Vittorio Caprioli

Umbrella Coup

Release Date and Country: 1980, France

Director: Gérard Oury

Cast: Pierre Richard, Valérie Mairesse, Christine Murillo...

Movie or TV Series Plot: Grégoire Lecompte, an actor without success, living mostly out of small advertisement has a meeting for a role of hitman in a comedy. But because of a misunderstanding, he ends up being employed by re...

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 ...

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...

How to Destroy the Reputation of the Greatest Secret Agent

Comedy/Action

Release Date and Country: 1973, France, Italy

Director: Philippe de Broca

Cast: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jacqueline Bisset, Vittorio Caprioli...

Movie or TV Series Plot: François Merlin is a writer and creator of the famous and fearless super spy Bob Saint Clair, who is after the dangerous Colonel Karpof. Everything works until the spy Ariana incarnates herself in the...