Doctor
Jacques Montet, a successful crime story writer, has already written a hundred books and would like to call it quits now to devote himself to loftier writing. But his wife, a cold-hearted, money-minded, bossy woman won't allow. All the more as she is the one who supplies Jacques with the plots of his detective stories. When Jacques, yearning for true love, meets young, pretty Muriel, he can't stand the situation any longer. Fortunately - for him - the plot of the 101st detective story imagined by his wife is about a ... perfect crime. He simply has to follow her instructions to ... get rid of her. Everything goes according to plan until Jacques discovers a scary detail: the presence of a mysterious witness on the scene of the crime.
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.
Théodore
The tumultuous loves of a diver and a pretty bitch. Mario loves Perrucha, she only loves money. When, by dint of diving, the boy's health deteriorates, the girl goes to find an important industrialist. Such a story can only end badly and Mario strangles Perrucha.
A son of a family in debt decides to put an end to his life and calls on a professional killer to do so, who promises to kill him within forty-eight hours. However the next day, money, luck and love smile at her again. Then can begin an infernal hide-and-seek between the assassin and his victim.
Félix
Franz Schubert retired from Vienna in country for musical writing. He draws his inspiration from a romance with the watermiller's daughter. An operetta in the fifties Vienna style. This is the only movie from Marcel Pagnol in color and the only movie in rouxcolor, a French experimental process derivated from the agfacolor German process.
After the exodus, a woman with a tidy life decides to take in the abandoned children; she meets a singer who knows how to make her see life with more poetry.
Thérèse kills her lover during the very night of her wedding to the count of Vétheul. To gain a night with her, a modest local worker agrees to bury the body.
L'assistant
Gino Fabretti is a famous Italian tenor. During a tour in Nice, he begins a relationship with the wife of a renowned doctor. The doctor traps and drugs him and replaces his vocal cords with those of Robert, a delivery boy in a grocery store. Robert wakes up with the voice of Gino and Gino with that of Robert (including accents and mannerisms!). The unfaithful wife despises the tenor without his voice and becomes more interested in the grocer.
Marco
세상과 어울리지 못한 채 혼자 지내는 중년의 이르. 한편, 동네에서 한 여인이 살해당하는 사건이 발생하고, 모든 사람들이 여인의 죽음에 대해 떠들어대지만, 이르만은 침묵한다. 그날 저녁, 연인을 대신해 감옥에 갔던 알리스가 막 출소해 마을에 도착하고, 그녀는 연인 알프레드와 재회한다. 이르가 사는 집 건너편에서 살게 된 알리스. 창 너머로 우연히 알리스를 본 이르는 마음의 동요를 느끼고, 그녀를 사랑하게 된다. 그런데 살인사건을 조사하던 경찰은 사람들과 어울리지 못하는 이르를 의심하기 시작하고, 진실을 알게 된 이르는 어떤 이유에선지 침묵을 선택한다. 심리추리소설의 대가 조르주 심농의 소설을 각색한 작품. 살인사건을 둘러싼 이야기 속에서 인간 내면의 추악함과 함께 깊은 고독과 뒤틀린 사랑을 동시에 담아내고 있다.
