date1997-01-15

Charactersd Ines' Father

Vote Count2

À vos caisses !

Release Date2010-12-18

Charactersd Monsieur André

Vote Count3

Procès de Jean Carmet

Release Date1983-02-10

Charactersd L'avocat

Vote Count1

Tribunal des flagrants délires : Patrick Poivre d'Arvor

Release Date1982-10-28

Charactersd L'avocat

Poor George

One night Jorge will meet with a Japanese industrialist, who will allow him to abandon his teaching position and resume his chemical work. However, when he gets home he finds a person there.

Release Date1993-02-26

Charactersd Sequeira

Vote Count7

Leopard Ties

The CEO of a recycling company blames lazy staff for declining results. To motivate them, he sends executives to a survival course in the Corsican maquis, hoping to transform them into conquerors. The executives, in suits and ties, find the hostile environment challenging.

Release Date1992-02-06

Charactersd Jo Ballister

Aldo et Junior

The confrontation of a sixty-eight-year-old father and his son with conservative ideas.

Release Date1984-01-11

Charactersd Paul

Vote Count9

The Deeds and Sayings of Nasreddin II

The stories of Nasreddin carry out a reversal of 'point of view' which shatter our established way of seeing things, people, the world and their relationships.

Release Date2016-07-11

Charactersd Nasreddin

La grande Paulette

This is an attempt to imitate the inimitable, Jacques Tati. Paulette is a life-size blow-up doll. Imagine the rest yourself.

Release Date1974-04-24

Charactersd Luis

Un simple froncement de sourcil

Release Date2004-04-14

Charactersd Claude / Christophe

Les Grands Airs de Tebaldo

Release Date1992-01-01

Charactersd (Voice)

Episode Count10

Vote Count1

A Casa Esquecida

Ivo and Tomás, two volunteered vagabonds who feed their souls of ways and great winds. From time to time they make a stop, renting their arms, the necessary time to be able to, provisions made, get on the road again. Once, with the sun at its peak and a burning heat, the desert that they are crossing seems to be endless. They run out of water… in the end of the day, without any strength left, they let themselves fall near to a dried bush. Ivo stares at the moon rising, as is saying farewell and whispering verses of a poem of a lawyer they’ve met before. It is then that he sees a far light. They set their way to that house…

Release Date2004-07-09

Charactersd Itinerant agricultural labourer

Vote Count1

Le Tribunal Des Flagrants Délires

Le Tribunal des flagrants délires was a comedy show where celebrities were judged in mock-trials. Desproges held the part of the prosecutor for more than two years, a part for which his verve, his scathing humour and his literary erudition were ideally suited.

Release Date2009-11-24

Charactersd L'avocat

Bons baisers de... Tarzan

Bons baisers de... Tarzan

Release Date1974-12-04

Charactersd Louis Greystoke / Tarzan

Episode Count3

Plutôt crever que mourir ici…

Hospice Les Diamants Eternés, In his too small room, Willy, an inveterate smoker, accompanist, died. Because of these films, they cannot be released and cannot be found in this house of repositories that will be felt in an aseptic prison universe. What he wants is to die a free man! Helped by Barracuda his goldfish, Zoé the pretty nurse, and a group of old women, Willy has a plan... Escape!

Release Date2014-02-19

Charactersd Willy

Panier de crabes

A French adaptation of Neil Simon's play "Laughter on the 23rd Floor", staged by Jacques Rosny.

Release Date1999-07-26

Charactersd Michel

Le p'tit bleu

Lucien Lourmel, in his fifties, lonely and tired, runs the nightclub "P'tit Bleu", where young talent performs. He is a member of a mafia-like organization that he runs with two friends

Release Date2000-11-08

Charactersd Inspector Villard

La bonne adresse

Release Date1990-02-05

Charactersd Spartacus

Champs-Elysées

Release Date1982-01-16

Charactersd Self

Episode Count2

Vote Count7

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

A talk show presented by Michel Drucker

Release Date1975-01-12

Charactersd Self

Episode Count1

Vote Count1

Midi trente

Release Date1972-03-06

Charactersd Self

Episode Count1

Vote Count1

À bout portant

Release Date1968-12-16

Charactersd Self - Les Charlots

Episode Count1

Vote Count1

Des Bronzés au Père Noël, la folle histoire du Splendid

Release Date2014-01-31

Charactersd Self / Bobo

Vote Count4

Les Charlots en folie

Documentary on Les Charlots, known as The Crazy Boys in the English-speaking world, a group of French musicians, singers, comedians and film actors who were popular in the 1960s, 1970s, and early 1980s.

Release Date2024-08-27

Charactersd Self

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

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count144

La Lucarne magique

Release Date1971-10-04

Lettre de la Sierra Morena

Don Quichotte (Luchini) is a modern filmmaker with views on the perfect film. Sancho Pança (Risch) is systematically condradicting Quichotte, whose film materializes in front of them as he lists his ideas

Release Date1983-06-08

Vote Count1

La lapidation de Saint Étienne

Étienne is an old man who refuses to leave his home because he is convinced that the spirits of his wife and daughter still live there. Nevertheless, the apartment's owner will try to throw him away by any means.

Release Date2013-06-21

Vote Count3

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