The best Bernard Blier’s movies

Bernard Blier

Bernard Blier

11/01/1916- 29/03/1989
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Femmes Fatales

Femmes Fatales
6.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 11/02/1976
  • Character: l'abbé Emile
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, fleeing the feminist 1970s. Soon, too, there arrives a squadron of nymphomaniac Amazons.

The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe

The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe
7.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyMystery
  • Release: 06/12/1972
  • Character: Colonel Bernard Milan
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.

The Restaurant

The Restaurant
6.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 09/09/1966
  • Character: Le commissaire divisionnaire
A great French restaurant's owner, Monsieur Septime (Louis de Funès), is thrust into intrigue and crime, when one of his famous guests disappears.

Les Misérables

Les Misérables
7.4/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 11/03/1958
  • Character: Javert (père et fils)
Victor Hugo's monumental novel Les Miserables has been filmed so often that sometimes it's hard to tell one version from another. One of the best and most faithful adaptations is this 240-minute French production, starring Jean Gabin as the beleaguered Jean Valjean. Arrested for a petty crime, Valjean spends years 20 in the brutal French penal system. Even upon his release, his trail is dogged by relentless Inspector Javert (Bernard Blier). Valjean's efforts to create a new life for himself despite the omnipresence of Javert is meticulously detailed in this film, which utilizes several episodes from the Hugo original that had hitherto never been dramatized. Originally released as a single film, Les Miserables was usually offered as a two parter outside of France.

The Great Spy Chase

The Great Spy Chase
6.8/10
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.

Crooks in Clover

Crooks in Clover
7.7/10
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.

My Friends

My Friends
7.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 15/08/1975
  • Character: Righi Niccolò
Four middle-aged friends in Florence organize together idle pranks (called zingarate, "gypsy shenanigans") in a continuous attempt to prolong childhood during their adult life.

The Great War

The Great War
8.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyDramaWar
  • Release: 28/10/1959
  • Character: Capitano Castelli
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.

Greed in the Sun

Greed in the Sun
7/10
Marec, a truck driver is sent by his boss to track down through the Morroccan desert a reckless youngster who stole a brand-new truck and its payload. Riddled with bad luck, Marec will face the dangers of the desert, as well as a fishy partner, and a reluctant, misogynist tow-truck helper until the climactic fight.

Hôtel du Nord

Hôtel du Nord
7.5/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 17/12/1938
  • Character: Prosper
A young couple, Renee and Pierre, take one night a room at the Hotel du Nord, in Paris, near the canal Saint-Martin. They want to die together, but having shot at Renee, Pierre lacked the courage to finish the job and fled. Another customer, Monsieur Edmond, a procurer, rescues her. When Renee goes out of the hospital, she is hired as a waitress at the hotel. Monsieur Edmond falls in love with her, but Renee is still thinking of Pierre...

The Stranger

The Stranger
7.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 14/10/1967
  • Character: Defense Counsel
Meursault is a man who feels utterly isolated from everyone and everything around him. This alienation results in sudden, inexplicable bursts of violence, culminating in murder.

The Counterfeiters of Paris

The Counterfeiters of Paris
7/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 27/09/1961
  • Character: Charles Lepicard
"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.

Buffet Froid

Buffet Froid
7.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 19/12/1979
  • Character: Inspecteur Morvandieu
An absurd black comedy that cunningly reverses the conventions of the crime thriller to comment on the alienating and dehumanizing effects of contemporary urban life. 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.

The Body of My Enemy

The Body of My Enemy
6.6/10
Francois always despised the textile barons who ruled his local town. But he fell in love with the family heiress Gilberte. Ten years ago, he would have married her. Now only hatred holds them together. Francois is accused of murder. A hooker and a football star lie slaughtered. He thinks he has been framed by the mob. Going underground, he finds that the trail leads all the way to the top - to Gilberte's family. He needs friends. And friends are hard to come by in his town.

Jo

Jo
7.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 31/08/1971
  • Character: Inspecteur Ducros
Selling author, Antoine Brisebard is a victim of a blackmailer, Jo, which threatens to jeopardize his reputation by revealing the past of his wife Sylvia. While the latter must pass the same night to take possession of the money required, Brisebard accidentally kills ...

How to Keep the Red Lamp Burning

How to Keep the Red Lamp Burning
6.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 28/10/1965
  • Character: Mr Charles/Charles Labergerie/
The film consists of three novels. The film begins with the fact that the Bernard Blier hero removes a lantern from the entrance to a brothel. The second part is about how the lantern and jewelery were stolen from a young baroness. And in the third part the hero of Louis de Funes hangs a lantern at the entrance to his house.

Distracted

Distracted
6.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 09/12/1970
  • Character: Guiton
A comedy about an absent-minded man who works at a advertising company and topples from one problem to another.

The Possessed

The Possessed
6.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 24/02/1988
  • Character: Le gouverneur
In 1870 Russia, a group of young and idealistic anarchists plots to overthrow the established order through violent means.

My Friends Act III

My Friends Act III
6.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 06/06/1985
  • Character: Sig. Lenzi
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.

The Organizer

The Organizer
8/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 23/10/1963
  • Character: Martinetti
Professor Sinigaglia (Marcello Mastroianni) is the title character in this darkly comedic Italian drama about mistreated factory workers in the city of Turin. Toiling away in appalling conditions in a textile mill, these employees have no one to stand up for them until Sinigaglia puts his academic career on the line by helping them to start a strike. Although the teacher comes under scrutiny by unsympathetic authorities, he maintains his dedication to the workers' cause.

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