Frank Villard

The film consists of three novels. The film begins with the fact that the Bernard Blier hero removes a lantern from the entrance to a brothel. The second part is about how the lantern and jewelery were stolen from a young baroness. And in the third part the hero of Louis de Funes hangs a lantern at the entrance to his house.

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

París 1917. Mientras se habla de una guerra que no termina, Mata Hari, un espía con un gran poder de seducción, utilizará sus encantos para conseguir arrebatar importantes secretos militares. Su principal objetivo: seducir a un capitán francés…

Jean Faran tiene la desgracia de atropellar con su coche a una joven llamada Micaela. Una vez repuestos del susto, ella le invita a su casa a tomar unas copas. En realidad se trata de un artificio con el fin de que la indemnice de la supuesta pérdida de una joya valiosa. Él le entrega un cheque y se marcha. Al día siguiente, se da cuenta de que se dejó olvidado su reloj y acude de nuevo a casa de la chica. Pero su sorpresa es enorme cuando ve sacar el cadáver de Micaela, asesinada la noche anterior.

Gracias a sus contactos y su gran personalidad, Richard, un militar retirado, arruinado y aficionado a las carreras de caballos, trata de ganarse la vida vendiendo información sobre éstas para las apuestas en el hipódromo de Epsom. Un día, la casualidad le vuelve a reunir con Maud, la mujer a la que amó y abandonó años atrás en el mismo hipódromo. (FILMAFFINITY)

Javier y sus amigos, unos jóvenes aristócratas, acuden casualmente a un café-teatro donde actúa la bella Lola. Después de la actuación, Javier apuesta con sus compañeros que la seducirá en menos de tres días. Sin embargo, Lola se da cuenta del engaño y hace que lo detengan, acusándolo de robo. Javier pasa una noche entre rejas y, para vengarse de ella, trata de hacer fracasar su debut en un nuevo local.

Film de sketches que giran en torno al mensaje del título.

Charles Lepicard, Lucas Malvoisin y Éric Masson pretenden falsificar billetes. Éric cree tener bajo manga a un grabador sin igual, el de un tal Mandarès (ahora preso), Robert Mideau, le "Cave", es decir, en el argot de los truhanes, un ser ordinario, crédulo e ignorante. Pero el fraude no se puede hacer sin Ferdinand Maréchal alias "Le Dabe", antiguo falsificador de élite. Retirado en Venezuela tras un golpe frustrado, recibe la visita de Charles que le propone un último negocio con los florines, la misma moneda del golpe frustrado. Le Dabe acepta y viaja a París. El equipo se pone a trabajar.

A spy is instructed to investigate a case of arms and women trafficking covered behind a funeral services company.

Un científico francés ha inventado la fórmula de un combustible para naves espaciales que eclipsará todos los demás, tan valiosa que su gobierno, espías extranjeros y hombres de negocios corruptos desean apoderarse de ella.

La Nochevieja de 1899, Soledad, una bella vendedora de violetas, y Fernando, un joven aristócrata, se conocen y se enamoran. Tras la muerte de su hermano, Fernando se ve forzado a hacerse cargo de las obligaciones familiares y tiene que renunciar al amor de Soledad y casarse con otra. Mientras, Soledad se convierte en una gran cantante. Transcurridos varios años, un día vuelven a encontrarse y entre ellos renace la pasión.

Michel Lenoir, a successful interior designer, has reached the middle of his life without ever getting married. A bit blue over it he dreams one night of a beautiful young woman. When he wakes up he is persuaded that this is the girl meant for him. He can't help thinking about her, talking about her, drawing her figure, her face, her eyes on paper. He even gives her a name: Sylviane. Later on, as he is holidaying in Portugal, he notices a charming girl swimming in the pool he is in. No doubt about it : he has found Sylviane. He follows her, talks to her, woos her and they are soon married. However, back in Paris, Michel realizes that Betty, an articulate sports writer, is not the idealized woman his brain had conceived. Things go awry and the couple is about to separate when well-meaning friends intervene and open up Michel's eyes : he must base his love story on everyday reality not on idle dreaming.

"Poisoner" - After her fiancé is arrested Claire finds herself alone and forced to find work. She is hired by a country squire, Etienne de Montenoy, as the tutor of his goddaughter. It does not take long before Montenoy falls for her but a little longer before the young woman, reluctant at first, understands Etienne loves her truly and then requites his love. Etienne lives so happily with her that he decides to make her his heir. Shortly after, he is murdered by poison...

The mysterious death of a well-known criminal sparks an investigation into national security.

The beautiful Beatrice Cenci, daughter of the noble Francesco, falls in love with Olimpio. But she has to face the jealousy of his violent and morbid father, and the hostility of his stepmother Lucrezia, who has a relationship with her other stepson, James. The stepmother and stepson-lover plan to kill Francesco. And when the latter dies accidentally, they decide to put the blame on Beatrice and Olimpio.

Convinced that a wartime resistance heroine is innocent of a murder charge, Nap Rumbold, a solicitor / private detective travels to France searching for evidence to clear her name.

Peppino Bardellotti, a widower, lives in Milan with his four daughters and ex sister-in-law Matilde, who urges girls to settle down by marrying a wealthy man.

The scene is a tawdry hotel room in Limbo, where several damned souls are gathered. At first, the group fails to comprehend where they are or why they're there. When the horrible truth dawns upon them, they carp and snipe at one another, blaming everyone but themselves for their dismal fate.

Un automóvil cuenta las historia de sus sucesivos dueños y personas que en algún momento han tenido contacto con él. Todo comienza con Dominique, una muchacha francesa que viaja a España con la esperanza de salvar la herencia de sus antepasados sin tener que comprometer su libertad y casarse con Armando. Pero éste hará todo lo posible para impedir que recupere su fortuna.

Un grupo de hombres de diferentes circunstancias y personalidades se reúne en un monasterio para seguir un curso de revalorización espiritual. Comprende de un fabricante de velas, un político, un exprisionero, un novelista y un ladronzuelo tratando de eludir a la policía. El político, un ex líder partidista, sufre el remordimiento de haber causado la muerte de tres inocentes. El prisionero, un enfermo y moribundo, posiblemente, carece de valor para visitar a su esposa que puesto que está ahora felizmente casada. El novelista tiene la responsabilidad moral por los delitos cometidos por los jóvenes descarriados por sus escritos, que gana mucho por su trabajo, pero es demasiado desmoralizador para continuar. El fabricante de velas es poco probable que reciba cualquier beneficio de su retiro al monasterio. Entrelazadas con las historias de estos hombres es el drama de un sacerdote que, abrumado por la duda, aún tiene la fuerza interior para seguir adelante.

Un oficial de la Marina alejado ya del trabajo directo en los barcos y adscrito, en consecuencia, a un Ministerio. viene informado de que su esposa envía secretamente a potencias extranjeras diseños militares y proyectos que estaban bajo su custodia. Un cómplice avisa a la mujer quien empieza a tomar medidas para escapar: saluda a su hijito que está jugando y va a su habitación a preparar la maleta. Pero el marido vuelve rápido a casa; la mujer se encierra en la habitación y se suicida con una pistola...

A French/Italian motion picture drama covering the seven deadly sins in seven separate sections.

Lyria, a faded beauty who runs a seedy waterfront bar, is madly in love with Bob, a crooked attorney. Bob can't bring himself to confess his love for Minnie, the pretty daughter of Simon, a safe cracker. In order to run away with her, Bob, one of the masterminds of a big-time robbery, betrays his friends. But Lyria, who has found out what is happening, makes Minnie fall into a deadly trap.

Based on the novel of the same name by writer Edouard Peisson, this Jean Delannoy film display one boy’s unconditional love for his mother, despite her tragic mistreatment of him. After being raised by a shepherd for the past 12 years, Simon (Pierre-Michel Beck) is reunited with his mother Marie (Madeleine Robinson). Marie is a prostitute in Marseilles and is now stable enough to welcome Simon back into her life. Unaware of her profession at first, Simon is happy to have his mom back, but in time he learns how she makes her living. This troubles Simon but he continues to love her, despite not loving her chosen profession. His anger toward this issue gets directed toward Marie’s louse of a boyfriend, Paul (Frank Villard), and the result is a heartfelt tale about love and family.

Desiring to smuggle into Switzerland with her husband, a woman seduces a guide.

One day, Raoul Cérusier realizes with amazement that his face has changed. With the exception of an old uncle, no one, not even his wife, recognizes him. From an ordinary, rather ugly man, he has become a charming young man on whom the prettiest girls turn, including his wife whom he seduces. Fortunately, he regains his old face in time and Madame Cérusier, losing a lover, finds her husband again.

Jean Michaut is a bargeman who lives nearby an old barge cemetery named "Bras-Mort". He is in love with Monique, the daughter of a wealthy boat owner. The girl returns his affection but runs her head against the wall of her family's class prejudices. Her "nearest and dearest" prove indeed prepared to do everything to separate the two lovers. But Monique will not buy in. On the contrary, she leaves her intolerant family to live with Jean among simple, more tolerant bargemen.

During the Great War, in Austria, an officer was shot on the orders of his superior von Pennwitz. Out of revenge, his widow becomes a spy in the pay of France, preoccupied with removing the person responsible for her husband's death. In charge of a mission to von Pennwitz, she suddenly finds herself face to face with her husband, who is still alive. It was a ruse of war to deceive the enemy. It is only at the armistice that the couple will be able to live in peace.

Minne is a very imaginative young lady. She pretends to have had lovers and can't think of anything better to do other than... to tell Antoine, her husband, the day she marries him. Bad beginning for the couple... As the marriage is not consummated for years, Minne feels frustrated and tries to find elsewhere the carnal knowledge she does not find at home. But Antoine is a kind-hearted man and on the occasion of a trip, a sexual balance is at last found between the two partners.

Satire of publishing circles, featuring a ferocious boss, Moscat, a successful but handsome author, Maréchal, another successful but bitter author, Bourgine, a writer plagued with ambition, Brégaillon and the hero, Marc Fournier Zola Prize winner. Naive, the latter quickly becomes formidable, especially since his wife's infidelities have provided him with the material for a new novel.

Gilberte is a sixteen year old girl raised by her aunt and grandmother to be a demimondaine. But she's not ready for that yet, and spends her days in lessons and in teasing Mamita's old friend, the rich playboy Gaston LaChaille, and following his affairs from afar. But when Gaston throws off his latest mistress, it looks as if Gigi just might be ready to begin her destined career.

The life of a weak-willed man is thrust into a downward spiral by the scheming of his manipulative girlfriend and her mother.

A physician whose wife was killed when two trains collided has remained a tormented soul,In his mind,he can still hear his wife whisper "Stop the train! Stop it!" .

A man remembers all the incredible stories that took place in his hotel.

Elisabeth D'Anthar cheats on her husband François with Simon De Chabre. François, who suspects something, surprises his rival and wounds him. Elisabeth 's sister, to save the situation, claims that Simon is actually in love with her and came to see her. They have to get engaged and Simon breaks up with his lover. But Elisabeth is not prepared to accept it, and she becomes the head of a gang of "drivers" in order to kidnap her husband. Famous Vidocq intervenes.

A man who has just deposited a will with a notary is run over by a car. As his overcoat bears the name and address of Emile Blondin on a label, the police go there and discover that the dead man is not Emile Blondin. But this one is soon discovered murdered. The police then became interested in Georges Blondin, the victim's brother, whose goddaughter, Juliette, was also the notary's secretary.

A Parisian painter working in the Basque country succeeds in keeping together a young woman and her smuggler boyfriend, even though the artist has feelings for the intended bride himself, and then he completes a painting on the subject of the wedding.

In an aero-naval base, a marine engineer who was about to deliver the name of a redoubtable spy is murdered. Shortly afterwards three different men appear on the crime scene, each of them claiming to be Monsieur Sylvain, the expected sleuth. But which of the three investigators is actually Sylvain? And what about this delightful young lady who arouses one of the police inspectors? Couldn't she be the murderous spy?

Professor Artus, a scientist specializing in artificial life, wants to try an experiment on an automaton; he is entrusted with a death row inmate. The professor is soon found murdered. It is Inspector Wens, helped by a journalist, who must solve the case. Franck Villard in the role of Wens succeeds Fresnay.

Nicole tries to seduce a young man who lead a bohemian life in an untidy flat with his three pals.

A young woman from the countryside travels to Paris to become an actress. Despite all kinds of difficulties, affronts and emotional adventures, she succeeded in gaining a place in the world of entertainment and becomes a great movie star.

The gypsy dancer Cartacalha is elected queen of the gypsies. She loves a horse breeder, the Galejon, but following misunderstandings and perfidy, she leaves for Paris, invited by a playwright who predicts a total success on stage. Having become a star, she returns to the Camargue where, still abused, she tries to commit suicide.

Six friends promise to share their fortune in 5 years. The moment is very close, but one of the six is mysteriously murdered, then another... Superintendent Wenceslas Woroboyioetschik (aka Wens) is in charge of the investigation...