Gaby Basset

In 1944, in Paris, the leader of a resistance network is looking for the traitor who gave away a radio operator.

Ветеран-клошар Архимед уже казалось бы нашел теплое местечко накануне обещающей быть суровой зимы. Однако его изгоняют из строящегося здания, и теперь срочно требуется «запасной аэродром». Таковым могла бы стать… тюремная камера. Но оказывается, что получить «путевку» в нее не так уж и просто. Архимед подходит к этой задаче ответственно и изобретательно, но… безрезультатно. Ни воровство в кафе, ни вмешательство в ход военного парада, ни залихватский скандал в метро не приводят к нужному результату. И тогда Архимед решает отправиться на юг, к Лазурному берегу…

Michel Piccoli plays a police inspector whose best friend is murdered on the orders of gang boss Charles Vanel. The inspector knows full well that Vanel is too crafty and well-connected to ever stand trial for his crime, so he carefully lays a subtle trap for his adversary. Unfortunately, both Piccoli and Vanel are thwarted by a pair of scheming females.

Elisabeth is persuaded to have killed her noisy upstairs neighbor, scientist Charles Magne. To save her, Mr. Matheu, Elisabeth's father, accuses himself while Pierrot, Elisabeth's fiancé gets rid of the body in order to save father and daughter. For his part, a gangster also believes he has killed the scientist but he gets shot down by a taxidermist, who runs for life. The girl, her daddy and her boyfriend also run away. But Magne is not dead. A bum is mistaken for him and a police inspector makes everyone believe that he is the one who shot the gangster. At the end of this crazy chain of events all the protagonists are reunited at the station house and everybody dances to express their relief.

Луи Бертен с группой сообщников совершает успешное ограбление инкассаторов Французского банка. Благодаря этому получает большие деньги, открывает собственный автосервис и может жить как добропорядочный буржуа, заботиться о старой матери и младшем брате Пьере. Но в скором времени принимается за старые дела и организует новое ограбление.

One Christmas Eve, a carefree young man, Eric, arrives in a small provincial town. Here, he meets Julien, a bar pianist who is his exact double. Julien is in love with Marinette, a pretty waitress, but he is too shy to make any romantic overtures. Eric decides to give the course of true love a helping hand by pretending to be Julien. Meanwhile, Eric’s fabulously wealthy uncle has sent his minions out to bring him back home, so that he may celebrate Christmas in the bosom of his family.

A girl surviving on public welfare, fall into a life of prostitution.

К Андре Шатлену, держащему ресторан, приезжает девушка Катрин, которая оказывается дочерью его прежней жены, с которой он расстался еще двадцать лет назад...

Жан Габен в роли крутого и неболтивого водителя грузовика ухаживает за учительницей Жанной Моро, и они собираются пожениться. Это одна неторопливо развивающаяся, сочная сюжетная линия. Параллельно намечается и вторая линия, которой, как ясно с самого начала, придется пересечься с основной. Четверо бандитов ограбили и убили двух инкассаторов, а один из них смылся с деньгами. Габен же ночью переехал через лежащее на дороге тело именно этого смывшегося с 50 миллионами бандита. Остальные прочитали об этом в газете и, решив, что Габен прикарманил деньги, решили их из него вытрясти. Но не на того ребята напали. Жан «со товарищи» окружил злодеев грузовиками со всех сторон и…

Пожилой ныряльщик пытается привлечь к суду лидера преступной группировки, причастного к убийству девушки, чей труп герой обнаружил во время одного из своих погружений.

Макс и Ритон — легендарные личности в уголовном мире. В их карьере множество блестяще проведенных операций, в том числе дерзкое ограбление в аэропорту Орли, где их добычей становятся 50 миллионов франков в золотых слитках. А главное, что никто не знает об их участии в ограблении. Можно уходить на покой, наслаждаясь радостями безбедной жизни в обществе юных прелестниц. Но Ритон совершает ошибку, похваставшись проститутке Жози, которая, недолго думая, делится его секретом со своим новым дружком Анджело. Тот решает пощипать «старичков», похищает Ритона и требует у Макса золото в обмен на друга…

Arriving in Paris, Madeleine Marsan rents a room in a guesthouse where she makes the acquaintance of Pierre Ruffin, a respectable municipal librarian. Through Pierre, Madeleine finds work as a schoolteacher and soon realises that she is in love with him. Then she discovers that Pierre is in truth the head of a band of crooks. Caught by the police after a failed robbery, Pierre manages to escape. With Madeleine’s help, he goes on the run.

In Bourganeuf, an old maid, Charlotte Bourdier, confesses to Marie Chassagne that she has forged a sentimental intrigue by correspondence with the presenter of the Radio Circus, Zappy Max. Marie agrees to meet him when he comes, but she in turn falls in love with him, who confesses his love to her.

Colette gives up her studies to become a cabaret dancer. She breaks with her fiance who does not approve of her choice.

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.

Cochu, a peasant, is the whipping boy of his regimental comrades. He is called "buffer of the capiston", that is to say the captain's order. But he finds himself in the service of Hortense, the captain's sister.

André de Kerdec, a young lawyer buys an old parchment in an antique shop and discovers that a treasure is hidden in the bedroom of Artémise, an old maid who owns a manor. He manages to be hired as her chauffeur by Artémise and sets about looking for the treasure. During this time, he falls in love with Lucie, the old spinster's niece. But the trouble is that Artémise develops a crush on André...!

Antoine Vautier is a failed actor. A director hires Christian, Antoine's son, for a film. He immediately becomes a star. Antoine suffers from it. Christian's second film is a disaster and faced with the collapse of his son, Antoine forgets his jealousy.

The hunter at Maxim's, whose family is unaware of the profession, turns around and plans to marry his daughter to a marquis when he recognizes a regular in this nobility. Everyone meets at Maxim's where, unmasked, the hunter agrees to marry his daughter to the reveler but repentant Marquis.

Said Ali, an old and sick noble Arab, living on an island in the Red Sea, has no other occupation than collecting pearls. The spiteful Nadir tries to take possession of the treasure, he kills Said Aly but finds a terrible death by desecrating his tomb.

Following a quarrel with his father, Prince Jean joined the Foreign Legion. When he returns, he finds his brother who, on the king's death, usurped his title, and the woman he loved, betrothed to another. Helped by a very rich and philosophical old uncle, Jean, disgusted with classes and politics, flees with the young woman.

A young woman wishing to divorce, promises money to her husband's ex-mistress to obtain her testimony on her behalf. But the same evening, the corpse of the young woman is found in the Seine. Everything seems to confirm the husband's guilt, however a journalist disappears with the evidence.

A secret message is on a recording, a man who had disappeared for a while may be trying to steal it.His wife, a singer, teams up with a spy chief she has met to confront her husband.

A young man realizes that his fiancée is asking the Mystery Prince for advice on the conduct of his future household. The Mystery Prince is a radio presenter adored by his listeners. To get rid of this cumbersome character, the young man makes one of his comrades pass for the presenter, who has become the worst of cads.

Léonce Vavin, an entomologist, marries Cecile Debienne, but the parents of the bride quickly realize that he's not just ugly but also a complete ignorant of all sexual matters.

Private Mamert is the heir to five million dollars. All his comrades borrow his identity to seduce girls.

A banker threatened by gangsters is replaced by a tramp who is his perfect double. The gangsters arrest the fake banker and take him for a madman.

Два актёра живут в бедности и постоянно ищут работу. Они играют в цыганском оркестре, когда те в моде, в следующем году — в негритянском оркестре, еще через год — в кубинском. Наконец приходит мода на женские оркестры. Друзья, вечно бегущие за модой, гримируются и переодеваются под женщин и получают место в оркестре под названием «Голландские тюльпаны», который как раз отправляется на гастроли.

Working as a cook for a Parisian household, a naive country girl finds some kind of love among vegetable traders, while reluctantly helping her boss with his new play and marital life.

A respected gangster, Justin, finds himself in a deadly feud with his rival, the unscrupulous Esposito. The latter plans to steal a cargo of opium bound for China and to have Justin killed.

A pious family, another non-believer, and a little boy who suffered an accident, whom a doctor believes is forever doomed to crutches, but who suddenly walks normally thanks to his faith in the Virgin of Lourdes.

A rich old man wants to give a good lesson to his niece and his nephew, who are very full of themselves. He pretends to be dead, after having put as a testamentary clause, so that they touch his fabulous inheritance, that our two "stylists" marry respectively the servant and the cook of the philosopher character...

Démonio the fakir has impressed a rich but weak-willed young man who hires him as an energy teacher. Demonio drags out the businesses of the shy lover, but his partner arranges everything and the finally satisfied lover endows the two accomplices who renounce fakirism.

The French and the English spy on each other, in this adventure set in post World War I colonial Syria.

A traumatic nightmare for a glove salesman who falls asleep on his counter at night and the wax models begin to come to life...

A tradesman authorizes his wife's first husband to replace him in order to hide from a brave, very rich aunt that his niece is remarried and thus saves himself from bankruptcy. He is indeed saved from it but loses his wife won back by her ex-husband.

Monsieur Loyal, bailiff by profession, is dispatched to a grub by an actress. Reason: she accuses Micheline, a young singer who works there, of stealing her songs. But our usher is nonetheless a man, and Micheline exerts her charms on him so well that he gives him shelter for the night, and finds him a new job at the Mirador, a cabaret that has just opened.

An opera singer travelling with her company on a passenger ship encounters a mysterious young man who she falls in love with.

Lucien asks his father for money to support his girlfriend. The father refuses. Lucien's GodMother is found dead.

When the baroness surprises the baron with his mistress at the music hall, he passes off young Marcel, a clothing salesman, as an important customer.