Pierre Étaix Movies

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

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

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

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

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. Short...

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,...

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

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

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

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.

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.