The best Jean Luisi’s movies

Jean Luisi

Jean Luisi

08/09/1926- 18/07/2006
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Jean Luisi’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 Jean Luisi.
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Le Trou

Le Trou
8.5/10
Four prison inmates have been hatching a plan to literally dig out of jail when another prisoner, Claude Gaspard, is moved into their cell. They take a risk and share their plan with the newcomer. Over the course of three days, the prisoners and friends break through the concrete floor using a bed post and begin to make their way through the sewer system -- yet their escape is anything but assured.

Le Guignolo

Le Guignolo
5.9/10
  • Genre: ActionComedy
  • Release: 26/03/1980
  • Character: Un gardien prison
After the failure of his recent criminal exploits, international con artist Alexandre Dupré sets off for Venice to try to dupe some Japanese business men into buying a fake copy of a stolen Caneletto. On the aeroplane, a stranger asks him to look after his briefcase until after they have landed. Alexandre agrees, but the stranger is shot dead soon after and Alexandre himself becomes the target of enemy agents who are keen to recover the briefcase...

There Once Was a Cop

There Once Was a Cop
6.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 11/02/1972
  • Character: le second chauffeur de taxi
Campana, a commissar at the drugs bureau of Paris police gets an undercover job in Nice to catch an Italian-French mafia boss. As he slips into the identity of a gangster's brother, who was already killed, he has to play the role of a loving husband with child - something that is not so easy for a confirmed single like Campana. Unfortunately American killers chase behind the Nice mafia clan too, in order to get control of French drug trades to USA.

The Car Keys

The Car Keys
5.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 10/12/2003
  • Character: Jeannot, un pilier de comptoir
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No Problem!

No Problem!
6.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 18/06/1975
  • Character: le tueur en noir passager de l' auto
A man with a gunshot wound in the stomach comes to first house and collapses in Anita's apartment. A minute later he dies and the girl horrified by what happened, must look for somebody who would help her get rid of the corpse...

Troubleshooters

Troubleshooters
6.1/10
The day he is released from jail, Serge is expected by four killers sent by Count Charles Varèse assigned to make him confess where he has hidden the jewels stolen during his last stickup. On the other hand the police inspector who arrested him offers him protection on condition he gives him the same piece of information. Serge refuses and is about to be tortured by Varèse's henchmen when Michel, a friendly hood, comes to his rescue. His friendship will result in... a heap of corpses! —Guy Bellinger

An Erotic Journal of a Lady from Thailand

An Erotic Journal of a Lady from Thailand
3.7/10
A fashion photographer and his French models travel to Bangkok.

Who Cares: Anatomy of a Delivery Boy

Who Cares: Anatomy of a Delivery Boy
6.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 17/03/1971
  • Character: Le pompiste
Experiencing something of a mid-life crisis after his beloved son marries and moves out, a factory worker makes some drastic changes in his life, moves in with the boy and his wife, and sets them all on the path to a communal lifestyle.

The Bottom Line

The Bottom Line
6.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 16/06/1976
  • Character: Jules Sliman
An advertising photographer, François, has agreed to sell the poetic script of one of his friends to a porn-maker without his knowledge. But Christine, François' fiance, doesn't want him to do so, especially when the naive friend has succeeded in recruiting the young daughter of his employer to play in what he thinks is a romantic love movie.

The Toilets Were Closed from the Inside

The Toilets Were Closed from the Inside
5.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 07/01/1976
  • Character: Barbocelli
A bus conductor gets dressed for work in the morning, goes to the toilet, where he is killed by a bomb. The Commissioner and his fat, bumbling assistant, Inspector Charbonnier are put on the case. After interviewing friends, wives, colleagues, and spying on strangers who might be connected, our heroes trace the assassin down to a mental institution where, it seems, the murder victim has been an inmate for the last three years...

Gunfight at OQ Corral

Gunfight at OQ Corral
4.4/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 01/01/1974
  • Character: Billy le Bid
The attack of a bank turns into a massacre, leaving many dead. The bandits flee, taking two young women hostage. Unfortunately for them, one of them is none other than the girl of Burke Malloway, the famous trapper.

The Good and the Bad

The Good and the Bad
6.7/10
The film follows the exploits of Jacques, a car-mechanic turned pro-thief, and his Jewish co-conspirator Simon as their robberies, beginning well before the Second World War, take on a political coloration under the occupation.

Traveling Companions

Traveling Companions
5.2/10

These Sorcerers Are Mad

These Sorcerers Are Mad
4.3/10
Julien est envoyé par son patron à l'île Maurice, où il fait la connaissance d'Henri, un chômeur professionnel. Un soir de beuverie, les deux hommes se soulagent au pied d'une statue sacrée. Offensés par ce sacrilège, les dieux les punissent en leur ôtant leur reflet et en les faisant léviter. Si cette situation leur paraît au début invivable, les deux hommes finissent cependant par tirer parti de ces désavantages pour régler leurs problèmes personnels.

The Eye of the Monocle

The Eye of the Monocle
6.2/10
In 1943, a German commando conceals a large quantity of gold in an undersea cave on the coast of Corsica. Years later, Schlumpf, the sole survivor of the commando, returns to Corsica to recuperate the treasure -- with British and Soviet spies on his heels, and closely monitored by Dromard, from the French intelligence services. The monocled Dromard is convinced that he can outfox his opponents, but difficulties accumulate: despite his plump appearance, Herr Schlumpf is a sly fellow; Corsica is teeming with treasure hunters from various nationalities; and all parties readily resort to unnatural alliances, brazen treachery, and strong-arm tactics. Who will get the treasure?

Les Victimes

Les Victimes
5/10
  • Release: 11/09/1996
Paris, 1996. Parisian editor Pierre Duval has an affair with Claire, wife of wealthy architect Bernard Jaillac. The latter has to supervise a large-scale operation in Morocco, he asks Pierre to join them in the desert. Bernard is obssessed by another woman, but who is she really?

Naked and Lustful

Naked and Lustful
4.9/10
  • Release: 01/11/1976
  • Character: Le chef de chantier (as Jean Luisy)
A wealthy French couple unable to bear children but determined to start a family agree to use an anonymous surrogate . Upon seeking a professional opinion on the matter, the couple is advised to seek out an anonymous surrogate. Though the procedure is a success, Jean-Paul becomes entirely consumed in his quest to discover the identity of the young woman (Willeke van Ammelrooy) who is currently carrying his child. Upon coming face to face with the ravishing young beauty, Jean-Paul initiates a torrid affair that will profoundly affect the lives of all involved.

Une robe noire pour un tueur

Une robe noire pour un tueur
6.1/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 14/01/1981
  • Character: Gendarme
The "black robe" in the title of this suspense film belongs to a female lawyer, Florence Nat (Annie Girardot) who has just lost a case in which she defended Simon Risler (Claude Brasseur), a man wrongly accused of murder. Risler escapes before he can be put in prison, and seeks help from attorney Nat in finding the real killer, partly by going after the police inspector who framed him in the first place. A retired surgeon, in the process of setting up a drug rehab clinic gets involved in solving Risler's case, and soon the solution seems to be pointing to high-ranking figures with every desire and ample means to keep the truth well-hidden.

The Bit Between the Teeth

The Bit Between the Teeth
6.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/09/1979
Three men with a penchant for gambling on the horses soon find themselves in trouble because of their addiction. Pierre (Michel Piccoli) is the math whiz who uses his talent for picking the winners. Charles (Michel Galabru) is the wealthy scrap-iron magnate who has embarrassing evidence on many prominent political figures. Loic (Jacques Dutronc) is the aspiring politico who seeks to further his career by any means possible. Charles approaches Loic and asks his political party for a loan in hopes of fixing an upcoming race....

Without Warning

Without Warning
6.2/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 15/02/1973
  • Character: Un flic
A discredited police inspector is given a second chance, in the form of a dangerous assignment. Chosen because of his uncanny resemblance to a Lt. Revere, the inspector impersonates him in order to penetrate a group of mercenaries with orders to assassinate its leader.

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