Fernandel
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1. Le schpountz (1938)
Passed | 160 min | Comedy
Meeting a movie team on location near his house, a young man gets a lot of encouragement for his dreaming career as a movie star in what was only sarcasm from the members of the team. This ... See full summary »
Director: Marcel Pagnol | Stars: Fernandel, Orane Demazis, Fernand Charpin, Léon Belières
Votes: 786
2. Harvest (1937)
127 min | Drama, Romance
The narrative revolves around a farming village where only three inhabitants remain, but they are told that if only one of them, Panturle, manages to find a wife, the village will be able to prosper again
Director: Marcel Pagnol | Stars: Gabriel Gabrio, Orane Demazis, Fernandel, Marguerite Moreno
Votes: 505
3. The Sheep Has Five Legs (1954)
104 min | Comedy
A small town seeking publicity tries to bring together the quintuplet grandsons of the town's oldest inhabitant.
Director: Henri Verneuil | Stars: Fernandel, Françoise Arnoul, Andrex, Michel Ardan
Votes: 690
4. The Well-Digger's Daughter (1940)
Approved | 142 min | Comedy, Drama
A rural maiden's two suitors go off to war, leaving her pregnant.
Director: Marcel Pagnol | Stars: Raimu, Fernandel, Josette Day, Line Noro
Votes: 690
5. The Red Inn (1951)
Not Rated | 98 min | Comedy, Crime
A group of travelers, including a monk, stay in a lonely inn in the mountains. The host confesses the monk his habit of serving a soporific soup to the guests, to rob their possessions and ... See full summary »
Director: Claude Autant-Lara | Stars: Fernandel, Françoise Rosay, Marie-Claire Olivia, Jean-Roger Caussimon
Votes: 1,596
6. Era di venerdì 17 (1956)
97 min | Comedy, Drama
The Provence, somewhere in the 1950's. Paul Verdier, traveling salesman, leaves his home and his quarrelsome wife for his weekly round. On the train he meets a young woman, Marie, who looks... See full summary »
Director: Mario Soldati | Stars: Fernandel, Giulia Rubini, Fosco Giachetti, Leda Gloria
Votes: 127
7. French Touch (1952)
Approved | 87 min | Comedy
Mario (Fernandel), a bumptious sheep-shearer, discovers he has a inimtable touch that makes women, as well as sheep, swoon at his professional caress. He is soon the most sought-after ... See full summary »
Director: Jean Boyer | Stars: Fernandel, Renée Devillers, Arlette Poirier, Georges Chamarat
Votes: 260
8. The Cupboard Was Bare (1948)
Approved | 82 min | Comedy, Crime
The aunt of Alfred Puc, a meek tax-collector in Paris, dies while riding in a moving van. The driver, not wishing to be bothered by a police interrogation, hides her corpse in a cupboard ... See full summary »
Director: Carlo Rim | Stars: Fernandel, Berthe Bovy, Germaine Kerjean, Albert Dinan
Votes: 247
9. Francis the First (1937)
Approved | 90 min | Comedy, Fantasy, History
Honorin (Fernandel) is the simple and naive stage manager of a traveling theatre troupe, whose one ambition is to once play the role of the cavalier in the opera "Francis I, or the Loves of... See full summary »
Director: Christian-Jaque | Stars: Fernandel, Mona Goya, Alexandre Rignault, Henri Bosc
Votes: 256
10. Heureux qui comme Ulysse... (1970)
90 min | Comedy
For 25 years now, under the Provence sun, Antonin, a farmhand, has shared his work and everyday life with a horse named Ulysse. What a shock when Pascal, the farmer, tells him he has ... See full summary »
Director: Henri Colpi | Stars: Fernandel, Rellys, Mireille Audibert, Gilberte Rivet
Votes: 350
11. Un chapeau de paille d'Italie (1941)
85 min | Comedy
Fadinard is going through the woods on his horse en route to his wedding. Unfortunately, his horse eats the straw hat of a married woman who is having a secret rendezvous with her lover. In... See full summary »
Director: Maurice Cammage | Stars: Fernandel, Fernand Charpin, Édouard Delmont, Jacqueline Laurent
Votes: 55
12. Fun in the Barracks (1932)
85 min | Comedy
The life of disorderly soldiers in the barracks dealing with daily routines.
Director: Maurice Tourneur | Stars: Raimu, Jean Gabin, Fernandel, René Donnio
Votes: 192
13. Topaze (1951)
136 min | Comedy
Albert Topaze, sincere schoolteacher addicted to "rote" morality, works at a private school run by supremely money-grubbing M. Muche, whose daughter, also a teacher, makes cynical use of ... See full summary »
Director: Marcel Pagnol | Stars: Fernandel, Hélène Perdrière, Jacqueline Pagnol, Marcel Vallée
Votes: 392
14. The Law Is the Law (1958)
95 min | Comedy
Assola is an imaginary village on the border between Italy and France and the borderline crosses the village itself. The French customs agent Ferdinand is always trying to catch the Italian... See full summary »
Director: Christian-Jaque | Stars: Totò, Fernandel, Nino Besozzi, Noël Roquevert
Votes: 1,067
15. L'assassin est dans l'annuaire (1962)
98 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Fernandel plays Albert, the unhappy brunt of jokes by his fellow office-workers who goes from the frying pan into the fire. Albert gets caught up in a robbery that also goes from bad to ... See full summary »
Director: Léo Joannon | Stars: Fernandel, Georges Chamarat, Henri Crémieux, Robert Dalban
Votes: 109
16. Fric-Frac (1939)
92 min | Comedy
Marcel works as assistant to a jeweller whose bossy daughter Renée keeps hitting on him. When he meets lovely Loulou and her lazy friend Jo, he is fascinated by the girl and somehow ... See full summary »
Directors: Maurice Lehmann, Claude Autant-Lara | Stars: Fernandel, Michel Simon, Arletty, Hélène Robert
Votes: 553
17. L'héroïque Mr Boniface (1949)
92 min | Comedy
Director: Maurice Labro | Stars: Fernandel, Andrex, Gaston Orbal, Charles Bouillaud
Votes: 78
18. The Sleepwalker (1951)
89 min | Comedy
Victor Boniface's life is not exactly a rest cure. Just imagine : Victor is both a store detective and a - shoplifter (only when he walks in his sleep, mind you). And falling in love while ... See full summary »
Director: Maurice Labro | Stars: Fernandel, Andrex, Gaby André, André Roanne
Votes: 159
19. The Cow and I (1959)
TV-PG | 118 min | Adventure, Comedy, War
In 1942, a French prisoner of war in Germany decides to escape to France using a cow held by a lunge as a decoy. He crosses all Germany in this way.
Director: Henri Verneuil | Stars: Fernandel, Pierre-Louis, Ellen Schwiers, Ingeborg Schöner
Votes: 1,732
20. Sénéchal the Magnificent (1957)
95 min | Comedy
Sénéchal, an actor touring the provinces with the "Tournées Carlini" does not meet the success he thinks he deserves. One night in Dreux, he finds himself without his luggage and dressed up... See full summary »
Director: Jean Boyer | Stars: Fernandel, Nadia Gray, Madeleine Barbulée, Simone Paris
Votes: 168
21. The Most Wanted Man (1953)
Unrated | 85 min | Comedy, Crime
Joe Calvert (Fernandel) is a nearsighted, friendly man who works as a clerk in a large department store, who gets into embarrassing situations when he isn't wearing his glasses. Since Joe ... See full summary »
Director: Henri Verneuil | Stars: Fernandel, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Louis Seigner, David Opatoshu
Votes: 305
22. Un de la légion (1936)
91 min | Adventure, Comedy
Fernand Espitalion is miserable as totally whipped husband of a dragon 'passed on' -like cloths- by his late cousin. She often leaves him waiting outside like a dog when she does business. ... See full summary »
Director: Christian-Jaque | Stars: Fernandel, Robert Le Vigan, Daniel Mendaille, Arthur Devère
Votes: 101
23. Le coq du régiment (1933)
80 min | Comedy
Play adaptation: A womanizing lieutenant, to avoid a problem, exchanges uniforms and personalities with his orderly, a private, leading to much confusion.
Director: Maurice Cammage | Stars: Fernandel, André Roanne, Georges Péclet, Charles Prince
Votes: 41
24. Naïs (1945)
117 min | Drama, Romance
Toine, the local hunchback, works at the tile manufacturing plant, but during the summer, he gives a hand to Micoulin, the farmer, thereby being able to spend more time close to Nais, ... See full summary »
Directors: Raymond Leboursier, Marcel Pagnol | Stars: Fernandel, Jacqueline Pagnol, Raymond Pellegrin, Henri Poupon
Votes: 256
25. Lidoire (1933)
20 min | Short, Comedy
The friendly cavalier Lidoire has always suffered from the mood swings of his adjutant.
Director: Maurice Tourneur | Stars: Fernandel, Rivers Cadet, Jean Clarens, Eddy Debray
Votes: 40
26. Easiest Profession (1957)
92 min | Comedy
Tistin (Fernandel) is the only unemployed of Clochemerle. This provoques animosity amongst the village given that he frequents regularly Zozote (Ginette Leclerc), the only "respectable" one... See full summary »
Director: Jean Boyer | Stars: Fernandel, Maria Mauban, Henri Vilbert, Henri Crémieux
Votes: 152
27. Fernandel the Dressmaker (1956)
95 min | Comedy
A modest tailor the women find irresistible, inherits a fashion house in financial difficulty. Deciding to save it, he prepares a great collection. But after his wife discovers his ... See full summary »
Director: Jean Boyer | Stars: Fernandel, Suzy Delair, Fred Pasquali, Françoise Fabian
Votes: 205
28. Carnaval (1953)
90 min | Comedy
Dardamelle does not conceal the fact that his wife has made him a cuckold.How will his fellow townspeople react?
Director: Henri Verneuil | Stars: Fernandel, Jacqueline Pagnol, Pauline Carton, Renée Passeur
Votes: 69
29. L'âge ingrat (1964)
95 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
Two students, Antoine, the son of a Southern pedal boat renter, and Marie, the daughter of a Paris railway executive, have got engaged in secret. They are now willing to clarify the ... See full summary »
Director: Gilles Grangier | Stars: Jean Gabin, Fernandel, Marie Dubois, Franck Fernandel
Votes: 285
30. L'amateur ou S.O.S. Fernand (1967– )
25 min | Comedy
Stars: Fernandel, Annie Fargue, Pierre Tornade, Dominique Zardi
Votes: 19
31. The Little World of Don Camillo (1952)
107 min | Comedy
A determined priest and a Communist mayor develop a grudging friendship in spite of their official rivalry.
Director: Julien Duvivier | Stars: Fernandel, Gino Cervi, Vera Talchi, Franco Interlenghi
Votes: 4,850
32. The Return of Don Camillo (1953)
115 min | Comedy
Energetic priest Don Camillo returns to the town of Brescello for more political and personal duels with Communist mayor Peppone.
Director: Julien Duvivier | Stars: Fernandel, Gino Cervi, Arturo Bragaglia, Édouard Delmont
Votes: 2,669
33. L'acrobate (1941)
90 min | Comedy
After a deadbeat patron at his restaurant gets special care from the cops who think the man has amnesia, the maitre d'hotel decides to pretend he too has amnesia. He is claimed in turn by an aristocrat family and by trapeze artists.
Director: Jean Boyer | Stars: Fernandel, Jean Tissier, Thérèse Dorny, Marcel Carpentier
Votes: 52
34. The Devil and the Ten Commandments (1962)
126 min | Comedy, Drama
1) Jerôme Chambard, a retired man, taken in by nuns in a convent, swears like a trooper. 2) Françoise takes a lover because he has promised her a diamond necklace. 3) Denis, a seminarist, ... See full summary »
Director: Julien Duvivier | Stars: Françoise Arnoul, Charles Aznavour, Jean-Claude Brialy, Danielle Darrieux
Votes: 975
35. Le voyage du père (1966)
90 min | Drama
Quantin lives with his family in a village near the Swiss border. He is increasingly anxious that he has received no news from his eldest daughter, Marie-Louise, who went to Lyon to find work as a hairdresser.
Director: Denys de La Patellière | Stars: Fernandel, Lilli Palmer, Laurent Terzieff, Philippe Noiret
Votes: 163
36. Three Feet in a Bed (1950)
Not Rated | 87 min | Comedy
In spite of his failures as a peddler, Casimir guaranteed his fiance that this time the vacuum cleaners will work for good. But he's still unsuccessful until he go to the appartment of ... See full summary »
Director: Richard Pottier | Stars: Fernandel, Germaine Montero, Bernard Lajarrige, Jacqueline Duc
Votes: 136
37. La Table-aux-Crevés (1951)
92 min | Comedy
In Cantagrel, Urbain Coindet, a farmer and town councilor in his forties, finds his wife hanging from a beam in the barn. Aurélie Coindet has committed suicide but but not everybody is ... See full summary »
Director: Henri Verneuil | Stars: Fernandel, Maria Mauban, Andrex, Antonin Berval
Votes: 150
38. Simplet (1942)
88 min | Comedy
Directors: Fernandel, Carlo Rim | Stars: Fernandel, Colette Fleuriot, Milly Mathis, Maximilienne
Votes: 103
39. Crésus (1960)
100 min | Comedy
Jules is a shepherd who lives a humble and solitary life in rural Provence. From time to time, he is visited by a lonely widow, Fine, who longs to be his wife. One day, Jules comes across ... See full summary »
Director: Jean Giono | Stars: Fernandel, Marcelle Ranson-Hervé, Rellys, René Génin
Votes: 294
40. Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (1954)
92 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Rich oriental lord Cassim's cheeky servant Ali Baba was sent to buy a meaty girl-slave, but brings dancer Morgiane, whom he is enamored with. When he's part of a caravan robbed by Abdel's ... See full summary »
Director: Jacques Becker | Stars: Fernandel, Samia Gamal, Dieter Borsche, Henri Vilbert
Votes: 1,384
41. The Wild Oat (1953)
103 min | Comedy
After his son leaves to join the army, a temperamental French baker learns a villager's new baby is his grandson.
Director: Henri Verneuil | Stars: Fernandel, Madeleine Sylvain, Georges Chamarat, Pierrette Bruno
Votes: 286
42. Hercule (1938)
105 min | Comedy
Hercule, a young peasant, inherits a Parisian newspaper with a large circulation. The editor-in-chief, Vasco, takes advantage of his ignorance to make corruption prevail. But Hercules gradually realizes the role that we make him play.
Director: Alexander Esway | Stars: Fernandel, Gaby Morlay, Pierre Brasseur, Henri Crémieux
Votes: 72
43. Ernest le rebelle (1938)
92 min | Comedy, Western
Adventures and misadventures of Ernest, the professional accordionist on a liner.
Director: Christian-Jaque | Stars: Fernandel, Pierre Alcover, Mona Goya, Arthur Devère
Votes: 99
44. Botta e risposta (1950)
80 min | Comedy
Good-natured and devout, a French house painter takes the train to Rome, where he has decided to go on a pilgrimage. There he meets a scatterbrained dresser who has been assigned by a music... See full summary »
Director: Mario Soldati | Stars: Nino Taranto, Isa Barzizza, Irasema Dilián, Louis Armstrong
Votes: 58
45. Miss Nitouche (1954)
90 min | Comedy
Denise discovered that Celestin leads a double life: he composes operetta night for his mistress, a young singer named Corinne.
Director: Yves Allégret | Stars: Fernandel, Pier Angeli, Jean Debucourt, Georges Chamarat
Votes: 156
46. Life Dances On (1937)
144 min | Drama
Christine, newly widowed and consumed by the memory of a ball she attended age 16, decides to track down the men she danced with that night and discover their fates.
Director: Julien Duvivier | Stars: Marie Bell, Françoise Rosay, Louis Jouvet, Harry Baur
Votes: 925
47. Baby's Laxative (1931)
46 min | Comedy
A porcelain-maker invites a guest to sell him chamber pots, but family problems cause interruptions.
Director: Jean Renoir | Stars: Marguerite Pierry, Jacques Louvigny, Michel Simon, Olga Valéry
Votes: 522
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