Pierre Étaix Movies

A circus clown is imprisoned by the Nazis and goes with Jewish children to their deaths. Lost movie.

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,...

Heureux Anniversaire is a 1962 French short comedy film directed by Pierre Étaix. While his wife impatiently waits and gets drunk, a husband...

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

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

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

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...

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

An international homage to Méliès in 1988.

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

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

A portrait documentary tracing the inspiration, philosophy and imagination of the celebrated theatre and screen writer - and Bunuel's long term...

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

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.

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