Um romântico poeta e arrojado oficial da guarda, Cyrano de Bergerac é apaixonado por sua prima Roxane sem que ela saiba. Sua maldição, ele acha, é o seu grande nariz e embora possa ter sido uma influência formando sua sagacidade na arte do florete, ele acredita que Roxane vai rejeitá-lo. Ele começa a escrever cartas a ela em nome de um de seus cadetes, Christian, que também é apaixonado por Roxane. Mas simplesmente nenhum dos dois sabe como dizer a ela. Ela se apaixona pelo charme poético das cartas, mas acredita que elas foram escritos por Christian.
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...
Clemence
A young couple discover an ancient book in the attic and start reading the story of the Malemort family: a sombre household set in the nineteenth century in rural France. The old man Deroze plays his violin and tries to seduce the maid. His elder daughter Maxime "qui tue les mouches et deguste en cachette des fruits juteux". Underneath her bourgeois facade her senses are not yet put to rest. There is the rest of this upstairs/downstairs family who is visited by a sea captain who learns of a hidden treasure The storyline of this adult fairy tale is less important than the cinematography and the lyric fairy tale atmosphere that surrounds this movie. A little masterpiece still to be rediscovered.
Denise - Girl Scout with Backpack
O desastrado Mr. Hulot passa férias num hotel próximo a um balneário francês, provocando a habitual onda de catástrofes encarada com estranheza e simpatia pelos outros hóspedes, burgueses em busca de descanso. (e Livre - Estimado Livre)
