Georges Lautner

Georges Lautner

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-…

Known For

18 titles
1
The Professional

The Professional

1981 · 1h 48m · Movie

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.

7.4
2
Crooks in Clover

Crooks in Clover

1963 · 1h 45m · Movie

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.

7.7
3
Cop or Hood

Cop or Hood

1979 · 1h 47m · Movie

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

6.5
4
Happy Easter

Happy Easter

1984 · 1h 38m · Movie

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.

6.2
5
Death of a Corrupt Man

Death of a Corrupt Man

1977 · 2h 3m · Movie

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

6.8
6
The Great Spy Chase

The Great Spy Chase

1964 · 1h 24m · Movie

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.

6.8
7
Let's Not Get Angry

Let's Not Get Angry

1966 · 1h 40m · Movie

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.

6.7
8
Pasha

Pasha

1968 · 1h 30m · Movie

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...

6.7
9
The Seventh Juror

The Seventh Juror

1962 · 1h 30m · Movie

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.

7.5
10
Someone Is Bleeding

Someone Is Bleeding

1974 · 1h 45m · Movie

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...

5.7
11
The Road to Salina

The Road to Salina

1970 · 1h 36m · Movie

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

6.7
12
How to Keep the Red Lamp Burning

How to Keep the Red Lamp Burning

1965 · 1h 40m · Movie

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.

6.3
13
Troubleshooters

Troubleshooters

1971 · 1h 40m · Movie

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 ...

6.1
14
The Black Monocle

The Black Monocle

1961 · 1h 28m · Movie

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...

6.2
15
The Eye of the Monocle

The Eye of the Monocle

1962 · 1h 45m · Movie

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 ...

6.2
16
My Other Husband

My Other Husband

1983 · 1h 50m · Movie

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.

6.0
17
Ils sont fous ces sorciers

Ils sont fous ces sorciers

1978 · 1h 32m · Movie

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...

4.3
18
Est-ce bien raisonnable?

Est-ce bien raisonnable?

1981 · 1h 49m · Movie

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.

5.7