Film Index

French cinema: Comedy

Bibi Fricotin (1951)
Marcel Blistène

Private detective Antoine Gardon is on the trail of a mislaid inheritance when he runs up against the eternal do-gooder Bibi Fricotin...   [More...]

Les Bidasses en folie (1971)
Claude Zidi

Five inseparable buddies - Jean-Guy, Phil, Gérard, Luis and Jean - are united by their shared obsession, which is to form their own rock band, The Tourists...   [More...]

Les Bidasses s'en vont en guerre (1974)
Claude Zidi

Not everyone is suited for army life - as Gérard, Phil, Jean and Jean-Guy quickly discover when they begin their military service...   [More...]

Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis (2008)
Dany Boon

Philippe Abrams lives in a provincial town in the south of France with his habitually depressed wife Julie and is happily employed as a branch manager of the French postal service...   [More...]

Bienvenue en Suisse (2004)
Léa Fazer

After an absence of several years, Thierry returns to his home in Switzerland to attend the funeral of his grandmother, accompanied by his partner Sophie...   [More...]

Bimboland (1998)
Ariel Zeitoun

Ethnology student Cécile Bussy believes she has discovered a tribe in the Amazonian rain forest which has been completely untouched by civilisation...   [More...]

Bis (2015)
Dominique Farrugia

Éric and Patrice have been the best of friends since high school. Over the years that followed, they travelled very different roads...   [More...]

Blague dans le coin (1963)
Maurice Labro

The third-rate comic Jeff Burlington finds work at Eldorado, a casino in the American gambling town Las Perlas. Here, Jeff is delighted to be reunited with his old friends Dolly and Betty, the latter of whom is the mistress of Sammy Bradford, the shady owner of the casino...   [More...]

Blanc comme neige (1948)
André Berthomieu

Léon Ménard travels many kilometres from his home in the country to find work in Paris, with the intention that one day soon he will marry his girlfriend Charlotte...   [More...]

Le Blanc et le noir (1931)
Marc Allégret

Marcel and Marguerite Desnoyers are staying in a hotel on the Spanish border. After a row with her husband, Marguerite is convinced he is being unfaithful to her...   [More...]

Blanche comme neige (2019)
Anne Fontaine

Once upon a time, there was a beautiful young woman named Claire who helped to run a luxury hotel with her stepmother Maud...   [More...]

Les Bleus de la marine (1934)
Maurice Cammage

With their ship docked in the port of Toulon, Lafraise and Plumard manage to lose their bearings as their fellow sailors go on parade through the town...   [More...]

La Boîte aux rêves (1945)
Yves Allégret

Four students fall under the spell of an attractive young woman named Nicole and take her home with them. In next to no time, she becomes their unpaid housekeeper and guardian angel, keeping from them the fact that she is the heiress to a fortune...   [More...]

Boléro (1942)
Jean Boyer

Afflicted with a severe throat infection, Rémi Courmont finds himself confined to his Parisian apartment but his hopes of a peaceful recuperation are dashed by his downstairs neighbour, Anne-Marie Houillier...   [More...]

Bon rétablissement! (2014)
Jean Becker

Pierre is a reluctant invalid. Ending up in a hospital bed with his leg in plaster is not a scenario this spry 60-something would have chosen for himself, but it is what he is saddled with after a stupid accident...   [More...]

Le Bon roi Dagobert (1963)
Pierre Chevalier

Bébert Pelletan is a schoolboy who has a habit of daydreaming in class instead of paying attention. His teacher is so appalled that he knows nothing about the medieval king of France Dagobert that he gives the boy an essay to write on that very subject...   [More...]

Boniface somnambule (1951)
Maurice Labro

Monsieur Boniface finds that his services are much in demand after he brings a notorious gang of crooks to justice. Hired as a store detective, his latest mission is simply to keep an eye on the jewellery on display in an upmarket department store...   [More...]

Bonjour l'angoisse (1988)
Pierre Tchernia

Michaud is a timid 50-something who works for Stopalarm, a company that specialises in high-tech alarm systems. Despite his 32 years of loyal service, Michaud is threatened with early retirement...   [More...]

Bonjour sourire (1955)
Claude Sautet

Monte-Marino is a thriving principality whose main export is musical instruments. Despite her country's prosperity, the Princess Aline cannot bring herself to smile...   [More...]

Bonne chance (1935)
Sacha Guitry

Marie Muscat is a young and attractive laundress who lives with her mother in a modest Parisian apartment. She is engaged to marry Prosper, a fairly dim young man who is away at the moment on his military training...   [More...]

La Bonne étoile (1943)
Jean Boyer

Auguste, known to his friends as Guste, ekes out a modest living as a fisherman in a small Mediterranean port in the south of France...   [More...]

Bonne pomme (2017)
Florence Quentin

Gérard Morlet is a mild-mannered 60-something who has grown to resent being put upon by his friends and family, who are always quick to take advantage of his generous nature...   [More...]

La Bonne soupe (1964)
Robert Thomas

Marie Paule lives for the moment in Cannes and has a regular place at the casino, where she squanders what little remains of her money...   [More...]

La Bonne tisane (1958)
Hervé Bromberger

After spending several years abroad, gangster boss René Leconte returns to France to resume his criminal exploits...   [More...]

Bons baisers... à lundi (1974)
Michel Audiard

Three small-time hoodlums, Henri-Pierre, Bob and Dimitri, are convinced they can make a mint by holding-up a soiree hosted by showbiz king Frankie Strong at his Paris apartment...   [More...]

Les Bons vivants (1965)
Gilles Grangier

Three tales concerning the strange history of a brothel lantern. In La Fermeture, Monsieur Charles and Madame Blanche are forced to close their popular brothel in Paris when, just after the war, the government brings in new legislation outlawing such establishments...   [More...]

Bonsoir (1994)
Jean-Pierre Mocky

After having first lost his wife then his job as a tweed tailor, Alex Ponttin has devised a novel way to keep himself in touch with society...   [More...]

Botta e risposta (1950)
Mario Soldati

Suzy, a well-known singer, is on her way to Rome to attend an audience with the Pope. During the train journey from Paris, her costume and jewels are stolen...   [More...]

Boudu sauvé des eaux (1932)
Jean Renoir

Heartbroken when he loses sight of a stray dog he has befriended, a Parisian tramp named Priap Boudu throws himself from a bridge into the river...   [More...]

Le Boulet (2002)
Alain Berbérian

Moltès, a rough gangster type serving a long prison stretch for murdering a police informer, has developed a cosy rapport with his warder, Francis Reggio...   [More...]



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