Jean Martin

The Wing or The Thigh?

Comedy

Release Date and Country: 1976, France

Director: Claude Zidi

Cast: Louis de Funes, Coluche, Ann Zacharias...

Movie or TV Series Plot: Charles Duchemin is the chief editor of France's most prestigious restaurant guide. He insists in teaching his son, Gérard, how to become a fine food critic, as he hopes the latter will take over the ...

The Night Caller

Crime/Drama/Thriller

Release Date and Country: 1975, France, Italy

Director: Henri Verneuil

Cast: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Charles Denner, Rosy Varte...

Movie or TV Series Plot: Minos, a psychotic killer who sees himself as a hero commits a series of murders on women, he considers having a loose sexuality. As the first body is discovered, the police commissioner Letellier, in...

Lucky Pierre

Comedy

Release Date and Country: 1974, France

Director: Claude Zidi

Cast: Pierre Richard, Jane Birkin, Claude Piéplu...

Movie or TV Series Plot: Pierre is a math teacher in girls' school in central France. Though in his spare times he also writes speeches for his dad, in the middle of an electoral campaign for mayoral elections, as well as art...

The Inheritor

Thriller/Crime

Release Date and Country: 1973, France, Italy

Director: Philippe Labro

Cast: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Carla Gravina, Jean Rochefort...

Movie or TV Series Plot: Hugo Cordell, big boss of the press and the industry, is killed in the explosion of his plane, between Geneva and Paris. Examination of the debris from the aircraft did not make it possible to establi...

The Day of the Jackal

Action/Drama

Release Date and Country: 1973, United Kingdom, France

Director: Fred Zinnemann

Cast: Edward Fox, Michel Auclair, Alan Badel...

Movie or TV Series Plot: After their fail attempt to assassinate president Charles de Gaulle in 1963, the French underground organization, OAS, hires a professional hitman to get rid of the French president. No face, no ident...