1. The Wing or the Thigh? (L'Aile ou la Cuisse)
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!
It has an average vote of 7.232 on TMDB.
2. Delusions of Grandeur (La Folie des grandeurs)
Don Sallust is the minister of the King of Spain. Being disingenuous, hypocritical, greedy and collecting the taxes for himself, he is hated by the people he oppresses. Accused by The Queen, a beautiful princess Bavarian, of having an illegitimate child to one of her maids of honor, he was stripped of his duties and ordered to retire to a monastery.
It has an average vote of 7.433 on TMDB.
3. Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez (Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez)
The ambitious police officer Cruchot is transferred to St. Tropez. He's struggling with crimes such as persistent nude swimming, but even more with his teenage daughter, who's trying to impress her rich friends by telling them her father was a millionaire and owned a yacht in the harbor.
It has an average vote of 7.048 on TMDB.
4. The Cabbage Soup (La Soupe aux choux)
Two buddy farmers are visited by aliens who like their domestic cabbage soup.
It has an average vote of 6.367 on TMDB.
5. Jo (Jo)
A writer accidentally shoots his blackmailer and tries to hide the body.
It has an average vote of 7.209 on TMDB.
6. Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At! (La Grande Vadrouille)
During World War II, two French civilians and a downed British Bomber Crew set out from Paris to cross the demarcation line between Nazi-occupied Northern France and the South. From there they will be able to escape to England. First, they must avoid German troops – and the consequences of their own blunders.
It has an average vote of 7.923 on TMDB.
7. The Restaurant (Le Grand Restaurant)
A great French restaurant's owner, Monsieur Septime, is thrust into intrigue and crime, when one of his famous guests disappears.
It has an average vote of 6.777 on TMDB.
8. Now Where Did the Seventh Company Get to? (Mais où est donc passée la 7ème compagnie ?)
1940: During the chaotic running fights of the French army the 7th company disappears - nobody knows they've been taken captive. Only their scouting patrol, three witty but lazy guys, can escape and now wanders around behind the German lines. They'd like to just stay out the fights, but a Lieutenant urges them to use a captured truck to break through to their troops.
It has an average vote of 7.267 on TMDB.
9. The Little Bather (Le Petit Baigneur)
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...
It has an average vote of 6.682 on TMDB.
10. Hibernatus (Hibernatus)
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...
It has an average vote of 6.761 on TMDB.
11. The Gendarme Takes Off (Le Gendarme en balade)
The whole clique of Cruchot's police station is retired. Now he lives with his rich wife in her castle - and is bored almost to death. He fights with the butler, because he isn't even allowed to do the simple works. But when one of the clique suffers from amnesia after an accident, all of the others reunite and kidnap him, to take him on a tour to their old working places and through their memories. In their old uniforms they turn St. Tropez upside down.
It has an average vote of 6.38 on TMDB.
12. The Sucker (Le Corniaud)
In this Frenco-Italian gangster parody, a shop keeper on his way to an Italian holiday suffers a crash which totals his car. The culprit can only compensate his ruined trip by driving an American friends car from Napels to Bordeaux, but as it happens to be filled with such contraband as stolen money, jewelry and drugs, the involuntary and unwitting companions in crime soon attract all but recreational attention from the "milieu".
It has an average vote of 7.366 on TMDB.
13. Oscar (Oscar)
This film originated as a play in Paris. The story focuses on the one-day adventures of Bertrand Barnier played with a genius of French cinema, Louis de Funes. In the same morning he learns that his daughter is pregnant, an employee stole a large amount of money from his company, his maid is about to resign in order to marry a wealthy neighbor and his body builder is interested in marrying his daughter. The seemingly complicated story-line is full of comedy or errors and some of the most hilarious mime scenes of the French cinema.
It has an average vote of 7.347 on TMDB.
14. The Exchange Student (Les Grandes Vacances)
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...
It has an average vote of 6.905 on TMDB.
15. The Miser (L'Avare)
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.
It has an average vote of 6.381 on TMDB.
16. Perched on a Tree (Sur Un Arbre Perché)
Henry Roubier, a French promoter, and Enrico Mazzini, an Italian, have signed an agreement guaranteeing them a stranglehold on European highways. While driving on the roads of the south, Roubier takes two young hitchhikers, but an unfortunate swerve the car rushes by Henri and its occupants on the top of a pine tree onto the side of a cliff.
It has an average vote of 5.239 on TMDB.
17. Manila in the Claws of Light (Maynila sa mga Kuko ng Liwanag)
Julio, a young fisherman from a provincial village, descends into social alienation as he arrives in Manila to search for his loved one.
It has an average vote of 7.2 on TMDB.
18. The Blues: Another Story of France (Les Bleus - Une autre histoire de France, 1996-2016)
This documentary charts 20 years of the French national soccer team, Les Bleus, whose ups and downs have mirrored those of French society.
It has an average vote of 6.6 on TMDB.
19. Alien: Covenant - Prologue: Meet Walter
Introducing Walter, the latest synthetic by Weyland-Yutani. Created to serve. Intelligence powered by AMD, Ryzen and Radeon.
It has an average vote of 6.4 on TMDB.
20. The French Revolution (La Révolution française)
A history of the French Revolution from the decision of the king to convene the Etats-Generaux in 1789 in order to deal with France's debt problem. The first part of the movie tells the story from 1789 until August 10, 1792 . The second part carries the story through the end of the terror in 1794, including the deaths by guillotine of Louis XVI, Marie-Antoinette, Danton, and Desmoulins.
It has an average vote of 7.5 on TMDB.
