Underplayed Gems
The whole movie catalogue

Films and series, searchable by what they are

← Back to the shop

Animal (1977)

Animal poster
Original title
L'Animal
Directed by
Claude Zidi
Genre
comedy film, action film
Country
France
Runtime
1h 40m
Rated
6
Rating
6.1 of 10 from 131 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A stuntman and his fiancée break up after a wedding day car stunt goes wrong. He later tries to win her back before she marries a nobleman.

light-heartedfast-pacedromanticcomedicwhimsicalenergeticfrantic

What happens

L'Animal is a 1977 French action comedy film directed by Claude Zidi and starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Raquel Welch. It was distributed in the United States by Analysis Film Releasing Corp under the title Stuntwoman. The film initially focuses on two professional stunt performers, who are engaged to each other. They get injured in a car stunt on their wedding day, and then break-up their relationship and their professional partnership. After a period of unemployment, the man of the couple is offered a high-salary job. He soon wants to convince his former fiancée to rejoin their partnership. He finds out that she is currently engaged to a nobleman, and desperately tries to regain her affection before her impending wedding day. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

More like this

This page is from Underplayed Gems. Not quite it? Tell the Catbot what you feel like watching and it picks from the whole catalogue, or browse by genre, country and year.

Lists: Korean thrillers worth the evening · Anime films beyond Studio Ghibli · Slow films for a rainy night · Horror that unsettles instead of startling · Series you can finish in a weekend · Nordic crime worth the subtitles · Good films that end in under 90 minutes · Documentaries that play like thrillers

Loading movies…

What should I watch?