Paul Préboist

Pierre Richard plays Alfred, about whom it may be said, "if it weren't for bad luck, he'd have no luck at all." Unlucky in love, he tries to commit suicide, only to be thwarted by police efforts to prevent a simultaneous attempt by a nearby young woman... (All Movie Guide)

An allied bomberplane is shot down over Paris by the Germans. Its crew (Terry Thomas as a flight captain) land there by parachute. With the help of some French civilians (Louis de Funès in the role of a conductor and Bourvil as a house painter) they try to escape over the demarcation line into the southern part of France, still not occupied by the Germans. (imdb)

Bertrand (Louis De Funes) is a victim of blackmail when a man asks for his daughter's hand in marriage in this madcap comedy of errors. The suitor offers money he has embezzled in exchange for permission to wed the young woman. The trouble is that the woman is not really Bertrand's daughter but a woman who had only borrowed her name. Bertrand agrees to let Oscar the chauffeur marry the woman without revealing that she is not really his own daughter. (All Movie Guide)

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... (imdb)

Evans (Louis De Funes) stars in this situation comedy about a man in charge of a female ballet troupe. The only other man in the house is his nephew Philippe (Olivier De Funes). One of the former residents becomes pregnant, and anonymous note labels the nephew as the father. Evans seeks out the girl only to find she has another child as well. He soon gets roped into becoming a nursemaid to the squalling infant and the year old child. (All Movie Guide)

This French historical comedy/farce, loosely based on Victor Hugo's play Ruy Blas, benefits greatly from having Louis De Funes and Yves Montand in the roles of Saluste and Blaze. Saluste is a nobleman who has been exiled from court and sent to collect taxes in the countryside. Blaze is his assistant, who manages to help the overtaxed peasants behind his boss's back. When Saluste decides to resume meddling in the monarch's affairs using Blaze as his henchman, his schemes backfire badly. (All Movie Guide)

French comic Louis De Funes stars as Henri, who has a very unfortunate accident while on his way to arrange some sort of shady deal on the Italian border. He has tried desperately not to let his better impulses get control of him; nonetheless, he has already picked up a hitchhiker (Olivier De Funes) and a married woman in distress (Geraldine Chaplin) when his car runs off the road, falls over a cliff, and lands in the crown of a tree. The efforts of this threesome to cope with the situation and get rescued constitute the body of this film. (All Movie Guide)

Claude is a Jew. Because of the risks of an arrest (France is occupied by the Nazis), his parents send him away in the country, at a couple of elderly's. Pepe, the husband, is a Petain supporter and a anti-semite, but he does not know about Claude's religion. The film is the story of their mutual growing affection. (imdb)

An unhappy man hires an assassin to do him in, then meets a woman who gives him something to live for. (TCM.com)

Antoine Brisebard, a successful author, is victim of a blackmailer who threatens to reach it by revealing the past of his wife. Determined to get rid of Jo, the head of blackmail, he pretext of writing a piece police to collect from anyone who will listen the ingredients of the perfect crime. He is even thinking of hiding his body in the gazebo that his wife gave him to St.Antoine. Unfortunately when Jo picks up the money required, the plan of Brisebard to eliminate it doesn't go as planned. (Wikipedia)

A village priest is charged by his superiors to return to the right path the naturist holidaymakers of the Veau d'Or. (Wikipédia)

Jean Yanne directs and stars in this French comedy. He plays a radio reporter who is fired when he recounts on the air just how his brave colleagues report on Latin American revolutions: from a lounge chair next to the pool of a luxury hotel, or from cabanas along the beach. He is briefly hired back to run the station but gets fired yet again when he airs an exposé of phony name-brand products. (Allmovie)

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.

The setting for this story is Rahatlcoum, a Roman colony in North Africa, but the "colonists" watch television, have gay bars, trade unions, and traffic problems. A gay Jules César's expensive vacation causes the population to grumble and gripe, they would rather have mechanic Ben Hur Marcel take Jules' place as their exalted leader. Once she gets out of jail, Cleopatra declares that old Ben is actually her long-lost half-brother. (Allmovie)

Croesus is a 1960 French comedy film directed by Jean Giono and starring Fernandel, Marcelle Ranson-Hervé and Rellys.

Eugene Ballanchon is working on the development of a truth gas, but discovers an exhilarating gas, capable of neutralizing the enemy.

Catherine is left unmarried and pregnant when her mobster sweetheart is killed. 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. (cine classik)

King Louis has his problems -- a power-hungry regent is trying to take the seat of government right out from underneath him. In order to stave off this bid for power, the king turns to François, a swordsman and fighter who swashbuckles better than anyone else. François also incurs the wrath of the king's enemy but is compensated by the fact that the lovely Gisele has noticed him. Le Capitan also features a stock comic character, Cogolin, played by Bourvil. (Allmovie)

The Daydreamer (Le Distrait) stars Pierre Richard (who also directed) as a stumblebum ad-agency employee. Unable to get by in the "real" world, he opts for his own fantasy world, in which everything goes right for him and he always gets the girl. After several blithe moments, the businessman manages to find success and romance for real. (tracktvlinks.com)

Alfonso, a jaded and brutal agent of the Protection Service of the High Personalities, is forced to team with Walter, inexperienced young rookie, fascinated by the world of showbiz. This unlikely duo is responsible for the protection of Jal-Y, a young R&B star, threatened by her ex, a criminal on the run.

Two little seedy villains, Hyacinthe (a former cop) and Arsène are trying unsuccessfully to roll Alexandre Larsan-Bellac, a high-class crook. This one will use them to mount a big blow that will succeed, but not in the sense that the three protagonists hoped ... (Wikipedia)

Antoine Bonfils is a household appliance salesman. His car breaks down close to a farm. Looking for help, he figures out that the people there live differently, like 'hippies'... (Wikipedia)

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. (imdb)

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.

Driver of a cleansing bucket in Arles, Marc-Antoine leads a quiet life with his wife Melanie and their two children. He becomes a local glory for a painting and, grazed by his new celebrity, leaves his family to be with Helene, the young waitress, and his friend Septimus in Camargue, where he devotes himself to painting. But finally, Marc-Antoine finds that his success seems dishonest...

After an unfortunate initiative the financial advisor Benoît Lepape is dismissed. He convinces his uncle, a union activist, to invest funds of the union and apply capitalist methods in a successful bicycle business, and then in a model electronics factory.

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. (imdb)

As a nearby village makes ready to welcome the torch carrier of the International Games, 4 friends (Jean-Guy, Phil, Gérard & Jean) are enjoying an holiday in Provence. When his son becomes indisposed, the town's grocer, Jules, appeals to the friends to help him to complete the preparations for the welcoming committee. The grocer's daughter Délice, catches the eye, and the heart, of Gérard, but she only appears to be interested in the well-built athlete who brings the torch to the town.

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. (imdb)

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'... (imdb)

A version of the Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, completely revisited and perfectly burlesque, in which the Charlotts play the servants of the Musketeers in order to defeat the plans of Cardinal Richelieu, his damned soul Father Joseph and Milady de Winter, and bring back to the Queen her iron-clad diamonds, which she imprudently offered to the Duke of Buckingham.

Sequel of Les 4 Charlots Mousquetaires.

A criminal in hiding and a victim of violence travel to the New World for a fresh start.

Three thugs in suits church settled in a priest from a village in Meurthe-et-Moselle in Lorraine (Liverdun) with the intent to capture a precious reliquary. (Wikipédia)

Leon's uncle is the head of a criminal gang. Leon (Jacques Dutronc) has lived his life innocent of contact with his uncle (Michel Constantin) and knowledge of the gang. After the uncle has died and left the control of the gang to Leon, gang members show up on his doorstep wanting to be told what to do. In this French comedy, Leon shows an unexpected talent for crime. (Allmovie)

Michel is happy with his wife and two children. They live in the suburbs of Maule. A promotion in his work obliges him to pass the driving license and to live alone in Paris. He tricks his wife and becomes a lover as expert as an awkward driver ...

This movie finds the detective San Antonio and his sidekick Beru hot on the trail of some thugs who have stolen some morphine. They trace the thief to a house, but the prime suspect is found murdered. The house is full of hookers, much to the delight of the two detectives, but the drugs are gone. The crooks raid another home thinking they have found the morphine, but they mistakenly grab some small bottles that contain a virus. (Allmovie)

Paul and Thérèse sold their coffee shop near an airport to buy another one in Marseille. All is well until they find out that their shop serves as a hub for drug trafficking. In order to stop trafficking, they rekindle the gang war.