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French cinema: Comedy

Les Visiteurs (1993)
Jean-Marie Poiré

The year is 1122 and the kingdom of the Franks is locked in a seemingly interminable war against the Norman kings of England...   [More...]

Viva Maria! (1965)
Louis Malle

In 1907, Maria Fitzgerald O'Malley finds herself alone in Central America. Her father, an Irish political agitator, has just been killed in his latest terrorist strike against the British Empire...   [More...]

Vive Henri IV... vive l'amour! (1961)
Claude Autant-Lara

In his 56th year, King Henri IV, Count of Navarre, is having problems with his wife, Marie de Medicis. Marie has many reasons to be jealous of the king's two mistresses, Jacqueline de Bueil and Henriette d'Entrague, particularly as the latter has borne him children...   [More...]

Vive la France (2013)
Michaël Youn

Who has heard of Taboulistan? That's the problem: nobody! This is a tiny speck of a country in Asia that no one outside of Taboulistan has ever heard of - and this is something that the patriotic son of the country's president intends to put right...   [More...]

Vive nous! (2000)
Camille de Casabianca

When her husband, Yves, suddenly reveals that he has been having an affair, his wife and business partner Valérie is taken aback...   [More...]

Vivement dimanche! (1983)
François Truffaut

When a man named Massoulier is shot dead, estate agent Julien Vercel is arrested as his fingerprints are on the dead man's car...   [More...]

Volpone (1941)
Maurice Tourneur

Volpone is one of the wealthiest merchants in Venice, but when his ships laden with cargo fail to arrive on time he faces an ignoble ruin...   [More...]

Voulez-vous danser avec moi? (1959)
Michel Boisrond

When Virginie meets Hervé Dandieu, a dentist, it is love at first sight and they soon marry. However, it isn't long before they begin to fall out and start bickering over everything...   [More...]

Vous êtes de la police? (2007)
Romuald Beugnon

Retired police inspector Simon Sablonnet reluctantly allows himself to be admitted to an old people's home when he begins to have difficulty moving around...   [More...]

Vous n'aurez pas l'Alsace et la Lorraine (1977)
Coluche

Long, long ago, France is ruled by King Gros Pif I, a man who likes to party. In fact so extravagant are the king's banquets that they are bankrupting the country and his faithful musketeers have to resort to ever more brutal methods to extract taxes from the stinking masses, which is okay because they rather enjoy it...   [More...]

Le Voyage à Biarritz (1963)
Gilles Grangier

For twenty years, station master Guillaume Dodut has dreamt of taking a holiday with his wife and son in the seaside town of Biarritz...   [More...]

Le Voyage dans la lune (1902)
Georges Méliès

At a meeting of the astronomy club, Professor Barbenfouillis announces his next venture: to lead a manned expedition to the moon...   [More...]

Le Voyage imaginaire (1926)
René Clair

Jean, a modest bank clerk, is in love with his boss's secretary, Lucie, but he is too shy to impose his feelings on the angelic being who has stolen his heart...   [More...]

Voyance et manigance (2001)
Eric Fourniols

Chantal's well-ordered life is suddenly thrown into turmoil when her husband Roland loses his job. On the advice of a friend, she goes to see a professional clairvoyant, hoping to find out what the future holds for her husband...   [More...]

Wasabi (2001)
Gérard Krawczyk

Hubert is a police inspector with a kind heart but an iron fist. Although he gets results, not everyone appreciate his methods...   [More...]

Zazie dans le métro (1960)
Louis Malle

During a two-day stay in Paris, 11-year old Zazie is foisted on her uncle, Gabriel, whilst her mother goes off with a new boyfriend...   [More...]

Le Zèbre (1992)
Jean Poiret

Hippolyte and Camille have been married for 15 years and although they still love each other Hippolyte is anxious that the passion in their relationship is waning...   [More...]

Zig Zag Story (1983)
Patrick Schulmann

A drop of water falling from the guttering of a building causes a chain reaction ending in a traffic jam which allows Gil Darmon, an aspiring painter, to meet Cat, a radio presenter...   [More...]

La Zizanie (1978)
Claude Zidi

Guillaume Daubray-Lacaze is an ambitious man. The mayor of a small town in France, he has high hopes for his anti-pollution inventions...   [More...]


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