Yolande Laffon

История про сильно разбогатевшего бывшего портового грузчика Франсуа Кардино (Габен). Добившись собственного величия Франсуа внезапно узнает, что жена (Мелинан) ему изменила с оборванцем-неудачником. Пытаясь разыскать и вернуть жену, он узнает много неприятного о себе. Оказывается он никакой не король в глазах сограждан.

Маркиз де Мобран - вдовец и отец семерых детей, придерживается старых аристократических традиций и заставляет своих наследников следовать его примеру. Но дети выросли и придерживаются более современных взглядов, считая отца ретроградом. Конфликт поколений неумолимо ведет к трагической развязке...

Утро в домике на холме, недалеко от города Париж, вот уже много лет начинается всегда одинаково. Неприятное дребезжание будильника, монотонное радио, на кухне служанка раскладывает очередной пасьянс, отец вспоминает учения Демосфена, мать готовит завтрак.

Barbara Laage essays the title role in Zoe. Our heroine's adventures begin when she catches the eye of a big-city playboy named Arthur (Michel Auclair), who is attracted not only to Zoe's beauty, but by her insistence upon telling nothing but the whole truth. This trait causes no end of comic complications when Zoe moves into the palatial home of Arthur's family. The limit comes when Zoe botches a big business deal formulated by Arthur's not-altogether-honest father (Louis Seigner). Zoe is based on a stage farce by Jean Marsan.

Действие разворачивается в маленьком городке, в одном из южных штатов Америки. Лиззи Мак-Кей (Барбара Лаж), молоденькая девушка, приезжает из Нью-Йорка на поезде, где становится свидетельницей убийства белым человеком одного из двух негров, которые, как потом объяснил убийца, якобы хотели изнасиловать Лиззи..

Получив в наследство брачное агентство, новый владелец, ранее презрительно относившийся к этому роду деятельности, постепенно начинает открывать для себя его позитивные стороны.

На воскресной ярмарке молодой повеса Жерар Филип зазывает публику в свой балаганчик, приглашая соревноваться в меткости метания мяча в куклы изображающие смертные грехи: зависть, скупость, блуд, обжорство, гордость, лень и гнев.

Граф Роже де Таншбрей был сочтён погибшим в сражении с казаками в Шампани, во время Французской кампании 1814 года, ставшей прелюдией к падению Наполеона. Однако он сумел выжить, но на лице остались страшные шрамы от казацкой сабли. Для соблазнителя и сердцееда это страшный удар. Он возвращается домой в Нормандию в маске. Кожаный Нос компенсирует утраченную красоту эротическими безумствами, вошедшими в легенды. До тех пор, пока ему не встретится девушка по имени Жюдит де Рьюсс, которая попытается ценой своей благородной души и репутации утихомирить его отчаяние. Она даже готова выйти за него замуж, но Таншбрей, несмотря на свои чувства к ней, отказывается… В образе Кожаного Носа представлена молодёжь Франции, потерявшая ориентиры после Революции и падения империи и безуспешно пытающаяся найти выход.

Catherine, 18, loved Jean, a young accountant, who loved her in return. And yet, one morning, two policemen find their dead bodies on a stretch of waste ground. The case is obvious: the two young people have killed themselves. But why? Chief Inspector Ernest Plonche, feeling upset, decides to investigate personally.

Thérèse, a young flower girl, tries hard to remain virtuous but the whole world seems to conspire against her, whether her petty Paris family, or her relatives in the province bristling with false respectability, or her lustful employer, or the boy she loves who seduces her and abandons her. But at the end of the day there is Yvon, her childhood friend. Will he be the one that will love her truly?

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.

Minne is a very imaginative young lady. She pretends to have had lovers and can't think of anything better to do other than... to tell Antoine, her husband, the day she marries him. Bad beginning for the couple... As the marriage is not consummated for years, Minne feels frustrated and tries to find elsewhere the carnal knowledge she does not find at home. But Antoine is a kind-hearted man and on the occasion of a trip, a sexual balance is at last found between the two partners.

Minne is a very imaginative young lady. She pretends to have had lovers and can't think of anything better to do other than... to tell Antoine, her husband, the day she marries him. Bad beginning for the couple... As the marriage is not consummated for years, Minne feels frustrated and tries to find elsewhere the carnal knowledge she does not find at home. But Antoine is a kind-hearted man and on the occasion of a trip, a sexual balance is at last found between the two partners.

Gilberte is a sixteen year old girl raised by her aunt and grandmother to be a demimondaine. But she's not ready for that yet, and spends her days in lessons and in teasing Mamita's old friend, the rich playboy Gaston LaChaille, and following his affairs from afar. But when Gaston throws off his latest mistress, it looks as if Gigi just might be ready to begin her destined career.

Stage actress Marianne has decided to give up her career to marry wealthy nobleman Marquis Antoine de Fontaines. As a wedding present, Antoine gives his future wife a precious diamond necklace, which is coveted by a gang of crooks. Jean, one of them, is given the mission to approach Marianne and steal the necklace from her. The only trouble is that when he meets her, she recognizes him as the man she once loved.

Sophie de Réan, an unruly mischievous little girl grows up under the thumb of Mademoiselle, her strict governess. Following her mother's death, she is entrusted to Mme de Fleurville, her aunt, who at the same time hires Mademoiselle to further Sophie's education. A few years later, the little girl has blossomed into a lovely young lady. She is now in love with Paul, her cousin, who, unlike her, used to be a model child. Unfortunately Mademoiselle will not hear of a union between them. Instead she wants Sophie to marry Armand, the conceited son of Prefect Hugon. To make matters worse, Paul, the good boy, unexpectedly turns into a revolutionary, who defends the Republic on the barricades against Louis Napoléon's coup. Not being one of the victors, Paul is forced into exile. Will Sophie finally yield and accept the established order or will she react in her usual rebellious way and follow the one she loves ?

An aristocrat instigates divorce proceedings against his son-in-law, a commoner and the ex-owner of night club "La Vie de Plaisir".

Paris, 1830. Fleur de Marie is rescued from poverty by the mysterious Rodolphe, who is in fact the Grand Duke of Gérolstein, who has gone incognito in search of an illegitimate child he once had. Which is not at all to the taste of Sarah Mac Gregor, her current mistress who kidnaps Fleur and has her locked up in Saint-Lazare prison.

France, 1880. Francois Roquevillard is a respected lawyer in Chambery and the head of a family that prides itself on its impeccable morals. Francois's world rapidly begins to fall apart when his son Maurice elopes to Italy with Edith Frasne, the wife of an esteemed notary.

Анна-Мария, богатая девушка, полагает, что нашла своё призвание, когда она пришла в женский монастырь доминиканского ордена. Монастырь специализируется на реабилитации осуждённых женщин и Анна-Мария, очарованная заключённой Терезой, пытается убедить её присоединиться к работе в монастыре, чтобы искупить свои грехи. Однако Тереза заявляет, что она невиновна и отказывается. Выйдя из тюрьмы, Тереза стреляет в мужчину, который совершил преступление, приписываемое ей. После этого она приходит в монастырь, где всячески старается скрыть случившееся, особенно от Анны-Марии, и где её не сможет найти полиция…

The life of two students, Rodolphe and Madeleine. They love each other but he is rich and she has just lost her father and is forced to work in a nightclub. Rodolphe leaves her but quickly understands that he loves her and finds her.

A husband, exasperated by his wife, spanks her without paying attention to the open window in front of which he is. He is annoyingly surprised to discover the next day that the scene has been photographed by a neighbor, and that the image is circulating in Paris. A debate then ensues: is this an opportunity to call for revolt or a welcome manifestation of marital authority?

Вена, 1801 год. Две молодые девушки, обе ученицы Бетховена, влюблены в него. Причем он не замечает пылкого чувства Терезы — ну, или просто делает вид, что не замечает. Меж тем у него самого случается «большая любовь Бетховена» — ее зовут Джульетта. Но, увы, она предпочитает обвенчаться с графом. Оставив надежду на то, чтобы быть с любимым, постепенно теряя слух, Бетховен впадает в глубокую депрессию. В последние годы жизни мы видим композитора глухим, почти нищим, окруженным преданными друзьями и неблагодарным племянником.

Rudolf, the only heir to Emperor Franz Josef of Austria-Hungary, is trapped in a loveless marriage to a Belgian princess. As he seeks to flee his stifling environment, he meets the beautiful Maria, and the two enter into a scandalous affair. Despite the interference of the Emperor, the couple refuse to give each other up.

A woman steals to have enough money to please her husband. Her nephew, madly in love with her, reports this to a detective who catches her red handed.

A jealous young woman murders her husband's mistress. A notorious scoundrel is accused of the crime. When, seized with remorse, the young woman goes to see the prosecutor to confess her crime, she is hit by a car and loses her memory. Her husband judges that she has earned the right to be forgotten and to happiness.

The many difficulties of a couple to harmonize, between the need for independence of one and the brutality of the other...

To protect the honor of a married lady, a grammar professor pretends to be a singing teacher and falls in love with the real professor's daughter.