The best Xavier Gélin’s movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Xavier Gélin’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 Xavier Gélin.
The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe
7.2/10
Hapless orchestra player becomes an unwitting pawn of rival factions within the French secret service after he is chosen as a decoy by being identified as a super secret agent.
The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob
7.4/10
In this riot of frantic disguises and mistaken identities, Victor Pivert, a blustering, bigoted French factory owner, finds himself taken hostage by Slimane, an Arab rebel leader. The two dress up as rabbis as they try to elude not only assasins from Slimane's country, but also the police, who think Pivert is a murderer. Pivert ends up posing as Rabbi Jacob, a beloved figure who's returned to France for his first visit after 30 years in the United States. Adding to the confusion are Pivert's dentist-wife, who thinks her husband is leaving her for another woman, their daughter, who's about to get married, and a Parisian neighborhood filled with people eager to celebrate the return of Rabbi Jacob.
The Slap
6.3/10
A Parisian teacher (Lino Ventura) loses his cool when his teenage daughter tells him she plans to drop out of school and move in with her boyfriend.
Money Money Money
6.8/10
When they realize the times are changing, five crooks decide to switch from bank robberies to personality abductions.
Repeated Absences
6.7/10
François Naulet turns his bedroom into an island of drugs, loneliness and despair.
Signé Furax
5.3/10
The notorious and mysterious criminal Furax steals France's famous monuments, replacing them with replicas.
The Devil by the Tail
6.7/10
In this comedy, a run-down hotel drums up customers by sabotaging passing cars. The stuck motorists are then obliged to stay. Unfortunately, one of the sabotaged cars belongs to a bank robber. The hotel staff wants the robber out, but they also want to keep his ill-gotten money.
S*P*Y*S
4.5/10
Two CIA bunglers (Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould) botch a Soviet defection, then both sides mark them for termination.
La Ville-bidon
6.5/10
A fake documentary on the life forms of the Paris Suburbs, viewed through the eyes of homeless, unemployed people the sharks of politics and building societies push to hopeless life.
Pillaged
6.9/10
Over the course of one night, a gang of twelve criminals carry out a commando-like raid on a small town.
La Maison de campagne
4.6/10
What to do, and what not to do, when one is building or renovating a house.
Judge Roy Bean
5.1/10
In a small western town the ineffable judge Roy Bean metes out justice in his own special way. A cargo of gold is ambushed by the outlaw Black Bird who fails in the attempt and then rides into town.
The Bear and the Doll
6.3/10
Cellist Gaspard is living in a big house in the country with his son and three nieces. He likes being quiet. One day, his modest car bumps into a Rolls-Royce, driven by Felicia, a young, beautiful, wealthy and temperamental woman. And she knows it. She is very angry at him because he seems not to be under her charm. She decides to seduce him, but Gaspard did not feel like letting his life being invaded by such a woman.
One Can Say It Without Getting Angry
5.3/10
Pauline intends to end her days and meticulously prepares her suicide, but she meets Peppo, an Italian immigrant, who will change her mind.
