Biography
Didier Kaminka est un réalisateur, acteur, dialoguiste et scénariste français né le 22 avril 1943 à Paris.
Known For
Complete Filmography

La DorMeuse Duval
2017
as Le peintre
In a village by the Meuse river, located near the French-Belgian border, a factory storekeeper named Basile Matrin leads a dreary life with his wife, ...

Pour 100 briques t'as plus rien maintenant !
2016
Writer

Je m'appelle Régine
1996
as Joueur de cartes
This TV movie is adapted from the memoirs of the singer Régine, in which she recounts her youth and her beginnings in the music hall.

Ma femme me quitte
1996
Director
Joanna Martin, a mid-life journalist, is investigating a marriage agency organizing white marriages. She uses her sister's identity to infiltrate.

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

À quoi tu penses-tu ?
1992
Director, Writer
Because he only thinks about Karine, the wife of his best friend André, Pierre, a writer, can no longer write. The situation is all the more complex a...

The Jackpot!
1991
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
Director, Writer
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
Writer
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...

Les cigognes n'en font qu'à leur tête
1989
Director, Writer
Married to Jeremie, Marie wants desperately to have a child. She has a 20 year old daughter from a former marriage with the police commissioner. When ...

Tant qu'il y aura des femmes
1987
Scenario Writer, Director
Sam is a screenwriter, good at sorting out other people's stories but unable to organize his own life. He loves women with passion and there are too m...

Top Managers
1987
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...

Yiddish Connection
1986
Screenplay
Two middle-aged Jewish merchants plot to crack a safe with a clergyman and some neighbors in Paris.

I Love You
1986
Writer
In another indictment of the flaws of our so-called civilization, this satire from the late director Marco Ferreri features Christopher Lambert as Mic...

Lien de parenté
1986
Writer
In this drama, the popular French film star of the '30s and '40s Jean Marais plays Victor, a disgruntled, cranky old man who is forced to come to term...

Les Rois du gag
1985
as René
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...

I Believe in Santa Claus
1984
Writer
All Simon wants for Christmas is his parents (who are being held captive by an African warlord) back. So, he and another student stowaway on a flight ...

My New Partner
1984
Screenplay
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 ...

Pinot simple-flic
1984
as Le clochard
The film starts in the 13th arrondissement of Paris in 1984. Robert Pinot is a police officer as ordinary as clumsy. One day, he stops a certain Josya...

The Bodyguard
1984
as André
Barbara marries Julien a charming and sexy man. Barbara's old flame Paul is highly suspicious of Julien. It seems Julien's previous two wives died und...

The Bodyguard
1984
Screenplay
Barbara marries Julien a charming and sexy man. Barbara's old flame Paul is highly suspicious of Julien. It seems Julien's previous two wives died und...

Banzaï
1983
as Paul, le cousin de Michel
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. ...

Banzaï
1983
Dialogue
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. ...

Après tout ce qu'on a fait pour toi
1983
Divorced parents are concerned about the behavior of their teenage son who is rebelling against society.

For 200 Grand, You Get Nothing Now
1982
Dialogue, Author, Adaptation
After getting screwed over by life (again), two losers decide that enough is enough. Using stolen ski masks and stolen toy guns, they take hostages in...

Keeping Everyone Up
1982
as L'ami de Solange
A homeless street musician meets an attractive woman by chance and keeps following her until he persuades her to let him stay in her place.

The Under-Gifted In Vacation
1982
as le voisin de Memphis à Saint-Tropez
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...

The Under-Gifted In Vacation
1982
Writer
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...

Come to My Place, I Live at a Girlfriend's
1981
Writer
Guy is fired from is job, and asks to stay with his friend and his girlfriend in their apartment. The longer he stays, the more disaster he creates.

Le Garçon d’appartement
1980
as Michel
Yves is a young man too lazy to work encrusted in a young girl he met on the street and no longer wants to leave the apartment she is sharing with one...

Trop c'est trop
1975
as Didier
Philippe, Didier, Georges and Edina were born on the same day. The three boys have always been in love with Edina, but she's always put them off. They...

Trop c'est trop
1975
Director, Screenplay
Philippe, Didier, Georges and Edina were born on the same day. The three boys have always been in love with Edina, but she's always put them off. They...

Un jour, la fête
1975
as Samy
Michel returns from a trip. He meets up with his friends from the H.L.M. housing estate. Together, they have set up a meeting place. The developer has...

La grande Paulette
1974
This is an attempt to imitate the inimitable, Jacques Tati. Paulette is a life-size blow-up doll. Imagine the rest yourself.

La grande Paulette
1974
Writer
This is an attempt to imitate the inimitable, Jacques Tati. Paulette is a life-size blow-up doll. Imagine the rest yourself.

The Nada Gang
1974
as Meyer
Nada, named after a gang of Spanish anarchists, is a small, confused band of French terrorists. They kidnap the American ambassador after one of his r...

I Don't Know Much, But I'll Say Everything
1973
Writer
Pierre Gastié-Leroy is the son of a wealthy director of a factory of weapon manufacturing. Despite his parents, two generous uncles and a bishop godfa...

L'école sauvage
1973
as Narrator (voice)
In a school near Paris, a new experiment is being tried: to allow each child to express him or herself. In the smaller classes, group activities were ...
Un enfant dans la ville
1971
"Un enfant dans la ville" was originally a Michel Fugain album, a record that already told a story. Now it's a musical comedy filmed for television, g...
La Lucarne magique
1971
as Un jeune

Poussez pas grand-père dans les cactus
1969
Alphonse flees to Paris to escape his wife's despotism. Intoxicated by the frenzied pace of Parisian life, he ruins himself completely. During a night...