Didier Kaminka

In a village by the Meuse river, located near the French-Belgian border, a factory storekeeper named Basile Matrin leads a dreary life with his wife, Rose. The young Maryse Duval, who had just come back from Paris, has abandoned her dreams of becoming an actress. She will unwittingly turn their life upside down. Basile's great friend and neighbour, who is a reporter for a local newspaper called " Le Quotidien de la Meuse", witnesses the comical drama that is unfolding on the street outside his house, and will unwillingly be drawn into this "Dramedy".

This TV movie is adapted from the memoirs of the singer Régine, in which she recounts her youth and her beginnings in the music hall.

Joanna Martin, a mid-life journalist, is investigating a marriage agency organizing white marriages. She uses her sister's identity to infiltrate.

El agente especial Harry Tasker mantiene una doble vida. Harry habla seis idiomas, conoce y domina todas las formas de contraespionaje y trabaja como espía internacional para Omega, una agencia gubernamental ultrasecreta encargada de la neutralización del terrorismo nuclear. Por razones de seguridad nacional, Harry oculta su verdadera profesión a su mujer Helen, que empieza a aburrirse del hombre gris y rutinario que, según ella cree, se dedica a vender ordenadores. Harry, que tiene recursos y valor para salvar a su país, quizá no sea capaz de salvar su matrimonio. Pero, cuando Helen descubre la verdadera profesión de su marido, excitada por la novedad, decide ayudarle a acabar con un comando integrista que planea un sangriento atentado.

A disillusioned police detective, used as a scapegoat by his corrupted superior, fights back by becoming a competent criminal.

Pierre, escritor, es incapaz de escribir ni una sola palabra porque se pasa la vida pensando en Karina, la mujer de su mejor amigo. Lo peor es que Pierre vive con la primera esposa de su amigo, a la que sedujo cinco años antes...

Pierre, escritor, es incapaz de escribir ni una sola palabra porque se pasa la vida pensando en Karina, la mujer de su mejor amigo. Lo peor es que Pierre vive con la primera esposa de su amigo, a la que sedujo cinco años antes...

A famous actress learns the hard way that the devotion of a young admirer is not what it seems.

Una bibliotecaria, casada con un tipo aburrido, ansía vivir emociones fuertes. Un día, conoce a un farsante que le asegura que es espía. Ella no sabe que, en realidad, es su propio marido quien es agente secreto.

Two women who want a raise, realize that they can easily get what they want, if they sleep with their boss.

Two women who want a raise, realize that they can easily get what they want, if they sleep with their boss.

The partners are back and are in a tight spot! Francois is going through a moral crisis, and Rene is experiencing the same. But, honesty is not always the best policy. After being suspended for their actions, they return to face their far more crooked replacements.

Nunca digas nunca. Jeremie (Patrick Chesnais), casada con un comisario de policía, desea fervientemente tener un hijo. A pesar de que ya tiene a una dulce y hermosa hija de 20 años, engendrada con su primer marido, quiere volver a sentirse viva. Sin embargo, el doctor les confirma a la pareja que no podrán tener niños juntos. ¿Nunca digas nunca? El matrimonio opta por un complejo y largo proceso que les dará la solución: la adopción. Mientras barajan las posibilidades que tienen, la hija de Jeremie les presenta a Joanna, una adolescente embarazada que está dispuesta a darle a su hijo una vida mejor en sus mano.

Nunca digas nunca. Jeremie (Patrick Chesnais), casada con un comisario de policía, desea fervientemente tener un hijo. A pesar de que ya tiene a una dulce y hermosa hija de 20 años, engendrada con su primer marido, quiere volver a sentirse viva. Sin embargo, el doctor les confirma a la pareja que no podrán tener niños juntos. ¿Nunca digas nunca? El matrimonio opta por un complejo y largo proceso que les dará la solución: la adopción. Mientras barajan las posibilidades que tienen, la hija de Jeremie les presenta a Joanna, una adolescente embarazada que está dispuesta a darle a su hijo una vida mejor en sus mano.

Sam is a screenwriter, good at sorting out other people's stories but unable to organize his own life. He loves women with passion and there are too many around him.

Sam is a screenwriter, good at sorting out other people's stories but unable to organize his own life. He loves women with passion and there are too many around him.

While his three former college friends - Thierry, Gérard and Francis have made successful careers for themselves in business, Daniel has yet to make the grade. Tired of Daniel's frequent attempts to drag them into ill-considered ventures, Thierry and Gérard decide to play a cruel trick on him by making him think he has won the national lottery.

Two middle-aged Jewish merchants plot to crack a safe with a clergyman and some neighbors in Paris.

Michel (Christopher Lambert) es un hombre ensimismado y egoísta que es incapaz de ver más allá de sí mismo. Sin embargo, cuando se enamora de una hermosa mujer (Anémone), su egocentrismo se resquebrajará.

Paul Martin and François Leroux are brothers-in-law and comics without fame. One day, the famous television comics, Gaëtan, finds himself in the little theater where Paul and François produce themselves under the name of "Gagsters".

All Simon wants for Christmas is his parents (who are being held captive by an African warlord) back. So, he and another student stowaway on a flight to Lapland to find Santa Claus. There they meet St. Nick as well as a Christmas Fairy and an evil Ogre.

La corrupción es el estado natural del sistema policial francés. El oficial René es un claro ejemplo: acepta sobornos de cualquiera, traiciona a sus compañeros con soplos y prácticamente todo lo que hace es reprochable, menos para él que es sin duda el héroe de la película.

The film starts in the 13th arrondissement of Paris in 1984. Robert Pinot is a police officer as ordinary as clumsy. One day, he stops a certain Josyane, a young drug addict who is also doubled as a pickpocket, nicknamed Marylou. Having discovered that she comes from the same village, Nanteuil, then him, he takes compassion for the young girl and decides to take her under his wing to keep her away from Tony, a dangerous dealer with whom she is in love.

Barbara (Jane Birkin) marries Julien (Sami Frey) a charming and sexy man. Barbara's old flame Paul (Gérard Jugnot) is highly suspicious of Julien. It seems Julien's previous two wives died under dubious circumstances and he collected a wad of insurance money as a result. Paul cannot ignore his misgivings, and so he follows Barbara and Julien to Morocco on their honeymoon, intent on preventing any harm to the woman he still loves.

Barbara (Jane Birkin) marries Julien (Sami Frey) a charming and sexy man. Barbara's old flame Paul (Gérard Jugnot) is highly suspicious of Julien. It seems Julien's previous two wives died under dubious circumstances and he collected a wad of insurance money as a result. Paul cannot ignore his misgivings, and so he follows Barbara and Julien to Morocco on their honeymoon, intent on preventing any harm to the woman he still loves.

Michel works there manically solving people's problems over the phone. He is about to tie the knot with his girl friend Isabelle, an airline hostess. She flies all over the world, he hates to leave the office. A series of madcap mishaps involving theft or injury (as you would expect in his line of work) ensues after Michel promises Isabelle nothing will delay their marriage and she promises in turn that she's done flying. Once this unlikely promise is made, it becomes premise and both are forced into escalating white lies to maintain the appearance of keeping their word. Their predicament mounts as Isabelle is forced to do a few more flights, while Michel is compelled to travel to New York, Tunisia, and finally Hong Kong, where they are finally reunited in the throes of a contrived and hilarious drug deal involving a 747, water taxi chases, and martial arts.

Michel works there manically solving people's problems over the phone. He is about to tie the knot with his girl friend Isabelle, an airline hostess. She flies all over the world, he hates to leave the office. A series of madcap mishaps involving theft or injury (as you would expect in his line of work) ensues after Michel promises Isabelle nothing will delay their marriage and she promises in turn that she's done flying. Once this unlikely promise is made, it becomes premise and both are forced into escalating white lies to maintain the appearance of keeping their word. Their predicament mounts as Isabelle is forced to do a few more flights, while Michel is compelled to travel to New York, Tunisia, and finally Hong Kong, where they are finally reunited in the throes of a contrived and hilarious drug deal involving a 747, water taxi chases, and martial arts.

After getting screwed over by life (again), two losers decide that enough is enough. Using stolen ski masks and stolen toy guns, they take hostages in their local bank, holding them for ransom. Things go well until the hostages learn what's going on, and demand a piece of the action for themselves.

Yves regresa a París después de haber pasado 4 años en Brasil. Sólo lleva como equipaje una guitarra, y su deseo más intenso es encontrar cuanto antes alojamiento. Conocerá a Isabel y Babette, dos encantadoras jóvenes que comparten buhardilla en Montmartre, y el encuentro será caótico.

A group of friends are planning how to spend their summer vacation. One plans to go to the Seychelles with his American girlfriend. At the airport she dumps him for another guy. He has no money so he steals a backpack and goes camping. Somehow he meets a pretty girl and convinces her to share his tent. But a famous singer sees the girl and wants her too. He convinces the luckless guy to act like a fool and the girl leaves him and goes with the singer to the French Rivera.

A group of friends are planning how to spend their summer vacation. One plans to go to the Seychelles with his American girlfriend. At the airport she dumps him for another guy. He has no money so he steals a backpack and goes camping. Somehow he meets a pretty girl and convinces her to share his tent. But a famous singer sees the girl and wants her too. He convinces the luckless guy to act like a fool and the girl leaves him and goes with the singer to the French Rivera.

Guy is fired from is job, and asks to stay with his friend and his girlfriend in their apartment. The longer he stays, the more disaster he creates.

Yves is a young man too lazy to work encrusted in a young girl he met on the street and no longer wants to leave the apartment she is sharing with one of her friends.

Un grupo terrorista europeo llamado 'Nada" secuestra al embajador americano. Pronto surgen tensiones entre ellos debido a las discrepancias sobre los pasos a seguir. La división interna de la banda junto a la total confusión de la policía hace que la violencia se intensifique cada vez más en ambos lados...

Pierre Gastié-Leroy is the son of a wealthy director of a factory of weapon manufacturing. Despite his parents, two generous uncles and a bishop godfather who try to inculcate him the rigid values of his social level, Pierre is a dreamer, antimilitaristic, social educator who dreams of saving three thugs, his "little guys" at the limit of delinquency. After several resounding failures that sent him to prison, Pierre is ordered by his father to join his factory to direct the social service. Tired of the venality of his father and the foolishness of the "little guys", Pierre hires them at the factory...

Cannes Film Festival 1973