The best Étienne Draber’s movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Étienne Draber’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Étienne Draber.
Ridicule
7.3/10
To get royal backing on a needed drainage project, a poor French lord must learn to play the delicate games of wit at court at Versailles.
The Under-Gifted
6.5/10
The story centers around a graduating class of "less-gifted" students in a private Versailles high school. Only a miracle has brought the students this far along, and after a practical joke misfires and the whole school is dynamited, the students are in deep trouble. They have to present themselves in court for their punishment and it could not be worse: If they don't pass their high-school graduation exams, they go to prison!
The Inheritor
6.2/10
After his father is killed in a plane crash, Bart Cordell returns back home to France to claim his inheritance: to lead the industrial empire his father built. But when a prostitute tries to set him up for a drug smuggling charge, he is forced to accept that his father may have been assassinated and that the killers are out to get him as well...
May Fools
7.2/10
An eccentric family is re-united during the 1968 general strike in France, after the death of the grandmother.
Beaumarchais the Scoundrel
6.7/10
Beaumarchais the Scoundrel is a biopic film based on the life of the French playwright, financier and spy Pierre Beaumarchais depicting his activities during the American War of Independence and his authorship of the Figaro trilogy of plays.
P.R.O.F.S
5.6/10
A clique of four young teachers at a high school looks critically at their colleagues. To avoid falling in the same routine, they bring new ideas into the school lessons and play little games and pranks in their spare time -- sometimes get even more childish than their pupils. When they get opposition from the other teachers, they play tricks to get rid of them.
Le Bon Plaisir
6.3/10
Claire's handbag is stolen. It contained a letter written ten years previously by the man who is now the French President. In the letter he urges his pregnant mistress to have an abortion. Claire immediately alerts the President's men. From that moment, the machinery of state swings into action.
Grandison
6.5/10
The Passion of Bernadette
6.6/10
French filmmaker Jean Delannoy directs this inspiring sequel to his biopic about Marie-Bernarde Soubirous (portrayed by Sydney Penny), a young shepherdess who claimed to have seen numerous apparitions of the Lady in White at Lourdes in 1858. Chronicling Bernadette's years with the Sisters of Charity of Nevers convent, the film traces her life from age 22 until her untimely death from tuberculosis at age 35.
Les Charlots en délire
3.7/10
To the Limit
4.9/10
Elena Hart is a distance runner in her twenties who is immersed in a terrible nightmare, suffering serious imbalances in her diet. Driven by her desire to lose weight and to please her demanding coach, Elena begins to suffer from anorexia.
Un dimanche de flic
5.8/10
Two policemen, Franck and Rupert, intervene in a Parisian heliport where drugs are exchanged for a large sum of money. They decide to keep the loot and find themselves fighting with the mafia.
Ce cher Victor
6.5/10
A pair of elderly men, friends for 40 years, find their relationship stressed when they set up housekeeping together in order to save money. Exploring similar ground to that covered in Neil Simon's play The Odd Couple, which spawned a movie and a television series, Ce Cher Victor explores the tragic and dramatic aspects of the story. The two friends, meek, sensitive Anselme (Bernard Blier) and blustering Victor (Jacques Dufilho) are swiftly driven apart by circumstances.
Le fou du roi
3.4/10
The Rascals
6/10
Late spring 1942: France is under German occupation. But this doesn't much concern the boarders of a school lost in the French country. Bernard, a rather frivolous teenager, is in love for the first time; he's fond of Marie-Helene, an older and more mature girl. To approach her is not so easy...
Seven Deaths by Prescription
6.2/10
Dr. Brézé and his sons, all surgeons with limited abilities fight any competition on their sector with all means.
Sexyrella
Olivier Larry, a young cartoonist, is looking for a woman to symbolize all the avowed or secret desires of today's public. He visits the abstract painter Salvador Dalloz and inspects his models in vain. Then he goes to a photo studio of a special kind. At night, he goes through the striptease boxes, always looking for the one he can draw.
Et la tendresse ?... Bordel !
6/10
Francois, seducer very misogynist, directs an Eros Club, that from which suffers his Carole wife silently. Julie, saleswoman in a clock industry, as for it is taken of an access of madness after having surprised her husband, Léo, future
J'ai perdu Albert
4.4/10
Chloe has been living a successful life thanks to one trick: Albert Einstein is in her mind. But one day, he decides to move and chooses another body: Zac, a depressive beekeeper.
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