En una ciudad provinciana, Mario, un mediocre oficinista que vive en una modesta pensión, conoce una noche a la joven Natalia, en cuyo rostro se refleja un profunda tristeza. Le da conversación para animarla y ella le explica cómo cambió su anodina vida cuando conoció a un apuesto forastero del que se enamoró y cómo cada noche su regreso. Durante cuatro noches mágicas, Mario, enamorado de Natalia, alberga la esperanza de sustituir en su corazón al misterioso forastero. Adaptación cinematográfica de la novela homónima de Dostoievski.
A trucker encounters a dead body on the road home. He reports the incident to the police, who suspect that Jean was responsible for the death, and his new truck is impounded. To make matters worse, the man's widow accuses him of having robbed her husband, and a gang of sinister crooks are also harassing him.
El célebre detective francés inmortalizado en decenas de novelas de George Simenon, se enfrenta a un peligroso psicópata adicto al asesinato de mujeres. Después de duros interrogatorios y de una meticulosa investigación a la vieja usanza, el comisario Maigret destapará al criminal.
El comisario de policía Jules Maigret vuelve al pequeño pueblo donde transcurrió su infancia a petición de la condesa de Saint-Fiacre, que ha recibido una inquietante carta anónima.
The lucky Baron wins a boat in a card game and takes off with his former lover to find new adventures. Adverse circumstances land them in a small town, where the Baron's seafaring companion leaves for more attractive scenery offered by a wealthy local man. Meanwhile, there is a certain charming cafe owner that the Baron finds irresistible -- at least for awhile.
The story of a notorious French criminal gang of the 1910s.
El vagabundo Arquímedes quiere pasar el invierno en la cárcel, pero su propósito resulta no ser tan fácil como parece.
Emile is a good mechanic whose clientele is very loyal. A bit naive, he is bamboozled by a seller who manages to sell him the full trappings of the perfect fisherman. No sooner did he regret that he bought, frightened by his wife's reaction to such expenditure. But he plans to try it ...
Life in a one-parent family with a focus on the parent, Henri Neveu (Jean Gabin), is the topic of this standard drama with a dash of comedy. While Henri was a POW during the war, his wife passed away and he returned to face the challenges of bringing up three children alone. Henri may get drunk and angry at times but he also has a better side that will not stay buried. Since handling three children alone is no easy task, the single father has the choice of growing in the process or not.
Noël Schoudler, founder of an empire built on three foundations - sugar, banking and the press - reigns like an absolute sovereign over his business and his family. But someone is about to challenge this authority: his son François...
Charles-Edmond, the eldest of the Larmentiel brothers, decides to return to La Rochelle, his hometown to die there. Forty years earlier he had been driven out by his father. Before passing away, the old eccentric announces that he has a hidden son, Émile, a fisherman to whom he wishes to bequeath his property. François, the younger brother, whom Charles-Edmond hates, is eyeing the inheritance to bail out the powerful family business, a veritable fishing trust, and will try to appropriate the affection and property of this inopportune heir. Émile, meanwhile, is too busy arguing with Fernande, a beugland singer, to suspect what awaits him...
In 1950 Saigon Paul Horcier, a young Frenchman is on the run for currency trafficking. A Eurasian woman he meets takes him to shelter in a village in No man's land between the French forces and the Viet Minh. He grows to have enormous empathy with the locals and their poor living conditions. He ultimately lays down his life on their behalf.
Un pintor pobre, Robert Mabillon, rescata una tarde al millonario Eric Fréminger, cuando intentaba lanzarse debajo de las ruedas de un coche. Tras haberse emborrachado, Mabillon propone renovar su lujosa residencia en Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, en la riviera francesa. No obstante, Fréminger lo convence para que se convierta en su chófer. Esa misma noche, Mabillon es testigo de una violenta disputa entre su anfitrión y su seductora esposa, Hélène. Poco tiempo después, recibe la vista de esta última, con el pretexto de marcharse a sus respectivos hogares.
A mild-mannered zookeeper has to contend with his tyrannical boss and a talking lovesick bear.
A thief gets hold of some top secret papers and is chased around Europe by the sinister Organisation.
Françoise looks like a sexy kitten by day, but is a silent she-wolf by night, making very clever robberies of gold jewels. Despite the interest, and competition, from Bruno, she ends a lonely she-wolf.