The Dinner Game (1998) more movies like this

directed by Francis Veber
featuring Thierry Lhermitte, Jacques Villeret, Francis Huster, Alexandra Van Der Noot, Daniel Prévost

Francis Veber wrote and directed this film adaptation (with animated opening credits) of his own play, Le diner de cons, about a competition among a group of friends to see who can find the stupidest person to bring to dinner (as indicated by the original French title, since "con" means someone who's a total dumbbell). The dinners are held each ...

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Three Fugitives (1989) more movies like this

directed by Francis Veber
featuring Nick Nolte, Martin Short, Sarah Rowland Doroff, James Earl Jones, Alan Ruck

Another of Disney's Touchstone Pictures rehashes of a lightweight French farce, Three Fugitives goes the trend one better by importing French director Frances Veber to supervise a shot-for-shot remake of his French original Les Fugitifs. Nick Nolte stars as a bank robber named Lucas, recently released from prison, who ambles into a bank to open up ...

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The Closet (2001) more movies like this

directed by Francis Veber
featuring Daniel Auteuil, Gérard Depardieu, Thierry Lhermitte, Michèle Laroque, Michel Aumont

While there are plenty of stories about gay men who have pretended to be straight for the sake of their careers, this tart comedy from France considers the dilemma of a straight man doing just the opposite. Francois Pignon (Daniel Auteuil) is an accountant whose personality is bland to the point of being nonexistent; he's been down in the dumps ...

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The Valet (2007) more movies like this

directed by Francis Veber
featuring Gad Elmaleh, Alice Taglioni, Daniel Auteuil, Kristin Scott Thomas, Richard Berry

French farce master Francis Veber (The Dinner Game) combines slapstick laughs with rapid-fire dialogue as he tells the tale of a Parisian valet unwittingly drawn into the affairs of a wealthy industrialist. François Pignon (Gad Elmaleh) is a simple valet employed by a posh Paris restaurant. Blissfully unaware of the paparazzi stalking powerful ...

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La Chèvre (1981) more movies like this

directed by Francis Veber
featuring Pierre Richard, Gérard Depardieu, Corynne Charbit, Michel Robin, André Valardy

One the best, most serious detectives in France (Gérard Depardieu) is teamed up with a luckless stumble-bum (Pierre Richard) and sent off to Central America to search for the klutzy daughter of a powerful magnate in this fast-paced and funny French farce. Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

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Le Jaguar (1996) more movies like this

directed by Francis Veber
featuring Jean Reno, Patrick Bruel, Harrisson Lowe, Patricia Velasquez

In this fast-paced French comedy, a gambler, anxious to escape the thugs who pursue him after her reneged on a bet, mistakenly agrees to enter the safety of the Amazon jungle with an ethnologist's son to search for the missing soul of an ailing Indian. Perrin's ordeal begins in an elevator where he encounters Campana, the French scientist who was ...

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Out on a Limb (1992) more movies like this

directed by Francis Veber
featuring Matthew Broderick, Jeffrey Jones, Heidi Kling, John C. Reilly, Marian Mercer

A man trying to help out his sister finds himself chin-deep in hot water in this screwball comedy. Yuppie businessman Bill Campbell (Matthew Broderick) is close to sealing a $140 million business deal when he gets a phone call from his little sister Marci (Courtney Peldon), who is convinced that her new stepfather, Peter Van Der Haven (Jeffrey ...

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Les Compères (1983) more movies like this

directed by Francis Veber
featuring Pierre Richard, Gérard Depardieu, Anny Duperey, Michel Aumont, Stephane Bierry

When her teen-aged son (Stephane Bierry) runs away and the police are noncommittal, a woman (Anne Duperey) convinces two old flames -- a crusading journalist (Gerard Depardieu) and a hypochondriac (Pierre Richard) -- that each is the father of her son in order to spur someone into action. Both eventually decide to search for the boy, meet up, and ...

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