Search a film or person :
FacebookConnectionRegistration
Why Not! is a french film of genre Drama directed by Coline Serreau with Sami Frey

Why Not! (1977)

Pourquoi pas !

Why Not!
If you like this film, let us know!
Length 1h37
Directed by
OriginFrance
Genres Drama,    Comedy,    Comedy-drama,    Romance
Rating72% 3.602363.602363.602363.602363.60236

Pourquoi pas ! est un film français de Coline Serreau, sorti en 1977.

Synopsis

Alexa, Fernand et Louis partagent un pavillon dans la banlieue parisienne. Fernand s’occupe de la maison, Louis joue et compose de la musique, Alexa gagne l’argent de ce ménage à trois qui vit dans le bonheur de la tolérance. Louis et Alexa consolent Fernand qui souffre d’être séparé de ses enfants, Louis s’est dégagé de sa relation névrotique à sa mère grâce à ses amis, et Alexa a surmonté, avec Fernand et Louis, la déception de son précédent mariage. Mais Fernand rencontre un jour la belle Sylvie, et ce complexe équilibre est soudain menacé…

Actors

Trailer of Why Not!

Bluray, DVD

Streaming / VOD

Source : Wikidata

Comments


Leave comment :

Suggestions of similar film to Why Not!

There are 167 films with the same actors, 11 films with the same director, 88348 with the same cinematographic genres (including 1089 with exactly the same 4 genres than Why Not!), 7309 films with the same themes (including 2731 films with the same 3 themes than Why Not!), to have finally 70 suggestions of similar films.

If you liked Why Not!, you will probably like those similar films :
Chaos
Chaos (2001)
, 1h49
Directed by Coline Serreau
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama
Themes L'adolescence, Films about alcoholism, Films about children, Films about families, Feminist films, Films about immigration, Films about sexuality, Rape in fiction, La précarité, Erotic films, La sexualité des mineurs, Films about prostitution, Rape and revenge films, Political films, Erotic thriller films, Auto-justice
Actors Vincent Lindon, Catherine Frot, Rachida Brakni, Line Renaud, Aurélien Wiik, Ivan Franek
Rating69% 3.49333.49333.49333.49333.4933
Paul and Hélène, a wealthy Parisian couple, are preparing to go out for the evening. While driving, they see three men chasing a prostitute down the street. She begs them to save her by letting her into the car, but Paul locks the doors and drives away as the three men savagely beat her, leaving her unconscious in the street. He refuses to let Hélène phone an ambulance, afraid of being charged with not helping a person in danger (which is a crime in France).
Man Is a Woman, 1h40
Directed by Régis Musset, Jean-Jacques Zilbermann
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about religion, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Films about Jews and Judaism, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Antoine de Caunes, Elsa Zylberstein, Michel Aumont, Gad Elmaleh, Maurice Bénichou, Judith Magre
Rating60% 3.0417453.0417453.0417453.0417453.041745
Simon Eskanazy is a thirty-year-old gay musician. Born into a Jewish family, he took great pains to accept his homosexuality, and to get his family (including his mother and his uncle, Salomon) to do the same. The latter, Uncle Salomon is a wealthy banker who offered him a deal: he'll give him 10 million francs and will bequeath his mansion to Simon only if Simon agrees to marry a woman. First reluctant, he met Rosalie Baumann, a Jewish singer known for singing in Yiddish, she is very observant, and her parents live in the United States. Little by little, while getting to know her, Simon falls in love with her.
Private Tuition, 1h35
Directed by Pierre Granier-Deferre
Origin France
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Films about education, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Élizabeth Bourgine, Michel Aumont, Xavier Deluc, Emmanuelle Seigner, Lucienne Hamon, Pierre Vernier
Rating55% 2.7581752.7581752.7581752.7581752.758175
Jeanne Kern enseigne l'histoire dans un cours privé mixte. Volontiers provocante, elle n'ignore pas l'effet qu'elle produit sur les hommes. Les lycéens, surtout mademoiselle Zanon qui vient d'arriver dans l'établissement, les collègues et même le directeur, Bruno Ketti, sont sous le charme. Ce dernier éprouve même pour la jeune femme une passion déraisonnée. Un jour, une lettre anonyme, dénonçant les mœurs lesbiennes de Jeanne, parvient sur le bureau de Ketti. Les missives se succèdent, bientôt suivies de photos compromettantes de parties fines, adressées au directeur, aux enseignants et aux parents d'élèves. Sur les clichés, le visage de l'une des jeunes femmes nues a été découpé, et tout laisse penser que l'inconnue n'est autre que Jeanne. Celle-ci se trouve alors au centre de toutes les attentions et doit affronter le scandale. Dans une situation inconfortable, entre les rapprochements insistants de Ketti, les railleries des élèves et les plaintes des parents, elle gagne la sympathie du professeur de mathématiques, Laurent.
The Fire That Burns, 1h31
Directed by Christophe Malavoy
Origin France
Genres Drama
Themes L'adolescence, Films about children, Films about religion, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Films about pedophilia, Teen LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films about religion, LGBT-related film
Actors Christophe Malavoy, Michel Aumont, Clément Van Den Bergh, Naël Marandin, Pierre-Arnaud Juin
Rating71% 3.563673.563673.563673.563673.56367
L' « amitié particulière » de deux collégiens de classes différentes, André Sevrais, 16 ans, et Serge Souplier, 11 ans, éveille la jalousie du préfet des études, l'abbé de Pradts, qui est secrètement fasciné par le jeune Souplier. Pour évincer son rival, il lui tend un piège dans lequel il finira par être lui-même broyé.
The Closet
The Closet (2001)
, 1h24
Directed by Francis Veber
Origin France
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about animals, Films about sexuality, Films about the labor movement, LGBT-related films, Films about cats, Mise en scène d'un mammifère, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Daniel Auteuil, Gérard Depardieu, Michèle Laroque, Thierry Lhermitte, Jean Rochefort, Michel Aumont
Rating69% 3.492353.492353.492353.492353.49235
François Pignon, an unassuming divorced man with a teenage son who ignores him, lives a quiet and unremarkable life. When he learns he will be fired from his job as an accountant in a rubber factory, he contemplates suicide, but his new neighbor Jean-Pierre Belone, a former industrial psychologist, dissuades him from jumping from his balcony and suggests a way to keep his position. Belone proposes that Pignon start a rumor he is homosexual by inserting his image in sexually provocative snapshots of a gay couple in a bar and anonymously mailing them to his boss, Mr. Kopel. The factory's primary product is condoms, so the gay community's support is essential, and Kopel will have to keep Pignon on the payroll to avoid charges of anti-homosexual bigotry.
Nea
Nea (1976)
, 1h43
Origin France
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films
Actors Sami Frey, Ann Zacharias, Micheline Presle, Françoise Brion, Ingrid Caven, Heinz Bennent
Rating58% 2.9024952.9024952.9024952.9024952.902495
Librement inspiré d'une nouvelle d'Emmanuelle Arsan. En Suisse, dans un petit village où vécurent Madame de Stael et Benjamin Constant, Sybille, une adolescente rebelle, détestant son environnement bourgeois, s'évade en écrivant un journal érotique qu'elle intitule Néa.
Sweet Movie, 1h38
Directed by Dušan Makavejev
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about anarchism, Films about sexuality, Rape in fiction, Films about pedophilia, Political films, Films about virginity
Actors Carole Laure, John Vernon, Anna Prucnal, Pierre Clémenti, Sami Frey, George Melly
Rating59% 2.9942152.9942152.9942152.9942152.994215
One narrative follows Miss Monde 1984/Miss Canada (Carole Laure), who wins a contest of the "most virgin"; her prize is the marriage to a milk industry tycoon (John Vernon). However, following his degrading puritanical introduction to intercourse, she vents her intention to leave to her mother-in-law who, at that point, nearly has her killed. The family bodyguard (Roy Callender) takes her away, further humiliates her, and finally packs her in a trunk bound for Paris. She finds herself on the Eiffel Tower, where she absently meets and has intercourse with a Latin singer, El Macho (Sami Frey). The sexual act is interrupted by touring nuns who frighten the lovers into penis captivus. In her post-coital shocked state, she is adopted into an artist community led by Otto Muehl, where she finds affectionate care. The commune practices some liberating sessions, where a member, with the assistance of the others, goes through a (re)birth experience, cries, urinates and defecates like a baby, while the others are cleaning and pampering him. Later she is seen acting for an obscene advertisement, in which she is naked, covered in liquid chocolate.
Beginners
Beginners (2011)
, 1h44
Directed by Mike Mills
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Ewan McGregor, Christopher Plummer, Mélanie Laurent, Goran Višnjić, Lou Taylor Pucci, Mary Page Keller
Rating71% 3.598053.598053.598053.598053.59805
The film is structured as a series of interconnected flashbacks. Following the death of his father Hal, Oliver reflects on their relationship following the death of Oliver's mother, Georgia. Shortly after her death, Hal came out to his son and began exploring life as an openly gay man. He becomes active in the gay community, finds love and becomes more honest with himself and with his son. As a result, Oliver and Hal become closer during this time. Shortly after Hal's death, Oliver meets Anna, a French actress, at a party. Inspired by his father's attitude towards the end of his life and their relationship, Oliver decides to pursue a romance with her.
Edge of Seventeen, 1h43
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes L'adolescence, Films about children, Films about sexuality, Bisexuality-related films, LGBT-related films, Teen LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films
Actors Tina Holmes, Lea DeLaria, Jason Anthony Griffith, Twiggy
Rating67% 3.397033.397033.397033.397033.39703
Sandusky, Ohio, 1984: Eric Hunter is a Eurythmics-obsessed, musically driven teenager coming to terms with his sexual identity. When Eric and his best friend, Maggie, accept summer jobs in food service at the local amusement park, they befriend their lesbian manager, Angie, and a gay college student named Rod. Sparks fly between the two boys, even as Maggie waits patiently in the wings for Eric's affections. Eric and Rod eventually go on a date, but then Rod promptly heads back to Ohio State. The encounter leaves Eric to have mixed feelings, but he is now more sure of his sexuality. After beginning his senior year of high school, Eric starts to change up his appearance by letting Maggie dye the top half of his hair blonde, and wearing more effeminate clothes. This raises eyebrows with his loving parents, but Eric learns that his mom is going to get a part time job at a local movie multiplex to help send him to study music in New York. While at a party with Maggie, several guys from their school call Eric gay slurs that cause him to leave.
Dr. T & the Women, 2h3
Directed by Robert Altman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Richard Gere, Helen Hunt, Farrah Fawcett, Laura Dern, Shelley Long, Kate Hudson
Rating47% 2.3521152.3521152.3521152.3521152.352115
Dr. Sullivan Travis (aka "Dr. T.") (Richard Gere) is a wealthy Dallas gynecologist for some of the wealthiest women in Texas who finds his life beginning to fall apart starting when his wife, Kate (Farrah Fawcett), suffers a nervous breakdown and is committed to the state mental hospital. Dr. T's eldest daughter, Dee Dee (Kate Hudson), is planning to go through with her approaching wedding despite the secret that she is romantically involved with Marilyn (Liv Tyler), the maid of honor. Dr. T's youngest daughter, Connie (Tara Reid), is a spunky conspiracy theorist who has her own agenda, while Dr. T's loyal secretary, Carolyn (Shelley Long), has romantic feelings for him, which are not mutual. Dr. T's sister-in-law, Peggy (Laura Dern), meddles in every situation she stumbles into, while one woman, Bree (Helen Hunt), a golf instructor, offers him comfort.