L'employé de la morgue
Внезапная смерть депутата, убийцы и коррумпированного мафиози перевернула жизнь его давнего бескорыстного друга Ксавье Марешаля. В его руки попадает злополучная тетрадь с компроматом на столпов общества, которые преследуют неподкупного человека с убийственной изощренностью. Но он выбирает позицию «одинокого волка», не доверяет ни полиции, ни спецслужбам до тех пор, пока охотники за шокирующим документом не загоняют его в угол.
Henri
Герои этой ленты — двое освобожденных досрочно за примерное поведение. В тюрьме они разработали гениальный план своей дальнейшей безбедной жизни. Им казалось, они предусмотрели все. Но, увы, один из них женат. А, как известно, если в дело замешана женщина, все планы летят в тартарары…
Charly, le barman
Bus traveler (uncredited)
Полицейскому детективу Марсо Леонетти предстоит сделать невозможное. За несколько дней до суда он должен, опередив мафию, найти единственного свидетеля преступления. Как найти человека, который скрывается уже несколько лет от бандитов и от полиции? Для этого нужно узнать всё о его жизни. Марсо обязательно найдёт беглеца. В этой работе ему нет равных. Но восторжествует ли справедливость, ведь после суда за жизнь свидетеля нельзя дать и ломаного гроша.
Un automobiliste
Неудачные испытания ракеты, изготовленной заводом Рейналя, переполнили чашу терпения кредиторов и поставщиков. Банк отказывается продолжать финансирование научных исследований Альбера Рейналя, пока его завод не будет хотя бы частично перепрофилирован на выпуск более стабильной продукции — бытовой техники и скобяного товара. Не желая превращаться в фабриканта ширпотреба, Рейналь надеется получить поддержку у близких некогда людей — у бывшего одноклассника, бывшей любовницы, бывшего однополчанина… Однако руку помощи Альберу протягивает человек, на которого он и не рассчитывал…
Un passant (uncredited)
Совершенно счастливый садовник Мартен растит свой сад и избегает суеты современной жизни. И только одна страсть каждую ночь поглощает его целиком. Мартен печатает фальшивые деньги! Вот уже 20 лет он рисует только мелкие купюры.
Зачем старику большие деньги? Но его крестники так не думают. В планах молодой парочки красивая жизнь не берегу моря, такая манящая и желанная, словно новые купюры с большим количеством нулей, которые сделает для них счастливый человек, дядюшка Мартен…
un serveur qui parie (uncredited)
Жо и Ритон по кличке Чирик выходят из тюрьмы после нескольких лет заключения. За это время невеста Чирика Роки завела себе нового дружка по имени Жак. Чирик вне себя от злости и мечтает встретиться с Жаком для мужского разговора. У Жо совсем другая мечта - ему очень хотелось бы разбогатеть и жить с размахом, как до тюрьмы. Желая попытать счастья, он просит Чирика поставить для него на тотализаторе на 7, 9, 18. Сделав ставку, Чирик кладет билет в нагрудный карман и вдруг… видит Жака. Начинается погоня. Жак прячется в театре, в котором играет его кузен Жером.
Louis, le garçon de café de la P.J. (uncredited)
Инспектор Валуа начинает расследование убийства владельца ночного кабаре. Почти сразу подозрение падает на его подружку, но это слишком очевидно. Поэтому такая версия не устраивает Валуа...
A railway worker
Pierre is an engine driver who adopts a small girl, a WWI orphan. A widower, he sees in her the image of her mother.
Uncle Charles
In Marseille, crime squad captain Dominique fights against racketeers and tries to put a young man back on the right track.
Oscar, alcoolic deliveryman
In the early 1950s, the popular radio show "La Kermesse aux Étoiles", hosted by the famous Jean Nohain, mixing lottery games and performances of various artists, will be disrupted by the adventures of a man and his fiancée seeking to recover a dangerous bottle of perfume (explosive) which was unfortunately mixed with the prizes to be won ...
Le couturier (uncredited)
While celebrating his birthday, police inspector Basquier (Bernard Blier) recalls two of his most-celebrated cases. The first involves duplicitous moneylender Olga (Suzy Prin). The second concerns the brutal broad-daylight murder of innocent young Yvonne (Veronique Deschamps).
Un cheminot de la S.N.C.F. (uncredited)
Провинциальный булочник Бернар Перль, женатый на сварливой Жюльетт, едет в Париж для получения наследства. На Эйфелевой башне он встречает Мод, разыгрывающую самоубийство, влюбляется в неё и едет с ней в курортный город Дювиль, где проматывает все деньги. Мод исчезает с остатком наследства, а Перль симулирует амнезию, чтобы избежать объяснений с Жюльетт…
A clerk from Heim (uncredited)
Jules, small and weak, dreams of becoming a formidable athlete. He strives every morning to practice physical culture exercises and takes comforting tablets, without success. But he meets Nénette, a woman who, when he kisses her, suddenly endows him with prodigious strength.
Le contrôleur des wagons-lits (uncredited)
Madame Célerier is determined to marry off her son François to a rich and haughty woman but François has other plans.
Robert Vernier is assigned by the Secret Service to unmask a band of gangsters determined to get their hands on the plans for a new plane. They manage to steal part of it and kidnap Robert's fiancée, named Monique. Robert will manage to dismantle the gang and will be surprised to find that at the head there is a policeman...
Un geôlier (uncredited)
Личная жизнь Поля Браконнира и его жены Бландины очень далека от идеала. Лучшие супруги просто ненавидят друг друга — на грани желания убийства. Когда Поль слышит о Матра Обане, адвокате защиты, который не проиграл ни одного дела, он отправляется к законнику. Поль хочет знать, как он сможет убить жену и избежать наказания. Вдохновленный тем, что он услышал, Браконнир закалывает жену, в то время как она собралась отравить его…
The manager of a firm has a very unusual idea : asking his employees to pose as gangsters and to hold up a bank before returning the stolen money and pocketing the reward. But things do not go according to plan and the phony thieves get stolen in their turn. They have no other choice than turning into amateur detectives to be able to pay back the stolen dough.
The flu sufferer
Казимир получил место агента фирмы, торгующей пылесосами. Двери, двери, двери. Казимир стучится в них, чтобы предложить свой товар. Но одни двери так и остаются закрытыми, из-за других высовываются сердитые физиономии...
Un habitué au café (uncredited)
A policeman receives a fabulous inheritance. Thanks to this, he conquers the heart of Queen Marika. But crooks deprive him of his financial means
Un ouvrier du collège (uncredited)
Due to financial problems, the boarding-school of Saint-Loup is on the verge of closing its doors. In desperation, Jacquelin, the headmaster, has the idea to invite former students to a fund-raising reunion. Among the alumni, three men whose common point is to have been in love at the time with the headmaster's niece. One is a banker, the second a priest and the last one a globetrotter. All of a sudden, the peace of the assembly is disturbed: Jacquelin's niece has just been murdered.
L'aveugle (uncredited)
1948. Madeleine is the headmistress of a kindergarten in Ménilmontant. Dr Libois, the school doctor, is very close to her heart. When Rose, a new helper comes to the school, Libois is impressed at once by her understanding of the little ones and her dedication to them. Little by little, Libois grows fond of Rose while becoming estranged from Madeleine. He eventually marries Rose.
A soccer enthusiast like his father, Martin Lambert is the (gifted) goalkeeper of the local team. He falls in love with Jeanette and soon marries her. Alongside a happy marital life, Martin becomes a successful professional. Which proves a mixed blessing since fame makes him vain and haughty and his marriage gets seriously affected. But the Second World War breaks out and Martin is drafted. Taken prisoner a few months later, he is sent to a camp. When he is released, he tries resume his career but his wounds hurt too much and he has to give in. But not soccer: he will now proudly train young shoots.
Le chef de cabinet (uncredited)
Everyone in Paris thinks Fantomas is dead. A wave of extortion, blackmail and murder all point to the master criminal. Inspector Juve and his reporter friend Fandor set out to find the truth.
Émile Boulard is a props man in a Paris movie studio. He has a wife, Suzanne. Or to be more accurate, let's say he HAD a wife since she left him fifteen years before, allegedly ... to go buy a post stamp. But now that their daughter Martine , who lives with her, is old enough to marry, she resurfaces. She confesses that, in order to explain his absence, she has told Martine her father was a great explorer and lion hunter in Africa. Not to disappoint his daughter, Émile accepts to pose as the adventurer he is supposed to be. At the same time he will help Daniel, Martine's bashful fiancé, not to become a henpecked husband like him.
On the borders of the desert, Péhu, a rather blunt creature on the verge of death, confesses to Charles Sigouane that some time before he stole and killed for the sake of a woman named Marie. Péhu recovers against all odds and returns to France with a view to finding Marie and to retrieve a loot he has hidden somewhere.
le barman
Together with her partner-in-crime Claude, Clarence sets her sites on famed explorer Maxime. It seems that Luguet has stumbled upon the fabled "elephant's graveyard" in the jungles of Africa, and Miranda intends to get her well-manicured mitts on all that valuable ivory.
Captain Palmer's daughter, Maria, is neglected by her husband, the cynical Leo, who lives with the beautiful Sylvia. To defeat his son-in-law, Palmer has the idea of putting Sylvia back in the presence of Pierre, her first love. Leo takes revenge by creating many difficulties for Palmer who retaliates by starting a violent fight where Leo is killed. Everything seems to point to Pierre, but...
Le cuistot
Hervé is a tough sea captain in command of the "Duchesse Anne", a rum-trading ship. But the sea dog hides a tender heart and he allows Marie-Douce, a poor slum girl who dreams of seeing the wide world,on board. To have her accepted by the crew, he passes her off as his niece. A seasoned master like him, wise enough to ban alcohol use on his ship, should have known better : a beautiful girl on the deck cannot but unleash the savage instincts of all those men without women.
(uncredited)
This is the story of two brothers: the good one, the virtuous gent, an acclaimed singer, and the bad one who leads a wild life.
Macreuse, police officer
Petrus, a Montmartre photographer, is accidentally wounded by Migo, a dancer at the Frou Frou night club, when she is trying to shoot her faithless lover Rodrigue, a counterfeiter. Though Petrus tries to reconcile the lovers, Migo lands up with him after Rodrigue is finally killed by another jealous dancer.
Journalist Deval (uncredited)
A series of crimes is being perpetrated around a famous singer. Strangely, during each of the crimes, the artist's voice is heard humming his favorite song. Suspicions lead to a chase through a nocturnal Paris, ending in a disused theater where the assassin has lured his final victim.
Justin
Fabienne believes herself to be cheated on by her husband Claude and divorces her. He leaves for America and does not return until eight years later. He then meets his daughter.
Un chauffeur (uncredited)
Hector and Odette Dupuis' car breaks down in the middle of nowhere, but not far from a luxury hotel. The couple are well off but, being miserly, Odette is determined to keep her budget tight. Fortunately for her, the hotel offers rooms for domestics costing only 35 francs, so she decides to pass her husband as her chauffeur. As far as she is concerned, Odette presents herself as Baroness de Garches and takes a 250 franc room. But their stay soon becomes complicated. For instance, Palureau, a widower with five daughters who is planning to remarry, starts courting the 'baroness'. And that is not all since at the same time Angèle, a chambermaid, makes advances to Hector ! To make matters worse, Ferdinand, Angèle's boyfriend, decides to get even with Hector, his 'rival'. The jealous guy steals a jewel from a guest and has poor Hector accused of the theft.
Le secrétaire de l'orchestre
Stuck in Angoulême between her uncle, who composes classical music, and her aunt, who is a fan of contemporary music, young Irène finds life boring. Fortunately, there is swing music which illuminates her days. So when, one day, Raymond Serre and his swing orchestra come to Angoulême, she seizes the opportunity to slip the copy of a song she has written into the pocket of one of the musicians. The trouble is that while she is doing so, the train she has boarded pulls out.
Un consommateur au café (uncredited)
Robert and Françoise Monier make a hot air balloon to fly to the stratosphere. After a visit to Venus, they return home, but have only aged 15 days whereas 25 years have passed on Earth.
Maurice loves Juliet and Michael loves Lily. Romance blossoms on the hill. They are workers, artisans, and Lily has a real talent as a singer. But Claude's arrival brings trouble to their relationships. Maurice, jealous, approaches Lily. Singing in the streets, Lily quickly becomes a cabaret star.
The romantic relationship between a sports journalist and a cyclist during the Tour de France.
Petite Pogne
A would be blind hoodlum redeems himself in the Salvation Army just for a lovely lieutenant.
A young man who wishes to launch his girlfriend in the theater, borrows money from his aunt, making her believe that he wants to buy groceries. His aunt arrives and then wishes to visit “her” grocery store; to save the day he borrows the store of a credulous grocer.
A wealthy old maid offers to be the godmother of a regiment in order to find a fiancé for her niece who must come into possession of a large inheritance the day she marries a private.
A domestic
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.
A celebrated singer in Paris meets a young woman and courts her by pretending to be a driving instructor.
Dominique
The pharmacist Floche who was once the merry Flofloche, had a daughter by a dancer. He wants his daughter to become a pharmacist, but of course all she thinks about is dancing. And she dances while Mr. Floche finds happiness with a musichall star.
Three friends, Fred, singer, Claude, painter and André, extra, live in the same studio and share everything, even their girlfriend. Fred falls in love with a young girl but leaves her when he learns that she is rich. The two friends will try to fix this problem.
Young love blossoms between a salesgirl and a handsome man on the French Riviera.
