Gilberte Géniat

A diverse group of guests gather in a small hotel in Paris to contemplate the state of their lives in this pretentious drama. Joseph Goldman (Fernando Rey) is a washed-up Hollywood actor making a living in the dinner-theater circuit. Accompanied by his wife Sarah (Carole Regnier), Goldman meets Frederique (Berangere Bonvoisin), who is hiding from her former lover. French financier Arthur (Fabrice Luchini) hopes to get into the film industry and bends the ear of a British director (Michael Medwin). The talkative film has little action, and none of the characters evoke much interest or resolve their dilemma.

American housewife Cathy Palmer loses her memory on a trip to Paris after being hit by a car. She wakes up in the hospital believing she's the fictional international spy, Rebecca Ryan.

Françoise has gone into business seducing men whose wives want to divorce them, and who need incriminating evidence against them. In addition, she has a little blackmail operation going on on the side with politicians who can't afford a scandal. She got started on this business after she was raped, and hasn't looked back since. Now the police are on her trail, and she avails herself of the services of a couple who make a profession of hiding wanted criminals. At the hideout, she meets Simon, a second-generation mobster. As the police close in, Françoise and Simon go on the run together, pulling off occasional heists for operating money. Before long, they have also fallen in love.

Solange is depressed: she's stopped smiling, she eats little, she says less. She has fainting fits. Her husband Raoul seeks to save her by enlisting Stephane, a stranger, to be her lover. Although he listens to Mozart and has every Pocket Book arranged in alphabetical order, Stephane fails to cheer Solange. She knits. She does housework. Everyone, including their neighbor a vegetable vendor, agrees that she needs a child, yet she fails to get pregnant by either lover. The three take a job running a kids' summer camp where they meet Christian, the precocious 13-year-old son of the local factory manager. It is Christian who restores Solange to laughter

Sophie Tatischeff's short film set in the small town of Sainte-Sévère-sur-Indre, three decades after its use in her father's film 'Jour de Fête'. The conversation from a typical village bar is transplanted to a patisserie with particularly tempting tartlets: 'No reason for us not to have another' says one habitué; 'no more for me thanks,' says another. 'A shortbread at this time of day?' asks the woman behind the counter.

A serial-killer frightens Paris by phoning young ladies at night, telling them insults about their lives. Minos, as he calls himself, wants to prevent the world from free women and he targets at first these ones. Commissaire Letellier is given the investigation and he has hard work with the maniac.

1962년 프랑스령 알제리의 독립을 허용한 이래 드골 대통령은 프랑스 국민들, 특히 알제리 주둔군이나 식민지 거주 국민들로부터 매국노로 크게 지탄을 받았으며 암살 기도까지 여러 차례 있었다. 군 출신의 드골 제거 조직인 OAS의 저격 사건 후 조직이 와해되고 대표가 처형당하자 후임자인 로댕 대령은 프랑스인이 아닌 외국의 살인청부업자에게 일을 시키기로 결정한다. 적임자로 선택된 것은 영국인으로 콩고나 도미니카에게 독재자들을 암살한 전력의 30대 미남으로 암호명은 재칼이다. 그는 오직 혼자서 일하고 철저한 비밀 유지를 위해 연락도 잘되지 않는 신비스러운 인물이다. 그가 요구한 돈은 50만 달러. 재칼은 랜트카를 타고 이태리를 거쳐 더건이란 이름의 위조여권으로 프랑스에 입국하지만 프랑스 첩보 부대에서는 레벨이란 민완 수사관이 나서서 재칼이라 암호명과 차종까지를 밝혀낸다.

젊은 사회학자 스타니슬라스 프레빈은 여성 범죄자에 대해 연구하고 있다. 그는 인터뷰를 위해 직접 교도소를 찾아가고, 카미유를 만나게 된다. 연인을 살해한 혐의로 복역 중이던 카미유는 주변 사람들의 죽음과 관련이 있다는 의심을 받고 있다.

The story of an apartment in Paris and the various people that occupy it over the years.

세바스티안 자프리소 작가의 동명소설을 영화화한 작품으로 매력적인 한 여인이 우연히 방문한 낯선 동네에서 겪는 미스터리한 사건을 다룬 영화.

Treated as an outcast and exploited by the villagers of a small town, a young woman liberates herself through sex, which she uses as a tool of economic gain and an instrument of revenge against those who have wronged her.

셀레스틴은 파리에서 내려와, 그 지방 중류 계층의 한 가정에서 하녀로 일한다. 그런데 그 가정이라는게 괴이하기 짝이 없다. 집주인 라부르는 발에 집착하는 괴벽을 가지고 있고, 그의 딸 몽테일 부인은 대부분의 시간을 방에 틀어 박혀 알 수 없는 실험을 하며 보낸다. 거기다 그 남편인 몽테일은 집안에서 일하는 모든 여자를 임신시키는 고약한 습관을 갖고 있다. 집안의 모든 남자들은 성적으로 "경험이 많을" 것으로 생각되는 대도시에 서 온 셀레스틴에게 관심을 갖게 되는데, 거기에는 하인인 조제프도 포함된다.

Marcel, a simple-minded factory worker, is tricked into buying a high-priced American convertable car by a widow determined not to let it fall into the hands of her late husband's secretary/secret lover. Once in pocession of the car, Marcel only encounters one bad luck episode after another with the excessive gasoline consumtion, his wife trying to sell it to make ammends meet, getting into traffic jams, accidently riding into a car wash with the top down, and more

Barbara Laage essays the title role in Zoe. Our heroine's adventures begin when she catches the eye of a big-city playboy named Arthur (Michel Auclair), who is attracted not only to Zoe's beauty, but by her insistence upon telling nothing but the whole truth. This trait causes no end of comic complications when Zoe moves into the palatial home of Arthur's family. The limit comes when Zoe botches a big business deal formulated by Arthur's not-altogether-honest father (Louis Seigner). Zoe is based on a stage farce by Jean Marsan.

Noël is a bachelor who inherits a matrimonial agency. After contemplating selling it, he chooses to manage it.

One day, Raoul Cérusier realizes with amazement that his face has changed. With the exception of an old uncle, no one, not even his wife, recognizes him. From an ordinary, rather ugly man, he has become a charming young man on whom the prettiest girls turn, including his wife whom he seduces. Fortunately, he regains his old face in time and Madame Cérusier, losing a lover, finds her husband again.

A woman who has a terrible secret to conceal takes refuge on a barge.

A woman in Paris hires a taxi driver to locate her ex-lover, father to her newborn child, who left her without leaving an address.

Jean-Louis forgets to use the pedestrian crossing;Who could have believed then where it would lead the unfortunate guy to?

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.

Melodrama of two struggling artists whose love for each other is thwarted.She has some success as a ballerina despite being wounded by him in a fit of jealousy. His career as a sculptor is stymied when he is arrested.

The struggle of a female doctor against superstition and healers.

In the train that takes her back home, Catheine Beryl meets concert pianist André Fuger, a childhood friend of her husband's. The musician is both good-looking and seductive and Catherine soon falls for his charms. The two young people spend the evening and the following night together. The next day, a lost powder compact gives the affair away. At a loss, Catherine runs away from her husband but she has an accident. When she regains consciousness in her hospital bed, Catherine finds Georges, her husband, by her side, pretending nothing has happened.

A young woman who inherits her uncle's nightclub, invents a gangster husband in order to gain respect.

Paris, France, December 1946. Jenny Lamour, an ambitious cabaret singer, and Maurice, her extremely jealous pianist husband, become involved in the thorough investigation of the murder of a shady businessman, led by Antoine, a peculiar and methodical police inspector.

Cambo, a banker, has been in trouble since a certain Parizot has tried to extort stocks from him. Following the advice of his friend Quincampoix, Cambo decides to trade places with Bardac, a painter, who happens to be his lookalike. Bardac slips into Cambo's shoes with delight although he does not really live up to his task. But Cambo, who manages to ruin Parizot, makes a 100% profit on the situation. There are of course some misunderstandings when one man is mistaken for the other, notably as concerns Lulu and Geneviève, respectively Bardac's and Cambo's sweethearts, but things finally return to their initial state.

Antoine Mouret, an authoritarian restaurateur, is the head of a large family where, for reasons of interest, people only marry cousins. But some have other plans, Marcus especially when he meets a passing circus girl.

A courier carrying a large sum of money intended for Bonaparte's army is attacked. A miscarriage of justice will lead an innocent person to the guillotine.

During the students ' rebellion against Nicholas the Second in Russia, Viana tries to kill the governor but it's her lover who is arrested and sent to a sinister fortress : hence the title. To help the prisoner,Vania marries the officer who commands the place. There the convicts have really a bad time, but Vania manages to communicate with her dear captive. But beware of informers.

Helene is based on Helene Wilfur, a novel by Vicki (Grand Hotel) Baum. Madeleine Renaud essays the title role, a young medical student in love with aspiring musician Pierre Regnier (Jean-Lous Barrault). Pierre's father, a noted surgeon, puts pressure on his son to give up music in favor of medicine. Unable to withstand his father's remonstrations, Pierre kills himself, prompting the grieving Madeleine to forget all about romance and dedicate her life to the cause of healing others. Wilfur avoids the usual soap-opera goo by offering realistic performances and credible dialogue (the English-language subtitles were composed by erudite film critic Herman G. Weinberg).