Pierre MondyFilmography

Lovely Rita: Sainte Patronne des Cas Désespérés

Actors: Christian Clavier, Julie Gayet, Eddy Mitchell, Arielle Dombasle, Pierre Mondy

Synopsis: French filmmaker Stephane Clavier directs the comedy Lovely Rita: Patron Saint of Lost Causes, based on the novel by Benjamin Legrand. The director's brother, French TV star Christian Clavier, is the comedic star. He plays accountant Edgar Lamarck, who gets unwittingly involved in criminal Read More

Le Fils Préferé

Actors: Gérard Lanvin, Bernard Giraudeau, Jean-Marc Barr, Roberto Herlitzka, Margherita Buy

Synopsis: In this French drama, an irresponsible man is forced by circumstances beyond his control to communicate with the family he's kept at a distance. Jean-Paul (Gerard Lanvin) is the manager of a hotel in Nice whose shady business practices have put him seriously into debt; he needs to raise 300,000 Read More

Asterix Chez Les Bretons

Actors: Roger Carel, Pierre Tornade, Pierre Mondy, Serge Sauvion, Nicolas Silberg

Synopsis: Asterix, the popular French cartoon character, comes back to the big screen in this second feature-length animated film by Pino Van Lamsweerde. Helped (and occasionally hindered) by his muscular sidekick Obelix and his faithful pooch Idefix ("fixed idea"), Asterix must go to Britain to come to the 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

Pinot, Simple Flic

Actors: Gérard Jugnot, Fanny Bastien, Patrick Fierry, Jean-Claude Brialy, Jean Rougerie

Synopsis: With enough humor to make up for any minor shortcomings, this story about the bumbling Pinot (Gérard Jugnot), a Parisian patrolman with a heart of gold, works as both comedy and drama. Pinot is intent on straightening out the questionable lifestyle of Marylou (Josiane) (Fanny Bastien), a woman he Read More

Si Elle Dit Oui...Je Ne Dis Pas Non

Actors: Mireille Darc, Pierre Mondy, Paul Freeman, Jean-Francois Garreaud

Le Cadeau

Actors: Pierre Mondy, Claudia Cardinale, Clio Goldsmith, Jacques Francois, Cecile Magnet

Synopsis: The Gift was based on Bankers Also Have Souls, a play by Valme and Terzolli. To honor retiring co-worker Gregoire (Pierre Mondy), a group of bank employees pool their money and purchase a farewell gift: gorgeous prostitute Barbara (Clio Goldsmith). Since Gregoire is married to the luscious Read More

Le Braconnier De Dieu

Actors: Pierre Mondy, Annie Cordy, Michel Galabru, Jean Lefebvre

Le Battant

Actors: Alain Delon, François Perier, Pierre Mondy, Anne Parillaud, Marie-Christine Descouard, Michel Beaune

Synopsis: Alain Delon produced, directed, co-wrote, and starred in this story about a solitary thief, jailed for a jewel robbery and the murder of the jeweler, and set free after serving his prison term. His objective is to get his hands on the stolen jewels before a crowd of gangsters reaches them and/or Read More

Signe Furax

Actors: Bernard Haller, Jean-Pierre Darras, Dany Saval, Mylène Demongeot

Retour En Force

Actors: Victor Lanoux, Bernadette Lafont, Pierre Mondy, Gérard Jugnot

Synopsis: The tendency for a life of crime to continue unabated is a part of this conventional crime comedy by director Jean-Marie Poire. When Adrien (Victor Lanoux) gets out of the slammer and heads home to his wife and kids, everything goes wrong. First, his wife is living with a deadbeat bus driver Read More

Demons du midi

Actors: Pierre Mondy, Micheline Presle

Synopsis: Francois (Pierre Mondy) battles a mid-life crisis by becoming a bank robber in this tepid drama. He meets the young actress Rose (Micheline Presle), and takes her along as he tries to make his getaway to Spain after the police close in on him. An uneven mix of fantasy and the bizarre is thrown in Read More

Vas-y Maman

Actors: Annie Girardot, Pierre Mondy, Eleonore Klarwein, Richard Constantini, Henri Garcin

Synopsis: The whole household revolves around the Annie (Annie Girardot), the mother, but no one helps her do anything. Without her support, her husband could not spend so much time being preoccupied with his job at a company which makes everything from sunglasses to kitchen appliances (not very good ones Read More

Le Beaujolais Nouveau Est Arrive...

Actors: Jean Carmet, Michel Galabru, Pierre Mondy, Pascale Roberts

Synopsis: Every year, in France, there is a national celebration of sorts when that year's pressing of beaujolais grapes has become a wine fit to drink as an ordinary, daily beverage, vin ordinaire. In this gentle film, Camadule (Jean Carmet), the owner of a small Parisian cafe, entertains his Read More

La Septième Compagnie Au Clair Du Lune

Actors: Jean Lefebvre, Pierre Mondy, Henri Guybet, Patricia Karim, Gérard Herold, André Pousse

Synopsis: This comedy follows the misadventures of a group of military goofballs who nonetheless manage to help the Resistance following the brief French war effort against the Nazis. They inadvertently stumble on a Resistance operation while out hunting and are forced to get involved. ~ Clarke Fountain Read More

Dernière Sortie Avant Roissy

Actors: Pierre Mondy, Anne Jousset, Herve Bellon, Roseline Villaume, Françoise Arnoul

Synopsis: In this drama, unemployment complicates a father's relationship with his estranged daughter. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide Read More

On a Retrouvé la Septième Compagnie

Actors: Jean Lefebvre, Pierre Mondy, Henri Guybet, Erik Colin, Robert Lamoureux

Synopsis: In the earlier comedy, Where is the Seventh Company?, three young French soldiers who get lost behind German lines during World War II successfully cause endless havoc and live to tell the tale. In the sequel, The Seventh Company Has Been Found they continue to harass the enemy and even discover Read More

Le Telephone Rose

Actors: Mireille Darc, Pierre Mondy, Michel Lonsdale, Daniel Ceccaldi, Gérard Herold

Synopsis: In this sad French romance, a factory owner gives up everything to win the love of a hooker who loves only her job. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Impossible... Pas Francais

Actors: Robert Lamoureux, Pierre Mondy, Jean Lefebvre, Claire Maurier

Synopsis: Two inept brothers, who cannot keep a job, call on their brother-in-law looking for work. He runs a detective agency, and they begin doing errands for him. They encounter a group of financiers who want a large shipment of a chemicals delivered from Portugal into France despite a transportation Read More

Vos Gueules, Les Mouettes!

Actors: Robert Dhéry, Colette Brosset, Pierre Mondy, Pierre Olaf

Synopsis: Director Robert Dhery stars in this slight comedy about a man whose brother-in-law is making an amateur film for a regional television contest. He objects when the brother-in-law tries to make the film racier than he feels is appropriate. Before the film is over, he has won control of the Read More

Mais Ou Est Donc Passe La 7ème Compagnie?

Actors: Jean Lefebvre, Pierre Mondy, Aldo Maccione, Robert Lamoureux

Synopsis: Members of the Septième get separated from their unit in this French wartime comedy/action feature. Showing an unusual ability to thrive and improvise, the men create havoc behind the lines, straighten out some wayward Resistance types, and return safely back to their side of the battle in a Read More

Prêtres Interdits

Actors: Robert Hossein, Claude Jade, Claude Piéplu, Pierre Mondy

Synopsis: This French melodrama tells the tragic story of a young priest (Robert Hossein) who falls in love with a young woman, has relations with her, and gets her pregnant. His cardinal wants to ship him off to Rome, but he sticks around and has a hard time of it when she dies and he is not allowed to Read More

Les Malheurs d'Alfred

Actors: Pierre Richard, Anny Duperey, Pierre Mondy, Jean Carmet

Synopsis: The notable French comedian Pierre Richard stars in and directs this, his second feature film. Here he plays Alfred, about whom it may be said, "if it weren't for bad luck, he'd have no luck at all." Unlucky in love, he tries to commit suicide, only to be thwarted by police efforts to prevent a Read More

Papa, les petits bateaux...

Actors: Sheila White

Synopsis: In this whimsical French comedy, Cookie (Sheila White) is a tough, sweet little rich girl, and is rather smart, too. She's smart enough and charming enough to outwit her kidnappers by setting one against the other until they have all killed each other or died trying to prove their worth to her. Read More

Appellez-Moi Mathilde

Crew: Director

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

Pierre et Paul

Actors: Pierre Mondy, Bulle Ogier, Madeleine Barbulee

Synopsis: Pierre is a middle-aged factory worker with a harridan mother and plenty of unresolved anger about his life. After his father's death, his mother feels compelled to move in with him. Having just moved there with his beautiful girlfriend, he begins to feel the pressure at home and at work. When the Read More

The Night of the Generals

Actors: Peter O'Toole, Omar Sharif, Tom Courtenay, Donald Pleasence, Philippe Noiret, Charles Gray

Synopsis: Military Intelligence officer Major Grau (Omar Sharif) investigates the brutal murder of a Warsaw prostitute in this mystery set during World War II. Grau's only clue is that the murderer was wearing the uniform of a Nazi general. The three suspects include Gabler (Charles Gray), who fears his Read More

Appelez Moi Maitre

Actors: Jacqueline Maillan, Pierre Mondy, Christian Marin, Michel Galabru

Monsieur Le President Directeur General

Actors: Pierre Mondy, Michel Galabru, Jacqueline Maillan, Claude Rich

The Sleeping Car Murders

Actors: Yves Montand, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Pierre Mondy, Simone Signoret, Catherine Allegret, Jacques Perrin

Synopsis: The first film directed by Costa-Gavras, The Sleeping Car Murders was based on a novel by Sebastien Japrisot. During a Marseilles-to-Paris overnight train trip, a girl is found dead in a sleeping car. As Paris detective Yves Montand steps up his investigation, more and more passengers turn up Read More

Weekend à Zuydcoote

Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Catherine Spaak, François Perier, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Georges Géret

Synopsis: In this WW II drama set during a weekend in June of 1940, German invaders force British troops to flee Dunkirk. The French soldiers stationed on a nearby beach also want to withdraw so they too can battle the Germans, but they have been ordered to stay in place and the British are to use the boats Read More

Daggers Drawn

Les Copains

Actors: Philippe Noiret, Pierre Mondy, Claude Rich, Michel Lonsdale

Requiem Pour Un Caid

Actors: Pierre Mondy, Jean-Pierre Bernard, Folco Jacques Monod

Jusqu' Au Bout Du Monde

Actors: Pierre Mondy, Didi Perego, Marietto Paolo Carlini

Synopsis: This routine drama by François Villiers is about a father coming to grips with the fact that he has a young son. Pierre (Pierre Mondy) is an ordinary laborer but when he receives word that and former lover in Corsica is dying -- and that she bore him a son he never knew about -- Pierre quickly Read More

À Couteaux Tirés

Actors: Pierre Mondy, Daniel Ivernel, Françoise Arnoul, Petula Clark

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

Les Mystères de Paris

Actors: Jean Marais, Jill Haworth, Dany Robin, Raymond Pellegrin, Pierre Mondy

Synopsis: One of several versions of a steamy novel by Eugene Sue, Les Mystères de Paris is set at the turn of the 20th century and begins when the carriage of Count Rodolphe (Jean Marais) runs over a man and as he dies, the Count vows to help his poor, orphaned daughter Marie (Jill Haworth). And so the Read More

Les Veinards

Actors: Francis Blanche, Darry Cowl, François Perier

L'Enfant Du Cirque

Actors: Antonella Lualdi, Pierre Mondy

Le Comte de Monte-Cristo

Actors: Louis Jourdan, Yvonne Furneaux, Pierre Mondy, Bernard Dheran, Jean-Claude Michel, Henri Guisol, Franco Silva

Synopsis: Claude Autant-Lara's 1961 Count of Monte Cristo is one of the most faithful screen versions of the evergreen Alexandre Dumas story -- and one of the most compelling, thanks to the director's ability to squeeze the last drop of romanticism out of the original. While Louis Jourdan seems ill at ease Read More

Boulevard

Actors: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Magali Noël, Monique Brienne, Pierre Mondy, Jacques Duby

Synopsis: As in François Truffaut's award-winning first picture, 400 Blows, Jean-Pierre Leaud once again takes up the role of a besieged and troubled teen in Boulevard. But that ends the points of similarity between the dramas, since this is a routine and uneven film, not up to director Julien Duviver's Read More

La Loi Des Hommes

Actors: Micheline Presle, Philippe Leroy, Pierre Mondy, Arletty

Synopsis: A rather leaden police story by director Charles Gerard (who refocused on acting after 1966), La Loi des Hommes is reminiscent of American tough detective stories involving seedy, violent gangsters. Police inspector Dandieu (Philippe Leroy-Beaulien) suspects that the beautiful Sophie (Micheline Presle Read More

The Lady Doctor

Synopsis: In this drama, a woman marries a lawyer who is endeavoring to do all he can to stay on the good side of his wealthy aunts so he will inherit their fortunes. When the bride begins acting strangely and going places at odd times, the aunts hire a private detective to shadow her. He learns that she Read More

The Battle of Austerlitz

Actors: Pierre Mondy, Rossano Brazzi, Vittorio De Sica, Claudia Cardinale, Martine Carol, Jean Marais

Synopsis: In what must be the longest lapse of time between a film and its sequel, 70-year-old Abel Gance continues his nearly legendary, 1927 historical drama Napoleon with this tale of Napoleon's life after his victories in Italy. The first half of Austerlitz delves into the private life of Napoleon 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

L'Affaire D'Une Nuit

Actors: Pascale Petit, Roger Hanin, Pierre Mondy

Synopsis: The protagonists in this routine sexual drama are less than appealing, which makes involvement in their one-night peccadillo a difficult challenge. Catherine (Pascale Petit, on her way to making a spate of movies in this decade) and Michel (Roger Hanin) meet when Michel runs into an old school Read More

Le Chemin Des Ecoliers

Actors: Bourvil, Alain Delon, Lino Ventura, Françoise Arnoul, Jean-Claude Brialy

Synopsis: This well-acted-though routine wartime drama is the second such film in a row for young Jean Claude Brialy, who plays a member of one of two families who are experiencing the effects of the German Occupation. In general, both morals and morale have declined in the families so that a lonely married Read More

Faibles Femmes

Actors: Mylène Demongeot, Pascale Petit, Jacqueline Sassard, Alain Delon

Synopsis: Three Murderesses stars Alain Delon as a French playboy who gets more than he bargained for when he begins romancing three women at once. All three ladies (Mylene Demongeot, Pascale Petit and Jacqueline Sassard) are sisters, of wildly divergent personalities. Eventually all three tire of Delon Read More

Cigarettes Whisky Et P' Tites Pepees

Actors: Annie Cordy, Nadine Tallier, Pierre Mondy

Les Loups Dans La Bergerie

Actors: Pascale Roberts, Françoise Dorléac, Pierre Mondy

Synopsis: This is a fast-paced, effective drama about some "wolves" or gangsters who take over a reformatory for juvenile delinquents with consequences that are deadly, and much more reformative than any programs on the books. The professional thugs are on the run from a police dragnet when they hole up in Read More

Le Temps Des Oeufs Durs

Actors: Darry Cowl, Fernand Gravey, Beatrice Altariba, Pierre Mondy

Synopsis: Darry Cowl continues in his patented "French Jerry Lewis" vein in Le Temps des Ouefs Durs (Hardboiled Egg Time). Cowl plays a dimwitted cabdriver whose life is turned topsy-turvy when he wins a lottery. Our hero uses part of his windfall to bankroll an elderly artist whom he's befriended (it Read More

La Vie a Deux

Actors: Pierre Brasseur, Danielle Darrieux, Fernandel, Edwige Feuillère, Louis de Funès

Synopsis: French filmmaker Sacha Guitry had intended to direct as well as write 3DLa Vie a Deux3D (3DLife as a Couple3D), but death claimed him before he could bring his plan to fruition. Adapted from Guitry's original by Jean Martin and directed by Clement Duhor, the film offers an all-star cast in a Read More

Ni Vu, Ni Connu

Actors: Louis de Funès, Moustache, Noëlle Adam, Claude Rich

Synopsis: Ni Vu, Ni Connu (Neither Seen Nor Recognized) is built around the talents of rubber-faced Gallic comedian Louis De Funes. Our hero is a poacher in a small provincial village, who always manages to stay one step ahead of the Law. Through a fluke, De Funes finds himself the town's Leading Citizen Read More

Le Triporteur

Actors: Darry Cowl, Beatrice Altariba, Jean-Claude Brialy, Pierre Mondy

Synopsis: Gifted comic actor Darry Cowl plays the title role in Le Triporteur (The Tricyclist). A football fanatic, young Antoine (Cowl) follows his favorite team from one game to the next madly peddling his tricycle to his various destinations. Antoine is later needed to "suit up" during a crucial game and Read More

Les Louves

Actors: François Perier, Micheline Presle, Jeanne Moreau, Madeleine Robinson

Synopsis: Les Louves was also released as Demoniaque and She Wolves. By any name, it's a puzzler, at least until the final fast-paced scenes. Gervais (François Perier) escapes from a German concentration camp and assumes the identity of a recently deceased fellow prisoner. Knowing that the dead man has been Read More

Everybody Wants to Kill Me

Synopsis: Francois Perier, Peter vanEyck, and Anouk Aimee star in this tense tale of five highly skilled thieves who all pool their resources in hopes of pulling off the perfect heist. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

En Legitime Defense

Actors: Bernard Blier, Pierre Mondy, Philippe Nicaud

Synopsis: Bernard Blier plays a gendarme and Philipe Nicaud co-stars as Blier's bartender buddy in En Legitime Defense. When Nicaud murders a gangster in self-defense, he runs off in a blind panic. Blier endeavors to convince Nicaud to turn himself over to the authorities, and at the same time struggles to Read More

Cheri Fais Moi Peur

Actors: Darry Cowl, Sophie Daumier, Tilda Thamar, Pierre Mondy

Synopsis: Cheri, Fais Mon Peur (Honey, Scare Me) is another slapstick smorgasbord tailored to the talents of Jerry Lewis-like farceur Darry Cowl. This time, our hero finds himself up to his neck in espionage. Cowl has in his possession one of those top-secret thingamajigs that puts him at the top of the Read More

Totò, Vittorio e la dottoressa

Actors: Vittorio De Sica, Totò, Abbe Lane

Synopsis: If Hollywood could put the names of Abbott and Costello in the titles of the team's pictures, why couldn't Italy honor its favorite actors in a similar fashion. Toto, Vittorio e la Dotoressa stars that matchless Italian comic actor Toto, matinee idol/director Vittorio De Sica, and, as Dotoressa Read More

Quand la Femme S'en Mele

Actors: Edwige Feuillère, Bernard Blier, Jean Servais, Alain Delon, Yves Deniaud, Sophie Daumier

Synopsis: Quand la Femme S'en Mele (When the Woman Butts In) stars French film favorite Edwige Feuillere as a high-class gangster's moll named Maine. When Maine's first husband and daughter pay a visit, it's an awkward time for our heroine and her current amour, gang boss Godot (Jean Servais). In Read More

Mefiez-Vous Fillettes

Actors: Antonella Lualdi, Robert Hossein, Gérard Oury, Pierre Mondy

Synopsis: This complex effort from French filmmaker Yves Allégret was distributed in English-speaking countries as Young Girls Beware and Look Out Girls. The cautionary title should have been heeded by heroine Fan (Michèle Cordoue). Having had the bad luck to witness a gangland murder, Fan is promptly Read More

Que Les Hommes Sont Betes

Actors: Dany Carrel, Fernand Sardou, Pierre Mondy

Folies-Bergère

Actors: Eddie Constantine, Zizi Jeanmaire, Nadia Gray, Yves Robert, Jacques Morel

Synopsis: Eddie Constantine stars as Bob, an American GI at large in Paris. After attending a performance of the fabled Folies-Bergere, Bob becomes convinced that one of the dancers, a feisty little number named Claudia (Zizi Jeanmaire), has stolen his wallet. When he confronts her with this accusation, she Read More

La Roue

Actors: Jean Servais, Pierre Mondy, Francois Guerin

Des Gens Sans Importance

Actors: Jean Gabin, Françoise Arnoul, Pierre Mondy, Paul Frankeur

Synopsis: Director Henri Verneuil co-adapted Des Gens Sans Importance from a novel by Serge Groussard. The title translates to People of No Importance, an all-too-apt description for the film's cast of characters. Jean Gabin plays an aging, world-weary truckdriver who falls in love with restaurant Read More

Crainquebille

Actors: Yves Deniaud, Christian Fourcade, Pierre Mondy, Claude Winter

Synopsis: Crainquebille is the third film version of Anatole France's satiric novel. The title character, played by Yves Deniaud, is an elderly pushcart peddler much beloved by one and all. Well, almost all: the gendarme on the beat inexplicably despises Crainquebille, and the first chance he gets, he Read More