Daniel Prévost

Oldies But Goodies (2024)

As the Lino Vartan shelter, which takes orphans and seniors in, has to shut down for health issues, Milann has no choice but to accept the invitation of a retirement home in the south of France. ...

Daniel Prévost : bande de ringards ! (2023)

L'Âge d'or de la pub (2023)

55 years ago, on October 1 1968, the first brand advertising spot appeared on the French television screen. Over the next three decades, thousands of creative little films would seduce and build our collective memory. Kitschy or cult spots, humor, slogans, ...

The Crime Is Mine (2023)

In 1930s Paris, Madeleine, a pretty, young, penniless, and talentless actress, is accused of murdering a famous producer. Helped by her best friend, Pauline, a young, unemployed lawyer, she is acquitted on the grounds of self-defense. A new life of fame an ...

The Animograph, or I Was Born in a Shoebox (2022)

The amazing story of the animograph, a machine created in France in the sixties by the cartoonist and self-taught inventor Jean Dejoux (1922-2015), whose creation was intended to revolutionize the animation industry. ...

Feet in the Mayonnaise: The Irreverent Ones of the 70s (2022)

In the early 1970s, Pompidou-era France, and soon Giscard d'Estaing's France, began to break free thanks to a few irreverent figures. Daniel Prévost, Pierre Desproges, Jean Yanne, Bertrand Blier, Patrick Dewaere, Gérard Depardieu, Miou-Miou, Coluche, Mic ...

Retirement Home (2022)

A story of friendship between a young convict who is forced to work in a retirement home and a group of crazy old people. Together they organize their escape. ...

Adieu Paris (2022)

An old Parisian bistro with eternal charm. Eight gentlemen at the table, eight great figures. They were the "kings of Paris"… National treasures, masterpieces in peril. A well-honed ritual ... A sense of humor and self-deprecation intact. Tenderness and ...

La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président (2022)

In May 1974, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing became President of the Republic and wanted to bring about a new era of modernity. One of his first decisions was to break up the ORTF with the creation of three new television channels: TF1, Antenne 2 and FR3. Three ...

Les Blagues de Toto (2020)

Back-to-school! For troublemaker Toto, it's the best playground for fooling around. When a sculpture collapses during the opening of a museum, Toto is immediately blamed. To prove his innocence, Toto has no other option but making a pact with Igor, the sc ...

Mission Pays Basque (2017)

Sibylle, a young Parisian with long teeth, intends to shine in her new job by buying a hardware store in the Basque Country to set up a supermarket. She imagines that she has "rolled" the old owner but the latter is under curatorship. Sibylle must therefor ...

La Loi de Simon - Des hommes en noir (2016)

Simon Varlet is an experienced, brilliant lawyer who says out loud what others only think. He is more devoted to his fees than to the interests of justice or the code of ethics. As a form of "punishment," his friend and bar president assigns him to defend ...

Les Stars : Daniel Prévost & Jacques Balutin (2015)

Le Meilleur De Prévost (2014)

Patchwork Family (2014)

Christian is a divorced father who can only see his young daughter Vanessa every other weekend. When he meets the single mother Christine and decides to participate in a summer TV show, his whole life is turned upside down. ...

Nicholas on Holiday (2014)

It's the end of the school year. The long-awaited moment of the holidays is arrive. The little Nicolas, her parents and Grandma take the road towards the sea, and settle in for some time at the Hotel Beau-Rivage. ...

The World Petanque Tour (2013)

Momo has one dream buried for years: become a petanque champion. When an international tournament is announced, he drops his ordinary life to win the first prize and fulfill his dreams. ...

Les mauvaises têtes (2013)

Wandering Streams (2010)

Emile is a 70-ish former horticulturalist who once raised bonsai trees "because they don't take up too much room." Indeed, his whole existence is safe and uneventful to a fault, somewhat juiced by friendship with raucous fishing companion Edmond. Still, th ...

Lucky Luke (2009)

Fearless gunslinger, Lucky Luke, is ordered by the President to bring peace to Daisy Town. ...

Comiques de toujours (Vol. 1 à 4) (2009)

Little Nicholas (2009)

Nicolas has a happy existence, parents who love him, a great group of friends with whom he has great fun, and all he wants is that nothing changes. However, one day, he overhears a conversation that leads him to believe that his life might change forever, ...

A Souvenir (2009)

At a turning point in his life, Thomas Lebey, a famous writer, decides to return to the location of his first love. That was in 1960 in a small coastal resort town in the south of England. Sheila was 17 and he was not yet 20. ...

A Man and His Dog (2009)

An elderly gentleman and his dog find themselves out of a home with little means. ...

A Day at the Museum (2008)

Un conservateur terrorisé par les plantes vertes, une mère plastifiée pour être exposée, un ballet de Saintes Vierges, des gardiens épuisés par Rodin, un ministre perdu dans une exposition de sexes, une voiture disparue au parking Rembrandt, des pro ...

Home Sweet Home (2008)

A family's secret, it's a time bomb ! Despite their fundamentally opposite characters, Albert and Gédéon, former participants of the May 1968 protest movement, share the same house since the disappearance of the woman of Albert. ...

Duets on Sofa (2008)

On dînera au lit (2008)

René Bousquet ou le grand arrangement (2007)

Until the day in 1978 when he was accused by a weekly newspaper of being the main organizer of the Vel'd'Hiv' roundup, everyone seemed to have forgotten that in 1942, René Bousquet was head of the French police. But then the past caught up with this forme ...

Monsieur Joseph (2007)

Monsieur Joseph is a respected citizen of a small town in the North of France. For over four decades he has run a specialized bookshop in the shopping square of the town. Every morning before opening his shop, he has a nice cup of black coffee at the local ...

La Méthode Bourchnikov (2007)

The unthinkable has finally happened, and a TV crew will be there to witness the event: Alexandre Goübrick, son of legendary filmmaker Roman Goübrick, has decided, twenty-five years after his father's mysterious disappearance, to complete the famous dire ...

Prévost, Daniel - C'est Prévost ou rien (2007)

Daniel Prévost: Paris World Tour (2006)

A House of Your Dreams (2006)

On a mission to loosen up, a miser's sets about buying a house in the country for his family. ...

Je hais les parents (2006)

Florence and Bruno thought they had finally found balance in their relationship with their children when suddenly they had to face a new threat: parents! First, Bruno's mother, Monique, showed up. She had broken her leg and could no longer take care of her ...

Galilée ou L'Amour de Dieu (2006)

Before the court of the Inquisition, the scientist Galileo defends his position in favor of Copernicus' thesis that the Earth revolves around the sun. ...

Volpone (2004)

A version of Ben Johnson's play: A Venetian swindler goes from town to town pretending to be a dying millionaire in order to attract (and dispose of) greedy "friends". ...

Not on the Lips (2003)

A musical drawing room farce set in Paris circa October, 1925. Middle-aged Gilberte flirts with men but loves her husband Georges, wishing he were more demonstrative. He's negotiating a deal with American Eric Thomson, who turns out to be Gilberte's first ...

Whatever You Say (2002)

Bastien, an ambitious young production assistant, catches the attention of Jean-Louis, a producer of high regard, and is granted a shot at his own television show. ...

Le soleil au-dessus des nuages (2001)

Jean, a little embittered and insupportable office worker, is fired for his heinous behavior. Fifty, single and revanchist, he has no friends and finds himself face to face with no future. He then meets Antoine, a young magician adept at meditation. Intrig ...

A Crime in Paradise (2001)

In the 1980 French countryside, farmer Jojo and his ill-tempered wife Lulu hate each other, though their respective interests speak against divorce. The only thing that keeps the oppressed Jojo from murder is the threat of the guillotine... ...

Would I Lie to You? 2 (2001)

Eddie, Dov, and Yvan are back, still working in Paris' Sentier textile district, This time they're confronting the high-stakes world of large distribution after striking a deal with Eurodiscount, a European hypermarket chain. ...

Les Insaisissables (2000)

Romain, a well read and articulate real estate agent, protects his grandmother from a bailiff that wants to seize her property, ...

Les Shadoks, mythe ou légende ? (2000)

Documentary on the French phenomenon in celebration of a reboot of the series. ...

Vive nous! (2000)

When Valérie's husband Yves confesses he's in love with another woman, she happens into a judo club and begins lessons. She likes it, she's a natural, and she's attracted to Bruno, the quiet instructor. He likes her as well, but sees social class as a bar ...

Charmants voisins (1999)

Daniel Berger, a devious and corrupt civil servant, is willing to do anything to keep his empire of embezzlement intact. One day, he receives a visit from Werner Schäfer, a Zurich-based consultant tasked with assessing the efficiency of his administration ...

Asterix and Obelix Take On Caesar (1999)

Set in 50 B.C., Asterix and Obelix are living in a small but well-protected village in Gaul, where a magic potion concocted by Druids turns the townsfolk into mighty soldiers. When Roman troops carve a path through Gaul to reach the English Channel, Caesar ...

The Dinner Game (1998)

For Pierre Brochant and his friends, Wednesday is "Idiots' Day". The idea is simple: each person has to bring along an idiot. The one who brings the most spectacular idiot wins the prize. Tonight, Brochant is ecstatic. He has found a gem. The ultimate idio ...

Un grand cri d'amour (1998)

A famous couple is going on stage after ten years of separation and hate. ...

The Comedian (1997)

Behind the scenes of the theater, while the last performance has just ended, the comedian returns to his box. ...

Droit dans le mur (1997)

Pierre Richard directed, co-scripted and stars in this French comedy. Former top film comedian Romain (Richard) is on a downward spiral -- rehearsing a play directed by his sister while also dealing with his wife, mistress, taxes, low self-esteem, demands ...

Violetta, the Motorcycle Queen (1997)

After a 10-year absence, 27-year-old Amelie returns home to suburban Paris and the decaying motorcycle-dealership/junkyard where she was raised. Her hope is that time has healed the open wound of hostility between herself and her alcoholic older brother Ad ...

The night of the invasion of the garden dwarves from outer space (1997)

Garden gnomes seem so happy, good-natured in your home. But a spaceship lands on Earth and makes the garden gnomes naughty. ...

Proper Attire Required (1997)

His estranged wife is worth millions, but poor Paris resident Richard is homeless and jobless. He applied for unemployment benefits and now faces charges of fraud. To save himself from nine months in jail he must find his wife and force her to tell the cou ...

The Best Job in the World (1996)

To be closer to his children following his divorce, Laurent Monier, a history and geography teacher in a peaceful provincial high school, accepts a position in a sensitive college in the Paris suburbs. He is assigned the hardest class, the fourth techno, a ...

La rançon du chien (1996)

A young police inspector dreams of being accepted by a wealthy bourgeois couple. ...

Ma femme me quitte (1996)

Joanna Martin, a mid-life journalist, is investigating a marriage agency organizing white marriages. She uses her sister's identity to infiltrate. ...

Les Faussaires (1994)

This comedy was shot in Tahiti. It focuses on the rocky relationship between Cohn, a local con man, and author Jack Baker who wants to profile Paul Gauguin in an upcoming book. Cohn, an obnoxious crook and pathological liar originally from Paris, has been ...

Colonel Chabert (1994)

When Colonel Chabert returns from the war, he discovers that he has lost everything. ...

Part-time Parents (1993)

Ten year old Noemie, fed up with being shunted from one separated parent's home to another, puts her foot down and demands to stay in one place all the time. The new arrangement, however, turns out to be a nightmare. ...

Dark at Noon (1992)

In this mystical comedy, Felicien has traveled to Portugal from France soon after the end of the First World War. It seems that his recently deceased father had invested a lot of money in a factory located in a remote village, and he has come to evaluate t ...

Room Service (1992)

The countess and her son, irresponsible but sweet viscount Louis, own the castle Montverdier, which is falling apart. Fernand Castanier is the baker in the neighboring town Mussy-sur-Ploute. ...

Ville à vendre (1992)

A man comes to a small town in France and witness the apparent murder of a woman pharmacist. He teams up with the victim's vulgar assistant to try to solve the mystery. ...

Le Grand Jeu (1992)

A business owner has a consuming passion for gaming. He has lost almost everything and decides to sell his apartment. To do this, he must drive his wife away and put his driver in the confidence. ...

Bienvenue à Bellefontaine (1992)

Sentenced to ten years in prison for a murder he did not commit, Gaëtan Lantier has just been cleared thanks to the confession the real criminal made before he died. Back in Bellefontaine, his village, the good man is the host of a party organized in his ...

Daniel Prevost : Déconnage immédiat (1991)

L'Huissier (1991)

Uranus (1990)

After World War II, a small French village struggles to put the war behind as the controlling Communist Party tries to flush out Petain loyalists. The local bar owner, a simple man who likes to write poetry, who only wants to be left alone to do his job, b ...

Drôle de couple (1987)

La Pomme (1985)

Vive le fric ! (1985)

Jean Levêque has been unemployed for two years. His wife, Armelle, tries to support the family but her salary cannot cover all the expenses. Together with his wife and father-in-law, he imagines stealing a truck carrying used banknotes destined for destru ...

Liberté, égalité, choucroute (1985)

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

Slices of Life (1985)

A series of humorous sketches on life: "A Night to Remember", "Summit Showdown", and "A Book? That's personal! ...

My Pastor Among the Thais (1983)

Maximin, priest in a little village in the South-West of France, inherits from his brother a brothel in Thailand, although he's always been told it was a very strict catholic school. The journey to Asia is full of surprises (a plane hi-jack, pirates...) an ...

It Could Be Worse (1983)

A macho junk shopkeeper, a lunar lawyer and a storekeeper meet by pure chance and develop the century's hold-up. ...

Prends ton passe-montagne, on va à la plage (1983)

A group of friends—Julien, Sophie, Gaspard, Caroline, and Victor—are planning a major mountaineering trip to climb the Tibetan peaks in July, under the supervision of their friend Sébastien, a medical student. Shortly before their departure, Sébastie ...

Fais gaffe à la gaffe ! (1981)

Based on the comic strip about the hopeless but lovable slacker Gaston who drives his colleagues crazy at the office. ...

Voulez-vous un bébé Nobel ? (1980)

Famous men are being kidnapped for their genes, to impregnate women and give birth to gifted babies. ...

Sacrés gendarmes (1980)

In 1968, in a small village in the south of France, while the rest of the country was gripped by insurrectionary fervor and the search for a few liters of gasoline, life flowed peacefully. However, the tranquility and good humor of everyone were called int ...

The Associate (1979)

An unemployed investor creates a fictious business partner to attempt to improve business. Eventually, his creation gets out of control as his business becomes successful and his wife announces that she is in love with the partner and his son wishes the pa ...

I've Got You, You've Got Me by the Chin Hairs (1979)

In this satire, a police detectiveis investigating the disappearance and kidnapping of the host of a television dance show. However, instead of finding his man, he is trapped into becoming a contestant on a children's quiz show. What's worse is that he bec ...

Attends-moi pour commencer (1977)

Viviane would like Eric to put a ring on her finger. The latter inexorably refuses. Norbert, his best friend and upstairs neighbor, has just married Rose, but seems to regret it. The eternal debate on marriage leads to a war of the sexes. ...

Un mari, c'est un mari (1976)

Ludovique wanted to spend her holidays with her husband Jean,alone together. But she will have to stand her whole family and relations. ...

Run After Me Until I Catch You (1976)

A love story between the pets hairdresser and accountant - both with significant life history. ...

La situation est grave... mais pas désespérée (1976)

Sophie, viscountess of Valrude, believes herself being a widow since her husband disappeared in the Amazon. ...

Trop c'est trop (1975)

Philippe, Didier, Georges and Edina were born on the same day. The three boys have always been in love with Edina, but she's always put them off. They set off in search of her and find her posing for a photographer. Seeing them, she flees and dies in the p ...

There's a Bone in the Mill (1974)

Two unemployed actors accept what they believe to be an acting job from a wealthy man without realizing that he needs two real private detectives. ...

How to Make Good When One Is a Jerk and a Crybaby (1974)

A story about a guy who still lives with his mother and sells some really awful alcohol to bartenders. The only way for him to do this is to cry and invent himself an awful life. Then he meets the beautiful woman whose goal in life is to sleep with the les ...

Le Permis de conduire (1974)

Michel Martenot (Louis Velle) works in a bank consumption, is recommended and intended for children. His professional skills were appreciated by his boss and promoted Michel. He becomes deputy director of an agency in central Paris. Unfortunately, not havi ...

La Gueule de l’emploi (1974)

Jacques and Jean-Claude, unemployed actors, start experimenting with various creative petty scams to get by. More and more daring, with the help of Anne, a charming young girl, they blackmail the rich and influential in a different way. ...

Chinese In Paris (1974)

Overnight, Paris is invaded - although peacefully - but the Chinese Army, and millions of Chinese people... It's the Nazi occupation all over again, with modern - funny - twists. ...

La Dernière Bourrée à Paris (1973)

Young Berthe, deeply moved by a cinema screening of the notoriously sultry Le Dernier Tango à Paris, goes to the address where most of the action takes place, a building overlooking the Bir-Hakeim Bridge metro station. Reality suddenly seems to mimic fict ...

I Don't Know Much, But I'll Say Everything (1973)

Pierre Gastié-Leroy is the son of a wealthy director of a factory of weapon manufacturing. Despite his parents, two generous uncles and a bishop godfather who try to inculcate him the rigid values of his social level, Pierre is a dreamer, antimilitaristic ...

Le Concierge (1973)

Christophe Merignac, a youngESCP graduate with a law degree but still unemployed, gets a job as a concierge in a luxury building. Using charm and cunning, he makes himself indispensable. He makes a fortune and marries a young, pretty and rich tenant, whom ...

Big Deal (1973)

Paul and Thérèse have sold their café on the outskirts of an airport to buy one in Marseille. The business is going well until they discover that their bistro is being used as a hub for drug trafficking. To stop the traffic, they reignite a gang war. ...

The Suburbs Are Everywhere (1973)

He is a sales rep. She is a secretary. They live in the suburbs but she works in Paris. They don't see much of each other and spend much of their time in commuter trains. They try desperately to change job locations to be more often together, but... The pl ...

Moi y'en a vouloir des sous (1973)

Dismissed following an unfortunate initiative, financial advisor Benoît Lepape decides to work for his uncle, a union activist. His capitalist methods will surprise at first, but quickly bring in a lot of money. ...

La Main passe (1972)

She No Longer Talks, She Shoots (1972)

Rosemonde, hailed as "the Princess" reign over a slum in the Paris suburbs. Herbert, a reporter who came to investigate on the pollution, ends up in a grinding machine of her invention. Rosemonde resells the bones to the church authorities who use them as ...

Everybody He Is Nice, Everybody He Is Beautiful (1972)

Selon "Radio plus près de Dieu", rien n'est conçu sans Dieu, surtout pas les shampoings, produits de beauté, la vente des disques... Un animateur dénonce cette escroquerie à l'antenne, ce qui lui vaut d'être licencié. Il réapparaîtra sur de nouvel ...

Caméléons (1971)

The means used by foreign spy services to obtain the trade secret of a French invention. ...

La Lucarne magique (1971)

This variety show, with its new concept, is presented as a musical comedy. Having formed an orchestra, a group of young people perform in the courtyards of an old Parisian neighborhood, hoping to earn some money. But no one listens to them. All the tenants ...

Troubleshooters (1971)

The day he is released from jail, Serge is expected by four killers sent by Count Charles Varèse assigned to make him confess where he has hidden the jewels stolen during his last stickup. On the other hand the police inspector who arrested him offers him ...

Erotissimo (1969)

Annie is a middle-age wife, still sexy and pampered by her husband, Phillippe, who is the owner and general manager of a dynamic company. Under the deluge of sexy Swedish movies, sexy advertising on the streets, sexy intimate clothing in ladies' shops, and ...

King of Hearts (1966)

An ornithologist mistaken for an explosives expert is sent alone into a small French town during WWI to investigate a garbled report from the resistance about a bomb which the departing Germans have set to blow up a weapons cache. ...