Pierre Palau

A schoolteacher (Robert Dhéry) and his wife (Colette Brosset) use the couple's new car for a class field trip in this routine situation comedy. Soon the children are lost in this story written and directed by Jean L'Hôte taken from his own novel.

A 1963 TV film directed by Michel Mitrani.

Фильм состоит из четырёх новелл, рассказывающих о знаменитых любовных историях, но не претендующих при этом на историческую достоверность.

Auguste is about an eponymous bank clerk who finds fame and fortune. Auguste happens to be in the right place at the right time to save young starlet Francine from killing herself -- or more accurately, pretending to kill herself. His supposed heroism hits the news, and before Auguste knows what is happening, a Machiavellian publicist is using him for his own ends. The bank clerk is no fool and soon thinks of a way to come out on top.

A young man who lives on women meets his match in the young wife of a rich industrialist. Their affair is doomed by her taste for luxury and his dislike of her coolness.

During the First World War, the Empyrée Montmartre, a Paris music-hall, is dedicated to patriotic revues whose star is the charming Mitsou. The young artist is not without talent but she is mainly well-connected. She is indeed the cherished mistress of Pierre Duroy-Lelong, a rich industrialist. One night, thanks to Petite-Chose, an ebullient singer-dancer and her co-star, she gets to know a handsome army, Lieutenant Bleu. Mitsou falls madly in love with him and Lieutenant Bleu is physically attracted to her. The trouble is that Bleu comes from a distinguished family and cannot put up with her lack of culture and artistic bad taste...

It tells the story of an older pedant who buys adolescence from Satan.

Nana or Nanà is a French-Italian film by Christian-Jaque starring Charles Boyer. It is an adaptation of Émile Zola's novel Nana.

A sinister fortress on an island where the sun never seems to shine. An officer whose values have long gone a thing of the past.

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.

In pre-World Ward I in Paris, a budding artist, Pierre LeBlanc, falls in love and marries Janine, a dressmaker's assistant. Pierre has a flair for designing clothes, and he and his bride live in a blissful paradise, until the war breaks out and he becomes a soldier. Janine dies in childbirth and, no longer desiring to live, Pierre volunteers for a dangerous patrol behind German lines. While recuperating in the hospital from a wound he received on the mission, Pierre spends his time drawing sketches of dresses. He becomes rich and famous after the war. Years later, after devoting himself to his daughter, Pierre seeks a marriage with a girl no older than his daughter. A conflict develops and to ensure his daughter's happiness, Pierre sacrifices his own plans.

По мотивам романа Сельмы Лагерлёф «Повозка смерти». Существует легенда, что незадолго до своей смерти человек начинает слышать непереносимый скрежет... скрежет повозки из загробного мира, едущей за ним, чтобы перевезти в царство мёртвых. Если грешник умирает тридцать первого декабря в полночь, то следующие двенадцать месяцев он будет Смотрителем - Возницей Повозки смерти, выполняя скорбную работу по перевозке умерших на другую сторону... Главный герой фильма безработный Давид Ольм (Пьер Френе) пускается во все тяжкие, пьянствует, избивает жену, сквернословит... Сумеет ли он искупить свои грехи, встать на путь истинный, когда он снова в компании собутыльников, уже тридцать первое декабря, а на часах без пяти минут двенадцать?..

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 ...

После смерти матери, разорившейся, чтобы обеспечить сыну достойную женитьбу, молодой, мягкий и слабохарактерный Матиас Паскаль остаётся один с нелюбимой женой и невыносимой тёщей. На время он исчезает, чтобы привести мысли в порядок. Он встречает незнакомца и с его помощью выигрывает в рулетку целое состояние. Возвращаясь домой, Матиас попадает прямиком на собственные похороны (его место в гробу занял утопленник, погибший в случайной драке). Матиас никому ничего не говорит и предпочитает снова исчезнуть.

Zou Zou tries to help her childhood friend prove his innocence after he's accused of murder.

There's never a dull moment at the Hôtel du Libre Echange. Deceptions, hitches and other misunderstandings make a few people mingle whereas, for their own sake, they should not. An example among others: an expert who has come to the hotel for professional reasons had better not meet his wife, who is there to cheat on him with his best friend.

A tradesman authorizes his wife's first husband to replace him in order to hide from a brave, very rich aunt that his niece is remarried and thus saves himself from bankruptcy. He is indeed saved from it but loses his wife won back by her ex-husband.

Dr. Lucien Petypon is usually a serious man, but, drawn by his friend Corignon, he once paints the town red at Maxim's. When he wakes up late the next morning, he finds the scantily clad Môme Crevette, a dancer at the famous Paris restaurant, by his side. It is the moment General Petypon du Grêlé, Lucien's rich uncle, chooses to make an unexpected visit. The good doctor has no other choice but to pass Crevette off as his lawful wife.

Robert de Houdan is indecisiveness itself. He keeps hesitating, shilly-shallying and never reach any decision in any way. So much so that he finds himself on the verge of ruin and falls prey to Boucherot, a greedy loan-shark who puts pressure on him to marry Yvonne Herbelier. Boucherot is assisted in his undertaking by baroness Pépin, a typical matchmaker. But Robert, who does not know the young lady, shies away from her.