The best Gérard Darrieu’s comedy movies

Gérard Darrieu

Gérard Darrieu

11/09/1925- 22/01/2004
Today we present the best Gérard Darrieu’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Gérard Darrieu’s movies.

My American Uncle

My American Uncle
7.6/10
Prof. Henri Laborit uses the stories of the lives of three people to discuss behaviorist theories of survival, combat, rewards and punishment, and anxiety. René is a technical manager at a textile factory and must face the anxiety caused by corporate downsizing. Janine is a self-educated actress/stylist who learns that the wife of her lover is dying and must decide to let them reunite. Jean is a controversial career-climbing writer/politician at a crossroads in life.

The Great Spy Chase

The Great Spy Chase
6.8/10
A cold-war spy parody. After the death of an armaments manufacturer, an international group of spies is drawn into a high-stakes battle of wits to obtain the valuable military patents which have been inherited by the lovely widow.

The Elusive Corporal

The Elusive Corporal
7/10
  • Genre: ComedyDramaWar
  • Release: 23/05/1962
  • Character: L'homme qui louche / The cross-eyed man
The story serves as a companion piece to Renoir's 1937 film, Grand Illusion, once more bringing together men from across the broad social spectrum of French society to depict one man's Sisyphean efforts to escape captivity in a German POW camp.

Sans famille

Sans famille
7.1/10
The Remi abandoned by his foster father sold to the troubadour Vasalis, in his living through the rural villages the people to entertain, gehoplen his three dogs and a monkey. In the beginning Remi takes its new master, but a demanding and hard man, and the animals have not been too much with the clumsy boy. But gradually creates a bond between Remi and his new comrades, until their friendship is suddenly disrupted when Vasalis is arrested for vagrancy and sentenced. Then Remi, alone in the world, along with his animal friends in position to try to keep ...

Sénéchal the Magnificent

Sénéchal the Magnificent
6.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 24/05/1957
  • Character: Un gangster (uncredited)
Sénéchal, an actor touring the provinces with the "Tournées Carlini" does not meet the success he thinks he deserves. One night in Dreux, he finds himself without his luggage and dressed up as a Foreign Legion officer, he is invited to a party thrown by a colonel. He creates a sensation there and does not leave the colonel's wife ... indifferent! Back in Paris, Sénéchal goes through a similar experience. This time around, wearing tuxedo and top hat, he gets mistaken for a diplomat and charms the guests of a wedding party. Arrested by the police, he chooses to do without an attorney at his trial and his brilliant eloquence has him acquitted. A question remains unanswered though : will all those people who give an ovation in real life ever go to see him on stage ?

L'amour n'est pas un péché

L'amour n'est pas un péché
5.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 27/06/1952
  • Character: Un déménageur

La Sentinelle endormie

La Sentinelle endormie
5.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 21/01/1966
  • Character: Boissier

Les malabars sont au parfum

Les malabars sont au parfum
4.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 02/02/1966
  • Character: Petrossian - un agent russe

The Fenouillard Family

The Fenouillard Family
5.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 04/01/1961
The Fenouillards (Sophie Desmarets and Jean Richard are the parents, Annie Sinigalia and Marie-José Ruíz are the daughters) are shopkeepers with higher aspirations. The Monsieur wants to run for mayor of their town, but the family acknowledges he has little experience of the real world -- and so they all take off to experience it together. After starting out by getting lost, the family goes through an odyssey that takes them to Brazil, the Antarctic, and Japan in a series of episodic adventures.

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