So, you want to know more about French culture by exploring the profound realm of French comedies, very good.

Then, here are 5 classical French comedies:

  • Le Père Noël est une ordure - Yet another ordinary Christmas Eve for the "SOS Détresse Amitié" team, a helpline for depressed people. If you don't like Santa Claus you may prefer Les Bronzés font du ski performed by the same company Le Splendid.
  • Les Trois Frères - Three very different people who have never met are gathered by a civil-law notary, where they discover that they are brothers and just inherited a fortune. As they naturally spend almost all of their money to celebrate this, they are informed that according to the will, the inheritance is not their anymore. Written and performed by Les Inconnus.
  • Le Grand Blond avec une chaussure noire - In this kind of French Burn after reading by Francis Veber (L'Emmerdeur), rivalries between top police executives lead to the spying of a completely innocent scapegoat. Featuring Pierre Richard (Le jouet), Bernard Blier (Les Tontons Flingueurs), Jean Rochefort (Ridicule); music by Vladimir Cosma.
  • La Folie des grandeurs - In the 16th century Spanish court, a greedy tax collector looks for revenge after having been destituted by the king. Featuring Louis de Funès (La Grande Vadrouille, L'Aile ou la Cuisse) and Yves Montand (Le Cercle Rouge, I comme Icare).
  • Le Dîner de Cons - A bunch of posh guys use to have fun by inviting idiots for dinner and electing the dumbest. One of them is a famous publisher, who can barely contain his excitement when he finds out that he can invite a super idiot fond of building replicas of monuments with matchsticks. A Wodehouse-like comedy.

Almost made the list: La cité de la peur (mysterious murders occur in movie theaters during Cannes Film Festival), La Tour Montparnasse infernale (French Die Hard), Les Visiteurs (two Middle Ages guys are sent to the 20th century), Grégoire Moulin contre l'humanité (a strange quest for a wallet in soccer-impregnated Paris).