
Étienne Draber
Actor · 1939 – 2021 · Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France
Étienne Draber is a French actor known for both his stage and movie roles. He is the father of French actress Stéphanie Bataille. He died from Covid-19 in 2021.
Movies23
Movie6.3ComedyDramaIn the present, artist Tom Warshaw recalls his traumatic coming of age. As a 13-year-old growing up in New York City in 1973, Tom hangs out with Pappass, a mentally disabled man. With Tom's mother battling depression after the death of her husband, the young boy is left to his own devices. When Tom develops a crush on schoolmate Melissa, Pappass feels abandoned and begins behaving erratically.
House of D
2004 · 158 votes
Movie6.2DramaIn 19th-century France, doctor's wife Emma Bovary seeks to escape her dull provincial life through various extramarital affairs and extravagant spending, leading to tragic consequences.
Madame Bovary
1991 · 152 votes
Movie6.1DramaThrillerDr. Brézé and his sons, all surgeons with limited abilities fight any competition on their sector with all means.
Movie6.5ComedyThe story centers around a graduating class of "less-gifted" students in a private Versailles high school. Only a miracle has brought the students this far along, and after a practical joke misfires and the whole school is dynamited, the students are in deep trouble. They have to present themselves in court for their punishment and it could not be worse: If they don't pass their high-school graduation exams, they go to prison!
Movie6.1ComedyCatherine refuses to believe that her business partner, the unlikeable François, has a best friend, so she challenges him to set up an introduction. Scrambling to find someone willing to pose as his best pal, François enlists the services of a charming taxi driver to play the part.
Movie5.8ComedyDramaClaire's handbag is stolen. It contained a letter written ten years previously by the man who is now the French President. In the letter, he urges his pregnant mistress to have an abortion. Claire immediately alerts the President's men. From that moment, the machinery of state swings into action.
Le Bon Plaisir
1984 · 31 votes
Movie4.0ComedyA young Brazilian arrives in Paris to discover that his brother has become a transvestite in the Bois de Boulogne. He decides to do everything to get him out of the clutches of his "protectors".
Les Brésiliennes du Bois de Boulogne
1984 · 3 votes
Movie6.9ComedyDramaDuring the events of May 1968 in France, different worldviews of conflicting relatives collide in their family estate.
Movie6.9ComedyDramaTo get royal backing on a needed drainage project, a poor French lord must learn to play the delicate games of wit at court at Versailles.
Ridicule
1996 · 228 votes
Movie6.4ThrillerDramaAfter his father is killed in a plane crash, Bart Cordell returns back home to France to claim his inheritance: to lead the industrial empire his father built. But when a prostitute tries to set him up for a drug smuggling charge, he is forced to accept that his father may have been assassinated and that the killers are out to get him as well...
Movie4.1ComedyChloe has been living a successful life thanks to one trick: Albert Einstein is in her mind. But one day, he decides to move and chooses another body: Zac, a depressive beekeeper.
Movie5.8RomanceComedyJean-Jacques Lestrade is the owner of a renowned veterinary clinic in Paris who lives in a luxurious apartment. He is part of Parisian high society and lives a wealthy lifestyle surrounded by young women and money. He relies on his trusty accountant, Jérôme Bouvier, to manage his finances. All goes well until the day that Béatrice Flamand, a tax inspector, shows up at his clinic, at which point Lestrade is now in trouble.
Movie5.5ActionComedyGérard, CEO of the factory "La voix du peuple", decides to close his factory by dismissing all his staff, starting with Jean Barbier, the chief of staff, and Phil Dechambre.
Les Charlots en délire
1979 · 19 votes
Movie6.5AdventureHistoryBeaumarchais the Scoundrel is a biopic film based on the life of the French playwright, financier and spy Pierre Beaumarchais depicting his activities during the American War of Independence and his authorship of the Figaro trilogy of plays.
Movie4.7ComedyLate spring 1942: France is under German occupation. But this doesn't much concern the boarders of a school lost in the French country. Bernard, a rather frivolous teenager, is in love for the first time; he's fond of Marie-Helene, an older and more mature girl. To approach her is not so easy...
Movie6.0ComedyAfter receiving a mobster's heart as a transplant, a modest bank teller embarks on a life of criminal exploits.
La Grande Maffia
1971 · 2 votes
Movie4.0ComedyIt’s summer in a small port town in Brittany. Isabelle (Pascale Rocard), who has just graduated from high school, comes to join her mother Micheline (Bernadette Lafont). Micheline is being courted by a beach boy, Maurice—whom everyone calls Doudoune (Bernard Menez). Isabelle soon begins a sweet romance with one of his friends, Pascal (Pascal Meynier). Meanwhile, her father (Michel Aumont) has stayed behind in Soissons, where he runs a medical laboratory, and is bored to death. Every weekend, he comes to spend 48 hours with Micheline and sometimes splurges a little extra in Paris, hitting on girls in nightclubs. Efforts that are not crowned with success. On the contrary, in Brittany, that ladies’ man Doudoune gets what he wants... But when the family man comes to join his loved ones, the blunders and misunderstandings multiply...
La frisée aux lardons
1979 · 2 votes
Movie6.5ComedyDramaWhen a young auto salesman is forced to give up a vacation with his wife in order to drive a big American car to its new owner who lives in Cannes, he makes the best of things. First, he gets and old friend to ride along with him. Then, the two of them are joined by another pair of men who want to ride south.
Movie6.4HorrorThrillerA radio station receives a call from a psychopath who claims to have murdered many women. He leaves a series of clues that lead to his next victim, propelling the cops to find him before he kills her.
Movie5.6ComedyRomanceMichel dreams of a perfect meeting with the woman of his dreams, entirely due to chance, as his parents and grandparents experienced. Vincent, Michel's contrast, is completely different. He is more the man of the direct approach and he follows his...! The two childhood friends Michel and Vincent, with completely opposite views when it comes to women, soon discover the limits of their respective techniques when they meet Angèle and Nathalie.
Movie3.3DramaZef, twenty years old, is a simple-minded man who can only say one word: "love you". Always happy, loving everyone, he lives with his sister Sophie on a farm in the Lot. Attracted by the sad smile of Marie, he rapes her one evening without realizing the gravity of his act. Commited in a psychiatric asylum, Zef falls into a deep silence. Hugues, a doctor with avant-garde methods, is in charge of caring for Marie. He decides to confront her with Zef, convinced that her healing goes through a long reappropriation of life and love.
T'aime
2000 · 6 votes
Movie5.4ComedyFrancois, seducer very misogynist, directs an Eros Club, that from which suffers his Carole wife silently. Julie, saleswoman in a clock industry, as for it is taken of an access of madness after having surprised her husband, Léo, future
Et la tendresse ?… Bordel !
1979 · 19 votes
Movie9.0ComedyDrôle de couple
1987 · 1 votes
Series5
TV7.8CrimeMysteryThe pragmatic, reserved and refined Maigret investigates murders in his singular unhurried manner and inevitably discovers the truth.
Maigret
1991 · 27 votes
TV7.1CrimeThe series follows the adventures of lighthearted Jean-Paul Moulin, a police Commissaire, and his team as they solve crimes.
TV5.3CrimeThe Cordier fight in family against the crime: the father is police captain, the son, investigating judge and the girl, a journalist.
Les Cordier, juge et flic
1994 · 10 votes
TV6.2DramaChâteauvallon
1985 · 4 votes
TV7.3ComedyA couple who live in the French provinces are surprised to inherit a hotel in Paris. These new owners are determined to sell it, but that's without the charms, vagaries, and clientele of this typical inn implanted in a nice neighborhood.
Petit déjeuner compris
1980 · 4 votes