Robert Castel

À la recherche de... Pierre Richard (2017)

Follow in the footsteps of burlesque actor Pierre Richard, a key figure in French cinema in the 1970s and 1980s. ...

The Jews (2016)

Four separate stories deal with stereotypical ideas about Jews: their alleged influence on politics, the stereotype of Jewish business-mindedness, the Mossad, the Jewish world conspiracy and the memory of the Holocaust. ...

El Gusto (2012)

El Gusto is the story of an orchestra of Jewish and Muslim musicians torn apart by war 50 years ago, and recently reunited for an exceptional concert. These musicians share a passion they never lost: the soul of Algiers, Chaabi music. ...

Teenagers (2011)

The story of Lucas and how he helps others as an angel. This is an innovative, educational drama that resembles a documentary. ...

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

The Elf Case (2007)

In 1988, after much cunning political maneuvering, Loïk Le Floch-Prigent and Alfred Sirven become the chief executives at Elf. They discover a company that runs on kickbacks: in exchange for the oil rights, Elf makes handsome but discreet payoffs to the l ...

Elf, Kings of Oil (2007)

In 1988, supported by François Mitterrand, Loïk Le Floch-Prigent ran for the presidency of Elf. Alfred Sirven, through Christine Deviers-Joncour, introduced him to Roland Dumas. A year later, Le Floch-Prigent was appointed CEO of Elf Aquitaine. Sirven be ...

One Fine Day (2006)

François Berthier's life is a series of unfortunate events. One day, however, a miracle occurs for François and his expected misfortune is changed to never-ending luck. ...

The Sandmen (2000)

Alain runs Le Detour, a small cafe in Paris where Antoine works. Antoine is reunited with his sister Marie when she's released from prison; they are very close, perhaps abnormally so, but she's not aware that Antoine has fallen into cahoots with Stephane, ...

C'est facile et ça peut rapporter... 20 ans (1983)

Alfredo Moreno is a police officer in Paris. Married but separated from his wife, he meets Virginie, a pretty, rather interested blonde. But the Spanish police call him to come and recognize a body they think is that of his wife. ...

Le Braconnier de Dieu (1983)

A monk for thirty-seven years, Brother Gregory could not resist the temptation. Leaving the monastery for the first time to fulfill his duty as a voter, he catches up with pastis and women. ...

Les p’tites têtes (1982)

Henri, Daniel and Xavier have just opened a travel agency in Paris. Henri runs the agency while Daniel and Xavier go on trip to take care of the group of tourists in Morocco. The troubles begin when Xavier and Daniel arrive in Morocco and discover that Hen ...

Hassan Taxi (1982)

Hassan, tired and worn out by the long years of post-independence, obtains a taxi license as a veteran and will crisscross the streets of Algiers, experiencing the most incredible adventures. ...

Le bahut va craquer (1981)

The students of a local school unite in mutiny against their headmaster and two teachers. ...

What Did I Ever Do to the Good Lord to Deserve a Wife Who Drinks in Cafes with Men? (1980)

Gaby is happy. After eighteen years of work, he is a flourishing mechanist. But one day, the mechanic of his life is out of order. He discovers that his assistant is in love with his wife. This one runs away with her daughter in law. So, Gaby's friends ima ...

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 ...

Les Borsalini (1980)

Too Shy to Try (1978)

Pierre is a hotel cashier in Vichy, so shy that he answers an ad from the Psychology Institute and can't say no to the salesman, Aldo; he spends 6,000 francs on tapes, books, and a punching bag. Soon after, he's smitten by Agnes, a hotel guest with a model ...

Take It from the Top (1978)

Tired of being a housewife, Annie wants to work. Between her professional life and her responsibilities as a parent, she can no longer cope. She decides to leave and starts writing a memoir of her life... ...

Stop Fooling Around... Soldier! (1977)

At a French military outpost, a group of lackadaisical servicemen find plenty of time to make trouble, enjoy nature and pursue beautiful women. ...

Let's Make a Dirty Movie (1976)

A bumbling film crew attempts to make a porno movie. ...

Les Grands Moyens (1976)

The sweet elderly aunt and her two nieces survive the vendetta killing of their whole family because they are out picking flowers at the time. Undaunted, the aunt, a tough old Corsican, tracks down and kills all but one of the men who wiped out her kinfolk ...

La Décharge (1976)

A fake documentary on the life forms of the Paris Suburbs, viewed through the eyes of homeless, unemployed people the sharks of politics and building societies push to hopeless life. ...

It's Tough for Everybody (1975)

After losing his job, an idealistic adman starts his own agency, putting himself in the crosshairs of his jaded ex-boss. ...

The Common Man (1975)

Georges Lajoie is a Parisian café owner. As every summer, Georges, his wife Ginette and grown-up son Léon go on holiday to Loulou's campsite, where they meet up with the Schumacher family (whose father is a bailiff) and the Colin family (who sells bras i ...

Shut Up, Gulli (1974)

A TV channel organizes a super-8 competition, and Kenavec family decides to film their small village in Brittany. ...

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 ...

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. ...

Bedmania (1974)

A large bed recounts stories from its brief existence. Clumsy burglars, adulterated husbands and wives, homosexuals, lesbians, a lady, and her gigolo, a doctor who tries an erotic measurement machine on his assistant. ...

By the Blood of Others (1974)

In a little French town everything goes on as usual and people seem friendly and good-natured, until the day two women arrive from Paris. A man gets off the same bus, and that very night he seizes the two women and asks for the most beautiful woman in town ...

Two Men in Town (1973)

A former bank robber is released after 10 years in prison. He gets help from a social-worker, but gets harassed by an old cop from his past. ...

The Conspiracy (1973)

Paris 1960. DeGaulle determines to end a bitter war in Algeria by granting its independence. Millions oppose him, including a group of DeGaulle's disenchanted Arm Officers. In a desperate attempt to save the colony for France, they plan a daring jailbrea ...

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 ...

The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe (1972)

A hapless orchestra player becomes an unwitting pawn of rival factions within the French secret service after he is chosen as a decoy by being identified as a super secret agent. ...

There Once Was a Cop (1972)

Campana, a commissar at the drugs bureau of Paris police gets an undercover job in Nice to catch an Italian-French mafia boss. As he slips into the identity of a gangster's brother, who was already killed, he has to play the role of a loving husband with c ...

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. ...

La Honte de la famille (1969)

On the day of his marriage, the son of a Marseille king declares to his family that he wishes to engage in the police. ...

Les gros malins (1969)

Paul Blanc runs a butcher's shop with his Neapolitan wife, the vivacious Giulia. One night, thanks to sleeping pills received from his brother in Argentina, he dreams of horse racing and sees in his dream the order of arrival of the horses. Giulia praises ...

The Unvanquished (1964)

In this drama that alludes to the Algerian War with France of the 1960s, Thomas is a deserter from the French Foreign Legion who is on the run from authorities. He helps damsel in distress Dominique, who has been taken hostage by a group of terrorists. Tho ...

The Lovers of Tomorrow (1959)

A man throws a revolver in the Seine and checks into a hotel run by an unhappy Turkish couple. The wife falls for the mysterious guest, and kills her husband to prevent him from the turning the man in to the police. ...

What Did I Ever Do to the Good Lord to Deserve a Wife Who Drinks in Cafes with Men? (1980)

Gaby is happy. After eighteen years of work, he is a flourishing mechanist. But one day, the mechanic of his life is out of order. He discovers that his assistant is in love with his wife. This one runs away with her daughter in law. So, Gaby's friends ima ...