Mr. Gregoire Runs Away
1946 · 1h 40m · N/A
Comedy, Crime
Directed by
Jacques Daniel-Norman
Overview
Alex Grégoire is a timid insurance company clerk who shares his uneventful life between his wife Angèle, his colleagues and his passion for crosswords. But all of a sudden his existence changes dramatically. First because he wins a crossword competition. Second because a jewel thief, Charles Tuffal, thinks he recognizes in him a former accomplice. From that moment "uneventful" is not the best adjective to qualify Alex's life anymore...
Director and cast
More films
Gigli (2003)
Comedy · Crime · Drama · Romance · R
Gigli is ordered to kidnap the psychologically challenged younger brother of a powerful federal prosecutor. When plans go awry, Gigli's boss sends in Ricki, a gorgeous free-spirited female gangster who has her own set of orders to assist with the kidnapping. But Gigli begins falling for the decidedly unavailable Ricki, which could be a...
- Runtime
- 2h 2m
- Director
- Martin Brest
- Cast
- Ben Affleck, Jennifer Lopez, Justin Bartha
When Women Lost Their Tails (1972)
Comedy · R
Filli and the cavemen from "When Women Had Tails" are living a carefree life inside a dinosaur skeleton. But when conman Ham introduces them to the concept of currency and economics, their lives fall apart. On top of that, Filli starts to fall in love with Ham.
- Runtime
- 1h 34m
- Director
- Pasquale Festa Campanile
- Cast
- Senta Berger, Lando Buzzanca, Frank Wolff
The Grocer's Son (2007)
Comedy · Drama · Not Rated
Antoine Sforza, a thirty-year-old young man, left his village ten years before in order to start a new life in the big city, but now that his father, a traveling grocer, is in hospital after a stroke, he more or less reluctantly accepts to come back to replace him in his daily rounds.
- Runtime
- 1h 36m
- Director
- Éric Guirado
- Cast
- Nicolas Cazalé, Clotilde Hesme, Daniel Duval
Hard Eight (1997)
Crime · Drama · R
A stranger mentors a young Reno gambler who weds a hooker and befriends a vulgar casino regular.
- Runtime
- 1h 42m
- Director
- Paul Thomas Anderson
- Cast
- Philip Baker Hall, John C. Reilly, Gwyneth Paltrow
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2005)
Adventure · Crime · Drama · Mystery · Western · R
When brash Texas border officer Mike Norton wrongfully kills and buries the friend and ranch hand of Pete Perkins, the latter is reminded of a promise he made to bury his friend, Melquiades Estrada, in his Mexican home town. He kidnaps Norton and exhumes Estrada's corpse, and the odd caravan sets out on horseback for Mexico.
- Runtime
- 2h 1m
- Director
- Tommy Lee Jones
- Cast
- Barry Pepper, Dwight Yoakam, January Jones
Underground (2007)
Action · Not Rated
In the UK suburbs, an underground tournament is set to challenge twelve fighters from different backgrounds to compete for the price of £500,000. They have been handpicked for a no-holds barred competition that will push each fighter to their limit. Each fighter has their own reason for competing, and each will give everything they've ...
- Runtime
- 1h 35m
- Director
- Chee Keong Cheung
- Cast
- Mark Strange, Nathan Lewis, Joey Ansah
Bodyguard: A New Beginning (2008)
Action · Drama · Thriller · R
Leung is the bodyguard of a Chinese Triad boss, Wong, to whom his loyalty is unrivaled. Living in Hong Kong, Wong requests that his bodyguard travel to the UK to protect a young British woman, whose true identity is known only by Wong himself. Even Wong's son, Yuen, is kept in the dark, which leads to a betrayal that threatens to destr...
- Runtime
- 1h 35m
- Director
- Chee Keong Cheung
- Cast
- Vincent Sze Cho-Lam, Richard Ng Yiu-Hon, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
Comments
Talk about the film with other members