Jean Abeillé

Porte sans clef (2019)

Paris Pigalle (2018)

Paris, 1982. Franck and Serge are police investigators in charge of making a good catch in the Parisian porn industry. In order to infiltrate the mafia, they take over a peep show in Pigalle riddled with debts. In attempt to jump start the business, they b ...

Rouges étaient les lilas (2016)

In a Paris suburb condominium, after the death of a young woman's boyfriend, a strange and deadly game of death begins between three women living there. ...

Le Cabanon rose (2016)

A cottage inhabited by a peasant, crazy painter in his spare time, who only paints naked women. After his death, another farmer decides to transform the place into a brothel which quickly attracts the notables of the area. But all those who come disappear ...

Les Compagnons de la pomponnette (2015)

The young vicar Victor and Sister Marie Ernestine, caught while they were making love, are defrocked by their cardinal. In front of their newly rented flat, they will come upon two couples who practice swinging. ...

Calomnies (2014)

Xavier Durmont young deputy newly elected, is charged by a representative of the Court of Auditors to investigate a dubious case of waste disposal involving a minister. He becomes then the target of slander orchestrated by the agency of a mysterious Armand ...

Assemblée générale (2014)

The annual general assembly of the co-owners : quarrels about nothing, the collapse of the management agency, that turns becomes absurd. ...

Manutention légère (2014)

Marion is a low-level employee in a high end ready-to-wear clothing business. He has a sole obsession: to present a prototype he's made to his boss, Monsieur Charlie. Jeanette, who he's very fond of, is worried and looks for him everywhere, while Michel, w ...

Dors mon lapin (2014)

It's the story of a young married man name Lionel who is swamped by colossal debts and whose wife is soon to give birth. At his wits' end, he decides one day to commit an irreparable act and kidnaps his millionnaire neighbors' 1-year-old baby. He demands a ...

À votre bon cœur, mesdames (2013)

The story of a septuagenarian, recently divorced, which in its reconstruction desire and quest for a new companion will rediscover the small pleasures of life and the art of seduction. ...

Le Renard jaune (2013)

Charles Senac, author of a single novel but crowned by the Prix Goncourt, is hated by the regulars of the bar-restaurant "Le Renard jaune" who regularly insult him. One morning he is found dead in his home. For inspector Giraud, it is clear that the culpri ...

Le Mentor (2013)

The film tells the story of a gentleman of a certain age, a distinguished homeless, who becomes the mentor of a young girl of 20. He will keep out of trouble, especially when she's about to marry a fool. He will try to change her life by making it more bea ...

Dossier Toroto (2011)

A scientist invents a product destined to make vegetables grow larger. His nephew, until then totally lacking a penis, drinks a little of this liquid by accident and from then on develops outsize genitals that lead some of his acquaintances to become jealo ...

Les Insomniaques (2011)

Two insomniacs go into partnership to start a club bringing together people who suffer from the same trouble and decide together to become vigilantes and more precisely vindicators serving causes they are interested in. But relations between the various me ...

Crédit pour tous (2011)

While unemployed, Gobert must repay 40 bank loans he had taken out. In the housing project where he lives in, bailiffs swarm. Gobert will organize resistance and develop an original and popular loan system which will soon arouse the interest of the French ...

Death's Glamour (2007)

Whilst seeking out locations in the South of France for his next film, director Luc Moullet comes across a male corpse. He immediately decides to use this to his advantage. By swapping his passport with that of the dead man, Moullet hopes that the world wi ...

Le Bénévole (2007)

In a Mediterranean city, the association of volunteers The Rescue is expecting a new director. A former trade unionist, Birgos, who's just escaped from an asylum with Cleo, another internee, is believed, by mistake, to be this new director. ...

Les Ballets écarlates (2007)

A pedophile network, to which belong notables of a French provincial town is about to be discovered by a young woman who herself lost her son, a child survivor of one of these horror festivals, and an anarchist gunsmith. ...

Le deal (2007)

Grabuge! (2005)

Maurice works at the police service for foreigners. He is single, loves Spanish music and spends all his free time in a Hispanic cabaret. ...

Le Furet (2003)

From his locksmith's shop, a simple guy dreams of becoming a crime boss, at the wheel of his Cadillac surrounded by blonde bimbos. He starts small, assassinating petty criminals. Gaining renown in the newspapers as "Le Furet" (The Ferret), he soon sets his ...

Jean Sénac, The Blacksmith of the Sun (2003)

By ending the life of Jean Senac on August 30, 1973 in Algiers, his assassins believed they would silence him forever. They were wrong since his voice is a little louder every day. Witnesses to these craze: the publication of the complete works of this gre ...

Les araignées de la nuit (2002)

In the lead up to the presidential elections five candidates turn up from out of nowhere. Then, as the days go by, they are eliminated one by one, each meeting with a violent death, until one is left to become president. ...

La bête de miséricorde (2001)

After a car accident, Jean Mardet ends the agony of his wife with a rock. Mardet then keeps killing because he believes that God himself has entrusted a mission to him: kill the unfortunate souls. ...

The Man of the Badlands (2000)

A documentary about Luc Moullet and the mountainous locations featured in his films. ...

Le glandeur (2000)

Bruno Bonbeck, a retired soccer referee, is the world's biggest layabout until his politician wife, the Junior Minister for Sport, delivers an ultimatum: you get a job or I get a divorce. The film traces the trials and tribulations of Bruno's 18-hour hunt ...

Tout est calme (2000)

A secret society, somewhere in France, is responsible for the major unsolved murder mysteries throughout history (such as Henri IV, Lincoln, Kennedy, John-Paul I)... ...

Vis-à-vis d'elle (2000)

Vidange (1998)

Mireille Bertillet, a provincial judge, is transferred to Paris. She inherits a heavy file compromising high personalities. ...

Robin des mers (1998)

In La Roche-sur-Mer, the factory where the father of Mathieu's boyfriend, a 12-year-old boy, works will close. Desperate, the man tries to commit suicide and is saved by his son. ...

Alliance cherche doigt (1997)

Geneviève Lechat is the director of a marriage agency. At 50, she is still very desirable and very fulfilled, especially emotionally. She offers her son, André, to open an agency branch on the Internet. ...

Bonsoir (1994)

Having first lost his wife then his job as a tweed tailor, Alex Ponttin has devised a novel way to keep himself in touch with society. He admits himself into people's homes, by pretending to be a relative or an official, and persuading his victims to give ...

Up and Down (1993)

A bicycle race is held every year in a pass of the Alps called Parpaillon. With the energy of a skillful cyclist perhaps as a great tribute to François, the mailman played by Tati in The Big Day, Moullet makes a comedy by pedaling at a pace that allows hi ...

La Cabale des oursins (1992)

A travelogue of abandoned strip mining sites in France extolling their potential for recreational use. ...

Three Crowns of the Sailor (1991)

Shortly after murdering his professor, a young man encounters a sailor who offers him a position on his ship in exchange for 3 Danish crowns and his attention as he recounts his life story. ...

Il gèle en enfer (1990)

Based on Elliott Chaze's "Black Wings Has My Angel", the film tells a story of (nudist) gangsters on a coup and on the run ...

Divine enfant (1989)

Much against his will, Aurélien Brada is put in charge of a cute orphan girl and her cute dog. ...

The Seats of the Alcazar (1989)

A French man recalls his moviegoing adventures at a now defunct titular theater as a journalist for the film magazine Cahiers du Cinéma during the mid-1950s. ...

Une nuit à l'Assemblée Nationale (1988)

The leader of a nudist camp enlists the help of left-wing militant when he mistakenly believes he should receive the Legion of Honor. ...

The Comedy of Work (1988)

Sylvain Berg, a "professional" unemployed who spends his time hiking and mountain climbing, and "model" bank employee Benoît Constant, who has just been fired and does not want his wife to find out, both find themselves in Françoise Duru's office at an ...

The Seasons of Pleasure (1988)

Charles and Emmanuelle organize as every year, the congress of perfumers who distribute their products in their castle. Garibaldi, their mutilated and somewhat disturbed son-in-law, will be the butler. ...

Nice is nice (1988)

Vent de panique (1987)

Roland and Martine, once child stars in a TV series, have sunk into a life of crime. Answering an ad from Isabelle, a young girl seeking work with children, they abduct her with the intention of selling her into prostitution. At the last moment, having bec ...

Agent trouble (1987)

Amanda Weber is a museum employee. Her nephew, Victorien, who feels that wild animals should not be kept in zoos, while hitchhiking saw a mysterious bus with 50 dead tourists that later was found by autorities at the bottom of a lake. When Victorien gets i ...

Miracle Healing (1987)

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. ...

The Unsewing Machine (1986)

The insane Doctor Enger is obsessed with his plan to build a hospital to cure blind children, and goes on a killing and kidnapping spree with the police in pursuit. ...

Pauline-épaulettes (1985)

A César award nominated short drama. ...

Barres (1984)

The 1984 short Barres celebrates the ingenious ways one can get onto the Paris Metro without paying. ...

Kill the Referee (1984)

Michel, a referee has to suffer the consequences of having whistled a penalty against a team which is supported by football hooligans. ...

Litan (1982)

Married couple Jock & Nora are visiting the town of Litan during Litan's Day, with its carnivalesque atmosphere. When Nora wakes that morning from dreaming the bizarre death of her husband, she sets out across town to find him and warn him. But as she does ...

The Last Metro (1980)

In occupied Paris, an actress wed to a Jewish theater owner must keep him hidden from the Nazis while doing both of their jobs. ...

Le piège à cons (1979)

Ten years after the French political upheavals of 1968, a maturing "soixante-huitard" falls in with some young radicals who are influenced by a book he had written. But does he still have the guts to translate his ideas into acts against the state? And is ...

Le Roi des bricoleurs (1977)

Goumic, an industrialist and his wife Anne lose their big house when their town's mayor coerces them to sell it for a low price. ...

The Probability Factor (1976)

Fred works for an insurance company as a computer engineer. He is bored with enduring the trials of his shrewish wife, so, after using actuarial tables to calculate the most common means of death, he cleverly prepares the family bathroom and brings about h ...

No Pockets in a Shroud (1974)

In the newspaper he has just founded, journalist Dolannes exposes all the wheeling and dealing and scandals that go on in his town. ...

Borsalino and Co. (1974)

Marseille. Heaps of flowers and funeral wreaths... "A man who no longer defends his colors is no longer a man. ...

Two Big Girls in Pyjamas (1974)

A French man invites two Sweden girls to spend time with him after his wife left for vacation. ...

Chut ! (1972)

A small saver discovers the scam that threatens all subscribers to the "Caution foncière". He embarks on an incredible adventure to recover the funds paid in by his friends, and succeeds in exposing the scandal. ...

Le pinceau de marbre (1979)