Self (archive footage)
Père Grandet
When the daughter of the miserly cooper Grandet is up for marriage, both families Des Grassins and Cruchot want to marry their sons to her and her substantial dowry. But the girl shows more interest in the impoverished cousin, whom she entrusts her entire fortune to.
Durandet
Antoine, 11, is on holiday with his grandfather. One night he catches thieves hiding their booty in a pond. Antoine seizes the 40 million. But Liza, his new friend, is the daughter of one of the criminals. Both children soon face threats.
Vincent Maheu, aka Bonnemort
Etienne Lantier, un joven parado, se establece en Montsou, un pueblo del Norte de Francia. Allí se hace minero y descubre la miseria, el alcoholismo, las relaciones sexuales sórdidas, la indecencia de hombres como Chaval o la generosidad de Toussaint Maheu; en suma, un mundo de hombres condenados al sufrimiento por el capital. Así es como se compromete con la lucha socialista. Pero algo brilla en medio de tanta miseria: el amor entre Etienne y Catherine. De repente, una bajada de los sueldos provoca una terrible huelga que será duramente reprimida por el ejército; a pesar de todo, él mantiene la esperanza de que toda esa sangre no se haya derramado en vano.
René Bertillon
The incessant verbal duel and the bothering caused by an old patient in a hospital with his roommate, a good fellow believing himself suffering from a serious illness.
Michel
After a missed burglary, deux young cads take refuge in a retiring-pension sowing terror. On the call of one of the pensioners, the police catch them. But some of the old people are puzzled by their situation and decide to ask about them...
Ponsard
A scientific working on a serum of youth accidentally take too much and become four years old.
Chauveau
Alice, a young Portuguese woman, escapes from a psychiatric hospital where she is locked up under the orders of her father-in-law who intends to take away her inheritance. On her way to France, she falls victim to a truck driver who she kills to defend herself. A few moments after this murder she meets Bernie, a young boxer, who will take care of her, going so far as to hide her from the eyes of the police and the detectives in the pay of her stepfather. He is preparing for the title of world champion.
Le Légat du Pape
Spain conquered the seas, found a new world and different realities than the one known in Europe. But a question needed to be answered with what they found in those new territories: do the Indians have souls? The Church, bound to protect and convert the natives and the conquerors who treated them like slaves and thought they were only merchandising, expose their arguments and reasonings at what would be known as the Vallidolid controversy. Between them, there's a cardinal hearing both parts and trying to get reasonable answers from this critical question.
Monsieur Vandubas
A tolerant veterinarian turns the other cheek when annoyed but changes his nature when he falls in love.
Le directeur
The teacher Odile Langlois starts her new job in the elementary school of a small French town. She is elegant and mysterious - but most of all, she is very friendly to her new students, whose confidence she gains so quickly. On the contrary, however, Odile's unconventional, alternative way of teaching does not appeal to some colleagues and parents who do everything to get rid of the young teacher ...
Lucien
In 1960, in a coastal town near to Nantes, Jean Ripoche lives with his wife Liliane, their four children and Liliane’s father Lucien. Jean divides his time between running his plumbing business and making a float for the Nantes carnival. The Ripoche’s ordered lives are thrown into turmoil when Jean’s former friend, Yvon Legualoudec, returns to the town – with his black wife Annabelle and their three children. Before he disappeared twenty years ago, without saying a word, Yvon was Jean’s rival for Liliane’s affections. As bitter memories resurface, the relationship between Jean, Yvon and Liliane become strained.
Raymond Pelleveau, le père âgé
Camille, una inocente estudiante de instituto, tras conocer a Joëlle, una chica promiscua, más experimentada y mayor que ella, la seguirá en un viaje de autodescubrimiento del amor, el sexo, la enfermedad y la vida.
Drunkard guard
Continuación de "La gloria de mi padre". Como cada periodo de vacaciones, el joven Marcel regresa con su familia a la casa de la Provenza. Allí se reencontrará con su amigo Lili y hará un nuevo descubrimiento: una niña rica que vive con su madre en un viejo castillo. (FILMAFFINITY)
Le commandant
Juste Pecuchet
Two retirees obsessed with their desire to know everything put their knowledge into practice in a constantly awkward way.
Le grand-père
During the war in 1941, Antoine, 9, lived with his grandparents in Gironde. His mother prefers to keep him away in the free zone, with his cousins, where he discovers a more rigorous world.
Le Colonel
During the broadcast of a live game show, a surprise guest is shot by an armed assassin.The victim, Martin Gaillard, recounts the bizarre series of events that led to this extraordinary denouement.
Jean-Lou
The recolonization of Africa, this time by the very blacks who had to flee it as exiles during the time of the original French occupation, is the theme of this political comedy. Adiza, who has been living well in France, has decided that she will return and buy the plantation she and her compatriots were expelled from, and enlists some unlikely helpers to bring them back into the country and enact their plot. Meanwhile, these "local" blacks are unwittingly accepted by the other landowners as more cheap labor.
Requiem
Un joven soldado vuelve de la Primera Guerra Mundial con graves secuelas. En el pueblo donde vive una hermosa mujer nada desnuda en los estanques, protegida por víboras. El ex soldado se enamora de ella y se convierte en su amante, lo cual significará su muerte.
Scipion
Adapation of the fanciful comic novel by Albert Cohen.
Le régisseur / Désiré
Only on the stage of an empty theater, an author and his wife clash: the scene and the life end up getting confused.
Emile Rivereau
Rene (Jean-Pierre Marielle) is a small-time crook who tries to shake down storekeeper Emile (Jean Carmet) in this uneven and humorless comedy. Things change when Rene starts to fall for the terminally boring and provincial Emile.
Le curé / Vicar
Dominican friar Etienne de Bourbon visits a 13th-century French village in search of heretics for the Inquisition. Despite the opposition of the local priest and the indifference of the villagers, he finds a seemingly perfect suspect: a young woman who lives in a forest outside the village and cures people with herbs and folk remedies. In the process, he discovers the cult of the greyhound "Saint" Guinefort, and confronts his own troubled past.
M. Deliot
Un muchacho sordomudo es acusado de haber cometido un brutal asesinato.
Miss Mona
An aging trans woman dreams of becoming a real woman before she dies.
Raphael Poitevin
Black comedy about a couple who become convinced that their best friends are aliens and that the Earth’s days are numbered.
Doctor Martin, veterinarian
Recién salido de la cárcel, Lucas decide cambiar de vida y ser un respetable ciudadano. Pero cuando entra en un banco es secuestrado por un atracador. Sin embargo, la policía piensa, dados sus antecedentes, que Lucas está implicado en el atraco. Años después el propio Veber dirigiría un remake en Hollywood de esta película con Martin Short y Nick Nolte.
Désiré, the farmer
A long parade of actors and actresses pop up in an unconnected series of skits, vignettes, and sight gags in this comedy anthology by Jean Curtelin. Among the sketches performed is one with Jean Carmet playing a man from the sticks woefully burdened with the challenge of getting through a dog food commercial on less than one tank of intelligible French. Another skit shows a silent duel between an airport custodian and an automatic door, while another with the renowned Michel Galabru sets up a strange teacher-student exchange.
Jocelyn Bouloire
Two members of the French Academy agree to help the attractive young veterinarian Esther investigate the suspicious death of her sister. Esther is convinced her brother-in-law is responsible, but soon it becomes apparent that those responsible are linked to the very highest echelons of power in the Vatican.
Vichy Fraise
In 1936, the life of the inhabitants of a Breton manor is disturbed by the arrival of workers on vacation.
Zigou
In North Africa, a father and his illegitimate son are in love with the same woman.
Sam
Night Magic, a musical fantasy, is set on earth but it is also about the heavens. At the centre of it all is Michael, a music hall artist, who finds Judy, an angel that epitomizes the woman of his dreams at the System Theatre where he is about to open his new show. For Michael it is just another show along the road but once inside something happens. The night is full of possibilities- full of love and romance, jealousy and infidelity, music and dance, even good and evil. Most of all it is full of magic.
Egon Ratablavasky
Florent Boissonneault and his young wife Elise always had one dream: own a restaurant. When they meet a strange old man, Egon Ratablavasky, their dream become reality, but only to quick turn into a nightmare when they sadly discover they had been tricked by him, and lost everything. But their dream is not dead, and a strong desire of avenging soon bring them back in business, with the help of an homeless kid, a french cook and a friendly journalist. But the old man still had trick on for them his bag...
Le pharmacien
After the death of her little boy, Anita wants to take her own life.
Pacifique Berthet
Ovide Plouffe has married Rita. She still tries to attract other men even after their marriage. Unhappy Ovide feels for Marie - a young French woman he had met. But his catholic background and surrounding can't let him love another woman or divorce from his wife. So Ovide finishes with Marie and plans a trip with Rita hoping for reconciliation. At the last instant he announces to Rita that he can't make the trip. She goes alone. The plane explodes, and Ovide is suspected and arrested for this horrible crime.
Socrate
Tras huir de la justicia llevándose consigo varios millones de dólares, un delincuente decide ocultarse en casa de unos granjeros, pero acaba descubriendo que éstos son más peligrosos que él.
André Bourdelle
It is 1943 in Paris. Like so many others, the Bourbelle family's home has been taken over by the Germans and they now live in their cellar. Little do they know that the son, Guy-Hubert Bourdelle, is far from being the cowardly hairdresser he pretends. He is in truth the Germans’ most feared opponent: le super-résistant!
Self
Joseph Cohen
Pierre Cohen, a sophisticated Parisian psychologist, goes to his brother's farm in order to protect it from very hostile local landowners.
Thénardier
The story of Jean Valjean, a Frenchman convicted of minor crimes, who is hounded for years by an unforgiving and unrelenting police inspector, Javert.
François
The life and times of the famous French writer Guy de Maupassant.
Francis Chérasse (Le Bombé)
Le Glaude y Le Bombé, dos granjeros cascarrabias, son vecinos en una zona rural. Una noche bajo las estrellas, se tiran un pedo, y un extraterrestre lo recibe como una llamada y les baja a visitar. Con el tiempo volverá, ya que se hace amigo de Le Glaude, pero sobre todo porque le encanta la sopa de col.
Kreps
Two great friends who practice cycling, Commissioner Servolle and real estate developer Faguet, see their friendship tested by the investigation carried out following the murder of Faguet's wife.
Rudnik
Georg Laschen leaves his family in West Germany to go work as a war correspondent in Beirut during the fights between Christians and Palestinians.
Max
Max is an old and unsuccessful actor while Charlie is an ambitious young director, yet they are bound together by close friendship. Until the day Rose-Marie, a rather conservative young antique dealer, walks into Charlie's life. When Max's wife walks out on him, he clings to the young couple like ivy. However he soons becomes a dead weight and Rose-Marie threatens to leave if Charlie doesn't choose between her and Max.
L'adjudant Chalumot
In the 1930s a young fellow, Simon Chalumet, is sent to a military school by his overbearing father, an ex-soldier who has little sympathy for his son's more gentle temperament, or for his interest in films.
Duvernet
The scene is the restless Paris of the interwar years where an attractive and ambitious woman successfully makes her way in a world previously reserved for men: that of high finance. Originating from a humble background, she quickly becomes popular with small savers by offering them outstanding interest rates. Extremely popular, she makes no secret of her taste for the good things in life and her homosexual affairs. They will cost her dearly...
L'abbé Birotteau
Father Birotteau and Father Troubert, both of whom are priests at Tours, have separate lodgings in the house belonging to the crabby spinster Sophie Gamard in that city. Birotteau is an other-worldly, gentle, introspective type; Troubert, who is ten years younger than his fellow boarder, is very much of the world: he is a careerist devoured by ambition.
L'assassin
Comedia negra sobre la soledad y la deshumanización del mundo actual que narra las peripecias de tres hombres: Alphonse Tram, un joven desempleado; su vecino, el policía Morvandieu, y el asesino de la mujer de Alphonse.
Emile Cousin
Las tristes aventuras de un pobre empleado, que confía sus angustias al único interlocutor que le escucha: una serpiente pitón madura.
François Dupuis
A couple make the decision, after twenty-five years of marriage, to live separately, so as not to fall into the trap of routine. On their wedding anniversary, Brigitte and François Dupuis announce their decision to separate, to the chagrin of their children. After twenty-five years, they chose to enjoy their life, but each on their own. Everything is going for the best. François rediscovers the life of a bachelor, meals with friends, at night with friends. Brigitte, for her part, met a movie buff whom she took as a lover. From time to time, François and Brigitte meet again. It doesn't take long for them to realize that they get along better and better ...
Le juge Fernand Noblet
Stephane (Victor Lanoux) is the mayor of a small village. He is also the manager of the tannery which provides the inhabitants with work. In a fit of anger, he kills his wife (Edith Scob). A judge (Jean Carmet) tries to prove his culpability, but it's not an easy task, because there is a political and social pressure.
Adrien Courtois
Civil servant Adrien Courtois comes to Paris in order to make his money bear fruits.
Baptiste Nozière
En 1933, Violette Nozière (Isabelle Huppert), una muchacha de 18 años, vive con sus padres en un minúsculo apartamento, en condiciones muy modestas. Sus padres sueñan para Violette una existencia diferente a la suya, una existencia que no le pueden dar, no obstante. La muchacha, ahogada por esta atmósfera, decide frecuentar estudiantes, no tardando demasiado en contraer la sífilis, lo cual, obviamente, supondrá un escándalo en el seno de la família. Violette, exasperada por la actitud floja de sus padres, tomará una decisión inesperada y sorprendente...
Camadule
Camadule is in charge of buying several barrels of the Beaujolais Nouveau. The Captain and Kamel will travel with him to get the divine beverage.
M. Albert, le passeur qui ne parle pas Anglais
The third part of Seventh Company adventures.
Inspecteur Melville
Pignon y Melville son dos inspectores de policía encargados de investigar la violación y el asesinato de una joven a las afueras de una ciudad al sur de Francia. El curso de la investigación les lleva a la residencia de un rico industrial, cercana al lugar en el que ocurrió el crimen. (FILMAFFINITY)
Colas
Alice Carroll le comunica a su marido que va a dejarle. Ante la insistencia de éste de que no lo haga, la mujer, que ya no soporta a su esposo, temerosa de que éste la retenga, huye en su coche a pesar de que está lloviendo torrencialmente. Pero en un momento de su fuga, Alice detiene el coche, ya que la persistente lluvia no la deja ver a través de los cristales del coche. De esta forma, ella va a parar a un lugar que desconoce, siendo acogida amablemente por el dueño de una mansión, el aristócrata Heni Vergennes. Éste la invita a pasar la noche en el castillo. Alice accede y se toma un somnífero. A la mañana siguiente, cuando ella sale de su habitación, encuentra el desayuno preparado, pero en todo el inmueble no hay nadie. Cuando quiere salir, se encuentra que ha sido encerrada.
Marcel Dutilleul
Brumaire, the director of public relations at the Élysée, is trying to boost the rating of his government.
Sergeant Bosselet
Después de estar varios meses a la espera de noticias, las tropas francesas de las colonias africanas se verán obligados a batallar con sus vecinos alemanes. Con tal de aumentar el número de tropas, los franceses comienzan a reclutar soldados entre los nativos, proveyéndoles de rifles, botas y uniformes necesarios para que puedan combatir.
Cameo
Georges Lajoie
Durante unas vacaciones en un camping de la Costa Azul, un pequeño burgués parisino se siente fascinado por una jovencita a la que corteja su propio hijo. Dominado por la obsesión, acaba por violarla y, accidentalmente, la chica resulta muerta. Conmocionada por el asesinato, la gente del lugar sospecha de unos inmigrantes árabes. (FILMAFFINITY)
Henri-Pierre
Tres pequeños mangantes han decidido dar un atraco en casa del magnate de la música Frankie Strong. Aprovechando que Frankie hace una fiesta cada viernes, entraran en la casa detrás de unos invitados y al grito de...´´¡Con las manos en la nuca... esto es un atraco!´´ entrarán en la vivienda. Pero su sorpresa es mayúscula al ver que los bolsos no contienen dinero, las joyas son burdas imitaciones, los márfiles falsos y los cuadros no tienen ningún valor. El atraco ha sido una ruina. Traman un plan para cobrar un cheque a nombre de la mujer del magnate, pero los bancos están cerrados y hasta el lunes no abrirán. Habrá que pasar el fín de semana en compañía.
Maurice Lefebvre
Como fruto de una apuesta con un colega, el coronel Toulouse secuestra a la bella Christine y a François para conseguir forzar el retorno del Rubio y así demostrar que se trata de un agente especial del servicio de espionaje y no un fruto del azar. Secuela de "El gran rubio con un zapato negro".
Comissaire Bude
Michel Dolannes es un periodista que se dedica a denunciar escándalos financieros y a poner en la picota a los políticos corruptos, lo que hará que su vida se vea seriamente amenazada.
Antoine Robineau
Un vendedor de botellas de vermut tiene un éxito arrollador, sobre todo con las damas, gracias a su técnica de lamentarse de todo y, sobre todo, de compadecerse de sí mismo.
Doctor Féraud (segment "Le roi d'Yvetot")
Part One, "The Last Christmas Dinner," is about the relationship between an old man and an old woman, both homeless. Part Two, "The Electric Floor Polisher," is an opera-like story of a woman who is obsessed with polishing her floors. Part Three is a musical interlude featuring Jeanne Moreau singing "When Love Dies." Part Four, "The Virtue of Tolerance," concerns an old man, his young wife, and how they come to terms when she has an affair with a man her own age.
Raoul
Protagonist is the young actor Yvan. During a tour, he witnesses the inexplicable suicide of one of his fellow actors. Back in Paris he tells Xénie, the ex-lover of the dead actor. Xénie is in love with Yvan, but the latter sinks deeper and deeper into a personal crisis. At a certain point he acts being blind and buys a pair of glasses with black lenses. He is fascinated by his new, more restricted manner of seeing and refuses to open his eyes. Reality makes way for his more and more obsessive imagination. The mixture of fantasy and reality meant that Santoni's approach was compared with that of Buñuel.
Le Restaurateur
Jacques and Jean-Claude, unemployed actors, start experimenting with various creative petty scams to get by. More and more daring, with the help of Anne, a charming young girl, they blackmail the rich and influential in a different way.
Paul Bourru
Here we find a group of misfits who've given up on humanity and have decided to dwell below the pavement. The group has its own hierarchy, of course, and soon the conditions that drove them underground begin to manifest themselves without the influences of the Outside World.
Georges Armand
1970s France. In this modern Parisian city suburb, the paths cross of two neighbours living on the same landing, Georges and Claude: one burying his mother, the other about to marry his daughter. Two family events which, on that day, are going to have to co-exist as best they can!
le père
Annie, a 16 years old girl, loves Frédéric who is away doing his national service. During her holidays in the country, she meets Alexandre. He's older, owns a car and she experiences the "first time" with him. Back during a leave, Frédéric finds his sweetheart in the arms of this clumsy oaf and eventually hits it off with him.
Ludovic
Le directeur
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...
Maurice Lefebvre, Perrin's best friend
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.
Jambe de laine
Rosemonde, hailed as "the Princess" reign over a slum in the Paris suburbs. Herbert, a reporter who came to investigate on the pollution, ends up in a grinding machine of her invention. Rosemonde resells the bones to the church authorities who use them as holy relics. Inspector Adrian Bondu is handling the case... But a young hippie who looks like Jesus will have Rosemonde suddenly feel very earthly feelings...
Lord Picratt
A middle-aged couple moves into an old villa populated by eccentric characters.
Paul
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.
Maître Vierzon, l'avocat de Noël
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 ...
Staline
Jeannot
Charles Masson, un ejecutivo de publicidad casado, estrangula durante una sesión de sadomasoquismo a su amante, una mujer que además era la esposa de su mejor amigo, el arquitecto François Tellier. Presa de los remordimientos, Charles se lo confiesa a su mujer, pero ella, extraña e inexplicablemente, le quita importancia al asunto.
Angelo
A movie directed by Jean-Claude Dague.
Renier
Jane (Pamela Franklin) y Cathy (Michele Dotrice) son dos jóvenes inglesas haciendo un viaje en bicicleta a través de la Francia rural. Cuando se detienen a descansar en un lugar al lado de la carretera, Cathy decide que quiere tomar un baño de sol, discuten y Jane decide continuar el viaje sola. Al tiempo, comienza a reconsiderar su decisión y regresa al punto donde dejó a Cathy. Al no encontrar a su amiga, e inquieta por la constante presencia de un motociclista, buscará la ayuda de un policía local (John Nettleton) para que la ayude a resolver el misterio.
M. Pinelli
Hélène Régnier (Stéphane Audran) abandona a su toxicómano esposo Charles (Jean-Claude Drouot), después de que éste diera una brutal paliza al hijo de ambos, enviándolo al hospital. Hélène decide quedarse en un hotelucho mientras acelera los trámites de divorcio. Pero tiene todas las de perder ante la influyente familia de Charles quien, pese a todo, podría quedarse con la custodia de su hijo tras una serie de maniobras.
Bartender
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 client au chien
Una comedia que en su momento fue considerada el colmo de lo escabroso, no pudiéndose estrenar en España hasta después de la muerte de Franco. Su aureola de escándalo resulta algo excesiva, por cuanto parte de unas premisas bastante pacatas. Su pedestre realización impide que el conjunto tenga la frescura que pretende, resultando todo bastante forzado
Léo Clapier
Le patron du bistrot
Member of Yiddish International Power
A woman learns that she is sole legatee of her forgotten rich uncle, but there is a small problem: she's got to be a widow to latch onto the dough or the fortune will go to a vague sect...
Karl de Kerfuntel
Le percepteur
L'homme qui veut acheter l'autobus (non crédité)
The superstitious security guard (uncredited)
Rita is a girl that lives on taking gangsters as lovers. But when the money stops coming, she swears revenge.
Screenplay
El propietario de una empresa de diseño y venta de yates decide echar a su diseñador más famoso. En seguida se da cuenta de que ha tomado la decisión de manera precipitada pues comprende que lo necesita para cerrar un importante trato con unos italianos. No le queda más remedio que tragarse su orgullo e ir en su busca, para lo que tendrá que dirigirse a un pueblo de la Francia profunda, donde las cosas no harán más que empeorar.
'La Fringale'
Alexandre, un honesto y alegre campesino, vive oprimido por su autoritaria mujer, que le hace trabajar como un esclavo. Cuando ésta muere en un accidente automovilístico, el granjero decide quedarse libre e inactivo en su cama. Su perro es el encargado de traerle la comida y el periódico. Pero este preciado descanso se interrumpe cuando Alexandre conoce a una hermosa joven...
Ernest Grafouillères, transporteur de légumes
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'...
Tristot
Un hombre sólo puede salir indemne de una acusación de asesinato si confiesa una infidelidad. Condenado a muerte, escapa a América. Diez años después, convertido en millonario, vuelve para vengarse...
Le curé
Pétepan se entera de que los hermanos Robinhoude han perdido su dinero. Le pide a su ayudante que retire su cuenta del banco.
Paulo
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.
Le critique d'art efféminé (uncredited)
Three little criminals get a tip for a great coup with lots of money in it. Unfortunately they lack the starting funds to buy the required welding torch. So they persuade their successful colleague Alphonse to join their team. But the well thought-out coup fails, and Alphonse is the only one of them who ends up in jail for several years. When he's released, he's out for revenge.
'La Fauche'
A confused pair of airport luggage carriers get involved in the disappearance of some suitcases.
Le porte drapeau
An extremely funny film about a group of French rugby supporters who go to see a match at Twickenham and one of them inadvertently receives a blow in the mouth from someone else's elbow. In the process he loses some front teeth and needs to see a dentist urgently ... this is only the beginning of a long series of adventures befalling our poor friend who doesn't speak a word of English and who nevertheless needs to return urgently to France to get married in the following days sporting a decent mouth !
Déde Lemartin
A young poster artist sees an older married woman in cinema and falls in love.
le chef de gare
le barman
Charles acaba de salir de la cárcel. Su mujer le propone que inviertan sus ahorros para montar un chiringuito en la Costa Azul y comenzar una nueva vida. Pero Charles ya no es joven y lo que desea es dar un último y gran golpe que le permita retirarse a lo grande. Tiene un plan perfecto para acceder a la cámara acorazada de un casino en Cannes, que contiene cien millones de francos. Para llevar a cabo el trabajo cuenta con la complicidad de Francis, un joven compañero de prisión.
Le porteur
Comical adventures of two pairs of friends during their stay in Deauville, Normandy.
Le chauffeur
Le clochard
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.
Guillaume
En junio de 1940, en un campo de prisioneros del nordeste de Francia, tres soldados planean escapar y volver a la vida normal. Son un cabo de clase media, un intelectual miope y un obrero. Después del fracaso de su primer intento de fuga, volverán a intentarlo una y otra vez. (FILMAFFINITY)
Planchet
Como era de esperar, Milady de Winter no ha digerido su derrota a manos de D'Artagnan y sus amigos, y con la colaboración de Rochefort, sicario del Cardenal Richelieu, hará la vida imposible a los cuatro mosqueteros, llegando en su maldad a asesinar a la novia de D'Artagnan.
Planchet
El joven D'Artagnan viene a Paris, donde aspira a convertirse en un mosquetero del rey Luis XIII. Comete una serie de errores y debe aceptar duelos sucesivos de tres de las mejores hojas al servicio de Su Majestad. Sin embargo, el cardenal Richelieu ha prohibido la práctica de estas reuniones en la pradera.
Le malandrin
Marcel trabaja en una fábrica y es un tío bastante normal. Una viuda lo lía para que le compre un moderno coche americano. Al principio no quiere, pero finalmente acaba aceptando. Desde que se hace con el coche todo son problemas y gastos. No sólo tendrá que lidiar con el automóvil sino también con su mujer que está que se sube por las paredes. (FILMAFFINITY)
Jo le Bègue
Miguel foils a bank robbery and becomes a successful nightclub singer, but he doesn't know that his wife is being courted by an Italian fitness instructor.
Martial, douanier
Martine dirige un centro deportivo femenino, pero los ingresos no son suficientes. Para evitar el embargo, convierte el local en un club nocturno con mucho whisky y mujeres de mala nota.
le pompiste
Jean es diseñador en una agencia publicitaria y se vuelca totalmente en su trabajo para intentar olvidar a su mujer, que le abandonó cinco años atrás. Casualmente un día la encuentra en el autobús y descubre que todavía le gusta y que él también ejerce atractivo sobre ella. Los sentimientos de Jean serán entonces contradictorios, por una lado querría matarla y por otro volver a conquistarla.
Balluché
A group of fun-loving French soldiers manage to circumvent a band of cutthroat pirates and win the undying loyalty of a tribal potentate.
Papillote
Antonin, Honoré and Papillote are sailors on the ship "L'Invincible". The three friends are in love with three pretty girls in Toulon: Honoré is in love with Mireille who, as for her, loves Antonin, and Papillote only has eyes for Angèle who, after a fifteen-month-long cruise,presents him a newborn baby that she claims is their son! A new woman appears: Patricia, as sexy as she is mysterious. Antonin, although disconcerted, falls under her spell. What he does not know is that Patricia is not a journalist as she says she is but a secret service agent who has been assigned the mission to investigate Eric Bergen, a shady fellow the trio meets everyday at Arsène's Café...
Lamme
Based on the book by Belgian XIX century author Charles de Coaster.
Hubert
Le 2ème inspecteur
Georges Pinson, who wants to spend his holidays on the riviera with his wife and his two kids,buys a car.His neighbors and the drivers who overtake him gibe at him.
Gaston Duvet
Jules Duraton is the headmaster of Chatelbourg's high school. He is happily married, has a teenage daughter named Solange, and everything would be for the best of all possible worlds if he and his family were not the namesakes of the protagonists of a famous comic series broadcast every day on Radio Monde "La Famille Duraton". Day after day, the real-life Duratons are made fun of because of their surname and Jules just can't take it any more. That is why he decides to sue the radio station responsible for his misfortune.
Jean Courtebride
A small European Kingdom wants to make a frowning Princess smile for the upcoming Royal photo to be done. A mischievous Prime Minister goes to Paris to kidnap three famous comics to force them to do an act to make the Princess smile. However, the King is not aware of this scheme... especially that this evil minister has to face a "fasting strike" by the prisoners and force them to surrender by telling a recipe of "Coq au Vin" by the radio...
Alvarez
El estadounidense Johnny Jordan (Eddie Constantine) necesita un empleo y se sirve de una treta para que Moreno (Roger Saget), el propietario de algunos buques lo contrate. Su tarea será descubrir quien ha comenzado a saquear la mercancía de estos buques... y entre tanto, buscará recuperar el amor de Gina (May Britt) a quien encuentra casada con el dueño del Club Habanera.
(uncredited)
Raoul De Bragelonne must uphold his musketeer father's legacy in the face of court intrigues from Cardinal Mazarin.
Gaston
In this comedy, a man gets a sex change to fulfil his wish to become a cabaret artiste.
le curé du village
Merle, l'adjoint de l'inspecteur
Antoine
In a girls boarding-school run by Madame Piégeois,young Gisèle meets, at night, the count of Champrès 's son.
Gaston, l'ami de Jean
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?
Paullaud
Mr and Mrs Barbezat,Concierges are to marry their only daughter to a butcher's boy. Both the in-laws and the groom have an obsession: come what may, they are keen on honoring their engagements: promises are made to be kept is their motto. And when, on the wedding day, the unfortunate parents cannot provide the newly weds with...the "Mérinos" mattress which is part of the bride's Trousseau ,they are desperate. The husband will spend the whole wedding festivities trying to keep his word.
Gaston Lemeunier
Gaston has always wanted to be a clown, which is not to please his father, a stern notary. The latter is adamant : he will never allow his son to tarnish his reputation. Frustrated Gaston falls in love for a pretty circus rider and draws closer and closer to his vocation. Gaston's father dies but goes on interfering, from heaven this time. Cunning and persistence will finally help Gaston to be the clown he has always dreamed of being.
François
An honest taxi driver gets into trouble by looking for a customer who left her purse full of cash in her vehicle.
Baptiste
A young girl marries a man she doesn't love and delights in humiliating him.
M. Grosjean
A railway worker, Leguignon, and his wife are forced to move into a house located in a shaggy part of town. What Leguignon doesn't know is that a group of children have discovered a treasure and keeps it stored in the house. Trouble ensues when he discovers the cache and tries to claim it as his own.
Jean - le postier
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 Guen
André, Pierre, Finot and Le Guen are cadets in the Fort Carré Military Academy of Antibes and they are the best friends in the world. One of them, André falls madly in love with Catherine, a charming orphan. But Catherine is kidnapped by bandits and when André comes to after being knocked out, she has disappeared. André reacts promptly and aided by his three inseparable friends, tracks down the bandits and frees Catherine. The two lovebirds marry and live happily ever after.
Le clerc
A drama teacher works as an extra in the cinema: he has to milk a cow. Left alone with the animal in the studio, he is forced to bring it up to his apartment. The police, the Humane Society and the government get involved.
le premier gars
Saint-Maurice, an ordinary peaceful village, lived healthily so much so that the local doctor's practice was scant. But that was before Dr. Parpalaid retired and was replaced by a charlatan by the name of Knock. A real genius this one, for he soon managed to persuade everyone that they were ill. And not only didn't they resent him but they even loved their physician, who made a fortune and brought prosperity to the village by turning it into a big hospital.
'La Globule'
How Robert, who does not manage to impose himself in the representation, sees his life turned upside down when he begins a career as a street vendor, which, thanks to his resourcefulness, turns out to be more and more brilliant.
Yvon
The inhabitants of a Scottish island in the 19th century follow their own religion without need for clergy, but as strangers arrive, their faith and beliefs face a deep crisis.
Emile
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 Brigadier
Agnès de Louvigny, aviator, crashes with her plane on the villa of Martial Simonet, a fashion designer nicknamed La Patronne. But tourists are busy in front of the villa.
'Brin d'Amour', soldier
The romantic life of the head of a bandit gang, wanted by the police. Cartouche gets away with being deported to Louisiana after unmasking a plot by a Duke against the throne.
le pianiste malade
The announcement of the future marriage of Franck Reno, the star singer, causes considerable excitement around the world.
Bidel - un fantaisiste raté
In this sketch comedy compared to the American film Hellzapoppin, a spectacle is put on to celebrate the wedding of a nobleman, but the results are disastrous.
Le garagiste (uncredited)
Mathilde Stangerson just married her fiance, when she heard that Larsan, her cruel former husband, whom she believed to be dead, is actually very much alive. Taking refuge to her castle, she appealed to the journalist Rouletabille to protect her.
Nestor
A journalist who deals with the column "courier du cœur" has the absurd idea of launching an investigation into the death of a pianist whom he claims to have been murdered. To dazzle his wife, a reporter for the newspaper, he disguises the facts in such a way that the police suspect him, then declare him guilty. It takes a number of adventures to get him out of this mess and get him back into his section.
Gustave
A chronicler gets himself hired as a gamekeeper in Monsieur De Saint-Ricquier's mansion where he lives with his stepdaughter, Henriette, everybody considers insane .
Le père affolé (uncredited)
Ronaldo, a singer with the growing reputation dedicating himself body and soul to his art, sacrificing his marriage.
Guy Piponnet
Saint-Aignan needs a family. He hires people to act as his people to achieve his goal: to succeed in the business world.
Albert Farjon
Activities and exploits of firefighters in the context of a village then the capital and under the bombardments of the Second World War where the saving of lives was more important than that of factories.
Étienne
Being born a witch's daughter did not bode well for your future in the Middle Ages. Guillaumette tries to stay on the straight and narrow with a little help from a priest she visits.
Guest
For fun and to dazzle his wife, the novelist Morgan steals a ring and gets rid of it in the costume jewelry section of a supermarket. Sophie buys the diamond, which forces the novelist to embark on crazy adventures to recover the jewel.
L'abbé Pontail
Europa, siglo XVII. Biografía de san Vicente de Paúl, sacerdote católico francés que dedicó su vida a paliar las miserables condiciones de vida de los campesinos pobres, sobre todo después de la Guerra de la Fronda (1648-1653), que dejó asolado el país.
3rd accomplice
A smooth criminal, who turns to be Manuel Ismora, and his gang successfully and peacefully pull off con after heist. Elsewhere a timid office worker, Gabriel Dupon, is pressured by his boss...
Third accomplice
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.
A man of Laurent
Gaby, the singer of the "Raymond's Jazz" band, leads Maurice, one of the musicians, to believe that, following a night he spent with her in the hay, he is the father of her child. In fact, the baby is neither his nor hers. He is the son of Madeleine, a young war widow who has entrusted him to her friend Gaby until she is allotted a flat. One day, Maurice happens to meet Madeleine and falls in love with her but he does not dare to confess his "paternity" to her. Fortunately the misunderstanding is clarified and Maurice can at the same time marry Madeleine and adopt her kid.
Durand, dit Durandal
A lieutenant, at the head of a commando ready to land in France, finds among his men a maquisard who had tried to kill him in the past.
Companion of François (uncredited)
An episode in the life of the tumultuous poet who murdered his rival, in love with Catherine de Vauselles.
Un spectateur au paradis des Funambules (uncredited)
París, 1820. Dos jóvenes artistas, Baptiste Debureau y Frédéric Lemâitre, debutan en el teatro de los Funámbulos y entablan amistad. Un día, Garance, una misteriosa y atractiva mujer, irrumpe en sus vidas. Mientras que el tímido Baptiste no se atreve a declararle su amor, Frédéric la convierte en su amante. Sin embargo, al estar implicada en una serie de crímenes, la mujer desaparece.
Tortillard (uncredited)
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)
Typographer (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...
Denise, a young employee of the mine, is courted by the engineer Risay while she is engaged to Daniel, a simple underground worker. A betrayal has occurred that compromises the mine. An accident occurs and about fifteen workers, including Denise's fiancé, are buried under rubble in a collapsing shaft.
