Le Notaire
Las guerras entre católicos y hugonotes en la Francia del siglo XVI envuelven las aventuras amorosas que vive un aristócrata. Después, todas esas historias quedarán plasmadas en el libro "Vida de las damas galantes". La figura de Brantôme, un memorialista del siglo XVI que vendría a ser el ìantecedente del personaje de "El amante del amor" de Truffaut, en una ìevocación moderadamente certera. Su principal problema estriba en una ìexcesiva superficialidad, pero lo compensa con un tono narrativo convincente ìy una delicada formulación estética. Film inédito en España.
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Las guerras entre católicos y hugonotes en la Francia del siglo XVI envuelven las aventuras amorosas que vive un aristócrata. Después, todas esas historias quedarán plasmadas en el libro "Vida de las damas galantes". La figura de Brantôme, un memorialista del siglo XVI que vendría a ser el ìantecedente del personaje de "El amante del amor" de Truffaut, en una ìevocación moderadamente certera. Su principal problema estriba en una ìexcesiva superficialidad, pero lo compensa con un tono narrativo convincente ìy una delicada formulación estética. Film inédito en España.
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Dialogue
Las peripecias de un diplomático, quien de pronto se ve envuelto en un espinoso asunto de tráfico de diamantes y tiene que enfrentarse a los miembros de una secta secreta.
Dialogue
A playwright has to murder if he does not want to be murdered.
Adaptation
A playwright has to murder if he does not want to be murdered.
Writer
A light French comedy of 5 segments.
Screenplay
Antoine Espérandieu, a French tenderfoot, lands in Windows Canyon, Arizona, a remote place under the thumb of dangerous outlaw Dynamite Jack, only to discover the friend he was to meet there has been murdered. Worse, it is not long before Antoine realizes he is Jack's perfect lookalike. All the same, he decides to settle down in the small town, where he becomes the local tax collector. One day, he finds himself face to face with the bandit...
Screenplay
Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945). Tras la ocupación de Francia por las tropas alemanas (1940), Babette (Bardot), una joven y hermosa francesa, se refugia en Inglaterra y es reclutada para participar en un plan de la inteligencia militar británica que pretende evitar la invasión del país por los alemanes. Babette tendrá que servirse de su belleza y encanto para ganarse la confianza de los oficiales alemanes y obtener así valiosa información. Sin embargo, la ineptitud de la chica está muy por encima de entusiasmo, lo que la convierte a veces en una auténtica amenaza para las fuerzas aliadas.
Screenplay
Ferdinand es un estricto agente francés que vigila la aduana de Assola, población en parte francesa y en parte italiana, porque la frontera que separa ambos países atraviesa el pueblo. Don Giuseppe es un contrabandista italiano que intenta sacar partido de esta circunstancia, pero sus esfuerzos siempre se ve truncados por culpa del implacable Ferdinand. Pero un buen día Don Giuseppe descubre algo muy interesante: la casa en la que nació Ferdinand ocupa la línea que divide el pueblo, de modo que si hubiera nacido en la cocina, entonces sería italiano y quedaría inhabilitado como agente aduanero francés.
Story
Ferdinand es un estricto agente francés que vigila la aduana de Assola, población en parte francesa y en parte italiana, porque la frontera que separa ambos países atraviesa el pueblo. Don Giuseppe es un contrabandista italiano que intenta sacar partido de esta circunstancia, pero sus esfuerzos siempre se ve truncados por culpa del implacable Ferdinand. Pero un buen día Don Giuseppe descubre algo muy interesante: la casa en la que nació Ferdinand ocupa la línea que divide el pueblo, de modo que si hubiera nacido en la cocina, entonces sería italiano y quedaría inhabilitado como agente aduanero francés.
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Haute Couture mannequin in Paris becomes involved in the activities of two rival jewel thief gangs.
Dialogue
Una guapa y sofisticada adolescente es internada en un colegio femenino tras el aparente intento de suicidio de su padre por un escándalo financiero. Allí se ganará amigos y enemigos...
Adaptation
Una guapa y sofisticada adolescente es internada en un colegio femenino tras el aparente intento de suicidio de su padre por un escándalo financiero. Allí se ganará amigos y enemigos...
Writer
One Christmas Eve, a carefree young man, Eric, arrives in a small provincial town. Here, he meets Julien, a bar pianist who is his exact double. Julien is in love with Marinette, a pretty waitress, but he is too shy to make any romantic overtures. Eric decides to give the course of true love a helping hand by pretending to be Julien. Meanwhile, Eric’s fabulously wealthy uncle has sent his minions out to bring him back home, so that he may celebrate Christmas in the bosom of his family.
Screenplay
Don Juan es detenido durante una de sus correrías amorosas, precisamente cuando se proponía seducir a la hija del Gobernador, que estaba a punto de contraer matrimonio. Su fiel criado, demasiado acostumbrado a llevarse todos los palos, se hace pasar por él para salvarle el pellejo, situación que le permitirá ganarse el amor de una bella cómica. Mientras tanto, el verdadero don Juan se ve reducido a la condición de sirviente
Story
Carlo Mastelli, the young radio presenter of "New Voices" has run short of ideas and his program is likely to be suspended from the radio schedule if he does not find any new ones.
Screenplay
Carlo Mastelli, the young radio presenter of "New Voices" has run short of ideas and his program is likely to be suspended from the radio schedule if he does not find any new ones.
During the Second World War, midshipman Dourdan, nicknamed 'Saucisse', distinguished himself by his clumsiness and his blunders. Charged with Lieutenant Goldfinch to convey an aircraft to Marrakech, he shot down an American bomber on the way, mistaken for a German plane.
Gontran Martel
Since he met Odette, Pierre thinks only of her. Every day, he calls her saying only "Hello...I love you". Then he manages to get hired in the factory where Odette works...
M. Pabroc - l'escroc
A railway worker, Leguignon, and his wife are forced to move into a house located in a shaggy part of town. What Leguignon doesn't know is that a group of children have discovered a treasure and keeps it stored in the house. Trouble ensues when he discovers the cache and tries to claim it as his own.
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A railway worker, Leguignon, and his wife are forced to move into a house located in a shaggy part of town. What Leguignon doesn't know is that a group of children have discovered a treasure and keeps it stored in the house. Trouble ensues when he discovers the cache and tries to claim it as his own.
Adolphe
Annie, the ward of Monsieur Joachim, a nightclub manager, has fallen in love with Philippe Lebon, a singer who could easily re-float her guardian's failing business. The trouble is that Joachim has already - and hurriedly - betrothed Annie to his business partner. To make matters worse the young lady suspects Philippe of being unfaithful. In order to thwart the wedding of Annie and his rival, Philippe hires two of his friends, the resourceful Beaudubec and Tracassin.
L'éditeur Charles Delagrave
It centres on the life of the entomologist Jean-Henri Fabre and his total devotion to studying insect behavior, travelling from Avignon to Paris, from Paris to his death in Sérignan. He is honoured by the French president Raymond Poincaré and his patience, obstinacy and knowledge are also recognised by Napoleon III, the publisher Charles Delagrave and the philosopher John Stuart Mill. They reach their climax in his book, Souvenirs entomologiques.
The newspaper director
Agnès de Louvigny, aviator, crashes with her plane on the villa of Martial Simonet, a fashion designer nicknamed La Patronne. But tourists are busy in front of the villa.
Le marquis Hercule de Pressailles
In this sketch comedy compared to the American film Hellzapoppin, a spectacle is put on to celebrate the wedding of a nobleman, but the results are disastrous.
Philippe Sieurat
A very Parisian author cannot finish a comedy. It is ruin for the director of the theater, who has the idea of taking his foal to the coast. There, recruited actors will perform a series of variations on the theme of heartaches to inspire him. After a number of misunderstandings, the operation succeeds.
A mobster
Sherlock Coco, famous detective, tries to thwart the machiavellian plans of the trio of shock. Croquignol, Ribouldingue and Filochard must be extra vigilant, but the profit motive is too strong. As a corollary, the famous pink diamond is also of interest to their legendary enemy, Jo Papillon. But always inventive, they will work out multiple scams and tricks to reach their goals.
Loiseau the pharmacist mistakenly mixes potassium cyanide into a batch of cough syrup and sells five bottles. With horror he discovers his mistake and sets out to find the buyers. He finds only four. The fifth, not a regular customer, comes back to the pharmacy...
Martine discovers, on the eve of her wedding, that her mother, whom she believed to be dead, leads an adventurous life. Pierre, her fiancé, unable to overcome his family's opposition to the revelation of this news, decides to kidnap Martine. The adventurer, who is not recognized by her daughter, agrees to leave France. The family of the young man will no longer put obstacles in the way of marriage.
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Brussels in the year 1568, as the Flemish people are fighting against the tyranny of the Spanish occupiers. Led by Count de Rysoor, the revolt against the ruthless Duke of Alba, is meant to help Prince William of Orange to get into the city and come to power. Now, the count's lieutenant, has an affair with Elisabeth, Rysoor's wife. For the time being, the count, who thinks of his homeland first, turns a blind eye. But such a relationship might well undermine the whole rebellion movement.
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Micheline is a pretty girl but rich, spoiled and whimsical as well. Jacques, the brother of her friend Danielle, is so exasperated by her behavior that he decides to give her a chance to learn about good manners. To that effect, he kidnaps her and detains her in a hut on the edge of a wood. He starts "taming the shrew" but the situation soon gets out of control when criminals - real ones this time - abduct Micheline in earnest... and for ransom!
Un collégien
Lucrèce, a famous actress, is bothered first, then flattered by the passionate testimonies of love given to her by François, a 12th grade student infatuated with her. Taking pity on the boy, Lucrèce decides to heal him of his madness and with this in mind she invites him for a working holiday on her farm. Instead, she falls in love with the cherub. At a time, her young lover grows so jealous of her that he attempts suicide. The mature actress then understands that their love story is going nowhere. She will remain alone while François will forget her.