Jo Dest

The lover of an Italian revolutionary offers herself to Napoleon in exchange for her sweetheart's life.

In this romance, a jilted lawyer joins the French Foreign Legion to help him forget his faithless love. While in the desert he espies a village beauty who is the exact double of his true-love.

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.

사업가 프랑수아 뒤퐁의 갑작스런 죽음으로 장례식을 치루게 된 일가와 주변사람들이 각자 그에 대한 회상을 한다. 아내인 마리는 낯모르는 집에서 죽어있는 뒤퐁을 발견한 때를 회상하고, 같은 건물의 수위이자 옛 군시절 동료였던 으젠은 새차를 사고 가족과 드라이브하던 그를 상기한다. 나중에 뒤퐁의 애인이 되었던 '자닌 프레즐'은 남편과 힘들었던 때를 상기한다. 2차 대전 당시 자닌의 남편 모리스는 군대에 징집되었다가 아내에 대한 그리움으로 탈영하여 돌아온다. 그가 없던 8개월 동안 시골 저택을 소유한 자닌은 저택 유지비 등의 필요에 의해 부자인 뒤퐁에게 의지하게 된다. 뒤퐁의 동업자인 바레스꼬는 뒤퐁의 죽음이야말로 자닌의 책임이 라고 생각하며 옛날을 회상한다. 사업상 모리스의 집에 방문한 뒤퐁일가는 활발한 성격의 안주인 자닌을 만난다. 뒤퐁은 자닌에게 호감을 느끼고 몇 번의 저녘식사를 같이 한다. 돌아온 남편의 질투에도 불구하고 물질적 도움 때문에 계속 뒤퐁을 만 나던 자닌은 서서히 그에게 끌리기 시작하고 결국 모리스는 그의 곁을 떠난다. 전쟁으로 인한 불안한 시절에 바레스꼬는 누군가의 모함으로 경찰에 체포되어 떠나는데..

FBI Agent Lemmy Caution is sent after a missing two million in Casablanca while mob boss mistress Carlotta plays both sides of the law.

프랑스인 마리오는 남미의 어느 한 지방으로 흘러들어온다. 자신과 처지가 비슷한 이방인들이 모여 있는 곳으로, 그는 남미인 친구 루이지와 동거하면서, 페피토의 식당에서 일하는 린다를 사랑한다. 어느날 산전수전 다 겪은 조가 등장하자 마리오는 그를 존경하면서 루이지와 헤어지고 그와 친하게 지낸다. 한편, 미국인들이 개발하는 유전에서 화재가 발생하고, 담당자 오브라이언은 거금을 걸고 오지의 화재근원지에 폭탄의 원료가 되는 질소를 운반할 수 있는 트럭 운전수를 채용하려고 한다. 4명의 운전수 중에 발탁된 조와 마리오는 또다른 팀을 이룬 빔바와 루이지 일행과 함께 목숨을 건 운반을 시작한다.

Anthology film with three shorts each featuring a famous detective: Monsieur Wens, Lemmy Caution and Maigret.

The brother of Jeanne Masson, a young nightclub singer, has been murdered by Brasier, a criminal who pretends to be a respectable man. Jeanne has resolved to avenge her brother but she just cannot take action herself. The way she finds is to ask police detective Pierre Leblanc to help her do it. Pierre gives his agreement and starts following the trail. He soon finds out that Brasier belongs to a gang whose boss, Cortedani, has ordered the murder.

Evelyne, a judge's young wife, falls in love with Rémy while vacationing in Italy. Upon returning home, she must decide between telling her husband and continuing to see Rémy.

One of the first victories against the Nazis in World War II is when Parisians help allied forces drive the enemy out of occupied French Algeria.

The life of Adrien Wettach, famous in the annals of the circus under the name of Grock, world famous Swiss clown. A series of images from Épinal, retracing the career of a European artist, within the framework of world history. Lots of children, wars, an eccentric Russian countess, Countess Barinoff, who grows old admiring the clown, and a very long quibble about a party wall, all serve to highlight the star's final number.

In France in 1946, the difficult return to civilian life of five deportees and prisoners of war after having lived through the hell of the Second World War.

During the Second World War, Georges Masse undergoes a dangerous mission by taking secret documents from Tangiers to London.

1944, France experiences its last days of German occupation. A microcosm representative of the various attitudes adopted during this troubled period, some heroic, others less brilliant, the Grégeois family, scattered by the war, will strengthen its ties according to the Allied advance on the territory and the liberation of Paris, with its joys but also its sorrows, because not all of its members will survive the relative chaos that will characterize this end of the world war.

The story of the Swiss soldier, Henri Dunant, who was responsible for the founding of the Red Cross, and who was offered the first Nobel Peace Prize.

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.

A group of Nazis and sympathizers board a submarine bound for South America in the hopes of finding shelter.

Film in two eras.1st era: They are not angels. Chronicle of a Free French parachute training camp during the Second World War. 2nd era: Terre de France. A group of paratroopers landed in Brittany sabotages the German installations.

This character study of a French patriot during the Nazi Occupation has comedian Noel as the chief of the underground who uses his hobby of growing orchids to hide his radio equipment.

Commander Gerard and his band of guerrillas have found the ideal hideout: a nursing home in the Alps where, along with the mentally ill, are also hiding a Jewish girl and a Swiss doctor who might be a spy for the Germans ...

June 1944, a French town towards the end of the occupation. Following several attacks perpetrated by the resistance, the inhabitants who listen to English radio are rounded up by the Germans in a prison and considered as hostages. In one of the cells are found men from all walks of life: an aristocrat, the Viscount of Saint-Leu, Doctor Noblet, a resistance fighter, Béquille the wanderer with a wooden leg, and a strange character nicknamed "Black Market". The latter arouses mistrust among the prisoners, because it could well have been introduced by the enemy.

An Alsatian, head of a section of the Gestapo, is actually spying on behalf of the French and dismantling a Nazi network. His activities are brought to light by the Germans and he owes his life only to the intervention of a young woman.