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French cinema: Comedy
Le Mystère de la chambre jaune (2003)
Bruno Podalydès
Accompanied by his loyal friend Sinclair, the reporter and amateur sleuth Joseph Rouletabille arrives at château Glandier to investigate one of his most bizarre cases yet...
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Bruno Podalydès
Le Mystère de la tour Eiffel (1928)
Julien Duvivier
With their 'Siamese Twins' dance act, the Mironton Brothers - Achille Saturnin and his exact double - are one of the main attractions at a popular Parisian fairground...
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Julien Duvivier
Ne nous fâchons pas (1966)
Georges Lautner
Antoine Beretto had hoped that his criminal past is way behind him. Once a notorious gangster, he now basks in tranquil respectability on the sunny Côte d'Azur, his only professional interest being the boating club that he manages so successfully...
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Georges Lautner
Le Nom des gens (2010)
Michel Leclerc
Bahia Benmahmoud is an extroverted young woman who takes her political activism seriously. She has no scruples over sleeping with the enemy, not if she can convert him to her cause...
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Michel Leclerc
Nous irons à Paris (1950)
Jean Boyer
Jacques, Paul and Julien have one ambition: to host a new radio show. Unable to break into national radio, they decide to create their own radio station...
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Jean Boyer
Nouvelles luttes extravagantes (1900)
Georges Méliès
Two attractive young women are transformed into two male wresters who begin an extravagant wrestling match with relish. One combatant throws his opponent into the air and, when he recovers, the second wrestler knocks the first over and pulls off his arms and legs... [More...]
Georges Méliès
Two attractive young women are transformed into two male wresters who begin an extravagant wrestling match with relish. One combatant throws his opponent into the air and, when he recovers, the second wrestler knocks the first over and pulls off his arms and legs... [More...]
Nuits rouges (1974)
Georges Franju
A mysterious master criminal is determined to recover the lost treasure of the Knights Templar, but the one man who may be able to help him - the historian Maxime de Borrego - prefers death to giving away the secret... [More...]
Georges Franju
A mysterious master criminal is determined to recover the lost treasure of the Knights Templar, but the one man who may be able to help him - the historian Maxime de Borrego - prefers death to giving away the secret... [More...]
Occupe-toi d'Amélie (1949)
Claude Autant-Lara
Paris, 1910. Spectators at the Palais Royal watch in anticipation as the curtain rises on a stage production of Georges Feydeau's play Occupe-toi d'Amélie... [More...]
Claude Autant-Lara
Paris, 1910. Spectators at the Palais Royal watch in anticipation as the curtain rises on a stage production of Georges Feydeau's play Occupe-toi d'Amélie... [More...]
Oscar (1967)
Edouard Molinaro
Bertrand Barnier is a rich businessman whose pride and joy is his designer house in which he leads a tranquil life with his wife Germaine and daughter Colette... [More...]
Edouard Molinaro
Bertrand Barnier is a rich businessman whose pride and joy is his designer house in which he leads a tranquil life with his wife Germaine and daughter Colette... [More...]
OSS 117: Le Caire nid d'espions (2006)
Michel Hazanavicius
In 1955, Cairo is a hornet's nest of political intrigue, with several countries fighting for their vested interests. When one of his government agents is killed in the Egyptian capital, the French President sends a replacement in the form of Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath, code name OSS 117... [More...]
Michel Hazanavicius
In 1955, Cairo is a hornet's nest of political intrigue, with several countries fighting for their vested interests. When one of his government agents is killed in the Egyptian capital, the French President sends a replacement in the form of Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath, code name OSS 117... [More...]
OSS 117: Rio ne répond plus (2009)
Michel Hazanavicius
In 1967, France's top secret agent Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath, codenamed OSS 117, is sent to Brazil to locate a former high-ranking Nazi who is threatening to sell a microfilm listing the names of French collaborators in WWII... [More...]
Michel Hazanavicius
In 1967, France's top secret agent Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath, codenamed OSS 117, is sent to Brazil to locate a former high-ranking Nazi who is threatening to sell a microfilm listing the names of French collaborators in WWII... [More...]
Panique au village (2009)
Stéphane Aubier
Cowboy and Indian live happily together in a house in the country with their friend Horse. To celebrate Horse's birthday, Cowboy and Indian agree to organise a barbecue, but instead of the 50 bricks they ordered on the internet they somehow end up with 50 trillion... [More...]
Stéphane Aubier
Cowboy and Indian live happily together in a house in the country with their friend Horse. To celebrate Horse's birthday, Cowboy and Indian agree to organise a barbecue, but instead of the 50 bricks they ordered on the internet they somehow end up with 50 trillion... [More...]
Papy fait de la résistance (1983)
Jean-Marie Poiré
France, 1940. The Bourdelles are a family of gifted musicians who are so patriotic that they refuse to give any more public recitals until their country, now under Nazi occupation, has been liberated... [More...]
Jean-Marie Poiré
France, 1940. The Bourdelles are a family of gifted musicians who are so patriotic that they refuse to give any more public recitals until their country, now under Nazi occupation, has been liberated... [More...]
Parade (1974)
Jacques Tati
An excited audience of men, women and children take their seats in a circus tent, eager for the spectacle to begin. The genial Monsieur Loyal greets everyone with an invitation that all are welcome to join in the show... [More...]
Jacques Tati
An excited audience of men, women and children take their seats in a circus tent, eager for the spectacle to begin. The genial Monsieur Loyal greets everyone with an invitation that all are welcome to join in the show... [More...]
Le Père Noël est une ordure (1982)
Jean-Marie Poiré
Christmas is always a busy time for the staff of SOS Détresse-Amitié, a Paris-based phone-in counselling service that seeks to console the capital's depressed and distressed... [More...]
Jean-Marie Poiré
Christmas is always a busy time for the staff of SOS Détresse-Amitié, a Paris-based phone-in counselling service that seeks to console the capital's depressed and distressed... [More...]
Pierrot le fou (1965)
Jean-Luc Godard
Weary of his comfortable bourgeois life, Ferdinand Griffon leaves his wife and elopes with his baby sitter, Marianne, with whom he once had a love affair... [More...]
Jean-Luc Godard
Weary of his comfortable bourgeois life, Ferdinand Griffon leaves his wife and elopes with his baby sitter, Marianne, with whom he once had a love affair... [More...]
Playtime (1967)
Jacques Tati
Paris is not what it once was, as a party of American tourists soon discover when they arrive in the capital. To their disappointment, the city has become just like any other they are familiar with... [More...]
Jacques Tati
Paris is not what it once was, as a party of American tourists soon discover when they arrive in the capital. To their disappointment, the city has become just like any other they are familiar with... [More...]
La Poison (1951)
Sacha Guitry
After thirty years of married life, Paul and Blandine Braconnier have grown to hate each other so much that each contemplates murdering the other... [More...]
Sacha Guitry
After thirty years of married life, Paul and Blandine Braconnier have grown to hate each other so much that each contemplates murdering the other... [More...]
Polar (1984)
Jacques Bral
A disgraced cop, Eugène Tarpon, sets himself up as a private detective, operating from his one room apartment in Paris... [More...]
Jacques Bral
A disgraced cop, Eugène Tarpon, sets himself up as a private detective, operating from his one room apartment in Paris... [More...]
Populaire (2012)
Régis Roinsard
For a young woman growing up in France in the mid-to-late 1950s, opportunities for leading your own life, free of parental restraint, are few and far between... [More...]
Régis Roinsard
For a young woman growing up in France in the mid-to-late 1950s, opportunities for leading your own life, free of parental restraint, are few and far between... [More...]
Potiche (2010)
François Ozon
In 1977, Robert Pujol is the owner of an umbrella factory, which he runs with an iron hand. At home, he treats his wife Suzanne and their grown-up children, Joëlle and Laurent, in the same despotic manner as his unfortunate employees... [More...]
François Ozon
In 1977, Robert Pujol is the owner of an umbrella factory, which he runs with an iron hand. At home, he treats his wife Suzanne and their grown-up children, Joëlle and Laurent, in the same despotic manner as his unfortunate employees... [More...]
Poupoupidou (2011)
Gérald Hustache-Mathieu
David Rousseau is a successful writer of crime novels but lately his inspiration appears to have deserted him completely... [More...]
Gérald Hustache-Mathieu
David Rousseau is a successful writer of crime novels but lately his inspiration appears to have deserted him completely... [More...]
Psy (1981)
Philippe de Broca
Where now are the ideals of May '68? This is a question that Marc, a man in his mid-thirties and former soixante-huitard, might have cause to ruminate on as he profits from bourgeois angst by running weekend psychotherapy courses at a large house in the country belonging to his partner Colette... [More...]
Philippe de Broca
Where now are the ideals of May '68? This is a question that Marc, a man in his mid-thirties and former soixante-huitard, might have cause to ruminate on as he profits from bourgeois angst by running weekend psychotherapy courses at a large house in the country belonging to his partner Colette... [More...]
Quand passent les faisans (1965)
Edouard Molinaro
Small-time swindler Arsène Baudu comes unstuck when he attempts to pull a con-trick on police inspector Hyacinthe Camus... [More...]
Edouard Molinaro
Small-time swindler Arsène Baudu comes unstuck when he attempts to pull a con-trick on police inspector Hyacinthe Camus... [More...]
Les Randonneurs (1997)
Philippe Harel
Five 30-something friends decide to take a break from their busy Parisian lives and head off on an arduous walking tour in the beautiful mountains of Corsica... [More...]
Philippe Harel
Five 30-something friends decide to take a break from their busy Parisian lives and head off on an arduous walking tour in the beautiful mountains of Corsica... [More...]
Robert et Robert (1978)
Claude Lelouch
Jacques Millet is the director of a marriage agency and prides himself on always being able to match the right man to the right woman, with the aid of his expensive, state-of-the-art computer... [More...]
Claude Lelouch
Jacques Millet is the director of a marriage agency and prides himself on always being able to match the right man to the right woman, with the aid of his expensive, state-of-the-art computer... [More...]
Le Roman d'un tricheur (1936)
Sacha Guitry
A man in his mid-fifties sits alone in a café writing his memoirs which he intends titling The Story of a Cheat. His tale begins when, at the age of 12, he is denied a meal of tasty mushrooms as a punishment for stealing money from the till of his family's grocery shop... [More...]
Sacha Guitry
A man in his mid-fifties sits alone in a café writing his memoirs which he intends titling The Story of a Cheat. His tale begins when, at the age of 12, he is denied a meal of tasty mushrooms as a punishment for stealing money from the till of his family's grocery shop... [More...]
Romance de Paris (1941)
Jean Boyer
Georges Gauthier is a young man who dreams of becoming a music hall singer but has to content himself with his humdrum life as an electrician... [More...]
Jean Boyer
Georges Gauthier is a young man who dreams of becoming a music hall singer but has to content himself with his humdrum life as an electrician... [More...]
Romuald et Juliette (1989)
Coline Serreau
Romuald Blindet, the young managing director of a major French yoghurt manufacturing company, finds himself in deep water when he tries to increase productivity at one of his factories... [More...]
Coline Serreau
Romuald Blindet, the young managing director of a major French yoghurt manufacturing company, finds himself in deep water when he tries to increase productivity at one of his factories... [More...]
Le Rosier de Madame Husson (1932)
Dominique Bernard-Deschamps
Madame Husson, the most respected personage in a small Normandy town, has resolved to arrest the moral decline in her community... [More...]
Dominique Bernard-Deschamps
Madame Husson, the most respected personage in a small Normandy town, has resolved to arrest the moral decline in her community... [More...]