Hotel Receptionist
Un joven se ha escapado y su madre, desesperada, inicia su búsqueda, pero decide pedir ayuda a dos ex novios, y por ello, le dice a cada uno por separado que son el padre del muchacho. En 1997, Hollywood realizó un remake con Billy Cristal y Robin Williams como protagonistas, llamado "Un lío padre".
Restaurant butler
A woman leaves her husband and marries another man without divorcing the first.
After a harrowing breakup, Marcel returns to his favorite hotel to find his room occupied by a journalist, whom he attempts to impress.
Serge
A young French teenage girl after moving to a new city falls in love with a boy and is thinking of having sex with him because her girlfriends have already done it.
Le cocher
The story of Jean Valjean, a Frenchman convicted of minor crimes, who is hounded for years by an unforgiving and unrelenting police inspector, Javert.
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Sebastien Grenier, a former French spy, is working as a financial analyst in Zurich. However, his peaceful existence starts to disintegrate when he is recruited by a top French intelligence operative to discover how one of their own secret agents was found out and executed in broad daylight.
Technician
Marie, la hija de un empresario, tiene tan mala suerte que es secuestrada durante sus vacaciones en México. El padre contrata a Campana, un detective privado para que la encuentre. Tras varias semanas sin noticias de la chica, el psicólogo de la empresa sugiere que sólo alguien con tan mala suerte como Marie conseguirá localizarla. El elegido es François Perrin, un pobre contable que destaca por su mal fario.
Bruno, le routier
Camille Vigault, takes advantage of his vacation to visit a cousin winemaker in Roussillon. Quickly tired by work in the countryside, he prefers to buy an old abandoned Rolls Royce from his cousin.
Serge
Vic tiene 13 años y es nueva en el instituto, pero pronto se hace amiga de Penélope. Las dos están ansiosas por encontrar un chico del que enamorarse; el problema es que los padres de Vic no la dejan todavía ir a fiestas. (FILMAFFINITY)
Le régisseur du café-théâtre
Grégoire Lecomte, the unlucky actor anxious to find a "real job", goes to take a screen test for a role of a killer, but gets to mafiosi by mistake. He takes their don for a producer, and they mistake him for a hitman with whom they had an appointment. Deluded Lecomte signs contract with them. He is supposed to kill gun dealer Otto Krampe at his birthday party in Saint-Tropez by piercing him with a cap of the umbrella with a built-in syringe with potassium cyanide. Lecomte is not aware that it has to be a real murder.
Jeanjean
A pesar de su talento innato para el fútbol, François Perrin demuestra tener un temperamento que le lleva a numerosos problemas fuera de los campos. Después de haber protagonizado la enésima juerga, la directiva del club con el que tiene contrato en vigor toma la determinación de castigarlo. La decisión adoptada por el consejo directivo es que se entrene y juegue con el equipo filial. Su enfrentamiento físico con una de las figuras del primer equipo, que actúa como ariete, supone la despedida virtual de François del club donde ha militado las últimas temporadas. Pero después de ingresar en prisión acusado de haber violado a una chica llamada Stephanie, que confunde con su amante Marie, el club decide repescarlo ya que el primer equipo se ha quedado diezmado debido a un accidente de autobús.
Owner of the bistro
The lawyer is visiting a prison to meet with a violent criminal who has been condemned to death. During the visit, things turn bad, there is a riot where prisoners escape and the criminal escapes taking a lawyer hostage.
Avocat Antony
Le clochard
Le garagiste
Pierre es tan tímido que acude a un instituto especializado en busca de consejo. Conoce a Aldo, el vendedor, y algún tiempo después a Agnès, cuyos encantos le impresionan. Afortunadamente, Aldo estará allí para "entrenarlo" ...
Le chauffeur de taxi
After years of poverty, Carrier, a repairman, inherits a large sum of money upon his brother's death in an accident. Now rich, he decides it is time to make his mark and be known at any cost. Becoming more and more mentally unstable, he begins to threaten police and the government signing his tracts, "Armaguedon". A detective from Interpol heads the investigation and prepares a trap at an international conference of world leaders in Paris.
The rat hunter
Robert, alias Pierrot, es un huérfano que, tras escapar del reformatorio a los trece años, ha sido criado como un hijo por Felicia y León, jefe de una banda que se ha quedado paralítico al ser arrojado desde un tercer piso por sus rivales. En 1945, en plena postguerra, cuando la economía es un desastre y la propia policía se reorganiza a duras penas, Pierrot reúne a un grupo de amigos para organizar una banda. (FILMAFFINITY)
réceptionniste hôtel
Drácula y su hijo Ferdinand se mudan a la gran ciudad. El padre sobrevive como vampiro que es; en cambio, su hijo se enamora y decide que no quiere ser vampiro nunca más.
Honoré
The love story like no other of an aristocrat with the daughter of the bellboy at Chez Maxim's restaurant.
Potter / Mona's father
Jip, a young piano teacher in Paris, lived in the cozy comfort with his mistress Mona, who is twenty years older, until he met the young and lovely Rita. Together, they lead a bohemian lifestyle and go on a trip to the south. But on their return, Rita falls ill ...
L'entraîneur
A bus conductor gets dressed for work in the morning, goes to the toilet, where he is killed by a bomb. The Commissioner and his fat, bumbling assistant, Inspector Charbonnier are put on the case. After interviewing friends, wives, colleagues, and spying on strangers who might be connected, our heroes trace the assassin down to a mental institution where, it seems, the murder victim has been an inmate for the last three years...
Colonel Bricard
The second part of the Seventh Company adventures.
Lartigue
Un maduro industrial de provincias francés recibe un inesperado obsequio: una call-girl pagada para seducirle, cortesía de una importante empresa americana.
Freddy
A Victor Vauthier parece que la suerte le ha vuelto la espalda. El día que sale de prisión, después de tres meses de arresto, sólo se encuentra con desgracias: vende el apartamento de su ex amante y pierde el dinero en las carreras, trata de vender un yate, que se hunde con el comprador a bordo; intenta consolar a la mujer del presunto ahogado y el marido los encuentra en la cama. Marie-Charlotte, la asistenta social que debe ayudarle a integrarse en la sociedad es, casualmente, la hija del conservador de un museo que alberga un valiosísimo tríptico de El Greco. Víctor llega a la conclusión de que sólo poseyendo tan valiosa obra de arte podrá alcanzar la reinserción social.
le concierge de l'hôtel
Perseguido por dos hombres, un hombre muere en casa de Anita Boucher, recientemente liberada de la cárcel. Para evitar meterse en problemas, esconde el cadáver en el maletero del padre Jean-Pierre Michalon, a quien conoció en un club nocturno. Ahora el padre Jean-Pierre Edmond, llegó antes de lo esperado, y se va con su coche a buscar a su esposa a Suiza. Anita y Jean-Pierre, acompañado por Daniel, el ex-novio de Anita, salen en busca del coche para evitar que cruce la frontera... (FILMAFFINITY)
le fermier
An armored van is attacked and the gangsters hide the loot in a graveyard.
Commissaire Principal
The yacht of millionaire Hellmann explodes in the Mediterranean Sea, with him and 8 men crew on board. Insurance agent Lucas investigates at the Cote D'Azur, because there's the suspicion that it could have been suicide. He finds out that Hellmann's villa was monitored, the tapes also contain information about the explosion. He uses them for blackmail.
Caretaker of the school
A Parisian teacher loses his cool when his teenage daughter tells him she plans to drop out of school and move in with her boyfriend.
Le chef des ventes
Una mujer casada vivirá una historia de amor y sexo loco con un hombre que no es su marido. Así se verá con dificultades para decidirse y finalmente optará por proponer a los dos hombres un trio.
le réceptionniste de l'hôtel
Marcello Mastrioanni stars as aging actor Nicolas whose career has dwindled to TV commercials. Seeking an anchor in his life, Nicolas attempts a reconciliation with his ex-wife. But in this, as in his professional life, Nicolas is doomed to disillusionment and failure.
Mercier
A beautiful and thoroughly modern young French women, Francoise, gets involved with an Israeli agent working in Libya. The agent is exposed and in order to save his life, he has to be smuggled out of the country in a trunk ("valise"). Francoise and the agent get through a lot of turbulent adventures, in the process of which the thoroughly liberated young woman also seduces a Libyan agent and an Egyptian officer, who also fall wildly in love with here.
Fermier
1940: During the chaotic running fights of the French army the 7th company disappears - nobody knows they've been taken captive. Only their scouting patrol, three witty but lazy guys, can escape and now wanders around behind the German lines. They'd like to just stay out the fights, but a Lieutenant urges them to use a captured truck to break through to their troops.
Le commissaire de police
The guardian of a nursing home lends a compassionate ear to the complaints of two new pensioners who love each other and have only one dream: to see the sea. To help them realize their dream, the brave man steals the car of the director. She quickly discovers the crime and drags her pale husband to the pursuit of the trio, aboard a tanker truck...
Inspector
La historia arranca cuando un grupo de hippies se personan en un pueblo amenazado con desaparecer por la emigración.
Roger Turquand
Un sanguinario hampón se evade de prisión tras asesinar a sus compañeros de celda y con un compañero de fechorias traman el asalto a un furgón lleno de lingotes de oro.
Coco, fake delivery man
La ambición de un alto mando de los servicios secretos franceses desemboca en una serie de trampas, golpes bajos y operaciones secretas. Simpática y trepidante parodia del cine de espionaje e intriga.
Le médecin
Granier, a former accountant imprisoned for financial embezzlement, is released from prison and decides to help his cellmate to escape...
Gustave, le chauffeur de Morel
Unlucky in love, Alfred tries to commit suicide, only to be thwarted by police efforts to prevent a simultaneous attempt by a nearby young woman. Recovering, the young lady puts him up at her house, as he has run out of places to live. He joins a Parisian sporting team and seems to have transferred his bad luck to a corrupt television boss who is attempting to manipulate the game so that Alfred's Paris team loses.
Le commissaire Chauvet
Campana, a commissar at the drugs bureau of Paris police gets an undercover job in Nice to catch an Italian-French mafia boss. As he slips into the identity of a gangster's brother, who was already killed, he has to play the role of a loving husband with child - something that is not so easy for a confirmed single like Campana. Unfortunately American killers chase behind the Nice mafia clan too, in order to get control of French drug trades to USA.
Mazelin
A comedy about an absent-minded man who works at a advertising company and topples from one problem to another.
L'inspecteur
Tres granujas secuestran a una joven de quince años para obtener el dinero del rescate.
Martínez
En una pequeña república sudamericana aparece un gran yacimiento de uranio. El gobierno, entre revolución y revolución, ha de decidir a quién cede la concesión, estadounidenses, rusos o cubanos. Los delegados de los tres espías se espían y traicionan sin cesar
Juan
Jean-Pierre Desagnat's Vertige pour un tueur involves Marc (Marcel Bozzuffi) as a hood hunted down by his boss when he fails to execute a man who happens to be his friend. He is hidden by a woman (Sylva Koscina) whose husband has murdered his business associate and wants Marc to take the rap for the crime. Michel Constantin is the friend targeted for murder. Jean Luciani and Daniel Moosmann also appear in this suspenseful action feature.
Mario
Las intrigas que urde la directora de una clínica psiquiátrica para apoderarse de lo que no le corresponde.
Belpech
Germaine se gana la vida limpiando las casas de tres señores distintos. Todos ocultan algún asunto sucio y a Germaine le encantan los cotilleos. Por lo tanto, para redondear sus mensualidades, decide chantajearlos.
Le garagiste
Patterning himself after the American gangster John Dillinger, the criminal (Robert Hossein) is tracked by the inspector (Charles Aznavour), a former childhood friend. Plenty of gunplay and psychology is used to trap the killer. His only tender moments are spent with his girlfriend Stella (Virna Lisi). Dillinger is cornered by the police and kills several innocent victims in a crowd during the shootout. The mob decides to take things into their own hands as they approach the doomed man with a noose when he runs out of bullets.
Père de Manette
Benjamin is in love with Manette, the innkeeper's beautiful daughter, but she has no intention of giving in to the young doctor until she sees the marriage contract, and marriage does not fit in with Benjamin's spirit of independence. For the same reason he resists the efforts of his sister Bettine to marry him off to Arabelle, the daughter of old Dr. Minxit. Benjamin does agree to go and meet the girl. But that evening his sister finds him at the inn together with Manette, who is arrested by her father. So she decides to go with Benjamin herself. But as result of an incident with the fat Marquis puts paid to the expedition. Benjamin is subjected by the Marquis to a humiliating practical joke. Benjamin is determined to got his revenge. He succeeds thanks to the gorgeous Vicomte Hector de Pont-Cassé, who also helps Manette with her problems against her father. But Benjamin is now arrested by the Marquis...
Le patron du cabaret
A musician named Jacques Christens, is given a proposition by an old man. For ten million Francs he is asked to impersonate a certain Paul de Baer – a man who is supposedly exiled in the Amazone. Christens is told this scheme will save Mr. Baer from ruin. An adaptation of Boileau and Narcejac's "D'entre les Morts".
Le cafetier
Gracias a la financiación de Jérôme, su cuñado, el inventor Albert Raynal logra desarrollar un revolucionario cohete espacial. Desafortunadamente el cohete estalla en su primer vuelo de prueba, lo que hace que Jérôme le retire el soporte. Dispuesto a no abandonar su idea, Raynal buscará desesperadamente los fondos que le permitan completar su proyecto. (FILMAFFINITY)
Belgian with a Cold
Arthur y Anatole son dos rateros de poca monta que planean hacerse con un botín que viaja de París a Bruselas, pero no sospechan que hay otros criminales que han planeado el mismo golpe que ellos.
Casimir, Léontine's servant and driver
Rita is a girl that lives on taking gangsters as lovers. But when the money stops coming, she swears revenge.
l'inspecteur Albert Gouvion, amant de Nathalie
En las afueras de París, un coche blindado que contiene una fortuna en joyas es secuestrado por una banda de ladrones armados. Una vez que ha tomado los bienes robados, el jefe de los ladrones, Quinquín, elimina rápidamente a todos sus cómplices, incluyendo Gouvion, el inspector de policía encargado del transporte de las joyas. Cuando se entera de la muerte Gouvion, el Comisario Joss decide hacerse cargo de la investigación, a pesar de que sólo le quedan unos pocos meses para retirarse. (FILMAFFINITY)
l'inspecteur Lorenzi
Un joven malvive a base de hacer fotografías para los turistas de París. Su camino se cruza con el de una ladrona, prostituta ocasional, y ambos se enamoran, hasta que aparece el antiguo "protector" de la muchacha.
Marchand, un espion dans le laboratoire
Trabajando en la preparación de un gas, Eugène descubre un gas euforizante capaz de neutralizar al enemigo. Una seductora espía intentará descubrir la fórmula...
Le commissaire Macias
Since the car accident that caused the death of his wife, the comics author Stéphane Destouches sinks into alcohol and wanders the roads of Morocco.
(uncredited)
When an oily attorney dies at the hands of the mafia, a dedicated French detective investigates the man's murder. He soon uncovers a drug-smuggling operation and lets his sawed-off shotgun do the talking to the toughs in this Gallic gangster feature.
Patouilloux, le maire de Jaligny
Goubi, the simpleton of his village in the French Department Allier, has but one wish: to see Paris. One day, the truckers Grafouillère deposit a drunk Goubi in the biggest market of Paris (the "Halles"). The poor man is completely lost, but the meat merchant Dessertine takes him under his wings when he hears that Goubi was likewise 'raised by the State'...
Directeur du journal
Fantomas vuelve a actuar extorsionando a millonarios escoceses, a los que amenaza de muerte si no le pagan. Cuando el comisario Juve se entera, se traslada a Escocia a investigar el caso. Se aloja en un castillo medieval para proteger a su rico propietario y tratar de capturar a Fantomas. Sin embargo, los problemas y la confusión que reina en el castillo no facilitan el trabajo del comisario.
Le conspirateur français
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.
The struggle between a ruthless leader of a bank robbers - Raymond Pellegrin - and the cops who are determined to put him in jail for long.
Maître Gaubert, juge pour enfants
A man falsely recognize two teenagers and one child as his own children in order to avoid jail so his life becomes more and more chaotic.
l'embaumeur
Un antiguo gángster, Antonine Beretto, disfruta de un pacífico retiro en la costa, donde tiene una empresa totalmente legal. Un día recibe la visita de unos antiguos cómplices que le piden su ayuda. A cambio le ofrecen la posibilidad de cobrar una deuda a un tipo de poca monta. Es una tarea fácil que podrá llevar a cabo aprovechando la visita a un amigo, también gángster retirado que regenta un restaurante. Pero las cosas no saldrán como esperaba y se verá obligado a adoptar antiguos métodos ya olvidados.
Directeur du journal
Cuando el profesor Marchand, un célebre científico, desaparece misteriosamente, el comisario Juve sospecha inmediatamente de Fantomas. Mientras tanto, el periodista Fandon se hace pasar por Lefèbvre, el ayudante de Marchand, y es capturado por Fantomas. Pero también Juve cae en la trampa que el criminal, disfrazado de Lefèvre, le ha tendido. Fantomas se propone acabar con sus prisioneros durante un congreso científico que se celebra en Roma.
Le patron du garage
Based on Sébastien Japrisot's novel, the story revolves around a young girl who suffers from amnesia after surviving a terrible fire.
le concierge de l'hôtel
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
Pepe
Las peripecias de un diplomático, quien de pronto se ve envuelto en un espinoso asunto de tráfico de diamantes y tiene que enfrentarse a los miembros de una secta secreta.
Montecourt, the trainer
A confused pair of airport luggage carriers get involved in the disappearance of some suitcases.
Truck driver (uncredited)
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)
Directeur du journal
El malvado criminal Fantomas, hombre de mil caras, capaz de transformarse en cualquier persona, descubre que un periodista, Fandón, ha publicado una entrevista falsa con él. Decidido a tomar cumplida venganza, Fantomas adopta los rasgos físicos del periodista y comete un sensacional crimen haciéndose pasar por él. Fandon da con sus huesos en la cárcel y nadie cree en su inocencia. Sin embargo, el famoso comisario Juve cree reconocer el sello del autor de Fantomas y está convencido de que éste se encuentra detrás de todo el asunto.
Poussin
A French agent goes after a gang of Asian terrorists who plan to blow up an American nuclear aircraft carrier.
Albert
When Massa is released from prison, he's sure that Luciano, an old freind, is responsible for his incarceration. Massa proceeds to keep watch on Luciano, who has been living with Massa's beloved sister Maria. Feeling doubly betrayed because of his unhealthy adoration for Maria, Massa is determined to get back at Luciano and ends up in a deadly game of roulette.
(uncredited)
Set against the troubled period of the Wars of Religion in France, at a time when the three Henries (Henri III, Henri de Guise and Henri de Béarn) vied for the the throne, these new adventures of Pardaillan have the gallant musketeer defend the rightful king Henri III.Jean gives his full to thwart the Duke of Guise's attempts to have the king assassinated. A heartthrob more than ever, Pardaillan will awake serious interest in many a girl, at times becoming their prey like with Bianca Farnese, De Guise's agent.
Jean, le majordome
Fernand Naudin es un antiguo gángster que vive en una pequeña localidad de provincias reciclado para la vida honesta y alejado de antiguas preocupaciones. Sin embargo recibe una llamada desde París de El Mexicano, su antiguo jefe. Éste, en el umbral de la muerte, le hace prometer que se ocupará de sus negocios y, lo más importante, de su hija Patricia, que desconoce las actividades de su padre. Lo que ignora Fernand es que los cabecillas de la banda no aceptarán tan fácilmente su sucesión y que la hija de El Mexicano es una joven de lo más rebelde. Los tiempos han cambiado y los antiguos métodos ya no sirven como antes. Fernand echa de menos su vida de provincias. (FILMAFFINITY)
le brigadier
Dos trabajadores organizan un atraco para salir de la penuria económica. Sin embargo, el plan falla: un hombre resulta muerto y uno de ellos es arrestado. Años después, consigue huir de prisión y se oculta en una estación petrolífera custodiada por un matrimonio. Pronto surgirá un triángulo amoroso con fatales consecuencias.
Man in Fairground
Samuel finances his participation in a card game by stealing parts from a jeep. He cheats at cards, and has his hands broken as a consequence.
German Officer (uncredited)
Durante el último año de la II Guerra Mundial, un grupo de hermosas jóvenes, prisioneras en un castillo francés, son utilizadas por soldados alemanes para saciar su apetito sexual. (FILMAFFINITY)
l'inspecteur de police
In a building close to the Place de la Contrescarpe in Paris, a tale of criss‑crossings in turn romantic, gourmet, interested or mystical, between an Italian gigolo and a nightclub hostess, a family of butchers and an apprentice rocker, a mystic tailor, a writer sending himself telegrams, an alert paralytic woman, a thoughtful concierge, a bird breeder and a just‑out‑of‑jail hooligan. Little by little each one discovers each other’s more or less troubled history… when a mysterious death introduces the Police within this huis clos, hastens disclosure of well‑kept secrets and ruffle this little World.
Poussin
En esta ocasión, el Monóculo va a la caza de un tesoro oculto por los alemanes en 1943, codiciado por el único superviviente del comando, al que pisan los talones agentes secretos ingleses y soviéticos.
Le patron de l'auberge des Ravageurs
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)
Le brigadier
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.
le cafetier
The Inspector
Una mujer seductora que recoge a un ex presidiario de la calle, lo lleva a su casa, donde no hay ascensor pero sí montacargas; al volver a la casa tras dar un paseíto, y luego de una fogosa escena de pasión en el montacargas, encuentran un cadáver en el piso… cadáver que desaparecerá misteriosamente cuando el ex presidiario vuelva al piso, envolviéndole en una pesadilla.
Fisherman
In a moment of madness a respectable pharmacist kills a young woman who is sun-bathing by a lake. When the murdered woman's boyfriend is falsely accused of her murder, the murderer is chosen to serve on the jury. Based on Francis Didelot's novel "Le Septième Juré".
Fisherman
En un momento de locura, Grégoire Duval, un farmacéutico respetable, mata a una joven que está tomando el sol junto a un lago. Incapaz de asimilar lo que ha hecho, Duval huye de la escena del crimen y se comporta como si nada hubiera sucedido. El asesinato es atribuido al amante de la joven, Sautral, que ha sido arrestado y que pronto será juzgado ante un tribunal de justicia. Al enterarse de que ha sido nombrado miembro del jurado en el juicio de Sautral, Duval es impulsado por su conciencia para salvar al hombre inocente. Por desgracia, la ciudad ya ha tomado una decisión acerca de la identidad del asesino y parece que nada podrá hacer Duval para cambiar el veredicto... (FILMAFFINITY)
Butcher
A young veterinarian falls in love with a strange woman, a former explorer who might be a Voodoo priestess, after he comes to help her ailing cheetah. She begs him to return to Africa with her, but he doesn’t want to leave his wife. Soon his wife finds herself plagued by a series of bizarre accidents.
Le commissaire
Fernandel plays Albert, the unhappy brunt of jokes by his fellow office-workers who goes from the frying pan into the fire. Albert gets caught up in a robbery that also goes from bad to worse when it leads to several murders. Although he is not a killer and essentially innocent, there does not seem to be very much that Albert can do to convince others of the truth.
Le maître à danser (uncredited)
La fascinante y fastuosa corte de Napoleón vista por una mujer generosa y apasionada que recorrió de manera fulgurante toda la escala social. Cuando en 1789 estalló la revolución, era una lavandera parisina, después como cantinera durante la campaña de Italia fue amante del capitán Lefévre. Más tarde, mariscala de Francia y duquesa de Dantzig y casi reina de Westfalia. Por encima de las grandes batallas, de las ambiciones políticas y de una corte de advenedizos se impuso la apasionada historia de amor de Madame Sans-Gêne y el mariscal Lefévre.
Inspector Maffeux
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.
Le faux courrier de Liège (uncredited)
Luis XI, rey de Francia, y Carlos el Temerario, duque de Borgoña, están en una situación de "guerra fría". Luis XI intenta conservar la paz, a pesar de los arrebatos coléricos del duque y las felonías del traidor Sénac. El proyecto del rey es dar a su ahijada, Jeanne de Beauvais, en matrimonio a Carlos, que la desea. Pero Jeanne está enamorada del caballero de Neuville...
Un inocentón policía italiano es encargado por la Interpol del traslado a Italia desde París de un astuto y peligroso gángster.
Un consommateur au bistrot
Sophie, una joven modelo bastante frívola, se entera de que su novio tiene la intención de dejarla por otra mujer. Entonces se le ocurren dos posibilidades: intentar reconquistarlo o asesinar a su rival. Afortunadamente, cuenta con la ayuda de un médico para poner en práctica el primer plan.
Inspektor
Josepha is only eighteen and longs for the companionship of a group of her peers who dabble in activities on the shady side of a legal dividing line. In order to get the semi-delinquent group to accept her, Josepha runs to the police with a tall tale about the local druggist, Savary. The police are looking for a sex murderer, and Josepha insists Savary is their man. What she does not know, however, can do her considerable damage.
Commissioner
Arlette has too provincial parents to whom she announces her plan about own independence. After her departure, Marc, her absent fiance seek for her in vain in Paris until he discovers her picture on the magazine cover.
le forain, animateur de boxe
Boulevard focuses on Georges 'Jojo' Castagnier, an adolescent who lives in a poor room under the roof of a block of apartments in the Pigalle section of Paris. He ran away from home when he realized that his step-mother hated him from day-one. Among Jojo's many neighbors is the gorgeous Jenny Dorr , a nightclub dancer, whose lover he dreams of being. But, to Jojo's disappointment, Jenny becomes the lover of Dicky, a former boxer, who spends his time loafing about the Pigalle cafés. Jojo lacks for steady work, but manages to meet his financial obligations with a series of odd jobs. He tries selling magazines, which is a success for a while, though posing as Narcissus for two gay artists proves to be something of a disaster. Eventually, he woos Marietta, one of his other neighbors and a girl more suited to his age. But when things go really awry, Jojo becomes desperate and tries to commit suicide by jumping off the roof of his building
Lenormand
Michel Ferréol reluctantly meets up with an old school friend, Antoine Fiesco. Michel didn’t like Antoine much when they were at school and tries to get away by making an excuse. He changes his mind when Antoine introduces him to his wife, a beautiful brunette named Christine.
Jérôme Ardouin, le fossoyeur
Guillaume, manager of the flying club
The lucky Baron wins a boat in a card game and takes off with his former lover to find new adventures. Adverse circumstances land them in a small town, where the Baron's seafaring companion leaves for more attractive scenery offered by a wealthy local man. Meanwhile, there is a certain charming cafe owner that the Baron finds irresistible -- at least for awhile.
Dominique
Emile is a steelworker in a car factory ;a confirmed bachelor going on fifty, he leads a peaceful life .One night, he is woken up by a burst of machine gun fire. The cafe in the corner of the street has been burglarized.A distraught young girl rushes into his apartment building and hides in his room .When the police make a search, he makes her out to be his lover for the night.Madeleine tells her about her sad past : she has severed all links with her parents ,she's an unwed mother and in the underworld's clutches. Emile sends his protegee to old mommy Dupont's place ,in the suburbs of Paris.
l'inspecteur Béchoux
At the end of the Great War, Arsène Lupin resumed his adventurous life. Theft of three paintings committed by an adversary leads him to the treasure of the Golden Fleece.
le garagiste
A man throws a revolver in the Seine and checks into a hotel run by an unhappy Turkish couple. The wife falls for the mysterious guest, and kills her husband to prevent him from the turning the man in to the police.
Raymond
Un hombre traumatizado por el asesinato de su esposa, se aboca a la búsqueda del asesino, que resulta ser un amante de su mujer. En su pesquisa, encuentra y mata al sujeto, siendo su crimen presenciado por un taxista. En su afán de quedar impune, el protagonista se pone tras la pista de este eventual testigo.
Le camelot en vins
Walter, a reporter and photographer, meets Catherine in a train. The young lawyer recently gained an acquittal for a man who killed his alcoholic father to save his mother. Campaigning against alcoholism, she asks Walter to help her unmask a wine merchant engaged in shady practices.
Léon Blanchet
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.
Albert dit "Bébert le Caïd", un gangster qui rackette et persécute Pierrot
l'inspecteur principal Gotterat
A beautiful 18-year-old orphan escapes from a reformatory and hooks up with a gang of jewel smugglers, and decides on a life of crime. However, she falls for and marries a policeman, putting a crimp in her criminal career.
Barberin dit Joli Coeur
La Francia de Luis XV está en guerra con la emperatriz de Austria, María Teresa. Hernri La Tour, aventurero y cómico de la legua metido en el conflicto de forma fortuita, recibe el encargo del conde de Saint Server, mortalmente herido, de cuidad de su..
René, le trafiquant assassiné
A female journalist beats two male rivals to a scoop by exposing a white slave racket going on right in 50s Paris.
Le commissaire
17 year-old small-town girl Nicole Noblet comes to Paris dreaming of becoming a world-famous actress.
Police Insp. Grimaud (uncredited)
A young Italian fugitive and his older protective brother hide among the grape pickers at a vineyard in Provence.
L'inspecteur Walter
Jojo’s ambition is to become a gangster, but to be admitted into a gang he has to prove himself by committing a daring act. To that end, he kills someone in broad daylight, not knowing that his victim is an actor who is playing a scene in a film directed by a cranky film-maker (Darry Cowl). The murder is caught on film, leading Commissaire Bernard (Michel Simon) to think that the killer will be easy to find. Sure enough, Bernard soon makes his arrest, a clown from a circus, but then he faces an almost insurmountable problem. The clown has an identical twin, who is also a clown with the same circus. Both men claim to be innocent…
Capitaine Campion
Malek
Pepito Benoit
La historia de un gangster, que rememora su vida cuando ha superado ya los 100 años. Habla a su familia de su ascensión y de sus rivales, todo para explicar que no pudo resistir la tentación de robar el reloj al alcalde cuando fue a felicitarle.
Gilier
During a stay at a roadside inn, long-distance lorry driver Jean Viard meets a young woman Clothilde who works there. Their friendship soon develops into a passionate love affair, even though Jean is already married and is old enough to be Clothilde’s father. Things take a turn for the worse when Jean loses his job and his wife finds out about his affair. But Clothilde’s predicament is even more distressing...
Jenny es una chica pizpireta que, cuando viaja a París, se escapa y conoce a un chico al que toma por un gangster, aunque no lo es. Sus aventuras terminarán bien.
Clément
Making his directorial debut, Robert Hossein also assumes the leading role, playing an escaped convict. Hossein and his fellow escapees cross the path of Marina Vlady, with whom they all fall in love. Alas for our "heroes," Vlady intends to avenge the death of her sweetheart at the hands of Hossein and his confreres. Not only do these heels go to Hell, but they do so with a spectacular flourish. Les Salauds Vont en Enfer was adapted by Rene Wheeler from a play by Frederic Dard.
Joseph
Judge Julien Lamy regularly deals with the welfare of children, namely down on their luck delinquents. When an orphan named Alain Robert burns down a barn belonging to his abusive foster family, Judge Lamy has no choice but to send him to a juvenile jail. There he meets an older boy named Francis Lanoux, who is desperate to escape and be reunited with his girlfriend Sylvette. The boys eventually flee the institution, as Francis goes in search of his lost love and Alain continues looking for his parents. Unfortunately, the little rebels run into some big problems once on the outside.
Félix, l'affréteur
A trucker encounters a dead body on the road home. He reports the incident to the police, who suspect that Jean was responsible for the death, and his new truck is impounded. To make matters worse, the man's widow accuses him of having robbed her husband, and a gang of sinister crooks are also harassing him.
Dominique le Corse
Pépé la Vache, who coveted Fernande's love, denounced her protector: Dominique le Corse, who was arrested. But Fernande was attracted by Jesus the Quail, a guy of dubious manners. Intimidated by Pépé, the Quail moved away.
un souteneur
Le capitaine
Durante la ocupación de España por las tropas napoleónicas, el joven Juan de Aranda (Jean Claude Pascal) se distingue tanto por su valor como por sus conquistas femeninas. Ignorando su verdadera ascendencia francesa, decidirá luchar primero al lado de los guerrilleros de la independencia, para acabar luego a las órdenes del general Gaston de Sallanches (Jacques Dacqmine). En su aventurera vida, varias mujeres le sacarán de situaciones críticas, pero será a la joven Pilar (Brigitte Bardot), que le librará de su cautiverio en la isla de Cabrera, a quién él entregará su corazón.
Garage Owner
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.
Inspector Tessier
Larry Blake is an American airline pilot who loves women and ... trouble! Wherever he goes troubles indeed follow, like this time in Paris. On vacation in the French capital, the happy American decides to discover Paris by Night. As of his first night out, he gets to know Michèle Marley, a beautiful entertainer, and looks forward to a wonderful night of pleasure. But things do not go according to plan. Indeed, Laurent, Michèle's partner is found dead and not only is Michèle accused of killing him but Larry is suspected of being her accomplice as well ...
Inspecteur Chardin
Hélène and Aldo Giovanni are a circus trapeze double act and a couple. Aldo is temporarily replaced by former-partner Alexandre when the former is injured. The two get into a fight and the following day Alexandre is discovered dead. Hélène suspects her husband is responsible for the murder.
L'ami du mandataire (uncredited)
Walking alone and looking desperate, young Marie-Lou is taken in hand by Léo, a street photographer and his squatter friends. They all want to know what happened to her, so to satisfy their curiosity, Marie-Lou starts recounting her unfortunate experiences as a housemaid. On account of adverse circumstances, she tells them, she lost all of the jobs she had in five different families. To crown it all, the young man she has fallen in love with, a brilliant artist, is in prison...
D'Aulon (segment "Jeanne")
Tres episodios: un hombre al que nunca vemos presenta a las tres protagonistas del film. Elizabeth, una víctima de la II Guerra Mundial; Juana, que hizo la guerra, y Lisístrata, que luchó contra la guerra.
l'inspecteur Dupré
Arriving in Paris, Madeleine Marsan rents a room in a guesthouse where she makes the acquaintance of Pierre Ruffin, a respectable municipal librarian. Through Pierre, Madeleine finds work as a schoolteacher and soon realises that she is in love with him. Then she discovers that Pierre is in truth the head of a band of crooks. Caught by the police after a failed robbery, Pierre manages to escape. With Madeleine’s help, he goes on the run.
Dick
Teresa (Juliette Greco) estaba a punto de ingresar en un convento, pero debido a la muerte de sus padres decide dedicarse a cuidar de su hermana Denise (Irene Galter), que ha sido violada por Max (Philippe Lemaire). Teresa intenta que Max repare el agravio, pero lo que ocurre es que Max acaba enamorándose de ella.
Taboureau
Una llamada de última hora obliga al doctor Pierre Richard a retrasar su regreso a casa justo el día que va a celebrar su aniversario de bodas con Madeleine, su esposa. Al atender al artista Daniel Prevost en su habitación, ve una fotografía de su esposa sobre la mesita de noche. Al regresar a su casa, Richard exige explicaciones a Madeleine, quien le confiesa los detalles de su aventura con Daniel.
l'inspecteur Sylvestre
A wealthy financier is murdered in his desirable mansion.Two lieutenants, a tough guy and a rookie, investigate.
The stallholder (segment "Eighth Sin, The")
A French/Italian motion picture drama covering the seven deadly sins in seven separate sections.
Dufau - le manager
Now that the world conflict is over, five inseparable wartime buddies swear eternal friendship now to each other. But there's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip. Jean becomes a postman, Marcel a boxer, Roger an actor, André a student and Philippe remains what he has always been, a young man of good social standing. Roger, who can't find any role, is introduced through his singer sister Valérie, to Frédo, a shady nightclub owner.Roger soon becomes one of Frédo's henchmen. To make matters worse, he swipes Jean's fiancée, Simone. Marcel, who loses fight after fight, ends up joining Fredo's gang as well. André, who wanted to redeem the faults of his father during the Occupation, gets killed in the Indochina war. Marcel is shot down while taking part in a robbery. In her turn, Valérie is bumped off by an accomplice of Fredo and Roger is sent to jail.
le boucher
Back from the war, Marceau Le Guern remembers. Educated in an orphanage run by Dominican brothers, he fell into misery when he left it. His only asset was his good looks, which did not escape the attention of Madame Alice, a shady woman who persuaded him to pose for pornographic photos meant for lonely aging women. Marceau also served as a gigolo before the war and captivity put an end to this juicy business. Now he wants to start a new life, all the more as ha has found love in the person of a pure young lady named Dominique. But Madame Alice won't hear of it...
Julien Gauthier
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.
The trafficker
A woman who has a terrible secret to conceal takes refuge on a barge.
Mr. Levers
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.
le commissaire Corbès
Jean-Louis forgets to use the pedestrian crossing;Who could have believed then where it would lead the unfortunate guy to?
Le Havre, France, in 1949. In a town that still shows the scars of war, several friends meet up in Albert's café. One of them, Laurent, has lost his job on the docks and his marriage to Madeleine is falling apart. He knows that his wife wants to start an affair with friend, Jean Sauviot. Jean is a lonely man who is attracted to Madeleine but doesn't want to commit himself to the wife of a friend. On the day that Madeleine tells her husband that she is seeing Jean, Laurent goes looking for Jean to find an explanation. Arriving on the docks in the evening, he attacks an American sailor who looks like Jean, but the man fights back and runs away after killing Laurent accidentally. Madeleine thinks that Laurent was killed by Jean and believes that she can start a new life with her lover. The police have other ideas...
Armand Billot
Au p'tit Zouave, a café, sees a colorful clientele from working-class Paris. An assassin will shake up the daily life of the regulars.
le Bosco du navire "Flora"
Un hombre, que es buscado por un crimen pasional, abandona su escondite a bordo de un barco para buscar ayuda médica en Génova. (FILMAFFINITY)
Dumont
A plane flying to Dakar is caught in a storm and has to land in the desert. Deprived of a radio, he is unable to give his position and the water reserves are limited to two days. Each, among the military crew and the civilian passengers, experiences the ordeal according to his character.
Headwaiter
Puerto de Marsella, Francia, recién liberada del yugo alemán. Sorprendidos como polizones a bordo de un barco, Manon, una joven que fue acusada de colaborar con los nazis, y Robert, un soldado de la Resistencia que la salvó de sufrir represalias, hablan al capitán de los muchos desafíos que han tenido que afrontar para sobrevivir.
The inspector
In the Basque Country, two friends, José and François, live a cheerful life. The two sly foxes use their wit to boost the business of an innkeeper they have a connection with. José is in love with Angélica, the innkeeper"s daughter, while François courts petite Annette. José also happens to have a beautiful voice and one day a night club manager hears him and wants to hire him. He will have to choose between Angelica, the inn, his roots... and a singing career in Paris.
Mathieu Loupian
One of Alexandre Dumas's most popular adventure novels is "The Count of Monte-Cristo". What is little known is that the famous writer made up neither its plot nor its characters. Dumas actually heard the true story of a man named François Picault during a stay at a private mansion and only adapted it into the novel everybody knows . Picault (who in the book would become Edmond Dantès) was about to marry the beautiful Marguerite (Mercédès in the novel) when he was denounced by three jealous friends who falsely accused him of being a spy for England. Picault was placed under a form of house arrest. In his prison, he made friends with an Italian abbot. When the man died, he left his fortune to Picault whom he had begun to treat as a son. On his release, Picault, who had become wealthy, was able to pursue his ruthless revenge on the three men who were responsible for his misfortune.
Recién terminada la Segunda Guerra Mundial, un grupo de personas de diversas nacionalidades (un americano, un inglés, un francés, una misteriosa mujer que habla diferentes idiomas, un par de alemanes, ...) viaja de París a Berlín, vía Frankfurt. En el tren, fuertemente vigilado, también ocupa compartimento el doctor Bernhardt, un pacifista cuya misión es unificar Alemania. Un mensaje en clave accidentalmente hallado en una paloma mensajera ha puesto en alerta a militares y servicios secretos. Antes de llegar a Frankfurt, Bernhardt es asesinado, lo que supone el inicio de una complicada trama de espionaje que pondrá en peligro a todos los pasajeros, ahora unidos para desenmascarar al culpable o culpables del homicidio.
April fools in a studio where a radio host pretends to shoot dead all the performers....till a true crime occurs.
Paulo
París, Francia, diciembre de 1946. Jenny Lamour, una ambiciosa cantante de cabaret, y Maurice, su extremadamente celoso marido pianista, se ven envueltos en la minuciosa investigación del asesinato de un turbio empresario, dirigida por Antoine, un peculiar y metódico inspector de policía.
Captain Palmer's daughter, Maria, is neglected by her husband, the cynical Leo, who lives with the beautiful Sylvia. To defeat his son-in-law, Palmer has the idea of putting Sylvia back in the presence of Pierre, her first love. Leo takes revenge by creating many difficulties for Palmer who retaliates by starting a violent fight where Leo is killed. Everything seems to point to Pierre, but...
Le cafetier
A stranger named Constant disrupts the life of Flora, who is seemingly happy with her husband Lucien. But she suddenly experiences a passionate love, taking refuge with Constant in a cave they call “home under the sea.”
Georges
"Les jeux sont faits," is a fantasy film based on a screenplay by French existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre. A society heiress and a resistance fighter are tragically killed at the same moment and meet in the afterlife. They are offered a second chance at life if they can prove their love is real or be doomed to roam the earth as ghosts.
Gustave
An alcoholic doctor accidentally kills someone and manages to make the death look like an accident. The episode triggers a sense of confidence and he resolves to correct the miseries of his life.
The plainclothes policeman
In Central Europe, resistance to the Germans in growing. But the partisan leader is denounced and killed. His daughter and the son of the traitor love each other. Condemned by his comrades, the informer commits suicide in front of the young couple.
An Alsatian, head of a section of the Gestapo, is actually spying on behalf of the French and dismantling a Nazi network. His activities are brought to light by the Germans and he owes his life only to the intervention of a young woman.
During the stagecoach trip of a frightened group of inhabitants of Rouen, Elisabeth Rousset, known as "Boule de Suif", renders these people a signal service, but comes up against their stupidity and their sufficiency. A little later, Boule de Suif assassinates the formidable Prussian lieutenant whom his friends had nicknamed Fifi and who shamelessly displayed his taste for pillage and his sadistic tendencies.
Un plombier
A scientist who have discovered how to turn salt water into petrol dies before he has revealed his formula. By mistake it's assumed that his assistant knows it although he does not.
A young woman is in love with a young writer, winner of the Prix Goncourt. Married to a banker, she must face her husband's anger and the blackmail of a former suitor.
Abandoned by her husband Marc, Thérèse Romanay cheats on him with André Norans. When Romanay finds out, he drives her away. She runs away with her lover. But, during a mountain excursion, Norans is killed and Thérèse is herself seriously injured. But she recovers. The husband then forgives the unfaithful wife, and the couple reunites.
Un officier allemand
In 1917, in a small village in the North, Abbe Gaillard is suspected by the Germans of facilitating the escape of French and Belgian soldiers. A false alibi makes him innocent and he can thus continue his mission, thanks to the devotion of an Alsatian who, in enemy uniform, obscurely serves his country.
1915, in invaded Belgium, the Germans seek in vain to dismantle the organization of the smugglers of men who help volunteers to cross the Dutch border.
