Madame Emery ve kızı Geneviève Fransa'nın Normandiya bölgesinde küçük bir liman şehri olan Cherbourg'da küçük bir butikte şemsiye satarak geçinmektedirler. Film 1957 yılında 17 yaşındaki Geneviève ile 20 yaşındaki oto tamircisi Guy Foucher'nin birbirlerine aşık olmaları ile başlar. Çift evlilik planları yaparken Guy'ın annesi buna karşı gelir. Bir süre sonra askere alınan Guy Cezayir'e savaşa gönderilir. Guy uzakta iken hamile kaldığını öğrenen Geneviève zengin bir kuyumcu olan Roland Cassard'ın evlilik teklifini kabul etmek zorunda kalır. Yaralandığı için erken terhis edilen Guy, Cherbourg'a döndüğünde Geneviève'in gitmiş olduğunu görür.

Hapless orchestra player becomes an unwitting pawn of rival factions within the French secret service after he is chosen as a decoy by being identified as a super secret agent.

İkiz kardeşler Delphine ve Solange, doğup büyüdükleri küçük kasaba Rochefort’tan çıkıp, büyük şehirde aşkı ve zenginliği bulma hayalleri kurar. Ayrılma planları yaparken, karnavalda şarkıcı olarak işe başlarlar. Tek bir hafta sonu, gönül işleriyle onların planlarını bozmaya yeter.

A banker hires a seedy detective to find his daughter and keep her safe from kidnappers.

Alexandre, a young and honest farmer, is oppressed by an authoritarian wife, who makes him work like a dog. When she dies in a car crash, he decides to stay in bed, absolutely free and inactive. Just a dog is occupied to carry food and newspapers to him.

A comedy about an absent-minded man who works at a advertising company and topples from one problem to another.

Paul, a 20 year old midwesterner, arrives at the central bus station and quickly catches eyes with Wye, a 22 year old girl voguing on the sidewalk. After Paul seeks her out in secret, an intense love between them blossoms. But when Paul discovers Wye is trans, he is forced to confront his own identity and what it means to belong.

After a road accident, a writer, Edgar, and his wife, Mylène, take up residence on an island off the coast of France to recuperate. Edgar soon recovers from his injuries and begins writing his next novel, seeking inspiration from the local people. His wife, however, has lost her voice and can only communicate through written notes. The islanders grow suspicious of the reclusive couple, their unease soon turning to aggression. Edgar is equally anxious about his neighbors, particularly a solitary widower, Ducasse, who has taken charge of a large consignment of crates. What secret project is Ducasse engaged in – and can it explain the strange behavior of the islanders?

The notorious and mysterious criminal Furax steals France's famous monuments, replacing them with replicas.

A bank clerk is given an unusual retirement gift, a high class call girl. Unaware that he has been 'set up' by colleagues the man goes with the girl to Venice where he enjoys his new found virility.

Ali ve onun serseri sevgilisi Evan hayatlarını fakirliğin eşiğinde, yol kenarındaki restoranlardan yemek çalarak, uyuşturucu satarak ve yasa dışı horoz dövüşlerine bulaşarak kaotik bir şekilde yaşamaktadır. Oğlu Bone'un iyiliğini önemsemeyen Ali, sürekli sevgilisinin suç planlarına dahil olur. Bir gün Bone neredeyse bir polis baskınının ortasında kalır. Bu olay sonrasında Ali'nin düşünceleri fazlasıyla değişir.

A clique of four young teachers at a high school looks critically at their colleagues. To avoid falling in the same routine, they bring new ideas into the school lessons and play little games and pranks in their spare time -- sometimes get even more childish than their pupils. When they get opposition from the other teachers, they play tricks to get rid of them.

Unlucky in love, Alfred tries to commit suicide, only to be thwarted by police efforts to prevent a simultaneous attempt by a nearby young woman. Recovering, the young lady puts him up at her house, as he has run out of places to live. He joins a Parisian sporting team and seems to have transferred his bad luck to a corrupt television boss who is attempting to manipulate the game so that Alfred's Paris team loses.

Agnes Varda's documentary of the celebrations arising from the 25th anniversary of her husband Jacques Demy's film The Young Girls of Rochefort.

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.

In a secluded hotel circumscribed by a dense forest Max and Alissa Thor meet Stein and Elisabeth. Max, a professor of future history and an aspiring author, is immediately attracted to the brooding wife of industrialist Bernard Alione, Elisabeth, who is recovering from a miscarriage. Stein, a German Jew and potential writer, is infatuated by Alissa, Max's young wife and former student. During their sojourn the guests' identities gradually meld.

A professor experimenting in suspended animation accidentally shrinks his dog and later, his female lab assistant, when she drinks the liquid by accident and shrinks to 3 inches tall. The professor keeps her in his pocket until he can find an antidote. Sometimes she's naked, too.

Rural France, the 1890s. Always in motion, Augustin wanders three times. First, as a youth, while a boarder near Bourges, he's lost in the woods and finds a chateau where an engagement party's in progress: there he falls eternally in love with Yvonne and she with him. Back at school, he hears she is in Paris, so he follows in a vain search and meets a woman, jilted by her lover. In the countryside a few year's later, Augustin's friend François finds Yvonne and brings Augustin to her. They marry, but the next day, Augustin leaves to fulfill a youthful promise he made to Yvonne's brother. François comforts the pregnant Yvonne as they await Augustin's return.

"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.