Film Index

French cinema: Comedy

Boum sur Paris (1954)
Maurice de Canonge

Gilbert Sestrières works in a laboratory that simultaneously manufactures a leading brand of perfume, named Boum, whilst developing a new and incredibly powerful form of explosive...   [More...]

Bouquet final (2008)
Michel Delgado

Unbeknown to his anti-bourgeois beatnik parents, who had hoped that, like them, he might pursue an artistic career, Gabriel opts to become an undertaker...   [More...]

La Bourse et la vie (1966)
Jean-Pierre Mocky

Lucien Pélépan, the financial director of a large construction firm in Toulouse, is far from pleased when he discovers that three of his associates, the Robinhoude brothers, have lost the ten million francs that were supposed to be deposited with his lawyer...   [More...]

Bout de chou (1935)
Henry Wulschleger

Victor Darnetal, a respectable Marseillaise businessman, could not be happier when he receives a letter from his nephew Georges, an aspiring playwright, inviting him to attend the premiere of his new show in Paris...   [More...]

Les Braqueuses (1994)
Jean-Paul Salomé

Four childhood girlfriends decide to rebel. They are: Cécile, a poorly paid teacher, Bijou, who has just been ditched by her boyfriend after giving birth, Muriel, who cares for her handicapped husband, and Lola, who has just left prison...   [More...]

Bric à Brac et compagnie (1931)
André Chotin

Monsieur Verly is a successful antiques dealer who is determined that his frivolous son Jean should follow in his footsteps...   [More...]

Les Bricoleurs (1962)
Jean Girault

Edouard and Félix are a pair of bungling estate agents who have no aptitude for the job whatsoever. Tired of their mishaps, their employer is ready to dismiss them but he gives them one last chance...   [More...]

La Bride sur le cou (1961)
Roger Vadim

Famous cover girl Sophie dreams of another life than the one she currently has with high class reporter Philippe. Her liking for Philippe soon turns to hate when she discovers that he has fallen for a rich American girl, Barbara...   [More...]

Brigitte et Brigitte (1966)
Luc Moullet

Brigitte has just arrived in Paris from the provinces to start her first year at university. So too has Brigitte. The two Brigittes are dressed identically and arrive at the same train station - which is where they meet...   [More...]

Les Bronzés 3 - amis pour la vie (2006)
Patrice Leconte

Little did they know that when they first met up during their Club Med holiday in 1978, Bernard, Gigi, Nathalie, Jerôme, Popeye and Jean-Claude were set to become friends for life...   [More...]

Les Bronzés font du ski (1979)
Patrice Leconte

A year has passed since Nathalie and Bernard came close to wrecking their marriage at a holiday club on the Ivory Coast. Now that they have patched up their differences, they plan to spend a more agreeable vacation in the French alps, staying at their recently acquired timeshare apartment...   [More...]

Les Bronzés (1978)
Patrice Leconte

In the late 1970s, a party of hyped up French holidaymakers arrives at a popular holiday club on the Ivory Coast, looking forward to a week of unbridled escape from their humdrum lives...   [More...]

La Brune que voilà (1960)
Robert Lamoureux

Germain, a second hand car dealer, has a real talent when it comes to conning his customers into buying the most unroadworthy of vehicles...   [More...]

C'est arrivé près de chez vous (1992)
Rémy Belvaux

In present day Belgium, Ben leads what at first sight seems to be a pretty normal existence. He is in a steady relationship with a girl he likes and who likes him, he has a good social life and he gets on well with his mum and dad...   [More...]

C'est pas ma faute! (1999)
Jacques Monnet

Martin is an energetic 11-year-old boy who has a knack of getting himself into trouble, despite his good intentions. This year, he has been invited by his friend Vincent to spend his summer holidays with him and his family at a posh hotel in the country...   [More...]

C'est pas moi, c'est l'autre (1962)
Jean Boyer

A second rate music hall troupe is struggling to find an audience as it hobbles wearily from one provincial venue to another, like a dying animal waiting to be put out of its misery...   [More...]

C'est pas moi, c'est lui (1980)
Pierre Richard

Georges Vallier owes his success as a celebrity screenwriter to his underpaid ghost writer Pierre Renard. When Pierre protests at the way he has been exploited, Valier allows him to take his place at a garden party hosted by the Italian film star Aldo Barazzutti...   [More...]

C'est pas parce qu'on a rien à dire qu'il faut fermer sa gueule... (1975)
Jacques Besnard

The fact that Max and Riton are two of the most inept crooks in France does not deter criminal mastermind Fano from employing them in his latest meticulously thought-out nefarious exploit...   [More...]

C'est quoi cette famille?! (2016)
Gabriel Julien-Laferrière

Bastien is a 13-year-old boy who, thanks to his mother's inability to settle down with one man, finds himself with eight parents and six siblings...   [More...]

Ça n'arrive qu'à moi (1985)
Francis Perrin

François Pépin is the unluckiest man in the world. One Christmas, the hapless journalist thinks his luck has finally changed when he gets to report that Prudence Guilledou, the daughter of an important press baron, spent the night in a police cell...   [More...]

Ça reste entre nous (1998)
Martin Lamotte

Patrick is a happily married man. The reason for his happiness is that, as well as an adoring wife, Hélène, he also has an equally adoring mistress, Elisabeth...   [More...]

Ça... c'est du sport (1938)
René Pujol

Monsieur Trapon, a modest debt collector, wants to marry Madame Lavator, a cloakroom attendant in a nightclub, but she insists that she will not marry until her two daughters, Ernestine and Anna, have both found suitable husbands...   [More...]

Cabaret Paradis (2006)
Corinne Benizio

Travelling performers Shirley and Dino cannot get to Paris fast enough when they learn that they have inherited a cabaret nightclub located in the Pigalle district of the capital...   [More...]

Le Cactus (2005)
Gérard Bitton

A little knowledge can be a dangerous thing - especially when you are a chronic hypochondriac like Sami. He is the kind of person who manages to contract every illness known to man just by hearing about it...   [More...]

Le Cadeau (1982)
Michel Lang

When banker Grégoire Dufour announces his decision to take early retirement at the age of 55, his colleagues decide to offer him the ultimate leaving present, a call girl...   [More...]

Cadet-Rousselle (1954)
André Hunebelle

France, 1789. Although Cadet-Rousselle is deeply in love with Isabelle, he knows that he cannot marry her as she is the mayor's daughter and he is a mere peasant...   [More...]

Café de Paris (1938)
Yves Mirande

One New Year's Eve the Café de Paris is host to the capital's social élite, a glamorous ensemble of the rich and famous who come together to welcome in the new year in an atmosphere that positively reeks of decadence...   [More...]

La Cage aux folles 3 - 'Elles' se marient (1985)
Georges Lautner

La Cage Aux Folles may still be one of St Tropez's top night spots but its future looks increasingly uncertain as its owner, Renato, struggles to balance the books...   [More...]

La Cage aux folles II (1980)
Edouard Molinaro

In Nice, the flamboyant impresario Renato still manages the popular night club La Cage aux folles with his transvestite partner Albin...   [More...]

La Cage aux folles (1978)
Edouard Molinaro

Renato and Albin are a gay couple living in St Tropez, Renato managing a notorious night club in which Albin performs a drag act...   [More...]



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