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Danièle Thompson has 15 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1960s through the 2010s. 3 rank in the Top 10%, led by Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At!.
During World War II, two French civilians and a downed British Bomber Crew set out from Paris to cross the demarcation line between Nazi-occupied Northern France and the South. From there they will be able to escape to England. First, they must avoid German troops – and the consequences of their own blunders.
Dir. Gérard Oury · With Bourvil, Louis de Funès, Terry-Thomas
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 Slimane's country, but also the police, who think Pivert is a murderer. Pivert ends up posing as Rabbi Jacob, a beloved figure who's returned to France for his first visit after 30 years in the United States. Adding to the confusion are Pivert's dentist-wife, who thinks her husband is leaving her for another woman, their daughter, who's about to get married, and a Parisian neighborhood filled with people eager to celebrate the return of Rabbi Jacob.
Dir. Gérard Oury · With Louis de Funès, Suzy Delair, Marcel Dalio
Don Sallust is the minister of the King of Spain. Being disingenuous, hypocritical, greedy and collecting the taxes for himself, he is hated by the people he oppresses. Accused by The Queen, a beautiful princess Bavarian, of having an illegitimate child to one of her maids of honor, he was stripped of his duties and ordered to retire to a monastery.
Dir. Gérard Oury · With Louis de Funès, Yves Montand, Alice Sapritch
Arthur and Anatole are two little robbers. They want to rob money, money that will travel in a special train from Paris to Bruxelles. They don't know that other people have planned to do the same thing.
Dir. Gérard Oury · With Jean-Paul Belmondo, Bourvil, David Niven
In this action comedy the French boxer Jo Cavalier is charmed on the train to Berlin for the Olympics in Hitler's Germany by the little boy Simon Rosenblum who asks his autograph; when it turns out his adorable young fan is a Jewish orphan in danger of persecution, he risks his one shot at Olympic glory to save Simon and his family, helped only by a German officer-gentleman who became his friend in World War I, by an adventurous escape to Switzerland, Nazi troops on their heals and braving impossible odds in roller coaster-style.
Dir. Gérard Oury · With Jean-Paul Belmondo, Marie-France Pisier, Rachid Ferrache
Paris, Kingdom of France, August 18, 1572. To avoid the outbreak of a religious war, the Catholic princess Marguerite de Valois, sister of the feeble King Charles IX, marries the Huguenot King Henry III of Navarre.
Dir. Patrice Chéreau · With Isabelle Adjani, Daniel Auteuil, Jean-Hugues Anglade
Grégoire Lecomte, the unlucky actor anxious to find a "real job", goes to take a screen test for a role of a killer, but gets to mafiosi by mistake. He takes their don for a producer, and they mistake him for a hitman with whom they had an appointment. Deluded Lecomte signs contract with them. He is supposed to kill gun dealer Otto Krampe at his birthday party in Saint-Tropez by piercing him with a cap of the umbrella with a built-in syringe with potassium cyanide. Lecomte is not aware that it has to be a real murder.
Dir. Gérard Oury · With Pierre Richard, Valérie Mairesse, Christine Murillo
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.
Dir. Claude Pinoteau · With Claude Brasseur, Brigitte Fossey, Sophie Marceau
A young woman arrives in Paris where she finds a job as a waitress in bar next on Avenue Montaigne that caters to the surrounding theaters and the wealthy inhabitants of the area. She will meet a pianist, a famous actress and a great art collector, and become acquainted with the "luxurious" world her grandmother has told her about since her childhood.
Dir. Danièle Thompson · With Cécile de France, Valérie Lemercier, Albert Dupontel
A thirteen-year-old French girl deals with moving to a new city and school in Paris, while at the same time her parents are getting a divorce.
Dir. Claude Pinoteau · With Claude Brasseur, Brigitte Fossey, Sophie Marceau
An ambitious teaching student's finals studies are interrupted by a passionate affair with a jazz musician.
Dir. Claude Pinoteau · With Sophie Marceau, Vincent Lindon, Élisabeth Vitali
At Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris, a beautician on her way to a new job in Mexico accidentally meets a cook who is on his way back from America. Labor strikes, bad weather, and pure luck cause the two of them to share a room overnight at the airport Hilton hotel. Will their initial mutual indifference and downright hostility turn into a one night stand or perhaps something more?
Dir. Danièle Thompson · With Jean Reno, Juliette Binoche, Sergi López
They loved each other with the ardor of thirteen-year-old boys. Rebellion and curiosity, hopes and doubts, girls and dreams of glory – they shared it all. Paul was rich, Emile poor. They went skinny-dipping, drank absinthe, starved, only to overeat. Sketched models by day, caressed them by night... Now, Paul is a painter and Emile a writer. Glory has passed Paul by. But Emile has it all: fame, money, the perfect wife, whom Paul once loved. They judge each other, admire each other, confront each other. They lose touch, meet up again, like a couple who cannot stop loving each other.
Dir. Danièle Thompson · With Guillaume Gallienne, Guillaume Canet, Alice Pol
So called friends at a dinner party end up acting like a dysfunctional family.
Dir. Danièle Thompson · With Karin Viard, Dany Boon, Marina Foïs
A collection of artifacts from an archeological dig in Egypt are brought to the famous Louvre museum in Paris, and while experts are using a laser scanning device to determine the age of a sarcophagus, a ghostly spirit escapes and makes its way into the museum's electrical system.
Dir. Jean-Paul Salomé · With Sophie Marceau, Michel Serrault, Frédéric Diefenthal
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