The Gentleman from Epsom (1962)

A great French restaurant's owner, Monsieur Septime, is thrust into intrigue and crime, when one of his famous guests disappears.

During World War II, two French civilians and a downed British Bomber Crew set out from Paris to cross the demarcation line between Nazi-occupied Northern France and the South. From there they will be able to escape to England. First, they must avoid German troops - and the consequences of their own blunders.

Charles, fresh out of jail, rejects his wife's plan for a quiet life of bourgeois respectability. He enlists a former cell mate, Francis, to assist him in pulling off one final score, a carefully planned assault on the vault of a Cannes casino.

An art dealer wants to buy a Modigliani, which is tattooed on the back of an old soldier.

This film originated as a play in Paris. The story focuses on the one-day adventures of Bertrand Barnier played with a genius of French cinema, Louis de Funes. In the same morning he learns that his daughter is pregnant, an employee stole a large amount of money from his company, his maid is about to resign in order to marry a wealthy neighbor and his body builder is interested in marrying his daughter. The seemingly complicated story-line is full of comedy or errors and some of the most hilarious mime scenes of the French cinema.

The frozen body of Paul Fournier is discovered in Greenland where he had disappeared during a scientific expedition in 1905. Perfectly conserved he is brought back to life in the 1960s. His descendants take care of him: to spare him the cultural shock they behave so to make believe it's 1905 and they are his cousins, uncle...

西暦2027年11月。人類は希望を失い、世界は恐慌状態におちいっていた。なぜか出産の能力が失われ、18年間にわたって全く子供が生まれないのだ。英国は軍事力で徹底的に抑圧することにより、秩序を維持していた。検問所に向かう途中、セオたちの車は暴徒の襲撃にあい、ジュリアンが撃たれて絶命。組織のアジトに逃げ込んだセオは、キーから衝撃の事実を告白される。なんと彼女は子供を身ごもっており、間もなく出産を迎えるというのだ。セオは彼女を連れ、命がけの逃避行を開始する。

強盗の計画を立てているカップルを導入部に、盗まれたトランクを取り戻そうとする二人組のギャング、ビンセントとジュールス。ボスの情婦と一晩のデートをするハメになるビンセント。ボクシングの八百長試合で金を受け取るボクサーのブッチ。誤って人を殺し血塗れになった車の処理に右往左往するビンセントとジュールス。ギャングのボス、マーセルスを軸としたこれらの物語がラストに向けて収束していく。