Philippe Mareuil
Nacimiento : 1926-10-19, Dreux, France
Muerte : 2016-01-08
L'homme âgé du château
The Arbac de Neuvilles are one of the oldest families in France. They have inhabited their ancient château for fifty-two generations and are proud of their noble ancestry. But today they are stone broke. When a bailiff turns up notifying them that they owe two million euros in back taxes, these proud aristocrats are understandably shaken to the core of their ancestral seat. Just how are they to find this amount of money when none of them has any capacity for work?
Le bijoutier
The Three Wise Men – Balthazar, Melchior and Gaspard – are on their way to Bethlehem to pay homage to the infant Jesus when they are suddenly, an inexplicably, transported two thousand years into the future. They find themselves walking the streets of Paris, where they encounter a young woman called Macha who, they are convinced, will lead them to the newborn Messiah.
Le micheton à la guêpe
Jean is a successful painter who leaves his mistress, though he stops intermittently to phone her with explanations. Sometimes she is responsive but other times hangs up on him. Meanwhile, a 16-year-old male prostitute with whom Jean had a brief homosexual affair stalks the painter.
George
American Raphael talks his colleague at the Parisian University into spending his summer at the family's country mansion. But once there Raphael seduces and plays the sisters and mother against each other - until everyone is revealed at their very worst. As it turns out - that was Raphael's intention all along - because his own torrid past is deeply rooted in their family's dirty history.
M. Mathieu, un invité
Stéphane Margelle, un magnate de la Riviera francesa, está casado con una bella mujer. Es un seductor empedernido y ninguna mujer se resiste a sus encantos. Las cosas le han salido siempre bien, pues es un embustero tan hábil que ha logrado que su mujer ignore sus andanzas. Un día conoce a Julie, una dulce y atractiva muchacha de dieciocho años. Como de costumbre pone en marcha su plan de conquista, pero en esta ocasión ocurrirá algo insólito.
Gaston d'Orléans
In the 17th century, under Louis XIII, the policy of Cardinal de Richelieu aimed at the definitive establishment of a monarchic power, and gave rise to a struggle against the great feudal lords, who favored a weak central power. Numerous conspiracies against the Cardinal were led by the high nobility. The one led by Henri Coiffier de Ruzé d'Effiat, marquis de Cinq-Mars, was the last and most famous of them.
Doctor
A flamboyant master criminal and several specialists stage an audacious scheme to capture the Eiffel Tower and hold as hostage one of its visitors, the U.S. President's mother, while the head of a UN security force tries to stop them.
Beauchamp
Drama sobre la inseguridad. Los vecinos de un barrio intentan defenderse de los delincuentes adiestrando perros para el ataque, tarea de la que se encarga un inquietante personaje. Tras ser violada por un desconocido, Nicole Calfan adopta un perro y le enseña a obedecer sus órdenes de ataque. Victor Lanoux, un médico que acaba de instalarse en el barrio, se opondrá a este sistema de violencia generalizada.
Louis
2-e ami
Una secretaria coge el coche de su jefe para sus vacaciones por el Mediterráneo. El viaje se complicará cuando un cuerpo aparezca en el maletero...
Serge Menessier has been paid to shoot a reportage on his ex-wife's depression. Now remarried, he has accepted the job to pay his debts and maybe because he is still in love with her, a famous actress whose career he contributed to launch.
Le vicomte Amaury de la Rochefontaine
Favraux, un banquero sin escrúpulos, recibe una nota amenazadora, firmada por un tal Judex, que le pide que devuelva todo el dinero que ha robado. Favraux se niega y aparentemente muere después de un baile de disfraces. Sin embargo, sólo ha sido drogado por Judex y encerrado... (FILMAFFINITY)
Amaury de la Rochefontaine
Favraux, un banquero sin escrúpulos, recibe una nota amenazadora, firmada por un tal Judex, que le pide que devuelva todo el dinero que ha robado. Favraux se niega y aparentemente muere después de un baile de disfraces. Sin embargo, sólo ha sido drogado por Judex y encerrado... (FILMAFFINITY)
Un gentilhomme
The action takes place under the Restoration, at the Château de Savigny, near Nerville, a devout and prudish little town in the Cotentin region. Doctor Torty is the doctor. He tells a story of which he is the only one to know the secret, that of a criminal couple, without any remorse. The pretty Hauteclaire Stassin, daughter of the master of arms, meets the Count of Savigny, married to the noble and languid Delphine. Madly in love with the count, Hauteclaire joined the castle as a servant. Shortly after, the countess died of poisoning. Will the guilty lovers go unpunished?
Régis
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.
Gérard Dextrier
Self
In the early 1950s, the popular radio show "La Kermesse aux Étoiles", hosted by the famous Jean Nohain, mixing lottery games and performances of various artists, will be disrupted by the adventures of a man and his fiancée seeking to recover a dangerous bottle of perfume (explosive) which was unfortunately mixed with the prizes to be won ...
Michel
Un campesino carente de instrucción hereda de su padre, al que nunca conoció, unos grandes almacenes.
Georges
Professor Louis Delage is a kidney transplant specialist. He is so good in his field that his peers nickname him the "great man". But one day, one of his patients die during surgery and Delage starts doubting. Is he actually such a great man? To fight desperation he decides to take in the deceased child while devoting more time to Florence, his hitherto neglected wife.
1. underoffiser
MS Lidvard was shipping corn from Vietnam, arriving in Dakar, Senegal May 30th 1940. The ship was immediately held back by the government, together with eight other norwegian ships. After a year, July 27th 1941, the ship fled from Dakar, to the British in Freetown, Sierra Leone.
Philippe
A famous singer disappears in a plane crash. Her two little girls are given a new home by their grandfather. Unfortunately the good man has an old housekeeper who goes out of her way to make their lives impossible. In desperation the two brats run away to Paris. Meanwhile, the girl's father manages to steal important documents. In the end, Gaby and Ginette track down their mother who had not got killed at all. All is well that ends well.
François
Hopes and love and ambitions and friendship in a group of young jazz-loving Parisians.
During a singles meal, the phone rings. A woman claims a man, Jean-Louis. As a joke, the master of the house replies that he is gone forever and advises him to take the plunge. But she obeys and the suicide appears in the newspapers. Tested, the master of the house takes in the child of the unfortunate woman.
Patrice Aspremont
Around 1750, in the Dauphiné not far from the Swiss border, a cooper, tired of the injustices affecting the peasants crushed by taxes, went into revolt. Louis Mandrin, a handsome fellow without fear and without reproach, puts himself out of the law by refusing to obey the local nobility. The public authorities are tearing their hair out because the man is elusive. Helped by his faithful friends and by two women in love, Mandrin will become a legend.
Patrice Aspremont
Around 1750, in the Dauphiné not far from the Swiss border, a cooper, tired of the injustices affecting the peasants crushed by taxes, went into revolt. Louis Mandrin, a handsome fellow without fear and without reproach, puts himself out of the law by refusing to obey the local nobility. The public authorities are tearing their hair out because the man is elusive. Helped by his faithful friends and by two women in love, Mandrin will become a legend.