Martin LamotteFilmography

Les Bronzes 3: Friends Forever

Actors: Josiane Balasko, Michel Blanc, Marie-Anne Chazel, Christian Clavier, Gérard Jugnot

Synopsis: Six of France's greatest screen comedians reunite in this long-awaited sequel to the classic box-office hits Les Bronzes and Les Bronzes Font du Ski. Skirt-chasing Popeye (Thierry Lhermitte) has settled down and married beautiful Graziella (Ornella Muti), and together they run an upscale resort Read More

My Wife Maurice

Actors: Alice Evans, Regis Laspales, Philippe Chevallier, Götz Otto, Anémone

Synopsis: In this broad farce from French director Jean-Marie Poire, a Parisian must scramble to save his house, marriage and livelihood -- all having been threatened as a result of his own dishonesty. Georges' (Philippe Chevallier) troubles began while vacationing in Italy with his hot young mistress Read More

Adela

Actors: Eulalia Ramon, Grégoire Colin, Martin Lamotte, Mario Gas

Synopsis: Traveling down the river from the distant Bolivian outpost of San Jacinto in 1945, moody traveler Timar (Grégoire Colin) reflects on his star-crossed affair with the eponymous Adela (Eulalia Ramon) at her husband's decrepit hotel. Because Adela was married, deceitful, and adept at using her Read More

Ça Reste Entre Nous

Crew: Director

Actors: Catherine Frot, Sam Karmann, Carol Brenner, Fanny Cottençon, Antoine Dulery

Synopsis: Martin Lamotte made his directorial debut with this French comedy. Building contractor Patrick (Sam Karmann) is unaware that Helene (Catherine Frot), his wife for 15 years, intends to celebrate their wedding anniversary with a surprise party. She's invited friends and relatives to spend the Read More

Arlette

Actors: Josiane Balasko, Christopher Lambert, Jean-Marie Bigard

Synopsis: A middle-aged, slightly pudgy and earthy waitress finds herself wooed by a handsome marine animal trainer from a local theme park. Arlette (comedienne Josiane Balasko, France's answer to Roseanne) has no idea that she is the long-lost heir to the vast fortune of a dying business tycoon. Her new Read More

Démons de Jésus

Actors: Yann Collette, Fabienne Babe, Nadia Farès, Thierry Frémont, Patrick Bouchitey, Victor Lanoux

Synopsis: Filled with references and language that will be most meaningful to those intimate with the French language and culture, this gritty outing attempts to paint a dignified but funny portrait of a poor, dysfunctional family during the winter of 1968. The Jacobs currently reside in a grim industrial Read More

Beaumarchais L'Insolent

Actors: Fabrice Luchini, Manuel Blanc, Jacques Weber, Sandrine Kiberlain

Synopsis: This sumptuous French drama offers episodes from the notorious life of 18th century socialite and playwright Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais. The story begins in the 1770s with a rehearsal of his "The Barber of Seville." Young friend of Voltaire, Philipp Gudin introduces himself to the great Read More

Fallait Pas!...

Actors: Gérard Jugnot, François Morel, Jean Yanne, Michèle Laroque

Synopsis: On the way to his wedding, Bernard (Gerar Jugnot) experiences car trouble. What could be more natural than to stop at the nearest respectable looking house and ask for help? How could he have known that at that very moment the house's residents, members of a cult, are busily committing mass Read More

Golden Boy

Actors: Jacques Villeret, Martin Lamotte

Synopsis: In this French comedy, Antoine is a Union delegate at a factory that is falling on hard times. With business in a slump, it looks like the factory will have to close its doors, but when Antoine wins the lottery, he uses his new fortune to buy the company and keep the business going. However, it Read More

Tom Est Tout Seul

Actors: Florent Pagny, Jean Rochefort, Martin Lamotte, Hélène Vincent

3000 Scenarios Contre un Virus

Actors: Anémone, Daniel Gélin, Patachou, François Cluzet, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi

Synopsis: This unique French offering is a compilation of 30 short films focused on AIDS. The mini-films were based on over 3,000 ideas put in by French school children and were made by filmmakers on a voluntary basis. Most of the vignettes deal with heterosexuality and AIDS, but one deals with drug-usage Read More

La Thune

Actors: Sophie Aubry, Sami Bouajila, Martin Lamotte, Isabelle Petit-Jacques

Synopsis: Kamel is the son of French-born Algerians, and he has learned fairly quickly that working for others, at least for him, is no way to ensure that he won't remain poor. However, he is a bright, enterprising lad, full of confidence and energy, and he soon gets a profitable but unconventional business Read More

Coup de Jeune

Actors: Martin Lamotte, Ludmila Mikael, Jean Carmet, Daniel Gélin

Le Zebre

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Thierry Lhermitte, Caroline Cellier, Christian Pereira, Annie Gregorio

Synopsis: In his work as a notary, Hippolyte has registered prenuptial agreements entrusted to him by hopeful young couples and divorce settlements by unhappy older couples. He has often seen the spark of romance wither and die among his clients and the people in his life, and he is determined not to allow Read More

Paris s'éveille

Actors: Judith Godrëche, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Thomas Langmann, Martin Lamotte

Synopsis: Louise (Judith Godrèche) is living with Clément (Jean-Pierre Léaud), an older man who copes with her bouts of drug addiction and is attempting to give her a hand in getting a television career going. When the man's son Adrien (Thomas Langmann), who is on the run from the police, comes to stay with Read More

L'Année de L'eveil

Actors: Laurent Grévill, Martin Lamotte, Chiara Caselli, Grégoire Colin, Roger Planchon

Synopsis: In this coming-of-age drama, based on a novel by Charles Juliet, François is a sensitive and thoughtful student at a military boarding school in 1948. He is fourteen and an orphan, and the French are still fighting in Indochina, as they will continue to do for many years. He believes he will be Read More

À Quoi Tu Penses Tu

Actors: Richard Anconina, Isabelle Pasco, Martin Lamotte, Assumpta Serna

Bienvenue a Bord!

Actors: Pierre Richard, Martin Lamotte, Evelyne Bouix, Catherine Frot, Jean-Paul Muel

Synopsis: Martin (Martin Lamotte) is probably a little cracked in the head. Why else would he pick up a suspicious-looking hitchhiker (Pierre Richard) when he's been hearing about a dangerous escaped convict on the radio? It's not until the man is already in his car that he realizes that he could have a Read More

Money

Actors: Eric Stoltz, Maryam D'Abo, Bruno Cremer, Christopher Plummer, F. Murray Abraham, Mario Adorf

Synopsis: Stars and famous locations abound in this multinational production, a would-be "financial thriller" about swindles and betrayals among jet-set gazillionaires, which takes place in glamor spots all over the globe. Somebody has stolen millions of dollars from his father, and Frank Cimballi (Eric Stoltz Read More

Promotion Canape

Actors: Grace de Capitani, Margot Abascal, Thierry Lhermitte

Frequence Meurtre

Actors: Catherine Deneuve, André Dussollier, Martin Lamotte, Etienne Chicot, Ines Claye

Synopsis: When Jenny Quester (Catherine Deneuve) is harassed over the phone by a mysterious caller, she enlists the help of her policeman brother Frank (Andre Dussolier) in this suspenseful crime drama. She fears the calls may be from a murderer who recently was discharged from an insane asylum. Later Jenny Read More

Apres la Guerre

Actors: Antoine Hubert, Julien Hubert, Richard Bohringer, Martin Toulis, Martin Lamotte, Isabelle Sadoyan

Synopsis: The conflict in question is World War II; even though hostilities have all but ceased, the Germans and the French are not precisely reconciled. German soldier Richard Bohlinger, absent without leave, is befriended by a couple of pre-teen boys (Antoine and Julien Hubert, sons of director Jean-Louis Hubert Read More

Sans Peur et Sans Reproche

Actors: Gérard Jugnot, Victoria Abril, Remi Martin, Gérard Darmon, Martin Lamotte, Ann-Gisele Glass, Gerard Klein, Ticky Holgado

Synopsis: Bayard (Remi Martin) is a lowly squire who joins the army of King Charles (Patrick Timsit) after he is rejected by the noblewoman Blanche de Savoie (Anne-Gisel Glass). Bellabre (Gerard Jugnot) is the army captain who trains Bayard for the proposed invasion of Naples. Bayard returns a conquering Read More

Envoyez Les Violons

Actors: Richard Anconina, Anémone, Michel Galabru, Martin Lamotte, Fabienne Perineau

Synopsis: Fred Segal (Richard Anconina) is a commercial director whose marriage is headed for disaster in this light romantic comedy drama. He decides he wants to play music and takes flute lessons from the beautiful Isabelle (Anemone). The experience wakens feelings of romance in Fred he thought were Read More

Fucking Fernand

Actors: Thierry Lhermitte, Jean Yanne, Martin Lamotte, Marie Laforêt, Charlotte Valandrey

Synopsis: Ferdinand (Thierry Lhermitte) is a 30-year-old blind virgin who hopes to have sex in this black comedy. He lives in a religious institution and is not beyond making passes at nuns. When the asylum is bombed, Ferdinand escapes and hooks up with Binet (Jean Yanne), a killer being tracked by the Read More

Sale Destin!

Actors: Victor Lanoux, Pauline Lafont, Marie Laforêt, Jacques Penot, Michel Aumont

Synopsis: Francois Marboni (Victor Lanoux) is a butcher who is being blackmailed for having an affair with the prostitute Rache (Pauline Lafont) in this black comedy. He decides to hire a hit man when the blackmailer demands that he start cutting his profit margin to the bone. Francois soon becomes a target Read More

Tant Qu'il Y Aura des Femmes

Actors: Roland Giraud, Fanny Cottençon, Marianne Basler, Fiona Gelin, Martin Lamotte

Synopsis: Sam (Roland Giraud) enjoys his romantic rendezvous with his ex-wife Vanessa (Fanny Cortencon) and others in this routine sex farce. He lives with up-and-coming actress Elodie (Fiona Gelin), but quickly falls for pretty female physician Joanna (Marianne Basler). Sam soon is globe-trotting after the Read More

La Vie Dissolue de Gerard Floque

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Roland Giraud, Marie-Anne Chazel, Jacqueline Maillan, Clémentine Célarié, Gérard Rinaldi

Synopsis: Advertising executive Gerard Floque (Roland Giraud) has the worst day of his life in this routine comedy. He comes home after losing his job to find his daughter arrested on drug charges and his wife Cecile (Clementine Celaire) in bed with a famous television personality (Gerard Rinaldi). Gerard Read More

L'Oeil Au Beurre Noir

Actors: Julie Jezequel, Smain, Pascal Légitimus, Martin Lamotte, Dominique Lavanant

Synopsis: Racism and the games people play with it aren't unique to the U.S. by any means. In this French comedy, Rachid, a nice-looking Arab boy, plays with the pervasive fear of non-whites in Paris by having two friends approach pretty girls while looking as sinister as they can, so that he can "rescue" Read More

La Gitane

Actors: Claude Brasseur, Valérie Kaprisky, Clémentine Célarié, Stéphane Audran, Valerie Rojan

Synopsis: The clash in this Philippe De Broca comedy between a bored middle-class stiff and a much more exciting, lawless female offers no new insights into the genre. Hubert Durieux (Claude Brassuer) works in a staid bank job and has to put up with demands from his ex-wife and a daughter who may not have Read More

Twist Again A Moscou

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Philippe Noiret, Christian Clavier, Martin Lamotte, Marina Vlady, Agnes Soral

Synopsis: A look at Communism behind the Iron Curtain, this comedy is set in a posh Moscow hotel run by the hypocritical Igor (Philippe Noiret). Igor is busy making money off his black market dealings when Party officials and the KGB land at his hotel. They are looking for Jewish dissidents and just the Read More

Gros Degueulasse

Actors: Maurice Risch, Valérie Mairesse, Martin Lamotte, Jackie Sardou

Synopsis: This senseless comedy is based on a cartoon-strip character drawn by the late Jean-Marc Reiser and has no real plot to speak of -- it is just a series of ribald, raunchy sketches. The character in question is a man who goes about wearing only one oversized pair of stained underwear, with one Read More

Asterix et la Surprise de Cesar

Actors: Roger Carel, Pierre Tornade, Serge Sauvion, Pierre Mondy, Pierre Tchernia

Synopsis: The second of a long string of animated children's films based on cartoon characters created by Rene Goscinny and Alberto Uderzo, this is an entertaining adventure featuring the intrepid Asterix. The hero is accompanied by his mutt Idefix (Francophones will love that one - "fixed idea" Read More

Le Mariage Du Siècle

Actors: Anémone, Thierry Lhermitte, Jean-Claude Brialy, Michel Aumont, Dominique Lavanant

Synopsis: Weak in script and plot, this comedy about the differences (or not) between royalty and the commoners that toil for a living has little to recommend it. Princess Charlotte (Anemone) is scheduled to marry a boring duke, but before that event happens, Paul (Thierry Lhermitte) has taken a bet that he Read More

La Smala

Actors: Victor Lanoux, Josiane Balasko, Dominique Lavanant, Maurice Risch

Synopsis: In a satire on family values that tends to pass off human cruelty as amusing, this story about an odd family of five children, a father, grandmother, and neighbor is not particularly laugh-provoking. When the mother of this "tribe" of five children leaves for good, their inept father is not sure Read More

Viva la Vie!

Actors: Charlotte Rampling, Michel Piccoli, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Evelyne Bouix, Charles Aznavour

Synopsis: Through a series of convoluted turns, like a tornado going through Kansas, director Claude Lelouch has managed to keep a vacuum at the center of his film. A corporate executive (Michel Piccoli and a young actress (Evelyne Bouix) suddenly disappear and reappear and disappear, almost as fast as Read More

One Deadly Summer

Actors: Isabelle Adjani, Alain Souchon, Suzanne Flon, Jenny Cleve, François Cluzet

Synopsis: In this tragic tale of misunderstanding, obsession, and increasing madness, "she," a beautiful young woman (Isabelle Adjani) settles into a small town in the south of France with her introverted mother (Maria Machado) and physically handicapped father and soon becomes the subject of wild Read More

Papy Fait de la Resistance

Crew: Screen Story, Screenwriter

Actors: Christian Clavier, Michel Galabru, Gérard Jugnot, Martin Lamotte, Dominique Lavanant

Synopsis: In this uneven take-off on some reluctant resistance fighters in World War II, a family of musicians find themselves the unwilling hosts of a segment of the German High Command when their Paris mansion is taken over by the occupying forces. What happens next is a series of individual skits, cameo Read More

Circulez Y'a Rien a Voir

Actors: Jane Birkin, Michel Blanc, Jacques Villeret, Michel Robbe, Gaelle Legrand

Synopsis: This routine farce is about a lowly police inspector who falls for a sophisticated woman, unaware that she is involved in fencing stolen art. He pursues her with undying diligence until they finally get together -- but by that time they are on the wrong side of the law and in trouble. As usual Read More

Elle Voit Des Nains Partout

Actors: Thierry Lhermitte, Philippe Bruneau, Marilyne Canto, Christian Clavier

Synopsis: Essentially a performance video, this is made at the French "Cafe Theatre Show," where fairy tales are updated and revised to fit modern themes. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

Debout les Crabes, la Mer Monte!

Actors: Martin Lamotte, Veronique Genest, Virginie Thévenet, Richard Bohringer, Valérie Mairesse

Synopsis: The action in this attempt at farce and drama starts moving when a prostitute just out of prison overwhelms a young man with her charms in their shared train compartment and ends up getting invited to his home. Once there, other than inducing some unusual behavior in the members of the family, she Read More

Le Quart d'Heure Américain

Actors: Anémone, Gérard Jugnot, Jean-Pierre Bisson, Brigitte Catillon, Michel Dussarat

Synopsis: The physical imperfections of Bonnie (Anemone), a woman trying to work her way up the ladder at a radio station, do not stop her from going after Ferdinand (Gerard Jugnot), a reticent, bald, and mild fellow who at first resists Bonnie's overtures, but then slowly seems to change his mind. At Read More

Le Père Noël Est une Ordure

Actors: Josiane Balasko, Anémone, Thierry Lhermitte, Marie-Anne Chazel, Christian Clavier

Synopsis: Three workers in a social services office on Christmas Eve find themselves the center of a vortex of rag-tag humanity that all need their professional help, and more. Their visit from Santa Claus does not involve a trip down a chimney, but a walk-in by a somewhat derelict, irascible St. Nick Read More

Les Babas Cool

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Christian Clavier, Marie-Anne Chazel, Anémone, Philippe Léotard, Nadia Barentin

Les Bronzés

Actors: Josiane Balasko, Michel Blanc, Gérard Jugnot, Christian Clavier

Synopsis: Six vacationers from France find themselves on the sunny shores of Africa in a vacation village where organized fun is the order of the day. Spoofing such faddish getaways as "Club Med," the story focuses on the trials of a married couple who can't quite live up to their ideals of an "open" Read More

Vous N'Aurez Pas l'Alsace et la Lorraine

Actors: Coluche, Dominique Lavanant, Jean Jacques, Michel Blanc, Martin Lamotte, Gérard Lanvin

Synopsis: In this satire, Coluche plays an inept king of France who is continually in danger of overthrow or murder by his scheming court and is kept on the throne by the efforts of his Musketeers, who also serve by wringing extra taxes out of the already hard-pressed population. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Read More

L'Aile Ou la Cuisse

Actors: Louis de Funès, Coluche, Ann Zacharias, Julien Guiomar, Claude Gensac

Synopsis: In this comedy, Louis de Funes is a top restaurant critic, the head of an important French culinary guide. At the beginning of the film, he and his son (Coluche) are at odds, as the son prefers working as a circus clown to studying the fine arts of gastronomy. The two join forces, however, to Read More