Screenplay: Michel Fabre

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Michel Fabre. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


A Very Curious Girl / Dirty Mary

1969 · Movie · 107 min. · France

Direction Nelly Kaplan

Cast Bernadette Lafont · Georges Géret · Henri Czarniak · Claire Maurier

Plot An oppressed and exploited young woman (Marie) begins charging for her sexual favors and completely disrupts the smug patriarchal capitalist society of the village of Tellier.

6.2

33 votes

6.2

33 votes

The Under-Gifted

1980 · Movie · 92 min. · France

Direction Claude Zidi

Cast Daniel Auteuil · Michel Galabru · Maria Pacôme · Philippe Taccini

Plot Baptiste 'Bebel' Lavalle and his classmates in Versailles' private high-school Louis XIV enjoy their carefree life enough to deliberately fail the exams, a national record of zero graduating pupils. Permissive...

6.2

93 votes

6.2

93 votes

The Wing and the Thigh

1976 · Movie · 104 min. · France

Direction Claude Zidi

Cast Louis de Funès · Coluche · Ann Zacharias · Julien Guiomar

Plot Charles Duchemin, a well-known gourmet and publisher of a famous restaurant guide, is waging a war against fast food entrepreneur Tri- catel to save the French art of cooking.

6.2

611 votes

6.2

611 votes

Lucky Pierre

1974 · Movie · 92 min. · France

Direction Claude Zidi

Cast Pierre Richard · Jane Birkin · Claude Piéplu · Jean Martin

Plot Pierre Durois is a bumbling school teacher with an eye for the older female students; his father is a reputable surgeon who is running for Mayor. There's a film shooting...

5.6

41 votes

5.6

41 votes

The Spat

1978 · Movie · 97 min. · France

Direction Claude Zidi

Cast Louis de Funès · Annie Girardot · Maurice Risch · Jean-Jacques Moreau

Plot Guillaume has made it: A machine that can clean dirty air. Some Japanese businessmen, after dinner with a lot of alcohol, order 5,000 pieces. His only problem: His production capacity...

5.3

146 votes

5.3

146 votes

Les sous-doués en vacances

1982 · Movie · 95 min. · France

Direction Claude Zidi

Cast Daniel Auteuil · Guy Marchand · Grace De Capitani · Gaëtan Bloom

Plot A group of friends are planning how to spend their summer vacation. One plans to go to the Seychelles with his American girlfriend. At the airport she dumps him for...

4.9

25 votes

4.9

25 votes

Bête, mais discipliné

1979 · Movie · 95 min. · France

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The Wild Goose Chase

1975 · Movie · 95 min. · France

Direction Claude Zidi

Cast Pierre Richard · Jane Birkin · Michel Aumont · Marc Doelnitz

Plot The whole intrigue is centered around carte-blanche documents kept in a vault. Whoever fills in the blank becomes the owner of a revue. Big money is involved. The nephew of...

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Association de malfaiteurs

1987 · Movie · 104 min. · France

Direction Claude Zidi

Cast François Cluzet · Christophe Malavoy · Jean-Pierre Bisson · Claire Nebout

Plot Whilst his three former college friends – Thierry, Gérard and Francis – have made successful careers for themselves in business, Daniel has yet to make the grade. Tired of Daniel’s...

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Les rois du gag

1985 · Movie · 98 min. · France

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Banzaï

1983 · Movie · 102 min. · France

Direction Claude Zidi

Cast Coluche · Valérie Mairesse · Didier Kaminka · Marthe Villalonga

Plot Michel Bernardin works for Planète Assistance, an insurance company which instantly sends help to travellers no matter where in the world they may be. Michel is office bound, which suits...

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