Pierre Étaix Movies

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

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

French pantomimist Pierre Étaix plays an insomniac who makes the mistake of trying to read himself to sleep with a book about vampires.

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

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

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

An international homage to Méliès in 1988.

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

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...

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

Short film by Pierre Etaix, edited out from Tant qu'on a la santé

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