Claude Rich

If Jean Rochefort remains so dear to our hearts, it is because this extraordinary actor alone embodies a cinema and a France imbued with freedom and carelessness. Through his films, archives and the testimony of those close to him, we discover a complex man, a sad clown saved by his taste for words and for fun.

Estelle fights to maintain her sense of self while sleeping with Angus for money.

Damien (Jean-Pierre Bacri, 'Como en las mejores familias'), es profesor de historia de la civilización china, y vive con su mujer, Iva (Kristin Scott Thomas, 'El paciente inglés'), directora de teatro, y el hijo de ambos, Noé (Martin Orcand Tourres). La historia de amor que los mantenía unidos se ha ido desvaneciendo por culpa de la rutina y del trabajo, del cansancio diario. Para evitar que el matrimonio se derrumbe, Damien se verá mezclado en una trampa orquestada por su mujer, que le pedirá que ayude a su padre, consejero del Estado y con el cuál mantiene una relación distante. Esta arriesgada misión sumergirá a Damien en una espiral que revolverá de arriba a abajo su vida.

Para no ir a parar a una residencia de ancianos, cinco viejos amigos deciden empezar a vivir juntos; a ellos se une un joven estudiante de etnología cuya tesis se centra en el estudio de la población anciana.

Cuando un despreocupado soltero se ve a cargo de un niño, los dos emprenden un viaje por carretera que cambiará sus vidas.

As she does every morning, Lucie takes advantage of her journey to work to lose herself for a while in the pages of a good book. And as she does every morning, she joins her colleagues at the office with a smile. It's a working day just like any other. Then suddenly all activity in the office stops. All attention is turned towards the window of the opposite building opposite and abanner reading: Man Alone. Is it a hoax? A cry for help? Everyone has his own interpretation, and will try, by any means possible, to discover what lies behind this mysterious message.

Royal romance and epic tragedy feature in this historical drama about Pedro I of Portugal and his lover, Ines de Castro. Their legendary, doomed love story is explored, as well as the darkness surrounding Pedro's powerful, sadistic father.

Loosely based on "4.50 from Paddington" by Agatha Christie.

Besieged matriarch Sonia tries to make certain her daughter's nuptials come off flawlessly even as events spiral out of control is in this dark comedy helmed by François Dupeyron. With Sonia's wayward eldest son under arrest on drug charges, she then discovers that her no-account hubby has gambled away the money set aside for the reception. Will Sonia and her family triumph or crumble in the face of adversity?

Dan, un soldado recientemente expulsado del ejército, se refugia en la bebida para evadirse del mundo que lo rodea. A pesar de ello, su novia Nicole cree que aún pueden salvar su amor.

State secrets, sincere convictions, ecstatic crowds, a regal lifestyle, prying journalists, suspicious disappearances: what goes on behind the scenes in the halls of power or the daily life of a President.

Before the court of the Inquisition, the scientist Galileo defends his position in favor of Copernicus' thesis that the Earth revolves around the sun.

On March 21, 1905, the hemicycle of the Palais-Bourbon resounded with the first session of a crucial and animated parliamentary debate, which was to last nearly ten months and occupy 48 sessions in the Chamber of Deputies. They have to study the bill of separation of the Churches and the State. This law, which founded laicity in France, was adopted on December 9, 1905.

It is the early 1300's and the treasury of France, under the rule of Philippe IV (Philippe le Bel or Philippe the Beautiful), is empty. The king decides the only solution is to raid the treasures of the Knights Templar (amongst others) and concocts various charges of treason, heresy and deviance against the Knights and their Grand Master Jacques de Molay. Having confessed under torture to the crimes of which he is accused, de Molay is condemned to be burned at the stake. With his dying breath he curses the king, the king's advisor (Guillaume de Nogaret), the pope (Pope Clement V) and the thirteen succeeding generations of their families. There follows one of the most dramatic periods in French history, half a century of political intrigue, murder, treason, war and famine, which ultimately culminates in the 100 Years War.

Le Cou de la girafe (The Giraffe's Neck) is a 2004 French/Belgian film directed by Safy Nebbou.

In the psychiatric clinic Rhien, residents and caregivers maintain unique and funny relationships.

Henri Lanvern is shooting a film in Thailand. One evening, at the end of the shooting, he sees a friend of the war, General Cao Ba Ky, escaped from a communist re-education camp. No more news from Lanvern since.

Une héritière qui n'arrive pas à hériter, un radin qui ne peut rien dépenser, un petit garçon qui trouve un billet dans la rue, un restaurateur prodigue qui ne fait que donner... Tels sont, entre autres, les personnages de ce film "choral". Pourquoi certains dépensent-ils de manière convulsive là où d'autres retiennent l'argent comme la partie la plus vitale de leur être ? On croit parler d'argent, mais c'est d'amour dont il s'agit.

Joseph Rouletabille, a reporter for a local newspaper, investigates the attempted killing of Mathilde Stangerson, who uses the yellow room of the title as her bedroom. At the time of the revolver shots her room was locked and the windows were barred, but when her father enters after having forced the door, there is no-one there except for Mathilde. So who did it and how did he get away?

En el año 52 antes de Cristo, Egipto, gobernado por la poderosa Cleopatra, ha caído bajo el yugo del Imperio Romano. Y lo peor es que Cleopatra ha decidido entregar su corazón a Julio César, emperador del pueblo más grande del mundo. Harta de los sarcasmos de César, la orgullosa y bella reina hace una apuesta con él: si consigue construir un castillo para él en el espacio de tres meses, en medio del desierto, él reconocerá que el pueblo egipcio es el más grande de todos. Cleopatra confía la misión a Numerobis, un emergente arquitecto vanguardista al que cubrirá de oro si triunfa o arrojará a los cocodrilos si fracasa. Numerobis necesita un milagro para llevar a cabo el proyecto, y el milagro se llama Astérix y Obélix.

The inspirational story of the jolly cardinal Angelo Roncalli, who looks back at his memories as a poor country priest and is eventually elected pope of the Roman Catholic Church.

En 1958, tras la muerte de Pío XII, el anciano Cardenal Angelo Roncalli, Patriarca de Venecia, viaja a Roma para participar en el cónclave que debe elegir al nuevo Papa, cónclave dominado por toda clase de maniobras políticas. En efecto, una vez en el Vaticano, Roncalli asiste atónito al enconado enfrentamiento entre las distintas facciones eclesiásticas. Durante el cónclave se van desvelando aspectos extraordinarios del pasado del viejo cardenal: su apoyo espiritual y económico a un grupo de trabajadores en huelga, cuando todavía era un joven sacerdote; su ayuda a los cristianos ortodoxos de Bulgaria, cuando estuvo destinado en ese país; sus hábiles negociaciones con el embajador nazi de Estambul para salvar un tren de prisioneros judíos, cuando era diplomático del Vaticano en Turquía; sus finas dotes diplomáticas para evitar que De Gaulle repudiase a treinta obispos que habían apoyado el régimen de Vichy.

Umberto es el propietario de una elegante sastrería, pero está perdiendo clientes debido a la competencia que le hace Leone, un sastre judío. La rivalidad profesional propicia toda clase de estrategias y trucos sucios. Sin embargo, sus hijos pequeños van juntos al colegio y sus hijos mayores son novios. Esta situación cambiará cuando, en 1938, el gobierno italiano aprueba las leyes raciales contra los judíos.

In 1936, the political and marital tribulations of Léon Blum, elected President of the Council at the head of the Popular Front.

Les Acteurs is the absurd story of Jean-Pierre Marielle desperately waiting for a cup of hot water, the story of a conspiracy against actors, the story of aging actors whose careers are slowly less active than they used to be, but a stunning tribute to French actors and their cinema.

Para Sonia la celebración de las Navidades requiere un gran esfuerzo, así que ya en octubre empieza con los preparativos. Es rica, está casada, tiene una casa en la ciudad y siempre le toca ser la anfitriona en la cena familiar de Navidad. Sin embargo, detrás de esta perfecta fachada se está gestando una revolución. La modélica familia que tan orgullosamente exhibe como si se tratase de una victoria propia está a punto de desmoronarse.

Biografía del escritor francés Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850), centrada, sobre todo, en su relación con las mujeres. A pesar de sus rudos modales, ajenos a cualquier sofisticación, y de su poco agraciado aspecto físico, Balzac ejerció una irresistible fascinación sobre ellas. No obstante, sólo dos mujeres fueron realmente importantes en su vida: su madre Charlotte, una mujer fría, manipuladora y autoritaria, que nunca le dio el amor que necesitaba; y la bella y encantadora Eva Hansa, a la que Balzac siguió por Suiza, Alemania y Rusia en una cruzada sin tregua para ganar su corazón.

Frédérique's mother has died recently leaving her the family stud farm. She's never met her father, doesn't even know his name. But she finds it on the back of an old photo. She sets off for Paris. She stays with her gay dancer pal Marc. Marc and friends decide to go to their favourite gay bar... but it's men only. So Frédérique becomes Frédéric, an effeminate gay boy... Frédérique follows her father. Pierre Arroux is an art curator - and gay. She introduces herself to him, but as Frédéric. So while Frédéric is quite an awkward young man and an embarrassment to his father, Frédérique is secretly meeting with her old boyfriend now living in Paris..

Narra la historia de amor entre el famoso pintor Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec y la bella Suzanne Valdon.

Vienna before the First World War: Clarissa Schuhmeister grows up in the monastery. Strict discipline determines her life until she meets the Frenchman Léonard and falls in love with him. Just when she expects a child from him, the First World War tears the happy couple apart. Out of pragmatism, Clarissa marries Gottfried, a deserter, with whom she makes a painful yet realistic agreement so that he will not be sent back to war. But she never feels love for him because she can not forget Léonard.

In 1827, Berthet, the son of a craftsman and a young seminarian, was tried and sentenced to death for murdering his former mistress, the wife of a notable who had hired him as tutor to his children.

Though he is near death, blind Rene, an elderly Italian-French intellectual, continues to make his annual conference abroad accompanied by his self-centered loyal, beautiful assistant Sibilla who may or may not be his lover. Rene's domineering mother strongly disapproves of Sibilla and his continual galavanting, but Rene disregards her and goes anyway. While in Spain, Sibilla falls for a handsome young toreador who also captures the interest of Rene, though it is hard to say whether his feelings for the bullfighter are fatherly or more romantic. It is also unclear as to whether Sibilla and the bullfighter are lovers either. Thus an enigmatic romantic triangle forms until Rene and Sibilla suddenly decide to wed. The character of Rene seems to be closely patterned after Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges.

Últimos días de la Primera Guerra Mundial, frente oriental. El capitán Conan, un lobo solitario, un verdadero guerrero, lidera una banda de despiadados combatientes franceses que aman la lucha cuerpo a cuerpo; no son aptos para los tiempos de paz, solo se sienten realmente vivos en el caos del campo de batalla.

An old aristocrat, short of money, who does not accept the new world ruled by the bourgeois class ,epitomized by the industrialist and by the doctor who finally grabs the the aristocrat's castle which soon will be turned into a hospital.

Désiré is a fine servant and butler who regularly seduces the ladies of the house where he works, but then he moves on. This time he is working for Odette, the mistress of the minister of Posts and he is living a new situation. He has fallen in love with with Odette.

At the beginning of the century. To punish him for his failure at school, Count Ivan Petrov takes his son Alexander to spend the two summer months in their Crimean estate, far from any distraction. For the 18-year-old, this is the beginning of a long period of isolation, one-on-one with a father whose severity he fears. Once on the spot, Ivan announces to his son the imminent arrival of his cousins Katia, whom he loves in silence, and Natacha, accompanied by their mother Elena. The joy of Alexander is short-lived, Natacha learning to him immediately that Katia comes in fact to celebrate her engagement with Nicolai. His dismay increases when he discovers that it is his father who arranged this marriage, of which Katia does not seem to be very happy.

Handsome pediatric doctor feels unfulfilled, until his affection for a 12-year-old opens him to a romantic view of the world. When she falls ill, he must get closer to her, and a conflict of interests and ethics arise. His medical reputation is at stake.

In Paris, near the end of World War II, crotchety professor Fernand Bonnard maintains a zoo and continues his research. He's a coward, as is his debonair son, Armand, who has one daughter, Philippine. On her eighth birthday, Armand picks her up from her repressive boarding school and takes her to Fernand's to celebrate. Father and son quarrel, and Armand leaves, only to be arrested and shot for violating curfew. In grief, the curmudgeonly Fernand does not tell Philippine, but invents a life for Armand as a captain of the Resistance. Fernand takes her from school to live with him and his sensible wife. Along the way, Philippine finds out the truth and Fernand discovers courage.

Colonel Chabert has been severely wounded in the French-Russian Napoleonic war to the point that the medical examiner has signed his death certificate. When he regains his health and memory, he goes back to Paris, where his "widow", Anne has married the Count Ferraud and is financing his rise to power using Chabert's money. Chabert hires a lawyer to help him get back his money and his honor.

En 1645, D'Artagnan envia a su hija Eloïse a un convento, donde presencia el asesinato de la madre superiora. Sospechando que este crimen está relacionado con un complot contra el Delfín (el heredero del trono francés), va a París y convence a su padre de que la Corona de Francia está en peligro. Con la ayuda de sus viejos y ya achacosos amigos (Athos, Porthos y Aramis), D'Artagnan pondrá al descubierto el complot del duque de Crassac. (FILMAFFINITY)

A naturalist fiction film organized around one of the most essential principles of life, "water", it is not an animal documentary but a fresco of nature. The elements, precipitations, minerals, landscapes, plants and animals are apprehended without hierarchy while water constitutes the main protagonist of the film. Epic, poetic, lyrical sometimes, water reveals the splendor of certain landscapes, the strangeness of the behavior.

France, 1815. After his defeat at Waterloo, Napoleon heads for exile. Royalists occupy Paris and attempt to restore the monarchy. However, the battle doesn't seem to be over. On July 6, Talleyrand, a shrewd politician of flexible convictions, invites chief of police and zealous revolutionary Fouché to supper and tries to convince him to serve the king. Over the meal they insult each other, accuse each other, and, at first sight, look like mortal enemies. But they definitely have one thing in common: they are both power-hungry.

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

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.

On the 200th anniversary of the French Revolution, this film is a tribute to the French nation, through historical reconstructions of the Revolution and the First Empire, as well as reports on the successes of France modern, the presence of France in the world, its history and its soil.

Like every year, five old friends come together in a chalet in the middle of a Canadian snow desert. Henri, his wife Apolline, brother-in-law Maxence, Jean and Paul are waiting for cozy evenings with board games and good food - a typical ski holiday. But on the first day Henri announces that he knows about the affair between Apolline and Jean. An oppressive mood spreads in the secluded hut until the spiral of jealousy and sadism kills one from its midst.

Story of a snooty young critic at the centre of several plotlines which run throughout his apartment block.

A young woman, living with her parents and siblings on a remote farm in harsh, picturesque northern Québec, has three suitors: a steady and unimaginative farmer, Eutrope, the Americanized and wealthy Lorenzo, who has sought his fortune in Boston, and François Paradis, a rough and virile logger who captures her heart despite the warnings of her parents and the village priest. For a year, marked by seasonal change in an atmosphere charged with the strangeness of Indians and the demons of the woods, we see Maria at work and prayer, struggling with decisions, choosing to stay in Canada, in love with François, seeking to change his rough behaviors, and dealing with extraordinary loss.

During the world war two in a French village a teacher and a female pupil have been killed by the Gestapo because of an informer.Now forty years later former pupils , now adults will meet together in a villager to find out who was the pupil who denounced the teacher to the Germans and also to take a decision about it.

Jeanne Jouvert, a crime writer, has won the Quai des Orfèvres prize. Her publisher devises a clever publicity ploy that results in her husband, Alfred, head of the anti-gang squad, being honored in her place. The policeman finds himself quite comfortable as a best-selling author and takes advantage of the situation. Tired of having been submissive for too long, Jeanne plans her revenge. She asks for help from her friend Anne Beaufort, herself disappointed by her husband, who pretends to help Third World countries by selling them weapons. The two of them will prove what they are capable of by organizing a hold-up of the central post office in Paris.

Fush and Ballestrat are the heads of each department of the French police. Both have the task of combating serious crime and cleaning up the underworld.

"Le Crabe Tambour" ("Drummer Crab") is the nickname for the mysterious central character, Willsdorff (Jacques Perrin), an Alsatian, whose doomed, out-of-date career is recalled through the tales of three naval officers currently serving aboard a French supply ship in the North Atlantic.

Un joven y un policía son asesinados por el matón de un político de derechas que se halla en plena campaña electoral. El comisario Verjeat sigue las huellas del asesino, pero en las altas esferas hay alguien a quien no le conviene esa investigación. Por esa razón, Verjeat es ascendido y destinado a Montpellier... (FILMAFFINITY)

A large company offers consumers to acquire a "second identity", having the character traits that individuals would not normally adopt. Because of all these uninhibited behaviors, anarchy is quick to take hold.

Francia, 1933. Serge Stavisky es un hombre encantador, seductor, jugador de cartas y traficante internacional. Conocido como El Bello Sacha ha construido un imperio a base de mentiras, empresas ficticias, fraudes, cambios de identidad y poder de convicción, implicando en sus estafas a altas personalidades políticas y financieras del país. Y ahora está a punto de provocar la quiebra del Estado por haber falsificado bonos del Crédito Municipal de Bayona.

Julien Dandieu, un hombre que se ha hecho a sí mismo, empezó trabajando como minero y fue ascendiendo socialmente hasta llegar a ser un carismático político de izquierdas. Sin embargo, cuando alcanza la cima del éxito, tiene que enfrentarse a un diifícil dilema: escoger entre su amor por la joven modelo Creezy y sus ambiciones profesionales; esto último implicaría su unión con una mujer muy bien relacionada con las más altas instancias del poder.

Comedia ambientada en la época del rey Umberto I de Monza. La protagonista es Maria Sarti, también conocida como Niní Tirabuscio, una actriz y cantante que causó un gran escándalo con sus obscenas danzas.

Historia de un plúmbeo triángulo entre un hombre, su mujer y el mejor amigo del hombre. Largas charlas en el dormitorio de éste, más alguna escena en una fiesta donde las mujeres hablan.

An ex-SS officer and his gorgeous wife find a refuge living in Eilat. A mysterious stranger appears from their past.

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...

Tras recuperarse de un intento de suicidio, un hombre es seleccionado para participar en un experimento que consiste en viajar en el tiempo, el cual hasta ese momento sólo había sido probado en ratones. No obstante, una falla provoca que el hombre viva acontecimientos de su pasado en un orden aleatorio.

Al salir de la iglesia tras su boda, Julie Kohler ve cómo su marido es abatido a tiros. Decidida a vengar su muerte, emprende la búsqueda de los responsables y los va matando uno tras otro...

Bertrand Barnier es un rico empresario para el que la vida transcurre tranquilamente junto a su mujer y a su hija Colette. Para mantener su forma física hace ejercicio regularmente bajo la dirección de un joven atleta, cuya inteligencia está lejos de igualar su fuerza física. El servicio de la casa está perfectamente atendido por Bernadette, la joven criada, y Oscar, el chofer. Sin embargo, esta confortable situación va a verse perturbada, cuando su empleado, Christian Martin, irrumpe en la casa a primera hora de la mañana para exigir a este un aumento de sueldo, con la intención de pedirle la mano al padre de su novia. El caos se desata en casa de Bernier cuando este descubre que es su propia hija con la que Christian desea casarse.

Jean-Louis Matouzec works for French National Library as an expert looking after the restoration of old manuscripts.He falsifies marriage certificates as his wife refuses divorce.

The tranquility of a Romanian village is shattered by the arrival of a beautiful unknown coinciding with the discovery of a new star by a modest professor of astronomy ...

In order to appoint his new right-hand man, a CEO decides to organize a weekend with all the candidates.

En agosto de 1944, las tropas americanas están a punto de liberar París. Mientras tanto, Hitler ha ordenado a uno de sus generales que mantenga el control sobre la ciudad o que la destruya. Fresco histórico sobre la liberación de París por las fuerzas aliadas. Impresionante reparto con guión de Coppola.

Un chico soñador que trabaja en un banco suizo quiere hacerse rico, pero como no fue educado en el robo, al contrario que la deliciosa Bettina, cuya madre es el cerebro de una banda, tiene una buena idea: dejar que los demás hagan el trabajo y apoderarse del botín después.

A young duke marries a girl, also penniless, and moves into a bus left him by an uncle, with their ten children. At last he finds the bus is made of solid gold.

Julien, soltero experimentado, intenta convencer a su amigo Antoine de renunciar a su idea de casarse. Lo consigue: La noche de bodas, Antoine escapa rumbo a Oriente Próximo.

Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945). En la Francia ocupada por las tropas alemanas, un matrimonio que colabora con la Resistencia tiene que tomar una terrible decisión: cuál de sus vecinos será ejecutado por los nazis en represalia por la muerte de un oficial alemán. (FILMAFFINITY)

Una viuda acaudalada es testigo de un crimen. El asesino se refugia en su casa y se hacen amantes. Poco después, recibe la carta de un chantajista y paga la suma exigida por amor a Hugo, el asesino. Pero un día le sigue y descubre que todo es una treta para sacarle el dinero y asesinarla después.

The brother of a delinquent schoolboy falls in love with his teacher and intrigues to make him reciprocate her love, and succeeds.

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

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)

Tres simpáticos compinches se encuentran en Copacabana para pasar el carnaval. Tres hermosas azafatas desean divertirse, pero sus anfitriones cariocas están casados...

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)

A group of people visit a weird old man who is a student of the black arts. The man lives in an ancient, cursed castle. Soon people in the group start being killed off.

"Les petits matins" is a story of eighteen-year old Agathe (Agathe Aëms) with a firm independence of men even if she uses them to get to the côte d'azur. Along the way she meets a lot of people , mostly men. And the director does not spare the sterotypical image of early 60s middle aged male cliches to lampoon. But this is all very light stuff, nothing too intellectual. But it's often charming, and there's a bevy of well-known actors involved. Jean -Claude Brialy (the pompous, self absorbed male lead of Rohmer's "Claire's Knee"), Claude Rich, Lino Ventura, François Perrier, Pierre Brasseur, and the couple Bernard Blier & Arletty, who team up here for the first time since Marcel Carné's "Hôtel du Nord" (1938).

A group of university students in Paris dream of a night of love with Suzon, whose rates are staggering. To raise the money, they organize a lottery among themselves so that at least the winner will enact their fantasy.

Película dividida en siete cortos, cada uno de ellos protagonizado por un pecado capital.

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.

Laurent es un dibujante publicitaro que está apunto de ver cumplido su sueño ya que por fin va a representarse una de las comedias musicales que tiene escritas. Pero la adversidad le jugará una mala pasada cuando Juliette, su estrella principal, sufra un accidente de circulación y Laurent se vea en la obligación de encontrar a toda prisa una suplente para encabezar el reparto. Quizá por la urgencia de las circunstancias, a Laurent no se le ocurre que la solución está ante sus ojos, pues Valérie, su novia, formada en un conservatorio, está deseosa de demostrar sus aptitudes artísticas y que puede hacerse con el rol principal.

The seven stages in the life of the modern Frenchwomen are disclosed by seven directors in a witty way: 1 - Childhood, 2 - Adolescence, 3 - Virginity, 4 - Marriage, 5 - Adultery, 6 - Divorce, 7 - The Single Woman.

Montpaillard presume de ser la localidad más tranquila de Francia, como reza el cartel en la entrada del pueblo. La única amenaza a su paz es Blaireau, un furtivo que tiene en jaque al ayuntamiento, y al guardabosques, al cual deja en ridículo cada vez que éste le quiere atrapar. Por otra parte, la hija de los Chaville ha llegado al pueblo y su profesor de piano, el joven y tímido Fléchard, está enamorado de ella, pero para su desgracia, a Arabella le gustan los hombres de acción y en el pueblo sólo hay mojigatos.

Elisabeth is persuaded to have killed her noisy upstairs neighbor, scientist Charles Magne. To save her, Mr. Matheu, Elisabeth's father, accuses himself while Pierrot, Elisabeth's fiancé gets rid of the body in order to save father and daughter. For his part, a gangster also believes he has killed the scientist but he gets shot down by a taxidermist, who runs for life. The girl, her daddy and her boyfriend also run away. But Magne is not dead. A bum is mistaken for him and a police inspector makes everyone believe that he is the one who shot the gangster. At the end of this crazy chain of events all the protagonists are reunited at the station house and everybody dances to express their relief.

During the First World War, the Empyrée Montmartre, a Paris music-hall, is dedicated to patriotic revues whose star is the charming Mitsou. The young artist is not without talent but she is mainly well-connected. She is indeed the cherished mistress of Pierre Duroy-Lelong, a rich industrialist. One night, thanks to Petite-Chose, an ebullient singer-dancer and her co-star, she gets to know a handsome army, Lieutenant Bleu. Mitsou falls madly in love with him and Lieutenant Bleu is physically attracted to her. The trouble is that Bleu comes from a distinguished family and cannot put up with her lack of culture and artistic bad taste...

Armande de la Verne (Gérard Philipe), un célebre mujeriego, apuesta que puede seducir a cualquier mujer. La elegida es la divorciada Marie-Louise Rivere (Michèle Morgan). La amenaza de la guerra es el telón de fondo de las "maniobras" de seducción. Mientras intenta ganar la apuesta, el Don Juan se enamora locamente de la bella y decidida Marie-Louise.