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1. Manon of the Spring (1986)
PG | 113 min | Drama
A beautiful but shy shepherdess plots vengeance on the men whose greedy conspiracy to acquire her father's land caused his death years earlier.
Director: Claude Berri | Stars: Yves Montand, Emmanuelle Béart, Daniel Auteuil, Hippolyte Girardot
Votes: 23,959 | Gross: $3.94M
2. 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: 37,991 | Gross: $0.70M
3. The Party (1980)
PG | 100 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
This is the story about a teenage girl's first love experiences.
Director: Claude Pinoteau | Stars: Claude Brasseur, Brigitte Fossey, Sophie Marceau, Denise Grey
Votes: 10,578
4. Jean de Florette (1986)
PG | 120 min | Comedy, Drama
A greedy landowner and his backward nephew conspire to block the only water source for an adjoining property in order to bankrupt the owner and force him to sell.
Director: Claude Berri | Stars: Yves Montand, Gérard Depardieu, Daniel Auteuil, Elisabeth Depardieu
Votes: 27,550 | Gross: $4.94M
5. 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: 12,053
6. A Man Escaped (1956)
Not Rated | 101 min | Drama, Thriller, War
A captured French Resistance fighter during World War II engineers a daunting escape from a German prison in France.
Director: Robert Bresson | Stars: François Leterrier, Charles Le Clainche, Maurice Beerblock, Roland Monod
Votes: 25,014
7. 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: 44,359 | Gross: $4.07M
8. Dracula and Son (1976)
PG | 78 min | Comedy, Horror
In the 1700s, a vampire has a son from a normal woman. The mother dies, and he spends two centuries trying to teach his meek son how to be a proper vampire but no avail. Now they have to flee from Transylvania, and they end up in France.
Director: Édouard Molinaro | Stars: Christopher Lee, Bernard Menez, Marie-Hélène Breillat, Catherine Breillat
Votes: 793
9. La Chèvre (1981)
91 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
A daughter of a millionaire, distinguished by incredible bad luck, goes missing. The idea how to find her is either insane or brilliant - to send after her an equally unlucky person.
Director: Francis Veber | Stars: Pierre Richard, Gérard Depardieu, Pedro Armendáriz Jr., Corynne Charbit
Votes: 10,637
10. The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe (1972)
PG | 90 min | Comedy, Mystery
A hapless orchestra player becomes an unwitting pawn of rival factions within the French secret service after he is chosen as a decoy by being identified as a super secret agent.
Director: Yves Robert | Stars: Pierre Richard, Bernard Blier, Jean Rochefort, Mireille Darc
Votes: 9,252 | Gross: $0.40M
11. My Father's Glory (1990)
G | 105 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
At the end of the nineteenth century, little Marcel lives with his parents in the Provence countryside. During his holiday, Marcel meets Lili, a local boy who knows all the secrets of the hills, and the two become fast friends.
Director: Yves Robert | Stars: Philippe Caubère, Nathalie Roussel, Didier Pain, Thérèse Liotard
Votes: 7,053 | Gross: $1.71M
12. 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: 8,235
13. Carmen (1984)
PG | 152 min | Drama, Music, Romance
In 1820s Spain the soldier Don José falls in love with the fiery and charismatic factory worker Carmen. Conflicts and grievances multiply, however, as it becomes apparent their views on love and commitment are fundamentally incompatible.
Director: Francesco Rosi | Stars: Julia Migenes, Plácido Domingo, Ruggero Raimondi, Faith Esham
Votes: 1,715
14. 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: 7,854
15. My Mother's Castle (1990)
PG | 98 min | Adventure, Biography, Comedy
Every holiday Marcel and his family go to their cottage near Marseilles. During one of these holidays he meets Isabelle, a pretty but conceited girl... Adapted from the cult classic novel from Marcel Pagnol.
Director: Yves Robert | Stars: Julien Ciamaca, Philippe Caubère, Nathalie Roussel, Didier Pain
Votes: 5,649 | Gross: $1.48M
16. The Closet (2001)
R | 84 min | Comedy
A man spreads the rumor of his fake homosexuality with the aid of his neighbor, to prevent his imminent firing at his work.
Director: Francis Veber | Stars: Daniel Auteuil, Gérard Depardieu, Thierry Lhermitte, Michèle Laroque
Votes: 18,333 | Gross: $6.68M
17. The Student (1988)
Not Rated | 104 min | Comedy, Romance
Weeks from her final exams, part-time teacher Valentine meets a very different musician. Just a one-night stand and back to preparing for exams, she thinks.
Director: Claude Pinoteau | Stars: Sophie Marceau, Vincent Lindon, Élisabeth Vitali, Jean-Claude Leguay
Votes: 2,347
18. Cross My Heart (1987)
Not Rated | 98 min | Comedy, War
We follow the life of a 12-year-old boy living in occupied France in 1944. We see his family, his chubby best friend, the girl who ignores him ... and the German deserter he hides in the cellar.
Director: Jacques Monnet | Stars: Michel Morin, Roland Giraud, Christine Pascal, Stéphane Legros
Votes: 87
19. The Party 2 (1982)
109 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
Vulnerable and impressionable teenage girl continues to experience sorrows and joys of adult life.
Director: Claude Pinoteau | Stars: Claude Brasseur, Brigitte Fossey, Sophie Marceau, Lambert Wilson
Votes: 5,213
20. Crooks in Clover (1963)
105 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
A dying mob boss hands over his business to an old friend, Fernand. The boss' assistants want to get rid of the latter. But are the Volfoni brothers and Théo real threats? Ensuing fights and shootouts are more comical than deadly.
Director: Georges Lautner | Stars: Lino Ventura, Bernard Blier, Francis Blanche, Claude Rich
Votes: 6,594
21. 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: 6,608
22. The Jaguar (1996)
Not Rated | 100 min | Adventure, Comedy
Two Frenchmen must go to South America to save the local shaman's soul from the evil forces.
Director: Francis Veber | Stars: Jean Reno, Patrick Bruel, Danny Trejo, Patricia Velasquez
Votes: 4,820
23. General Della Rovere (1959)
Not Rated | 129 min | Drama, War
Bardone, a petty con man, is arrested by the Gestapo and coerced into impersonating a partisan leader in order to expose another resistance organizer.
Director: Roberto Rossellini | Stars: Vittorio De Sica, Hannes Messemer, Sandra Milo, Giovanna Ralli
Votes: 3,687
24. Oscar (1967)
G | 85 min | Comedy
Neurotic businessman must find the right man for his pregnant daughter. In fact, it is little bit complicated.
Director: Édouard Molinaro | Stars: Louis de Funès, Claude Rich, Mario David, Germaine Delbat
Votes: 7,539
25. 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: 6,635
26. Witness in the City (1959)
89 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Seeking vengeance on his wife's former lover and assassin, a man sets in motion a string of killings.
Director: Édouard Molinaro | Stars: Lino Ventura, Sandra Milo, Franco Fabrizi, Jacques Berthier
Votes: 864
27. Back to the Wall (1958)
93 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A wealthy industrialist discovers his wife is having an affair and decides to exact revenge by blackmailing her under an assumed identity.
Director: Édouard Molinaro | Stars: Jeanne Moreau, Gérard Oury, Philippe Nicaud, Claire Maurier
Votes: 564
28. Hothead (1979)
89 min | Comedy, Drama, Sport
The miserable football player becomes a town hero after bringing victory in extremely important game. He uses his fame for revenge to the team star for the previous mockeries.
Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud | Stars: Patrick Dewaere, France Dougnac, Dorothée Jemma, Maurice Barrier
Votes: 2,252
29. The Escape (1978)
PG | 100 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
The lawyer Jean-Philippe Duroc visits his client, Martial Gaulard, sentenced to death for a murder he has not committed. At that moment, a mutiny happens inside the prison.
Director: Gérard Oury | Stars: Pierre Richard, Victor Lanoux, Raymond Bussières, Claude Brosset
Votes: 1,389
30. The One Man Band (1970)
85 min | Comedy, Musical
Manager of female dance group and his cousin leads the group on a tour in the Rome and prohibit them to socialize with men. Problems occur when we see that one of the girls has a baby in Rome.
Director: Serge Korber | Stars: Louis de Funès, Noëlle Adam, Olivier De Funès, Daniel Bellus
Votes: 3,532
31. Fanfan (1993)
85 min | Comedy, Romance
A hang-up man tries to love in a different way from normal, and finally manages the psychological shadow for love.
Director: Alexandre Jardin | Stars: Sophie Marceau, Vincent Perez, Marine Delterme, Gérard Séty
Votes: 3,067
32. 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
33. The Return of the Tall Blond Man (1974)
84 min | Comedy
With 'little captain' Cambrai raising serious doubts about the reality of the so-called "super spy", Colonel Toulouse kidnaps Christine and forces Francois to play again the character of "... See full summary »
Director: Yves Robert | Stars: Pierre Richard, Jean Carmet, Jean Rochefort, Mireille Darc
Votes: 4,075
34. The Skin (1981)
Not Rated | 131 min | Drama, War
After the Allies liberate Naples in 1943, the life for the locals is not much easier, especially for women. Many sacrifice their dignity and morale to survive.
Director: Liliana Cavani | Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Ken Marshall, Alexandra King, Carlo Giuffrè
Votes: 1,293
35. Greed in the Sun (1964)
122 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
A rough trucker assigns his new truck and its mysterious cargo to his newest employee, only to see it hijacked by one of his experienced drivers. Now, his friends are after him to retrieve the goods. Are 100,000 dollars worth dying for?
Director: Henri Verneuil | Stars: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Lino Ventura, Reginald Kernan, Bernard Blier
Votes: 2,720
36. Cop or Hood (1979)
PG | 107 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Commissaire Stanislas Borowitz is going undercover as gangster Antonio Cerutti in order to expose corrupted policemen.
Director: Georges Lautner | Stars: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Georges Géret, Jean-François Balmer, Claude Brosset
Votes: 3,104
37. Act of Aggression (1975)
R | 101 min | Crime, Drama
An ordinary man is driven to violence in the name of revenge in this drama. Paul Varlin (Jean-Louis Trintignant) is a businessman who decides to take his wife and daughter on a vacation. ... See full summary »
Director: Gérard Pirès | Stars: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Catherine Deneuve, Claude Brasseur, Philippe Brigaud
Votes: 485
38. Roselyne and the Lions (1988)
Not Rated | 139 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Thierry (Gérard Sandoz) drops out of school to apprentice as a lion tamer at the zoo when he meets Roselyne (Isabelle Pasco), who shares his passion. They fall in love and when he loses his... See full summary »
Directors: Jean-Jacques Beineix, Jim Henson | Stars: Isabelle Pasco, Gérard Sandoz, Gabriel Monnet, Philippe Clévenot
Votes: 535
39. 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: 2,504
40. Speaking of Murder (1957)
95 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A garage owner maintains his business as a front for his gang of criminals.
Director: Gilles Grangier | Stars: Jean Gabin, Paul Frankeur, Marcel Bozzuffi, Albert Dinan
Votes: 656
41. 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: 7,975
42. Ace of Aces (1982)
100 min | Adventure, Comedy, Sport
In 1936, a French boxer on his way to the Berlin Olympic Games befriends a local Jewish boy and decides to save him from the Nazis.
Director: Gérard Oury | Stars: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Marie-France Pisier, Frank Hoffmann, Günter Meisner
Votes: 4,162
43. Faut pas prendre les enfants du bon Dieu pour des canards sauvages (1968)
M | 85 min | Comedy, Crime
Rita will play her relationships, especially in love, among the crooks to get her share of gold bars.
Director: Michel Audiard | Stars: Françoise Rosay, Bernard Blier, Marlène Jobert, André Pousse
Votes: 525
44. Asterix and the Big Fight (1989)
81 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
When Getafix becomes an amnesiac lunatic after being struck by Obelix's menhir, Asterix tries to cure him, all while his fellow villagers are being conned by a phony soothsayer Prolix.
Directors: Philippe Grimond, George Roubicek, David N. Weiss | Stars: Roger Carel, Pierre Tornade, Henri Labussière, Julien Guiomar
Votes: 8,808
45. Pardon Mon Affaire (1976)
PG | 105 min | Comedy, Romance
As loyal as a dove, a family man is about to tell his first lie to his wife when he falls for an enchanting woman in a billowy red dress. With a bit of help, he just might get what he wishes for; however, is love always a bed of roses?
Director: Yves Robert | Stars: Jean Rochefort, Claude Brasseur, Guy Bedos, Victor Lanoux
Votes: 2,354
46. The Umbrella Coup (1980)
PG | 98 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
A womanizer balances his wife, mistress, and love interest.
Director: Gérard Oury | Stars: Pierre Richard, Valérie Mairesse, Christine Murillo, Gordon Mitchell
Votes: 3,126
47. Vice and Virtue (1963)
Not Rated | 108 min | Drama, War
Set against the backdrop of the Nazi occupation of France, VICE AND VIRTURE is a stylized retelling of the Marquis de Sade's Justine, as envisioned by one of cinema's most provocative filmmakers Roger Vadim.
Director: Roger Vadim | Stars: Annie Girardot, Robert Hossein, Catherine Deneuve, O.E. Hasse
Votes: 426
48. Les risques du métier (1967)
105 min | Drama
Jean Doucet is a popular schoolmaster teaching in a small town in Normandy. At least he was... Until the day one of his pupils, Catherine Roussel, a garage owner's daughter, accuses him of ... See full summary »
Director: André Cayatte | Stars: Jacques Brel, Emmanuelle Riva, René Dary, Nadine Alari
Votes: 621
49. Cops Is Cops (1972)
PG | 95 min | Comedy, Crime
For a special mission to destroy drug dealers in Nice, hardcore bachelor inspector Campana has to don the role of a married man with a child. He adjusts himself well but will have to fight a lot before being able to achieve final victory.
Director: Georges Lautner | Stars: Alain Delon, Mireille Darc, Michel Constantin, Michael Lonsdale
Votes: 734
50. Pasha (1968)
TV-MA | 90 min | Crime, Drama
Six months before his retirement from the criminal police, inspector Joss finds his colleague Gouvion dead, in a poorly faked suicide attempt. Joss loses his temper, and investigates on his... See full summary »
Director: Georges Lautner | Stars: Jean Gabin, Dany Carrel, Jean Gaven, André Pousse
Votes: 1,489