Mr. de la Grange
On the advice of a friend, Claude, married to the charming Isabelle and father of two, decided to transform his library, hardly flourishing, into a sex shop. This change of activity proves to be very lucrative and sharpens his desire to spice up his married life through various erotic experiences. Claude asks his wife to share with him the audacity he dreams of. Soon, the household meets a dentist and his wife and is engaged, without much success, to new discoveries. Isabelle, full of good will, tries to follow her husband ...
Henri
Франция. 1936 год. Молодой человек идет по дороге. Его зовут Жан. Кто он и откуда пришел, не известно. Жан видит маленькую ферму и решает остановиться. Хозяйка, вдова Кудер, предлагает ему кров, стол и работу. Ей нравится Жан, и она довольна новым знакомством. Единственное, с чем она не согласна мириться - это визиты потаскушки Фелисии. Но Жан не интересуется мнением вдовы Кудер.
Koby
Adaptation for TV of the play by Friedrich Durrenmatt. A very rich old lady arrives in her nearly bankrupt native village. She is ready to come to the rescue but only if her old lover who had once abandoned her pregnant is killed.
Benjamin
Телемания достигла разрушительных для французского народного образования пределов... Отпрыски парижских обывателей вместе со своими предками по вечерам прикованы к телеящикам, откуда их всячески зомбируют. Убежденный до мозга костей педагог Арман Сен-Жюст не хочет на своих уроках в школе наблюдать подопечных, спящих за партами, и объявляет совместно с физруком Меснаром войну телевидению.
Adelgate
A thief gets hold of some top secret papers and is chased around Europe by the sinister Organisation.
Galoupet, le concierge
Jean-Louis Matouzec works for French National Library as an expert looking after the restoration of old manuscripts.He falsifies marriage certificates as his wife refuses divorce.
Albert
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 mari au bar
A police officer attempts to shut down an illegal girls-for-drugs operation (American version).
le duc
Principe Savello
Рим, XVIII век. Главный герой Мео должен постоянно ухищряться, чтобы раздобыть хоть что-то на пропитание. Но ему представляется случай заработать 300 эскудо, если он отдаст младшего брата в Консерваторию, чтобы он стал кастратом и пел «белым голосом». В то время указом Папы женщинам было запрещено петь в театре, и кастраты пользовались большой популярностью, исполняя женские партии. Полученные деньги решили бы проблемы семьи, а Мео смог бы жениться, но брат вовремя удирает. Поскольку Мео не может вернуть потраченные деньги, ему приходится заменить брата в Консерватории. К счастью, ему удается подкупить хирурга, и остаться мужчиной, но он должен постоянно притворяться…
Versigny
Gaston Bellus, is the director of a textile house, and the research laboratory makes a sensational discovery: the elastic fabric. This new discovery is used to manufacture new modern stretchable bathing suits. His daughter Clementine, enters the beauty pageant to represent France for the swimsuit launch. But scandal ensues when the public soon discover, the photos of the event in which this new revolutionary material is completely invisible on photographs & live television.
Alphonse
Респектабельная мадам Мари Поль проигрывает в казино на Лазурном берегу астрономические суммы, регулярно получаемые от мужа-миллионера. Много лет назад, она жила в крохотном французском городке, едва сводя концы с концами. Ее мать, умирая, умоляла дочь соглашаться на все, лишь бы не жить в нищете. После смерти матери молодая Мари начала настоящую охоту на мужчин, чтобы всегда иметь на обед свою «тарелку супа»…
Le grand connétable
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.
An automobile tribute
Inspector Bridoux
Жорж Лашанэй — старший сын в известном аристократическом семействе, ныне разорённом, но свято соблюдающем праздный образ жизни. Однажды его посещает озарение: он решает обеспечить семье привычный образ жизни и даже вновь разбогатеть при помощи краж из церковных кружек и ящиков для пожертвований.
Déodat, The Painter
Молодая девушка Ариан грезит танцем и мечтает стать прима-балериной шоу-балета, в котором она работает. В тот миг, когда ее меча уже практически осуществилась, судьба наносит девушке пощечину: на ее место берут другую, более известную танцовщицу. В отчаянии наша героиня увольняется из театра и все время проводит в поисках работы. Случайно встреченная старая знакомая предлагает ей устроиться в стриптиз-шоу. Сможет ли Ариан сохранить свое «я» и найти любовь в этом, новом для себя, мире? Мире, в котором все покупается и продается...
Armand
In his desirable mansion, a widower wants to marry again with a twenty-year old brunette. His children disagree and they tell him so .
Cafe owner
le concierge
Взбалмошная и ослепительно красивая модель Софи однажды узнает нечто ужасное: фотохудожник Филипп надумал бросить ее ради американки Барбары. Горячая корсиканская кровь ударяет в голову Софи, и она не видит иного способа восстановления справедливости, кроме лишения обидчика жизни. Обуреваемая яростью красавица отправляется на поиски Филиппа в Альпы. И вот в одном живописном горном уединенном местечке происходит встреча неотразимой хищницы и потенциальной жертвы. Каков будет ее исход?
Le président
In Paris in the early 1960s, Ronald is a son of a good family, with a carefree, pleasure-oriented life. He is one of the leading figures in the small world of Saint-Germain-des-Prés. Following a trivial parking incident, he meets Arthur, a young man with a straight face who hurts his pride. It is at this moment that Ambroisine, a beautiful young woman, appears... she will be the instrument of Ronald's revenge.
Le docteur Jacques
Фильм снят по повести Вольтера «Кандид, или Оптимизм» (1758г.), перенесенный в ХХ век, во времена Второй мировой войны, о любви Кунигунды и Кандида.
Presenter
Если бы он случайно посмотрел в её глаза, она бы замерла от счастья! Маленькая стюардесса Лина красива, великолепна, безумно влюблена, и все же совершенно несчастна. Потому, что является для соблазнителя и гонщика Пьера Шелло пустым местом. Он думает только о своей невесте, богатой и избалованной Августе фон Мюнхенбург. Даже лучший друг Мишель не может заставить его перестать думать о ней. И казалось бы, ничем нельзя помочь девушке, но на помощь к ней, с неба спускается Ангел, в обличии Лины…
L'épicier
The action takes place on the coast of the eastern Pyrenees near the Spanish border. Mario Balducci escaped from prison, after settling his account with his former accomplice who had given him away, he joins his ex-mistress, Mado, a bellowing singer whom he asks her to help him get to Spain.
Uncle Émile / Masurier
Bobosse is increasingly immersing himself into the world of theater and experiencing his role as an actor more intensively. He plays in a piece where a man is abandoned by his wife and processes this philosophically. When his wife actually abandons him, he becomes embarrassed and plans to kill her.
Le directeur de la prison
Bastien du Boccage is a repeat offender: hasn't he been sent to jail no fewer than six times? But he is no ordinary criminal mind you. As a matter of fact he is a newspaper editor and should have no problems with justice. The trouble is that he has a sister, Lucrèce, who is agony aunt in his newspaper and who tends not to mince her words. To make matters worse, Francine, his daughter, has fallen in love with Bruno, a penniless student and Lucrèce is prepared to do anything to prevent her marriage..
The Ambassador of Catharie
A young woman has been run over by the car of Carlos, a brilliant embassy attaché. Feeling sorry for her, Carlos drives her to his place and decides to take her in. The young lady accepts his offer but refuses to tell Carlos her name, wanting to be called Miss Pigalle, after the Paris district where she was born. It does not take long before Yvonne (Miss Pigalle's true name) and Carlos fall in love. Life is like a dream and, when Yvonne gets pregnant, their happiness is at their peak. Unfortunately, a revolution breaks out and Carlos returns to his country in secret. Feeling forsaken and at a loss, Yvonne, who is now penniless, has no other solution but prostitute herself.
Bob
le vendeur
Сказка о любви богатого парня и девушки из простой семьи бухгалтера со счастливым концом…
Charlot le Curieux
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...
Victor, le majordome
Louis XI
Цыганка Эсмеральда своей красотой сводит с ума мужчин. В неё тайно влюблён Клод Фроло, суровый священник из Собора Парижской Богоматери. Воспитанник святого отца, горбун Квазимодо, также очарован смуглой плясуньей. А девушка хранит верность аристократу по прозвищу Феб. Одурманенный ревностью священник ранит его. В преступлении обвиняют Эсмеральду и судьи приговаривают девушку к смерти через повешение. Феб не делает ничего ради её спасения, но на помощь любимой приходит горбун Квазимодо...
M. Vigier-Lefranc
Юная прелестница Жюльетт служит в газетной лавке и имеет заслуженную репутацию дурно воспитанной, распутной девчонки. Жюльетт любит море, солнце, горячий песок, музыку, еду и — мужчин.Одним своим нескромным аппетитным видом эта очаровательная «кошечка» — бывшая воспитанница сиротского приюта — провоцирует мужчин городка на фривольные мысли и безрассудные поступки. Поэтому, когда перед малышкой возникает реальная угроза возвращения в ненавистный приют, ее богатому поклоннику Эрику приходит в голову циничная мысль немедленно выдать Жюльетт замуж, чтобы затем продолжать пользоваться ее благосклонностью.Нужен человек, который отказался бы от своей свободы, чтобы сохранить свободу девушке с «проблемной репутацией». Таким безумцем станет Мишель — парень скучноватый и честный, но тайно влюбленный в обворожительную и беспутную «принцессу» городка. Вот только, когда шокирующая свадьба состоится? Ещё не известно, кого из всех своих мужчин выберет непредсказуемая и чувственная героиня.
Inspector
An honest rep becomes the leader of a gang.
Edgar de Saint-Preux
Un Gardien de Musée
Профессор университета беседует со студентами в форме «ясного признания в любви» и рассказывает им о разных исторических фактах, которые складываются в историю Парижа… Это история Шарля VII и Аньес Сорель, создание типографии при Луи X, Лувр во времена Франсуа I, Варфоломеевская ночь, убийство Анри III монахом-фанатиком, процесс над Марией Антуанеттой, Парижская коммуна, дело Дрейфуса и другие…
Le brigadier
Victor
In Montmartre, prostitutes and neighborhood pimps meet in Victor's bar. One of them, Charly, one day falls in love with the beautiful Laurence, a girl who honestly earns her life as a singer. But Fernand, the local boss, sees a bad eye his acolyte out of the ranks to lead a quiet life in the company of his sweetheart. He provokes the jealousy of Jessy, mistress of Charly. The latter, stung, does not intend to leave without fighting his lover take the tangent. She ruminates her revenge so much that she ends up shooting Charly ...
Maître Petitot
После свадебного путешествия Робер и Катрин возвращаются в дом родителей Робера. Вскоре у молодоженов рождаются близнецы — двое мальчиков. В доме начинается суета, недовольства бабушки и дедушки. Но это только начало, проходит еще какое-то время и рождается еще пара мальчиков…
M. Albert
Planchet
Raoul De Bragelonne must uphold his musketeer father's legacy in the face of court intrigues from Cardinal Mazarin.
Maître Pillat
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.
M. Grumeau
Tongues start to wag after a famous Parisian music hall dancer is rushed to hospital after being found poisoned by arsenic at the Concert Mayol.
M. Weston
Le guide du musée de Versailles
Остроумная история Версальского Дворца, основанного королем Луи XIII, разросшимся при деспотичном Луи XIV, разграбленном во время французской революции, после рассказа о которой фильм переносит нас в современность.
Auguste Legrand
A group of French filmmakers travel to Andalucia for film a movie titled" Beauty of Cadiz". It stars are Carlos, a famous heartthrob, and an unknown gypsy named Maria-Luisa.
Guillaume Provence
When 1 of 2 Foreign Legion officers is killed after witnessing a secret experiment on a death ray (capable of shooting down aircraft) in southern Morocco, the other gets vengeance by infiltrating the organization responsible.
Taking advantage of the shooting of a film, gangsters stage a hold -up. A black man, Selim, is unfairly accused.
Léopold
An accordionist playing in disreputable halls is mistaken for a gangster by a special envoy from the American crime syndicate in charge of investigating the French milieu. The American will prepare a hold-up with a gang of women specialized in scamming tourists. But the accordionist will make the hold-up fail and all the criminals will end up behind bars.
Treasurer-payer
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.
Joly
In Bourganeuf, an old maid, Charlotte Bourdier, confesses to Marie Chassagne that she has forged a sentimental intrigue by correspondence with the presenter of the Radio Circus, Zappy Max. Marie agrees to meet him when he comes, but she in turn falls in love with him, who confesses his love to her.
Benjamin Cornet
A provincial chemist's daughter is to marry her cousin Gilbert.The day before he arrives, a stranger, who has just escaped from an insane asylum, claims he is the famous cousin.
Léon, André, Christiane and Monique, who all study drama, decide to go camping together. Unfortunately - although unsurprisingly - their old jalopy breaks down on the road. Chance has it that in the village where they are stranded a historical movie is being shot by famed director Médéric, starring sexpot Barbara Glamour and Latin heartthrob Edouardo Tocato. Two of the young people start flirting with the two film stars until their friends make them see reason : they love each other. The four of them end up being hired as extras and all is well that ends well.
Lucien
Anatole, quivering nostrils and greedy lips, is the resourceful clerk of Mrs. Paufilat, a butcher. It takes a fancy to take on the identity of the Paufilat son, Paul. He must then undergo the assaults of the tumultuous Germaine, exhilarated by the money of Paul Paufilat.
Marquis de Taupignac
A marquis organizes a matrimonial contest with the aim of enriching three spinsters.
Geoffroy de Marsans
The young Mathilde de Marsan, believes she is in love with a singer, Philippe Mazières, and steals his photo. This one, who had written a song start, searches for this photo as far as the castle of Geoffroy and Estelle de Marsan, where Mathilde's uncle and aunt take him for the husband of one of their guests, Claude Cartier. and will finally marry her while Georges, Claude's ex-fiancé will fall in love with his hosts' niece, Mathilde.
Jean Tissier
A lecturer illustrates, in a humorous manner, the behavior of men over women, and his in particular. The theme is that the stronger sex has become a slave of the weaker sex…
Mnester
Распутная и жестокая супруга императора Клавдия Мессалина строит планы по свержению мужа и возведению на трон своего любовника Гая Силия. Но планы императрицы нарушает ее неистовая похоть. Мессалина обращает свой жадный взор на гладиатора Тавра. Однако непокорный раб отказывает всемогущей императрице ради своей возлюбленной христианки Цинции. За это Мессалина приказывает отдать Тавра на растерзание львам. Но отважная Цинция отправляется на арену вместе со своим возлюбленным и, тем самым, смягчает сердца безжалостных римлян. Мессалина вынуждена подчиниться публике и помиловать влюбленных, но она даже не подозревает, что этот жест станет первым предвестником ее падения…
In order to escape the police, a man takes the place of his missing sister, who was clairvoyant.
The love of a singer and his mistress suffers a setback.
Léonard de Vignolles
Sylvette welcomes three soldiers on the eve of Saint-Jean 1945. Each claims that she promised him five years earlier to belong to him on Saint-Jean... Which one is the right one? Finally, it is Francis who manages to prove his good faith. Sylvette will be, we couldn't be happier to get rid of a flighty husband who has gone to look for the damsel in the four corners of the world...
Marquis Alberto de Cavalcanti
Napoleon III, the Commune, the third Republic in the background. In the foreground, two pretty, talented sisters, Virginie and Pauline Cardinal. They are ballerinas at the Opera de Paris and very much courted by wealthy, elegant men. They will manage to climb in the society of their time, despite parents set on respectability but also attracted by money.
Palamède
Endive-Meunier, a prosperous silk dealer from Lyon has an affair with his secretary he tries hard to keep secret. One day, he nevertheless accepts to accompany her to the seaside resort of Coeur-sur-Mer. Unfortunately for him, once there, he finds himself in the presence of Claudius Paquito, the popular barman of a fashionable club. The trouble is that the man is no other than one of his former employees he once fired for insolence...
Pascal Demaison
A married industrialist maintains three mistresses. On the instructions of his wife, the tax inspector seizes the small notebook where he records his illegal dealings. After a stormy marital explanation, the industrialist decides to reduce his costs by getting rid of his mistresses and expresses the intention of returning to legality. But he realizes that everyone, even his wife, prefers the old situation, fraud and mistresses, thanks to which everyone found his little profit.
M. Zance
Jean-Louis forgets to use the pedestrian crossing;Who could have believed then where it would lead the unfortunate guy to?
Lafare
Prosper Bourrache, who has the gift of the gab, is natural born street vendor. Due to a mistake he gets involved in the burglary of a shady banker's house. In fact, the whole operation is a setup. But Prosper will finally get away with it, have the crooked financier arrested and pinch his girlfriend away from him.
The inmate who shows how to fake madness
When he finds a package in the metro, given this period of restrictions, Mr. Truche thinks it may be a good deal, he takes it home but discovers a woman's head inside. A friend of Mr. Truche having just disappeared, the superintendent accuses her of having murdered her and discovers the head buried in his cellar. But the girlfriend, whom Mr. Truche loves platonically, returns from the countryside and at the same time we spot the assassin of the unknown woman.
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.
Maugis
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.
A singer who has become voiceless is forced to leave his wife and children. He will become famous again as a clown.
De Thomaz
A mysterious figure signing himself "The Ferret" keeps sending letters to the police, tipping them off about murders that are to be committed around Paris. Among those caught up in the police manhunt is a fraudulent clairvoyant.
Giovanni
A valuable painting has been stolen from an art gallery in Paris.. On a train travelling between Paris and Rome, Zutra, a mysterious and sinister character, tries to find the stolen painting.
Jacques
Marc, a photographer, works out of love to help Dany, a car thief, to get back on the right track: he offers her to work with him, as a model. But the former accomplices of the young woman compromise this action.
Hurchart
Временно оставшаяся без хозяина ферма на юге Франции манит к себе любителей поживиться, и на пастбищах Ма-де-Ланд регулярно недосчитываются то быков, то лошадей. Даже появление в Камарге наследницы, цирковой артистки Югетт Сент-Эм, не вселяет в обитателей фермы особых надежд. Мало кто верит, что молодая девушка сумеет управлять крупным скотоводческим хозяйством и уберечь его от разграбления. Однако мадемуазель Югетт энергично берется за дело, а пойманный с поличным конокрад Земкари призывает своих собратьев-цыган к отмщению.
Honoré
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.
Roussel
Having become famous, a painter marries his model whom he soon brings to despair by deceiving her.
Lepautre
Nicole, a spirited lawyer, must defend, for her debut in the courtroom, the accused Panoyau. It is a failure, the death sentence. Furious, Nicole proclaims to Claude, her fiance, that the marriage is canceled as long as Panoyau is threatened. Claude manages to steal the guillotine and the couple go on a trip and discover the real assassin.
Dutoir
Arlette and her brother are penniless orphans; as the man is to leave for Africa to work for a long time, the young girl is forced to live with her cousins, four spinsters, who place virtue over everything.
In the Basque Country, two friends, José and François, live a cheerful life. The two sly foxes use their wit to boost the business of an innkeeper they have a connection with. José is in love with Angélica, the innkeeper"s daughter, while François courts petite Annette. José also happens to have a beautiful voice and one day a night club manager hears him and wants to hire him. He will have to choose between Angelica, the inn, his roots... and a singing career in Paris.
Dudru
Mr. Catignac, a pork butcher in Perigueux, plans to marry Victor, his son, to the daughter of a magistrate. What he does not know, for his son does it in hiding, is that Victor writes songs and has made his debut as a singer in a cabaret. To make matters worse, the young man has a mistress. When word of it leaks out, the whole family are outraged. One night, as Victor goes back home, they are all here, waiting for him.
L'importun
A series of vignettes, in which Noel-Noel appears as the moderator, lecturer, commentator and leading actor, that examine the bores and pests of everyday life much like Pete Smith and Robert Benchley had done for years in American short subjects. Among those are the Practical Joker who will do anything for a laugh; the Party Entertainer who never stops singing; the Talkative Neigbor who forgets the time; the noisy neighbors who dance the tango all night; and women drivers, people who telephone at meal time, the friend you never saw before and amatuer medical experts. Much use of trick photography, montages, puppets and animation along with some adult Gallic wit and gentle satire.
Raymond Sieurat
A very Parisian author cannot finish a comedy. It is ruin for the director of the theater, who has the idea of taking his foal to the coast. There, recruited actors will perform a series of variations on the theme of heartaches to inspire him. After a number of misunderstandings, the operation succeeds.
Stanislas
The City of Hope is the place where left-behind artists subsist by scraping by. When one of them is accused of murder, all try to find the real culprit.
Duvernay
A man who has made a pact with death must designate the member of a family who must die the next day. After many hesitations, he will sacrifice the innocent young girl so that she does not know the infamy of her family.
Charles Vigne, a wealthy banker, frees Abdul, a good genius imprisoned in a vase. To thank him, Abdul grants his wish: to become a child again, while retaining the experience he has acquired. But the "disappearance" of the banker panics the financial markets and has disastrous consequences for the bank. Eventually, Charles Vigne will ask Abdul to give him back his real age.
Guillaume
Stanislas Oscar Seminario, aka SOS, is a young explorer, just back from Africa, visiting old friends: the Pescara's. But the father keeps receiving anonymous letters. And soon a mysterious murder is committed. SOS begins to investigate...
President
For fun and to dazzle his wife, the novelist Morgan steals a ring and gets rid of it in the costume jewelry section of a supermarket. Sophie buys the diamond, which forces the novelist to embark on crazy adventures to recover the jewel.
René de Montbrian
Agnès Bonnardet leaves her parents to marry Claude Sironi, a painter who becomes famous but loses his talent. Meanwhile Agnes acquires a style of her own as an artist, which makes Claude jealous of his young wife. One day, he sends one of his own paintings to the Bazar de la Charité, a very trendy Paris department store, instead of one of his wife's works as ordered. Afraid of her being mad at him, he locks her up in the cloak room. A dreadful fire suddenly breaks out and sets the building ablaze.
Ménil
When she sets sail for Lisbon, Catherine Laurence, a famous classical singer has but one wish: to be left alone. Unfortunately she soon gets bothered by a rude, invading man. Later she gets to know him better and becomes susceptible to his charm. She realizes that Michel is in love with her and it is not long before she goes beyond her disastrous first impression. Although not quite sure he is a perfectly honest man she entrusts him with a delicate assignment: keep her precious pearl necklace coveted by Van Coolart, a fake Dutch diamond-merchant, and give it back to her in Paris. If he is a robber himself, so much the worse for her. But if Michel keeps the Paris rendezvous love is in store for both of them. Nevertheless there is a crucial factor she regrettably disregards, composer Raymond Aubour, a faithful friend who has been her suitor for ten years.
Van Hope
On his way to Paris, Casanova keeps on collecting female conquests, does not shy away from duels and gets into many a colorful adventure. Once in the capital, the fearless knight saves the honor of a great lady, conquers the niece of his implacable enemy but courts disaster for love of Coraline, a faithless opera dancer.
Fouasse
A Parisian baker boy, tired of his monotonous and hopeless life, kills the owner of a hotel to rob him. A woman of questionable morals noticed his absence. To buy his silence, he makes her his friend. Rivaled by their secret and not really loving each other, they indulge in imprudences which throw them into the hands of the police.
Children imprisoned during pre-war France decide to escape.
Tiburce Artus
Professor Artus, a scientist specializing in artificial life, wants to try an experiment on an automaton; he is entrusted with a death row inmate. The professor is soon found murdered. It is Inspector Wens, helped by a journalist, who must solve the case. Franck Villard in the role of Wens succeeds Fresnay.
Le baron de Cé
Roger Laroque is now a rich man. He returns to France under the name of William Farnell. There, he discovers that on the one hand his wife has died of a broken heart and on the other that his daughter Suzanne is in love with Raymond de Noirville, the son of his former mistress. With the help of a few friends, Roger coldly prepares his revenge.
Octave Le Goulven
Pierre and Jacques, one of them being disguised as a woman, work for a wacky scientist to find a treasure hidden in his property by Pierre's uncle.
The hotelier
An actress who has just played the part of an old lady says that she would like to grow old like that character did.Sadly, she will not get her wish because she is terminally-ill.
Frédo
Micheline is a pretty girl but rich, spoiled and whimsical as well. Jacques, the brother of her friend Danielle, is so exasperated by her behavior that he decides to give her a chance to learn about good manners. To that effect, he kidnaps her and detains her in a hut on the edge of a wood. He starts "taming the shrew" but the situation soon gets out of control when criminals - real ones this time - abduct Micheline in earnest... and for ransom!
Cogolin
France under Louis XIII. 1615. The Duke of Angoulême is at the head of a group of gentlemen who are conspiring to drive the Florentines out of court, of whom Concini is the all-powerful leader. A cadet from Gascony, Adhémar de Capestang, who was later to become the Capitan, left his native province to come and try his luck in Paris. Along the way, he saves a young girl, Gisèle d'Angoulême, from a masked individual who wanted to kidnap her.
Roger Laroque, an honest industrialist, is the victim of a criminal machination by Julia de Noirville, his possessive and jealous mistress allied to the perfidious Paul Luversan, meant to make Roger take responsibility for the crime he himself committed. Laroque is sent to prison, from where he escapes by sea. When he is reported missing, it looks like he drowned. But he reappears with revenge as his objective. He also wants his daughter Suzanne back. For his wife, it's too late, she died of grief.
In 1939, in a maternity ward, a young man visits his mistress who has just given birth to a little girl. He tells her that he is married and that for him the outcome of this adventure was not really planned. The mobilization separates them but the young man will end up divorcing and with the relentless help of a friend, will find his mistress and his child and will be able to marry her in spite of the chaos of the war.
Bob Asselin
A drifting woman hangs out in the suburbs of Marseille. A young engineer picks her up drunk and takes her to the hospital. He does not know then that it is the Countess Armance de Lunegarde, driven from her home and performing as a gummy in third-rate music halls.
Mimile is a street singer and also a very inventive free rider. With his friend Georges, a musician in the same orchestra, they meet Arlette Sicleton and Lulu. Arlette is the sister of Sicleton, a sports event organizer and Lulu is the daughter of Ledoux, the supervisor in charge of tracking down free riders. After many misunderstandings, love will triumph.
Le médecin
A young man, Robert Dupont, with suicidal tendencies and a bit stupid to boot, is saved by a stranger who pretends to be a well-known banker. This stranger then entrusts him with a suitcase full of mysterious documents, which he asks him to take with him to Indochina. But in reality, the suitcase is stuffed with banknotes from a scam.
Christophe Berri
An inventor has just developed an extraordinary machine, a disintegrating ray and thought detector. He experiences it one evening on a group of relatives, including his fiancée, and it seems to turn into a tragedy: he is found lifeless, apparently poisoned. A man calling himself a police officer begins to investigate.
Grégoire
Cabaret star Zazu intervenes when young lovers are sundered by their parents' feud.
'Le Hardi'
In Flanders in the eighteenth century, Ramon de Ortila, a young lord who has been dispossessed of property has turned into a gentleman brigand. His main target is Monsieur de Saint-Brissac, the salt tax farmer. But Solange, his daughter, sets a trap and lures the young man to her father's manor. Little does she know that love is at the rendezvous.
Jocelyn
Two friends, mobilized together and idle, send their photos to two young workers. The photos are inverted, resulting in a real sentimental imbroglio which finds its best conclusion in the context of the Théâtre aux Armées.
Jules Leroy, an industrial shoe polish manufacturer, on his deathbed reveals to his son Achille that the family fortune originates from an inheritance stolen 23 years earlier. The one who should have inherited is one of the factory employees, Hyacinthe Camusset. The latter is also one of the lovers of Lucienne Leroy, the daughter of the family, who has a penchant for Jean Bernon, a boy who dedicates verses to her. Hyacinthe is unaware that he has been robbed but the Leroy family, who are not sure, try to woo him. The family, Hyacinthe, Jean and Lucienne meet at the castle.
Beaufland
A sporty and chivalrous young man creates, with some comrades, a society whose goal is to protect honest people against rogues. He finds himself thrown into unforeseen adventures, at the end of which he will discover love.
Civil Status employee
Renée Ménard, a young mixed-race Indochinese, arrives in France to find her French father, whom she only knows is called Paul Ménard. In the hope of identifying her father, she meets a series of men with that name.
Mouillette
Adrien Moulinet, a modest encashing agent in the Nortier bank, is also an inventor in his spare time. His latest revolutionary creation is the motorized roller skate. His problem is to be able to market them. Jules Petitpas, a jobless adman, is the right man for that.
Barbanzanges
Lucrèce, a famous actress, is bothered first, then flattered by the passionate testimonies of love given to her by François, a 12th grade student infatuated with her. Taking pity on the boy, Lucrèce decides to heal him of his madness and with this in mind she invites him for a working holiday on her farm. Instead, she falls in love with the cherub. At a time, her young lover grows so jealous of her that he attempts suicide. The mature actress then understands that their love story is going nowhere. She will remain alone while François will forget her.
Regain
An opera singer is stricken with amnesia and, on the evening of a premiere (in his stage costume which is that of a tramp), he goes to wander with real tramps.
Emile Bourdoncle
The struggles of a small business owner come to light in this film by director André Cayatte. The proprietor of a fabric shop, M. Baudu (Michel Simon) faces stiff competition when a department store moves in across the street, the first of its kind in 1860s Paris. On top of the stresses associated with the rival retailer, Baudu’s niece and two nephews take up residence with him after recently being orphaned. The niece, Denise Baudu (Blanchette Brunoy), sees the writing on the wall for her uncle’s business so she takes a job as a shop girl with his competitor and despite her success the decision does not register well with the family.
Gabriel Castille
Comedy about an older man wanting to marry a younger woman who must make sure first that the woman is not by chance his own daughter.
Mascouvin
Леди Дюмон переезжает из своей квартиры на улице Дюрантин, 102, на улицу Пикпюс. Когда она открывает шкаф, который принесли грузчики, выпадает труп женщины. Расследование в тупике. Инспектор Амадье, некомпетентен, должен уступить место комиссару Мегрэ, который инкогнито отдыхал в кампании под псевдонимом М. Альберт. Мегрэ начинает с допроса жильцов улицы Дюрантин; нуждающийся романист Арно де Бедарье встретился с жертвой незадолго до совершения преступления. В здании напротив, старик также, похоже, был свидетелем убийства, но... он слепой, и его тоже убили. Тайна сгущается с появлением некоего Маскувина, который случайно обнаружил в кафе на Монмартре следующую надпись, повторенную в прессе: «Сегодня, в 6 часов утра, я убью гадалку. Подпись Пикпюс.» Преступление происходит на самом деле, до 18 ч 05.
Three screenwriters try to write a comedy about a young first man who must conquer a rich billionaire on a desert island.
Hector Dupuis
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.
Triquet, aka professeur Lalah-Poor
На Монмартре совершено несколько преступлений, подписанных таинственным господином Дюраном. Благодаря информатору комиссар Ванчеслав "Ванс" Воробейчик узнает, что убийца живёт в пансионе, расположенном в доме №21 по улице Жюно. Полицейский, переодевшись пастором, поселяется там.
Lucien Mazerand
Lucien Mazerand, a bookseller from Châteauroux, goes to Paris to spend a few days in the French capital. At the music-hall, he discovers Stella Losange, a singer who literally enthralls him. Determined to seduce her, he is aware that a mere bookseller from the provinces stands no chance. So he resorts to a stratagem: posing for a globe-trotter who has gone through millions of adventures. The scheme works but the lady wants more : why doesn't he take her along with him so that she can share his dangerous life?
Ducup
В доме систематически пьющего адвоката убивают парня. По обвинению в убийстве перед судом предстает юноша, влюбленный в дочь мэтра. Адвокат берется за защиту молодого человека и блистательно ее проводит…
Claude is a young man whose girlfriend has just broken up with him. Feeling unable to overcome the pain, Claude has no other idea than to end his life. Back home, he finds five middle-aged or elderly men sitting at the dinner table but he refuses to join the guests and goes upstairs to his bedroom. The worst is prevented thanks to a servant who has caught sight of Claude's revolver. Claude 's uncle joins his nephew and manages to persuade him not to take action. He takes him downstairs to the dining room where each in turn, the five guests start telling their own story. For it happens that they too once had their heart broken and that they too once wanted to die for love.
Rorive
У вдовца проблемы с деньгами, и он должен женить семерых дочерей. Кредитор утверждая, что стесняется, не в состоянии решиться.
Véra, a vivacious woman, and her alleged brother Boris, are both hired by the Dubelairs as their chambermaid and caretaker. But Dubelair has done bad business while his wife Juliette plays at the races and... loses ! So when it comes to paying their domestics wages, Dubelair gives them lottery tickets. Chance has it that one of them is winning...!
The painter Bardac / the banker Cambo
Cambo, a banker, has been in trouble since a certain Parizot has tried to extort stocks from him. Following the advice of his friend Quincampoix, Cambo decides to trade places with Bardac, a painter, who happens to be his lookalike. Bardac slips into Cambo's shoes with delight although he does not really live up to his task. But Cambo, who manages to ruin Parizot, makes a 100% profit on the situation. There are of course some misunderstandings when one man is mistaken for the other, notably as concerns Lulu and Geneviève, respectively Bardac's and Cambo's sweethearts, but things finally return to their initial state.
Alaric Paloiseau de la Motte-Civray
Returning from America where he received a large inheritance, Alaric would like to have a wedding before returning to the family home where his sister, who is as cantankerous as she is uncompromising on principles, awaits him. He asks a “porter” from the station who looks like him to replace him.
Jules
Georges Gauthier is an electrician who lives with his mother and his sister Madeleine. He is the son of a womanizing singer who made his mother miserable. For all that, Georges is attracted to show business all the more as he falls in love with Jeanne, the daughter of singer Lormel. Georges is spotted by Cartier, the manager of the Folies Concert and makes his debut as a singer under the assumed name of Jean Papillon.
Henri Tignol
В небольшой комнате несколько человек находятся в тревожном ожидании. Шестеро друзей, уставшие от нищеты и вечных долгов, собрали свои последние деньги и отправили самого удачливого среди них в казино сыграть в рулетку на счастье. Удача улыбается ему, и он возвращается с кучей денег. На эти деньги можно весело прожить всей компании месяц, а можно более скромно растянуть их на полгода. Друзья решили еще раз сыграть на удачу и испытать судьбу, разделив все деньги на шесть частей. Разъезжаясь, они договариваются, что встретятся через 10 лет. И если кому-то повезет, и он разбогатеет, то поделится честно деньгами с остальными. Перед расставанием друзья составляют письменный договор, в котором в случае смерти одного из них остальные наследуют его состояние. И вот прошло пять лет, и одного из шести убивают по пути во Францию при таинственных обстоятельствах. Начав расследование, инспектор Уэнс вскоре обнаружит, что кто-то пытается устранить всех шестерых мужчин, — но с какой целью?
Roland
Micheline Chevassu is a young, naive woman living in an orphanage. Through classified ads, she has a date with an unknown man. She escapes from the orphanage to go to it, dreaming of the Prince Charming. But comes Nicolas Rougemont, an unattractive middle-aged man... He pretends not to be the author of the letters, who could not come...
Briquet
After a deadbeat patron at his restaurant gets special care from the cops who think the man has amnesia, the maitre d'hotel decides to pretend he too has amnesia. He is claimed in turn by an aristocrat family and by trapeze artists.
Camille
In 1919, Pierre Darmont, a handsome, much-loved piano virtuoso, falls in love with Anne Morris, a young woman who shares his tender feelings. But, quite inexplicably, after an unforgettable night, Anne vanishes without trace. Twenty years later, Pierre, at the peak of his glory, has become embittered. Unable to recover his unhappy love affair, he has collected women without ever committing himself to any. Until some night he meets the eyes of a beautiful young lady, who happens to be the spitting image of his great love...
Max
Abandoned children, left to their own devices and a life of danger, are adopted by a kind man.
The owner of the place of Chamonix covets the inn, run by the Michel's uncle, whose business goes bad. Michel decides to participate in a ski competition to help uncle.
Leduc, the filmmaker
Jean Vernet, an unselfish banker, feels fine : he has a charming mistress, Jacqueline ; a godson, Fernand, that he took in when he was a child and that he has brought up and cherished ever since ; a faithful friend, Lamblin ; and an adorable dog. But things are not so rosy as they look. Adrienne, Jean's sister, hates Jacqueline and is prepared to do everything to separate the couple. Worse, it looks as though Fernand has betrayed his godfather by sleeping with Jacqueline. To know more about those around him, Jean, a modern Volpone, decides to fake deafness.
Roland Médeville
Tells the story of a young woman escaping from reform school who tries to steal a foreign ambassador's watch but ends up falling in love with him.
acteur
A gang of broke student musicians travel to Paris to take exams. But very quickly, the lack of money pushes young people to pass themselves off as professionals during the performance. They will then win the victory!
Dominique
A wealthy banker, bored with his life, heads to the Latin Quarter of Paris where he pretends to be a struggling artist. He falls in love with a student from the Sorbonne and moves into the same boarding house as her while continuing his pretence of poverty.
A doctor passionate about research leaves an uncle with an inheritance to die, knowing that he is the legatee. His work succeeds, but overcome by remorse, the doctor tries to commit suicide. He is saved thanks to the understanding of his wife and they both leave for the East to do research on leprosy.
Paulo
Old friends of Vera Vronsky remind her of her past and try to blackmail her.
The editor
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.
Le journaliste
The scene of action embraces Tangier, Toulon and the Mediterranean, where Pierre Fresnay, Rolf Wanka and Kim Peacock, cast as captains of French, German and English boats, respectively, unite to rescue the passengers of a neutral boat that is about to be engulfed in a cloud of poison smoke released by a smuggling ship.
Baronski has had enough of being a small-time merchant and decides, aided by his daughter Esther, to try his hand at big business. Why not be a film producer for instance? But it is easier said than done and he is soon relieved of 100,000 francs by a crook. Undaunted, he produces a film written by a young scriptwriter, Maurice Rogier, discovered by his daughter but does not believe it could become a success. Esther, for her part, decides to have "L'ange que j'ai vendu" shown in a local movie theater and the film immediately proves a hit. All is well that ends well, Esther marrying Maurice into the bargain.
M. Viot
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.
Savinien
A wealthy banker who takes his accountant's name after multiple incidents is forced to pass off his girlfriend as his daughter. But the truth is coming out. The banker's wife then favors the marriage of the young girl, which creates a new intimacy in her household.
Babinois courts all the women he meets. He has a mistress, Gladys. He would like to marry the Bourillon's daughter, Monique. His maid, Rose, claims to marry him; Héloïse, a young widow, is madly in love with him. Babinois, not knowing how to refuse women anything, promises marriage to all. The fatal day arrives. The four women show up at the town hall in bridal costume and while the other three are doing their buns, Babinois marries Monique.
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.
The first schemer, short of money, offers himself at a high price to facilitate the fantasies of the other, by playing the role of substitute. The second is an unscrupulous banker who sows ruin and grief but who is soon ruined and fooled in turn.
A religious fanatic finds his entire life and philosophy turned upside-down as he falls in love with a girl and kills her in a jealous rage. His search is for peace of mind and a desire to justify the murder of the girl to himself. His mind becomes distraught as he gropes trying to rationalize his deed and his world falls apart around him. A police inspector patiently and tirelessly stays on Barrault's trail, without putting him under arrest, though convinced he is the murderer, and waiting for the moment when he feels Barrault will break under the strain of his own religious fanaticism (IMDb).
L'employé de l'agence
A wealthy industrialist, Roger de Vetheuil, married, feels assured of aging in peace. Then appears a blackmailer who accuses him of being a usurper, actually called Jean Pelletier, a mobster well known to police. Vetheuil, judging himself slandered, refuses to listen to his tormentor and goes to the police. The man speaks. The scandal is public soon ...
Jean Bonnefoy, who has a talent for singing, is unemployed. So he is very happy the day he is offered a post as a music teacher in a college for young women. But he soon realizes the job is only a mixed blessing as a group of girls have set about making life tough for him. Among them is Anny Laforcade, a student who finally changes sides, taking pity on her teacher and falling in love with him. At one point, Jean meets Zébulon, a talent agent who decides to launch his singing career. Zébulon has a far-fetched idea: He asks Anny to disappear for a few days thus making people believe that she has committed suicide out of love for Jean. The latter, who is not aware of the scheme, is devastated.
Courriol
A courier carrying a large sum of money intended for Bonaparte's army is attacked. A miscarriage of justice will lead an innocent person to the guillotine.
Le secrétaire du club
Serge loves living it up but painting the town red has a price... too high for him! What to do then? Alfred, his servant and former pickpocket, has the solution : steal of course! No sooner said than done ! Or rather: No sooner said than tried... For when Serge, assisted by his mistress Gloriane acting as bait, he tries to rob a jeweler on the Place Vendôme of a precious diamond bracelet, he realizes that a gang of thieves have preceded him. Later on, he will learn that the boss of the gang is a Polish noblewoman, Countess Waldapowska.
Beppo
In Algiers, Cesar Sarati who grudges the dockers, is, without realizing it, in love with his niece. But Rose loves Gilbert, a former gambler and debauchee who, out of love for her, changes his life. On the wedding day, Sarati commits suicide.
An operetta baron has teamed up with a mechanic to carry out insurance scams. During one of their shots, they come up against Boulot, a drunken but clever driver, who ends up having them arrested after revealing their ride.
Ginette, daughter of a foreman of an automobile factory, and Claude, son of the director of this company, love each other, but the father of the young man refuses the marriage.
Blanchette, unable to find a job, prostitutes herself in Paris. She then finds the man she loves when her morale is at its lowest.
Maître Charlotte
Jacques de Chardin, runner of women, marries a rich and young American, Mary-Ann. He does not give up, however, his conquests and has an affair with Chouquette. His wife and her friend, Baron Sigismond, decide to fake an affair in order to get revenge.
A commander suspects his wife of infidelity, when she turns to a subordinate officer to help her against someone threatening to blackmail her about her troubled past.
Nègre
A comedy about the petty bureaucrats who need special leather props under their posteriors because of the long hours they spend sitting at their desks.
Whoever brings the Countess back her stolen necklace will receive a bonus of ten thousand francs. Honoré, the vagabond, who involuntarily finds himself in possession of the jewel, offers it to a little peasant girl who had been charitable towards him and with a touch of melancholy, resumes his journey.
Slapstick inheritance comedy based on the confusion between twin brothers, both played by the great Raimu who also plays their father.
Roberdet
Slapstick inheritance comedy based on the confusion between twin brothers, both played by the great Raimu who also plays their father.
Director
A ten-year old film when it was first released in the USA as "Symphonie D'Amour" in 1946. Panard (Fernand Gravet) is a talented composer who is having little success in his musical career. He is reduced to hiring out as a sandwich-board man to advertise what proves to be his own show. His girl, Jacqueline Francell, interests a Marquis in backing the show. She and Panard are happily reunited after the successful opening of his operetta.
The Marquis de Barfleur, an unattractive man, decides to resort to plastic surgery to ensure the fidelity of Colette, his young mistress. Now endowed with a face to die for, he is about to achieve his goal. But the Marchioness de Barfleur, the Marquis' loving wife, does not hear it that way. She has her revenge claiming everywhere that her husband is... dead! An assertion people believe since they do not recognize the Marquis! When her vengeance has lasted long enough, she forgives the Marquis and husband and wife fall into each other's arms.
Madame Dupin is the most influential character in her village. She is at odds with her daughter because the latter married a showman.
The eponymous garçonne or flapper is Monique Lerbier, an emancipated French woman who leaves home to escape a marriage of convenience to a man she does not love which her parents have forced on her. She then falls into all sorts of carnal temptations and artificial pleasures previously unknown to her. These include her being seduced into a lesbian love affair by a chanteuse.
A deputy with higher political aspirations is annoyed that, as visitors come to see him, his wife insists on staying in her nightie because it is such a hot day.
Jacques de Tourville
A husband orders his wife to recover a lost slipper. The wife enlists the aid of her friend, Beatrice (Betty Stockfield) to bring the slipper to her in Switzerland, and Georges (Roger Treville) follows Betty.
Trying to acclimatize a group of overworked city dwellers from very different backgrounds to the open air and work in the fields, such is the unusual challenge that an original practitioner, the curious doctor Bouvard, is attempting. The trial, which involves many risks, gives unexpected but not disappointing results.
le Capitaine
The turkey keeper, Bettina, brings good luck to those who make her work. She becomes the mascot of the good King Laurent XVII whose finances are in bad shape. In order for her to retain her beneficial power, an attempt is made to separate her from her lover, but in vain.
Mascaret
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.
Lucie turns the house of chic dandy Gaston upside down.
Suzanne de Villiers, an illegitimate daughter of a noble family, has a lot of difficulty getting the people of the "high" to accept her feelings for her tutor, the Viscount of Ceran...
A friendly young man is accused by a Romanichel of being part of a fearsome band of thieves who are looting the lobster traps of a small Breton village.
