Lepetit, an ambitious and determined man, is named the new CEO of a department store. His mission is to improve the store’s financial position. He decides that the human factor will be his catchword and introduces new methods, which he also applied to himself. But tensions slowly arise between members of the staff.
Category: Comedy
Comedy
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We’re Talkin’ Serious Money
A couple of bumbling con men go on the lam when they can’t repay a loan from the mob.
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The Naked Truth
Two friends, both named Frank, accidentally obtain a suitcase at the airport. It contains incriminating evidence against a mafia boss, who sends his Terminator-like lackie to find them. The Franks hide by impersonating make-up women for a beauty pageant. While in drag, the mafioso falls in love with one of the Franks.
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Almost Pregnant
Charlie (Conaway) is a happy man with a beautiful wife (Roberts), a wonderful career and every blessing a man could want except “…children”. When the wife demands a “star child” and Charlie can’t deliver the goods, they turn to their crazy neighbor (Calvin) to get the job done, so to speak. Very hilarious and bawdy comedy where “one rooster to a hen-house” is not always the truth.
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For Richer, for Poorer
Fresh out of college, a young man lazes about his family’s estate, which irritates his father, a self-made millionaire who hatches a bankruptcy plan that he hopes will inspire his son to get a job.
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Sam’s Enough
After trying a job as a stripper in a Barcelona carnival, Eva (Aure Attika) is ready for something new, so she heads over to France and becomes the roommate of a gay American artist (Phillip Bartlett) and works as the housewife for two wealthy older homosexuals (Claude Chabrol and Jean-François Balmer. After she gets settled, she takes a job at a government office for a while but then decides to have a child, which her obliging roommate makes with her the old fashioned way. He then returns to his usual preference, while Eva explores becoming an artist herself. From time to time in this easygoing comedy, Eva’s similarly independent and quirky mother (Bernadette Lafont) shows up.
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Moralność Pani Dulskiej
A seemingly exemplary housewife and mother, she cares about the family’s good image. In reality, she is hypocritical and ruthless, tolerating wickedness and covering up scandals in the name of “higher values.” Zapolska exposes bourgeois hypocrisy and ridicules so-called decent people.
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The Child of Man
A six-year-old boy plots to stop his “sweetheart”, a grown-up woman in his pre-World War II Latvian village, from marrying.
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Schlag Dein Tier
Thesis at the University of Television and Film in Munich. In this milestone in film history, pet owners compete against their pets in a fictional TV show.
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In the Soup
An aspiring young filmmaker gets involved with an eccentric gangster for the financing of his first film.