Humour is a universal and cultural phenomenon very difficult to translate. Furthermore, as far as audiovisual texts are concerned, the degree of difficulty increases considerably because of their inherent characteristics, such as time or space limitation in dialogs and scenes. In this article we analyze the translation strategies of humour patterns used in the Spanish adaptations of three French films belonging to the comedy or drama categories. We stress the importance of translation strategies used in order to prevent the loss of potentially humorous elements. Even though our analysis is performed with only two languages, our methodology can also be applied to many others.