French comedy movies

List of the best French comedy movies selected by visitors to our site: Mes héros, The Women on the 6th Floor, Knock on Wood, Don't Look Now: We're Being Shot At, Mr & Mme Adelman, The ComDads, The Closet, Serial (Bad) Weddings, Paulette, Nothing to Declare.

In the top there are new films of 2023, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

Markimdb: 5.7
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryFrance

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Markimdb: 7.1
Genrecomedy
CountryFrance
Duration01:42

Paris, in the early 1960s. Jean-Louis Joubert is a serious but uptight stockbroker, married to Suzanne, a starchy class-conscious woman and father of two arrogant teenage boys, currently in a boarding school. The affluent man lives a steady yet boring life. At least until, due to fortuitous circumstances, Maria, the charming new maid at the service of Jean-Louis' family, makes him discover the servants' quarter on the sixth floor of the luxury building he owns and lives in. There live a crowd of lively Spanish maids who will help Jean-Louis to open to a new civilization and a new approach of life. In their company - and more precisely in the company of beautiful Maria - Jean-Louis will gradually become another man, a better man.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genrecomedy, adventure, crime
CountryFrance, Mexico, Malta
Duration01:31

When the boss' unlucky daughter is missing in South America, Campana is sent to watch the boss' most unlucky employee who is sent as a private detective in hopes he can duplicate the daughter's mistakes.

Markimdb: 7.9
Genrecomedy, adventure, military
CountryFrance, United Kingdom
Duration02:03

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.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountryFrance, Belgium
Duration02:06

How did Sarah and Victor get along for more than 45 years? Who was this enigmatic woman living in the shadow of her husband? Love, ambition, betrayals and secrets feed the story of this extraordinary couple, as they experience both the large and small moments of the last century's history.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genrecomedy, crime
CountryFrance
Duration01:32

Unable to find her runaway son, a woman deceives two of her ex-lovers from her youth, a mild-mannered teacher and a tough journalist, that each is the real father in order to obtain their help.

Markimdb: 7
Genrecomedy
CountryFrance
Duration01:24

A man spreads the rumor of his fake homosexuality with the aid of his neighbor, to prevent his imminent firing at his work.

Markimdb: 7
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryFrance
Duration01:34

A catholic French couple sees their life upside down when their four daughters get married to men of different religion and origins.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genrecomedy, drama, crime
CountryFrance
Duration01:27

Paulette lives alone in a housing project in the Paris suburbs. With her meager pension, she can no longer make ends meet.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genrecomedy
CountryFrance, Belgium
Duration01:48

During the elimination of the Belgian/French border in the 90s, a Belgian customs officer is forced to team up with one of his French counterparts.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genrecomedy, drama, family
CountryFrance, United Kingdom
Duration01:26

A man without attachments or responsibilities suddenly finds himself with an abandoned baby and leaves for London to try and find the mother. Eight years later after he and his daughter become inseparable Gloria's mother reappears.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genrecomedy, adventure, crime
CountryFrance, Italy

Fantômas is a man of many disguises. He uses maquillage as a weapon. He can impersonate anyone using an array of masks and can create endless confusion by constantly changing his appearance.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genrecomedy, family
CountryFrance, Belgium
Duration01:31

Nicolas has a happy existence, parents who love him, a great group of friends with whom he has great fun, and all he wants is that nothing changes. However, one day, he overhears a conversation that leads him to believe that his life might change forever, his mother is pregnant! He panics and envisions the worst.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genrecomedy, adventure, detective
CountryFrance
Duration01:30

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.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genrecomedy
CountryFrance
Duration01:25

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.

Markimdb: 7.9
Genrethriller, comedy, drama, crime, detective
CountryUnited Kingdom, France, USA

Detective Inspector Richard Poole is transferred to Sainte Marie, an island in the Caribbean. Totally unsuited to the Caribbean way of life, Richard hates the sun, sea and sand and isn't used to the Sainte Marie style of policing. Working with the exotic Camille each week Richard investigates intricate and intriguing murders.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genrecomedy
CountryFrance
Duration01:34

Catherine refuses to believe that her business partner, the unlikeable François, has a best friend, so she challenges him to set up an introduction. Scrambling to find someone willing to pose as his best pal, François enlists the services of a charming taxi driver to play the part.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama
CountryFrance, Belgium, South Korea
Duration02:52

A man tries that his wife fall in love with him again, after to wake up in an alternate reality where she never knew him.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genrecomedy, adventure, crime
CountryFrance, Italy, Spain
Duration01:51

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".

Markimdb: 7.1
Genrecomedy, adventure, crime
CountryFrance, Italy

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.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genrecomedy
CountryFrance

On Christmas eve, Serge is the only on-call emergency doctor available. Struck by a crippling back-ache, he gets help from a pizza delivery boy who will need to step in the doctor's shoes.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genrecomedy
CountryFrance
Duration01:33

Sebastian has one ambition in life: to do nothing. His horizon is his couch. His life he does not want to live but contemplate. But today, if you do nothing - You are nothing. So driven by his two roommates, that chain internships and odd jobs, decided to Anna and not quite decided Bruno, Sebastien will have to - A little.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genrecomedy, adventure
CountryFrance, India, Belgium, Singapore, USA
Duration01:29

The story of Ajatashatru Oghash Rathod, a fakir who tricks his local village in Rajasthan, India into believing his possesses special powers and into paying him to fly to Paris to buy a bed of nails from an Ikea store.

Markimdb: 5.9
Genreaction, comedy, adventure
CountryFrance
Duration01:40

A shaman from the South American rain forest visits France for a public relations campaign. In a hotel's elevator in Paris he meets a French good-for-nothing named Perrin he's fascinated with. He follows Perrin to his flat and although Perrin is not very enthusiastic about so much interest in his person, he lets the shaman spend the night in his flat. After an official meeting on the next day being part of the PR campaign the shaman suffers from a heart attack. Hardly being able to speak and laying in a hospital bed he demands to see Perrin. The latter is not very interested in meeting the shaman again. However it looks like it is to late for animosities as the shaman and Perrin seem to be tied mentally somehow since they've met in the elevator.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genrecomedy, crime
CountryFrance, Italy
Duration01:25

After hiding his loot and getting thrown in jail, Ruby, a brooding outlaw encounters Quentin, a dim-witted and garrulous giant who befriends him. After Quentin botches a solo escape attempt, they make a break together. Unable to shake the clumsy Quentin Ruby is forced to take him along as he pursues his former partners in crime to avenge the death of the woman he loved and get to the money.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom, France, USA
Duration01:37

A chaotic Bridget Jones meets a snobbish lawyer, and he soon enters her world of imperfections.

Markimdb: 7.8
Genrecomedy
CountryFrance, Italy, Spain
Duration01:42

In Luis Buñuel’s deliciously satiric masterpiece, an upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but never eats, their attempts continually thwarted by a vaudevillian mixture of events both actual and imagined.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genrecomedy, family
CountryFrance
Duration01:44

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!

Markimdb: 7.2
Genrefantasy, comedy, adventure, family
CountryUnited Kingdom, France, USA, China, Canada
Duration01:35

    After a deadly earthquake destroys his home in Peruvian rainforest, a young bear makes his way to England in search of a new home. The bear, dubbed "Paddington" for the london train station, finds shelter with the family of Henry and Mary Brown. Although Paddington's amazement at urban living soon endears him to the Browns, someone else has her eye on him: Taxidermist Millicent Clyde has designs on the rare bear and his hide.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genrehorror, comedy, drama, crime
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:39

    This bizarre surrealistic black comedy takes place in a small fictitious post-apocalyptic town where food is scarce and butcher Clapet has the macabre business of using human flesh to feed his customers. Yet when his daughter falls in love with his next slaughter victim things turn into chaos.

    Markimdb: 5.4
    Genrecomedy
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:34

    A bumbling Paris policeman is doggedly determined to capture the master thief that repeatedly eludes him, even when they're the last two men on Earth.

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genrecomedy, crime
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:31

    A group of travelers, including a monk, stay in a lonely inn in the mountains. The host confesses the monk his habit of serving poisoned soup to the guests, to rob their possessions and to bury them in the backyard. The story unfolds as the monk tries to save the guest's lives without violating the holy secrecy of the confession.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genreaction, comedy, crime
    CountryFrance

    My New Partner is a 1984 French comedy film directed by Claude Zidi, starring Philippe Noiret and Thierry Lhermitte. Noiret plays a streetwise Paris policeman who takes kickbacks from the minor criminals on his beat to allow them to continue. At the start of the film, his partner is busted for corruption and he narrowly escapes. He is assigned an idealistic new partner fresh from police academy. He sets out to corrupt his new partner and, after a slow start, succeeds spectacularly.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genrecomedy, adventure, crime
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:35

    Grégoire Lecomte, the unlucky actor anxious to find a "real job", goes to take a screen test for a role of a killer, but gets to mafiosi by mistake. He takes their don for a producer, and they mistake him for a hitman with whom they had an appointment. Deluded Lecomte signs contract with them. He is supposed to kill gun dealer Otto Krampe at his birthday party in Saint-Tropez by piercing him with a cap of the umbrella with a built-in syringe with potassium cyanide. Lecomte is not aware that it has to be a real murder.

    Markimdb: 7.7
    Genrecomedy, adventure, crime, music
    CountryUnited Kingdom, France, USA
    Duration01:43

    In the deep south during the 1930s, three escaped convicts search for hidden treasure while a relentless lawman pursues them. On their journey they come across many comical characters and incredible situations. Based upon Homer's 'Odyssey'.

    Markimdb: 5.2
    Genrecomedy, adventure, family
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom, France, Germany

    Tom the cat and Jerry the mouse get kicked out of their home and relocate to a fancy New York hotel, where a scrappy employee named Kayla will lose her job if she can’t evict Jerry before a high-class wedding at the hotel. Her solution? Hiring Tom to get rid of the pesky mouse.

    Markimdb: 5.4
    Genrefantastic, comedy
    CountryFrance

    Humans have ceded most tasks to AI in 2045, even in nostalgic Alice's home. So when robots stage a coup, her androids protectively lock her doors.

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    Genrefantasy, comedy, family, cartoon, crime
    CountryUSA, France

    A fanboy of a supervillain supergroup known as the Vicious 6, Gru hatches a plan to become evil enough to join them, with the backup of his followers, the Minions.

    Markimdb: 7.8
    Genreaction, thriller, comedy, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom, France
    Duration02:01

    Top London cop, PC Nicholas Angel is good. Too good. To stop the rest of his team from looking bad, he is reassigned to the quiet town of Sandford, paired with simple country cop, and everything seems quiet until two actors are found decapitated. It is addressed as an accident, but Angel isn't going to accept that, especially when more and more people turn up dead.

    Markimdb: 7.9
    Genrehorror, comedy
    CountryUnited Kingdom, France, USA
    Duration01:40

      Shaun lives a supremely uneventful life, which revolves around his girlfriend, his mother, and, above all, his local pub. This gentle routine is threatened when the dead return to life and make strenuous attempts to snack on ordinary Londoners.

      Markimdb: 8.5
      Genrecomedy, drama, biography
      CountryFrance
      Duration01:52

      A true story of two men who should never have met – a quadriplegic aristocrat who was injured in a paragliding accident and a young man from the projects.

      Markimdb: 7.4
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryFrance, Belgium

      Victor, a disillusioned sexagenarian, sees his life turned upside down on the day when Antoine, a brilliant entrepreneur, offers him a new kind of attraction: mixing theatrical artifices and historical reconstruction, this company offers his clients a chance to dive back into the era of their choice. Victor then chose to relive the most memorable week of his life: the one where, 40 years earlier, he met the great love.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genrefantasy, comedy, drama, detective
      CountryFrance, Belgium

      Alain and Marie moved to the suburb house of their dreams. But the real estate agent warned them: what is in the basement may well change their lives forever.

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genrefantastic, comedy
      CountryFrance

      A group of vigilantes called the "tobacco-forces" is falling apart. To rebuild team spirit, their leader suggests that they meet for a week-long retreat, before returning to save the world.

      Markimdb: 7.5
      Genrecomedy, drama
      CountrySweden, Denmark, USA, Greece, Turkey, Mexico, Germany, United Kingdom, France, Luxembourg

      A celebrity model couple are invited on a luxury cruise for the uber-rich, helmed by an unhinged, alcoholic captain. What first appears Instagrammable ends catastrophically, leaving the survivors stranded on a desert island in a struggle of hierarchy.

      Markimdb: 5.7
      Genreaction, comedy, crime, detective
      CountryFrance

      Diakité and Monge are police officers who are complete opposites, and get paired together to uncover an unexpectedly big criminal case.

      Markimdb: 4.8
      Genrecomedy, adventure, family
      CountryFrance

      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.

      Markimdb: 6.3
      Genrecomedy, family, cartoon
      CountryFrance, Belgium, Australia, Republic of Ireland
      Duration01:31

      Santa doesn't want to retire, but rules are rules and he must train someone to replace him. The lucky winner, to be chosen from among millions of children, must be named Nicholas, be an orphan and have a pure heart. On the other side of the planet, there is a little boy who is a perfect match, but his lack of self-confidence and fear of heights make him a poor contestant. Will Santa agree to step down, and help his apprentice take his place?

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genrecomedy, drama, crime, detective
      CountryFrance

      Madeleine Verdier, a penniless actress is accused of the murder of a famous producer. With the help of her best friend she proves that, she is acquitted for self-defense. Then begins a life of glory and success, until truth comes to light.

      Seven families live in the Parisian apartment building at 8, Rue de l’Humanite - and they didn’t escape to the countryside at the arrival of the coronavirus. Three months of life under lockdown will reveal the best and worst of these neighbours.




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