Writing

Philippe Galland

Born 1947-01-31 · Aix-en-Provence,France

Philippe Galland est un réalisateur, acteur, scénariste et chef décorateur français, né à Aix-en-Provence le 31 janvier 1947.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

La thune poster
9.0

Kamel, a young Arab raised in Paris, wants to become rich. He meets Edwige, a bourgeois girl, whose father disapproves of him as Edwige's boyfriend.

La thune

1991

La thune poster
9.0

Kamel, a young Arab raised in Paris, wants to become rich. He meets Edwige, a bourgeois girl, whose father disapproves of him as Edwige's boyfriend.

La thune

1991

Marriage of the Century poster
5.4

Princess Charlotte is scheduled to marry a boring duke, but before that event happens, Paul has taken a bet that he can seduce her. He does, profits from his act, and then falls in love with her. Meanwhile, the wedding with the duke is still planned, and it remains to be seen whether Paul will give in and give up.

Marriage of the Century

1985

Marriage of the Century poster
5.4

Princess Charlotte is scheduled to marry a boring duke, but before that event happens, Paul has taken a bet that he can seduce her. He does, profits from his act, and then falls in love with her. Meanwhile, the wedding with the duke is still planned, and it remains to be seen whether Paul will give in and give up.

Marriage of the Century

1985

Housewarming poster
5.5

Chantal, an advocate involved in defending homeless illegal immigrant, decides to refurbish her flat. Following her convictions she calls Columbian workers led by an unforeseeable architect. In the mean time a former client decides he is in love with her, her son and daughter are becoming nearly homeless since the flat's walls are demolished, the architect has new plans every day, an irregular workers fall in love with Chantal too and dance with her daughter, Martin (the son) still continue to roller blade around... Could the works go forward in this mess?

Housewarming

2005

Man's Best Friend poster
9.0

This is a light comedy about Amir, a young Pakistani who has been working for Jo for six years. Jo has a ready-to-wear clothes shop in the Sentier area and his business is prospering. He promised Amir that he would help him get his legal papers, but he has never kept his promise. Now he is sending Amir to his colleague Ralph in exchange for an unpaid debt from a card game. He thinks that this is a good opportunity to get rid of the illegal worker. Ralph is a fifty-year-old baby who keeps forgetting his appointments, his bank balance, and everything else that he should remember to run his life smoothly. His business is a complete disaster. A year later, Ralph's business has picked up, but Joe's is going down the drain. Thanks to whom? It is easy to answer this question if one follows Amir during his daily chores in the shop. But neither Jo nor Ralph's bother to take the time off to notice the hard work of this poor employee.

Man's Best Friend

1999

Santa Claus Is a Stinker poster
7.4

Two neurotics, working for a suicide hotline on the night of Christmas Eve, get caught up in a catastrophe when a pregnant woman, her abusive boyfriend, and a transvestite visit their office.

Santa Claus Is a Stinker

1985

Ladies' Choice poster
6.0

As a result of an automobile accident, a sophisticated TV producer meets her car mechanic/blue collar nemesis. They start a comic affair, but can they reconcile their totally different worlds?

Ladies' Choice

1982

Ladies' Choice poster
6.0

As a result of an automobile accident, a sophisticated TV producer meets her car mechanic/blue collar nemesis. They start a comic affair, but can they reconcile their totally different worlds?

Ladies' Choice

1982

L'Exercice du pouvoir poster
9.0

At the turn of the century, an unusual woman refuses to become an object to be desired or played with. Instead she wants to succeed on the stage of politics in the Third Republic.

L'Exercice du pouvoir

1978