Henri Taverna

Tough and uncompromising late 60s espionage.

An American (Robert Stack) talks a retired French crook (Jean Gabin) into robbing a bank, but kidnappers demand the loot as ransom.

Lisa, a fashion photographer, has an affair with a married man. They both know that the relationship forces them to have fun. When he goes through a delicate family situation caused by his daughter's adventure with a much older man, Lisa understands how much she is in love and how little she can expect from him.

A businessman who lives from blackmailing begins to be blackmailed by his own wife who hates him.

The lucky Baron wins a boat in a card game and takes off with his former lover to find new adventures. Adverse circumstances land them in a small town, where the Baron's seafaring companion leaves for more attractive scenery offered by a wealthy local man. Meanwhile, there is a certain charming cafe owner that the Baron finds irresistible -- at least for awhile.

O Czar Alexandre II conhece uma jovem estudante, Kátia. Ele percebe que a ama e tenta mandá-la embora, mas acabam se vendo novamente e se tornam amantes. Com a ajuda de Kátia, Alexandre prepara uma constituição liberal, mas essas reformas o tornam inimigo dos súditos mais privilegiados.

Police Commissioner Jules Maigret returns to the small village where he spent his childhood at the request of the Countess of Saint-Fiacre, who has received a disturbing anonymous letter.

Já faz algum tempo que as mulheres que chegam em casa à noite são violentamente assassinadas por um misterioso serial killer. O inspetor Lagrume acha que encontrou o culpado, Barberot, um açougueiro local. Mas Maigret, que assume a investigação, não está convencido. Bem no fundo ele sabe que o assassino ainda está foragido. Mas como prendê-lo? (e 14 - Estimado 14 Anos)

17 year-old small-town girl Nicole Noblet comes to Paris dreaming of becoming a world-famous actress.

Durante o Festival dos Tolos, o corcunda Quasimodo, está sendo humilhado e atormentado. Mas ninguém pode atingi-lo, pois ele é protegido pelo chefe de justiça da cidade, Frollo. Além de estar cheio de problemas, Frollo está com a consciência atormentada pela beleza da cigana Esmeralda. Quando Frollo envia Quasimodo para cortejar a cigana para ele, o corcunda acaba assustando-a e é preso. Como o tempo, Esmeralda passa a sentir pena de Quasimodo e tenta libertá-lo.

Young conductor Roberto Lombardini has never known his father who is actually a former musician, a failed piano player who has sunk into alcoholism.

Felix is a middle-aged bourgeois husband. Much to his discomfort, he learns that his wife Gabrielle is carrying on with a young man--a very young man. Rather than express outrage, Felix decides that there's something lacking in him. He spends the rest of the picture trying to keep his wife by altering his own personality and outlook.

After an accident, Raymond has gone blind. His family treats him like a child, but fortunately a nun comes to his rescue. She works in a center where blind people learn to read using the Braille alphabet.

Roberto, a 10-year-old boy, is drawn to music. An old organist discovers his gifts, and begins his musical education which will lead him to the head of an orchestra.

A Canadian sailor becomes a fugitive for love after a night with a woman in Marseille.

The aunt of Alfred Puc, a meek tax-collector in Paris, dies while riding in a moving van. The driver, not wishing to be bothered by a police interrogation, hides her corpse in a cupboard before notifying Alfred. But the van is stolen. Alfred, being the heir of a rich lady, begins a frantic search to locate the missing van and the cupboard because one can't claim an inheritance if there is no 'corpus delecti.' In his search, he gets caught up in an underworld web and finds the body of a murdered gangster in his room. He finally locates the cupboard but promptly loses it again. But, wait, it isn't "finis' time, yet.

Emile is a French film producer at the beginning of the century. One of his friends leaves his daughter Lucette in his house, when he is starting a tour through France. Emile falls in love with her. Problems starts when his younger friend Jacques come back from military service and after complaining his misfortune with women, follows Emile's advice in starting affairs with women and he meets Lucette.

A brave bookseller raises his four daughters alone, all of whom he employs in his shop. They are especially interested in their sentimental stories. Rosine, the youngest, falls in love with Francis, fiancé of Edith, the eldest. But Francis pushes her away and Rosine announces that she is going to commit suicide. Bertrand, a young doctor, decides to stop her by watching over her. After a few adventures, everything finally works out. Edith keeps her fiancé, the father, from whom the adventure has been hidden, returns to the usual course of his life and Bertrand and Rosine find themselves alone.

A couple of refugees arrives in a village: he is a cabinet maker, she's pregnant and the innkeeper refuses to give them a room; they wind up in the cowshed of a farm where she gives birth to her baby, the very night of Christmas.

The duel between a Czarist general and a lieutenant, over the general's wife, is postponed with war approaching. Years later, the rivals meet again but the general realizes his wife has been faithful to him after all.

When Esteban, Coral's boyfriend, is imprisoned for quarreling with a troublemaker who was trying to harass her, she decides to lock herself up in a Sevillian house to share his misfortune.

A pilot on one of the air mail flights between France and its African colonies has a brief romance with his distressed cousin before he returns to the call of duty, and the rebels in the desert.

A young printer's relationship with his girlfriend is in trouble after she accepts another suitor's invitation to the fair. This adaption of a popular operetta aims to please with a simple storyline and goofy slapstick.