Jean
Osine
Celeste has failed with Victor and has a little boy. Césaire would still like to marry Céleste, a beautiful and hard-working girl. His father, old Amable, did not hear him that way but ended up giving in. Less than a year later, Césaire dies. Between Father Amable and his daughter-in-law, a cold and silent war begins.
Valonsol
Guignard
In a village in the Ardennes, during the German occupation, finding rations is becoming almost impossible. Clovis, an ordinary labourer, decides to cross the occupied zone to bring back enough potatoes to feed his family. His plan is a success but Clovis rapidly becomes obsessed with storing the precious tubers.
Mr. Barrel
A 1963 TV film directed by Michel Mitrani.
Pidoux
Stéphane Blanchon lives a quiet life in Switzerland with his wife, Christine, until a young American boarder named Belle, who was living with them, is found murdered. Despite Stéphane's innocence, the evidence points to him, and he learns that Belle harbored romantic feelings for him. Suspicions mount against him; even Christine thinks he is the culprit. Stéphane's sanity begins to crumble, and he lashes out in unprecedented ways.
A worker
Emile is a steelworker in a car factory ;a confirmed bachelor going on fifty, he leads a peaceful life .One night, he is woken up by a burst of machine gun fire. The cafe in the corner of the street has been burglarized.A distraught young girl rushes into his apartment building and hides in his room .When the police make a search, he makes her out to be his lover for the night.Madeleine tells her about her sad past : she has severed all links with her parents ,she's an unwed mother and in the underworld's clutches. Emile sends his protegee to old mommy Dupont's place ,in the suburbs of Paris.
Man at the Cemetery
Uma garota sofreu um acidente que acabou a deixando sem face, sobrando apenas os olhos intactos. Seu pai, um renomado cirurgião especialista em transplantes, está determinado a fazer qualquer coisa para lhe dar um novo rosto.
Auguste
In a small French village, everything would be quiet if the local wildlife cop was not being ridiculed by a smart poacher.
A country girl is discovered by a Paris magazine, and becomes a top model.
Mr Poisson
An adaptation of Émile Zola’s 1877 masterpiece L’assommoir, the film is an uncompromising depiction of a lowly laundress’s struggles to deal with an alcoholic husband while running her own business.
Pierre Curie
The life and work of the pioneering scientists, told through the words of Marie Curie.
Gaspard
Tensions mount as the lonely wife of a trucker becomes involved with a gas station attendant.
Two female agents from a rival gang are sent to disrupt the operations of a gold-smuggler's caravan in Africa.
le chef de gare de Dijon
Star-crossed lovers Thérèse (Simone Signoret) and Laurent (Raf Vallone) think they've gotten away with murder after Thérèse's weakling husband "falls" from a speeding train. But when forced to contend with a blackmailer's demands and the mute accusations of Thérèse's mother-in-law (French stage and screen diva Sylvie, in a scene stealing performance), it's only a matter of time before the law, their passion or blind chance trips them up.
Monsieur Dolle
O filme conta a história de Paulette (Brigitte Fossey), uma menina de cinco anos de idade que perde os pais e o cachorro em um ataque aéreo quando eles fugiam de uma Paris ocupada pelos nazistas. Ao se perder do grupo de refugiados, Paulette é recolhida por Michel Dollé (Georges Poujouly), um menino de onze anos. Eles logo se tornam os melhores amigos. E enquanto os pais dele estão ocupados querendo dar uma de benfeitores e em luta com os vizinhos Gouard, Paulette e Michel criam um universo só deles. As crianças enterram o cão de Paulette num cemitério criado por eles dentro de um moinho abandonado perto da casa de Michel. Logo, passam a enterrar todo tipo de animais e embarcam em uma odisseia atrás de crucifixos para ornamentar os “túmulos”.
le portier
A banker who lost everything in the stock market is on the verge of committing suicide when the Devil appears to him and offers to give him a fortune every day on one condition: he must do evil things with the money! Will the banker keep his end of the deal...
L'employé des Pompes Funèbres
Following a broadcast on the radio, each of the listeners remembers these "little nothings" (the title is borrowed from a play by Mozart), which have often changed their lives. Each of these stories told will prove that a tiny detail in life can change an entire destiny.
Father Boquet, old and sad, hopes that François, his son, will be a fisherman like him. Alas, François follows his evil genius Simon to town and succumbs to the charms of the great Lisa. The wise village teacher sets out to find him when his father is ill, and brings François back in a violent storm. Love is on the way