Cast: Pierre Étaix

Direction Robert Bresson

Cast Martin Lasalle · Marika Green · Jean Pelegri · Dolly Scal

Plot Michel takes up picking pockets as a hobby, and is arrested almost immediately, giving him the chance to reflect on the morality of crime. After his release, though, his mother...

Direction Pierre Étaix

Cast Pierre Étaix · Claudine Auger · Philippe Dionnet · Luce Klein

Direction Pierre Étaix

Cast Pierre Étaix · Annie Fratellini · Nicole Calfan · Alain Janey

Direction Pierre Étaix

Cast Pierre Étaix · Denise Péronne · Roger Trapp · Véra Valmont

Plot The director's cut (restored version) opens and closes with theatrical curtains in homage to Georges Méliés films, and is divided into four parts, separated by title cards: I - L'insomnie...

Direction Pierre Étaix

Cast Pierre Étaix · France Arnel · Laurence Ligneres · Claude Massot

Direction Pierre Étaix

Cast Bocky · Pierre Étaix · Preston · Randel

Plot This short movie was one of the sequences of the feature film Tant qu'on a la santé. In 1971, Pierre Étaix re-edited his film and extracted this sequence, which became...

Direction Pierre Étaix · Jean-Claude Carrière

Cast Anne-Marie Royer · Anny Nielse · Pierre Étaix

Plot A young man picks up his mail, where he finds a perfumed letter. It's from his girlfriend, but not with good news. Étaix was an assistant and gag writer for...

Direction Pierre Étaix · Jean-Claude Carrière

Cast Robert Blome · Pierre Étaix · Laurence Ligneres · Lucien Frégis

Direction Pierre Étaix

Cast Pierre Étaix · Laurence Gallimard · Gabriel Blonde · Lidia Binaghi

Plot This is a short comedy/horror film of a guy who can't sleep and starts reading a vampire story in bed and having visions about it. There's a very well done...

Direction Philip Kaufman

Cast Fred Ward · María de Medeiros · Uma Thurman · Richard E. Grant

Plot In 1931 Paris, Anais Nin meets Henry Miller and his wife June. Intrigued by them both, she begins expanding her sexual horizons with her husband Hugo as well as with...

Direction Otar Iosseliani

Cast Rufus Magloire · Amiran Amiranashvili · Pierre Étaix · Mathias Jung

Direction Otar Iosseliani

Cast Dato Tarielachvili · Tamuna Karumidze · Fanny Gonin · Givi Sarchimelidze

Plot Nicolas is an artist, a filmmaker who merely wants to express himself and whom everyone wishes to reduce to silence. When he first starts out in Georgia, the "ideologists" hope...

Direction Nagisa Ôshima

Cast Charlotte Rampling · Anthony Higgins · Victoria Abril · Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu

Plot Reserved and cool, Margaret is the French wife of Peter, a British diplomat posted to France with their son Nelson. She takes a lover, a chimpanzee she bought from a...

Direction Eric Friedler

Cast Jerry Lewis · Pierre Étaix · Jean-Jacques Beineix · Harry Shearer

Plot Myths and legends about the origin and the reasons for the disappearance of the film "The Day The Clown Cried" by Hollywood star Jerry Lewis.

Direction Pierre Étaix

Cast Nicole Calfan · Jean Carmet · Pierre Étaix

Direction Odile Étaix

Cast Michèle Brabo · Nicole Calfan · Jean-Claude Carrière · Annie Fratellini

Plot A portrait of the life and work of the director by his wife, Odile Étaix.

Direction Robert Benayoun

Cast Jane Birkin · Richard Leduc · Raymond Bussières · Georges Mansart

Direction Jean-Daniel Verhaeghe

Cast Jacques Dufilho · Pierre Clémenti · Dora Doll · Jean-Paul Roussillon

Direction Guy Gilles

Cast Patrick Jouané · Claire Nebout · Pascal Kelaf · Philippe Dumont

Plot A young man decides one night to leave the woman he loves. He tells him by phone. All night, he calls her. They talk about this dead love. The young...

Direction Claude de Givray

Cast Eddie Constantine · Alexandra Stewart · Georges Poujouly · Geneviève Galéa

Plot A man inherits an old house in a very bad condition. With the help of a young mechanic, he begins to renovate this house.