Direction: Jean Girault

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


Rob the Bank

1964 · Movie · 88 min. · France

Direction Jean Girault

Cast Louis de Funès · Yvonne Clech · Jean-Pierre Marielle · Anne Doat

Plot A modest shopkeeper, Victor Garnier, hands over his hard-earned savings to the director of the bank opposite his shop, to invest in shares in an oil company. When the shares...

6.0

100 votes

6.0

100 votes

The Troops of St. Tropez

1964 · Movie · 93 min. · France

5.8

759 votes

5.8

759 votes

Joe: The Busy Body

1971 · Movie · 85 min. · France

Direction Jean Girault

Cast Louis de Funès · Claude Gensac · Michel Galabru · Bernard Blier

Plot A well-known dramatic writer has decided to kill his blackmailer, but the problem is, what should he do with the body? Based on the play "The Gazebo" by Alec Coppel...

5.6

253 votes

5.6

253 votes

The Gendarme Gets Married

1968 · Movie · 92 min. · France

Direction Jean Girault

Cast Louis de Funès · Jean Lefebvre · Geneviève Grad · Christian Marin

Plot The third installment in the Gendarme series. Cruchot is a widower and he falls in love with a wealthy widow, Josepha. But his daughter is not prepared to accept it...

5.6

291 votes

5.6

291 votes

The Big Vacation

1967 · Movie · 84 min. · France

Direction Jean Girault

Cast Louis de Funès · Ferdy Mayne · Martine Kelly · François Leccia

Plot Charles Bosquier, a role apparently written for French comedy superstar Louis de Funès, is the dictatorial headmaster of a French strict boarding school. No father could be deeper shocked to...

5.6

170 votes

5.6

170 votes

The Miser

1980 · Movie · 117 min. · France

Direction Louis de Funès · Jean Girault

Cast Louis de Funès · Frank David · Hervé Vellon · Georges Audoubert

Plot Louis de Funès starring this adaptation of Molière's play.

5.5

357 votes

5.5

357 votes

Pouic-Pouic

1963 · Movie · 86 min. · France

Direction Jean Girault

Cast Louis de Funès · Mireille Darc · Roger Dumas · Jacqueline Maillan

Plot Léonard Monestier has made his fortune trading on the stock exchange. His eccentric wife Cynthia almost bankrupts him by selling some of his shares to buy an oil concession in...

5.5

61 votes

5.5

61 votes

The Gendarme in New York

1965 · Movie · 100 min. · France

Direction Jean Girault

Cast Louis de Funès · Michel Galabru · Christian Marin · Guy Grosso

Plot The police squad of Saint-Tropez has been chosen to represent France at the International Police Convention in New York City. But the daughter of the squad's sergeant stows away on...

5.4

407 votes

5.4

407 votes

The Gendarme Takes Off

1970 · Movie · 90 min. · France

5.4

244 votes

5.4

244 votes

La Soupe aux choux

1981 · Movie · 98 min. · France

Direction Jean Girault

Cast Louis de Funès · Jean Carmet · Jacques Villeret · Claude Gensac

Plot Two buddy farmers, portrayed as "country bumpkins" eating cabbage soup and farting all the time. The arrival of an alien (Jacques Villeret) from the planet of Oxo who takes a...

5.2

412 votes

5.2

412 votes

The Gendarme and the Creatures from Outer Space

1979 · Movie · 96 min. · France

Direction Jean Girault

Cast Louis de Funès · Michel Galabru · Maria Mauban · Maurice Risch

Plot The bungling inspector Cruchot (Funès) finds himself trying to save the residents of St. Tropez from some oil-drinking humanoid aliens. The only way to tell the aliens from the real...

5.1

433 votes

5.1

433 votes

Never Play Clever Again

1982 · Movie · 100 min. · France

5.0

286 votes

5.0

286 votes

Le mille-pattes fait des claquettes

1977 · Movie · 105 min. · France

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Les murs ont des oreilles

1974 · Movie · 91 min. · France

Direction Jean Girault

Cast Louis Velle · Martine Sarcey · Chantal Nobel · Emmanuel de Sablet

Plot A "Watergate" in miniature:a man discovers a wire-tapping set ,in his new house,and he can spy on his circle.

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Crazy Boys in Spain

1972 · Movie · 83 min. · France

Direction Jean Girault

Cast Les Charlots · Gérard Rinaldi · Gérard Croce · Jacques Legras

Plot This year, Gerard, Phil, Jean Guy and Jean planed to go on holidays to Spain. When tey arrive, they're employed in a big hotel. Blunder after blunder, they're fired from...

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Not rated

The Gorillas

1964 · Movie · 88 min. · France

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Le permis de conduire

1974 · Movie · 100 min. · France

Direction Jean Girault

Cast Louis Velle · Pascale Roberts · Robert Castel · Paul Préboist

Plot Michel is happy with his wife and two children. They live in the suburbs. A promotion in his work obliges him to pass the driving license and to live alone...

Not rated

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Holy Year

1976 · Movie · 85 min. · France

Direction Jean Girault

Cast Jean Gabin · Jean-Claude Brialy · Danielle Darrieux · Nicoletta Machiavelli

Plot Max, a master thief, is spending some time behind bars, having been captured by a determined and crafty police officer. He has hidden a sizable amount of gold in Italy...

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Judge Roy Bean

1971 · Movie · 92 min. · France

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Not rated