Self (archive footage)
Self
Inspired even as a boy by the Folies Bergere, the legendary Paris cabaret venue, couturier Jean-Paul Gaultier always wanted to stage a show there. "But what story can I tell?" he muses in this doc about the six months of preparation that went into the show. "Mine." Combining fashion with film, dance, theater, and unapologetic over-the-top-ness, the revue offers a 40-year career retrospective of the designer who is practically never spoken of without using the phrase enfant terrible. Notorious among cinephiles for his costumes for The Fifth Element and The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover and among pop fans for Madonna's pointy cone brassiere, he also incorporated teddy bears and S&M fetish gear as design motifs. In the show, the fanciful and outrageous meets the naughtily witty (a skit sending up Vogue dragon lady Anna Wintour) and the poignant (a tribute to his partner Francis Menuge, who died in 1990).
Jeanne
I saw my mother rot like a vegetable. One day, she woke up and she was ten years older. And yet, she fought for her life. For nothing.
la tante
When their beloved Polish immigrant mother passes away, the sisters Emma (Kiberlain) and Rosemonde (Devos), and their brother, Charles (Berry), are obliged to deal with the personal and physical aftereffects, which include the cozy, old fashioned flat where she lived on the movie’s titular street (located in the heart of Paris’ chic 2nd arrondissement).
Grandmother
Since Charlie is no longer there, the lives of Boris, Elie, and Maxime have been torn apart. These three men, who have nothing in common, all shared one thing: their love for Charlie. One loved her like a sister, one loved her like the woman of his dreams, one loved her like a friend. Except that Charlie is dead and none of them - not Boris, an accomplished businessman, not Elie, a night owl scriptwriter, and not Maxime, still living at home with his mother - know how to deal with it. But because she asked them to do so, they abruptly decide to undertake a journey together, heading for Corsica and the house that Charlie loved so much. Except that here they are stuck in a car together for over 500 miles. It's going to be a long journey. Boris, Elie and Maxime, three men, three generations, no affinity. But by the time they arrive at their destination, they will have realized one majorly important thing: Charlie has changed their lives forever.
Micheline Presle
A bio-doc about Micheline Presle changes into a thrilling investigation of the long hidden truth about European cinema. This mockumentary thriller uncovers Hollywood's unsuspected plot against the European motion picture industry. Numerous directors and stars appear in the film, making it a choice morsel for all film lovers.
La grand-mère
Es verano, Sam, 27 años, parte camino al sur, al volante de su Ford. Le acompañan un hermano y una hermana que ha conocido por la carretera: Mathieu y Léa. Léa es guapa, sensual, archifemenina. Le gustan a rabiar los hombres, Mathieu incluido. Durante ese largo viaje solitario rumbo a España, lejos de las autopistas, tendrán ocasión de conocerse, medirse, amarse. Pero Sam lleva dentro un secreto, una herida muy honda que le aisla más y más del resto del mundo: una madre que perdió siendo niño y que espera encontrar durante ese viaje.
Liliane
Un conservateur terrorisé par les plantes vertes, une mère plastifiée pour être exposée, un ballet de Saintes Vierges, des gardiens épuisés par Rodin, un ministre perdu dans une exposition de sexes, une voiture disparue au parking Rembrandt, des provinciaux amoureux des Impressionnistes, touristes galopins galopant d'une salle à l'autre, passager clandestin dans l'art premier, Picasso, Gauguin, Warhol, ils sont tous là dans ce petit monde qui ressemble au grand, dans ce musée pas si imaginaire que ça, valsant la comédie humaine jusqu'au burlesque.
Jane Latour-Jackson
A former policeman resentfully enters a retirement home. To deceive his boredom, he will investigate the murder of another resident.
Gisèle Lenoir
Maurice works at the police service for foreigners. He is single, loves Spanish music and spends all his free time in a Hispanic cabaret.
Mme Renaud
We see how a man, who has no memory of his past, deals with his past when he finds out about it.
Self (voice)
Les anges 1943, histoire d'un film is a documentary filmed for television by Anne Wiazemsky in 2004, devoted to Robert Bresson's film Angels of Sin.
Nicole
Francois Cluzet and Karin Viard are the couple behind a French shopping channel whose business and marriage are both drifting towards the rocks, with Nathalie Baye as a smiling Rottweiller out to steal their business by conning them into offering a duff product, the 'Fear Eliminator,' and picking up the network for pennies in the ensuing financial fallout.
Mrs. Saltim
Bruno y Fréderic son los dos hermanos Saltim, de padre italiano y madre francesa. Bruno, el mayor, ocupa un cargo importante en el banco en que su hermano pequeño trabaja de director. Renuncia a postular al cargo de máximo directivo a cambio de que se le proporcione financiación para un teatro de las afueras de Paris. Justo en plenos preparativos de dos nuevos espectáculos : El tío Vania de Tchekov y Ester de Racine, la dirección del banco anuncia recortes de sueldo a sus empleados, cosa que también afecta a Bruno.
La mère de Stanislas
Choukri, alias Chouchou, a transvestite Maghrebi with clear eyes, comes illegally to Paris to find his nephew. Hired as an assistant by a psychotherapist, known for his good mood, he also work as a waiter in a transvestite cabaret of Clichy where he meets Stanislas.
Claire Lacombe
Juliette has fought to keep her family's oyster business, called La Claire, afloat. She is ready to fight even harder, now that her heritage is threatened. On her Breton island, Juliette has to face developers who want to occupy her production site at any price to build a thalassotherapy center. Despite their tempting offers, Juliette refuses to sell and inevitably attracts the enmity of the industrialists who only think in terms of profitability and easy money. The conflict becomes more and more radical, each side sticks to its position and the confrontation risks going beyond the legal framework.
La mère de Vincent
A man has pre-wedding jitters on the eve before his marriage. His thoughts switch between sweet dreams and nightmares of a life with another woman.
Juliette
Jacques, 50-something bachelor painter and great seducer, is about to receive the charming Claire for dinner. Broke but clever, Jacques concocted a sumptuous meal. Everything looks great when, suddenly, a door slams and turns the evening into a fiasco. Jacques will have to change his plans, play the unexpected. However, that evening, it is the unexpected that will play with him.
Violette Ancelin
Bo is a transexual prostitute in Brussels who left home after being abused by her father. She's infuatuated with a neighbor and suspected by the police in a series of transexual murders. In order to clear herself she must turn detective.
Bélise
Octave and his friends, Achille and Hector, wander around at night in the grocery stores, the regulars' restaurants and the creepy bars. Octave meets Esther by chance. These two people have diametrically opposed characters. She is beautiful, cultured, free, creative, while he is rude, violent and whiny. The latter falls in love with her. The game is going to be difficult.
Shattered by the death of her husband, a young woman takes refuge in Corsica at her grandmother's who will do everything to pull her out of her despair.
Madeleine
A porn film director convinces his producer to make a romantic film, but the cast is grappling with tensions in their private lives.
Madame Dubosc
Shy and still living with his mother, a highway cashier one day decides to finally live his craziest dream: to visit Paris.
Tante Maryse
Vénus es un salón de belleza de barrio en el que, además de los tratamientos estéticos, se dan consejos, se escuchan los problemas graves o leves de las clientas. Se venden cremas, elixires, relajación, sol de mentira... Nadine es la dueña y tiene tres tres esteticistas: Samantha, Marie y Angèle. Angèle hace tiempo que trabaja allí. Se ha amoldado perfectamente a aquel universo rosa, atenta y tranquila, desconectada del tiempo y del ruido.
Posthumous tribute paid by actor Luc Bernard to his older brother, director Guy Gilles ( 1938 - 1996 ). Documentary composed of interviews with some of his brother's friends and some actors from his main films, excerpts of which we see.
Madame Raymonde
While France is on strike, Jean, a Parisian bookseller, opens his shop. A former trade unionist, he has in fact decided not to take part in the movement. However, a phone call from his friend René awakens his enthusiasm.
la "mère" de Bernard
Bernard, an executive for a big company, tries to get home in time for his wedding but is caught in the middle of a mass suicide. He saves a sect member who then follows him like a puppy, and is chased by the sect leaders, two over-the-top crooks with bloated egos and a craving for money.
Marcelle Ichak
The story of Pascal Ichak, a larger-than-life French traveller, bon vivant, and chef, who falls in love with Georgia and a Georgian princess in the early 1920s. All is well until the arrival of the Red Army of the Caucasus, as the Soviet revolution that has swept Russian comes to Georgia. Told as a flashback from the present, as a French-Georgian man whose mother was Pascal's lover translates his memoirs for Pascal's niece.
Hermine
Maxime and Paulo are two young men in their very early twenties. Maxime is spending his summer holidays with his parents in a camping resort, which he hates, and Paulo is working in the nearest cafeteria. They hope to win a cruise to Bora-Bora by collecting capsules from pop-soda bottles. They are missing only one capsule, which is unfortunately found by Penelope, who works in the local supermarket. Unfortunately, because Penelope is not very attractive. The two boys make Penelope believe that Paulo is going to go on the cruise with her, but Maxime decides to ride along with them, in Penelope's old car, to Marseille, where the ship is leaving from. Actually the two boys plan to steal Penelope's capsule, get rid of her, and go on the cruise together. But, on their way to Marseille, they are going to meet a couple of very strange elderly people, Hermine and Gaspard.
A few stories are mixed, but all starts with Claire who one day brings back to Gregoire one of his books found at the university. Gregoire is the tenebrous romantic king, and Claire falls in love with him. But there is also Gregoire's circle, his disturbing neighbour, his maybe crazy grandmother Diane, his former teacher Hugo. And this is mixed up with Sebastien's attempts to seduce Claire then her mother Anne. And also Claire's psychiatrist.
La mère supérieure / Mother Superior
Filme galardonado con el Globo de Oro en EE.UU a la mejor película extranjera que gira en torno a Henri Fortin, un muchacho huérfano que queda a merced de una infame pareja. Versión libre de la inmortal obra de Víctor Hugo "Los Miserables".
Gisèle
Winegrower Patrick Ponsac comes close to ruining his marriage when he has an affair with another woman. By way of atonement, he takes his wife back to the Mediterranean island where, 13 years earlier, they spent their honeymoon. Not such a good move, as it turns out. The peacemaking holiday coincides with the outbreak of a bloody civil war. Having failed to leave the country, Patrick, his wife and their eccentric entourage are taken hostage by merciless guerrillas…
Mrs. Loussine
A private eye finds that her professional and personal lives are beginning to intertwine in this French drama. Maxime Chabrier (Anémone) is a woman in her mid-40s who works as a private detective. Despite her chain smoking and sloppy appearance, Maxime is regarded as a skilled investigator by her colleagues and considered the best PI at her agency by her boss. While Maxime has romantic dalliances with both men and women, she hasn't been involved in a long-term relationship since she left her husband 15 years ago. However, Maxime is hired to look into a case that suggests that her former husband has become involved with insurance fraud, which brings her into contact with her 17-year-old son Baptiste (Gregoire Colin) for the first time since the divorce. Just as Maxime is trying to mend fences with her son and find out what her ex has gotten himself into, she finds herself falling in love with Jacques (Michel Didym), an economist.
Maude
Marceau y Pérez son dos enamorados, pero la pasión inicial irá desvaneciéndose con el tiempo. (FILMAFFINITY)
Avril Espart
Sébastien Fischer, a celebrated pianist, takes the advice of his agent and friend Gorgio and decides to take a break and spend some time in a little village in Provence, at the house of Avril Espart.
Luce
No one knows, or is ever likely to know how many disabled or handicapped relatives have been hidden from the outside world in attics and basements over the years. In this wry comedy, Basile is an eleven-year old boy living in a rural French town (along with his mother) with his grandparents. He has the usual boyish adventures in town, punctuated with odd goings-on brought about by events which take place in his grandfather's crocodile farm. However, there is a deep rivalry between his grandmother and her wheelchair-bound half-sister, Cecile, who has kept hidden from the world (and her family), and has lived in the attic for decades. Basile eventually feels the wrongness of her situation and feels that he may be the reincarnation of Victor, Cecile's long-lost lover. Eventually things come to a head in a confrontation which provides the town gossips with material for years to come.
Self
This film essay explores the strange case of G.W. Pabst, the Austrian filmmaker who was considered a giant of early cinema before his reputation went behind a cloud.
Mme Donnadieu
Germaine et Marie-Louise
Three old sisters get together every Sunday. For Epiphany Sunday, the program is busy: eating at the Chinese restaurant, drawing the kings and finally going to see, reluctantly, the show of the fourth sister, the extravagant one, the scandalous one, who is part of a comic troupe of the third age...
Mireille Miran, Thomas' mother
In this comedy, Thomas and Stephane are a couple of gay men who want to raise a baby. When their efforts to adopt one fall through, they hit on the scheme of having Carole, the (gorgeous) young woman they have saved from a bad relationship, bear a child for them. When she insists that only natural reproduction methods be used, they gamely play good sports by going to bed with her, and become the father(s) of twins.
Isabelle Gauthier
Un dibujante de cómics, aprovechando un viaje de trabajo a París, visita a su hija que estudia en la Sorbona. El choque cultural y la extraña actitud de la joven hacen que su estancia en la capital francesa sea especialmente difícil.
Gloria Maieul
Lady with jewels
An old con-man fakes an illness and takes advantage of the kindness of one of his nurses.
Jacqueline
This slice-of-life drama about an elderly couple and their estranged son covers twenty-four fateful hours that begin with the usual daily routine for the retired pair of former teachers (Micheline Presle and Claude Pieplu). Then their son telephones to say he will be coming over with his girlfriend and the normal pattern is changed, as he visits them rarely. While the mother is obsequious to her son when he arrives, past hurts and resentments bubble up during lunch, making it difficult for the son to tell them he is getting married. This is news enough, but the effect that announcement has on the son and his fiancée is unexpected and events later on in the day take a turn for the worse.
La mère de Christian
How couples unite, interact, separate, reunite or find other partners. The links in this chain begin with Christian and Nathalie, who are coworkers and friends. Christian discovers that his lover Francoise is having an affair, and Nathalie advises him to give his feelings some time to heal, about two years. Nathalie is angry that her lover Mark does not want to see her more often, while he is jealous of the men in her past. Meanwhile, Francoise finds out that her new lover is not that interested in her anymore, and after they split, she encounters him with someone else. As romance fluctuates like the lunar tides, the myth of one true love takes a beating.
Mme Argente
Grotesque and artless, this repugnant sexploitation film is about two unbalanced brothers who try to force an itinerant bum to rape their mother, and then all three men go after the promiscuous woman who lives next door. When it is revealed that the homeless man is none other than the father of the two brothers, the plot slides even further downhill.
Denise
Durante la II Guerra Mundial, en el París ocupado por las tropas alemanas, Helene duda entre el amor a su novio Jean, que trabaja para la resistencia, y el administrador alemán Bergmann, que intenta ganarse su afecto.
Genevieve
François, violoncelista, e Isabelle, historiadora del arte, se conocen en una oficina de desempleo, donde surge una agria discusión entre Isabelle y uno de los empleados. François sale en su defensa y, así, nace entre ellos una relación amorosa. Juntos tratan de conseguir algún dinero como músicos callejeros, pero no tienen éxito. Entonces a Isabelle se le ocurre la idea de robar a los tres dependientes de la oficina de desempleo, pero durante el atraco muere uno de ellos.
Mathilde
A woman returns after twenty years to Toulon where her husband, who collaborated with the nazis, was murdered. Her motives are unclear.
The mother (segment "Remue-ménage")
Nine short films about love.
Hélène
Betty
In Montmartre, Paris, two friends are leading a happy carefree Bohemian existence. Jean-Luc is a cabinetmaker, Mathieu is a sculptor. Then they both meet the love of their lives and decide to get married. Unfortunately, the objects of their desire are not so eager to be drawn into matrimony.
Carmen
Rien ne va plus is a series of comedy sketches of disparate quality, on the social, cultural, and political foibles that make the French, French. Various settings and character types are given a once-over, including pseudo-intellectuals, punk bikers, right-wingers, and patrons of a low-end cafe.
Rose
Un cuarentón en paro se va a la aventura al sur de Francia, donde conocerá a una joven actriz.
Mlle Chagrin
In this satire, a police detectiveis investigating the disappearance and kidnapping of the host of a television dance show. However, instead of finding his man, he is trapped into becoming a contestant on a children's quiz show. What's worse is that he becomes a very successful contestant.
Madame Courdevey
Valentine Vatrin
Family mother and model wife, Agnes hits a vehicle while driving in Paris. She immediately falls in love with the driver of the damaged car.
Madame Aubert
Helen Ashby
En Ginebra, el librero y editor Axel Thorpe atrapa el robo y robo robo en una tienda de Sibylle Ashby de 16 años. Ella se jacta de sus escritos, así que él la desafía a producir un libro. Ella escribe una novela erótica que Thorpe publica de forma anónima, y se convierte en un éxito de ventas. Ella también trata de capturar el amor de esta editorial de 40 años. Cuando la deja por su hermana mayor, ¿debería buscar venganza o recobrarla? En los argumentos secundarios, se lleva mal con su hermana y su padre, y alienta el romance de su madre con la hermana de su padre. Axel también tiene problemas además de la decidida Sibylle: debe aceptar la muerte por ahogamiento de su madre hace años.
Mother
Anne lives with her husband in Belgium where she works as a restorer of paintings. When she becomes pregnant, she finds herself remembering a picture she did some time ago and of which she has no memory, no recollection of what happened to it. It becomes her goal to discover and clarify the mystery behind this painting, at the same time she notices that a strange man is following all of her moves.
Laurence
A French man invites two Sweden girls to spend time with him after his wife left for vacation.
Micheline Presle
Jacques and Jean-Claude, unemployed actors, start experimenting with various creative petty scams to get by. More and more daring, with the help of Anne, a charming young girl, they blackmail the rich and influential in a different way.
Docteur Delavigne
Marco Mazzetti, a driving instructor, lives with his wife Irène and their young child. After a series of dizzy spells, he goes to the doctor and discovers that he is four-month pregnant. Marco then becomes internationally famous...
Countess Claudia Osio De Blanc
Un niño sospechoso de haber matado a su padre se encuentra recluído en un hospital psiquiátrico. Un médico descubre que está mentalmente sano y comienza a sospechar otra verdad.
Aunt Amelie
La bella Frenchie King y sus cuatro hermanas, después de asaltar numerosos bancos y trenes, deciden sentar cabeza y compran un rancho. El problema es que Marie y sus cuatro salvajes hermanos han descubierto que en las tierras de de Frenchi hay petróleo.
La reine rouge
En su lecho de muerte, la Reina hace prometer al Rey que no volverá a casarse hasta que no encuentre a una mujer que la supere en bondad y belleza. Algunos años después, el Rey encuentra a la perfecta sustituta de su esposa: su propia hija. El Hada de las Lilas, la madrina de la joven princesa, le aconseja que pida a su padre, como regalo, unos vestidos maravillosos, aparentemente imposibles de confeccionar. Pero como el Rey consigue los vestidos, la princesa le pide que le regale una capa hecha con la piel del asno banquero, principal fuente de riqueza del Reino.
L'Antiquaire
The Tunisian born hero of the film decides to break with his disorganized yet habit-ridden life in Paris, and sets off to discover his homeland, which he left at 6 years old, and to rekindle the memory of his mother, who died when he was a child.
Madame de Séryeuse
Nobles try desperately to cling to the crumbling aristocracy in the days following World War I. The Count (Jean-Claude Brialy) and his Countess Mahe (Sylvia Fennec) delight in throwing lavish costume balls. The couple develops a friendship with a young boy who delights in the parties thrown by the noble couple. Love soon blooms between the Countess and the boy as she searches for something more than a string of endless parties and social affairs. The masquerades are an attempt to freeze time and hold on to the nostalgia of a bygone era. For fear of losing her, the Count allows the Countess to continue her love affair.
Self
Documentary about filmmaker Jean Grémillon.
Madame Eva alias Madame Eglantine
Octubre, 1918. En los últimos días de la I Guerra Mundial, el soldado Charles Plumpick (Alan Bates) es enviado por sus jefes a desactivar las supuestas bombas dejadas por los alemanes en retirada a su paso por un pueblito francés. Plumpick llega al lugar, sólo para encontrarse con que los internos de un manicomio abandonado han tomado el pueblo.
Mme de Moni
En el siglo XVIII Suzanne Simonin -Anna Karina- es obligada por su familia a entrar en el convento de Longchamp, donde la superiora De Moni -Micheline Presle- la convence para que tome los hábitos, pero a la muerte de ésta debe soportar la férrea disciplina de la Madre Sainte-Christine -Francine Bergé- y su afirmación de que está endemoniada.
Daisy
A couple of hit men set out to kill an old friend.
Paméla Van Der Mèche
Isabelle Lartois
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.
Monique Bouvier
Debajo de aquella maravillosa mansión un oscuro secreto se ocultaba. Nada parecía ser lo que realmente era. Paolo Barbelli, hombre fascinante, autoritario y ambiguo, convive con una joven, Cora. Sus ojos perdidos en la distancia la mantienen alejada de la realidad. Con ambos, Mónica hace las funciones de madrastra. Un triangulo perfecto que se verá roto cuando dos tasadores americanos llegan a la villa y las ocultas pasiones de sus habitantes salgan a la luz arrasando todo cuanto encuentran a su paso. Cuando la verdad se hace trágica, sólo la mentira puede apaciguar los temores, la ansiedad, el horror.
Denise Marceau
Durante la Guerra Fría, un escritor norteamericano, mujeriego y aficionado a la bebida, llega a Estocolmo para recibir el Premio Nobel de Literatura. Una vez allí, descubre, por casualidad, un complot bolchevique para secuestrar a un eminente científico también galardonado con el Nobel.
An automobile tribute
Angèle Brissac
Josephine
La vida de Pauline, la hermana favorita de Napoleón Bonaparte, es uno de sus sacrificados y frustrados romances. Su primer encuentro fue interrumpido por su hermano por razones políticas. Luego, en sus desplazamientos a Italia, conoce y se enamora de su ideal, Jules de Canouville. Una vez más, el partido no es del agrado de Napoleón y ella es obligada a casarse con uno de sus generales, Leclerc.
Germaine Stacy
Rich socialite Chantal marries photographer Eugene and everything seems blissful until her envious friend attempts to break them up. In desperation, she turns to her mother, but the advice she receives may do more harm than good.
Micheline Allan
The film consists of seven roughly 15 minute episodes, each showing what will happen if one or more of the Ten Commandments will be broken: Jérome Chambard is warned that he will lose his job if he continues to swear; Françoise Beaufort enamored of a stripper calls on her only to find her married to a janitor who doesn't know what kind of dancing his wife performs; Denis, a Jesuit novice, leaves the order to avenge his sister's suicide, which was provoked by Garigny, who seduced her into prostitution and drug addiction; Philip buys a necklace for Micheline though he is bored with her; a young man find out that his real mother is not Madeleine, but actress Clarisse Ardant; Didier Marin, cashier of a bank, was fired by his boss; the Devil appears as a serpent for Jérome Chambard and the bishop are eating.
Sophie Givier
Madame Duparc - la Mère de Bernard
This short film by Jacques Demy was based on his memories of growing up in Nantes, France. While it was initially made for the omnibus film THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS (as the segment on "Lust"), it has also been distributed and exhibited separately.
Madame Duparc - la mère de Bernard (segment "La luxure")
Película dividida en siete cortos, cada uno de ellos protagonizado por un pecado capital.
La marchesa
Based on the events from the Italian civil war. In 1860's, a member of a guerrilla force captures a colonel from the opposing army and later leads one of the sides to victory.
Adalgisa De Matteis
Alfredo Martelli, un joven anticuario de turbio pasado, es detenido por la policía. Tras ser sometido a un interrogatorio de varias horas, el Comisario Palumbo le comunica que es el principal sospechoso de la muerte de Adalgisa De Matteis, una de sus acaudaladas amantes. Durante su estancia en la comisaría, evoca diversos episodios de su sórdido pasado y llega a la conclusión de que él es el responsable de lo que le está pasando.
Madeleine
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.
Michele
Abandoned by her lover Philippe, Michèle, a Parisian fashion designer, tries to kill herself. She is saved by her doctor and Ann, a young American nurse, who takes up residence in Michèle's apartment to keep an eye on her patient.
Mrs. Latour
Karin is now continuing her father's research and is also caught in the cross hairs of the mysterious opponents. Johanson himself retreats to a Cambodian monastery in order to escape the gangsters' shots and recover. Meanwhile, the international criminals manage to steal Johanson's energy formula. Karin then goes after the thieves, supported by Lundstrom. But he also has his own goals. The hunt takes them around the world. It soon turns out that a certain Madame Latour is behind the sinister machinations. Eventually old Johanson falls into her hands. In Southeast Asia, a showdown ensues between the kidnappers and Lundstrom and Karin.
Madame Latour
Professor Johansson has made a huge scientific breakthrough; a device that will create a huge magnetic pulse that knocks out all electricity over a continent-wide area. The military applications are already being thought of when Dr. Johansson is kidnapped by a group of profit-seeking mercenaries. Meanwhile, his daughter, Karin, finds herself having to consort with all manner of shady characters as she searches for her father.
Perle Germain-Joubert
The lucky Baron wins a boat in a card game and takes off with his former lover to find new adventures. Adverse circumstances land them in a small town, where the Baron's seafaring companion leaves for more attractive scenery offered by a wealthy local man. Meanwhile, there is a certain charming cafe owner that the Baron finds irresistible -- at least for awhile.
Paule
Phllippe se reúne con una amiga, Paule, y su hijo, Michel, en una lujosa villa de la Costa Azul. Nada más llegar seduce a Monette. Michel decide irse, asqueado, pero su madre confía en que Monette logre retenerle No obstante, la joven prefiere a Philippe...
Jacqueline Cousteau
Un pintor holandés (Hardy Kruger) es acusado del asesinato de su novia inglesa.
Régine / Simone
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.
Baroness Lena Eggersdorf
Viena 1906. La apasionada historia de amor entre un joven teniente y una cantante de ópera correrá peligro cuando el muchacho sea acusado de perseguir a una mujer casada.
Nicole
Hélène Vanaux
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.
Judith Aurigault
Una joven de provincias, ChouChou (Brigitte Bardot) QUE es descubierta por Judith (Micheline Presle) se enamora de Michael (Luois Jourdan), que sin embargo la trata como a una hija. Cansada de este trato se hace acompañar de un famoso modelo y la estrategia comienza a dar sus frutos.
Lucrezia Cenci
The beautiful Beatrice Cenci, daughter of the noble Francesco, falls in love with Olimpio. But she has to face the jealousy of his violent and morbid father, and the hostility of his stepmother Lucrezia, who has a relationship with her other stepson, James. The stepmother and stepson-lover plan to kill Francesco. And when the latter dies accidentally, they decide to put the blame on Beatrice and Olimpio.
Madeleine Villardier
Thirteen is unlucky on Christmas Eve dinner.
Queen Hortense de Beauharnais
Talleyrand, el gran político francés de finales del siglo XVIII y primer cuarto del XIX, rememora en una reunión de amigos, la vida del Emperador de los franceses, desde su nacimiento en Córcega, pasando por sus gestas militares, hasta su muerte en el destierro. La cinta es una pequeña lección de la historia de Francia.
Virginia Marchi
The film covers a hundred years in the lives of the Ricordi family, the Milan publishing house of the title, and the various composers and other historic personalities, whose careers intersected with the growth of the Ricordi house. It beautifully draws the parallel between the great music of the composers, the historic and social upheavals of their times, as well as the "smaller stories" of the successive generations of Ricordi.
Michèle
When Mario, a bad boy, is released from prison, he plans to live honestly with his wife Geneviève. But the latter has not waited for him and Mario, out of spite, accepts to work as a tout for Mr. Charlie, the boss of a white slave trade gang. His first assignment consists in seducing Michèle, a Montmartre nightclub singer and hostess, into signing a contract for Tangier. The young woman, however, who does this job only to support her young sister Danièle, falls for him and he for her. From then on Mario, without betraying himself, does his utmost to save Michèle -and Danièle for that matter - from the clutches of the gang...
Madame de Pompadour
Durante un paseo, Luis XIII descubre un lugar encantador y decide construir en él una casa de campo que se convertirá en el Palacio de Versalles. Éste será el escenario en el que se sucederán, desde el reinado de Luis XIV (1661-1715) hasta la Revolución de 1789, una serie de intrigas amorosas y políticas protagonizadas por importantes personajes de la corte francesa.
Valeria Valenzano (segment: Gli amanti)
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.
Marie Prieur
Marie, a young doctor, settles down on the Ouessant Island. She will be able to win the diffidence of the local population but she will have to fight for her independence after falling in love with an italian engineer.
Lea Mariotte
Un intrépido capitán arriesga su vida y la de su tripulación para intentar rescatar a una sirvienta, que ha sido érroneamente acusada de asesinato y encarcelada. Cuando consiga liberarla, empezarán a tener auténticos problemas.
Jeanne Martinez
Soldados Americanos varados en las Filipinas después de la invasión Japonesa forman guerrillas para contraatacar.
Paule Manet (as Micheline Prelle)
Set in Paris, Under My Skin stars John Garfield as a washed-up jockey who has stolen money from a crooked gambler (Luther Adler).
Hélène
In Pompeii in the year 79, Lycias and Helen fall in love. Helen's guardian, the high priest of Isis, wants to separate them. To do so, he tries to make Lycias drink a love potion, but a young slave threatens to reveal everything. The high priest, unable to silence her, kills her and arranges to have Lycias accused...
Laura Lee
A young geometrician goes to Rome with his sister. During the trip, they meet Laura, an actress who offers them many surprises.
Marthe Grangier
Primera Guerra Mundial (1914-1918). Basada en un polémica novela escrita en 1923 por Raymond Radiguet. Narra la relación amorosa entre un adolescente y una joven cuyo marido está en el frente. A pesar de su éxito, tuvo problemas con la censura en varios países. En 1986, el director italiano Marco Bellocchio hizo otra adaptación del mismo título, pero ambientada en los ochenta.
Eve Charlier
"Les jeux sont faits," is a fantasy film based on a screenplay by French existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre. A society heiress and a resistance fighter are tragically killed at the same moment and meet in the afterlife. They are offered a second chance at life if they can prove their love is real or be doomed to roam the earth as ghosts.
Élisabeth Rousset, dite "Boule de suif"
During the stagecoach trip of a frightened group of inhabitants of Rouen, Elisabeth Rousset, known as "Boule de Suif", renders these people a signal service, but comes up against their stupidity and their sufficiency. A little later, Boule de Suif assassinates the formidable Prussian lieutenant whom his friends had nicknamed Fifi and who shamelessly displayed his taste for pillage and his sadistic tendencies.
Claire Ancelot
Cabaret star Zazu intervenes when young lovers are sundered by their parents' feud.
Micheline Lafaurie
Philippe Clarence, a famous Parisian dressmaker, seduces his friend's fiancee. But, for the first time in his life, this is for real. The film is also a sharp picture of the fashion world.
Félicie Nanteuil
At the beginning of the 20th century, the destiny of Félicie Nanteuil, a young girl from the provinces who became a big star on the stage thanks to a comedian who committed suicide out of love for her.
Clara Biondi
In 1860s France, a couple who have recently acquired a dilapidated country house in Vendôme discover within it the secret of a passionate love affaire that once took a macabre and sadly turn. it all began 50 years previously, when the wealthy landowner Gérard de Clergue fell madly in love with the beautiful young dancer Clara Biondi. In the course of the ensuing romance, Gérard remains blissfully ignorant of the fact that Clara had a previous lover, James de Poulay...
Micheline
Tonio, pretty Micheline's fiance, meets Georgia ,a gypsy who makes advances to him.
Françoise Pimbrache
On the very day of his wedding, Valentin Le Barroyer sees the one he was to marry fly away. Hélène has always loved her cousin André, to the great displeasure of her aunt who had combined the failed marriage. The two lovers take refuge in the Dordogne at the home of Hélène's grandmother who believes them to be really husband and wife. Valentin finds the young couple too late, he only has to console himself with a friend of Hélène's.
Irène
Denis, a poor student in philosophy, works as a night porter in the Paris market of Les Halles in order to pay for his studies. Constantly weary, he falls asleep and dreams of a beautiful girl in white, Irène, with whom he falls in love.
Adélaïde Barbier
By mutual agreement, a man and a woman are separated to allow the wife to join her lover.
Irène Morillon
In the pound, Pipo the dog recounts his adventures to his fellow inmates.
Lydia
Monsieur Jourdain is a dangerous madman : he wants to share his fortune! His relatives do what any sensible fellow on earth would do: they have him committed to a mental hospital. But Jourdain manages to escape and decides to make everybody happy except... his heirs!
Janine et Jeannette
In pre-World Ward I in Paris, a budding artist, Pierre LeBlanc, falls in love and marries Janine, a dressmaker's assistant. Pierre has a flair for designing clothes, and he and his bride live in a blissful paradise, until the war breaks out and he becomes a soldier. Janine dies in childbirth and, no longer desiring to live, Pierre volunteers for a dangerous patrol behind German lines. While recuperating in the hospital from a wound he received on the mission, Pierre spends his time drawing sketches of dresses. He becomes rich and famous after the war. Years later, after devoting himself to his daughter, Pierre seeks a marriage with a girl no older than his daughter. A conflict develops and to ensure his daughter's happiness, Pierre sacrifices his own plans.
Lucie
Early in the war, a group of women decide to help the soldiers in the war front. They enlist the help of the wealthy Madame Marion.
After the death of her trapeze artist father, a little girl is taken in by two clowns.
Marceline, a fearless 17-year-old girl, is expelled from her boarding school. Her adoptive parents then sent her to a stricter school.
Jacqueline Presle
Jeune Filles en Detresse (Young Girls in Distress) was director G. W. Pabst's last French production before his (ill-timed) return to Nazi-occupied Austria in 1941. Somewhat reminiscent of Maedchen in Uniform, the story is set in a private girl's school, populated almost exclusively by children from broken homes. Among the few students who can claim family stability is Micheline Presle, but even her happiness is threatened when her lawyer father Andre Luguet inaugurates an affair with stage actress Jacqueline Debulac. With the help of Debulac's daughter Louisa Carletti, Presle is able to break up her father's romance and deliver him into the open arms of her mother Marcelle Chantal. On the whole, the performance by the younger cast members are more convincing than those rendered by the film's so-called adults.
(uncredited)
Charles's uncle is the headmaster of a chic girls school .He is short of the readies and he has lots and lots of debts.
A husband, exasperated by his wife, spanks her without paying attention to the open window in front of which he is. He is annoyingly surprised to discover the next day that the scene has been photographed by a neighbor, and that the image is circulating in Paris. A debate then ensues: is this an opportunity to call for revolt or a welcome manifestation of marital authority?
