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French cinema: Comedy

Tire au flanc (1950)
Fernand Rivers

Despite the best efforts of his aristocratic aunt, Jean du Bois d'Ombelle cannot get out of doing his military service. By contrast, his manservant, Joseph Turlot, can hardly wait to get into uniform, even if it means taking leave of his fiancée Georgette...   [More...]

Tire-au-flanc 62 (1961)
Claude de Givray

It is with reluctance that Jean Lerat de la Grignotière, a young man of noble birth, sets out to accomplish his military service...   [More...]

Titin des Martigues (1938)
René Pujol

Titin des Martigues is a cheerful young man who runs a lottery stall at a busy funfair in Paris. He is desperately in love with the adorable Yvette, but he has a fierce rival in Dix-de-Der, who is equally determined that she should be his bride...   [More...]

Toi et moi (2006)
Julie Lopes-Curval

Ariane has a habit of transposing the complicated love lives of those around her into the trashy love stories that she writes for a women's magazine...   [More...]

Les Tontons flingueurs (1963)
Georges Lautner

Fernand Naudin, a one-time crook turned respectable businessman, is summoned to the deathbed of his old childhood friend, a gangster boss known as the Mexican...   [More...]

Torpedo (2012)
Matthieu Donck

At 35, Michel Ressac feels that he is coasting through life, with no clear aim or achievements to reassure him. All that changes when, one morning, he receives a phone call notifying him, that he has won a meal with his idol Eddy Merckx, the world famous cyclist...   [More...]

Les Tortillards (1960)
Jean Bastia

A successful manufacturer of a leading brand of insecticide, Émile Durand cannot believe his ears when he discovers that his ungrateful son Gérard has run away from home to join a travelling theatre company...   [More...]

La Totale! (1991)
Claude Zidi

To all who know him, François Voisin is nothing more than an ordinary family man and telecoms engineer. In reality, he is an experienced secret agent whose improbable exploits of the past two decades could fill the pages of several long (albeit mediocre) thriller novels...   [More...]

La Tour 2 contrôle infernale (2016)
Eric Judor

When we first met them in 2001, Eric and Ramzy were working as window cleaners at Paris's Montparnasse Tower when they got themselves caught up in a fantastic adventure involving trigger-happy hoodlums...   [More...]

La Tour Montparnasse infernale (2001)
Charles Nemes

One evening, Éric and Ramzy are cleaning the windows of the Montparnasse Tower, oblivious to the dramatic events taking place within...   [More...]

Tourbillon de Paris (1939)
Henri Diamant-Berger

A group of students who are in Paris to sit their exams find themselves desperately in need of ready cash. They like to perform music for their own amusement, so it suddenly occurs to them that they could take advantage of this shared passion to earn themselves a little money...   [More...]

La Tournée des grands Ducs (1953)
André Pellenc

Gaston, the son of the notary Fromageot, is in love with Brigitte, the daughter of a baroness. Shortly after his arrival in Paris, he loses some money entrusted to him by the baroness and he ends up working in a cabaret to try to make good his loss...   [More...]

Tous à l'Ouest: Une aventure de Lucky Luke (2007)
Olivier Jean Marie

New York, 1855. After escaping from prison, the infamous Dalton brothers waste no time in resuming their criminal exploits and raid every bank in the city...   [More...]

Tous les chemins mènent à Rome (1949)
Jean Boyer

On her way to Rome, Laura Lee, a well-known American actress, is determined to avoid the sensation-hungry journalists who are constantly on her tail...   [More...]

Tout ça ne vaut pas l'amour (1931)
Jacques Tourneur

Renaudin, a pharmacist, takes in Claire, a young woman who is traumatised by a stillbirth. Attached to her and anxious to make her happy, Renaudin wants to court her, but she is in love with another man, Jean, who has a shop next door...   [More...]

Tout ça... pour ça! (1993)
Claude Lelouch

A talented young lawyer, Marie, finds herself taking on the defence of three unfortunate men - Vincent, Jacques and Henri - who have managed to get themselves into deep water through a series of improbable escapades brought about by the women who led them astray...   [More...]

Tout ce qui brille (2010)
Hervé Mimran

Ely and Lila are like two sisters. They have known one another since childhood and have become inseparable. They share everything and dream of another life, far from the reality of their present existence in the suburbs of Paris...   [More...]

Tout dépend des filles... (1980)
Pierre Fabre

Jean-Luc and his friend Mathieu lead a carefree existence in Montmartre. One is a cabinet maker, the other a sculptor, but only nominally - their real objective seems to be to get through life by doing as little work as possible...   [More...]

Tout doit disparaître (1997)
Philippe Muyl

Robert Millard is a businessman who sells gadgets that are designed to make the world a quieter place. Unfortunately, his private life is anything but quiet...   [More...]

Tout l'or du monde (1961)
René Clair

The small village of Cabosse is renowned for one thing: the people who live there can enjoy a long and healthy life, thanks to the pure country air...   [More...]

Tout le monde il est beau, tout le monde il est gentil (1972)
Jean Yanne

Christian Gerber is a reporter for Radio-Plus, France's most popular radio station. Whilst he attempts to accurately report the peaceful revolution taking place in a Latin American country, his colleagues fabricate their reports in an attempt to draw a larger audience...   [More...]

Le Tout nouveau testament (2015)
Jaco Van Dormael

The good news is that God exists. The bad news is that He lives in Brussels and is a complete and utter bastard. Not content with making life Hell for his wife and ten-year-old daughter Ea, He spends his days inflicting as much misery as He can on the humans he created for his own amusement...   [More...]

Tout pour l'oseille (2004)
Bertrand Van Effenterre

Charlie is desperate to pay back the money he owes his friend, Frédo, a struggling artist who makes ends meet by working as an interior decorator...   [More...]

Tout va très bien madame la marquise (1936)
Henry Wulschleger

Yonnik Le Ploumanech loses his job as a servant when his negligence causes a fire at the Brittany château of the Marquise de Ploevic...   [More...]

Toute première fois (2015)
Maxime Govare

34-year-old Jérémie is about to get married to his long-term boy friend Antoine when Eros throws a banana skin in his path...   [More...]

Tovaritch (1935)
Jacques Deval

Russia, 1917. Not long after the state wedding of General Ouratieff to Tsar Nicolas II's niece Tatiana, the country is caught up in a bloody revolution...   [More...]

Le Tracassin (1961)
Alex Joffé

André Loriot works at the Psycho-Chemistry Laboratories in Paris, a company whose slogan 'A good mood makes for good health' is borne out by the success of the firm's anti-stress pill...   [More...]

Trafic (1971)
Jacques Tati

The car manufacturer Altra is eager to show of its latest creation - a luxury camping car equipped with of all the latest must-have appliances - at a prestigious motor show in Amsterdam...   [More...]

Trafic d'influence (1999)
Dominique Farrugia

Maxime de Labardière and Gérard Ravanelli are two corrupt politicians who have just been convicted of abusing their position for their own personal gain...   [More...]

Le Train de huit heures quarante-sept (1934)
Henry Wulschleger

France in the mid-1880s. Life in the 202nd cavalry regiment is hardly a bed of roses, especially if your names happen to be La Guillaumette and Croquebol...   [More...]



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