Comedies
France’s cinematic humour proves hugely popular at home and has inspired countless remakes in the US. We present a range of French comic twists, from commercial smashes, such as La Grande vadrouille, via farcical spoofs, of La Cité de la peur’s ilk, to witty ensemble pieces, à la Un air de famille.
Director: Agnès Jaoui
From a rainy Provence comes another witty and endearing comedy from the Agnès Jaoui and Jean-Pierre Bacri...
Director: Nagisa Oshima
Suspecting that his wife is having a secret love affair a British ambassador in Paris engages a...
Director: Patrice Leconte
A year after their summer beach escapades, the cast of Les Bronzés reunite in the Alps for...
Director: Patrice Leconte
A group of holidaymakers let loose in a resort on the Ivory Coast for a summer they’ll...
Director: Bertrand Tavernier
Acting legends Philippe Noiret, Jean Rochefort and Jean-Pie rre Marielle head up Bertrand Tavernier’s...
Director: Yvan Attal
A journalist becomes insanely jealous when his actress wife is cast alongside a dashing co-star (Terence Stamp)....
Director: Jeanne Labrune
Jeanne Labrune’s sharp comedy about a group of neurotic Parisians caught up in the madness of modern...
8 Women 2002
(101 mins)
Director: François Ozon
François Ozon’s comedic murder-mystery musical, pits France’s very best female talent against one another, as they attempt...
Director: Daniele Thompson
Daniele Thompson’s touching comedy about a recent widow and her three daughters coming to blows over the...
Director: Luis Bunuel
Director Luis Bunuel and writer Jean-Claude Carrière bring together a plethora of French screen giants in the...
Director: Gérard Lauzier
Gérard Lauzier’s hit comedy sees Marie Gillain as a teenager on holiday, who fabricates a web of...
Director: Claude Duty
Marianne, Natacha and Elodie are three girls on the search for their daughter, soul and cat respectively...
Director: Marc Esposito
Marc Esposito’s mature, dramatic comedy unites some of France’s most popular and respected actors (Gérard Damon, Jean-Pierre...
Director: Philippe Lioret
Alice (Sandrine Bonnnaire), a professional who is happily married with children, meets the bohemian improviser Pierre (Jacques...
Director: Isabelle Mergault
A recently widowed farmer travels east in search of a sturdy woman to alleviate the demanding chores...
Director: Cédric Klapisch
Cédric Klapisch’s sequel to Pot Luck transports its cast of wayward Euro youth from Barcelona to London...
Director: Cédric Klapisch
Cédric Klapisch’s hit comedy follows the adventures of a group of European students from all corners of...
Slogan 1969
(90 mins)
Director: Pierre Grimblat
Pierre Grimblat’s romantic drama about a grumpy advert director and a sentimental English girl signals the debut...
Director: Lucas Belvaux
Lucas Belvaux’s genre-hopping trilogy, set in Grenoble, continues with this comic instalment, which follows the love triangle...
I Do 2006
(86 mins)
Director: Eric Lartigau
Unable to take the pressure from his family any longer, Luis hires an acquaintance to pose as...
Director: Bruno Podalydès
Is the mysterious Larsan really dead? The infamous reporter Rouletabille thinks not. With his trusty photographer Sainclair...
Director:
Fiona Gordon
Dominique Abel
Bruno Romy
Fiona (Fiona Gordon), a reliable mum and owner of a fast-food restaurant, accidentally gets locked in a...
Director: Bruno Podalydès
Jacques Monot and his family of six go to their secondary home on the island of Oléron...
Director: Thomas Vincent
Larbi (Amar Ben Abdallah) is a young mechanic working for the family business in Dunkirk. Following a...
Director: Arnaud and Jean-Marie Larrieu
A lovingly crafted comedy from the Larrieu brothers, strikingly original, funny and romantic, with Mathieu Amalric and...
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Godard’s fantastical comedy centres around the nightclub stripper Angela (Anna Karina), who one days decides she must...
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Jean-Luc Godard’s unconventional and avant-garde work has deservedly acquired over the last forty years, a reputation as...
Director: Cédric Klapisch
Cédric Klapisch’s award-winning family comedy boasts an air-tight script and a powerhouse comic cast, including Jean-Pierre Bacri,...
Director: Gérard Oury
Gérard Oury's classic set during WWІІ unites two French comic legends, Bourvil and Louis de Funès, for...
Director: Alain Berbérian
The team behind the hugely successful comic group ‘Les Nuls’ (roughly translated as ‘The Lameos’), who rose...
Director: François Truffaut
Truffaut shows his flair for comedy in this darkly comic tale of a young sociologist, Stanislas, writing...
Director:
Marc Caro
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s (Amélie, A Very Long Engagement) debut feature fully deserves its status as...
Director: François Truffaut
The travails of love, life and work await an inexperienced, young man.
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Director: Jan Kounen
A massive dose of pleasingly hallucinatory visuals into this screen adaptation of Frederic Beigbeder's novel.
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Director: François Truffaut
Ardent, anachronistic Antoine Doinel, Bed and Board plunges his hapless creation once again into crisis.
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Director: CÈdric Klapisch
An intelligent comedy with the great Fabrice Luchini.
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Director: Bruno Polyadès
Great comedy from the two brothers Podalydès.
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Director: François Truffaut
A group of mischievous kids set out to disrupt the lives of a young courting couple. Themes...
Director: Bruno Podalydès
Six years on, Albert, is as awkward and stricken with chronic indecision as ever. He stumbles through...