Louis de Funès

Two old french countrymen are living a quiet life in their little old farms. The first one, Claude Ratinier, aka "le Glaude" (Louis de Funès), is a widower, and the second one, Francis Chérasse, aka "Cicisse" (Jean Carmet), is single. They spend their days drinking liters of wine and pastis, reminding themselves the good old times. One evening, they happen to start a farting contest, which seems to provoke a lightning storm... Then they go to sleep, but somebody has been quite interested by their kind of expression, and is preparing to change their life...—Anonymous

The Cabbage Soup

The Cabbage Soup (1981)

Charles Duchemin runs a Michelin-style culinary guide, personally visiting restaurants in disguise. He plans to retire and leave the firm in the hands of his son Gérard, ignoring the latter his little interest in gastronomy but secretly performs as circus clown with penniless friends. When assistant Dubreil reports that Jacques Tricatel, CEO of a despised fast food chain, plans to buy and qualitatively ruin several reputed restaurants, and even sends a spy to steal the Duchemin stars list for the new edition, who fails, Charles make sit his mission to find out and counter this. During a tour along restaurants outside Paris, accompanied by Gérard (his circus in tail and Charles's foxy interim secretary Marguerite, he finds the Tricatel factory which is even ghastlier then he feared, but also looses his taste. Tricatel sent his deputy to spy on them, who finds out about father and son's weaknesses, while Charles and Jacques accepted to debate on the provocative TV show 'anything goes'.—KGF Vissers

The Wing or The Thigh?

The Wing or The Thigh? (1976)

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.—Tom Zoerner

The Gendarme and the Gendarmettes

The Gendarme and the Gendarmettes (1982)

In this riot of frantic disguises and mistaken identities, Victor Pivert, a blustering, bigoted French factory owner, finds himself taken hostage by Slimane, an Arab rebel leader. The two dress up as rabbis as they try to elude not only assasins from Slimane's country, but also the police, who think Pivert is a murderer. Pivert ends up posing as Rabbi Jacob, a beloved figure who's returned to France for his first visit after 30 years in the United States. Adding to the confusion are Pivert's dentist-wife, who thinks her husband is leaving her for another woman, their daughter, who's about to get married, and a Parisian neighborhood filled with people eager to celebrate the return of Rabbi Jacob.—Eugene Kim

The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob

The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob (1973)

The ambitious police officer Cruchot is transferred to St. Tropez. He's struggling with persistent nude swimmers, 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. He gets drawn into it when he tries to cover for her when a friend 'lends' the car of her assumed father. It turns out that the real owners of the yacht aren't exactly what they pretend to be either...—Tom Zoerner

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The Cabbage Soup

1981

Action/ Comedy/ Drama/ Sci-Fi

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Duration: 102 min

IMDB Rating: 6.5

Language: fr

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Louis de Funès as -Claude Ratinier

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