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Claude Rich has 11 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1950s through the 2010s. 2 rank in the Top 10%, led by Crooks in Clover.
A Shot in the Dark
1964
Comedy · Mystery
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
History's favorite Gauls assist Queen Cleopatra when she wagers that the Egyptian people can build a palace for Julius Caesar in just three months.
Dir. Alain Chabat · With Gérard Depardieu, Christian Clavier, Jamel Debbouze
This film originated as a play in Paris. The story focuses on the one-day adventures of Bertrand Barnier played with a genius of French cinema, Louis de Funes. In the same morning he learns that his daughter is pregnant, an employee stole a large amount of money from his company, his maid is about to resign in order to marry a wealthy neighbor and his body builder is interested in marrying his daughter. The seemingly complicated story-line is full of comedy or errors and some of the most hilarious mime scenes of the French cinema.
Dir. Édouard Molinaro · With Louis de Funès, Claude Rich, Agathe Natanson
Julie Kohler is prevented from suicide by her mother. She leaves home, with the intent to track down, charm and kill five men who do not know her. What is her goal? What is her purpose?
Dir. François Truffaut · With Jeanne Moreau, Michel Bouquet, Jean-Claude Brialy
In a small French village, everything would be quiet if the local wildlife cop was not being ridiculed by a smart poacher.
Dir. Yves Robert · With Louis de Funès, Noëlle Adam, Frédéric Duvallès
as Le juge De Marquet
Joseph Rouletabille, a reporter for a local newspaper, investigates the attempted killing of Mathilde Stangerson, who uses the yellow room of the title as her bedroom. At the time of the revolver shots her room was locked and the windows were barred, but when her father enters after having forced the door, there is no-one there except for Mathilde. So who did it and how did he get away?
Dir. Bruno Podalydès · With Denis Podalydès, Jean-Noël Brouté, Claude Rich
When political thugs murder an opponent's volunteer and also kill a cop, chief inspector Verjeat believes the politician who hired them is as guilty as the murderous goon. Verjeat's pursuit of the councilman, Lardatte, gets him a warning from his superiors. When he embarrasses Lardatte while disarming a hostage (the dead volunteer's father), Verjeat is told he's being transferred within a week. He speeds up his hunt for the goon and, with Lefévre, one of his young detectives, he engineers a complicated scheme to buy more time before the transfer. How should Verjeat play out his values of honor and duty?
Dir. Pierre Granier-Deferre · With Lino Ventura, Patrick Dewaere, Victor Lanoux
Five old friends decide to move in together as an alternative to living in a retirement home. Joining them is an ethnology student whose thesis is on the aging population.
Dir. Stéphane Robelin · With Guy Bedos, Geraldine Chaplin, Pierre Richard
Recovering from an attempted suicide, a man is selected to participate in a time travel experiment that has only been tested on mice. A malfunction causes the man to experience moments from his past in a random order.
Dir. Alain Resnais · With Claude Rich, Olga Georges-Picot, Anouk Ferjac
It is 1654, in the South of France. When horsemen follow a runaway slave into the convent where he's taken sanctuary and kill both the fugitive and the Mother Superior, they little realise that one of the novices is the spirited daughter of retired musketeer D'Artagnan.
Dir. Bertrand Tavernier · With Sophie Marceau, Philippe Noiret, Claude Rich
Biarritz, 1933. Charm and talent assist small-time swindler Serge Alexandre, alias Stavisky, to bribe his way into the centre of French politics. But when his great scam involving millions is exposed, he brings the government to the verge of collapse and the country to the brink of civil war.
Dir. Alain Resnais · With Jean-Paul Belmondo, François Périer, Anny Duperey
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