Jacques François

Knight Godefroy has to return to our time from 1023 to get back the sacred jewels that Jacquouille has taken to the 20th century. (imdb)

Squale, an ace spy, is called back from South America to carry out a tough operation. Goal: dismantle an international arms traffic masterminded by an important French government official. Squale triggers off a squall that blasts away everything in its wake: people, cars, and helicopters. The Lemercier, Clavier and Reno trio steal the thunder in this uproarious operation.

Igor, who manages a fancy hotel and is on the take, has to juggle several problems at once. (imdb)

In Lyons, where many are unemployed, Marie is a prostitute who loves her work: she's thoughtful and exuberant toward clients old and young... (imdb)

Félix, disguised as Father Christmas, hands out leaflets advertising a sexy Christmas party. His place is taken by an African Santa Claus and he returns to his caravan only to find his girlfriend Josette about to leave him. When he comes after her, she takes refuge at "SOS Distress", run by two neurotics, Thérèse and Pierre. (imdb)

When Francois, a journalist, is touring a big store for an article, he is choose by the son of the owner, Rambal-Cochet, as his new toy. All afraid of the despotic industrial also the newspaper's owner, Francois is forced to agree in this mascarade. Becoming the friend of the child, he induced him who wants to make a newspaper, to unveil publicly the real tyrannical way of life of his father. (imdb)

In this riot of frantic disguises and mistaken identities, Victor Pivert, a blustering, bigoted French factory owner, finds himself taken hostage by Slimane, an Arab rebel leader. The two dress up as rabbis as they try to elude not only assasins from Slimane's country, but also the police, who think Pivert is a murderer... (imdb)

Guillaume (Louis de Funes) has made it: a machine which can clean dirty air by simply sucking all dirt into balloons and then shipping them far, far away. Some Japanese businessmen, after dinner with a lot of alcohol, order 5000 pieces. His only problem: production capacity is way too small, so he has to produce the machines in his private house... (imdb)

Cruchot's police office moves into a new building. They do not only get high tech equipment, but also four young female police officers to educate. All of them scramble to work with them -- and cause pure chaos while being distracted by the fine ladies. Then they get into real trouble when one after the other of their female colleagues is kidnapped. (imdb)

Josh and Dinah Barkley are a successful (though argumentative) musical-comedy team, yet Dinah chafes as Galatea to her husband's Pygmalion. When serious playwright Jacques Barredout envisions her as a great dramatic actress, Dinah is not hard to persuade. (imdb)

A baronet decides that his son needs to experience life outside of his blue-blooded world and so takes him to Paris to sample its earthy pleasures. Meanwhile, the son has his own plans; he wants to find his father a good woman because he believes his father has spent too much time cooped up on his lonely estate in Scotland. Many merry mix-ups ensue as the two well-meaning fellows try to find the right woman for the other. (nytimes.com)

Pierre is a hotel cashier in Vichy, so shy that he answers an ad from the Psychology Institute and can't say no to the salesman, Aldo; he spends 6,000 francs on tapes, books, and a punching bag. Soon after, he's smitten by Agnes, a hotel guest with a model's looks and photographers wherever she goes. When she leaves for Nice, he follows, meeting Aldo on the way. Aldo becomes his boldness coach. Pierre gets a job washing dishes where Agnes is staying, but after a week or so, she's off to Deauvill (imdb)

Based on Philippe Beaussant's biography of Jean-Baptiste Lully. The film, presenting libertine and pagan Lully as a natural ally of the early Enlightenment figure Louis XIV of France in his conflicts with the Catholic establishment, focuses on Lully's personal and possibly romantic relationship with the King, as well as his camaraderie with Molière and rivalry with Robert Cambert.

Eduard, a pianist married to Caroline, is hounded by her uncle and cousin who dislike him because he's poor.

Advertising executive Gérard 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 (Clémentine Celarié) in bed with a famous television personality (Gérard Rinaldi). Gerard finds romantic solace in the arms of his former secretary Martine (Marie-Anne Chazel). (Allmovie)

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 back to run the station but gets fired yet again when he airs an exposé of phony name-brand products. (Allmovie)

A young jounalist (Patrick Dewaere) stumbles across something much more sinister than a simple suicide in the death of a politician - the death seems to be an assassination contrived by an American multinational company intent on taking over several French industries. The journalist's objective is to garner enough evidence to expose the American corporation for what it really is, before French companies start disappearing - and before any more corpses accumulate, including his own. (Allmovie)

A travel agent travels to Africa intending to start a resort hotel only to encounter her crusty ex-husband and ivory smugglers. (imdb)

As always, the story begins when farm boy D'Artagnan rides into Paris, intending to become a King's Musketeer. En route, he manages to offend Porthos, Athos and Aramis, challenging all three to a duel at the same time. The foursome eventually becomes fast friends, uniting against such common enemies as Cardinal Richelieu and Milady DeWinter. The plot then segues into the efforts of the Musketeers to save the honor of Queen Anne. (Allmovie)

They are the best friends of the world. Five friends who shared everything: may 68, hippies years, the rock and their love for Bernadette. This Bernadette has left them to become a rock-star, and is back 15 years later for a weekend. Jean-Marie Poire describes with this movie the portrait of a generation with lots of humor served by excelent actors. (imdb)

After an unfortunate initiative the financial advisor Benoît Lepape is dismissed. He convinces his uncle, a union activist, to invest funds of the union and apply capitalist methods in a successful bicycle business, and then in a model electronics factory.

Overnight, Paris is invaded - although peacefully - but the Chinese Army, and millions of Chinese people... It's the Nazi occupation all over again, with modern - funny - twists. (imdb)

In April 1789, the commander of the faithful left Baghdad for Paris to acquire the salon equipment executioner (the Sicob) an infallible guillotine, because the pal no distracted him. Presentation follows a parody of the Revolution which will see Louis XVI to escape to get not to Varennes but in Baghdad . (Wikipedia)

Albert has always dreaded visits by his beloved wife's five highly dysfunctional girlfriends, who are forever complaining about the absence of any real men for them to date or marry. When he loses his job, however, the gals rally 'round, and he couldn't have found a more loyal or helpful group. (Allmovie)

François Perrin is a journalist who reads the news on RTL radio. Alone in life, his only "amusement" is his neighbour from Africa, who makes mildly fun of him from time to time. One evening, François is bored, and decides to call a random telephone number. He gets Christine on the line, a bit of an old school pharmacist, who hesitates to put down the phone, and plays the game of seduction with the charming "Mr X". (imdb)

Gregoire is retiring after many years with the same bank, and his colleagues surprise him with the gift of a beautiful call girl, Barbara. Thinking she is a conquest, he impersonates the bank president, leading to a comedy of mistaken identities. (imdb)

Archaeologist Dr. Burnet, his daughter Anne and newspaperman Nicholas Chapman set out to search for the priceless golden mask of Moloch, believed to be in a lost tomb. Two crooks, Kress and Petris, use schemes, tricks and ruses to raise havoc in order to get the mask for themselves. (imdb)

Alex Berthier would love to be a famous songwriter. Meanwhile, he has to cope with unemployment, a witty 12 years old son and a rich and cute heiress who tries to help Alex as much as he tries to escape her: she brings nothing but trouble ! Fortunately, luck will strike again... (imdb)

A lawyer defending once successful computer programmer against her prosecuting lawyer boyfriend becomes romantically involved with his client. (imdb)

Romain, boss of a flourishing advertising agency, is a man fulfilled. After three unhappy marriages, he seems to have finally found the ideal woman in the person of Vera, his elegant mistress, and displays on the material level an insolent success, as attested by his last model Jaguar, his vast Parisian apartment and his stylish valet...

The film is made from three short stories by W. Somerset Maugham. The first, "The Ant and the Grasshopper" concerns the trials and tribulations a ne'er-do-well brother, Tom Ramsey, puts his prim-and-proper businessman brother, George Ramsey through. (imdb)

Young love is threatened by warring families.

Fifi Flores is the protagonist of "The Easter Egg", a successful comedy playing in Paris. Everything seems to be going well, but suddenly the writer/director falls victim to a cabal. To avenge his enemies, he decides to rewrite his play, thus setting off a series of disasters. (mubi.com)

During the broadcast of a live game show, a surprise guest is shot by an armed assassin. The victim, Martin Gaillard, recounts the bizarre series of events that led to this extraordinary denouement. (imdb)

A bisexual good-nature girl with a movie critic, a husband who is hoping to win back his wife, a spirited young man with twisted situations a little too excited. A mysterious brothel that offers shock treatments, led by dominatrices, "to relieve all problems of libido".

This is the story of a generation of women, told through the story of three sisters Roussel, suburban became Parisian in the 1960s.

This film takes us back to the rebellious youth of Charles Baudelaires, his passions in love and the difficult reception of Les Fleurs du mal. Illness, the artificial paradises of art... A powerful and creative life inhabited by actors in love with spleen. (ina)

In a train compartment, 6 people who do not know each other tell the story of their troubles in love. Only one of those seems to be a positive one. (imdb)

As of his early childhood Robinson Crusoe has wanted to become a sailor. And when he does become one bad luck has it that the vessel he sails on gets shipwrecked. Being the only survivor of the catastrophe, he manages to take refuge on a desert island where he will spend several years, learning how to survive... (imdb)

Film in five episodes on the female universe. Among the women portrayed, neglected wives who become prostitutes, a worker who improvises a sexy bomb and a priestess who gives herself as wife to an emigrant. (imdb)

The everyday life and habits of a famous brothel in Paris. (imdb)