Direction: Edouard Molinaro

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Edouard Molinaro. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


Witness in the City

1959 · Movie · 86 min. · France

Direction Edouard Molinaro

Cast Lino Ventura · Sandra Milo · Franco Fabrizi · Jacques Berthier

Synopsis Excellent, very entertaining cat-and-mouse thriller, as an avenging husband (the incomparable Lino Ventura) tries to kill a witness to a murder. In its spare monochrome Decae photography, cool jazz soundtrack, nocturnal settings, focus on elaborate plot mechanics, and privileging of...

6.9

57 votes

6.9

57 votes

Oscar

1967 · Movie · 85 min. · France

Direction Edouard Molinaro

Cast Louis de Funès · Claude Rich · Mario David · Germaine Delbat

Synopsis One morning, a wealthy business man Bertrand Barnier receives a visit from one of his employees, Christian Martin, who demands both his daughter’s hand in marriage and a substantial pay rise. When Barnier refuses, Christian reveals that he has embezzled...

6.8

773 votes

6.8

773 votes

Birds of a Feather

1978 · Movie · 110 min. · France

Direction Edouard Molinaro

Cast Ugo Tognazzi · Michel Serrault · Michel Galabru · Claire Maurier

Synopsis Two gay men living in St. Tropez have their lives turned upside down when the son of one of the men announces he is getting married. They try conceal their lifestyle and their ownership of the transvestite club downstairs when...

6.8

1K votes

6.8

1K votes

Back to the Wall

1958 · Movie · 93 min. · France

Direction Edouard Molinaro

Cast Jeanne Moreau · Gérard Oury · Philippe Nicaud · Claire Maurier

Synopsis Jacques Decrey, an industrialist, finds out that his wife Gloria has a lover. Posing as a man named Berthier, he blackmails her. After a while, Decrey decides to make Yves Normand, a young unemployed actor and Gloria's lover, out to...

6.8

44 votes

6.8

44 votes

A Pain in the A...

1973 · Movie · 81 min. · France

Direction Edouard Molinaro

Cast Lino Ventura · Jacques Brel · Caroline Cellier · Jean-Pierre Darras

Synopsis A gangster named Milan takes a room in a Montpellier hotel, which is located in front of a Tribunal. He has a mission -shooting from his window for killing the key witness of a trial. In the room next to...

6.4

430 votes

6.4

430 votes

The Seven Deadly Sins

1962 · Movie · 113 min. · France

Direction Philippe de Broca · Claude Chabrol · Jacques Demy · Sylvain Dhomme

Cast Jacques Charrier · Marie-José Nat · Eddie Constantine · Nicole Mirel

Synopsis Seven directors each dramatize one of the seven deadly sins in a short film.

6.2

102 votes

6.2

102 votes

La Cage aux Folles II

1980 · Movie · 102 min. · France

Direction Edouard Molinaro

Cast Michel Serrault · Ugo Tognazzi · Marcel Bozzuffi · Michel Galabru

Synopsis A nightclub owner and his transvestite lover find spies and police in their lives when they become unintentional owners of stolen microfilm. Complications follow them to Italy.

5.7

414 votes

5.7

414 votes

Hibernatus

1969 · Movie · 78 min. · France

Direction Edouard Molinaro

Cast Louis de Funès · Michael Lonsdale · Claude Gensac · Bernard Alane

Synopsis The frozen body of Paul Fournier is discovered in Greenland where he had disappeared during a scientific expedition in 1905. Perfectly conserved he is brought back to life in the 1960s. His descendants take care of him: to spare him...

5.6

359 votes

5.6

359 votes

Sunday Lovers

1980 · Movie · 125 min. · France

Direction Bryan Forbes · Edouard Molinaro · Dino Risi · Gene Wilder

Cast Roger Moore · Lino Ventura · Ugo Tognazzi · Gene Wilder

Synopsis A sex comedy anthology containing four stories, each from a different country (England, France, USA and Italy).

5.0

44 votes

5.0

44 votes

Agent 38-24-36

1964 · Movie · 105 min. · France

Direction Edouard Molinaro

Cast Brigitte Bardot · Anthony Perkins · Grégoire Aslan · Jean-Marc Tennberg

Synopsis A Russian spy is supposed by the British Secret Service to steal some faked orders, but he is to stupid to succeed. His girlfriend tries to help him, but it seems he is to foolish to succeed.

4.9

38 votes

4.9

38 votes

Dracula and Son

1976 · Movie · 96 min. · France

Direction Edouard Molinaro

Cast Christopher Lee · Bernard Menez · Marie-Hélène Breillat · Catherine Breillat

Synopsis Son grows up with father, leaves to go to big city in 1979. Father follows and tries to survive as a vampire in a modern world. Son finds girl, decides not to be a vampire anymore.

4.6

32 votes

4.6

32 votes

When the Peasants Pass

1965 · Movie · 89 min. · France

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Touch of Treason

1962 · Movie · 92 min. · France

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Palace

1985 · Movie · 90 min. · France

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H (TV Series)

1998 · Series · 26 min. · France

Direction Xavier Matthieu · Eric Judor · Charles Nemes · Edouard Molinaro

Cast Jamel Debbouze · Eric Judor · Ramzy Bedia · Sophie Mounicot

Synopsis Follows the lives of the eccentric staff at a hospital in the Parisian outskirts. Jamel, the receptionist, Sabri, a stretcher-bearer, Aymé, nurse, Clara, the head nurse, Béatrice, the trainee and Maximilien Strauss, the surgeon, all contribute to create a wacky...

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Direction Edouard Molinaro

Cast Pierre Richard · Richard Bohringer · Emmanuelle Béart · Fanny Cottençon

Synopsis Yan is a successful artist. One day he is waiting for his date Florence to turn up at his apartment. As the doorbell rings, he finds another young woman in underwear on his doorstep: his neighbor Eva! She tells him...

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The Supper

1992 · Movie · 90 min. · France

Direction Edouard Molinaro

Cast Claude Brasseur · Claude Rich · Ticky Holgado · Yann Collette

Synopsis France, 1815. After his defeat at Waterloo, Napoleon heads for exile. Royalists occupy Paris and attempt to restore the monarchy. However, the battle doesn't seem to be over. On July 6, Talleyrand (Claude Rich), a shrewd politician of flexible convictions,...

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La mandarine

1972 · Movie · 84 min. · France

Direction Edouard Molinaro

Cast Annie Girardot · Philippe Noiret · Madeleine Renaud · Murray Head

Synopsis Severine, her husband Georges, Alain, Baba, his brothers and sisters and granny Boul make up the Boulard clan. The Boulard Hotel, all it up in the light of a mandarin lamp, is their empire. The arrival of a young Englisman,...

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