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Bourvil has 10 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1950s through the 1970s. 4 rank in the Top 10%, led by Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At!.
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The Gendarme Gets Married
1968
Comedy

Don Camillo in Moscow
1965
Comedy

The Gendarme in New York
1965
Comedy

Tintin and the Mystery of the Golden Fleece
1961
Comedy · Adventure

Yours, Mine and Ours
1968
Comedy

The Exchange Student
1967
Comedy

The Diamond Arm
1969
Adventure · Comedy

Donovan's Reef
1963
Adventure · Comedy

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.
Dir. Gérard Oury · With Bourvil, Louis de Funès, Terry-Thomas
Hector Valentin returns to France from Canada when he inherits a small sawmill. He has difficulties restarting the run-down operation which has inefficient workers and is hampered by the dirty tactics of its bigger...
Dir. Robert Enrico · With Lino Ventura, Bourvil, Marie Dubois

When French criminal Corey gets released from prison, he resolves to never return. He is quickly pulled back into the underworld, however, after a chance encounter with escaped murderer Vogel. Along with former policeman and current alcoholic Jansen, they plot an intricate jewel heist. All the while, quirky Police Commissioner Mattei, who was the one to lose custody of Vogel, is determined to find him.
Dir. Jean-Pierre Melville · With Alain Delon, Bourvil, Gian Maria Volonté

In this Franco-Italian gangster parody, a shopkeeper on his way to an Italian holiday suffers a crash that totals his car. The culprit can only compensate his ruined trip by driving an American friend's car from Naples 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".
Dir. Gérard Oury · With Bourvil, Louis de Funès, Venantino Venantini

Two unlikely companions must smuggle four suitcases filled with contraband pork across Nazi-occupied Paris.
Dir. Claude Autant-Lara · With Jean Gabin, Bourvil, Louis de Funès
Arthur and Anatole are two little robbers. They want to rob money, money that will travel in a special train from Paris to Bruxelles. They don't know that other people have planned to do the same thing.
Dir. Gérard Oury · With Jean-Paul Belmondo, Bourvil, David Niven

In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.
Dir. Jean-Paul Le Chanois · With Jean Gabin, Bernard Blier, Béatrice Altariba
After thirteen years in Germany, Fernand is coming back to his wife and his restaurant. But since his disparition, his wife as made her life with a norman chef, sympathetic but a specialist of butter's cooking when Fernand cook only with oil!
Dir. Gilles Grangier · With Fernandel, Bourvil, Claire Maurier
Duke Philippe de Nevers is an influential and popular man who is married to a beautiful wife called Aurore. His rival Philippe de Gonzague hates him enough to organise an attempt on him. The Duke is accompagnied by Henri de Lagardère when de Gonzague's henchmen altogether attack him. Lagardère cannot save his friend because the both of them are hopelessly outnumbered. He has to escape in order to save the Duke's daughter and swears revenge. Together with his old buddy Passepoil he raises the little girl in Spain. At the same time he returns frequently to France where he detects confronts his friend's murderers and puts them to the sword one by one until only their former leader is left. Finally he discovers that Philippe de Gonzague is the man for whom he is looking.
Dir. André Hunebelle · With Jean Marais, Bourvil, Sabine Sesselmann

as Léon Duchemin, Norman restaurateur
1944. Léon Duchemin owns a restaurant with his sister. His clients are Germans, Résistance et black marketeers. Léon unwillingly joins the Résistance when a British pilot is shot down and hides in his attic and, through a series of mishaps, he accidentally steals the plans for Hitler's V1 missiles.
Dir. Marcel Camus · With Bourvil, Sophie Desmarets, Peter McEnery
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