Оказавшись безработным и потерявший жену, герой попадает в совершенно чуждый ему мир бомжей… «Бывает, когда в жизни у вас все получается. За три недели я потерял все: работу, машину, любимую девушку. К счастью, я встретил друзей, которые взяли у меня все остальное. Среди них был врач, его кабинет — это улица, там он и проводит свои операции. Сейчас я на тротуаре анализирую содержимое помойных ящиков. Самое ужасное, что этот врач мне сказал, что я не создан быть бедным…»
Old Lady in Park
Фотограф Луис, специализирующийся на религиозных работах, пытается найти парня, способного стать фотомоделью Иисуса Христа. Однажды по просьбе приболевшего друга Луис соглашается подработать на порностудии в озвучке очередного фильма для взрослых. Там он встречает порнозвезду Сибил, и она обещает познакомить его с неким пианистом, который вполне может подойти Луису на роль Иисуса.
The film is a wonderfully accurate portrayal of the three stories: The stories are tied together with original dialogue and scenes by Martha / Anne / Freda / Judith (Valérie Stroh) and René Feret which follow a Golden Notebook/Anna Wulf theme: she is "writing" the stories and has a boyfriend named Paul who is a psychiatrist. A Man and Two Women: Anne, a young woman, a slightly bohemian painter: "in love" with her newborn, she abandons her husband while Isabelle, her best friend, attracted by to him and becomes little by little her rival. Each Other:Fréda finds her brother every morning in the secret of her bedroom,they leave themselves and incestuous effective becomes the only possible relationship for both. Our Friend Judith: Judith, a cold and warm intellectual, secret and complex - Beautiful, Judith is careful not to show it, she knows interment and that is enough. Intelligent, she does not bend to the rules of fashion nor seduction.
Héléna
A man and a woman quarrel over an old building, a heritage they share. Their opposing characters make the situation conflictual.
Lady on Train
American housewife Cathy Palmer loses her memory on a trip to Paris after being hit by a car. She wakes up in the hospital believing she's the fictional international spy, Rebecca Ryan.
Berthe, la serveuse
Он — неврастеничный, мнительный, тщеславный и циничный президент Франции. Она — неотразимый и успешный дизайнер. Когда-то они были близки, но связь осталась тайной. Однажды июньским вечером неудачливый паренек, желая угодить любимой девушке, решается на грабеж — и стаскивает сумку с прекрасной незнакомки. В сумке Клэр оказывается письмо десятилетней давности от экс-любовника Кастора, в котором будущий президент страны, опасаясь развода с бесплодной женой, просит Клэр сделать аборт. Опасаясь непредсказуемых последствий, Клэр вынуждена обратится к президенту, который просит министра внутренних дел, а по совместительству и своего лучшего друга, лично решить проблему. Но ситуация выходит из-под контроля…
Self
Reduced to poverty, a young man is taken in by a rich lady who asks him for some dangerous services in exchange.
Mrs. Lambert, secretary
История злоключений Франсуа Перрена, бывшего футболиста, любовные похождения которого обернулись для него тюрьмой. Пройдя через множество недоразумений, Франсуа выручает свою команду и становится героем.
In the summer of 1939, 13-year-old Marie goes with her parents to visit her grandparents in a small town near Avignon. Marie discovers her femininity and falls for a young Jewish doctor, but he prefers Eva, Marie's mother.
PTT attendant
Адвокат Дюрок навещает своего клиента в камере смертников. Внезапно начинается массовый бунт, и недотепа адвокат бежит вместе с остальными заключенными, спасаясь от пуль полицейских, вместе со своим подзащитным Галаром, которого полиция считает зачинщиком всех беспорядков. Бесчисленные погони, веселые и пикантные ситуации, общая опасность сближают героев и они становятся друзьями...
La propriétaire de l'hôtel
Industrialist Pierre Verdier kills his mistress Jeanne Ancelin by throwing her off a train. Her husband, Ancelin, decides to take revenge on his wife's murderer, who has been acquitted by justice.
Louise
Профессиональный вор Тони выходит из тюрьмы и узнает, что его жена Мадо сошлась с Пьером, владельцем ночного кабака, промышляющим контрабандой наркотиков. Отложив на время месть, Тони готовит «идеальное» ограбление ювелирного магазина.
Mary (segment "Le retour d'Antoine")
In France in 1946, the difficult return to civilian life of five deportees and prisoners of war after having lived through the hell of the Second World War.
Sylvie
A young reporter solves a mystery crime. The fictional reporter is Joseph Rouletabille. He works on a complex, and seemingly impossible, crime in which the criminal appears to disappear from a locked room.
Fine
Claude Géraudy, a banker responsible for a financial scandal, is forced to flee and hides in the mountains with the help of Manu, a young smuggler. Florence, his wife, refuses to join him. Desperate Claude commits suicide, Florence then decides to pass her suicide off as murder in order to receive her late husband's life insurance.
Andrée Denolle
An officer, two of his comrades and a social worker want to create the "Carrefour", a place for lost children and teens to give them a chance not to fall by the wayside and spend most of their life in jail.
Mireille
Auguste, a somewhat simple-minded Provençal fisherman, loves and admires Mireille. This concerns only Maurice, son of an important wholesaler, whom scruples do not stifle. Seduced and abandoned, Mireille moves Auguste who tries to mend his poor happiness. The local priest, with wise words, leads Mireille to offer her hand to Auguste.
Martine
At the end of the last century, in the Cévennes, a valiant officer was taken for a brigand. Brought to defend himself, he kills one of his attackers and seeks refuge in caves where he hides and from which he no longer dares to come out. The devotion of a doctor saves him and he marries the daughter of this one.
Lucie
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.
Simone
On his fiftieth birthday, Serge Charan, a large industrialist overloaded with activities, decides to leave everything to go on an adventure. In a train heading for the Côte d'Azur, he meets six young girls returning to their boarding school. Arrived at their destination, Serge Charan rents, under an assumed name, a villa with a view of the garden of the boarding school. His presence arouses questions and the interest of young girls who are sensitive to his charm. But one of them, Simone, falls completely in love and runs away from boarding school.
Denise
1895. Discovery of X-rays. Researchers and scholars are true martyrs, because they do not know how to protect themselves against radiation dermatitis. Professor Belcour has to have one hand amputated, his assistant Henri Vermont, aware of the danger, has the courage to break up with his fiancée. Withdrawn to the countryside, they eventually recover.
Rose
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
Armande, friend of Irène
In the pound, Pipo the dog recounts his adventures to his fellow inmates.
Françoise
Old Bill has grumbled his way through the trenches of the First World War. Now it is the Second and, envious of his son, Young Bill, he decides to enlist. He finally enters the Pioneer Corps, which is based near his son. When Young Bill goes missing during a raid, Old Bill shows that there's still life in the old dog yet!
la jeune femme
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.
Tobie is a hopeless daydreamer. He always has his head in the clouds, and this inevitably gets him into trouble with his employer. In the end, Tobie loses his job as a fairground performer and sinks into a state of abject despair.
Edwige
The joys and miseries of the inhabitants of a building in a Parisian district.
Jacqueline Maingot
It is based on the popular West End stage comedy by Terrence Rattigan. It all begins when Diana (Ellen Drew), the sister of a British boy studying in France, arrives in town to flirt with all of her brothers' schoolmates. Alan (Ray Milland), one of the students, successfully resists Diana's charms-meaning of course that Alan and Diana will be in each other's arms by fadeout time. (AllMovie)
Julie
Cavalcade D'Amour is divided into three sections, each depicting a romance occurring within the walls of the Chateau de Champs. Legend has it that whoever marries in the Chateau is doomed to an unhappy life. This proves to be the case in 1639 and 1839, but the heroine of the 1939 segment, Corinne Luchaire, is determined to break the jinx. She is convinced that she will prove an unsuitable bride for Claude Dauphin, and he is likewise convinced that he will turn out to be an inadequate groom. But the couple's respective families will not be dissuaded, and the marriage takes place as scheduled? with unexpectedly happy results!
Sylvia Clayton
The film depicts events between the Fashoda crisis in 1898 and the 1904 signing of the Entente Cordiale creating an alliance between Britain and France and ending their historic rivalry. It was based on the book King Edward VII and His Times by André Maurois. It was made with an eye to its propaganda value, following the Munich Agreement of September 1938 and in anticipation of the outbreak of a Second World War which would test the bonds between Britain and France in a conflict with Nazi Germany.
Une Biche (uncredited)
The history of one of France's most famous streets is retold, featuring multiple performances from Guitry himself.
Denise
Charles's uncle is the headmaster of a chic girls school .He is short of the readies and he has lots and lots of debts.
Isabelle
François, Cécilia and Isabelle are students of the drama class of the Conservatoire led by Professor Lambertin. François is in love with Isabelle who also loves him, but he is pursued by Cecilia, his former mistress. Cécilia commits suicide staging the suicide like a crime, so as to involve Francis. But a testimony restores the truth.
Student of the institution (uncredited)
A Russian emigrant sings in a Shanghai nightclub under the assumed name of Kay Murphy. All she dreams of is a peaceful life with her daughter Vera. But this is only a pipe dream as she has been forced by her former lover Ivan to work for a secret criminal organization, "The Black Dragon". Vera, who studies in a Hong Kong boarding-school, knows nothing about her mother's past. When Ivan, who is also Vera's father, resurfaces and blackmails Kay, the young woman is determined to fight back...
Une Midinette
An American billionaire who travels incognito falls in love with a blind shepherdess whose twin sister will take the place on the wedding day.
Camille
Now that their parents are ruined, Jacques Eyssette and his younger brother Daniel, are driven to fend for themselves. Jacques becomes the secretary of a marquis who exploits him by making him work so hard that his health gets damaged. Daniel, on his part, is hired as a supervisor and Latin teacher in a school in the province. It soon happens that he is in a bad situation too as, after being subjected to repeated harassment, he ends up being fired. Daniel then decides to join Jacques in Paris, hoping to embark on a literary career. Unfortunately, Irma Borel, an actress, sets her sight on him and drags him into a life of vice.
Monique's friend
During a leave, three merry soldiers experience a series of incredible adventures.
During the war from '14-'18, two women travel by foot in the North of France and Belgium to aid an organization to provide information to the English
(uncredited)
Commander d'Espinac is found murdered. Having argued the day before the murder with Captain Bruchot, he is accused. The captain will have to conduct his own investigation if he wants to clear himself. His suspicions will fall on one of the three officers attached to his unit.
Une geisha
Based on a novel by Maurice Dekobra, the film is set in the Yoshiwara, the red-light district of Tokyo, in the nineteenth century. It depicts a love triangle between a high-class prostitute, a Russian naval officer, and a rickshaw man.
Monsieur Fred is a friendly Southerner who recruits pretty girls down on their luck to send to South America. After some dramatic incidents and an eventful chase, a policeman manages to lock up the gang he runs.
A barmaid
Little Germaine Valcour, an adulterine child, is abandoned and taken in by a showman, Father Ballot. She becomes the consolation of the good man whose daughter has gone wrong. Madame Vaulcour died of grief while her lover, after many bad blows, takes justice into his own hands. The girl stays with her adoptive parents.
Maid (uncredited)
Alexandre Mérital, the leader of a political party, finds himself under attack from Frépeau, one of his opponents. The latter has indeed discovered that Mérital committed a theft in his youth. But Mérital will not be intimidated by his adversary's move. In his turn, he discovers that Frépeau was once involved in a financial scandal, which forces the plaintiff to discontinue the prosecution.
(uncredited)
After finding and adopting a child, a man gets a job at an all-girls school which doesn't allow families. Once the girls find the baby, they become his forty little mothers. At the same time, the child's true mother searches for him.
La Cousine (uncredited)
Line, annette's daughter, is about to marry a man she's not in love with. At the engagement party three ghosts revisit their disastrous relationships with Annette and decide to take action to help Line.