Philharmonic Teacher
Durante uma entrevista, Max Baumstein (Piccoli), respeitado presidente de uma organização humanitária, atira a sangue frio no embaixador paraguaio e o mata. Julgado por assassinato em primeiro grau, ele próprio explica: o embaixador era um ex-oficial nazista, responsável pelo extermínio de sua família.
Por que ele cometeu um ato que, aparentemente, anula os princípios que ele se esforçou tanto por defender? Eventualmente, ele revela um segredo sobre si mesmo que ele manteve escondido de sua esposa mais nova, Lina (Romy Schneider), e que de uma forma indireta também diz respeito a ela. É a conclusão de uma luta que começou muitas décadas antes, quando Elsa Wiener (Romy Schneider), uma cantora alemã exilada em Paris, sem dinheiro ou relações, uma refugiada entre muitos outros, enfrentou dois problemas difíceis: sobreviver em uma cidade estrangeira e salvar seu marido Michel das garras dos nazistas.
La dame de l'agence
Ten young people (six boys and four girls), most of whom students, rent a house in bad repair and set about living together. The experience is not obvious and the ten tenants have to cope with more than one difficulty. But they also have their moments. Things really go awry when Françoise, an unmarried girl, is forced to deliver the baby she carries prematurely and when Solange, the lonely girl of the group, attempts suicide. Shortly afterwards, the group learns that the house is due for demolition. They decide to take advantage of this opportunity to face adult life individually.
Mme Rose
An illegal gambling den where players can lose millions... and the owners make their fortune.
La mère de Mariette
Claude Sauvage, a tenacious young gynecologist takes a months long internship in a Paris hospital. Between her private life and medical career, she set her doubts and desires in a society where the square and the plight of women remain at that time a secondary issue. The film follows Claude and the staff through the case of some patients while the crucial debate on women's professional ambition, contraception and abortion rights.
Madame de Briac
The story follows the son of a millionaire from the 1920s to the 1960s. After losing his fortune in the stock-exchange crash, he teams up with an equestrienne and becomes a circus clown.
Duchesse d'Armantière
O ambicioso oficial de polícia Cruchol é transferido para Saint-Tropez. Além de lutar contra persistentes nadadores que insistem em ficar nus, ele também precisa lidar com a filha adolescente que está tentando impressionar os amigos ricos dizendo que seu pai era um homem milionário que possuía um iate no porto. Cruchol acaba sendo atraído para essa história ao precisar encobrir a filha quando um amigo empresta um carro do suposto pai dela.
Madeleine Lebeau, a woman who charges for her easy virtue, has a plan that has some of her customers paying more than others; she tells them she is pregnant and, to avoid complications, the men pay her money and don't hang around for the birth. Yves Furet, a shiftless gambler, who not only encourages her in her business ventures but is also her fiancée, shares the fruit of her non-labor. She latches onto a wealthy widower, Henri Vilbert, who throws her a curve-ball when, after she tells him she is pregnant, he is overjoyed as he has fallen in love with her and is looking forward to becoming a father. She plays along for a while, but becomes ashamed when she sees how Vilbert is devoting his whole life to a child that she isn't carrying. She fakes a miscarriage and his kindness makes her feel guilty and she confesses, but he doesn't believe her. So she tries another plan.
Durand, a big industrialist, works with an international adventurer, Mr. Ernest, who covets Mrs. Durand and threatens to bankrupt her husband if she does not consent. She calls him a jerk. Mr. Ernest sets out to ruin the Durands, and leaves in the castle that they must sell their couple of servants, Victor and Marie, who become the new masters, at the same time as they serve as a screen for Ernest for his dubious business.
Political intrigue and psychological drama run parallel. The queen is in seclusion, veiling her face for the ten years since her husband's assassination, longing to join him in death. Stanislas, a poet whose pen name is Azrael, is a suicidal anarchist, his imagination haunted into hate by longing for this queen who's drawn apart. He enters her private quarters intent on killing her then himself, but they fall in love, in part because he looks like the king. Stanislas wants her to regain political power by appearing to the public, and she tries to convince him to find hope and escape. All the while, the queen's enemies plot to keep the lovers together but to thwart their plans.
La paysanne
A rich peasant, Carvajan, seeks revenge on the castellan, Clairefont, with whom he had a serious conflict. Their respective children, Antoinette and Pascal, meet and fall in love with each other. Robert de Clairefont, Antoinette's brother, unjustly accused of murder, is defended and saved by Pascal. Finally, love, by uniting the son of one to the daughter of the other, will appease souls and reconcile families.
Titou
Christianne Delannoy is the daughter of Mr. Brown, who subsidizes a nursery in memory of his affair with Mrs. Delannoy. She loves Doctor Moreau, but her mother forces her to marry a rich young man.
Monsieur Albert is a very elegant and much-appreciated butler. One day he falls in love with a client, Sylvia Robertson, and follows her to a winter sports resort. Sylvia does not recognize him and imagines that he is related to a king who goes incognito.
Gaby
A French musical comedy film, one of the many operetta films made in the 1930s. Rejected for the law after cheating with his fellow students, a frivolous youth gets a job as a notary in the provinces where he hires his girlfriend and they have a fine musical time.