Le grand-père Galipeau
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 ...
Mr. Marchand
Commissaire Murato
On the day of his marriage, the son of a Marseille king declares to his family that he wishes to engage in the police.
Professor Tissot
Un joven que se disfraza de mujer para poder acceder al Colegio de chicas.
Guillaume de Kerfuntel
le patron du restaurant
Tulipe es un anciano jubilado que vive solo en un antiguo vagón, y que tiene como afición cultivar tranquilamente su jardín y la pintura al óleo, pero también tiene una fuente secreta de ingresos. Su ahijado, Noel, descubre que Tulipe es en realidad un maestro falsificador, que produce copias perfectas de billetes de 10 francos. La novia de Noel ve en esto esto una oportunidad de volverse ricos, pero deben convencer a Tulipe de falsificar billetes de 500 francos.
Le ministre
El Sr. Septime dirige su lujoso restaurante con una disciplina casi militar. La visita de un Jefe de Estado sudamericano hará que el hotel se movilice en su honor, y deciden preparan un plato especial para él: la "Pirámide al Septime". En el momento de la aparición del plato, el Presidente Novalés desaparece. Septime se encuentra entonces en una situación delicada: el comisario sospecha de él, y es acosado por el secretario del presidente.
Eugène Ménétru
Invierno de 1941. Francia está partida en dos. En el norte, la zona ocupada. En el sur, la Francia libre. Justo en la línea que separa las dos Francias, hay un pequeño pueblo. Un día, un miembro de la Resistencia es lanzado en paracaídas, pero cae abatido. Es encontrado por aldeanos del pueblo, que lo ocultan en el hospital. Poco a poco el pueblo entero se irá movilizando. El Conde de Danville, que hasta entonces había rechazado oponer resistencia a los ocupantes, se dará cuenta de que su deber será sacrificarse para facilitar la evasión a zona libre del militar de la "Résistance".
Le commissaire
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...
Marolles
Le général
A young duke marries a girl, also penniless, and moves into a bus left him by an uncle, with their ten children. At last he finds the bus is made of solid gold.
de Royssac
Bourjus
En la segunda entrega de la serie, a su amigo de la infancia, Nicolas, y a su banda de bandidos, pero cuando llega la hora de la tragedia, la hermosa aventurera ha de continuar adelante. Rescata a sus hijos, se convierte en una mujer de negocios al frente de su propio restaurante e interviene en política. Pero ¿adónde la conducirá su corazón?
l'estivant
Antoine and Marie decided to introduce their parents before the wedding. Summer vacation looks like a good time, so the Lartigue family prepares to host Malhouin family. But it turns out that the harsh Emil Malhouin is not too happy to get acquainted with his future relatives...
Colonel Lanoix
Un célebre traficante de armas ha dejado en herencia a su joven viuda un castillo y una importante colección de patentes que interesan a los servicios secretos de varios países. Así, cuatro "barbouzes" son enviados para conseguir los preciados documentos, pero es el agente francés Lagneaux (Lino Ventura) quien, recibiendo órdenes de seducir a la rubia heredera, acometerá su misión hasta el final. (FILMAFFINITY)
Le beau-père
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.
Le concierge de la FBI
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.
L'examinateur
Le père Devillard
Lionel Fribourg, a great composer (at least that's what he thinks) has a problem with his noisy environment: he can't complete his unfinished symphony. Of course there is a market for unfinished symphonies but, for all he knows, only one became famous. So he had better find a way to finish it. At long last, he comes across Agnès, a divorced woman who agrees to let him her quiet home. Lionel, full of hope, resumes work...
Mr. Maurice
Three girls in Paris is the story of three Danish girls (Ghita Nørby, Susse Wold and Hanne Borchsenius) traveling to Paris, but after having placed suitcase and money on the hotel and takes off in the city, they forget what it's called and where it is located. They are helped by a Parisian taxi driver, and meets a series of typical French.
le Général Walker
El agente del FBI Lenny Caution debe viajar a Europa para atrapar a una banda de criminales que ha secuestrado a un científico americano.
Commissioner Mouton
Stanislas Dubois is the manager of a successful advertising agency. One day, he comes up against an imposing woman who foists on him a cumbersome painting by Cézanne.
Comm. Mercadier
The holidays at a pension in Touquet (North-Western France) are marred by a series of tragic disappearances.
Capitán Pomarel
A la bella y simpática Susana de Pomarel la Academia francesa le entrega un premio a la virtud y a la buena reputación También le regalan un viaje a Biarritz que será el origen de todos sus problemas, pues allí conocerá al apuesto René, un galán que obligará a Susana a comportarse como una lianta sin principios. Comedia con números musicales que forma parte del grupo de películas que rodó Luis César Amadori ("La violetera") en España entre 1958 y 1968. Entre un buen elenco de secundarios destaca la protagonista, una Marujita Díaz resplandeciente en el cénit de su belleza.
Le bijoutier (« Le Gros Lot »)
A light French comedy of 5 segments.
Dr Séverin
Léopold Shumway
Le directeur des Editions Saint-Vincent-de-Paul
M. de Saint-Mars
Adaptación de una novela de Alejandro Dumas. Aunque los parisinos viven en la miseria, Luis XIV (1643-1715) disfruta de toda clase de lujos y placeres. En la corte se conspira para destronarlo, pues se ha sabido que el rey tiene un hermano gemelo que permanece en prisión desde hace muchos años oculto bajo una máscara de hierro. Mazarino le confía al mosquetero D'Artagnan (Jean Marais) la misión de encontrarlo. (FILMAFFINITY)
M. Pipelet, le concierge
Adaptación "Los misterios de París", novela del escritor francés Eugène Sue. Después de atropellar accidentalmente a un hombre con su carruaje, el Marqués Rodolphe de Sombreuil ayudará a su viuda a encontrar a su hija desaparecida. (FILMAFFINITY)
L'inspecteur de police
The film consists of seven roughly 15 minute episodes, each showing what will happen if one or more of the Ten Commandments will be broken: Jérome Chambard is warned that he will lose his job if he continues to swear; Françoise Beaufort enamored of a stripper calls on her only to find her married to a janitor who doesn't know what kind of dancing his wife performs; Denis, a Jesuit novice, leaves the order to avenge his sister's suicide, which was provoked by Garigny, who seduced her into prostitution and drug addiction; Philip buys a necklace for Micheline though he is bored with her; a young man find out that his real mother is not Madeleine, but actress Clarisse Ardant; Didier Marin, cashier of a bank, was fired by his boss; the Devil appears as a serpent for Jérome Chambard and the bishop are eating.
Le général de Castignac
Le père Soulage
A young teacher arrives in Normandy, where she intends to put an end to illegal alcohol trafficking and consumption.
M. Landru, patron du bazar
Gabriel llega a las costas de Normandía para visitar a su hija, interna en un colegio de señoritas. Allí traba amistad con Albert, un hombre mayor y amargado que ahoga sus penas en alcohol. (FILMAFFINITY)
Le sergent recruteur
Francia, siglo XVIII. Louis de Bourguignon abandonó la banda de Malichot, porque consideraba que sus métodos eran inmorales. Creó entonces su propia banda, y bajo el nombre de Cartouche se dedicó a robar audazmente a los ricos, repartiendo después el botín entre los pobres. Así fue cómo consiguió el aprecio y la admiración de la gente, pero también el rencor de la policía y de sus viejos compinches.
Colonel
Two scientists have invented a kindness serum which can turn the fiercest human being into the sweetest kindest person. Testing the product on a wild lion proves successful. The "vaccination " becomes compulsory in the whole France, then in Europa. Mrs Durand ,who was a sour-tempered shrew, becomes tender and pampers her husband, happy as he has never been. The bossy colonel of the fourth floor surrounds his neighbors with attentions .But new problems appear, caused by this universal goodness:for instance, Mr Durand's boss's lover does not want to tell him she does not love him anymore for fear he may be grieved.Besides, a country in which people were not inoculated against nastiness becomes aggressive.
André Costet
Between a whimsical wife, two insolent girls, a son who is engaged in strange chemical experiments and a mother-in-law who is being courted by a rich English lord, André Costais, an intractable industrialist, is struggling to impose his authority on his family.
Le colonel ('L'enfance')
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.
Baracuda, the Pirate
Un noble del siglo XVII hace que piratas secuestren al gobernador de una isla tropical.
Albert Decauville-Lachenée
Recién casada con el apuesto dentista Herve Dandieu, Virginie (Brigitte Bardot) descubre que su marido está involucrado en el asesinato del propietario de una escuela de danza. Virginie comienza a trabajar como profesora de baile en el estudio para demostrar a la policía que su marido es inocente, y quizá encontrar al verdadero asesino...
Pierre Darbon
Murderous foreign agents are after a scientist who has invented an atomic engine that could change the future of rocketry.
Raspec
Étienne Vandamme
Quince años después de terminada la guerra, un grupo de veteranos de la Resistencia francesa se reúne para cenar en casa de uno de ellos. Quieren conmemorar la muerte de su antiguo líder a manos del ejército alemán. Con el paso del tiempo han cambiado mucho y ya no son los mismos de antes. Pero todavía les queda un asunto por resolver: averiguar quién de ellos fue el traidor que los delató a la Gestapo.
le commandant Brossard, à la retraite
El vagabundo Arquímedes quiere pasar el invierno en la cárcel, pero su propósito resulta no ser tan fácil como parece.
Edouard Maroni, Helene's Father
A playboy is pursued by three women seeking romance.
M. Dorand
Robillard
Le gendarme Malandain
Ferdinand es un estricto agente francés que vigila la aduana de Assola, población en parte francesa y en parte italiana, porque la frontera que separa ambos países atraviesa el pueblo. Don Giuseppe es un contrabandista italiano que intenta sacar partido de esta circunstancia, pero sus esfuerzos siempre se ve truncados por culpa del implacable Ferdinand. Pero un buen día Don Giuseppe descubre algo muy interesante: la casa en la que nació Ferdinand ocupa la línea que divide el pueblo, de modo que si hubiera nacido en la cocina, entonces sería italiano y quedaría inhabilitado como agente aduanero francés.
Maître Perceval
La moucharde stars Dany Carrel as a young miss who loves neither wisely nor well. Duped into a life of crime, Carrel remains on the wrong side of the Law because she's hopelessly in love with a two-bit crook. Soon she becomes as jaded and hardened as her criminal cohorts. When the police threaten to throw her in the Bastille, Carrel agrees to turn informer, with the expected disastrous results.
M. Horville, l'agent d'assurances
Antoine
A bossy count has trouble marrying off any of his six sons. When one of them, Adam, finally makes wedding arrangements, something happens to his bride to be: she develops amnesia after an accident.
Le docteur d'Herblay
Brigitte es la hija de un importante político. Se encapricha con el jefe de gabinete de su padre y recurrirá a todo tipo de artimañas para conseguirlo. Se concierta la boda, el problema es que el novio no está enamorado de Brigitte. Celosa porque siente que su marido no la quiere, vuelve a idear un retorcido plan para conquistarlo.
Saint-Vallier
17 year-old small-town girl Nicole Noblet comes to Paris dreaming of becoming a world-famous actress.
Guillard
When he learns that his daughter is to be engaged to the son of a rich businessman, Leon Martin realizes that extreme measures are needed to create a good impression.
Colonel Charles Dupont
Jean Duclos has extraordinary adventures after taking the train and mistakenly taking the luggage of a young dancer, Lola Wanda. An oil tycoon appoints him as a proxy for his future company, and then he marries his beautiful cousin, Suzy.
Guillaumet
Dugenet
Inspector Bourdieux
Le père Mathieu
Bonnel
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.
le directeur
Sheriff
Duplantin
François is the benefactor of the town; but later on, all the inhabitants turn against him.
Papa le Grand
Shy, timorous bank clerk, Fernand Jérôme, prevents -unwillingly of course - a gang led by "Le Grand J" from robbing the "Crédit Populaire", where he works. Having become a hero out of the blue, this new status allows him to woo Renée, the daughter of chief inspector Merlerin. What Merlerin does not know is that the man he has been trying to arrest for years, "Le Grand J" is in fact Joseph Jérôme, Fernand's father, who has disappeared for years...
Le colonel de la Ribodière
Steiner
Nana or Nanà is a French-Italian film by Christian-Jaque starring Charles Boyer. It is an adaptation of Émile Zola's novel Nana.
Commissaire Franconi
The title of this French noir drama translates to The Black File. Jean-Marc Bory plays Jacques Arnaud, an idealistic young investigator who comes to work in a small French town. He is soon involved in a mysterious case incriminating a town notable. Arnaud devotes himself to the case but the upshot of this is rather surprising to all concerned, not to mention the audience. Like Cayatte's previous efforts, Le Dossier Noir is based on the proposition that the phrase "French justice" can at times be oxymoronic.
General Cambronne
Talleyrand, el gran político francés de finales del siglo XVIII y primer cuarto del XIX, rememora en una reunión de amigos, la vida del Emperador de los franceses, desde su nacimiento en Córcega, pasando por sus gestas militares, hasta su muerte en el destierro. La cinta es una pequeña lección de la historia de Francia.
Mr. Herboux
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.
Frank Keany is the chief engineer of a uranium mine located under the overwhelming sun of New Mexico and owned by a woman, Moira Warden. She suspects her ex-husband want to take possession of the mine.
Berton
Cadet Rousselle ama a la bella Isabelle, pero el padre de ésta no entiende el amor de su hija con un actor. Cadet decide entonces partir de su pueblo para hacer fortuna. Este será el inicio de sus aventuras.
Roland Brissard
A publicity-minded French mayor reunites quintuplets and their earthy father, all six played by Fernandel.
Noël Le Garrec
M. Noirtier
Edmond Dantes is falsely accused by those jealous of his good fortune, and is sentenced to spend the rest of his life in the notorious island prison, Chateau d'If. While imprisoned, he meets the Abbe Faria, a fellow prisoner whom everyone believes to be mad. The Abbe tells Edmond of a fantastic treasure hidden away on a tiny island, that only he knows the location of. After many years in prison, the old Abbe dies, and Edmond escapes disguised as the dead body. Now free, Edmond must find the treasure the Abbe told him of, so he can use the new-found wealth to exact revenge on those who have wronged him.
L'épicier Bridoux
Jules Pinson, photographer in a small provincial village is in love with Annette, the daughter of the grocer. She 's dreaming only heros of adventure movies, so Jules invents a twin brother, Caesar, hunter of lions in Senegal ...
Le père de Jacques
Émile, l'aubergiste
In a little town with a renowned college a female student is found after she was hogtied and strangled to death. Inspector Marco is assigned to catch the murderer.
Mr Cauchard, le père de Claire
A bank clerk is bored to death with his nine-to-five work under his boss ' watchful eye. His missus is a pain in the neck and his in-laws are not better.
Le Souriant
Three events that seemingly nothing related, namely the murder of a truck driver, the discovery of the corpse of a vitriolic young woman, and the death of another who was crushed, will launch the Inspector Maréchal on the trail of a prostitution network. The girl-mother Olga, a friend of the trucker, confesses her the underwear of the women's exploitation.
During the Second World War, midshipman Dourdan, nicknamed 'Saucisse', distinguished himself by his clumsiness and his blunders. Charged with Lieutenant Goldfinch to convey an aircraft to Marrakech, he shot down an American bomber on the way, mistaken for a German plane.
Mr Belhomme, le propriétaire excentrique
You never can tell. Jean had always been one of the most confirmed bachelors that kept swearing to anyone that would listen he would never put a ring on a female finger. But that was before he met Juliette, a capricious but irresistibly lovely young woman. Well, what else can you do when you fall dead in love with a creature of the kind? And too bad if their honeymoon proved catastrophic. To say nothing of their housing problems : what to do when neither husband nor wife has any money? How to build one's love nest when the housing crisis rages? How to get by when your wife has luxury tastes?
Sigurd
Bertal, a despotic and hated theater director, is assassinated before a performance of Macbeth in which he was to play with Aurélia Nobli, his companion and Ludovic Arn, her lover. The police arrive on the scene and the investigation begins. Suspicion first falls on Sigurd, an old actor who had threatened Bertal. But parallels appear between the characters in the play and the actors who play them.
le docteur Aubert, le maire
Hippolyte (Bourvil) es un tonto de treinta años, de mente infantil, ingenuo, que vive en un pueblo de Normandía (Courteville, a 35 kms de Evreux). Cuando muere su tío Celestino, le deja en herencia su fortuna y su albergue (Le Trou Normand), pero sólo a condición de que pase su certificado de graduación en un año. Para lograr su objetivo, debe enfrentarse a las maquinaciones de su tía Agustina, quien quiere heredar en su lugar y trata de hacerlo fracasar utilizando a su hija Javotte (Brigitte Bardot). Él tiene el apoyo de muchos aldeanos, incluyendo al alcalde, al maestro de escuela, y especialmente a la hija de éste, también maestra de escuela, de la que se enamorará Hippolyte.
Captain Doguereau
A woman avenging the death of her lover thwarts a conspiracy plotted by a group of former compatriots of Napoleon.
A fictionalized military documentary.
Fier-à-Bras
Fanfan es un apuesto joven campesino. Se une al ejército para escapar del matrimonio y porque una gitana predijo que obtendría la gloria y la hija del rey como esposa. Pero la gitana en realidad era Adeline, la hija del oficial de reclutamiento. Una vez que ha descubierto la estratagema, Fanfan se niega a olvidar este sueño y decide cumplir el destino de la predicción falsa. Fantásticas aventuras de capa y espada en un entorno del siglo XVIII, con una ligera crítica de la guerra y los poderosos.
Le directeur de l'hôtel
Raymond Corbier, a sculptor, has a wonderful wife, Sylvia, whom he adores. To save a passionate admirer who simulates suicide because she does not respond to her advances, Sylvia, an irreproachable wife, is forced to lie for the first time to Raymond.
Mr. Joachim
Annie, the ward of Monsieur Joachim, a nightclub manager, has fallen in love with Philippe Lebon, a singer who could easily re-float her guardian's failing business. The trouble is that Joachim has already - and hurriedly - betrothed Annie to his business partner. To make matters worse the young lady suspects Philippe of being unfaithful. In order to thwart the wedding of Annie and his rival, Philippe hires two of his friends, the resourceful Beaudubec and Tracassin.
Robert, il pittore
Vincenzo, a railwayman who works on the Rome-to-Paris line, has a wife in Italy and a mistress in France: Ginette, a widow with a four-year-old daughter. When he's offered a job in Paris he decides to move, but unfortunately his wife and petulant brother-in-law insist on accompanying him to Paris, and he must decide between the two women in his life.
Georges Lebreton
Zoé, a pretty penniless girl, decides on the advice of her neighbor to embark on gallantry. After a brief failure, she meets a young boy, Jacques Lebreton who is about to get married. After causing the failure of this arranged marriage, she will have to play the role of wife of Jacques with his family, until the arrival of the uncle from America.
Mr. Pomont
A woman who has a terrible secret to conceal takes refuge on a barge.
Ricardo Garcia
Having fallen out with his girlfriend Dolorès, Juanito leaves for Mexico, where he becomes a famous matador.There he meets a Viennese singer, Fanny Miller, who falls for him so much so that she intercepts the letters Dolorès keeps on sending him. In desperation, Dolorès devotes all her time and efforts to dance and she becomes the celebrated dancer Estrellita. After a series of misunderstandings and ups and downs, the sun of Andalusia will finally reunite the two lovebirds.
Ricardo Garcia
Vendedor de botijos de profesión pero torero de vocación, Juanillo está enamorado de Dolores, hija de la dueña de la posada y 'bailaora' con muchas posibilidades de triunfar en el mundo del espectáculo. Para mantener su amor, los dos deciden que las fiestas del pueblo serán el último escenario donde demostrarán sus dotes artísticas. Pero el inesperado éxito de Juanillo como torero durante las fiestas le lleva a una importante gira por América que le separará de su amada. Cuando las cartas que él le escribe desde las Américas son interceptadas, Dolores dudará del amor de Juanillo y las cosas van a complicarse...
Commissioner Besnard
Back from a stay in the Far East, a woman who knew the names of the chiefs of a drug ring is murdered. Georges Masse, the famous reporter, decides to investigate, accompanied by his faithful photographer P'tit Louis. He will come across some unappetizing characters like M. Dubois, a killer, Luigi Costelli, a dangerous trafficker and a beautiful but dubious lady, Suzanne Wilson. After being himself suspected, Masse will make the truth triumph.
Théodore Andrieux, commandant en retraite, juré
Elsa Lundestein, criada de Maurice Vaudreamont, le ayuda en todas sus investigaciones, ya que éste está afectado por un cáncer. Sin embargo Maurice consigue que Elsa le prometa que acabará con su vida en caso de que sus investigaciones no obtengan resultados. El problema es cuando el suceso es visto ante un jurado.
Captain Cabriac
Marguerite secretly loves a novelist whose face no one knows. The jealous husband sets up a scheme by asking an actor friend to play the novelist and behave in an execrable way in order to disgust his wife. But things never turn out the way you think they will.
The peasant Adémaï, returning home, gets lost in the forest and knocks down a border post. In his haste to replant it, he installs it upside down.
Joseph
The king orders viscount Florestan to take mademoiselle de Solanges for his wife. But the viscount doesn't know the young lady at all. The latter decides to seduce her future husband by introducing herself to him with the name Veronique...
Antoine Baudoin, Micheline's father-in-law
Micheline, who fled to Paris with the man she is in love with, finds herself on her own when he abandons her. She lands in a reformatory from which she manages to escape.
Commander (segment "Le retour de Jean")
In France in 1946, the difficult return to civilian life of five deportees and prisoners of war after having lived through the hell of the Second World War.
Brécard
During Christmas night, two police officers make their nocturnal rounds, in their round they meet tramps, brawlers in a café, a naked man, a concierge, a sexton, revelers in a nightclub, and end by signing in their report to the police station.
Jagu
A chronicle of the life of Bertrand du Guesclin, grand officer of the French army in the 14th century.
Kohlmann
Kohlman, the attorney for the Fournil bank, diverts money from the institution. To hide his malpractices, he imagines to remove the director, the young and overconfident Clement Fournil, during a cruise at sea on the yacht Emile Frechisse.
Le père Landrin
In the peaceful alpine village of Granges-de-Mortes, a tragedy has just taken place: Gustave Boeuf, the local Casanova, has mysteriously died at the foot of a wayside cross. Shortly afterwards, a peasant, who is suspected of having murdered him, hangs himself from a branch of the calvary. But was he the real culprit? Angélique Barrodet, an old maid , who had been Gustave's fiancée before he abandoned her on the very day of their wedding, leads the investigation in her own way.
M. Roland
Antoine y Antoinette Moulin (Roger Pigaut y Claire Mafféi), una humilde pareja francesa, ha perdido un billete ganador de la lotería y con ello la oportunidad de cambiar sus vidas. Ganadora del premio al mejor filme psicológico y de amor en el Festival de cine de Cannes de 1947, el cineasta galo Jacques Becker ('La evasión') nos ofrece una alegre fábula sobre el afecto, la suerte y el azar
Beauchamp
Philippe and Sylvie have to do with Alvarez, a dangerous gang leader. They break up with him and commit robbery and murder. Sylvie suggests that Philippe take refuge in his quiet family. His younger sister Antoinette attracts and charms Philippe and excites the jealousy of Sylvie who informs Alvarez. The police get involved and Philippe is killed during a merciless fight.
Le docteur Renault
Gino Fabretti is a famous Italian tenor. During a tour in Nice, he begins a relationship with the wife of a renowned doctor. The doctor traps and drugs him and replaces his vocal cords with those of Robert, a delivery boy in a grocery store. Robert wakes up with the voice of Gino and Gino with that of Robert (including accents and mannerisms!). The unfaithful wife despises the tenor without his voice and becomes more interested in the grocer.
'Tonton'
A guardian, abusing his prerogatives, imposes on a young girl the husband he has chosen for her. On the very day of the wedding ceremony, the bride fled. She is picked up on the road by four bandits who are going on a business expedition. After many adventures, each as implausible as the next, the heroine will marry the man of her choice.
'La Galoche'
Jérôme owns a boat with his crook of an uncle, La Rose de la Mer. They sail with a band of crooks hired by the uncle to scuttle the ship and collect the insurance premium.
M. Léon
In Marseilles, the fisherman Tonin closely monitors the actions of the wreckage workers led by a certain Mr. Léon. Could these bizarre individuals have something to do with the double murder at the Grand Hotel?
Count Fabrice
Sylvio, a successful singer, has found a way to take a peaceful vacation, safe from his female adulators: to travel incognito. He puts up at an old castle whose landlord, Count Fabrice, a ruined nobleman, seeks a hidden treasure. Posing as the nephew of the castle gardener, Sylvio enjoys happy days and even finds the time to fall in love with Gracieuse, the count's daughter. Unfortunately for him, his impresario ends up locating him...
Stéfani
Pierre risks being taken advantage of by an agency that sets up financial scams, he escapes thanks to Marcelle, the secretary of the director of the agency, who is a childhood friend. She does her best to keep the young man away from the scams of his boss. However, the director, in love with Marcelle and jealous of Pierre, succeeds in trapping and ruining him. Marcelle will then denounce him to the police, but before being arrested he will kill her.
The hairdresser
Four French conscripts are going to go on leave with their godmother, in Provence, in the company of a comrade from the British army. But, in the absence of the godmother, the five leavers end up at a mineral water merchant.
An aristocrat instigates divorce proceedings against his son-in-law, a commoner and the ex-owner of night club "La Vie de Plaisir".
Marcel Roland
Alice, an unhappy young woman in the household, is the mother of a little boy, Pierre. She falls in love with a young doctor and plans to run away with him and his son. Finally, not considering the right to deprive Pierre of his father, she gives up. Twenty years pass, Pierre has grown up, he suspects his little brother, Jean, of just being his half-brother. His suspicions gnaw at him, his mother confesses to him her past fault. Faced with this confession, Pierre will abandon the one who sacrificed her life for him.
Saillens, le directeur de l'école
En St. Robin, Francia, la paz del pueblo comienza a perturbarse cuando, el Dr. Rémy Germain, comienza a recibir anónimos firmados como El Cuervo, en los que se le exige que rompa su relación con Laura Vorzet, esposa del psiquiatra de la misma institución. Pronto, las misivas comienzan a señalar las faltas de muchos otros personajes del pueblo y se vuelve urgente descubrir quien está detrás de esta conspiración.
Monsieur Barbier
Comedy about an older man wanting to marry a younger woman who must make sure first that the woman is not by chance his own daughter.
Mélisse
Un artista en apuros compra un talismán que le da amor, fama y riqueza. El talismán es una mano izquierda cortada, y funciona perfectamente, de hecho, mágicamente. Pero, por supuesto, no hay nada gratis en este mundo, y después de un año, el diablo viene y pide lo que le corresponde.
Louis Dubief
Picpus is a street and a subway stop where a number of murders have been committed. Maigret tries to find the killer.
Inspector Duval
In 1914, in the first months of World War I, Louise Jarraud loses her husband, killed on the front. Shortly after, she gives birth to a baby, who soon dies. Devastated by this double misfortune, Louise decides to dedicate her life to caring for the children of others. She becomes a nurse with several employers, giving her affection to little boys or girls. A widower and another man propose to her but she refuses twice determined as she is to live only for the children in her charge.
Gonzalès
A man is shot In the hotel of an imaginary South American country. Clarence and Montès, two inspector students, must solve this murder, but they don't know that dead guy is the USA public enemy No.1.
le docteur Théodore Linz, de la coloniale
En París, en el barrio de Montmartre, actúa un misterioso asesino que tiene el cinismo de dejar una tarjeta de visita sobre sus víctimas. En un mes ha asesinado ya a cuatro personas.
Captain Le Goff (uncredited)
The everyday life and activity of "La Dernière Heure", a major evening newspaper, seen through the eyes of Hélène Perrin, a cub reporter trained by Pierre Rabaud, a star in his field. Side by side they will investigate several events: an air show that ends tragically, the coming to France of a Hollywood actress, a lightship caught in a terrible storm...
Le commissaire Binet
Un abogado vive con su hija en una enorme y siniestra mansión. El abogado se ha hundido en el alcoholismo y apenas mantiene relación con su hija. Un día, aparece un cadáver en la casa. La sospechosa es Nicole, la hija.
Gendarme (uncredited)
The film is biographical, telling the story of the life and artistic struggles of the French composer Hector Berlioz. Berlioz is shown as a recalcitrant medical student in an anatomy class dreaming of becoming a composer; at a demonstration during a performance at the Paris Opéra conducted by Habeneck; at supper with other young artists (Hugo, Janin, Dumas, Mérimée, Delacroix); and chasing after his future wife Harriet Smithson, after a performance of Hamlet. Also depicted are his life in a garret, while suffering from an illness due to an abscess in the throat; a visit from his mother who curses him; and the composition of the Symphonie fantastique. The film then shows his marital breakdown, the premiere of his opera Benvenuto Cellini, his travels throughout Europe, his second marriage to Marie Recio (called "Marie Martin" in the film), public acceptance in old age and reconciliation with his son.
Criscelli
Cora Pearl, a demi-mondaine under the Second Empire, falls in love with a legitimist while she is the mistress of Jérôme Bonaparte, the cousin of Napoleon III.
Inspector Laurent
In the pound, Pipo the dog recounts his adventures to his fellow inmates.
Fouché
Julie and Désirée Clary are courted by the brothers Joseph and Napoleon Bonaparte. Joseph marries Julie and Napoleon is affianced to Désirée. When Napoleon breaks the engagement and marries Joséphine de Beauharnais, Désirée becomes involved with General Bernadotte.
Le commissaire de police
A would be blind hoodlum redeems himself in the Salvation Army just for a lovely lieutenant.
The forbidden romance between wealthy Giselle Preville and impoverished journalist Claude Dauphin. When Preville disappears, Dauphin is accused of kidnapping by the girl's snobbish father Rene Alexander. By the time the Normandie reaches New York, however, the "mystery" is solved and all misunderstandings blithely swept away.
Un policier
The forbidden romance between wealthy Giselle Preville and impoverished journalist Claude Dauphin. When Preville disappears, Dauphin is accused of kidnapping by the girl's snobbish father Rene Alexander. By the time the Normandie reaches New York, however, the "mystery" is solved and all misunderstandings blithely swept away.
Sergeant Jacques Destranges randomly finds a little friend from the summer. She runs an inn where the company finds good wine and songs. Jacques makes plans for the future with her while his companions relive their peacetime memories.
The hunter at Maxim's, whose family is unaware of the profession, turns around and plans to marry his daughter to a marquis when he recognizes a regular in this nobility. Everyone meets at Maxim's where, unmasked, the hunter agrees to marry his daughter to the reveler but repentant Marquis.
The antique dealer
A painter who has led a free and independent life meets true love. A jealous former lover intervenes to prevent her from being happy and succeeds in driving away the one she loves. The young woman regains a taste for life thanks to her work and her friends.
le garde-champêtre
At the beginning of World War I in a village in the country of La Marne, two families are against the marriage of their children. The war changes the positions.
"Les Trois Valses" traces the love story of two people over three eras. In the first waltz (music based on Johann Strauss I), Yvonne is a sensitive Parisian ballet dancer, whose romance with a dashing officer is brought to an abrupt end by his family. She goes off to Vienna to become a big star. In the second waltz, her daughter, an even bigger star, but now of Paris music halls, has a brief flirtation with the rakish man-about-town who is the son of suitor number one. She throws him over pretty quickly for a chance to shine at a Gala performance. Finally, in the third waltz, the two get together, when she is a movie star, and he is posing as an insurance salesman.
Colonel d'Estranges
The life of Thérèse Martin, who entered the Carmel at the age of 15, in 1888, under the name of Sister Thérèse of the Child Jesus, died nine years later, and canonized in 1925.
Barnabé, an occasional flutist, goes to Mme Petit-Durand to organize her daughter's 20 years. But he is confused with the Count of Marengo whom Mme Petit-Durand wants to give as husband to her daughter, who has already made her choice.
Cattion d'Urville takes in a gypsy, Sarah, and her granddaughter Miarka, in an outbuilding of her chateau. Miarka, while growing up, attracts the attention of Luigi, Cattion's nephew who, little by little, falls in love with her. Sarah raised her daughter in the tradition of gypsies who curse anyone who marries a man who is not a gypsy. Miarka ends up loving Luigi and he wants to marry her. The law of race opposes it. Fortunately, a well-conducted genealogical investigation will discover that Luigi is of the gypsy race. They will marry.
un officier de marine
Fictionalized reconstruction of the life of the French spy Marthe Richard who decided to contact the secret services during the First World War.
In Vendée, an old farmer is gradually abandoned by his family who do not see their future in the fields. Only a cripple in love and abandoned remain at his side.
The son of a naval commander faces his first heartbreak when he falls for the young American woman who is destined to become his father's new wife.
le sergent dans le train
Tras matar a un hombre en París, Pierre Gilieth huye a Barcelona, donde se alista en la legión extranjera española. Una vez en África participará en combates en el desierto, se enamora de una chica de Marruecos, Aischa, y conoce a dos compatriotas, Mulot y Lucas, una amistad que puede no ser tan desinteresada...
In 1721, at the end of his career as a bandit, Cartouche, touched by the grace of an honest young girl, and falling into the hands of justice under the charge of the father of his beloved, asks as a last resort, that the young girl may, before her execution, come and forgive her.
