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French Comedy

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  • L'auberge rouge (2007)

    1. L'auberge rouge

    20071h 35m
    5.9 (1.5K)
    In the 19th century Pyrénées, a stagecoach stops for the night at an isolated inn run by a couple of murderous thieves. The husband wants to kill and rob them all, but one of them is a priest whom the wife refuses to see harmed.
    DirectorGérard KrawczykStarsChristian ClavierJosiane BalaskoGérard Jugnot
  • Fernandel in The Red Inn (1951)

    2. The Red Inn

    19511h 38mNot Rated
    7.2 (1.7K)
    A group of travelers, including a monk, stay in a lonely inn in the mountains. The host confesses the monk his habit of serving a soporific soup to the guests, to rob their possessions and to bury them in the backyard. The story unfolds as the monk tries to save the guest's lives without violating the holy secrecy of the confession.
    DirectorClaude Autant-LaraStarsFernandelFrançoise RosayMarie-Claire Olivia
  • Richard Berry, Charles Berling, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Selma El Mouissi, Manon Gaurin, Thomas Goulard, and Quentin Pommier in 15 août (2001)

    3. 15 août

    20011h 30m
    5.6 (1K)
    Three men are abandonned by their wives for a few days in the summer holidays. They are alone with five kids to feed and a house to maintain. And they will learn what they did wrong with their wives.
    DirectorPatrick AlessandrinStarsRichard BerryCharles BerlingJean-Pierre Darroussin
  • Michel Boujenah, André Dussollier, and Roland Giraud in Three Men and a Cradle (1985)

    4. Three Men and a Cradle

    19851h 46mPG-1344Metascore
    6.6 (4.2K)
    Jacques, Pierre, and Michel are three adult friends who enjoy single life until they find themselves stuck with a baby.
    DirectorColine SerreauStarsRoland GiraudMichel BoujenahAndré Dussollier
  • Married for 7 Years (2003)

    5. Married for 7 Years

    20031h 37m
    5.9 (1.2K)
    After seven years of marriage, a couple of professional workers (he, a doctor and she, a banker) try to refresh their sex life
    DirectorDidier BourdonStarsCatherine FrotDidier BourdonJacques Weber
  • Family Resemblances (1996)

    6. Family Resemblances

    19961h 50mNot Rated
    7.4 (5.7K)
    An upper middle-class French family celebrates a birthday in a restaurant. In one evening and during one meal, family history, tensions, collective and separate grudges, delights, and memories both clash and coalesce.
    DirectorCédric KlapischStarsJean-Pierre BacriJean-Pierre DarroussinCatherine Frot
  • Fanny Ardant, Emmanuelle Béart, Catherine Deneuve, Isabelle Huppert, Virginie Ledoyen, Danielle Darrieux, Firmine Richard, and Ludivine Sagnier in 8 Women (2002)

    7. 8 Women

    20021h 51mR64Metascore
    7.0 (35K)
    A man is murdered in an isolated chalet, and the eight female residents are all suspects; their secrets are revealed as they try to determine who is guilty.
    DirectorFrançois OzonStarsFanny ArdantEmmanuelle BéartDanielle Darrieux
  • Emmanuelle Béart, Pierre Richard, Richard Bohringer, and Fanny Cottençon in Door on the Left as You Leave the Elevator (1988)

    8. Door on the Left as You Leave the Elevator

    19881h 23m
    6.6 (2.1K)
    Two next door couples can not figure out finally who hates whom and who loves whom.
    DirectorÉdouard MolinaroStarsPierre RichardRichard BohringerEmmanuelle Béart
  • Adhémar ou le jouet de la fatalité (1951)

    9. Adhémar ou le jouet de la fatalité

    19511h 29m
    5.3 (123)
    Is it because his father was a groom that Adhémar Pomme has a long horse head and a horse- toothed smile? Maybe but the fact is that his head has invariably caused laughter whatever the circumstances, which is the tragedy of his life. After having worked as an undertaker, a theater prompter, a casino bouncer, and so on, and failing at each job, he applies out of desperation to an institution where those rejected for physical reasons can hide and live together. But Adhémar immediately starts... laughing at them and gets kicked out as a result! In the end though, he finds his way as a circus artist
    DirectorFernandelStarsFernandelJacqueline PagnolBernadette Lange
  • L'africain (1983)

    10. L'africain

    19831h 41m
    6.2 (1K)
    A travel executive goes to Africa with plans to build a luxury holiday resort. Once arrived, she clashes with her ex-husband, who has moved there to escape civilization.
    DirectorPhilippe de BrocaStarsCatherine DeneuvePhilippe NoiretJean-François Balmer
  • Very Happy Alexander (1968)

    11. Very Happy Alexander

    19681h 40mG
    7.3 (2.4K)
    Alexandre, a young and honest farmer under the yoke of an authoritarian wife, works around the clock in the fields. When she dies in a car accident, it's a holiday for Alexandre.
    DirectorYves RobertStarsPhilippe NoiretFrançoise BrionMarlène Jobert
  • The Counterfeit Constable (1964)

    12. The Counterfeit Constable

    19641h 30m
    6.2 (310)
    A French rugby supporter is in England for a match at Twickenham and is knocked out and loses two teeth. He goes to the dentist and during waiting he wears a uniform of another patient, a police officer.
    DirectorsRobert DhéryPierre TcherniaStarsPierre TornadePierre DorisRaymond Bussières
  • L'amour aux trousses (2005)

    13. L'amour aux trousses

    20051h 33mNot Rated
    4.9 (503)
    Franck and Paul are working as team buddies in their Paris police unit. They are sent on a mission in Toulon to solve a drug traffic mystery, but things get out of hand when Paul learns that Franck has an affair with Valeria, his wife, who also happens to work in the police forces...
    DirectorPhilippe de ChauveronStarsJean DujardinPascal ElbéCaterina Murino
  • Les anges gardiens (1995)

    14. Les anges gardiens

    19951h 50m
    5.9 (3.7K)
    Gerard Depardieu plays a sleazy Paris nightclub owner and ex-detective who flies to Hong Kong to rescue the young son of a friend murdered by the Chinese mob. He leaves the boy in the hands of an earnest priest (Christian Clavier), who escorts him back to Paris. Soon Clavier and Depardieu are fighting it out, each shadowed by his good or evil guardian angel.
    DirectorJean-Marie PoiréStarsGérard DepardieuChristian ClavierEva Grimaldi
  • Raquel Welch and Jean-Paul Belmondo in Animal (1977)

    15. Animal

    19771h 31mNot Rated
    6.5 (3.5K)
    The funny misadventures of a dating duo of movie stunt professionals in France.
    DirectorClaude ZidiStarsJean-Paul BelmondoRaquel WelchDany Saval
  • L'antidote (2005)

    16. L'antidote

    20051h 47m
    5.3 (1.1K)
    Jacques-Alain Marty, known as Jam, is the boss of Vladis Entreprises, a large French multi-pole group. Everything works for him, but for the past few weeks, Jam has not been in his normal state.
    DirectorVincent De BrusStarsChristian ClavierJacques VilleretAgnès Soral
  • Les aristos (2006)

    17. Les aristos

    20061h 19m
    3.5 (343)
    Count Charles Valerand d'Arbac de Neuville, his wife Solange, as well as their more or less direct ascendants and descendants will attempt the impossible to preserve their ruined castle.
    DirectorCharlotte de TurckheimStarsCharlotte de TurckheimJacques WeberVincent Desagnat
  • The Cupboard Was Bare (1948)

    18. The Cupboard Was Bare

    19481h 22mApproved
    6.6 (278)
    The aunt of Alfred Puc, a meek tax-collector in Paris, dies while riding in a moving van. The driver, not wishing to be bothered by a police interrogation, hides her corpse in a cupboard before notifying Alfred. But the van is stolen. Alfred, being the heir of a rich lady, begins a frantic search to locate the missing van and the cupboard because one can't claim an inheritance if there is no 'corpus delecti.' In his search, he gets caught up in an underworld web and finds the body of a murdered gangster in his room. He finally locates the cupboard but promptly loses it again. But, wait, it isn't "finis' time, yet.
    DirectorCarlo RimStarsFernandelBerthe BovyGermaine Kerjean
  • Jean-Paul Belmondo in Ace of Aces (1982)

    19. Ace of Aces

    19821h 40m
    6.6 (4.5K)
    In 1936, a French boxer on his way to the Berlin Olympic Games befriends a local Jewish boy and decides to save him from the Nazis.
    DirectorGérard OuryStarsJean-Paul BelmondoMarie-France PisierFrank Hoffmann
  • Gérard Depardieu, Alain Delon, Clovis Cornillac, Benoît Poelvoorde, Stéphane Rousseau, and Vanessa Hessler in Asterix at the Olympic Games (2008)

    20. Asterix at the Olympic Games

    20081h 56mNot Rated
    5.2 (34K)
    The Roman Brutus plans to marry Irina, the princess of Greece, but the Gaul Lovesix wants to prevent this from happening. To get her attention, his strategy is to win the Olympics, with the help of Asterix and Obelix.
    DirectorsFrédéric ForestierThomas LangmannStarsGérard DepardieuClovis CornillacBenoît Poelvoorde
  • Gérard Depardieu and Christian Clavier in Asterix and Obelix vs. Caesar (1999)

    21. Asterix and Obelix vs. Caesar

    19991h 49mNot Rated
    6.0 (47K)
    In all of Roman territory, the village where Asterix and Obelix live is the only enclave that has not yet been dominated by the empire, thanks to the magic potion of the druid Panoramix. But Commander Detritus has a plan to change that.
    DirectorClaude ZidiStarsChristian ClavierGérard DepardieuRoberto Benigni
  • Gérard Depardieu, Monica Bellucci, Christian Clavier, Alain Chabat, Gérard Darmon, Jamel Debbouze, and Claude Rich in Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra (2002)

    22. Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra

    20021h 47mPG
    6.7 (61K)
    Cleopatra, queen of Egypt, believes she can build a temple in record time and makes a bet with Julius Caesar. Her architect, however, needs the help of Asterix and Obelix to fight Romans who try to stop the construction.
    DirectorAlain ChabatStarsGérard DepardieuChristian ClavierJamel Debbouze
  • The Spanish Apartment (2002)

    23. The Spanish Apartment

    20022h 2mR65Metascore
    7.3 (44K)
    A strait-laced French student moves into an apartment in Barcelona with a cast of six other characters from all over Europe. Together, they speak the international language of love and friendship.
    DirectorCédric KlapischStarsRomain DurisJudith GodrècheKelly Reilly
  • The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob (1973)

    24. The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob

    19731h 35mG
    7.4 (16K)
    A bigoted Frenchman finds himself forced to impersonate a popular rabbi while on the run from a group of assassins - and the police.
    DirectorGérard OuryStarsLouis de FunèsMiou-MiouSuzy Delair
  • Christian Clavier in The Hippies (1981)

    25. The Hippies

    19811h 21m
    5.3 (716)
    An old-fashioned guy ends up in a hippie community for the holidays.
    DirectorFrançois LeterrierStarsChristian ClavierMarie-Anne ChazelAnémone

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