1976 film by Jacques Rozier

Jacques Villeret occupe une place à part : il n’est pas une "icône", et pourtant, il brille aussi fort que les plus grand.e.s, d’une lumière particulière, celle qui déclenche aussi imparablement le rire que les larmes, celle qui nous interroge sur le mystère des émotions. En découvrant son histoire méconnue, pleine de rebondissements et d’événements parfois dramatiques, on comprend comment cet homme qui nous touche en plein cœur a pu s'installer aussi haut tout en restant "des nôtres", sans jamais se défaire de sa fragilité. Ce documentaire qui lui colle à la peau révèle ce qu'il en coûte d'être un si grand artiste, même avec une étiquette de "second rôle" accrochée au revers de son costume de comédien. Pour relater la grande traversée intime de Jacques Villeret : sa petite sœur Ghislaine Villeret ainsi que celles et ceux qui l’ont côtoyé et aimé : Jacques Weber, Nathalie Baye, Jean-Michel Ribes, Philippe Ferran, Patrice Leconte, Daniel Russo, Thierry Lhermitte et Claude Lelouch.

1985 short film by Bernard Nauer

An anthology movie comprising four weird stories. Like the Twilight Zone movie but strictly played for laughs. There’s a bit of everything, car explosions, french debauchery, serial-killers, crazy broads, silly humor and naughty language…

2003 film by Jean-Pierre Mocky

Jean-Pierre (Jacques Villeret), un attaché humanitaire qui travaille au ministère des Affaires Etrangères, accepte de reconduire un jeune clandestin (Lorant Deutsch) dans son pays d'origine. Celui-ci appartient à la tribu des Hommes Gris d'Irghiz, réfugiés depuis la préhistoire dans une cité interdite du Haut Atlas.

Jacques does his military service. Shy, round and clumsy, he is forced to agree to be the driver of a special ambulance.

Young Jeanne falls in love with photographer Francis, who soon takes her with him when he emigrates to America. In a small town in the still wild west, they build up a small photo shop. Meanwhile, animal doctor David lives on his lonesome farm together with his unlucky wife. It takes years and two tragic accidents until Jeanne and David meet. She has already decided to return to France as soon as possible, but love, and fate, have other plans.

1987 film by Gérard Krawczyk

Georges Lajoie is a Parisian café owner. As every summer, Georges, his wife Ginette and grown-up son Léon go on holiday to Loulou's campsite, where they meet up with the Schumacher family (whose father is a bailiff) and the Colin family (who sells bras in the markets). This year, their peace is slightly disturbed by the proximity of a construction site where foreign workers are employed. Xenophobic comments are made. One evening at the ball, a fight breaks out between Lajoie, Albert Schumacher and two algerian immigrant workers...

JAM (Christian Clavier), a French "master of the universe" is on the brink of a major takeover when he starts suffering from anxiety attacks. His doctor (Lhermite) thinks it is to do with childhood experiences and suggests he searches back in his mind to something that could be the trigger and will prove to be the antidote.

2004 film by Gilles Legrand

Bonaventure (Pierre Richard) is a semi-competent travel agent who makes up stories about his great romantic adventures to tell to the girls in his office. One evening, he meets a woman who has the same name as one of his made-up romances, and they share a for-real one-night encounter. Afterward, he thinks up a scheme for a unique tour situation in which people might pay for a limited-time visit to a completely undeveloped island where they will be forced to become modern-day Robinson Crusoes.

April 5, 1943: a battalion of the Foreign Legion arrives in El Ksour, Tunisia, to escort a fortune in gold bars to the home front. A German ambush awaits, and all but four die. Thanks to the street smarts of Sergeant Augagneur, the Legionnaires successfully counter attack. The bank manager and his seductive wife arrive, and so does a German lieutenant, whom the French arrest. Augagneur wants to steal the gold; warrant officer Mahuzard wants to do his duty. A series of alliances form and break apart, the group dwindles in number, and the gold heads south toward Betahoua. But in whose possession?

Keeping the rhythm for twenty or so minutes in Ravel's Boléro can be an arduous and excruciatingly tedious task for the orchestra's unsung hero: the drummer.