Frédéric's father
Frédéric is arrested for illicit use of narcotic drugs. In jail, he meets he get up close with various sorts of people among which he looks for a role model as a 18-year-old boy.
self (archive footage)
Actor and singer on the decline, Sergio, alcoholic, goes adrift. His son, Simon, undertakes to make a film with and on him, to try to bring him back to life, "by force with others"
The father
Thierry 's marriage is on the rocks and his wife has filed for divorce ,but he is not prepared to accept it;he calls on his parents,to be confronted with the same situation: his mom and dad are odds with each other and she contemplates separation too...To take her/his mind off things,he takes her for drive :after a first stopover in the graveyard where granddaddy is interred , mom says to her son that her greatest wish is to see pope John -Paul.No sooner said than done. Mother and son head for Rome.
Gabriel
To a non-French speaker, the word La Pagaille looks charming, elegant, even tidy. However, it means "a mess," and a mess is just what the happily divorced Martin gets into when he and his ex-wife Brigitte, the mother of his children, rekindle their long-dormant relationship and announce that they intend to move back in together. Not only do the children find this whole thing confusing, but the husband's and the wife's lovers are equally befuddled. Add to that the need for Martin to meet Brigitte's lover and vice-versa, and you have the beginnings of a mess. When it begins to seem to Brigitte's former lover that he has offended the Muslims with a book he translated and he is slated for death, the whole thing grows yet more complicated. In this comedy, this list only scratches the surface of the messes these people must confront.
Narrateur
Adaptación de la novela homónima de Gustave Flaubert. Emma Bovary es la insatisfecha mujer de un médico rural que ansía pertenecer a la alta sociedad francesa. Sus ambiciones y un apasionado affaire con un joven aristócrata la conducirán a una situación de trágicas consecuencias. La musa de Chabrol, Isabelle Huppert, encarna a la fatal heroína.
Lacenaire's father
On 9 January 1836, Pierre Lacenaire goes to the guillotine, a murderer and a thief. He gives Allard, a police inspector, his life story, written while awaiting execution. He also asks Allard to care for Hermine, a lass to whom he has been guardian for more than ten years. In flashbacks, from the prison as Lacenaire writes, from Allard's study as he and Hermine read, and from other readers' memory after the book is published, we see Lacenaire's childhood as he stands up to bullies, including priests, his youthful thieving, his first murder, his brief army career, his seduction of a princess, and his affair with Avril, a young man who dies beside him.
Berthomieu, dit le "Vieux"
Self - Narrator (voice)
Una mirada muy personal a la historia del cine dirigida, escrita y editada por Jean-Luc Godard en su residencia suiza de Rolle durante diez años (1988-98); un collage monumental, construido a partir de fragmentos de películas, textos y citas, fotos y pinturas, música y sonidos, y diferentes lecturas; una visión crítica, bella y melancólica del arte del cine.
Man
This film is made up several sketches in which certain actors play several real or fictional roles to a background of rock music. The lead character, played by Godard himself, is an annoyingly perfectionist film-maker determined to wring every last drop of the finest performance possible from his stars.
Narrator
Filmed on the 100th anniversary of the labour union laws in France, the quasi-science fiction film is set in 2084. A robot moderator helps us look 'back' at the contemporary labour situation and different directions the movement could take.
Orgon
Orgon is a man of property duped by the false piety of the penniless Tartuffe. Orgon takes him into his house, believing him a paragon of virtue. Orgon orders his daughter to reject her fiancé and marry Tartuffe. First Dorine, the family servant, tries a strategy to avert the marriage; then Orgon's son tries his hand. They anger Orgon, and to prove paternal power, he disinherits his son and makes Tartuffe his heir. Next Orgon's wife tries to bring her husband insight, a stratagem that partially backfires. With the bailiff at the door ordering Orgon to vacate his own home and with Tartuffe at court to prove Orgon's a traitor, all seems lost.
Gino Ruggieri
Jacques Darnay sale de la cárcel tras ocho años de cautiverio por el robo de unos diamantes. Los diamantes no han aparecido y Jack es sometido a una estrecha vigilancia por la policía y por tres misteriosos individuos.
Sé stesso
Commissaire Claude Joinville
A gangster (Daniel Duval) incurs the wrath of the patriarch of a well-established crime family.
Le chef de la police
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.
Prof. Marrot
Un maquiavélico traficante de armas se dedica a crear insurrecciones bélicas en África, bajo protección oficial. Contra sus planes se rebelará un biólogo de ideología anticolonialista.
Narrator (voice)
En este documental Marker disecciona los movimientos sociales que surgieron en muchos países del mundo a finales de la década de 1960, además de reflexionar, una vez más, sobre las imágenes y la memoria.
Jean Baxter (voice)
In an empty villa, Vera Baxter sits and contemplates her life, as she recounts to a woman who was drawn to the villa when she heard the name Vera Baxter pronounced. Vera tells her about her no-good husband, who has been using her to keep his failing business afloat, up to her present love affair.
Narrator (French version) (voice)
Documentary about the military coup in Chile.
Commissaire Ganay
El comisario jefe de la policía de Orleáns (Périer) debe su privilegiada posición social a su rica e influyente esposa (Signoret), que lleva años postrada en una silla de ruedas. El comisario, con el conocimiento de su esposa, tiene una joven amante con antecedentes penales.
Gérard Gailland
Dr. Françoise Gailland has a hectic schedule, which causes her to have little time to spend with her family, which consists of her husband Gérard, her pregnant teenager daughter Élisabeth, and her sullen son Julien. However, she does manage to find the time to spend with her lover, Daniel Letessier. While her life in such disarray, she learns that she has cancer. Françoise tries to put a brave face on it, and is determined to face the life-threatening disease with courage.
Albert Borelli
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.
Self
The two memories
Antoine
A film by Jean-Marie Périer.
On. Gigino Di Cori
Sátira a costa del fascismo que narra los planes de golpe de estado de un diputado italiano de extrema derecha. (FILMAFFINITY) La película constituye una sátira del neofascismo italiano que trama y desarrolla un golpe de Estado. Especialmente hilarante en algunos pasajes, la obra refleja la percepción existente de la ultraderecha en la época (década del 70)
El film de retrata así las conexiones entre ambientes filogolpistas del Parlamento y organizaciones neofascistas extraparlamentarias, sin olvidar conexiones cn la dictadura helena de los coroneles. Con buen ritmo narrativo y sentido del humor, la obra (nominada en el Festival de Cannes a la Palma de Oro como mejor película) ofrece un sugerente y divertido testimonio del neofascismo de los años setenta.
Narrator
This half-hour documentary focuses on Medvedkin and his CineTrain of the 1930s, a sort of mobile film workshop, complete with post-production facilities, animation stations and a large laboratory. Traveling thousands of miles across the Russian countryside, the train stopped to have its filmmakers document Ukranian harvest practices, steel production facilities in southern Russia and other industrial / agricultural matters; With each crew member living in 1 square meter living quarters, all individuals on the train were responsible for various odd-jobs and other practical matters in addition to their own film-making concerns.
Enzo
Mientras viaja por Italia haciendo autostop, Nancy (Sydne Rome), una joven americana, está a punto de ser violada. Sin embargo, consigue escapar en un teleférico que la lleva directamente a la peculiar y lujosa mansión de Joseph Noblart (Hugh Griffith), un anciano que está agonizando. El guardián de la finca la confunde con una invitada y la instala en una de las habitaciones. Al día siguiente, Nancy descubre las curiosas costumbres de los extraños personajes que viven allí.
René Rouannat
Sadiel, un destacado líder rebelde norteafricano, se ha refugiado en Suiza tras el triunfo de un golpe de estado en su país. Desde el exilio, organiza una oposición democrática contra la dictadura de su país. Consciente de la amenaza que Sadiel representa, el coronel Kassar se pone en contacto con los servicios franceses para que lo eliminen. Film basado, aunque no haya ninguna referencia explícita, en el caso de Mehdi Ben Barka, político marroquí que luchó por la independencia y más tarde fue un destacado disidente del régimen de Hasan II. Ben Barka nació en Rabat en 1920 y murió en extrañas circunstancias en París en 1965. Su secuestro y asesinato a manos, presuntamente, de los servicios secretos marroquíes con el beneplácito de los servicios secretos franceses fue uno de los episodios más significativos de la historia de Marruecos durante la llamada "época de los años de plomo".
Lafond
A youngish sales employee of a computer firm is blackmailed into helping a group of mysterious Bulgarian industrialists who have come to his office. A government contract is being sought for a businessman who is in danger of bankruptcy.
François Tellier
Charles Masson, un ejecutivo de publicidad casado, estrangula durante una sesión de sadomasoquismo a su amante, una mujer que además era la esposa de su mejor amigo, el arquitecto François Tellier. Presa de los remordimientos, Charles se lo confiesa a su mujer, pero ella, extraña e inexplicablemente, le quita importancia al asunto.
Rosinsky
Amargado por la falta de eficacia de la justicia y por la proliferación de la delincuencia profesional, el juez Max (Michel Piccoli) abandona su carrera y se hace detective privado. En una ocasión, para detener a una peligrosa banda, decide infiltrarse en ella. Así es como conoce a Lily (Rommy Schneider), una prostituta que es la novia del jefe. Pronto surgirá entre ellos una irresistible atracción.
Santi
Mientras Corey sale de prisión tras cumplir condena en una cárcel francesa, Vogel, un criminal custodiado por el temible comisario Mattei, escapa del tren en el que viajan. Después de robar a un antiguo socio, Corey se encuentra con Vogel y le propone formar equipo para realizar un meticuloso robo de joyas.
Jean-Jules de Lépine
Le juge
The harsh life of a troubled young man provides the basis of this grim French tragedy that begins when the fellow stops into a shop to buy a pack of the title cigarettes. There he meets a pretty shop girl with whom he falls in love and eventually marries. It was a foolish choice, for the two cannot get along and constantly fight. Things get worse when the husband resumes his criminal activities and gets caught. The two are about to divorce when the woman gets pregnant. The time comes for their baby to be born and while sitting in the waiting room, the husband reflects upon his past activities, which are revealed via flashback.
Public Prosecutor
En un país regido por una corrupta democracia, donde el gobierno utiliza a la Policía y al Ejército para erradicar cualquier amenaza izquierdista, un diputado de la oposición es asesinado en plena calle cuando acababa de presidir un mitin de carácter pacifista. De la investigación del caso se encarga un joven magistrado consciente de que se trata de un crimen político cometido por dos sicarios a sueldo. Al mismo tiempo, un ambicioso periodista se servirá de métodos poco ortodoxos para acumular pruebas que inculpen a varios militantes de un partido de extrema derecha, los cuales, a su vez, atribuyen la responsabilidad del atentado a altos cargos de la policía y del ejército.
Dit par
Cortometraje televisivo basado en un relato de Jules Supervielle.
Commentator (voice)
In 1940, harmful insects, the Colorado potato beetle, invaded the territory of a disoriented France, forced to face the German invasion. Thanks to archives shot under German control, we discover the daily life of the French, a daily life of material misery... Between the lines, we can see what the images wanted to conceal.
Superintendant
La historia de un hermético y frío asesino a sueldo, interpretado por Alain Delon, es una de las obras más notables del cine negro francés.
Moujon
Un grupo de franceses son liberados por la Resistencia, pero sospechan que entre ellos hay un traidor.
Alexandre
Junio de 1940. En las playas de Dunkerque, que han sido arrasadas por los bombardeos alemanes, miles de soldados franceses e ingleses esperan partir para Inglaterra. Tras abandonar a sus camaradas, Julien intenta embarcar con los ingleses en un carguero. (FILMAFFINITY)
Adolfo Di Palma
Narra el encuentro de dos personas que se han conocido a través de un anuncio, un librero romano y una mujer provinciana del norte.
Maestro Di Meo
La acción se desarrolla a finales del siglo XIX en una fábrica textil de Turín. Los obreros reivindican la reducción de la jornada laboral de 14 a 13 horas, para evitar los accidentes que provoca el cansancio. La aparición del extraño y entrañable profesor Sinigaglia (Marcello Mastroianni) hace que la protesta desemboque en huelga. La película, que oscila entre el sainete y la tragedia, presenta una galería de personajes antagónicos: ilusionados unos, reticentes otros, intrépidos y cobardes.
Legrand (le nounou 1)
Un grupo de amigos fanáticos del "cinema verité" se dedican a filmar todo cuanto les sale al paso.
Jérôme Boisselier (« Le Vison »)
A light French comedy of 5 segments.
Léon Brissac
l'homme de 40 ans
"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).
Robert
Georges
Claire is a young mother and married to Georges, but she is also having an affair with bachelor Antoine, who is being kept by her good friend Madeleine, a wealthy fashion designer. But the meetings at Antoine's apartment, five afternoons a week, come to a halt when their partners learn the truth.
Maurice Lasnier
Les amours de Paris focuses on three disparate couples and their problems in the arena of romantic love. One couple is comprised of a faithful husband and a sick wife whose stay in the hospital is not so bad because she has taken a sudden interest in her doctor. In the second pairing, a womanizer comes to see that the model who is in love with him is worth more than yet another conquest. And to complete the trio, two zany people finally realize they are a couple.
Michel ('Le divorce')
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.
Daniel
Infidelidades conyugales, detectives, recelos y una aparente jugarreta del destino.
Heurtebise
Un poeta ve que se acerca la hora de su muerte y decide hacer balance de su vida y de su obra. Entre sueños de inmortalidad y ansias de renacimiento, irá desfilando una serie de surrealistas personajes que darán lugar a un preciso análisis de la inspiración, las fobias y las obsesiones del artista. Parte final de la trilogía órfica de Jean Cocteau: La sangre de un poeta (1932), Orfeo (1950) y El testamento de Orfeo (1960).
Luigi Bonelli
Cuando el juez Andrea Morandi (José Suárez) llega a la ciudad italiana, a donde lo han destinado, lo informan de un delito cometido en el puerto. La víctima, Amílcar Creppi, resulta gravemente herida. Pronto descubre que el agresor es un muchacho (Maurizio Arena) al que Amílcar exigía un porcentaje a cambio de darle trabajo. Todos los obreros del muelle odian a Amílcar que los tiene sojuzgados, pero nadie se atreve a hablar. Andrea, presa de una fuerte crisis, presenta la dimisión. La noticia de la muerte de Amílcar significa para Orlando una grave condena. Morandi decide revisar el caso, cuando ve que los obreros del puerto están dispuestos a hablar para salvar al chico.
Commentaire
Tony Varlet / Bobosse / President of the Tribunal / ...
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.
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Story of an aging dandy who is the factotum and arranger of female conquests for a brusque young millionaire.
La Bigorne
A group of fun-loving French soldiers manage to circumvent a band of cutthroat pirates and win the undying loyalty of a tribal potentate.
Robert
The charming Lulu, a cabaret singer and dancer, has no shortage of admirers. When she decides to get married, she sets her heart on Robert, a young industrialist, but he is already married. Disappointed, she sets out in search of the ideal man.
Paul, le directeur de la prison
Cinco hombres llevan a cabo un atraco perfecto, y después ingresan en prisión por delitos menores para evitar cualquier tipo de sospechas. Sin embargo, uno a uno comienzan a morir. (
Oscar D'Onofrio
Cabiria es una prostituta que ejerce como tal en uno de los barrios más pobres de Roma. Sueña, sin embargo, con encontrar el amor verdadero, un hombre que la aparte de la calle y a quien pueda entregarse en cuerpo y alma. Su bondad y su ingenuidad la convierten en víctima propicia de sucesivos vividores que se aprovechan de ella, le roban y la golpean. A pesar de sus fracasos, recobra la esperanza una y otra vez. Todo parece cambiar cuando abre su corazón a un tímido contable que le propone matrimonio.
Narrator (voice)
For Les étoiles ne meurent jamais, director/archivist Max De Vaucorbeil has assembled precious film clips of such Gallic greats as Louis Jouvet, Raimu, Harry Baur, Louis Salou and Marguerite Moreno. Francois Perier's narration links the various vignettes together. In its own way, Les Etoiles ne Maurent Jamais can be seen as a precursor to those now-ubiquitous "tributes" on such cable services as American Movie Classics and Turner Classic Movies.
Gervais Larauch / Bernard Pradal
Les Louves was also released as Demoniaque and She Wolves. By any name, it's a puzzler, at least until the final fast-paced scenes. Gervais (FranÁois Perier) escapes from a German concentration camp and assumes the identity of a recently deceased fellow prisoner. Knowing that the dead man has been carrying on a romance by correspondence with Helene (Micheline Presle), a woman whom he has never seen, Gervais makes the acquaintance of the woman and moves in with her. The woman's sister, Agnes (Jeanne Moreau), dabbles in the black arts, which should be warning enough for Gervais to make himself scarce. But he sticks around, intrigued that the dead man's sister, Julia (Madeleine Robinson), refuses to blow the whistle on him.
Roland Devert
Sylvie is a young cashier in a Montmartre café, "le bar des Philosophes", owned and run by Monsieur Marcel, a former safe cracker. One day, the pretty creature accepts to give a helping hand to two regulars, Francis and Josélito. But what the naive girl does not know is that the two men are gangsters and that they plan to steal 50 million francs deposited in the safe of Maître Roland Devert, a charming young notary. Actually things do not go according to plan all the more as a love story between the notary and Sylvie was not at all on the two gangsters' agenda.
Narrator
Rendez-Vous a Melbourne is the official filmed record of the 1956 Olympic Games in Australia. At the time of its release, there was much controversy in the documentary-filmmaking world over the fact that the Aussies signed over exclusive distribution rights to a French firm, resulting in a boycott from other movie companies. None of this matters when the film is seen today: though not in the same league as Leni Reifenstahl's Olympiad, this 110-minute extravaganza is consistently entertaining. Fifteen cameras were utilized to lens every aspect of the event; it was then up to editors Jean Dudrumet and Monique Lacombe to burrow through miles and miles of film to cull the highlights seen herein. Portions of Rendez-Vous a Melbourne have since resurfaced in practically every Olympics documentary -- not to mention the many TV specials attending the now-biannual event.
André Barret
One evening, professor André Barret sees the author of a murder in the darkness; cafe owner Cordelec is the victim. From then on, his suspicions fall on one of his students who had just arrived in his class, Bernard Cormiere.
Henri Coupeau - le second compagnon de Gervaise, un ouvrier zingueur
Basada en la novela de Émile Zola "L'Assomoir". Narra los graves problemas de Gervaise, una joven cuyo marido es alcohólico y que, sin embargo, hace todo lo posible por mantener unida a su familia.
François
During WW2, three prisoners escape from a labor camp.
Pierre Brissac
Cadet Rousselle
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.
M. Trielle
Three old friends meet again. They compare their marriages and tell each other stories which illustrate why they complain about their wives.
Bertrand Germain-Latour
Four-episode Franco-Italian omnibus film. Four men from different national and cultural background take refuge in a cabin after being sidetracked by bad weather on their way to conference.
L'innamorato
Comienza con tres pequeñas historias: "El beso", "Los enamorados" y "Disculpe, pero..." Los episodios principales son:
"Mara" con Danièle Delorme e Yves Montand. Una prostituta se enamora y decide cambiar de vida.
"El niño" con Lea Padovani y Marcello Mastroianni. Unos padres desesperados por la pobreza deciden abandonar a su hijo pero no saben dónde.
"Escena en abierto" con Vittorio De Sica y Elisa Cegani. Un actor y una actriz muy mayores se vuelven a ver después de varios años.
"Casa ajena" con Michel Simon y Sylvie. Un párroco intenta convencer a una anciana para que no se suicide.
"Don Corradino". Vittorio De Sica interpreta a un conductor de autobús napolitano que no permitirá que el reglamento de la empresa interfiera en sus conquistas amorosas.
"La cámara de fotos". Totò interpreta a un vividor que trata de seducir a Sophia Loren con la excusa de hacerle una foto.
The Greek professor (segment: Pi-greco)
Villa Borghese, Rome's biggest urban park, is the place where everyday laughs and dramas are consumed. The movie is made of six vignettes set there.
Narrateur (Voice)
Two pigeons living on the towers of Notre-Dame Cathedral are Parisian lovers. The Cathedral’s chimeras and gargoyles try to break them up, but they fly off to see the city and visit their old friend, M. La Tour, an anthropomorphized Eiffel Tower.
Emmanuel Bonnavent, le sous directeur de la banque
A bank clerk is bored to death with his nine-to-five work under his boss ' watchful eye. His missus is a pain in the neck and his in-laws are not better.
François Delaroche
Francois is engaged to Isabelle. While going to buy the engagement ring, he meets Sophie, who puts the ring on her finger and does not manage to remove it. Francois follows in the footsteps of Sophie, who is married to an important merchant, in order to recover his property.
Jean Montaigu
You never can tell. Jean had always been one of the most confirmed bachelors that kept swearing to anyone that would listen he would never put a ring on a female finger. But that was before he met Juliette, a capricious but irresistibly lovely young woman. Well, what else can you do when you fall dead in love with a creature of the kind? And too bad if their honeymoon proved catastrophic. To say nothing of their housing problems : what to do when neither husband nor wife has any money? How to build one's love nest when the housing crisis rages? How to get by when your wife has luxury tastes?
François Célerier
Madame Célerier is determined to marry off her son François to a rich and haughty woman but François has other plans.
Reciter (voice)
Fates of multiple otherwise disconnected characters intertwine miraculously under the sky of Paris. And it all happens in one day.
François Verville
A diplomat and fast liver, François lives the good life until, one day, he is unfortunate enough to win...a seal in a raffle. From this day on his everyday life becomes complicated, to say nothing of his sentimental life. Gabrielle, his all too serious girlfriend, can't stand the heat and calls it quits. But English girls like charming Diana don't mind seals...!
Jean-Pierre Delagrange
Suppose lost and found objects could talk... But they can! At least four of them... : -A statuette of Osiris remembers how two ex-lovers, a model and a good for nothing who claimed to be an Egyptologist, met again one Christmas Eve. -A violin has things to say about Raoul, a humble policeman who lost Solange, a widowed grocer he loved, to a god-dam seducing busker also named Raoul. -A scarf was witness to an eerie romance between a young madman and girl he had saved from suicide. -A funeral wreath lets us know how it caused a young woman to believe her lover dead. After having told their respective story, the objects return to their customary stillness.
Heurtebise
Orfeo es un poeta obsesionado con la Muerte (la Princesa) de la cual se enamora. Un día los esbirros de la Muerte matan a Eurídice, la esposa de Orfeo, y éste decide seguirla hasta el Inframundo para rescatarla. Este film es la parte central de la trilogía órfica de Jean Cocteau: La sangre de un poeta (1932), Orfeo (1950) y El testamento de Orfeo (1960).
Self
As the title of this French documentary indicates, Ce Siecle a 50 Ans examines the 20th Century at its halfway point. Utilizing the archives of several European film reserves, director Denise Tua offers a fascinating mosaic of the people and events that shaped the years 1900 to 1950. Complementing the vintage film clips are three dramatized sketches, delineating the romantic customs of three different points in time. These sketches are inadequately performed, and can easily be ignored. Ce Siecle a 50 Ans both preserved and provided celluloid material for scores of future documentaries.
M. Denis
Au p'tit Zouave, a café, sees a colorful clientele from working-class Paris. An assassin will shake up the daily life of the regulars.
Michel Riverain
A young rogue kills an old lady to rob her. Arrested, he believes it is for this crime, hides nothing from his lawyer, who soon tells him that he is only accused of another theft prior to his crime. Sentenced to six months suspended prison sentence, he will also have to answer for the crime of the old lady.
Charles Merlin
Due to financial problems, the boarding-school of Saint-Loup is on the verge of closing its doors. In desperation, Jacquelin, the headmaster, has the idea to invite former students to a fund-raising reunion. Among the alumni, three men whose common point is to have been in love at the time with the headmaster's niece. One is a banker, the second a priest and the last one a globetrotter. All of a sudden, the peace of the assembly is disturbed: Jacquelin's niece has just been murdered.
Antoine (segment "Le retour d'Antoine")
In France in 1946, the difficult return to civilian life of five deportees and prisoners of war after having lived through the hell of the Second World War.
Clotaire, aka Cloclo
Marceline is pretty but inconstant. She has a brother, eccentric as well as invading, who serves as a go-between between the fickle young woman and her lovers. She has been the mistress of Richard for a while when Jeff, an engaging but but unrepentant dreamer, falls madly in love with her. Marceline first turns him down but finally accepts him after she breaks up with Richard. But the coquette has not given up her escapades to which the young florist, nicknamed "Jean de la Lune" for his naivety, turns a blind eye. Little time after their wedding , Marceline becomes infatuated with the good looks of a superficial young man, Alexandre. But Jeff, who has developed a fondness for Jean, intervenes to save the couple.
Michel
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.
François Lecoc
François, a young student at a provincial college, likes Colette, the daughter of the headmaster. Turlot his colleague, who commits suicide, left a diary where he writes of his relationship with Colette.
'Coco' Levaison
An actor, a great seducer, has a 20-year-old son (François Périer) to whom he gives advice that has always succeeded; however this son has difficulties with Corinne (Dany Robin) who considers herself his fiancée.
Jacques
Emile is a French film producer at the beginning of the century. One of his friends leaves his daughter Lucette in his house, when he is starting a tour through France. Emile falls in love with her. Problems starts when his younger friend Jacques come back from military service and after complaining his misfortune with women, follows Emile's advice in starting affairs with women and he meets Lucette.
François
1946, a man walks in Lyon. He makes a pilgrimage to the places of his childhood. Another man, Edmond Gonin, recognizes him. It was Jean-Jacques Sauvage, whom he had ousted in a "radical" way with a young heiress. Only Savage is not dead, and here he is on the scene of his first love.
Denis Carignol
After lovers fight, the boy leaves for the Riviera. On her way to rejoin him, the girl meets a distinguished but embittered novelist and decides to spend time comforting him.Which is not going to help when she returns to her boyfriend.
Ben Atkinson / The Devil
Daniel Gelin and Juliette Faber star as a blissfully happy honeymooning couple. They are so happy that they arouse the jealous attentions of Satan. The Dark Prince sends an emissary to beak up the romance, but his advocate is promptly challenged by a representative from "up above."
Ramure, le voleur
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.
Maurice Orland
This woman's melodrama pivots around a child that a famous actress had in her youth, but whom she has concealed from the wealthy businessman she is now with.
Dominique Verdelet
To teach a lesson to his young wife who dreams of the famous "voiceless singer", a husband enters a radio station and manages to make people appreciate his voice.
Bastien
Bastien and Furet are a journalist and a photographer working together as a team on the newspaper 'L'Echo du Jour'. Just as they are about to go off on a weekend break with Micky, their boss's secretary, they are sent to a crime scene to report the murder of a Russian named 'le Moujik'.
François Ledru
A young mechanic is given a strange job: to convey the king of the gypsies' embalmed dead body on a very long route.
Pierre
Pierre, who is a Fine Arts student, and Denise, who is a chemistry student, work for a department store where, wearing wedding suits, they distribute flyers to passers-by. The store manager, Bernard, falls in love with Denise and arranges to take her to an inn not far from Paris, run by the handsome Robert. This one opens Denise's eyes who ends up returning to her home. After a fight between Pierre and Bernard, Denise ends up choosing to stay with Pierre.
François de Portal
A plucky businesswoman agrees to receive love letters to a prefect’s wife from a young official, and soon finds herself embroiled in a scandal that inflames a town’s class tensions.
Bernard
Five young people - brothers, sisters, cousins - are on vacation in the countryside. Pernette suggests to Marianne, who wants to be appreciated by her cousin Olivier, to make him jealous by inventing an aviator in love. At this announcement, Olivier bursts out laughing, but an airman knocks on their door, his private plane having had a breakdown. The mirage then becomes reality, and thanks to this unexpected visit many feelings will come to light.
Ernest Vilar
Two country sisters are rivals for the love of the doctor. He marries one, but regrets it and is rescued by the other.
François
A widow is loved by a doctor whose brother, an ecclesiastic unconsciously in love with the young woman, persuades her to enter a convent. Brought back on the straight and narrow by a missionary, the priest blesses his brother's marriage.
Jean
The young Suzy is a nightclub hostess in a cabaret in which Frehel is the star. Because one night she gets propositions from a rich widower who would like to have her as his girlfriend, Suzy wishes to leave this place, where she has no future, for a better one. Abandoned by her protector, a young hoodlum named Robert, she gets the occasion to get away from it. She decides to go on vacation on the Riviera and stay at the Chateau des Cedres, the former residence of a noble family that has been transformed into a bourgeois guest house by the baroness Saint-Leu. Shy and elegant, in her modest suit, Suzy stays there under the name of Suzanne Michelet and soon makes new friends among the young people of very wealthy families.
Gaston Vachon
Jules Vachon, a pharmacist, has two sons, Gabriel, a steady-minded young man dedicated to his job in the pharmacy, and Gaston, a good for nothing whose only talent is to seduce rich women and take money from their pockets. But it is Gaston who is hailed as a great man when he returns to his native village thanks to his deep pockets.
Le journaliste
Aged penniless actors are living in a old people's home. They always talk about their past glory or failures. One day Raphael Saint-Clair comes; he has been a famous actor and had a lot of love affairs. Passions come back, and jealousies... A bitter film about aging, failure and the entertainment.
Adrien
En un modesto hotel de un barrio popular de París, Renée (Annabella) y Pierre (Jean-Pierre Aumont), una joven pareja de enamorados, alquilan una habitación para una sola noche. Ambos jóvenes tiene intención de suicidarse: Pierre matará a Renée de un tiro, y luego disparará contra sí mismo. Pero el plan no sale como tenían planeado...
Batilly
Gilbert Quercy, 18, tried to commit suicide after a heartache. At the hospital, three women try to cheer him up : the three former wives of his father, an archaeologist and an egyptologist, whom Gilbert called his "mothers". These women show a lot of willingness, but soon will become intrusive.
