Le producteur Blangenstein
Victor is a screenwriter whose last work about the Marechal Pétain is refused by his producer. To add insult to injury, he tells Victor he is paunchy. The unfortunate man becomes obsessed by his weight. He goes out of his way to lose pounds, abetted by his wife, Corinne, who puts him on a reducing diet. He must also go to a health center where he takes exercise. Nothing really works. And one day, in a brewery, he cannot withstand his diet anymore and he has a gastronomic meal. Desperate, he tries his luck at a weight watchers reunion.
le patron
The love story like no other of an aristocrat with the daughter of the bellboy at Chez Maxim's restaurant.
François de Neufville, Duke of Villeroy
A look at 18th-century France, when the authorities depravity contributed to social oppression, and the uprisings flared up one after another.
M. Rozenec
Juliette Vidal is a journalist in Paris who works for the glamorous magazine "Pénélope". Uninspired, she decides to take an interest in the life of a department store saleswoman Juliette Rozenec.
Alcide Chanal
Victor
Le sergent
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...
M. Vacher, l'important ferrailleur
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)
Ispettore Saval
Dorellik, an Italian contract killer that lives on the French Riviera, accepts a job to kill everyone with the surname Dupont that lives in France for a rich customer which supposedly would allow him to obtain a large inheritance.
« Lajoie »
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.
L'avocat général
En 1935, un empleado francés asesina a tiros a un árabe en Argelia y durante el juicio renuncia a defenderse.
Ispettore Lognon
Maigret is about to leave for the holidays but a colleague asks him for help in investigating the mysterious murder of a stripper and a noblewoman, both of which took place in Pigalle.
L'homme en robe de bure (Le nouveau Noé)
Tulipe es un anciano jubilado que vive solo en un antiguo vagón, y que tiene como afición cultivar tranquilamente su jardín y la pintura al óleo, pero también tiene una fuente secreta de ingresos. Su ahijado, Noel, descubre que Tulipe es en realidad un maestro falsificador, que produce copias perfectas de billetes de 10 francos. La novia de Noel ve en esto esto una oportunidad de volverse ricos, pero deben convencer a Tulipe de falsificar billetes de 500 francos.
Bel-Oeil
In the 18th century, as the army of Prince De Beaulieu lays siege on the fortress of Marechal D'Allenberg, a young princess sends a soldier out of the fortress to go find her lover.
Fernand Aubry
Las relaciones conyugales contempladas tanto desde el punto de vista de la esposa como del marido.
Fernand Aubry
The story of the couple from the very first meeting to break up told from a view of a man, Jean-Marc. The film shares the same plot with "Françoise ou La vie conjugale", that tells the same story from another perspective.
Detrerrieux
Feeling complicit in a heinous act of her husband, a woman sinks into decay, then recovers and becomes a nun
Prince Gregori de Montenegro
(uncredited)
Nana (Anna Karina) es una joven veinteañera de provincias que abandona a su marido y a su hijo para intentar iniciar una carrera como actriz en París. Sin dinero, para financiar su nueva vida comienza a trabajar en una tienda de discos en la que no gana mucho dinero. Al no poder pagar el alquiler, su casera la echa de casa, motivo por el que Nana decide ejercer la prostitución.
Original Story
Escenas en vivo de París y un narrador que da continuidad a las escenas integran cuatro coreografías dramáticas, de las cuales es autor Roland Petit.
Alfred
En la pequeña localidad de Cabosse, los lugareños disfrutan de una gran longevidad. Partiendo de este hecho como reclamo comercial, Victor Hardy se propone construir una urbanización en unos terrenos de poco valor. El único obstáculo es Dumont, un viejo obstinado, que, a diferencia de los demás, se niega a venderle sus tierras.
Alfred
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)
Screenplay
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)
François, le chauffeur
Se trata de una historia de tintes políticos que tiene lugar cuando Émile Beaufort, un antiguo primer ministro de Francia, retirado en una villa, se dispone a escribir sus memorias. Cuando estalla en el Elíseo una crisis de gobierno y se nombra como primer ministro a uno de sus rivales políticos, Beaufort decide regresar al primer plano de la escena política. (FILMAFFINITY)
Girotti
Lemmy Caution ha de descubrir a un espía cuyo nombre es Varley.
Jean Lécuyer
A widow in her fifties,Madame Lacoste ,meets Jean when they both come to put their pussy in a cattery.The man borrows a hefty sum from her ,to send his sick young son to breathe the fresh air of the country ,or so he said;in fact there's no son at all.He gives the money to his mistress who claims she's pregnant by him and who wants to have an abortion.She lies too ,for she does not expect any child and she intends to help the young man she's in love with to buy a scooter.But the latter does not care about her either and intends to marry a "rich " girl ....who's actually the concierge's daughter.
Ikhariev
Loutrel, le manager de Louis
Life in a one-parent family with a focus on the parent, Henri Neveu (Jean Gabin), is the topic of this standard drama with a dash of comedy. While Henri was a POW during the war, his wife passed away and he returned to face the challenges of bringing up three children alone. Henri may get drunk and angry at times but he also has a better side that will not stay buried. Since handling three children alone is no easy task, the single father has the choice of growing in the process or not.
Phillipe Barrachet
Didier está desesperado y se lanza al Sena. Pascal, un vendedor de periódicos de carácter severo, cáustico, y carente de compasión, se arroja al río y le salva. Entre los dos hombres nace una amistad. Pero Pascal, sin darse cuenta, al evitar la tentativa de suicido de Didier, se verá inmerso en una trama de engaños y apariencias y pronto será acusado de un asesinato.
M. Grégoire
Le commissaire
In 1852, the famine on a desolate Britanny's island named Blaz-Mor, off the coast of Finistère. Some residents exalted hold responsible the young Moira (Renée Cosima), equivalent to a witch. The old Marnez (Charles Vanel), "head" of the island, is trying to restore calm and opposes Yann Le Heart (Henri Vidal), the fiancé of his daughter Louise Kermelen (Dany Carrel), who wants causing a shipwreck to save the island from famine.
le colonel
Paul Lamiani, a wizened mobster, is asked to return to duty following the disappearance of secret documents of extreme importance. It is assumed that they are in the hands of a friend of Paul. But the case becomes even more delicate when Lamiani's son is kidnapped.
Thomas Putnam
Salem, 1692. El agricultor John Proctor ha hecho el amor dos veces con Abigail, una joven de 17 años que él y su esposa han acogido. Su esposa Elisabeth lo ha estado rechazando durante siete meses, por su puritanismo y frialdad. Cuando Elisabeth encuentra a John abrazando a Abigail, echa a la muchacha de su casa y John, sintiéndose condenado, está de acuerdo. Abigail jura venganza. Su oportunidad llega cuando acusa a Elisabeth de brujería y manipula a las niñas más jóvenes para apoyar sus afirmaciones de ver espíritus. El ministro de la ciudad y los políticos quieren una causa: liberar al pueblo de la brujería. John también es acusado; Abigail le ofrece una manera de evitar la horca. Elisabeth tiene su propia confesión.
Docteur Finache
Le général de Lasalle
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.
Ravignol
Cadet Rousselle ama a la bella Isabelle, pero el padre de ésta no entiende el amor de su hija con un actor. Cadet decide entonces partir de su pueblo para hacer fortuna. Este será el inicio de sus aventuras.
Sheriff
Joe Calvert (Fernadel) is a nearsighted, friendly man who works as a clerk in a large department store, who gets into embarrassing situations when he isn't wearing his glasses. Since Joe works in the department that sells cowboy clothes to kids, his boss is adamant against his wearing glasses as cowboys and glasses don't go together. After a series of near-blind misadventures, Joe is fired. Dejected, he goes to the movies and seats himself next to a dangerous gangster and, when he leaves, takes the man's raincoat. In the subway, on a crowded train, he removes a heavy object from coat pocket. It's a gun and the passengers are in a panic and Joe is arrested, and the police announce they have captured Public Enemy No. 1. The leader's mob, unaware that it isn't their boss the police have, plan an escape, with most of the plans made by gun moll Lola (Zsa Zsa Gabor.) Soon, Joe finds both the police and the gangsters after him.
Dixmer
Il Cavaliere di Maison Rouge is an Italian adventure film directed by Vittorio Cottafavi based on the novel by Alexandre Dumas.
Georges Lamarche
Unfairly accused of her husband's murder, a woman is imprisoned.
The rivalry between Albert Gambier, head of the municipal brass band, and the jazz band, led by Jacques Hélian, provokes many comic adventures in this small provincial town. Everything will end in songs, thanks to the love uniting Jimmy, the band's composer, and Nicole, Gambier's daughter.
A wealthy financier is murdered in his desirable mansion.Two lieutenants, a tough guy and a rookie, investigate.
Gaston Rival, dentiste et mari de Marguerite
Raymond Corbier, a sculptor, has a wonderful wife, Sylvia, whom he adores. To save a passionate admirer who simulates suicide because she does not respond to her advances, Sylvia, an irreproachable wife, is forced to lie for the first time to Raymond.
Jules - le postillon
La joven aristócrata que está celebrando su décimo sexto cumpleaños el 14 de julio 1789, Caroline de Bievre, vive dolorosamente la Revolución al mismo tiempo que trata de encontrar a su primer amor: Gastón Sallanches. Tirado a derecha e izquierda, en blanco y en azul, Caroline debe la vida a su físico y su sensualidad.
Gaston Sarrazin de Fontenoy
The wife of gunsmith Gaston Sarazin cheats on him with his salesman. The husband, informed, wants revenge. The culprits try to divert suspicion on the dashing Stanislas. The husband forces the straw lover to live with him. Stanislas then brings the spouses together and makes the business of the gunsmith prosper.
The honeymoon in Italy of Guillaume and Eugénie de Puycharmois escorted by friend Sainfoin, a second-hand driver. Sainfoin's humor displeases Eugenie. Guillaume takes the wheel in such a way that it is necessary to hire a "driver", Yolande. Jealous, Eugenie asks Sainfoin to conquer Yolande. In the working car, two happy couples drive through the Italian landscapes.
Beaudrier
Mme Beaudrier, the wife of a Parliamentary Senator, hurls a pastry at visiting King Joan IV of Cerdagne, sparking off a series of farcical events involving all levels of the government and their mistresses.
Symphorien Dubois
In 1825, Paul-Louis Courier, a Republican writer known for publishing pamphlets against the French monarchy, was killed in the farm where he had retired. Was it a political assassination or a vicious crime? Those who have known him loved him or hated him are interrogated by the police. Will the guilty person(s) be ferreted out?
The fictionalized life, and interpreted by himself, of the popular boxing champion Marcel Cerdan. Training sessions, matches, victories, flight to the U.S.A. where the title of world champion is disputed, form the whole subject of the film.
Stoff
For love, the singer Georges Hyverlin gives up his profession to work with his father-in-law in his car factory. When the passion for song takes him back, he manages to resume his career thanks to the support of his wife Martine.
Samson
The Wizard of Heaven tells the compelling and remarkable story of St. John Marie Baptist Vianney, the humble pastor of Ars, France, who battled with the devil himself, not only for the faith of his parish, but even for that of his country. Starting with the Saint's arrival at Ars, this film brings to life the hardships, indifference, ridicule and opposition he encountered, as well as the zeal with which he strove to overcome them.
Pierre Lorin
Caroline feels neglected by her husband, the businessman Lorin. She plans to have fun with an inventor but finds herself, following a combination of circumstances, locked up in a psychiatric clinic. To get out of it, she is forced to take on the identity of the wife of a third man, whom she resembles.
'Gueule en or'
A band of traffickers seeks to infiltrate among smugglers on the Franco-Belgian border. Josée, a superb girl, is the mistress of Gueule en or, one of the smugglers.
Gustave Boeuf
In the peaceful alpine village of Granges-de-Mortes, a tragedy has just taken place: Gustave Boeuf, the local Casanova, has mysteriously died at the foot of a wayside cross. Shortly afterwards, a peasant, who is suspected of having murdered him, hangs himself from a branch of the calvary. But was he the real culprit? Angélique Barrodet, an old maid , who had been Gustave's fiancée before he abandoned her on the very day of their wedding, leads the investigation in her own way.
For the past few weeks, revolt has been brewing in the Kingdom of Naples. The handsome Castelli is at the head of the conspiracy that wants to put an end to the reign of King Murat. To carry out his plan, he decides to infiltrate the court in order to become an intimate of the king. But his ploy works too well: he manages to enter the court thanks to his talents as a singer and very quickly seduces Queen Geneviève. But this imprudence costs him a lot. He is soon arrested by the king's men and immediately condemned to death.
In a Far Eastern town, a settling of accounts between Western and Asian opium traffickers draws the attention of the police.
Le Hénaff
Hervé is a tough sea captain in command of the "Duchesse Anne", a rum-trading ship. But the sea dog hides a tender heart and he allows Marie-Douce, a poor slum girl who dreams of seeing the wide world,on board. To have her accepted by the crew, he passes her off as his niece. A seasoned master like him, wise enough to ban alcohol use on his ship, should have known better : a beautiful girl on the deck cannot but unleash the savage instincts of all those men without women.
Bank
Fred Maubert, an innocent convicted of a crime he did not commit, escapes from prison and goes in search of the real culprit. He begins by looking for his former mistress, Simone, who has since married Doctor Bréville and lives in Canada.
Screenstory
A teenager becomes fixated on a painting of the handsome suitor who died in a duel for her grandmother's love. On her sixteenth birthday, her father hires three men who pretend to be the ghost of the suitor to entertain her. Little do they know, the ghost of the suitor himself is roaming the castle halls.
Alexandre Schaunard
Four young friends share the carefree, cheerfulness, laughter and dances of Bohemian life. Rodolphe the painter, Alexandre Chaunard the composer, Colline the philosopher, as well as Marcel and his friend Musette. Mimi, a romantic young girl, falls in love with Rodolphe.
Cornudet
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.
Ponce
A ruined banker is abandoned by his mistress. He commits suicide after entrusting a prostitute with twenty-thousand francs. The money changes hands. A crook is arrested in the house of an an actress he had fooled. In a luxury hotel, a typist kills her lover's wife. The trial of the murderer is followed by the bankruptcy of another financier and the money finally returns to the mistress of a suicide in the restaurant in which she had first appeared.
A large farm in Vendée. The father is dying and the three brothers and sister swear not to marry not to break up the field. Months pass. Francis, the eldest, took things in hand. For him, the promise to their father is sacred. So he does everything for his brothers and his sister Amanda are not tempted. However, the latter lets himself courted by a young man from the neighboring village ...
Bertrand
A discharged seaman winds up on an old man's farm: his children left the place for the broader horizons of the evil city; the walls are near decay ,the fields lie fallow.
Ferdinand
Hector and Odette Dupuis' car breaks down in the middle of nowhere, but not far from a luxury hotel. The couple are well off but, being miserly, Odette is determined to keep her budget tight. Fortunately for her, the hotel offers rooms for domestics costing only 35 francs, so she decides to pass her husband as her chauffeur. As far as she is concerned, Odette presents herself as Baroness de Garches and takes a 250 franc room. But their stay soon becomes complicated. For instance, Palureau, a widower with five daughters who is planning to remarry, starts courting the 'baroness'. And that is not all since at the same time Angèle, a chambermaid, makes advances to Hector ! To make matters worse, Ferdinand, Angèle's boyfriend, decides to get even with Hector, his 'rival'. The jealous guy steals a jewel from a guest and has poor Hector accused of the theft.
Le décorateur (uncredited)
Robert and Françoise Monier make a hot air balloon to fly to the stratosphere. After a visit to Venus, they return home, but have only aged 15 days whereas 25 years have passed on Earth.
Claude is a young man whose girlfriend has just broken up with him. Feeling unable to overcome the pain, Claude has no other idea than to end his life. Back home, he finds five middle-aged or elderly men sitting at the dinner table but he refuses to join the guests and goes upstairs to his bedroom. The worst is prevented thanks to a servant who has caught sight of Claude's revolver. Claude 's uncle joins his nephew and manages to persuade him not to take action. He takes him downstairs to the dining room where each in turn, the five guests start telling their own story. For it happens that they too once had their heart broken and that they too once wanted to die for love.
Guillaume
Antoine Mouret, an authoritarian restaurateur, is the head of a large family where, for reasons of interest, people only marry cousins. But some have other plans, Marcus especially when he meets a passing circus girl.
le docteur
Unbeknownst to the members of a French family, a radio announcer makes them the subject of a broadcast.
Le journaliste (uncredited)
A little bank employee wins a plane in the lottery and amazes his companions with his audacity.
Alfred
Charles's uncle is the headmaster of a chic girls school .He is short of the readies and he has lots and lots of debts.
Raoul
A young Breton sailor falls in love with a visiting stranger called 'La Glu'. He drops his betrothed, mother and friends so that he can live with her. La Glu is murdered. Who did it? Relatives and friends are all suspects.
After the death of her husband, Christine realizes she has possibly wasted her life by marrying him instead of the man towards whom, in her youth, she had a stronger inclination. To overcome these dreary thoughts, she decides to find out about him and the other men who danced with her during a ball that was a turning point in her life, many years ago. She pays a visit to those forgotten acquaintances one after the other; Christine is not only surprised to see how they have fared, but also discovers the impact she had, unknowingly, on the feelings and the destiny of these persons. Duvivier's American film Lydia (1941) is, to some extent, a remake of this one.
At the turn of the last century, a beautiful spy takes advantage of a handsome officer to get across the Russian border without her passport. They fall in love. But the Grand Duke also falls in love with the young woman, who has in fact been assigned to kill him. A jealous mistress kills the spy before she can commit the crime.
The Butcher
Flandes, Monarquía Hispánica, 1616. Los habitantes de la pequeña localidad de Boom están muy ocupados organizando las fiestas locales anuales cuando se anuncia la llegada del duque de Olivares, que gobierna el país en nombre del rey Felipe III de España. Mientras los ciudadanos masculinos se rinden cobardemente al pánico, como ratas en un barco que se hunde, las valientes ciudadanas, lideradas por la audaz esposa del burgomaestre, deciden convertirse en las mejores anfitrionas que los españoles hayan conocido nunca.
Doctor
Bill Whipple is a happy-go-lucky mechanic for MacDonald who thinks that he is the worlds greatest driver and lover. Mac has treated Bill like a son since he took him in. One day at the track, Bill sees Pat Bannon, and tries his best to impress her, but to no avail. On his way to catch a flight, he tricks Pat into taking him to the airport and she gets even by taking him up in a plane. He hates to fly, but will not show her that he is afraid and when the plane breaks up, he is a hero for rescuing her. This gets him publicity and Renny offers him his car to drive in the Indianapolis 500. Bill breaks with Mac to drive the car and puts it on the pole for the race. Then Renny double crosses Bill and plans to drive the car himself since Bill has tuned it so well.