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Pierre Étaix

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From Darkness to Light (2025)

Explores Jerry Lewis' unreleased 1972 film "The Day the Clown Cried," its mysterious disappearance, and the search for footage. Includes interviews with Lewis' associates and previously unseen production content. ...

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Jerry Lewis: The Man Behind the Clown (2016)

Since the early days, Jerry Lewis—in the line of Chaplin, Keaton and Laurel—had the masses laughing with his visual gags, pantomime sketches and signature slapstick humor. Yet Lewis was far more than just a clown. He was also a groundbreaking filmmaker ...

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The Clown (2016)

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

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Winter Song (2015)

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

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Le Havre (2011)

In the French harbor city of Le Havre, fate throws young African refugee Idrissa into the path of Marcel Marx, a well-spoken bohemian who works as a shoe-shiner. With innate optimism and the tireless support of his community, Marcel stands up to officials ...

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Chantrapas (2011)

A filmmaker finds creative freedom more elusive than he imagined in this ironic comedy-drama. Tired of the state-appointed producers and censorship in his homeland, Soviet Georgia, Niko decides to move to France, only to find that he has merely traded one ...

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Carrière, 250 Meters (2011)

A portrait documentary tracing the inspiration, philosophy and imagination of the celebrated theatre and screen writer - and Bunuel's long term collaborator - Jean Claude Carrière. Carrière predicts that between the house he was born in and the cemetery ...

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Pierre Étaix, un destin animé (2011)

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

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Gardens in Autumn (2006)

When he loses his position as a powerful government minister, Vincent is dropped by his pretty mistress and must begin life anew, without the privileges of power. As he gradually becomes acquainted with milieus which he d either forgotten or never known an ...

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Bouvard et Pécuchet (1990)

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

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L'âge de Monsieur est avancé (1987)

Only on the stage of an empty theater, an author and his wife clash: the scene and the life end up getting confused. ...

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Docile Night (1987)

Jean is a successful painter who leaves his mistress, though he stops intermittently to phone her with explanations. Sometimes she is responsive but other times hangs up on him. Meanwhile, a 16-year-old male prostitute with whom Jean had a brief homosexual ...

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Max My Love (1986)

The wife of a British diplomat in Paris takes a chimpanzee as her lover. ...

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Doctor Lerne, Subgod (1983)

A mad scientist, Dr. Lerne, performs organ transplants not only between humans and animals, but also with plants and even machines ... ...

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La Métamorphose (1983)

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

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On n'est pas sorti de l'auberge (1982)

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

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Serious as Pleasure (1975)

"In Serieux comme le plaisir, two men and a woman live quite happily together in a romantic liaison. The woman is probably wealthy anyway, so the trio doesn't worry much about money. One day they decide to take a trip in their beat-up car, managing the who ...

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Land of Milk and Honey (1971)

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 fascinating investigative documentary about post–May '68 French society. ...

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The Clowns (1970)

Fellini exposes his great attraction for the clowns and the world of the circus first recalling a childhood experience when the circus arrives nearby his home. Then he joins his crew and travel from Italy to Paris chasing the last greatest European clowns ...

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Le Grand Amour (1969)

Pierre married Florence, the only daughter of a small industrialist. 15 years later, he is the boss, but his middle-class life worries him a lot. When a new young and lovely secretary comes, he starts dreaming. ...

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The Thief of Paris (1967)

In Paris around 1900, a young man raised by his wealthy uncle plots revenge after his cousin is betrothed to a rich neighbor. He steals the fiancé's family jewels, reveling in the thrill, and sets off on a lifelong path of burglary. ...

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As Long as You've Got Your Health (1966)

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 sleep troubles. (2) A man cannot escape the absurd ads he saw at the movie theater that day. (3) A polluted ...

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Feeling Good (1966)

Short film by Pierre Etaix, edited out from the anthology film As Long as You've Got Your Health (1966). ...

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Yoyo (1965)

The story follows the son of a millionaire from the 1920s to the 1960s. After losing his fortune in the stock-exchange crash, he teams up with an equestrienne and becomes a circus clown. ...

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Insomnia (1963)

French pantomimist Pierre Étaix plays an insomniac who makes the mistake of trying to read himself to sleep with a book about vampires. Short film included in the anthology film As Long as You've Got Your Health (1966). ...

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The Suitor (1962)

Absent-minded yet cultured, Pierre answers his parents demands to wed by ignoring both astronomy and the housemaid, instead falling head-over-heels for rich damsels. ...

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A Swelled Head (1962)

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

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Happy Anniversary (1962)

Heureux Anniversaire is a 1962 French short comedy film directed by Pierre Étaix. While his wife impatiently waits and gets drunk, a husband tries to get the appropriate anniversary gifts and fight his way home through traffic in time for their celebrator ...

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Rupture (1961)

A man receives a breakup letter from his sweetheart, who sends him back his photo, in pieces. The pained lover decides to reply. Fountain pen, penholder, desk, stamps, paper and inkwell all contrive diabolically to thwart him. ...

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The Army Game (1960)

Jean Lerat begins his military service at an army camp. ...

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Pickpocket (1959)

Michel takes up pickpocketing on a lark and is arrested soon after. His mother dies shortly after his release, and despite the objections of his only friend, Jacques, and his mother's neighbor Jeanne, Michel teams up with a couple of petty thieves in order ...

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Mon Oncle (1958)

Genial, bumbling Monsieur Hulot loves his top-floor apartment in a grimy corner of the city, and cannot fathom why his sister's family has moved to the suburbs. Their house is an ultra-modern nightmare, which Hulot only visits for the sake of stealing away ...

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Movies Made By Pierre Étaix (13)

In the Footsteps of Monsieur Hulot (1989)

Two-part documentary about French director Jacques Tati chronicles the evolution of the filmmaker's alter ego, Monsieur Hulot, through archival interviews, on-set footage, photos, and film clips. ...

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The Nightmare of Méliès (1988)

An international homage to Méliès in 1988. ...

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L'âge de Monsieur est avancé (1987)

Only on the stage of an empty theater, an author and his wife clash: the scene and the life end up getting confused. ...

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Land of Milk and Honey (1971)

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 fascinating investigative documentary about post–May '68 French society. ...

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Le Grand Amour (1969)

Pierre married Florence, the only daughter of a small industrialist. 15 years later, he is the boss, but his middle-class life worries him a lot. When a new young and lovely secretary comes, he starts dreaming. ...

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As Long as You've Got Your Health (1966)

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 sleep troubles. (2) A man cannot escape the absurd ads he saw at the movie theater that day. (3) A polluted ...

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Feeling Good (1966)

Short film by Pierre Etaix, edited out from the anthology film As Long as You've Got Your Health (1966). ...

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Yoyo (1965)

The story follows the son of a millionaire from the 1920s to the 1960s. After losing his fortune in the stock-exchange crash, he teams up with an equestrienne and becomes a circus clown. ...

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Insomnia (1963)

French pantomimist Pierre Étaix plays an insomniac who makes the mistake of trying to read himself to sleep with a book about vampires. Short film included in the anthology film As Long as You've Got Your Health (1966). ...

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The Suitor (1962)

Absent-minded yet cultured, Pierre answers his parents demands to wed by ignoring both astronomy and the housemaid, instead falling head-over-heels for rich damsels. ...

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Happy Anniversary (1962)

Heureux Anniversaire is a 1962 French short comedy film directed by Pierre Étaix. While his wife impatiently waits and gets drunk, a husband tries to get the appropriate anniversary gifts and fight his way home through traffic in time for their celebrator ...

Watch Now

Rupture (1961)

A man receives a breakup letter from his sweetheart, who sends him back his photo, in pieces. The pained lover decides to reply. Fountain pen, penholder, desk, stamps, paper and inkwell all contrive diabolically to thwart him. ...

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Mon Oncle (1958)

Genial, bumbling Monsieur Hulot loves his top-floor apartment in a grimy corner of the city, and cannot fathom why his sister's family has moved to the suburbs. Their house is an ultra-modern nightmare, which Hulot only visits for the sake of stealing away ...

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