Pierre Étaix Movies

Two old friends have urban adventures connected to the skull of an executed French aristocrat.

Jean Lerat begins his military service at an army camp. Despite his aunt’s attempts to pull a few strings to his advantage, the unfortunate...

A documentary about Jerry Lewis' never-released movie "The Day the Clown Cried".

A mad scientist, Dr. Lerne, performs organ transplants not only between humans and animals, but also with plants and even machines ...

Jean is a successful painter who leaves his mistress, though he stops intermittently to phone her with explanations. Sometimes she is responsive but...

When he loses his position as a powerful government minister, Vincent is dropped by his pretty mistress and must begin life anew, without the...

Two retirees obsessed with their desire to know everything put their knowledge into practice in a constantly awkward way.

A filmmaker finds creative freedom more elusive than he imagined in this ironic comedy-drama. Tired of the state-appointed producers and censorship...

A man inherits an old house in a very bad condition. With the help of a young mechanic, he begins to renovate this house.

Only on the stage of an empty theater, an author and his wife clash: the scene and the life end up getting confused.

Two-part documentary about French director Jacques Tati chronicles the evolution of the filmmaker's alter ego, Monsieur Hulot, through archival...

A young man wakes up one day transformed into a giant insect.

A documentary on the career of famed French clown and filmmaker Pierre Étaix.

Pierre Etaix’s most radical film, and perhaps unsurprisingly the one that effectively ended his career in cinema, Land of Milk and Honey is a...

Short film by Pierre Etaix, edited out from the anthology film As Long as You've Got Your Health (1966).