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French cinema: Comedy

Les Surprises de la radio (1940)
Marcel Aboulker

The Bontemps are an ordinary French family who, like all of the other residents in the peaceful little village of Coussy la Chapelle, are chronically addicted to the radio...   [More...]

Sushi Sushi (1991)
Laurent Perrin

Forty-something university arts lecturer Maurice Hartmann has grown tired of his predictable life and longs for a change...   [More...]

Sylvie et le fantôme (1946)
Claude Autant-Lara

Sylvie is an imaginative 16 year old girl who has fallen in love with a man in an old portrait - Alain de Francigny, her grandmother's lover, who died many years ago in a duel...   [More...]

Tais-toi! (2003)
Francis Veber

This is the story of Quentin, an empty headed buffoon whose ambition is to run a small bistro, and Ruby, a ruthless crook who will stop at nothing to avenge the death of his girlfriend...   [More...]

Tamara (2016)
Alexandre Castagnetti

Tamara is a 15-year-old girl who is just a little too conscious of the fact that she is carrying a few kilos too many. Her rotundity makes her the object of her classmates' cruel humour so she decides to get her own back...   [More...]

Tanguy (2001)
Étienne Chatiliez

Edith and Paul Guetz are so happy with the birth of their son Tanguy that they promise he can live with them forever. Twenty-eight years later, Tanguy, a cultivated intellectual, is still ensconced in the family home - and his parents can hardly wait to see the back of him...   [More...]

Tanguy, le retour (2019)
Étienne Chatiliez

Tanguy Guetz is 44 when he shows up unexpectedly on his parents' doorstep, desperately in need of moral support after his Chinese wife Meï Lin walked out on him, leaving him with a teenage daughter Zhu...   [More...]

Tatie Danielle (1990)
Étienne Chatiliez

At first glance, Danielle Billard appears such a respectable nice old lady, but those who know her well live in fear, for she is the most mischievous of souls...   [More...]

Le Tatoué (1968)
Denys de La Patellière

The wealthy art dealer Félicien Mézeray is paying a visit to the painter Dubois when he makes the acquaintance of an ageing legionnaire named Legrain...   [More...]

Taxi (1998)
Gérard Pirès

In Marseilles, a pizza delivery boy, Daniel, quits his job and starts up as a taxi driver. His car has been especially souped-up to have the power of a formula one racing car, which he frequently demonstrates to passengers and traffic police...   [More...]

Taxi 2 (2000)
Gérard Krawczyk

The Japanese defence minister arrives in Marseilles to learn how the French police intend to cope with the growing problem of organised crime...   [More...]

Taxi 3 (2003)
Gérard Krawczyk

With Christmas rapidly approaching, Marseille taxi driver Daniel is busy with his favourite pastime, souping up his already over-souped taxi to make it go even faster...   [More...]

Taxi, Roulotte et Corrida (1958)
André Hunebelle

This summer, Maurice Berger feels he has earned his holiday. A hard-working taxi driver, he will be glad to escape from the hustle and bustle of Paris and enjoy a few weeks' peace and quiet in Spain, in the company of his family...   [More...]

Tellement proches (2009)
Olivier Nakache

When Alain married Nathalie, he had no idea that he was also marrying her family. Each Saturday, the couple are dutifully bound to spend their evening with Nathalie's brother, Jean-Pierre, and his wife, Catherine, who consider themselves the perfect example of marital felicity...   [More...]

Le Temps des oeufs durs (1958)
Norbert Carbonnaux

Garage attendant Louis Stainval is a shy daydreamer with no money. One day, he wins a large sum of money via the national lottery and decides to spice up his life...   [More...]

Tendre Dracula (1974)
Pierre Grunstein

For over twenty years the actor MacGregor has devoted himself body and soul to the horror genre. Now, he has decided the time has come for him to try something different...   [More...]

Tendre poulet (1978)
Philippe de Broca

Antoine Lemercier, a teacher in Greek at the Sorbonne, could not be happier when he is reunited with an old university acquaintance, Lise Tanquerelle...   [More...]

Tendre voyou (1966)
Jean Becker

When he loses his job as a chauffeur, Tony Maréchal decides to live off the wealthy women who succumb so easily to his seductive charms...   [More...]

La Tentation de Barbizon (1946)
Jean Stelli

Martine and Michel are a young couple who have made up their mind to get married. During a stay at a country inn run by Martine's uncle Jérôme their love will be put to the test by a devil's emissary masquerading as American businessman Ben Atkinson...   [More...]

Tenue correcte exigée (1997)
Philippe Lioret

Richard Poulenc faces a nine month prison sentence for social security fraud unless he can obtain a signature from his former wife, Catherine, testifying that they have been separated for ten years...   [More...]

Tenue de soirée (1986)
Bertrand Blier

Antoine and Monique are a young couple who find that their relationship is falling apart. Despite Antoine's declarations of love, Monique is so fed up with their squalid life of poverty that she is on the verge of walking out on him...   [More...]

Tête à claques (1982)
Francis Perrin

Alex Berthier is thirty, divorced and lives in a small apartment with his 10-year-old son Bruno. He writes songs that no one wants to buy and just about scrapes by on what he can earn as a taxi driver...   [More...]

Tête blonde (1949)
Maurice Cam

As he heads home one evening, Frédéric Truche is delighted when he spies an abandoned parcel on a luggage rack in the Paris metro...   [More...]

La Tête du client (1965)
Jacques Poitrenaud

To go by his outward appearance, Gaston Berrien would seem to be the very epitome of bourgeois respectability. A hat maker, he runs his own business in Vaucresson and is happily married to Françoise, an outgoing woman who is mostly preoccupied with the crime novels she writes...   [More...]

Themroc (1973)
Claude Faraldo

Themroc is a typical blue-collar worker working for a typical medium-sized factory. When he is caught spying on his boss he is reprimanded, and he instantly rebels...   [More...]

Théodore et Cie (1933)
Pierre Colombier

Théodore, is the nephew of a rich cheese merchant, but rather than follow an honest career in his uncle Chénerol's business, he prefers to earn his living by enacting various scams with his colleague Clodomir...   [More...]

Tintin et le mystère de la Toison d'Or (1961)
Jean-Jacques Vierne

Captain Haddock can hardly believe his good fortune when he receives a letter notifying him that he has inherited a ship named The Golden Fleece from an old friend of his, Paparanic...   [More...]

Tintin et les oranges bleues (1964)
Philippe Condroyer

Professor Tournesol's personal campaign against world hunger results in him being sent a most peculiar package from Valencia - a fluorescent blue orange that may, believe it or not, solve the world's food scarcity problems in one fell swoop...   [More...]

Tip Top (2013)
Serge Bozon

After an informer of Algerian origin is killed in Villeneuve, a nondescript little town in northern France, two senior police officers, Esther Lafarge and Sally Marinelli, are sent to investigate...   [More...]

Tire au flanc (1928)
Jean Renoir

By an odd stroke of fate, the bourgeois Jean Dubois d'Ombelles and his valet Joseph Turlot end up having to serve their military service at the same time, in the same barracks...   [More...]



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