Paul Mercey

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. ...

Quarter to Two Before Jesus Christ (1982)

In ancient Rome, a simple pepboy for chars becomes involved in a coup against Cesar. Rahatlocum is a North African Roman colony where Julius Caesar came to spend an expensive holiday. The revolt rumbles among the locals who find a leader in the person of ...

Bankers Also Have Souls (1982)

A bank clerk is given an unusual retirement gift, a high class call girl. Unaware that he has been 'set up' by colleagues the man goes with the girl to Venice where he enjoys his new found virility. ...

The Gang (1977)

In 1945, as World War Two comes to a close, five small time crooks unite to form a gang. After several bold robberies they become notorious as "the front-wheel drive gang". The police attempt to stop their crime spree with little success, but how long will ...

Sexuella (1976)

Sex comedy based on a novel by Jacques Chaumelle and the director. ...

Silence... We're Shooting (1976)

The Seventh Company Has Been Found (1975)

The second part of the Seventh Company adventures. ...

No Problem! (1975)

A man with a gunshot wound in the stomach comes to first house and collapses in Anita's apartment. A minute later he dies and the girl, horrified by what happened, must look for somebody who would help her get rid of the corpse... ...

Gross Paris (1974)

Bernard, a journalist, and his friend Jules, a butcher by trade, are both passionate about horse racing. ...

Two Big Girls in Pyjamas (1974)

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

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. ...

The Watchmaker of St. Paul (1974)

Lyons, France. Michel Descombes is a watchmaker who lives alone with his teenage son Bernard. When the police visit and informs him that Bernard killed a man and is on the run with a girl, Michel realizes that he knew far less about his son than he thought ...

Hassan Terro's Escape (1974)

In 1957, the Battle of Algiers intensifies. Hassan, a peaceful resident of the Casbah, is mistakenly identified as a dangerous "terrorist leader," earning him the nickname "Hassan Terro." He is arrested, but the French occupation army secretly organizes hi ...

The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob (1973)

In this riot of frantic disguises and mistaken identities, Victor Pivert, a blustering, bigoted French factory owner, finds himself taken hostage by Slimane, an Arab rebel leader. The two dress up as rabbis as they try to elude not only assasins from Slima ...

Hit! (1973)

A federal agent whose daughter dies of a heroin overdose is determined to destroy the drug ring that supplied her. He recruits various people whose lives have been torn apart by the drug trade and trains them. Then they all leave for France to track down a ...

Now Where Did the Seventh Company Get to? (1973)

1940: During the chaotic running fights of the French army the 7th company disappears - nobody knows they've been taken captive. Only their scouting patrol, three witty but lazy guys, can escape and now wanders around behind the German lines. They'd like t ...

The Right of the Maddest (1973)

The guardian of a nursing home lends a compassionate ear to the complaints of two new pensioners who love each other and have only one dream: to see the sea. To help them realize their dream, the brave man steals the car of the director. She quickly discov ...

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. ...

The Artless One (1972)

Inspired by a Voltaire tale, a satire of society and its values through the astonished and critical eyes of a newly arrived "ingénue" who ridicules all customs in order to marry the woman of his heart. ...

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 Gendarme Takes Off (1970)

The whole clique of Cruchot's police station is retired. Now he lives with his rich wife in her castle - and is bored almost to death. He fights with the butler, because he isn't even allowed to do the simple works. But when one of the clique suffers from ...

Amour (1970)

This three-part movie begins with a young woman married to an older, cold-hearted man in the year 1200. Two rivals have a swordfight over the affections of the woman. Part two takes place in 1910 and finds an amorously unfaithful wife taking on her many lo ...

L'Amour (1970)

A young couple has just got married. He is an advertising artist in an agency on the Champs-Elysees. She is a window dresser in a department store on Boulevard Haussmann. ...

Frédéric (1970)

Three Men on a Horse (1969)

A man has found a way to win any bet he places on a horse. However, he himself must never be the person to place the bet. ...

Catherine (1969)

Paris, 1418. The city is occupied by the Armagnacs, besieged by Philip of Burgundy. Caboche, a butcher's guild member and supporter of the Burgundians, wants to marry a young woman. To do so, he denounces his father, who is soon after murdered. The Grand C ...

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. ...

The Tattoo (1968)

An art dealer wants to buy a Modigliani, which is tattooed on the back of an old soldier. ...

La forêt noire (1968)

Inspired by the life of 19th century composer Robert Schumann, this fiction tells the decline of Hans Richter, a great German musician. Then dying, he feels his reason leaving him, while his wife gets closer to his disciple, Friedrich Turner, who has endle ...

Meurtre en sourdine (1967)

Is doubt allowed in love? In this police investigation, feelings interfere with the investigation. While a murder has been committed, the benefit of the doubt as to the identity of the murderer is obviously allowed. Love, jealousy, passion and crime make u ...

Two for the Road (1967)

Architect Mark Wallace and his wife, Joanna, travel to France to meet with an affluent client. While there, they reflect on their first decade of marriage -- memories of when they first met, of courtship, and of road trips through the French countryside. A ...

Tender Scoundrel (1966)

Tony Maréchal is a professional seducer. Having conquered countless women, proclaims that there is none that can resist his charm. To prove this makes a difficult challenge: to seduce baroness Minna von Strasshofer. ...

Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At! (1966)

During World War II, two French civilians and a downed British Bomber Crew set out from Paris to cross the demarcation line between Nazi-occupied Northern France and the South. From there they will be able to escape to England. First, they must avoid Germa ...

A Young World (1966)

A freelance photographer falls in love with a French medical student and becomes pregnant. Faced with the situation, he pressures her to have an abortion, even sleeping with an older woman for money. She later decides to keep the baby. ...

How to Keep the Red Lamp Burning (1965)

The film consists of three novels. The film begins with the fact that the Bernard Blier hero removes a lantern from the entrance to a brothel. The second part is about how the lantern and jewelery were stolen from a young baroness. And in the third part th ...

Mission Bloody Mary (1965)

An American secret agent is tasked with recovering a nuclear bomb stolen by spies. ...

Angelique: The Road to Versailles (1965)

Angelique is saved by the king of the cutthroats when she is endangered in the streets of Paris. After her hero is killed, she has many amorous affairs and becomes a successful businesswoman. ...

Don Quijote (1965)

Marked Eyes (1964)

A story about a widow who begins to receive blackmail letters demanding money from her. This is when everyone in the small town she lives in dismissing her husband. ...

Bebert and the Train (1963)

The Martin family is shopping in a department store. Tiennot is responsible for looking after his little brother, Bébert, but he prefers to chase girls. On the train home, Tiennot leaves Bébert alone. On arrival, Bébert has disappeared. The Martin famil ...

Crooks in Clover (1963)

An aging gangster, Fernand Naudin is hoping for a quiet retirement when he suddenly inherits a fortune from an old friend, a former gangster supremo known as the Mexican. If he is ambivalent about his new found wealth, Fernand is positively nonplussed to d ...

Chicken Soup (1963)

The fiancée of a gangster who has been shot by the police takes an entire police station hostage, armed with a revolver and a bottle of nitroglycerine... ...

The Virgins (1963)

The story of five girls that lose their virginity. ...

Any Number Can Win (1963)

Charles, fresh out of jail, rejects his wife's plan for a quiet life of bourgeois respectability. He enlists a former cell mate, Francis, to assist him in pulling off one final score, a carefully planned assault on the vault of a Cannes casino. ...

Mathias Sandorf (1963)

1868. Revolutionary Mathias Sandorf is determined to oust the dictatorship oppressing his country. The people see him as their liberator. Denounced by his banker, Mathias is arrested and sentenced to death. He manages to escape and takes refuge in a fishin ...

Who Stole the Body? (1963)

Edouard and Félix work in a real estate agency. One day, they are threatened with dismissal if they don't manage to sell a very isolated house to an elderly, silver and somewhat unusual Englishwoman. In the house, they discover a corpse. The visit is spen ...

Les Culottes rouges (1962)

Antoine Rossi, a recidivist prisoner of war in Germany, manages to escape with the cowardly Fendard. Fendard does everything in his power to help him even though he is wounded, but Antoine tries to get rid of him as he boards the train to freedom. ...

The Eye of the Monocle (1962)

In 1943, a German commando conceals a large quantity of gold in an undersea cave on the coast of Corsica. Years later, Schlumpf, the sole survivor of the commando, returns to Corsica to recuperate the treasure -- with British and Soviet spies on his heels ...

Les Célibataires (1962)

The Gentleman from Epsom (1962)

The story takes place in the racecourses around Paris. A so-called major sells his tips to naive characters. ...

The Girls of La Rochelle (1962)

July 13, 1389. On the initiative of the Mayor, warned by a famous astrologer, the town of La Rochelle is getting ready - 400 years in advance! to celebrate the Fête Nationale with dignity! But the English, who already held almost every square in the Kingd ...

The Little Boy from the Lift (1962)

A young boy is hired as a lift attendant in a grand hotel when his mother dies. To fulfill his dream, he takes part in a competition organized by the manager, and wins 1st prize: a two-day stay in one of the princely suites. He wants to share the experienc ...

Ladies' Man (1962)

A famous FBI agent's vacation is interrupted by murder. His investigation leads him on the trail of three women of the local upper middle class. ...

The Honors of War (1962)

One morning in August 1944, the inhabitants of a French village are celebrating their premature liberation. The festivities are interrupted by the arrival of an exhausted, leaderless German detachment. A few kilometers away, the inhabitants of the village ...

All the Gold in the World (1961)

Businessman Victor Hardy wants to buy the entire area around the small village of Cabosse. He claims that he wants to return to nature, but he also intends to profit by selling the water from the village fountain, which is reputed to enhance longevity. How ...

The Bear (1960)

A mild-mannered zookeeper has to contend with his tyrannical boss and a talking lovesick bear. ...

The Gigolo (1960)

Agathe Perrin, a wealthy widow in her forties, lives with her ailing father in an estate on the shores of Lac du Bourget, not far from Aix-les-Bains. For the past four years, she has been involved in an affair with a twenty-four-year-old artist, Jackie, th ...

The Old Guard (1960)

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

Work and Freedom (1959)

Due to a garbage strike, inmates are called in to take care of the garbage collection. Taking advantage of this unexpected situation, three of them manage to elude their guards. ...

Katia (1959)

Tsar Alexandre II meets a young student, Katia. He understands that he loves her and try to send her away but they end up seeing each other again and becomes his mistress. With the help of Katia, Alexandre prepares a liberal constitution, but these reforms ...

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. ...

Oh! What a Mambo (1959)

Miguel foils a bank robbery and becomes a successful nightclub singer, but he doesn't know that his wife is being courted by an Italian fitness instructor. ...

Bobosse (1959)

Bobosse is increasingly immersing himself into the world of theater and experiencing his role as an actor more intensively. He plays in a piece where a man is abandoned by his wife and processes this philosophically. When his wife actually abandons him, he ...

Time Bomb (1959)

Plotters decide to scuttle a ship for the insurance money, but things go wrong. ...

Serenade of Texas (1958)

Music seller and singer on occasion, Jacques Gardel learns from master Jérôme Quilleboeuf that he inherits oil fields located in Big Bend in Texas. ...

Thérèse Étienne (1958)

Her father having served a prison sentence, there is unending gossiping about Therese's family. Unable to put up with it any longer, the young woman leaves her native village for the canton of Bern where she manages to be hired by Anton Muller, a wealthy, ...

Sexpot (1957)

Coveted by many of the men around her, the sensual Nathalie is a magnet for passion. After many adventures and dramas, she will find the happiness she longs for. ...

The Ostrich Has Two Eggs (1957)

A father discovers one day that one of his sons is a homosexual and the other, is the "gigolo" of a Japanese countess. He is first horrified, but finally accepts the situation because it brings him economical advantages. ...

Fernand the Tramp (1957)

The tramp Fernand and his dog Brigadier discover some extraordinary jewels in a bag lost in a ditch. Brigadier, who doesn't like being mistaken for a dog, doesn't believe in the authenticity of the jewels. Then, discovering the owner, he introduces Fernand ...

The Wheel (1957)

Pierre is an engine driver who adopts a small girl, a WWI orphan. A widower, he sees in her the image of her mother. ...

The Happy Road (1957)

Two children run away from a Swiss boarding school and set out for Paris, with their frantic parents in hot pursuit. ...

Le colonel est de la revue (1957)

To spice up a life that's too quiet, a couple of friends play at being gangsters, but end up meeting some real hoodlums. ...

French Cancan (1955)

Nineteenth-century Paris comes vibrantly alive in Jean Renoir's exhilarating tale of the opening of the world-renowned Moulin Rouge. Jean Gabin plays the wily impresario Danglard, who makes the cancan all the rage while juggling the love of two beautiful w ...

Mr. Leguignon Lampiste (1952)

A railway worker, Leguignon, and his wife are forced to move into a house located in a shaggy part of town. What Leguignon doesn't know is that a group of children have discovered a treasure and keeps it stored in the house. Trouble ensues when he discover ...

The Cape of Hope (1951)

Lyria, a faded beauty who runs a seedy waterfront bar, is madly in love with Bob, a crooked attorney. Bob can't bring himself to confess his love for Minnie, the pretty daughter of Simon, a safe cracker. In order to run away with her, Bob, one of the maste ...

No Vacation for Mr. Mayor (1951)

Annie, the ward of Monsieur Joachim, a nightclub manager, has fallen in love with Philippe Lebon, a singer who could easily re-float her guardian's failing business. The trouble is that Joachim has already - and hurriedly - betrothed Annie to his business ...

The Real Guilty (1951)

Inspector Dumont and his deputy Inspector Queneau investigate the murder of a young woman. They learn that the victim was pregnant before her death and that she was the mistress of Mario, a shady playboy who had dumped her while she was with child. A docto ...

Under the Paris Sky (1951)

Fates of multiple otherwise disconnected characters intertwine miraculously under the sky of Paris. And it all happens in one day. ...

La Carcasse et le Tord-cou (1948)

La Carcasse, an obtuse peasant, lives with his wife Lucie and his father-in-law Tord-cou. At odds with his son-in-law, the Tord-cou takes it into his head to marry Thérésa, the daughter of their neighbor Casimir. But the Carcass, too, feels attracted to ...