Jacques Villeret Movies

Danton and Robespierre were close friends and fought together in the French Revolution, but by 1793 Robespierre was France's ruler, determined to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gérard Depardieu

The film follows the exploits of Jacques, a car-mechanic turned pro-thief, and his Jewish co-conspirator Simon as their robberies, beginning well...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jacques Dutronc

1920. Jean Rezeau and his elder brother were living happily in their family estate in Brittany, until the death of their grandmother. The return of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Catherine Frot

Two buddy farmers are visited by aliens who like their domestic cabbage soup.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Louis de Funès

For Pierre Brochant and his friends, Wednesday is “Idiots' Day”. The idea is simple: each person has to bring along an idiot. The one who...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jacques Villeret

Jean-Pierre (Jacques Villeret), un attaché humanitaire qui travaille au ministère des Affaires Etrangères, accepte de reconduire...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Barbara Schulz

Three former bank robbers are meeting after 25 years...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Gérard Lanvin

A man leaves his 8-year old son with his father-in-law who lives near the glacier where the boy's mother died.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jacques Villeret

A talking chimp, a jolly monk and a boxer on the run make an unlikely team in this French comedy for children. Brother Benoit, a French monk working...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Éric Cantona

The film follows four families, with different nationalities (French, German, Russian and American) but with the same passion for music, from the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Robert Hossein

In 1917, the old rivalry between a prosecutor and a judge resurfaces during a police investigation into the murder of a child.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jean-Pierre Marielle

A small town in Algeria, in the years 1960-1962. Two young idle boys and rock fans, Boualem and Salah, try to survive in the turmoil of war, taking...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jacques Villeret

This is a charming and successful farce from director Thomas Gilou, featuring a witty screenplay co-authored by producer Monique Annaud. When a group...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jacques Villeret

In 1956, with the independence of Morocco, the Fedala conference in Tangier is set in a city of turmoil.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Valeria Golino

When he inherits the family house and property after his mother's death, aspiring novelist Fane returns home with his bimbo girlfriend Lilas. He must...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jacques Villeret

Jean-Arthur has been working as a clerk in a travel agency. One day, he, along with his colleague comes to a brilliant idea: what if I offer tourists...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Pierre Richard

This film is made up several sketches in which certain actors play several real or fictional roles to a background of rock music. The lead character,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jean-Luc Godard

In southern France, in a quiet little town, the mayor, who also owns a castle with some cattle, is in the wine cellar with some other people: the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michel Serrault

It is 1943 in Paris. Like so many others, the Bourbelle family's home has been taken over by the Germans and they now live in their cellar. Little do...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Christian Clavier

In Baghdad the Magnificent reigns Haroun al Plassid, who is the Caliph. There also dwells Iznogoud, who wants to be the Caliph. The irascible Grand...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Michaël Youn

From his locksmith's shop, a simple guy dreams of becoming a crime boss, at the wheel of his Cadillac surrounded by blonde bimbos. He starts small,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jacques Villeret

Lucien, 14, can’t understand why his father, a serious and respected teacher, makes a fool of himself by dressing up as a clown and giving a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jacques Villeret

After he is dismissed from his umpteenth job, Momo is kicked out of the family home by his fed-up father. He immediately joins his buddy Manu, who is...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Gérard Lanvin

This series of sketches introduces doctor Apfelglück and four of his patients... and their rather peculiar and disturbing problems.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Thierry Lhermitte

April 5, 1943: a battalion of the Foreign Legion arrives in El Ksour, Tunisia, to escort a fortune in gold bars to the home front. A German ambush...

Genre: War

Cast: Jean-Paul Belmondo

In the 1980 French countryside, farmer Jojo and his ill-tempered wife Lulu hate each other, though their respective interests speak against divorce....

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jacques Villeret

The story of Georges Mandel, an anti-Nazi French parliamentarian who refused to abdicate to the Vichy regime.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jacques Villeret

After a life of emotional and professional upsets, Alex finds himself headwaiter in a chic Parisian restaurant. Well into middle age, divorced but...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yves Montand

Françoise has gone into business seducing men whose wives want to divorce them, and who need incriminating evidence against them. In addition,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Catherine Deneuve

A tolerant veterinarian turns the other cheek when annoyed but changes his nature when he falls in love.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jean Rochefort

Inspector Leroux is investigating the owner of a contemporary art gallery Helen Duvernet who is suspected of being involved in trafficking of stolen...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Michel Blanc

Probably no one in the public listening to the orchestra's rendition of Ravel's Bolero notices him but the drummer is a regular hero. For, although...

Genre: Music

Cast: Jacques Villeret

This family drama is the sequel to director Henri Verneuil's autobiographical film, Mayrig. It takes place some forty years after the end of the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Richard Berry

In this conventional, broadly comic farce of greed and royal matrimony, nearly bankrupt businessman Victor Harris is marrying Maria-Helena, a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jean Rochefort

Young Jeanne falls in love with photographer Francis, who soon takes her with him when he emigrates to America. In a small town in the still wild...

Genre: Drama

Cast: James Caan

Serge (Stevenin) is a dweller in the French provinces who happens upon Georges (Jacques Villeret), a Parisian motorist in distress. Serge arranges...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jean-François Stévenin

In 1956, the professional army of France lacks the manpower to keep the peace in Algeria, the colony which the country is determined to hold on to at...

Genre: War

Cast: Jacques Spiesser

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Pierre Richard

Antoine a Union representative works in a financially troubled factory. He's not the sharpest tool in the box but he has a big heart and when he and...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jacques Villeret

The film is set in Marais, a quiet region along the banks of Loire river in 1918. Riton is afflicted with a bad-tempered wife and three unruly...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jacques Villeret

Imprisoned as an accessory to murder, Catherine gives birth to a son she conceived in prison. Eighteen years later, her sentence served, she is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Catherine Deneuve

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Francis Huster

Jacques does his military service. Shy, round and clumsy, he is forced to agree to be the driver of a special ambulance.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jacques Villeret

During a robbery that goes wrong, Valentin Tralande kills his accomplices and bank customers.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Jacques Villeret

An adaptation of the novel of the same name by Julien Gracq. Four soldiers await a possible German attack on a fortified house in the forest of the...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Jacques Villeret

Rien ne va plus is a series of comedy sketches of disparate quality, on the social, cultural, and political foibles that make the French, French....

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jacques Villeret

Dressed as a clown, the clever rascal Grimm holds up the most secure bank of Montreal and takes 30 hostages. While confusing and ridiculing the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jean-Paul Belmondo

This tragic musical drama chronicles the star-crossed love between beloved French singer Edith Piaf and World Middleweight boxing champion Marcel...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Évelyne Bouix

Robert #1 is played by Charles Denner, while Robert #2 is played by Jacques Villeret. Beyond their common name, the two Roberts are as different as...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Charles Denner

Martin Morel wants to spend Sylvester with both his wife and family and his girlfriend Agnes. So he asks his clumsy friend Bertin to pretend she'd be...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jean Poiret

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Pierre Mondy

JAM (Christian Clavier), a French "master of the universe" is on the brink of a major takeover when he starts suffering from anxiety attacks. His...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jacques Villeret

Adapation of the fanciful comic novel by Albert Cohen.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Pierre Richard

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Florence Brière

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Christian Clavier

A farce, Hoskins plays a photographer who specializes in religious pictures who searches for a model for Jesus. He does a favor for a friend and...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bob Hoskins

This sentimental drama is the story of the relationship between a lovely mother and her 20-year-old son who never really knew her. When he learns...

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Cast: Anouk Aimée

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jacques Brel

"In Serieux comme le plaisir, two men and a woman live quite happily together in a romantic liaison. The woman is probably wealthy anyway, so the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jane Birkin

Elizabeth and her daughter Cecile spend their holidays at a lakeside resort in the French mountains. Elizabeth falls in love with a strange Italian,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Romy Schneider

Les Acteurs is the absurd story of Jean-Pierre Marielle desperately waiting for a cup of hot water, the story of a conspiracy against actors, the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Pierre Arditi

Georges Lajoie is a Parisian café owner. As every summer, Georges, his wife Ginette and grown-up son Léon go on holiday to Loulou's...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jean Carmet

Two adults play babies and wild antics ensue.

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Cast: Bernard Ménez

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Claude Piéplu

After the French defeat of 1870, Julia took three years to love Alexander, with whom she married for her fortune. Alas, when Julia wants to declare...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sabine Azéma

Tran and three of his friends flee Vietnam by swimming across the Mekong river. They take refuge in Thailand.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jacques Villeret

The adaptation of Molière's comedy-ballet in three acts.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jacques Villeret

In May 1974, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing became President of the Republic and wanted to bring about a new era of modernity. One of his first...

Genre: History

Cast: Valéry Giscard d'Estaing

The plot in this story weaves around like a New Year's reveler at four in the morning, heading first in one direction and then in another, with the...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Gérard Depardieu

The independently-minded daughter of lower-middle class French shopkeepers, Brigitte, one of three sisters, refused to marry the father of her child...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Anne Caudry

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Thierry Ardisson

Monique is dying of cancer, lying in bed in the apartment above the store her family owns. Her philandering husband carries on with life, her son...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nathalie Baye