Biography: Gérard Oury |
Gérard Oury, born Max-Gérard Houry Tannenbaum in Paris, studied at the National Conservatory of Dramatic Art and then was a member of the Comédie-Française before becoming a film actor in the mid-'40s. A decade later, Oury had become a director of... more
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Tags: Comedy
Length: 30min
In this crime comedy, Urbain (Christian Clavier) only got married because his wife blackmailed him into it: she was a tax fraud investigator. Since she's divorcing him, and will be entitled to a share of his prefabricated housing business, he's been...
Cast: Philippe Noiret
Tags: Heaven-Can-Wait Fantasies Fantasy Comedy
Length: 87min
Aimed at younger audiences, this special-effects filled French comedy centers on the afterlife adventures of two recently deceased fellows, Georges, a gentle chauffeur and his ruthless corporate tiger of an employer, Phillipe. Unfortunate Georges...
Cast: Sabine Azéma Jacques Perrin Pierre Arditi
Tags: Comedy
Length: 110min
In this romantic comedy/spy thriller, Clarissa Boulanger (Sabine Azema) is eager to take a breather from her deteriorating marriage, so when the French Secret Service asks her to team up with Hippolyte (Isaach de Bankole) and pose as a newlywed in...
Cast: Jean-Claude Brialy
Tags: Comedy
Length: 97min
In this comedy, young Moses Levy is a Hassidic Jew who lives a quiet existence, avoiding entanglement with the modern world. However, his job requires that he travel between the diamond capital of Antwerp to Paris to deliver diamond powder to an auto...
Cast: Jean-Paul Belmondo Marie-France Pisier
Tags: Comedy Adventure War Adventure Adventure Comedy
Length: 100min
The French/German Ace of Aces stars Jean-Paul Belmondo as a dauntless World War One flyboy. Nearly 20 years after cessation of hostilities, Belmondo attends the 1936 Berlin Olympics as manager of the French boxing team. Through a series of plot twists...
The Mad Adventures of "Rabbi" Jacob (1973)
Cast: Marcel Dalio Louis de Funès
Tags: Satire Farce Comedy Comedy of Errors
Length: 100min
This comedy concentrates on the mishaps befalling bigoted Frenchman Louis DeFunes. While en route to his daughter's wedding, the outspoken DeFunes accidentally gets mixed up in an Arab nationalist uprising. Through a bizarre and nearly indescribable...
La Vengeance du Serpent a Plumes (1984)
Tags: Comedy
Length: 105min
Some young international terrorists are holed up in the apartment Loulou Dupin (Coluche) inherited from his recently deceased grandmother, a premise that quickly leads to unlikely entanglements in this low-brow political farce. When Loulou opens the...
Cast: Gert Fröbe
Tags: Crime Comedy Comedy Comedy of Errors
Length: 90min
This zany satire of the stereotypical spy thriller is directed by Gerard Oury, known for his ability to wring laughter out of a script. Pierre Richard stars as Gregorie, a down-and-out actor anxious to find a job. He wanders into the office of a...
Cast: Gérard Oury
Tags: Odd Couple Film Crime Comedy Comedy
Length: 105min
While he is visiting his client Marcial (Victor Lanoux) in prison, leftist lawyer Duroc (Pierre Richard) is caught up in a prison riot. When Marcial takes him along during his jailbreak, Duroc is assumed by the authorities to have engineered the...
Cast: Yves Montand Henri Decaë
Tags: Comedy of Manners Satire Comedy
Length: 105min
This French historical comedy/farce, loosely based on Victor Hugo's play Ruy Blas, benefits greatly from having Louis De Funes and Yves Montand in the roles of Saluste and Blaze. Saluste is a nobleman who has been exiled from court and sent to collect...
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