
January 24, 1926 · 100 years old
Georges Lautner (24 January 1926 – 22 November 2013) was a French film director and screenwriter, known primarily for his comedies created in collaboration with screenwriter Michel Audiard. Lautner's ventures into other genres were less successful though the thriller Le Professionnel starring Jean-…

Victim of a plot which has resulted in his imprisonment in a Central African jail for two years, a French secret agent arrives in Paris to settle accounts.

A dying mob boss hands over his business to an old friend, Fernand. The boss' assistants want to get rid of the latter. But are the Volfoni brothers and Théo real threats? Ensuing fights and shootouts are more comical than deadly.

Commissaire Stanislas Borowitz is going undercover as gangster Antonio Cerutti in order to expose corrupted policemen.

Stephane Margelle, a successful businessman and an incorrigible ladies' man, after seeing his wife to the airport, immediately meets a young charmer. He brings her to his home, but suddenly his wife returns.

Deputy Dubaye kills racketeer Serrano, revealing corrupt dealings. Xavier covers up, but faces difficulties as influential personalities seek documents to blackmail Dubaye.

A cold-war spy parody. After the death of an armaments manufacturer, an international group of spies is drawn into a high-stakes battle of wits to obtain the valuable military patents which have been inherited by the lovely widow.

Antoine helps two former acquaintances escape the country, who repay him with a debt transfer. All he has to do is collect from some Léonard Michalon, but for that he will have to go into much trouble to keep the man alive.

Six months before his retirement from the criminal police, inspector Joss finds his colleague Gouvion dead, in a poorly faked suicide attempt. Joss loses his temper, and investigates on his own, which leads him through the bas-fon...

In a moment of madness a respectable pharmacist kills a young woman who is sun-bathing by a lake. Unable to take in what he has done, he flees from the scene of the crime and behaves as if nothing has happened.

On a beach in Nice, François meets the mysterious Peggy and falls in love with her. Following her to a villa, he meets Marc, a lawyer who has a strange relationship with the girl. Marc tells François that Peggy is a drug addict: s...

A hippie moves in with a cafe owner who acts like his mother, and her daughter who doesn't act like his sister.

A film consisting of three short stories: "The Closure", "The Trial", "Men of Good Taste". The events of all three parts develop around an ordinary street lamp.

The heroes of this tape are two released ahead of schedule for exemplary behavior. In prison, they developed an ingenious plan for a further comfortable life. They thought they had thought of everything. But, alas, one of them is ...

The Marquis de Villemaur reunite stranges visitors in his Castle, to meet a survivor of the 3rd Reich. There is an Italian fascist ; Heinrich, a German ; Matthias, a russian ; and Dromard, a blind French war hero, with a black mon...

In 1943, a German commando conceals a large quantity of gold in an undersea cave on the coast of Corsica. Years later, Schlumpf, the sole survivor of the commando, returns to Corsica to recuperate the treasure -- with British and ...

Alice seems to lead a quiet life: the first three days of the week, she works in Paris and and meets with friend Philip, and his little boy, Simon. The other two days, she works in a thalassotherapy center.

Julien is on a trip to Mauritius when he and his friend offend the gods of the island. As a result strange things happen to them. Back in Paris, they adjust to normal life, and soon they learn to control their powers for their ben...

Comedy/detective story, involving a young hood on the run and a woman journalist who thinks he's a judge who will help her investigate a case she is covering.