The best Jean Poiret’s movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Jean Poiret’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 Poiret.
The Last Metro
7.3/10
In occupied Paris, an actress married to a Jewish theater owner must keep him hidden from the Nazis while doing both of their jobs.
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.
Atlantic Wall
5.8/10
1944. Léon Duchemin owns a restaurant with his sister. His clients are Germans, Résistance et black marketeers. Léon unwillingly joins the Résistance when a British pilot is shot down and hides in his attic and, through a series of mishaps, he accidentally steals the plans for Hitler's V1 missiles.
Chicken with Vinegar
6.5/10
Unorthodox detective Jean Lavardin is called to a provincial French town after a prank turns deadly.
Tales of Paris
6/10
The Three Musketeers
6.1/10
Alexandre Dumas's classic tale is one of the most filmed epic adventures...
Liberté, égalité, choucroute
4.5/10
Les Saisons du plaisir
5.1/10
Will the High Salaried Workers Raise Their Hands!
5.5/10
The cynical boss of a big insurance agency invites his top-salary employees to spend a week-end in his country house. A modest clerical worker, also invited, discovers the hidden reason for this party - and decides to take advantage of it.
The Seventh Target
6.3/10
Bastien Grimaldy, a man driven to heightened anxiety as the plot against him begins to take effect. Bastien's personal relationships give him enough cause for anxiety -- between his new lover Laura and a feisty mother, life provides its own insecurities. When he goes to the police with his problems, Bastien is assigned an off-beat inspector to protect him but is still faced with skepticism about his dilemma.
Inspector Lavardin
6.5/10
Inspector Lavardin is called to a provincial village to investigate a murder – only to find that one of his ex-lovers is the victim’s widow.
That Naughty Girl
5.7/10
Nightclub entertainer Jean Clery discovers too late that the 'baby' he agreed to take care of is a wild, shapely sex kitten.
3 Fables of Love
5.8/10
"Les quatre vérités" aka "The Four Truths" is a movie anthology that consists of four segments, all loosely parodying fables from the 17th-century French poet Jean de la Fontaine. The US cut usually features only 3 segments.
Thank Heaven for Small Favors
6.9/10
Bad financial conditions compel an aristocratic family to do strange work.
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.
Teuf-teuf
An automobile tribute
Love and the Frenchwoman
6.2/10
The seven stages in the life of the modern Frenchwomen are disclosed by seven directors in a witty way: 1 - Childhood, 2 - Adolescence, 3 - Virginity, 4 - Marriage, 5 - Adultery, 6 - Divorce, 7 - The Single Woman.
Les baratineurs
3.8/10
The Big Scare
6.3/10
Two police inspectors Triquet and Vergus launch their investigations to arrest a dangerous escaped forger named Mickey Le Bénedictin.
Auguste
5.7/10
Auguste is about an eponymous bank clerk who finds fame and fortune. Auguste happens to be in the right place at the right time to save young starlet Francine from killing herself -- or more accurately, pretending to kill herself. His supposed heroism hits the news, and before Auguste knows what is happening, a Machiavellian publicist is using him for his own ends. The bank clerk is no fool and soon thinks of a way to come out on top.
