Writing
Francis Veber
Born July 28, 1937 · Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France (age 88)
Francis Paul Veber (born 28 July 1937) is a French film director, screenwriter and producer. Many of his comedies feature recurring types of characters, named François Pignon and François Perrin. Veber was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine to a Jewish father and an Armenian mother. His grand uncle was writer Tristan Bernard. Description above from the Wikipedia article Francis Veber, lic…
Known For
Ruby & Quentin · 2003Ruby & Quentin
★ 6.72003
MovieComedyCrime
After hiding his loot and getting thrown in jail, brooding outlaw Ruby befriends Quentin, a dim-witted and garrulous giant. After Quentin botches a solo escape attempt, they make a break together. Unable to shake the clumsy Quentin, Ruby is forced to take him along as he pursues his former partners in crime to avenge the death of the woman he loved and get to the money.
The Birdcage · 1996The Birdcage
★ 7.11996
MovieComedyRomance
A gay cabaret owner and his drag queen partner agree to put up a false heterosexual front so that their son can introduce them to his fiancée's conservative parents.
Dinner for Schmucks · 2010Dinner for Schmucks
★ 5.72010
MovieComedy
Rising executive Tim Conrad works for a boss who hosts a monthly dinner in which the guest who brings the biggest buffoon gets a career-boost. Tim plans on not attending until he meets Barry, a man who builds dioramas using stuffed mice. Barry's blundering but good intentions send Tim's life into a downward spiral, threatening a major business deal and possibly scuttling Tim's engagement to his fiancee.
Pure Luck · 1991Pure Luck
★ 5.61991
MovieComedyDrama
The daughter of a wealthy businessman has disappeared in Mexico, and all the efforts to find her have been unsuccessful. A psychologist, knowing that the girl has an ultra bad luck, persuades her father to send to Mexico one of his employees, an accountant with super bad luck, to find her. Perhaps he will be lucky, and his bad luck could help to find the unlucky girl.
Hold-up · 1985Hold-up
★ 6.11985
MovieComedyCrime
Dressed as a clown, the clever rascal Grimm holds up the most secure bank of Montreal and takes 30 hostages. While confusing and ridiculing the police with his strange behavior, he calmly manages to rid the bank of a fortune. But then an unsatisfied companion arouses trouble...
La Cage aux Folles · 1978La Cage aux Folles
★ 6.81978
MovieComedy
Two gay men living in St. Tropez have their lives turned upside down when the son of one of the men announces he is getting married. They try to conceal their lifestyle and their ownership of the drag club downstairs when the fiancée and her parents come for dinner.
The Closet · 2001The Closet
★ 6.42001
MovieComedy
A man spreads the rumor of his fake homosexuality with the aid of his neighbor, to prevent his imminent firing at his work.
The Toy · 1976The Toy
★ 6.91976
MovieComedyDrama
When Francois, a journalist, tours a big store for an article, he is chosen by the son of the newspaper's owner, Rambal-Cochet, as his new toy. Needing money and unwilling to quit his job, Francois agrees to this ridiculous assignment. Gradually befriending the spoiled boy, he induces him to play at making a newspaper, unveiling publicly the tyrannical way of life of the father. The powerful emotional climax we experience with the child astonishes both men.
Movies
Ruby & Quentin · 2003Ruby & Quentin
★ 6.72003
MovieComedyCrime
After hiding his loot and getting thrown in jail, brooding outlaw Ruby befriends Quentin, a dim-witted and garrulous giant. After Quentin botches a solo escape attempt, they make a break together. Unable to shake the clumsy Quentin, Ruby is forced to take him along as he pursues his former partners in crime to avenge the death of the woman he loved and get to the money.
The Birdcage · 1996The Birdcage
★ 7.11996
MovieComedyRomance
A gay cabaret owner and his drag queen partner agree to put up a false heterosexual front so that their son can introduce them to his fiancée's conservative parents.
Dinner for Schmucks · 2010Dinner for Schmucks
★ 5.72010
MovieComedy
Rising executive Tim Conrad works for a boss who hosts a monthly dinner in which the guest who brings the biggest buffoon gets a career-boost. Tim plans on not attending until he meets Barry, a man who builds dioramas using stuffed mice. Barry's blundering but good intentions send Tim's life into a downward spiral, threatening a major business deal and possibly scuttling Tim's engagement to his fiancee.
Pure Luck · 1991Pure Luck
★ 5.61991
MovieComedyDrama
The daughter of a wealthy businessman has disappeared in Mexico, and all the efforts to find her have been unsuccessful. A psychologist, knowing that the girl has an ultra bad luck, persuades her father to send to Mexico one of his employees, an accountant with super bad luck, to find her. Perhaps he will be lucky, and his bad luck could help to find the unlucky girl.
Hold-up · 1985Hold-up
★ 6.11985
MovieComedyCrime
Dressed as a clown, the clever rascal Grimm holds up the most secure bank of Montreal and takes 30 hostages. While confusing and ridiculing the police with his strange behavior, he calmly manages to rid the bank of a fortune. But then an unsatisfied companion arouses trouble...
La Cage aux Folles · 1978La Cage aux Folles
★ 6.81978
MovieComedy
Two gay men living in St. Tropez have their lives turned upside down when the son of one of the men announces he is getting married. They try to conceal their lifestyle and their ownership of the drag club downstairs when the fiancée and her parents come for dinner.
The Closet · 2001The Closet
★ 6.42001
MovieComedy
A man spreads the rumor of his fake homosexuality with the aid of his neighbor, to prevent his imminent firing at his work.
The Toy · 1976The Toy
★ 6.91976
MovieComedyDrama
When Francois, a journalist, tours a big store for an article, he is chosen by the son of the newspaper's owner, Rambal-Cochet, as his new toy. Needing money and unwilling to quit his job, Francois agrees to this ridiculous assignment. Gradually befriending the spoiled boy, he induces him to play at making a newspaper, unveiling publicly the tyrannical way of life of the father. The powerful emotional climax we experience with the child astonishes both men.
The Valet · 2022The Valet
★ 7.52022
MovieComedyRomance
World famous movie star Olivia faces a PR disaster when a paparazzi snaps a photo of her with her married lover, Vincent. The hard-working valet Antonio accidentally appears in the same photo and is enlisted to pose as Olivia’s new boyfriend as a cover-up. This ruse with Olivia thrusts Antonio into the spotlight and unexpected chaos.
Cher Trésor · 2014Cher Trésor
★ 4.92014
MovieComedy
Three Fugitives · 1989Three Fugitives
★ 6.71989
MovieComedyCrime
On his first day after being released from jail for 14 armed bank robberies, Lucas finds himself caught up in someone else's robbery. Perry has decided to hold up the local bank to raise money so that he can keep his daughter, Meg, and get her the treatment she needs. Dugan, a detective, assumes Lucas helped plan the robbery, and hence Lucas, Perry and Meg become three fugitives.
Baş Belası · 1982Baş Belası
★ 6.11982
Movie
My Father the Hero · 1994My Father the Hero
★ 5.41994
MovieFamilyComedy
A teenage girl on vacation in the Bahamas with her divorced father tries to impress a potential boyfriend by saying that her father is actually her lover. Remake of the 1991 French film Mon père, ce héros.
The Dinner Game · 1998The Dinner Game
★ 7.81998
MovieComedy
For Pierre Brochant and his friends, Wednesday is “Idiots' Day”. The idea is simple: each person has to bring along an idiot. The one who brings the most spectacular idiot wins the prize. Tonight, Brochant is ecstatic. He has found a gem. The ultimate idiot, “A world champion idiot!”. What Brochant doesn’t know is that Pignon is a real jinx, a past master in the art of bringing on catastrophes...
The Man with One Red Shoe · 1985The Man with One Red Shoe
★ 5.71985
MovieActionComedy
A man is mistaken as a spy by the CIA when he arrives at the airport with one red shoe.
Buddy Buddy · 1981Buddy Buddy
★ 6.21981
MovieComedyCrime
During a high-profile Mafia testimony case in Riverside County, a hired killer checks into a hotel room near the courthouse, while his depressed neighbor contemplates suicide over marital problems.
The Magnificent One · 1973The Magnificent One
★ 7.01973
MovieComedyRomance
A writer of pulpy book series in which he's the hero and his beautiful English roommate is the love interest attempts to finish his new book in time at the publisher's demand.
La Chèvre · 1981La Chèvre
★ 7.11981
MovieComedyCrime
When the boss' unlucky daughter is missing in South America, Campana is sent to watch the boss' most unlucky employee who is sent as a private detective in hopes he can duplicate the daughter's mistakes.
Fathers' Day · 1997Fathers' Day
★ 5.51997
MovieComedyFamily
A woman cons two old boyfriends into searching for her runaway son by convincing both that they are the boy's father.
The Valet · 2006The Valet
★ 6.02006
MovieComedy
Caught by tabloid paparazzi with his mistress Elena, a famous and beautiful fashion model, billionaire Pierre Levasseur tries to avoid a divorce by inventing a preposterous lie. He uses the presence of a passerby in the photo to claim to his wife that it's not him Elena is seeing but the other man, one François Pignon. Pignon is a modest little man who works as a parking valet. To make the story convincing, Elena has to move in with Pignon.
The Fugitives · 1986The Fugitives
★ 6.81986
MovieComedy
Coming out from jail, Lucas has decided to change his life and behave like a good citizen. But when he is taken hostage in a bank by a hare-brained robber, no cops can believe he is not part of the action.
The Bottom Line · 1976The Bottom Line
★ 5.51976
MovieComedy
An advertising photographer, François, has agreed to sell the poetic script of one of his friends to a porn-maker without his knowledge. But Christine, François' fiance, doesn't want him to do so, especially when the naive friend has succeeded in recruiting the young daughter of his employer to play in what he thinks is a romantic love movie.
The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe · 1972The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe
★ 7.01972
MovieComedyMystery
A hapless orchestra player becomes an unwitting pawn of rival factions within the French secret service after he is chosen as a decoy by being identified as a super secret agent.
Hothead · 1979Hothead
★ 7.11979
MovieComedyDrama
François, a miserable football player, becomes a town hero after bringing victory in an extremely important game. He uses his fame for revenge on the team star for the previous mockeries.
TV Shows
Vivement dimanche · 1998Vivement dimanche
★ 3.61998
Series
Spécial cinéma · 1974Spécial cinéma
★ 9.51974
Series
Marcello Mastroianni, Isabelle Adjani, Alain Delon, Martin Scorsese, Woody Allen... the biggest stars in cinema were welcomed by Christian Defaye on his show Spécial cinéma. Between intimate confessions from actors and immersion in the world of the greatest filmmakers, Christian Defaye took viewers on a journey into the fascinating world of cinema for nearly thirty years.
Champs-Elysées · 1982Champs-Elysées
★ 6.81982
Series
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche · 1975Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
★ 6.01975
Series
A talk show presented by Michel Drucker
Cadet Rousselle · 1971Cadet Rousselle
1971
SeriesFamily
Agence Interim · 1969Agence Interim
★ 10.01969
SeriesComedy