The Shoe Seller
Shy and still living with his mother, a highway cashier one day decides to finally live his craziest dream: to visit Paris.
Pujol
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.
Mona is the girlfriend of Pierre, who is a member of a rather pathetic rock band in France. Their hero is the singer "Johnny Valentine " who, seeing that Mona is being neglected, decides to make her his own.
Mr Robert
Anxious and shy, Michaud works for a company that specializes in alarms, safes and other security devices.
A poor french guy, in love with a 50's actresse, meet her husband who send him in an other dimension to fight for her love.
L'imprimeur
When her husband Alexander dies, Hermione, a squire, discovers that he was a bigamist on the one hand and a swindler on the other. In the company of Alexander's second wife, she sets out to find the loot hidden in his vast estate.
Gérôme
Gaston Leblanc
Jean Levêque has been unemployed for two years. His wife, Armelle, tries to support the family but her salary cannot cover all the expenses. Together with his wife and father-in-law, he imagines stealing a truck carrying used banknotes destined for destruction. With the help of a vehicle of the road service, they perpetuate their coup which succeeds perfectly
Vicar
A pyromaniac troubles the quietness of Boneuil, a small French village. The mayor decides to hire a team of young benevolent firemen, unfortunately more interested about chasing girl than putting fires out.
Le prisonnier
Una serie de bocetos humorísticos sobre la vida: "Una noche para recordar", "Cumbre de enfrentamiento" y "¿Un libro? ¡Eso es personal!"
Paul's Neighbor
Edouard es el patriarca de una gran familia: su segunda mujer, Jeanne, acaba de tener un bebé. Su hija mayor, Dina, vive con Paul, un dramaturgo; la suya es una apasionada relación bloqueada, sin embargo, por las insatisfacciones de la vida diaria. Otra hija Sidonie se enamora de Jude. Ambos son músicos, excepto que ella tiene fobia a actuar en público.
Armand
After a life of emotional and professional upsets, Alex finds himself headwaiter in a chic Parisian restaurant. Well into middle age, divorced but still very much a ladies’ man, he has one great ambition: to open an amusement park by the sea. One day, an old flame, Claire, suddenly re-enters his life. For Alex, the fires of love are easily re-kindled, but Claire has another man in her life…
The doctor
A macho junk shopkeeper, a lunar lawyer and a storekeeper meet by pure chance and develop the century's hold-up.
Pépé
By chance, a band of merry friends is getting in command of a thalasso therapy center.
Henri
A film producer on the verge of ruin decides to make an erotic film.
le chirurgien
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.
L'inspecteur Pinaud dit "Pinauche"
Walter Klozett is a spy arrested and imprisoned by the French Police who know him in possession of stolen booty which the French secret services would like to recover at all costs.
Tonton
Jean Dumaine
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.
Le médecin-major
As soon as they arrive at the barracks, the new contingent reveals some characters who will give their officers a hard time. There is the handsome, resourceful man, the technocrat in love, the bootlicker, the "Jamaican" who only moves to music, the shortsighted man... and all the others. Sometimes to see the nurse undress, sometimes to arrange an appointment with a fiancée, sometimes to cuckold the obtuse non-commissioned officer whose wife is volcanic, sometimes to have a free lunch in a great restaurant, the handsome man invariably deploys a wealth of cunning. And each time it is the colonel's servile driver who gets caught instead of him.
Si Kaddour
A family or Algerian origin comes back to Algeria after having lived in France for a long time. The children, born in France, have a hard time adapting to Algerian society, and the contrast between traditionalist mentalities and youth wanting to have fun clash, reaching havoc in the village.
Marcel Watrin
A detective, fresh out of the academy (lowest mark in class), gets the assignment to bodyguard a spoiled rich girl reporter. She's been interviewed on TV and has questioned the virility of a mobster who kidnaps her later.
Commissioner at Meudon
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...
Léon Jumaucourt
La directora de un colegio privado, tras el fracaso del anterior año escolar, donde hubo un cero por ciento de titulados en el Bachiller, decide maximizar la disciplina y el control. Firmes normas de vestuario, cámaras de seguridad en las clases, detectores de humo en los lavabos para que los estudiantes no fumen, y severas técnicas de aprendizaje, pero, debido a los graves problemas de conducta de los estudiantes, todos estos intentos parecen resultar en vano...
Le sentencieux (voice)
El rey "Carlos V más Tres son Ocho y Ocho Dieciséis", domina de forma tiránica el reino de Taquicardia. Solamente un pájaro, risueño y parlanchín, que ha construido su nido encima de la torre del palacio, se atreve a plantarle cara. El rey está enamorado de una pastora encantadora que, surgiendo de una de las pinturas del palacio, se personifica cada noche para encontrarse con el deshollinador que sale, por su lado, del cuadro vecino. El rey quiere casarse con ella, pero la chica a quien ama de verdad es a su humilde enamorado. Ambos deciden escapar del rey y se esconden en la cima de la torre más alta del palacio, donde salvan a un pajarito imprudente que ha quedado atrapado en una de las trampas del tirano. El pájaro rebelde, agradecido por este acto heróico hacia una de sus crías, promete ayudarlos en su huída.
Rachafort
Prison director
A pesar de su talento innato para el fútbol, François Perrin demuestra tener un temperamento que le lleva a numerosos problemas fuera de los campos. Después de haber protagonizado la enésima juerga, la directiva del club con el que tiene contrato en vigor toma la determinación de castigarlo. La decisión adoptada por el consejo directivo es que se entrene y juegue con el equipo filial. Su enfrentamiento físico con una de las figuras del primer equipo, que actúa como ariete, supone la despedida virtual de François del club donde ha militado las últimas temporadas. Pero después de ingresar en prisión acusado de haber violado a una chica llamada Stephanie, que confunde con su amante Marie, el club decide repescarlo ya que el primer equipo se ha quedado diezmado debido a un accidente de autobús.
The night watchman
Pierrot, a short-sighted, indolent and distracted young boy gets involved in a carnival at the Palais de la Rigolade whose main attraction is to place the women in an ascending current of air which makes their skirts fly. A fight in this Palace makes him lose his job. Then he meets Yvonne, the daughter of Pradonet, the owner of the funfair. He falls in love with Yvonne who hardly seems to share his feelings.
Le concierge de l'hôtel
Gillaume Daubray-Lacaze es el alcalde una pequeña ciudad. Pero además, ejerce de inventor, y un grupo de japoneses le han pedido tres mil unidades de su último invento, una máquina que elimina la contaminación atmosférica. Como no puede expandir su fábrica, tiene que desarrollar la producción en la propia casa, lo que le causará más de un problema con su mujer...
Charmille
When Lise's car bumps Antoine's bike, they recognize each other from a brief fling 20 years before while at the Sorbonne. He's now a professor of Greek; she's loathe to tell him she's a police inspector. A call interrupts their first dinner date: a Deputy of the National Assembly has been murdered. She has a suspect, another Deputy, and must track him while deflecting Antoine's eye from her vocation. All roads in the inquiry lead to Christine Vallier, the dead Deputy's mistress, a beguiling 22-year-old whose mother ran the Assembly's snack bar. When more deputies die and Antoine learns Lise's identity, she must act quickly solve the crime and save her future.
Le gérant
Adaptation of the classic Herman Melville short story. The narrator, an elderly Manhattan lawyer with a very comfortable business helping wealthy men deal with mortgages, deeds, and bonds, relates the story of the strangest man he has ever known.
Le pharmacien
The second part of the Seventh Company adventures.
Taffarel
Clement Mastard is the head of a leading journal dedicated to extravagant vaudeville. An unexpected contract requires him to reconnect with his former headliner Celia Bergson part to try to avant-garde theater. It is through this that he met Johann Sebastian Bloch, misunderstood musician who cause the loss but the side which Mastard, the man without scruples, to humanize and eventually produce a real masterpiece, the Missa Solemnis
Martin
After losing his job, an idealistic adman starts his own agency, putting himself in the crosshairs of his jaded ex-boss.
Le père de Nicole
En 1944, un joven soldado francés se ve envuelto contra su voluntad en las operaciones estadounidenses previas a la Liberación.
Hubert
The wife of an extremely jealous merchant is held hostage by a bank robber.
L'homme au restaurant
"In Serieux comme le plaisir, two men and a woman live quite happily together in a romantic liaison. The woman is probably wealthy anyway, so the trio doesn't worry much about money. One day they decide to take a trip in their beat-up car, managing the whole affair in their own special, insouciant manner. They are followed by a suspicious policeman who thinks there's something fishy about this group..."
Jean Mortagne
Two women work as entertainers and prostitutes to raise enough money for their dream home.
Detreuil
Marsella, 1919. Georges Sarret es un distinguido y respetado abogado, recientemente premiado por sus servicios en la Primera Guerra Mundial. Toma como amante a Philomène Schmidt, una joven alemana que acaba de perder su trabajo y su hogar. Para permitir que Philomène permanezca en Francia, Georges le encuentra un marido, que muere convenientemente por causas naturales un mes después de la boda. Georges repite el truco con la hermana de Philomène, Catherine: casarla con un anciano que muere repentinamente para que el intrigante trío pueda beneficiarse de su seguro de vida. Cuando un cómplice del plan, Marcel Chambon, amenaza con chantajearlos, Georges y sus dos amantes no tienen más remedio que matarlo a él y a su amante...
Roger
Este drama se centra en una mujer en la última etapa de una enfermedad terminal y en las repercusiones de su enfermedad en sus familiares más cercanos.
Generalissimo
Bernard, a journalist, and his friend Jules, a butcher by trade, are both passionate about horse racing.
l'abbé Lestinguois
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.
Le Vendeur de Machines à Écrire
François Merlin es un escritor que acaba de tener mucho éxito con su última novela. El protagonista es Bob Saint Clair, un espía muy astuto, inteligente y seductor, justo lo que a François le gustaría ser; el resto de los personajes se basan en la gente que rodea al escritor. Así, se fija en Christine, una guapa estudiante de París, para crear el personaje de Tatiana, la ayudante del héroe que vive con él mil peripecias.
Marquis of Saint-Albans
Adapted from Les Diaboliques by Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly.
Le concierge
10 years ago, François Nolan and his brother have been betrayed by one of their accomplices after a break-in. During the fight with the police, Francois's brother was killed, and a cop disfigured by François. Now, François is back for revenge. As nobody knows who the traitor was, the former accomplices lose their head. The disfigured cop is also waiting for the right moment to take his revenge on François.
Le patron d'Yves
Le guide
Adaptation for TV of the Jean-Jacques Varoujean play.
Le professeur Mortemont
Un marchante de arte especializado en la compra y venta de cuadros siempre está al acecho de alguna obra rara. Y finalmente la encuentra en el lugar que menos se hubiera podido imaginar. Se trata de un autorretrato de Modigliani que adorna la espalda de un antiguo legionario.
Unhappy Customer
Sheila's uncle has just died; many of his relatives come, but,much to their displeasure, it's his niece who inherits his private detective agency. But she must first go through a training in a school: gymnastic, assault course, machine gun shooting; she must also learn how to cheat at card games .Her first mission is to find back gangster La Rafale's fiancee, Genevieve, who ran away with another gang. She meets a handsome Interpol lieutenant she falls in love with.
Bourrelier
After five years in the army, Valentin Brû marry a haberdasher. They move to Paris, where Valentin sells frames, while his wife becomes fortune teller. One day, Valentin replaces her, and predict a terrible event which will happen.
Captain Bordure
Based on Alfredy Jarrry's 1896 play about a greedy, overweight, selfish dude named Pere Ubu. The story follows Ubu on his journey to overthrow the current ruler and become King of Poland. Along the way he betrays many of his followers, taxes the civilians to an unreasonable degree and eventually slaughters everyone. Along his side, is the equally crude but somehow more likable Mere Ubu, who's like a foul mouthed Lady Macbeth.
le directeur du journal (uncredited)
A story about Caroline, a young girl who decides to start dating only men after forty.
le député-maire Cramouillat
Le sacristain
Once upon a time there lived in the same village two men bearing the very same name. One of them chanced to possess four horses, the other had only one horse, so, by way of distinguishing them from each other, the proprietor of four horses was called "Great Claus," and he who owned but one horse was known as "Little Claus"...
Customs officer (uncredited)
Un célebre traficante de armas ha dejado en herencia a su joven viuda un castillo y una importante colección de patentes que interesan a los servicios secretos de varios países. Así, cuatro "barbouzes" son enviados para conseguir los preciados documentos, pero es el agente francés Lagneaux (Lino Ventura) quien, recibiendo órdenes de seducir a la rubia heredera, acometerá su misión hasta el final. (FILMAFFINITY)
Le curé (uncredited)
Antoine es un tipo que ha llevado una vida a lo grande, sin trabajar, gracias a la fortuna de su abuelo. Se pasa los días pescando y perdiendo el tiempo. Pero cuando su abuelo muere, el dinero se acaba, y Antoine tiene que aprender a buscarse el sustento por sí mismo. En su periplo tendrá que relacionarse con diversos individuos de distinto pelaje.
Robert Darsac
A playwright has to murder if he does not want to be murdered.
Général Fréderic Cédille
Pommes-Chips acaba de salir de la cárcel y se encuentra con que Jack está saliendo y viviendo con su novia. Pommes-Chips le persigue hasta en el teatro, y mientras el primo de Jack está en plena obra, Jack mata accidentalmente al gángster. Lo que da lugar a una sucesión de enredos, y más aun, cuando se conoce que el cadáver llevaba en su bolsillo un boleto de las carreras de hípica con una importante suma de premio.
D'Averseau
Alain Leroy, un francés alcohólico, casado con una americana, está a punto de terminar un tratamiento de desintoxicación en una clínica privada. Antes de enfrentarse de nuevo a la vida cotidiana decide visitar a las personas a las que estuvo vinculado en el pasado.
Henri Grant
El agente del FBI Lenny Caution debe viajar a Europa para atrapar a una banda de criminales que ha secuestrado a un científico americano.
Dr. Mermet
A lovely young nurse finds herself framed for the murder of a hospital patient who died after she administered an injection.
Mr. Slocum
A 1963 TV film directed by Michel Mitrani.
L'avocat (segment "Le corbeau et le renard")
Cuatro historias, basadas en cuatro fábulas de Lafontaine, muestran a una mujer que intenta recuperar a su marido; a un infeliz que quiere suicidarse; a un hombre celoso que llega a asociarse con su rival, y a una pareja que se queda encerrada en un apartamento.
Hubert
Two men are disappointed by women and united by a whore
Reciter (uncredited)
Auguste is about an eponymous bank clerk who finds fame and fortune. Auguste happens to be in the right place at the right time to save young starlet Francine from killing herself -- or more accurately, pretending to kill herself. His supposed heroism hits the news, and before Auguste knows what is happening, a Machiavellian publicist is using him for his own ends. The bank clerk is no fool and soon thinks of a way to come out on top.
Romberg
A businessman who lives from blackmailing begins to be blackmailed by his own wife who hates him.
The schoolmaster
The Fenouillards (Sophie Desmarets and Jean Richard are the parents, Annie Sinigalia and Marie-José Ruíz are the daughters) are shopkeepers with higher aspirations. The Monsieur wants to run for mayor of their town, but the family acknowledges he has little experience of the real world -- and so they all take off to experience it together. After starting out by getting lost, the family goes through an odyssey that takes them to Brazil, the Antarctic, and Japan in a series of episodic adventures.
Turandot
Para poder estar con su amante, la madre de Zazie la manda a París, a casa de unos familiares. Pero la niña, que tiene doce años, se escapa para recorrer París y conocer lugares y gentes nuevas.
Dumas
An old man against the public housing project.
Le vendeur d'autos
Danielle Darrieux stars in this French thriller as a singer having an affair with her accompanist. When her husband dies in an automobile accident, the two lovers suspect each other of having murdered him. Soon after, they receive 45 rpm records with the dead man’s voice, threatening to come back.
Rabiniot
An off-beat, uneven tale about a man intent on suicide and the three people who try to talk him out of it, Pantalaskas stars American Carl Studer in the title role of the morose, would-be suicide. Set in Paris and taking place over an entire night, the story has a complication in that the trio who want to prevent the suicide do not speak the man's language -- he is Lithuanian and speaks no French. So the protagonists comb the underbelly of a nighttime Paris, looking high and low but mostly low for anyone who speaks Lithuanian. Depending mainly on dialogue for its impact, the verbose drama reveals how the protagonists undergo a transformation as the night wears on.
Pomaret
The prompter
Bobosse is increasingly immersing himself into the world of theater and experiencing his role as an actor more intensively. He plays in a piece where a man is abandoned by his wife and processes this philosophically. When his wife actually abandons him, he becomes embarrassed and plans to kill her.
Le voyageur allemand, dans le train
Le Substitut du Procureur
Julien Tavernier, héroe de la guerra de Indochina, trabaja para el industrial Simon Carala, y es el amante de su esposa, Florence. Para poder vivir juntos, los amantes deciden matar al marido de modo que parezca un suicidio, pero ocurre algo que no estaba previsto.
A young woman wins a typing contest and sets off to work in Paris.
L'inspecteur
A professor experimenting in suspended animation accidentally shrinks his dog and later, his female lab assistant, when she drinks the liquid by accident and shrinks to 3 inches tall. The professor keeps her in his pocket until he can find an antidote. Sometimes she's naked, too.
Jobelin
The incredible story of three promiscuous friends who share more things than they think. Ernest, Jobelin and Marjavel collect pranks and exchange wives and mistresses in the greatest secrecy. But their joyous merry-go-round threatens to collapse at the slightest misstep.
Isidore (uncredited)
Tanto Nini, una guapa chica que trabaja en una lavandería, como otras atractivas jóvenes son contratadas por Monsieur Danglard para unirse a su compañía de teatro. Danglar tiene previsto abrir un nuevo cabaret en París, el Moulin Rouge, donde la gran atracción será el cancán. A pesar de que tiene novio, Nini es seducida por Danglard, pero su principal admirador es el príncipe Alexandre. Tras 15 años de estancia en los Estados Unidos, "French Cancan" supone el regreso de Renoir a su país.
Le spectateur qui n'a pas dîné (uncredited)
(uncredited)
Didier's wife is ill, and he does the best he can to take care of her. But he's often absent and he has casual love affairs. But Leone he meets in Bruxelles wants to become his one and only mistress.
Le fonctionnaire (uncredited)
Stan and Ollie are marooned on an atoll. This was their last film together.
François, the baron's servant
The carefree Bertrand, gamekeeper for a castellan, puts himself in danger when he discovers that his boss is the leader of a gang of counterfeiters.
Gentleman who sells his plate (uncredited)
The eccentric characters of a street from the comic designs of Andre Dubout are brought to life with human performers instead of drawings.
un agent qui vient faire son rapport
Jean-Louis forgets to use the pedestrian crossing;Who could have believed then where it would lead the unfortunate guy to?