Claude Zidi — Director (7)
The Wing or the Thigh? (1976) [Movie] NeoDB TMDB WikiData IMDb Douban
L'Aile ou la Cuisse
director: Claude Zidi actor: Louis de Funès / Coluche
other title: L'ala o la coscia? / O Peito ou a Perna
Charles Duchemin, a well-known gourmet and publisher of a famous restaurant guide, is waging a war against fast food entrepreneur Tri- catel to save the French art of cooking. After having agreed to appear on a talk show to show his skills in naming food and wine by taste, he is confronted with two disasters: his son wants to become a clown rather than a restaurant tester and he, the famous Charles Duchemin, has lost his taste!
动物 (1977) [Movie] Douban
L'Animal
director: Claude Zidi actor: 让-保罗·贝尔蒙多 / Raquel Welch
other title: L'Animal / 替身演员
A movie about a good-for-nothing stuntman called Mike Gaucher who can't do one single job without something going wrong. His fiancée wants to kill him, the film studios don't want to give him any more work and, as King Kong for a promotion in a supermarket, he winds up destroying some display shelves. The only role he plays well is pretending not to be able to hear, speak and walk in order to get money from the government. Then along comes the "beautiful" actor called Bruno Ferrari. Supposedly a fearless stuntman, Ferrari turns out to be afraid of heights once his feet leave the ground. So a stuntman is needed to prevent a scandal. And who is the man who looks most (or exactly) like Bruno? You guessed it, good-for-nothing Mike...
Asterix & Obelix Take on Caesar (1999) [Movie] TMDB
Astérix & Obélix contre César
other title: Asterix & Obelix contro Cesare / Asterix & Obelix i kamp mod Cæsar
Set in 50 B.C., Asterix and Obelix are living in a small but well-protected village in Gaul, where a magic potion concocted by Druids turns the townsfolk into mighty soldiers. When Roman troops carve a path through Gaul to reach the English Channel, Caesar and his aide de camp Detritus discover the secret elixir and capture the Druid leader who knows its formula, and Asterix and Obelix are sent off to rescue them.
The Big Store (1973) [Movie] TMDB WikiData Douban IMDb
Le Grand Bazar
director: Claude Zidi actor: Gérard Rinaldi / Jean Sarrus
other title: 5 matti al supermercato / Die tollen Charlots - Wo die grünen Nudeln fliegen
Four guys working for a small grocer in trouble, declare war on a new giant neighborhood supermarket by attempting several coups. A film about the big store taking over the business of smaller stores.
The Under-Gifted (1980) [Movie] NeoDB Douban TMDB NeoDB IMDb WikiData
Les sous-doués
director: Claude Zidi actor: Daniel Auteuil / Michel Galabru
other title: I sottodotati / Glückwunsch … mal wieder sitzengeblieben
The story centers around a graduating class of "less-gifted" students in a private Versailles high school. Only a miracle has brought the students this far along, and after a practical joke misfires and the whole school is dynamited, the students are in deep trouble. They have to present themselves in court for their punishment and it could not be worse: If they don't pass their high-school graduation exams, they go to prison!
The Jackpot! (1991) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
La Totale !
director: Claude Zidi actor: Thierry Lhermitte / Miou-Miou
other title: Der Joker und der Jackpot / La Totale !
To his family, François Voisin is nothing more than a humdrum civil servant. In truth, for the past twenty years he has been working as a secret agent. All goes well until circumstances put his secret in danger.