Top 20 movies like The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob

The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob

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.

Les Aventures de Rabbi Jacob is of 1 hour(s) and 40 minute(s). It is Produced By:  Horse Film, Les Films Pomereu, SNC. It was released on 1973-10-17. It has the tagline: THE WILD... THE HILARIOUS... THE SCREWBALL... THE RIOTOUS It has an average vote of 7.394 on TMDB.

Genres: Comedy

1. The Wing or the Thigh? (L'Aile ou la Cuisse)

The Wing or the Thigh?

Charles Duchemin, a well-known gourmet and publisher of a famous restaurant guide, is waging a war against fast food entrepreneur Tri- catel to save the French art of cooking. After having agreed to appear on a talk show to show his skills in naming food and wine by taste, he is confronted with two disasters: his son wants to become a clown rather than a restaurant tester and he, the famous Charles Duchemin, has lost his taste!

It has an average vote of 7.236 on TMDB.

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2. Delusions of Grandeur (La Folie des grandeurs)

Delusions of Grandeur

Don Sallust is the minister of the King of Spain. Being disingenuous, hypocritical, greedy and collecting the taxes for himself, he is hated by the people he oppresses. Accused by The Queen, a beautiful princess Bavarian, of having an illegitimate child to one of her maids of honor, he was stripped of his duties and ordered to retire to a monastery.

It has an average vote of 7.433 on TMDB.

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3. Jo (Jo)

Jo

A writer accidentally shoots his blackmailer and tries to hide the body.

It has an average vote of 7.204 on TMDB.

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4. Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez (Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez)

Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez

The ambitious police officer Cruchot is transferred to St. Tropez. He's struggling with crimes such as persistent nude swimming, 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.

It has an average vote of 7.051 on TMDB.

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5. The Cabbage Soup (La Soupe aux choux)

The Cabbage Soup

Two buddy farmers are visited by aliens who like their domestic cabbage soup.

It has an average vote of 6.369 on TMDB.

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6. Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At! (La Grande Vadrouille)

Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At!

During World War II, two French civilians and a downed British Bomber Crew set out from Paris to cross the demarcation line between Nazi-occupied Northern France and the South. From there they will be able to escape to England. First, they must avoid German troops – and the consequences of their own blunders.

It has an average vote of 7.925 on TMDB.

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7. The Miser (L'Avare)

The Miser

Based on Molière's play. The children of Harpagon, Cléante and his sister Elise, are each in love but they still haven't spoken to their father yet. Harpagon is a miser who wants to choose the right man and the right woman for his children. When Cléante, at last, tries to speak to Harpagon, the old man informs the family that he wants to marry Marianne, the young girl loved by Cléante. Unaware of his son's sorrow, Harpagon doesn't understand why Cléante has become so angry with him.

It has an average vote of 6.38 on TMDB.

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8. Perched on a Tree (Sur un arbre perché)

Perched on a Tree

Henry Roubier, a French promoter, and Enrico Mazzini, an Italian, have signed an agreement guaranteeing them a stranglehold on European highways. While driving on the roads of the south, Roubier takes two young hitchhikers, but an unfortunate swerve the car rushes by Henri and its occupants on the top of a pine tree onto the side of a cliff.

It has an average vote of 5.2 on TMDB.

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9. The Gendarme Takes Off (Le Gendarme en balade)

The Gendarme Takes Off

The whole clique of Cruchot's police station is retired. Now he lives with his rich wife in her castle - and is bored almost to death. He fights with the butler, because he isn't even allowed to do the simple works. But when one of the clique suffers from amnesia after an accident, all of the others reunite and kidnap him, to take him on a tour to their old working places and through their memories. In their old uniforms they turn St. Tropez upside down.

It has an average vote of 6.388 on TMDB.

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10. Now Where Did the Seventh Company Get to? (Mais où est donc passée la 7ème compagnie ?)

Now Where Did the Seventh Company Get to?

1940: During the chaotic running fights of the French army the 7th company disappears - nobody knows they've been taken captive. Only their scouting patrol, three witty but lazy guys, can escape and now wanders around behind the German lines. They'd like to just stay out the fights, but a Lieutenant urges them to use a captured truck to break through to their troops.

It has an average vote of 7.275 on TMDB.

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11. Hibernatus (Hibernatus)

Hibernatus

The frozen body of Paul Fournier is discovered in Greenland where he had disappeared during a scientific expedition in 1905. Perfectly conserved he is brought back to life in the 1960s. His descendants take care of him: to spare him the cultural shock they behave so to make believe it's 1905 and they are his cousins, uncle...

It has an average vote of 6.76 on TMDB.

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12. Oscar (Oscar)

Oscar

This film originated as a play in Paris. The story focuses on the one-day adventures of Bertrand Barnier played with a genius of French cinema, Louis de Funes. In the same morning he learns that his daughter is pregnant, an employee stole a large amount of money from his company, his maid is about to resign in order to marry a wealthy neighbor and his body builder is interested in marrying his daughter. The seemingly complicated story-line is full of comedy or errors and some of the most hilarious mime scenes of the French cinema.

It has an average vote of 7.3 on TMDB.

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13. The Restaurant (Le Grand Restaurant)

The Restaurant

A great French restaurant's owner, Monsieur Septime, is thrust into intrigue and crime, when one of his famous guests disappears.

It has an average vote of 6.78 on TMDB.

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14. French Fried Vacation (Les Bronzés)

French Fried Vacation

Holidaymakers arriving in a Club Med camp on the Ivory Coast are determined to forget their everyday problems and emotional disappointments. Games, competitions, outings, bathing and sunburn accompany a continual succession of casual affairs.

It has an average vote of 6.584 on TMDB.

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15. The Magnificent One (Le Magnifique)

The Magnificent One

A writer of pulp fiction imagines himself as the dashing hero and his English neighbor as his love interest.

It has an average vote of 7.046 on TMDB.

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16. The Little Bather (Le Petit Baigneur)

The Little Bather

Louis-Philippe Fourchaume, another typical lead-role for French comedy superstar Louis de Funès, is the dictatorial CEO of a French company which designs and produces sail yachts, and fires in yet another tantrum his designer André Castagnier, not realizing that man is his only chance to land a vital contract with the Italian magnate Marcello Cacciaperotti. So he has to find him at his extremely rural birthplace in 'la France profonde', which proves a torturous odyssey for the spoiled rich man; when he does get there his torment is far from over: the country bumpkin refuses to resume his slavish position now the shoe is on the other foot, so Fourchaume is dragged along in the boorish family life, and at times unable to control his temper, which may cost him more credit then he painstakingly builds up...

It has an average vote of 6.68 on TMDB.

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17. The French Revolution (La Révolution française)

The French Revolution

A history of the French Revolution from the decision of the king to convene the Etats-Generaux in 1789 in order to deal with France's debt problem. The first part of the movie tells the story from 1789 until August 10, 1792 . The second part carries the story through the end of the terror in 1794, including the deaths by guillotine of Louis XVI, Marie-Antoinette, Danton, and Desmoulins.

It has an average vote of 7.5 on TMDB.

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18. Marecek, Pass Me the Pen! („Marečku, podejte mi pero!“)

Marecek, Pass Me the Pen!

This comedy is about one average family. The father works as master in the factory and his son is studying on high school. One day father must start to visit the evening school. It's the same school as his son visiting. The lives both students are connecting together. The son must teach the math and physics his own father. The father getting to know, that the life of the students is not simple as he supposed.

It has an average vote of 7.9 on TMDB.

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19. Alien: Covenant - Prologue: Meet Walter

Alien: Covenant - Prologue: Meet Walter

Introducing Walter, the latest synthetic by Weyland-Yutani. Created to serve. Intelligence powered by AMD, Ryzen and Radeon.

It has an average vote of 6.4 on TMDB.

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20. Odette Toulemonde (Odette Toulemonde)

Odette Toulemonde

Objectively, Odette Toulemonde has nothing to be happy about, but is. Balthazar Balsan has everything to be happy about, but isn’t. Odette, awkwardly forty, with a delightful hairdresser son and a daughter bogged down in adolescence, spends her days behind the cosmetic’s counter in a department store and her nights sewing feathers on costumes for Parisian variety shows. She dreams of thanking Balthazar Balsan, her favorite author, to whom – she believes – she owes her optimism. The rich and charming Parisian writer then turns up in her life in an unexpected way.

It has an average vote of 5.7 on TMDB.

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