The Best Pierre Richard Movies
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1Mireille Darc, Jean Rochefort, Bernard BlierThe Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe is a 1972 French comedy film directed by Yves Robert, written by Francis Veber, starring Pierre Richard, Jean Rochefort and Bernard Blier. The film's sequel, Le Retour du Grand Blond, was released in 1974. The film was remade in English as The Man with One Red Shoe.
2Gérard Depardieu, Pedro Armendáriz, Jr.In LA CHÈVRE, French comedy writing sensation Francis Veber first teamed Tall Blond's Pierre Richard with Gérard Depardieu, creating a wildly successful comedy duo unlike any the screen had ever seen before.After unsuccessfully searching for a French tycoon's missing daughter in Mexico, Campana is grudgingly saddled with accident-prone accountant Perrin, a would-be detective presumed to be so maladroit that he will accidentally lead Campana to the missing girl. Once let loose in Mexico, the question becomes whether Perrin will crack the case or crack his own skull first. As each pratfall brings the unlikely team closer to the missing girl, Campana transforms from dubious referee to helpless accomplice in Perrin's unending circus of accidents and contagious bad luck.Depardieu and Richard's comic chemistry buoys LA CHÈVRE's anarchic slapstick and biting shaggy-dog story with gentle whimsy and graceful humanity. Whether incredulously sinking in quicksand or buttering toast from a shirtsleeve swamped in breakfast debris, Richard plunges headlong into every catastrophe with inexhaustible fervor and recovers with equally inexhaustible dignity. Depardieu triumphs as a pragmatic private eye clinging to professional detachment as absurdity replaces logic and the line between clown and straight man irrevocably blurs. Though expertly evoking Hope and Crosby, the Pink Panther films and Buster Keaton, LA CHÈVRE is catapulted into the pantheon of international movie comedy on the irresistible strength of its effortless and distinctively French flair.
3Bernard Blier, Pierre Richard, Marie-Christine BarraultLe Distrait is a 1970 French comedy film directed by Pierre Richard, starring Pierre Richard, Marie-Christine Barrault and Bernard Blier. The film combines elements of a slapstick, horror and romantic comedy. The plot follows the adventures of Pierre Malaquet, an eccentric and extremely absent-minded advertising manager. The prototype of the character is Ménalque from Jean de La Bruyère's "Caractères".
4Mireille Darc, Jean Rochefort, Pierre RichardLe Retour du Grand Blond is a film directed by Yves Robert, in 1974. It is the continuation of Le Grand Blond avec une chaussure noire.
5Pierre Richard, Camilla and Carey More, Carey MoreThe Twin is a 1984 French comedy film directed by Yves Robert, starring Pierre Richard, Camilla More and Carey More. The film's screenplay is based on Donald Westlake's novel "Two Much". Its American/Spanish remake "Two Much", starring Antonio Banderas and Melanie Griffith, was released in 1995.
6Gérard Depardieu, Anny Duperey, Pierre RichardLes Compères is a 1983 French comedy film written and directed by Francis Veber, and starring Gérard Depardieu, Pierre Richard and Anny Duperey. The film had 4,847,229 admissions in France. In 1997, this movie was remade as Fathers' Day in the US.
7Mia & the Migoo
Whoopi Goldberg, James Woods, Wallace ShawnMia and the Migoo is a 2008 French animated film produced by Folimage and directed by Jacques-Rémy Girerd> The film is about a young girl's search for her father in a tropical paradise, threatened by the construction of a gigantic hotel resort. The English version stars the voices of Whoopi Goldberg, Matthew Modine, Wallace Shawn, James Woods, John DiMaggio, and Amanda Misquez. The film won the European Film Award for Best Animated Feature at the 22nd European Film Awards. The English version a limited released in the United States on 27 March 2011 and opened to generally mixed critical reviews.
8Pierre Richard, Evgeniy Sidikhin, Levan Uchaneishvili27 Missing Kisses is a 2000 Georgian film directed by Nana Djordjadze. It was Georgia's submission to the 73rd Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but was not accepted as a nominee.
9Philippe Noiret, Françoise Brion, Marlène JobertAs the sole person tending his farm, Alexandre (Philippe Noiret) spends his days exhaustively carrying out the numerous and varied tasks needed to keep everything running. However, the only reason Alexandre works so unrelentingly is because his wife (Françoise Brion) never lets him have a moment's rest. If it were up to Alexandre, he would spend his days forever lazing in bed -- which is exactly what he does, after his wife meets an untimely end.
10And If We All Lived Together
Jane Fonda, Geraldine Chaplin, Daniel BrühlAll Together, is a 2011 French-German comedy film written and directed by Stéphane Robelin, and starring Jane Fonda and Geraldine Chaplin as participants of an alternate living experiment, that is observed by a graduate student played by Daniel Brühl. The film marks Fonda's first French-speaking role since starring in Jean-Luc Godard's film Tout Va Bien. Filming took place over two months in Paris in summer 2010. The film premiered on the closing night of the Locarno International Film Festival on 13 August 2011. It was released on DVD on March 19, 2013.
11Gert Fröbe, Pierre Richard, Gordon MitchellThe Umbrella Coup is a 1980 French comedy film directed by Gérard Oury, starring Pierre Richard, Gordon Mitchell and Gert Fröbe. The creation of the film was inspired by several assassinations of Bulgarian dissidents where the so-called Bulgarian umbrella was used as a weapon. The working title of the film was Le Coup du Parapluie Bulgare.
12Gérard Jugnot, Clovis Cornillac, Kad MeradDetermined to silence a cabaret troupe that has radical political affiliations, landlord Galapiat (Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu) evicts a Paris nightclub, the Chansonia, from his building and shutters its doors. Desperate to return to work, penniless stage manager Pigoil (Gérard Jugnot) discovers Douce (Nora Arnezeder), a young woman whose enchanting voice steels him in his determination to put on a new production -- a musical spectacular the likes of which Paris has never seen.
13Sylvie Testud, Pierre Richard, Rémy GirardLe Bonheur de Pierre is a 2009 Canadian-French comedy-drama directed by Robert Ménard. It was entered into several film festivals including the Rhode Island International Film Festival. Moreover it was chosen Best Foreign Film at the New York Independent Film Festival in 2009. The film is also known as A Happy Man.
14Pierre Richard, Nicolas Cazalé, Jean-Claude Leguay- 15Maïwenn, Johnny Depp, Benjamin LavernheJeanne uses her charms and intelligence to climb the social ladder. Against all convention, she becomes one of the favorites of King Louis XV and moves to Versailles.More Jeanne du Barry
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16Drug Scenes
Lou Doillon, Chiara Mastroianni, Sylvie TestudDrug Scenes is an omnibus film of 24 French short films depicting drug abuse. Varying in length from three to seven minutes, they showed in movie theaters before feature films. Directors included Georges Lautner, Etienne Chatiliez, Emmanuelle Bercot, Santiago Otheguy, Diane Bertrand, Jean Bocheux, Laurent Bouhnik, and Manuel Boursinhac. Actors include Sylvie Testud, Chiara Mastroianni, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Nathalie Richard, Manuel Blanc, Claude Jade, Pierre Richard, Éva Darlan, Lou Doillon and Mathieu Delarive. Scriptwriters included Eric Ellena.
17Pierre Richard, Micheline Presle, Nino KirtadzeA French chef (Pierre Richard) falls for a Georgian princess (Micheline Presle), but the Russian Revolution interferes with their romance.
18Anny Duperey, Pierre RichardLes malheurs d'Alfred is a 1972 French comedy film directed by and starring Pierre Richard. It has been released on DVD in Poland, as "Nieszczęścia Alfreda", in Germany, as "Alfred, die Knallerbse", and in France, with Le distrait in the box "Pierre Richard, réalisateur", apparently without subtitles even in French.
