The best Jacqueline Maillan’s movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Jacqueline Maillan’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 Jacqueline Maillan.
Gramps Is in the Resistance
6.7/10
It is 1943 in Paris. Like so many others, the Bourbelle family's home has been taken over by the Germans and they now live in their cellar. Little do they know that the son, Guy-Hubert Bourdelle, is far from being the cowardly hairdresser he pretends. He is in truth the Germans’ most feared opponent: le super-résistant!
People in Luck
5.9/10
A light French comedy of 5 segments.
Pouic-Pouic
6.5/10
Léonard Monestier owns a large fortune, alas his wife Cynthia made a bad investment in a worthless oil concession. Far from letting this get him down, Léonard decides to find a sucker to buy this concession from him. Right on cue appears Antoine Brévin, a befuddled billionaire who is very interested in Léonard's beautiful daughter Patricia and would do anything to win her hand...
Peek-a-boo
5.1/10
A small-town policeman is informed that "naked women" are dancing in a revue at a local variety theater. Being the guardian of public morals that he is, he decides to stroll on down there and check it out for himself.
Royal Affairs in Versailles
6.8/10
Witty narration follows the history of Versailles Palace; founded by Louis XIII, enlarged by autocratic Louis XIV, whose personal affairs and amours, and those of his two successors, are followed in more detail to the start of the Revolution, after which the story is brought rapidly up to date. A huge cast plays mainly historical persons who appear briefly.
The Magnificent Tramp
6.6/10
Bum Archimède wants to spend the winter in prison, but to get there proves not to be that easy.
Les Saisons du plaisir
5.1/10
Candide or The Optimism in the 20th Century
5.7/10
The film is a 20th-century adaptation of Voltaire's 1759 social satire novel Candide, ou l’Optimisme.
The Scheming Women
6.1/10
The renowned theatre manager, Paul Rémy, is accused by his general secretary Andrieux of having killed his partner. On the advice of his wife Mona, Paul goes into hiding in a psychiatric hospital to escape from the police. But Andrieux seduces Mona who then turns against her husband.
Potiche
La facture
Noëlle is a woman who succeeds in everything. In addition, she is blessed with incredible luck. But one day, she questions herself, convinced one day to pay the bill. So, to be unhappy, she dismisses one of her friends ... Filmed at the Édouard VII Theater in Paris.
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The Debauched Life of Gerard Floque
4.6/10
On the day he loses his job in advertising agency, Gérard Floque returns home to find that his infant daughter has been arrested for drugs trafficking and his wife is having an affair with a TV presenter. Gérard's only comfort in this time of mid-life crisis is his colleague, a young punk girl named Martine.
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Who Stole the Body?
4.7/10
La femme fardée
4.7/10
Is There a Frenchman in the House?
5.7/10
Based on a novel by Frederic Dard who also co-scripted with director Jean-Pierre Mocky, this satire on French politics is centered around an official whose earlier rise to power had some sordid aspects that are about to be uncovered by the death of his uncle. While he is trying to contain any potential scandal, the man becomes enamored of the daughter of his uncle's maid. This new romance inspires him to forget worries about a public image and focus on a new life -- not any easy objective when unsavory friends and foes have their own agendas in mind.
Coup de soleil
Valentine Matignon is a renowned perfumer, "nose". She has had a relationship for 15 years with Gérard, and is about to break up because she is bored. Patrick appears, a lively florist, who gives him the bouquet that Gérard ordered to be forgiven for being late. Patrick makes him a dishonest proposition which she ends up accepting. She takes a funny "sunburn".
Ville à vendre
6/10
