Max Montavon
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Vincennes, Seine [now Val-de-Marne], France
Birthday: July 24, 1926
Deathday: September 22, 1983
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Par ici la monnaie
Overview: All the inhabitants of an old house are swindlers, dreaming only of the big score that will enable them to survive an announced eviction. They end up pulling it off together, by building a fake tollgate.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-04-03
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Les Demoiselles à péage
Overview: A woman starts working in her dead husband's brothel.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-09-15
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Comment épouser un premier ministre
Overview: Philippe Lambert, an attractive young attaché to the Prime Minister's office, is a man of many female conquests. One of them, Madame Grandbourg, wife of a very influential man, sent him a passionate letter, which he lost at the theater. Marion, the usherette who found it, contacts him to ask him for a "favor" in exchange for its return: to avoid eviction from the family apartment, because of the father, who gardens in every room and constantly floods the downstairs neighbors. At first, Lambert refuses to give in to the "blackmail" and calls in the police to unmask the indelicate woman, but love soon gets in the way...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-11-11
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The Doll
Overview: An avant-garde political satire that takes place in a mythical country in South America. The dictator has been replaced by a look-alike revolutionary, and the dictator's wife has been replaced by a robot.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-11-07
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The Cabbage Soup
Overview: Two buddy farmers are visited by aliens who like their domestic cabbage soup.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-12-02
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The Chasers
Overview: Two young men, one shy and one self-confident, spend a fast-paced night in Paris trying to pick up chicks. They confront every possible difficulty
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-04-29
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Carom Shots
Overview: 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...
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-05-17
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Cinq-Mars
Overview: In the 17th century, under Louis XIII, the policy of Cardinal de Richelieu aimed at the definitive establishment of a monarchic power, and gave rise to a struggle against the great feudal lords, who favored a weak central power. Numerous conspiracies against the Cardinal were led by the high nobility. The one led by Henri Coiffier de Ruzé d'Effiat, marquis de Cinq-Mars, was the last and most famous of them.
Genres: History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-05-16
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Dis bonjour à la dame !..
Overview: Robert Ferry, a PTT employee, is having problems with his two sons. The elder has impregnated his girlfriend, a young hippie, and the younger, Daniel, is said to have homosexual tendencies. Determined to put his son back on the straight and narrow, Robert decides to go against his principles and force a young girl on him...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-03-30
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Beware of Blondes
Overview: Back from a stay in the Far East, a woman who knew the names of the chiefs of a drug ring is murdered. Georges Masse, the famous reporter, decides to investigate, accompanied by his faithful photographer P'tit Louis. He will come across some unappetizing characters like M. Dubois, a killer, Luigi Costelli, a dangerous trafficker and a beautiful but dubious lady, Suzanne Wilson. After being himself suspected, Masse will make the truth triumph.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-11-24
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Et ta soeur
Overview: In order to escape the police, a man takes the place of his missing sister, who was clairvoyant.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-11-30
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The Bonnadieu House
Overview: Felix is a middle-aged bourgeois husband. Much to his discomfort, he learns that his wife Gabrielle is carrying on with a young man--a very young man. Rather than express outrage, Felix decides that there's something lacking in him. He spends the rest of the picture trying to keep his wife by altering his own personality and outlook.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-11-27
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The Iron Mask
Overview: The story of the Three Musketeers, D'Artagnan, and the imprisonment in an iron mask of the identical twin of the King of France, Louis XIV.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-10-26
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Seduction Squad
Overview: After witnessing and accidentally helping several thugs get away with a heist, the women rooming together notice through their telescope that the stolen loot is in the apartment right across the street. They plan their own burglary of the already stolen loot.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-11-29
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It's Not My Business
Overview: A small-scale cabaret troupe is touring the provinces. One afternoon while canoeing, Monique Darzel, one of the troupe's singers, spots an angler whose resemblance to Fernand Raynaud strikes her. She discusses this with Jean Duroc, the troupe's director, who laments the meagre revenues his show is raking in. He then had the idea of meeting this fisherman to convince him to imitate Fernand Raynaud in his shows. It turns out that the Fernand Raynaud impersonator is in fact Fernand Raynaud himself, who has come for a week's incognito vacation in the provinces. Raynaud is finally persuaded to play the novice comedian, in order to further develop the script for his next film, Les cabotins à travers les âges.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-11-07
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The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun
Overview: Dany Longo is red-haired, beautiful, disturbed, passionate--and nearsighted. As she speeds through the south of France in a purloined Thunderbird on an errand for her employer and his wife, no one, including Dany herself, knows where she is headed--or why she is going there.
Genres: Mystery Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-10-22
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The Winner
Overview: A plumber finally meets the woman of his dreams. But as her uptight family tries to keep him away, he wins the lottery and starts plotting his revenge.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-11-28
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Prends ta Rolls et va pointer
Overview: Camille Vigault, takes advantage of his vacation to visit a cousin winemaker in Roussillon. Quickly tired by work in the countryside, he prefers to buy an old abandoned Rolls Royce from his cousin.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-08-12
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A Swelled Head
Overview: A man inherits an old house in a very bad condition. With the help of a young mechanic, he begins to renovate this house.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-06-20
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Liebesgrüße aus der Lederhose 3: Sex-Express in Oberbayern
Overview: After the government decides to incorporate the town of Entenbach into the town of Almendingen the two towns engage in a battle of pranks in order to lure tourists away from each other and change those plans.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1977-03-18
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Pride
Overview: A woman leaves her lover to return to her husband who cheats on her, something that his pride can not admit.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
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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Head Against the Wall
Overview: An aimless young man is committed to a psychiatric hospital by his father in an attempt to cure him of his delinquent tendencies.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-03-20
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Liebesgrüße aus der Lederhose 6: Eine Mutter namens Waldemar
Overview: Sissy has inherited a hotel and stud farm from her parents. Unfortunately, her father was very much in debt, so she has to put up with the paternalism of a distant aunt. But she wants to turn everything on the farm upside down and fires all the experienced employees. This leads to huge chaos, as the inexperienced new staff find it difficult to cope with the horses in particular. When Sissy is also supposed to marry a bank manager friend, the trouble is perfect.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1982-01-02
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Snobs!
Overview: Four vice-presidents fight among themselves to reach the top post after the president dies. Their wives take part in the various schemes to downgrade the opposition by unorthodox means.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-09-05
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Liebesgrüße aus der Lederhose 5. Teil: Die Bruchpiloten vom Königssee
Overview: Sepp and Willy inherit a remote mountain farm. When they find an old biplane in the barn, they come up with the idea of opening a flying school, but meet with resistance from the mayor.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1978-12-23
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Rue de Paris
Overview: Life in a one-parent family with a focus on the parent, Henri Neveu (Jean Gabin), is the topic of this standard drama with a dash of comedy. While Henri was a POW during the war, his wife passed away and he returned to face the challenges of bringing up three children alone. Henri may get drunk and angry at times but he also has a better side that will not stay buried. Since handling three children alone is no easy task, the single father has the choice of growing in the process or not.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-10-21
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Green Harvest
Overview: In 1943, a group of high school students decide to take action against the Nazi occupying forces. Showing courage and imagination, they manage to blow up the Kommandantur and to release hostages. But after the killing of a German soldier the Nazi police apparatus strikes back. The young resisters are arrested and two of them are condemned to death.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-12-02
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The Miser
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-03-05
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People in Luck
Overview: A light French comedy of 5 segments.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-04-26
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The Exchange Student
Overview: Monsieur Bosquier, the owner of a private school, is far from pleased when his eldest son, Philippe, fails his end of year exams. He decides to send his wayward offspring to England to improve his English. In exchange, Philippe’s host, a wealthy whisky distiller, Mac Farrel, will send his daughter, Shirley, to live with the Bosquiers in France. However, Philippe has already decided to spend the summer holidays on a yacht with his friends, so he sends a fellow student, Michonnet, to England in his place. The deception is soon discovered but things go from bad to worse when Philippe and Shirley fall in love and fly to Scotland to get married...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-12-01
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Reproduction interdite
Overview: An art dealer in dire straits, after being ripped off by two crooks, one of whom owns a genuine painting by Gauguin while the other is an expert copyist, finds them again and, instead of killing them as he originally intended, joins in their game – with ultimately disastrous results.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-02-06
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The Abominable Man of Customs
Overview: Two rival gangs fight over drug trafficking. An American killer named Timetti Le Muet arrives at Marseille airport to make a delivery to Arnakos' gang. He is denounced to the police, and the peaceful customs officer Camposantos is put in charge of his arrest. Following a mix-up, Camposantos is mistaken for the killer himself. Taken in by Arnakos' men, the innocent customs officer is forced to play a rather unexpected role.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-03-01
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Zizis In Madness
Overview: In a small country village, a beneficiary for a large inheritance requires proof of morality, unfortunately that won't be easy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-03-21
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Life Together
Overview: The writer Pierre Carot became rich and famous with his book "Life as a Couple", which was based on the loving relationships of four couples. Now he's setting up his will and wants to leave his wealth to the couples among the four, which are still as deeply in love - if any: else, his companions get the money. He sends them out to visit the couples and test their love.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-09-24
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Pity for the Vamps
Overview: Paris, 1956. Three sisters, three actresses willing to do almost anything to make it big. Their lives, their loves, their dramas. A savory satire of the world of show business and cinema in particular.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1956-10-19
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That damn Amédée
Overview: Mr. Placard, impresario of shock, lost the headliner of his show, Elia Tarti. Amédée introduces himself, he can highlight his gifts of fantasy. Randomly along the way, Amédée notices a seductive hitchhiker named Cigale. This one disappears again, kidnapped by Prince Kanaga. Assisted by a friend, Amédée flies in his footsteps and discovers in Nice that Cigale is none other than Elia Tari, capricious, disdainful and snobbish star.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-06-02
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Les Lavandières du Portugal
Overview: Two French advertising agencies vying for a contract with a manufacturer of washers. The manager decides to hire the agency submitting the best advertising campaign. Jean Francois, head of the A.P.N., has the great idea of looking for an authentic Portuguese washerwoman to present the ads. But competition, the O.P.I., led by the attractive Catherine, on a trip to Portugal, check the washer ideal. It is a shy girl who is happy with life in Portugal and refuses to accept the proposals of Catherine. And here intervenes Jean François, who pretends to fall for her to take her to Paris ..
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-08-23
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L'irrésistible Catherine
Overview: A legionnaire, Georges, promised his friend, who died of a snake-bite, to marry Catherine, the girl with whom he had a child. Back in France, the young soldier goes in search of Catherine. The girl he finds is a dumb puritan; in spite of his disappointment, he keeps his promise and asks for her hand. At the last moment, in the town-hall, he discovers the girl he is to marry is not the true Catherine. So he leaves his fiancee and heads for Paris where the true girl works as a cabaret dancer. But the deserted fiancee is not prepared to accept it.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-05-10
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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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Au cœur de la ville
Overview: Louis saves a five-year-old girl, Monique, who wants to throw herself into the river. He consoles her, takes her home and nurses her back to health. Thanks to Monique, the old man regains his zest for life. Monique tells him that she has misplaced her mother's purse and is afraid to go home. Louis takes her back and continues on his way.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-04-11
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Lovers on a Tightrope
Overview: Cora, the wife of a wealthy Parisian businessman, Daniel, is involved in an affair with Henri, an unscrupulous garage mechanic who has set his sights on Cora's fortune. Daniel becomes suspicious and hires a detective to investigate, but the detective is unsuccessful in pinpointing Cora's extramarital activities.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-04-06
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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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The Little Professor
Overview: Naturally optimistic and mischievous, Jérôme Aubin crossed the time of his adolescence, around 1945, with ease and good humor. The years passed. He married the pretty Françoise, a little neighbor he had known since the age of eight, and soon found himself a secondary school teacher, a little anxious at the thought of facing for the first time students he had been told were particularly turbulent. How will he master this new difficulty? Better than you'd think, thanks to a delicious optimism: boldly going against the grain of conventional methods, he surprises his young audience, thwarting the plans of the dissipated gossips and turning their most tendentious attitudes to his advantage. All this provokes astonishment and concern among the college's leaders. But Jérôme Aubin is no pushover, and even the dreaded general supervisor finds himself obliged to give in to his most audacious initiatives...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-09-26
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Circle of Love
Overview: In a chain reaction of romantic adventures, various people play musical beds in a remake of Max Ophul's "La Ronde."
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-10-16
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Match contre la mort
Overview: The Lourmel couple are taking part in the final round of a TV game show: the wife has to answer questions; if she fails, her husband drives a racing car to make up the lost minutes. Moments before the start of the show, a phone call informs Lourmel that her six-year-old son has been kidnapped, and that the ransom is the amount to be won on the game show.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-12-02
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The Motorcycle Cops
Overview: Marc, a motorcycle brigadier, is engaged to the charming Véronique. But his future brother-in-law, the clumsy Roger, leader of a Sunday motorcycle gang, has set his sights on joining the motorcycle police.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-03-18
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Soupe au lait
Overview: Roland Lasserre is a shy boy, which would be nothing if he weren't also prone to the violent tantrums that have earned him his nickname "Soupe au lait". It's when Francine announces her engagement that he decides to declare his love for her. Francine is not at all keen on the husband her parents are forcing on her - a wealthy record manufacturer - but she gives in under their pressure and asks Roland to give her up. But fate has other plans. A car accident provokes the young man's anger, and with Francine on board, he chases after the hit-and-run driver and ends up in a ditch, luckily undamaged, 50 km from Paris. Torrential rain, lack of transport, welcoming hostelry. All Roland and Francine have to do is confess their guilt, and for the sake of honor, get married... All would be well were it not for René, the neglected fiancé, who provokes "Soupe au lait" and triggers a scandal during the ceremony.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-07-01
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The Versailles Affair
Overview: Suzuki, a Japanese secret agent, is sent to Versailles to unmask a certain Klauss, who is to receive stolen documents from Saudi Arabia.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-02-10
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Les gros bras
Overview: Madame Andromèze's diamond bracelet has been stolen from the plane taking Nicole from Rome to Paris. Slipped by the thief into her bag, the bracelet undergoes many vicissitudes... Found and appraised, it is declared a fake! Nicole's brother and fiancé chase after the real bracelet, disrupting the life of a grand palace. Finally, Madame Andromèze finds her bracelet, which has been declared genuine. The original thief resurfaces and steals the jewel again.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-12-31
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Hold-up à Saint-Trop’
Overview: An unscrupulous young man uses his "fiancée", who haunts gambling halls, to recruit the collaborators he needs to pull off his scams. When these unlucky gamblers are driven to dishonor by debts, he has his fiancée lend them money, and the next day he has them write checks, which of course bounce. All they have to do then is walk straight ahead, her charm encouraging them to do so. But the carefully planned hold-up at the home of a wealthy American tax dodger is a fiasco. The thief finds the safe already emptied by the very man who reported the bargain. But the unfaithful informer is fooled in turn: the loot he was about to take away in an Air-France suitcase is innocently snatched by a group of nuns who take the wrong luggage and unknowingly take off with 500 million dollars.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-07-24
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Tête folle
Overview: Following an operation, Annie no longer remembers her eleven years of marriage or her children. Her memory stops at the time when she was being courted by Pierre, now the family friend. Unable to bear seeing his wife in love with someone else, her husband tries to restore her memory.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-03-30
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How to Succeed in Love
Overview: Bernard, a young, serious publisher of religious books, finds himself embroiled in amusing and eventful adventures with Sophie, a wacky twist dancer. Having lost his own situation, he joins Editions du Soleil thanks to his friend Marcel's manuscript "Comment réussir en amour". Freed of his shyness, he succeeds brilliantly in his career; and having put to good use the teachings of the manuscript, Bernard ends up marrying Sophie. But he soon finds himself confronted by the impetuous young woman's fantasies.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-11-16
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Les Livreurs
Overview: These two friendly delivery boys from a Parisian department store not only take their job to heart as much as possible, but also consider themselves responsible for the happiness of the customers they have to deliver to. This leads them successively to help, at the cost of incredible acrobatics, a young couple celebrating the first anniversary of their marriage, to mingle with the clientele of a rather disquieting doctor, to almost perish in an ambush that was of course not intended for them, and to avoid a domestic quarrel.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-07-24
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Night Out
Overview: Saturday evening. We have a date with friends and Pierrot has finally obtained his mother's slightly worried authorization. He runs down the indefinite staircase of the immaculate H.L.M., planted firmly in the mud of the suburbs, to meet up with the others. The others are older than him on the whole, but what they have in common is the desire for something to change, this weekend, and for things to get moving. This is especially true for those with scooters who, in close ranks, can scare pedestrians, hug cars and taunt the marshals. Pierrot will be taken in rump like the girls, Thérèse behind Jacquy, Monette behind Christian.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-07-12
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Hard Boiled Ones
Overview: A playwright has to murder if he does not want to be murdered.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-06-10
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Les mordus de Paris
Overview: Paris is a city where effervescence is dangerous for city dwellers, who have become nothing more than "nervous machines". Two eminent psychiatrists, one French and one American, decided to administer a sedative to all Parisians, proceeding by arrondissement, which they injected in single, double or triple doses. Soon, the whole of Paris was injected. Calm, good humor and kindness returned, but 11 refused to be treated and remained the only Parisian not to have been treated.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-05-31
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Midnight Meeting
Overview: A woman becomes distressed by the resemblance between the plot of a film and the reality of her own life. But what is reality: life or film?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-01-01
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Le Bal du comte d'Orgel
Overview: Nobles try desperately to cling to the crumbling aristocracy in the days following World War I. The Count (Jean-Claude Brialy) and his Countess Mahe (Sylvia Fennec) delight in throwing lavish costume balls. The couple develops a friendship with a young boy who delights in the parties thrown by the noble couple. Love soon blooms between the Countess and the boy as she searches for something more than a string of endless parties and social affairs. The masquerades are an attempt to freeze time and hold on to the nostalgia of a bygone era. For fear of losing her, the Count allows the Countess to continue her love affair.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-06-30
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Les baratineurs
Overview: A precious work of art from the Italian Renaissance is stolen and passes through many hands before ending up in the shed of the farmhouse of Mr. and Mrs. Dujardin, fishmongers, who are inaugurating their luxury fish shop that very day. But the antique dealers, the free-riders and the bargain-hunters are there. They are jealously careful not to pass on the fruit of their clever investigations to their rivals, for all of them, after a picturesque treasure hunt, know that the Dujardin family own the famous Duranti altarpiece. But where have they hidden it themselves?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-02-01
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Le bluffeur
Overview: Fredo, a former gangster nicknamed "The Bluffer", has just been released from prison and is now thinking of going into the legal world with a friend. But his ex-partners are desperate to find him, to punish him for operating without their cooperation. His fortune is stolen and he is accused of a diamond robbery perpetrated by the old gang.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-05-06
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Bells Without Joy
Overview: In November 1942, American troops landed in Tunisia. German paratroopers were immediately launched and occupied Tunis. A French squadron of chasseurs d'Afrique was sent to Medjez-el Bab with the mission of occupying the bridge over the Medjerda. But the captain is mute and the cavalrymen don't know whether the operation is being prepared against the Germans or the Allies. The first hypothesis inflames Maréchal des Logis Bourgeon and his friend Maurice, who have not forgotten the defeat of '40. In the village, Maurice meets up with his friend Léa, a refugee, and discovers with fury that she is Jewish, because he doesn't like Jews any more than he likes English or Germans! The hunters set up camp on the bridge. Soon, a German column appears and demands passage. The captain refuses, awaiting orders from Vichy. But in Tunis, confusion reigns. Finally, the captain himself takes the initiative to oppose the passage of the German troops...
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-04-20
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Salut Berthe !
Overview: Adrien Chautard, a major industrialist from Abidjan, has been chosen to replace an expert on the official Ivory Coast delegation sent to Paris to discuss the country's association with the Common Market. Chautard is delighted at the prospect of this trip, where he will be reunited with the woman of his dreams: Elisabeth. Alas, at Abidjan airport, a nasty surprise awaits him: Berthe, his lawful wife, has decided to leave with him to consult a leading cardiologist in the capital.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1968-08-20
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Hellé
Overview: Hellé is a young deaf-mute living among the mountains. She’s ignored by everyone except, now and then, the local woodsmen, who use her for their pleasure. She has no education, no knowledge of right or wrong. One summer, a young man comes to spend the holidays in her village.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-05-02
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Scandal Man
Overview: Marc, is a reporter in a tabloid. At the "Bongo Club", he photographs a young blond woman kissing a black man. This woman is the daughter of Senator Linden, head of the segregationist movement of USA.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-02-14
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The Defective Detective
Overview: Lewis plays a Las Vegas policeman visiting his ex-wife in France, only to be caught up in the shenanigans of a group of art thieves. His ex-wife has remarried and her husband is undercover among the art thieves, carrying out an assignment given him by his superiors in the police force. Inevitably, the current husband and the ex-husband are bound to clash.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-10-31
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Sophie, petite fille perverse
Overview: Sophie, petite fille perverse: Directed by Michel Berkowitch. With Cathy Stewart, Marie-Claude Viollet, Gabriel Pontello, Morgane.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-15
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The Brain
Overview: Arthur and Anatole are two little robbers. They want to rob money, money that will travel in a special train from Paris to Bruxelles. They don't know that other people have planned to do the same thing.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-03-07
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Judex
Overview: Georges Franju's Judex is an arch, playful tribute to the serials of the influential silent filmmaker Louis Feuillade. Franju shuffles through the plot of Feuillade's lengthy serial of the same name, about an adventurer named Judex whose revenge against the corrupt banker Favraux unleashes a complicated series of schemes.
Genres: Crime Thriller Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-12-04
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Justine de Sade
Overview: Therese, a beautiful but naive young girl, who finds herself being passed around from depraved pervert to depraved pervert, enduring just about every kind of sexual degradation there is while still believing that some kind stranger will eventually help her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-05-19
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Clémentine chérie
Overview: Gaston Bellus, is the director of a textile house, and the research laboratory makes a sensational discovery: the elastic fabric. This new discovery is used to manufacture new modern stretchable bathing suits. His daughter Clementine, enters the beauty pageant to represent France for the swimsuit launch. But scandal ensues when the public soon discover, the photos of the event in which this new revolutionary material is completely invisible on photographs & live television.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-08-03
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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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It's Called Catastrophe
Overview: Following a commonplace car accident, Antoine Malibran became involved in the armed robbery of the bank of the Seine.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-06-29
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La Main passe
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-12-31
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Hardboiled Egg Time
Overview: A shy, penniless employee of the garage owner Grillot, the gentle Louis wins $10 million in the lottery. Flitting along the banks of the Seine, he takes in Raoul Grandvivier, an unknown, untalented painter who has just botched a spectacular suicide intended to draw attention to himself. Raoul takes him back to his studio, where he meets his charming daughter Lucie. In order to see Lucie again, with whom he is in love, Louis offers to sell the paintings. In reality, he's the one paying for them, to make it look like a wealthy art lover.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-03-19
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Azaïs
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1968-11-09
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The Eighth Day
Overview: Françoise, a thirty-year-old single typist lives only for her Sunday release. On this day, she attends a horse race under pretext of perfecting her taste for elegance and refinement. Georges, a neighbor widower, begins to court her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-02-24
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Repeated Absences
Overview: François Naulet turns his bedroom into an island of drugs, loneliness and despair.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-11-01
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Erotic Love-Games
Overview: Partisan of total sexual freedom, a young woman with perfect physique leads, by her example, a married friend to live like her. The two friends then engage in all kinds of erotic experiences at random from their meetings with various gentlemen, but also between them.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-09-23
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Un merveilleux parfum d'oseille
Overview: Baron Yves de Kerfunte learns of his uncle's death. Overjoyed, he is astonished to discover that seven other individuals are vying for the inheritance. Worse still, when they open the will, they learn that only the elderly Louise de Kerfunte is the heiress, and that she intends to squander the money quickly.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-08-14
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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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Silence... We're Shooting
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-05-26
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Comme une femme
Overview: A transsexual becomes a star of Paris and lives a crazy love story with the lover of a friend. But the young man comes to his senses and his bourgeois upbringing. A victim of prejudice, Vicky has no choice but to kill herself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-01-30
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We Are All Naked
Overview: A poverty-stricken family lives in a rundown shack on the coast of Northern France--Dad (Jacques Normand) is a foul-mouthed drunk, Mom (Rita Maiden) likes to make it with random strangers on the beach, their son (Gérard Dessalles) is mentally handicapped and their six-year-old daughter (Isabelle Pierson) is oversexed.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-02-25
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The Seventh Commandment
Overview: Princesse Nadia Vronskaïa is a veteran con artist who uses her feminine wiles to bilk wealthy, susceptible old men. Inevitably, she outsmarts herself when she falls in love with one of her victims. In concert with her new beau, she turns the tables on her former partners in crime.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-02-01
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Pantalaskas
Overview: An off-beat, uneven tale about a man intent on suicide and the three people who try to talk him out of it, Pantalaskas stars American Carl Studer in the title role of the morose, would-be suicide. Set in Paris and taking place over an entire night, the story has a complication in that the trio who want to prevent the suicide do not speak the man's language -- he is Lithuanian and speaks no French. So the protagonists comb the underbelly of a nighttime Paris, looking high and low but mostly low for anyone who speaks Lithuanian. Depending mainly on dialogue for its impact, the verbose drama reveals how the protagonists undergo a transformation as the night wears on.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-02-08
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Duets on Sofa
Overview: The former spouses Jacqueline and Bernard are still living in the same apartment. And now each of them has a new "half"...
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-11-07
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Is This Reasonable?
Overview: A young journalist comes from Nice to Paris to meet with the famous judge, Simon, hoping he will help her understand a case. She does not know that, according to the will of fate, in the office of judge was fugitive criminal. The couple hit the road.
Genres: Comedy Action Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-03-25
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The Reluctant Spy
Overview: Stanislas Dubois is the manager of a successful advertising agency. One day, he comes up against an imposing woman who foists on him a cumbersome painting by Cézanne.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-09-03
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Killer Spy
Overview: The most secret agent Stanislas Dubois, tired of saving the world alone decides to retire and to start writing his memoirs. The enemies of humanity, progress and peace in the world found out about it and created an international network of espionage "13 columns". Unfortunately they platted a slot in the good old France. They should think better...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-09-23
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Le Concierge
Overview: Christophe Merignac, a youngESCP graduate with a law degree but still unemployed, gets a job as a concierge in a luxury building. Using charm and cunning, he makes himself indispensable. He makes a fortune and marries a young, pretty and rich tenant, whom he happily deceives. The conclusion is bittersweet: he's "made it", but he doesn't love anyone. What's more, a young concierge who looks like a brother has just arrived in his building.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-08-23
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Neither Seen Nor Recognized
Overview: In a small French village, everything would be quiet if the local wildlife cop was not being ridiculed by a smart poacher.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-04-23
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Salut la puce
Overview: Robert Dumortier and his son "La Puce" live on a barge moored to an island of the Seine and Robert dreams of cruising remote and exotic seas.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-01-12
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Your Money or Your Life
Overview: Pétepan learns that his money has been lost by Robinhoude brothers.He asks his assistants to withdraw his amount from the bank.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-04-26
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Les enquiquineurs
Overview: Monsieur Eloy, his wife and their ten-year-old son, Zizi, are off to their country home for the weekend. When they arrive, the two men settle into the garden, while Madame gets down to her cooking. When an embassy official and his wife invite themselves for lunch, the whole household is in an uproar.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-11-09
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The Scarlet Lady
Overview: Comedy about a self-made woman in Paris contemplating the idea of suicide at first, then murder.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-05-14
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Déclic et des claques
Overview: From their native Algeria, four friends discover Paris, hoping to find fortune and love. One of them meets the charming Sandra, who is looking for meaning in her life.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-03-05
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The Little Bather
Overview: Louis-Philippe Fourchaume, another typical lead-role for French comedy superstar Louis de Funès, is the dictatorial CEO of a French company which designs and produces sail yachts, and fires in yet another tantrum his designer André Castagnier, not realizing that man is his only chance to land a vital contract with the Italian magnate Marcello Cacciaperotti. So he has to find him at his extremely rural birthplace in 'la France profonde', which proves a torturous odyssey for the spoiled rich man; when he does get there his torment is far from over: the country bumpkin refuses to resume his slavish position now the shoe is on the other foot, so Fourchaume is dragged along in the boorish family life, and at times unable to control his temper, which may cost him more credit then he painstakingly builds up...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1968-03-22
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The Gendarme and the Gendarmettes
Overview: Cruchot's police office moves into a new building. They do not only get high tech equipment, but also four young female police officers to educate. All of them scramble to work with them -- and cause pure chaos while being distracted by the fine ladies. Then they get into real trouble when one after the other of their female colleagues is kidnapped.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-10-03
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Fantomas Unleashed
Overview: In the second episode of the trilogy Fantômas kidnaps distinguished scientist professor Marchand with the aim to develop a super weapon that will enable him to menace the world. Fantômas is also planning to abduct a second scientist, professor Lefebvre.
Genres: Comedy Crime Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-12-08
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Fantomas vs. Scotland Yard
Overview: In the third and final episode of the trilogy, Fantômas imposes a head tax on the rich, threatening to kill those who do not comply.
Genres: Comedy Crime Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-03-16
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The Wing or the Thigh?
Overview: Charles Duchemin, a well-known gourmet and publisher of a famous restaurant guide, is waging a war against fast food entrepreneur Tri- catel to save the French art of cooking. After having agreed to appear on a talk show to show his skills in naming food and wine by taste, he is confronted with two disasters: his son wants to become a clown rather than a restaurant tester and he, the famous Charles Duchemin, has lost his taste!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-10-27
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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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The Bonnadieu House
Overview: Felix is a middle-aged bourgeois husband. Much to his discomfort, he learns that his wife Gabrielle is carrying on with a young man--a very young man. Rather than express outrage, Felix decides that there's something lacking in him. He spends the rest of the picture trying to keep his wife by altering his own personality and outlook.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-11-27
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Please, Not Now!
Overview: A sexy model pretends to have a new boyfriend in a wacky plan to make her ex-lover jealous.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-04-19
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Cherchez l'idole
Overview: After stealing a diamond from Mylène Demongeot, Richard hides it inside a guitar. But on returning to the music shop he discovers that the precious instrument has just been sold! The problem is complicated by the fact that five stars all bought the same model that morning...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-02-26
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Les surdoués de la première compagnie
Overview: As soon as they arrive at the barracks, the new contingent reveals some characters who will give their officers a hard time. There is the handsome, resourceful man, the technocrat in love, the bootlicker, the "Jamaican" who only moves to music, the shortsighted man... and all the others. Sometimes to see the nurse undress, sometimes to arrange an appointment with a fiancée, sometimes to cuckold the obtuse non-commissioned officer whose wife is volcanic, sometimes to have a free lunch in a great restaurant, the handsome man invariably deploys a wealth of cunning. And each time it is the colonel's servile driver who gets caught instead of him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-02-04
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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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The Adventures of Salavin
Overview: Finding himself unemployed overnight, Louis Salavin lets himself go into an incurable laziness despite the support of his friends and his mother...
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-11-04
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The Old Guard
Overview: Three friends leave their village for a retirement home travelling the countryside
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-09-02
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