The best Jean Abeillé’s comedy movies
We present our ranking of the best Jean Abeillé’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Jean Abeillé.
Paris Pigalle
5.2/10
Paris, 1982. Franck and Serge are police investigators in charge of making a good catch in the Parisian porn industry. In order to infiltrate the mafia, they take over a peep show in Pigalle riddled with debts. In attempt to jump start the business, they begin to produce short porn films.
Miracle Healing
5.8/10
Faking an injury for insurance money, a peddler seeks out a cure to support his claims while a suspicious investigator tries to expose the scam.
Les Sièges de l'Alcazar
7.5/10
Paris, 1955. Guy, film critic of the Cahiers du Cinéma, often goes to see the films of Vittorio Cottafavi in a local cinema. One day he notices that Jeanne, film critic of "Positive" (Postif), the rival magazine, seems to be following him. He is intrigued.
The Unsewing Machine
5/10
The insane Doctor Enger is obsessed with his plan to build a hospital to cure blind children, and goes on a killing and kidnapping spree with the police in pursuit.
Le Furet
4.8/10
From his locksmith's shop, a simple guy dreams of becoming a crime boss, at the wheel of his Cadillac surrounded by blonde bimbos. He starts small, assassinating petty criminals. Gaining renown in the newspapers as "Le Furet" (The Ferret), he soon sets his sights higher. The police and organized crime both take up the chase.
Les Saisons du plaisir
5.1/10
Barres
6.7/10
The 1984 short Barres celebrates the ingenious ways one can get onto the Paris Metro without paying.
Bonsoir
5.9/10
Having first lost his wife then his job as a tweed tailor, Alex Ponttin has devised a novel way to keep himself in touch with society. He admits himself into people's homes, by pretending to be a relative or an official, and persuading his victims to give him a night's free board: He finds at first a lunch at the horrible couple Dumont, where a thief follows him for a robbery. Alex spent an evening in front of TV at Marie, mother of seven children. He runs from Marie to find an evening and a new bed at the home of charming but shy lesbian Caroline and her funny lover Gloria. To save her inheritance, Caroline - accused for her homosexuality by her horrible sister Catherine - tells her aunt Amélie, that Gloria is her secretary and Alex her lover. So Alex has to present himself nude in Caroline's bed. He saves Carolines inheritance. The police officers investigating the case are so terminally stupid that Alex has little chance of being arrested.
Grabuge !
5/10
Le Dossier Toroto
5/10
A scientist invents a product destined to make vegetables grow larger. His nephew, until then totally lacking a penis, drinks a little of this liquid by accident and from then on develops outsize genitals that lead some of his acquaintances to become jealous.
Chut !
5.6/10
Vent de panique
5.4/10
Roland and Martine, once child stars in a TV series, have sunk into a life of crime. Answering an ad from Isabelle, a young girl seeking work with children, they abduct her with the intention of selling her into prostitution. At the last moment, having become fond of her, they relent and set out to take her home. She rebels, insisting that she enjoys their exciting life of stolen cars, stolen cheques, hotels and restaurants left without paying the bill, and the threesome become a formidable team. Then Isabelle's mood changes again and she disappears with a hitch-hiker. Worried over her future, Roland and Martine trace her to the town where she is about to get married and abduct her, this time from the church steps. Roaring off in a stolen ambulance, the three are happily on the run again.
Le glandeur
5.3/10
Bruno Bonbeck, a retired soccer referee, is the world’s biggest layabout until his politician wife, the Junior Minister for Sport, delivers an ultimatum: you get a job or I get a divorce. The film traces the trials and tribulations of Bruno’s 18-hour hunt for gainful employment and has a very unexpected ending.
Une nuit à l'Assemblée Nationale
4.7/10
The leader of a nudist colony enlists the help of left-wing militant when he mistakenly believes he should receive the Legion of Honor.
Les compagnons de la pomponnette
6.4/10
The young vicar Victor and Sister Marie Ernestine, caught while they were making love, are defrocked by their cardinal. In front of their newly rented flat, they will come upon two couples who practice swinging.
Crédit pour tous
5.1/10
While unemployed, Gobert must repay 40 bank loans he had taken out. In the housing project where he lives in, bailiffs swarm. Gobert will organize resistance and develop an original and popular loan system which will soon arouse the interest of the French government.
Le roi des bricoleurs
4.8/10
Goumic, an industrialist and his wife Anne lose their big house when their town's mayor coerces them to sell it for a low price.
