Best french comedies/meilleures comédies françaises
Not necessarily the most famous, but in my opinion, among the best ones -from those I have seen at least-
Pas forcément les plus célèbres, mais à mon avis, parmi les meilleures -de celles que j'ai vues du moins-
Pas forcément les plus célèbres, mais à mon avis, parmi les meilleures -de celles que j'ai vues du moins-
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- DirectorDidier BourdonBernard CampanStarsDidier BourdonBernard CampanPascal LégitimusThree half-brothers are reunited at their mother's funeral. After being told of their inheritance they quickly spend the money, only to find out that they will not receive it after all. The men grow closer while deciding how to proceed.
- DirectorGérard OuryStarsBourvilLouis de FunèsClaudio BrookSeveral ordinary Frenchmen go on an epic voyage through the occupied country to the free zone as they help British pilots avoid German captivity.
- DirectorAlain BerbérianStarsChantal LaubyAlain ChabatDominique FarrugiaA second-class horror movie has to be shown at Cannes Film Festival, but, before each screening, the projectionist is killed by a mysterious fellow, with hammer and sickle, just as it happens in the film to be shown.
- DirectorClaude ZidiStarsLouis de FunèsColucheAnn ZachariasCharles Duchemin, a well-known gourmet and the publisher of a famous restaurant guide, is waging a war against fast-food entrepreneur Tricatel to save the French art of cooking. After having agreed to appear on a talk show to show his skills in naming food and wine by taste, he is confronted with two disasters: his son wants to become a clown rather than a restaurant tester and he, the famous Charles Duchemin, has lost his taste.
- DirectorJacques BesnardStarsLouis de FunèsBernard BlierMaria-Rosa RodriguezTop-notch french restaurant owner Monsieur Septime is involved into crime when one of his famous guests disappears.
- DirectorJean GiraultStarsLouis de FunèsGeneviève GradMichel GalabruGendarme Ludovic Cruchot is re-assigned to the French Riviera seaside resort town of Saint-Tropez where petty criminals and his own daughter give him a hard time.
- DirectorJean GiraultStarsLouis de FunèsMichel GalabruChristian MarinAfter being chosen to represent France in an international congress, Cruchot and his troops must go to New York, and adapt to its social and cultural aspects.
- DirectorPatrice LeconteStarsJosiane BalaskoMichel BlancMarie-Anne ChazelEight tourists who met in a holiday camp on the Ivory Coast are reunited for a skiing holiday.
- DirectorJean-Marie PoiréStarsAnémoneJosiane BalaskoMarie-Anne ChazelTwo neurotics, working for a suicide hotline on the night of Christmas Eve, get caught up in a catastrophe when a pregnant woman, her abusive boyfriend, and a transvestite visit their office.
- DirectorYves RobertStarsJean RochefortClaude BrasseurGuy BedosAs loyal as a dove, a family man is about to tell his first lie to his wife when he falls for an enchanting woman in a billowy red dress. With a bit of help, he just might get what he wishes for; however, is love always a bed of roses?
- DirectorYves RobertStarsJean RochefortClaude BrasseurGuy BedosSequel to Pardon Mon Affaire. Four men continue to explore the fallout from their personal lives. This time they buy a house in the country, but struggle to escape their troubles.
- DirectorPatrice LeconteStarsJosiane BalaskoLuis RegoMarie-Anne ChazelHolidaymakers 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.
- DirectorMichel HazanaviciusStarsFrançois DamiensJean DujardinKhalid MaadourSecret agent OSS 117 foils Nazis, beds local beauties, and brings peace to the Middle East.
- DirectorMichel HazanaviciusStarsJean DujardinLouise MonotRüdiger VoglerAnother mission of world-known French secret agent leads him to exotic Brazil.
- DirectorGérard OuryStarsBourvilLouis de FunèsVenantino VenantiniCriminals have chosen an ordinary man to carry drugs and jewels in his car across the border. The problem is that this man turned out too much ordinary.
- DirectorJulien DuvivierStarsFernandelGino CerviVera TalchiA determined priest and a Communist mayor develop a grudging friendship in spite of their official rivalry.
- DirectorJulien DuvivierStarsFernandelGino CerviArturo BragagliaEnergetic priest Don Camillo returns to the town of Brescello for more political and personal duels with Communist mayor Peppone.
- DirectorCarmine GalloneStarsFernandelGino CerviClaude SylvainBewildered, Don Camillo learns that Peppone intends to stand for parliament. Determined to thwart his ambitions, the good priest, ignoring the recommendations of the Lord, decides to campaign against him.
- DirectorGérard OuryStarsLouis de FunèsMiou-MiouSuzy DelairA bigoted Frenchman finds himself forced to impersonate a popular rabbi while on the run from a group of assassins - and the police.
- DirectorJean-Marie PoiréStarsChristian ClavierJean RenoValérie LemercierA medieval knight and his servant ask a familiar wizard to move them back in time to prevent father-in-law's accidentally killing. Instead, they fly away to the 20th century.
- DirectorClaude ZidiStarsMichel GalabruMaria PacômeDaniel AuteuilBaptiste 'Bebel' Lavalle and his classmates in Versailles' private high-school Louis XIV enjoy their carefree life enough to deliberately fail the exams, a national record of zero graduating pupils. Permissive headmaster Léon Jumaucourt's bitchy wife Lucie takes charge, determined to make them pass. She's no match for Bebel's tricks, despite cruel abuse, but the gang also annoys the public, including the dumb police commissioner. After a mix-up between their bomb-alert prop and a real terrorist group's African embassy attack, Bebel's bunch is condemned to pass their exams or go to jail, and the commissioner, charged with supervision, is in no mood to let them off easily.
- DirectorAlain BerbérianFrédéric ForestierStarsGérard LanvinBenoît PoelvoordeJosé GarciaIt is the story of two types: Moltes a criminal in prison and Reggio one of the guards. Crazy adventures happen when following a winner ticket to Africa, they competes in a rally and are chased by the Turk, a sworn enemy of Moltes.
- DirectorRobert DhéryStarsLouis de FunèsAndréa ParisyFranco FabriziLouis-Philippe Fourchaume, another typical lead-role for French comedy superstar Louis de Funès, is the dictatorial CEO of a French company which designs and produces sail yachts, and fires in yet another tantrum his designer André Castagnier, not realizing that man is his only chance to land a vital contract with the Italian magnate Marcello Cacciaperotti. So he has to find him at his extremely rural birthplace in 'la France profonde', which proves a torturous odyssey for the spoiled rich man; when he does get there his torment is far from over: the country bumpkin refuses to resume his slavish position now the shoe is on the other foot, so Fourchaume is dragged along in the boorish family life, and at times unable to control his temper, which may cost him more credit then he painstakingly builds up...
- DirectorAndré HunebelleStarsLouis de FunèsRaymond BussièresAnnette PoivreA chaotic family go on holiday to Spain and get mixed up with a gang of diamond thieves
- DirectorJean GiraultStarsLouis de FunèsClaude GensacMichel GalabruA writer of detective stories desperately trying to hide a corpse in his house - and at the same time to know exactly who he killed accidentally.