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1. Joyeuse retraite! (2019)
97 min | Comedy
Marilou and Philippe prepare for their future retirement in Portugal. But their daughter separates and a whole procession of solicitations falls on them.
Director: Fabrice Bracq | Stars: Michèle Laroque, Thierry Lhermitte, Judith Magre, Nicole Ferroni
Votes: 1,052
2. The Pawn (1978)
88 min | Comedy, Family, Romance
Humiliated and down on his luck, a superintendent turns his life around when he decides to write a book.
Director: Christian Gion | Stars: Henri Guybet, Claude Jade, Maureen Kerwin, Claude Piéplu
Votes: 379
3. My New Partner at the Races (1990)
107 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
A team of corrupt policemen returns when they face with really wicked colleagues.
Director: Claude Zidi | Stars: Philippe Noiret, Thierry Lhermitte, Guy Marchand, Jean-Pierre Castaldi
Votes: 2,222
4. Ripoux 3 (2003)
105 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
It has been ten years since the paths of René and François separated. From the glorious days when as cops they roamed the Montmartre district, they only have a handful of memories.
Director: Claude Zidi | Stars: Philippe Noiret, Thierry Lhermitte, Lorànt Deutsch, Chloé Flipo
Votes: 1,284
5. Happy Easter (1984)
98 min | Comedy
Stephane Margelle, a successful businessman and an incorrigible ladies' man, after seeing his wife to the airport, immediately meets a young charmer. He brings her to his home, but suddenly his wife returns.
Director: Georges Lautner | Stars: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Sophie Marceau, Marie Laforêt, Rosy Varte
Votes: 2,937
6. From Russia with Love (2005 Video Game)
T | Action, Adventure, Thriller
This game follows the storyline of the novel and 1963 movie, with adding in new scenes to make the game more action-oriented, as well as changing the affiliation of the main villains.
Stars: Sean Connery, Natasha Bedingfield, JB Blanc, Brian McCole
Votes: 3,362
7. L'école est finie (1979)
97 min | Comedy, Drama
Julien, fifteen-year-old, meets Nathalie, a girl his age whom he falls in love. Soon she is expecting a child. Their parents take the news with reservations. The baby will come and with it, the difficult learning of life.
Director: Olivier Nolin | Stars: Corinne Dacla, Bertrand Waintrop, Catherine Rouvel, Jean-Luc Moreau
Votes: 22
8. Cartouche (1962)
Not Rated | 114 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
The story of a kid from the back streets who wants to become king of Paris. Brought up among petty thieves, he becomes their leader through an audacious and elegant coup which wins him the love of the beautiful Venus.
Director: Philippe de Broca | Stars: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Claudia Cardinale, Jess Hahn, Marcel Dalio
Votes: 2,928
9. Peppermint Soda (1977)
PG | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A year in the life of two adolescent sisters at an all-girls school in France as they experience a rapid-fire onslaught of 'firsts' during a time of political protest and social change.
Director: Diane Kurys | Stars: Eléonore Klarwein, Odile Michel, Anouk Ferjac, Michel Puterflam
Votes: 1,606
10. Banzaï (1983)
102 min | Adventure, Comedy
Michel Bernardin works at Planet Assistance, who helps Frenchmen who are in trouble in foreign countries.
Director: Claude Zidi | Stars: Coluche, Valérie Mairesse, Didier Kaminka, François Perrot
Votes: 1,788
11. Deux heures moins le quart avant Jésus-Christ (1982)
100 min | Comedy
Rahatlocum is a North African Roman colony where Julius Caesar came to spend an expensive holiday. The revolt rumbles among the small people who find a leader in the person of Ben-Hur Marcel.
Director: Jean Yanne | Stars: Coluche, Michel Serrault, Jean Yanne, Françoise Fabian
Votes: 1,764
12. Inspector Blunder (1980)
100 min | Comedy, Crime
The clumsy son of a deceased police hero joins the police and his task is to protect a reporter from the most famous gangster of Paris.
Director: Claude Zidi | Stars: Coluche, Gérard Depardieu, Dominique Lavanant, Julien Guiomar
Votes: 2,167
13. The Wing or The Thigh? (1976)
104 min | Comedy, Family
Charles 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Claude Zidi | Stars: Louis de Funès, Coluche, Ann Zacharias, Julien Guiomar
Votes: 12,317
14. Le grand bazar (1973)
86 min | Comedy
Four guys working for a small grocer in trouble, declare war on a new giant neighborhood supermarket by attempting several coups. A film about the big store taking over the business of smaller stores.
Director: Claude Zidi | Stars: Gérard Rinaldi, Jean Sarrus, Gérard Filippelli, Jean-Guy Fechner
Votes: 896
15. Potiche (2010)
R | 103 min | Comedy
A housewife and grandma takes over the family business 1977, after her husband is hurt during a strike.
Director: François Ozon | Stars: Catherine Deneuve, Gérard Depardieu, Fabrice Luchini, Karin Viard
Votes: 11,353 | Gross: $1.62M
16. Michou d'Auber (2007)
124 min | Drama
Set in France during the struggle for Algerian independence, Messaoud's mother is terminally ill and his father, needing to work long hours in the factory, can't look after him, so decides ... See full summary »
Director: Thomas Gilou | Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Nathalie Baye, Mathieu Amalric, Samy Seghir
Votes: 835
17. The Closet (2001)
R | 84 min | Comedy
A man spreads the rumor of his fake homosexuality with the aid of his neighbor, to prevent his imminent firing at his work.
Director: Francis Veber | Stars: Daniel Auteuil, Gérard Depardieu, Thierry Lhermitte, Michèle Laroque
Votes: 18,320 | Gross: $6.68M
18. Germinal (1993)
R | 160 min | Drama, Romance
In mid-nineteenth-century northern France, a coal mining town's workers are exploited by the mine's owner. One day, they decide to go on strike, and the authorities repress them.
Director: Claude Berri | Stars: Renaud, Gérard Depardieu, Miou-Miou, Jean Carmet
Votes: 5,741 | Gross: $0.38M
19. Mon père, ce héros. (1991)
105 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
To impress a boy while on vacation with her divorced father, Veronique pretends that her father is her lover.
Director: Gérard Lauzier | Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Marie Gillain, Catherine Jacob, Charlotte de Turckheim
Votes: 2,905 | Gross: $25.48M
20. Cyrano de Bergerac (1990)
PG | 137 min | Comedy, Drama, History
Famed swordsman and poet Cyrano de Bergerac is in love with his cousin Roxane. He has never expressed his love for her as he his large nose undermines his self-confidence. Then he finds a way to express his love to her, indirectly.
Director: Jean-Paul Rappeneau | Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Anne Brochet, Vincent Perez, Jacques Weber
Votes: 25,932 | Gross: $15.14M
21. The Fugitives (1986)
95 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Jean is taken hostage at a bank by a foolish bank robber. As Jean left prison an hour earlier, the police assume he's the robber. Everything goes comically wrong. The robber's little daughter joins the fugitives.
Director: Francis Veber | Stars: Pierre Richard, Gérard Depardieu, Jean Carmet, Maurice Barrier
Votes: 7,875
22. Ménage (1986)
84 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A bisexual petty criminal named Bob encounters a married couple arguing in a bar. Bob breaks up the fight and proceeds to seduce first the wife and then the husband. Then Bob teaches the ... See full summary »
Director: Bertrand Blier | Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Michel Blanc, Miou-Miou, Michel Creton
Votes: 3,606 | Gross: $0.93M
23. The ComDads (1983)
PG | 92 min | Comedy, Crime
A woman, whose troubled son has left home, informs two different men from her past that each of them is a real father. Too different men.
Director: Francis Veber | Stars: Pierre Richard, Gérard Depardieu, Anny Duperey, Michel Aumont
Votes: 6,694
24. Family is Family (2018)
G | 107 min | Comedy
Valentin D is a hot designer architect who claims to be an orphan because he is too ashamed to admit he is the son of working-class scrap metal merchants from the north of France.
Director: Dany Boon | Stars: Dany Boon, Line Renaud, Laurence Arné, Valérie Bonneton
Votes: 4,544
25. Sans Famille (2000– )
193 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
Young Rémi, a foundling, lives on the farm run by his impoverished foster parents. When their money runs out, unbeknown to his foster-mother, Rémi is sold by his hard-hearted foster father ... See full summary »
Stars: Pierre Richard, Jules Sitruk, Veronica Ferres, Stefano Dionisi
Votes: 371
26. Promotion canapé (1990)
92 min | Comedy
Two women who want a raise, realize that they can easily get what they want, if they sleep with their boss.
Director: Didier Kaminka | Stars: Grace de Capitani, Thierry Lhermitte, Michel Sardou, Claude Rich
Votes: 544
27. The Twin (1984)
104 min | Comedy
Matthias Duval is in love, but he can't choose between the two twin sisters Betty and Liz Kerner. To pick up the two sisters, he invents his own twin brother and will play both characters.
Director: Yves Robert | Stars: Pierre Richard, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Camilla More, Carey More
Votes: 1,361
28. La Chèvre (1981)
91 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
A daughter of a millionaire, distinguished by incredible bad luck, goes missing. The idea how to find her is either insane or brilliant - to send after her an equally unlucky person.
Director: Francis Veber | Stars: Pierre Richard, Gérard Depardieu, Pedro Armendáriz Jr., Corynne Charbit
Votes: 10,614
29. The Umbrella Coup (1980)
PG | 98 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
A womanizer balances his wife, mistress, and love interest.
Director: Gérard Oury | Stars: Pierre Richard, Valérie Mairesse, Christine Murillo, Gordon Mitchell
Votes: 3,118
30. The Escape (1978)
PG | 100 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
The lawyer Jean-Philippe Duroc visits his client, Martial Gaulard, sentenced to death for a murder he has not committed. At that moment, a mutiny happens inside the prison.
Director: Gérard Oury | Stars: Pierre Richard, Victor Lanoux, Raymond Bussières, Claude Brosset
Votes: 1,384
31. I'm Shy, But I'll Heal (1978)
PG | 88 min | Comedy
Pierre is a hotel cashier in Vichy, so shy that he answers an ad from the Psychology Institute and can't say no to the salesman, Aldo; he spends 6,000 francs on tapes, books, and a punching... See full summary »
Director: Pierre Richard | Stars: Pierre Richard, Aldo Maccione, Jacques François, Mimi Coutelier
Votes: 1,609
32. The Toy (1976)
PG | 95 min | Comedy, Drama
A poor journalist finds himself as a toy of a boss' son. Making friends with a naughty child, he tries to save him from the cruel power of his father.
Director: Francis Veber | Stars: Pierre Richard, Michel Bouquet, Fabrice Greco, Jacques François
Votes: 6,330
33. La course à l'échalote (1975)
95 min | Comedy
An awkward banker tracks down cabaret performers, who stole the ownership title of their nightclub.
Director: Claude Zidi | Stars: Pierre Richard, Jane Birkin, Michel Aumont, Marc Doelnitz
Votes: 1,145
34. The Return of the Tall Blond Man (1974)
84 min | Comedy
With 'little captain' Cambrai raising serious doubts about the reality of the so-called "super spy", Colonel Toulouse kidnaps Christine and forces Francois to play again the character of "... See full summary »
Director: Yves Robert | Stars: Pierre Richard, Jean Carmet, Jean Rochefort, Mireille Darc
Votes: 4,066
35. The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe (1972)
PG | 90 min | Comedy, Mystery
A hapless orchestra player becomes an unwitting pawn of rival factions within the French secret service after he is chosen as a decoy by being identified as a super secret agent.
Director: Yves Robert | Stars: Pierre Richard, Bernard Blier, Jean Rochefort, Mireille Darc
Votes: 9,235 | Gross: $0.40M
36. Distracted (1970)
85 min | Comedy
A comedy about an absent-minded man who works at a advertising company. He topples from one problem to another.
Director: Pierre Richard | Stars: Pierre Richard, Marie-Christine Barrault, Maria Pacôme, Catherine Samie
Votes: 1,670
37. Pédale dure (2004)
90 min | Comedy
Loic and Seb are a couple living in Paris's gay district, the Marais. Seb is the owner of the district's most trendy, chic and camp nightclub. It's a world devoid of judging eyes where the ... See full summary »
Director: Gabriel Aghion | Stars: Gérard Darmon, Michèle Laroque, Dany Boon, Jacques Dutronc
Votes: 396
38. Pédale douce (1996)
100 min | Comedy
The film discusses how to save a marriage when one is surrounded by heterosexual as well as homosexual people ?
Director: Gabriel Aghion | Stars: Patrick Timsit, Fanny Ardant, Richard Berry, Michèle Laroque
Votes: 1,967
39. Médecins de nuit (1978–1986)
55 min | Drama
Stars: Catherine Allégret, Georges Beller, Greg Germain, Agnès Château
Votes: 35
40. Stars 80 (2012)
110 min | Comedy
Vincent and Antoine, two fans of the 1980s, run a small show company that makes look-a-likes all over France.
Directors: Frédéric Forestier, Thomas Langmann | Stars: Richard Anconina, Patrick Timsit, Bruno Lochet, Lio
Votes: 826
41. Stars 80, la suite (2017)
112 min | Comedy, Music
Vincent and Antoine, tired of the tours, decide to go on holiday with all the troop of Stars 80.
Director: Thomas Langmann | Stars: Richard Anconina, Patrick Timsit, Bruno Lochet, Jean-Marc Généreux
Votes: 236
42. The Blues Brothers (1980)
R | 133 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Jake Blues rejoins with his brother Elwood after being released from prison, but the duo has just days to reunite their old R&B band and save the Catholic home where the two were raised, outrunning the police as they tear through Chicago.
Director: John Landis | Stars: John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Cab Calloway, John Candy
Votes: 214,260 | Gross: $57.23M
43. Blues Brothers 2000 (1998)
PG-13 | 123 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Elwood must reunite the old band, with a few new members, and go on another "Mission from God."
Director: John Landis | Stars: Dan Aykroyd, John Goodman, Walter Levine, Tom Davis
Votes: 34,760 | Gross: $13.98M
44. The Valet (2006)
PG-13 | 85 min | Comedy, Drama
A porter and a top-model have to pretend to be a couple in order to salvage a CEO's marriage.
Director: Francis Veber | Stars: Gad Elmaleh, Alice Taglioni, Daniel Auteuil, Kristin Scott Thomas
Votes: 11,018 | Gross: $2.27M
45. Liberté, égalité, choucroute (1985)
113 min | Comedy
A parody of the French Revolution, on Arabian Nights background. Bagdad Calif is in Paris in 1789, where he decides to visit the Executionner equipment exhibition.
Director: Jean Yanne | Stars: Michel Serrault, Ursula Andress, Jean Poiret, Mimi Coutelier
Votes: 232
46. Gramps Is in the Resistance (1983)
102 min | Comedy, Music, War
Bourdelle, a family of musicians, refuse to play for Germans during the war. They would like to liberate France using all possible means.
Director: Jean-Marie Poiré | Stars: Christian Clavier, Michel Galabru, Roland Giraud, Gérard Jugnot
Votes: 3,372
47. I've Got You, You've Got Me by the Chin Hairs (1979)
98 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
The kidnappers of a variety presenter, Patrice Rengain, demand a ransom of a billion cents. To collect the sum, the director of the chain decides to organize a huge quest, as for a great humanitarian cause.
Director: Jean Yanne | Stars: Jean Yanne, Mimi Coutelier, The Village People, The Ritchie Family
Votes: 207
48. Moi y'en a vouloir des sous (1973)
107 min | Comedy
Dismissed following an unfortunate initiative, financial advisor Benoît Lepape decides to work for his uncle, a union activist. His capitalist methods will surprise at first, but quickly bring in a lot of money.
Director: Jean Yanne | Stars: Jean Yanne, Bernard Blier, Nicole Calfan, Michel Serrault
Votes: 240
49. Tout le monde il est beau, tout le monde il est gentil (1972)
105 min | Comedy, Music
According to "Radio closer to God", nothing is conceived without God, especially shampoos, cosmetics, the sale of records - Animator Christian Gerber denounces this scam on the air, which ... See full summary »
Director: Jean Yanne | Stars: Jean Yanne, Bernard Blier, Michel Serrault, Marina Vlady
Votes: 641
50. Troubleshooters (1971)
100 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
The heroes of this tape are two released ahead of schedule for exemplary behavior. In prison, they developed an ingenious plan for a further comfortable life. They thought they had thought of everything. But, alas, one of them is married.
Director: Georges Lautner | Stars: Jean Yanne, Mireille Darc, Bernard Blier, Michel Constantin
Votes: 456
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