Self (archive footage)
May 10th, 1981. François Mitterrand is elected President of the Republic. The “soviet tanks” supposedly coming upon the Champs-Élysées dressed in red, feared by some, did not march. Serge Moati takes a personal look at this episode, focusing on the relationship the president had with television, that he witnessed and played a role in.
César Lévy
Clémy
Commissaire Navarro
Yolande, the daughter of Commissioner Navarro, pleads her first case. The worthy daughter of the commissioner wins hands down. Her client is exonerated despite the relentlessness of Lieutenant Garrel. Happy with her accomplished duty, she leaves the Palace for the office of Master Rossi, her boss, where her colleagues reserve a small party for her.
Paul Dalembert
Joseph Joanovici
Joseph Joanovici, a Romanian Jew married to Eva and father of Theresa, lives in Paris in 1939, on the eve of World War II. He managed to make his place in society by trading scrap.
César
When the man he thought was his father dies, a young man learns the identity of his true father.
César
After Marius leaves, Fanny learns that she is carrying his child. To save her family's honor, Honorine wants her daughter to marry Panisse, a good rich man who is willing to adopt her child.
César
Adaptation of the popular French play Marius in which a youth is torn between his girlfriend and his love for the sea.
Aimable Castanier
In a small village of Haute-Provence, it is an event. The abandoned bakery comes back to life. Aimable and his wife Aurélie bring out the first batch of bread for the happiness of the inhabitants. Among the first customers, Dominique, a young shepherd, does not leave Aurélie indifferent...
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.
Writer
Argelia, 1940. Maman Titine (Sophia Loren) vive sola con sus cinco hijos desde que su marido Joseph (Phillippe Noiret), un judío empleado de la oficina de correos, se fue a París con papeles falsos a buscar trabajo. Maman Titine vive preocupada especialmente por su hijo Meyer, en plena infancia, que le ama de una manera celosa. Cuando los problemas financieros y la soledad ahogan a Maman, ella decide ir a París a buscar a Joseph, pero éste no quiere volver porque ha comenzado la Guerra de Argelia. Mientras tanto, Meyer crece, tiene sus primeras relaciones sexuales y trata de ganar dinero para su familia.
Director
Argelia, 1940. Maman Titine (Sophia Loren) vive sola con sus cinco hijos desde que su marido Joseph (Phillippe Noiret), un judío empleado de la oficina de correos, se fue a París con papeles falsos a buscar trabajo. Maman Titine vive preocupada especialmente por su hijo Meyer, en plena infancia, que le ama de una manera celosa. Cuando los problemas financieros y la soledad ahogan a Maman, ella decide ir a París a buscar a Joseph, pero éste no quiere volver porque ha comenzado la Guerra de Argelia. Mientras tanto, Meyer crece, tiene sus primeras relaciones sexuales y trata de ganar dinero para su familia.
Professeur Lévy
Argelia, 1940. Maman Titine (Sophia Loren) vive sola con sus cinco hijos desde que su marido Joseph (Phillippe Noiret), un judío empleado de la oficina de correos, se fue a París con papeles falsos a buscar trabajo. Maman Titine vive preocupada especialmente por su hijo Meyer, en plena infancia, que le ama de una manera celosa. Cuando los problemas financieros y la soledad ahogan a Maman, ella decide ir a París a buscar a Joseph, pero éste no quiere volver porque ha comenzado la Guerra de Argelia. Mientras tanto, Meyer crece, tiene sus primeras relaciones sexuales y trata de ganar dinero para su familia.
Jacques Brachart
Adaptation of a French boulevard play, in which a parvenu businessman marries a young lady from a noble family who need his money.There is no love lost between them.
Self
Scali
Tunisia, early thirties, the young and plump Bajou, lives modestly with his parents. One day after a flood, his father suddenly disappears. Thanks to his uncle and his cousin Marcel, he moves with his mother Oumi to work for the wealthy landowner Mr. Scali, a talkative and boastful man.
Self
Claude Ventura's documentary Chambre 12, Hotel de Suede, was made for the French television channel Arte in 1993. Ventura checks into room twelve in the hotel's final week of operation: it is demolished the day after he checks out. Room twelve was one of the principal locations for Jean-Luc Godard's New Wave masterpiece Breathless, and Ventura's documentary investigates the production of Godard's film.
David
David, an overly jealous widower haunts Yvan, the ex-lover of his deceased wife, who is also apparently the true father of the couple's surviving daughter. The behavior of the grieving David, self-destructive and abusive at the same time, has grave consequences for Yvan, his daughter and the band of fellow musicians who work with Yvan.
Raymond Bettoun
The mobster Raymond Bettoun gets out of prison and joins his son Maurice in Miami, a drug trafficker who is about to launch a huge operation. But he falls into a trap and a war begins in which Raymond will fight a last battle to try to save his son and what remains of his family.
Picard
Evocation of the life of the journalist Jean Galmot, adventurer, who established himself as a gold digger in Guyana in 1906. Madly in love with this country, he will die for having wanted to give dignity and freedom to the Guyanese people.
Director
Muller
Mr. Muller meets a mysterious woman who apparently knows a few things from his past that he would rather have kept hidden.
Berzine
Director
The young Ali, a second year law student, gets caught up in a student demonstration. The situation escalates, a cop is injured and witnesses designate Ali, of Arabic origin, as guilty.
William Barres
In 1956, with the independence of Morocco, the Fedala conference in Tangier is set in a city of turmoil.
Beppo Manzoni
Paris, 1938. In a lavishly decorated nightclub, couples dance the syncopated rhythms of Latin America: Rumba, Cucaracha, Tango, and also the Charleston, Foxtrot and Boston. Among beautiful women, local pimps and Mussolini's spies brush each other on the dance floor, and in the streets. A police inspector is charged with a difficult task, to clean-up the city streets - just when bodies start falling around, as the Mafia and the spies tend each other deadly traps.
Director
Paris, 1938. In a lavishly decorated nightclub, couples dance the syncopated rhythms of Latin America: Rumba, Cucaracha, Tango, and also the Charleston, Foxtrot and Boston. Among beautiful women, local pimps and Mussolini's spies brush each other on the dance floor, and in the streets. A police inspector is charged with a difficult task, to clean-up the city streets - just when bodies start falling around, as the Mafia and the spies tend each other deadly traps.
Victor Harris
In this conventional, broadly comic farce of greed and royal matrimony, nearly bankrupt businessman Victor Harris is marrying Maria-Helena, a princess who comes with a dowry that is made up of one half of her island kingdom. Her father, the cowardly King Arnold III is counting on the money this marriage will bring him. The country is now almost bankrupt because of the king's gambling debts. As Harris and the king look forward to their illusory profits from the royal merger, other characters add some liveliness to the otherwise predictable story.
Commissaire Couturier
This movie starts with three men arrested for disorderly conduct at a dance. After they are released, they take a train trip, vent their continuing anger on a young Arab, and kill the man by forcing him out of a window on the speeding train. Their crime is witnessed by Isabelle and reported to the police, enabling commissioner Couturier to find the killers. The major problem now is to prevent a race riot when right-wing extremists falsely accuse some Arabs of reprehensible actions and the townspeople gather to demonstrate at the prison.
Director
This movie starts with three men arrested for disorderly conduct at a dance. After they are released, they take a train trip, vent their continuing anger on a young Arab, and kill the man by forcing him out of a window on the speeding train. Their crime is witnessed by Isabelle and reported to the police, enabling commissioner Couturier to find the killers. The major problem now is to prevent a race riot when right-wing extremists falsely accuse some Arabs of reprehensible actions and the townspeople gather to demonstrate at the prison.
Maurice
Dale, una encantadora disc-jockey, conoce a Maurice, restaurador, hosco pero sincero. Dale está embarazada, pero su marido está más interesado por su trabajo que por ella. Maurice empieza a pensar que debería casarse con su amante, pero Dale no le pierde de vista...
Léon Castelli
The story follows Americans in Algeria at the time of the Allied invasion of North Africa in 1942.
Philippe
A woman leaves her husband and marries another man without divorcing the first.
Aimé Prado
Aimé Prado, pied-noir based in Marseille, is a very renowned restaurateur. He befriends Julien, a marginal man wanted for the accidental death of a racist cafe owner.
The Innkeeper
The story of Jean Valjean, a Frenchman convicted of minor crimes, who is hounded for years by an unforgiving and unrelenting police inspector, Javert.
Raymond Beitoun
Clan Bettoun: Raymond (el patriarca), Maurice (hijo), Jacky (el sobrino), Roland (el sobrino), Albert (primo de Raymond), Pepe (el amigo de Raymond), Samy (la guardia cuerpo) son un clan familiar de los agresores los pies de negro los judíos de la delincuencia organizada francés. Leurs activités sont la gestion de casinos. Sus actividades son la gestión de casinos, juego de la organización de boxeo clandestino de juegos de azar, ilegal, el proxenetismo, la extorsión y el ajuste de cuentas sangriento contra otros clanes en árabe y francés.
Charles-Hubert Poissonnard
Georges
Albert Narboni
A shady Parisian tries to take advantage of a family of French-descended Algerians forced to move to France.
Producer
The imaginary adventures of musician Sans-Saëns.
Roger Karbaoui
Civil servant Adrien Courtois comes to Paris in order to make his money bear fruits.
Director
While the President of a West African Republic arrives in France to sell uranium to the State, spies from around the world are on hand to thwart the transaction. France then decides to put one of its worst agents on the case, a certain Maxime, who has a very loose tongue. All they have to do is send him false information, hoping that it will fall into the ears of their enemies...
Canello
A surgeon saves an notorious mobster's life. This could be the answer to the doctor's problems, as he is engaged to an unbearable, hysterical woman. The mobster agrees to assassinate her. Except for one thing. The mobster has the wrong target, a young, innocent journalist who resembles his fiancee. When the surgeon discovers they are after the wrong woman, he takes off in a mad race to Cote d'Azur to save the wrong woman from being murdered.
Writer
Samuel Makian sale de prisión. Es un rico arquitecto y su hija Natalie ha desaparecido. Queriendo encontrarla a todo precio, se mete en el mundo de la prostitución. Se infiltra con los proxenetas y decide ir solo para solucionar el problema. Su encuentro con Beppo Manzini, que es considerado como autor material de la desaparición de Natalie le hace conocer muchos enigmas hasta entonces encubiertos.
Julien Da Costa
Samuel Makian sale de prisión. Es un rico arquitecto y su hija Natalie ha desaparecido. Queriendo encontrarla a todo precio, se mete en el mundo de la prostitución. Se infiltra con los proxenetas y decide ir solo para solucionar el problema. Su encuentro con Beppo Manzini, que es considerado como autor material de la desaparición de Natalie le hace conocer muchos enigmas hasta entonces encubiertos.
Director
Samuel Makian sale de prisión. Es un rico arquitecto y su hija Natalie ha desaparecido. Queriendo encontrarla a todo precio, se mete en el mundo de la prostitución. Se infiltra con los proxenetas y decide ir solo para solucionar el problema. Su encuentro con Beppo Manzini, que es considerado como autor material de la desaparición de Natalie le hace conocer muchos enigmas hasta entonces encubiertos.
Barbarin
Carré
Tony Arzenta es un asesino al servicio de una potente organización criminal, con ramificaciones en Milán, París, Hamburgo y Copenhague. Cansado de su oficio, decide dejarlo. Puesto que sabe muchas cosas, sus jefes quieren eliminarlo, poniendo una bomba en su automóvil. En la explosión mueren su mujer y su hijo. Enfurecido, Tony inicia su venganza.
Le patron de l'hôtel
The guardian of a nursing home lends a compassionate ear to the complaints of two new pensioners who love each other and have only one dream: to see the sea. To help them realize their dream, the brave man steals the car of the director. She quickly discovers the crime and drags her pale husband to the pursuit of the trio, aboard a tanker truck...
Quiberon
La tranquila vida del ranchero John Benedict se ve truncada cuando un grupo de comanches destruye su granja y asesina a su familia. Desesperado por haber perdido lo que más quería, Benedict saca de la cárcel a un grupo de convictos despiadados que le ayudarán a encontrar a los culpables y matarlos.
Kurt
Michèle (Marisa Mell) y Gilbert (Philippe Leroy) reciben la llamada de un secuestrador que dice tener a su hijo y les recomienda no acudir a la policía. En el secuestro está implicada Britt (Lea Massari ), la amante de Gilbert. Los secuestradores exigen a Gilbert que les entregue un maletín lleno de millones de los que transporta habitualmente al banco donde trabaja. Al principio, se niega rotundamente, pero la presión psicológica que ejercen sobr él los delincuentes llega a límites insospechados.
Inspecteur Borelli
Following a robbery in a circus, a young mobster, Jean, is arrested by Inspector Borelli. The thug denies involvement. To compel him to sign a full confession, Inspector Muller encourages the suspect to get married for - he says - to move the jury. This being done, he lets Jean believe that he can spend a moment alone with his wife; but then, Inspector Borelli blackmails him: "If you sign your confession, you can spend a moment with her." After being beaten, Jean signs a confession. It is then that a new blackmail intervenes: "the name of the accomplice?", asks the inspector. But the thug refuses to denounce the latter and ends up refusing the bargain dupes. While the guards drive him back to prison, his wife cuts his veins, breaking the career of the bad policeman.
André
Partisan of total sexual freedom, a young woman with perfect physique leads, by her example, a married friend to live like her. The two friends then engage in all kinds of erotic experiences at random from their meetings with various gentlemen, but also between them.
M. Brumeu, le Père de Pierre
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.
L'inspecteur des grands magasins / Frascati
Screenwriter Philippe (Duchaussoy) imagines a crime committed by his wife Sylvie (Delon) and a mutual friend Pierre (Serre): a dead body is put in a trunk but the hand sticks out. Sylvie and Pierre begin to have an affair and things get very dangerous and the imaginary crime is on its way to becoming prophetic.
Michel Fauvel
The weekend of August 15th gives the opportunity to Michel Fauvet, a recently divorced father, to spend two full days with Bruno, his thirteen-year-old son, that he can normally see only one Sunday a month. Feeling guilty, he tries to compensate for the trauma inflicted to Bruno by giving him presents. This time around, Michel has decided to treat him to a nice trip to Bruges and the Belgian Coast. Which will not prevent Bruno from asking his father disturbing questions.
The Boss
El robo de una fuerte suma de dinero que debe ser trasladada desde los casinos de Las Vegas hasta los bancos de San Francisco es un buen reclamo para una banda de ladrones. Lo malo es que, una vez realizado el golpe, inesperadamente las ambiciones de los miembros de la banda entran en colisión.
Saint-Dominique
En Berlín, matan a un agente secreto francés y secuestran a un científico alemán. Otro agente descubre una trama relacionada con los chinos y ha de estar muy atento...
François Cartier
Inspector Pierre Grimaldi
El megalómano Fu-Manchú secuestra a las hijas de doce eminentes científicos y las envía a una isla remota. En vez de pedir un rescate, Fu quiere que los padres de las chicas inventen un rayo mortal para poder dominar el mundo. Pero su enemigo más acérrimo, Nayland Smith de Scotland Yard, tratará de impedirlo.
Daniel Layton, Agent B-17 / Tiger
Layton, agente del servicio secreto, ha de descubrir el paradero de Hakim Gregory, un traficante de drogas que ha escapado de la cárcel después de matar a varios guardias, pero las mujeres se interponen en su camino...
Sadov
The USA pass an exceptional top secret contract with a country in the Middle East: they are selling arms in exchange for exclusive rights on the countries rich oil resources. The USSR sent a team of their best secret agents to rob the document, so that later they can apprehend the ship which must pass through one of the Russian ports... After special training in a secret island in the Black Sea, Alex, Sadov and Sonia are sent in to get the documents. All goes according to plan, and Sadov gives the handbag to the mastermind, General Fiodorenko. On opening it though, the handbag explodes. Who is the infiltrated agent in the most secret of the Soviets secret ring?
Franck Norman
Unos ingenieros pertenecientes a una organización militar están ensayando un nuevo tipo de rayos que desintegran en el aire a los aviones. Una organización extranjera se apodera del aparato cuya clave es rescatada por el Servicio Secreto francés. Bersen, jefe de la organización, trata por todos los medios de recuperar la clave para poder venderla a un agente secreto de otro país.
Screenplay
The Tiger is sent to oversee the excavation of a sunken ship. While busy to retrieve the gold tresure in it, he is constantly thwarted by international enemies. Among them is an old Nazi named Hans von Wunchendorf who dreams of world domination. He hides behind the codename "The Orchid" and needs the treasure to sustain a worldwide network of exiled former comrades. Once sanified by the gold his organisation plans to realise the endsieg after all.
Louis Rapière
The Tiger is sent to oversee the excavation of a sunken ship. While busy to retrieve the gold tresure in it, he is constantly thwarted by international enemies. Among them is an old Nazi named Hans von Wunchendorf who dreams of world domination. He hides behind the codename "The Orchid" and needs the treasure to sustain a worldwide network of exiled former comrades. Once sanified by the gold his organisation plans to realise the endsieg after all.
Bruno Kerrien
En un tren con destino a Suiza, un agente secreto, Bruno Kerrien, roba una valiosa joya destinada al despiadado Dr. Kha y la entrega a una rica viajera, Marie-Chantal, para su custodia. Convencidos de que él todavía tiene la joya, un enjambre de agentes extranjeros persiguen a Kerrien y le capturan. Ahora que sabe que Kerrien no tiene la joya, Marie-Chantal está en peligro...
Robert 'Bob' Stuart
En una base hispano-americana se descubre una red de agentes al servicio ruso que transmiten información. El agente Jeff es enviado a España para desarticular la organización junto con un enlace que es una bella mujer de la que se enamorara. (FILMAFFINITY)
Mirmont
Writer
Baskine, el embajador turco, llega a París para firmar un importante acuerdo comercial, permitiendo a Turquía comprar un nuevo y sofisticado avión de guerra. Repentinamente, se convierte en objetivo de un asesino desconocido y el agente especial Louis Rapière (alias "El Tigre") es asignado para protegerle. Durante un fallido intento de asesinato en la ópera, Mehlica, la hija del embajador, es secuestrada...
Le Tigre
Baskine, el embajador turco, llega a París para firmar un importante acuerdo comercial, permitiendo a Turquía comprar un nuevo y sofisticado avión de guerra. Repentinamente, se convierte en objetivo de un asesino desconocido y el agente especial Louis Rapière (alias "El Tigre") es asignado para protegerle. Durante un fallido intento de asesinato en la ópera, Mehlica, la hija del embajador, es secuestrada...
Captain Paolinelli
Tras la I Guerra Mundial, Domenico (Vittorio Gassman) y Umberto (Ugo Tognazzi), dos soldados sin ocupación, se reencuentran en Emilia. Incapaces de encontrar trabajo, deciden integrarse en el movimiento fascista, en busca de una oportunidad de prosperar. Durante una huelga de barrenderos, en la que sustituyen a los trabajadores, golpean accidentalmente a un policía y son encarcelados. Mientras están en prisión, los fascistas toman el poder y liberan a los presos políticos. Nuevamente en la calle, Domenico y Umberto se unen a la "Marcha sobre Roma". (FILMAFFINITY)
acteur
Jean de Lursac
The French Secret Services are out to recover some secret documents stolen from a Russian cultural attaché, while he struggles to prove his innocence. That is, if he is innocent.
Self
Inspector Landais
Police inspector, Landais is caught in a tough situation. Daniele has murdered her husband, yet after the inspector starts investigating the case, he is completely overcome by her. Her obvious attractions have him in thrall and eventually he realizes he will do anything not to lose her. His solution is to cover up for her crime, after which things begin to go poorly.
Charles le Téméraire
Luis XI, rey de Francia, y Carlos el Temerario, duque de Borgoña, están en una situación de "guerra fría". Luis XI intenta conservar la paz, a pesar de los arrebatos coléricos del duque y las felonías del traidor Sénac. El proyecto del rey es dar a su ahijada, Jeanne de Beauvais, en matrimonio a Carlos, que la desea. Pero Jeanne está enamorada del caballero de Neuville...
Ravaillac
Morini
Rosaria y sus cuatro hijos (Simone, Rocco, Ciro y Luca) abandonan su tierra natal, Lucania (la actual Basilicata), para emigrar a Milán en busca de trabajo y oportunidades que les permitan mejorar sus condiciones de vida. Allí encuentran a Vincenzo, el hermano mayor, que trabaja de albañil pero que está relacionado con el mundo del boxeo.
Michel Ferréol
Michel Ferréol reluctantly meets up with an old school friend, Antoine Fiesco. Michel didn’t like Antoine much when they were at school and tries to get away by making an excuse. He changes his mind when Antoine introduces him to his wife, a beautiful brunette named Christine.
Serge Cazais
Carl Zubart
Michel Poiccard es un ex-figurante de cine admirador de Bogart. Tras robar un coche en Marsella para ir a París, mata fortuitamente a un motorista de la policía. Sin remordimiento alguno por lo que acaba de hacer, prosigue el viaje. En París, tras robar dinero a una amiga, busca a Patricia, una joven burguesa americana, que aspira a ser escritora y vende el New York Herald Tribune por los Campos Elíseos; sueña también con matricularse en la Sorbona y escribir algún día en ese periódico. En Europa cree haber hallado la libertad que no conoció en América. Lo que Michel ignora es que la policía lo está buscando por la muerte del motorista.
Le Gorille
This is the third feature in a series about an intrepid French spy by the nickname of "The Gorilla," but unlike the earlier films, this time around Roger Hanin replaces Lino Ventura in the title role. A West German scientist has discovered a way to recover missiles shot into space, and the major Western powers are after his secret. Even though the scientist is willing to pass his discovery on to NATO, it is guarded by an elite, undercover West German police force. As foreign agents, including the Russians and Americans, try to get their hands on the secret, "The Gorilla" is forced into the affair by his surly, aging boss -- he has to make sure that the scientist's discovery ends up with NATO.
Antoine Castellani
WW2 is coming to an end ;on the seaside,resistant fighters are captured and imprisoned in a basement ;within an hour ,all of them will be shot .An hour of fear ,of impossible dreams ,of false hopes .Based on a Bernanos play ,it sometimes recall ,by the subject of sacrifice (a sacrifice of an average human being is not an average one),"Dialogue Des Carmélites ",in which nuns ,during the French Revolution,were guillotined ,because they would have betrayed their faith if they had accepted the new rules).
Robert Bertin
Jacques, un buen hombre, se encuentra en una situación económica desesperada, debido al gusto que siente por el lujo su mujer, y acepta colaborar en una operación de tráfico de diamantes, sólo para descubrir que su mujer es la amante de un gangster...
'Le Bug'
Vicky de Berlin, a female gangster, haunted by wartime memories , runs a floating night-club in Brussel. Marcel, her partner and lover, is in charge of the banknotes forgery manufacture concealed in the bottom of the boat. He decides to rob the Bank of Belgium and exchange a huge sum of counterfeit money for its equivalent in genuine one. But things get complicated when Yoko, the she leader of another gang and her lover The Bug interfere...
Robert Sartori, subalterne de Jean pendant la guerre
Jean es diseñador en una agencia publicitaria y se vuelca totalmente en su trabajo para intentar olvidar a su mujer, que le abandonó cinco años atrás. Casualmente un día la encuentra en el autobús y descubre que todavía le gusta y que él también ejerce atractivo sobre ella. Los sentimientos de Jean serán entonces contradictorios, por una lado querría matarla y por otro volver a conquistarla.
Dick
Back from Indochina, Tony and Dick, two French soldiers, are now in possession of more than 20 million, entrusted by a trafficker. They buy a nightclub in the district of Montparnasse but are soon hunted by the thug who wants to recover his money.
Itchoa
Love and adventure story about contraband runners in the Basque province of France.
Albert Simoni, le patron de "L'Œuf"
En el curso de una investigación un inspector de policía se queda prendado de una joven drogadicta, relacionada con la víctima del caso que él investiga. Se plantea entonces renunciar a sus pesquisas, pero entonces descubre al responsable del crimen.
Charlemagne, le voleur de bijoux
A beautiful 18-year-old orphan escapes from a reformatory and hooks up with a gang of jewel smugglers, and decides on a life of crime. However, she falls for and marries a policeman, putting a crimp in her criminal career.
Pierre
Cine negro de espionaje. La famosa espía llamada la "Chatte trabaja para los alemanes. (FILMAFFINITY)
Bebe
A Dutch slave captain, on a voyage to Cuba, faces a revolt fomented by a newly captured African slave, Tamango. The slaves capture the captain's mistress, forcing a showdown.
Olivier
Based on Cornell Woolrich's 1940 story, "Cinderella and the Mob"
Panagiotaros
En los años 20, estando Grecia bajo la ocupación turca, los habitantes de un pequeño pueblo se preparan para la representación anual de La Pasión. La llegada de unos refugiados, provenientes de una aldea saqueada por los turcos, altera la armonía de la villa, pues los aldeanos, convencidos que si se muestran amables con esos refugiados perderán el favor de los invasores, deciden expulsarlos y no ayudarlos. Manolios, un pastor al cual le ha sido dado el papel de Jesucristo en la representación teatral, tratará de convencer a la gente del poblado para tener piedad de los refugiados. (FILMAFFINITY)
Istria
Nuestro viejo amigo Lemmy Caution viaja a Roma para rescatar a un agente federal que ha sido secuestrado cuando se hacía pasar por un científico codiciado por una banda de espías...
un soldat
Un mauvais garçon (uncredited)
Making his directorial debut, Robert Hossein also assumes the leading role, playing an escaped convict. Hossein and his fellow escapees cross the path of Marina Vlady, with whom they all fall in love. Alas for our "heroes," Vlady intends to avenge the death of her sweetheart at the hands of Hossein and his confreres. Not only do these heels go to Hell, but they do so with a spectacular flourish. Les Salauds Vont en Enfer was adapted by Rene Wheeler from a play by Frederic Dard.
René Schwob, le chef de la bande
A trucker encounters a dead body on the road home. He reports the incident to the police, who suspect that Jean was responsible for the death, and his new truck is impounded. To make matters worse, the man's widow accuses him of having robbed her husband, and a gang of sinister crooks are also harassing him.
Ménard
Un policía camuflado traba amistad en la cárcel con un gángster. Al salir, éste le encomienda que vaya a ver a su esposa, de la que no recibe noticias. El policía y la mujer se enamoran...
Un homme de main de Rudy
FBI Agent Lemmy Caution is sent after a missing two million in Casablanca while mob boss mistress Carlotta plays both sides of the law.
A follower
Saul De Tarse is a Roman soldier who is making rough all over. He arrives at the Golgotha when the apostles remove the cross. He ruthlessly persecutes the Christians, even though they are his own friends.
Un consommateur à la terrasse d'un café (uncredited)
Henri and Jeannette Milliard, a newly married couple from Normandy arrive in Paris where they intend to spend their honeymoon. Unforfunately a wicket gate in the metro separates the couple. In panic, Henri looks for his wife across the capital. He ends up finding her at the hotel they were to put up. But it looks as if Jeannette has gone through some distressing adventure.
