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1. The Birdcage (1996)
R | 117 min | Comedy
A gay cabaret owner and his drag queen companion agree to put up a false straight front so that their son can introduce them to his fiancée's right-wing moralistic parents.
Director: Mike Nichols | Stars: Robin Williams, Nathan Lane, Gene Hackman, Dianne Wiest
Votes: 100,650 | Gross: $124.06M
2. Asterix & Obelix: The Middle Kingdom (2023)
TV-PG | 112 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
The only daughter of the Chinese emperor Han Xuandi, escapes from a strict prince and seeks help from the Gauls and the two brave warriors Asterix and Obelix.
Director: Guillaume Canet | Stars: Guillaume Canet, Gilles Lellouche, Vincent Cassel, Jonathan Cohen
Votes: 10,129
3. Dinner for Schmucks (2010)
PG-13 | 114 min | Comedy
After he finds out that his work superiors host a dinner celebrating the idiocy of their special guests, a rising executive questions the merits of his invitation just as he befriends a man who would be the perfect guest.
Director: Jay Roach | Stars: Steve Carell, Paul Rudd, Stephanie Szostak, Zach Galifianakis
Votes: 111,119 | Gross: $73.03M
4. My Father the Hero (1994)
PG | 90 min | Comedy, Romance
A teenage girl on vacation in the Bahamas with her divorced father tries to impress a potential boyfriend by saying that her father is actually her lover.
Director: Steve Miner | Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Katherine Heigl, Dalton James, Lauren Hutton
Votes: 11,721 | Gross: $25.48M
5. The Valet (2022)
PG-13 | 124 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A movie star enlists a parking valet at a Beverly Hills restaurant to pose as her lover to cover for her relationship with a married man.
Director: Richard Wong | Stars: Eugenio Derbez, Samara Weaving, Max Greenfield, Betsy Brandt
Votes: 16,011
6. Three Fugitives (1989)
PG-13 | 96 min | Action, Comedy
A reformed bank robber is taken hostage by a desperate man during a bank hold up, but is forced to go on the run with his captor when they're both mistakenly thought to be in cahoots.
Director: Francis Veber | Stars: Nick Nolte, Martin Short, Sarah Rowland Doroff, James Earl Jones
Votes: 12,751 | Gross: $40.59M
7. The Toy (1982)
PG | 102 min | Comedy
An underemployed reporter finds himself literally purchased as a toy for a rich spoiled brat.
Director: Richard Donner | Stars: Richard Pryor, Jackie Gleason, Ned Beatty, Scott Schwartz
Votes: 14,555 | Gross: $47.12M
8. 22 Bullets (2010)
Not Rated | 117 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A retired mobster goes on a revenge spree after being left for dead with 22 bullets in his body by his former childhood friend.
Director: Richard Berry | Stars: Jean Reno, Kad Merad, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Marina Foïs
Votes: 36,422
9. La Cage aux Folles (1978)
R | 97 min | Comedy
The manager of a Saint-Tropez nightclub featuring drag entertainment, and his star attraction, are a gay couple. Madness ensues when his straight son brings home a fiancée and her ultra-conservative parents to meet them.
Director: Édouard Molinaro | Stars: Ugo Tognazzi, Michel Serrault, Claire Maurier, Rémi Laurent
Votes: 11,908 | Gross: $20.42M
10. Le Dîner de Cons (1998)
PG-13 | 80 min | Comedy
A few friends have a weekly fools' dinner, where each brings a fool along. Pierre finds a champion fool for next dinner. Surprise.
Director: Francis Veber | Stars: Thierry Lhermitte, Jacques Villeret, Francis Huster, Daniel Prévost
Votes: 44,350 | Gross: $4.07M
11. Welcome to the Sticks (2008)
Not Rated | 106 min | Comedy, Romance
A French public servant from Provence is banished to the far North. Strongly prejudiced against this cold and inhospitable place, he leaves his family behind to relocate temporarily there, with the firm intent to quickly come back.
Director: Dany Boon | Stars: Kad Merad, Dany Boon, Zoé Félix, Lorenzo Ausilia-Foret
Votes: 44,970 | Gross: $1.48M
12. Out on a Limb (1992)
PG | 93 min | Comedy
A financial whiz takes a wild detour to come to the aid of his kid sister in the small logging town of 'Buzzsaw'.
Director: Francis Veber | Stars: Matthew Broderick, Jeffrey Jones, Heidi Kling, John C. Reilly
Votes: 2,046 | Gross: $1.66M
13. The Man with One Red Shoe (1985)
PG | 92 min | Comedy, Thriller
A man picked randomly out of a crowd is made the target of CIA survelliance and pursuit.
Director: Stan Dragoti | Stars: Tom Hanks, Lori Singer, Dabney Coleman, Charles Durning
Votes: 16,913 | Gross: $8.60M
14. Fathers' Day (1997)
PG-13 | 98 min | Comedy, Romance
A woman cons two old boyfriends into searching for her runaway son by convincing both that they are the boy's father.
Director: Ivan Reitman | Stars: Robin Williams, Billy Crystal, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Nastassja Kinski
Votes: 16,498 | Gross: $28.66M
15. Le Magnifique (1973)
95 min | Action, Comedy, Fantasy
Writing his 43rd spy novel, François includes people from his life. He's the competent, sophisticated secret agent Bob in stark contrast to François. His cute neighbor is Tatiana who helps Bob in Acapulco.
Director: Philippe de Broca | Stars: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jacqueline Bisset, Vittorio Caprioli, Hans Meyer
Votes: 6,282
16. Pure Luck (1991)
PG | 96 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
An accountant with super bad luck is sent in search of a missing boss's daughter, also an incredibly unlucky person.
Director: Nadia Tass | Stars: Martin Short, Danny Glover, Sheila Kelley, Sam Wanamaker
Votes: 7,683 | Gross: $22.64M
17. Ruby & Quentin (2003)
Not Rated | 85 min | Comedy, Crime
A tough criminal is arrested after hiding the loot from a Paris armored truck robbery. A talkative dimwit befriends him in prison and escapes with him - chased by police and his evil crime boss.
Director: Francis Veber | Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Jean Reno, Richard Berry, André Dussollier
Votes: 30,766
18. La Chèvre (1981)
91 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
A daughter of a millionaire, distinguished by incredible bad luck, goes missing. The idea how to find her is either insane or brilliant - to send after her an equally unlucky person.
Director: Francis Veber | Stars: Pierre Richard, Gérard Depardieu, Pedro Armendáriz Jr., Corynne Charbit
Votes: 10,634
19. The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe (1972)
PG | 90 min | Comedy, Mystery
A hapless orchestra player becomes an unwitting pawn of rival factions within the French secret service after he is chosen as a decoy by being identified as a super secret agent.
Director: Yves Robert | Stars: Pierre Richard, Bernard Blier, Jean Rochefort, Mireille Darc
Votes: 9,253 | Gross: $0.40M
20. Buddy Buddy (1981)
R | 96 min | Comedy
During a high-profile Mafia testimony case in California's Riverside County, a hired killer checks into a hotel room near the courthouse, while his depressed next-door neighbor wants to commit suicide over marital problems.
Director: Billy Wilder | Stars: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Paula Prentiss, Klaus Kinski
Votes: 5,183 | Gross: $7.26M
21. Partners (1982)
R | 93 min | Comedy, Crime
A heterosexual police detective is unnerved when ordered to go undercover with a homosexual police clerk, as a couple, to solve a series of murders in the gay community.
Director: James Burrows | Stars: Ryan O'Neal, John Hurt, Kenneth McMillan, Robyn Douglass
Votes: 1,493 | Gross: $6.06M
22. The Fugitives (1986)
95 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Jean is taken hostage at a bank by a foolish bank robber. As Jean left prison an hour earlier, the police assume he's the robber. Everything goes comically wrong. The robber's little daughter joins the fugitives.
Director: Francis Veber | Stars: Pierre Richard, Gérard Depardieu, Jean Carmet, Maurice Barrier
Votes: 7,893
23. The Valet (2006)
PG-13 | 85 min | Comedy, Drama
A porter and a top-model have to pretend to be a couple in order to salvage a CEO's marriage.
Director: Francis Veber | Stars: Gad Elmaleh, Alice Taglioni, Daniel Auteuil, Kristin Scott Thomas
Votes: 11,027 | Gross: $2.27M
24. The Closet (2001)
R | 84 min | Comedy
A man spreads the rumor of his fake homosexuality with the aid of his neighbor, to prevent his imminent firing at his work.
Director: Francis Veber | Stars: Daniel Auteuil, Gérard Depardieu, Thierry Lhermitte, Michèle Laroque
Votes: 18,333 | Gross: $6.68M
25. Hold-Up (1985)
114 min | Comedy, Crime
A bank in Montréal is held up by Grimm (dressed as clown) and Co. Escaping a bank surrounded by cops is the easy part.
Director: Alexandre Arcady | Stars: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Kim Cattrall, Guy Marchand, Jean-Pierre Marielle
Votes: 3,153
26. The Jaguar (1996)
Not Rated | 100 min | Adventure, Comedy
Two Frenchmen must go to South America to save the local shaman's soul from the evil forces.
Director: Francis Veber | Stars: Jean Reno, Patrick Bruel, Danny Trejo, Patricia Velasquez
Votes: 4,819
27. Sunday Lovers (1980)
R | 125 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A sex comedy anthology containing four stories, each from a different country (England, France, the U.S., and Italy).
Directors: Bryan Forbes, Édouard Molinaro, Dino Risi, Gene Wilder | Stars: Roger Moore, Lino Ventura, Ugo Tognazzi, Gene Wilder
Votes: 429
28. The ComDads (1983)
PG | 92 min | Comedy, Crime
A woman, whose troubled son has left home, informs two different men from her past that each of them is a real father. Too different men.
Director: Francis Veber | Stars: Pierre Richard, Gérard Depardieu, Anny Duperey, Michel Aumont
Votes: 6,710
29. Hothead (1979)
89 min | Comedy, Drama, Sport
The miserable football player becomes a town hero after bringing victory in extremely important game. He uses his fame for revenge to the team star for the previous mockeries.
Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud | Stars: Patrick Dewaere, France Dougnac, Dorothée Jemma, Maurice Barrier
Votes: 2,251
30. The New Toy (2022)
112 min | Comedy
Inspired by Francis Veber's 1976 classic "The Toy", about the richest man in France, opening his toy store to his spoiled child Alexandre, telling him to choose his new toy. He chooses Sami, an employee, and nothing can change his mind.
Director: James Huth | Stars: Jamel Debbouze, Daniel Auteuil, Simon Faliu, Alice Belaïdi
Votes: 1,306
31. Supercondriaque (2014)
G | 107 min | Comedy
Fanatical need for cleanliness of a raging hypochondriac is severe tested when he is mistaken for a war hero preparing for revolution.
Director: Dany Boon | Stars: Dany Boon, Kad Merad, Alice Pol, Jean-Yves Berteloot
Votes: 9,264
32. The Return of the Tall Blond Man (1974)
84 min | Comedy
With 'little captain' Cambrai raising serious doubts about the reality of the so-called "super spy", Colonel Toulouse kidnaps Christine and forces Francois to play again the character of "... See full summary »
Director: Yves Robert | Stars: Pierre Richard, Jean Carmet, Jean Rochefort, Mireille Darc
Votes: 4,075
33. The Toy (1976)
PG | 95 min | Comedy, Drama
A poor journalist finds himself as a toy of a boss' son. Making friends with a naughty child, he tries to save him from the cruel power of his father.
Director: Francis Veber | Stars: Pierre Richard, Michel Bouquet, Fabrice Greco, Jacques François
Votes: 6,337
34. A Pain in the Ass (1973)
PG | 85 min | Comedy
Milan must kill Louis Randoni before he testifies in a court of law. He is disturbed by his depressed roommate François Pignon who commits suicide by hanging himself from the toilet pipe flooding Milan's room. Here he is stuck in problems.
Director: Édouard Molinaro | Stars: Lino Ventura, Jacques Brel, Caroline Cellier, Jean-Pierre Darras
Votes: 3,690
35. La Cage aux Folles II (1980)
R | 102 min | Comedy
The titular gay couple become involved with local cops and foreign spies when one of them unwittingly obtains a roll of stolen microfilm.
Director: Édouard Molinaro | Stars: Michel Serrault, Ugo Tognazzi, Marcel Bozzuffi, Michel Galabru
Votes: 2,235 | Gross: $6.95M
36. 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: 733
37. Cannes Film Festival (1952– )
News
A festival for international movies, which give each year the Palme d'Or.
Stars: Bjorn Jiskoot Jr., Isabelle Huppert, Pedro Almodóvar, Kristin Scott Thomas
Votes: 118
38. The French Detective (1975)
91 min | Crime, Drama
Two policemen risk of interfering with a corrupt politician.
Director: Pierre Granier-Deferre | Stars: Lino Ventura, Patrick Dewaere, Victor Lanoux, Julien Guiomar
Votes: 1,858
39. Poltergay (2006)
Not Rated | 93 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
When Marc and Emma move into their new house, they have no idea that in the 1970s, their basement was a gay nightclub which had been destroyed by fire and that the house itself is now ... See full summary »
Director: Eric Lavaine | Stars: Clovis Cornillac, Julie Depardieu, Lionel Abelanski, Gilles Gaston-Dreyfus
Votes: 1,267
40. The Night Caller (1975)
R | 91 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Commissaire Letellier and Inspector Moissac are tracking Minos, a serial killer whose victims are women.
Director: Henri Verneuil | Stars: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Charles Denner, Adalberto Maria Merli, Rosy Varte
Votes: 4,315
41. L'invité (2000– )
8 min | Talk-Show
Stars: Patrick Simonin, Xavier Lambrechts, Dominique Wolton, Pierre Perret
Votes: 33
42. 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: 874
43. A Pain in the Ass (2008)
86 min | Comedy
An unlikely friendship develops between a hitman and a suicidal guy who have both checked into the same hotel for different reasons.
Director: Francis Veber | Stars: Richard Berry, Patrick Timsit, Pascal Elbé, Laurent Paolini
Votes: 1,027
44. Vivement dimanche prochain (1998– )
Music, Talk-Show
Stars: Michel Drucker, Jean-Pierre Coffe, Philippe Geluck, Claude Sérillon
Votes: 73
45. Vivement dimanche (1998– )
Talk-Show
Stars: Michel Drucker, Emmanuel Chaunu, Franck Ferrand, Hélène Gateau
Votes: 108
46. Le grand journal de Canal+ (2004–2017)
60 min | Documentary, Comedy, Talk-Show
Stars: Michel Denisot, Ariane Massenet, Jean-Michel Aphatie, Yann Barthès
Votes: 300
47. Les enfants de la télé (1994– )
43 min | Talk-Show
Arthur accueille sur son plateau une pléiade d'invités prestigieux : comédiens, chanteurs, humoristes, qui font l'actualité du cinéma, de la télé, de la musique - Au programme de l'émission... See full summary »
Stars: Laurent Ruquier, Arthur, Pierre Tchernia, Thierry Métral
Votes: 86
48. C à vous (2009– )
News, Talk-Show
Host Anne-Elisabeth Lemoine discusses current affairs with her columnist and the guest of the day, while a chef cooks them dinner.
Stars: Anne-Élisabeth Lemoine, Anne-Sophie Lapix, Alessandra Sublet, Patrick Cohen
Votes: 76
49. Champs-Elysées (1982–2013)
Music
Champs-Élysées is a French television variety program presented by Michel Drucker and broadcast live from January 16, 1982 to June 1985 and from January 1986 until June 29, 1990 every ... See full summary »
Stars: Michel Drucker, Michel Sardou, Jean-Jacques Goldman, Johnny Hallyday
Votes: 85
50. Télématin (1985– )
120 min | Talk-Show
French equivalent of the "Today" show with host introducing a variety of presenters on various subjects: cinema, cooking, travel, the internet, press, sports, history, etc.
Stars: Thomas Sotto, Damien Thévenot, Julia Vignali, Laurent Bignolas
Votes: 18