List of the best Fernandel movies: The Law Is the Law(1959), The Cow and I(1959), Three Sinners(1950), The Sheep Has Five Legs(1954), Happy He Who Like Ulysses(1969), La Cuisine au Beurre(1963), Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves(1954), Your Money or Your Life(1966), Le Confident de ces dames(1958), The Little World of Don Camillo(1951), Forbidden Fruit(1952), Paris Holiday(1958) ... ...
Comedy
France|Italy
1959
103 Minutes
Ferdinand Pastorelli
Fernandel Totò Leda Gloria Nathalie Nerval René Génin Henri Crémieux Dean Ardow Noël Roquevert
Assola is an imaginary village on the border between Italy and France and the borderline crosses the village itself. The French customs agent Ferdinand is always trying to catch the Italian... See full summary »
Comedy
France|Italy
1959
120 Minutes
Charles Bailly
Fernandel Pierre Louis Remy Winckler Rene Havard Albert Remy Bernard Musson Ingeborg Schöner Franziska Kinz Richard Winckler Ellen Schwiers
In 1942, a French prisoner of war in Germany decides to escape to France using a cow held by a lunge as a decoy. He crosses all Germany in this way.
Drama
USA
1950
120 Minutes
Noël Annequin
Fernandel Jeanne Moreau Jacques Varennes Raymond Souplex Line Noro Mireille Perrey Colette Mareuil Philippe Nicaud Georges Chamarat Germaine Kerjean
The story of the successful Tin Pan Alley songwriting team of Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby is told loosely and lightheartedly.
Comedy
France
1954
95 Minutes
Édouard Saint-Forget, Alain, Bernard, Charles, Désiré, Etienne
A small town seeking publicity tries to bring together the quintuplet grandsons of the town's oldest inhabitant. The old man and all five grandsons are played by the great Fernandel.
Comedy, Drama
UK
1969
90 Minutes
Antonin
Fernandel Rellys Henri Tisot Max Amyl Armand Meffre Jean Franval Edmond Ardisson Marcel Charvey
An old man has his birthday. On this occasion he is given a present by his grand daughter who is fond of him. On the other hand, she hates her parents and the atmosphere in the family is quite tense.
Comedy
France|Italy
1963
85 Minutes
Fernand Jouvin
Fernandel Bourvil Claire Maurier Michel Galabru Andrex Anne-Marie Carriere Henri Vilbert Gaston Rey Evelyne Selena
After thirteen years in Germany, Fernand is coming back to his wife and his restaurant. But since his disparition, his wife as made her life with a norman chef, sympathetic but a specialist... See full summary »
Comedy
France
1954
92 Minutes
Ali Baba
Fernandel Samia Gamal Dieter Borsche Henri Vilbert Edouard Dalmont Julien Maffre José Casa Edmont Ardisson Manuel Gary Gaston Orbal Bob Ingarao
Rich oriental lord Cassim's cheeky servant Ali Baba was sent to buy a meaty girl-slave, but brings dancer Morgiane, whom he is enamored with. When he's part of a caravan robbed by Abdel's ... See full summary »
Comedy
Italy|France|West Germany
1966
91 Minutes
Charles Migue
Fernandel Heinz Ruehmann Jean Poiret
Pétepan learns that his money has been lost by Robinhoude brothers.He asks his assistants to withdraw his amount from the bank.
Comedy
France|Italy
1958
90 Minutes
A vet used to treat animals; now he treats their masters.
Comedy
1951
96 Minutes
Don Camillo
Fernandel Gino Cervi Sylvie Vera Talqui Franco Interlenghi Charles Vissieres
A vociferous priest and a Communism-sympathizing mayor put aside their differences when danger threatens their village.
Drama
1952
100 Minutes
Le docteur Charles Pellegrin
Fernandel Françoise Arnoul Claude Nollier Jacques Castelot René Génin
physician mistress wife mother daughter sister intense touching melodramatic france countryside train station dance hall hotel fair infidelity family middle age ambition seduction
A sensuous young woman (Françoise Arnoul) becomes the mistress of a country doctor (Fernandel) married to a frigid wife.
Comedy
Switzerland|USA
1958
100 Minutes
comedian criminal diplomat spy ambassador inspector madcap cheeky paris cruise ship police station asylum mistaken identity espionage counterfeit money secret codes pursuit escape mystery 1950s
American actor, Bob Hunter, travels to Paris to purchase the rights to a highly sought after script, and meets his French counterpart Fernydel along the way, but a sinister organization seems to be targeting Hunter for a mysterious reason.
Comedy, Drama
France|Italy
1962
120 Minutes
Dieu, God
Charles Aznavour Jean-Claude Brialy Danielle Darrieux Alain Delon Fernandel Mel Ferrer Claude Dauphin Michel Simon Lucien Baroux Claude Nollier
1) Jerôme Chambard, a retired man, taken in by nuns in a convent, swears like a trooper. 2) Françoise takes a lover because he has promised her a diamond necklace. 3) Denis, a seminarist, ... See full summary »
Comedy, Drama
USA
1956
170 Minutes
David Niven Cantinflas Shirley MacLaine Robert Newton Charles Boyer Joe E. Brown Martine Carol John Carradine Charles Coburn Ronald Colman Melville Cooper
explorer servant police officer princess airy charming playful london spain paris india japan san francisco expedition class distinctions culture clash theft adventure pursuit quest
A Victorian Englishman bets that with the new steamships and railways he can circumnavigate the globe in eighty days.