Pierre Étaix Movies

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

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

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

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

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

Short film by Pierre Etaix, edited out from the anthology film As Long as You've Got Your Health (1966).

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

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

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

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...

An international homage to Méliès in 1988.