The best Fernandel’s comedy movies

Fernandel

Fernandel

08/05/1903- 26/02/1971
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Fernandel’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 Fernandel.
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Don Camillo

Don Camillo
7.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 28/03/1952
  • Character: Don Camillo
In a village of the Po valley where the earth is hard and life miserly, the priest and the communist mayor are always fighting to be the head of the community. If in secret, they admired and liked each other, politics still divided them as it is dividing the country. And when the mayor wants his "People's House"; the priest wants his "Garden City" for the poor. Division exist between the richest and the poorest, the pious and the atheists and even between lovers. But if the people are hard as the country, they are good in the bottom of there heart.

Around the World in Eighty Days

Around the World in Eighty Days
6.7/10
Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, a very short period for those days.

The Return of Don Camillo

The Return of Don Camillo
7.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 05/06/1953
  • Character: Don Camillo
After his battles with the communist mayor Peppone, Don Camillo is sent in exile by his bishop in a remote village. Peppone thought he got the village in his hands. But when the municipality decide to build a dike against the periodic floods, the proprietor of the land refuses. War between the village clans is about to begin. Maybe only the strong hand of the priest could persuade the landlord to change his mind. Will Peppone passed over his pride and send for his enemy?

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.

Don Camillo's Last Round

Don Camillo's Last Round
7.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyHistory
  • Release: 29/09/1955
  • Character: Don Camillo
Peppone, hardened mayor in Brescello, the small village on the Po river, aspires to become senator. Neither before or after WWII, where he fought against the Germans and fascists, he never went seriously to school, so he needs (at least) a diploma. Believe it or not, don Camillo helps Peppone to pass the examination (with the forecast of moving to Rome) prompting him the solution of geometry's problem. As implicit reward, Peppone writes a composition about "A man I'll never forget": obviously don Camillo, when Peppone was a resistant in WWII, and don Camillo the young military chaplain. Getting the diploma was the first step. The election campaign just started and the two big parties - Christian-democratic and Communist, forgetful of respective favors, settle down an electoral "war of the words", mean tricks (culminating with the famous horny Peppone/Lucifer) and easy propaganda.

Don Camillo: Monsignor

Don Camillo: Monsignor
7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 06/10/1961
  • Character: Don Camillo
Don Camillo is now a bishop, Peppone is now a senator, but their rivalry is as fierce as when they were just a village priest, and a village administrator. Don Camillo learns that Peppone is about to promote the building of a communal house on the place of an old, derelict church, and that spurns the old flame. They descend from Rome onto quiet Brescello, and they will agitate their faithful hosts, christians against communists, using all devious ways. Even Christ makes a cameo appearance, when things are going a trifle too far.

The Devil and the Ten Commandments

The Devil and the Ten Commandments
6.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 14/09/1962
  • Character: Dieu / God
The film consists of seven roughly 15 minute episodes, each showing what will happen if one or more of the Ten Commandments will be broken: Jérome Chambard is warned that he will lose his job if he continues to swear; Françoise Beaufort enamored of a stripper calls on her only to find her married to a janitor who doesn't know what kind of dancing his wife performs; Denis, a Jesuit novice, leaves the order to avenge his sister's suicide, which was provoked by Garigny, who seduced her into prostitution and drug addiction; Philip buys a necklace for Micheline though he is bored with her; a young man find out that his real mother is not Madeleine, but actress Clarisse Ardant; Didier Marin, cashier of a bank, was fired by his boss; the Devil appears as a serpent for Jérome Chambard and the bishop are eating.

Don Camillo in Moscow

Don Camillo in Moscow
6.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyHistory
  • Release: 17/09/1965
  • Character: Don Camillo
The village of mayor Peppone and Don Camillo, after much dispute, gets assigned a sister village in Russia. When Peppone and his comrades decide to attend the ceremony on the other side of the iron curtain, Don Camillo wants to join. Peppone is strictly against this but after Don Camillo threatens him to disclose information about an earlier side step the mayor agrees. Don Camillo arranges for false papers: He is now comrade Tarocci. Only Peppone and the other villagers know who he really is. In Russia the agenda includes various cultural events: Ballet, Opera, a fishing competition and various parties...

The Cow and I

The Cow and I
7.1/10
In 1942, a French prisonner of war in Germany decide to escape to France using a cow hold by a lunge as a decoy. He cross all Germany in this way.

Paris Holiday

Paris Holiday
5.7/10
Comedian Bob Hunter is aided by his French counterpart Fernydel and two beautiful blondes when he is targeted for death by a powerful European counterfeiting ring.

The Red Inn

The Red Inn
7.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 19/10/1951
  • Character: Le Moine
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.

That Tender Age

That Tender Age
5.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 23/12/1964
  • Character: Adolphe Lartigue
Antoine and Marie decided to introduce their parents before the wedding. Summer vacation looks like a good time, so the Lartigue family prepares to host Malhouin family. But it turns out that the harsh Emil Malhouin is not too happy to get acquainted with his future relatives...

Cocagne

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

The Wild Oat

The Wild Oat
6.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 27/02/1953
  • Character: Félicien Hébrard
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.

The Sheep Has Five Legs

The Sheep Has Five Legs
6.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 24/09/1954
  • Character: Edouard de Saint-Forget
The Sheep Has Five Legs (French: Le Mouton à cinq pattes) is a 1954 French film directed by Henri Verneuil. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Story.

My Wife's Husband

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

Fric-Frac

Fric-Frac
6.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 15/06/1939
  • Character: Marcel
An employee at a jewelry store falls in love with a woman who secretly plans to rob the store.

Le Schpountz

Le Schpountz
7.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 15/04/1938
  • Character: Irénée Fabre
A pompous grocer’s assistant in Marseille annoys a visiting film crew so much that they prank him with a phony acting contract; believing it to be real, the “schpountz” heads to Paris for his new career.

The Last Judgment

The Last Judgment
6.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 26/10/1961
  • Character: The widower
The Last Judgement (Italian: Il giudizio universale) is a 1961 commedia all'italiana film by Italian director Vittorio De Sica. It was coproduced with France. It has an all-star Italian and international cast, including Americans Jack Palance, Ernest Borgnine; Greek Melina Mercouri and French Fernandel, Anouk Aimée and Lino Ventura. The film was a huge flop, massacred by critics and audiences when it was released. It was filmed in black and white, but the last sequence, the dance at theatre, is in color.

Your Money or Your Life

Your Money or Your Life
5.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 26/04/1966
  • Character: Charles Migue
Pétepan learns that his money has been lost by Robinhoude brothers.He asks his assistants to withdraw his amount from the bank.

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