Une journée de merde !

Une journée de merde !

1999 · 95 min · ★ 5.0 · Comedy

This is an important day for Marc Chanois, an insurance advisor heading toward middle age: it's his fiancée Sabine's birthday, her parents arrive in Paris and Marc will meet them for dinner to announce the engagement (her father can't stand him), he's bought Sabine a Spitfire, and his most important client is to sign a policy. But, as the day wears on, he's vexed by an incompetent secretary, the unexpected return of a girlfriend he hasn't seen in five years, squatters who use his office at night, the jealous former lover of a flight attendant who lives in the building, and his boss's unexpected return from a Swiss clinic. Will he reach Sabine in one piece?

Directed by Miguel Courtois · Written by Jean-Claude Islert

Your Rating

Where to Watch

Rent or Buy

Cast

Make it a double feature

Une journée de merde !

Seconde chance

Both from Miguel Courtois.

More from Miguel CourtoisSee all →

Seconde chance

Seconde chance · 2005

MovieDramaTV Movie

Brigade des mineurs

Brigade des mineurs · 2002

Brigade des mineurs

SeriesCrimeMystery

All Those Things We Never Said

All Those Things We Never Said · 2022

All Those Things We Never Said

SeriesDramaComedy

Three days before her wedding, Julia receives a phone call saying her father will not attend the ceremony because he is dead. After the funeral, the daughter receives a coffin containing a father-like android with all his memories.

11-M. Historia de un atentado

11-M. Historia de un atentado · 2005

11-M. Historia de un atentado

Resistance

Resistance · 2014

SeriesDramaWar & Politics

In occupied France, 17-year-old Lili encounters war before love, and joins the Resistance. Through the interconnecting destinies of its teenage heroes, Resistance tells the story of young people going to any lengths to defend their country.

Operación E

Operación E · 2012

MovieDramaThriller

A thriller centered on a family taken hostage by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia.

Wolf

MovieThrillerHistory

Based on a true story. In the 70s, during the last stages of Franco's dictatorship, Txema, a basque construction worker, is arrested because of his connection to some terrorists who have just committed a murder. The secret service see in him an ideal candidate to infiltrate the terrorist band ETA and become a mole, so they try to offer him a deal if he will do so.

Le Premier Cri

Le Premier Cri · 2007

MovieDocumentary

Documentary about births around the different cultures and regions of the world.

Le piège afghan

Le piège afghan · 2011

Le piège afghan

A doctor on a French military base in Afghanistan, Nadia, in her thirties, works for the coalition of major Western powers. When she is sent on a mission to a village in a strategic location, her convoy falls into an ambush. Nadia and a soldier of Tajik origin are captured by a group of Taliban led by Abdullah, a Pakistani. The soldier is beheaded, while Nadia is miraculously released thanks to the intervention of a Pashtun leader, Hassan Walli, whom she had met ten years earlier in Paris. Using this friendship, Colonel Leroy of the DGSE asks the young woman to get closer to Hassan, who is seen as a moderate opposed to Al-Qaeda…

Killer Kid

Killer Kid · 1994

After his father is killed, Djilali is sold by his family to a Lebanese terrorist group. After completing a grueling training process alongside five other boys, Djilali is chosen for a special assignment and sent to Paris to live with carefree Arab boy Karim, who is scheduled to meet the French president at a Christmas party. Djilali's mission is to impersonate Karim and kill the president, but his growing friendship with the happy youth gives him pause.

Féroce

Féroce · 2002

Gilles de Maistre's political thriller Féroce (Ferocious) is about a man seeking revenge. Arab Alain (Samy Naceri) decides to join a fascistic French political party in order to assassinate the leader, Legle (Jean-Marc Thibault). Alain comes to this decision when his girlfriend's brother is murdered after he had defaced some of the party's paraphernalia. To improve the party's public stance on immigrants, Alain is hired as a security guard. Legle's daughter is attracted to Alain, who is tempted enough by the girl to abandon some of his religious convictions.

Dissonances

Dissonances · 2004

MovieCrimeDrama

Nat drives on the interstate with his two young daughters in the back seats, when a car drives by and an unknown guy shoots one of his daughters dead for no reason. Nat's life is shattered. He becomes obsessed with finding the killers, assaults two men, kills one, goes to jail, is left by his wife, grows old estranged from his other daughter. We see the action first through Nat's eyes, then via Brautigan, the cop in charge of the investigation, and finally from the perspective of the remaining daughter Margo. The deconstructed narrative echoes the chaos within Nat and emphasizes the fact that the characters are out of tune with one another, which is the meaning of the original title.

Preuve d'amour

Preuve d'amour · 1988

A journalist wrongly accused of murder enlists the help of a femme fatale to track down the real killer.

GAL

MovieDramaThriller

Two journalists investigate the criminal activities of the GAL (Grupos Antiterroristas de Liberación), a secret terrorist organization founded in the eighties and financed by leading figures in the Spanish government and security forces to hunt down and exterminate both members and collaborators of the terrorist gang ETA.

La Bastide blanche

La Bastide blanche · 1997

La Bastide blanche

Skate Or Die

Skate Or Die · 2008

When they happen to witness the murder of a drug dealer in an underground car park, Jerome and Benjamin, teenagers from the suburbs, need all their wits - but more importantly their considerable skateboarding skills - to escape the perpetrators and report what they've seen to the authorities.

More Like This

Couldn't load this row right now.

Rate this film

Your ratings make Midnight smarter