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Pierre Étaix was a French comedian and filmmaker. Étaix made a series of short- and feature-length films, many of them co-written by influential screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière. He won an Academy Award for best live-action short film in 1963.
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05 June 1983
A young man wakes up one day transformed into a giant insect.
03 February 2016
A documentary about Jerry Lewis' never-released movie "The Day the Clown Cried".
25 November 1987
Jean is a successful painter who leaves his mistress, though he stops intermittently to phone her with explanations.
21 March 1969
Pierre married Florence, the only daughter of a small industrialist. 15 years later, he is the boss, but his middle-class life worries him a lot.
22 February 1967
In turn-of-the-century Paris, Georges Randal is brought up by his wealthy uncle, who steals his inheritance.
12 November 1962
Absent-minded yet cultured, Pierre answers his parents demands to wed by ignoring both astronomy and the housemaid, instead falling head-over-heels for rich damsels.
10 May 1958
Genial, bumbling Monsieur Hulot loves his top-floor apartment in a grimy corner of the city, and cannot fathom why his sister's family has moved to the suburbs.
01 January 1963
French pantomimist Pierre Étaix plays an insomniac who makes the mistake of trying to read himself to sleep with a book about vampires.
19 February 1965
The story follows the son of a millionaire from the 1920s to the 1960s. After losing his fortune in the stock-exchange crash, he teams up with an equestrienne and becomes a circus clown.
16 December 1959
Michel takes up pickpocketing on a lark and is arrested soon after. His mother dies shortly after his release, and despite the objections of his only friend, Jacques, and his mother's neighbor Jeanne, Michel teams up with a couple of petty thieves in order to improve his craft.
15 January 1975
Two men and a woman live quite happily together in a romantic liaison. The woman is probably wealthy anyway, so the trio doesn't worry much about money.
22 October 1986
The wife of a British diplomat in Paris takes a chimpanzee as her lover.
27 December 1970
Fellini exposes his great attraction for the clowns and the world of the circus first recalling a childhood experience when the circus arrives nearby his home.
08 September 1982
It's about a couple owning a small hotel who are trying to sell it.
08 September 2011
In the French harbor city of Le Havre, an elderly shoeshiner with an ailing wife crosses paths with a young African refugee pursued by the police for deportation.
20 April 2025
Explores Jerry Lewis' unreleased 1972 film "The Day the Clown Cried," its mysterious disappearance, and the search for footage.
09 February 1971
Pierre Etaix’s most radical film, and perhaps unsurprisingly the one that effectively ended his career in cinema, Land of Milk and Honey is a fascinating investigative documentary about post–May ’68 French society.
01 January 1972
A circus clown is imprisoned by the Nazis and goes with Jewish children to their deaths. Lost movie.
28 December 1983
A mad scientist, Dr. Lerne, performs organ transplants not only between humans and animals, but also with plants and even machines .
21 April 2011
A filmmaker finds creative freedom more elusive than he imagined in this ironic comedy-drama. Tired of the state-appointed producers and censorship in his homeland, Soviet Georgia, Niko decides to move to France, only to find that he has merely traded one type of interference for another.
02 September 2016
Since the early days, Jerry Lewis—in the line of Chaplin, Keaton and Laurel—had the masses laughing with his visual gags, pantomime sketches and signature slapstick humor.
30 December 1987
Only on the stage of an empty theater, an author and his wife clash: the scene and the life end up getting confused.
20 June 1963
Heureux Anniversaire is a 1962 French short comedy film directed by Pierre Étaix. While his wife impatiently waits and gets drunk, a husband tries to get the appropriate anniversary gifts and fight his way home through traffic in time for their celebratory lunch.
25 November 2015
Two old friends have urban adventures connected to the skull of an executed French aristocrat.
06 September 2006
When he loses his position as a powerful government minister, Vincent is dropped by his pretty mistress and must begin life anew, without the privileges of power.
25 November 1960
Jean Lerat begins his military service at an army camp. Despite his aunt’s attempts to pull a few �
25 February 1966
An anthology film consisting of four stories. (1) A man reads a Dracula novel while in bed, but cannot seem to tell the novel from reality, causing sleep troubles.
01 February 1961
A man receives a breakup letter from his sweetheart, who sends him back his photo, in pieces. The pained lover decides to reply.
01 January 2011
A portrait documentary tracing the inspiration, philosophy and imagination of the celebrated theatre and screen writer - and Bunuel's long term collaborator - Jean Claude Carrière.
01 January 2011
A documentary on the career of famed French clown and filmmaker Pierre Étaix.
09 February 1962
A man inherits an old house in a very bad condition. With the help of a young mechanic, he begins to renovate this house.
22 October 1989
Two-part documentary about French director Jacques Tati chronicles the evolution of the filmmaker's alter ego, Monsieur Hulot, through archival interviews, on-set footage, photos, and film clips.
17 September 1990
Two retirees obsessed with their desire to know everything put their knowledge into practice in a constantly awkward way.
25 February 1966
Short film by Pierre Etaix, edited out from the anthology film As Long as You've Got Your Health (1966).
