Venantino Venantini

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

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

In this Franco-Italian gangster parody, a shopkeeper on his way to an Italian holiday suffers a crash that totals his car. The culprit can only compensate his ruined trip by driving an American friend's car from Naples to Bordeaux, but as it happens to be filled with such contraband as stolen money, jewelry and drugs, the involuntary and unwitting companions in crime soon attract all but recreational attention from the "milieu".

Dir. Gérard Oury · With Bourvil, Louis de Funès, Venantino Venantini

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

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

During the Italian Renaissance, Pope Julius II contracts the influential artist Michelangelo to sculpt 40 statues for his tomb. When the pope changes his mind and asks the sculptor to paint a mural in the Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo doubts his painting skills and abandons the project. Divine inspiration returns Michelangelo to the mural, but his artistic vision clashes with the pope's demanding personality and threatens the success of the historic painting.

Dir. Carol Reed · With Charlton Heston, Rex Harrison, Diane Cilento

A retired mobster goes on a revenge spree after being left for dead with 22 bullets in his body by his former childhood friend.

Dir. Richard Berry · With Jean Reno, Kad Merad, Marina Foïs

Released from captivity in Vietnam, two American Army officers return to civilian life and discover they have acquired an insatiable taste for human flesh. A city is terrorised... as they stalk the inhabitants to satisfy their primitive appetites.

Dir. Antonio Margheriti · With John Saxon, Elizabeth Turner, Giovanni Lombardo Radice

A successful film composer falls in love when he travels to India to work on a Bollywood retelling of Romeo and Juliet.

Dir. Claude Lelouch · With Jean Dujardin, Elsa Zylberstein, Christopher Lambert

Three friends out to disprove cannibalism meet two men on the run who tortured and enslaved a cannibal tribe to find emeralds, and now the tribe is out for revenge.

Dir. Umberto Lenzi · With Giovanni Lombardo Radice, Lorraine De Selle, Danilo Mattei

Faced with the insistence of his brother Joseph, whom he has not seen for 25 years, Paolo resolves to give up his calm and harmonious life in Canada, to return to Marseilles at the bedside of his rugged father. He left, therefore, with his son under his arm, determined not to linger in that city which he had fled years before, after a tragedy. He does not imagine that the affection of his newfound family, his love affair with a young woman and the joyful and simple solidarity of the Marseillais will reconcile him with this city he would never have wanted to leave...Marseillle.

Dir. Kad Merad · With Kad Merad, Patrick Bosso, Venantino Venantini