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French cinema: Comedy

Le Sauvage (1975)
Jean-Paul Rappeneau

In Caracas, Nelly, a nightclub artiste, is about to wed the wealthy Vittorio when she has a sudden change of heart and decides to return to France...   [More...]

Snobs! (1962)
Jean-Pierre Mocky

When the president of a dairy farmers' cooperative in Normandy drowns in a vat of milk, elections are soon arranged to find his replacement...   [More...]

Sous les toits de Paris (1930)
René Clair

In a working class district of Paris in 1930, a young man named Albert makes a modest living as a street singer. One day, he meets an attractive young Rumanian woman, Pola, and instantly falls in love with her...   [More...]

Stupeur et tremblements (2003)
Alain Corneau

Having completed her studies, a twenty-year old Belgian girl, Amélie, returns to Japan, the country where she spent the first five years of her life...   [More...]

Sur un air de Charleston (1927)
Jean Renoir

It is the year 2028, not so long after the world was ravaged by a cataclysmic war. A tiny spherical aircraft takes off from central Africa and heads towards Europe, a continent devastated by war...   [More...]

Sylvie et le fantôme (1946)
Claude Autant-Lara

Sylvie is an imaginative 16 year old girl who has fallen in love with a man in an old portrait - Alain de Francigny, her grandmother's lover, who died many years ago in a duel...   [More...]

Tatie Danielle (1990)
Étienne Chatiliez

At first glance, Danielle Billard appears such a respectable nice old lady, but those who know her well live in fear, for she is the most mischievous of souls...   [More...]

Tête blonde (1949)
Maurice Cam

As he heads home one evening, Frédéric Truche is delighted when he spies an abandoned parcel on a luggage rack in the Paris metro...   [More...]

Themroc (1973)
Claude Faraldo

Themroc is a typical blue-collar worker working for a typical medium-sized factory. When he is caught spying on his boss he is reprimanded, and he instantly rebels...   [More...]

Tintin et le mystère de la Toison d'Or (1961)
Jean-Jacques Vierne

Captain Haddock can hardly believe his good fortune when he receives a letter notifying him that he has inherited a ship named The Golden Fleece from an old friend of his, Paparanic...   [More...]

Tip Top (2013)
Serge Bozon

After an informer of Algerian origin is killed in Villeneuve, a nondescript little town in northern France, two senior police officers, Esther Lafarge and Sally Marinelli, are sent to investigate...   [More...]

Les Tontons flingueurs (1963)
Georges Lautner

Fernand Naudin, a one-time crook turned respectable businessman, is summoned to the deathbed of his old childhood friend, a gangster boss known as the Mexican...   [More...]

Tout le monde il est beau, tout le monde il est gentil (1972)
Jean Yanne

Christian Gerber is a reporter for Radio-Plus, France's most popular radio station. Whilst he attempts to accurately report the peaceful revolution taking place in a Latin American country, his colleagues fabricate their reports in an attempt to draw a larger audience...   [More...]

Trafic (1971)
Jacques Tati

The car manufacturer Altra is eager to show of its latest creation - a luxury camping car equipped with of all the latest must-have appliances - at a prestigious motor show in Amsterdam...   [More...]

Travail d'Arabe (2003)
Christian Philibert

Momo is a French Arab of North African origin who has just come out of prison after serving a short sentence for drugs dealing...   [More...]

Le Trio infernal (1974)
Francis Girod

After serving with distinction in the First World War, Georges Sarret now makes a respectable living as a lawyer in the town of Marseille...   [More...]

Les Triplettes de Belleville (2003)
Sylvain Chomet

The solitary Madame Souza is resolved to do all she can to cheer up her sad orphaned grandson, Champion. When she discovers his passion for cycling, she buys him a bicycle and starts to train him so that he can enter the Tour de France cycling competition...   [More...]

Trois vies et une seule mort (1996)
Raoul Ruiz

A radio broadcaster narrates a series of remarkable tales from his studio, beginning with the story of travelling salesman Mateo Strano...   [More...]

Un air de famille (1996)
Cédric Klapisch

Whilst his brother Philippe is making a name for himself as a high-flying company executive, Henri has to content himself with running the saloon bar he inherited from his father...   [More...]

Un chapeau de paille d'Italie (1928)
René Clair

The year is 1895. Fadinard is on the way to his wedding when his horse picks up and eats a straw hat. The owner of the hat is a married woman who, at the time, is in the embrace of a French officer, Lieutenant Tavernier...   [More...]

Un de la Canebière (1937)
René Pujol

Toinet, Girelle and Pénible are three friends who lead an amiable existence as humble fishermen in the sunny port of Marseille...   [More...]

Un éléphant ça trompe énormément (1976)
Yves Robert

Étienne, Simon, Daniel and Bouly are four friends in their forties who enjoy a shared passion for tennis. Another thing they have in common is that they are all nearing a point of crisis in their private lives; luckily they can count on the others' support to help them through...   [More...]

Un homme de têtes (1898)
Georges Méliès

A well-dressed magician standing between two wooden tables casually pulls his head from his shoulders and places it on one of the tables, where it proceeds to chatter and move about of its own accord...   [More...]

Une femme est une femme (1961)
Jean-Luc Godard

Angela is an attractive nightclub striptease artist who shares a small Parisian apartment with her boyfriend Emile. One day, on the spur of the moment, she decides that she must have a baby...   [More...]

Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot (1953)
Jacques Tati

Monsieur Hulot sets out for his summer holiday at the peaceful seaside resort of St. Marc-Sur-Mer. No sooner has he arrived, in his trusty old jalopy, than the nightmare of his fellow holiday-makers begins...   [More...]

La Valse de Paris (1950)
Marcel Achard

Paris, in the mid-1800s. Hortense Schneider is an aspiring young actress who is keen to appear in Jacques Offenbach's next operetta...   [More...]

Les Valseuses (1974)
Bertrand Blier

Jean-Claude and Pierrot are two long-haired social drop-outs who kill time by committing petty crimes and harassing women...   [More...]

Versailles Rive-Gauche (1992)
Bruno Podalydès

Arnaud is determined to make a good impression on his new girlfriend Claire. He has spent hours tidying his tiny apartment on the rue Carnot in Versailles and now everything is prepared for the most perfect of evenings...   [More...]

La Vie de château (1966)
Jean-Paul Rappeneau

Normandy, 1944. Jérôme is the proud owner of a large country estate, a man who is far more preoccupied with his orchards than with the fate of his country...   [More...]

Les Vieux de la vieille (1960)
Gilles Grangier

Baptiste Talou, a former railway worker, decides to live out his declining years in a home for the elderly. Before that, he returns home to recover some money he left in the house of his friend, the farmer Blaise Poulossière...   [More...]



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