On 9 January 1836, Pierre Lacenaire goes to the guillotine, a murderer and a thief. He gives Allard, a police inspector, his life story, written while awaiting execution. He also asks ...

Martin Morel wants to spend Sylvester with both his wife and family and his girlfriend Agnes. So he asks his clumsy friend Bertin to pretend she'd be his wife. But the two can't stand each ...

The roman catholic pilgrimage to Lourdes depicted in an anticlerical way :hypocrisy, superstition and business

Inspector Lavardin is induced to investigate the murder of a province's notable who was taking himself as the moral guardian of his village. The perspective of the inquiry changes when the ...

When a small town begins losing its citizenry in a series of grisly murders, out-of-town police inspector Jean Lavardin (Jean Poiret) is sent to investigate. Could the killers be a bullied son (Lucas Belvaux) and his cruel mother (Stephane Audran) who run the local post office? Or a pushy trio of would-be land developers?

The cynical boss of a big insurance agency invites his top-salary employees to spend a week-end in his country house. A modest clerical worker, also invited, discovers the hidden reason for this party - and decides to take advantage of it.

Paris is occupied by individuals who do not like Jewish people. This is a serious problem for one actress. She is in love with a Jewish man who owns a theater. The actress must keep this man hidden from all Nazis. The entire city is terrified because of the now unsafe community. They both have hard jobs and have to do them without being caught together or alone. They come close to getting caught a few times, but their love keeps them together and safe. They are tested to the very end, and they manage to not give up on this life.

Two gay men living in St. Tropez have their lives turned upside down when the son of one of the men announces he is getting married. They try to conceal their lifestyle and their ownership ...

An East European scientist smuggled out of his country by the French is supposed to perfect his invention in suburban Paris, but he is much more interested in having a good time.

Gaston Berrien ,a hatter in Vaucresson,spends some happy day with his wife Françoise, a detective stories writer ,and his children,Freddy and Evelyne .As his business is bad, he runs an illegal gambling den with his brother-in-law .Both accomplices make their fortune ,unbeknown to everyone.However , a blackmailer ,Joe,threatens to give the information to the police ,if they do not pay a hefty sum.They decide to do away with this pest.

"Les quatre vérités" aka "The Four Truths" is a movie anthology that consists of four segments, all loosely parodying fables from the 17th-century French poet Jean de la Fontaine. The US cut usually features only 3 segments. The first segment "Death and the Woodcutter" about a common organ grinder (street performer who plays mechanical musical instrument called street organ on the street for a living) who is driven to the edge of sanity by bureaucracy was cut from the US release for its serious tone. The second story "The Crow and the Fox" is about a jealous husband who keeps his wife under lock and key since he lives in a town full of single men. Their neighbor is determined however to service the missus. The third story "The Tortoise and the Hare" follows a jealous wife who decides to win her adulterous husband back. The final tale "Two Pigeons" is about a young man and woman who accidentally lock themselves up in a flat and end up falling for each other.

The omnibus made of four separate romantic playlets, each with its own cast, director, and scenarist. "The Tale of Ella," directed by Jacques Poitrenaud, stars Dany Saval as an ambitious nightclub performer who very nearly messes up her chances for success by bullying a mild-looking but important producer. "The Tale of Antonia," directed by Michel Boisrond, finds housewife Dany Robin exacting a sweet revenge on her cheating husband. "The Tale of Francoise," directed by Claude Barma, concerns the efforts of Francoise Arnoul to test the fidelity of her best friend's lover. And "The Tale of Sophie," directed by Marc Allegret, features Catherine Deneuve as a goody-two-shoes who fabricates a torrid romance in order to be accepted by her sexually knowledgeable schoolmates.

Love and the Frenchwoman is the US title of a 1960 French anthology film originally entitled La française et l'amour. It starred Jean-Paul Belmondo and Dany Robin. The movie was a big hit in France with admissions of 3,056,736.

The Bureaucrats (French:Messieurs les ronds de cuir) is a 1959 French comedy film directed by Henri Diamant-Berger and starring Noël-Noël, Philippe Clay and Jean Richard. The film's art direction was by Roger Briaucourt.

A rich kid ,the daughter of an oil tycoon ,lives a life of luxury with private tutors and porridge and kipper for breakfast ;dad is busy caring about his big business -we never see him- and mom is a socialite ,who puts her dearest girl to bed before enjoying a society party.Bad guys kidnap the heiress ,to get a hefty ransom ;of course all of them are two-bit gangsters and pretty soon the little silly goose leads her kidnappers by the nose. .

A man pretends he saves a woman who pretends she's drowning;this person is a former schoolmate's wife ,the secondary school bully who treated him as his punching bag !To become his erstwhile persecutor's wife's lover,what a sweet revenge. But both lovers do not try to hide cause fear is part of the game ,and they carry on openly in public in the cafes ,or in a department store (32 beds to make love!),or in an empty car in a railway station at night (but they are disturbed because the railroad men need to hitch the carriage up to a train leaving ).