Pierre Étaix Movies

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

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

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

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

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

French pantomimist Pierre Étaix plays an insomniac who makes the mistake of trying to read himself to sleep with a book about vampires. Short...

An international homage to Méliès in 1988.

When he loses his position as a powerful government minister, Vincent is dropped by his pretty mistress and must begin life anew, without the...

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

Pierre Etaix’s most radical film, and perhaps unsurprisingly the one that effectively ended his career in cinema, Land of Milk and Honey is a...

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

Jean is a successful painter who leaves his mistress, though he stops intermittently to phone her with explanations. Sometimes she is responsive but...

Two-part documentary about French director Jacques Tati chronicles the evolution of the filmmaker's alter ego, Monsieur Hulot, through archival...

A portrait documentary tracing the inspiration, philosophy and imagination of the celebrated theatre and screen writer - and Bunuel's long term...

A documentary on the career of famed French clown and filmmaker Pierre Étaix.

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