Didier Kaminka

Writing

Didier Kaminka

Born 1943-04-22 · Paris, France

Didier Kaminka est un réalisateur, acteur, dialoguiste et scénariste français né le 22 avril 1943 à Paris.

Acting credits

The Bodyguard poster
4.8

Barbara marries Julien a charming and sexy man. Barbara's old flame Paul is highly suspicious of Julien. It seems Julien's previous two wives died under dubious circumstances and he collected a wad of insurance money as a result. Paul cannot ignore his misgivings, and so he follows Barbara and Julien to Morocco on their honeymoon, intent on preventing any harm to the woman he still loves.

The Bodyguard

1984

The Nada Gang poster
6.0

Nada, named after a gang of Spanish anarchists, is a small, confused band of French terrorists. They kidnap the American ambassador after one of his regular visits to an exclusive brothel. The gang starts to quarrel amongst themselves as to the diplomat's fate, while the police purge suspects in their attempts to destroy the Nada faction. As the violence escalates on both sides, the States and the terrorists are forced to use one another's methods in an increasingly desperate and relentless conflict.

The Nada Gang

1974

Low Profile poster
5.2

A disillusioned police detective, used as a scapegoat by his corrupted superior, fights back by becoming a competent criminal.

Low Profile

1993

My Best Pals poster
6.3

They are the best friends of the world. Five friends who shared everything: may 68, hippies years, the rock and their love for Bernadette. This Bernadette has left them to become a rock-star, and is back 15 years later for a weekend. Jean-Marie Poire describes with this movie the portrait of a generation with lots of humor served by excelent actors.

My Best Pals

1989

Banzaï poster
6.2

Michel works there manically solving people's problems over the phone. He is about to tie the knot with his girl friend Isabelle, an airline hostess. She flies all over the world, he hates to leave the office. A series of madcap mishaps involving theft or injury (as you would expect in his line of work) ensues after Michel promises Isabelle nothing will delay their marriage and she promises in turn that she's done flying. Once this unlikely promise is made, it becomes premise and both are forced into escalating white lies to maintain the appearance of keeping their word. Their predicament mounts as Isabelle is forced to do a few more flights, while Michel is compelled to travel to New York, Tunisia, and finally Hong Kong, where they are finally reunited in the throes of a contrived and hilarious drug deal involving a 747, water taxi chases, and martial arts.

Banzaï

1983

Les Rois du gag poster
5.8

Paul Martin and François Leroux are brothers-in-law and comics without fame. One day, the famous television comics, Gaëtan, finds himself in the little theater where Paul and François produce themselves under the name of "Gagsters".

Les Rois du gag

1985

Les Sous-Doués En Vacances poster
5.4

A group of friends are planning how to spend their summer vacation. One plans to go to the Seychelles with his American girlfriend. At the airport she dumps him for another guy. He has no money so he steals a backpack and goes camping. Somehow he meets a pretty girl and convinces her to share his tent. But a famous singer sees the girl and wants her too. He convinces the luckless guy to act like a fool and the girl leaves him and goes with the singer to the French Rivera.

Les Sous-Doués En Vacances

1982

Trop c'est trop poster
6.3

Philippe, Didier, Georges and Edina were born on the same day. The three boys have always been in love with Edina, but she's always put them off. They set off in search of her and find her posing for a photographer. Seeing them, she flees and dies in the process. By mutual agreement, the three boys commit suicide to join her.

Trop c'est trop

1975

Top Managers poster
5.9

While his three former college friends - Thierry, Gérard and Francis have made successful careers for themselves in business, Daniel has yet to make the grade. Tired of Daniel's frequent attempts to drag them into ill-considered ventures, Thierry and Gérard decide to play a cruel trick on him by making him think he has won the national lottery.

Top Managers

1987

La DorMeuse Duval poster
NR

In a village by the Meuse river, located near the French-Belgian border, a factory storekeeper named Basile Matrin leads a dreary life with his wife, Rose. The young Maryse Duval, who had just come back from Paris, has abandoned her dreams of becoming an actress. She will unwittingly turn their life upside down. Basile's great friend and neighbour, who is a reporter for a local newspaper called " Le Quotidien de la Meuse", witnesses the comical drama that is unfolding on the street outside his house, and will unwillingly be drawn into this "Dramedy".

La DorMeuse Duval

2017

La Grande Paulette poster
7.0

This is an attempt to imitate the inimitable, Jacques Tati. Paulette is a life-size blow-up doll. Imagine the rest yourself.

La Grande Paulette

1974

Pinot simple-flic poster
5.6

The film starts in the 13th arrondissement of Paris in 1984. Robert Pinot is a police officer as ordinary as clumsy. One day, he stops a certain Josyane, a young drug addict who is also doubled as a pickpocket, nicknamed Marylou. Having discovered that she comes from the same village, Nanteuil, then him, he takes compassion for the young girl and decides to take her under his wing to keep her away from Tony, a dangerous dealer with whom she is in love.

Pinot simple-flic

1984

Keeping Everyone Up poster
5.0

A homeless street musician meets an attractive woman by chance and keeps following her until he persuades her to let him stay in her place.

Keeping Everyone Up

1982

Poussez pas grand-père dans les cactus poster
5.0

Alphonse flees to Paris to escape his wife's despotism. Intoxicated by the frenzied pace of Parisian life, he ruins himself completely. During a nightclub outing, some hoodlums mistake him for Al Gregor, the king of the underworld.

Poussez pas grand-père dans les cactus

1969

Le Garçon d’appartement poster
4.0

Yves is a young man too lazy to work encrusted in a young girl he met on the street and no longer wants to leave the apartment she is sharing with one of her friends.

Le Garçon d’appartement

1980

Je m'appelle Régine poster
3.7

This TV movie is adapted from the memoirs of the singer Régine, in which she recounts her youth and her beginnings in the music hall.

Je m'appelle Régine

1996

Après tout ce qu'on a fait pour toi poster
7.0

Divorced parents are concerned about the behavior of their teenage son who is rebelling against society.

Après tout ce qu'on a fait pour toi

1983

No artwork available
NR

This variety show, with its new concept, is presented as a musical comedy. Having formed an orchestra, a group of young people perform in the courtyards of an old Parisian neighborhood, hoping to earn some money. But no one listens to them. All the tenants of the building are glued to their television sets. Only one mysterious man takes an interest in the group and offers them a box of magic matches.

La Lucarne magique

1971

Un jour, la fête poster
6.8

Michel returns from a trip. He meets up with his friends from the H.L.M. housing estate. Together, they have set up a meeting place. The developer has the place demolished. Furious, instead of rebelling, the friends organize a party in the housing estate. The party gets off to a good start, but a tragic event interrupts it...

Un jour, la fête

1975

No artwork available
7.0

"Un enfant dans la ville" was originally a Michel Fugain album, a record that already told a story. Now it's a musical comedy filmed for television, giving life to its characters and taking up the story of the record, that of today's generation, not quite at ease in their sneakers and trying to untie the laces of truth.

Un enfant dans la ville

1971

L'école sauvage poster
9.0

In a school near Paris, a new experiment is being tried: to allow each child to express him or herself. In the smaller classes, group activities were dispensed with: each child did what interested him or her, according to temperament and desire. In other classes, grades are unknown and there is no fixed program; in English, the teacher lets the pupils work and converse according to their own style and rhythm; in a natural science class, we see a 10-year-old child expounding a theme on her own and answering questions from her classmates. Artistic activities also feature prominently: theatrical improvisation and orchestra formation, among others. The creation of a council allows children to submit initiatives, discuss them and organize themselves around their suggestions.

L'école sauvage

1973

Behind the camera

The Under-Gifted poster
6.5

The 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!

The Under-Gifted

1980

The Bodyguard poster
4.8

Barbara marries Julien a charming and sexy man. Barbara's old flame Paul is highly suspicious of Julien. It seems Julien's previous two wives died under dubious circumstances and he collected a wad of insurance money as a result. Paul cannot ignore his misgivings, and so he follows Barbara and Julien to Morocco on their honeymoon, intent on preventing any harm to the woman he still loves.

The Bodyguard

1984

My New Partner poster
6.6

A streetwise Paris policeman who takes kickbacks from the minor criminals on his beat to allow them to continue is assigned an idealistic new partner fresh from police academy. He sets out to corrupt him...

My New Partner

1984

Low Profile poster
5.2

A disillusioned police detective, used as a scapegoat by his corrupted superior, fights back by becoming a competent criminal.

Low Profile

1993

I Love You poster
6.2

Michel is a bored, lonely, cheap-thrills-seeker. Everything changes when he finds an unusual bobble head doll in the shape of a pretty woman that can say "I love you" and falls in love with it to the point of obsession.

I Love You

1986

My New Partner II poster
6.0

The partners are back and are in a tight spot! Francois is going through a moral crisis, and Rene is experiencing the same. But, honesty is not always the best policy. After being suspended for their actions, they return to face their far more crooked replacements.

My New Partner II

1990

Les Sous-Doués En Vacances poster
5.4

A group of friends are planning how to spend their summer vacation. One plans to go to the Seychelles with his American girlfriend. At the airport she dumps him for another guy. He has no money so he steals a backpack and goes camping. Somehow he meets a pretty girl and convinces her to share his tent. But a famous singer sees the girl and wants her too. He convinces the luckless guy to act like a fool and the girl leaves him and goes with the singer to the French Rivera.

Les Sous-Doués En Vacances

1982

For 200 Grand, You Get Nothing Now poster
6.3

After getting screwed over by life (again), two losers decide that enough is enough. Using stolen ski masks and stolen toy guns, they take hostages in their local bank, holding them for ransom. Things go well until the hostages learn what's going on, and demand a piece of the action for themselves.

For 200 Grand, You Get Nothing Now

1982

Trop c'est trop poster
6.3

Philippe, Didier, Georges and Edina were born on the same day. The three boys have always been in love with Edina, but she's always put them off. They set off in search of her and find her posing for a photographer. Seeing them, she flees and dies in the process. By mutual agreement, the three boys commit suicide to join her.

Trop c'est trop

1975

Trop c'est trop poster
6.3

Philippe, Didier, Georges and Edina were born on the same day. The three boys have always been in love with Edina, but she's always put them off. They set off in search of her and find her posing for a photographer. Seeing them, she flees and dies in the process. By mutual agreement, the three boys commit suicide to join her.

Trop c'est trop

1975

Ma femme me quitte poster
5.5

Joanna Martin, a mid-life journalist, is investigating a marriage agency organizing white marriages. She uses her sister's identity to infiltrate.

Ma femme me quitte

1996

I Don't Know Much, But I'll Say Everything poster
5.3

Pierre Gastié-Leroy is the son of a wealthy director of a factory of weapon manufacturing. Despite his parents, two generous uncles and a bishop godfather who try to inculcate him the rigid values of his social level, Pierre is a dreamer, antimilitaristic, social educator who dreams of saving three thugs, his "little guys" at the limit of delinquency. After several resounding failures that sent him to prison, Pierre is ordered by his father to join his factory to direct the social service. Tired of the venality of his father and the foolishness of the "little guys", Pierre hires them at the factory...

I Don't Know Much, But I'll Say Everything

1973

Top Managers poster
5.9

While his three former college friends - Thierry, Gérard and Francis have made successful careers for themselves in business, Daniel has yet to make the grade. Tired of Daniel's frequent attempts to drag them into ill-considered ventures, Thierry and Gérard decide to play a cruel trick on him by making him think he has won the national lottery.

Top Managers

1987

The Jackpot! poster
5.9

To his family, François Voisin is nothing more than a humdrum civil servant. In truth, for the past twenty years he has been working as a secret agent. All goes well until circumstances put his secret in danger.

The Jackpot!

1991

Come to My Place, I Live at a Girlfriend's poster
6.3

Guy is fired from is job, and asks to stay with his friend and his girlfriend in their apartment. The longer he stays, the more disaster he creates.

Come to My Place, I Live at a Girlfriend's

1981

La Grande Paulette poster
7.0

This is an attempt to imitate the inimitable, Jacques Tati. Paulette is a life-size blow-up doll. Imagine the rest yourself.

La Grande Paulette

1974

Promotion canapé poster
5.1

Two women who want a raise, realize that they can easily get what they want, if they sleep with their boss.

Promotion canapé

1990

Promotion canapé poster
5.1

Two women who want a raise, realize that they can easily get what they want, if they sleep with their boss.

Promotion canapé

1990

Lien de parenté poster
8.0

In this drama, the popular French film star of the '30s and '40s Jean Marais plays Victor, a disgruntled, cranky old man who is forced to come to terms with the fact that he is now the guardian of his mulatto grandson Clem (Serge Ubrette). Victor is shocked to discover his grandson's mixed heritage when he travels to London to pick him up, but resigns himself to the situation. Once at home in France, the brash Clem manages to steal the heart of the most coveted young woman in town, but that only gets him into trouble with her tough-guy boyfriend and his buddies. Meanwhile, Grandpa is trying to come to grips with his own biases as best he can.

Lien de parenté

1986

Pour 100 briques t'as plus rien maintenant ! poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Pour 100 briques t'as plus rien maintenant !

2016

Yiddish Connection poster
8.3

Two middle-aged Jewish merchants plot to crack a safe with a clergyman and some neighbors in Paris.

Yiddish Connection

1986

Les cigognes n'en font qu'à leur tête poster
5.6

Married to Jeremie, Marie wants desperately to have a child. She has a 20 year old daughter from a former marriage with the police commissioner. When the gynecologist confirms they are unable to conceive a child together, they opt for adoption. However, it is a very lengthy and difficult process. When her daughter meets Joanna, a pregnant teenager willing to give up her child for adoption, Marie is thrilled. And so Joanna moves in...

Les cigognes n'en font qu'à leur tête

1989

Les cigognes n'en font qu'à leur tête poster
5.6

Married to Jeremie, Marie wants desperately to have a child. She has a 20 year old daughter from a former marriage with the police commissioner. When the gynecologist confirms they are unable to conceive a child together, they opt for adoption. However, it is a very lengthy and difficult process. When her daughter meets Joanna, a pregnant teenager willing to give up her child for adoption, Marie is thrilled. And so Joanna moves in...

Les cigognes n'en font qu'à leur tête

1989

À quoi tu penses-tu ? poster
10.0

Because he only thinks about Karine, the wife of his best friend André, Pierre, a writer, can no longer write. The situation is all the more complex as Pierre lives with André's first wife, Mireille, whom he took from her five years ago. He confuses his computer and Karine, and talks to her. Karine's spirit is with him. André and Mireille go to a congress of surgeons in Florida, Pierre and Karine, alone, spend delicious moments together.

À quoi tu penses-tu ?

1992