French Comedy Quiz: Do you know your classics?

With its rich cinematic heritage, France can boast an impressive catalog of quality comedy films that have been produced over several decades. Indeed, for more than fifty years, each generation knows its iconic comedies and legendary comedians.

In the 1960s, Louis de Funes knew how to entertain the whole country with his inimitable mimes and tics. In a few years, the actor has chained an impressive number of films to great success. There is, of course, the Gendarme series, which began with Le Gendarme de Saint Tropez in 1964, which would have four sequels. Another series with Fantômas and his three films alongside Jean Marais. Without forgetting the duet created with Bourville for Le Corniaud or La Grande Vadrouille.

If de Funes is still filling rooms in the 70s, a serious competitor will appear in the form of the obsessive Pierre Richard, a kind of gentle clown seducer. Here, too, success follows a cabaret for the young actor with Le Grand Blond with Black Shoes, La Course à l’échalotte and his numerous collaborations with the director Francis Weber, with whom he.
Will shoot a toy and three films with Gerard Depardieu (La Chèvre, Les Compères, Les Fugitives).

A new generation of comedians would continue to succeed today, starting with La troop du Splendid with Les Bronzés and Santa Claus the Garbage, the Fife Gang and Philippe Lachaux films or the Tuche series. Olivier Baroux films without forgetting Les. Nulls and Alain Chabat and Les Inconus.

Let’s propose a little quiz with ten iconic French comedies of recent years, which you will have to recognize with the help of a simple image.