Valentine Tessier

Middle-aged lust: a man, in his thirteenth and therefore omen-filled marriage year, cheats on his wife.

When Michel gets the life-sized sex doll he ordered, shipped directly from Japan, he is only intrigued by it at first. Then the silent unresponsiveness of the thing begins to haunt him, and he finds himself reacting to it as if it were an equally unresponsive living woman. As time passes, more and more of his life is spent trying to satisfy or placate its relentless silence, and he goes somewhat mad. He dresses the doll and takes it with him wherever he goes. When his usually very tolerant wife discovers what is going on, her jealousy knows no bounds and she attempts to imitate this threatening love-object. The light-hearted quality of this addle-pated fantasy darkens quickly when various neighborhood men attempt to put the doll to its originally intended use.

Police Commissioner Jules Maigret returns to the small village where he spent his childhood at the request of the Countess of Saint-Fiacre, who has received a disturbing anonymous letter.

15세기 프랑스 파리 노틀담 성당 광장의 춤추는 집시 에스메랄다를 보고 마음을 빼앗긴 프롤로 주교는 성당 종지기 꼽추 콰지모도에게 에스메랄다를 데려오도록 시킨다. 명령을 이행하던 콰지모도는 마침 순찰 중이던 근위대장 페뷔스에게 체포되고, 에스메랄다는 자신을 구해준 페뷔스를 사랑하게 된다. 무고하게 잡혀가 광장의 죄인 공시대에 사슬로 묶인 채 갈증을 호소하는 콰지모도를 본 에스메랄다는 자신을 납치하려했던 그에게 동정심을 발휘해 물을 떠다준다. 한편 거리의 시인 그랭구아르는 걸인들의 거처인 '기적의 궁전'에 잡혀와 교수형을 당할 위기에 처한다. 단 그를 남편으로 맞겠다는 여성이 나타나면 목숨을 구할 수 있는데 이때 에스메랄다가 나서서 그를 구해주고 결혼식을 올린다. 페뷔스의 약혼녀 플뢰르드니스는 페뷔스에게 에스메랄다를 성당 광장에서 쫓아낼 것을 부탁하고, 페뷔스는 이를 빌미로 에스메랄다에게 접근해 밀회 약속을 잡는다. 이 사실을 알게 된 프롤로 주교는 페뷔스와 에스메랄다가 투숙한 여관에 따라가 페뷔스를 칼로 찌른다. 살인미수 누명을 쓰게 된 에스메랄다는 재판정에서 교수형을 선고 받고 끌려가지만 콰지모도가 그녀를 성당으로 피신시키고는 정성으로 보살핀다. 에스메랄다의 남편인 그랭구아르는 에스메랄다를 빼내기 위해 걸인들을 동원한 작전을 펼친다. 그러나 그 와중에 에스메랄다는 근위대의 공격으로 목숨을 잃고 만다. 콰지모도는 이 모든 사건의 원인인 프롤로 주교를 죽이고 에스메랄다의 시신이 있는 곳으로 가서 그녀를 안고 영원히 잠든다.

르누아르가 자신의 후기작 중에서 가장 아끼는 작품. 물렝 루즈의 설립자 앙리 지들러의 삶을 바탕으로 뮤직홀에 대한 경배를 바치고 있는 작품. 장 가뱅이 물렝 루즈의 지배인 당글라드 역을 맡아 오랜만에 르누아르와 함께 작업했고, 멕시코 출신의 마리아 펠릭스와 가냘픈 매력의 프랑수아즈 아르눌이 연적으로 등장한다. 전설적인 가수 에디트 피아프와 파타슈의 카메오 출연도 영화를 보는 즐거움을 더해준다. 마치 툴루즈 로트렉의 판화를 보는 듯한 선명하고 아름다운 색채 역시 결코 빼놓을 수 없는 매력이다. 사랑의 진실성과 예술의 문제를 다룬다는 점에서 "황금마차"와 비교할 만한 영화.

The story takes plays during the annual Good Friday pageant in a tiny Italian village. Local priest Don Vincenzo faces a crisis when the girl selected to play the Virgin Mary shows up pregnant.

La neige était sale is based on a novel and play by the phenomenally prolific Georges Simenon. Upon learning that his mother was a prostitute, Frank (Daniel Gelin) dejectedly vows that he, too, will live a life of debauchery. Part of his self-degradation program is to kill someone, and since the story takes place during the Nazi occupation of France, he chooses a German officer as his victim. His steady descent into psychosis and depravity becomes his ultimate undoing.

In the early 16th century, Italy is ruled by the powerful Borgia family, led by César Borgia and his sister Lucrèce. In a ruthless power play, César plots to have his sister’s husband murdered. But without her brother’s knowledge, Lucrèce has taken a strong lover who will challenge the Borgias.

In a girls boarding-school run by Madame Piégeois,young Gisèle meets, at night, the count of Champrès 's son.

The young Loris is undergoing a trial for killing his girlfriend Maria Luce. According to the reconstruction of the facts, the young man would shoot his mistress making it then end up under the wheels of a tram. On the remains of the woman's body, however, there is no trace of a gunshot wound and, during the trial, the accused, who appears hypnotized, refuses to answer. The arrival of the ex-lawyer Cidoni, who takes the place of the defense, overturns the thesis of the prosecution and instead demonstrates that the victim was not a naive girl as had been believed up to then.

In 19th-century France, a little girl follows her two sisters into a Carmelite monastery with the goal of becoming a saint.

After being hurt in the face, Count de Roger Tinchebraye is forced to hide his disfigured face behind a leather mask. Dispirited for a while, he decides to become a Casanova-like seductor. When he meets true love, cynical Roger does not believe in it and lets pure Judith marry an old marquis. But once Judith's husband dies, he sees Judith again, shows her his disfigured face, which does not discourage the young woman from loving him. Nevertheless, he distances himself from her forever

Elsa Lundenstein is accused of having murdered her lover. The jury discusses the case vividly. All members are somehow prejudiced because of personal life experience and subsequently each member reads something different into the presented facts.

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.

In his prison cell, the composer Remi Bonvent composed an opera, The columns bed. The director of the prison, Porey Cave, succeeds made believe he is the author of this work. The death of the two protagonists will prevent the discovery of the truth.

A young man is hired by an industrialist, while a secret hangs over his birth. His boss's wife turns out to be his mother, who hides the truth from him.

French version of the Selma Lagerlof story, most famously filmed in 1921 by Victor Sjostrom, about a poor sinner who only realizes what misery he's wrought when he dies on New Year's Eve and is collected by Death in his carriage.

Lydia (Danielle Darrieux) is a student, poor and orphaned, who pretends to be the daughter of a famous writer.

Because they brought her back a lost piece of jewelry, a very rich lady accedes to the request of three old people and transforms a vacant lot into a park for the neighborhood children.

A hotel for women-only and catering to working girls is the setting for not being able to get a USA PCA seal-of-approval for this French-film, but New York City's 55th Playhouse played it anyway. Along the way the audience meets the girl who sneaked her lover into her no-men-allowed room and her patch soon turns blue; a young lady with a passionate intensity who chooses another young lady as the object of her affections; the blindly-misguided director of the hotel, another lady of real easy virtue who is not the one who smuggled her lover into her room; and a girl who is only there as a procurer for a slavery ring.

A hero of the Paris streets is recruited for a conspiracy against Mazarin in the court of the King, but he reveals the subversive plot to Anne of Austria.

작은 마을에 사는 의사 샤를르 보바리는 엠마 루오와 재혼했다. 하지만 남편과의 결혼생활이 권태로웠던 엠마는 다른 남자를 만나 외도를 즐기기 시작한다.