The best Robert Dalban’s comedy movies

Robert Dalban

Robert Dalban

19/07/1903- 03/04/1987
Today we present the best Robert Dalban’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 Robert Dalban’s movies.
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The Brain

The Brain
6.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 07/03/1969
  • Character: Belgian with a Cold
Arthur and Anatole are two little robbers. They want to rob money, money that will travel in a special train from Paris to Bruxelles. They don't know that other people have planned to do the same thing.

Knock on Wood

Knock on Wood
7.3/10
When the boss' unlucky daughter is missing in South America, Campana is sent to watch the boss' most unlucky employee who is sent as a private detective in hopes he can duplicate the daughter's mistakes.

Fantomas

Fantomas
6.9/10
Fantômas is a man of many disguises. He uses maquillage as a weapon. He can impersonate anyone using an array of masks and can create endless confusion by constantly changing his appearance.

The Restaurant

The Restaurant
6.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 09/09/1966
  • Character: Le conspirateur français
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 Party

The Party
6.7/10
A thirteen-year-old French girl deals with moving to a new city and school in Paris, while at the same time her parents are getting a divorce.

Fantomas Unleashed

Fantomas Unleashed
6.8/10
In the second episode of the trilogy Fantômas kidnaps distinguished scientist professor Marchand with the aim to develop a super weapon that will enable him to menace the world. Fantômas is also planning to abduct a second scientist, professor Lefebvre.

The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe

The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe
7.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyMystery
  • Release: 06/12/1972
  • Character: Coco, fake delivery man
Hapless orchestra player becomes an unwitting pawn of rival factions within the French secret service after he is chosen as a decoy by being identified as a super secret agent.

The Party 2

The Party 2
6.2/10
A young French teenage girl after moving to a new city falls in love with a boy and is thinking of having sex with him because her girlfriends have already done it.

Fantomas vs. Scotland Yard

Fantomas vs. Scotland Yard
6.7/10
In the third and final episode of the trilogy, Fantômas imposes a head tax on the rich, threatening to kill those who do not comply.

The Old Guard

The Old Guard
6.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 02/09/1960
  • Character: Jérôme Ardouin, le fossoyeur

Incorrigible

Incorrigible
6.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 15/10/1975
  • Character: Freddy
Victor Vautier is incorrigible: he's in constant motion, working several cons at once, using different names and changing disguises. He's charming and outrageous, incapable of uttering a sentence that isn't embellished or an outright lie. His life goal is to make enough money to build a sea wall to protect Mont-Saint-Michel. Charlotte, a parole officer, shows up: she's young and seems taken in by Victor. He discovers she lives above the Senlus Museum, where her parents are the curators. With two pals he decides to steal a priceless El Greco triptych and then ransom it back to the cultural ministry. What will Charlotte do when she realizes he's used her to make a fortune?

The ComDads

The ComDads
6.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 23/11/1983
  • Character: Hotel Receptionist
Unable to find her runaway son, a woman deceives two of her ex-lovers from her youth, a mild-mannered teacher and a tough journalist, that each is the real father in order to obtain their help.

Umbrella Coup

Umbrella Coup
6.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 08/10/1980
  • Character: Le régisseur du café-théâtre
Grégoire Lecomte, the unlucky actor anxious to find a "real job", goes to take a screen test for a role of a killer, but gets to mafiosi by mistake. He takes their don for a producer, and they mistake him for a hitman with whom they had an appointment. Deluded Lecomte signs contract with them. He is supposed to kill gun dealer Otto Krampe at his birthday party in Saint-Tropez by piercing him with a cap of the umbrella with a built-in syringe with potassium cyanide. Lecomte is not aware that it has to be a real murder.

Hothead

Hothead
7.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 14/02/1979
  • Character: Jeanjean
Delightful French comedy about a talented soccer player whose foul temper causes him to be cut from the team, lose his job and even be banned from his favorite bar.

The Slap

The Slap
6.3/10
A Parisian teacher (Lino Ventura) loses his cool when his teenage daughter tells him she plans to drop out of school and move in with her boyfriend.

Let's Not Get Angry

Let's Not Get Angry
6.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 20/04/1966
  • Character: l'embaumeur
One-time gangster Antoine is enjoying retirement on the coast, now managing a boating club. He receives a visit from a former accomplice who asks for a loan. The money will be repaid by a crook who is now in hiding; Antoine intends to recover his money.

Crooks in Clover

Crooks in Clover
7.7/10
An aging gangster, Fernand Naudin is hoping for a quiet retirement when he suddenly inherits a fortune from an old friend, a former gangster supremo known as the Mexican. If he is ambivalent about his new found wealth, Fernand is positively nonplussed to discover that he has also inherited his benefactor’s daughter, Patricia. Unfortunately, not only does Fernand have to put up with the thoroughly modern Patricia and her nauseating boyfriend, but he also had to contend with the Mexican’s trigger-happy former employees, who are determined to make a claim.

Now Where Did the Seventh Company Get to?

Now Where Did the Seventh Company Get to?
6.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyWar
  • Release: 13/12/1973
  • Character: Farmer
1940: During the chaotic running fights of the French army the 7th company disappears - nobody knows they've been taken captive. Only their scouting patrol, three witty but lazy guys, can escape and now wanders around behind the German lines. They'd like to just stay out the fights, but a Lieutenant urges them to use a captured truck to break through to their troops.

There Once Was a Cop

There Once Was a Cop
6.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 11/02/1972
  • Character: Le commissaire Chauvet
Campana, a commissar at the drugs bureau of Paris police gets an undercover job in Nice to catch an Italian-French mafia boss. As he slips into the identity of a gangster's brother, who was already killed, he has to play the role of a loving husband with child - something that is not so easy for a confirmed single like Campana. Unfortunately American killers chase behind the Nice mafia clan too, in order to get control of French drug trades to USA.

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.

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