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.
Known For
Complete Filmography

Les Charlots en folie
2024
as Self
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
2018
as Self

Belmondo ou le goût du risque
2017
as Self

À la recherche de... Pierre Richard
2017
as Self - Director, producer (archive footage)
Follow in the footsteps of burlesque actor Pierre Richard, a key figure in French cinema in the 1970s and 1980s.

Louis de Funès Forever
2013
as Self
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
2011
as Self (archive footage)

Ripoux anonymes
2011
Director

Capitaine Casta : Amélie a disparu
2007
Writer

My New Partner III
2003
Director, Scenario Writer
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
2001
Director
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
1999
Screenplay, Director
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
1997
Director
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
1994
Screenplay
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
1993
Director, Writer
A disillusioned police detective, used as a scapegoat by his corrupted superior, fights back by becoming a competent criminal.

The Jackpot!
1991
Director, Writer
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
1990
Story
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
1990
Director, Story
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
1989
Director, Producer, Writer
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
1987
Director, Writer
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
1986
Producer
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
1985
Director
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
1984
Screenplay, Director
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
1983
Director, Dialogue, Screenplay
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
1982
Director
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
1980
Director, Writer
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
1980
Director
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
1979
Director
Jacques does his military service. Shy, round and clumsy, he is forced to agree to be the driver of a special ambulance.

The Discord
1978
Director, Screenplay
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
1977
Director
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?
1976
as Waiter
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?
1976
Screenplay, Director
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
1975
Director
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
1974
Director, Writer
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
1974
Director, Writer, Producer
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
1973
Director, Writer
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
1972
Director, Writer
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
1971
Director, Writer
Les Bidasses en Folie, a french movie from 1971, is a very short, easy to watch, slapstick hippie comedy.

The Great Java
1971
Director of Photography, Writer
Five friends come to the city Brizul. Here they want to find Mr Auguste Kougloff who owns them money, namely 20 million.

The Butcher
1970
Camera Operator
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
1969
Camera Operator
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
1969
Camera Operator
Comedy about a self-made woman in Paris contemplating the idea of suicide at first, then murder.

The Road to Corinth
1967
Camera Operator
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
1967
Camera Operator
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
1967
Camera Operator
A champagne tycoon's partner suspects his partner's gigolo husband of murders he's been framed for.

Idiot in Paris
1967
Camera Operator
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
1965
Camera Operator
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
1965
Camera Operator, Assistant Camera
A young husband and father, perfectly content with his life, falls in love with another woman.

A Couple
1960
Assistant Camera
After testing their love, Pierre and Anne decide to leave each other.

Head Against the Wall
1959
Assistant Director of Photography
An aimless young man is committed to a psychiatric hospital by his father in an attempt to cure him of his delinquent tendencies.