The Climb (2019), Just to Be Sure (2017), Crooks in Clover (1963), Le dîner de cons (1998), OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies (2006), Les vacances de Monsieur Hulot (1953), Orchestra Seats (2006), Four Bags Full (1956) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best French Comedy movies.
Storyline: Although living a comfortable life in Salon-de-Provence, a charming town in the South of France, Julie has been feeling depressed for a while. To please her, Philippe Abrams, a post office administrator, her husband, tries to obtain a transfer to a seaside town, on the French Riviera, at any cost. The trouble is that he is caught red-handed while trying to scam an inspector. Philippe is immediately banished to the distant unheard of town of Bergues, in the Far North of France. Leaving his child and wife behind, the crucified man leaves for his frightening destination, a dreadfully cold place inhabited by hard-drinking, unemployed rednecks, speaking an incomprehensible dialect called Ch'ti. Philippe soon realizes that all these ideas were nothing but prejudices and that Bergues is not synonymous with hell...
Plot Keywords: comedy, french film, cultural clash, humor, heartwarming, friendship, family ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: It is in the corridors of their municipal swimming pool that Bertrand, Marcus, Simon, Laurent, Thierry and the others train under the relative authority of Delphine, former glory of the basins. Together, they feel free and helpful. They will put all their energy into a discipline previously owned by women: synchronized swimming. So, yes it's a weird idea, but this challenge will allow them to find meaning in their lives...
Plot Keywords: sports, inspirational, comedy, french film, midlife crisis, teamwork, based on true story ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: François Pignon, a very bland sort of man who works as an accountant in a rubber factory, is about to be fired. His new neighbour comes up with an idea to prevent such a thing to happen: he spreads the rumor that he's gay so that the factory management might be afraid they'll be sued for sexual discrimination. Of course, nothing happens as it should, but the changes in François Pignon's life -and other people's too- is drastic !
Plot Keywords: comedy, french film, workplace, homosexuality, social prejudice, disguise, discrimination ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A medieval nobleman and his squire are accidentally transported to contemporary times by a senile sorcerer. He enlists the aid of his descendent to try to find a way to return home, all the while trying to cope with the cultural and technological changes distinguishing his time from ours.
Plot Keywords: comedy, fantasy, time travel, french film, culture clash, history, adventure ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A hang-up man tries to love in a different way from normal, and finally manages the psychological shadow for love.
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, french film, period drama, adventure, romantic comedy, historical ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Based on Molière's play. The children of Harpagon, Cléante and his sister Elise, are each in love but they still haven't spoken to their father yet. Harpagon is a miser who wants to choose the right man and the right woman for his children. When Cléante, at last, tries to speak to Harpagon, the old man informs the family that he wants to marry Marianne, the young girl loved by Cléante. Unaware of his son's sorrow, Harpagon doesn't understand why Cléante has become so angry with him.
Plot Keywords: comedy, french film, adaptation, classic literature, satire, greed, money ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The frozen body of Paul Fournier is discovered in Greenland where he had disappeared during a scientific expedition in 1905. Perfectly conserved he is brought back to life in the 1960s. His descendants take care of him: to spare him the cultural shock they behave so to make believe it's 1905 and they are his cousins, uncle...—vik-18 <viktor_p@mail.com>
Plot Keywords: comedy, french film, science fiction, family, 1960s, classic, humor ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Dressed as a clown, the clever rascal Grimm holds up the most secure bank of Montreal and takes 30 hostages. While confusing and ridiculing the police with his strange behavior, he calmly manages to rid the bank of a fortune. But then an unsatisfied companion arouses trouble...—Tom Zoerner <Tom.Zoerner@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Plot Keywords: crime, comedy, heist, french film, action, thriller, black comedy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Jacques, Pierre, and Michel are three adult friends who enjoy single life until they find themselves stuck with a baby.
Plot Keywords: comedy, family, french film, parenting, friendship, life changes, humor ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The life of four best friends in Paris: Antoine (a gym school teacher), Jeff (director of a monthly journal), Alex (Jeff's associate in the monthly journal and a Don Juan) and Manu (owner of fine food store). Their time is shared between their respective jobs, their relationship with women (their own and others...) and the times they meet together to discuss about life and play sport lottery. Several events happen that immediately change their routine : the death of Manu's father, the break up of Antoine's couple when he learns that his wife once cheating on him, and the wedding of Jeff's daughter. Soon, Manu meets a charming and magical young lady (Juliette). Jeff thinks he is at a turning point in his life and decides to retire, to be friends with his ex-wife (whom he hardly spoke to) and to go to the South of France to live in the sun with his girlfriend. Despite all the hard times they have in their lives, the four friends managed to support each other and keep their friendship running.—cyril_aubaud@yahoo.fr
Plot Keywords: comedy, drama, french film, male friendship, midlife crisis, romance, love ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Emilie, one of the Human Resources Managers at the Esen multinational, has recently been chosen by her superior Stéphane Froncart for her elegant ruthlessness. She indeed has the ability to find the words which persuade employees or executives judged redundant to resign, even if it takes a long time before they give in. She performs her task without moral compunction until the day when one of the employees targeted, Didier Dalmat, kills himself by jumping out of the window of his office. Not only is she deeply upset by this tragedy but she soon realizes that the firm's top brass want to have her take all the blame.—Guy Bellinger
Plot Keywords: satire, comedy, workplace, french film, black comedy, bureaucracy, social critique ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Fate, the pensions crisis and a steadfast refusal to accept the injustice of old age have contrived to force law abiding, retired couple, Arthur and Martha Goode into a life of crime. Refusing to take the loss of their pensions lying down and to fade away into their declining years, our characters decide to fight back. They decide to take back what was theirs in the first place. They decide to start robbing banks.—JM
Plot Keywords: comedy, crime, french film, black comedy, elderly, heist, retirement ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Summer 1910. Several tourists have vanished while relaxing on the beautiful beaches of the Channel Coast. Infamous inspectors Machin and Malfoy soon gather that the epicenter of these mysterious disappearances must be Slack Bay, a unique site where the Slack river and the sea join only at high tide. There lives a small community of fishermen and other oyster farmers. Among them evolves a curious family, the Bréfort, renowned ferrymen of the Slack Bay, lead by the father nick-named "The Eternal", who rules as best as he can on his prankster bunch of sons, especially the impetuous Ma Loute, aged 18. Towering high above the bay stands the Van Peteghems' mansion. Every summer, this bourgeois family - all degenerate and decadent from inbreeding - stagnates in the villa, not without mingling during their leisure hours of walking, sailing or bathing, with the ordinary local people, Ma Loute and the other Bréforts. Over the course of five days, as starts a peculiar love story between Ma Loute and the young and mischievous Billie Van Peteghem, confusion and mystification will descend on both families, shaking their convictions, foundations and way of life.—Memento Films
Plot Keywords: comedy, absurd, crime, mystery, black comedy, surreal, french cinema ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Marion (Delpy) has broken up with Jack (Two Days in Paris) and now lives in New York with their child. But when her family decides to come visit her, she's unaware that the different cultural background held by her new American boyfriend Mingus (Rock), her eccentric father, and her sister Rose who decided to bring her ex-boyfriend along for the trip, added to her upcoming photo exhibition, will make up for an explosive mix.
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, independent film, family, cultural clash, new york, sequel ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Agathe lives with her husband and son in a posh apartment in front of the Jardin du Luxembourg. Patrick lives with his son in the back of a van. She is the head of an important contemporary art foundation. He lives thanks to social security and odd jobs. She has graduated after studying for 7 years. He has spent almost 7 years behind bars. She has a good relationship with the Minister of Culture and Arts. He has a good relationship with alcoholic beverages of all kinds. She loves intellectual discussions. He loves occasional sex with big-breasted women. They should have never met, but their sons are inseparable. They will see why in the end.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: comedy, french film, family, marriage, conflict, middle class, cultural differences ...
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