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- DirectorPierre PrévertStarsJulien CaretteAnthony GildèsEtienne DecrouxBenjamin Déboisé, a hatter, his salesman and a young man want to kidnap an American millionaire, put him in a bag and hold him to ransom. But they make a mistake: the fellow they find in the bag is not the millionaire himself, but his son...!
- DirectorLaurent HeynemannStarsJeanne MoreauMichel SerraultLuc ThuillierLady M. wades every morning through the sea in order to heal her pain. But she is not what she pretends to be: Together with her partner Pompilius she finances her luxurious life by fraud and blackmailing. Falling in love with young Lambert she is about to break up all her pretendence as Pompilius is not willing to accept the youngster.
- DirectorGeorges LautnerStarsPaul MeurisseElga AndersenBernard BlierThe Marquis de Villemaur reunite stranges visitors in his Castle, to meet a survivor of the 3rd Reich. There is an Italian fascist ; Heinrich, a German ; Matthias, a russian ; and Dromard, a blind French war hero, with a black monocle.
- DirectorMarcel OphülsStarsJeanne MoreauJean-Paul BelmondoClaude BrasseurCathy wants to avenge her father by stealing Bontemps and Lachards, two corrupt associates who have destroyed the fortune of her father.For this she will work with three specialists,"Charlie Beau Sourire", Reynaldo and her ex-husband Michel.The first part of her plan works very well, Bontemps has gone to the bankruptcy.Now as she feels well with Michel, her ex-husband she is not interested in sharing more money with Charlie Beau Sourire and Reynaldo and she is looking for a move to distract these two specialists.
- DirectorGérard OuryStarsJean-Paul BelmondoBourvilDavid NivenWhen NATO transfers some of its funds from Paris to Brussels by train, a criminal mastermind posing as a British colonel plans to steal it but two petty French thieves also have the same intent.
- DirectorBertrand BlierStarsGérard DepardieuBernard BlierJean CarmetAlphonse lives in an empty building. Empty but for one neighbour, the police captain Morvandieu. When the man who have killed Alphonse's wife appears, the three men will be thrown in a serie of event in a surrealist world.
- DirectorAndré HunebelleStarsJean MaraisLouis de FunèsMylène DemongeotThe best men of France - a brave journalist and an extremely energetic commissioner - attack the trail of a mysterious criminal mastermind.
- DirectorAndré HunebelleHaroun TazieffStarsJean MaraisLouis de FunèsMylène DemongeotWhen Professor Marchand, a famous scientist, mysteriously disappears, the commissioner, Juve, immediately suspects Fantomas.
- DirectorAndré HunebelleStarsJean MaraisLouis de FunèsMylène DemongeotFamous but unlucky pursuers of Fantomas from France go to weird Scotland for a final attempt to bring the impudent criminal to justice.
- DirectorFrancis VeberStarsPierre RichardGérard DepardieuAnny DupereyA woman, whose troubled son has left home, informs two different men from her past that each of them is a real father. Too different men.
- DirectorQuentin DupieuxStarsJean DujardinAdèle HaenelAlbert DelpyA man's obsession with his designer deerskin jacket causes him to blow his life savings and turn to crime.
- DirectorJean-Paul Le ChanoisStarsJean GabinLiselotte PulverPierre VernierUnder his daring look of flower lover and naive painter, Father Tulipe is a counterfeiter who only makes small cuts to improve his ordinary.
- DirectorGeorges LautnerStarsJean-Paul BelmondoGeorges GéretCarla RomanelliAlexandre Dupré is a con artist, accidentally involved in a hunt for microfilm, containing a valuable invention of a recently murdered French scientist.
- DirectorBertrand BlierStarsBernard BlierBruno CremerPatricia ScottA medical doctor gets into trouble when one of his patients turns out to be hunted by the mafia.
- DirectorYves AllégretStarsHorst BuchholzSylva KoscinaMichel de RéA hustler of humble origins steals $200,000 from a gangster and heads to Monte Carlo.
- DirectorGérard OuryStarsLouis de FunèsMiou-MiouSuzy DelairA bigoted Frenchman finds himself forced to impersonate a popular rabbi while on the run from a group of assassins - and the police.
- DirectorJérôme EnricoStarsBernadette LafontCarmen MauraDominique LavanantPaulette lives alone in a housing project in the Paris suburbs. With her meager pension, she can no longer make ends meet.
- DirectorClaude ChabrolJean-Luc GodardUgo GregorettiStarsMie HamaKen MitsudaYatsuko Tan'amiFour swindle stories, taking place successively in Tokyo - Japan (Les cinq bienfaiteurs de Fumiko), Amsterdam - The Netherlands (La riviere de diamants), Italie (La feuille de route), and Paris - France (L'homme qui vendit la tour Eiffel).
- DirectorNanni LoyStarsVittorio GassmanRenato SalvatoriClaudia CardinaleThe usual gang of robbers in engaged by a thief from Milan to steal a suitcase full of money, but troubles will menace the success of the operation.
- DirectorJacques RouffioStarsJean CarmetGérard DepardieuMichel PiccoliCivil servant Adrien Courtois comes to Paris in order to make his money bear fruits.
- DirectorLouis MalleStarsJean-Paul BelmondoGeneviève BujoldMarie DuboisIn Paris around 1900, Georges Randal is brought up by his wealthy uncle, who steals his inheritance. Georges hopes to marry his cousin Charlotte, but his uncle arranges for her to marry a rich neighbour. As an act of revenge, Georges steals the fiance's family jewels, and enjoys the experience so much that he embarks upon a life-time of burglary.
- DirectorMaurice RonetStarsMaurice RonetAnna KarinaJosé NietoFollowing a mistake, a Frenchman selling ice cream in Barcelona, is taken for a burglar and chased by the police and various gangsters.
- DirectorRomuald BeugnonStarsJean-Pierre CasselPhilippe NahonJean-Claude BrialyA former policeman resentfully enters a retirement home. To deceive his boredom, he will investigate the murder of another resident.
- DirectorJean-Pierre MockyStarsFernandelHeinz RühmannJean PoiretPétepan learns that his money has been lost by Robinhoude brothers.He asks his assistants to withdraw his amount from the bank.
- DirectorGeorges LautnerStarsMichel SerraultMaurice BiraudLouis de FunèsJockey Jack has a bill open with a gangster just released from jail. He somehow manages to parry the gangster's knife attack backstage at a theatre and the latter ends up dead being put into a double bass case. A day later the gangster mysteriously has disappeared, but it turns out that he was carrying a bet ticket for a horse race now worth over a million. A turbulent run for the money begins.