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Les bronzés font du ski (1979)
You can find it with English subtitles
It is an excellent movie!! A French monument! For English speakers, you can find the DVD with English subs on amazon.co.uk. Most of the actors are part of the French comedy group called "Le Splendid", and they're all simply awesome. This movie is a sequel of "Les Bronzes" which in my opinion is not worth watching. It's good but it's far below the laughing fest that is "Les Bronzes font du ski". The dialogues are perfect and the situations are just hilarious. A group of friends who met in a Club Med for single people reunite to go ski together. When they decide to do a helicopter drop at the top of a ski resort things start to go wrong...but it gets real funny for us! I'm French but I hope foreigners will get a chance to watch it since it was a huge success in France along with "Le Pere Noel est une Ordure" (also available on amazon uk)made by the same "Splendid" group.
Le père Noël est une ordure (1982)
You can find it with English subtitles
A huge French comedy classic that is available to English speakers on amazon.co.uk. The story revolves around 5 main characters...all weirder than the next: a psychopath dressed as Santa, his dumb pregnant girlfriend and 3 volunteers working for SOS Distress (a help line). It all takes place on Dec 24th and goes really wrong in an extremely funny way. It's definitely a dark comedy but it's simply hilarious. The awesome dialogues just keep coming and it all escalates to even darker and funnier moments. The actors were all part at that time of "Le Splendid" comedy group. They made a few movies together including "Les Bronzes font du Ski" which is excellent too (also available on amazon uk). Anyway, for anyone interested in French comedies, this one is one of the best!!
Les Guignols de l'info (1988)
An hilarious French puppet show!!
For anyone remotely interested in French culture, this show is a must see as far as TV is concerned. It follows the most recent news and turns them into an hilarious parody acted by very close to reality puppets!! It covers everything : politics, cinema, sports, religion etc... If it made the real news the day before, you can be assured that a great parody of the events will be on the show the next day. It can sometimes be very harsh but as we say in France: "If you can't cry about something then you'd better laugh about it". If you can't speak French it's going to be hard to understand so I recommend that you watch it with someone who can help you translate. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did growing up (dinner time everyday for 10 years before I moved abroad). Also, it gives you a very good second opinion about some of the most ridiculous international events that are sadly supposed to make the 20th and 21st century's history. You and I can't change the world but thanks to Les Gignols I'll die with a smile on my face, and that only...is worth millions!!