Pierre Étaix Movies

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...

Absent-minded yet cultured, Pierre answers his parents demands to wed by ignoring both astronomy and the housemaid, instead falling head-over-heels...

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

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

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).

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

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

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

A man receives a breakup letter from his sweetheart, who sends him back his photo, in pieces. The pained lover decides to reply. Fountain pen,...

An international homage to Méliès in 1988.