Michel SerraultFilmography

Merry Christmas

Actors: Diane Kruger, Benno Fürmann, Guillaume Canet, Gary Lewis, Dany Boon, Daniel Brühl

Synopsis: The year is 1914, and as World War I continues to rage across the European countryside, four individuals stuck on the front lines find themselves faced with the unthinkable in director Christian Carion's Academy Award-nominated account of the true-life wartime event that would offer hope for peace Read More

Epreuves d'Artistes

Actors: Pedro Almodóvar, Robert Altman, Michelangelo Antonioni, Roberto Benigni, Bernardo Bertolucci

Ne Quittez Pas!

Actors: Sergio Castellitto, Michel Serrault, Isabelle Gélinas, Rachida Brakni, Dominique Pinon

The Butterfly

Actors: Michel Serrault, Claire Bouanich, Nade Dieu

Synopsis: Directed and written by Philippe Muyl, the family-friendly Le Papillon (The Butterfly) concerns a search for the title creature. Often lonely because of her single mother's busy work schedule, eight-year-old Elsa (Claire Bouanich) befriends an elderly neighbor man named Julien (Michel Serrault) Read More

The Girl From Paris

Actors: Michel Serrault, Mathilde Seigner, Jean-Paul Roussillon, Frederic Pierrot, Marc Berman

Synopsis: Can a thirtysomething gal from the city find happiness with a goat farm and its aging overseer? Sandrine (Mathilde Seigner) is a computer expert who has successfully pursued a career in business; however, her career path was chosen to please her family more than herself, and Sandrine has decided Read More

Belphegor: Phantom of the Louvre

Actors: Sophie Marceau, Michel Serrault, Frédéric Diefenthal, Julie Christie, Jean-François Balmer

Synopsis: The story of a vengeful ghost (which spawned both a popular silent thriller and a mid-'60s TV miniseries that drew record ratings in France) returns to the big screen in this adaptation of the story by Arthur Bernede. A collection of artifacts from an archeological dig in Egypt are brought to the Read More

Vajont

Actors: Michel Serrault, Daniel Auteuil, Laura Morante, Jorge Perugorría, Anita Caprioli

Les Acteurs

Actors: André Dussollier, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Jacques Villeret, Claude Rich

Synopsis: The son of actor Bernard Blier, director Bertrand Blier is known throughout France for his documentaries and dark depictions of sex and its impact on society. Though his influences and personal opinions clearly shine through, Les Acteurs is a satirical take on the ups, downs, and numerous Read More

Le Libertin

Actors: Fanny Ardant, Josiane Balasko, Christian Charmettant, Arielle Dombasle

Synopsis: Gabriel Aghion directs this bawdy period romp about a day in the life of 18th century philosopher and sensualist Denis Diderot (Vincent Perez), who produced the first ever encyclopedia while living a life of delicious decadence. Though the Church immediately banned Diderot's opus, which they Read More

Les enfants du marais

Actors: Jacques Villeret, Jacques Gamblin, André Dussollier, Michel Serrault, Isabelle Carré

Synopsis: A lighthearted and nostalgic drama about life among a group of close-knit friends, Les Enfants du Marais/Children of the Marshland tells the tale of a girl named Cri-Cri, who in flashback recalls growing up in a community along a quiet marsh in France. Her father, Riton (Jacques Villeret), has a Read More

The Swindle

Actors: Isabelle Huppert, Michel Serrault, François Cluzet, Jean-François Balmer, Jackie Berroyer

Synopsis: The 50th film from legendary French New Wave writer and director Claude Chabrol is a typically Hitchcockian comic thriller about a pair of con artists. Up to now, the duo of Betty (Isabelle Huppert) and Victor (Michel Serrault) have contented themselves to small scams at hotel conventions, such as Read More

Artemisia

Actors: Michel Serrault, Valentina Cervi, Miki Manojlovic, Luca Zingaretti, Brigitte Catillon

Synopsis: This historical drama is based on the true story of Artemisia Gentileschi, the first woman to achieve success as a painter. In 17th century Italy, noted artist Orazio Gentileschi (Michel Serrault) is a portrait artist enjoying a certain degree of success and acclaim. His 17-year-old daughter Read More

Assassin(s)

Actors: Mathieu Kassovitz, Michel Serrault, Mehdi Benoufa, Robert Gendreu

Synopsis: Mathieu Kassovitz's Assassins(s) stars Michel Serrault as Mr. Wagner. For over 40 years, Mr. Wagner has been a successful assassin, but now he is 70; his hands tremble and his eyesight and reflexes are rapidly failing. Mr. Wagner is ready to retire, but first he must find a successor. Max (Mathieu Kassovitz 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

Le Bonheur Est Dans Le Pré

Actors: Michel Serrault, Eddy Mitchell, Sabine Azéma, Carmen Maura

Synopsis: Lots of people wish they could be someone else, but a French businessman decides to do something about it in this satirical comedy. Francis Bergeade (Michel Serrault) runs a factory in a small town that makes toilet seats. With his employees on strike and his wife plundering his bank account as Read More

Nelly & Monsieur Arnaud

Actors: Emmanuelle Béart, Michel Serrault, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Charles Berling, Claire Nadeau, Danièle Lebrun

Synopsis: Almost a follow-up to director Claude Sautet's Un Coeur en Hiver (1992), Nelly & Monsieur Arnaud further explores repressed emotions and failed relationships. Nelly (Emmanuelle Béart), an attractive young woman, is six months behind in her rent and struggling with odd jobs, while her husband (Charles Berling Read More

Bonsoir

Actors: Michel Serrault, Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Marie-Christine Barrault, Jean-Pierre Bisson

Vieille Canaille

Actors: Michel Serrault, Anna Galiena, Pierre Richard, Jean-Pierre Bouvier

Synopsis: Darius Caunes is so charming, you want to forget that he killed his wife. He is so charming that you will probably want to overlook the fact that he is counterfeiting currency. He is audacious and skillful. He has even made a friend of the honest and dogged police inspector who investigated his Read More

Room Service

Actors: Michel Serrault, Michel Galabru, Daniel Prévost, Jacques Jouanneau

Ville a Vendre

Actors: Michel Serrault, Tom Novembre, Richard Bohringer, Valérie Mairesse, Eddy Mitchell, Philippe Léotard

Synopsis: In this murder farce, a hitchhiker lopes into one of France's decaying industrial towns where unemployment is much higher than the national average (about ten percent). Still, the locals seem cheerful enough. When he gets to town, he sees most of the inhabitants are dressed up for a masquerade. He Read More

La Vieille Qui Marchait Dans la Mer

Actors: Jeanne Moreau, Michel Serrault, Luc Thuillier, Geraldine Danon

Synopsis: Originally Vielle qui Marchait dans la Mer, this elegiac French comedy is also known as The Old Lady Who Wades in the Sea. Based on a novel by San-Antonio (Frederic Dard), the film stars Jeanne Moreau as an ageing beauty, living with her travelling companion (and ex-lover) Michel Serrault in Read More

Docteur Petiot

Actors: Michel Serrault, Pierre Romans, Bérangere Bonvoisin

Synopsis: Serial killers appear in small numbers almost everywhere. Their motives vary, but in every case they are a peculiar breed. This chilling, true historical drama follows the activities of one such man, apparently motivated by greed and opportunism more than anything else. In France during the Nazi Read More

Buon Natale, Buon Anno/Joyeux Noël, Bonne Annee

Actors: Michel Serrault, Virna Lisi, Consuelo Ferrara, Paolo Graziosi, Tiziana Pini

Synopsis: In this romantic story, a couple (Michel Serrault and Virna Lisi) who have been married for over forty years are forced to separate, one to each of their two children's families, when they can no longer pay the rent on their longtime apartment. Absence, in this case, refreshes their memory of the Read More

Joyeux Noel Bonne Annee

Actors: Virna Lisi, Michel Serrault, Paolo Graziosi, Tiziana Pini

Bonjour L'Angoisse

Actors: Michel Serrault, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Geneviève Fontanel, Guy Marchand, Pierre Arditi

Synopsis: Michaud (Michel Serrault) is a timid and anxiety-ridden security-systems technician who is prone to daydreams like Walter Mitty. Continually teased by his colleagues and his taunting alter ego, Michaud is victimized by a fellow employee who tries to implicate him in a bank robbery. He emerges from Read More

Comedie d'amour

Actors: Michel Serrault, Annie Girardot, Aurore Clément, Patrick Bauchau, Roger Carel

Synopsis: The very busy actor Michel Serrault lends his talents to the depiction of a monstre sacree of French literature, the extremely repugnant but very clever Paul Leautaud, who was famous for his rude, clever observations and his epigrams. Although unkempt and very mean, his rapier-like wit and strong Read More

Ne Reveillez Pas Un Flic Qui Dort

Actors: Alain Delon, Michel Serrault, Patrick Catalifo, Xavier DeLuc, Stephane Jobert

Synopsis: This "policier" was co-written by producer and star Alain Delon with director Jose Pinheiro. It tells the story of a group of right-wing cops have begun carrying out vigilante justice on drug dealers and other crime figures who might otherwise avoid punishment for their misdeeds. Police inspector Read More

Ennemis Intimes

Actors: Michel Serrault, Wadeck Stanczak, Ingrid Held, Anne Gautier, Thierry Rey

Synopsis: Baudin (Michel Serrault) and Tayar (Wadeck Stanczak) become trapped in a movie theater while trying to fend off a gang of marauding juvenile thugs. The two agree to settle their personal differences in their fight over a pretty female in order to halt the violent siege. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Read More

En Toute Innocence

Actors: Michel Serrault, Nathalie Baye, Francois Dunoyer, Suzanne Flon, André Valardy, Philippe Caroit

Synopsis: When Catherine (Nathalie Baye) is caught with her illicit lover by her father-in-law Paul (Michel Serrault), the concerned father leaves to tell his son Thomas (Francois Dunoyer) about the incident. Paul is injured in an auto accident and returns home in a wheelchair unable to speak. Catherine's Read More

La Cage Aux Folles 3: The Wedding

Actors: Michel Serrault, Ugo Tognazzi, Michel Galabru, Antonella Interlenghi, Saverio Vallone, Benny Luke, Stéphane Audran

Synopsis: Ugo Tognazzi and Michel Serrault go through their well-worn passes in this third sequel to their international hit La Cage aux Folles. In La Cage aux Folles 3: The Wedding the element of Woman is introduced to the carefree world of the middle-aged gay couple of Renato (Ugo Tognazzi) and Albin (Michel Serrault Read More

Le Miracule

Actors: Michel Serrault, Jean Poiret, Jeanne Moreau, Sophie Moyse, Sylvie Joly, Jean Rougerie

Synopsis: Insurance investigator Ronald Fox Terrier (Michel Serrault) looks into a questionable claim of disability feigned by Papu (Jean Poiret) in this situation comedy. When both men are dunked into the waters at a holy shrine, the faking Papu finds himself unable to get out of his wheelchair, while Read More

Mon Beau-Frere A Tue Ma Soeur

Actors: Michel Serrault, Michel Piccoli, Juliette Binoche, Jean Carmet, Milva Biolcati

Synopsis: This parody of the detective-story genre merrily detours into spoofing French foibles as well, making it more of an exercise in verbal gymnastics than a narrative with a mission. Esther (Juliette Binoche) is a veterinarian who is certain that her sister has been murdered by her brother-in-law. She Read More

Liberte, Egalite, Choucroute

Actors: Jean Poiret, Michel Serrault, Jean Yanne, Mimi Coutellier, Ursula Andress

Synopsis: This is an often wilted, occasionally flat spoof of the French Revolution by Jean Yanne, France's answer to Mel Brooks. The revolution, used as a foil for politics in the 1980s, has Robespierre Roland Giraud) in love with Charlotte Corday (Mimi Coutellier) who works for Marat (Jean Yanne) and Read More

Les Rois Du Gag

Actors: Michel Serrault, Gérard Jugnot, Thierry Lhermitte, Macha Meril, Mathilda May

Synopsis: Gaetan (Michel Serrault) is a television comic whose jokes have kept his program alive, but in more recent times, his senior gag writers have not had their hand on the pulse of his changing audience. A series of circumstances bring two young cafe-theater comedy writers to the rescue (Thierry Lhermitte Read More

On Ne Meurt Que Deux Fois

Actors: Michel Serrault, Charlotte Rampling, Xavier DeLuc, Elisabeth Depardieu, Riton Liebman

Synopsis: On Ne Meurt Que Deux Fois, a French murder mystery based upon a novel of the same name, is an unusual, involving film with excellent performances by its entire cast. Police Inspector Staniland (Michel Serrault) is investigating the death of a pianist. While conducting his investigation and looking Read More

Le Bon Roi Dagobert

Actors: Coluche, Ugo Tognazzi, Michel Serrault, Carole Bouquet, Michel Lonsdale

Synopsis: In this low-brow satire, French comedian Coluche exploits his talents for comic vulgarity in his role as the 10th-century King Dagobert I. The king's intestinal and sexual problems loom large as he survives an attack on his royal caravan then barely makes it to Rome to personally give thanks to Read More

À Mort l'Arbitre

Actors: Michel Serrault, Eddy Mitchell, Carole Laure, Laurent Malet, Jean-Pierre Mocky

Synopsis: The mindless frenzy of sports fans is expertly captured in the first half of this action film by Jean-Pierre Mocky on soccer buffs gone mad. After Maurice, a referee in a soccer match, has retired to spend the night with his lover Martine (Carole Laure) a crowd of angry fans disrupts their plans Read More

Le Bon Plaisir

Actors: Catherine Deneuve, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Michel Serrault, Michel Auclair, Hippolyte Girardot

Synopsis: A stolen letter creates all sorts of trouble for the president of France in this political comedy. The letter is hidden inside the purse of a woman who was once lovers with the leader. Their union resulted in a son, but the president is unaware of this until she, who moved to the US to have her Read More

Mortelle Randonnée

Actors: Michel Serrault, Isabelle Adjani, Geneviève Page, Guy Marchand, Stéphane Audran, Sami Frey

Synopsis: In this suspense thriller inspired by the novel Eye of the Beholder by Marc Behm, Catherine (Isabelle Adjani), a serial killer, seduces men and then murders them just before moving on to the next victim. She spreads her mayhem through various countries in Europe, only slightly ahead of the Read More

Les Fantomes du Chapelier

Actors: Michel Serrault, Charles Aznavour, Monique Chaumette, Aurore Clément, Christine Paolini

Synopsis: In this murder mystery, based on a Georges Simenon novel, a homicidal maniac goes on a killing spree beginning with his wife, whom he kept in the cellar. He then kills six of her aged friends and is preparing to murder a seventh when the intended victim dies naturally. As a substitute, he murders Read More

Nestor Burma, Detective de Choc

Actors: Michel Serrault, Jane Birkin, Guy Marchand, Alain Bashung, Pierre Arditi

Synopsis: Based on a mystery novel by Leo Malet, lead character Detective Burma (comic Michel Serrault) has luxurious office digs - shared with his oddball cat - but he himself is neither as sophisticated or as quick-witted as Malet's literary creation. Director Jean-Luc Miesch (29 years old), has missed Read More

Les Quarantiemes Rugissants

Actors: Jacques Perrin, Julie Christie, Michel Serrault

Synopsis: The Last Strange Voyage of Donald Crowhurst is a non-fiction book by Ron Hall and Nicholas Tomblin about a man who first cheated to win an international sailing competition and then disappeared from his sailboat in the final lap of the race -- a story that serves as the inspiration for this film. Read More

Deux Heures Moins le Quart Avant Jesus-Christ

Crew: Producer

Actors: Coluche, Michel Serrault, Jean Yanne, Françoise Fabian, Michel Auclair

Synopsis: The setting for this story is Rahatlcoum, a Roman colony in North Africa, but the "colonists" watch television, have gay bars, trade unions, and traffic problems -- something like the "Flintstones" in an Afro-French incarnation, slipping around on Monty Pythonesque dialogue. A gay Jules César's Read More

Garde à Vue

Actors: Lino Ventura, Michel Serrault, Guy Marchand, Romy Schneider

Synopsis: This is a minimalist interrogation drama about a wealthy, influential attorney (Michel Serrault) in a small French town falls under suspicion in a double rape/murder case. The police bring the lawyer in for questioning; at first politely, and then less so, the interrogation team (Lino Venture, Guy Marchand Read More

Malevil

Actors: Michel Serrault, Jacques Dutronc, Robert Dhéry, Jacques Villeret, Hanns Zischler

Synopsis: In this French science fiction thriller, nuclear war breaks out over Europe, and a group of visitors to a local chateau take cover in the basement. When they venture outside after the fighting stops, they discover that the chateau has sustained serious damage and the surrounding lands have been Read More

L'Associé

Actors: Michel Serrault, Claudine Auger, Catherine Alric, Judith Magre, Mathieu Carrière

Synopsis: This French comedy stars Michel Serrault as a bland corporation functionary who'll never get ahead so long as he remains a dull little man. Unable to be a success on his own terms, Serrault invents an "assistant", the dynamic, go-getting "Mr. Davis". Pretending to be Mr. Davis' intermediary, Serrault Read More

Pile ou Face

Actors: Pierre Arditi, Michel Serrault, Philippe Noiret, Dorothée, André Falcon

Synopsis: The source for the French detective drama Heads or Tails? was the American novel Baroni by Alfred Harris. Phillipe Noiret plays a weary Bordeaux detective, hot on the trail of Michael Serrault. Serrault's domineering wife has allegedly committed suicide, but Noiret suspects murder. As hunter and Read More

La Cage Aux Folles II

Actors: Ugo Tognazzi, Michel Serrault, Marcel Bozzuffi, Gianni Frisoni, Mark Bodin, Paola Borboni, Giovanni Vettorazzo

Synopsis: Renato (Ugo Tognazzi) and Albin (Michel Serrault), the internationally popular homosexual couple from La Cage Aux Folles, return in this sequel directed by Edouard Molinaro. In this go-round, Renato and Albin find themselves innocent victims of an espionage ring and become involved with killers Read More

La Gueule de L'autre

Actors: Michel Serrault, Jean Poiret, Andréa Parisy, Bernadette Lafont, Curd Jürgens

Synopsis: Michel Serrault plays a double role in this lighthearted comedy. An ineffectual actor is called on to portray his look-alike cousin, a prominent politician who is driven into hiding after he learns of an assassination plot. Jean Poiret plays the political consultant who recruits the uncured ham Read More

Buffet Froid

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Bernard Blier, Jean Carmet, Geneviève Page, Carole Bouquet

Synopsis: Buffet Froid is an absurd black comedy that cunningly reverses the conventions of the crime thriller to comment on the alienating and dehumanizing effects of contemporary urban life. It starts with Alphonse Tram (Gérard Depardieu) discovering that his casual subway acquaintance (Michel Serrault) Read More

La Cage Aux Folles

Actors: Ugo Tognazzi, Michel Serrault, Michel Galabru, Claire Maurier, Remi Laurent

Synopsis: An international comedy sensation based on a successful French stage play, La Cage aux Folles depicts the farcical chaos that results when a gay man attempts to pose as straight for the benefit of his son's future in-laws. Renato (Ugo Tognazzi) owns a popular nightclub and is the long-time lover Read More

L'Argent des Autres

Actors: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Claude Brasseur, Michel Serrault, Catherine Deneuve, Francois Perrot

Synopsis: The most powerful officers of a bank are implicated in a financial scandal, despite their efforts to disassociate themselves from it. When the top brass fire Henri Rainier (Jean-Louis Trintignant) because one of his clients has been accused of fraud, he doesn't take it lying down. He knows that Read More

L'Esprit De Famille

Actors: Michel Serrault, Nicole Courcel, Pascale Rocard

Get Out Your Handkerchiefs

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Patrick Dewaere, Carole Laure, Riton Liebman, Michel Serrault, Elenore Hirt

Synopsis: The lightly mocking title Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (Préparez Vos Mouchoirs) sets the tone for this Bertrand Blier-directed amalgam of the sentimental and sardonic. Gérard Depardieu plays an at-wit's-end husband, Raoul, who'll go to any lengths to sexually satisfy his wife, Solange (Carole Read More

Le Roi des Bricoleurs

Actors: Sim, Michel Serrault, Pierre Bolo

L'Ibis Rouge

Actors: Michel Simon, Michel Serrault, Michel Galabru, Evelyne Buyle, Jean Le Poulain

Synopsis: This crime drama, with elements of comedy and satire, is most notable as the final screen appearance of Michel Simon. In the story, Simon plays Zizi, a news vendor who is tired of anonymity and doesn't much like people anyway. He confesses to a series of strangling murders which, in fact, he has Read More

Operation Lady Marlene

Actors: Michel Serrault, Robert Lamoureux, Bernard Menez, Pierre Tornade, Sybil Danning

Synopsis: In this wartime comedy, Robert Lamoureux plays a General in the Resistance. With an unlikely team of French patriots, he easily outwits the buffoonish Germans and steals the master copy of their plans to invade England. By doing so, he prevents the invasion and makes it more likely that the Allies Read More

La Situation Est Grave Mais Pas Deses

Actors: Michel Serrault, Jean Lefebvre, Maria Pacome, Daniel Prévost

La Main a Couper

Actors: Michel Serrault, Michel Bouquet, Bernard Blier, Lea Massari

Synopsis: Hélène (Lea Massari) has a lovely family, and lovely children. She is not discontented with things just as they are: her young lover is attentive, her husband is pleasant -- all is just as it should be. In this French suspense film, Hélène's cozy life begins to unravel when she finds her lover is Read More

Les Chinois à Paris

Actors: Jean Yanne, Nicole Calfan, Michel Serrault, Bernard Blier

Synopsis: In this French fantasy/comedy, the Maoist Chinese, by some miracle, have occupied Paris (and France) overnight. The patience of these stern, work-oriented and quite puritanical communists is finally completely worn down by the quarrelsome, cynical and decadent French, who cannot cooperate properly Read More

The Holes

Actors: Michel Serrault, Gérard Depardieu, Philippe Noiret, Annie Cordy

Synopsis: The title refers to the means of entry into the sewers of Paris. Here we find a group of misfits who've given up on humanity and have decided to dwell below the pavement. The group has its own hierarchy, of course, and soon the conditions that drove them underground begin to manifest themselves Read More

Un Linceul n'a Pas de Poches

Actors: Jean-Pierre Mocky, Jean Carmet, Michel Constantin, Michel Galabru, Daniel Gélin

Synopsis: Sometimes a reporter's urge to tell the truth is unquenchable, at least when the reporter is Dolannes (Jean-Pierre Mocky). Unfortunately, his newspaper is owned by corporations which like to keep things on an even keel, and his stories are often "spiked," (kept quiet). Frustrated, he leaves the Read More

C' Est Pas Parce Qu' On A Rien A Dire

Actors: Michel Serrault, Bernard Blier, Jean Lefebvre, Tsila Chelton

Moi y'en a Vouloir des Sous

Actors: Bernard Blier, Nicole Calfan, Jean Yanne, Michel Serrault

Synopsis: In this French comedy/satire, director Jean Yanne plays Benoit, an economist who sets out to prove that, with money, one can get away with doing almost anything. Fired from the company he works for, he persuades a relative who is an important union organizer to invest union funds in helping him Read More

Le Grand Bazar

Actors: Les Charlots, Roger Carel, Michel Serrault, Michel Galabru

Synopsis: This is one of the seemingly innumerable French comedies made in the early '70s featuring the musicians-turned-comedians, Les Charlots. They play a group of inept but good-hearted fellows who help a small market owner compete with a large supermarket across the street by shoplifting enough from Read More

La Gueule De L'Emploi

Actors: Michel Serrault, Jacques Legras, Evelyne Buyle

Tout le Monde Il Est Beau - Tout le Monde Il Est Gentil

Actors: Jean Yanne, Bernard Blier, Marina Vlady, Michel Serrault

Synopsis: Jean Yanne directs and stars in this French comedy. He plays a radio reporter who is fired when he recounts on the air just how his brave colleagues report on Latin American revolutions: from a lounge chair next to the pool of a luxury hotel, or from cabanas along the beach. He is briefly hired Read More

Le Viager

Actors: Michel Serrault, Michel Galabru, Rosy Varte, Jean-Pierre Darras

Synopsis: This French comedy is the first feature film directed by the well-known television-director Pierre Tcherina. In the film, the most elaborate designs of a greedy family are unwittingly undone by an ailing old man. The family has made a complicated financial arrangement which will result in their Read More

La Belle Affaire

Actors: Michel Serrault, Rosy Varte, Michel Galabru, Paul Preboist

Un Meurtre Est un Meurtre

Actors: Michel Serrault, Catherine Spaak, Stéphane Audran, Robert Hossein

Synopsis: In this French suspense drama, Paul (Jean-Claude Brialy) is a decent man in an ugly situation. His wife (Stephane Audran), who was crippled in their second year of marriage, has become a bitter and unpleasant virago. Though he keeps company with a lovely mistress (Catherine Spaak), the wife is Read More

Le Cri du Cormoran le Soir au-dessus des Jonques

Actors: Michel Serrault, Bernard Blier, Paul Meurisse, Marion Game

Synopsis: Alfred (Michel Serrault) doesn't work. He lets his wife do that. Instead, he plays the horses, and wanders about, hitchhiking. His sly laziness serves him in good stead when he is kidnapped by people he thought were giving him a ride. He wakes from unconsciousness in a coffin in Istanbul, pockets Read More

La Liberté En Croupe

Actors: Bernard Le Coq, Juliette Villard, Michel Serrault, Maria Mauban, Jean Rochefort

Synopsis: A young man leaves home when he finds the marriage of his mutually adulterous parents to be hypocritical in this romantic comedy satire. He has a gay artist pursuing him and a mistress he does not care for very much. When he leaves home, the mother beds down with the homosexual while his father Read More

Appellez-Moi Mathilde

Actors: Jacqueline Maillan, Dr. Robert Hirsch, Michel Serrault, Guy Bedos, Jacques Dufilho

Synopsis: A wealthy French matron drives her captors crazy when she is kidnapped and help for ransom. Mathilde (Jacqueline Maillan) is married to a rich husband of questionable virtue. A dimwitted duo of aspiring crooks get more than they bargained for by the abduction of the woman. A French Air Force pilot Read More

Qu' Est Ce Qui Fait Courir Les Crocod

Actors: Michel Serrault, Francis Blanche, Jean Poiret, Colette Castel

Ces Messieurs De La Gachette

Actors: Francis Blanche, Michel Serrault, Jean Poiret, Darry Cowl

Ces Messieurs De La Famille

Actors: Michel Serrault, Francis Blanche, Jean Poiret, Darry Cowl

À Tout Casser

Actors: Eddie Constantine, Johnny Hallyday, Michel Serrault, Catherine Allegret, Annabella Incontrera

Synopsis: This action comedy finds tough guy Ric (Eddie Constantine) coming to the rescue of Frankie (Johnny Halliday) when his club is invaded by a hippie motorcycle gang. The club serves no hard liquor, and the head gang member offers to buy Frankie's club and install a bar with stronger drinks. Frankie Read More

Du Mou Dans La Gachette

Actors: Michel Serrault, Bernard Blier, Jean Lefebvre, Francis Blanche

Les Compagnons de la Marguerite

Actors: Claude Rich, Michel Serrault, Francis Blanche, Roland Dubillard

Synopsis: Matou is an innocuous, gentle-looking man. He is married to a formidable, even a frightening woman, who is as dissatisfied with him as he is with her. He knows everything there is to know about restoring and authenticating manuscripts, particularly ancient ones, through his job at the museum. One Read More

Le Grand Bidule

Actors: Darry Cowl, Francis Blanche, Jean Poiret, Michel Serrault

Le Fou Du Labo 4

Actors: Bernard Blier, Pierre Brasseur, Maria Latour, Jean Lefebvre, Margo Lion

Synopsis: This talkative and unevenly paced feature finds Fou (Jean Lefebvre) the inventor of a gas that makes the users fall in love. He is chased by his boss, the police, and spies, who seek to secure the secret recipe for their own selfish purposes. A shadowy American underworld figure tries to Read More

King of Hearts

Actors: Alan Bates, Geneviève Bujold, Julien Guiomar, Jean-Claude Brialy, Pierre Brasseur, Micheline Presle

Synopsis: The French/Italian/British King of Hearts (Le Roi de Coeur) takes place during World War I, but it might as well have been the Vietnamese conflict so far as its youthful "core" audience was concerned. Overacting outrageously, Adolfo Celi plays British colonel Alexander MacBibenbrook, who orders Read More

Le Lit a Deux Places

Actors: Sylva Koscina, France Anglade, Dominique Boschero, Margaret Lee, Michel Serrault

Synopsis: This episodic film is for those who have ever wondered about the lives of the people who buy beds in a furniture store. Each story presents a vignette from the life of a customer. One is a hotel proprietor who generously allows two young men to stay in his room. He has no idea that one of those Read More

Cent Briques et des Tuiles

Actors: Michel Serrault, Jean-Claude Brialy, Sophie Daumier, Pierre Clémenti, Marie Laforêt, Jean-Pierre Marielle

Synopsis: A inept group of crooks conspire to rob a department store before the Christmas holiday in this crime comedy. They get the money but it is dropped in glue and later taken by juvenile delinquents. The crooks get the money back and carefully wash the bills and hang them out to dry. A charging bull Read More

La Tete Du Client

Actors: Jean Poiret, Michel Serrault, Sophie Desmarets, Jean Richard

Les Enquiquineurs

Actors: Francis Blanche, Marthe Mercadier, Michel Serrault, Michel Galabru

How Not to Rob a Department Store

Synopsis: In this French comedy, a desperate gambler has one week to repay a large debt; and therefore, enlists the aide of a bungling thief to help him rob a large Paris department store. They choose to pull the heist on Christmas Eve. With the help of another, the gambler poses as Santa Claus. They fill a Read More

Le Caid De Champignol

Actors: Jean Richard, Michel Serrault, Alfred Adam

Les Baratineurs

Actors: Michel Serrault, Darry Cowl, Francis Blanche, Jean Poiret

La Chasse A L'Homme

Actors: Jean-Claude Brialy, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Claude Rich, Françoise Dorléac, Catherine Deneuve, Marie Dubois

Synopsis: In this French comedy from director Edouard Molinaro, a young Jean-Paul Belmondo stars as Fernand, a groom-to-be who is dissuaded from stepping up to the altar by his two friends after they terrify him with their personal marriage horror stories. Antoine immediately ditches his bride and heads for Read More

Moi Et Les Hommes De 40 Ans

Actors: Dany Saval, Paul Meurisse, Michel Serrault, Paul Hubschmid

Synopsis: Caroline (Dany Saval) is a young woman who turns her attention to older men in this romantic situation comedy. She has hopes of finding a worldly, mature man to marry, but always seems to pick the wrong men. She is wooed by a millionaire, a pushy salesman, and a pompous physician before learning Read More

Les Quatre Verités

Actors: Charles Aznavour, Leslie Caron, Anna Karina, Michel Serrault, Jean Poiret

Synopsis: The four "truths" are in this instance, four different romantic or dramatic vignettes in a slightly uneven compilation film. All four segments are loosely related to fables by the 17th-century French poet Jean de la Fontaine. In the first fable "Death and the Woodcutter" directed by Luis Berlanga Read More

Les Durs A Cuire

Actors: Jean Poiret, Roger-Pierre, Michel Serrault, Stéphane Audran

Synopsis: A mystery playwright finds that he is the target of a killer. Fancying himself a sleuth, he insists upon solving the puzzle himself. Among his chief suspects are an old friend, his irresponsible wife, a flirtatious secretary, or his assistant -- who is actually the talent behind his successful Read More

Comment Trouvez-Vous Ma Soeur

Actors: France Anglade, Claude Rich, Michel Serrault, Jacqueline Maillan

Synopsis: When a girl falls for her younger brother's teacher, she attempts to capture his attention. She finds that a little male competition may be necessary in getting what she wants. This is a lesser-known romantic comedy from director Michel Boisrond -- the man partially responsible for the success of Brigit Bardot Read More

Carambolages

Actors: Jean-Claude Brialy, Louis de Funès, Michel Serrault, Anne Tonietti, Sophie Daumier, Alfred Adam

Synopsis: An overly ambitious young man hopes to rise to the top of the advertising business. When he feels his progress is being impeded, he conspires to murder his way up the corporate ladder. He uses the bodies of his victims as rungs to climb to the top in this macabre comedy of errors. ~ Dan Pavlides Read More

Bebert et l'omnibus

Actors: Blanchette Brunoy, Jacques Higelin, Jean Richard, Michel Serrault

Synopsis: Bebert (Martin Lartigue) is a five-year-old boy who gets separated from his older brother on a train. Comedy ensues as the precocious moppet observes the less-than-grown-up activities of the adults as he seeks to be reunited with his family. Panic-stricken adults continue the search for the Read More

Des Pissenlits Par La Racine

Actors: Louis de Funès, Michel Serrault, Mireille Darc, Maurice Biraud

Synopsis: A jealous ex-convict is released from prison and tries to kill the man who had been seeing his girlfriend in this offbeat burlesque comedy. When the plan backfires, the body of the dead ex-con is placed in a bass case. Louise De Funes stars as the man who is mistaken for the killer who is making Read More

Comment Reussir En Amour

Actors: Michel Serrault, Dany Saval, Jean Poiret, Jacques Charon, Noël Roquevert

Synopsis: This routine sex comedy by director Michel Boisrond stars Jean Poiret as Bernard, a young, up-and-coming publisher who has inexplicably fallen in love with Sophie (Dany Saval) a woman working with a 25-watt bulb, when it is turned on at all. Sophie is as well-grounded as daisy fluff and just as Read More

Love on a Pillow

Actors: Brigitte Bardot, Robert Hossein, Jean-Marc Bory, Macha Meril

Synopsis: Roger Vadim directs his ex-wife Brigitte Bardot once again in this conventional film about an innocent young woman, Genevieve (Bardot), who ends up on the losing side of a relationship with an alcoholic -- at least for awhile. Genevieve is a typical, introverted, middle-class woman who would like Read More

Un Clair de Lune a Maubeuge

Actors: Sophie Hardy, Claude Brasseur, Michel Serrault

Nous Irons a Deauville

Actors: Michel Serrault, Claude Brasseur, Pascale Roberts

La Belle Americaine

Actors: Robert Dhéry, Colette Brosset, Catherine Sola, Michel Serrault, Alfred Adam, Christian Marin

Synopsis: In this French variation on Mark Twain's Man with a Million story, a man's life is completely changed by the acquisition of a new car. Marcel, a Chaplainesque factory worker, sets out to buy an old motorcycle and ends up getting a new Cadillac convertible (the "beautiful American" of the title) Read More

Ma Femme Est Une Panthere

Actors: Jean Richard, Jean Poiret, Michel Serrault, Sylvana Blasi

Candide

Actors: Pierre Brasseur, Daliah Lavi, Michel Simon, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Nadia Gray

Synopsis: Jean-Pierre Cassel is ideally cast as the hopelessly optimistic Candide in this noir updating of Voltaire's classic 18th-century social satire. Candide has been assured by his ivory-tower professor (Pierre Brasseur) that whatever fate befalls him, he will be all the better for it. Armed Read More

Love and the Frenchwoman

Actors: Sylvia Montfort, Marie-José Nat, Darry Cowl, Sophie Desmarets, Jacqueline Porel, Dany Robin, Valerie Lagrange, Paul Meurisse, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Annie Girardot, François Perier, Martine Carol

Synopsis: Love and the Frenchwoman (La Francaise et L'Amour) concentrates on the nature of love by illustrating seven separate aspects of the emotion. In "Childhood," 9-year old Pierre-Jean Vaillard suffers a traumatic experience when he takes his parents' "cabbage patch" theory of conception too literally. Read More

Vous N'avez Rien A Declarer

Actors: Darry Cowl, Jean Richard, Jean Poiret, Michel Serrault

La Naif Aux Quarante Enfants

Actors: Michel Serrault, Jean Poiret, Darry Cowl, Sylva Koscina, Odette Joyeux

Synopsis: Michel Serrault plays the title character in Le Naif Aux 40 Enfants (The Innocent with 40 Children). The hero is a naïve young teacher who hopes to impose modern methods on a small-town school. Instead, he falls in love with the gorgeous mother (Silva Koscina) of one of the students. His Read More

Nina

Actors: Sophie Desmarets, Jean Poiret, Michel Serrault, Yves Robert

Messieurs Les Ronds De Cuir

Actors: Pierre Brasseur, Noël-Noël, Jean Poiret, Michel Serrault

Synopsis: Based on a story by one of France's favorite satirists, Georges Courteline, this is the second time a director has taken on the tale of bureaucracy gone mad. The first version was a 1937 film by Yves Mirande, this 1959 remake is by Henri Diamant-Berger. The story is set at the turn of the 20th Read More

Assassins et Voleurs

Actors: Michel Serrault, Jean Poiret, Magali Noël, Darry Cowl

Synopsis: Assassins et Voleurs (Killers and Thieves) was the penultimate offering from French filmmaker Sacha Guitry. Though seriously ill and confined to a wheelchair, Guitry was still able to invest a great deal of energy in the project. Surprised by a burglar (Michel Serrault), the doleful Philippe (Jean Poiret Read More

Clara Et Les Mechants

Actors: Michel Serrault, Jean Poiret

Adorables Demons

Actors: Jean Poiret, Michel Serrault, Dora Doll, Rellys

Naughty Girl

Actors: Brigitte Bardot, Jean Bretonniere, Jean Poiret, Michel Serrault, Darry Cowl, Françoise Fabian, Bernard Lancret

Synopsis: The title of this French sex farce translates to That Darn Kid. The "kid" in question is nymphet Brigitte Bardot, here cast as a wide-eyed innocent. While her father hides out from the police, Bardot is protected by nightclub singer Jean Bretonniere. The two eventually fall in love, but a series Read More

Diabolique

Actors: Simone Signoret, Véra Clouzot, Paul Meurisse, Charles Vanel, Pierre Larquey

Synopsis: The greatest film that Alfred Hitchcock never made, Henri-Georges Clouzot's Diabolique is set in a provincial boarding school run by headmaster Michel Delasalle (Paul Meurisse). A ruthless lothario, he becomes the target of a murder plot concocted by his long-suffering invalid wife Christina (Vera Clouzot Read More

Peek-a-Boo

Synopsis: A bevy of beautiful strippers team up with a handful of risqué comedians in this feature that documents a typical burlesque show from 1953. Filmed at the Follies Theater in Los Angeles, CA, Peek-a-Boo includes pulse-quickening dance numbers from Venus (billed as "the World's Most Exciting Body") Read More