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51. Thirst for Gold (1993)
81 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Some people will do anything for money, and even more - for gold.
Director: Gérard Oury | Stars: Christian Clavier, Tsilla Chelton, Catherine Jacob, Philippe Khorsand
Votes: 1,086
52. Escape to Nowhere (1973)
PG | 117 min | Drama, Thriller
Who is Anton Haliakov, who has just been abducted by the M.I.5 in London? A Soviet scientist apparently. But sixteen years before the man had another identity, Clément Tibère, and another ... See full summary »
Director: Claude Pinoteau | Stars: Lino Ventura, Leo Genn, Suzanne Flon, Robert Hardy
Votes: 1,060
53. The Troubles of Alfred (1972)
98 min | Comedy, Romance, Sport
Alfred decides to commit suicide by jumping into a canal and he meets a beautiful TV reporter with the same plan.
Director: Pierre Richard | Stars: Pierre Richard, Anny Duperey, Jean Carmet, Paul Préboist
Votes: 1,050
54. Carambolages (1963)
88 min | Comedy, Crime
The story takes place in a luxury building of about ten floors where the "321" agency has its headquarters. The company watches over the holidays of its customers.
Director: Marcel Bluwal | Stars: Louis de Funès, Jean-Claude Brialy, Michel Serrault, Sophie Daumier
Votes: 1,011
55. I tartassati (1959)
105 min | Comedy
Mr. Pezzella owns and operates a well-established luxury-clothing store. He does not like and does not consider it right to pay taxes and therefore uses a tax consultant to be able to evade more taxes.
Director: Steno | Stars: Totò, Aldo Fabrizi, Cathia Caro, Luciano Marin
Votes: 982
56. Now We've Seen It All! (1976)
R | 100 min | Comedy
An advertising photographer (Francois) has agreed to sell the poetic script of one of his friends to a porn-maker without his knowledge. But Christine, Francois' fiance, doesn't want him to... See full summary »
Director: Georges Lautner | Stars: Pierre Richard, Miou-Miou, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Renée Saint-Cyr
Votes: 875
57. Witness in the City (1959)
89 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Seeking vengeance on his wife's former lover and assassin, a man sets in motion a string of killings.
Director: Édouard Molinaro | Stars: Lino Ventura, Sandra Milo, Franco Fabrizi, Jacques Berthier
Votes: 866
58. My Uncle Benjamin (1969)
90 min | Comedy
In the amorous mid 18th century under Louis XV, a country doctor risks danger and prison to pursue his seduction of the women of the bourgeoisie.
Director: Édouard Molinaro | Stars: Jacques Brel, Claude Jade, Bernard Alane, Rosy Varte
Votes: 817
59. Fantôme avec chauffeur (1996)
78 min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
A chauffeur for a corrupt CEO, and a few hours later, his boss himself, are killed by the industrialist's associate. But their ghosts remain on Earth, and they try to tell the millionaire's teenage son the identity of the killer.
Director: Gérard Oury | Stars: Philippe Noiret, Gérard Jugnot, Jean-Luc Bideau, Charlotte Kady
Votes: 798
60. Dracula and Son (1976)
PG | 78 min | Comedy, Horror
In the 1700s, a vampire has a son from a normal woman. The mother dies, and he spends two centuries trying to teach his meek son how to be a proper vampire but no avail. Now they have to flee from Transylvania, and they end up in France.
Director: Édouard Molinaro | Stars: Christopher Lee, Bernard Menez, Marie-Hélène Breillat, Catherine Breillat
Votes: 795
61. Cops Is Cops (1972)
PG | 95 min | Comedy, Crime
For a special mission to destroy drug dealers in Nice, hardcore bachelor inspector Campana has to don the role of a married man with a child. He adjusts himself well but will have to fight a lot before being able to achieve final victory.
Director: Georges Lautner | Stars: Alain Delon, Mireille Darc, Michel Constantin, Michael Lonsdale
Votes: 734
62. La 7ème cible (1984)
108 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
The writer Bastien (Lino Ventura), is beaten up by strangers. After another attack, a blackmailer asks for $ 1 million. After Bastien learns why the gigantic sum is demanded, the hunt for the criminal leads him up to the Berlin Wall.
Director: Claude Pinoteau | Stars: Lino Ventura, Lea Massari, Jean Poiret, Roger Planchon
Votes: 729
63. Twist again à Moscou (1986)
89 min | Comedy
Igor, who manages a fancy hotel and is on the take, has to juggle several problems at once. He has a two-hour window to get his ill-got gain out of the hotel, he must misdirect and obstruct... See full summary »
Director: Jean-Marie Poiré | Stars: Philippe Noiret, Christian Clavier, Martin Lamotte, Bernard Blier
Votes: 657
64. Speaking of Murder (1957)
95 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A garage owner maintains his business as a front for his gang of criminals.
Director: Gilles Grangier | Stars: Jean Gabin, Paul Frankeur, Marcel Bozzuffi, Albert Dinan
Votes: 656
65. The Adventures of Arsène Lupin (1957)
104 min | Crime, Mystery
Arsène Lupin, the multifaceted gentleman thief, steals two masterpieces from the President of the Council. Some time later, posing as Monsieur Gilles, a winegrower who is marrying his only ... See full summary »
Director: Jacques Becker | Stars: Robert Lamoureux, Liselotte Pulver, O.E. Hasse, Daniel Ceccaldi
Votes: 641
66. Les risques du métier (1967)
105 min | Drama
Jean Doucet is a popular schoolmaster teaching in a small town in Normandy. At least he was... Until the day one of his pupils, Catherine Roussel, a garage owner's daughter, accuses him of ... See full summary »
Director: André Cayatte | Stars: Jacques Brel, Emmanuelle Riva, René Dary, Nadine Alari
Votes: 621
67. Le masque de fer (1962)
127 min | Adventure
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.
Director: Henri Decoin | Stars: Jean Marais, Sylva Koscina, Jean-François Poron, Gisèle Pascal
Votes: 610
68. Rum Runners (1971)
Not Rated | 135 min | Adventure, Comedy
In the prohibition years, the 'rumrunners' travel through the Caribbean Sea with the forbidden liquor barely escaping the ship patrols. While on the run, one of the bootleggers falls in love with an actress on a movie set.
Director: Robert Enrico | Stars: Lino Ventura, Brigitte Bardot, Bill Travers, Clive Revill
Votes: 605
69. Le bal des casse-pieds (1992)
99 min | Comedy
Henri Sauveur, a veterinarian in his fifties, is harassed by his parents, friends and working relationships. He leaves with Louise in Normandy to live the perfect love. But again, the pitfalls seem to wait for him.
Director: Yves Robert | Stars: Jean Rochefort, Miou-Miou, Jean Carmet, Odette Laure
Votes: 597
70. Elle boit pas, elle fume pas, elle drague pas, mais... elle cause! (1970)
80 min | Comedy, Crime
Housemaid Georgette (Girardot) loves to gossip and this causes major trouble to people around her.
Director: Michel Audiard | Stars: Annie Girardot, Bernard Blier, Mireille Darc, Jean Le Poulain
Votes: 580
71. Back to the Wall (1958)
93 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A wealthy industrialist discovers his wife is having an affair and decides to exact revenge by blackmailing her under an assumed identity.
Director: Édouard Molinaro | Stars: Jeanne Moreau, Gérard Oury, Philippe Nicaud, Claire Maurier
Votes: 565
72. The Story of the Count of Monte Cristo (1961)
132 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Edmond Dantes is falsely accused by those jealous of his good fortune, and is sentenced to spend the rest of his life in the notorious island prison, Chateau d'If. While imprisoned, he ... See full summary »
Director: Claude Autant-Lara | Stars: Louis Jourdan, Yvonne Furneaux, Pierre Mondy, Bernard Dhéran
Votes: 537
73. Roselyne and the Lions (1988)
Not Rated | 139 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Thierry (Gérard Sandoz) drops out of school to apprentice as a lion tamer at the zoo when he meets Roselyne (Isabelle Pasco), who shares his passion. They fall in love and when he loses his... See full summary »
Directors: Jean-Jacques Beineix, Jim Henson | Stars: Isabelle Pasco, Gérard Sandoz, Gabriel Monnet, Philippe Clévenot
Votes: 535
74. Les vécés étaient fermés de l'intérieur (1976)
74 min | Comedy, Crime
Superintendent Pichard investigates the death of a toilet attendant.
Director: Patrice Leconte | Stars: Coluche, Jean Rochefort, Roland Dubillard, Danièle Evenou
Votes: 534
75. Faut pas prendre les enfants du bon Dieu pour des canards sauvages (1968)
M | 85 min | Comedy, Crime
Rita will play her relationships, especially in love, among the crooks to get her share of gold bars.
Director: Michel Audiard | Stars: Françoise Rosay, Bernard Blier, Marlène Jobert, André Pousse
Votes: 525
76. Man in the Trunk (1973)
PG | 100 min | Adventure, Comedy
A beautifull and thoroughly modern young French women, Francoise, gets involved with an Israeli agent working in Lybia. The agent is exposed and in order to save his life, he has to be ... See full summary »
Director: Georges Lautner | Stars: Mireille Darc, Michel Constantin, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Amidou
Votes: 503
77. Clara and the Why Not (1981)
110 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
Three days in the lives of six friends who are nearly 30 years old, live in Grenoble, and have a rock band called the "Why Notes?". They're to play in Paris at Charles's school reunion. In ... See full summary »
Director: Jacques Monnet | Stars: Isabelle Adjani, Daniel Auteuil, Josiane Balasko, Christophe Bourseiller
Votes: 499
78. Act of Aggression (1975)
R | 101 min | Crime, Drama
An ordinary man is driven to violence in the name of revenge in this drama. Paul Varlin (Jean-Louis Trintignant) is a businessman who decides to take his wife and daughter on a vacation. ... See full summary »
Director: Gérard Pirès | Stars: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Catherine Deneuve, Claude Brasseur, Philippe Brigaud
Votes: 485
79. Troubleshooters (1971)
100 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
The heroes of this tape are two released ahead of schedule for exemplary behavior. In prison, they developed an ingenious plan for a further comfortable life. They thought they had thought of everything. But, alas, one of them is married.
Director: Georges Lautner | Stars: Jean Yanne, Mireille Darc, Bernard Blier, Michel Constantin
Votes: 457
80. Comment réussir... quand on est con et pleurnichard (1974)
90 min | Comedy
Antoine Robineau is a beverage marketer. He succeeds in all his sales while whining about his fate.
Director: Michel Audiard | Stars: Jean Carmet, Stéphane Audran, Jane Birkin, Jean-Pierre Marielle
Votes: 456
81. Courage fuyons (1979)
100 min | Comedy, Romance
At forty years old, Martin Belhomme leads a quiet life with his wife and two children. One day, he falls hopelessly in love with Eva, a cabaret singer. He decides to follow her to Amsterdam. From then on, his life becomes very eventful.
Director: Yves Robert | Stars: Jean Rochefort, Catherine Deneuve, Philippe Leroy, Michel Beaune
Votes: 447
82. Pas de problème! (1975)
105 min | Action, Comedy, Thriller
Following a car chase and shootout, a man stumbles into a girl's apartment and dies. Frantic to be rid of this encumbrance, and wishing to avoid getting involved with the police, the girl ... See full summary »
Director: Georges Lautner | Stars: Miou-Miou, Jean Lefebvre, Bernard Menez, Henri Guybet
Votes: 429
83. Vice and Virtue (1963)
Not Rated | 108 min | Drama, War
Set against the backdrop of the Nazi occupation of France, VICE AND VIRTURE is a stylized retelling of the Marquis de Sade's Justine, as envisioned by one of cinema's most provocative filmmakers Roger Vadim.
Director: Roger Vadim | Stars: Annie Girardot, Robert Hossein, Catherine Deneuve, O.E. Hasse
Votes: 427
84. Antonieta (1982)
Not Rated | 108 min | Biography, Drama, War
Anna uncovers an incident involving a young Mexican woman, Antonieta, while doing research for a book on women's suicides in the XXth century. In 1931, in the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, Antonieta shot herself through the heart.
Director: Carlos Saura | Stars: Isabelle Adjani, Hanna Schygulla, Ignacio López Tarso, Carlos Bracho
Votes: 405
85. An Idiot in Paris (1967)
90 min | Comedy
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Serge Korber | Stars: Dany Carrel, Jean Lefebvre, Bernard Blier, Robert Dalban
Votes: 382
86. Quelques messieurs trop tranquilles (1973)
92 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Georges Lautner | Stars: Dani, Michel Galabru, Henri Guybet, Jean Lefebvre
Votes: 376
87. Le cri du cormoran, le soir au-dessus des jonques (1971)
85 min | Comedy
Alfred Mullanet, an unlucky player who lives on his wife's income, becomes in a few moments the object of interest of two thugs, Kruger and Mister K.
Director: Michel Audiard | Stars: Paul Meurisse, Bernard Blier, Michel Serrault, Marion Game
Votes: 368
88. L'hôtel de la plage (1978)
R | 110 min | Comedy
A seaside hotel is the theater for sex, first love and deceptions among parents and their children.
Director: Michel Lang | Stars: Sophie Barjac, Myriam Boyer, Daniel Ceccaldi, Michèle Grellier
Votes: 366
89. The Mirror Has Two Faces (1958)
96 min | Drama
A teacher runs an ad in the newspaper to find a wife. Afraid of beautiful ladies, he weds an ugly woman. After a car accident, he meets a doctor who offers to reveal his wife's beauty.
Director: André Cayatte | Stars: Michèle Morgan, Bourvil, Ivan Desny, Georgette Anys
Votes: 362
90. Lovers and Thieves (1956)
85 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A man becomes the lover of his former persecutor's wife.
Director: Sacha Guitry | Stars: Jean Poiret, Michel Serrault, Magali Noël, Clément Duhour
Votes: 349
91. Lévy et Goliath (1987)
105 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
A young Jewish man lives as a good citizen, until criminals hid drugs in his luggage.
Director: Gérard Oury | Stars: Richard Anconina, Michel Boujenah, Jean-Claude Brialy, Souad Amidou
Votes: 347
92. Si Paris nous était conté (1956)
130 min | Comedy, Drama, History
A witty journey through the history of Paris told to a group of students by Sacha Guitry, from its foundation at the time of Caesar to 1955. Among others you will meet King Charles VII ... See full summary »
Director: Sacha Guitry | Stars: Françoise Arnoul, Jeanne Boitel, Gilbert Bokanowski, Julien Carette
Votes: 286
93. La vie dissolue de Gérard Floque (1986)
85 min | Comedy
On the day he loses his job in advertising agency, Gérard Floque returns home to find that his infant daughter has been arrested for drugs trafficking and his wife is having an affair with ... See full summary »
Director: Georges Lautner | Stars: Roland Giraud, Clémentine Célarié, Jacqueline Maillan, Marie-Anne Chazel
Votes: 283
94. My Other Husband (1983)
PG-13 | 110 min | Comedy
Alice seems to lead a quiet life: the first three days of the week, she works in Paris and and meets with friend Philip, and his little boy, Simon. The other two days, she works in a thalassotherapy center.
Director: Georges Lautner | Stars: Miou-Miou, Roger Hanin, Eddy Mitchell, Rachid Ferrache
Votes: 282
95. Le grand escogriffe (1976)
100 min | Comedy
The aging villain Émile Morland talks his old friend Aristide into helping him with to kidnap the son of a millionaire.
Director: Claude Pinoteau | Stars: Yves Montand, Agostina Belli, Claude Brasseur, Aldo Maccione
Votes: 264
96. I Hate Actors (1986)
PG | 90 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Hollywood in the 1940s. A tyrannical producer, a paranoid director, a starlet engaged twenty-four times, an actor who refuses to age - all against a backdrop of a series of murders.
Director: Gérard Krawczyk | Stars: Jean Poiret, Michel Blanc, Bernard Blier, Patrick Floersheim
Votes: 260
97. Marguerite de la nuit (1955)
125 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Based on novel by Pierre Dumarchais. The story of the aging pedant who sells his soul to Satan in exchange for youth and knowledge.
Director: Claude Autant-Lara | Stars: Michèle Morgan, Yves Montand, Jean Debucourt, Jacques Clancy
Votes: 254
98. The Pink Telephone (1975)
R | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A small industrialist from Toulouse, goes to Paris to negotiate the buyout of his company from an American financial group. During his stay, the representative of the large firm calls on a luxury call girl to facilitate their "business".
Director: Édouard Molinaro | Stars: Mireille Darc, Pierre Mondy, Michael Lonsdale, Françoise Prévost
Votes: 251
99. Heat of Desire (1981)
R | 86 min | Drama, Romance
In France in the near future, revolt and chaos erupt. A right-wing politician, Philippe Muphand, is set to take control when his lady friend Caroline walks out, announcing she will take up ... See full summary »
Director: Luc Béraud | Stars: Patrick Dewaere, Clio Goldsmith, Jeanne Moreau, Guy Marchand
Votes: 237
100. When the Pheasants Pass (1965)
89 min | Comedy
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Édouard Molinaro | Stars: Paul Meurisse, Bernard Blier, Jean Lefebvre, Michel Serrault
Votes: 234