Xavier Gélin

Les cigognes n'en font qu'à leur tête (1989)

Married to Jeremie, Marie wants desperately to have a child. She has a 20 year old daughter from a former marriage with the police commissioner. When the gynecologist confirms they are unable to conceive a child together, they opt for adoption. However, it ...

The Party 2 (1982)

A young French teenage girl after moving to a new city falls in love with a boy and is thinking of having sex with him because her girlfriends have already done it. ...

Signé Furax (1981)

The notorious and mysterious criminal Furax steals France's famous monuments, replacing them with replicas. ...

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... ...

One Can Say It Without Getting Angry (1978)

Pauline intends to end her days and meticulously prepares her suicide, but she meets Peppo, an Italian immigrant, who will change her mind. ...

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. ...

The Slap (1974)

A Parisian teacher loses his cool when his teenage daughter tells him she plans to drop out of school and move in with her boyfriend. ...

S*P*Y*S (1974)

Two CIA bunglers botch a Soviet defection, then both sides mark them for termination. ...

Hail the Artist (1973)

Marcello Mastrioanni stars as aging actor Nicolas whose career has dwindled to TV commercials. Seeking an anchor in his life, Nicolas attempts a reconciliation with his ex-wife. But in this, as in his professional life, Nicolas is doomed to disillusionment ...

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 ...

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. ...

Repeated Absences (1972)

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

Money Money Money (1972)

When they realize the times are changing, five crooks decide to switch from bank robberies to personality abductions. ...

Un enfant dans la ville (1971)

"Un enfant dans la ville" was originally a Michel Fugain album, a record that already told a story. Now it's a musical comedy filmed for television, giving life to its characters and taking up the story of the record, that of today's generation, not quite ...

Judge Roy Bean (1971)

In a small western town the ineffable judge Roy Bean metes out justice in his own special way. A cargo of gold is ambushed by the outlaw Black Bird who fails in the attempt and then rides into town. ...

Macédoine (1971)

The tale of a young pretty girl's rise to a top model and her finding of emptiness in her life after success. ...

The Bear and the Doll (1970)

A quiet cellist living in the countryside has his life disrupted when he accidentally bumps into a wealthy, temperamental woman in a Rolls-Royce. Angered by his indifference to her charm, she attempts to seduce him, but he resists her attempts to invade hi ...

La Maison de campagne (1969)

What to do, and what not to do, when one is building or renovating a house. ...

The Devil by the Tail (1969)

In this comedy, a run-down hotel drums up customers by sabotaging passing cars. The stuck motorists are then obliged to stay. Unfortunately, one of the sabotaged cars belongs to a bank robber. The hotel staff wants the robber out, but they also want to kee ...

Les yeux de l'été (1969)

Pillaged (1967)

Over the course of one night, a gang of twelve criminals carry out a commando-like raid on a small town. ...

The Ideal Man (1997)

A volleyball professional has a hard time choosing between three different men in her life. ...

When the Dark Man Calls (1995)

A famous radio talk-show host finds herself being stalked by the man convicted of murdering her husband, who has finished his 25-year sentence and is out of prison. Her situation is made even more dire when it turns out that he isn't the only problem she h ...

Golden Balls (1993)

A libidinous construction worker uses his charm and bravado in an attempt to attain enough finances to build his dream project. ...

Coup de jeune (1993)

A scientific working on a serum of youth accidentally take too much and become four years old. ...

Promotion canapé (1990)

Two women who want a raise, realize that they can easily get what they want, if they sleep with their boss. ...

Mister Frost (1990)

Frost is arrested and committed for murder after he is apprehended burying his victims in the garden. However, even while under psychiatric care and tight hospital security, it becomes obvious that Mr. Frost is not all he seems to be. ...

Tant qu'il y aura des femmes (1987)

Sam is a screenwriter, good at sorting out other people's stories but unable to organize his own life. He loves women with passion and there are too many around him. ...

Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1987)

This suspenseful Italian crime drama is set in a Colombian river town and chronicles the series of events that led up to murder. Based on a novel by distinguished author Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the tale begins in the present as a middle-aged doctor returns ...

The Man with One Red Shoe (1985)

A man is mistaken as a spy by the CIA when he arrives at the airport with one red shoe. ...

The Twin (1984)

Matthias Duval is in love, but he can't choose between the two twin sisters Betty and Liz Kerner. To pick up the two sisters, he invents his own twin brother and will play both characters. ...

The Woman in Red (1984)

When a happily married family man, who would never consider an affair, meets a beautiful woman in red, he is totally infatuated and desperate to make her acquaintance. However, as he tries out various schemes to sneak out to meet her, he realizes that adul ...

Signé Furax (1981)

The notorious and mysterious criminal Furax steals France's famous monuments, replacing them with replicas. ...