The best Michel Serrault’s movies

Michel Serrault

Michel Serrault

24/01/1928- 29/07/2007
Today we present the best Michel Serrault’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 Michel Serrault’s movies.
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Diabolique

Diabolique
8.1/10
The cruel and abusive headmaster of a boarding school, Michel Delassalle, is murdered by an unlikely duo -- his meek wife and the mistress he brazenly flaunts. The women become increasingly unhinged by a series of odd occurrences after Delassalle's corpse mysteriously disappears.

Joyeux Noel

Joyeux Noel
7.7/10
France, 1914, during World War I. On Christmas Eve, an extraordinary event takes place in the bloody no man's land that the French and the Scots dispute with the Germans…

Buffet Froid

Buffet Froid
7.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 19/12/1979
  • Character: Le quidam, comptable
An absurd black comedy that cunningly reverses the conventions of the crime thriller to comment on the alienating and dehumanizing effects of contemporary urban life. Alphonse Tram is unwittingly involved in several murders despite having no memory of committing the crimes. His confusion lead him to confess to his neighbour, Inspector Morvandieu. Alphonse and Morvandieu become the axis around which murders occur.

Le Viager

Le Viager
6.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 19/01/1972
  • Character: Louis Martinet
In 1930, Louis Martinet, a peaceful sexagenarian, no longer has a long life to live according to the words of his doctor, Leon Galipeau, who sees to take advantage of the very interesting situation of the "future deceased". This one indeed has a small house in Saint-Tropez. Galipeau sniffs the windfall. Following his advice, Martinet agrees to give it in life to the brother of the doctor, Emile, and then rushes back to a health of iron. Worse, he even survives the war. Galipeau, exhausted, decide to use the great means to get rid of the importunce who persists in thwarting their project ...

Quarter to Two Before Jesus Christ

Quarter to Two Before Jesus Christ
5.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 06/10/1982
  • Character: Jules César
In antique Rome, a simple pepboy for chars becomes involved in a coup against Cesar. Rahatlocum is a North African Roman colony where Julius Caesar came to spend an expensive holiday. The revolt rumbles among the small people who find a leader in the person of Ben-Hur Marcel.

La Cage aux Folles

La Cage aux Folles
7.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 25/10/1978
  • Character: Zaza
Two gay men living in St. Tropez have their lives turned upside down when the son of one of the men announces he is getting married. They try to conceal their lifestyle and their ownership of the transvestite club downstairs when the fiancée and her parents come for dinner.

Belphegor, Phantom of the Louvre

Belphegor, Phantom of the Louvre
4.5/10
A collection of artifacts from an archeological dig in Egypt are brought to the famous Louvre museum in Paris, and while experts are using a laser scanning device to determine the age of a sarcophagus, a ghostly spirit escapes and makes its way into the museum's electrical system.

Beaumarchais the Scoundrel

Beaumarchais the Scoundrel
6.7/10
Beaumarchais the Scoundrel is a biopic film based on the life of the French playwright, financier and spy Pierre Beaumarchais depicting his activities during the American War of Independence and his authorship of the Figaro trilogy of plays.

The Inquisitor

The Inquisitor
7.6/10
Martinaud, an illustrious notary suspected of being the perpetrator of two horrendous crimes, voluntarily agrees to be questioned by Inspector Gallien on New Year's Eve. What initially is a routine procedure, soon becomes a harsh interrogation that seems to confirm the initial suspicions.

Get Out Your Handkerchiefs

Get Out Your Handkerchiefs
7/10
Solange is depressed: she's stopped smiling, she eats little, she says less. She has fainting fits. Her husband Raoul seeks to save her by enlisting Stephane, a stranger, to be her lover. Although he listens to Mozart and has every Pocket Book arranged in alphabetical order, Stephane fails to cheer Solange. She knits. She does housework. Everyone, including their neighbor a vegetable vendor, agrees that she needs a child, yet she fails to get pregnant by either lover. The three take a job running a kids' summer camp where they meet Christian, the precocious 13-year-old son of the local factory manager. It is Christian who restores Solange to laughter

Deadly Circuit

Deadly Circuit
7/10
  • Genre: CrimeMystery
  • Release: 09/03/1983
  • Character: Beauvoir, « l'Œil »
Beauvoir, lonely, aging private detective, is put on the bloody track of beautiful Catherine Leiris who kills and robs her rich husband(s) on their wedding night. Although he never approaches her directly, he follows her and increasingly feels to be telepathically connected to her, because she reminds him of his daughter he never met. After he led a blind artist, Catherine's truly beloved spouse, into a bus accident, she makes a living by bank robbery with young Betty till Betty gets shot. Alone again, Catherine leads a sad, uneventful life as a waitress, when she meets her follower.

The Children of the Marshland

The Children of the Marshland
7.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 03/03/1999
  • Character: Hyacinthe Richard, aka 'Pépé la Rainette'
The film is set in Marais, a quiet region along the banks of Loire river in 1918. Riton is afflicted with a bad-tempered wife and three unruly children. Garris lives alone with his recollections of World War I trenches. Their daily life consists of seasonal work and visits from their two pals: Tane, the local train conductor and Amédée, a dreamer and voracious reader of classics.

Happiness Is in the Field

Happiness Is in the Field
7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 06/12/1995
  • Character: Francis Bergeade
Francis, the boss of a small plumbing supply company, is harassed by tax collectors, striking employees, and an impossible wife and daughter. His only joy is sharing lunch with his friend Gerard. Then a TV show called "where are you?" shows a woman from Gers who is searching for her husband who disappeared 28 years ago. The lost husband looks like an identical twin of Francis...

La Cage aux Folles II

La Cage aux Folles II
5.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 10/12/1980
  • Character: Albin Mougeotte / 'Zaza Napoli'
In a move to make his partner, Renato, jealous, the flamboyant Albin waits in a local cafe - dressed as a woman - hoping to be picked up. But Albin gets more than he bargains for when the fly he catches in his web is actually a spy, who uses him as an unwitting courier of secret microfilm. Now on the run from ruthless agents, Albin and Renato flee to Italy where they attempt to hide out on a farm, with Albin posing as Renato's wife. Can Albin escape the deadly pursuit of these relentless spies or does he have to sustain this charade - as a woman - forever?

Liberté, égalité, choucroute

Liberté, égalité, choucroute
4.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 30/04/1985
  • Character: Louis XVI

Nelly and Monsieur Arnaud

Nelly and Monsieur Arnaud
7.2/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 23/08/1995
  • Character: M. Pierre Arnaud
Nelly leaves her lazy, unemployed husband to work for retired judge Mr Arnaud, forty years her senior, after he offers to clear her bills for her. While she types his memoirs the two develop a close friendship, but Arnaud becomes jealous when Nelly begins dating his good-looking young publisher.

The Butterfly

The Butterfly
7.1/10
  • Genre: DramaFamily
  • Release: 18/12/2002
  • Character: Julien
An old man who has one interest in life, collecting butterflies, has his life changed by an eight year old girl.

Actors

Actors
5.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 05/04/2000
  • Character: Self
Les Acteurs is the absurd story of Jean-Pierre Marielle desperately waiting for a cup of hot water, the story of a conspiracy against actors, the story of aging actors whose careers are slowly less active than they used to be, but a stunning tribute to French actors and their cinema.

Peek-a-boo

Peek-a-boo
5.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 15/10/1954
  • Character: lui même, en joueur de trompette
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.

The Big Store

The Big Store
6.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 06/09/1973
  • Character: Félix Boucan
Four guys working for a small grocer in trouble, declare war on a new giant neighborhood supermarket by attempting several coups. A film about the big store taking over the business of smaller stores.

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