The best Jean-Pierre Cassel’s comedy movies

Jean-Pierre Cassel

Jean-Pierre Cassel

27/10/1932- 19/04/2007
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Astérix at the Olympic Games

Astérix at the Olympic Games
5.2/10
Astérix and Obélix have to win the Olympic Games in order to help their friend Alafolix marry Princess Irina. Brutus uses every trick in the book to have his own team win the game, and get rid of his father Julius Caesar in the process.

The Three Musketeers

The Three Musketeers
7.1/10
The young D'Artagnan arrives in Paris with dreams of becoming a king's musketeer. He meets and quarrels with three men, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, each of whom challenges him to a duel. D'Artagnan finds out they are musketeers and is invited to join them in their efforts to oppose Cardinal Richelieu, who wishes to increase his already considerable power over the king. D'Artagnan must also juggle affairs with the charming Constance Bonancieux and the passionate Lady De Winter, a secret agent for the cardinal.

The Four Musketeers

The Four Musketeers
6.9/10
The Four Musketeers defend the queen and her dressmaker from Cardinal Richelieu and Milady de Winter.

Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 hours 11 minutes

Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 hours 11 minutes
7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 16/06/1965
  • Character: Pierre Dubois
In order to boost circulation of his newspaper, Lord Rawnsley announces an air race and offers £10,000 to the first person who can fly across the English Channel. But one of the participants, Percy, plots to sabotage his competitor's planes. Will Percy triumph?

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
7.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 15/09/1972
  • Character: M. Sénéchal
In Luis Buñuel’s deliciously satiric masterpiece, an upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but never eats, their attempts continually thwarted by a vaudevillian mixture of events both actual and imagined.

Narco

Narco
6.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/12/2004
  • Character: Le père de Gus
Gustave Klopp suffers from narcolepsy, he can fall asleep everwhere at anytime whithout warning. Living a simple life with his wife Pam and his best friend Lenny Bar, Gus decides to undergo therapy sessions and finds out that he can make incredible comics from his dreams.

The Return of the Musketeers

The Return of the Musketeers
5.9/10
It's 1649: Mazarin hires the impoverished D'Artagnan to find the other musketeers: Cromwell has overthrown the English king, so Mazarin fears revolt, particularly from the popular Beaufort. Porthos, bored with riches and wanting a title, signs on, but Aramis, an abbé, and Athos, a brawler raising an intellectual son, assist Beaufort in secret. When they fail to halt Beaufort's escape from prison, the musketeers are expendable, and Mazarin sends them to London to rescue Charles I. They are also pursued by Justine, the avenging daughter of Milady de Winter, their enemy 20 years ago. They must escape England, avoid Justine, serve the Queen, and secure Beauford's political reforms.

Ready to Wear

Ready to Wear
5.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 23/12/1994
  • Character: Olivier de la Fontaine
Paris Fashion Week draws the usual bunch of people; designers, reporters, models, magazine editors, photographers. Follows the various storylines of these characters, centering around a murder investigation of a prominent fashion figure. Features an all-star cast.

The Seven Deadly Sins

The Seven Deadly Sins
6.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 07/03/1962
  • Character: Raymond
Seven directors each dramatize one of the seven deadly sins in a short film. In "Anger," a domestic argument over a fly in the Sunday soup escalates into nuclear war. In "Sloth," a movie ...

Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?

Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?
6.4/10
Mystery abounds when it is discovered that, one by one, the greatest Chefs in Europe are being killed. The intriguing part of the murders is that each chef is killed in the same manner that their own special dish is prepared in. Food critics and the (many) self-proclaimed greatest Chefs in Europe demand the mystery be solved.

Oh! What a Lovely War

Oh! What a Lovely War
7/10
Satire about the First World War based on a stage musical of the same name, portraying the "Game of War" and focusing mainly on the members of one family (last name Smith) who go off to war. Much of the action in the movie revolves around the words of the marching songs of the soldiers, and many scenes portray some of the more famous (and infamous) incidents of the war, including the assassination of Duke Ferdinand, the Christmas meeting between British and German soldiers in no-mans-land, and the wiping out by their own side of a force of Irish soldiers newly arrived at the front, after successfully capturing a ridge that had been contested for some time.

High Infidelity

High Infidelity
6.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 22/01/1964
  • Character: Tonino
Four different directors present lighthearted stories about married Italian couples and their dilemmas with jealousy, sex and love.

Casque bleu

Casque bleu
5.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 15/06/1994
  • Character: Nicolas
Winegrower Patrick Ponsac comes close to ruining his marriage when he has an affair with another woman. By way of atonement, he takes his wife back to the Mediterranean island where, 13 years earlier, they spent their honeymoon. Not such a good move, as it turns out. The peacemaking holiday coincides with the outbreak of a bloody civil war. Having failed to leave the country, Patrick, his wife and their eccentric entourage are taken hostage by merciless guerrillas…

Love at the Top

Love at the Top
6.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 13/03/1974
  • Character: Claude Fabre
Nicholas Mallet, an inconspicuous and shy bank employee, one day successfully invites Marie-Paul, a young woman he hadn’t known before, in the streets of Paris to a café and sleeps with her the next day. When he tells his surprised friend Claude about the incident, the disillusioned and handicapped writer develops a plan to control and manipulate Nicholas’ life. First of all, he procures him to Roberte, a professor of philosophy’s frustrated and bored wife...

The Twist

The Twist
4.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 23/06/1976
  • Character: Jacques Lavolet, l'éditeur
Bored aristocratic Parisian couples begin affairs with each other which only brings trouble.

Bad Faith

Bad Faith
6.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 06/12/2006
  • Character: Victor Breitmann

The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers

The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers
5.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 14/08/1964
  • Character: Alain des Arcys
Five swindle stories, taking place in five international cities: Tokyo, Japan ("Fumiko's Five Benefactors" by Hiromichi Horikawa); Amsterdam, The Netherlands ("A River of Diamonds" by Roman Polanski); Naples, Italy ("The Road Map" by Ugo Gregoretti); Paris, France ("The Man Who Sold the Eiffel Tower" by Claude Chabrol); and Marrakesh, Morocco ("The Confidence Man" by Jean-Luc Godard). Godard's segment was not included in the original French cinema release, and Polanski's segment was not included on the 2016 home disc release.

Casanova

Casanova
5.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/03/1987
  • Character: Louis XV
TV Movie version of the story of Giacomo Casanova, the famous eighteenth century womanizer.

The Maid

The Maid
5.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 02/08/1991
  • Character: C.P. Olivier
A man goes off to Paris to start his new job at a bank. When he falls in love with a beautiful woman, he decides to work as her maid -- until he discovers she not only is his boss, but his colleague at the bank.

Crazy in the Noodle

Crazy in the Noodle
6.2/10
Pierre Cousin, a depressive compositor, wants to die. After five vain attempts at committing suicide, he decides to hire professional hit men to do the job on him. But as he's waiting for death, he accidentally saves a suicidal young woman's life... and falls in love. Having suddenly found a reason to live, he now fears the killers he himself hired. Is there still time to call off his contract?

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