The best Edmond Ardisson’s comedy movies

Edmond Ardisson

Edmond Ardisson

23/10/1904- 30/11/1983
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Edmond Ardisson’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Edmond Ardisson.

Love and Death

Love and Death
7.6/10
Boris is a simple Russian villager who pines from afar for his beautiful cousin Sonja. Forced against his will into joining the Russian army during the Napoleonic Wars, the cowardly Boris accidentally becomes a military hero. But when his beloved Sonja comes to him with a dangerous patriotic scheme, Boris debates his desires and beliefs.

Le Viager

Le Viager
6.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 19/01/1972
In 1930, Louis Martinet, a peaceful sexagenarian, no longer has a long life to live according to the words of his doctor, Leon Galipeau, who sees to take advantage of the very interesting situation of the "future deceased". This one indeed has a small house in Saint-Tropez. Galipeau sniffs the windfall. Following his advice, Martinet agrees to give it in life to the brother of the doctor, Emile, and then rushes back to a health of iron. Worse, he even survives the war. Galipeau, exhausted, decide to use the great means to get rid of the importunce who persists in thwarting their project ...

Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves

Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
6/10
A lord’s servant, Ali Baba, is sent to retrieve a slave for his master, but ends up on an adventure filled with gold, mischief, love, and forty famous thieves instead.

My Wife's Husband

My Wife's Husband
6.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 20/12/1963
  • Character: Carlotti
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!

Cocagne

Cocagne
5.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 08/03/1961

Edward and Caroline

Edward and Caroline
6.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 06/04/1951
  • Character: Le coiffeur
Edouard is a young, headstrong musician. Caroline is his flibbertigibbet spouse. The two quarrel over an evening dress, they separate and then reunite.

Quartier Latin

Quartier Latin
5.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 30/08/1939
  • Character: Biscoule

Papa, Mama, My Wife and Me

Papa, Mama, My Wife and Me
6.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 18/10/1955
  • Character: L'employé du gaz (uncredited)
Robert Langlois is now married to Catherine, the former housemaid. And they would live happily ever after if the housing crisis did not force them to live together with Gabrielle and Fernand, Robert's parents. For, despite the good will on either side, tension soon arises. What else to expect when there is too little space in their Montmartre apartment for four people (then for six then eight, the couple having... two pairs of twins!) ; the continued presence there of Fernand (who loves peace and quiet) after he is driven to retirement ; the difficult beginnings of Robert as a lawyer in a room of the apartment, etc... Other troubles follow and the harried family is on the verge of implosion...

Your Money or Your Life

Your Money or Your Life
5.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 26/04/1966
  • Character: Le contrôleur de quai à Paris (uncredited)
Pétepan learns that his money has been lost by Robinhoude brothers.He asks his assistants to withdraw his amount from the bank.

The Gardener of Argenteuil

The Gardener of Argenteuil
5.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 07/10/1966
  • Character: Un gendarme
Tulipe, is an old man who lives alone in an old railway carriage in the Argentueil region of Paris. His main passions are gardening and oil painting, but he also has a secret source of income. His godson discovers that Tulipe is actually a master forger, producing perfect copies of 10 franc notes. His godson’s girlfriend sees this as an opportunity to get very rich – but she must persuade Tulipe to forge 500 franc notes. Assuming Tulipe’s agreement, his godson and his girlfriend buy an expensive new car and luxury villa in provincial France – but there is a cruel turn of fate in store for them when Tulipe strikes up a friendship with a millionaire playboy.

The Wild Oat

The Wild Oat
6.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 27/02/1953
  • Character: Le facteur
A small village is torn apart by a quarrel between the baker and the italian grocery tenant, mother of a pregnant young girl. She accuses the baker's son, doing his military service in Algeria, to be the father of the would be child. Offended, the baker refuses to deliver bread to the villagers standing on the mother's side.

Bouche cousue

Bouche cousue
4.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 26/04/1960
  • Character: Titin

L'école buissonnière

L'école buissonnière
7.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 07/04/1949
  • Character: The Barber

On Foot, on Horse, and on Wheels

On Foot, on Horse, and on Wheels
5.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 11/09/1957
  • Character: Duchemin
When he learns that his daughter is to be engaged to the son of a rich businessman, Leon Martin realizes that extreme measures are needed to create a good impression.

Je n'aime que toi

Je n'aime que toi
5.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 30/06/1949
  • Character: Le chauffeur

Le deuxième coup de feu

Le deuxième coup de feu
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 28/02/1969
  • Character: Un livreur

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