Direction: Gérard Oury

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


Don't Look Now - We're Being Shot At

1966 · Movie · 119 min. · France

Direction Gérard Oury

Cast Louis de Funès · Bourvil · Terry-Thomas · Claudio Brook

Plot Terry-Thomas sparkles as an English pilot lost in occupied France during the Second World War; Bourvil and Louis De Funès play Parisians who somewhat involuntarily aid the ubiquitous Resistance by...

6.7

959 votes

6.7

959 votes

The Sucker

1965 · Movie · 110 min. · France

Direction Gérard Oury

Cast Bourvil · Louis de Funès · Venantino Venantini · Henri Génès

Plot In this Frenco-Italian gangster parody, a shop keeper on his way to an Italian holiday suffers a crash which totals his car. The culprit can only compensate his ruined trip...

6.5

226 votes

6.5

226 votes

The Brain

1969 · Movie · 115 min. · France

Direction Gérard Oury

Cast Jean-Paul Belmondo · Bourvil · David Niven · Eli Wallach

Plot 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...

6.2

182 votes

6.2

182 votes

Umbrella Coup

1980 · Movie · 98 min. · France

Direction Gérard Oury

Cast Pierre Richard · Valérie Mairesse · Christine Murillo · Gordon Mitchell

Plot 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...

6.1

42 votes

6.1

42 votes

The Mad Adventures of 'Rabbi' Jacob

1973 · Movie · 100 min. · France

Direction Gérard Oury

Cast Louis de Funès · Suzy Delair · Marcel Dalio · Claude Giraud

Plot In this riot of frantic disguises and mistaken identities, Victor Pivert, a blustering, bigoted French factory owner, finds himself taken hostage by Slimane, an Arab rebel leader. The two dress...

6.1

1K votes

6.1

1K votes

Delusions of Grandeur

1971 · Movie · 102 min. · France

Direction Gérard Oury

Cast Louis de Funès · Yves Montand · Alice Sapritch · Karin Schubert

Plot Delusions of Grandeur is a period comedy/farce, set in 17th Century Spain and based (quite loosely) on Victor Hugo's play "Ruy Blas". Don Salluste (Louis de Funes) is a reprehensible...

6.0

316 votes

6.0

316 votes

Ace of Aces (The Super Ace)

1982 · Movie · 100 min. · France

Direction Gérard Oury

Cast Jean-Paul Belmondo · Marie-France Pisier · Rachid Ferrache · Frank Hoffmann

Plot The French boxer Jo Cavalier is charmed on the train to Berlin for the Olympics in Hitler's Germany by the little boy Simon Rosenblum who asks his autograph; when it...

5.4

194 votes

5.4

194 votes

Out of It

1978 · Movie · 100 min. · France

Direction Gérard Oury

Cast Pierre Richard · Victor Lanoux · Raymond Bussières · Claude Brosset

Plot 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...

5.2

22 votes

5.2

22 votes

La soif de l'or

1993 · Movie · 81 min. · France

Direction Gérard Oury

Cast Christian Clavier · Tsilla Chelton · Catherine Jacob · Philippe Khorsand

Plot Urbain Donnadieu (Christian Clavier), General Manager of a manufactured home company, raised by his grandmother Zezette, worship by the benefits. First class miser, robs 60,000 francs a day in his...

4.8

21 votes

4.8

21 votes

La main chaude

1960 · Movie · 94 min. · France

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The Menace

1961 · Movie · 80 min. · France

Direction Gérard Oury

Cast Robert Hossein · Marie-José Nat · Paolo Stoppa · Robert Dalban

Plot Josepha is only eighteen and longs for the companionship of a group of her peers who dabble in activities on the shady side of a legal dividing line. In order...

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Vanille fraise

1989 · Movie · 110 min. · France

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Le crime ne paie pas

1962 · Movie · 135 min. · France

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La vengeance du serpent à plumes

1984 · Movie · 105 min. · France

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Le schpountz

1999 · Movie · 84 min. · France

Direction Gérard Oury

Cast Smaïn · Sabine Azéma · Ticky Holgado · Martin Lamotte

Plot 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...

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Levy and Goliath

1987 · Movie · 105 min. · France

Direction Gérard Oury

Cast Richard Anconina · Michel Boujenah · Jean-Claude Brialy · Souad Amidou

Plot A very faithful jewish man (Levy) works making diamond dust in his family's workshop, to sell to industries. One day he goes on businnes trip. In the same train goes...

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Ghost with Driver

1996 · Movie · 78 min. · France

Direction Gérard Oury

Cast Philippe Noiret · Gérard Jugnot · Jean-Luc Bideau · Charlotte Kady

Plot Philippe Bruneau-Teissier, a CEO and George, his driver are killed by Philippe's own partner. But their ghosts remain on Earth. They'll both forget their differences and join forces to tell...

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