Martin Lamotte

Parisian Georges (Philippe Chevallier) is vacationing in Italy with his mistress, Emmanuelle (Alice Evans), when she discovers he has a wife and that his only source of income is an allowance from his mother-in-law (Stephane Audran). Crestfallen, Georges returns to the city to find that his mother-in-law plans to sell his swanky apartment. Now, Georges must fend off prospective buyers, a vindictive Emmanuelle and her jealous boyfriend.

Princess Charlotte (Anemone) is scheduled to marry a boring duke, but before that event happens, Paul (Thierry Lhermitte) has taken a bet that he can seduce her. He does, profits from his act, and then falls in love with her. Meanwhile, the wedding with the duke is still planned, and it remains to be seen whether Paul will give in and give up. (Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi)

A stuffy bank clerk has his humdrum existence turned upside-down when a free-spirited, larcenous gipsy girl falls in love with him. (imdb)

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

A young man, Adrian, comes back to his father's house only to discover his father is living with a teenage drug addict. The two soon fall in love.

Holidaymakers arriving in a Club Med camp on the Ivory Coast are determined to forget their everyday problems and emotional disappointments. Games, competitions, outings, bathing and sunburn accompany a continual succession of casual affairs. (imdb)

Coluche stars as the inept police inspector, Michel Clement. The senior Clement was a spectacular policeman, and Michel finds it particularly difficult to try and walk in his father's footsteps without tripping. At the moment he is after Roger Morzini, a dangerous gangster who eventually kidnaps Marie-Anne Prossant. She is a journalist traveling with Michel as he tries to track down Morzini. Her objective was to get an interview with the gangster, and now she has more than she bargained for (Allmovie)

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. (Allmovie)

Irene has no desire to work in his uncle's grocery shop and dreams of becoming an actor. His opportunity comes when a crew of movie makers came to his little village. Irene begins to go over the top in order to be noticed, which earns him the traditional joke reserved to a "Schpountz" (naive person): a phoney contract and a departure for Paris. (imdb)

Two frowsty middle-aged men, cousins, live and work together. In this ironic satire/drama, they are cowardly, tricky and mean-spirited, but at least they have each other. When they take to testing the alarm system of the bank that they work in after what is for them a particularly scary moment, their boss sends them away on a holiday. They manage to pick up and seduce a pretty hitchhiker before discovering that she is a runaway minor with a reward pending for her return. (Allmovie)

In 1940, at the start of Nazi occupation of France, the Bourdelles, a family of musicians, refuse to perform in public until after their country has been liberated. Three years later, their Paris mansion is requisitioned by German soldiers and they are forced to live in the cellar. Whilst the General Spontz makes overtures with her daughter, Héléna Bourdelle, an ageing opera singer and her father, Papy, get caught up in resistance activity. (Allmovie)

The characters from the first two films get together again, 27 years on. Bernard and Nathalie Morin, are the parents of a son who reveals a homosexual liaison; J.C. and Gigi are living together; Jérome Tarayre is divorced and seems unhappy in his new life; Christiane Weissmuller has joined an esoteric sect and wants revenge on Jérome who messed up an operation he performed on her; Popeye has become the proprietor of the hotel where the group has re-assembled, and is as unfaithful as ever. (Wikipedia)

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 junkyard on the outskirts of Paris. Jesus is a bit of a hippy with his long hair, loud, hip clothing and wild man ways. His father is an alcoholic and his mother is utterly passive.

Ferdinand (Gérard Jugnot), a long-term unemployed man living in a slum in the suburbs of Paris, accidentally meets Bonnie (Anemone) on the road.

Antoine Bonfils is a household appliance salesman. His car breaks down close to a farm. Looking for help, he figures out that the people there live differently, like 'hippies'... (Wikipedia)

Two young women figure out that the best way to be promoted in the company, is to sleep with the CEO.

There are exactly 11 different slices of life in this comedic look primarily at the French and their mores. (Allrovi)

At the end of the fifteenth century, the armies of King Charles VIII go through Italy to conquer the Kingdom of Naples. One of the French captains, Bellabre defeated and ridiculed in a parade tournament by a young unknown, Pierre Terrail de Bayard, takes under his control, to take revenge by making him know the harsh reality of war. (Wikipedia)

Lydie has just paid a considerable rent deposit for a new flat when her boyfriend breaks up with her. Now she is alone in a flat she cannot afford. So she starts looking for a flatmate and finally chooses Eva, a model. Eventually Lydie gets to know Eva's friends and that changes her life. (Wikipedia)

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 isn't long before Antoine discovers things are a lot tougher for management than he ever imagined. (Allmovie)

Hélène Duvernet (Jane Birkin ), the owner of an art gallery, is questioned by inspectors Pelissier and Leroux. But Leroux develops a passion for Helena, and begins to take any excuse to talk to her and watch her. He joins her unexpectedly several times, and even steals her car so that she'll go to the police.

The Red Orchestra which was implanted right into the very heart of the nazi empire was considered the most important espionage net of World War II. (imdb)

When Julien Foucault, headmaster of the very venerable investment bank Berthin-Schwartz, learns his dismissal, he sees the opportunity to realize his dream of always: open a restaurant with his best friend Etienne.

Martin is probably a little cracked in the head. Why else would he pick up a suspicious-looking hitchhiker 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 dangerous person on board. What's more, he can't seem to shake his now unwelcome hitchhiker. Eventually, he leaves his car behind altogether and becomes a hitchhiker himself. (Allmovie)

Tired of having to work hard for a hypothetical retirement, a couple suddenly ends their professional activities. The two young people decide to make a breakaway to make money without effort ...

The film is set in France in August 1944 at the end of the war. German troops are in retreat as the allies are coming in. Two French boys run from home and on their journey they stumble upon a German soldier. Soon they become friends and together they head towards Lyon... (imdb)

A new TV personality begins receiving threatening calls to her show whenever she is on air.

A birth takes place at the royal castle. Unfortunately, the queen dies and her baby, Snow White, is female. Even the intervention of a trainee fairy does nothing.

Yann and Rose are young, they love each other and want to have a child. Nine months later, still no babies on the horizon. They then show a lot of imagination and try anything and everything. Well, especially anything. But if there are so many people who want to be three, don't they risk ending up alone? (wikipedia)

Marius de Villeduc is an aging actor, in debt and whose career has declined. He reluctantly agrees to play the lead role in a film directed by Richard Favard, a promising actor-director, but whom he does not know at all. Once the film is shot, Marius must —to obtain his full fee— participate in the film's promotional tour. (wikipedia)

A butcher ruins his life by falling in love with a young prostitute. (imdb)

Our heroes are the painter Denise Santrose and Rachid, a black and an Algerian, who seek an apartment in Paris, France. Both meet Virginie, who'd be willing to help them to the vacant apartment of her stepfather, but he'd rather rent to some low-lifes than to to a black or an Algerian. (imdb)