Marthe Mercadier

Damien and his friends are garbage collectors in a small provincial town. One day, Damien finds a decomposing corpse in the dump where he works, but also a knife that turns out to be his. Because of his personal and social environment (an omnipresent mother, humiliating friends, an unenviable situation) and because he arrives at a moment in his life when he realizes that he is nothing to anyone, Damien wants to prove that he is capable of doing something with his life, of becoming someone, by finding the murderer who is prowling around the dump. In the course of his investigation, he meets Julie, a young divorced woman who is a little lost and who moves in across the street from him. But as his investigations progress, Damien wonders if he is not the killer he is looking for.

Lazy and inveterate player, a French aristocrat has lost everything and his family is ruined. His wife still believes in a miracle. Will this come from their eldest daughter who has developed a gift of double vision since she was pregnant?

A woman, believed to be the widow of a certain Edouard, finds herself urged to reveal to her 3 children some very embarrassing news, but not without importance. The many consequences that result will not disturb their respective betrothal.

A Senegalese platoon of soldiers from the French Free Army are returned from combat in France and held for a temporary time in a military encampment with barbed wire fences and guard towers in the desert. Among their numbers are Sergeant Diatta, the charismatic leader of the troop who was educated in Paris and has a French wife and child, and Pays, a Senegalese soldier left in a state of shock from the war and concentration camps and who can only speak in guttural screams and grunts.

A young astrology enthusiast inherits an industrial business. Before any decision, he carefully studies the sign of his interlocutors.

Двое юношей, Ален и Марк, воспользовавшись оплошностью грабителей, похитивших из банка пятьсот миллионов франков, отправились с этими «шальными деньгами» в Марокко, разыгрывая из себя инструкторов при группе «красивых загорелых блондинок», которые решили провести несколько великолепных дней по ту сторону Средиземного моря.

A tale of sexual encounters of one woman and several friends, family members and acquaintances, as seen (and told) from the perspective of a pair of satin blue panties.

A tale of sexual encounters of one woman and several friends, family members and acquaintances, as seen (and told) from the perspective of a pair of satin blue panties.

Val Brosse, a private detective, receives Françoise, who confesses to him that she murdered her husband. The story is false, but Val, intrigued, decides to investigate.

Alain Cluny is Balthazar, a bumbling middle-aged intellectual who spouts off from time to time about leftist causes, usually to his current girlfriend. Then Edwarda (Bernadette Lafont), who is active in the political underground, comes into his life. From that point on, he begins to act on his beliefs. Edwarda's underground political action group stages a little drama to test Balthazar's commitment and reliability, putting him through an interrogation by what appear to him to be French secret police. Having passed this test, he is given a real assignment. This film is a comedy with elements of satire, and it explores the humor to be found in left-wing pretentiousness of all kinds. - Rovi

Оливье Андрие женился на Николь, дочери Люси и Альфреда Тревьера, владельцев "Лаборатории Тревьеров". Оливье - биохимик. Он подозревает свою жену в неверности и хочет дать ему порцию "сыворотки правды" - своего изобретения. Николь принять, если семья готова к эксперименту. После инъекции они (почти) все испытывают непреодолимую потребность раскрыть свою истинную природу как можно большему числу свидетелей.

Отличная французская комедия с Фернанделем. Пародийно-гротескные зарисовки средневековой Франции, в правление короля Дагобера. Сюжет - поездка короля в Реймс, дабы опередить родного брата, претендующего на трон. А брат, соответственно, тоже не дремлет и подсылает, то и дело, разных убийц и отравителей.

Поль Энзе в солнечный день решил половить рыбу с лодки, только на крючок ему попалась не рыба, а утопленник. Чего же проще, брось назад его и все дела. Но обстоятельства сложились таким образом, что в пиджаке трупа он оставил свою зажигалку…

There is a lot of excitement in the high society of Venice: An Arab prince, who always travels incognito, is said to be in the city. By chance, the elegant Isabella gets to know the handsome heir to the throne - and it does not take long for her to fall madly in love with him. Isabella has no idea that her dream man is really the impostor Gérard, who looks remarkably like the prince and was hounded by the sleazy crook Alfredo on Isabella to steal their precious jewelry.

После смерти родителей юная Мануэла фон Мейнхардис отправлена в бедную, суровую школу. Отчаянно желая любви и теплоты Мануэла привязывается к единственному человечному преподавателю, Фроляйн фон Бернбург. Мануэла влюбляется в нее. О запретной любви обязательно все узнают, это только дело времени, и катастрофа неминуема. Элизабет Бернбург не отрекается от любви, она вынуждена уйти из школы. Мануэла получает суровое наказание, подобно кому-нибудь, кто совершил преступление…

Yes, Doudou (or, more respectfully, Edouard Doucin) is both heir to a big sugar refinery and its managing director but he is also an incorrigibly bashful bachelor, which just exasperates his aunt Agatha. Summoned to marry as soon as possible, Doudou is fortunate enough to meet Babette , an elegant young lady who wishes to introduce him to her parents. When he comes to visit them, he mistakes the floor out of nervousness. In fact,he finds himself at the Lautiers' not the Olivaros'. Now, chance has it that this couple of shopkeepers also have a marriageable daughter. And as Poupette is romantic, passionate and adorable, Doudou can't find the nerve to disappoint her. As a result the young man gets engaged...twice ! How the devil will he cope ?

Arlette thinks she has made a wonderful gift to her daughter Sylvie, who has just married François Morel, a young journalist. And, to tell the truth, not everybody receives a posh little bar like the Royal Montmartre as a gift. The trouble is that Monsieur Jo, the former owner of the joint is also the boss of a gang of drug traffickers. And that he has managed to persuade the pair of naive lovebirds to drop a painting to a friend on their way to their honeymoon place. Now the picture is stuffed with drugs! The honeymoon trip promises to be eventful...

Мадам Раймонда Шандебиз подозревает своего супругу, Виктора-Эммануэля, в неверности. Желая проверить его, она зовет свою подругу Люсьену, и они пишут мужу Раймонды любовное письмо, назначая свидание. Тот, получив письмо, даже представить себе не может, что оно адресовано ему, и, поразмыслив, приходит к выводу, что он адресовано его другу Турнелю, с которым он был во время, описываемое в письме. На свидание в отель «Игривый котик» идет Турнель. А Виктор-Эммануэль показывает полученное письмо другому своему другу, горячему испанцу де Истангуа! Но горячий испанец узнает почерк своей жены…

Заключенных Макара и Руделя обвинили в том, что они «заложили» своего третьего сокамерника, приведя его на гильотину. Подозревая друг друга в предательстве и не видя иного выхода из ситуации, чтобы спасти свои жизни и установить истину, они решаются на побег. Выбравшись из тюрьмы и пытаясь скрыться от висящей на хвосте полиции, беглецы попадают в одинокий домик на берегу моря, где отдыхает молодая пара: художник со своей моделью. Пытаясь оказать сопротивление, мужчина гибнет от рук преступников, а девушка остается наедине с двумя загнанными в угол и смертельно опасными бандитами…

Pépé la Vache, who coveted Fernande's love, denounced her protector: Dominique le Corse, who was arrested. But Fernande was attracted by Jesus the Quail, a guy of dubious manners. Intimidated by Pépé, the Quail moved away.

Фильм основан на реальных событиях. Во время Второй мировой войны, в 1943, два французских военнопленных, Мишель и Франсуа, совершают побег из лагеря B377, который находился в северной Германии около Балтийского моря. Они встречаются с еще одним беглецом, соотечественником — Пьером, который, переодевшись в мундир немецкого офицера, присоединяется к ним. Цель беглецов: попасть в Швецию — в нейтральную страну. Чтобы добиться этого, они проходят часть пути пешком, затем поездом к побережью, а оттуда, надо найти способ, чтобы пересечь море и добраться до берегов Швеции…

Hélène and Aldo Giovanni are a circus trapeze double act and a couple. Aldo is temporarily replaced by former-partner Alexandre when the former is injured. The two get into a fight and the following day Alexandre is discovered dead. Hélène suspects her husband is responsible for the murder.

Три подруги — Аглая, Валентина и Эрнестина — за чаем заводят разговор о своих мужьях. Каждая выставляет своего мужа на посмешище и рассказывает о своих методах манипулировать им.

История любви американца и француженки, которая началась в освобожденном от фашистов Париже в 1944 году. Спустя два года после войны американец Роберт Тейлор приезжает в приморский городок на юге Франции. Он мысленно возвращается в 1944 год, вспоминая Париж после освобождения. Там он встретил девушку по имени Лиза и влюбился в нее.

Экранизация пьесы Альфреда Адама «Мани». В банке, где некогда директорствовал его тесть, Эммануэль Бонаван мог бы сделать неплохую карьеру, если б меньше прогуливался перед витринами роскошных магазинов и мечтал о заморских круизах. Желая хоть на денек ощутить себя по-настоящему богатым человеком, Бонаван решил позаимствовать из банковской кассы кругленькую сумму – без малого миллион франков. Недостача обнаружилась раньше, чем предполагалось, и чтобы выиграть время, Эммануэлю пришло в голову симулировать перед взбешенными домочадцами апоплексический удар. А когда уж выяснилось, что за деньгами Бонаван и в самом деле не уследил, то бедняге пришлось и дальше изображать паралич, с каждым днем узнавая всё больше неприятных истин о себе и своем окружении.

Молодая девушка Ольга, выйдя на свободу после исправительной колонии, попадает в руки сутенера Джо. Выбраться из дурной компании ей пытается помочь Поль, с которым она случайно познакомилась на улице…

Caroline de Bienre, the 16-year-old daughter of French nobility, meets the handsome rogue, Gaston de Sallanches, who is expected to ask for the hand of her older, plainer sister in marriage. Gaston instead joins Caroline in her secret hiding place in the château's attic, where the infatuated Caroline begins an affair with him. Meanwhile, she is being courted by the dull, sincere Livio, but holds him off since she is in love with Gaston. When the revolution of 1789 breaks out Caroline is sent to a convent but her carriage is waylaid. She escapes and makes her way to Gaston's home, where she finds him in the arms of his mistress. She is angry and then agrees to marry Livio, now an out-of-favor revolutionary and a marked man, and Caroline is also now on the death list.

With the help of a social worker and Isabelle, Pierre, a delinquent influenced by Marcelle, undertakes a slow and difficult reintegration.

A famous lawyer is irritated to see his fiancée spending her time trying to educate Languille, a tramp. Wanting to discourage his Saint-Bernard side, he asks a young engineer to introduce himself to her, under the guise of a tramp. But his plan turns against him, because the young man falls in love with his beautiful.

A wealthy financier is murdered in his desirable mansion.Two lieutenants, a tough guy and a rookie, investigate.

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.

Father Benoît would like one of his twins to take over his inn, at 3 plates. But his ancillary ambitions are not commensurate with his last 3. Bernard is also in love with Hélène, daughter of Colonel Flouc de La Donzelle. He dreams of becoming an actor and goes to Paris to find a job. Difficult beginnings since from the theater, he goes to the cabaret, then to the radio, without success. In the final scene, the 3 brothers meet, which gives rise to a series of gags during the wedding.

The love of a singer and his mistress suffers a setback.

Robert Montfort, happily married to Solange, is his parents-in-law's pet aversion though. To them he is a punk, a good for nothing, a small-time, untalented poet! Robert, who is more gifted than what they think, manages, following a workmate's recommendation, to debut as an entertainer in a nightclub and -even better- to please the audience. Not daring tell the truth to Solange he starts leading a double life, being Robert Montfort in the daytime and Jean Rigobert at night. Of course his wife wonders what is going on and worries about his regular night outings. Only too happy, her parents incite her to have a divorce. Fortunately, all comes right in the end.

Zoé, a pretty penniless girl, decides on the advice of her neighbor to embark on gallantry. After a brief failure, she meets a young boy, Jacques Lebreton who is about to get married. After causing the failure of this arranged marriage, she will have to play the role of wife of Jacques with his family, until the arrival of the uncle from America.

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.

Passing for crazy and locked up, the CEO of a company escapes from the asylum and claims that he is the captain of a troop of pirates. To the disappointment of the director of the company and in the company of three employees, he accomplishes many extravagances which will be beneficial for his acolytes.

Identite Judiciare stars Raymond Souplex as wily French police inspector Basquier. The villain is Berthet (Jean Debucourt), a high-ranking government official. Basquier suspects that Berthet is a vicious murderer, but is unable to prove anything thanks to bureaucratic interference. Thus, the good inspector plays a waiting game a la Columbo, hoping for that one fatal slip on the part of the killer. Certain portions of Identite Judiciare proved a bit too intense for American audiences, and were accordingly snipped by the censors.

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.

Story is primarily based on the adventures of Antoine, a young telegraph messenger on his second night of work. He is given three telegrams, one of which is for the president of the Camber of Deputies. Excited, Antoine runs his bicycle into a truck and loses the telegrams. What follows is an amusing and agonizing search for the missing messages. He is assisted first by a glum, wise-beyond-her-years little girl, Amelie; an off-duty police superintendent, a schoolmaster, a cookie-tin maker and a fireman. The harmonica musical theme is played by Flore Falvey.

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.