Top 20 movies like Delusions of Grandeur

Delusions of Grandeur

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.

La Folie des grandeurs is of 1 hour(s) and 48 minute(s). It is Produced By:  Gaumont, Mars Film, Coral Films, Orion Filmproduktion. It was released on 1971-12-08. It has an average vote of 7.432 on TMDB.

Genres: ComedyHistory

1. Joe: The Busybody (Jo)

Joe: The Busybody

A writer accidentally shoots his blackmailer and tries to hide the body.

It has an average vote of 7.189 on TMDB.

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2. Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At! (La Grande Vadrouille)

Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At!

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 7.928 on TMDB.

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3. The Gendarme Takes Off (Le Gendarme en balade)

The Gendarme Takes Off

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 6.385 on TMDB.

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4. The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob (Les Aventures de Rabbi Jacob)

The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob

In this riot of frantic disguises and mistaken identities, Victor Pivert, a blustering, bigoted French factory owner, finds himself taken hostage by Slimane, an Arab rebel leader. The two dress up as rabbis as they try to elude not only assasins from Slimane's country, but also the police, who think Pivert is a murderer. Pivert ends up posing as Rabbi Jacob, a beloved figure who's returned to France for his first visit after 30 years in the United States. Adding to the confusion are Pivert's dentist-wife, who thinks her husband is leaving her for another woman, their daughter, who's about to get married, and a Parisian neighborhood filled with people eager to celebrate the return of Rabbi Jacob.

It has an average vote of 7.393 on TMDB.

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5. The Sucker (Le Corniaud)

The Sucker

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 7.364 on TMDB.

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6. Hibernatus (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 6.75 on TMDB.

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7. The Wing or the Thigh? (L'Aile ou la Cuisse)

The Wing or the Thigh?

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 7.234 on TMDB.

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8. The Trip Across Paris (La Traversée de Paris)

The Trip Across Paris

Two unlikely companions must smuggle four suitcases filled with contraband pork across Nazi-occupied Paris.

It has an average vote of 7.2 on TMDB.

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9. Squeak-squeak (Pouic-Pouic)

Squeak-squeak

Léonard Monestier owns a large fortune, alas his wife Cynthia made a bad investment in a worthless oil concession. Far from letting this get him down, Léonard decides to find a sucker to buy this concession from him. Right on cue appears Antoine Brévin, a befuddled billionaire who is very interested in Léonard's beautiful daughter Patricia and would do anything to win her hand...

It has an average vote of 6.8 on TMDB.

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10. The Cabbage Soup (La Soupe aux choux)

The Cabbage Soup

Two buddy farmers are visited by aliens who like their domestic cabbage soup.

It has an average vote of 6.368 on TMDB.

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11. The Miser (L'Avare)

The Miser

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 6.377 on TMDB.

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12. The Gendarme and the Gendarmettes (Le Gendarme et les Gendarmettes)

The Gendarme and the Gendarmettes

Cruchot's police office moves into a new building. They do not only get high tech equipment, but also four young female police officers to educate. All of them scramble to work with them -- and cause pure chaos while being distracted by the fine ladies. Then they get into real trouble when one after the other of their female colleagues is kidnapped.

It has an average vote of 6.03 on TMDB.

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13. Port of Shadows (Le quai des brumes)

Port of Shadows

Down a foggy, desolate road to the port city of Le Havre travels Jean, an army deserter looking for another chance to make good on life. Fate, however, has a different plan for him, as acts of both revenge and kindness render him front-page news.

It has an average vote of 7.428 on TMDB.

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14. The Restaurant (Le Grand Restaurant)

The 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 6.8 on TMDB.

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15. Beauties at War (La Guerre des miss)

Beauties at War

A ski resort town struggles to become the top tourism spot.

It has an average vote of 4.9 on TMDB.

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16. The Guardian Angel

The Guardian Angel

Copenhagen, Denmark, 1951. Criminal investigator Anders Olsen follows the case of a bank robber who eyewitnesses say appears to have been acting under some kind of trance.

It has an average vote of 5.2 on TMDB.

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17. Sun, Hay, Erotica (Slunce, seno, erotika)

Sun, Hay, Erotica

A third and last part of an adventures of a villagers from the "Sun, Hay..." series.

It has an average vote of 5.9 on TMDB.

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18. Something Big

Something Big

Joe Baker has a dream. He wants to do 'something big.' When he needs a Gatling gun to accomplish this, he seeks out a black marketeer. The price he wants for the gun? A woman! So Baker kidnaps a woman off of the stagecoach, only to find that she is the wife of the commandant of the local Cavalry detachment. Things get further complicated when a girl named Dover McBride shows up. She has come to force Baker to marry her and return east, as he promised to do four years earlier

It has an average vote of 5.1 on TMDB.

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19. Road to Istanbul (La route d'Istanbul)

Road to Istanbul

Elisabeth lives a quiet live in the Belgian countryside with her young adult daughter Elodie. After the divorce from her husband Elisabeth took care of her daughter on her own. When Elodie disappears over night and Elisabeth discovers that she travelled to Syria to join the Islamic State, she begins her journey to find her daughter.

It has an average vote of 6.2 on TMDB.

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20. The Flea in the Ear (La Puce à l'oreille)

The Flea in the Ear

Raymonde Chandebise suspects her husband Victor-Emmanuel of cheating on her. She received a package from the hotel "Le minet galant". The package contained a pair of suspenders belonging to her husband. Her best friend, Lucienne, advises her to find out for sure and to use a stratagem. They both send him a fake, passionate letter, written by a beautiful stranger, asking him to meet her at the "Minet Galant"! But little do they know that the hotel's simpleton bellboy is a look-alike of poor Victor-Emmanuel!

It has an average vote of 6.1 on TMDB.

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