Film Index
French cinema: Comedy
Service de nuit (1944)
Jean Faurez
Suzanne works as a telephone operator in a small village in the Savoie region of France. It is a privileged position and Suzanne finds herself privy to all the secrets and intrigues that go on in her close-knit community...
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Jean Faurez
Le Sexe faible (1933)
Robert Siodmak
Madame Leroy-Gomez is one of the wealthy patrons of an exclusive Parisian hotel. A firm believer in the idea that one can never have too much of a good thing as far as lucre is concerned, she encourages her sons Jimmy and Philippe to marry for money, not knowing that they are too fond of their carefree bachelor existence to fall in with these well-meaning plans...
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Robert Siodmak
Si ça peut vous faire plaisir (1948)
Jacques Daniel-Norman
In the shop where they sell funeral wreaths, Monsieur Viala and his wife are celebrating their silver wedding anniversary...
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Jacques Daniel-Norman
Si j'étais le patron (1934)
Richard Pottier
Henri Janvier may be a mere production line worker in an automobile factory but he has big ambitions. He has invented a silencer for motor vehicles that, he is sure, will one day make him a wealthy man...
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Richard Pottier
Le Sicilien (1958)
Pierre Chevalier
In Paris, a criminal gang led by Monsieur Bruno is awaiting the arrival of an Italian hitman who is known only as the Sicilian...
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Pierre Chevalier
Le Siffleur (2010)
Philippe Lefebvre
For Armand Teillard, a placid man in his mid-fifties living in semi-retirement on the Côte d'Azur, life couldn't be peachier... [More...]
Philippe Lefebvre
For Armand Teillard, a placid man in his mid-fifties living in semi-retirement on the Côte d'Azur, life couldn't be peachier... [More...]
Signé Furax (1981)
Marc Simenon
One by one, the great historic monuments of Paris are being stolen and replaced with cheap imitations. These crimes against France's cultural heritage are all signed by the criminal mastermind Furax... [More...]
Marc Simenon
One by one, the great historic monuments of Paris are being stolen and replaced with cheap imitations. These crimes against France's cultural heritage are all signed by the criminal mastermind Furax... [More...]
Signes extérieurs de richesse (1983)
Jacques Monnet
Jean-Jacques Lestrade, known to his friends as Gigi, is a veterinary surgeon who has grown accustomed to living the high life... [More...]
Jacques Monnet
Jean-Jacques Lestrade, known to his friends as Gigi, is a veterinary surgeon who has grown accustomed to living the high life... [More...]
Simplet (1942)
Fernandel
Miéjour and Rocamour are two neighbouring villages in Provence that have been separated by mutual loathing for longer than anyone can remember... [More...]
Fernandel
Miéjour and Rocamour are two neighbouring villages in Provence that have been separated by mutual loathing for longer than anyone can remember... [More...]
La Situation est grave... mais pas désespérée (1976)
Jacques Besnard
Bertrand Duvenois is a property developer with great ambitions. To secure the go-ahead for a new construction project, he invites Jean-Pierre Mazard, the Minister of Quality and Culture, to spend a weekend with him and his wife, Sophie de Valrude, at their sprawling country estate... [More...]
Jacques Besnard
Bertrand Duvenois is a property developer with great ambitions. To secure the go-ahead for a new construction project, he invites Jean-Pierre Mazard, the Minister of Quality and Culture, to spend a weekend with him and his wife, Sophie de Valrude, at their sprawling country estate... [More...]
Snobs! (1962)
Jean-Pierre Mocky
When the president of a dairy farmers' cooperative in Normandy drowns in a vat of milk, elections are soon arranged to find his replacement... [More...]
Jean-Pierre Mocky
When the president of a dairy farmers' cooperative in Normandy drowns in a vat of milk, elections are soon arranged to find his replacement... [More...]
La Soif de l'or (1993)
Gérard Oury
Urbain Donnadieu's first love is money. It's also his second, third and fourth love. The only reason he married - a tax inspector named Fleurette - was to evade a fine for tax evasion... [More...]
Gérard Oury
Urbain Donnadieu's first love is money. It's also his second, third and fourth love. The only reason he married - a tax inspector named Fleurette - was to evade a fine for tax evasion... [More...]
Sois belle et tais-toi (1958)
Marc Allégret
After escaping from a strict Catholic reform school, Virginie Dumaillet goes on the run and ends up joining a gang of adolescent petty criminals led by a wild young hoodlum named Loulou... [More...]
Marc Allégret
After escaping from a strict Catholic reform school, Virginie Dumaillet goes on the run and ends up joining a gang of adolescent petty criminals led by a wild young hoodlum named Loulou... [More...]
Soldat Duroc, ça va être ta fête (1975)
Michel Gérard
In 1944, a regiment of gallant French soldiers is preparing to liberate the northern French town of Senlis from its occupying Germans, but before they can do so the Americans show up in force and do the job for them... [More...]
Michel Gérard
In 1944, a regiment of gallant French soldiers is preparing to liberate the northern French town of Senlis from its occupying Germans, but before they can do so the Americans show up in force and do the job for them... [More...]
La Soupe aux choux (1981)
Jean Girault
In the remote French countryside, two old men - Le Glaude and Le Bombé - live out their solitary retirement, contenting themselves with their friendship, their wine and their irresistible cabbage soup... [More...]
Jean Girault
In the remote French countryside, two old men - Le Glaude and Le Bombé - live out their solitary retirement, contenting themselves with their friendship, their wine and their irresistible cabbage soup... [More...]
Sous les jupes des filles (2014)
Audrey Dana
Rose, a high-flying businesswoman, has sacrificed everything for the sake of her career. Now, anxious to find herself a man and start a family before it is too late, she becomes concerned over her abnormally high testosterone level... [More...]
Audrey Dana
Rose, a high-flying businesswoman, has sacrificed everything for the sake of her career. Now, anxious to find herself a man and start a family before it is too late, she becomes concerned over her abnormally high testosterone level... [More...]
Sous les toits de Paris (1930)
René Clair
In a working class district of Paris in 1930, a young man named Albert makes a modest living as a street singer. One day, he meets an attractive young Rumanian woman, Pola, and instantly falls in love with her... [More...]
René Clair
In a working class district of Paris in 1930, a young man named Albert makes a modest living as a street singer. One day, he meets an attractive young Rumanian woman, Pola, and instantly falls in love with her... [More...]
Les Sous-doués en vacances (1982)
Claude Zidi
Bébel is looking forward to his holiday with his American girlfriend, but when she dumps him at the airport he ends up living in a tent in Paris... [More...]
Claude Zidi
Bébel is looking forward to his holiday with his American girlfriend, but when she dumps him at the airport he ends up living in a tent in Paris... [More...]
Les Sous-doués (1980)
Claude Zidi
Madame Jumaucourt has the dubious honour of being the head mistress of one of the worst performing schools in the whole of France... [More...]
Claude Zidi
Madame Jumaucourt has the dubious honour of being the head mistress of one of the worst performing schools in the whole of France... [More...]
Les Spécialistes (1985)
Patrice Leconte
Whilst being transferred to another prison, two convicts - Stéphane Carella and Paul Brandon - effect a miraculous escape... [More...]
Patrice Leconte
Whilst being transferred to another prison, two convicts - Stéphane Carella and Paul Brandon - effect a miraculous escape... [More...]
Stars 80 (2012)
Frédéric Forestier
Such is their enthusiasm for the music of the 1980s that Vincent and Antoine decide to create their own company, hiring out doubles of the stars of that colourful decade to the whole of France... [More...]
Frédéric Forestier
Such is their enthusiasm for the music of the 1980s that Vincent and Antoine decide to create their own company, hiring out doubles of the stars of that colourful decade to the whole of France... [More...]
Stupeur et tremblements (2003)
Alain Corneau
Having completed her studies, a twenty-year old Belgian girl, Amélie, returns to Japan, the country where she spent the first five years of her life... [More...]
Alain Corneau
Having completed her studies, a twenty-year old Belgian girl, Amélie, returns to Japan, the country where she spent the first five years of her life... [More...]
Le Sucre (1978)
Jacques Rouffio
Adrien Courtois is a tax inspector in his late fifties who has the good fortune to be married to a wealthy woman, Hilda. After a series of generous inheritances, the couple are sufficiently well-off to retire and settle in Paris, where Adrien hopes to make some wise investments that will make him even richer... [More...]
Jacques Rouffio
Adrien Courtois is a tax inspector in his late fifties who has the good fortune to be married to a wealthy woman, Hilda. After a series of generous inheritances, the couple are sufficiently well-off to retire and settle in Paris, where Adrien hopes to make some wise investments that will make him even richer... [More...]
Suivez-moi jeune homme (1958)
Guy Lefranc
Aristide Oranos, a wealthy ship owner, is in love with Françoise, a shop assistant in a jeweller's shop. When the young woman rejects him several times, Aristide becomes convinced that she already has a man in her life and hires a private detective, Michel Corbier, to spy on her... [More...]
Guy Lefranc
Aristide Oranos, a wealthy ship owner, is in love with Françoise, a shop assistant in a jeweller's shop. When the young woman rejects him several times, Aristide becomes convinced that she already has a man in her life and hires a private detective, Michel Corbier, to spy on her... [More...]
Supercondriaque (2014)
Dany Boon
Nearly 40, Romain Faubert lives alone, having neither wife nor children. The reason: he is a chronic hypochondriac. His job as a photographer for an on-line medical dictionary does nothing for his condition, which has made him compulsively neurotic... [More...]
Dany Boon
Nearly 40, Romain Faubert lives alone, having neither wife nor children. The reason: he is a chronic hypochondriac. His job as a photographer for an on-line medical dictionary does nothing for his condition, which has made him compulsively neurotic... [More...]
Sur la piste du Marsupilami (2012)
Alain Chabat
When Dan Geraldo, a reporter looking for his next scoop, arrives in the South American country of Palombia, he can have no idea of the adventures that lie in store for him... [More...]
Alain Chabat
When Dan Geraldo, a reporter looking for his next scoop, arrives in the South American country of Palombia, he can have no idea of the adventures that lie in store for him... [More...]
Sur le banc (1955)
Robert Vernay
Two middle-aged tramps, La Hurlette and Carmen, meet up every day on the same park bench in Paris. La Hurlette enjoys the life of the vagabond but he is more than willing to give this up when, one day, he discovers that he has inherited a fortune... [More...]
Robert Vernay
Two middle-aged tramps, La Hurlette and Carmen, meet up every day on the same park bench in Paris. La Hurlette enjoys the life of the vagabond but he is more than willing to give this up when, one day, he discovers that he has inherited a fortune... [More...]
Sur un air d'autoroute (2000)
Thierry Boscheron
Jeff, a man in his late thirties, is desperate to be near to his former girlfriend, Périnne. As she works at a toll booth on a busy stretch of road, he finds himself a job as a motorway maintenance worker... [More...]
Thierry Boscheron
Jeff, a man in his late thirties, is desperate to be near to his former girlfriend, Périnne. As she works at a toll booth on a busy stretch of road, he finds himself a job as a motorway maintenance worker... [More...]
Sur un air de Charleston (1927)
Jean Renoir
It is the year 2028, not so long after the world was ravaged by a cataclysmic war. A tiny spherical aircraft takes off from central Africa and heads towards Europe, a continent devastated by war... [More...]
Jean Renoir
It is the year 2028, not so long after the world was ravaged by a cataclysmic war. A tiny spherical aircraft takes off from central Africa and heads towards Europe, a continent devastated by war... [More...]
Sur un arbre perché (1971)
Serge Korber
The ruthless industrialist Henri Roubier could not be happier. He has just signed a contract for a major road construction project with an Italian, Mazzini, and stands to make himself a small fortune... [More...]
Serge Korber
The ruthless industrialist Henri Roubier could not be happier. He has just signed a contract for a major road construction project with an Italian, Mazzini, and stands to make himself a small fortune... [More...]