The best Jacques Mathou’s movies

Jacques Mathou

Jacques Mathou

Today we present the best Jacques Mathou’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Jacques Mathou’s movies.
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The Wing or The Thigh?

The Wing or The Thigh?
7.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 27/10/1976
  • Character: (uncredited)
Charles Duchemin, a well-known gourmet and publisher of a famous restaurant guide, is waging a war against fast food entrepreneur Tri- catel to save the French art of cooking. After having agreed to appear on a talk show to show his skills in naming food and wine by taste, he is confronted with two disasters: his son wants to become a clown rather than a restaurant tester and he, the famous Charles Duchemin, has lost his taste!

Betty Blue

Betty Blue
7.3/10
A lackadaisical handyman and aspiring novelist tries to support his younger girlfriend as she slowly succumbs to madness.

The Hairdresser's Husband

The Hairdresser's Husband
7.1/10
The film begins in a flashback from the titular character, Antoine. We are introduced to his fixation with female hairdressers which began at a young age. The film uses flashbacks throughout and there are frequent parallels drawn with the past. We are unsure what Antoine has done with his life, however we know he has fulfilled his childhood ambition, to marry a haidresser.

Delicatessen

Delicatessen
7.5/10
In a post-apocalyptic world, the residents of an apartment above the butcher shop receive an occasional delicacy of meat, something that is in low supply. A young man new in town falls in love with the butcher's daughter, which causes conflicts in her family, who need the young man for other business-related purposes.

My Best Friend

My Best Friend
6.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 20/08/2006
  • Character: M. Bouley
Catherine refuses to believe that her business partner, the unlikeable François, has a best friend, so she challenges him to set up an introduction. Scrambling to find someone willing to pose as his best pal, François enlists the services of a charming taxi driver to play the part.

Police

Police
6.5/10
  • Genre: CrimeRomance
  • Release: 04/09/1985
  • Character: Gauthier
Mangin, a police inspector in Paris, leans hard on informants to get evidence on three Tunisian brothers who traffic in drugs. He arrests one, Simon, and his girl-friend Noria. Simon's brothers go to their lawyer. He springs Noria, who promptly steals 2 million francs that belong to the Tunisians. They suspect her of the theft; her life as well as the lawyer's is in danger. Meanwhile, Noria is playing with both the lawyer and Mangin's affections. Mangin is mercurial anyway: intimidating and bloodying suspects, falling for a police commission trainee before flipping for Noria, wearing his emotions on his sleeve. Can he save the lawyer and Noria, and can he convince her to love?

The Suicide Shop

The Suicide Shop
6.2/10
In a cold French city where suicide is a common urge, there is a colorful shop, managed for many years by the Tuvache family, where it is very easy to obtain the necessary tools to satisfy the sinister desires of so many depressed citizens.

Ridicule

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.

Hothead

Hothead
7.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 14/02/1979
  • Character: Toilet customer (uncredited)
Delightful French comedy about a talented soccer player whose foul temper causes him to be cut from the team, lose his job and even be banned from his favorite bar.

Fear Over the City

Fear Over the City
6.9/10
A serial-killer frightens Paris by phoning young ladies at night, telling them insults about their lives. Minos, as he calls himself, wants to prevent the world from free women and he targets at first these ones. Commissaire Letellier is given the investigation and he has hard work with the maniac.

Special Section

Special Section
7.6/10
In occupied France during the WWII, a German officer is murdered. The collaborationist Vichy government decides to pin the murder on six petty criminals. Loyal judges are called in to convict them as quickly as possible.

Beauties at War

Beauties at War
5.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 14/01/2009
  • Character: Le maire de Charmoussey
A ski resort town struggles to become the top tourism spot.

Going and Coming Back

Going and Coming Back
6.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 27/03/1985
Salomé Lerner just finished writing an autobiography. She goes to a TV show called "Apostrophes", hosted by French TV showman Bernard Pivot. Pivot then imagines a film that could be created from her gripping story. A film entirely made of music because after seeing the young pianist Erik Berchot, Salomé believes seeing her long lost brother, who was a musician as well. A brother she had lost along with her parents in 1943. However, the Lerners did in fact escape the gestapo and might have based themselves in Paris...

Voir la mer

Voir la mer
5.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 03/05/2011
  • Character: Jacky Novion
Two brothers live in Montbard, Burgundy. For their summer vacation, they decide to visit their mother in Saint-Jean-de-Luz, because it’s been a long time, because it would make her happy… There’s no shortage of reasons. They buy a second-hand motor home and plan to stay open to whatever the road brings them, embarking on a brothers’ journey across France. Just the two of them. But then an endearing young woman crosses their path...

Slices of Life

Slices of Life
4.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 06/02/1985
A series of humorous sketches on life: "A Night to Remember", "Summit Showdown", and "A Book? That's personal!"

L'été en pente douce

L'été en pente douce
6.6/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 29/04/1987
  • Character: Jeannot
When he inherits the family house and property after his mother's death, aspiring novelist Fane returns home with his bimbo girlfriend Lilas. He must care for his idiot brother Mo and contend with a greedy garage owner who covets Fane's property to expand his business. When efforts to buy the property are fruitless, the mechanic incites the townsfolk against the strange trio.

The Grand Dukes

The Grand Dukes
5.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 21/02/1996
  • Character: Janvier
Three aging and failed comedians, Georges Cox, Victor Vialat and Eddie Carpentier, hit the road again with a lousy production of a lousy play, of course under the worst possible conditions.

Roselyne and the Lions

Roselyne and the Lions
6.1/10
Thierry drops out of school to apprentice as a lion tamer at the zoo where he meets Roselyne, who shares his passion. They fall in love and when he loses his job, the young lovers journey across France finding odd jobs at several circuses. In Germany, they fall under the tutelage of ageing big cat trainer, Klint, and while they are closer to realising their dreams, they find that their success drivers them part.

Le garde du corps

Le garde du corps
4.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 15/02/1984
  • Character: Le gardien du parc animalier
Jugnot en garde du corps

Lost in Transit

Lost in Transit
6.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/09/1993
  • Character: Policier contrôle #1
A traveller who has lost his passport in a Paris airport while between flights is restricted to a special transit zone. There he finds a group of similarly lost people hiding out and living from hand-to-mouth, reliant on their ingenuity to survive.

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