Philippe Brigaud

The Green Shutters (2022)

The twilight of a sacred monster, Jules Maugin, an actor at the height of his glory. Beneath the famous personality, the big mouth, and the social shell, lies the intimate portrait of a man laid bare. ...

Jupiter ! (2018)

Christmas Day 2018. Isabelle Barrere has just been elected President of her Party. Her son Jupiter, a parlementary assistant, has been put in charge of the reception of a unique official gift: The Ortega Ham. ...

Babysitting (2014)

Looking for a baby-sitter for the night, Marc Schaudel entrusts his son Remy to the care of his employee Franck, a straight man. But the thing that Marc doesn't know, is that Franck is getting 30 years old this weekend and that his son Remy is a very capri ...

The Valet (2006)

Caught by tabloid paparazzi with his mistress Elena, a famous and beautiful fashion model, billionaire Pierre Levasseur tries to avoid a divorce by inventing a preposterous lie. He uses the presence of a passerby in the photo to claim to his wife that it's ...

The Costly Truth (2004)

Investigating judge at the 3rd Criminal Chamber of Marseille, Françoise Larchey is the wife of Jean-Pierre Larchey, a famous architect of the Coast. The couple has a son, Valentin, seventeen years old... The death of Edith Mesniel, a local political figur ...

Ruby & Quentin (2003)

After hiding his loot and getting thrown in jail, brooding outlaw Ruby befriends Quentin, a dim-witted and garrulous giant. After Quentin botches a solo escape attempt, they make a break together. Unable to shake the clumsy Quentin, Ruby is forced to take ...

Seven Years of Marriage (2003)

After seven years of marriage, a couple of professional workers (he, a doctor and she, a banker) try to refresh their sex life. ...

The Closet (2001)

A man spreads the rumor of his fake homosexuality with the aid of his neighbor, to prevent his imminent firing at his work. ...

Anibal (2000)

Ten-year-old Edgar, the son of a wealthy family, finds his world turned upside down when his parents decide to adopt Anibal, a Peruvian boy, whom Edgar considers an intruder. ...

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 ...

Une nana pas comme les autres (1995)

Julie Toronto, a 32-year-old dwarf, quit her accounting job in Paris, to be with Antoine Delisles, the man of her life. She started working as a nanny at Antoine's. Julie is delighted: Antoine asked if he could marry her and both of his children love her. ...

Une nounou pas comme les autres (1994)

A lawyer finds a special nanny who teaches his children all about prejudice and love. ...

Oui patron! (1991)

Errors of Youth (1989)

The oddest things come in pairs. In 1989, there were two foreign films on the market whose titles translated to Errors of Youth or Youthful Indiscretion. One was a Russian film, the other was a French picture, originally titled Erreur de Jeunesse. In this ...

Bernadette (1988)

Evocation of the life of Bernadette Soubirous, the eldest of four children, who, at the age of fifteen, experiences a religious vision at the Massabielle grotto near Lourdes. ...

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 ...

The ComDads (1983)

Unable to find her runaway son, a woman deceives two of her ex-lovers from her youth, a mild-mannered teacher and a tough journalist, that each is the real father in order to obtain their help. ...

Pauvre Eros (1983)

A man decides to use the classifieds to replace his mistress who left him. ...

Ladies' Choice (1982)

As a result of an automobile accident, a sophisticated TV producer meets her car mechanic/blue collar nemesis. They start a comic affair, but can they reconcile their totally different worlds? ...

Paradise for All (1982)

Doctor Valois has invented the "flashage", a cure for depressed people. After having tested it on monkeys, he tries with a first human patient, Alain Durieux. This is great success, everybody's happy except may be Alain's wife, Jeanne, who's worrying about ...

It's Not Me, It's Him (1980)

Pierre Renard is the blackboy of the writer George Vallier. At the time of a reception, the Italian actor Aldo Barazutti takes him for the writer and proposes to him to come to work with him in Tunisia with the development of a scenario. In fact Barazutti ...

A Little Romance (1979)

Intellectually precocious teenager Lauren King lives in Paris with her somewhat ditzy mother. On a movie set, she strikes up a friendship with teenage film buff Daniel Michon. After Lauren's mother forbids her to date the outspoken Daniel, the young lovebi ...

The Discord (1978)

Guillaume has made it: A machine that can clean dirty air by simply sucking all dirt into air balloons and then shipping them far far away so his explanation. Some Japanese business guys, after dinner with a lot of alcohol, order 5,000 pieces. His only pro ...

Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (1978)

Solange is seriously depressed, and her kindhearted husband, Raoul, makes it his mission to cure her doldrums. After many failed attempts to cheer her up, Raoul hits upon a possible solution: find his wife a lover. Unfortunately, his choice, Stéphane, pro ...

The Accuser (1977)

In this sardonic comedy, after an executive is killed in a mysterious automobile accident, the French offices of his multinational company is inundated with mysteriously threatening be-ribboned anti-capitalist tracts, delivered overnight to everyone's desk ...

Au bout du compte (1976)

Holy Year (1976)

Two bank robbers, an old and a young, escape from prison to get to the hidden loot. ...

Act of Aggression (1975)

After his wife and daughter are raped and killed by a motorbike gang, a man sets out to take revenge. ...

The Night Caller (1975)

A serial-killer frightens Paris by phoning young ladies at night, telling them insults about their lives. Minos, as he calls himself, wants to prevent the world from free women and he targets at first these ones. Commissaire Letellier is given the investig ...

The Phantom of Liberty (1974)

This Surrealist film, with a title referencing the Communist Manifesto, strings together short incidents based on the life of director Luis Buñuel. Presented as chance encounters, these loosely related, intersecting situations, all without a consistent pr ...

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 ...

Four Queens for an Ace (1966)

Hakim Gregory escapes from prison by killing a number of guards, and returns to his hide-out abroad, to lead again his gang of drug trafficking and contract murders. Layton of the Secret Service must discover, and arrest him. The difficult mission almost b ...

Under Your Hat (1965)

An illegal gambling den where players can lose millions... and the owners make their fortune. ...