Pierre Étaix

Le Grand Échiquier

Le Grand Échiquier is a French variety television program created and presented by Jacques Chancel. It aired at...

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A French variety show.

Cinépanorama

Système 2

Un film et son époque

Pickpocket

Michel takes up pickpocketing on a lark and is arrested soon after. His mother dies shortly after his release,...

Le Havre

In the French harbor city of Le Havre, an elderly shoeshiner with an ailing wife crosses paths with a young Afr...

Mon Oncle

Genial, bumbling Monsieur Hulot loves his top-floor apartment in a grimy corner of the city, and cannot fathom...

The Thief of Paris

In turn-of-the-century Paris, Georges Randal is brought up by his wealthy uncle, who steals his inheritance. Ge...

Max My Love

The wife of a British diplomat in Paris takes a chimpanzee as her lover.

The Clowns

Fellini exposes his great attraction for the clowns and the world of the circus first recalling a childhood exp...

Serious as Pleasure

Two men and a woman live quite happily together in a romantic liaison. The woman is probably wealthy anyway, so...

The Day the Clown Cried

A circus clown is imprisoned by the Nazis and goes with Jewish children to their deaths. Lost movie.

Yoyo

The story follows the son of a millionaire from the 1920s to the 1960s. After losing his fortune in the stock-e...

From Darkness to Light

Explores Jerry Lewis' unreleased 1972 film "The Day the Clown Cried," its mysterious disappearance, and the sea...

Docile Night

Jean is a successful painter who leaves his mistress, though he stops intermittently to phone her with explanat...

Le Grand Amour

Pierre married Florence, the only daughter of a small industrialist. 15 years later, he is the boss, but his mi...

Happy Anniversary

Heureux Anniversaire is a 1962 French short comedy film directed by Pierre Étaix. While his wife impatiently wa...

As Long as You've Got Your Health

An anthology film consisting of four stories. (1) A man reads a Dracula novel while in bed, but cannot seem to...

The Army Game

Jean Lerat begins his military service at an army camp. Despite his aunt’s attempts to pull a few strings to hi...

La Métamorphose

A young man wakes up one day transformed into a giant insect.

The Clown

A documentary about Jerry Lewis' never-released movie "The Day the Clown Cried".

A Swelled Head

A man inherits an old house in a very bad condition. With the help of a young mechanic, he begins to renovate t...

Carrière, 250 Meters

A portrait documentary tracing the inspiration, philosophy and imagination of the celebrated theatre and screen...

Doctor Lerne, Subgod

A mad scientist, Dr. Lerne, performs organ transplants not only between humans and animals, but also with plant...

The Suitor

Absent-minded yet cultured, Pierre answers his parents demands to wed by ignoring both astronomy and the housem...

Winter Song

Two old friends have urban adventures connected to the skull of an executed French aristocrat.

Rupture

A man receives a breakup letter from his sweetheart, who sends him back his photo, in pieces. The pained lover...

Bouvard et Pécuchet

Two retirees obsessed with their desire to know everything put their knowledge into practice in a constantly aw...

Lucifer et moi

Jerry Lewis: The Man Behind the Clown

Since the early days, Jerry Lewis—in the line of Chaplin, Keaton and Laurel—had the masses laughing with his vi...

On n'est pas sorti de l'auberge

It's about a couple owning a small hotel who are trying to sell it.

Gardens in Autumn

When he loses his position as a powerful government minister, Vincent is dropped by his pretty mistress and mus...

Insomnia

French pantomimist Pierre Étaix plays an insomniac who makes the mistake of trying to read himself to sleep wit...

Chantrapas

A filmmaker finds creative freedom more elusive than he imagined in this ironic comedy-drama. Tired of the stat...

Feeling Good

Short film by Pierre Etaix, edited out from the anthology film As Long as You've Got Your Health (1966).