The best Michel Modo’s comedy movies

Michel Modo

Michel Modo

30/03/1937- 25/09/2008
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Michel Modo’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 Michel Modo.

La Grande Vadrouille

La Grande Vadrouille
7.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyWar
  • Release: 08/12/1966
  • Character: Le soldat qui louche
During World War II, two French civilians and a downed British Bomber Crew set out from Paris to cross the demarcation line between Nazi-occupied Northern France and the South. From there they will be able to escape to England. First, they must avoid German troops - and the consequences of their own blunders.

Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez

Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez
7.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 08/09/1964
  • Character: Jules Berlicot
The ambitious police officer Cruchot is transferred to St. Tropez. He's struggling with crimes such as persistent nude swimming, but even more with his teenage daughter, who's trying to impress her rich friends by telling them her father was a millionaire and owned a yacht in the harbor.

My Mother's Castle

My Mother's Castle
7.6/10
My Mother's Castle (Le chateau de ma mere) is a sequel and companion piece to My Father's Glory (La Gloire de Mon Pere), both based on the childhood recollections of Marcel Pagnol. Like its predecessor, the movie explores the adventures of the young Marcel (Julien Ciamaca) during his summers at the family summer home in Provence.

The Sucker

The Sucker
7.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 24/03/1965
  • Character: Customs officer
In this Frenco-Italian gangster parody, a shop keeper on his way to an Italian holiday suffers a crash which totals his car. The culprit can only compensate his ruined trip by driving an American friends car from Napels to Bordeaux, but as it happens to be filled with such contraband as stolen money, jewelry and drugs, the involuntary and unwitting companions in crime soon attract all but recreational attention from the "milieu".

The Gendarme in New York

The Gendarme in New York
6.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 28/10/1965
  • Character: Jules Berlicot
The second installment of Gendarmes series, tells the story of Sergeant Cruchot (Louis De Funes), who, together with his faithful comrades, has been sent to the International Congress of Gendarmerie in N.Y.

The Gendarme and the Creatures from Outer Space

The Gendarme and the Creatures from Outer Space
6.3/10
The bungling inspector Cruchot (Funès) finds himself trying to save the residents of St. Tropez from some oil-drinking humanoid aliens. The only way to tell the aliens from the real people, besides their constant thirst for oil-products, is that they sound like empty garbage cans when you touch them. Chaos is ahead.

The Gendarme Gets Married

The Gendarme Gets Married
6.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 30/10/1968
  • Character: Jules Berlicot
The Saint-Tropez police launch a major offensive against dangerous drivers. Marechal Cruchot (Louis de Funès) relishes the assignment, which he pursues with a manic zeal. Cruchot is after an offending driver, who turns out to be Josépha (Claude Gensac), the widow of a highly regarded police colonel. When they meet, Cruchot falls instantly in love....

The Miser

The Miser
6.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 05/03/1980
  • Character: La merluche
Based on Molière's play. The children of Harpagon, Cléante and his sister Elise, are each in love but they still haven't spoken to their father yet. Harpagon is a miser who wants to choose the right man and the right woman for his children. When Cléante, at last, tries to speak to Harpagon, the old man informs the family that he wants to marry Marianne, the young girl loved by Cléante. Unaware of his son's sorrow, Harpagon doesn't understand why Cléante has become so angry with him.

The Gendarme and the Gendarmettes

The Gendarme and the Gendarmettes
6.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 03/10/1982
  • Character: Jules Berlicot
Cruchot's police office moves into a new building. They do not only get high tech equipment, but also four young female police officers to educate. All of them scramble to work with them -- and cause pure chaos while being distracted by the fine ladies. Then they get into real trouble when one after the other of their female colleagues is kidnapped.

The Restaurant

The Restaurant
6.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 09/09/1966
  • Character: Petit Roger, un serveur
A great French restaurant's owner, Monsieur Septime (Louis de Funès), is thrust into intrigue and crime, when one of his famous guests disappears.

The American Beauty

The American Beauty
6.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 29/09/1961
Marcel, a simple-minded factory worker, is tricked into buying a high-priced American convertable car by a widow determined not to let it fall into the hands of her late husband's secretary/secret lover. Once in pocession of the car, Marcel only encounters one bad luck episode after another with the excessive gasoline consumtion, his wife trying to sell it to make ammends meet, getting into traffic jams, accidently riding into a car wash with the top down, and more

The Gendarme Takes Off

The Gendarme Takes Off
6.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 28/10/1970
  • Character: Jules Berlicot
The whole clique of Cruchot's police station is retired. Now he lives with his rich wife in her castle - and is bored almost to death. He fights with the butler, because he isn't even allowed to do the simple works. But when one of the clique suffers from amnesia after an accident, all of the others reunite and kidnap him, to take him on a tour to their old working places and through their memories. In their old uniforms they turn St. Tropez upside down.

The Smurfs and the Magic Flute

The Smurfs and the Magic Flute
5.9/10
The evil knight Torchesac, who is at the service of the sinister lord of La Mortaille, gets a very powerful magic flute and uses it for evil purposes. Johan and Pirlouit, assisted by the magician Homnibus, travel to the land of the Smurfs, the only manufacturers of this sort of instrument, to get a new one and battle the usurpers.

Rita the Field Marshal

Rita the Field Marshal
4.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyWar
  • Release: 21/12/1967
  • Character: Fritz Vogel's Assistant
A waitress helps a scientist flee the Nazis.

The Seventh Company Has Been Found

The Seventh Company Has Been Found
6.7/10
  • Genre: ActionComedyWar
  • Release: 10/12/1975
  • Character: Le soldat allemand (« groupir »)
The second part of the Seventh Company adventures.

Les Gorilles

Les Gorilles
5.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 23/12/1964
  • Character: acteur
A confused pair of airport luggage carriers get involved in the disappearance of some suitcases.

Pétrole ! Pétrole !

Pétrole ! Pétrole !
4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/01/1981
Le PDG d'une importante société pétrolière voit ses manoeuvres illicites déjouées par un jeune concurrent dont la femme n'est autre que la fille de son fournisseur arabe.

All the Gold in the World

All the Gold in the World
6.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/11/1961
  • Character: Tony
Businessman Victor Hardy wants to buy the entire area around the small village of Cabosse. He claims that he wants to return to nature, but he also intends to profit by selling the water from the village fountain, which is reputed to enhance longevity. However old farmer Mathieu and his sons don't want to sell...

La Tête du client

La Tête du client
5.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 03/09/1965
  • Character: Le collègue de François-Joseph

Bébert et l'omnibus

Bébert et l'omnibus
6.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 03/12/1963
  • Character: Un gendarme (sous le nom Modo)
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