The best Jacques Dufilho’s movies

Jacques Dufilho

Jacques Dufilho

19/02/1914- 28/08/2005
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Jacques Dufilho’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 Jacques Dufilho.
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Nosferatu the Vampyre

Nosferatu the Vampyre
7.4/10
  • Genre: DramaHorror
  • Release: 17/01/1979
  • Character: Captain
Jonathan Harker, a real estate agent, goes to Transylvania to visit the mysterious Count Dracula and formalize the purchase of a property in Wismar. Once Jonathan is caught under his evil spell, Dracula travels to Wismar where he meets the beautiful Lucy, Jonathan's wife, while a plague spreads through the town, now ruled by death.

Zazie dans le Métro

Zazie dans le Métro
6.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyFantasy
  • Release: 28/10/1960
  • Character: Ferdinand Grédoux
A brash and precocious ten-year-old comes to Paris for a whirlwind weekend with her rakish uncle. He and the viewer get more than they bargained for, however, in this anarchic comedy that rides roughshod over the City of Light. Based on a popular novel by Raymond Queneau that had been considered unadaptable, the audacious Zazie dans le Métro, made with flair on the cusp of the French New Wave, is a bit of stream-of-consciousness slapstick, wall-to-wall with visual gags, editing tricks, and effects.

The Visit

The Visit
7.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 06/05/1964
  • Character: Fisch
Carla Zachanassian had a child by Serge Miller as a teenager. When Serge refused to marry her, she was driven out of town. By her own wit and cunning, she has returned as a multi-millionaire for a visit. The town lays out the red carpet expecting big things from Carla, only to learn that her sole purpose is to see Serge Miller killed...

Lady L

Lady L
5.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 17/12/1965
  • Character: Bealu
Lady L is an elegant 80-year-old woman who recalls her amorous life story, including past loves and lusty, scandalous adventures she has lived through.

War of the Buttons

War of the Buttons
7.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 18/04/1962
  • Character: L'Aztec's father
For generations, two rival French villages, Longueverne and Velrans, have been at war. But this is no ordinary conflict, for the on-going hostilities are between two armies of young schoolboys. When he is beaten by his father for having lost his buttons, the leader of the Longueverne army, Lebrac, has an idea which will give his side the advantage: next time, he and his brave soldiers will go in battle without their clothes...

Soldier of Fortune

Soldier of Fortune
6.1/10
  • Genre: ActionComedy
  • Release: 19/02/1976
  • Character: Mariano de Trani
Medieval soldier of fortune Ettore is travelling through Europe with his partners looking for fight where they can earn some money. When they come across a Spanish castle under siege by the French army, Ettore first bides his time to determine which side is the winning one (and thus more likely to pay his fee). This is as first the French, but the treatment he receives from them is unpleasant enough to make him change his mind and turn to the Spanish side. Somehow, Ettore must rally the weakened Spanish troops to battle their enemy long enough for reinforcements to arrive.

Saadia

Saadia
5.5/10
  • Genre: Adventure
  • Release: 01/12/1953
  • Character: Bandit leader
Saadia is a wild, strange Arab girl whose life has been dominated by a local sorceress, a vengeful outcast in the community, who has convinced her she has the "evil eye" and brings disaster to all who love her. French doctor Henrik takes her to his clinic, for rehabilitation purposes, and falls in love with her as does his friend, Si Lahssen, the reigning prince of this small Moroccan state. When a plague falls on the town, Saadia is convinced she is responsible, and rides alone into the mountain country to retrieve the plague serum being held for ransom by bandits. The love triangle dominates most of the rest of the film.

Clémentine chérie

Clémentine chérie
4.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 03/08/1964
  • Character: La bonne espagnole

The Overtaxed

The Overtaxed
7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 06/06/1959
  • Character: Prison superintendent
Since the IRS has ordered new taxes, all traders in the village are tormented. Only Torquato Pezzella, a wealthy merchant of rain does not give in to despair general. To escape the contributions it has offered a tax advisor, the very respectable Curto Hector, who is in reality an ignorant on the subject. Still, Pezzella that has so far managed to avoid the taxes through the valuable advice of his new partner. Until one day an inspector of the brigade versatile, the formidable Topponi Fabio decides to check himself the accounting of this individual who is enriched by eye and does not report to the state. The note is difficult to digest; home Pezzella owes more than fifteen million in contributions. However, an unexpected event will upset all the data ...

Dear Caroline

Dear Caroline
5.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 28/02/1951
  • Character: Le valet de Pont-Bellanger
France, July 1782. During her birthday, the beautiful young Marchioness Caroline meets the attractive soldier Gaston. It's love at first sight but Gaston does not wish to make a commitment because a military career waits for him. Caroline marries then a politician but the French Revolution bursts and Caroline has to run away to escape the guillotine. By running away she meets Gaston again who decides to help her.

Rookies Run Amok

Rookies Run Amok
5.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 15/12/1971
  • Character: Le colonel
Les Bidasses en Folie, a french movie from 1971, is a very short, easy to watch, slapstick hippie comedy.

The Children of the Marshland

The Children of the Marshland
7.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 03/03/1999
  • Character: Old man
The film is set in Marais, a quiet region along the banks of Loire river in 1918. Riton is afflicted with a bad-tempered wife and three unruly children. Garris lives alone with his recollections of World War I trenches. Their daily life consists of seasonal work and visits from their two pals: Tane, the local train conductor and Amédée, a dreamer and voracious reader of classics.

Pétain

Pétain
6/10
  • Genre: HistoryWar
  • Release: 05/05/1993
  • Character: Maréchal Philippe Pétain

Nathalie

Nathalie
6.3/10
Haute Couture mannequin in Paris becomes involved in the activities of two rival jewel thief gangs.

La Vouivre

La Vouivre
5.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 11/01/1989
  • Character: Urbain
Arsène Muselier returns to his home village at the end of the First World War. His only injury is a head wound, which sometimes provokes periods of delirium and fury. As he renews his acquaintance with the people he left behind - his mother, the old farmhand who brought him up after his father's death, his former girlfriend, and many others - he becomes fascinated by the legend of La Vouivre, a creature with the body of a woman who lives in the marsh, surrounded by vipers. One day, Arsène sees the strange woman - she is naked, beautiful, alluring, and he is instantly enchanted by her. Can she be real, or is she merely a creation of his damaged mind...?

The Doctor...the Schoolgirl

The Doctor...the Schoolgirl
4.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 08/06/1976
  • Character: Colonel Oreste Raselli
Claudia, a perky eighteen year-old girl, is crushed when her step mother prevents her from going on a vacation to London. She discovers her step mother is having an affair with a doctor and so, with the help of her friends, sets about getting her revenge.

Supermen Against the Orient

Supermen Against the Orient
4.4/10
  • Genre: ActionComedy
  • Release: 29/11/1973
  • Character: American Consul
Robert Wallace travels to Hong Kong to bust a gang of drug trafficker's. There he finds help from Tang and Suzy, as well as his fellow Supermen Max & Jerry.

Sweet and Sour

Sweet and Sour
6.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 04/09/1963
  • Character: Monsieur Alfonso
Gerard, a young man from a "good family" dreams of becoming an actor. To do this, he follows everywhere his sister Frédérique who is infatuated with cinéma vérité.

Black and White in Color

Black and White in Color
6.8/10
French colonists in Africa, several months behind in the news, find themselves at war with their German neighbors. Deciding that they must do their proper duty and fight the Germans, they promptly conscript the local native population. Issuing them boots and rifles, the French attempt to make "proper" soldiers out of the Africans. A young, idealistic French geographer seems to be the only rational person in the town, and he takes over control of the "war" after several bungles on the part of the others.

Sideral Cruises

Sideral Cruises
5.5/10
Robert and Françoise Monier make a hot air balloon to fly to the stratosphere. After a visit to Venus, they return home, but have only aged 15 days whereas 25 years have passed on Earth.

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