Max Montavon

The Defective Detective (1984)

Lewis plays a Las Vegas policeman visiting his ex-wife in France, only to be caught up in the shenanigans of a group of art thieves. His ex-wife has remarried and her husband is undercover among the art thieves, carrying out an assignment given him by his ...

A Good Little Devil (1983)

One of the comtesse de Ségur's most popular works,it tells the tale of an orphan ,Charles,mistreated by his wicked old cousin Madame Mac Miche;nevertheless,Charles has many friends including sweet blind young Juliette and her sister Marianne, Mac Miche's ...

It's Called Catastrophe (1983)

Following a commonplace car accident, Antoine Malibran became involved in the armed robbery of the bank of the Seine. ...

Salut la puce (1983)

Robert Dumortier and his son "La Puce" live on a barge moored to an island of the Seine and Robert dreams of cruising remote and exotic seas. ...

Les Misérables (1982)

In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France. ...

The Gendarme and the Gendarmettes (1982)

Cruchot's police office moves into a new building. They do not only get high tech equipment, but also four young female police officers to educate. All of them scramble to work with them -- and cause pure chaos while being distracted by the fine ladies. Th ...

Liebesgrüße aus der Lederhose 6: Eine Mutter namens Waldemar (1982)

Sissy has inherited a hotel and stud farm from her parents. Unfortunately, her father was very much in debt, so she has to put up with the paternalism of a distant aunt. But she wants to turn everything on the farm upside down and fires all the experienced ...

The Cabbage Soup (1981)

Two buddy farmers are visited by aliens who like their domestic cabbage soup. ...

Prends ta Rolls et va pointer (1981)

Camille Vigault, takes advantage of his vacation to visit a cousin winemaker in Roussillon. Quickly tired by work in the countryside, he prefers to buy an old abandoned Rolls Royce from his cousin. ...

Cinq-Mars (1981)

In the 17th century, under Louis XIII, the policy of Cardinal de Richelieu aimed at the definitive establishment of a monarchic power, and gave rise to a struggle against the great feudal lords, who favored a weak central power. Numerous conspiracies again ...

Is This Reasonable? (1981)

A young journalist comes from Nice to Paris to meet with the famous judge, Simon, hoping he will help her understand a case. She does not know that, according to the will of fate, in the office of judge was fugitive criminal. The couple hit the road. ...

Les surdoués de la première compagnie (1981)

As soon as they arrive at the barracks, the new contingent reveals some characters who will give their officers a hard time. There is the handsome, resourceful man, the technocrat in love, the bootlicker, the "Jamaican" who only moves to music, the shortsi ...

The Miser (1980)

The children of Harpagon, Cléante and his sister Elise, are each in love but they still haven't spoken to their father yet. Harpagon is a miser who wants to choose the right man and the right woman for his children. Based on Molière's play. ...

Comme une femme (1980)

A transsexual becomes a star of Paris and lives a crazy love story with the lover of a friend. But the young man comes to his senses and his bourgeois upbringing. A victim of prejudice, Vicky has no choice but to kill herself. ...

The Winner (1979)

A plumber finally meets the woman of his dreams. But as her uptight family tries to keep him away, he wins the lottery and starts plotting his revenge. ...

Duets on Sofa (1979)

The former spouses Jacqueline and Bernard are still living in the same apartment. And now each of them has a new "half"... ...

Liebesgrüße aus der Lederhose 5. Teil: Die Bruchpiloten vom Königssee (1978)

Sepp and Willy inherit a remote mountain farm. When they find an old biplane in the barn, they come up with the idea of opening a flying school, but meet with resistance from the mayor. ...

Dis bonjour à la dame !.. (1977)

Robert Ferry, a PTT employee, is having problems with his two sons. The elder has impregnated his girlfriend, a young hippie, and the younger, Daniel, is said to have homosexual tendencies. Determined to put his son back on the straight and narrow, Robert ...

Liebesgrüße aus der Lederhose 3. Teil: Sex-Express in Oberbayern (1977)

After the government decides to incorporate the town of Entenbach into the town of Almendingen the two towns engage in a battle of pranks in order to lure tourists away from each other and change those plans. ...

The Wing or the Thigh? (1976)

Charles Duchemin, a well-known gourmet and publisher of a famous restaurant guide, is waging a war against fast food entrepreneur Tri- catel to save the French art of cooking. After having agreed to appear on a talk show to show his skills in naming food a ...

Silence... We're Shooting (1976)

Les Demoiselles à péage (1975)

A woman starts working in her dead husband's brothel. ...

Par ici la monnaie (1974)

All the inhabitants of an old house are swindlers, dreaming only of the big score that will enable them to survive an announced eviction. They end up pulling it off together, by building a fake tollgate. ...

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 ...

La Main passe (1972)

Seduction Squad (1972)

After witnessing and accidentally helping several thugs get away with a heist, the women rooming together notice through their telescope that the stolen loot is in the apartment right across the street. They plan their own burglary of the already stolen lo ...

Repeated Absences (1972)

François Naulet turns his bedroom into an island of drugs, loneliness and despair. ...

Justine de Sade (1972)

Therese, a beautiful but naive young girl, who finds herself being passed around from depraved pervert to depraved pervert, enduring just about every kind of sexual degradation there is while still believing that some kind stranger will eventually help her ...

Hellé (1972)

Hellé is a young deaf-mute living among the mountains. She's ignored by everyone except, now and then, the local woodsmen, who use her for their pleasure. She has no education, no knowledge of right or wrong. One summer, a young man comes to spend the hol ...

Scandal Man (1972)

Marc, is a reporter in a tabloid. At the "Bongo Club", he photographs a young blond woman kissing a black man. This woman is the daughter of Senator Linden, head of the segregationist movement of USA. ...

The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun (1970)

Dany Longo is red-haired, beautiful, disturbed, passionate--and nearsighted. As she speeds through the south of France in a purloined Thunderbird on an errand for her employer and his wife, no one, including Dany herself, knows where she is headed--or why ...

Erotic Love-Games (1970)

Partisan of total sexual freedom, a young woman with perfect physique leads, by her example, a married friend to live like her. The two friends then engage in all kinds of erotic experiences at random from their meetings with various gentlemen, but also be ...

Et qu'ça saute ! (1970)

A uranium deposit brings turmoil to the small South American republic of Guatalpa. Between two revolutions, the government tries unsuccessfully to decide whether the Americans, Soviets or Cubans will exploit the concession. Delegates from these nations spy ...

Le Bal du comte d'Orgel (1970)

Nobles try desperately to cling to the crumbling aristocracy in the days following World War I. The Count (Jean-Claude Brialy) and his Countess Mahe (Sylvia Fennec) delight in throwing lavish costume balls. The couple develops a friendship with a young boy ...

Un merveilleux parfum d'oseille (1969)

Baron Yves de Kerfunte learns of his uncle's death. Overjoyed, he is astonished to discover that seven other individuals are vying for the inheritance. Worse still, when they open the will, they learn that only the elderly Louise de Kerfunte is the heiress ...

The Scarlet Lady (1969)

Comedy about a self-made woman in Paris contemplating the idea of suicide at first, then murder. ...

The Brain (1969)

Arthur and Anatole are two little robbers. They want to rob money, money that will travel in a special train from Paris to Bruxelles. They don't know that other people have planned to do the same thing. ...

Azaïs (1968)

Salut Berthe ! (1968)

Adrien Chautard, a major industrialist from Abidjan, has been chosen to replace an expert on the official Ivory Coast delegation sent to Paris to discuss the country's association with the Common Market. Chautard is delighted at the prospect of this trip, ...

The Little Bather (1968)

Louis-Philippe Fourchaume, another typical lead-role for French comedy superstar Louis de Funès, is the dictatorial CEO of a French company which designs and produces sail yachts, and fires in yet another tantrum his designer André Castagnier, not realiz ...

The Exchange Student (1967)

Monsieur Bosquier, the owner of a private school, is far from pleased when his eldest son, Philippe, fails his end of year exams. He decides to send his wayward offspring to England to improve his English. In exchange, Philippe's host, a wealthy whisky dis ...

Fantomas vs. Scotland Yard (1967)

In the third and final episode of the trilogy, Fantômas imposes a head tax on the rich, threatening to kill those who do not comply. ...

Les enquiquineurs (1966)

Monsieur Eloy, his wife and their ten-year-old son, Zizi, are off to their country home for the weekend. When they arrive, the two men settle into the garden, while Madame gets down to her cooking. When an embassy official and his wife invite themselves fo ...

The Restaurant (1966)

A great French restaurant's owner, Monsieur Septime, is thrust into intrigue and crime, when one of his famous guests disappears. ...

Your Money or Your Life (1966)

Pétepan learns that his money has been lost by Robinhoude brothers.He asks his assistants to withdraw his amount from the bank. ...

We Are All Naked (1966)

A poverty-stricken family lives in a rundown shack on the coast of Northern France--Dad (Jacques Normand) is a foul-mouthed drunk, Mom (Rita Maiden) likes to make it with random strangers on the beach, their son (Gérard Dessalles) is mentally handicapped ...

Fantomas Unleashed (1965)

In the second episode of the trilogy Fantômas kidnaps distinguished scientist professor Marchand with the aim to develop a super weapon that will enable him to menace the world. Fantômas is also planning to abduct a second scientist, professor Lefebvre. ...

Killer Spy (1965)

The most secret agent Stanislas Dubois, tired of saving the world alone decides to retire and to start writing his memoirs. The enemies of humanity, progress and peace in the world found out about it and created an international network of espionage "13 co ...

Circus Angel (1965)

A burglar joins the circus to escape the police. Yet, he continues his thefts during his off-hours and gets involved in the problems of people around him, while also romancing one of the other circus performers. ...

Les Mordus de Paris (1965)

Paris is a city where effervescence is dangerous for city dwellers, who have become nothing more than "nervous machines". Two eminent psychiatrists, one French and one American, decided to administer a sedative to all Parisians, proceeding by arrondissemen ...

Déclic et des claques (1965)

From their native Algeria, four friends discover Paris, hoping to find fortune and love. One of them meets the charming Sandra, who is looking for meaning in her life. ...

Les fourberies de Scapin (1965)

Two youths have secretly married ladies but not the ones their fathers who are away on trips had selected.A mischievous valet plays tricks to see that the lovers can stay together. ...

Les baratineurs (1965)

A precious work of art from the Italian Renaissance is stolen and passes through many hands before ending up in the shed of the farmhouse of Mr. and Mrs. Dujardin, fishmongers, who are inaugurating their luxury fish shop that very day. But the antique deal ...

Comment épouser un premier ministre (1964)

Philippe Lambert, an attractive young attaché to the Prime Minister's office, is a man of many female conquests. One of them, Madame Grandbourg, wife of a very influential man, sent him a passionate letter, which he lost at the theater. Marion, the ushere ...

The Adventures of Salavin (1964)

Finding himself unemployed overnight, Louis Salavin lets himself go into an incurable laziness despite the support of his friends and his mother... ...

Circle of Love (1964)

In a chain reaction of romantic adventures, various people play musical beds in a remake of Max Ophul's "La Ronde. ...

Clémentine chérie (1964)

Gaston Bellus, is the director of a textile house, and the research laboratory makes a sensational discovery: the elastic fabric. This new discovery is used to manufacture new modern stretchable bathing suits. His daughter Clementine, enters the beauty pa ...

Hard Boiled Ones (1964)

A playwright has to murder if he does not want to be murdered. ...

Le bluffeur (1964)

Fredo, a former gangster nicknamed "The Bluffer", has just been released from prison and is now thinking of going into the legal world with a friend. But his ex-partners are desperate to find him, to punish him for operating without their cooperation. His ...

Cherchez l'idole (1964)

After stealing a diamond from Mylène Demongeot, Richard hides it inside a guitar. But on returning to the music shop he discovers that the precious instrument has just been sold! The problem is complicated by the fact that five stars all bought the same m ...

Les Gros Bras (1963)

Madame Andromèze's diamond bracelet has been stolen from the plane taking Nicole from Rome to Paris. Slipped by the thief into her bag, the bracelet undergoes many vicissitudes... Found and appraised, it is declared a fake! Nicole's brother and fiancé ch ...

Judex (1963)

Georges Franju's Judex is an arch, playful tribute to the serials of the influential silent filmmaker Louis Feuillade. Franju shuffles through the plot of Feuillade's lengthy serial of the same name, about an adventurer named Judex whose revenge against th ...

The Reluctant Spy (1963)

Stanislas Dubois is the manager of a successful advertising agency. One day, he comes up against an imposing woman who foists on him a cumbersome painting by Cézanne. ...

Hold-up à Saint-Trop’ (1963)

An unscrupulous young man uses his "fiancée", who haunts gambling halls, to recruit the collaborators he needs to pull off his scams. When these unlucky gamblers are driven to dishonor by debts, he has his fiancée lend them money, and the next day he has ...

Carom Shots (1963)

Paul Martin is the subservient brown-nosing youngster who needs quick advancement up the hierarchy to pay for the modern lifestyle he is buying on credit. Seeing that marrying his immediate superior's daughter will not get him the results he wants, he begi ...

People in Luck (1963)

A light French comedy of 5 segments. ...

The Abominable Man of Customs (1963)

Two rival gangs fight over drug trafficking. An American killer named Timetti Le Muet arrives at Marseille airport to make a delivery to Arnakos' gang. He is denounced to the police, and the peaceful customs officer Camposantos is put in charge of his arre ...

How to Succeed in Love (1962)

Bernard, a young, serious publisher of religious books, finds himself embroiled in amusing and eventful adventures with Sophie, a wacky twist dancer. Having lost his own situation, he joins Editions du Soleil thanks to his friend Marcel's manuscript "Comme ...

The Doll (1962)

An avant-garde political satire that takes place in a mythical country in South America. The dictator has been replaced by a look-alike revolutionary, and the dictator's wife has been replaced by a robot. ...

It's Not My Business (1962)

A small-scale cabaret troupe is touring the provinces. One afternoon while canoeing, Monique Darzel, one of the troupe's singers, spots an angler whose resemblance to Fernand Raynaud strikes her. She discusses this with Jean Duroc, the troupe's director, w ...

The Iron Mask (1962)

The story of the Three Musketeers, D'Artagnan, and the imprisonment in an iron mask of the identical twin of the King of France, Louis XIV. ...

Snobs! (1962)

Four vice-presidents fight among themselves to reach the top post after the president dies. Their wives take part in the various schemes to downgrade the opposition by unorthodox means. ...

Midnight Meeting (1962)

A woman becomes distressed by the resemblance between the plot of a film and the reality of her own life. But what is reality: life or film? ...

Bells Without Joy (1962)

In November 1942, American troops landed in Tunisia. German paratroopers were immediately launched and occupied Tunis. A French squadron of chasseurs d'Afrique was sent to Medjez-el Bab with the mission of occupying the bridge over the Medjerda. But the ca ...

The Seven Deadly Sins (1962)

Seven directors each dramatize one of the seven deadly sins in a short film. In "Anger," a domestic argument over a fly in the Sunday soup escalates into nuclear war. In "Sloth," a movie star would rather pay someone to tie his shoe than bend over to do it ...

Pride (1962)

A woman leaves her lover to return to her husband who cheats on her, something that his pride can not admit. ...

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. ...

Les Livreurs (1961)

These two friendly delivery boys from a Parisian department store not only take their job to heart as much as possible, but also consider themselves responsible for the happiness of the customers they have to deliver to. This leads them successively to hel ...

Night Out (1961)

Saturday evening. We have a date with friends and Pierrot has finally obtained his mother's slightly worried authorization. He runs down the indefinite staircase of the immaculate H.L.M., planted firmly in the mud of the suburbs, to meet up with the others ...

Please, Not Now! (1961)

A sexy model pretends to have a new boyfriend in a wacky plan to make her ex-lover jealous. ...

Sheep (1960)

Fernand, a simple employee at the Prefecture of Police, must serve as a "sheep" to extract confessions from a leader of organized crime, who has recently been in prison. But he managed to escape by taking Fernand hostage. ...

The Old Guard (1960)

Three friends leave their village for a retirement home travelling the countryside ...

Au cœur de la ville (1960)

Louis saves a five-year-old girl, Monique, who wants to throw herself into the river. He consoles her, takes her home and nurses her back to health. Thanks to Monique, the old man regains his zest for life. Monique tells him that she has misplaced her moth ...

Lovers on a Tightrope (1960)

Cora, the wife of a wealthy Parisian businessman, Daniel, is involved in an affair with Henri, an unscrupulous garage mechanic who has set his sights on Cora's fortune. Daniel becomes suspicious and hires a detective to investigate, but the detective is un ...

Tête folle (1960)

Following an operation, Annie no longer remembers her eleven years of marriage or her children. Her memory stops at the time when she was being courted by Pierre, now the family friend. Unable to bear seeing his wife in love with someone else, her husband ...

The Eighth Day (1960)

Françoise, a thirty-year-old single typist lives only for her Sunday release. On this day, she attends a horse race under pretext of perfecting her taste for elegance and refinement. Georges, a neighbor widower, begins to court her. ...

The Versailles Affair (1960)

Suzuki, a Japanese secret agent, is sent to Versailles to unmask a certain Klauss, who is to receive stolen documents from Saudi Arabia. ...

Pantalaskas (1960)

An off-beat, uneven tale about a man intent on suicide and the three people who try to talk him out of it, Pantalaskas stars American Carl Studer in the title role of the morose, would-be suicide. Set in Paris and taking place over an entire night, the sto ...

Green Harvest (1959)

In 1943, a group of high school students decide to take action against the Nazi occupying forces. Showing courage and imagination, they manage to blow up the Kommandantur and to release hostages. But after the killing of a German soldier the Nazi police ap ...

Match contre la mort (1959)

The Lourmel couple are taking part in the final round of a TV game show: the wife has to answer questions; if she fails, her husband drives a racing car to make up the lost minutes. Moments before the start of the show, a phone call informs Lourmel that he ...

Rue de Paris (1959)

While Henri was a POW during the war, his wife passed away, and he returned to face the challenges of bringing up three children alone. Henri may get drunk and angry at times, but he also has a better side that will not stay buried. ...

La Marraine de Charley (1959)

Living in cramped quarters with Charley, an architecture student, four of his friends force him to dress up as a woman and play the role of his own godmother in order to rent Mr. de Saint-Sevran's mansion at low prices. The result is a series of misunderst ...

Soupe au lait (1959)

Roland Lasserre is a shy boy, which would be nothing if he weren't also prone to the violent tantrums that have earned him his nickname "Soupe au lait". It's when Francine announces her engagement that he decides to declare his love for her. Francine is no ...

The Chasers (1959)

Two young men, one shy and one self-confident, spend a fast-paced night in Paris trying to pick up chicks. ...

Head Against the Wall (1959)

An aimless young man is committed to a psychiatric hospital by his father in an attempt to cure him of his delinquent tendencies. ...

The Motorcycle Cops (1959)

Marc, a motorcycle brigadier, is engaged to the charming Véronique. But his future brother-in-law, the clumsy Roger, leader of a Sunday motorcycle gang, has set his sights on joining the motorcycle police. ...

The Sicilian (1958)

A brave little couturier from Lyon, Fernand, travels to Paris to present his creation "La ligne Impériale" to a major fashion house. Following a misunderstanding, he is mistaken by a gang of gangsters for "Le Sicilien", a hired killer. A quid pro quo of e ...

The Little Professor (1958)

Naturally optimistic and mischievous, Jérôme Aubin crossed the time of his adolescence, around 1945, with ease and good humor. The years passed. He married the pretty Françoise, a little neighbor he had known since the age of eight, and soon found himse ...

Life Together (1958)

The writer Pierre Carot became rich and famous with his book "Life as a Couple", which was based on the loving relationships of four couples. Now he's setting up his will and wants to leave his wealth to the couples among the four, which are still as deepl ...

Neither Seen Nor Recognized (1958)

In a small French village, everything would be quiet if the local wildlife cop was not being ridiculed by a smart poacher. ...

Hardboiled Egg Time (1958)

A shy, penniless employee of the garage owner Grillot, the gentle Louis wins $10 million in the lottery. Flitting along the banks of the Seine, he takes in Raoul Grandvivier, an unknown, untalented painter who has just botched a spectacular suicide intende ...

Les Lavandières du Portugal (1957)

Two French advertising agencies vying for a contract with a manufacturer of washers. The manager decides to hire the agency submitting the best advertising campaign. Jean Francois, head of the A.P.N., has the great idea of ​​looking for an authentic Po ...

That damn Amédée (1957)

Mr. Placard, impresario of shock, lost the headliner of his show, Elia Tarti. Amédée introduces himself, he can highlight his gifts of fantasy. Randomly along the way, Amédée notices a seductive hitchhiker named Cigale. This one disappears again, kidna ...

L'irrésistible Catherine (1957)

A legionnaire, Georges, promised his friend, who died of a snake-bite, to marry Catherine, the girl with whom he had a child. Back in France, the young soldier goes in search of Catherine. The girl he finds is a dumb puritan; in spite of his disappointment ...

Reproduction interdite (1957)

An art dealer in dire straits, after being ripped off by two crooks, one of whom owns a genuine painting by Gauguin while the other is an expert copyist, finds them again and, instead of killing them as he originally intended, joins in their game – with ...

The Seventh Commandment (1957)

Princesse Nadia Vronskaïa is a veteran con artist who uses her feminine wiles to bilk wealthy, susceptible old men. Inevitably, she outsmarts herself when she falls in love with one of her victims. In concert with her new beau, she turns the tables on her ...

Pity for the Vamps (1956)

Paris, 1956. Three sisters, three actresses willing to do almost anything to make it big. Their lives, their loves, their dramas. A savory satire of the world of show business and cinema in particular. ...

Et ta sœur (1951)

In order to escape the police, a man takes the place of his missing sister, who was clairvoyant. ...

The Bonnadieu House (1951)

Felix is a middle-aged bourgeois husband. Much to his discomfort, he learns that his wife Gabrielle is carrying on with a young man--a very young man. Rather than express outrage, Felix decides that there's something lacking in him. He spends the rest of ...

Beware of Blondes (1950)

Back from a stay in the Far East, a woman who knew the names of the chiefs of a drug ring is murdered. Georges Masse, the famous reporter, decides to investigate, accompanied by his faithful photographer P'tit Louis. He will come across some unappetizing c ...