Very Happy Alexander

Feb 9, 1968

1h 40m

★ 6.8

Overview

Alexandre, a young and honest farmer, is oppressed by an authoritarian wife, who makes him work like a dog. When she dies in a car crash, he decides to stay in bed, absolutely free and inactive. Just a dog is occupied to carry food and newspapers to him.

Genres

Comedy

Production Companies

Madeleine Films

Gaumont

CAPAC

Les Films de la Colombe

Les Productions de la Guéville

Very Happy Alexander Trailers

No Trailers found.

Cast

Alexandre Gartempe

Philippe Noiret

Agathe Bordot

Marlène Jobert

Eliane Gartempe, aka 'La Grande'

Françoise Brion

Sanguin

Paul Le Person

Mrs. Bouillot

Tsilla Chelton

Father Lamendin

Léonce Corne

Colibert

Pierre Richard

Pinton

Jean Saudray

Alexander's dog

Kaly

the priest

Pierre Barnley

Malicorne

Marcel Bernier

Mayor

Bernard Charlan

La Patinoire is about a film director who is shooting a highly symbolic film called 'Dolores' at an ice rink. He has hired a Lithuanian ice hockey team with which he is having enormous communication problems. His actors all have inflated egos, his film crew is made up of fools, and there is a politician on his back. But he must finish the film, no matter what, in time for the Venice Film Festival.

5.2

Mes amis, mes amours

Jul 2, 2008

Two divorced fathers Mathias and Antoine, decide to raise their children together in London. Their lives consist of Sophie the pretty florist secretly in love with Antoine, Yvonne who runs the 'bistrot français' and has a very maternal outlook on life and Mac Enzie, the boss of Antoine's agency who is completley in love with Yvonne despite the big age difference.

7.6

The Old Lady and the Pigeons

May 27, 1997

A starving gendarme, wasting away from hunger, is reduced to grabbing castoff snacks from fat American tourists. When he sees as old woman feeding pigeons, in desperation he hits on the bizarre idea of dressing up as one...

7.6

A Monkey in Winter

Jul 29, 1962

During World War II, an innkeeper vows to abstain from alcohol for the sake of his family. Years later, as they thrive in Normandy, his resolve is tested by a charming advertising professional who loves to drink.

6.4

Mademoiselle Chambon

Oct 14, 2009

Véronique Chambon (Sandrine Kiberlain), a single schoolteacher and Jean (Vincent Lindon), discover an unexpected bond that causes them to question the direction of their lives. They move in different social circles but their relationship develops and their lives begin gradually to unravel.

7.1

Greed in the Sun

Apr 17, 1964

A truck driver ventures into the Moroccan desert to retrieve a stolen truck, facing danger, bad luck, and uneasy alliances. Chaos builds to a climactic showdown.

7.3

The Brain

Mar 7, 1969

Arthur and Anatole are two little robbers. They want to rob money, money that will travel in a special train from Paris to Bruxelles. They don't know that other people have planned to do the same thing.

6.0

Way of Youth

Sep 23, 1959

This movie is a Marcel Aymé adaptation and it deals with the not-so-glorious side of the Occupation: black market, war profiteers, cracking open bottles of Champagne while most of the Parisians are almost starving.

5.8

Dear Inspector

Jan 18, 1978

When Lise's car bumps Antoine's bike, they recognize each other from a brief fling 20 years before while at the Sorbonne. He's now a professor of Greek; she's loathe to tell him she's a police inspector. A call interrupts their first dinner date: a Deputy of the National Assembly has been murdered. She has a suspect, another Deputy, and must track him while deflecting Antoine's eye from her vocation. All roads in the inquiry lead to Christine Vallier, the dead Deputy's mistress, a beguiling 22-year-old whose mother ran the Assembly's snack bar. When more deputies die and Antoine learns Lise's identity, she must act quickly solve the crime and save her future.

6.1

Monsieur

Apr 22, 1964

Left heartbroken by the death of his beloved wife, a rich banker tries to commit suicide. When he learns from his former maid that his wife was unfaithful, he fakes his own death and comes back under a new identity.

6.2

The Old Guard

Sep 2, 1960

Three friends leave their village for a retirement home travelling the countryside

5.9

The Student

Oct 5, 1988

An ambitious teaching student's finals studies are interrupted by a passionate affair with a jazz musician.

4.6

The Dope

Feb 5, 2003

Alphonse Brown, who firmly believes he is the bastard son of James Brown, meets up with his best friend Scotch after Brown gets out of jail. On their way to Paris to begin careers as recording artists, the pair stumbles across a potent type of marijuana that was engineered by the Nazis. Their decision to begin selling the stuff leads to a variety of people chasing after them.

2.9

Cineman

Oct 28, 2009

A maths teacher acquires the power to travel into movies to save the woman of his dreams and bring her back to her correct film.

6.7

Money Money Money

May 4, 1972

When they realize the times are changing, five crooks decide to switch from bank robberies to personality abductions.

7.0

The Magnificent Tramp

Apr 8, 1959

Bum Archimède wants to spend the winter in prison, but to get there proves not to be that easy.

No Image Available

0.0

I Am Alone

Apr 26, 2016

In an attempt to cope with his loneliness, Adam tries to build his own Frankenstein's monster.

7.1

The Butcher

Feb 27, 1970

An unlikely friendship between a dour, working class butcher and a repressed schoolteacher coincides with a grisly series of Ripper-type murders in a provincial French town.

4.9

Killer

Mar 1, 1972

Whilst being transferred to a psychiatric hospital, a ruthless serial killer Gassot makes a break and goes on the run. He arrives in Marseilles, intending to escape abroad. Here, he falls for a young prostitute, Gerda.