Jeanne
Jacques spends his summer vacation with his grandfather, Jericho, in the company of his wife Marie. The malicious ancestor quickly realizes that his grandson's marriage is on the brink of breakdown. He does everything to save him.
Une villageoise
Le Cas Du Dr. Laurent (The Case of Dr. Laurent) stars Jean Gabin as a Paris-based doctor who tries to spread the gospel of Natural Childbirth. Working in a cloistered rural community, Gabin runs up against the stone walls of fear and prejudice. His theories are proven sound when unwed mother Nicole Courcel gives birth within Gabin's methodology. The childbirth sequence is filmed straight-on with a delicate combination of taste and frankness. Nonetheless, the lurid ad campaign of Cas Du Dr. Laurent sensationalized this sequence all out of proportion.
Prudence
A small village is torn apart by a quarrel between the baker and the italian grocery tenant, mother of a pregnant young girl. She accuses the baker's son, doing his military service in Algeria, to be the father of the would be child. Offended, the baker refuses to deliver bread to the villagers standing on the mother's side.
Aricie, femme de Cabridan
Marcel Pagnol's adaptation of his own novel Manon des sources, the story of a shepherdess who exacts her revenge on the townsfolk she blames for killing her father, in two parts: Manon des sources and Ugolin.
Back from America, famous singer Charles Trénet, nicknamed "Le Fou Chantant", makes the conquest of a bombshell called Anita. He tries to persuade his young friend Georges to follow them to the French Riviera but the pessimistic gloomy finicky fellow won't do it. Instead, he decides to go on holiday with his newly married wife but the trip , due to his grim mood, is no bed of roses. In Juan-lès-Pins they finally meet Charles, who is so infatuated with Anita that he has forgotten to meet his old friend Henri Poupon, the Meridional actor. Thanks to cheerful Charles and to the sunny climate, Georges relaxes and things improve in his relationships with his wife. The couple can applaud Charles who is giving one of his concerts there before he flies back to the USA, on Anita's arm this time.
La Cornette
In Cantagrel, Urbain Coindet, a farmer and town councilor in his forties, finds his wife hanging from a beam in the barn. Aurélie Coindet has committed suicide but not everybody is convinced. The village is soon divided in two conflicting sides, the Republicans who support Urbain and the clericals accusing him of murder, which particularly suits Frédéric, a tobacco smuggler who hates the farmer. Urbain's case becomes even worse as he develops a tender feeling for Jeanne, a sweet young lady who happens to be Frédéric's sister...
(uncredited)
Based on the novel of the same name by writer Edouard Peisson, this Jean Delannoy film display one boy’s unconditional love for his mother, despite her tragic mistreatment of him. After being raised by a shepherd for the past 12 years, Simon (Pierre-Michel Beck) is reunited with his mother Marie (Madeleine Robinson). Marie is a prostitute in Marseilles and is now stable enough to welcome Simon back into her life. Unaware of her profession at first, Simon is happy to have his mom back, but in time he learns how she makes her living. This troubles Simon but he continues to love her, despite not loving her chosen profession. His anger toward this issue gets directed toward Marie’s louse of a boyfriend, Paul (Frank Villard), and the result is a heartfelt tale about love and family.
The laughing woman
The practice of Dr. Julien, a GP of Marseilles, consists mainly of drug-addicts. One day, one of his patient dies at his surgery and Julien yields to the temptation : he steals the dead man's money and hides the corpse in a trunk. But the whole thing is discovered and ... misinterpreted. The doctor is condemned for killing the junkie and sent to the Cayenne convict prison, from which he escapes. The Indians give him shelter and he is soon given the opportunity to return their good deed when a yellow fever epidemic strikes their tribe. A young woman helps to fight the disease and, thanks to her, Julien starts considering that a new life is possible for him.
Madame Lorenzei, an inmate's wife (uncredited)
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.
Mrs Honoré
Rose
The guardian is engaged to a girl from a good family, but the intervention of a gypsy will make his heart lean. This one comes in fact to take revenge and will try to kill him.
La servante (uncredited)
인상파 화가 르노와르의 아들인 장 르노와르의 야유와 풍자가 난무하는 클래식 필름. 프랑스 지배계층에 대한 부도덕한 묘사로 인해 1959년에야 검열 삭제 부분이 복원, 완성된 영화로 공개되는 비운을 겪기도 했다. 영화가 표현할 수 있는 미장센의 모든 것을 담고 있는 작품이라 추앙받기도 하는 이 작품은 갖가지 계층의 프랑스인들이 모인 대저택에서 벌어지는 며칠간의 에피소드를 줄거리로 하고 있다. 하지만 줄거리 보다도 내러티브, 즉흥연기, 딥 포커스, 카메라 무브먼트, 모짜르트 음악 등이 영화의 풍부함을 더해준다. 감독 스스로가 이야기하는 이 영화의 주제는 '인생은 멈추어 있지 않고 항상 흐른다'라는 것.
Philomène Sauvagnat
철도를 둘러싼 삼각관계의 비극으로 에밀 졸라의 동명 소설을 각색했다. 장 가뱅이 부역장의 아내와 불륜에 빠지는 철도기관사 랑티에로 출연하여 운명 앞에서 어쩔 줄 모르는 인간의 유약함과 악마적 본성을 훌륭하게 연기해낸다. 세브린느 역을 맡은 시몬느 시몽 역시 연약하면서도 파멸적인 매력을 지닌 팜므파탈의 전형을 보여준다. 랑티에의 분신과도 같은 기차는 인물들 내면의 광기와 분열, 현실세계와의 갈등을 시각적으로 드러내주는 또 다른 주인공이라고 할 수 있다. 주인공의 인간적인 고통을 절실하게 표현해낸 수작.
They are three fishermen from the Old Port: Toinet, Pénible and Girelle. Two of them are in love with two pretty merchants. Not confident in their natural seduction, they decide to use drastic measures to be sure to attract and sustain the attention of these young ladies. This is how they approach them by posing as wealthy industrialists. But now the young girls, not to be outdone, present themselves as film actresses.
Firmin, who returned mute from the war of 14-18, has never displeased anyone for twenty years in terms of political life where low blows, jealousy and betrayal are rife in his Provençal village. But an explosion gives him the floor.
Louise Vauclair, l'interpellatrice
인민전선 하에서 노동총연맹의 의뢰로 만들어진 작품. 프랑스 혁명 당시 500명의 지원병으로 구성된 마르세이유 군대가 마르세이유에서 파리까지 이동하는 과정을 그리고 있다. 중심적인 주인공 없이, 지원병, 왕족, 귀족, 군대, 프랑스 국민을 대표하는 인물들이 등장하여 각기 고귀하고 인간적인 모습을 보여준다. 르누아르는 이 영화가 자신에게 인민전선의 의기양양한 기운을 호흡하게 해 주었으며, 프랑스인들이 다시 태어난 것 같은 느낌을 가졌다고 말했다. 프린트가 유실되었다가 모스크바에서 온전한 필름을 찾음으로써 가까스로 복원될 수 있었던 각별한 사연을 가진 작품
Marie
이태리 사람인 토니는 다른 많은 그의 동포들처럼, 일자리를 찾기 위해 프랑스 프로방스 지방을 향해 기차를 올라탄다. 세월이 흐르고, 토니는 그의 셋방 여주인 마리와 함께 살지만 사실은 스페인 이민자 조세파를 사랑한다. 그러나 토니의 공장장도 그녀를 탐낸다.
Baïa
Tartarin is the local hero in the small provincial town of Tarascon. He shows off about imaginary adventures in Africa, where he has never been, as a Lion Hunter, which he is only in his imagination. Even though the locals know he has never been to Africa, they keep hoping he will leave one day. After a misunderstanding, and much gossip, everyone thinks that Tartarin plans to actually take the trip.
L'impératrice Marie-Louise
An adaptation of the play L'Aiglon by Edmond Rostand, which portrays the life of Napoleon I.