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Louis de Funès has 31 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1950s through the 1980s. 4 rank in the Top 10%, led by Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At!.
Animal House
1978
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
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.
Dir. Gérard Oury · With Louis de Funès, Suzy Delair, Marcel Dalio
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.
Dir. Gérard Oury · With Louis de Funès, Yves Montand, Alice Sapritch
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
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.
Dir. Édouard Molinaro · With Louis de Funès, Claude Rich, Agathe Natanson
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!
Dir. Claude Zidi · With Louis de Funès, Coluche, Ann Zacharias
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
A writer accidentally shoots his blackmailer and tries to hide the body.
Dir. Jean Girault · With Louis de Funès, Claude Gensac, Michel Galabru
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.
Dir. Jean Girault · With Louis de Funès, Geneviève Grad, Michel Galabru
Mr. Pezzella owns and operates a well-established luxury-clothing store. He does not like and does not consider it right to pay taxes and therefore uses a tax consultant to be able to evade more taxes.
Dir. Steno · With Totò, Aldo Fabrizi, Louis de Funès
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.
Dir. André Hunebelle · With Jean Marais, Louis de Funès, Mylène Demongeot
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...
Dir. Jean Girault · With Louis de Funès, Ferdy Mayne, Martine Kelly
as M. Septime, patron d'un grand restaurant parisien · Writer
A great French restaurant's owner, Monsieur Septime, is thrust into intrigue and crime, when one of his famous guests disappears.
Dir. Jacques Besnard · With Louis de Funès, Bernard Blier, María Rosa Rodríguez
In the second episode of the trilogy Fantômas kidnaps distinguished scientist professor Marchand with the aim to develop a super weapon that will enable him to menace the world. Fantômas is also planning to abduct a second scientist, professor Lefebvre.
Dir. André Hunebelle · With Jean Marais, Louis de Funès, Mylène Demongeot
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...
Dir. Jean Girault · With Louis de Funès, Mireille Darc, Roger Dumas
In the third and final episode of the trilogy, Fantômas imposes a head tax on the rich, threatening to kill those who do not comply.
Dir. André Hunebelle · With Jean Marais, Louis de Funès, Mylène Demongeot
In a small French village, everything would be quiet if the local wildlife cop was not being ridiculed by a smart poacher.
Dir. Yves Robert · With Louis de Funès, Noëlle Adam, Frédéric Duvallès
Hubert de Tartas' life becomes a complete muddle when his wife's grandfather is unearthed after having spent 65 years in frozen hibernation in the polar circle. After being de-frosted, the Hibernating Man believes it is still the beginning of the century. Nothing is spared to keep that illusion alive. At the end of his rope, Hubert blurts out the truth and takes the man from Edwardian times on a crazy spree through an ultramodern Twentieth Century.
Dir. Édouard Molinaro · With Louis de Funès, Claude Gensac, Bernard Alane
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...
Dir. Robert Dhéry · With Louis de Funès, Andréa Parisy, Franco Fabrizi
The Saint-Tropez police launch a major offensive against dangerous drivers. Marechal Cruchot (Louis de Funès) relishes the assignment, which he pursues with a manic zeal. Cruchot is after an offending driver, who turns out to be Josépha (Claude Gensac), the widow of a highly regarded police colonel. When they meet, Cruchot falls instantly in love....
Dir. Jean Girault · With Louis de Funès, Jean Lefebvre, Geneviève Grad
Shopkeeper Victor Garnier has naively invested his family's life savings in an African mine, on his banker's recommendation. When the mine is nationalized, rendering the stock worthless, he considers himself shamelessly robbed by the bank; it seems only fair to him to return the 'favor' and rob the bank, teaming up with the whole family as they were all duped. Even for professionals such an enterprise -he decides to dig a tunnel- is quite demanding, but for simple commoners it's daunting, as they also have their personal downsides; thus Victor's wife has a most unwelcome tendency to blurt out the truth, even to the grumpy local copper: a crazy risk when you need to keep a criminal plan secret.
Dir. Jean Girault · With Louis de Funès, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Yvonne Clech
An art dealer wants to buy a Modigliani, which is tattooed on the back of an old soldier.
Dir. Denys de La Patellière · With Jean Gabin, Louis de Funès, Dominique Davray
Guillaume has made it: A machine that can clean dirty air by simply sucking all dirt into air balloons and then shipping them far far away so his explanation. Some Japanese business guys, after dinner with a lot of alcohol, order 5,000 pieces. His only problem: His production capacity is way to small so he gets to produce the machines in his private house. His wife Bernadette is far from being happy about it. Her private life goes down the line so she decides to leave Guillaume and to finally have revenge she candidates for major against her husband...
Dir. Claude Zidi · With Louis de Funès, Annie Girardot, Maurice Risch
Two buddy farmers are visited by aliens who like their domestic cabbage soup.
Dir. Jean Girault · With Louis de Funès, Jean Carmet, Jacques Villeret
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.
Dir. Jean Girault · With Louis de Funès, Jean Lefebvre, Guy Grosso
Sergeant Cruchot and his faithful comrades have been sent to the International Congress of Gendarmerie in N.Y.
Dir. Jean Girault · With Louis de Funès, Michel Galabru, Christian Marin
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. Based on Molière’s play.
Dir. Louis de Funès, Jean Girault · With Louis de Funès, Michel Galabru, Claude Gensac
Evan Evans, the director of a ballet troupe, is rehearsing his next show in Monaco, in preparation for a worldwide tour. When one member of his troupe leaves to get married, Evans imposes a regime of strict discipline on his remaining dancers. The latter get their revenge by presenting Evans’ nephew Philippe, the only male member of the group, with a baby and a note claiming he is the father…
Dir. Serge Korber · With Louis de Funès, Olivier de Funès, Noëlle Adam
as Ludovic Cruchot · Writer
Prime Video · Rent
The bungling inspector Cruchot finds himself trying to save the residents of St. Tropez from some oil-drinking humanoid aliens. The only way to tell the aliens from the real people, besides their constant thirst for oil-products, is that they sound like empty garbage cans when you touch them. Chaos is ahead.
Dir. Jean Girault · With Louis de Funès, Michel Galabru, Maurice Risch
as Maréchal des Logis-chef Ludovic Cruchot
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.
Dir. Tony Aboyantz, Jean Girault · With Louis de Funès, Michel Galabru, Maurice Risch
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