Maurice Risch

Acting

Maurice Risch

Born

1943-01-25 (83)

Place of birth

Paris, France

Known for

Acting

Credits

55 titles

Known for

Film credits

2000s · 6 titles

By the Pricking of My Thumbs poster
6.2

The Beresfords investigate mysterious deaths at an old people's home.

By the Pricking of My Thumbs

2005

Day Off poster
5.5

Wednesday is the day when children are not in school and stay at home. It is also the day when the parents are not there. In Nantes, in the spring, twenty or so carefree and boisterous kids between the ages of three and eleven take advantage of this day to make their parents go crazy. Emma, 9 years old and naturally romantic, decides that Roland, the little boy she met in the street, is unhappy and persuades her friends to adopt him. Victoria spends the day with Martin Socoa, an often distant father whom she learns to love. There are also Muriel, Bruno, Colette and Henri who take off and create panic in their parents' home, while Marylin lives the founding drama of her childhood with a mother of an unreal sweetness. Throughout these little stories, we realize that the world of children has its own logic, totally different from that of adults.

Day Off

2001

Louis de Funès ou le pouvoir de faire rire poster
6.1

A documentary on Louis de Funès based on unseen archives and film extracts, interviews from close friends and comedy specialists.

Louis de Funès ou le pouvoir de faire rire

2003

Ma femme s'appelle Maurice poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Ma femme s'appelle Maurice

2008

Les Bidochon - Telle est la réalité poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Les Bidochon - Telle est la réalité

2009

The Big Apartment poster
5.2

Francesca and her husband, Martin, are dreamers. They live a carefree existence oblivious to the increasingly hostile world closing in on them. Their huge Parisian apartment is a refuge for an array of colorful characters in need of a roof over their heads and in particular for Adrien, a filmmaker who turns their home into his office, studio and love-nest. When their mean landlady tries to evict them all and Martin succumbs to the charms of a beautiful vamp, Francesca comes up with some original and entertaining solutions in the defense of her and everybody else's happiness.

The Big Apartment

2006

1980s · 20 titles

Beau Pere poster
6.4

Rémi is a man trapped in a deteriorating marriage. When his wife is unexpectedly killed in a car accident, Rémi is left with his stepdaughter, Marion, who chooses to stay with him rather than live with her birth father. After the initial shock passes, Rémi is caught off-guard when Marion begins expressing her attraction to him. Initially repulsed, Marion's mature beauty wears him down as he finally caves to her seductions.

Beau Pere

1981

The Gendarme and the Gendarmettes poster
6.0

Cruchot's police office moves into a new building. They do not only get high tech equipment, but also four young female police officers to educate. All of them scramble to work with them -- and cause pure chaos while being distracted by the fine ladies. Then they get into real trouble when one after the other of their female colleagues is kidnapped.

The Gendarme and the Gendarmettes

1982

The Last Metro poster
7.2

In occupied Paris, an actress wed to a Jewish theater owner must keep him hidden from the Nazis while doing both of their jobs.

The Last Metro

1980

Asterix in Britain poster
6.8

One little ancient British village still holds out against the Roman invaders. Asterix and Obelix are invited to help. They must face fog, rain, warm beer and boiled boar with mint sauce, but they soon have Governor Encyclopaedius Britannicus's Romans declining and falling. Until a wild race for a barrel of magic potion lands them in the drink.

Asterix in Britain

1986

Umbrella Coup poster
6.9

Grégoire Lecomte, the unlucky actor anxious to find a "real job", goes to take a screen test for a role of a killer, but gets to mafiosi by mistake. He takes their don for a producer, and they mistake him for a hitman with whom they had an appointment. Deluded Lecomte signs contract with them. He is supposed to kill gun dealer Otto Krampe at his birthday party in Saint-Tropez by piercing him with a cap of the umbrella with a built-in syringe with potassium cyanide. Lecomte is not aware that it has to be a real murder.

Umbrella Coup

1980

La Smala poster
5.0

When the mother of a "tribe" of five children leaves for good, their inept father is not sure how to keep the family clothed and fed, and without the help of his neighbor Simone, he would be nowhere. She is attracted to him but eventually gives up on the relationship. Meanwhile, the father grabs his brood and they take off for Paris in search of the wife. But Simone accidentally ends up on the same train...

La Smala

1984

Signé Furax poster
4.9

The notorious and mysterious criminal Furax steals France's famous monuments, replacing them with replicas.

Signé Furax

1981

The Defective Detective poster
7.2

Lewis plays a Las Vegas policeman visiting his ex-wife in France, only to be caught up in the shenanigans of a group of art thieves. His ex-wife has remarried and her husband is undercover among the art thieves, carrying out an assignment given him by his superiors in the police force. Inevitably, the current husband and the ex-husband are bound to clash.

The Defective Detective

1984

My Pastor Among the Thais poster
3.9

Maximin, priest in a little village in the South-West of France, inherits from his brother a brothel in Thailand, although he's always been told it was a very strict catholic school. The journey to Asia is full of surprises (a plane hi-jack, pirates...) and once in Thailand, Maximin is taken into 'political' turmoils.

My Pastor Among the Thais

1983

The Impostures of Scapin poster
6.8

Octave has married Hyacinthe during the absence of Argante, his father.

The Impostures of Scapin

1981

Vive les femmes ! poster
4.4

The love affairs of Bob, a womanizer and seducer and Mammouth, the unhappy loner.

Vive les femmes !

1984

Le jour se lève et les conneries commencent poster
4.0

Three thirty-year-old friends with a strong appetite for women and leisure life, supported by different people, live very well. Until one of them is forced to work. His two mates will do everything to free him from this calvary.

Le jour se lève et les conneries commencent

1981

The Red Shade poster
5.2

The time is the 1930s and two Soviet spies (both Frenchmen by nationality) have been helping Communist factions during the Civil War in Spain. It is the time of Stalin's iron rule in the USSR, and the two agents are suddenly called to Moscow by the KGB. Knowing that they are in trouble for no fault of their own, fear drives one of them to suicide while the other gets his lover and her child and begins a run for his life, knowing that the KGB will never let him go free.

The Red Shade

1981

Silence on aime poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Silence on aime

1981

Superslob poster
4.1

A fat and disgusting man is rejected by society... A vitriolic adaptation of the famous comic strip by Reiser.

Superslob

1986

Lettre de la Sierra Morena poster
7.3

Don Quichotte (Luchini) is a modern filmmaker with views on the perfect film. Sancho Pança (Risch) is systematically condradicting Quichotte, whose film materializes in front of them as he lists his ideas

Lettre de la Sierra Morena

1983

Les p’tites têtes poster
8.5

Henri, Daniel and Xavier have just opened a travel agency in Paris. Henri runs the agency while Daniel and Xavier go on trip to take care of the group of tourists in Morocco. The troubles begin when Xavier and Daniel arrive in Morocco and discover that Henri has closed the agency in Paris and hasn't booked any hotels or attractions for the trip. Without any money, Daniel and Xavier decide to continue the journey. Their luck is their meeting with the rich Prince Douzami who falls in love with one of the tourist, Marilyn, and he decides to help them. The trip is still disturbed by two criminals Mata and Harry who want to take a microfilm that daniel has unfortunately swallowed.

Les p’tites têtes

1982

Justice de flic poster
7.0

A gangster, whose younger brother has been forced into prostitution by a rival gang, tracks down the criminals with the help of his girlfriend. Bloody accounts will be settled under the eye of a sadistic commissioner.

Justice de flic

1986

M the Damned poster
6.1

A Claude Chabrol remake of M by Fritz Lang for French television.

M the Damned

1982

Pyjama pour six poster
6.1

No synopsis available yet.

Pyjama pour six

1988

1970s · 15 titles

The Gendarme and the Creatures from Outer Space poster
6.1

The bungling inspector Cruchot finds himself trying to save the residents of St. Tropez from some oil-drinking humanoid aliens. The only way to tell the aliens from the real people, besides their constant thirst for oil-products, is that they sound like empty garbage cans when you touch them. Chaos is ahead.

The Gendarme and the Creatures from Outer Space

1979

The Discord poster
6.4

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 explanation. Some Japanese business guys, after dinner with a lot of alcohol, order 5,000 pieces. His only problem: His production capacity is way to small so he gets to produce the machines in his private house. His wife Bernadette is far from being happy about it. Her private life goes down the line so she decides to leave Guillaume and to finally have revenge she candidates for major against her husband...

The Discord

1978

Everybody He Is Nice, Everybody He Is Beautiful poster
6.4

Selon "Radio plus près de Dieu", rien n'est conçu sans Dieu, surtout pas les shampoings, produits de beauté, la vente des disques... Un animateur dénonce cette escroquerie à l'antenne, ce qui lui vaut d'être licencié. Il réapparaîtra sur de nouvelles ondes avec "Radio plus près de la Vérité".

Everybody He Is Nice, Everybody He Is Beautiful

1972

The Fuhrer Runs Amok poster
5.1

France and Germany are at war. Adolf Hitler challenges the Allies to seal the fate of the war by playing a football match.

The Fuhrer Runs Amok

1974

The Castaways of Turtle Island poster
6.0

Jean-Arthur has been working as a clerk in a travel agency. One day, he, along with his colleague comes to a brilliant idea: what if I offer tourists real extreme recreation? So the group of tourists land on a deserted island with no food, no shelter, nothing.

The Castaways of Turtle Island

1976

We Won't Grow Old Together poster
7.0

Jean, a married 40-year-old filmmaker, and his young working class lover, Catherine, engage in a circular series of spectacular blow-ups and tentative reunions, their mutual desire a fire that burns them again and again.

We Won't Grow Old Together

1972

Hail the Artist poster
5.4

Marcello Mastrioanni stars as aging actor Nicolas whose career has dwindled to TV commercials. Seeking an anchor in his life, Nicolas attempts a reconciliation with his ex-wife. But in this, as in his professional life, Nicolas is doomed to disillusionment and failure.

Hail the Artist

1973

The Groper poster
3.5

Because he dishonored the daughter of a mafia boss, Ernesto must leave Rome and take shelter with his uncle in Paris. There, he thinks of only one thing: to seduce girls.

The Groper

1976

The Groper poster
3.5

Because he dishonored the daughter of a mafia boss, Ernesto must leave Rome and take shelter with his uncle in Paris. There, he thinks of only one thing: to seduce girls.

The Groper

1976

Nono Nénesse poster
5.3

Two adults play babies and wild antics ensue.

Nono Nénesse

1976

The Man with Connections poster
6.0

Following "The Two of Us", Claude is now 21 years old. Content with his life, he has a girlfriend Tania and he aspires to become an actor. When he receives his draft notice, a friend convinces Claude he can get out of military service with his connections in Paris. When the connections fall through, Claude is sent for basic training outside Paris before being shipped off to Algeria. His stops in Morocco and Algeria are uneventful as far as military action goes. He returns home with few bad memories of his army life ...

The Man with Connections

1970

No artwork available
NR

Following a bet, Phileas Fogg and Passepartout set off on an incredible journey around the globe. But the police suspect them of committing the heist of the century at the Bank of England. Inspector Fix sets off in pursuit... A colorful adaptation—blending filmed theater and musical comedy—of Jules Verne's famous novel.

Around the World in 80 Days

1975

A Sea Urchin in the Pocket poster
5.7

A young journalist, abandoned by her wealthy lover, sets out with a musician inventor to stage a musical.

A Sea Urchin in the Pocket

1977

Frédéric poster
8.5

No synopsis available yet.

Frédéric

1970

The Egg poster
6.8

Emile Magis, a modest employee, more or less ostracized by the others, would like only one thing, to be happy. Little by little he realizes that life in society is a matter of convention, lies and deception. When he has understood that cynicism rules the world, he decides to play by its untold rules and to take his revenge.

The Egg

1972

1960s · 2 titles

Series credits

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