Édouard Molinaro
Édouard Molinaro was a French film director and screenwriter.
Biography
He was born in Bordeaux, Gironde. He is best known for his comedies with Louis de Funès, My Uncle Benjamin, Dracula and Son, and the Academy Award-nominated La Cage aux Folles. Molinaro was active as a director until a few years before his death, although after 1985 he had almost exclusively been producing works for television.In 1996, his cinematic work was awarded the René Clair Award, a prize given by the Académie Française for excellent film work.
Molinaro died of a respiratory insufficiency in 2013 at the age of 85.
Filmography (as director)
- Les Alchimistes
- Back to the Wall — based on a novel by Frédéric Dard
- The Road to Shame — based on a novel by
- Witness in the City — screenplay by Boileau-Narcejac
- A Mistress for the Summer — based on a novel by Maurice Clavel
- The Passion of Slow Fire — based on a novel by Georges Simenon
- ' — based on a novel by
- The Seven Deadly Sins
- Arsene Lupin vs. Arsene Lupin — Arsène Lupin sequel
- Une ravissante idiote — based on a novel by Charles Exbrayat
- Male Hunt
- '
- To Commit a Murder — based on a novel by Jacques Robert
- Oscar — based on a play by
- Hibernatus — based on a play by Jean Bernard-Luc
- Mon oncle Benjamin — based on a novel by Claude Tillier
- ' — based on a novel by Jacques Perry
- ' — based on a play by Georges Arnaud
- ' — based on a novel by Christine de Rivoyre
- '
- L'Emmerdeur — screenplay by Francis Veber
- ' — based on a novel by Paul Guimard
- : Un jour comme les autres avec des cacahuètes
- ' — screenplay by Francis Veber
- Dracula and Son — Dracula parody
- Man in a Hurry — based on the novel The Man in a Hurry by Paul Morand
- : Le Dossier Françoise Muller
- ' — based on the Claudine novels by Colette
- La Cage aux folles — screenplay by Francis Veber, based on the play La Cage aux Folles by Jean Poiret
- Il était un musicien: Monsieur Strauss
- ' — screenplay by Francis Veber, based on a novel by Peter Marks
- La Pitié dangereuse — based on Beware of Pity by Stefan Zweig
- Sunday Lovers — screenplay by Francis Veber
- La Cage aux Folles II — screenplay by Francis Veber, sequel to La Cage aux Folles
- Au bon beurre — based on The Best Butter by Jean Dutourd
- Pour cent briques, t'as plus rien... — based on a play by
- ' — based on a novel by Armand Lanoux
- Just the Way You Are
- '
- '
- Le Tiroir secret
- Un métier du seigneur — based on A Noble Profession by Pierre Boulle
- L'Ivresse de la métamorphose — based on The Post Office Girl by Stefan Zweig
- Door on the Left as You Leave the Elevator — based on a play by Gérard Lauzier
- La Ruelle au clair de lune — based on Moonbeam Alley by Stefan Zweig
- Manon Roland — biographical film about Madame Roland
- Les Grandes Familles — based on a novel by Maurice Druon
- : La Peau du gorille
- ' — based on a novella by Arthur Schnitzler
- Coup de foudre: Résurgence
- Coup de foudre: Grand, beau et brun
- La Femme abandonnée — based on The Deserted Woman by Honoré de Balzac
- The Supper — based on a play by Jean-Claude Brisville
- Ce que savait Maisie — based on What Maisie Knew by Henry James
- Beaumarchais — biographical film about Beaumarchais, based on a play by Sacha Guitry
- H
- Nora — based on Watch and Ward by Henry James
- '
- Nana — loosely based on Nana by Émile Zola
- '
- Navarro: Double meurtre
- '
- '
- Navarro: Manipulation
- ''Dirty Slapping''