Philippe Brizard

Guillaume Seznec and Pierre Quéméneur join forces to sell cars to the Soviets. It was then that the latter suddenly disappeared, while driving with the former about 30 kilometers from Paris. The body will never be found. Seznec quickly became the main suspect and was sent to prison for life, even though nothing clearly indicated that he was the culprit.

Tania, a young actress, puts everything at stake for her starring role in Dotez's play. But Dotez, blocked and hostile to Tania, only frees himself as the rehearsals progress, while his actress is exhausted in her daily life, divided between Yan, her lover, and Lila, his little daughter.

Claire's handbag is stolen. It contained a letter written ten years previously by the man who is now the French President. In the letter he urges his pregnant mistress to have an abortion. Claire immediately alerts the President's men. From that moment, the machinery of state swings into action.

Valentine Matignon is a renowned perfumer, "nose". She has had a relationship for 15 years with Gérard, and is about to break up because she is bored. Patrick appears, a lively florist, who gives him the bouquet that Gérard ordered to be forgiven for being late. Patrick makes him a dishonest proposition which she ends up accepting. She takes a funny "sunburn".

Sebastien Grenier, a former French spy, is working as a financial analyst in Zurich. However, his peaceful existence starts to disintegrate when he is recruited by a top French intelligence operative to discover how one of their own secret agents was found out and executed in broad daylight.

Two buddy farmers are visited by aliens who like their domestic cabbage soup.

As soon as they arrive at the barracks, the new contingent reveals some characters who will give their officers a hard time. There is the handsome, resourceful man, the technocrat in love, the bootlicker, the "Jamaican" who only moves to music, the shortsighted man... and all the others. Sometimes to see the nurse undress, sometimes to arrange an appointment with a fiancée, sometimes to cuckold the obtuse non-commissioned officer whose wife is volcanic, sometimes to have a free lunch in a great restaurant, the handsome man invariably deploys a wealth of cunning. And each time it is the colonel's servile driver who gets caught instead of him.

Heavy traffic in the summer. Bad luck for Juliet, Albert, Jaeger and Arthur who does not reach their destination. Involved in a terrible accident that will change their lives forever.

The scene is the restless Paris of the interwar years where an attractive and ambitious woman successfully makes her way in a world previously reserved for men: that of high finance. Originating from a humble background, she quickly becomes popular with small savers by offering them outstanding interest rates. Extremely popular, she makes no secret of her taste for the good things in life and her homosexual affairs. They will cost her dearly...

Antoine, a professor of Greek, and Lise, a police inspector, honeymoon in Greece. There they meet a young couple, Charles, an archaeologist, and Agnes, a dishy flirt. Charles unearths the lovely buttocks of a classical statue and is determined to donate it to the Louvre. Agnes wants to sell it and gets a handsome local sailor to take it for an appraisal. When the sailor is murdered, the police suspect Charles and arrest Antoine as his accomplice. Lise swings into action, but before she can clear the men, Agnes springs them from jail, and now Lise must help them elude the police, find the real murderer, and recover the statue fragment. More art goes missing. What is the statue's secret?

L'Etat Sauvage is based on the novel by Georges Conchon which won the highly esteemed Prix de Goncourt. The story chronicles the mindless racism of both the departing French colonial overlords and the emergent black Africans in a newly emerging African state. Laurence (Marie-Christine Barrault) suffers the outrage of her white acquaintances, including her former lover Gravenoir (Claude Brasseur) and her ex-husband Avit (Jacques Dutronc), for her affair with Patrice Doumbe (Doura Mane), an official in the new government. He in turn is ridiculed by his fellow cabinet ministers for stepping out with a white woman. The vilification escalates to such a point that Patrice is brutally murdered, and Laurence barely escapes the country alive, with the help of her ex-husband Avit.

Their feats of arms in Africa are worth to Phil, Jeannot and Gerard to be sent on a special mission in Algeria. Held captive by the Fellaghas, they manage to escape and are congratulated.

Jean-Marie Fayard is a young examining magistrate in a large provincial french city. He belongs to that generation of judges who are endeavoring to re-adapt the notion of justice to our changing times. His methods are not agreeable to every one. Criticism and pressure are brought to bear upon him but he is aware of his value, professionally, and refuses to make any concessions. He follows an unwavering course. He uses dynamic methods and takes uncustomary initiatives. He behaves like a crusader, a battler, whence the nickname given him by the reporters : the sheriff.

1942년, 나치가 점령한 프랑스 파리에서 로베르 클라인은 성공한 미술품 거래상으로 전쟁 중에도 부유하게 살고 있다. 하지만 사실 그는 유태인들이 어쩔 수 없이 내놓는 미술품들을 헐값에 사들여 되파는 식으로 돈을 벌고 있다. 그러던 어느 날, 클라인은 자신이 유태인이라는 오해를 받고 있음을 알게 된다. 그는 자신이 유태인이 아님을 밝히기 위해 조사를 시작하지만, 점점 위기에 몰리게 된다. 미국 출신으로 구 소련, 영국 등에 걸쳐 활동했으며, 사회파 감독으로 불리는 조셉 로지의 대표작. 인간의 이중성과 복잡한 내면을 탁월하게 묘사하여 세계적 절찬을 받았고, 신분을 입증하기 위해 분투하는 클라인 역의 알랭 들롱은 직접 제작에도 참여했다. (시네마테크부산 2010 - 알랭 들롱 & 이브 몽땅 특별전)

Victor Vautier is incorrigible: he's in constant motion, working several cons at once, using different names and changing disguises. He's charming and outrageous, incapable of uttering a sentence that isn't embellished or an outright lie. His life goal is to make enough money to build a sea wall to protect Mont-Saint-Michel. Charlotte, a parole officer, shows up: she's young and seems taken in by Victor. He discovers she lives above the Senlus Museum, where her parents are the curators. With two pals he decides to steal a priceless El Greco triptych and then ransom it back to the cultural ministry. What will Charlotte do when she realizes he's used her to make a fortune?

공산주의라는 유령이 부르주아를 두렵게 만든다고 말했던 칼 마르크스와는 달리 부뉴엘은 20세기 후반 부르주아를 가장 두려움에 떨게 만드는 게 자유라는 환영이라고 말한다. 1808년 프랑스군에 저항하다 학살된 스페인 혁명가들의 주검과 1970년 파리 부르주아들의 부조리한 삶을 연결시키면서 부뉴엘은 에 이어 부르주아 계급의 가치, 질서의 몰락을 또 한번 코믹하게 묘사한다. 10개 남짓한 에피소드로 이루어진 영화는 꼬리에 꼬리를 물고 이어지며 초현실적인 분위기를 자아낸다. (씨네코드 선재 - 시네프랑스)

Marseilles, 1919. Georges Sarret is a distinguished and respected lawyer, recently honoured for his services in the First World War. He takes as his lover Philomène Schmidt, a young German woman, who has just lost her job and home. To enable Philomène to remain in France, Georges finds her a husband – who dies conveniently of natural causes a month after the wedding. Georges repeats the trick with Philomène's sister, Catherine – marrying her off to an old man who dies suddenly so that the scheming trio can profit from his life insurance. When an accomplice in the scheme, Marcel Chambon, threatens to blackmail them, Georges and his two lovers have no option but to kill him and his mistress...

때는 1934년, 로베르토(장 폴 벨몽도 분)와 자비에(미셸 콩스탕텡 분)는 어려서 시칠리아에서 함께 자라온 단짝 친구이다. 부모들이 죄를 짓고 죽어서 칼이란 남자가 이 둘과 자비에의 여동생 조르지아(클로디아 카르디날 분)를 돌봐 주었다. 칼은 결국 조르지아와 결혼하여 살고 있지만, 조르지아는 로베르토와 연인 사이이다. 건달로 자란 두 친구 중 덩치는 크지만 순진한 면이 있는 자비에는 마르세이유의 검은 조직, 빌라노바 패거리의 음모로 바텐더를 살해한 혐의로 20년형을 받고 복역한다. 그를 구해내기 위해 다방면으로 노력하는 로베르토는 빌라노바를 죽이고 그가 운영하는 카지노 클럽과 술집의 이익금을 챙긴다. 흑인들 패거리와의 결투 중 그들을 모두 죽인 뒤 부상을 당한 로베르토는 자비에처럼 20년형을 받는다. 감옥에서 다시 만난 그들은 서로 의지하며 지내다가 2차 대전을 맞는다. 해안가 모래 속에 파묻힌 불발탄을 찾는 작업을 하던 중 폭탄이 터져 자비에는 왼팔을 잃는다. 머리가 허옇게 세어 출소한 그들은 다시금 건달의 모습으로 돌아가지만, 자비에는 잃어버린 팔 때문에 사회에 적응하지 못한다. 로베르토는 자비에와 자신만을 기다려온 조르지아를 위해 한적한 시골집을 마련한다. 그러나 악당 패거리가 습격하여 사랑하는 친구의 목숨을 앗아간다. 백발의 모습으로 혼자 남은 로베르토는 친구의 원수를 갚기 위해 새벽을 향해 돌진한다.

Marceau Léonetti, a competent and energetic officer stops by chance the son of an influential lawyer driving under the influence of alcohol. A few months later, the lawyer falsely accuses Léonetti as being violent and incompetent. As a result Marceau is transferred to a small police station, where he meets young and beautiful Jeanne. Soon they are faced with a tough investigation.

Antonin is a young French soldier who returns home from World War I to recover from his wounds. When he falls in love with a young widow, Antonin questions his role in battle and contemplates desertion as he recalls the horrors of war. He is pressured by his patriotic father to honor his military commitment even if it means he will die.

Jean-Louis Matouzec works for French National Library as an expert looking after the restoration of old manuscripts.He falsifies marriage certificates as his wife refuses divorce.