Jacques François
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1920-05-16
Locus Natus: Paris, France
Et ut: Jacques Francois
The Gendarme and the Creatures from Outer Space
The bungling inspector Cruchot finds himself trying to save the residents of St. Tropez from some oil-drinking humanoid aliens. The only way to tell...
release : 1979.01.31popularis : 13.494
A Thousand Billion Dollars
A young journalist uncovers an assassination disguised as a suicide, linked to an American multinational seeking to dominate French industries....
release : 1982.02.09popularis : 6.122
The Blood of Others
In the German-occupied Paris, Helene is torn between the love for her boyfriend Jean, working for the resistance and the German administrator...
release : 1984.08.25popularis : 4.544
The Day of the Jackal
An international assassin known as ‘The Jackal’ is employed by disgruntled French generals to kill President Charles de Gaulle, with a...
release : 1973.05.16popularis : 18.957
The Discord
Guillaume has made it: A machine that can clean dirty air by simply sucking all dirt into air balloons and then shipping them far far away so his...
release : 1978.03.16popularis : 9.422
Un mois à la campagne
1840. The arrival of a young tutor in a wealthy Russian family will stir the hearts of two women. The mother, Natalia Petrovna, and her 17-year-old...
release : 1966.06.21popularis : 0.185
The Gendarme and the Gendarmettes
Cruchot's police office moves into a new building. They do not only get high tech equipment, but also four young female police officers to educate....
release : 1982.10.03popularis : 13.329
Too Shy to Try
Pierre is a hotel cashier in Vichy, so shy that he answers an ad from the Psychology Institute and can't say no to the salesman, Aldo; he spends...
release : 1978.08.23popularis : 5.084
L'Opération Corned Beef
The unsanctioned efforts of a covert unit to gather evidence about illegal arms shipments with the unwitting help of an embassy employee.
release : 1991.02.06popularis : 8.368
Shut Up When You Speak!
Giacomo has an idol: James Bond. When he dreams, he dreams of himself, his fabulous adventures, especially in Tunisia, and a beautiful wife, Belle....
release : 1981.09.02popularis : 2.234
The Barkleys of Broadway
Josh and Dinah Barkley are a successful musical-comedy team, known for their stormy but passionate relationship. Dinah feels overshadowed by Josh and...
release : 1949.05.04popularis : 3.852
Santa Claus Is a Stinker
Two neurotics, working for a suicide hotline on the night of Christmas Eve, get caught up in a catastrophe when a pregnant woman, her abusive...
release : 1982.08.25popularis : 11.447
The Grand Manoeuvre
Armand, a boastful womaniser, makes a bet that he can seduce any girl he wants. He soon crosses paths with a beautiful Parisian divorcee, who is...
release : 1955.10.26popularis : 4.684
Actors
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...
release : 2000.04.05popularis : 7.693
My Man
In Lyon, where many are unemployed, Marie is a prostitute who loves her work: she's thoughtful and exuberant toward clients old and young, slim or...
release : 1996.01.31popularis : 4.724
Bankers Also Have Souls
A bank clerk is given an unusual retirement gift, a high class call girl. Unaware that he has been 'set up' by colleagues the man goes with the girl...
release : 1982.03.24popularis : 4.372
Twist Again in Moscow
Igor, who manages a fancy hotel and is on the take, has to juggle several problems at once. He has a two-hour window to get his ill-got gain out of...
release : 1986.10.22popularis : 5.811
One, Two, Two: 122, rue de Provence
Romance takes a back seat to drama in this movie depicting life at the once-fashionable Parisian bordello known by its address 122 Rue de Provence....
release : 1978.04.25popularis : 1.107
I've Got You, You've Got Me by the Chin Hairs
In this satire, a police detectiveis investigating the disappearance and kidnapping of the host of a television dance show. However, instead of...
release : 1979.04.04popularis : 3.07
The African
Charlotte flies to East Africa to build a tourist center near Lake Williams where the pygmies live. Here she meets her husband Victor, a devoted...
release : 1983.10.22popularis : 3.723
Business Is Business
Isidore Lechat is a ruthless self-made man whose money allows him to humiliate the others, particularly a ruined noble: he wants his daughter to...
release : 1942.09.10popularis : 1.435
Captain Fracasse
Out of love for an actress, Isabelle, the Baron de Sigognac joins a traveling troop en route to Paris. When an actor dies, he takes over his role:...
release : 1943.06.19popularis : 0.952
The Toy
When Francois, a journalist, tours a big store for an article, he is chosen by the son of the newspaper's owner, Rambal-Cochet, as his new toy....
release : 1976.12.08popularis : 9.775
Queen's Necklace
The adventurer Jeanne de Valois-Saint-Rémy, descendant (by the left hand) of the king of France Henri II, and who claims to be "Countess de la...
release : 1946.09.14popularis : 1.459
Cat and Mouse
A jaded and charming police inspector is assigned along with his cheerful partner to a case involving the mysterious death and/or suicide of a...
release : 1975.09.03popularis : 2.62
Just a Big Simple Girl
The tour of a theatrical troupe is disturbed by the waltz-hesitation love of the young actress Stepha between the young first and the director.
release : 1948.06.09popularis : 0.978
Skipper Next to God
Captain Joris Kniper believes so strongly that he is "skipper next to God" that he is used to playing God on his ship. Tough and bossy, he gives...
release : 1951.03.02popularis : 1.351
Three Women
The short stories of Guy de Maupassant enjoyed a renaissance in the early 1950s, thanks in great part to the Max Ophuls production Le Plaisir. In...
release : 1952.08.13popularis : 1.931
La mort de Pompée
Political ambitions sometimes lead to the downfall of those who formulate them. For Ptolemy, assassinating Pompey was an opportunity to get into...
release : 1961.02.07popularis : 1.685
South of Algiers
Archaeologists Van Heflin and Eric Portman undertake an expedition in Tunisia in search of an ancient mask.
release : 1953.03.17popularis : 3.319
The Assassination
Darien, a left-wing police informant, is forced to lure his old friend Sadiel to Paris, allegedly to film a television special about the Third World....
release : 1972.10.04popularis : 4.248
The Ones That Got Away
In a train compartment, 6 people who do not know each other tell the story of their troubles in love. Only one of those seems to be a positive one.
release : 1981.02.25popularis : 2.149
Liberté, égalité, choucroute
A parody of the French Revolution, on Arabian Nights background. Bagdad Calif is in Paris in 1789, where he decides to visit the Executionner...
release : 1985.04.30popularis : 6.11
Edward and Caroline
Newlyweds Edward & Caroline are preparing for an important evening when a quarrel over Caroline's dress sets off a series of domestic brouhahas.
release : 1951.04.06popularis : 2.93
Eros Therapy
A husband wants to win back his wife, even though she has been living with her lesbian lover for six months.
release : 2004.08.25popularis : 2.315
Tête à claques
Alex Berthier would love to be a famous songwriter. Meanwhile, he has to cope with unemployment, a witty 12 years old son and a rich and cute heiress...
release : 1982.02.17popularis : 1.291
Chi dice donna, dice donna
Film in five episodes on the female universe. Among the women portrayed, neglected wives who become prostitutes, a worker who improvises a sexy bomb...
release : 1976.02.11popularis : 2.143
Heart to Heart
The independently-minded daughter of lower-middle class French shopkeepers, Brigitte, one of three sisters, refused to marry the father of her child...
release : 1979.01.03popularis : 4.317
Fifi Martingale
The stage director of the play L’œuf de Pâquesis given the importante Molière award. Taking this reward for a bad joke, he...
release : 2001.09.05popularis : 0.982
Everybody He Is Nice, Everybody He Is Beautiful
Selon "Radio plus près de Dieu", rien n'est conçu sans Dieu, surtout pas les shampoings, produits de beauté, la vente des...
release : 1972.05.05popularis : 2.64
Le Tueur triste
A crime comedy directed by Nicolas Gessner.
release : 1984.12.21popularis : 1.156
The Visitors II: The Corridors of Time
The sequel to The Visitors reunites us with those lovable ruffians from the French Medieval ages who - through magic - are transported into the...
release : 1998.02.11popularis : 15.199
To Paris with Love
A father and son go to Paris to help each other find love.
release : 1955.01.01popularis : 3.122
The King Is Dancing
Louis XIV, the French sun-king has two passions, establishing absolute rule over the realm -after decades of religious/civil wars- by divine right...
release : 2000.12.06popularis : 4.305
My Childish Father
A middle-aged man, an architect by trade, decides to make an end run around getting married. He marries a charming young woman, tenderly in love, who...
release : 1953.07.08popularis : 0.875
An Adventure of Sherlock Holmes
Adapted from Pierre Decourcelle's version of the William Gillette play. Jacques François plays a very mannered Holmes, almost effeminate, who...
release : 1967.12.25popularis : 1.138
Moi y'en a vouloir des sous
Dismissed following an unfortunate initiative, financial advisor Benoît Lepape decides to work for his uncle, a union activist. His capitalist...
release : 1973.02.01popularis : 4.434
Les Bronzés, le père Noël, papy et les autres
Les Bronzés, le Père Noël, Papy et les autres....Discover or rediscover the emblematic scenes of these cult films that have...
release : 2003.01.03popularis : 0.607
Églantine
Léopold, a young schoolboy, returns from boarding school to spend the summer vacations with his family. He is delighted to see his grandmother...
release : 1972.02.25popularis : 1.1
Royal Affairs in Versailles
Witty narration follows the history of Versailles Palace; founded by Louis XIII, enlarged by autocratic Louis XIV, whose personal affairs and amours,...
release : 1954.02.10popularis : 4.91
Leopard Ties
The CEO of a recycling company blames lazy staff for declining results. To motivate them, he sends executives to a survival course in the Corsican...
release : 1992.02.06popularis : 0.956
The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob
In this riot of frantic disguises and mistaken identities, Victor Pivert, a blustering, bigoted French factory owner, finds himself taken hostage by...
release : 1973.10.17popularis : 8.949
The Three Musketeers
The umpteenth adaptation of Dumas' novel finds d'Artagnan and his friends promoting the love affairs of Anne of Austria and the Duke of Buckingham,...
release : 1953.10.07popularis : 5.667
The Father of the Girl
Françoise Marinier, a strong-willed young woman, won't accept a husband being forced on her. She left her family and moved to Paris, where she...
release : 1953.07.16popularis : 0.711
Gramps Is in the Resistance
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...
release : 1983.10.26popularis : 8.008
Les gens ne sont pas forcément ignobles
A fight happens during a a big party organized by a couple for their housewarming
release : 1991.06.15popularis : 0.575
Les Danseurs du Mozambique
A novelist finds herself in an auction where two statuettes are up for sale: "The Mozambique Dancers". According to the legend, the one who owns both...
release : 1992.06.11popularis : 1.756
December
In Algiers, during the Algerian War of Independence, one of the leaders of the FLN was arrested by the French colonial army, which used the most...
release : 1973.01.02popularis : 1.052
Pact with the Devil
The title of this Italian melodrama translates to Pact with the Devil. However, His Satanic Majesty does not appear in the film. Rather, this...
release : 1950.01.11popularis : 1.894
At the Order of the Czar
Carolyn de Sayn was married at the age of sixteen, against her will, to the Prince of Wittgenstein, much older than herself. A few years later, she...
release : 1954.06.18popularis : 2.083
Sorcerer
Four men from different parts of the globe, all hiding from their pasts in the same remote South American town, agree to risk their lives...
release : 1977.06.24popularis : 16.508
Sauve-toi, Lola
Lola, a young lawyer, is raising her little boy Bolivar, and sustains his family. Diagnosed with cancer, she decides to fight against this disease as...
release : 1986.09.03popularis : 2.082
Special Section
In occupied France during the WWII, a German officer is murdered. The collaborationist Vichy government decides to pin the murder on six petty...
release : 1975.04.23popularis : 4.79
Encore
Encore is a 1951 anthology film composed of adaptations of three short stories by W. Somerset Maugham: "The Ant and the Grasshopper", directed by...
release : 1951.06.11popularis : 2.163
Adhémar or the Toy of Destiny
Is it because his father was a groom that Adhémar Pomme has a long horse head and a horse- toothed smile? Maybe but the fact is that his head...
release : 1951.09.14popularis : 3.585
Antoine and Sebastian
Antoine has raised Sébastien, the son of a friend who was killed in a plane crash. Sébastien is doing his military service and Antoine...
release : 1974.01.16popularis : 1.475
Robinson and Company
As of his early childhood Robinson Crusoe has wanted to become a sailor. And when he does become one bad luck has it that the vessel he sails on gets...
release : 1991.05.24popularis : 2.011
Cause toujours... tu m'intéresses
François Perrin is a journalist who reads the news on RTL radio. Alone in life, his only "amusement" is his neighbor from Africa, who makes...
release : 1979.04.18popularis : 3.315
Seven Days in January
After the death of Franco, the nostalgic fascist regime attempts to preserve the 1936's order.
release : 1979.03.28popularis : 1.335
North Star
Set during the Alaskan gold rush of the late 1800s. In his efforts to gain control of a small mining town, Sean McLennon is buying up every claim...
release : 1996.01.03popularis : 4.587
Chinese In Paris
Overnight, Paris is invaded - although peacefully - but the Chinese Army, and millions of Chinese people... It's the Nazi occupation all over again,...
release : 1974.02.27popularis : 5.259
My Wife's Girlfriends
A man discovers the qualities of his wife's friends, whom he had always hated.
release : 1992.11.04popularis : 1.393
We're Not Angels... Neither Are They
A group of friends is shaken when the girl falls in love. But the three boys will do anything to stop the romance.
release : 1981.04.01popularis : 1.508
Earth Light
The Tunisian born hero of the film decides to break with his disorganized yet habit-ridden life in Paris, and sets off to discover his homeland,...
release : 1970.11.18popularis : 2.362
George et Margaret
In a quiet corner of the English countryside, lives the Smith family. Their quietude is disturbed by the arrival of a beautiful young woman.
release : 1993.06.19popularis : 1.152
L'Amant complaisant
Living comfortably, the Rhodes family is a quiet family. What no one knows is that Mary has a lover, Clive Root. She leaves for a few days with him...
release : 1980.05.17popularis : 0.883
San-Antonio ne pense qu'à ça
Walter Klozett is a spy arrested and imprisoned by the French Police who know him in possession of stolen booty which the French secret services...
release : 1981.05.20popularis : 1.218
Triplex
A lawyer defending once successful computer programmer against her prosecuting lawyer boyfriend becomes romantically involved with his client.
release : 1991.04.17popularis : 1.401