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1. Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At! (1966)
G | 132 min | Adventure, Comedy, War
Several ordinary Frenchmen go on an epic voyage through the occupied country to the free zone as they help British pilots avoid German captivity.
Director: Gérard Oury | Stars: Bourvil, Louis de Funès, Claudio Brook, Andréa Parisy
Votes: 20,213
2. 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: 12,041
3. 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: 14,778 | Gross: $0.95M
4. The Wing or The Thigh? (1976)
104 min | Comedy, Family
Charles Duchemin, a well-known gourmet and the publisher of a famous restaurant guide, is waging a war against fast-food entrepreneur Tricatel to save the French art of cooking. After ... See full summary »
Director: Claude Zidi | Stars: Louis de Funès, Coluche, Ann Zacharias, Julien Guiomar
Votes: 12,331
5. The Cabbage Soup (1981)
102 min | Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
2 buddy farmers are visited by aliens who like their domestic cabbage soup.
Director: Jean Girault | Stars: Louis de Funès, Jean Carmet, Jacques Villeret, Claude Gensac
Votes: 9,575
6. The Gendarme and the Extra-Terrestrials (1979)
96 min | Comedy, Crime, Sci-Fi
In St. Tropez, French gendarme Cruchot and his men battle petroleum-drinking, human-looking, metallic aliens.
Director: Jean Girault | Stars: Louis de Funès, Michel Galabru, Maurice Risch, Jean-Pierre Rambal
Votes: 9,451
7. 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: 8,224
8. The Gendarme of Saint-Tropez (1964)
90 min | Comedy, Crime
Gendarme Ludovic Cruchot is re-assigned to the French Riviera seaside resort town of Saint-Tropez where petty criminals and his own daughter give him a hard time.
Director: Jean Girault | Stars: Louis de Funès, Geneviève Grad, Michel Galabru, Christian Marin
Votes: 13,838
9. The Gendarme Takes Off (1970)
107 min | Comedy, Crime
The entire squad of gendarmes from Saint-Tropez has been retired. But there is no such power that could stop them from protecting the law and public order.
Director: Jean Girault | Stars: Louis de Funès, Jean Lefebvre, Guy Grosso, Michel Modo
Votes: 7,424
10. What's Cooking in Paris (1966)
Not Rated | 85 min | Action, Comedy
Top-notch french restaurant owner Monsieur Septime is involved into crime when one of his famous guests disappears.
Director: Jacques Besnard | Stars: Louis de Funès, Bernard Blier, Maria-Rosa Rodriguez, Venantino Venantini
Votes: 6,604
11. Delusions of Grandeur (1971)
PG | 85 min | Adventure, Comedy, History
In 17th-century Spain, the Minister of Finance tries to dishonor the queen with an overly complex plan.
Director: Gérard Oury | Stars: Louis de Funès, Yves Montand, Alice Sapritch, Karin Schubert
Votes: 7,971
12. The Exchange Student (1967)
84 min | Adventure, Comedy
A strict French headmaster sends his frivolous son to England to learn English. But the student has a better idea of how to spend his summer holidays.
Director: Jean Girault | Stars: Louis de Funès, Ferdy Mayne, Martine Kelly, François Leccia
Votes: 3,776
13. Hibernatus (1969)
Not Rated | 82 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
A rich businessman faces a quite weird problem - his wife's grandfather has been revived thanks to science. But he is not aware that many decades have passed.
Director: Édouard Molinaro | Stars: Louis de Funès, Michael Lonsdale, Claude Gensac, Bernard Alane
Votes: 6,629
14. The Gendarme in New York (1965)
102 min | Comedy, Crime
After being chosen to represent France in an international congress, Cruchot and his troops must go to New York, and adapt to its social and cultural aspects.
Director: Jean Girault | Stars: Louis de Funès, Michel Galabru, Christian Marin, Guy Grosso
Votes: 8,391
15. The Miser (1980)
125 min | Comedy
An incredible miser fights against the whole world to multiply his wealth.
Directors: Louis de Funès, Jean Girault | Stars: Louis de Funès, Franck Cabot-David, Hervé Bellon, Georges Audoubert
Votes: 5,176
16. The Tattoo (1968)
90 min | Comedy
An art dealer wants to buy a Modigliani, which is tattooed on the back of an old soldier.
Director: Denys de La Patellière | Stars: Jean Gabin, Louis de Funès, Paul Mercey, Yves Barsacq
Votes: 3,526
17. La zizanie (1978)
97 min | Comedy
Guillaume has made it: A machine that can clean dirty air by simply sucking all dirt into air balloons and then shipping them far far away so his explanation. Some Japanese business guys, ... See full summary »
Director: Claude Zidi | Stars: Louis de Funès, Annie Girardot, Maurice Risch, Jean-Jacques Moreau
Votes: 4,176
18. The Sucker (1965)
111 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Criminals have chosen an ordinary man to carry drugs and jewels in his car across the border. The problem is that this man turned out too much ordinary.
Director: Gérard Oury | Stars: Bourvil, Louis de Funès, Venantino Venantini, Henri Génès
Votes: 8,046
19. Le petit baigneur (1968)
96 min | Comedy
Louis-Philippe Fourchaume, another typical lead-role for French comedy superstar Louis de Funès, is the dictatorial CEO of a French company which designs and produces sail yachts, and fires... See full summary »
Director: Robert Dhéry | Stars: Louis de Funès, Andréa Parisy, Franco Fabrizi, Michèle Alexandre
Votes: 4,571
20. The Gendarme and the Gendarmettes (1982)
102 min | Comedy, Crime
Cruchot and his gendarmes from Saint-Tropez receive a highly responsible government mission - to ensure the safety of four young beautiful female gendarmes officers. In a few days they begin to be abducted by mysterious villains.
Director: Jean Girault | Stars: Louis de Funès, Michel Galabru, Maurice Risch, Jacques François
Votes: 8,365
21. 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: 7,842
22. The Gendarme Gets Married (1968)
92 min | Comedy, Romance
The gendarme Cruchot meets the widow Josepha. They quickly fall in love but Cruchot's daughter doesn't like Josepha and is determined to prevent the wedding by all means necessary.
Director: Jean Girault | Stars: Louis de Funès, Jean Lefebvre, Geneviève Grad, Christian Marin
Votes: 8,590
23. Les Bidasses en folie (1971)
95 min | Adventure, Comedy, War
Five friends, a zany group of cut-ups, are trying to set up a pop group. But they are soon drafted into military service - and will make a hell of their sergeant's life.
Director: Claude Zidi | Stars: Jean-Guy Fechner, Gérard Filippelli, Luis Rego, Gérard Rinaldi
Votes: 688
24. Les bidasses s'en vont en guerre (1974)
90 min | Adventure, Comedy, War
Four young soldiers spend most of their army service under punishment for various pranks and jokes.
Director: Claude Zidi | Stars: Jean-Guy Fechner, Gérard Filippelli, Gérard Rinaldi, Jean Sarrus
Votes: 732
25. Les bidasses aux grandes manoeuvres (1981)
90 min | Comedy
Director: Raphaël Delpard | Stars: Michel Galabru, Betty Beckers, Paul Préboist, Michel Modo
Votes: 88
26. Les bidasses au pensionnat (1978)
90 min | Comedy
At the barracks, each night, the young slaves dig a tunnel which will join the boarding school for young girls opposite. Captain Jolly himself, in secret, goes every evening to the director of the boarding school.
Director: Michel Vocoret | Stars: Sylvain Chamarande, Corinne Corson, Maurice Illouz, Katia Tchenko
Votes: 76
27. Les bidasses en vadrouille (1979)
94 min
Four young soldiers, René, Sylvain, Gérard and Alain make a trip with a latest model tank the Invincible. Obliged to clean the machine, the hoes will panic a market and involuntarily commit a hold-up.
Director: Michel Ardan | Stars: Gérard Blanc, Alain Pewzner, Sylvain Pauchard, René Guérin
Votes: 48
28. Les sous-doués (1980)
92 min | Comedy
Baptiste 'Bebel' Lavalle and his classmates in Versailles' private high-school Louis XIV enjoy their carefree life enough to deliberately fail the exams, a national record of zero ... See full summary »
Director: Claude Zidi | Stars: Michel Galabru, Maria Pacôme, Daniel Auteuil, Philippe Taccini
Votes: 4,185
29. Les sous-doués en vacances (1982)
95 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
A group of friends are planning how to spend their summer vacation. One plans to go to the Seychelles with his American girlfriend. At the airport she dumps him for another guy. He has no ... See full summary »
Director: Claude Zidi | Stars: Daniel Auteuil, Guy Marchand, Grace de Capitani, Gaëtan Bloom
Votes: 1,621
30. French Fried Vacation (1978)
105 min | Comedy, Romance
Holidaymakers arriving in a Club Med camp on the Ivory Coast are determined to forget their everyday problems and emotional disappointments. Games, competitions, outings, bathing and sunburn accompany a continual succession of casual affairs.
Director: Patrice Leconte | Stars: Josiane Balasko, Luis Rego, Marie-Anne Chazel, Michel Blanc
Votes: 7,708
31. French Fried Vacation 2 (1979)
Not Rated | 90 min | Comedy
Eight tourists who met in a holiday camp on the Ivory Coast are reunited for a skiing holiday.
Director: Patrice Leconte | Stars: Josiane Balasko, Michel Blanc, Marie-Anne Chazel, Christian Clavier
Votes: 9,130
32. Santa Claus Is a Stinker (1982)
88 min | Comedy
Two neurotics, working for a suicide hotline on the night of Christmas Eve, get caught up in a catastrophe when a pregnant woman, her abusive boyfriend, and a transvestite visit their office.
Director: Jean-Marie Poiré | Stars: Anémone, Josiane Balasko, Marie-Anne Chazel, Christian Clavier
Votes: 10,493
33. Mais où est donc passée la 7ème compagnie (1973)
95 min | Action, Comedy, War
Three French army scouts escape capture and go behind enemy lines during WWII, urged by a lieutenant to fight rather than hide.
Director: Robert Lamoureux | Stars: Jean Lefebvre, Pierre Mondy, Aldo Maccione, Pierre Tornade
Votes: 2,442
34. On a retrouvé la 7ème compagnie ! (1975)
90 min | Comedy, War
The French army's 7th Company experiences a severe setback during World War II when it gets separated from other units of its army. They disguise themselves as officers to escape death when they are taken prisoner by the Germans.
Director: Robert Lamoureux | Stars: Jean Lefebvre, Pierre Mondy, Henri Guybet, Pierre Tornade
Votes: 1,835
35. La 7ème compagnie au clair de lune (1977)
75 min | Comedy
1942 in an occupied area. After being demobilized, Tassin, Pithivier and Staff Sergeant Chaudard returned to their previous lives.
Director: Robert Lamoureux | Stars: Jean Lefebvre, Pierre Mondy, Henri Guybet, Patricia Karim
Votes: 1,582
36. The Visitors (1993)
R | 107 min | Comedy, Fantasy
A medieval knight and his servant ask a familiar wizard to move them back in time to prevent father-in-law's accidentally killing. Instead, they fly away to the 20th century.
Director: Jean-Marie Poiré | Stars: Christian Clavier, Jean Reno, Valérie Lemercier, Marie-Anne Chazel
Votes: 37,977 | Gross: $0.70M
37. The Visitors II: The Corridors of Time (1998)
G | 118 min | Comedy, Fantasy
Knight Godefroy has to return to our time from 1023 to get back the sacred jewels that Jacquouille has taken to the 20th century.
Director: Jean-Marie Poiré | Stars: Christian Clavier, Jean Reno, Muriel Robin, Marie-Anne Chazel
Votes: 13,287 | Gross: $0.15M
38. Taxi (I) (1998)
Not Rated | 89 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
To work off his tarnished driving record, a hip taxi driver must chauffeur a loser police inspector on the trail of German bank robbers.
Director: Gérard Pirès | Stars: Samy Naceri, Frédéric Diefenthal, Marion Cotillard, Manuela Gourary
Votes: 89,388 | Gross: $0.27M
39. Asterix and Obelix vs. Caesar (1999)
Not Rated | 109 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
Inhabitants of the last unconquered village in Gaul (ancient France) use a magical potion to hold their independence from Roman invaders.
Directors: Claude Zidi, Olaf Wijnants | Stars: Christian Clavier, Gérard Depardieu, Roberto Benigni, Michel Galabru
Votes: 45,349 | Gross: $1.64M
40. Le Dîner de Cons (1998)
PG-13 | 80 min | Comedy
A few friends have a weekly fools' dinner, where each brings a fool along. Pierre finds a champion fool for next dinner. Surprise.
Director: Francis Veber | Stars: Thierry Lhermitte, Jacques Villeret, Francis Huster, Daniel Prévost
Votes: 44,341 | Gross: $4.07M
41. Little Indian, Big City (1994)
PG | 90 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance
The Parisian broker Stephan only needs the signature from his wife Patricia for their divorce - but she left 13 years ago for living with Amazonas Indians. Stephan finds her in the village ... See full summary »
Director: Hervé Palud | Stars: Thierry Lhermitte, Ludwig Briand, Patrick Timsit, Miou-Miou
Votes: 4,676 | Gross: $1.00M
42. My New Partner (1984)
R | 107 min | Comedy, Crime
A moderately corrupt veteran policeman teaches the art of bribes to his young partner. The rookie turns out to be an extremely capable student, and soon overtakes the teacher.
Director: Claude Zidi | Stars: Philippe Noiret, Thierry Lhermitte, Régine, Grace de Capitani
Votes: 4,986
43. Gramps Is in the Resistance (1983)
102 min | Comedy, Music, War
Bourdelle, a family of musicians, refuse to play for Germans during the war. They would like to liberate France using all possible means.
Director: Jean-Marie Poiré | Stars: Christian Clavier, Michel Galabru, Roland Giraud, Gérard Jugnot
Votes: 3,394
44. My New Partner at the Races (1990)
107 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
A team of corrupt policemen returns when they face with really wicked colleagues.
Director: Claude Zidi | Stars: Philippe Noiret, Thierry Lhermitte, Guy Marchand, Jean-Pierre Castaldi
Votes: 2,221
45. Would I Lie to You? (1997)
100 min | Comedy, Romance
The sentimental and comedic adventures of Eddie, a non-Jew trying to pass as Jewish though totally ignorant of Jewish traditions, as he works in a Jewish community.
Director: Thomas Gilou | Stars: Richard Anconina, Richard Bohringer, Amira Casar, Vincent Elbaz
Votes: 4,898
46. Life Is a Long Quiet River (1988)
90 min | Comedy
A revengeful nurse switches a girl and a boy at birth. They are raised in two radically different families. When the switch is revealed many years later, the now teenagers and families need to cope with their new environments.
Director: Étienne Chatiliez | Stars: Benoît Magimel, Hélène Vincent, Valérie Lalande, Tara Römer
Votes: 4,722 | Gross: $0.19M
47. Fear City: A Family-Style Comedy (1994)
100 min | Comedy, Horror
A second-class horror movie has to be shown at Cannes Film Festival, but, before each screening, the projectionist is killed by a mysterious fellow, with hammer and sickle, just as it happens in the film to be shown.
Director: Alain Berbérian | Stars: Chantal Lauby, Alain Chabat, Dominique Farrugia, Gérard Darmon
Votes: 10,420
48. Deux heures moins le quart avant Jésus-Christ (1982)
100 min | Comedy
Rahatlocum is a North African Roman colony where Julius Caesar came to spend an expensive holiday. The revolt rumbles among the small people who find a leader in the person of Ben-Hur Marcel.
Director: Jean Yanne | Stars: Coluche, Michel Serrault, Jean Yanne, Françoise Fabian
Votes: 1,766
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