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5.8

♡ 2

54%

Crime

Georges Lautner Director

Louis de Funès as Jockey Jack

Malka Ribowska as La comtesse

Charles Millot as Pierre Michon

Mireille Darc as Rockie La Braise

Jockey Jack has a bill open with a gangster just released from jail. He somehow manages to parry the gangster's knife attack backstage at a theatre and the latter ends up dead being put into a double bass case. A day later the gangster mysteriously has disappeared, but it turns out that he was carrying a bet ticket for a horse race now worth over a million. A turbulent run for the money begins.

Ni vu, ni connu

1958

7.1

based on novel or book

Yves Robert Director

Louis de Funès as Blaireau

Moustache as Parju

Marcel Rouzé as Un gendarme

Paul Faivre as Victor, le gardien-chef

In a small French village, everything would be quiet if the local wildlife cop was not being ridiculed by a smart poacher.

The Tattoo

1968

6.5

♡ 1

Denys de La Patellière Director

Louis de Funès as Félicien Mézeray

Joe Warfield as Larsen

Yves Barsacq as Le postier

Dominique Davray as Suzanne Mézeray

An art dealer wants to buy a Modigliani, which is tattooed on the back of an old soldier.

Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At!

1966

7.9

♡ 17

94%

Gérard Oury Director

Marie Dubois as Juliette

Helmuth Schneider as L'officier allemand dans le train

Claudio Brook as Peter Cunningham

Louis de Funès as Stanislas Lefort

During World War II, two French civilians and a downed British Bomber Crew set out from Paris to cross the demarcation line between Nazi-occupied Northern France and the South. From there they will be able to escape to England. First, they must avoid German troops – and the consequences of their own blunders.

The Gentleman from Epsom

1962

6.1

♡ 5

Crime

Gilles Grangier Director

Louis de Funès as Gaspard Ripeux

Charles Millot as Le directeur de la boîte de nuit

Paul Faivre as Le vendeur de tickets

Jacques Marin as Raoul

The story takes place in the racecourses around Paris. A so-called major sells his tips to naive characters.

People in Luck

1963

5.9

♡ 3

anthology

Philippe de Broca Director

Louis de Funès as Antoine Beaurepaire

France Rumilly as Danièle Beaurepaire

Mireille Darc as Jacqueline

Nicole Desailly as (segment "Le repas gastronomique") (uncredited)

A light French comedy of 5 segments.

The One Man Band

1970

6.2

♡ 2

Serge Korber Director

Louis de Funès as Monsieur Édouard - dit Evan Evans

Olivier De Funès as Philippe Evans

Michel Charrel as Un agent de la circulation

Edward Meeks as (uncredited)

Evan Evans, the director of a ballet troupe, is rehearsing his next show in Monaco, in preparation for a worldwide tour. When one member of his troupe leaves to get married, Evans imposes a regime of strict discipline on his remaining dancers. The latter get their revenge by presenting Evans’ nephew Philippe, the only male member of the group, with a baby and a note claiming he is the father…

Taxi, Trailer and Corrida

1958

6.0

♡ 5

André Hunebelle Director

Roger Desmare as Le barman

Maurice Gardett as Le speaker

Louis de Funès as Maurice Berger

Véra Valmont as Myriam

A chaotic family go on holiday to Spain and get mixed up with a gang of diamond thieves.

Hibernatus

1969

husband wife relationship

6.6

♡ 9

59%

marriage proposal

Sci-Fi

Édouard Molinaro Director

Louis de Funès as Hubert de Tartas

Paul Bisciglia as Le prêtre moderne

Michael Lonsdale as Le professeur Édouard Loriebat

Carlo Nell as Un reporter

Hubert de Tartas' life becomes a complete muddle when his wife's grandfather is unearthed after having spent 65 years in frozen hibernation in the polar circle. After being de-frosted, the Hibernating Man believes it is still the beginning of the century. Nothing is spared to keep that illusion alive. At the end of his rope, Hubert blurts out the truth and takes the man from Edwardian times on a crazy spree through an ultramodern Twentieth Century.

The Sucker

1965

7.3

♡ 5

87%

Gérard Oury Director

Alida Chelli as Gina - la manucure

Louis de Funès as Léopold Saroyan

Nicole Desailly as Madame Chenu - la concierge de Maréchal

Michèle Morgan as Self - deleted scene

In this Franco-Italian gangster parody, a shopkeeper on his way to an Italian holiday suffers a crash that totals his car. The culprit can only compensate his ruined trip by driving an American friend's car from Naples to Bordeaux, but as it happens to be filled with such contraband as stolen money, jewelry and drugs, the involuntary and unwitting companions in crime soon attract all but recreational attention from the "milieu".

The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob

1973

7.4

♡ 12

91%

Gérard Oury Director

Miou-Miou as Antoinette Pivert

Gérard Darmon as Un homme de main de Farès

Michel Fortin as Un policier motard

Louis de Funès as Victor Pivert

In this riot of frantic disguises and mistaken identities, Victor Pivert, a blustering, bigoted French factory owner, finds himself taken hostage by Slimane, an Arab rebel leader. The two dress up as rabbis as they try to elude not only assasins from Slimane's country, but also the police, who think Pivert is a murderer. Pivert ends up posing as Rabbi Jacob, a beloved figure who's returned to France for his first visit after 30 years in the United States. Adding to the confusion are Pivert's dentist-wife, who thinks her husband is leaving her for another woman, their daughter, who's about to get married, and a Parisian neighborhood filled with people eager to celebrate the return of Rabbi Jacob.

A Killing Success

1963

6.1

♡ 1

ambition

based on novel or book

Marcel Bluwal Director

Guy Bedos as

Alain Delon as Lambert

Louis de Funès as Norbert Charolais

Albert Dinan as Un homme

Paul Martin is the subservient brown-nosing youngster who needs quick advancement up the hierarchy to pay for the modern lifestyle he is buying on credit. Seeing that marrying his immediate superior's daughter will not get him the results he wants, he begins plotting the demise of the head of the company. The company itself specializes in holiday travel and unscrupulously brutalizes its customers for maximum profit, spending more thought on publicity gimmicks than customer service...

What's Cooking in Paris

1966

6.7

♡ 5

Jacques Besnard Director

France Rumilly as La baronne

Bernard Blier as Le commissaire divisionnaire

Paul Faivre as Le monsieur taché

Louis de Funès as Monsieur Septime

A great French restaurant's owner, Monsieur Septime, is thrust into intrigue and crime, when one of his famous guests disappears.

La zizanie

1978

husband wife relationship

6.4

♡ 4

small town

Claude Zidi Director

Annie Girardot as Bernadette Daubray-Lacaze

Louis de Funès as Guillaume Daubray-Lacaze

Guy Di Rigo as Un homme à la soirée costumée

Gabriel Marfaing as Un ouvrier

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, after dinner with a lot of alcohol, order 5,000 pieces. His only problem: His production capacity is way to small so he gets to produce the machines in his private house. His wife Bernadette is far from being happy about it. Her private life goes down the line so she decides to leave Guillaume and to finally have revenge she candidates for major against her husband...

Fantomas

1964

6.9

♡ 21

73%

André Hunebelle Director

Raymond Pellegrin as Fantômas

Mylène Demongeot as Hélène

Louis de Funès as Le commissaire Juve

Michel Charrel as Un homme de main de Fantômas

Fantômas is a man of many disguises. He uses maquillage as a weapon. He can impersonate anyone using an array of masks and can create endless confusion by constantly changing his appearance.

Squeak-squeak

1963

6.5

♡ 4

62%

Jean Girault Director

Christian Marin as Charles

Louis de Funès as Léonard Monestier

Mireille Darc as Patricia Monestier

Philippe Nicaud as Simon Guilbaud

Léonard Monestier owns a large fortune, alas his wife Cynthia made a bad investment in a worthless oil concession. Far from letting this get him down, Léonard decides to find a sucker to buy this concession from him. Right on cue appears Antoine Brévin, a befuddled billionaire who is very interested in Léonard's beautiful daughter Patricia and would do anything to win her hand...

Sur un arbre perché

1971

6.2

♡ 5

canyon

husband wife relationship

hitchhiking

tree

Serge Korber Director

Louis de Funès as Henri Roubier

Olivier De Funès as L'auto-stoppeur

Alice Sapritch as Lucienne Roubier

Geraldine Chaplin as Mme Muller

Henry Roubier, a French promoter, and Enrico Mazzini, an Italian, have signed an agreement guaranteeing them a stranglehold on European highways. While driving on the roads of the south, Roubier takes two young hitchhikers, but an unfortunate swerve the car rushes by Henri and its occupants on the top of a pine tree onto the side of a cliff.

Napoleon

1955