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Just for Laughs is a belge film of genre Comedy directed by Lucas Belvaux with Ornella Muti
Just for Laughs (1997)
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Un homme découvre que sa femme a un amant. Pour mieux l'approcher, il simule une tentative de suicide en se jetant dans la Seine sous ses yeux. Le plan fonctionne comme prévu, l'homme plonge à son tour pour le sauver...Actors
Ornella Muti
(Maître Alice Obini)
Jean-Pierre Léaud
(Nicolas Gardinier)
Antoine Chappey
(Gaspard)
Tonie Marshall
(Juliette)
Françoise Lebrun
(L'infirmière)
Benoît Poelvoorde
(L'innocent)
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, 1h37Directed by Lucas Belvaux
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy
Actors Ornella Muti, Gilbert Melki, Catherine Frot, Dominique Blanc, Valérie Mairesse, François Morel
Rating63%
On a Friday evening, just before closing time Alain Coste is in his office and gets ready to leave, Claire, his PA, manages to stall him a couple of minutes, he goes out and she steals his keys just before he comes back for his jacket. Claire calls Cécile Coste to report that Alain has left. Alain goes to see Georges Colinet, his physician who tells him that he has tennis elbow and must have an operation. Alain becomes very worried that this operation shall take his life despite all assurances to the contrary. Later on Alain goes to a park and he starts a series of will projects that he dictates in a pocket tape recorder that he carries around, the first will distributes his assets 50/50% to his wife and children, 98% of his company shall go to his children and the remaining 2% to Claire and some moneys that he has in a Swiss bank-account shall go to the Fund for Cancer Research.
On the Run (2003)
, 1h51Directed by Lucas Belvaux
Origin France
Genres Thriller, Crime
Actors Lucas Belvaux, Catherine Frot, Dominique Blanc, Ornella Muti, Gilbert Melki, Patrick Descamps
Rating69%
Most of the film is silent and there are just as few dialogue lines as necessary.
After Life (2003)
, 2h4Directed by Lucas Belvaux
Origin France
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about drugs
Actors Gilbert Melki, Dominique Blanc, Ornella Muti, Catherine Frot, François Morel, Lucas Belvaux
Rating69%
Police Inspector Pascal Manise walks into a bar where he gets morphine from Freddy, a former dealer of Jacquillat, a drug lord. A phone call interrupts the conversation but it is very brief. Manise gives the drugs to his wife Agnès Manise, who has been addicted for 20 years but has never had to buy her own fixes because her husband provides her with them. Agnès tells Manise that her friend Cécile Coste has invited them to a party he does not want to go but concedes when she agrees to buy him a suit. In the meantime the police is looking for Bruno Le Roux, a former leftist revolutionary who has escaped from prison, this means that they have to tail Jeanne Rivet, a colleague of Agnès in the same high school where they work as teachers. In their search for Le Roux they also go to the house of Mme. Guiot, the mother of Jean-Jean, a former associate of Le Roux's, she tells them that he has gone to look for a job out of the city.
Not My Type (2014)
, 1h51Directed by Lucas Belvaux
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Émilie Dequenne, Loïc Corbery, Sandra Nkaké, Charlotte Talpaert, Anne Coesens, Didier Sandre
Rating64%
Clément, spécialiste de la philosophie allemande, est nommé comme professeur dans un lycée à Arras. Il considère cette mutation comme un purgatoire hors de son quartier parisien des universités. Jennifer, jeune mère célibataire, est employée dans un salon de coiffure. Son métier lui tient à cœur comme ses copines avec qui elle participe à des concours de karaoké.
Nature contre nature (2005)
, 1h30Directed by Lucas Belvaux
Origin France
Genres Comedy
Actors Lucas Belvaux, Catherine Mouchet, Ariane Ascaride, François Morel, Pascal Elso, Jacques Spiesser
Rating68%
Sébastien Chantoux, (Lucas Belvaux), a psychoanalyst, leaves Paris and goes to live in the Creuse, at Royère-de-Vassivière. Hardly settled, he discovers "Troc'En Creuse", a system of local exchange that operates through the use of barter. Initially reticent about using it and bartering his psychoanalytic sessions, he is reconciled to the system, and in a few weeks becomes a figure in the community. Everything seems to be working out, and without costing Sébastien a sou, until the arrival of Mlle. Oudinot, (Catherine Mouchet), a tax inspector. War is declared; "Troc'En Creuse" and the small local economy against the capitalism of the state.
Parfois trop d'amour (1993)
Directed by Lucas Belvaux
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Joséphine Fresson
Rating56%
Ils sont trois. Delphine est grande, rousse, elle a un rire franc, sonore, trente ans et un bébé. Daniel a quarante ans et rit encore des rêves de ses vingt ans. Fernand est le plus jeune, un physique sans mesure et le reste à l'avenant. A la poursuite du bonheur, ils vont se dévoiler après une nuit pleine de vin et de souvenirs.
La fin de la nuit (2014)
, 1h35Directed by Lucas Belvaux
Origin France
Genres Drama
Actors Nicole Garcia, Louise Bourgoin, Cyril Descours, Sandra Nkaké
Rating60%
Thérèse vit seule dans un appartement parisien. Un soir, elle a la surprise de voir arriver sa fille Marie qu'elle n'a guère vue depuis 20 ans. Marie apprend à sa mère qu'elle a quitté son père chez qui elle vivait dans les Landes car elle est amoureuse d'un étudiant maghrébin, Mourad. Thérèse lui dévoile la raison de son départ de la maison familiale et du quasi abandon de sa fille : elle a tenté d'assassiner son mari mais a obtenu un non-lieu grâce au témoignage de la victime en sa faveur. Cependant, son mari lui a demandé de partir loin de la maison familiale et de lui laisser la garde de leur fille.
, 3h20Directed by Lucas Belvaux
Genres Drama, Historical
Actors Aladin Reibel, Philippe Nahon, Nicole Garcia, Claude Brasseur, Odile Cohen, Michel Voïta
Rating67%
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Rapt (2009)
, 2h5Directed by Lucas Belvaux
Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Yvan Attal, Anne Consigny, André Marcon, Françoise Fabian, Alex Descas, Michel Voïta
Rating66%
Grand capitaine d'industrie, Stanislas Graff est enlevé contre rançon. Sa captivité est un calvaire. Dès le début de son enlèvement, ses ravisseurs lui coupent un doigt et ils l'envoient à ses proches. Pendant les deux mois que va durer sa séquestration, l'enquête va révéler des aspects de sa vie privée inconnus de ses proches : grosses pertes aux jeux, parties de chasse, nombreuses maîtresses. La presse à scandale en fait ses choux gras, provoquant le déchirement de sa famille et sa décrédibilisation au sein de son entreprise.
The Right of the Weakest (2006)
, 1h56Directed by Lucas Belvaux
Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Éric Caravaca, Lucas Belvaux, Patrick Descamps, Natacha Régnier, Claude Semal, Gilbert Melki
Rating67%
À Liège, pour pouvoir offrir une mobylette à la femme de leur copain Patrick, trois hommes vont tenter un très gros hold-up.