Gilberte Géniat

A diverse group of guests gather in a small hotel in Paris to contemplate the state of their lives in this pretentious drama. Joseph Goldman (Fernando Rey) is a washed-up Hollywood actor making a living in the dinner-theater circuit. Accompanied by his wife Sarah (Carole Regnier), Goldman meets Frederique (Berangere Bonvoisin), who is hiding from her former lover. French financier Arthur (Fabrice Luchini) hopes to get into the film industry and bends the ear of a British director (Michael Medwin). The talkative film has little action, and none of the characters evoke much interest or resolve their dilemma.

La vida de Cathy Palmer transita entre su realidad cotidiana -al cuidado de sus hijos, fruto de su relación con su protector marido Kevin- y sus fantasías, que pasan por vivir nuevas experiencias, a poder ser, diametralmente por las que ha transitado hasta le fecha. Este deseo acaba traduciéndose en su voluntad por presentarse a un concurso de escritura, en el que la ganadora podrá disfrutar de un fin de semana en París con todos los gastos pagados. El concurso consiste en emular el estilo literario de la escritora de best-sellers Rebecca Ryan. Al resultar vencedora, Cathy, contraviniendo los deseos de su esposo, viaja hasta la capital francesa. Pero durante el trayecto, la soñadora ama de casa sufre un accidente que la obliga a guardar cama en un hospital. Al despertar, Cathy parece no recordarse nada de los sucedido y empieza a adoptar la personalidad de su admirada Rebecca Ryan

El trabajo de Françoise consiste en seducir a los hombres cuyas esposas quieren divorciarse y necesitan tener pruebas contra ellos. Además, chantajea a los políticos, que no pueden permitirse un escándalo. Empezó a dedicarse a este lucrativo negocio después de haber sido violada, pero ahora la policía la está buscando, y no tiene más remedio que recurrir a una pareja que vive de ocultar delincuentes. En su refugio conoce a Simon, un mafioso con el que colabora en robos esporádicos, pero el cerco de la policía se estrecha. (FILMAFFINITY)

Raoul no sabe lo que le pasa a su mujer, está depresiva, no tiene ganas de nada, así que recurre a un desconocido para que se convierta en su amante, y sacarla de su depresión.

Cortometraje de Sophie Tatischeff ambientado en la pequeña ciudad de Sainte-Sévère-sur-Indre, tres décadas después de su uso en la película de su padre 'Jour de Fête'. La conversación de un típico bar de pueblo se trasplanta a una pastelería con tartaletas particularmente tentadoras: "No hay motivo para que no comamos otro", dice un cliente; "No más para mí gracias", dice otro. "¿Un bizcocho a esta hora del día?", pregunta la mujer detrás del mostrador.

En París, un psicópata apodado Minos amenaza con matar a todas las mujeres de vida alegre de la ciudad. El inspector Jean Letellier está sobre su pista.

La OAS, un grupo ultra francés, contrata a un asesino profesional, cuya verdadera identidad nadie sabe, conocido como Chacal para que acabe con la vida del general De Gaulle, Presidente de la República Francesa. La policía francesa descubre el plan e inicia una operación contrarreloj para localizar y detener al asesino.

Stanislas Prévine, un joven profesor de sociología, prepara una tesis sobre la criminalidad femenina. Una de las mujeres elegidas para su estudio es Camille Bliss, acusada, entre otras cosas, del asesinato de Arthur, un técnico en desratización. El profesor, armado con su grabadora y sus personales teorías que aún no ha podido confirmar, acude a la prisión. Se entrevista con la muchacha y la somete a un largo interrogatorio, en el que sale a relucir su pintoresco pasado. Conforme avanzan las conversaciones, Stanislas está cada vez más convencido de la inocencia de Camille y llega a la conclusión de que Arthur se suicidó.

The story of an apartment in Paris and the various people that occupy it over the years.

Una secretaria coge el coche de su jefe para sus vacaciones por el Mediterráneo. El viaje se complicará cuando un cuerpo aparezca en el maletero...

Una joven explotada y reprimida empieza a cobrar por sus favores sexuales y dinamita la sociedad capitalista patriarcal del pueblo donde vive.

Una joven entra a trabajar como doncella en casa de una familia aristocrática. Adaptación de una novela de Octave Mirbeau que Jean Renoir ya había llevado al cine en su etapa americana.

Marcel trabaja en una fábrica y es un tío bastante normal. Una viuda lo lía para que le compre un moderno coche americano. Al principio no quiere, pero finalmente acaba aceptando. Desde que se hace con el coche todo son problemas y gastos. No sólo tendrá que lidiar con el automóvil sino también con su mujer que está que se sube por las paredes. (FILMAFFINITY)

Barbara Laage essays the title role in Zoe. Our heroine's adventures begin when she catches the eye of a big-city playboy named Arthur (Michel Auclair), who is attracted not only to Zoe's beauty, but by her insistence upon telling nothing but the whole truth. This trait causes no end of comic complications when Zoe moves into the palatial home of Arthur's family. The limit comes when Zoe botches a big business deal formulated by Arthur's not-altogether-honest father (Louis Seigner). Zoe is based on a stage farce by Jean Marsan.

Noël is a bachelor who inherits a matrimonial agency. After contemplating selling it, he chooses to manage it.

One day, Raoul Cérusier realizes with amazement that his face has changed. With the exception of an old uncle, no one, not even his wife, recognizes him. From an ordinary, rather ugly man, he has become a charming young man on whom the prettiest girls turn, including his wife whom he seduces. Fortunately, he regains his old face in time and Madame Cérusier, losing a lover, finds her husband again.

A woman who has a terrible secret to conceal takes refuge on a barge.

A woman in Paris hires a taxi driver to locate her ex-lover, father to her newborn child, who left her without leaving an address.

Jean-Louis forgets to use the pedestrian crossing;Who could have believed then where it would lead the unfortunate guy to?

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.

Melodrama of two struggling artists whose love for each other is thwarted.She has some success as a ballerina despite being wounded by him in a fit of jealousy. His career as a sculptor is stymied when he is arrested.

The struggle of a female doctor against superstition and healers.

In the train that takes her back home, Catheine Beryl meets concert pianist André Fuger, a childhood friend of her husband's. The musician is both good-looking and seductive and Catherine soon falls for his charms. The two young people spend the evening and the following night together. The next day, a lost powder compact gives the affair away. At a loss, Catherine runs away from her husband but she has an accident. When she regains consciousness in her hospital bed, Catherine finds Georges, her husband, by her side, pretending nothing has happened.

A young woman who inherits her uncle's nightclub, invents a gangster husband in order to gain respect.

París, Francia, diciembre de 1946. Jenny Lamour, una ambiciosa cantante de cabaret, y Maurice, su extremadamente celoso marido pianista, se ven envueltos en la minuciosa investigación del asesinato de un turbio empresario, dirigida por Antoine, un peculiar y metódico inspector de policía.

Cambo, a banker, has been in trouble since a certain Parizot has tried to extort stocks from him. Following the advice of his friend Quincampoix, Cambo decides to trade places with Bardac, a painter, who happens to be his lookalike. Bardac slips into Cambo's shoes with delight although he does not really live up to his task. But Cambo, who manages to ruin Parizot, makes a 100% profit on the situation. There are of course some misunderstandings when one man is mistaken for the other, notably as concerns Lulu and Geneviève, respectively Bardac's and Cambo's sweethearts, but things finally return to their initial state.

Antoine Mouret, an authoritarian restaurateur, is the head of a large family where, for reasons of interest, people only marry cousins. But some have other plans, Marcus especially when he meets a passing circus girl.

A courier carrying a large sum of money intended for Bonaparte's army is attacked. A miscarriage of justice will lead an innocent person to the guillotine.

During the students ' rebellion against Nicholas the Second in Russia, Viana tries to kill the governor but it's her lover who is arrested and sent to a sinister fortress : hence the title. To help the prisoner,Vania marries the officer who commands the place. There the convicts have really a bad time, but Vania manages to communicate with her dear captive. But beware of informers.

Helene is based on Helene Wilfur, a novel by Vicki (Grand Hotel) Baum. Madeleine Renaud essays the title role, a young medical student in love with aspiring musician Pierre Regnier (Jean-Lous Barrault). Pierre's father, a noted surgeon, puts pressure on his son to give up music in favor of medicine. Unable to withstand his father's remonstrations, Pierre kills himself, prompting the grieving Madeleine to forget all about romance and dedicate her life to the cause of healing others. Wilfur avoids the usual soap-opera goo by offering realistic performances and credible dialogue (the English-language subtitles were composed by erudite film critic Herman G. Weinberg).