Bernard Blier

Four inseparable friends try to face their midlife crisis with daytrips and pranks at the expense of their families and the people around them.

Dir. Mario Monicelli · With Ugo Tognazzi, Gastone Moschin, Philippe Noiret

Italy, 1916. Oreste Jacovacci and Giovanni Busacca are called, as all the Italian youths, to serve the army in the WWI. They both try in every way to avoid serving the army.

Dir. Mario Monicelli · With Vittorio Gassman, Alberto Sordi, Silvana Mangano

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 discover that he has also inherited his benefactor’s daughter, Patricia. Unfortunately, not only does Fernand have to put up with the thoroughly modern Patricia and her nauseating boyfriend, but he also had to contend with the Mexican’s trigger-happy former employees, who are determined to make a claim.

Dir. Georges Lautner · With Lino Ventura, Bernard Blier, Francis Blanche

After committing a murder, a man locks himself in his apartment and recollects the events that led him to the killing.

Dir. Marcel Carné · With Jean Gabin, Jacqueline Laurent, Jules Berry

A writer accidentally shoots his blackmailer and tries to hide the body.

Dir. Jean Girault · With Louis de Funès, Claude Gensac, Michel Galabru

A truck driver ventures into the Moroccan desert to retrieve a stolen truck, facing danger, bad luck, and uneasy alliances. Chaos builds to a climactic showdown.

Dir. Henri Verneuil · With Jean-Paul Belmondo, Lino Ventura, Bernard Blier

Paris, France, December 1946. Jenny Lamour, an ambitious cabaret singer, and Maurice, her extremely jealous pianist husband, become involved in the thorough investigation of the murder of a shady businessman, led by Antoine, a peculiar and methodical police inspector.

Dir. Henri-Georges Clouzot · With Louis Jouvet, Simone Renant, Bernard Blier

In the late 19th century, a former high school teacher turned unionist tries to organize workers laboring with inhuman conditions at a textile factory in Turin, Italy.

Dir. Mario Monicelli · With Marcello Mastroianni, Renato Salvatori, Gabriella Giorgelli

Alphonse Tram is unwittingly involved in several murders despite having no memory of committing the crimes. His confusion lead him to confess to his neighbour, Inspector Morvandieu. Alphonse and Morvandieu become the axis around which murders occur.

Dir. Bertrand Blier · With Gérard Depardieu, Bernard Blier, Jean Carmet

In the shadowy outskirts of Paris, a desperate door-to-door salesman crosses paths with a mysterious young woman trapped in a grim world. As his obsession deepens, his grip on reality begins to slip—and the line between escape and destruction starts to blur.

Dir. Alain Corneau · With Patrick Dewaere, Myriam Boyer, Marie Trintignant

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.

Dir. Yves Robert · With Pierre Richard, Bernard Blier, Jean Rochefort

On the meandering Canal St. Martin, at the Parisian Hôtel du Nord, a nearly fatal gunshot separates a dejected young couple. But, amid a sad but beautiful panorama of lively characters, love has the final say. Can life be a fairy tale?

Dir. Marcel Carné · With Annabella, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Louis Jouvet

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

Dir. Jacques Besnard · With Louis de Funès, Bernard Blier, María Rosa Rodríguez

A cold-war spy parody. After the death of an armaments manufacturer, an international group of spies is drawn into a high-stakes battle of wits to obtain the valuable military patents which have been inherited by the lovely widow.

Dir. Georges Lautner · With Lino Ventura, Francis Blanche, Bernard Blier

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.

Dir. Jean-Paul Le Chanois · With Jean Gabin, Bernard Blier, Béatrice Altariba

A rich businessman is fed up with work, family, society, and goes with his accountant to Africa, in search of his brother-in-law who had vanished there in mysterious circumstances. They will find him alright - as a tribal chief, surrounded with lots of topless, shapely wives. They are going to return to civilisation, but will their friend come with them?

Dir. Ettore Scola · With Alberto Sordi, Bernard Blier, Nino Manfredi

"Le Dabe" retired many years ago and now he lives in the Tropics where he owns stables and horses. He is a very rich man. He was the king of all money counterfeiters. He is contacted from Paris to organize a new job. He says no. But when he finds out the the currency that should be counterfeited is the Dutch florin, he accepts immediately. He retired after having counterfeited 100 florin notes just before the Queen Wilhelmina retired them from circulation. He flies to Paris. But the gang is not to be trusted, at least not all of them.

Dir. Gilles Grangier · With Jean Gabin, Bernard Blier, Maurice Biraud

This time the "amici" (friends) are just four: Necchi, Meandri, Mascetti and Sassaroli. Nevertheless they are older they still love to spend their time mainly organizing irresistible jokes to everyone in every kind of situation. Mascetti is hospitalized in a geriatric clinic. Of course the place become immediately the main stage for all their jokes. After some jokes they decided to place an ultimate incredible and farcical joke to the clinic guests.

Dir. Nanni Loy · With Ugo Tognazzi, Gastone Moschin, Adolfo Celi

Two men, fortyish, worn out by their wives, abandon everything to go and live in the back of beyond. There they meet a truculent priest, a boozer, Émile who recalls them to life's simple pleasures. Calm is what they want. But soon their example inspires thousands of disorientated males...

Dir. Bertrand Blier · With Jean-Pierre Marielle, Jean Rochefort, Brigitte Fossey

A comedy about an absent-minded man who works at a advertising company and topples from one problem to another.

Dir. Pierre Richard · With Pierre Richard, Marie-Christine Barrault, Bernard Blier

A man accused of murder discovers a trail of corruption leading to the powerful family of his former love. Going underground, he seeks allies in a town where trust is scarce.

Dir. Henri Verneuil · With Jean-Paul Belmondo, Bernard Blier, Marie-France Pisier