Daniel Lecourtois

When her old resistance buddies come to her looking for someone to helm a financially troubled liberal newspaper, Judith (Simone Signoret) is at first reluctant, but for this old hero of the French anti-Nazi resistance, challenges are hard to ignore. She takes on the job, mortgaging her house to keep the paper solvent. When things take a turn for the worse, because of concerted opposition by conservative forces, she is forced to sell the paper, and she regards this as a personal failure.

Three friends face mid-life crises. Paul is a writer who's blocked. François has lost his ideals and practices medicine for the money; his wife grows distant, even hostile. The charming Vincent, everyone's favorite, faces bankruptcy, his mistress leaves him, and his wife, from whom he's separated, wants a divorce. The strains on the men begin to show particularly in François and Paul's friendship and in Vincent's health. A younger man, Jack, becomes attractive to Lucie, François's wife. Another young friend, the boxer Jean, who's like a son to Vincent and whose girlfriend is pregnant, has taken a bout with a merciless slugger. Has happiness eluded this circle of friends?

A desperate woman, whose son is on trial for murder, blackmails the judge and kidnaps his wife.

스타비스키(장 폴 벨몽드 분)는 프랑스 상류 사회에 속하기를 갈망했던 유태계 러시아인 아버지의 꿈을 언젠가는 자신이 이루겠다는 생각으로 살아 왔다. 그리고 그는 아버지의 그 꿈을 극단적으로 실천한다. 세련된 매너와 영리함으로 무장한 이 매력적인 사기꾼은 곧 프랑스 상류 사회 여성들이 가장 사귀고 싶어하는 인물이 된다. 그러던 어느 날, 스타비스키는 경찰의 지명수배 대상이 되고, 얼마 후 자살한 채로 발견된다. 핵심권력과 관련된 이 사건은 곧 프랑스 전역에 걸쳐 겉잡을 수 없이 퍼져나갔다. 스타비스키는 거짓말과 속임수로 많은 정재계 인사들 사이에서 거액의 뇌물을 수수해 왔던 것이다. 1933년 7월 24일 일요일 어느날, 그날도 어김없이 스타비스키는 성대한 파티를 즐기고 있었다. 늦은 저녁, 그의 충복인 보렐리는 벌이던 사업이 심각한 상태에 있음과 최근 꾸민 정크 본드 계획을 비롯해 이제까지 해왔던 사기 행각이 밝혀질 것 같다는 사실을 스타비스키에게 알린다. 그와의 대화 를 끝으로 파티장을 빠져나간 그는 돌아가신 아버지의 무덤을 찾는다. 그리고 그는 산 속의 작은 오두막에서 자살한 채로 발견된다.

Lucienne Delamare and Pierre Maury are having an affair. Lucienne's husband Paul is the mayor, and a French deputy. Pierre's wife Clotilde has been weak and sickly for years. Lucienne's husband holds no excitement for her, and he is always away in Paris on business. Pierre is now the vice-mayor, thanks to Paul. Lucienne and Pierre have a secret meeting spot by a lake along a country lane. Pierre's wife dies suddenly, by suicide the town gossips believe. Pierre confesses otherwise to Lucienne. Paul proposes a shady land deal which will "benefit the town", and wants Pierre's political support and collusion. Then Paul discovers proof of his wife's affair...

Jean-Paul Belmondo plays Paul, a former womanizer who marries the head of the medical department's "unattractive" daughter Christine because he thinks attractive women can't be trusted and make poor wives. A car accident leaves him bedridden and he begins to miss his playboy days, when Christine's bombshell sister Martine arrives and Paul decides he must have her. He begins drugging Christine at night so he can sneak out to kill of Martine's many suitors one by one.

샤를은 친구이자 세계적인 건축가 프랑수아의 아내 로라와 불륜을 저지르고 있다. 샤를과 로라는 도착적인 변태 성행위를 즐기는데, 어느 날, 샤를이 너무 흥분한 나머지 로라의 목을 조르고 만다. 샤를은 로라를 그대로 두고 집을 나가는데, 우연히 프랑수아와 마주친다. 한편, 샤를의 불안과 걱정과는 달리 경찰은 사건의 실마리를 풀지 못하는데, 그러나 샤를은 이 상황을 견뎌내기 힘들다. 에드워드 아티야의 범죄소설(1951년작)을 각색하였으며, 샤브롤은 서로에게 속고 속이는 인물들 사이에서 금방이라도 폭발할 듯한 긴장을 자아낸다.

A lovely young nurse finds herself framed for the murder of a hospital patient who died after she administered an injection.

A mild-mannered zookeeper has to contend with his tyrannical boss and a talking lovesick bear.

Mr Lucas, a grocer, wants to attract the clientele; he imagines a lottery; every week, you can win a bike. It's a big success.

François Donge, a rich industrialist and womaniser, meets a girl nicknamed Bébé who he marries. Ten years later, poisoned by his wife and dying in hospital, he recalls his married life and understands how his wife who adored him suffered from his many affairs and indifference.

Andre Noblet, a 21-year-old French artist falls madly in love with Christine, the mother of two children. He tells Chistine he will tell all to her husband and demand her freedom. Christine learns that her husband has been carrying on a romance of his own and they have a meeting.

Jacques Mervel, also known as "L'Homme de la Jamaïque" makes use of his talents as a gun runner in Tangiers, Morocco. After triumphing over a rival gang, he decides to quit the job and to start a new life with Vicky, a pretty young nurse. In Paris, a doctor lets him know that he is affected by leprosy. In desperation, Jacques runs away from Vicky to spare her. When she realizes the reason why Jacques has disappeared from her life, she joins him with a view to helping him fight the disease.

Adaptation of classical Russian Nikolai Gogol's comedy.

Suppose lost and found objects could talk... But they can! At least four of them... : -A statuette of Osiris remembers how two ex-lovers, a model and a good for nothing who claimed to be an Egyptologist, met again one Christmas Eve. -A violin has things to say about Raoul, a humble policeman who lost Solange, a widowed grocer he loved, to a god-dam seducing busker also named Raoul. -A scarf was witness to an eerie romance between a young madman and girl he had saved from suicide. -A funeral wreath lets us know how it caused a young woman to believe her lover dead. After having told their respective story, the objects return to their customary stillness.

A man, after a fight, believes he has killed his cousin, and hides the body. The dead man had only passed out, but when he regained consciousness, he became amnesiac. When she sees him again, the woman who loved him takes him for a ghost.

When she sets sail for Lisbon, Catherine Laurence, a famous classical singer has but one wish: to be left alone. Unfortunately she soon gets bothered by a rude, invading man. Later she gets to know him better and becomes susceptible to his charm. She realizes that Michel is in love with her and it is not long before she goes beyond her disastrous first impression. Although not quite sure he is a perfectly honest man she entrusts him with a delicate assignment: keep her precious pearl necklace coveted by Van Coolart, a fake Dutch diamond-merchant, and give it back to her in Paris. If he is a robber himself, so much the worse for her. But if Michel keeps the Paris rendezvous love is in store for both of them. Nevertheless there is a crucial factor she regrettably disregards, composer Raymond Aubour, a faithful friend who has been her suitor for ten years.

Paris, 1833. The famous composer Franz Liszt is friends with Chopin who introduces him to Countess Marie d'Agout. Very quickly Liszt falls in love and she, who is already married and has two children, abandons honor and reputation to follow him. They leave to live a great passion in Italy. Then, Franz Liszt gives concerts, the triumph awaits him everywhere. Little by little the fame of the composer will move the two lovers away.

순탄치 않았던 결혼 생활을 끝낸 에블린은 어린 아들을 홀로 키운다. 생계를 위해 에블린은 어쩔 수 없이 몽마르트르의 카바레 무희가 된다. 어느 날, 에블린은 옛 사랑 조르주를 우연히 만나고, 그에게만은 지금의 생활을 들키지 않기 위해 감당하기 어려운 비싼 아파트를 빌려 행복을 가장한다. 전쟁 전의 오퓔스 작품들 중 후기 걸작들의 스타일을 가장 많이 엿볼 수 있는 작품.

The life of two students, Rodolphe and Madeleine. They love each other but he is rich and she has just lost her father and is forced to work in a nightclub. Rodolphe leaves her but quickly understands that he loves her and finds her.

La Venus D'Or (Golden Venus) was based on Business, a play by Pierre Sabatier. Mirielle Balin stars as Judith, the mistress of ruthless oil magnate Harfstrong (Jacques Copeau). What Harfstrong doesn't know is that Judith is a spy for his hated business rival. When he does find out, he cannot get rid of her because she knows too much about his own crooked dealings. After several more reels of mutual betrayal and recriminations, the story suddenly shifts to the "good" characters, clean-limned young pilot Andre (Daniel Lecourtois) and his sweetheart Michelle (Andree Giuze). Set up as a fall guy for the villains, Andre somehow emerges from the experience none the worse for wear.

Frédérique, married to a brutal and vile being who dies tragically during a duel with the trident, falls in love with Jean, the fiancé of her younger sister Margarido. Both fight against their passion, to see it finally flourish because, to ensure their happiness, Margarido who has guessed everything, does not hesitate to sacrifice himself.

A love between a teacher and his assistant is thwarted, because of their too great age difference.

Maxime, heir to an old provincial family, is deeply in love with Maud whom he makes his fiancée. But learning that the young girl's life has not always been beyond reproach, he refuses to marry her and returns to his castle in the company of his sister who, happier than him, has met a man worthy of being in Paris. love.

Because Colin has a charming smile, he seduces his boss, a great decorator. And Colin, who ruined himself to approach the young woman, succeeds in becoming her partner and then her husband.

A young couple goes through a plot unscathed in the welcoming salons of a large fashion house.

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

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

Under the regime of Louis XVIII. Years after Waterloo, Napoleon's loyal officers live in retirement on half-pay. Useless and idle, they have lost their prestige and keep meeting in the hope of the Emperor’s return. When Napoleon dies, they decide to plot the rise to power of Napoleon II.

The French language version of Sehnsucht 202 (1932).

After his engagement party with beautiful Aline, Claude, a struggling writer, meets his two closest friends. The trio sets up a daring publicity stunt, involving a fake murder. The scheme backfires as the fake victim gets really dead.

Maldone is a canal worker, happy with his life after running away from his family estate. He falls in love with Zita, a young gypsy girl, during a local fete. However, after his brother dies, Maldone is called back to manage the estate. There, he takes up the life of a landowner and marries a neighbor's daughter. Years later Maldone is still restless on the estate, and becomes obsessed with Zita, after meeting her by chance one evening.