• Home
  • Movie
  • Tv Shows
  • Anime
  • Sports
  • IPTV
  • Collection
  • AI Search
  • Download
  • Embed
Febbox Token

CinemaOS

Your entertainment hub

TrendingMoviesTV ShowsSearch
Powered byConsumet & TMDB API

Important Disclaimer

◝(ᵔᵕᵔ)◜

CinemaOS operates as a content aggregator and does not host any media files on our servers. All content is sourced from third-party providers and embedded services. For any copyright concerns or DMCA takedown requests, please contact the respective content providers directly.

Third-party ContentNo File Hosting

Built with ❤️ for entertainment enthusiasts worldwide

Ridicule

Ridicule

Watch TrailerWatch Movie
Share

Ridicule

"Wit is the ultimate weapon."

1996
1h 42m
7.0(212 votes)
Comedy
Drama
Romance

Overview

To get royal backing on a needed drainage project, a poor French lord must learn to play the delicate games of wit at court at Versailles.

Links & Resources

IMDbView

Social & External

IMDb

Production Companies

Videos & Trailers

1 video

Cast & Crew

44 members
Acting

Charles Berling

Le Marquis Grégoire Ponceludon de Malavoy

Charles Berling
Acting

Jean Rochefort

Le Marquis de Bellegarde

Jean Rochefort
Acting

Fanny Ardant

Madame de Blayac

Fanny Ardant
Acting

Judith Godrèche

Mathilde de Bellegarde

Judith Godrèche
Acting

Bernard Giraudeau

L'Abbée de Vilecourt

Bernard Giraudeau
Acting

Bernard Dhéran

Montalieri

Bernard Dhéran
Acting

Carlo Brandt

Milletail

Carlo Brandt
Acting

Jacques Mathou

Abbé de l'Épée

Jacques Mathou
Acting

Urbain Cancelier

Louis XVI

Urbain Cancelier
Acting

Albert Delpy

Baron de Guéret

Albert Delpy
Acting

Bruno Zanardi

Paul

No Image
Acting

Marie Pillet

Charlotte

Marie Pillet
Acting

Jacques Roman

Chevernoy

Jacques Roman
Acting

Philippe Magnan

Baron de Malenval

Philippe Magnan
Acting

Maurice Chevit

Le notaire

Maurice Chevit
Acting

Jacques François Zeller

Maurepas

No Image
Sound

Gérard Hardy

Victor

No Image
Acting

Marc Berman

Duc de Guines

Marc Berman
Acting

Philippe du Janerand

Le généalogiste

Philippe du Janerand
Acting

Claude Dereppe

Mgr d'Artimont

No Image
Acting

Isabelle Spade

Baronne de Boisjoli

Isabelle Spade
Acting

Isabelle Petit-Jacques

Baronne d'Oberkirchner

Isabelle Petit-Jacques
Acting

Nathalie Mann

Comtesse de Blancfagot

Nathalie Mann
Acting

Étienne Draber

Vicomte du Closlabbe

Étienne Draber
Acting

Fabrice Eberhard

Chevalier de St Tronchain

No Image
Acting

Stéphane Fourmond

Marquis de Carmes

No Image
Acting

Jean-Jacques Le Vessier

Vicomte de Sabran

Jean-Jacques Le Vessier
Acting

Lucien Pascal

Monsieur de Blayac

No Image
Acting

Nicolas Chagrin

Lord Bolingbroke

Nicolas Chagrin
Acting

Fabien Béhar

Secrétaire du roi

Fabien Béhar
Acting

Mirabelle Kirkland

Marie-Antoinette

Mirabelle Kirkland
Acting

Marie Llano

Mère de Léonard

No Image
Acting

Antonin Lebas-Joly

Léonard

Antonin Lebas-Joly
Production

Didier Abot

Le curé

No Image
Acting

Julien Bukowski

Gentilhomme

No Image
Acting

José Fumanal

L'Officier Duel

José Fumanal
Acting

Sylvie Herbert

Mère du Ponceludon

Sylvie Herbert
Acting

Alain Hocine

Le joueur

No Image
Acting

Clémentine Buxtorf

La soeur

No Image
Acting

Boris Napes

Le peintre

No Image
Acting

Gérard Sergue

Le voleur

Gérard Sergue
Acting

Laurent Valo

Simon

No Image
Acting

Claire Garguier

Thérèse

No Image
Acting

Marine Guez

La cantatrice

No Image

Similar Movies

The Private Lesson
5.4
1975

The Private Lesson

Alessandro has a thing or two to learn. Carroll Baker, in her role, is the perfect teacher.

Movie
Green Bones
7.0
2024

Green Bones

A soon-to-be released criminal and a corrections officer is still grieving over the death of his sister opposing the prisoner's release.

Movie
Dancer in the Dark
7.9
2000

Dancer in the Dark

A Czech immigrant in 1960s America escapes into musicals while working long hours in poverty. Struggling with hereditary blindness, she is determined to secure her son’s future and will sacrifice everything to ensure he receives the operation that could spare him from her fate.

Movie
Flat Out
1.0
1975

Flat Out

Two brothers, the first one, a lover of fine mechanical and the second one, a lover of fine chassis, are looking for a permanent job. Through their respective passions each of them will take advantage of the most comical situations…

Movie
Where the Lark Sings
0
1936

Where the Lark Sings

Country girl Margit sits for the artist Sándor, from Budapest. She is fascinated and charmed by him, and agrees to accompany him to the capital, so he can complete the painting there. Disillusionment sets in, however, when Sándor wins a prize with the finished portrait and loses interest in her. Margit recognizes that her true happiness lies at home, with Pista, her faithful lover.

Movie
Familia
6.1
2005

Familia

When gambling addict Michele moves in with her childhood friend Janine, their teenaged daughter’s burgeoning friendship produces both humorous and heartbreaking results.

Movie
Forget Mozart
4.8
1985

Forget Mozart

In the dead of night, a few hours after Mozart's death, the usual suspects are summoned to Mozart's room by Count Pergen, head of the secret police, who considered Mozart a potential revolutionary. Over the corpse, he interrogates them, trying to discover the true cause and significance of Mozart's demise.

Movie
A Sunday in the Country
7.0
1984

A Sunday in the Country

In France, before WWI. As every Sunday, an old painter living in the country is visited by his son Gonzague, coming with his wife and his three children. Then his daugther Irene arrives. She is always in a hurry, she lives alone and does not come so often... An intimist chronicle in which what is not shown, what is guessed, is more important than how it looks, dealing with what each character expects of life.

Movie
The Night of Varennes
6.9
1982

The Night of Varennes

During the French Revolution, a surprising company shares a coach, trying to catch up something - the time itself, perhaps.

Movie
Passion of Love
6.8
1981

Passion of Love

In the 1860's, Giorgio (Giraudeau), a young Italian soldier is sent to a remote post, far away from his lover, Clara (Antonelli). He is lodged in the house of the colonel (Girotti). He becames friends with the colonel and the local doctor (Trintignant). Among the inhabitants of the house, there is a strange young woman - Fosca (d'Obici) who is both unattractive and mad. However, she has a passion that Giorgio will have to cope with.

Movie
Vengeance Is Mine
7.5
1979

Vengeance Is Mine

A thief, a murderer, and a charming lady-killer, Iwao Enokizu is on the run from the police.

Movie
Confessions of a Frustrated Housewife
6.4
1976

Confessions of a Frustrated Housewife

A wealthy man suffers from impotence whenever he tries to make love to his wife. Since Viagara hadn't been invented yet, his swinging liberal doctor instead recommends a strong dose of infidelity. Before long he is rolling in the hay with a young lovely and needless to say his impotence problem is cured (it's amazing that he doesn't have a heart attack though). His wife is a little bitter, however, and decides to embark on her own affair. And if you're wondering with whom, well, just look at the title.

Movie
Moulin Rouge
6.7
1952

Moulin Rouge

In 1890 Paris, Moulin Rouge is a nightclub where crippled artist Toulouse-Lautrec feels like he fits in. In the following years, he meets two women who provide an opportunity for him to find true love.

Movie
Marathon Man
7.2
1976

Marathon Man

A graduate student and obsessive runner in New York is drawn into a mysterious plot involving his brother, a member of the secretive Division.

Movie
National Lampoon's Van Wilder
6.0
2002

National Lampoon's Van Wilder

Van Wilder has been attending college for far too many years and is scared to graduate, but Van’s father eventually realizes what is going on. When he stops paying his son's tuition fees, Van must come up with the money if he wants to stay in college, so he and his friends come up with a great fund-raising idea – throwing parties. However, when the college magazine finds out and reporter Gwen is sent to do a story on Van Wilder, things get a little complicated.

Movie
Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo
5.3
2005

Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo

Deuce Bigalow goes to Amsterdam after a little accident including two irritating kids and a bunch of aggressive dolphins. There he meets up with his old friend T.J. Hicks. But a mysterious killer starts killing some of Amsterdam's finest gigolos and T.J. is mistaken for the extremely gay murderer. Deuce must enter the gigolo industry again to find the real murderer and clear T.J.'s name.

Movie
The Silence
7.5
1963

The Silence

Traveling through an unnamed European country on the brink of war, sickly, intellectual Ester, her sister Anna and Anna's young son, Johan, check into a near-empty hotel. A basic inability to communicate among the three seems only to worsen during their stay. Anna provokes her sister by enjoying a dalliance with a local man, while the boy, left to himself, has a series of enigmatic encounters that heighten the growing air of isolation.

Movie
Goya's Ghosts
6.6
2006

Goya's Ghosts

Painter Francisco Goya becomes involved with the Spanish Inquisition after his muse, Inés, is arrested by the church for heresy. Her family turns to him, hoping that his connection with fanatical Inquisitor Lorenzo, whom he is painting, can secure her release.

Movie
The Madness of King George
6.8
1994

The Madness of King George

Aging King George III of England is exhibiting signs of madness, a problem little understood in 1788. As the monarch alternates between bouts of confusion and near-violent outbursts of temper, his hapless doctors attempt the ineffectual cures of the day. Meanwhile, Queen Charlotte and Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger attempt to prevent the king's political enemies, led by the Prince of Wales, from usurping the throne.

Movie
Midnight Express
7.5
1978

Midnight Express

Billy Hayes is caught attempting to smuggle drugs out of Turkey. The Turkish courts decide to make an example of him, sentencing him to more than 30 years in prison. Hayes has two opportunities for release: the appeals made by his lawyer, his family, and the American government, or the "Midnight Express".

Movie

Recommended Movies

The Widow of Saint-Pierre
6.5
2000

The Widow of Saint-Pierre

In 1850, on the isolated French island of Saint-Pierre, a murder shocks the natives. Two fishermen are arrested. One of them, Louis Ollivier, dies in custody. The other, Neel Auguste, is sentenced to death by the guillotine. The island is so small that it has neither a guillotine nor an executioner. While those are sent for Auguste is placed under the supervision of an army Captain.

Movie
Blood and Wine
5.7
1996

Blood and Wine

A man who has failed as a father and husband commits a heist to make money for his fledging business, but things become complicated when his wife interferes.

Movie
The Death of Louis XIV
6.5
2016

The Death of Louis XIV

August 1715. After going for a walk, Louis XIV feels a pain in his leg. The next days, the king keeps fulfilling his duties and obligations, but his sleep is troubled and he has a serious fever. He barely eats and weakens increasingly. This is the start of the slow agony of the greatest king of France, surrounded by his relatives and doctors.

Movie
Colonel Chabert
6.4
1994

Colonel Chabert

When Colonel Chabert returns from the war, he discovers that he has lost everything.

Movie
La Menace
5.9
1977

La Menace

Henri Savin has managed a trucking company for his lover, Dominique Montlaur, for many years. Now he is planning to leave her for Julie Manet, the woman he has made pregnant, and Dominique is hysterical. She first threatens suicide, then shows up at a meeting of Savin and Julie. Dominique tries everything she can think of to break Savin and Julie apart, to no avail. Frustrated in her efforts, she jumps off a cliff and dies. Savin insists that he and Julie lie to the police about the encounter, although Dominique's death was a suicide and therefore they had no direct hand in it. Detective Waldeck investigates Dominique's death.

Movie
The Horse
7.0
1970

The Horse

Auguste Maroilleur, an elderly farmer, exploits 400 hectares of crop land with the help of his family, over which he rules with an iron hand. Things go awry the day he discovers one of his grandsons is involved in drug traffic. To make matters worse, the reckless youth has hidden the white powder in the Maroilleur farm. Without a moment's hesitation, Auguste gets rid of the toxic substance but, of course, the mob has different views...

Movie
Cookies
6.4
1975

Cookies

Henri Serin (Jean-Pierre Marielle), an umbrella salesman, leads a quiet life between his work, his family and his passion for painting. During his many business trips, Henri indulges in a few amorous escapades, which provide a welcome change from the tiresome daily routine his bigoted wife locks him into. One fine day, Henri decides to drop everything and live on love and fresh water. He ends up in Pont-Aven, where he meets Émile, a local painter imitating Gauguin, with whom he shares his drinking and other feminine attractions.

Movie
Unpredictable Nature of the River
6.1
1996

Unpredictable Nature of the River

Nobleman Jean-Francois de la Plaine is exiled to serve as governor of a West African colony.

Movie
Les Secrets du Paquebot
5.7
2023

Les Secrets du Paquebot

Movie
6.3
2009

The School of Power

A retelling in two parts, from 1977 to 1986, of the education and the rise to power of a group of young graduates of the prestigious ENA school.

Movie
Fragile(s)
5.3
2007

Fragile(s)

Six characters cross paths in Paris and Lisbon.

Movie
Deception
5.3
2021

Deception

An American writer living in exile in London, Philip listens to women. His English mistress, who visits him regularly in the studio that serves as their refuge. A student he loved in another life. A former lover confined to a hospital in New York.

Movie
The Concorde... Airport '79
4.7
1979

The Concorde... Airport '79

Aviation disaster-prone Joe Patroni must contend with nuclear missiles, the French Air Force and the threat of the plane splitting in two over the Alps.

Movie
Tandem
7.1
1987

Tandem

Michel Mortez travels around France hosting a radio game show he created 25 years ago. He is famous among the average Frenchmen. Rivetot, his assistant and technician, always goes with him. He is the only one who knows what really lies under Mortez's appearance of a playful don Juan. When the program is canceled, Rivetot delays telling Mortez as long as possible... Both malicious and tender, this bitter comedy also shows nostalgia.

Movie
The Hairdresser's Husband
6.8
1990

The Hairdresser's Husband

Antoine has always been fascinated by a hairdresser's delicate touch, the beguiling perfume, and the enticing figure of a woman with an opulent bosom. After all, he had always known he would marry one, completing his idealized love fantasy.

Movie
Farinelli
6.6
1994

Farinelli

The life and career of Italian opera singer Farinelli, considered one of the greatest castrato singers of all time.

Movie
Family Resemblances
7.3
1996

Family Resemblances

An upper middle-class French family celebrates a birthday in a restaurant. In one evening and during one meal, family history, tensions, collective and separate grudges, delights, and memories both clash and coalesce.

Movie
Queen Margot
7.2
1994

Queen Margot

Paris, Kingdom of France, August 18, 1572. To avoid the outbreak of a religious war, the Catholic princess Marguerite de Valois, sister of the feeble King Charles IX, marries the Huguenot King Henry III of Navarre.

Movie
Wolf Totem
6.5
2015

Wolf Totem

In 1969, a young Beijing student, Chen Zhen, is sent to live among the nomadic herdsmen of Inner Mongolia. Caught between the advance of civilization from the south and the nomads' traditional enemies - the marauding wolves - to the north; humans and animals, residents and invaders alike, struggle to find their true place in the world.

Movie
Play
7.3
2019

Play

In 1993, Max was 13 when he was offered his first camera. For 25 years he will not stop filming. The bunch of friends, the loves, the successes, the failures. From the 90s to the 2010s, it is the portrait of a whole generation that is emerging through its objective.

Movie