Paul Préboist
Also Known As: Paul Preboist, Paul Préboit
Biography: Paul Préboist (21 February 1927 – 4 March 1997) was a French actor. He appeared in more than hundred films, mostly in supporting roles, and is best known as a comic actor. Source: Article "Paul Préboist" from Wikipedia in english, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France
Birthday: July 21, 1927
Deathday: March 04, 1997
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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My Uncle Benjamin
Overview: Benjamin is in love with Manette, the innkeeper's beautiful daughter, but she has no intention of giving in to the young doctor until she sees the marriage contract, and marriage does not fit in with Benjamin's spirit of independence. For the same reason he resists the efforts of his sister Bettine to marry him off to Arabelle, the daughter of old Dr. Minxit. Benjamin does agree to go and meet the girl. But that evening his sister finds him at the inn together with Manette, who is arrested by her father. So she decides to go with Benjamin herself. But as result of an incident with the fat Marquis puts paid to the expedition. Benjamin is subjected by the Marquis to a humiliating practical joke. Benjamin is determined to got his revenge. He succeeds thanks to the gorgeous Vicomte Hector de Pont-Cassé, who also helps Manette with her problems against her father. But Benjamin is now arrested by the Marquis...
Genres: Comedy History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-11-28
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The Boat on the Grass
Overview: Despite their social differences, poor David and the rich Olivier are the best friends. David took the young Eleanor in Olivier's Paris apartment. When Olivier meets her there, he takes her to the country, where the three build a boat on the meadow. Eleanore divided the friends.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-04-16
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Hibernatus
Overview: 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...
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-09-10
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Oscar
Overview: This film originated as a play in Paris. The story focuses on the one-day adventures of Bertrand Barnier played with a genius of French cinema, Louis de Funes. In the same morning he learns that his daughter is pregnant, an employee stole a large amount of money from his company, his maid is about to resign in order to marry a wealthy neighbor and his body builder is interested in marrying his daughter. The seemingly complicated story-line is full of comedy or errors and some of the most hilarious mime scenes of the French cinema.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-10-11
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One-Eyed Men Are Kings
Overview: One-Eyed Men Are Kings [Les... borgnes sont rois] is a 1974 French short film directed by Michel Leroy and Edmond Séchan. In the film, a sad middle-aged man in Paris man and his dog go for a walk, which turns into an ordeal. The film won an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-10-01
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Les Misérables
Overview: In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-10-20
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The House
Overview: Former professor of natural history, Louis Compiegne lives in retirement in a big house, with Pascal, his faithful servant. The arrival of a young American student comes to disorder the quiet life of the pensioner.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-08-26
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Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At!
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-12-08
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Joe: The Busybody
Overview: A writer accidentally shoots his blackmailer and tries to hide the body.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-08-31
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Delusions of Grandeur
Overview: Don Sallust is the minister of the King of Spain. Being disingenuous, hypocritical, greedy and collecting the taxes for himself, he is hated by the people he oppresses. Accused by The Queen, a beautiful princess Bavarian, of having an illegitimate child to one of her maids of honor, he was stripped of his duties and ordered to retire to a monastery.
Genres: Comedy History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-12-08
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Diane
Overview: Asked by Francis I to tutor his son, Diane de Poitiers becomes the future King Henry II's mistress in 1500s France.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-01-12
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Bolero: Dance of Life
Overview: The film follows four families, with different nationalities (French, German, Russian and American) but with the same passion for music, from the 1930s to the 1960s. The various story lines cross each other time and again in different places and times, with their own theme scores that evolve as time passes. The main event in the film is the Second World War, which throws the stories of the four musical families together and mixes their fates. Although all characters are fictional, many of them are loosely based on historical musical icons (Édith Piaf, Josephine Baker, Herbert von Karajan, Glenn Miller, Rudolf Nureyev, etc.) The Boléro dance sequence at the end brings all the threads together.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-05-27
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Up to His Ears
Overview: A millionaire realizes he really wants to live after he has hired an assassin to kill him.
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-12-04
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The Beautiful Story
Overview: A film with emphasis on visuals and music, the plot concerns characters who meet in present time, mainly the male gypsy Jesus, and the female thief and con-artist Odona, who share parallel experiences from lives 2000 years in the past. These stories are juxtaposed.
Genres: Adventure Drama Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1992-03-18
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Sorrel Flower
Overview: Catherine is left unmarried and pregnant when her mobster sweetheart is killed in this gangster comedy. With the help of another unmarried mother-to-be, Catherine goes looking for the stash of cash buried by her lover before his death. Soon other thugs and her suspicious neighbors are following their every move in an attempt to recover the lost loot...
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama Action
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-09-22
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The Troubles of Alfred
Overview: Unlucky in love, Alfred tries to commit suicide, only to be thwarted by police efforts to prevent a simultaneous attempt by a nearby young woman. Recovering, the young lady puts him up at her house, as he has run out of places to live. He joins a Parisian sporting team and seems to have transferred his bad luck to a corrupt television boss who is attempting to manipulate the game so that Alfred's Paris team loses.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-03-01
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Quarter to Two Before Jesus Christ
Overview: In antique Rome, a simple pepboy for chars becomes involved in a coup against Cesar. Rahatlocum is a North African Roman colony where Julius Caesar came to spend an expensive holiday. The revolt rumbles among the small people who find a leader in the person of Ben-Hur Marcel.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-10-06
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Croesus
Overview: Jules is a shepherd who lives a humble and solitary life in rural Provence. From time to time, he is visited by a lonely widow, Fine, who longs to be his wife. One day, Jules comes across an unexploded bomb lying on the ground in open countryside. After a few foolhardy attempts to set the bomb off, Jules makes a surprising discovery. It is filled with thousands of bank notes…
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-09-21
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The Vikings
Overview: Einar, brutal son of Ragnar and future heir to his throne, tangles with Eric, a wily slave, for the hand of a beautiful English maiden.
Genres: Adventure History Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-06-11
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There Were Days... and Moons
Overview: How can moon and time affect human mood and fate? In the manner of a Greek tragedy , this movie shows how the chaos of life ineluctably propels its characters towards violence and alienation.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1990-04-11
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Troubleshooters
Overview: The day he is released from jail, Serge is expected by four killers sent by Count Charles Varèse assigned to make him confess where he has hidden the jewels stolen during his last stickup. On the other hand the police inspector who arrested him offers him protection on condition he gives him the same piece of information. Serge refuses and is about to be tortured by Varèse's henchmen when Michel, a friendly hood, comes to his rescue. His friendship will result in... a heap of corpses! —Guy Bellinger
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-04-07
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Quand tu seras débloqué... fais-moi signe !
Overview: Whilst driving through rural France, Antoine Bonfils comes across a community of babas - men and women who have turned their back on the modern commercialist world and live, free of constraints, as close to nature as they can. After a tiff with his girlfriend, he decides to swap his comfortable but empty life in Paris for a new life with the babas. Adapting to the new life-style proves to be far from easy...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-12-16
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My Pastor Among the Nudists
Overview: A country priest receives his bishop with the mission of converting a nudist camp.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-07-28
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Le Facteur de Saint-Tropez
Overview: Robin Bellefeuille, postman in Saint-Tropez and his friend gendarme Ficelle, have well-established ecological principles. When they learn about the future construction of a casino in town, they do everything to stop the project
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-07-31
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Les Planqués du régiment
Overview: A young engineer, inventor of a dangerous ping-pong ball, which makes him pursued by the American and Russian secret services, finds refuge in a military camp where his irruption sows some semi-catastrophes.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-06-15
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La Folle Journée (Le Mariage de Figaro)
Overview: A valet wants to marry his beloved who tries to seduce Count Almaviva, his master.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1989-09-20
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Weekend at Dunkirk
Overview: In June 1940, during the Dunkirk evacuation of Allied troops to England, French sergeant Julien Maillat and his men debate whether to evacuate to Britain or stay and fight the German troops that are closing-in from all directions.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-12-18
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Us Two
Overview: Françoise has gone into business seducing men whose wives want to divorce them, and who need incriminating evidence against them. In addition, she has a little blackmail operation going on on the side with politicians who can't afford a scandal. She got started on this business after she was raped, and hasn't looked back since. Now the police are on her trail, and she avails herself of the services of a couple who make a profession of hiding wanted criminals. At the hideout, she meets Simon, a second-generation mobster. As the police close in, Françoise and Simon go on the run together, pulling off occasional heists for operating money. Before long, they have also fallen in love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-05-23
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Sergil et le dictateur
Overview: Inspector Sergil is assigned the mission to protect the dictator of Santa Juanita during his stay in France and - it goes without saying -trouble begins at once, as of his journey in the fast train from Paris to Marseilles. A lot of opponents of all kinds are intent on liquidating the dictator and they do not particularly like to have Sergil in their way. When Bijou, the inspector's fiancée, accepts to serve as a bodyguard for the dictator, she is soon kidnapped and will not be released until Sergil tells them about their enemy's hiding place. Where the shoe pinches is that the dictator has disappeared and Sergil does not even know where he is.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-10-13
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Some Too Quiet Gentlemen
Overview: The sleepy little village of Loubressac is well on its way to becoming a ghost town. To save the town, the local citizenry hatch a plan to attract tourists. To their horror, the plan misfires when a group of hippies are the first to move in. The hippies' free and unconventional ways quickly upset the staid lives of the locals. Then one of the locals is found murdered, and suspicion inevitably falls on the newcomers. Eventually, the locals and the hippies join forces to solve the mystery, and in the course of their adventures learn to respect each others' ways.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-01-25
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Woman Are Angels
Overview: In order to inherit her husband's old aunt more quickly, a greedy peasant woman engages in various dishonest maneuvers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-09-03
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We Will Go to Deauville
Overview: Comical adventures of two pairs of friends during their stay in Deauville, Normandy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-12-24
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Death of a Killer
Overview: When Massa is released from prison, he's sure that Luciano, an old freind, is responsible for his incarceration. Massa proceeds to keep watch on Luciano, who has been living with Massa's beloved sister Maria. Feeling doubly betrayed because of his unhealthy adoration for Maria, Massa is determined to get back at Luciano and ends up in a deadly game of roulette.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-04-01
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L'Avare
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Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-11-01
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Big Deal
Overview: Paul and Thérèse have sold their café on the outskirts of an airport to buy one in Marseille. The business is going well until they discover that their bistro is being used as a hub for drug trafficking. To stop the traffic, they reignite a gang war.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-03-29
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The Happy Road
Overview: Two children run away from a Swiss boarding school and set out for Paris, with their frantic parents in hot pursuit.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-06-20
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Sale temps pour les mouches
Overview: Renowned atomic scientists are kidnapped on French soil. Inspector San-Antonio and his loyal deputy Bérurier infiltrate a gang suspected of involvement in the case, in order to trace the trail.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-12-23
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Caméléons
Overview: The means used by foreign spy services to obtain the trade secret of a French invention.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-11-10
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Beru and These Women
Overview: Inspector Bérurier, having inherited a mansion three years earlier, comes to collect rent from the tenant when the latter is murdered under mysterious circumstances. Béru calls Commissaire San Antonio to the rescue, and the two men discover that Laurenzi's hotel is home to a "brothel" whose director, Madame Albertine, soon reveals to the two policemen that Laurenzi was having an ongoing relationship with Helga, one of the boarders, and Mr. Max, a regular guest of the house.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1968-10-23
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La Gourmandise
Overview: Valentin travels to the burial of his father who died of indigestion, but stopping to eat on the way causes him to be late for the meal which follows the funeral.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-03-07
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The Seven Deadly Sins
Overview: Seven directors each dramatize one of the seven deadly sins in a short film. In "Anger," a domestic argument over a fly in the Sunday soup escalates into nuclear war. In "Sloth," a movie star would rather pay someone to tie his shoe than bend over to do it himself, and he can't be bothered to accept a starlet's sexual favors. In "Gluttony," a peasant family on its way to the funeral of a relative who died from indigestion stops regularly to eat and drink en route, arriving in time to eat some more. In "Greed," a high-class prostitute refunds the price of a cadet's lottery ticket. In "Pride," an unfaithful wife finds reason to reform. And so on through lust and envy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-03-07
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Hauteclaire
Overview: The action takes place under the Restoration, at the Château de Savigny, near Nerville, a devout and prudish little town in the Cotentin region. Doctor Torty is the doctor. He tells a story of which he is the only one to know the secret, that of a criminal couple, without any remorse. The pretty Hauteclaire Stassin, daughter of the master of arms, meets the Count of Savigny, married to the noble and languid Delphine. Madly in love with the count, Hauteclaire joined the castle as a servant. Shortly after, the countess died of poisoning. Will the guilty lovers go unpunished?
Genres: Drama Crime TV Movie Mystery Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-06-13
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Tartarin de Tarascon
Overview: A well-to-do bourgeois, Tartarin lives in Tarascon, a small southern town, among friends who, like him, love hunting "à la casquette", gossip, aperitifs and thought-provoking journeys. Imaginative like all his compatriots, Tartarin ended up believing he had once been to Shanghai, so fervently did he recount his illusory adventures. It was even rumored that Tartarin was about to leave for Africa to hunt wild beasts, and this was so insistent that the brave man, urged on by his friends, was forced "for the sake of honor" to embark. He arrives in Casablanca, surprised to discover a modern city and not a single lion. But a charming Moorish woman, Baïa, seduces him, and Tartarin indulges in the "delights of Capua". This euphoria is short-lived: Baïa disappears, a false prince, mostly a swindler, finds a replacement and sets off on a hunting expedition in southern Morocco, which will only earn Tartarin the loss of his savings and a blind old lion dragged along by two beggars.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-11-22
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Liberté, égalité, choucroute
Overview: A parody of the French Revolution, on Arabian Nights background. Bagdad Calif is in Paris in 1789, where he decides to visit the Executionner equipment exhibition.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-04-30
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Le Majordome
Overview: Léopold, valet de chambre to the avocat général Maître de Royssac, starts studying the penal code and, during his leave, becomes a judge in a "middle" court. His decisions are recognized as final. Léopold falls in love with Agnès, engaged to the two-faced Doctor Ventoux, who becomes "Le chat" when he plays the gangster. Léopold will help "Le chat" pull off the heist of the century, if he remains free to court Agnès. "Le Chat" doesn't play along. A fight breaks out between Léopold's gang and "Le Chat's" gang. The law must prevail.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-03-24
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Cocagne
Overview: As the driver of a garbage truck in Arles, Marc-Antoine leads a quiet life with his wife, Mélanie, and their two children. When Amédée's "Fanny" is stolen from the bouliste club, Marc-Antoine offers to repaint another one. As soon as the work is finished, he becomes a local celebrity and, intoxicated by his new-found fame, leaves his family to go with Hélène, the young waitress, to his friend Septime's house in the Camargue to take up painting. Eventually, Marc-Antoine realizes that he is dissatisfied and that his success seems dishonest. He realizes that happiness awaits him with his wife, children and friends, and resumes his simple life without remorse.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-03-08
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The Madman of Lab Four
Overview: This talkative and unevenly paced feature finds Fou (Jean Lefebvre) the inventor of a gas that makes the users fall in love. He is chased by his boss, the police, and spies, who seek to secure the secret recipe for their own selfish purposes. A shadowy American underworld figure tries to intimidate the inventor. A half-hearted attempt at comedy tries to go along with the double dealing and trickery of the thin plot of the film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-11-29
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Les Gorilles
Overview: A confused pair of airport luggage carriers get involved in the disappearance of some suitcases.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-12-23
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All the Gold in the World
Overview: Businessman Victor Hardy wants to buy the entire area around the small village of Cabosse. He claims that he wants to return to nature, but he also intends to profit by selling the water from the village fountain, which is reputed to enhance longevity. However old farmer Mathieu and his sons don't want to sell...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-11-01
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Cadet Rousselle
Overview: The Adventures of Cadet Rousselle that on the French Revolution left his hometown in search of fortune. He thinks he knows love with Violeta, a dancer in a band of comedians but ends up involved in a monarchist plot.
Genres: Comedy History Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-10-20
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Le Permis de conduire
Overview: Michel Martenot (Louis Velle) works in a bank consumption, is recommended and intended for children. His professional skills were appreciated by his boss and promoted Michel. He becomes deputy director of an agency in central Paris. Unfortunately, not having a driving license means that you will have to track a lot of time commuting to public transport. To start the business on his family and professional life.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-04-30
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Signé Furax
Overview: The notorious and mysterious criminal Furax steals France's famous monuments, replacing them with replicas.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-04-01
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Everybody He Is Nice, Everybody He Is Beautiful
Overview: Selon "Radio plus près de Dieu", rien n'est conçu sans Dieu, surtout pas les shampoings, produits de beauté, la vente des disques... Un animateur dénonce cette escroquerie à l'antenne, ce qui lui vaut d'être licencié. Il réapparaîtra sur de nouvelles ondes avec "Radio plus près de la Vérité".
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-05-05
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The Restaurant
Overview: A great French restaurant's owner, Monsieur Septime, is thrust into intrigue and crime, when one of his famous guests disappears.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-09-09
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Le Braconnier de Dieu
Overview: A monk for thirty-seven years, Brother Gregory could not resist the temptation. Leaving the monastery for the first time to fulfill his duty as a voter, he catches up with pastis and women.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-01-05
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Easy Down There!
Overview: A priest gets a little hot under the collar when the wife he thought was dead unexpectedly returns.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-08-30
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À la recherche de... Pierre Richard
Overview: Follow in the footsteps of burlesque actor Pierre Richard, a key figure in French cinema in the 1970s and 1980s.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-09-01
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La Dernière Bourrée à Paris
Overview: Young Berthe, deeply moved by a cinema screening of the notoriously sultry Le Dernier Tango à Paris, goes to the address where most of the action takes place, a building overlooking the Bir-Hakeim Bridge metro station. Reality suddenly seems to mimic fiction when she discovers not only an apartment advertised for rent, but also a man prostrate in a corner who seems to be waiting for her. Hoping for the same torrid embrace as in the film, she discovers that he is in fact preoccupied only by the apartment's defects. Attempting to embark on a passionate affair, she learns that the man suffers from libido problems.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-10-31
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Les vacanciers
Overview: The eventful and incredible vacation of a Parisian family come to rest in a small village located in the heart of Alsace.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-03-27
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The Two of Us
Overview: A story of the caring friendship formed between a crusty, old anti-Semite and an eight-year-old Jewish boy who goes to live with him during World War II.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-03-08
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Distracted
Overview: A comedy about an absent-minded man who works at a advertising company and topples from one problem to another.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-12-09
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Élisa
Overview: Recently released from reform school, Élisa works at Madame Irma's before moving to Paris, where her success is growing. On a trip to the provinces, she meets Bernard, a blind man. They soon fall in love, but Élisa hides her activities from him. When he finds out, he hits her. The situation quickly degenerates.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-03-08
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Les Assassins du dimanche
Overview: After failing to carry out an urgent repair to the car of two German tourists, mechanic Robert has a crisis of conscience. Accidents loom at every turn of the wheel. Robert finally alerts the police, and the breathless pursuit of the Mercedes begins, turning into a thriller that ends to everyone's satisfaction.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1956-01-01
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Les Phallocrates
Overview: A fraudulent builder has planned to spend a few of days in Switzerland to hide his hoard in a swiss bank at once. Unfortunately an inspector of the Internal Revenue department is going to come and go over the firm's books.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-01-23
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Sheep
Overview: Fernand, a simple employee at the Prefecture of Police, must serve as a "sheep" to extract confessions from a leader of organized crime, who has recently been in prison. But he managed to escape by taking Fernand hostage.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-10-25
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The Adventures of Gil Blas
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1956-04-06
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A Good Little Devil
Overview: One of the comtesse de Ségur's most popular works,it tells the tale of an orphan ,Charles,mistreated by his wicked old cousin Madame Mac Miche;nevertheless,Charles has many friends including sweet blind young Juliette and her sister Marianne, Mac Miche's maid ,Betty,her boyfriend Donald ,and even the judge. (by dbdumonteil)
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-12-21
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Auguste
Overview: Auguste is about an eponymous bank clerk who finds fame and fortune. Auguste happens to be in the right place at the right time to save young starlet Francine from killing herself -- or more accurately, pretending to kill herself. His supposed heroism hits the news, and before Auguste knows what is happening, a Machiavellian publicist is using him for his own ends. The bank clerk is no fool and soon thinks of a way to come out on top.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-10-24
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Bedmania
Overview: A large bed recounts stories from its brief existence. Clumsy burglars, adulterated husbands and wives, homosexuals, lesbians, a lady, and her gigolo, a doctor who tries an erotic measurement machine on his assistant.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-04-02
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Les Fausses Confidences
Overview: Araminte is a wealthy young widow. Over a matter of land, she is in conflict with Count Dorimont, whom her mother would like her to marry. In need of a steward, she hires Dorante, a handsome young man without a fortune, whose secret ambition is to win the young woman's heart and hand. It's Dubois, Dorante's former valet, now Araminte's, who, by manipulating all the household staff, hatches a plot based on true, false and mixed confidences, designed to lure Araminte into Dorante's arms. Dorante eventually confesses to Araminte, who forgives him and marries him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-10-02
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L'Heptaméron (Joyeux compères)
Overview: Two monks come to a small village to lead a simple life but their first act of charity is to try and seduce one of the village women.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-08-17
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Croquemitoufle
Overview: Returning from a two-year stay in Terre Adélie, explorer Bernard Villiers meets up with his best friend, Thomas Desjardins, whose diplomatic duties call him to London. While Thomas is away, Bernard learns that Catherine, his wife, has run off with his collaborator Michel. Out of friendship for Thomas, and always resourceful, he follows the couple and tries to separate them. He does so much, in fact, that he falls in love with Catherine.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-05-20
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Signed, Arsène Lupin
Overview: At the end of the Great War, Arsène Lupin resumed his adventurous life. Theft of three paintings committed by an adversary leads him to the treasure of the Golden Fleece.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-11-11
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Bebert and the Train
Overview: The Martin family is shopping in a department store. Tiennot is responsible for looking after his little brother, Bébert, but he prefers to chase girls. On the train home, Tiennot leaves Bébert alone. On arrival, Bébert has disappeared. The Martin family sets out to find him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-12-03
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Moi y'en a vouloir des sous
Overview: Dismissed following an unfortunate initiative, financial advisor Benoît Lepape decides to work for his uncle, a union activist. His capitalist methods will surprise at first, but quickly bring in a lot of money.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-02-01
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The New Aristrocrats
Overview: Denis, a hypersensitive teenager, is revolted both against his distant, pretentious, well-to-do parents and their superficial society firends and the stiff, intolerant catholic establishment in which he studies. Fortunately,he has an open-minded philosophy teacher, Father Philippe de Maubrun, who understands him and supports him in his distress.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-12-13
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Une merveilleuse journée
Overview: The unusual day of a young pharmacist's assistant, between Deauville and Cassis.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-11-12
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Tales of Paris
Overview: A film made up of four sketches. In Marc Allégret's Sophie, a naive high-school girl invents a love affair with her mother's lover. But it's a guitarist with whom she falls in love. In Françoise, by Claude Barma, a young woman returning to France after living in the United States has an affair with her best friend's lover. In Antonia, by Michel Boisrond, a middle-aged woman tries to convince her ex-lover that she still has many assets to seduce. In Ella, by Jacques Poitrenaud, a Pigalle dancer meets a man in a cab.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-01-17
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How Not to Rob a Department Store
Overview: To repay a debt, Marcel must commit a robbery in a large department store. Unfortunately his booty is intercepted by a gang of thugs.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-04-12
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The Grand Manoeuvre
Overview: Armand, a boastful womaniser, makes a bet that he can seduce any girl he wants. He soon crosses paths with a beautiful Parisian divorcee, who is nothing like anyone he has ever met before.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-10-26
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Perched on a Tree
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-04-12
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Idiot in Paris
Overview: Goubi, the simpleton of his village in the French Department Allier, has but one wish: to see Paris. One day, the truckers Grafouillère deposit a drunk Goubi in the biggest market of Paris (the "Halles"). The poor man is completely lost, but the meat merchant Dessertine takes him under his wings when he hears that Goubi was likewise 'raised by the State'...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-03-22
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Stadium Nuts
Overview: Les Charlots, a French rock group, continue their adventures, in the manner of the Beatles in Hard Day's Night. This is their second adventure. The foursome are on holiday, camping outside a village. The Olympic flame is going to pass through the village. A grocer, charged to prepare a celebration, calls upon the four to help. One of the four falls for the grocer's daughter. However, she runs away after the sportsman carrying the flame. The foursome set of to find her and win her back.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-09-22
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The Adventures of Arsène Lupin
Overview: Arsène Lupin is extremely popular among the population, because he allows the needy to share in his acquired wealth. Before entering the service of the German Emperor Wilhelm II, he removes his vault in Alsace, steals two paintings of old masters, steals valuable gems and calls out to the police prefect to avoid his arrest. But this time he risks being seriously recognized. Lupin must once again use his fine intellect to deftly escape the situation.
Genres: Crime Comedy Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-03-22
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L'émir préfère les blondes
Overview: Emir Fattal is on holiday in France, being pursued by an international criminal, MacGorell. He moved to a musical impresario, Sam Moreau, who did not like the presence of a squatter.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-05-01
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La Marraine de Charley
Overview: Living in cramped quarters with Charley, an architecture student, four of his friends force him to dress up as a woman and play the role of his own godmother in order to rent Mr. de Saint-Sevran's mansion at low prices. The result is a series of misunderstandings and comical situations that only end when the real godmother arrives.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-10-08
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The Sicilian
Overview: A brave little couturier from Lyon, Fernand, travels to Paris to present his creation "La ligne Impériale" to a major fashion house. Following a misunderstanding, he is mistaken by a gang of gangsters for "Le Sicilien", a hired killer. A quid pro quo of enormous proportions. Fernand has the whole gang arrested and is reunited with his sweet fiancée Josée.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-11-26
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Le Pirate
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-03-12
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The One Man Band
Overview: 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…
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-09-18
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Les Bidasses aux grandes manœuvres
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-10-28
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La Grande Récré
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-10-01
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Cartouche
Overview: In the 18th century, Louis de Bourguignon is working with the Malichot's gang, but their ways are too 'unethical' for him. He creates his own band, acting under the name of Cartouche, making audacious robberies of the rich people, and even distributing the takings with the poor. Thus, cartouche attracts the people's sympathies, Venus's love, and hate from the Police and Malichot... Cartouche can escape all the traps they set at him - except the entrapments of love. Eventually, he will be saved by a woman, at her own cost.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Romance Action
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-03-07
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There's a Bone in the Mill
Overview: Two unemployed actors accept what they believe to be an acting job from a wealthy man without realizing that he needs two real private detectives.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-06-20
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Five Leaf Clover
Overview: A middle-aged couple moves into an old villa populated by eccentric characters.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-08-22
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The Four Charlots Musketeers
Overview: This French slapstick comedy stars the musician/comedian foursome Les Charlots, as valets to the Four Musketeers. One of the film's highlights is a mutual kicking session between Cardinal Richelieu, the King, and a monk. This comedy foursome was enormously popular in 1970s France, and they made a huge number of films during that period.
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-02-13
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OK Patron
Overview: Mario, the head of the Mafia in France, has just been mortally wounded. His "companion" decides to find him a successor, before the New York "organization" appoints one. She instructs her two bodyguards to take on anyone who likes money, doesn't have any and, above all, doesn't want to work too hard - in short, "the average Frenchman"... They discover Léon Bonnet, a representative of "magic crosses". They send him gifts: champagne, weapons (a mistake...), a ring for his fiancée, and a meal worthy of the finest gourmets. In return, they take him to Mario's dying bedside, and have him sign over the estate. It's then that Leon, with his angelic good looks, restores order within the Mafia, surprising all his adversaries with his manners, and outwitting the police...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-06-01
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Les joyeux lurons
Overview: Three priests in cassocks visit a modest and naive country priest in a village in the South of France. They claim to be sent by the bishop for the purpose of recovering a precious reliquary currently in the hands of a vigorously anti-clerical squire. The non apostolic behavior of the three priests causes the disturbance in the village without altering the confidence of the priest. But the situation is complicated at the Sunday Mass: one is drunk on the sacristy, the other improvises a sermon not very Catholic and the third is a mess in the choir of singing. With the naive complicity of the priest, their scam is about to end ...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-11-22
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The Madman of Lab Four
Overview: This talkative and unevenly paced feature finds Fou (Jean Lefebvre) the inventor of a gas that makes the users fall in love. He is chased by his boss, the police, and spies, who seek to secure the secret recipe for their own selfish purposes. A shadowy American underworld figure tries to intimidate the inventor. A half-hearted attempt at comedy tries to go along with the double dealing and trickery of the thin plot of the film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-11-29
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The Man Who Betrayed the Mafia
Overview: When an oily attorney dies at the hands of the mafia, a dedicated French detective investigates the man's murder. He soon uncovers a drug-smuggling operation and lets his sawed-off shotgun do the talking to the toughs in this Gallic gangster feature.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-05-20
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Blood on His Sword
Overview: Charles le Temeraire asks in marriage Jeanne de Beauvais, daughter of King Louis XI, wishing to get her valuable lands in dowry. The King is wise to this, and since his daughter does not feel inclined to accept, he refuses. Charles sets up a plan to abduct the prince, in a way that the suspicions will fall upon Robert de Neuville, a noble enamoured of the princess. Robert manages to free her from the castle where she was being kept. Charles keeps setting traps, and managing people to perjure against Jeanne, and the King himself. Finally, Jeanne escapes alive from a pack of wolves, who set watching the lady alone in the snow covered woods, instead of attacking her. Charles does yet accuse her of being a witch - wishing to have her dead rather than being the wife of Robert... Robert will be her champion in a Judgement of God. Will the 'miracle of the wolfs' repeat itself, or fearless Charles defeat Robert in the sword duel?
Genres: Adventure Romance Action Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-09-06
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When the Pheasants Pass
Overview: Arsène Baudu and Hyacinthe, a pair of small-time crooks, fall prey to Alexandre Larsan-Bellac, who involves them (against their will) in high-profile swindling, but their success is quite limited. For starters they are deceived by Mrs. Paterson, a charming widow. Later on, Ribeiro, a Portuguese contractor and former victim of the two crooks, traces them and forces them to work on one of his building sites for damages. Just then, Larsan-Bellac resurfaces with plans to lure Ribeiro once again. —Guy Bellinger
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-09-10
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La Nuit de Tom Brown
Overview: How did Master Brown turn from a man of faith into a cantankerous, distrustful and cynical man? Nathaniel Hawthorne's character recounts the night when everything changed. In Canada, in a village where everyone seems more virtuous than he is, Tom Brown meets a man who claims to be the devil.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-03-24
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We Will Go to Deauville
Overview: Comical adventures of two pairs of friends during their stay in Deauville, Normandy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-12-24
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The Gendarme Takes Off
Overview: The whole clique of Cruchot's police station is retired. Now he lives with his rich wife in her castle - and is bored almost to death. He fights with the butler, because he isn't even allowed to do the simple works. But when one of the clique suffers from amnesia after an accident, all of the others reunite and kidnap him, to take him on a tour to their old working places and through their memories. In their old uniforms they turn St. Tropez upside down.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-10-28
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Actualités télérévisées
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-04-01
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Le Trou
Overview: Four prison inmates have been hatching a plan to literally dig out of jail when another prisoner, Claude Gaspard, is moved into their cell. They take a risk and share their plan with the newcomer. Over the course of three days, the prisoners and friends break through the concrete floor using a bed post and begin to make their way through the sewer system -- yet their escape is anything but assured.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-03-18
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Et qu'ça saute !
Overview: A uranium deposit brings turmoil to the small South American republic of Guatalpa. Between two revolutions, the government tries unsuccessfully to decide whether the Americans, Soviets or Cubans will exploit the concession. Delegates from these nations spy on and betray each other to achieve their goal.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-09-11
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La Honte de la famille
Overview: On the day of his marriage, the son of a Marseille king declares to his family that he wishes to engage in the police.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-11-07
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The Hideout
Overview: A jewel thief hides his loot in a WELL while escaping. He returns several years later only to find there is a Resort on the site and the well is the centerpiece of the place. He then has to find a way to retrieve his haul.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-07-21
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The Right of the Maddest
Overview: The guardian of a nursing home lends a compassionate ear to the complaints of two new pensioners who love each other and have only one dream: to see the sea. To help them realize their dream, the brave man steals the car of the director. She quickly discovers the crime and drags her pale husband to the pursuit of the trio, aboard a tanker truck...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-03-27
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Chinese In Paris
Overview: Overnight, Paris is invaded - although peacefully - but the Chinese Army, and millions of Chinese people... It's the Nazi occupation all over again, with modern - funny - twists.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-02-27
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The Gates of Paris
Overview: Juju, a drunken oaf who feels the need of being important to someone---anyone---and his friend The Artist are forced at gunpoint to house a fugitive, Pierre Barbier, in Juju's broken-down home. The urge for being needed is such in Juju that he gives up drinking and takes care of Pierre. But one day Juju finds out that Pierre has been making love to his girl Maria...
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-09-27
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Les fourberies de Scapin
Overview: Two youths have secretly married ladies but not the ones their fathers who are away on trips had selected.A mischievous valet plays tricks to see that the lovers can stay together.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-02-06
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Font-aux-Cabres
Overview: Font-aux-cabres is the name of an Andalusian village, benefiting the Commander of the Order of Calatrava, who supports Juana Beltraneja, the pretender to the throne of Castile, against the Catholic Monarchs. The Commander's tyranny is felt throughout the country, subjecting village women and girls to his whims by threat or violence. Laurencia, who dares to refuse him, is kidnapped on her wedding day, and her fiancé Frondoso is imprisoned.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-11-13
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Y a-t-il un pirate sur l'antenne ?
Overview: Six young people decide to create their own television channel to compete with the official channels where they were not admitted. Canal soleil is the name of the pirate station and a real success. But when the pirate channel launches a parking meter snatching contest, the police get angry because thousands of parking meters are snatched. The minister decides to entrust the case to Inspector Harry Kossek, nicknamed "Super Cop".
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-07-20
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Captain Blood
Overview: Le capitan is a 1960 French-Italian swashbuckler film directed by André Hunebelle and starring Jean Marais, Bourvil, Elsa Martinelli and Lise Delamare. It is based on a novel by Michel Zévaco.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-10-03
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