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
Direction Gérard Oury
Cast Jacques Charrier · Macha Méril · Franca Bettoia · Paulette Dubost
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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
Direction Gérard Oury
Cast Pierre Arditi · Sabine Azéma · Isaach de Bankole · Riccardo Cucciolla
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Le crime ne paie pas
1962 · Movie · 135 min. · France
Direction Gérard Oury
Cast Danielle Darrieux · Edwige Feuillère · Annie Girardot · Rina Morelli
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La vengeance du serpent à plumes
1984 · Movie · 105 min. · France
Direction Gérard Oury
Cast Coluche · Luis Rego · Farid Chopel · Josiane Balasko
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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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