France Crime Comedy Films
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1. It's in the Bag (1932)
45 min | Comedy
Benjamin Déboisé, a hatter, his salesman and a young man want to kidnap an American millionaire, put him in a bag and hold him to ransom. But they make a mistake: the fellow they find in ... See full summary »
Director: Pierre Prévert | Stars: Julien Carette, Anthony Gildès, Etienne Decroux, Jean-Paul Le Chanois
Votes: 101
2. The Old Lady Who Walked in the Sea (1991)
Unrated | 95 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Lady M. wades every morning through the sea in order to heal her pain. But she is not what she pretends to be: Together with her partner Pompilius she finances her luxurious life by fraud ... See full summary »
Director: Laurent Heynemann | Stars: Jeanne Moreau, Michel Serrault, Luc Thuillier, Géraldine Danon
Votes: 433 | Gross: $0.05M
3. The Black Monocle (1961)
88 min | Comedy, Crime
The Marquis de Villemaur reunite stranges visitors in his Castle, to meet a survivor of the 3rd Reich. There is an Italian fascist ; Heinrich, a German ; Matthias, a russian ; and Dromard, a blind French war hero, with a black monocle.
Director: Georges Lautner | Stars: Paul Meurisse, Elga Andersen, Bernard Blier, Pierre Blanchar
Votes: 389
4. Banana Peel (1963)
97 min | Comedy, Crime
Cathy wants to avenge her father by stealing Bontemps and Lachards, two corrupt associates who have destroyed the fortune of her father.For this she will work with three specialists,"... See full summary »
Director: Marcel Ophüls | Stars: Jeanne Moreau, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Claude Brasseur, Jean-Pierre Marielle
Votes: 284
5. The Brain (1969)
G | 115 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
When NATO transfers some of its funds from Paris to Brussels by train, a criminal mastermind posing as a British colonel plans to steal it but two petty French thieves also have the same intent.
Director: Gérard Oury | Stars: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Bourvil, David Niven, Eli Wallach
Votes: 4,378
6. Buffet Froid (1979)
Not Rated | 89 min | Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Alphonse lives in an empty building. Empty but for one neighbour, the police captain Morvandieu. When the man who have killed Alphonse's wife appears, the three men will be thrown in a serie of event in a surrealist world.
Director: Bertrand Blier | Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Bernard Blier, Jean Carmet, Denise Gence
Votes: 6,509
7. Fantomas (1964)
Not Rated | 104 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
The best men of France - a brave journalist and an extremely energetic commissioner - attack the trail of a mysterious criminal mastermind.
Director: André Hunebelle | Stars: Jean Marais, Louis de Funès, Mylène Demongeot, Jacques Dynam
Votes: 12,074
8. Fantomas Unleashed (1965)
Not Rated | 98 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
When Professor Marchand, a famous scientist, mysteriously disappears, the commissioner, Juve, immediately suspects Fantomas.
Directors: André Hunebelle, Haroun Tazieff | Stars: Jean Marais, Louis de Funès, Mylène Demongeot, Jacques Dynam
Votes: 8,245
9. Fantomas vs. Scotland Yard (1967)
PG | 100 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Famous but unlucky pursuers of Fantomas from France go to weird Scotland for a final attempt to bring the impudent criminal to justice.
Director: André Hunebelle | Stars: Jean Marais, Louis de Funès, Mylène Demongeot, Françoise Christophe
Votes: 7,859
10. The ComDads (1983)
PG | 92 min | Comedy, Crime
A woman, whose troubled son has left home, informs two different men from her past that each of them is a real father. Too different men.
Director: Francis Veber | Stars: Pierre Richard, Gérard Depardieu, Anny Duperey, Michel Aumont
Votes: 6,715
11. Le daim (2019)
77 min | Comedy, Horror
A man's obsession with his designer deerskin jacket causes him to blow his life savings and turn to crime.
Director: Quentin Dupieux | Stars: Jean Dujardin, Adèle Haenel, Albert Delpy, Coralie Russier
Votes: 11,675
12. Le jardinier d'Argenteuil (1966)
86 min | Comedy, Crime
Under his daring look of flower lover and naive painter, Father Tulipe is a counterfeiter who only makes small cuts to improve his ordinary.
Director: Jean-Paul Le Chanois | Stars: Jean Gabin, Liselotte Pulver, Pierre Vernier, Alfred Adam
Votes: 351
13. Le Guignolo (1980)
108 min | Action, Comedy
Alexandre Dupré is a con artist, accidentally involved in a hunt for microfilm, containing a valuable invention of a recently murdered French scientist.
Director: Georges Lautner | Stars: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Georges Géret, Carla Romanelli, Von Gretchen Shepard
Votes: 2,505
14. If I Were a Spy (1967)
95 min | Drama, Thriller
A medical doctor gets into trouble when one of his patients turns out to be hunted by the mafia.
Director: Bertrand Blier | Stars: Bernard Blier, Bruno Cremer, Patricia Scott, Claude Piéplu
Votes: 217
15. Johnny Banco (1967)
Approved | 98 min | Comedy, Crime
A hustler of humble origins steals $200,000 from a gangster and heads to Monte Carlo.
Director: Yves Allégret | Stars: Horst Buchholz, Sylva Koscina, Michel de Ré, Jean Parédès
Votes: 30
16. The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob (1973)
G | 95 min | Adventure, Comedy
A bigoted Frenchman finds himself forced to impersonate a popular rabbi while on the run from a group of assassins - and the police.
Director: Gérard Oury | Stars: Louis de Funès, Miou-Miou, Suzy Delair, Marcel Dalio
Votes: 14,787 | Gross: $0.95M
17. Paulette (2012)
R | 87 min | Comedy, Crime
Paulette lives alone in a housing project in the Paris suburbs. With her meager pension, she can no longer make ends meet.
Director: Jérôme Enrico | Stars: Bernadette Lafont, Carmen Maura, Dominique Lavanant, Françoise Bertin
Votes: 7,614 | Gross: $0.03M
18. The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers (1964)
108 min | Comedy, Crime
Four swindle stories, taking place successively in Tokyo - Japan (Les cinq bienfaiteurs de Fumiko), Amsterdam - The Netherlands (La riviere de diamants), Italie (La feuille de route), and Paris - France (L'homme qui vendit la tour Eiffel).
Directors: Claude Chabrol, Jean-Luc Godard, Ugo Gregoretti, Hiromichi Horikawa, Roman Polanski | Stars: Mie Hama, Ken Mitsuda, Yatsuko Tan'ami, Nicole Karen
Votes: 526
19. Fiasco in Milan (1959)
105 min | Comedy, Crime
The usual gang of robbers in engaged by a thief from Milan to steal a suitcase full of money, but troubles will menace the success of the operation.
Director: Nanni Loy | Stars: Vittorio Gassman, Renato Salvatori, Claudia Cardinale, Vicky Ludovici
Votes: 1,186
20. Le sucre (1978)
104 min | Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Civil servant Adrien Courtois comes to Paris in order to make his money bear fruits.
Director: Jacques Rouffio | Stars: Jean Carmet, Gérard Depardieu, Michel Piccoli, Nelly Borgeaud
Votes: 554
21. The Thief of Paris (1967)
Not Rated | 120 min | Crime, Drama
In Paris around 1900, Georges Randal is brought up by his wealthy uncle, who steals his inheritance. Georges hopes to marry his cousin Charlotte, but his uncle arranges for her to marry a ... See full summary »
Director: Louis Malle | Stars: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Geneviève Bujold, Marie Dubois, Julien Guiomar
Votes: 2,237
22. Le voleur du Tibidabo (1965)
86 min | Comedy
Following a mistake, a Frenchman selling ice cream in Barcelona, is taken for a burglar and chased by the police and various gangsters.
Director: Maurice Ronet | Stars: Maurice Ronet, Anna Karina, José Nieto, Enrique Herreros
Votes: 33
23. Vous êtes de la police? (2007)
94 min | Comedy, Crime
A former policeman resentfully enters a retirement home. To deceive his boredom, he will investigate the murder of another resident.
Director: Romuald Beugnon | Stars: Jean-Pierre Cassel, Philippe Nahon, Jean-Claude Brialy, Micheline Presle
Votes: 65
24. Your Money or Your Life (1966)
90 min | Comedy
Pétepan learns that his money has been lost by Robinhoude brothers.He asks his assistants to withdraw his amount from the bank.
Director: Jean-Pierre Mocky | Stars: Fernandel, Heinz Rühmann, Jean Poiret, Marilù Tolo
Votes: 278
25. Dandelions by the Roots (1964)
95 min | Comedy
Jockey Jack has a bill open with a gangster just released from jail. He somehow manages to parry the gangster's knife attack backstage at a theatre and the latter ends up dead being put ... See full summary »
Director: Georges Lautner | Stars: Michel Serrault, Maurice Biraud, Louis de Funès, Mireille Darc
Votes: 685
26. À tout casser (1968)
88 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
A gang of young "black jackets", led by Frankie, opens a nightclub just above the hideout of a gangster named Morelli who is plotting the heist of the century: the theft of a priceless tiara.
Director: John Berry | Stars: Eddie Constantine, Johnny Hallyday, Michel Serrault, Annabella Incontrera
Votes: 108
27. Docteur Popaul (1972)
95 min | Comedy
Doctor Popaul doesn't trust beautiful women: he says he prefers "moral beauty". Among colleagues he makes a bet who manages to sleep with the most ugly woman during the next year - and wins... See full summary »
Director: Claude Chabrol | Stars: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Mia Farrow, Laura Antonelli, Daniel Lecourtois
Votes: 730
28. Lucky Jo (1964)
90 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Jo the gangster has the formidable gift of bringing down the worst kind of catastrophes on the heads of his best friends. Thus everything would be perfect if Simon hadn't lent his car to Jo.
Director: Michel Deville | Stars: Eddie Constantine, Pierre Brasseur, Georges Wilson, Christiane Minazzoli
Votes: 292
29. Girls with Guns (1994)
90 min | Comedy, Crime
In Montelimar, four young women whom life has not spared want to emerge from mediocrity. They decide to rob a bank, but everything is not so simple and the perfectly developed heist could turn into disaster.
Director: Jean-Paul Salomé | Stars: Catherine Jacob, Clémentine Célarié, Alexandra Kazan, Nanou Garcia
Votes: 233
30. The Swindle (1997)
Not Rated | 101 min | Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Betty and Victor are a pair of scam artists. One day Betty brings in Maurice, a treasurer of a multinational company. Maurice is due to transfer 5 millions francs out of Switzerland, and Betty is convinced he plans to steal that money.
Director: Claude Chabrol | Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Michel Serrault, François Cluzet, Jean-François Balmer
Votes: 2,992 | Gross: $0.23M
31. Viola Kisses Everybody (1998)
93 min | Adventure, Comedy
Three friends leave for a trip by camper, but their vacation is turned upside down by Viola, a girl who has just come from a robbery in a jewelry store.
Director: Giovanni Veronesi | Stars: Asia Argento, Massimo Ceccherini, Valerio Mastandrea, Rocco Papaleo
Votes: 618
32. Camping Cosmos (1996)
88 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
On a Belgian beach at Camping Cosmos. The delegate send by the Ministry is confronted with sex and murder. The residents enjoy their holidays in a peculiar way...
Director: Jan Bucquoy | Stars: Jean-Henri Compère, Fanny Hanciaux, Lolo Ferrari, Jean-Paul Dermont
Votes: 344
33. Madame Edouard (2004)
97 min | Comedy, Crime
In Brussels, the corpses of young women were discovered buried behind the graves of collectors of paintings. Each of them lacks the right forearm.
Director: Nadine Monfils | Stars: Michel Blanc, Didier Bourdon, Dominique Lavanant, Annie Cordy
Votes: 214
34. L'auberge rouge (2007)
95 min | Comedy, Crime
In the 19th century Pyrénées, a stagecoach stops for the night at an isolated inn run by a couple of murderous thieves. The husband wants to kill and rob them all, but one of them is a priest whom the wife refuses to see harmed.
Director: Gérard Krawczyk | Stars: Christian Clavier, Josiane Balasko, Gérard Jugnot, Jean-Baptiste Maunier
Votes: 1,435
35. Playing Dead (2013)
104 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
A has-been actor takes a job playing the victims in a homicide reenactment, where he sparks with the civil officer investigating the real-life crime.
Director: Jean-Paul Salomé | Stars: François Damiens, Géraldine Nakache, Lucien Jean-Baptiste, Anne Le Ny
Votes: 999
36. City Hunter (2018)
91 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Nicky Larson, the best private investigator in the business, is called for a high-risk mission: to recover the perfume of Cupid, a perfume that would make irresistible the one who uses it.
Director: Philippe Lacheau | Stars: Philippe Lacheau, Élodie Fontan, Tarek Boudali, Julien Arruti
Votes: 5,569
37. Nobody Else But You (2011)
Not Rated | 102 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
A bestselling crime novelist who is desperately looking for a new story hones his focus on the apparent suicide of a small-town woman, an aspiring model who thought she was the reincarnation of Marilyn Monroe.
Director: Gérald Hustache-Mathieu | Stars: Jean-Paul Rouve, Sophie Quinton, Guillaume Gouix, Arsinée Khanjian
Votes: 2,962 | Gross: $0.04M
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