Claude Zidi

Claude Zidi

1934-07-25 Paris, France 49 Credits

Biography

Claude Zidi (born 25 July 1934) is a French film director and screenwriter who is noted for his mainstream burlesque comedies. Born in Paris, he started as a cameraman and then a cinematographer, and he made his directorial and screenwriting debut in 1971. He won the César Award for Best Director for My New Partner, for which he was also nominated for Best Writing. Source: Article "Claude Zidi" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

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Les Charlots en folie

Les Charlots en folie

2024

as Self

8.0
Acting

Documentary on Les Charlots, known as The Crazy Boys in the English-speaking world, a group of French musicians, singers, comedians and film actors wh...

Claude Chabrol's Eye

Claude Chabrol's Eye

2018

as Self

6.0
Acting
Belmondo ou le goût du risque

Belmondo ou le goût du risque

2017

as Self

6.3
Acting
À la recherche de... Pierre Richard

À la recherche de... Pierre Richard

2017

as Self - Director, producer (archive footage)

7.0
Acting

Follow in the footsteps of burlesque actor Pierre Richard, a key figure in French cinema in the 1970s and 1980s.

Louis de Funès Forever

Louis de Funès Forever

2013

as Self

6.8
Acting

A moving and very funny portrait of the personal and professional life of the magnificent French comedian Louis de Funès (1914-83), as well as a detai...

Belmondo, il était une fois le beau monde

Belmondo, il était une fois le beau monde

2011

as Self (archive footage)

6.0
Acting
Ripoux anonymes

Ripoux anonymes

2011

Director

Directing
Capitaine Casta : Amélie a disparu

Capitaine Casta : Amélie a disparu

2007

Writer

Writing
My New Partner III

My New Partner III

2003

Director, Scenario Writer

5.3
Directing Writing

It's been ten years since the paths of René and François parted ways. From the glorious era when, as cops, they roamed the Montmartre district, they o...

La Boîte

La Boîte

2001

Director

5.0
Directing

Five childhood friends, who live in a small provincial town, were excluded from the only nightclub in the region. With nothing else to do they plan to...

Asterix & Obelix Take on Caesar

Asterix & Obelix Take on Caesar

1999

Screenplay, Director

6.0
Writing Directing

Set in 50 B.C., Asterix and Obelix are living in a small but well-protected village in Gaul, where a magic potion concocted by Druids turns the townsf...

Arlette

Arlette

1997

Director

5.4
Directing

An actor owes big bucks to the Vegas mob. He's all set to pay them off; he's conned a rich widow into marrying him. But the mobsters blow his cover be...

True Lies

True Lies

1994

Screenplay

7.1
Writing

A fearless, globe-trotting, terrorist-battling secret agent has his life turned upside down when he discovers his wife might be having an affair with ...

Low Profile

Low Profile

1993

Director, Writer

5.2
Directing Writing

A disillusioned police detective, used as a scapegoat by his corrupted superior, fights back by becoming a competent criminal.

The Jackpot!

The Jackpot!

1991

Director, Writer

5.8
Directing Writing

To his family, François Voisin is nothing more than a humdrum civil servant. In truth, for the past twenty years he has been working as a secret agent...

Promotion canapé

Promotion canapé

1990

Story

5.1
Writing

Two women who want a raise, realize that they can easily get what they want, if they sleep with their boss.

My New Partner II

My New Partner II

1990

Director, Story

6.0
Directing Writing

The partners are back and are in a tight spot! Francois is going through a moral crisis, and Rene is experiencing the same. But, honesty is not always...

Deux

Deux

1989

Director, Producer, Writer

5.6
Directing Producing Writing

The manager of a contemporary music composer falls in love with the real estate agent with whom he is looking for a house in Paris. But both have been...

Top Managers

Top Managers

1987

Director, Writer

6.0
Directing Writing

While his three former college friends - Thierry, Gérard and Francis have made successful careers for themselves in business, Daniel has yet to make t...

États d'âme

États d'âme

1986

Producer

4.0
Producing

In this political drama, five left-leaning friends gradually lose heart in the Socialist government elected in 1981 in France. One of the five men is ...

Les Rois du gag

Les Rois du gag

1985

Director

5.7
Directing

Paul Martin and François Leroux are brothers-in-law and comics without fame. One day, the famous television comics, Gaëtan, finds himself in the littl...

My New Partner

My New Partner

1984

Screenplay, Director

6.6
Writing Directing

A streetwise Paris policeman who takes kickbacks from the minor criminals on his beat to allow them to continue is assigned an idealistic new partner ...

Banzaï

Banzaï

1983

Director, Dialogue, Screenplay

6.2
Directing Writing

Michel works there manically solving people's problems over the phone. He is about to tie the knot with his girl friend Isabelle, an airline hostess. ...

The Under-Gifted In Vacation

The Under-Gifted In Vacation

1982

Director

5.4
Directing

A group of friends are planning how to spend their summer vacation. One plans to go to the Seychelles with his American girlfriend. At the airport she...

Inspector Blunder

Inspector Blunder

1980

Director, Writer

6.3
Directing Writing

A detective, fresh out of the academy (lowest mark in class), gets the assignment to bodyguard a spoiled rich girl reporter. She's been interviewed on...

The Under-Gifted

The Under-Gifted

1980

Director

6.4
Directing

The story centers around a graduating class of "less-gifted" students in a private Versailles high school. Only a miracle has brought the students thi...

Dumb But Disciplined

Dumb But Disciplined

1979

Director

4.6
Directing

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

The Discord

The Discord

1978

Director, Screenplay

6.4
Directing Writing

Guillaume has made it: A machine that can clean dirty air by simply sucking all dirt into air balloons and then shipping them far far away so his expl...

Animal

Animal

1977

Director

6.2
Directing

Mike (Jean-Paul Belmondo) is a stuntman who works with his girlfriend Jane (Raquel Welch). On their wedding day Mike and Jane are forced by producers ...

The Wing or the Thigh?

The Wing or the Thigh?

1976

as Waiter

7.2
Acting

Charles Duchemin, a well-known gourmet and publisher of a famous restaurant guide, is waging a war against fast food entrepreneur Tri- catel to save t...

The Wing or the Thigh?

The Wing or the Thigh?

1976

Screenplay, Director

7.2
Writing Directing

Charles Duchemin, a well-known gourmet and publisher of a famous restaurant guide, is waging a war against fast food entrepreneur Tri- catel to save t...

The Wild Goose Chase

The Wild Goose Chase

1975

Director

6.1
Directing

The whole intrigue is centered around carte-blanche documents kept in a vault. Whoever fills in the blank becomes the owner of a revue. Big money is i...

Rookies Go to War

Rookies Go to War

1974

Director, Writer

6.1
Directing Writing

A Grand Slapstick comedy about four buddies serving in the army. Their long-suffering sergeant attempts to whip them into shape but the conflict spira...

I'm Losing My Temper

I'm Losing My Temper

1974

Director, Writer, Producer

6.0
Directing Writing Producing

Pierre is a clumsy, overly serious math teacher at an all-girls high school. His life is thrown into chaos after encountering a beautiful British actr...

The Big Store

The Big Store

1973

Director, Writer

6.2
Directing Writing

Four guys working for a small grocer in trouble, declare war on a new giant neighborhood supermarket by attempting several coups. A film about the big...

Stadium Nuts

Stadium Nuts

1972

Director, Writer

6.0
Directing Writing

Les Charlots, a French rock group, continue their adventures, in the manner of the Beatles in Hard Day's Night. This is their second adventure. The fo...

Rookies Run Amok

Rookies Run Amok

1971

Director, Writer

5.6
Directing Writing

Les Bidasses en Folie, a french movie from 1971, is a very short, easy to watch, slapstick hippie comedy.

The Great Java

The Great Java

1971

Director of Photography, Writer

5.9
Directing Writing

Five friends come to the city Brizul. Here they want to find Mr Auguste Kougloff who owns them money, namely 20 million.

The Butcher

The Butcher

1970

Camera Operator

7.1

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

This Man Must Die

This Man Must Die

1969

Camera Operator

7.4

When his young son is killed in a hit and run accident, Charles Thenier resolves to hunt down and murder the killer. By chance, Thenier makes the acqu...

The Scarlet Lady

The Scarlet Lady

1969

Camera Operator

5.7

Comedy about a self-made woman in Paris contemplating the idea of suicide at first, then murder.

The Road to Corinth

The Road to Corinth

1967

Camera Operator

4.1

The widow of a murdered undercover NATO officer in Greece is the prime suspect in his killing. She finds herself embroiled in a bigger conspiracy abo...

The Killing Game

The Killing Game

1967

Camera Operator

5.8

Two cartoonists meet a playboy who lives out the fantasies created in their cartoons. He hires them to create a new comic strip. As they work on the n...

The Champagne Murders

The Champagne Murders

1967

Camera Operator

5.5

A champagne tycoon's partner suspects his partner's gigolo husband of murders he's been framed for.

Idiot in Paris

Idiot in Paris

1967

Camera Operator

6.5

Goubi, the simpleton of his village in the French Department Allier, has but one wish: to see Paris. One day, the truckers Grafouillère deposit a drun...

The Blue Panther

The Blue Panther

1965

Camera Operator

4.9

Marie-Chantal travels by train to her cousin's place to spend a winter holiday, when a stranger entrusts her with false jewels that contain a virus po...

Happiness

Happiness

1965

Camera Operator, Assistant Camera

7.5

A young husband and father, perfectly content with his life, falls in love with another woman.

A Couple

A Couple

1960

Assistant Camera

3.0

After testing their love, Pierre and Anne decide to leave each other.

Head Against the Wall

Head Against the Wall

1959

Assistant Director of Photography

6.8
Directing

An aimless young man is committed to a psychiatric hospital by his father in an attempt to cure him of his delinquent tendencies.