Philippe Nicaud

Great filmmakers claim the artistic influence of French director Henri-Georges Clouzot (1907-1977), a master of suspense, with a unique vision of the world, who knew how to offer both great shows and subtle studies of characters. Beyond the myth of the tyrannical director, a contrasting portrait of a visionary, an agitator, an artist against the system.

Successful author Antoine falls victim to a blackmailer, Jo. He decides to get rid of him according to his perfect crime scenario, gives up and finally lets him die accidentally. Antoine buries him under a bandstand being built in his garden. But Inspector Ducroc has his suspicions.

The neglected daughter of an industrialist who made his fortune in explosives supplies during the war and of a mother who was mostly concerned with herself, Monique Lerbier is a pretty blonde with generous but strong ideas and a hard character. She has chosen to be an atheist since her adolescence and does not tolerate injustice and social hypocrisy. She was to be married to an engineer, Lucien Vigneret. It was an arranged marriage, the dowry having to allow Vigneret to enter the capital of his father's company, which needed it to finance its business. But two weeks before the wedding, Monique surprises the fiancé with a mistress.

A biopic about Austrian composer Johann Strauß.

Un seductor con acento italiano intenta escapar de la policía, que quiere detenerle por un crimen que no ha cometido.

A country priest receives his bishop with the mission of converting a nudist colony.

Cuando Giacomo se está imaginando en la cama con voluptuosas mujeres, en plan James Bond, le confunden con un verdadero espía y le envían a Túnez en misión secreta.

The notorious and mysterious criminal Furax steals France's famous monuments, replacing them with replicas.

The small Norman village of Allouville is proud of its thousand-year-old oak tree. But one day, a project of enlargement threatens the tree. The deputy Charles Crétois was keen on this project, which allowed him to continue the speculation he had been indulging in on certain lands. He is supported by the mayor of Allouville to whom he promised the Legion of Honor. But the whole village protests: they want to save the oak tree.

A transsexual becomes a star of Paris and lives a crazy love story with the lover of a friend. But the young man comes to his senses and his bourgeois upbringing. A victim of prejudice, Vicky has no choice but to kill herself.

A French man invites two Sweden girls to spend time with him after his wife left for vacation.

En el año 1865, durante el sitio de Richmond (Virginia), cinco prisioneros se evaden en globo y son arrastrados por un terrible huracán hasta una isla, situada a más de seis mil millas de distancia.

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...

Philippe de Valmont, un importante productor de vinos de Banyuls, le pide a su amigo Patrick, un aventurero atractivo, que cuide de Desirella, una chica de la portada muy solicitada, que tiene un romance con su amiga lesbiana, Nicole. Patrick lleva a cabo su misión con tanto estilo que Desirella pronto se enamora de él. Nicole, en cuanto a ella, no acepta la situación. Ella está decidida a buscar venganza ...

Andrea Artust (Ugo Tognazzi), convencido de lo fácil que le resulta a una mujer engañar a su marido, empieza a albergar dudas sobre la fidelidad de su bellísima mujer (Claudia Cardinale). Pero, cuando la duda se convierte en obsesión, su conducta respecto a su mujer se vuelve completamente disparatada, hasta el punto de acosarla sin tregua, exigiéndole que le dé el nombre de su amante.

Set between Christmas and New Year, the film told the story of six criminals who kidnap an ambassador's daughter and await the ransom; enter Monsieur Wens, who infiltrates their hideout using various comic disguises, bumps them off one by one and rescues the little girl.

Léonard Monestier owns a large fortune, alas his wife Cynthia made a bad investment in a worthless oil concession. Far from letting this get him down, Léonard decides to find a sucker to buy this concession from him. Right on cue appears Antoine Brévin, a befuddled billionaire who is very interested in Léonard's beautiful daughter Patricia and would do anything to win her hand...

An automobile tribute

Las aventuras de dos bellas bailarinas francesas contratadas para actuar en una sala de fiestas de Hong Kong.

A light French comedy of 5 segments.

Recién casada con el apuesto dentista Herve Dandieu, Virginie (Brigitte Bardot) descubre que su marido está involucrado en el asesinato del propietario de una escuela de danza. Virginie comienza a trabajar como profesora de baile en el estudio para demostrar a la policía que su marido es inocente, y quizá encontrar al verdadero asesino...

There is a lot of excitement in the high society of Venice: An Arab prince, who always travels incognito, is said to be in the city. By chance, the elegant Isabella gets to know the handsome heir to the throne - and it does not take long for her to fall madly in love with him. Isabella has no idea that her dream man is really the impostor Gérard, who looks remarkably like the prince and was hounded by the sleazy crook Alfredo on Isabella to steal their precious jewelry.

Jacques Decrey, un industrial, descubre que su esposa Gloria tiene un amante. Haciéndose pasar por un hombre llamado Berthier, él la chantajea. Después de un tiempo, Decrey decide hacer ver que Yves Normand, un joven actor desempleado y amante de Gloria, es el chantajista. Pero al hacerlo, ha desatado una máquina infernal...

Originally titled Mademoiselle Striptease, this classic French sex comedy is a charming frolic through luscious Parisian cabarets with outstanding striptease performances. Agnes Laurent plays a spoiled young provincial girl.

Jojo’s ambition is to become a gangster, but to be admitted into a gang he has to prove himself by committing a daring act. To that end, he kills someone in broad daylight, not knowing that his victim is an actor who is playing a scene in a film directed by a cranky film-maker (Darry Cowl). The murder is caught on film, leading Commissaire Bernard (Michel Simon) to think that the killer will be easy to find. Sure enough, Bernard soon makes his arrest, a clown from a circus, but then he faces an almost insurmountable problem. The clown has an identical twin, who is also a clown with the same circus. Both men claim to be innocent…

At Christmastime, the love affairs of five clothing models working for Pierre Roussel, a renowned Paris fashion designer. Marlène hesitates between two suitors. Blanche, who loves Jean, Roussel's son, wants him to talk to his father about their relationship. Catherine learns that her lover has a wife and two kids. Jeannette throws herself into the arms of an Oriental prince. In despair the fifth one attempts to commit suicide...

A young man from Marseille starts a jazz orchestra in Paris.

Jean Michaut is a bargeman who lives nearby an old barge cemetery named "Bras-Mort". He is in love with Monique, the daughter of a wealthy boat owner. The girl returns his affection but runs her head against the wall of her family's class prejudices. Her "nearest and dearest" prove indeed prepared to do everything to separate the two lovers. But Monique will not buy in. On the contrary, she leaves her intolerant family to live with Jean among simple, more tolerant bargemen.

A young dancer, disappointed with her debut on stage, has three dreams: fame in dancing at the Paris Opera, wealth through her marriage to an important jeweler, and love in the person of a petty hood. Disappointed even in her dreams, the ballerina takes refuge in her art.

A man assists his gravely ill wife to die and wants to face justice for this, but his brothers try everything to keep the family's name clean.

A provincial ingenue leaves her mother’s tobacco shop with dreams of a life in the Parisian theater, only to become entangled in relationships with a lecherous aristocrat, his starry-eyed nephew, and an old ham actor.

Based on a venerable Legend of the Sea, the story concerns a pliable prostitute named Bella (Romance) who is all things to all men. No matter what sort of woman her client wants, she will become that woman -- at least for the night. When a middle-aged man named Jean insists that Bella is his long-lost sweetheart, she plays along, hoping to escape her sordid lifestyle. The emotional tragedy that follows is meant to explain how Bella became "Maya," the living embodiment of Lost Souls.

A beautiful young pianist falls for her mentor.