Jean Abeillé

Acting

Jean Abeillé

Born 1938-09-07 · Annecy, Haute-Savoie, France

Acting credits

Manutention légère poster
NR

Marion is a low-level employee in a high end ready-to-wear clothing business. He has a sole obsession: to present a prototype he's made to his boss, Monsieur Charlie. Jeanette, who he's very fond of, is worried and looks for him everywhere, while Michel, who controls the merchandise, wants to tell Monsieur Charlie that something isn't quite right about this particular morning.

Manutention légère

2014

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

Le Bénévole poster
3.8

In a Mediterranean city, the association of volunteers The Rescue is expecting a new director. A former trade unionist, Birgos, who’s just escaped from an asylum with Cleo, another internee, is believed, by mistake, to be this new director.

Le Bénévole

2007

Assemblée générale poster
NR

The annual general assembly of the co-owners : quarrels about nothing, the collapse of the management agency, that turns becomes absurd.

Assemblée générale

2014

À votre bon cœur, mesdames poster
5.0

The story of a septuagenarian, recently divorced, which in its reconstruction desire and quest for a new companion will rediscover the small pleasures of life and the art of seduction.

À votre bon cœur, mesdames

2013

Paris Pigalle poster
5.3

Paris, 1982. Franck and Serge are police investigators in charge of making a good catch in the Parisian porn industry. In order to infiltrate the mafia, they take over a peep show in Pigalle riddled with debts. In attempt to jump start the business, they begin to produce short porn films.

Paris Pigalle

2018

Borsalino and Co. poster
6.4

Marseille. Heaps of flowers and funeral wreaths... "A man who no longer defends his colors is no longer a man."

Borsalino and Co.

1974

Agent trouble poster
5.6

Amanda Weber is a museum employee. Her nephew, Victorien, who feels that wild animals should not be kept in zoos, while hitchhiking saw a mysterious bus with 50 dead tourists that later was found by autorities at the bottom of a lake. When Victorien gets in very serious problems due to what he saw Amanda seeks to find out what happened and soon also becomes a target.

Agent trouble

1987

Le Furet poster
4.4

From his locksmith's shop, a simple guy dreams of becoming a crime boss, at the wheel of his Cadillac surrounded by blonde bimbos. He starts small, assassinating petty criminals. Gaining renown in the newspapers as "Le Furet" (The Ferret), he soon sets his sights higher. The police and organized crime both take up the chase.

Le Furet

2003

Up and Down poster
4.9

A bicycle race is held every year in a pass of the Alps called Parpaillon. With the energy of a skillful cyclist perhaps as a great tribute to François, the mailman played by Tati in The Big Day, Moullet makes a comedy by pedaling at a pace that allows him to reinvent the possibilities of film gags.

Up and Down

1993

Barres poster
6.7

The 1984 short Barres celebrates the ingenious ways one can get onto the Paris Metro without paying.

Barres

1984

Run After Me Until I Catch You poster
5.2

A love story between the pets hairdresser and accountant - both with significant life history.

Run After Me Until I Catch You

1976

No Pockets in a Shroud poster
5.4

In the newspaper he has just founded, journalist Dolannes exposes all the wheeling and dealing and scandals that go on in his town.

No Pockets in a Shroud

1974

Litan poster
6.0

Married couple Jock & Nora are visiting the town of Litan during Litan's Day, with its carnivalesque atmosphere. When Nora wakes that morning from dreaming the bizarre death of her husband, she sets out across town to find him and warn him. But as she does, she encounters stranger and stranger people and events erupting into a frenzy in front of her. Now, she and Jock must elude all of the impediments in their way of reaching safety on the outskirts of town.

Litan

1982

Calomnies poster
5.0

Xavier Durmont young deputy newly elected, is charged by a representative of the Court of Auditors to investigate a dubious case of waste disposal involving a minister. He becomes then the target of slander orchestrated by the agency of a mysterious Armand.

Calomnies

2014

Grabuge! poster
6.0

Maurice works at the police service for foreigners. He is single, loves Spanish music and spends all his free time in a Hispanic cabaret.

Grabuge!

2005

Le glandeur poster
7.0

Bruno Bonbeck, a retired soccer referee, is the world’s biggest layabout until his politician wife, the Junior Minister for Sport, delivers an ultimatum: you get a job or I get a divorce. The film traces the trials and tribulations of Bruno’s 18-hour hunt for gainful employment and has a very unexpected ending.

Le glandeur

2000

Kill the Referee poster
5.5

Michel, a referee has to suffer the consequences of having whistled a penalty against a team which is supported by football hooligans.

Kill the Referee

1984

Robin des mers poster
6.0

In La Roche-sur-Mer, the factory where the father of Mathieu's boyfriend, a 12-year-old boy, works will close. Desperate, the man tries to commit suicide and is saved by his son.

Robin des mers

1998

The Seasons of Pleasure poster
4.6

Charles and Emmanuelle organize as every year, the congress of perfumers who distribute their products in their castle. Garibaldi, their mutilated and somewhat disturbed son-in-law, will be the butler.

The Seasons of Pleasure

1988

La bête de miséricorde poster
6.8

After a car accident, Jean Mardet ends the agony of his wife with a rock. Mardet then keeps killing because he believes that God himself has entrusted a mission to him: kill the unfortunate souls.

La bête de miséricorde

2001

The Unsewing Machine poster
4.9

The insane Doctor Enger is obsessed with his plan to build a hospital to cure blind children, and goes on a killing and kidnapping spree with the police in pursuit.

The Unsewing Machine

1986

Les Ballets écarlates poster
2.6

A pedophile network, to which belong notables of a French provincial town is about to be discovered by a young woman who herself lost her son, a child survivor of one of these horror festivals, and an anarchist gunsmith.

Les Ballets écarlates

2007

Bonsoir poster
4.1

Having first lost his wife then his job as a tweed tailor, Alex Ponttin has devised a novel way to keep himself in touch with society. He admits himself into people's homes, by pretending to be a relative or an official, and persuading his victims to give him a night's free board: He finds at first a lunch at the horrible couple Dumont, where a thief follows him for a robbery. Alex spent an evening in front of TV at Marie, mother of seven children. He runs from Marie to find an evening and a new bed at the home of charming but shy lesbian Caroline and her funny lover Gloria. To save her inheritance, Caroline - accused for her homosexuality by her horrible sister Catherine - tells her aunt Amélie, that Gloria is her secretary and Alex her lover. So Alex has to present himself nude in Caroline's bed. He saves Carolines inheritance. The police officers investigating the case are so terminally stupid that Alex has little chance of being arrested.

Bonsoir

1994

Behind the camera