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Jean Poiret has 6 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1970s through the 1980s.
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In occupied Paris, an actress wed to a Jewish theater owner must keep him hidden from the Nazis while doing both of their jobs.
Dir. François Truffaut · With Catherine Deneuve, Gérard Depardieu, Jean Poiret

Two gay men living in St. Tropez have their lives turned upside down when the son of one of the men announces he is getting married. They try to conceal their lifestyle and their ownership of the drag club downstairs when the fiancée and her parents come for dinner.
Dir. Édouard Molinaro · With Ugo Tognazzi, Michel Serrault, Claire Maurier

as Armand, resistance leader and double agent
1944. Léon Duchemin owns a restaurant with his sister. His clients are Germans, Résistance et black marketeers. Léon unwillingly joins the Résistance when a British pilot is shot down and hides in his attic and, through a series of mishaps, he accidentally steals the plans for Hitler's V1 missiles.
Dir. Marcel Camus · With Bourvil, Sophie Desmarets, Peter McEnery

In a move to make his partner, Renato, jealous, the flamboyant Albin waits in a local cafe - dressed as a woman - hoping to be picked up. But Albin gets more than he bargains for when the fly he catches in his web is actually a spy, who uses him as an unwitting courier of secret microfilm. Now on the run from ruthless agents, Albin and Renato flee to Italy where they attempt to hide out on a farm, with Albin posing as Renato's wife. Can Albin escape the deadly pursuit of these relentless spies or does he have to sustain this charade - as a woman - forever?
Dir. Édouard Molinaro · With Michel Serrault, Ugo Tognazzi, Marcel Bozzuffi
Chronic serial womanizer Stephane Margelle drops his wife Sophie off at the airport so she can go away for Easter weekend. He immediately picks up beautiful young Julie, who has just had a fight with her married boyfriend. He gets her back to his apartment and is preparing for a sexy weekend, when his wife suddenly returns home. He makes up a bizarre, on-the-spot, spur-of-the-moment story that the gorgeous girl is actually his long-lost daughter. Julie plays along, but this leads to a whole series of increasingly ridiculous lies and comical situations (such as when her real mother shows up).
Dir. Georges Lautner · With Jean-Paul Belmondo, Sophie Marceau, Marie Laforêt
Unorthodox detective Jean Lavardin is called to a provincial French town after a prank turns deadly.
Dir. Claude Chabrol · With Jean Poiret, Stéphane Audran, Michel Bouquet
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