1958: Those Who Said No

On October 4, 2018, France celebrated the 60th anniversary of the Fifth Republic. It is a republic b

Les Rois de la comédie

At the end of the 1950s, four humor specialists simultaneously experienced recognition. Fernandel wi

Ça colle

Two average French people decide to paste wallpaper in the dining room of one of them. The result is

The Return of Don Camillo

Energetic priest Don Camillo returns to the town of Brescello for more political and personal duels

Don Camillo's Last Round

Bewildered, Don Camillo learns that Peppone intends to stand for parliament. Determined to thwart hi

Don Camillo: Monsignor

Don Camillo (now bishop) and Peppone (now senator) return to the town of Brescello and rekindle thei

The Little World of Don Camillo

In a village of the Po valley where the earth is hard and life miserly, the priest and the communist

Paris Holiday

Comedian Bob Hunter is aided by his French counterpart Fernydel and two beautiful blondes when he is

Escale au soleil

The Red Inn

A group of travelers, including a monk, stay in a lonely inn in the mountains. The host confesses th

The Sleepwalker

Victor Boniface's life is not exactly a rest cure. Just imagine: Victor is both a store detective an

Harvest

In the 30s, a small village in the Provence is losing its inhabitants because young people prefer to

Don Camillo in Moscow

Priest Don Camillo blackmails his friendly rival Peppone into letting him join a Communist delegatio

Angele

Angèle is a 1934 French drama film directed, produced and written by Marcel Pagnol. It stars Orane D

Fric-Frac

An employee at a jewelry store falls in love with a woman who secretly plans to rob the store.

Lilac

Also known as Lilac, this early Anatole Litvak-directed talkie was based on a play by Tristan Bernar

Black and White

A one-night stand with an entertainer threatens to destroy a woman's marriage after she gives birth

The Lucky Star

Auguste, a somewhat simple-minded Provençal fisherman, loves and admires Mireille. This concerns onl

Josette

Albert Durandal is unable to keep a job for more than a few days. The reason: he hums while working,

Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves

A lord’s servant, Ali Baba, is sent to retrieve a slave for his master, but ends up on an adventure

Tu m'as sauvé la vie

A wealthy baron, without offspring, who knows death is approaching, wants to adopt a man who kept hi

Topaze

Albert Topaze, sincere schoolteacher addicted to "rote" morality, works at a private school run by s

Heartbeat

A pompous grocer’s assistant in Marseille annoys a visiting film crew so much that they prank him wi

The Wild Oat

A small village is torn apart by a quarrel between the baker and the italian grocery tenant, mother

Croesus

Jules is a shepherd who lives a humble and solitary life in rural Provence. From time to time, he is

My Wife's Husband

After thirteen years in Germany, Fernand is coming back to his wife and his restaurant. But since hi

Sailor's Song

Georget is a happy-go-luck seafarer who'd rather sing than work -- or be faithful to his wife. Toget

Vive la classe

The Italian Straw Hat

Fadinard is going through the woods on his horse en route to his wedding. Unfortunately, his horse e

Maruche

L'Ordonnance malgré lui

The colonel must marry the baroness of Flair, as soon as the girl this one will have found a match.

La Terreur de la pampa

Billy Forster, a dishwasher, dreams of becoming a hero. One day, he leaves Hollywood for Texas, wher

Le Jugement de minuit

The mysterious vigilante Milton has warned Scotland-Yard of his intention to kill the lawyer Maurice

The Darling of Paris

In order not to compromise the great music hall star with whom he spent the night, a man is accused

Le Gros Lot

Le Chéri de sa concierge

The young Eugène Crochard, whom his entourage believes to be a billionaire following a joke publishe

The Devil and the Ten Commandments

The film consists of seven roughly 15 minute episodes, each showing what will happen if one or more

The Smart People of the 11th

A colonel decided to be represented at the regiment festival of a tragedy in verse by the poem writt

The Virtuous Bigamist

The Provence, somewhere in the 1950's. Paul Verdier, traveling salesman, leaves his home and his qua

Life Dances On

After the death of her husband, Christine realizes she has possibly wasted her life by marrying him

Le Chômeur de Clochemerle

"Easiest Profession" - Tistin is the only unemployed man in Clochemerle. Obliged to use their tax mo

Adhémar or the Toy of Destiny

Is it because his father was a groom that Adhémar Pomme has a long horse head and a horse- toothed s

The Most Wanted Man

A nearsighted clerk gets fired after embarrassing mishaps. He mistakenly takes a gangster's raincoat

French Touch

Mario, a bumptious sheep-shearer, discovers he has a inimtable touch that makes women, as well as sh

Gangster Boss

In Paris, two scoundrels kidnap a wealthy man's preteen son, disguised as Indians, only to find he's

Honoré de Marseille

As he explains to the journalist who came to interview him, Honoré cultivates, as a perfect Marseill

Caught in the Foreign Legion

André Duroc pretends to be a duke in order to extort money from Aunt Solange. But his trickery is di

The Sheep Has Five Legs

A publicity-minded French mayor reunites quintuplets and their earthy father, all six played by Fern

The Law Is the Law

Assola is an imaginary village on the border between Italy and France and the borderline crosses the

Ignace

Ignace Boitaclou, although sympathetic, is not very intelligent. Upon his arrival at the barracks to

The Well-Digger's Daughter

A rural maiden's two suitors go off to war, leaving her pregnant.

The Hunting Ground

In a small village, a farmer discovers his wife has committed suicide, but suspicions of murder aris

L'Aventure de Cabassou

An architect whose wife has cheated on him withdraws to a solitary life in a cave, but somehow manag

That Tender Age

Antoine and Marie decided to introduce their parents before the wedding. Summer vacation looks like

Spring, Autumn and Love

Fernand Sarrazin, who runs a nougat factory to perfection, is a happy bachelor, notwithstanding the

Simple-Minded

A simpleton turns out to be the lucky charm of a village.

The Last Judgment

In Naples, a voice from the skies announces one morning that the final judgment will be at 6 p.m. on

One of the Legion

Fernand Espitalion is miserable as totally whipped husband of a dragon 'passed on' -like cloths- by

Sénéchal the Magnificent

Sénéchal, an actor touring the provinces with the "Tournées Carlini" does not meet the success he th

Raphaël le tatoué

Modeste is a timid watchman at an automobile factory which is run with an iron hand by its owner, Ro

Ernest the Rebel

In South America anything can happen: the consul might give you as a snack to the sharks, you can wi

The Cow and I

In 1942, a French prisonner of war in Germany decide to escape to France using a cow hold by a lunge

The Five Cents of Lavarede

Some try to travel around the world with a time constraint, but Lavarède has to perform an even hard

Life Together

The writer Pierre Carot became rich and famous with his book "Life as a Couple", which was based on

Relax Yourself Darling

Hélène and François are a perfect couple happily married for twelve years. But Hélène discovers psyc

Dynamite Jack

Antoine Espérandieu, a French tenderfoot, lands in Windows Canyon, Arizona, a remote place under the

Adrien

Adrien Moulinet, a modest encashing agent in the Nortier bank, is also an inventor in his spare time

Little Nothings

Following a broadcast on the radio, each of the listeners remembers these "little nothings" (the tit

Assassin in the Phonebook

Fernandel plays Albert, the unhappy brunt of jokes by his fellow office-workers who goes from the fr

Barnabé

Barnabé, an occasional flutist, goes to Mme Petit-Durand to organize her daughter's 20 years. But he

Mademoiselle Nitouche

Celestin works as an organist at a girl's school. By day, Celestin is the meek and mild target of th

Blague dans le coin

A Las Perlass, ville de jeu du Névada, bandes rivales de Lippy et de Steinberg tiennent les plus bea

Berlingot and Company

François and Victor sell hard candy at the fun fair. They also bring up Gisèle, a one-year-old child

Three Feet in a Bed

In spite of his failures as a peddler, Casimir guaranteed his fiance that this time the vacuum clean

Ferdinand the Roisterer

Ferdinand is an honest and almost prude chemist at the Fourageot laboratories. His boss, Mr Fourageo

Forbidden Fruit

A doctor, leading an agreed life of the provincial petty bourgeoisie, falls in love with a young wom

Good King Dagobert

Mr. Pelletan's rascal son Bébert son got another F for playing in class. His punishment is an essay

Carnival

Dardamelle does not conceal the fact that his wife has made him a cuckold.How will his fellow townsp

Fun in the Barracks

The life of disorderly soldiers in the barracks dealing with daily routines.

The Acrobat

After a deadbeat patron at his restaurant gets special care from the cops who think the man has amne

The Lafleur Cavalryman

The reservist Lafleur, having a wife, a mistress and still running after the first petticoat that co

The Cupboard Was Bare

The aunt of Alfred Puc, a meek tax-collector in Paris, dies while riding in a moving van. The driver

Jim la houlette

Famous author Bretonneau gets his ghost writer Moluchet to impersonate the notorious criminal Jim la

Three Sinners

A man assists his gravely ill wife to die and wants to face justice for this, but his brothers try e

St. Val's Mystery

Désiré Le Sec has just won the "amateur policeman contest" and he is so glad he 's telling all the p

Happy He Who Like Ulysses

For 25 years now, under the Provence sun, Antonin, a farmhand, has shared his work and everyday life

Love Around the Clock

Symbolizing the destiny of man, Hora imposes her destiny on everyone. She appears to a petty bourgeo

The Trip to Biarritz

Guillaume Dodut is a stationmaster in rural France at a station where trains no longer stop. His dre

Les Bleus de la marine

Lafraise and Plumard, two rookies on the ship Le Victorieux, are on leave in the port of Toulon. At

Monsieur Hector

In a palace in Nice, a modest valet is confused with his master, a viscount chased by a man-eater.

The Man in the Raincoat

In the absence of his wife, a clarinet player is induced by a friend to meet a call girl, but arrive

The Man in the Buick

Mr Jo, nicknamed "the man with the Buick", is the darling of the small town of Honfleur. But he is i

The Woman's Confidant

A veterinarian in Figarolo, Giuliano Goberti has also been providing care to the villagers since the

Fernandel the Dressmaker

A modest taylor the women found irresistible inherit a Maison de couture in financial difficulty. De

Your Money or Your Life

Pétepan learns that his money has been lost by Robinhoude brothers.He asks his assistants to withdra

Le Coq du régiment

The story is about a lieutenant, nicknamed "the Rooster of the Regiment", a married man, who just ca

The Heroic Mr. Boniface

A simple man gets involved in an implausible story of gangsters in the wake of the discovery of a cr

Father's Trip

Determined to assert his paternal rights, Quentin leaves his small village on the Swiss border to go

Francis the First

Honorin is the simple and naive stage manager of a traveling theatre troupe, whose one ambition is t

Baby's Laxative

A little boy won't go to the bathroom, which leads to all sorts of complications for his parents and

Fernandel 3 films

Naïs

Toine, the local hunchback, works at the tile manufacturing plant, but during the summer, he gives a

The Free Trade Hotel

There's never a dull moment at the Hôtel du Libre Echange. Deceptions, hitches and other misundersta

Pétrus

Petrus, a Montmartre photographer, is accidentally wounded by Migo, a dancer at the Frou Frou night

The Mondesir Heir

Bienaimé, a modest postman, in love with Janine, the village postmistress, does not know that he is

Les Vignes du Seigneur

Now Gisèle Bourjeon is the mistress of the count Hubert Martin de Kardec.After a long journey abroad

Rooster Heart

A man is too shy to ask a girl out and decides to kill himself. While lying in the road he is rescue

Don Juan

Don Juan is arrested during one of his raids loving, just as he intended to seduce the daughter of t

Cocagne

As the driver of a garbage truck in Arles, Marc-Antoine leads a quiet life with his wife, Mélanie, a

The Kings of Sport

Jules and Fernand are two boys from the Café des sports in Marseille who take part in their corporat

The Changing of the Guard

During WW2, it's not wise to be a mayor chosen by the fascists with the Americans' impending arrival

The best hostess

A comedy short which was the debut of Fernandel. Monsieur Pivoine and his missus are waiting for Mon

The Boss

Pursued by a rival gang after a violent robbery, Toni escapes with nearly thirty million francs. On

L'Âge d'or de la pub

55 years ago, on October 1 1968, the first brand advertising spot appeared on the French television

Tricoche and Cacolet

Two friends, Tricoche and Cacolet, are partners in a detective agency. Chance has it that Cacolet is

I'm in the Revue

Good-natured and devout, a French house painter takes the train to Rome, where he has decided to go

Le Petit Monde de Fernandel

Si ça peut vous faire plaisir

Gonfaron is barking at the auction of Cassis. He accepted with good heart to believe that he was the

The Suitors Club

As playboys cannot pay their debts anymore,their creditors suggest one of them marry a millionaire's

Skylark

Adémaï is forcibly engaged to the farmer's daughter. He tries in vain to get rid of it and, weary of

Pas un mot à ma femme

Par habitude

Valentin Bourgeasse is an inveterate drunk. He takes the matter so far that one day he is evicted fr

Emile the African

Émile Boulard is a props man in a Paris movie studio. He has a wife, Suzanne. Or to be more accurate

I have something to tell you

A man who claims to be the lover of a married woman goes to find the husband and reveals to him that

Don't Shout it from the Rooftops

A scientist who have discovered how to turn salt water into petrol dies before he has revealed his f

The Wonderful Night

A couple of refugees arrives in a village: he is a cabinet maker, she's pregnant and the innkeeper r

The Amorous Garrison

In a small provincial town, the new colonel of the dragoon regiment consigns all his men. Three sold

Love and Cool Water

A young man is hit by a car on a zebra crossing. The pretty driver drives him home, takes care of hi

Hercule

Hercule, a young peasant, inherits a Parisian newspaper with a large circulation. The editor-in-chie

He

In her village, Ms. Husson seeks to put a price under a rosiere but finding no worthy young pretty g

Le train de 8 H 47

In 1885, La Guillaumette and Croquebol are two cavalrymen who are constantly victimised by their sup

Around the World in Eighty Days

Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the wor

Une histoire pétillante

Bric a Brac and Company

If Fernandel did not appear in a supporting part ,another short (by E.Chotin who made dozens of them

The Orderly

Philippe, the order of an old colonel, surprises the wife of his boss in the arms of a young lieuten

A Night of Madness

Jacqueline took one of her friends to a place where tourists, informants, girls, pimps and Apaches r

Les Gaîtés de la finance

The banker Marivol looks like a tailor, Lambinet. Gangsters threaten the first, who hires the second

We Request an Assassin

A son of a family in debt decides to put an end to his life and calls on a professional killer to do

No Women

Professor Branck invented Fortuna a machine providing absolute luck, fortune and success, to whoever

Irma la voyante

The end combine

A good man wanting to spend the afternoon with his girlfriend lets his wife think he is going to the

Hoboes in Paradise

In a Provençal village, two jolly good fellows, Boule and Pons, decide to dress as Saint Anthony and

I Have an Idea

Aubrey is a debt-ridden man. One day, he has the idea of ​​faking his death and taking on the role o

Fernandel c'est moi

A Dog's Life

Mr. Gustave Bourdillon loves hopelessly the wife of the director of the institution where he is the

Lidoire

The Phoney War

September 3rd, 1939. Britain and France declare war on Nazi Germany, only two days after the Wehrmac

Night attack

A woman enters a police station at night to ask the commissioner to help her get rid of her dead lov

Un homme sans nom

The Bread Peddler

A brave woman is sentenced to prison on false testimony. She escapes twenty years later and takes re