Le dos au mur / Back to the Wall (1958)
Crime | Drama
A wealthy industrialist discovers his wife is having an affair and decides to exact revenge by blackmailing her under an assumed identity.
Starring: Jeanne Moreau, Gérard Oury, Philippe Nicaud, Claire Maurier, Gérard Buhr, George Cusin
Director: Édouard Molinaro
Delusions of Grandeur / La folie des grandeurs (1971)
Comedy | History
Don Salluste, a petty tyrant in his own home and minister of the King of Spain, falls from grace. Wanting revenge, he tries to compromize the Queen with his valet Blaze, introduced as his cousin. But poor Blaze gets stuck with a rather repulsive duenna, who is madly in love with him and very keen on getting her way. This wild comedy takes off at a dashing pace set by the De Funes, Montand and Sapritch trio.
Starring: Louis de Funès, Yves Montand, Alice Sapritch, Karin Schubert, Alberto de Mendoza, Don Jaime de Mora y Aragón
Director: Gérard Oury
Les aventures de Rabbi Jacob / The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob (1973)
Comedy
In this French comedy, Louis de Funès stars as Victor Pivert, a hopelessly bigoted man. Victor loves people, as long as they're Caucasian, French, and Catholic. But when it comes to foreigners, Victor draws the line. His ultimate nightmare becomes a reality the day of his daughter's wedding, when he stumbles across a group of Arab revolutionaries and is forced into hiding as a rabbi. Gerard Oury's film features an onslaught of hilarious chase sequences.
Starring: Louis de Funès, Suzy Delair, Claude Giraud, Miou-Miou, Marcel Dalio
Director: Gérard Oury
Le cerveau / The Brain (1969)
Comedy | Crime
Arthur and Anatole are two little robbers. They want to rob money, money that will travel in a special train from Paris to Bruxelles. They don't know that other people have planned to do the same thing.
Starring: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Bourvil, David Niven, Eli Wallach, Silvia Monti, Jacques Balutin
Director: Gérard Oury
Ace of Aces / L' as des as (1982)
Adventure | Comedy | Sport
In this action comedy the French boxer Jo Cavalier is charmed on the train to Berlin for the Olympics…
Starring: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Marie-France Pisier, Rachid Ferrache
Director: Gérard Oury
Le coup du parapluie / Umbrella Coup (1980)
Comedy | Crime
Grégoire Lecomte, the unlucky actor anxious to find a "real job", goes to take a screen test for a role of a killer, but gets to mafiosi by mistake. He takes their don for a producer, and they mistake him for a hitman with whom they had an appointment. Deluded Lecomte signs contract with them. He is supposed to kill gun dealer Otto Krampe at his birthday party in Saint-Tropez. Lecomte is not aware that it has to be a real murder.
Starring: Pierre Richard, Valérie Mairesse, Christine Murillo, Gordon Mitchell, Gérard Jugnot
Director: Gérard Oury
La carapate / Out of It (1978)
Comedy
May 1968. Sentenced to death for murder, Martial Gaulard is being held in a prison in Lyons. Convinced of his innocence, his lawyer – Jean-Philippe Duroc – is sure he can get the death sentence commuted by “presidential grace”. However, whilst visiting his client, there is a prison breakout. In the confusion, Martial escapes, leaving Jean-Philippe to be blamed for instigating the breakout. Determined to protect his client at all costs, Jean-Philippe hurries after Martial and clings to him like a limpet. Pursued by the police, the two men are caught up in a series of adventures as they hasten across France…
Starring: Pierre Richard, Victor Lanoux, Raymond Bussières, Claude Brosset, Jacques Frantz
Director: Gérard Oury
La grande vadrouille / Don't Look Now: We're Being Shot At (1966)
Comedy | War
An allied bomberplane is shot down over Paris by the Germans. Its crew (Terry Thomas as a flight captain) land there by parachute. With the help of some French civilians (Louis de Funès in the role of a conductor and Bourvil as a house painter) they try to escape over the demarcation line into the southern part of France, still not occupied by the Germans.
Starring: Bourvil, Louis de Funès, Claudio Brook, Andréa Parisy, Colette Brosset
Director: Gérard Oury
