Roland Bailly

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.

On the run from international police, Special Agent Lemmy Caution arrives in the South of France and soon becomes embroiled in a scheme with the infamous gangster Siegella. Whilst seeming to co-operate with the underworld boss, Lemmy is secretly acting for the FBI, and intends using Miranda Van Zelden, a wealthy heiress, as bait to trap a gang of crooks and put an end to Siegella's exploits...

Fred, the nephew of a senator,has murdered a Black man on a train. The two only witnesses are Lizzie McKay, a prostitute from New York, and Sidney, a colored man. Fred decides to seduce Lizzie in order to make her give false evidence according to which Sidney has attempted to rape her. The uncle also puts pressure on the young woman. After much hesitation, Lizzie finally accepts but Sidney, who has nearly got lynched, takes refuge at her home...

A young intellectual, Hugo, joins the Communist Party out of a sense of idealism, only to see his principles manipulated by party leaders. He is given the assignment of killing Professor Hoederer, a party deviationist. However, he grows to admire the man and begins to have doubts about morals and revolutionary politics. But jealousy - Hugo thinks Hoederer has made love to his wife, Jessica - takes matters out of the political realm.

Christine, the daughter of a rich American, acquires from her father the jazz band of Ray Ventura who will be made responsible for accompanying her from morning till evening wherever she goes. From an endless number of amusing situations, the fiancée of the girl despairs. But soon the musicians rebel in in the face of the requirements of their patroness. More than a job, it is for them misery. Christine excuses them and she goes back to America with her band. Things go bad, degenerate, but the kindness of the musicians and the firmness of the fiancée of Christine really quiet down the moods of the young woman .

In order for important British admiralty papers to pass into the hands of the Germans, the spy Gordon has the ingenious idea of ​​transforming a lamentable drunkard into a Lady, haughty but submissive to his orders. Stella's transformation is complete, the success extraordinary. Why must a French officer touching the heart of the former pochard bring down the fragile edifice? A submarine is about to blow up, Gordon is shot down and a confessed Stella returns to her horrible taverns to drown her sorrows in alcohol for good.

Pierre lives with his wife Marie in a small village in the Landes. He dreams of leaving. On the occasion of the passage of a caravan of gypsies, he meets Solita and plans to continue the journey with her. However, he will give up this project out of love for his wife.