Luis Rego

Acting

Luis Rego

Born

1943-05-30 (83)

Place of birth

Lisbon, Portugal

Known for

Acting

Credits

74 titles

Luis Rego (born 30 May 1943) is a French actor, comedian, writer and director, of Portuguese origins. He was a founding member of music/comedy group Les Charlots which he left after a few years. Source: Article "Luis Rego" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Known for

Film credits

2010s · 7 titles

Nocturama poster
6.4

Some young folks, tired of the society they're living in, plan a bomb attack over Paris before taking shelter for a night in a shopping center.

Nocturama

2016

Attila Marcel poster
6.9

Paul is a sweet man-child, raised — and smothered — by his two eccentric aunts in Paris since the death of his parents when he was a toddler. Now thirty-three, he still does not speak. Paul's aunts have only one dream for him: to win piano competitions. Although Paul practices dutifully, he remains unfulfilled until he submits to the interventions of his upstairs neighbour. Suitably named after the novelist, Madame Proust offers Paul a concoction that unlocks repressed memories from his childhood and awakens the most delightful of fantasies.

Attila Marcel

2013

Copacabana poster
6.6

Babou seems to be able to shrug off anything. Real jobs, husbands, responsibilities, who needs them? But when she finds out that her own daughter is too ashamed of her to invite her to her wedding, she decides to make some changes.

Copacabana

2010

No artwork available
5.7

Étienne is an old man who refuses to leave his home because he is convinced that the spirits of his wife and daughter still live there. Nevertheless, the apartment's owner will try to throw him away by any means.

La lapidation de Saint Étienne

2013

Nuts poster
4.9

François has everything he could ever want, until he is kicked out of the house by his wife after his umpteenth slip up; after moving back in with his parents, he vows to win her back.

Nuts

2013

Des Bronzés au Père Noël, la folle histoire du Splendid poster
6.2

No synopsis available yet.

Des Bronzés au Père Noël, la folle histoire du Splendid

2014

À vos caisses ! poster
2.4

No synopsis available yet.

À vos caisses !

2010

2000s · 12 titles

Raining Cats and Frogs poster
6.9

It's a catastrophe! A flood has hit our planet and an unusual group of people are all that remains. Led by Ferdinand, a modern day Noah, this little group have managed to defy the furiously raging elements. People and animals alike are dragged through this incredible whirlpool of an adventure.

Raining Cats and Frogs

2003

Quatre étoiles poster
5.5

Franssou, a charming Parisian English teacher, who shares part of her life with a boring middle-aged lover, dreams of another life. So, when she unexpectedly inherits 50,000 euros, she grasps the opportunity and goes to the French Riviera in order to take it easy in luxury. In the four-star hotel where she rents a room she comes across Stéphane, a strange guy who is in the process of arranging Elton John's next coming to the place. Intrigued by the noisy ostentatious fellow, she follows him until she finally comes into contact with him. She knows Stéphane is at bay and decides to take advantage of it.

Quatre étoiles

2006

San Antonio poster
3.7

While a terrorist epidemy strikes the world leaders, the commissaire San-Antonio and his partner, the lieutenant Bérurier, have to escort the French ambassador in a British hotel. But after a negligence of Bérurier (one more little sex affair...), San-Antonio witnessed, helpless, to the ambassador's abduction, organized by a gorgeous Italian girl. Back to Paris, San-Antonio is dismissed by the police chief, Achille Hachille. A real godsend for Bérurier, who get promoted... But soon, the situation degenerates, when the president of the Republic mysteriously disappears. Immediate reaction from Police Minister : San-Antonio is the only one who can save the day. He has 48 hours and a secret squad to find the president. At the Elysée, San-Antonio finds Bérurier, the official investigator. But now, it's every man for himself : who will be the first to find the President ?

San Antonio

2004

The Landlords poster
6.0

Directed by Rémi Waterhouse, Mille Millièmes is centered around an eccentric ensemble of apartment residents. Kindness is noticeably absent among their quarters, as demonstrated by a dating pair of neighbors whose request to have their apartments connected was flatly denied. To make matters worse, beggars gathering at a charity event are cruelly tormented by various tenants during the Christmas season. Last but not least is the Portuguese concierge whose services are in danger of being replaced by a more cost-effective alternative, and a widow whose recent loss earns her no sympathy from the rent-demanding landlords.

The Landlords

2002

Villa Marguerite poster
5.5

No synopsis available yet.

Villa Marguerite

2008

El Cantor poster
9.0

William’s great surprise, his cousin Clovis, whom he did not see again since around thirty years, arrives from New York to visit him. Reunion between both men creates one thousand memories: always so collusive, they become fast inseparable, living again, the space of moment, their young years… Only Elizabeth, wife of William, who has just lost her father, does not share their cheerfulness.

El Cantor

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

Get a Life poster
7.3

During one winter night, a Portuguese teenager, Alvaro, loses his life in a fight between a youth gang and the cops in a suburb of Paris. Cidalia, a 36 year old cleaning woman, his mother, decides to defy the code of silence of the Portuguese community and tries to find the truth. She losses her friends, her job and her family but gains a life.

Get a Life

2001

Flowers of Blood poster
6.0

In custody after she murders her middle aged photographer lover, a fourteen year old Pam reflects back on the bohemian life she spent with her mother Lily, a free spirited cabaret performer. Lily tried to elevate her stripper performances from the level of erotic spectacle to artistic expression as she dragged her young daughter from nightclub to nightclub and hotel to hotel, but ultimately lost her at nine to the Paris child authorities.

Flowers of Blood

2002

Le p'tit bleu poster
10.0

Lucien Lourmel, in his fifties, lonely and tired, runs the nightclub "P'tit Bleu", where young talent performs. He is a member of a mafia-like organization that he runs with two friends

Le p'tit bleu

2000

Objectif bac poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Objectif bac

2001

Le Tribunal Des Flagrants Délires poster
9.0

Le Tribunal des flagrants délires was a comedy show where celebrities were judged in mock-trials. Desproges held the part of the prosecutor for more than two years, a part for which his verve, his scathing humour and his literary erudition were ideally suited.

Le Tribunal Des Flagrants Délires

2009

1990s · 11 titles

My Life Is Hell poster
5.8

The naive and self-conscious Leah mistakenly signs a pact with the devil Abargadon. But she's on Heaven's hit list, so the Archangel Gabriel intervenes to bring about the demon's demise. But Leah begins to find Abargadon attractive and not so bad. She decides to save his soul.

My Life Is Hell

1991

The Professional Secrets of Dr. Apfelgluck poster
5.4

This series of sketches introduces doctor Apfelglück and four of his patients... and their rather peculiar and disturbing problems.

The Professional Secrets of Dr. Apfelgluck

1991

Poor George poster
5.0

One night Jorge will meet with a Japanese industrialist, who will allow him to abandon his teaching position and resume his chemical work. However, when he gets home he finds a person there.

Poor George

1993

The Charlots Return poster
4.3

Antonio returned to Portugal ten years ago with his lovely (and quite thin) French wife. She has since become quite a hefty specimen of womanhood, and his eye has lately been wandering to others. When his strong-tempered wife catches him with another woman (their neighbor), she bonks him on the head. In order to avoid further embarrassment, he pretends this has induced amnesia. He does so well in his pretense that his worried wife calls his old Parisian buddies (the rest of the Charlots) and asks them to come and help revive his memory.

The Charlots Return

1992

La bonne adresse poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

La bonne adresse

1990

Le monde d'Angelo poster
7.0

Angelo believes his father works with extraterrestrials on a top secret project.

Le monde d'Angelo

1998

Little Girls poster
4.2

Inès, Stella, Marion and Emilie are four young women who become friends and never leave each other. They band together during their teenage years. This film discusses their first meeting and what happens afterward.

Little Girls

1997

Leopard Ties poster
10.0

The CEO of a recycling company blames lazy staff for declining results. To motivate them, he sends executives to a survival course in the Corsican maquis, hoping to transform them into conquerors. The executives, in suits and ties, find the hostile environment challenging.

Leopard Ties

1992

Life Doesn't Scare Me poster
5.8

We follow how four ordinary little girls learn about life, love and all that sort of things.

Life Doesn't Scare Me

1999

The Phantom Heart poster
6.2

Philippe is a middle-aged painter, he lives with Annie : they have two kids. Just after they split up, Philippe meets Justine. He starts thinking about love, the relationship between former lovers..

The Phantom Heart

1996

Ça n'empêche pas les sentiments poster
5.8

A former schoolteacher turned film distributor, Jean-Pierre Jackson made his directorial debut with this French comedy about two losers. When alimony payments catch up with Felix (Philippe Chevaillier), his furniture is seized. After a decade-long marriage, Raoul (Regis Laspales) leaves his wife. The two team for a job with Le Gai Vendangeur (The Jolly Vintner) as sales reps, but they score zero while tooling around Brittany in a silly station wagon decorated with an immense wine bottle atop the vehicle's roof. However, when they're joined by friendly, sexy Eliane (Cecile Bois), sales surge. The wine pours, and so does the money. Life is sweet, but it all turns sour when an affair begins between Felix and Eliane, much to Raoul's regret.

Ça n'empêche pas les sentiments

1998

1980s · 17 titles

The Wolf at the Door poster
5.3

Chronicling a period of time in Paul Gauguin's life, this film follows him through his struggles in love and the financial problems caused by the inability to sell his artwork.

The Wolf at the Door

1986

The Vengeance of the Winged Serpent poster
4.7

An international intrigue with terrorists threatening to blow up the presidents of the most powerful countries.

The Vengeance of the Winged Serpent

1984

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

Le Roi des cons poster
4.8

Georges Le Roi lives odd jobs and shares his life between two girlfriends. One day, he falls in love with Sophie and records a message of love. The tape is mistakenly broadcast in the company. In the face of success, Sophie founded the company Tell me about love and spread the messages of Georges, who soon became a sex symbol.

Le Roi des cons

1981

Men Prefer Fat Girls poster
5.1

Lydie, a physically unattractive young woman, is brutally dumped by her fiancé when she had just acquired the lease of an apartment to live with him.

Men Prefer Fat Girls

1981

Maine-Ocean Express poster
5.8

"Maine-Ocean" is the name of a train that rides from Paris to Saint-Nazaire (near the ocean). In that train, Dejanira, a Brazilian, has a brush with the two ticket inspectors. Mimi, another traveler and also a lawyer, helps her. The four of them will meet together later and live a few shifted adventures with a strange-speaking sailor (Mimi's client).

Maine-Ocean Express

1986

Procès de Jean Carmet poster
7.5

No synopsis available yet.

Procès de Jean Carmet

1983

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Tribunal des flagrants délires : Jean-Marie Le Pen

1982

Poule et frites poster
4.0

Roger, a chip seller on a Cote d’Azur beach, divides his life between his wife, a painter with a flair for originality whose work is unrecognized, and his mistress Bébé, a beautician on vacation. But his encounter with a third woman, a picaresque singer with whom he falls madly in love, will be accompanied by numerous adventures.

Poule et frites

1987

Rookies Run Amok 2 poster
5.6

The sequel of a successful French comedy "Rookies Run Amok" (1971) again with "Les Charlots" group.

Rookies Run Amok 2

1983

Slices of Life poster
5.4

A series of humorous sketches on life: "A Night to Remember", "Summit Showdown", and "A Book? That's personal!"

Slices of Life

1985

Move Along, There Is Nothing to See! poster
5.1

Inspector Leroux is investigating the owner of a contemporary art gallery Helen Duvernet who is suspected of being involved in trafficking of stolen paintings. He is both intrigued and attracted by the young woman, follows her everywhere and finally falls in love...

Move Along, There Is Nothing to See!

1983

Stand Up Crabs, the Sea Is Rising! poster
4.0

Barely out of prison, where she spent five long years, a pretty prostitute sows disorder in the life of a hitherto peaceful couple.

Stand Up Crabs, the Sea Is Rising!

1983

Paulette, la pauvre petite milliardaire poster
4.2

After the death of her rich parents, the young Paulette claims her heritage and then starts to give it away for the good of people. Doing so, she's making executives of her parent's company furious.

Paulette, la pauvre petite milliardaire

1986

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Tribunal des flagrants délires : Patrick Poivre d'Arvor

1982

Aldo et Junior poster
3.8

The confrontation of a sixty-eight-year-old father and his son with conservative ideas.

Aldo et Junior

1984

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

1970s · 8 titles

French Fried Vacation poster
6.6

Holidaymakers arriving in a Club Med camp on the Ivory Coast are determined to forget their everyday problems and emotional disappointments. Games, competitions, outings, bathing and sunburn accompany a continual succession of casual affairs.

French Fried Vacation

1978

The Wild Goose Chase poster
6.1

The whole intrigue is centered around carte-blanche documents kept in a vault. Whoever fills in the blank becomes the owner of a revue. Big money is involved. The nephew of the owner of the vault is trying to cheat his uncle and have his name in the documents. Everything is even more complicated because the manager of the bank has a finger in the pie, too. Who but a humble bank-teller (Pierre Richard) will ruin the scheme?

The Wild Goose Chase

1975

Rookies Run Amok poster
5.6

Les Bidasses en Folie, a french movie from 1971, is a very short, easy to watch, slapstick hippie comedy.

Rookies Run Amok

1971

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

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

You Won't Have Alsace-Lorraine poster
4.9

Whilst King Gros Pif I amuses himself at debauched banquets, his musketeers pursue their tax-collecting duties with a malicious zeal. Goaded by the court jester (who is also the Queen’s lover), the ministers decide to put an end to this regime and have the King locked up. Hearing the news, the famous Chevalier Blanc comes to his rescue. Aided by the knight and his cousin Lucienne, the King flees to Flanders, where he devises a scheme to win him back the throne of France...

You Won't Have Alsace-Lorraine

1977

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

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

Series credits

Champs-Elysées poster
6.8

No synopsis available yet.

Champs-Elysées

1982

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche poster
6.0

A talk show presented by Michel Drucker

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

1975

Midi trente poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Midi trente

1972

À bout portant poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

À bout portant

1968

Parliament poster
7.3

Samy, a young parliamentary assistant, arrives in Brussels after the Brexit referendum. He is not fit for the job. Samy doesn't know much about European institutions and he hopes to get away with it thanks to his cleverness…

Parliament

2020

The Croc-Note Show poster
NR

At each meeting, the Croc-Note presenter accompanied by Professor Corquignol tries to educate us by explaining the different professions related to the love of music, how to read a score, the various instrument families and their use, music in everyday life ... but very quickly the instrument is used in other conditions, and we quickly realize that music is not at all what we imagine!

The Croc-Note Show

1986

Rire et sourire : Le Splendid poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Rire et sourire : Le Splendid

1978

Elles et moi poster
1.0

January 1939. The fall of Barcelona seals the defeat of the Spanish Republicans. Five hundred thousand of them choose exile. Upon arriving in France, the men are disarmed and interned in camps. As for the families, the administration distributes them among makeshift centers, several of which are in Ardèche. Elles et moi chooses to follow the fate of the Esteva family during these terrible months and the five years of war that follow. Lluis, the father, lives in hope of reconquest. Pilar, his courageous and energetic wife, feels that this new country will become her home for a long time to come. She thus leads her two children, Isabel and Ignacio, into this new life...

Elles et moi

2009

Les Grands Airs de Tebaldo poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Les Grands Airs de Tebaldo

1992

Chipie & Clyde poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Chipie & Clyde

1993

No artwork available
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Bons baisers de... Tarzan

1974

Behind the camera