Writer
A travelling company makes its way round the small villages of France. Shot for the program Cinéma 16 broadcast by the French channel FR3, where Franju adapted an argument written by one of his favourite actors, Pierre Brasseur, and worked with his fetish actress, Edith Scob.
La Brunetière
A successful businessman whose destiny leads him to a secluded Swiss chalet where his life is put on trial by a group of retired law professionals. The men assemble to analyze Sordi's rise to power and his increasingly immoral behavior as he attained success, and the warped perceptions of right and wrong he has adopted to remain successful.
Gosselin
Француз Николя Фильбер открыл для себя Америку в 1787 году, когда нелегально пересек Атлантику в трюме корабля Индийской компании. У Николя не было ни денег, ни документов, и его посадили в тюрьму. Впрочем, в тюрьме ловкий молодой человек пробыл только три дня, после чего устроился ночным сторожем. А через пять лет умный и находчивый Фильбео сделал блестящую карьеру в Новом Свете и собирался жениться на дочери богатого судовладельца. Удачному браку мешало только одно обстоятельство — Николя был уже женат — во Франции. Теперь, чтобы разыскать свою «французскую жену» Шарлотту и оформить с ней развод, честолюбивый жених должен отправиться в страну, из которой бежал. На календаре 1793 год, во Франции революция, и путешествие обещает быть не только увлекательным, но и опасным.
The tale of a young pretty girl's rise to a top model and her finding of emptiness in her life after success.
Writer
Florisse
Goto
In an isolated community on a mythical island, a pompous dictator holds public executions and lets criminals fight in the streets.
Self
Documentary about filmmaker Jean Grémillon.
Faria
Edmond Dantès, who was active in the resistance against the Nazis, is accused for being a Nazi collaborator and is imprisoned in the fortress of Sisteron.
Husband
A young woman, unsatisfied by her husband, searches for sex in the brothels of a seaside town.
Jules Polnick
Не в самых благоприятных условиях завязывается в парижском кафе знакомство Фреда и Клер, когда подвыпивший провинциал обвиняет их обоих в краже своего бумажника. Молодой человек искренне считает случившееся недоразумением, и Клер, полюбив Фреда, не спешит развеивать его иллюзии признаниями в том, что зарабатывает на жизнь воровством, а порой и проституцией. Но начать жизнь с чистого листа оказывается непросто, если прошлое настойчиво стучится в двери.
le Père Ballanchon
Эжен Баланшон работает над разработкой газа правды, но случайно в его кристаллизатор падает пепел от сигареты и он обнаруживает газ, вызывающий эйфорию и способный нейтрализовать врага. Это открытие привлекает внимание Бошара, который занимается шпионажем для иностранной державы. Бошар подсылает к простодушному Эжену красавицу Режину, которая должна соблазнить его и выведать формулу газа. В это же время Управление Безопасности посылает двух агентов, дабы защитить гениального изобретателя, который, возможно, навсегда предотвратит возможность войн в будущем. Экранизация романа Рене Камбона.
Nissim Buzaglo
Directed by Menahem Golan.
Self
Documentary about the making of Marcel Carne's 1945 film Children of Paradise (France), interviewing the director, the actors and production designer, as well as other French directors.
Le Général Géranium
Первая мировая война. Рядовой Чарльз Плампик направляется во французский городок Марвилль, чтобы обезвредить бомбу оставленную немецкими войсками. Преследуемый немцами, он скрывается в местном сумасшедшем доме, обитатели которого объявляют его Червовым королём.
Fernand Toussaint
A robbery of 10 billion is successfully carried out by a Corsican gang led by a man called Toussaint. The heist is also the start of a war with a rival gang.
Le Grec
Anne, a beautiful free-lance photographer, meets with the French medical student Carlo and falls in love. After a passionate love affair Anne becomes pregnant. Now the formerly free-wheeling Carlo finds himself facing a difficult situation. Carlo decides that Anne should abort the child. To raise enough cash Carlo sleeps with a wealthy older woman. Then Ann decides to annul the abortion.
Dimanche
Конец немецкой оккупации. В маленьком французском городке, в особняке, который французы именуют Шато, скучает очаровательная француженка. Гремят взрывы наступающей армии союзников, а в доме свита устраивает для своей хозяйки праздник. В разгар веселья на территорию Шато попадает парашютист-освободитель, который тоже не прочь присоединится к гуляющим и прекрасной хозяйке дома…
Laurent
Tonton
Three little criminals get a tip for a great coup with lots of money in it. Unfortunately they lack the starting funds to buy the required welding torch. So they persuade their successful colleague Alphonse to join their team. But the well thought-out coup fails, and Alphonse is the only one of them who ends up in jail for several years. When he's released, he's out for revenge.
Le Maharadjah (l'oncle)
A young duke marries a girl, also penniless, and moves into a bus left him by an uncle, with their ten children. At last he finds the bus is made of solid gold.
Le guérisseur - segment 1 'La Bestiole'
Georges Richter
Business tycoon dies in plane crash. Suspected, Georg, his main partner, Alain, a young Turkish finance, and Anna Maria, the group's proxy, are all seeking his succession.
Loudéac
Lucky Jo and his three friends are little criminals, who try to live from small burglaries. But they never have luck - ever so often something inpredictable happens to Jo and gets one of them arrested. While Jo is in prison once again, they decide they'd better do without him in future. He decides to help them secretly...and unfortunately.
Simone Palumbo
In late 19th century Sicily, handsome free-spirit Liolà wanders into town, where he encounters an old flame now married to a wealthy landowner.
Mayor
Charlèz
Charles Cassidi
Интрига этой истории закручена вокруг загадочной смерти и завещания Поля Дюпре. Загадки следуют одна за другой: месье Дюпре умирает после укола, сделанного его любовницей — медсестрой Джиной Бианки, в пользу которой он переписал завещание, тем самым лишив наследства жену — мадам Дюпре. Жена находится в любовной связи с известным адвокатом Кассиди, и в день смерти мужа будто бы подменила ампулу с лекарством на мгновенно действующий яд. Обе дамы находятся под подозрением у чудаковатого, но справедливого следователя.
Russian killer
Martin Fenayrou
Пьер Марсэ выходит вечером из кинотеатра и погибает под колёсами автомобиля, которым управляет полковник Робертс. Полковник отправляется к вдове, чтобы успокоить её, и узнаёт, что погибший заказал убийство своей жены…
Achille Pipermint, l'homme d'affaires radin à Orly
"Les petits matins" is a story of eighteen-year old Agathe (Agathe Aëms) with a firm independence of men even if she uses them to get to the côte d'azur.
Along the way she meets a lot of people , mostly men. And the director does not spare the sterotypical image of early 60s middle aged male cliches to lampoon.
But this is all very light stuff, nothing too intellectual.
But it's often charming, and there's a bevy of well-known actors involved.
Jean -Claude Brialy (the pompous, self absorbed male lead of Rohmer's "Claire's Knee"), Claude Rich, Lino Ventura, François Perrier, Pierre Brasseur, and the couple Bernard Blier & Arletty, who team up here for the first time since Marcel Carné's "Hôtel du Nord" (1938).
François Larmentiel
Вернувшись в Ля-Рошель, развратник Чарльз-Эдмон Ларментиэль мстит своей семье судовладельцев, завещая своё состояние своему сыну Эмилю Буэ. Франсуа Ларментиэль, брат Чарльза-Эдмона, в ярости от того, что увидит семейный капитал в руках того, кого он считает незнакомцем и предлагает Эмилю договор. Это не займет много времени, чтобы угадать реальные намерения Франсуа.
Carl Krasner
Bella Krastner is sunbathing on a beach on the Côte d'Azur when she attracts the attention of an attractive younger man, Ralph Scaffari. It is the start of a whirlwind romance which looks like it might last beyond the end of the summer. Unfortunately, Bella is already married, to Carl Krastner, a once renowned pianist who has become bitter and reclusive after a car accident that irreparably damaged one of his hands. Krastner no longer has any zest for living. He tyrannises both his wife and his sister Laurence and divides his time between scuba diving and gambling. After ratcheting up a small fortune in gambling debts, Krastner decides to fake his own death so that he can claim on his life insurance.
le grand duc Ernest
Фильм состоит из четырёх новелл, рассказывающих о знаменитых любовных историях, но не претендующих при этом на историческую достоверность.
Berrera
A businessman who lives from blackmailing begins to be blackmailed by his own wife who hates him.
Le connétable de Montmorency
Comte de Keraudren
An old count hides just before he dies to annoy his heirs. The heirs search a manor for the count's body and are killed off one by one. Jean-Marie, his fiancée Micheline, and Edwige investigate the deaths and search for the count's body.
Pangloss
Фильм снят по повести Вольтера «Кандид, или Оптимизм» (1758г.), перенесенный в ХХ век, во времена Второй мировой войны, о любви Кунигунды и Кандида.
Le commissaire du peuple
This drama about the Carmelite order of nuns is set during the French Revolution. A young woman seeks refuge with the Carmelites because she is terrified of dying during the upheaval. The longer she associates with the nuns the more she is transformed by their faith and devotion.
Alfio Magnano
Женщины любят красавчика Антонио, считая его идеальным любовником. Но у него есть проблемы с соответствием этому идеалу, о которых Барбара узнаёт после замужества. Она посвящает в это весь городок и все начинают над ним насмехаться…
Sidone
На североафриканском побережье, на пересечении коммерческих торговых путей Средиземноморья лежал гордый город Карфаген, величайший враг Рима. В 146 году до н. э. после трёхлетней осады римские легионы под предводительством Сципиона Эмилиана готовили последнюю решительную атаку на город, который в течении ста лет и трёх войн героически сопротивлялся нападениям Рима и его возрастающей силы. Во время этих событий Фульвия, женщина-римлянка, переживала свою драматическую любовную историю…
Doctor Génessier
Неизвестные похищают и убивают дочь профессора Женессье. Полиция приглашает доктора на опознание. Убитый горем отец организует похороны Кристиан. На самом деле, девушка жива, а Женессье вот уже несколько месяцев подряд пытается восстановить ее лицо, изуродованное в автокатастрофе. Его помощница Луиза заманивает в поместье девушек, которым предстоит стать жертвами пластических операций безумного доктора…
Monsieur Nègre
Dr. Varmont
An aimless young man is committed to a psychiatric hospital by his father in an attempt to cure him of his delinquent tendencies.
Don Cesare
В маленьком итальянском рыбацком городке ночами все мужчины собираются в местной таверне, чтобы сыграть в особенную игру под названием "Закон". Победитель на короткий срок становится главарём и может позволить себе многое.
Lucien Maublanc
Фильм снят по одноимённому роману Мориса Дрюона. Фильм также известен под названием «Великие семьи».
Мультимиллионер Ноэль ворочает делами процветающей бизнес-империи, имеющей свой интерес в самых разных отраслях, вплоть до издания газет. В целях поддержания и укрепления своих позиций Шудлер активно использует связи в верхах и даже политические рычаги. Он не отягощается нравственными идеалами, ориентируясь лишь на достижение выгоды.
Ноэль ощущает себя настоящим монархом и выражает недовольство реформаторскими идеями своего сына Франсуа. Решив преподать ему примерный урок, он и не подозревает, что это приведет к поистине трагическим последствиям…
Pierre Carreau
Пьер Каро за свою жизнь написал, сыграл и опубликовал более 130 пьес. Он искал счастье, но оно постоянно ускользало, а когда нашел, то оно оказалось чужим. Всё это его вдохновило написать книгу "Жизнь вдвоем" - самое его любимое произведение. Пьер уже не молод и годы дают о себе знать, здоровье ухудшается. Поэтому он решает написать завещание, но прямых наследников у него нет. Тогда он решает оставить свое состояние тем, кто стал его персонажем на бумаге...
Jeroboam Driscoll
По роману Гектора Мало. Герой фильма, маленький Реми был похищен у матери дядей, который надеялся таким путём завладеть наследством. Много испытаний и трудностей претерпел Реми, много ему пришлось странствовать, пока наконец он вновь не нашёл свою мать. Но наряду с горем и лишениями в скитаниях мальчик познал большую человеческую доброту и настоящую, преданную дружбу.
Juju
Появление в квартале гангстера меняет жизнь многих его обитателей. Преступник находит прикрытие у доброго парня по кличке «Артист», и мало того, что не собирается уезжать в обозримом будущем, так еще и влюбляет в себя самую красивую девушку квартала.
Barras
The film follows the life of Napoleon from his early life in Corsica to his death at Saint Helena. The film is notable for its use of location shooting for numerous scenes, especially at the French estates of Malmaison and Fontainebleau, the Palace of Versailles, and sites of Napoleonic battles including Austerlitz and Waterloo.
Antoine Vallin
Two female agents from a rival gang are sent to disrupt the operations of a gold-smuggler's caravan in Africa.
Jehan Buridan
France, the beginning of the XIV century. Every night, Queen Margaret of Burgundy and her two sisters arrange orgies, to which beautiful nobles are invited. The young men were brought blindfolded, and after a night of love they were killed and their corpses thrown into the river, because the queen was afraid that her husband would learn about her adventures. One of her lovers managed to escape death. He knows the secrets of the queen, knows that she once gave birth to a son from him, claims that he has evidence that Margarita wanted to kill her father and blackmails her.
Gregory Iefimovich Raspoutine
Gregory Iefommovich Raspoutine is a monk with healing powers and a liking for debauchery who manages to insinuate himself into the court of the Romanoffs thanks to Princess Dikvona. Being the only person able to heal he son of Czar Nicolas II and Czarina Alexandra from his hemophilia, he becomes a very powerful man, which infuriates many.A group of nobles, determined to save the monarchy, start conspiring to murder him.
Self
Console Grotti
An Italian drama based on the play by Luigi Pirandello.
Vocals
A chimney sweep and his beloved shepherdess are aided by Wonderbird in their escape from a ruthless dictator
L'Oiseau (voice)
A chimney sweep and his beloved shepherdess are aided by Wonderbird in their escape from a ruthless dictator
Maître Pierre Renneville
Unfairly accused of her husband's murder, a woman is imprisoned.
Ludovic Arn / Macbeth
Bertal, a despotic and hated theater director, is assassinated before a performance of Macbeth in which he was to play with Aurélia Nobli, his companion and Ludovic Arn, her lover. The police arrive on the scene and the investigation begins. Suspicion first falls on Sigurd, an old actor who had threatened Bertal. But parallels appear between the characters in the play and the actors who play them.
Julien Ledentu
Три истории об удовольствии. Первая — о скрывающем свой возраст за маской мужчине, который во время бала пытается ухлестывать за женщинами. Вторая — об управляющей публичного дома, которая везет своих работниц на причастие к племяннице. Третья — о художнике, который влюбляется в свою натурщицу.
Amédée de Salfère dit Barbe-Bleue
Just before wowing international critics and moviegoers with his adventure romp Fanfan la Tulipe, director Christian-Jaque dashed off the lampoonish Barbe-Bleue. Ostensibly the story of the famed wife-killing potentate Bluebeard (Pierre Brasseur), this lighthearted costumer begins as the title character is poised to march down the matrimonial aisle for the eighth time. Barbe-Bleue's newest spouse Aline (Cécile Aubry) is kept in line by her husband's claims of murdering her predecessors. But when Aline opens the famous locked door to the equally famous hidden room, both she and the audience are in for quite a surprise. The frivolous nature of Barbe-Bleue is underlined by its pleasing utilization of the French Gezacolor process.
Captain Joris KnAipper
Captain Joris Kniper believes so strongly that he is "skipper next to God" that he is used to playing God on his ship. Tough and bossy, he gives orders which are not to be discussed. But, some day, he is driven to accept on board several German Jews fleeing the nazis and who are refused asylum everywhere. He gradually realizes that skipper he is, but next to God only.The Bible will help him to find the way to self-questioning, awareness and charity.
Hoederer
A young intellectual, Hugo, joins the Communist Party out of a sense of idealism, only to see his principles manipulated by party leaders. He is given the assignment of killing Professor Hoederer, a party deviationist. However, he grows to admire the man and begins to have doubts about morals and revolutionary politics. But jealousy - Hugo thinks Hoederer has made love to his wife, Jessica - takes matters out of the political realm.
Jacques Mervel
Jacques Mervel, also known as "L'Homme de la Jamaïque" makes use of his talents as a gun runner in Tangiers, Morocco. After triumphing over a rival gang, he decides to quit the job and to start a new life with Vicky, a pretty young nurse. In Paris, a doctor lets him know that he is affected by leprosy. In desperation, Jacques runs away from Vicky to spare her. When she realizes the reason why Jacques has disappeared from her life, she joins him with a view to helping him fight the disease.
Philippe
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.
Hubert Espivant
A penniless aristocrat is fooled by her ex-husband, a crook.
Francis
A typographer makes a mistake by printing the winning number of the national lottery. Many people believe they have won the jackpot. Pursued by his newspaper editor, the worker appears in court where all mystified people are invited to testify.
Fabius / Jean
A circus daredevil is the next victim of a danger-seducing woman who tricks him into a potentially deadly stunt after he attempted to kill her.
Raffaele
Послевоенная Италия. В Вероне и Венеции снимают фильм по трагедии У. Шекспира "Ромео и Джульетта" с рабочим названием "Любовники Вероны". В процессе съемок актерам потребовались дублёры. Актер, играющий Ромео, страдает головокружением и не может подниматься по веревочной лестнице. Актриса, играющая Джульетту пригласила статистку для сцен, которые снимают под ярким освещением. Так на съемки фильма попали молодой стеклодув Анжело и юная Жоржия Малья - дочь опального прокурора времен Муссолини. Неожиданно, события "за кадром" начинают напоминать события, происходившие в знаменитой драме Шекспира...
François Picault
One of Alexandre Dumas's most popular adventure novels is "The Count of Monte-Cristo". What is little known is that the famous writer made up neither its plot nor its characters. Dumas actually heard the true story of a man named François Picault during a stay at a private mansion and only adapted it into the novel everybody knows . Picault (who in the book would become Edmond Dantès) was about to marry the beautiful Marguerite (Mercédès in the novel) when he was denounced by three jealous friends who falsely accused him of being a spy for England. Picault was placed under a form of house arrest. In his prison, he made friends with an Italian abbot. When the man died, he left his fortune to Picault whom he had begun to treat as a son. On his release, Picault, who had become wealthy, was able to pursue his ruthless revenge on the three men who were responsible for his misfortune.
Pierre Taverny
A father wants to try by all means to avenge the death of his son, a test pilot, whose responsible is the attractive female star of a Parisian cabaret.
Emile Fréchisse
Уполномоченный одного банка решает ликвидировать директора Клемана Фурниля. Для реализации своего преступного плана он арендует яхту и подключает к делу некоего Фрешисса Эмиля. Появляется некая Марианна, которая желает выйти замуж за Фрешисса после смерти Фурниля. Тем временем по радио объявляют, что расследованием исчезновения банкира занимается детектив Баррал. В итоге оказывается, что Баррал не кто иной, как Марианна, которая к тому же была законной женой Фурниля.
Rocambole
In Paris, in the middle of the 19th century, the Comte de Chamery died of poisoning, leaving a considerable fortune to his long-dead son. Sir William, the count's murderer, hires a young rogue, Rocambole, to pretend to be the deceased's son. The two accomplices have the Count's fortune handed over to them. But their trickery is discovered by an intriguer, Baccarat, who finds the real Count of Chamery, a young painter without fortune, in love with Carmen de Montevecchio. Rocambole, who stops at nothing, kills Sir William, gets rid of Armand and makes Carmen love him. But Baccarat is determined not to let him continue his villainies.
Rocambole
In the 19th century, a thug from the slums of Paris pretends to be a young aristocrat, but is unmasked by a demi-mondaine, from the same background as him.
In an isolated house, in Brittany, live two sisters around whom gravitate a whole series of strange characters. Between the eruption of the vagrant voyeur and that of the couple in love, the youngest kills her eldest and goes mad.
Bitru
Bitru is a carefree fellow who, one day, decides to buy a houseboat on the River Seine. He moves there and starts living surrounded by a circle of colorful friends. Among them, the daughter of an auto maker but also a group of scientists who have developed "Aqua Simplex", a device that could enable motorists to fill their tanks with... water ! Panic sets in in the automobile industry and Bitru is appointed his friends' middle man to represent them on the various car makers directors' boards.
Georges
Paris, during the winter after its Liberation: Jean Diego meets up with his friend Raymond Lecuyer again. A tramp predicts Jean will meet the most beautiful girl in the world, and that same evening Jean meets Malou. But he soon discovers that her brother Guy was the one that gave his friend Raymond away to the Gestapo...
Rodrigue
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.
Jean Pleyard
Fanny Le Doublond has a lover, Jean, and her husband is beginning to have suspicion. To calm him down she makes him believe that Jean dies of love for another woman and wants to commit suicide if his love is not returned. The two accomplices select a young creature named Claire Coussol for the (unwitting role)of the "beloved". As for Jean, he plays the suicidal man to perfection. But what the two lovers had not planned at all is that Claire, deeply moved by Jean's "act of desperation", starts growing fond of him.
Jean-Thomas Pellerin / François-Charles Talacayud
Simon's life is troubled by images of a crime which happened in his family a hundred years ago. While traveling in south France, he finds the landscape familiar. That's when he meets Catherine and falls in love. But her lover comes back and his strong personality attracts her again.
Jean-César Morin
June 1944, a French town towards the end of the occupation. Following several attacks perpetrated by the resistance, the inhabitants who listen to English radio are rounded up by the Germans in a prison and considered as hostages. In one of the cells are found men from all walks of life: an aristocrat, the Viscount of Saint-Leu, Doctor Noblet, a resistance fighter, Béquille the wanderer with a wooden leg, and a strange character nicknamed "Black Market". The latter arouses mistrust among the prisoners, because it could well have been introduced by the enemy.
Frédérick Lemaître
Действие картины разворачивается в Париже 20-30-х 19-го века. Это обширный рассказ о безответной любви, тайных романах, ревностии страсти в мире театра, преступности и аристократии. «Дети райка»- это бедняки, занимающие галерку театров в «Бульвар Дю Темпль». Они становятся свидетелями истории любви театрального мима Баптиста и его обожаемой Гаранс.
Prosper Bonenfant
A bungling thief is threatened by one target with blackmail, unless the thief will kill his own cousin, a wealthy eccentric who is considered the village idiot.
Roland
A shimmering glass hotel at the top of a remote Provençal mountain provides the setting for a tragicomic tapestry about an obsessive love pentangle, whose principals range from an artist to a hotel manager to a dam worker.
Vancouver
Jules Frémissin is shy and in love. The father of the object of his flame is also shy. The marriage proposal is very laborious, because before marrying Cécile Thibaudier, Jules must fight a duel with the arrogant Vancouver, convinced that all this eager and awkward courtship was intended for his own wife, also named Cécile.
Gabriel
Tonio, pretty Micheline's fiance, meets Georgia ,a gypsy who makes advances to him.
A prestigious Paris doctor is tempted by a woman he knew in his youth, whose politician husband has neglected her.But will he in turn neglect his duties toward work and family?
A young woman is in love with a young writer, winner of the Prix Goncourt. Married to a banker, she must face her husband's anger and the blackmail of a former suitor.
The guitarist Moncho, singer Roberto and their impresario, arrive in Paris to find the fortune and the celebrity. They live in Montmartre in a pension that receives an impressive sampling of circus artists and music halls. They meet Maria-Rosa with whom they make a number, and this is glory.
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.
Jonval, the young cynic
The joys and miseries of the inhabitants of a building in a Parisian district.
Philippe
Two twin brothers have joined the army, Paul by vocation is a lieutenant of spahis and Georges to escape the police is a sergeant in the Foreign Legion. A snitch having informed the police of Georges' presence at the Legion, he must leave. In Casablanca, Paul helps his brother escape the police by taking his identity to allow him to regain his honor.
Frossard
Caesar, a senior French colonist returned home after many years of absence, knows a girl, Marcella, who is in full depression because she was abandoned by her lover. Caesar welcomes her into his home and surrounds her with paternal attention so that he can quickly forget the past. Slowly his feeling turns into a love that Marcella seems to reciprocate. However, when Cesare realizes that the girl feels only gratitude for him and is in love with a younger man, he loses control. Blinded by jealousy, he plans to kill Marcella's lover but, in the face of the girl's vulgarity and indifference, he realizes that he has been teased and turns his anger towards her.
Tonio
Siamese twins, separated at birth, maintain a psychic knowledge of each other's dire fates.
Alfredo Lebonnard
Father Lebonnard, a former watchmaker who made a fortune, remains simple while his wife is only dreaming of worldly affairs and pushes his son Freddy to marry Bianca, the daughter of the Marquis de Rocafort, their neighbor. She feeds a similar project for her daughter Mariella.
Georges Legrand is a young unscrupulous reveler. He seduces Fred, a woman doctor before shamelessly dumping her for Aline Ribourg, a tennis player. Soon fed up with his new conquest, he returns to Fred. But Aline is pregnant from him. Showing an admirable sense of self-sacrifice, Fred manages to persuade Georges to marry Aline.
Frossard
Middle-aged Georges of the "old school" who offers shelter and comfort to Marcelle. Despite his own reservations, Georges falls in love with the much-younger girl, remaining faithful to her even after he realizes that she cares only for his money.
Le Rec
This murder mystery is set in a Parisian cafe and examines the mysterious murder of a famed journalist and extortionist who is killed at his table in the cafe. Though the prime suspects are gathered together( including his wife and her lover, the gun-runner, the creditor, and a playboy) and all of them have motives, none of them did it. So whodunit?
Alexandre Dumas figlio
Джузеппе Верди, мечтательный и нонконформистский юноша, решает покинуть свой родной город, чтобы заниматься музыкой в Милане. Столкнувшись с первоначальным отказом от избранного круга итальянской оперы, Верди терпит неудачу, пока не встретит популярное сопрано Джузеппину Стреппони, с которой он поженится, и, таким образом, начнёт интенсивную карьеру, полную успехов и неудач.
Pierre Mougins
The daughter of an industrialist takes an interest in the workers and tries to improve their lot. She avoids a strike, and falls in love with an engineer.
Lucien
Солдат колониальных войск Жан приезжает в Гавр, надеясь сесть на корабль и уплыть далеко, далеко — для этого у него есть причины, точно в фильме не указанные. Он знакомится с прекрасной девушкой Нелли и между ними возникает любовь с первого взгляда. Сильный, сдержанный и немногословный Жан может и хулигана проучить, и вести себя с достоинством и гордостью парижанина. Ему везет — он получает в подарок и гражданскую одежду, и паспорт; корабельный врач предлагает ему место в своей каюте, но пощечины, выданные публично местному молодому бандиту, обусловили печальный конец этой романтической истории.
Dialogue
Femme fatale Madeleine Robinson is married to Raymond Aimos, a coal miner with a face like a pickled walnut and a libido to match. She wants some action, and what she can’t get from her impotent husband, she looks for elsewhere, first with his best friend Pierre Brasseur, then with his boss Lucien Gallas, who is also dating Brasseur’s kid sister Odette Joyeux.
Theatre Play
Femme fatale Madeleine Robinson is married to Raymond Aimos, a coal miner with a face like a pickled walnut and a libido to match. She wants some action, and what she can’t get from her impotent husband, she looks for elsewhere, first with his best friend Pierre Brasseur, then with his boss Lucien Gallas, who is also dating Brasseur’s kid sister Odette Joyeux.
Hagnauer
Femme fatale Madeleine Robinson is married to Raymond Aimos, a coal miner with a face like a pickled walnut and a libido to match. She wants some action, and what she can’t get from her impotent husband, she looks for elsewhere, first with his best friend Pierre Brasseur, then with his boss Lucien Gallas, who is also dating Brasseur’s kid sister Odette Joyeux.
Двадцатипятилетний Иренэ Фабр, которого когда-то приютил и вырастил его дядя-лавочник, отказывается работать на своего благодетеля. Он считает себя обладателем божественного дара: ему якобы на роду написано стать киноактером. Он - то, что на жаргоне съемочной группы, проездом минующей эти края, называется «шпунц»: фанатичный любитель кино, которого страсть лишает разума и который уверен, что кинематограф раскроет перед ним пути к сногсшибательной карьере.
Bastien
Hercule, a young peasant, inherits a Parisian newspaper with a large circulation. The editor-in-chief, Vasco, takes advantage of his ignorance to make corruption prevail. But Hercules gradually realizes the role that we make him play.
monsieur Dubois
Poorly educated by her father, a wacky researcher, Claudine is a teenager full of life who loves her small village school run by Miss Sergeant. A new teacher, Aimée Lanthenay, arrives at the school. Seemingly awkward, she is actually an arrivist who manages to get the departure of Miss Sergeant.
Georges Letournel, le fils du mari de Jacqueline
A young unemployed girl pretends to be a boy and gets a job as a car washer.
Edmond Trivelin
A timid young man marries the daughter of the entomologist he works for. On the train for their honeymoon, he takes his young wife in his arms when a customs officer suddenly enters the compartment. The groom is now inhibited.
Louis Cruciol, a married man, leads a double life: he maintains his mistress by taking the identity of one of his employees, Louis Cornette. A series of misunderstandings ensues.
A shy young composer gets a job as musical director, under a false name, at a music publisher. The editor has two charming daughters, one falls in love with the composer, and the other with the musical director, two people who are only one man... Complications, misunderstandings and a happy ending.
Gontran is required to marry if he wants to benefit from his aunt's inheritance. To convince the latter in favor of a visit, he calls on the wife of a friend who will play the role of the future wife. This maneuver will cause many misunderstandings.
Bob
Maryse blackmails her former lovers by threatening to mention their names in her memoirs. But a real blackmailer appears and cashes the checks for him.
Two different young couples marry, despite the wishes to the contrary of their parents.
Irene, a young Hungarian becomes an elegant and brilliant Parisian for the love of a car racer. Her transformation earns her the heart of her beloved.
A young woman is seduced by a soldier whose name she does not know. Pregnant, she asks the colonel to review the squadron in order to recognize him.
Georges Darnetal
Mister Darnétal is invited by his nephew Georges to the premiere of his extravaganza in Paris;but his partner (he did not marry her,even after all those years)is not prepared to accept it and he uses his best friend as an alibi ;the two pals intend to live a wild life in the capital where there are plenty of lovely girls.But the uncle discovers that his dear nephew has a fiancee ,actually an unwed mother for she's got a little kid.The young man has fallen for the star of his variety show,a coquette fickle Chanteuse who ,in the end ,only has eyes for her co-star in the show .Uncle gets angry ,threatens to disinherit this infamous nephew and marries the young mom ,unbeknown to his fifty-something partner who has come to meet him in Paris.
Jean Berthier
A wealthy businessman joins his servant, who has won a winter getaway, on the trip, but at the hotel where they stay the servant is mistaken for the master.
Jonny
Jean Forestier
From Constantinople to Marseilles, aboard a cargo ship, an intrigue full of adventures brings together a courageous young girl and a young risk-taker who succeeds in thwarting a series of long-planned crimes.
Lt. de Tokay
Princess Wilma is forced to wed by midnight or lose her inheritance. She impulsively chooses gypsy vagabond Latzi, offering him a huge sum of money if he'll consent. Swallowing his pride, Latzi agrees to the marriage, but soon the coy Countess falls in love with young Lieutenant de Tokay, who is himself in love with Latzi's gypsy sweetheart Tinka.
(Pierre, un "deuxième classe")
In a small provincial town, the new colonel of the dragoon regiment consigns all his men. Three soldiers defy orders and jump the wall. But the colonel becomes indulgent thanks to the intervention of the general who did not remain insensitive to the charm of a young American.
A restaurant waiter and the telephone operator at the Palace of Cap Martin sympathize without ever being able to go out together, because their day off is not the same. In the meantime, the disappearance of the Prince of Roumelia, whom no one knows, is announced. The boy, with the complicity of the young girl, pretends to be the Prince. They have a happy day. But the deception is quickly discovered, they are fired. Fortunately, the real prince arrives and asks for their forgiveness.
In this musical comedy, all the heirs of a recently deceased uncle must stay in his chateau until they find a buyer for it.If no one is found or if any of them leave, the place will be left to its Chinese servants, who devise tricks to cheat the heirs.
Koretzky
Opera singer Enrico Ferraro, tired of his too many engagements, jumps off the train escaping from his manager and changes to another going to the Riviera. He makes a friend and stops at a village, where (it seems) he can at last have some well deserved holidays, with the added interest of meeting a beautiful girl in the surroundings.
Rudi
The new bride of a young Viennese is so demanding about her career that she lets him go on the honeymoon solo so she can do an engagement.Left on his own,he finds an unpretentious young lady who suits him better.
Jimmy
The story of Madame Leroy-Gomez, a wealthy divorcee living in Paris. Together with her servant Antoine she schemes to marry off her unmarried children and fix any issues that arise for those already married.
René is hungry and has no money. He returns home, where only bills await him. Her neighbor Lulu is a film actress. She tries to get him hired as an extra on the set where she herself works. It is a film about gastronomy. He thinks he can finally get his fill of food, but bad luck, he plays the role of an old man who pushes her away. At the end of the day, he returns home and, passing in front of his landlady who receives, goes to mime them all that is supposed to have taken place during the filming by eating all the food offered to his appetite. After this meal, he will invite his neighbor Lulu to come to his place.
Maxime
A woman staying at a health spa (Lillian Harvey, goes to the theater every night to see "Quick" a comic performer, who wears clown make-up. She meets him off stage, without make-up and doesn't recognize him. He courts her, hoping she'll like him for himself but she maintains her crush on "Quick."
Jean
On the eve of getting married by order of his mother to a wealthy American heiress, Leon learns that his former friend just had a child. She cannot keep him, however, being in poverty.
A poor youth of noble birth needs to marry. Will the cynical, calculating upstart who wants to set him on the right course be able to help?
