Self (archive footage)
Screen icon Charlotte Rampling has fascinated the world of cinema, fashion and photography with her mysterious and almost inaccessible beauty. A major figure in genre and auteur films, she is unclassifiable: between presence and absence, shyness and audacity, she's always hypnotic, magnetic and fascinating. From her film debut in the mid-1960s in England, to her unconventional career path, through the tragic loss suicide of her older sister that will irremediably mark her acting, this film is a dive into the existential quest of a complex actress, whose every facet is discovered through her roles. Through a conversation with the actress herself, along with personal archives and extracts from her films, this documentary raws a dazzling portrait of her life and career.
Self (archive footage)
Venecia, siglo XVIII. Antonio Vivaldi, uno de los más grandes compositores europeos de todos los tiempos, apodado el Cura Rojo, sufre, sin embargo, los constantes ataques de la Iglesia y en concreto del Obispo de Venecia, que no aprueba su estilo de vida ni ve con buenos ojos su especial relación con la hermosa y joven soprano Anna Giro.
Max Birgos
In a Mediterranean city, the association of volunteers The Rescue is expecting a new director. A former trade unionist, Birgos, who’s just escaped from an asylum with Cleo, another internee, is believed, by mistake, to be this new director.
Hervé Decambrais
Al comisario Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg (José García) no le gusta la primavera. Desconfía de todos esos signos que anuncian el retorno de los días hermosos, pero su recelo tiene un motivo: su prometida Camille (Linh Dan Pham) se ha ido cuando más la necesitaba y algo amenazante se cierne sobre París como una maldición. Extrañas señales y palabras inquietantes y misteriosas aparecen en lugares públicos. Y, por fin, sucede lo que Adamsberg se temía: el hallazgo de un cadáver con la cara descompuesta por un gesto de terror: son los signos de la peste. Sin embargo, lo verdaderamente terrible es que parece que alguien controla la enfermedad y la propaga a su antojo.
Gustave
May 1940, in the French Ardennes. The German Army is getting ready to invade France. Old Gustave lives alone in his village with Camille, his teenage granddaughter and Etienne, his grandson. All the other inhabitants have evacuated the village, which makes Gustave very happy as he is the sole master there. Etienne, does not care because he is too young but Camille is beginning to suffer from her solitude and finds it hard to put up with her granddad's selfishness and bossiness. One day a patrol of African-born soldiers ("Tirailleurs Sénégalais") comes to the deserted village...
Docteur Léon Chapuis
During the Occupation, a kid is taken in by his old grandfather, wrongly considered a collaborator.
The Castle Keeper
Francia, 1914, durante la Primera Guerra Mundial. En Nochebuena, un extraordinario acontecimiento tiene lugar en la sangrienta tierra de nadie que los franceses y los escoceses disputan a los alemanes...
Commissaire Lancret
Maurice works at the police service for foreigners. He is single, loves Spanish music and spends all his free time in a Hispanic cabaret.
Albert Moulinot
Patrick Lechat se entera de que su padre, el escritor Jo Lechat, acaba de morir dejando una colosal fortuna. Albert Moulinot, un excéntrico personaje que dice ser el hermanastro de Jo, vive como un ermitaño en plena Naturaleza y sin más compañía que la de un jabato. Él resulta ser el único heredero de la fortuna de Jo, pero no la quiere. Patrick hará entonces todo lo posible para llevar a Albert a la ciudad con el fin de que firme los documentos de rechazo de la herencia.
Anzio
From his locksmith's shop, a simple guy dreams of becoming a crime boss, at the wheel of his Cadillac surrounded by blonde bimbos. He starts small, assassinating petty criminals. Gaining renown in the newspapers as "Le Furet" (The Ferret), he soon sets his sights higher. The police and organized crime both take up the chase.
Gaston Dominici
During the night of August 4-5, 1952, three Englishmen, Jack Drummond, his wife Anne and their daughter Elizabeth were murdered near their car near the farm of the Dominici family, in the commune of Lurs in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence. Denounced by two of his sons, the patriarch Gaston Dominici was judged and condemned without any real evidence.
Julien
Julien es un viudo que se dedica a coleccionar mariposas. Un día va a las montañas en busca de un raro ejemplar, y lo hace en compañía de Elsa, una niña de nueve años cuya madre le presta poca atención. Elsa y Julien encontrarán a lo largo del camino respuesta a sus inquietudes.
Self / Zaza Napoli (archive footage)
"Homosexuality, this painful problem "... It was thirty years ago, the title of a program of Ménie Grégoire! But what has happened since the seventies, when France was transformed and the gay movement emerged? For gays and lesbians, thirty years of fights, hopes and despairs, thirty years of parties, sufferings and mournings, victories and emancipation. Thirty revolutionary years, pink and black, on which Yves Jeuland has examined, in an approach that is at once documentary, historian and ethnographer. First part: "Red years" (1971/1979) "Pink years" (1979/1984) Second part "Black years" (1983/1991) "Rainbow years" (1992/2002)
Louis
Set in 1913, 1936 and 2001. When he returns to the casino and seaside resort of his early teens, Louis, a 78 year old man encounters Olivia, a 19 year old young woman madly in love with a violent cad. Louis tells the story of his own mother having a passionate, driven fling with his Italian tennis instructor in 1936, and of Marie Collins Brown, the slightly older widowed woman who helped him through his confusion and pain by recounting the story of her passionate 24 hour fling with a hopeless young Polish gambler in 1913.
L'Ingegner Carlo Semenza
Inspirada en hechos reales. En el valle de Vajont (Italia) se está construyendo la presa más alta del mundo (163 metros) y se da por supuesto que propiciará el turismo y la prosperidad de los pueblos circundantes. Cuando la obra alcanza más de cien metros de altura, la empresa descubre una tremenda hendidura que podría provocar un desmoronamiento. A pesar de ello, se decide seguir adelante, sin pensar en las posibles consecuencias. El resultado es aterrador: el 9 de Octubre de 1963, la montaña se desliza hacia el agua a una velocidad de 80 kilómetros por hora. Seis localidades quedan inundadas, dejando más de dos mil muertos.
Adrien
Una joven informática decide abandonar su trabajo y el estilo de vida urbano para instalarse en el campo y hacerse agricultora. En su nueva vida tendrá que convivir con un viejo campesino bastante cascarrabias.
Verlac
Una colección de objetos procedentes de una excavación arqueológica en Egipto se deposita en el famoso museo del Louvre en París, y mientras los expertos utilizan un escáner láser para determinar la edad de un sarcófago, un espíritu fantasmagórico se escapa y se abre camino hacia el sistema eléctrico del museo.
Monsieur de Fontenelle
Monsieur de Fontenelle has resisted feelings of love and passion all his life, but at an advanced age he meets a young woman who makes him discover the feeling he has always wanted to ignore: love.
Self
Les Acteurs is the absurd story of Jean-Pierre Marielle desperately waiting for a cup of hot water, the story of a conspiracy against actors, the story of aging actors whose careers are slowly less active than they used to be, but a stunning tribute to French actors and their cinema.
Le Cardinal
Francia, finales del siglo XVIII. El gobierno, con el apoyo de la Iglesia, prohibe la publicación de la Enciclopedia de Diderot. Éste, por su parte, acompañado de algunos amigos, se refugia en un castillo. Allí intenta continuar su obra, pero sus amantes no se lo ponen nada fácil.
Hyacinthe Richard, aka 'Pépé la Rainette'
Garris y Riton viven en las marismas, a orillas del río Loira, en la Francia de los años 30. Ambos trabajan juntos, y comparten su vida con sus otros amigos: Tane, conductor de tren, y Amedée, un soñador y devorador de clásicos literarios. Los cuatro conocerán a Pépé, un anciano millonario que proviene también de las marismas, pero que no reniega de su humilde pasado. Garris se enamorará secretamente de Marie, y Riton desatará las iras de Jo Sardi, un boxeador que acabará en la cárcel, lugar donde urdirá una venganza que trastocará la tranquila existencia del grupo de amigos
Le comédien
Behind the scenes of the theater, while the last performance has just ended, the comedian returns to his box.
Victor
Betty y Victor forman una pareja bastante singular. Él es un hombre de 60 años, justo el doble que ella. Los dos recorren Francia y otros países en una caravana y participan en reuniones y congresos, donde se dedican a desvalijar a hombres ricos que son presa fácil del irresistible encanto de Betty.
Orazio Gentileschi
Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1653) was one of the first well-known female painters. The movie tells the story of her youth, when she was guided and protected by her father, the painter Orazio Gentileschi. Her professional curiosity about the male anatomy, forbidden for her eyes, led her to the knowledge of sexual pleasure. But she was also well known because in 1612 she had to appear in a courtroom because her teacher, Agostino Tassi, was suspected of raping her. She tried to protect him, but was put in the thumb screws...
Mr. Wagner
Durante más de cuarenta años, el señor Wagner se ha ganado la vida matando gente. Y durante más de cuarenta años se ha sentido orgulloso de su trabajo, como cualquier artesano, con un ambiguo pero genuino código de honor que considera esencial en su trabajo. Pero eso pertenece al pasado. Hoy, el señor Wagner es un viejo hombre y los tiempos han cambiado, la televisión ya no es la misma que antes, el supermercado ha reemplazado a la pequeña tienda de siempre y los asesinos profesionales proliferan por doquier. Por eso, cuando conoce a Max, un joven de veinte años en el que ve algo de un tiempo pasado, el señor Wagner cree haber encontrado a su sucesor. (FILMAFFINITY)
Louis XV
Beaumarchais the Scoundrel is a biopic film based on the life of the French playwright, financier and spy Pierre Beaumarchais depicting his activities during the American War of Independence and his authorship of the Figaro trilogy of plays.
Francis Bergeade
Francis, the boss of a small plumbing supply company, is harassed by tax collectors, striking employees, and an impossible wife and daughter. His only joy is sharing lunch with his friend Gerard. Then a TV show called "where are you?" shows a woman from Gers who is searching for her husband who disappeared 28 years ago. The lost husband looks like an identical twin of Francis...
M. Pierre Arnaud
Nelly, una mujer que acaba de divorciarse, conoce casualmente al señor Arnaud, un magistrado retirado cuya mujer vive en Ginebra con otro hombre y cuyos hijos apenas le hablan. Arnaud le ofrece a Nelly un trabajo: mecanografiar el manuscrito de la novela que ha escrito. La relación laboral resultará enriquecedora para ambos. (FILMAFFINITY)
Self
Alex Ponttin
Having first lost his wife then his job as a tweed tailor, Alex Ponttin has devised a novel way to keep himself in touch with society. He admits himself into people's homes, by pretending to be a relative or an official, and persuading his victims to give him a night's free board: He finds at first a lunch at the horrible couple Dumont, where a thief follows him for a robbery. Alex spent an evening in front of TV at Marie, mother of seven children. He runs from Marie to find an evening and a new bed at the home of charming but shy lesbian Caroline and her funny lover Gloria. To save her inheritance, Caroline - accused for her homosexuality by her horrible sister Catherine - tells her aunt Amélie, that Gloria is her secretary and Alex her lover. So Alex has to present himself nude in Caroline's bed. He saves Carolines inheritance. The police officers investigating the case are so terminally stupid that Alex has little chance of being arrested.
Darius Caunes
Darius Caunes no es quien la gente cree que es. Asesinó hace dos años a su esposa, y falsifica billetes de 500 francos. Incluso se ha hecho amigo del inspector de policía que investiga la muerte de su mujer. Es imperturbable, un artista del crimen. Aunque los mejores planes salgan mal, y aunque su ayudante accidentalmente se haga con uno de los billetes falsos y se lo de a un viejo amigo que le ha pedido dinero, Darius se las apaña como gran artista del crimen que es.
M. Luc
The countess and her son, irresponsible but sweet viscount Louis, own the castle Montverdier, which is falling apart. Fernand Castanier is the baker in the neighboring town Mussy-sur-Ploute.
Rousselot, le maire
A man comes to a small town in France and witness the apparent murder of a woman pharmacist. He teams up with the victim's vulgar assistant to try to solve the mystery.
Pompilius
A con artist couple takes a young, handsome petty thief under their wing, but jealousies flare when the woman develops an interest in him.
Maurice Martin, Héloïse
Photographer Maurice Martin turns into a woman named Héloïse every night at 8 p.m.
Maître Malicorne
Docteur Petiot
A true story shot in a German Impressionistic style. In France during the Nazi occupation, Dr. Petiot (Michel Serrault) offered to help Jews escape the Nazis. They would come to his house, and he would kindly give them lethal "vaccinations" for their anticipated travel to Argentina. Then he would steal everything the brought with them (in addition to their up-front payment to him) and burn their bodies in his home-made crematorium.
Gino
In this romantic story, a couple (Michel Serrault and Virna Lisi) who have been married for over forty years are forced to separate, one to each of their two children's families, when they can no longer pay the rent on their longtime apartment. Absence, in this case, refreshes their memory of the love they have shared, and they take to meeting one another furtively in hotel rooms for sex and affection. One summer, as each of their daughters families takes them on separate vacations, they have had enough, and elope, finding contentment as lighthouse keepers off the coast of Sicily.
Paul Léautaud
According to the book Journal Particulier de Paul Léautaud, the love story that was born between him and Marie D., whom he met at the Mercure de France in 1922, on the occasion of an article she wrote to appear.
Roger Scatti
Un comisario de policía decide tomarse la justicia por su mano, tras asistir a la puesta en libertad de varios criminales. Se une a algunos compañeros suyos para crear una organización secreta dedicada a la caza de delincuentes. Después de sus primeras acciones, los altos mandos policiales le encomiendan al comisario Grindel que descubra a los autores de los actos violentos.
Michaud
Anxious and shy, Michaud works for a company that specializes in alarms, safes and other security devices.
Paul Duchêne
When Catherine is caught with her illicit lover by her father-in-law Paul, the concerned father leaves to tell his son Thomas about the incident. Paul is injured in an auto accident and returns home in a wheelchair unable to speak. Catherine's guilt weighs heavily on her as she hopes to never let Thomas know she was unfaithful. She panics and seeks a way to eliminate Paul in this psychological thriller.
Baudin
Baudin (Michel Serrault) and Tayar (Wadeck Stanczak) become trapped in a movie theater while trying to fend off a gang of marauding juvenile thugs. The two agree to settle their personal differences in their fight over a pretty female in order to halt the violent siege.
Ronald Fox-Terrier
Faking an injury for insurance money, a peddler seeks out a cure to support his claims while a suspicious investigator tries to expose the scam.
Octave Clapoteau
Two members of the French Academy agree to help the attractive young veterinarian Esther investigate the suspicious death of her sister. Esther is convinced her brother-in-law is responsible, but soon it becomes apparent that those responsible are linked to the very highest echelons of power in the Vatican.
Albin Mougeotte / 'Zaza Napoli'
Albin debe casarse y tener un hijo en un plazo de 18 meses si quiere heredar la fortuna de un pariente lejano que acaba de fallecer. A pesar de que no tiene ni la más remota intención de casarse con una mujer, Albin tiene que aceptar las condiciones del testamento si quiere salvar el local que regentan él y Renato, porque está al borde de la quiebra. Tercera y última entrega de "La cage aux folles".
Robert Staniland
El inspector de policía Robert Staniland investiga la muerte de un pianista. Éste mantenía una relación con una modelo fotográfica que se confiesa culpable del crimen. Pero Staniland no se lo cree y busca pistas que le lleven a aclarar la verdad. (FILMAFFINITY)
Louis XVI
El califa de Bagdad llega a París en 1989 y decide ir a ver la exposición sobre los instrumentos del verdugo.
Paul Martin and François Leroux are brothers-in-law and comics without fame. One day, the famous television comics, Gaëtan, finds himself in the little theater where Paul and François produce themselves under the name of "Gagsters".
Otarius
Dagoberto I, rey de los Francos, mientras atraviesa un bosque acompañado de sus guerreros, hace un solemne juramento: si consigue salvar la vida, emprenderá una larga peregrinación hacia Roma y, una vez allí, pedirá indulgencia al papa por sus muchos pecados.
Rico, aggressive supporter
Michel, a referee has to suffer the consequences of having whistled a penalty against a team which is supported by football hooligans.
Le ministre de l'Intérieur
El presidente de la República Francesa ve peligrar su puesto cuando le roban una carta dirigida a su amante, en la que le pide que aborte, por lo que su situación no puede ser más delicada.
Beauvoir, « l'Œil »
Beauvoir, alias "el Ojo", es un detective privado al que asignan un caso teóricamente muy sencillo: unos acaudalados padres desean que investigue a la novia de su hijo. Siguiendo a la pareja, que se ha ido de fin de semana, es testigo del asesinato del joven por parte de la chica; pero, en vez de avisar a la policía, Beauvoir decide seguirla.
Jules César
Julio Cesar esta disfrutando de unas lujosas vacaciones en una colonia Romana en el norte de Africa, mientras en Roma estalla una gran revuelta obrera. Un mecanico de nombre Ben-Hur, se elige a si mismo como dirigente sindical, pero termina siendo detenido en una manifestacion publica. El gobernador le da a elegir entre un innoble fin en la arena o una oportunidad participando en un complot para matar a Cesar.
Sébastien Barral
Julien is an electronics professional who is down on his luck when he decides to enter an international sailboat race. He is led astray from his original good intentions by a low-life press agent who convinces him it would be well worth his while to win the race by illegal maneuvering. As he sets off, flashbacks tell how he came to be on the sailboat; later he has long monologues -- several of them, and in-between he occasionally battles to stay afloat on an uncooperative sea.
Léon Labbé
En una pequeña ciudad de provincias francesa se suceden una serie de asesinatos de mujeres de mediana edad. Un oscuro inmigrante armenio, que es sastre, sospecha que el asesino es un burgués muy influyente en la ciudad que tiene una sombrerería delante de su casa.
Nestor Burma
Detective Nestor Burma begins an investigation into the corrupt drug-ridden punk rock music world.
Jérôme Martinaud
Un ilustre notario, casado con una hermosa mujer, lleva una vida tranquila y apacible. Esa paz se rompe inesperadamente cuando es conducido a una comisaría el día de Nochevieja. Tras el hallazgo de los cadáveres de dos niñas violadas, las sospechas de la policía recaen sobre el notario. Poco a poco, lo que en principio parecía un trámite rutinario se convierte en un duro interrogatorio que parece confirmar las sospechas iniciales.
Emmanuel Comte
In southern France, in a quiet little town, the mayor, who also owns a castle with some cattle, is in the wine cellar with some other people: the pharmacist, the veterinary, and some of his employees. As they are drinking wine, they hear a terrible noise and the heat's getting higher and higher. They don't realize what's happening: when they come out of the cellar, they realize that everything has burned, and all the buildings are destroyed...
Albin Mougeotte / 'Zaza Napoli'
Con la intención de dar celos a su compañero Renato (Tognazzi), el atractivo Albin (Serrault) se instala en un café vestido de mujer para ligar. Pero resulta que la mosca que atrapa en su red es, en realidad, un espía que lo utiliza, sin que él se dé cuenta, como mensajero de un microfilm secreto. Intentando escapar de los despiadados agentes que los persiguen, Albin y Renato huyen a Italia y se esconden en una granja como si fueran un matrimonio.
Edouard Morlaix
Since his wife died, Inspector Louis Baroni (Philippe Noiret) has become a virtual recluse, preferring the solitude of his quiet house to the company of others. His period of mournful contemplation is broken when he is called out to look into the suspicious death of Madame Morlaix who, according to her husband Edouard (Michel Serrault), fell from an upstairs window. Curious to find out more, Baroni begins his inquiry.
Léon
Léon es un modesto peluquero canino de París. Gracias a la ayuda económica de Fanny (su horrible suegra), logra abrir en Roma una "Coiffeur pour homme". Pero debido a esto, su vida con Fanny no tiene gracia, y además, Léon tiene que disimular su homosexualidad por razones de trabajo. Así que decide poner fin a esta pesadilla aliándose con un criminal llamado "Er cuculo" para simular un robo. De hecho, el plan es quedarse con todo el dinero de Fanny, compartirlo entre ellos y escapar a Montecarlo.
Le quidam, comptable
Comedia negra sobre la soledad y la deshumanización del mundo actual que narra las peripecias de tres hombres: Alphonse Tram, un joven desempleado; su vecino, el policía Morvandieu, y el asesino de la mujer de Alphonse.
Martial Perrin/Gilbert Brossard
Martial Perrin is the president of a right-wing political party which is gearing itself up for a forthcoming election. When he learns that a notorious criminal named Kraus has escaped from prison, Perrin panics and goes into hiding. His deputy, Constant, hires Perrin’s cousin, Gilbert, an actor who is a perfect double of Perrin, to replace him. What Gilbert does no know is that the killer Kraus is bumping off the people who were implicated in the affair for which he was arrested, and that Perrin is next on his list.
Julien Pardot
Un joven está convencido de tener vista para los negocios, pero su comportamiento no inspira confianza. Por eso, y bajo seudónimo, inventa una sociedad que poco a poco le hará rico.
Henri Dupérier
Duperrier, a model of piety, justice and charity, wakes up one day with a halo over his head, to the great despair of his wife who fears the gossip of the neighborhood. He's obliged to do everything possible to lose this gift from heaven.
le docteur Charles Moreau
Charles Moreau, general practitioner, and Hélène, his wife, have four girls aged 11 to 20 years. The eldest, Claire, plays the piano when she does not let her mind indulge in solitary reverie. Bernadette has a real passion for horses, while Cecile, the youngest, plays from a young age to realize all her whims. As for Pauline, at the age of 17, she decided that she would become a novelist. So she writes a book telling the story of family life. One day, when she comes out of high school, she meets Pierre, a penniless painter, from whom she immediately falls.
Zaza
Un maduro homosexual (Michel Serrault) vive desde hace veinte años con su compañero sentimental (Ugo Tognazzi). Cuando el hijo de éste decide casarse con la hija de un rancio funcionario del gobierno, la pareja tendrá que representar una auténtica farsa para disimular su homosexualidad y causar la mejor impresión posible a sus futuros consuegros, lo que dará lugar a situaciones en las que todo lo que puede salir mal, saldrá todavía peor.
Miremant
El ejecutivo bancario Henri Rainier concede un préstamo enorme al inversionista Claude Chevalier d'Aven. Sin embargo, los negocios de Chevalier resultan tan ruinosos que el banco se ve obligado a cubrir el déficit. Por si fuera poco, Rainier es considerado culpable del desastre de la entidad financiera. A pesar de todo, Rainier, lejos de quedarse de brazos cruzados, decide demandar a su anterior jefe.
le voisin
Raoul no sabe lo que le pasa a su mujer, está depresiva, no tiene ganas de nada, así que recurre a un desconocido para que se convierta en su amante, y sacarla de su depresión.
Dutilleul
A man learns one night that he can walk through walls, and uses this skill to get back at a nasty new boss, to rob banks, and to romance an overly protected lady.
Bordin
Goumic, an industrialist and his wife Anne lose their big house when their town's mayor coerces them to sell it for a low price.
Jean-Pierre Mazard
Sophie, viscountess of Valrude, believes herself being a widow since her husband disappeared in the Amazon.
Jérémie
A mentally disturbed man named Jérémie is scouring the area in search of women he can strangle with his scarf, which is embroidered with an ibis.
Max
Max and Riton, 2 thieves make plan to steal money in a train station office. They will operate through the wall in the public toilets.
Justin Blesh
Michel Dolannes es un periodista que se dedica a denunciar escándalos financieros y a poner en la picota a los políticos corruptos, lo que hará que su vida se vea seriamente amenazada.
Paulo
Robert Lamoureux plays a General in the Resistance. With an unlikely team of French patriots, he easily outwits the buffoonish Germans and steals the master copy of their plans to invade England. By doing so, he prevents the invasion and makes it more likely that the Allies will win the war.
L'inspecteur de police
Jacques and Jean-Claude, unemployed actors, start experimenting with various creative petty scams to get by. More and more daring, with the help of Anne, a charming young girl, they blackmail the rich and influential in a different way.
Edouard Henricot
Es la historia de un amor imposible, de un triángulo que lleva a sus protagonistas a buscar los caminos más llenos de obstaculos, a entrar en un callejón sin salida.
Grégoire Montclair
Overnight, Paris is invaded - although peacefully - but the Chinese Army, and millions of Chinese people... It's the Nazi occupation all over again, with modern - funny - twists.
Jean-Paul Rondin
Here we find a group of misfits who've given up on humanity and have decided to dwell below the pavement. The group has its own hierarchy, of course, and soon the conditions that drove them underground begin to manifest themselves without the influences of the Outside World.
Félix Boucan
Four guys working for a small grocer in trouble, declare war on a new giant neighborhood supermarket by attempting several coups. A film about the big store taking over the business of smaller stores.
Paul
Albin aka Zaza Napoli
Le curé Léon
Dismissed following an unfortunate initiative, financial advisor Benoît Lepape decides to work for his uncle, a union activist. His capitalist methods will surprise at first, but quickly bring in a lot of money.
Le commissaire Plouvier / Superintendant
Un hombre, cuya esposa acaba de morir en un accidente de coche, debe afrontar un doble problema. Por una parte, su cuñada llega desde Nueva York y le culpa de la muerte de su hermana. Por otra, un desconocido que aparece de repente intenta chantajearlo, afirmando que tiene pruebas para incriminarlo. Un asesinato vendrá a complicar todavía más la situación. (FILMAFFINITY)
Marcel Jolin
Selon "Radio plus près de Dieu", rien n'est conçu sans Dieu, surtout pas les shampoings, produits de beauté, la vente des disques... Un animateur dénonce cette escroquerie à l'antenne, ce qui lui vaut d'être licencié. Il réapparaîtra sur de nouvelles ondes avec "Radio plus près de la Vérité".
Louis Martinet
In 1930, Louis Martinet, a peaceful sexagenarian, no longer has a long life to live according to the words of his doctor, Leon Galipeau, who sees to take advantage of the very interesting situation of the "future deceased". This one indeed has a small house in Saint-Tropez. Galipeau sniffs the windfall. Following his advice, Martinet agrees to give it in life to the brother of the doctor, Emile, and then rushes back to a health of iron. Worse, he even survives the war. Galipeau, exhausted, decide to use the great means to get rid of the importunce who persists in thwarting their project ...
Achille
Alfred Mullanet
Paul Cérès
Paris, in the spring of 1968. Albin Cérès, 23, the son of a bourgeois couple on the verge of breakdown, seeks happiness in life. Disappointed by Laurent, the leader of a small group of revolutionary students ; disappointed by Paméla, a girl he half-heartedly makes love to ; refusing the friendship of Moss, a refined fifty-year-old who is secretly in love with him, Albin returns to his parents'home for a while. Shortly afterward he meets Lore, a lovely young lady, who dreams of revolution... A great love is born!
Gabriel Pelletier
Gabriel Pelletier's life is no bed of roses. Not because of his job: he is a successful sales manager. But on account of the various wrongdoings committed by his kin. First, there is his daughter Nicole, who has just developed an infatuation with a young man who is not only a revolutionary student but the the son of a Sicilian mobster as well. Then he has to cope with Bernard, his brother-in-law, a ladies'man who has been vamped by one of the sexy daughters of the Sicilian. Let's not forget Albert, his own brother, an avant-garde filmmaker also in trouble with Lombardi, the omnipresent gangster. To crown it all, Maryse, his domestic worker, is a Maoist militant!... In the end, poor Gabriel can't take it anymore. He hits the road and calls it quits.
François
Commissaire Le Gac
M. Jourdain
Le Bourgeois gentilhomme satirizes attempts at social climbing and the bourgeois personality, poking fun both at the vulgar, pretentious middle-class and the vain, snobbish aristocracy. The title is meant as an oxymoron: in Molière's France, a "gentleman" was by definition nobly born, and thus there could be no such thing as a bourgeois gentleman.
Aldo Moreni
Un grupo de jóvenes, dirigido por Frankie, abrió un club nocturno justo encima de la guarida de un gangster llamado Morelli. Este último, molestó por el ruido mientras prepara su nuevo atraco, hace todo lo posible para echarles.
M. Granger, directeur du laboratoire scientifique
Trabajando en la preparación de un gas, Eugène descubre un gas euforizante capaz de neutralizar al enemigo. Una seductora espía intentará descubrir la fórmula...
The armorer
Pounet
A scientist from the East happens in France where it is supposed to improve one of his inventions. But it is much more interested in the fact to enjoy it and have fun ...
Thomeret
L'inspecteur Papin / Inspector Papin
Jean-Louis Matouzec works for French National Library as an expert looking after the restoration of old manuscripts.He falsifies marriage certificates as his wife refuses divorce.
Gabriel Pelletier
Monsieur Marcel
Octubre, 1918. En los últimos días de la I Guerra Mundial, el soldado Charles Plumpick (Alan Bates) es enviado por sus jefes a desactivar las supuestas bombas dejadas por los alemanes en retirada a su paso por un pueblito francés. Plumpick llega al lugar, sólo para encontrarse con que los internos de un manicomio abandonado han tomado el pueblo.
Martin - instituteur
La familia Eloy se va de vacaciones a su casa de campo, pero cuando un diplomático y su mujer les invitan a cenar, toda la familia se pone de los nervios...
La père de Lucile
Dos amigos arruinados examinan los anuncios por palabras en busca de mujeres deseosas de casarse con el fin de desplumarlas. Pero sus planes no tardarán en volverse contra ellos...
Rimero
Arsène Baudu and Hyacinthe, a pair of small-time crooks, fall prey to Alexandre Larsan-Bellac, who involves them (against their will) in high-profile swindling, but their success is quite limited. For starters they are deceived by Mrs. Paterson, a charming widow. Later on, Ribeiro, a Portuguese contractor and former victim of the two crooks, traces them and forces them to work on one of his building sites for damages. Just then, Larsan-Bellac resurfaces with plans to lure Ribeiro once again. —Guy Bellinger
Gaston Berrien / Monsieur Max
Gaston Berrien y su primo, que regentan una sombrerería, parecen personas normales. Un día llega a la tienda un cliente más interesado por conocer las cifras del negocio que por encontrar un sombrero adecuado, lo que pone en guardia a Gastón, pues el negocio es sólo una tapadera. Por las noches se transforma en una salón de juego clandestino.
Albert
Aventuras y desventuras de cinco personajes alrededor de un elemento común: la cama.
Bénéchol
Bénéchol
A story about Caroline, a young girl who decides to start dating only men after forty.
Henri
Gaston Lartois
Julien, soltero experimentado, intenta convencer a su amigo Antoine de renunciar a su idea de casarse. Lo consigue: La noche de bodas, Antoine escapa rumbo a Oriente Próximo.
Maître Brunet
Gaston Bellus, is the director of a textile house, and the research laboratory makes a sensational discovery: the elastic fabric. This new discovery is used to manufacture new modern stretchable bathing suits. His daughter Clementine, enters the beauty pageant to represent France for the swimsuit launch. But scandal ensues when the public soon discover, the photos of the event in which this new revolutionary material is completely invisible on photographs & live television.
M. Lurot
Rossignol, le détective privé
A playwright has to murder if he does not want to be murdered.
Jérôme
Pommes-Chips acaba de salir de la cárcel y se encuentra con que Jack está saliendo y viviendo con su novia. Pommes-Chips le persigue hasta en el teatro, y mientras el primo de Jack está en plena obra, Jack mata accidentalmente al gángster. Lo que da lugar a una sucesión de enredos, y más aun, cuando se conoce que el cadáver llevaba en su bolsillo un boleto de las carreras de hípica con una importante suma de premio.
Varangeot
The brother of a delinquent schoolboy falls in love with his teacher and intrigues to make him reciprocate her love, and succeeds.
Barthoin
Le commissaire Baudu
El duro jefe de una empresa está a punto de retirarse. Siente que ha llegado el momento de pasarle el testigo a otro. Cuando se conoce la noticia, algunos de los empleados comienzan a hacer méritos para convertirse en los elegidos. Pero una nueva legislación laboral condiciona la marcha del antiguo jefe y la elección del nuevo. (FILMAFFINITY)
Lucien Moreau
Comical adventures of two pairs of friends during their stay in Deauville, Normandy.
Corbeau (segment "Le corbeau et le renard")
Cuatro historias, basadas en cuatro fábulas de Lafontaine, muestran a una mujer que intenta recuperar a su marido; a un infeliz que quiere suicidarse; a un hombre celoso que llega a asociarse con su rival, y a una pareja que se queda encerrada en un apartamento.
Charpentier, le conférencier
Le commissaire
Varange
Para hacerse cargo de una herencia, Geneviève, una joven tan guapa como inocente, llega a una pequeña ciudad francesa y se aloja en un hotel. Accidentalmente, la joven se confunde de habitación, llegando a tiempo para salvar la vida de un alcohólico que ha decidido suicidarse. Entre ambos surgirá una relación sentimental.
Pétrarque
le clochard
Marcel trabaja en una fábrica y es un tío bastante normal. Una viuda lo lía para que le compre un moderno coche americano. Al principio no quiere, pero finalmente acaba aceptando. Desde que se hace con el coche todo son problemas y gastos. No sólo tendrá que lidiar con el automóvil sino también con su mujer que está que se sube por las paredes. (FILMAFFINITY)
le boucher
Guillaume Chouilloux
Le second policier / Policeman
Las aventuras de Cándido, un soldado francés, en 1940. Separado de su novia, le sucederán numerosas aventuras. (FILMAFFINITY)
un avocat ('Le divorce')
The seven stages in the life of the modern Frenchwomen are disclosed by seven directors in a witty way: 1 - Childhood, 2 - Adolescence, 3 - Virginity, 4 - Marriage, 5 - Adultery, 6 - Divorce, 7 - The Single Woman.
Dr. Emile Couzan
le conservateur du musée de Vallembrais / Son petit-fils
L'inspecteur Vidalie
Miguel foils a bank robbery and becomes a successful nightclub singer, but he doesn't know that his wife is being courted by an Italian fitness instructor.
Adolphe Tessier
La Parole
A rich kid, the daughter of an oil tycoon, lives a life of luxury. Bad guys kidnap the heiress.
The visitor
A man dreams he is in a wax museum after it is closed for the night.The statues come to life and behave in mysterious ways.
Jean-François Robignac
Un profesor se hace popular gracias a sus métodos de enseñanza poco ortodoxos.
Jacques Willis Senior
Un gendarme
Aimé Morin, a good-natured bookseller, is also one of the candidates in the local elections of his small town. He is well-liked by most but he also has political enemies. Among them is Lagarde, a journalist close to the latter. Lagarde takes advantage of Morin being on holiday in Paris to try and tarnish his reputation. His machination unfortunately works and poor Aimé finds himself mistaken for a sex maniac.
Albert Lecagneux, le cambrioleur
A man becomes the lover of his former persecutor's wife.
le démarcheur
Jimmy Scott
Inspector #2
Una adolescente Brigitte Bardot es la no tan inocente hija de un conocido jefe criminal en esta condimentada comedia francesa, con una variedad de números musicales. Cuando es forzada a esconderse, su naturaleza indomable se convierte en una pesadilla para su guardián, un cantante de club nocturno enamorado de sus encantos.
Mr. Raymond
El director de un colegio, el señor Delasalle, convive con su esposa y su amante, la profesora Horner. Pero las dos mujeres, cansadas de sufrir la constante tiranía y malos tratos del hombre que comparten, deciden que esa situación no puede continuar.
lui même, en joueur de trompette
A small-town policeman is informed that "naked women" are dancing in a revue at a local variety theater. Being the guardian of public morals that he is, he decides to stroll on down there and check it out for himself.
Zamore
Clarisse cheats on her husband with a vain insurance agent. Zamore, the cuckold (and a magician) wouldn't let his wife be stolen so easily. Poiret and Serrault play the rivals in this twisted love story. A poetic absurd fantasy.
