Pierre Étaix Movies

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

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

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

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

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 documentary directed by Eric Friedler about Jerry Lewis' never released movie "The Day The Clown Cried".

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.

A filmmaker finds creative freedom more elusive than he imagined in this ironic comedy-drama. Tired of the state-appointed producers and censorship...

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

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

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

An international homage to Méliès in 1988.

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