Jean Poiret Movies

Unorthodox detective Jean Lavardin is called to a provincial French town after a prank turns deadly.

A film made up of four sketches. In Marc Allégret's Sophie, a naive high-school girl invents a love affair with her mother's lover. But it's a...

Faking an injury for insurance money, a peddler seeks out a cure to support his claims while a suspicious investigator tries to expose the scam.

Bastien Grimaldy, a man driven to heightened anxiety as the plot against him begins to take effect. Bastien's personal relationships give him enough...

A parody of the French Revolution, on Arabian Nights background. Bagdad Calif is in Paris in 1789, where he decides to visit the Executionner...

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,...

Sickened to see his students always sleeping in class, a teacher with a colleague and an anarchist start a war against the television. They climbed...

On prize-giving day, a few dunces recall various incidents that marked their school year.

Two gay men living in St. Tropez have their lives turned upside down when the son of one of the men announces he is getting married. They try to...

An illegal gambling den where players can lose millions... and the owners make their fortune.

A gay cabaret owner and his drag queen partner agree to put up a false heterosexual front so that their son can introduce them to his...

On 9 January 1836, Pierre Lacenaire goes to the guillotine, a murderer and a thief. He gives Allard, a police inspector, his life story, written...

Clarisse cheats on her husband with a vain insurance agent. Zamore, the cuckold (and a magician) wouldn't let his wife be stolen so easily. Poiret...

The story of five girls that lose their virginity.

A scientist from the East happens in France where it is supposed to improve one of his inventions. But it is much more interested in the fact to...

"Les quatre vérités" aka "The Four Truths" is a movie anthology that consists of four segments, all loosely parodying fables from the...

Chronic serial womanizer Stephane Margelle drops his wife Sophie off at the airport so she can go away for Easter weekend. He immediately picks up...

1944. Léon Duchemin owns a restaurant with his sister. His clients are Germans, Résistance et black marketeers. Léon unwillingly...

Hippolyte, the titular oddball, is a far from typical country lawyer. He has been happily married to the woman of his dreams for 15 years, but has an...