The Jackpot!

The Jackpot! (La Totale!, 1991) is the French farce you can watch online on iFILM. For twenty years François Voisin has let his family believe he's a dull telecoms clerk. In truth he's a deep-cover secret agent on the government's riskiest jobs.

When his bored wife falls for a conman posing as a globe-trotting super-spy, François abuses his clearance to humiliate the rival — only for real terrorists to crash the whole charade. Claude Zidi directs Thierry Lhermitte and Miou-Miou. Hollywood remade this exact plot three years later as James Cameron's True Lies with Schwarzenegger, so this is the original it all sprang from. Stream The Jackpot! (1991) online on iFILM.