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- In a lost French village, an old woman is killed and her savings stolen. Several members of her family, all called "Goupi", are suspected.
- In the last days of World War II, a group of Nazis and their sympathizers try to escape from reckoning using a submarine.
- Marie Prieur, a young doctor, decides to settle down on Ushant, a remote island belonging to Brittany. Little by little she manages to be accepted by the population. One day she meets André Lorenzi, a handsome engineer, and it is love at first sight. Life is wonderful for a while but André wants to marry her only if she remains at home. Despite her strong feelings for André, Marie refuses to give up her vocation and the two lovers part. Marie finds herself alone, with a broken heart.
- Johnny sets out to rid the land of an evil giant but the giant uses a machine to reduce Johnny to the size of a bee. He is welcomed into Bee-Land, and herocially defends the Queen Bee. Johnny then leads the bees and their friends in an attack against the giant, uses the machine to reduce the giant to a miniature and restores himself to human size.
- "Le Capitan" depicts a rebellion ,historically led by the Prince De Condé and in the movie by the duke of Angouleme who wants to be king.
- The invincible bandit faces his daughter, who wants him to end his criminal activities.
- Poacher Badger has been imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit. An ambitious lawyer sets out to rehabilitate and glorify the philosopher Badger. But once released, Badger demolishes in a matter of hours the prestige so laboriously built up by his liberator.
- Young conductor Roberto Lombardini has never known his father who is actually a former musician, a failed piano player who has sunk into alcoholism.
- An American woman arrives to a small French town where she has inherited a chateau, only to discover it is already inhabited by squatters.
- "Not so stupid," as the title suggests, is an early comedy vehicle for Bourvil about the class differences between a supposedly dumb peasant and the more educated aristocratic elite.
- The lover of an elderly widower who has gone away thinks she has seen his ghost, telling her that he has been killed.
- The former "J3" who used to be pupils at the Coutances high school are currently students in Paris. It is now a time for love stories and sentimental crises. For the moment all the boys'hearts beat for Anita, a princess, who is the splitting image of their philosophy teacher at Coutances, Mademoiselle Bravard...
- A resistance leader is wounded when the Germans raid his underground print shop. He escapes to the home of a German-friendly Parisian and is helped by her son and daughter. A Jewish doctor also aids him. They all join him in his efforts against the Nazis and derail a munitions train.
- The father of the girl is a magistrate with a high sense of duty.The daughter, Françoise is a romantic girl.The mother of the girl is an ambitious woman who doesn't accept the second place of her husband in a town of province.Françoise escapes from her family because she didn't agree with an arranged matrimony and goes to Paris where she becomes the secretary of Edith Mars, a great comedian.In a letter to her sister she wrote that she was working in an American company and gave the address of Edith as her address.Now the parents are arriving from Nancy to Paris.
- Henri, a basically honest fellow, agrees to work for a gang of burglars to avenge himself upon Fournier-Salville, a wealthy businessman who once ruined him. His role will be to become Fournier-Saville's majordomo while simultaneously keeping the burglars informed so as to facilitate their work. Once in the house he performs his job so well and so stylishly that he becomes indispensable. Eve, the businessman's capricious daughter, does not remain insensible to his charms.
- While investigating the world of Parisian tramps, journalist René Savary, himself disguised as a poor beggar, notices the strange behavior of a little boy. He follows the brat after he has sneaked out of a barge, catches up with him and takes him to his home. There, the kid tells him about himself : his name is Jean, his mother has disappeared and since then he has been left to fend for himself. Moved by the lot of the wretched boy, Savary, with the aid of his friend Pierrot, undertakes to solve the mystery...
- When Monsieur Crauqual, the supervisor, is found hanging, all wonder why this rather rich person decided to kill himself. And when a pupil is found hanging too, François and his friends decide to investigate. They are certain there is a killer within the walls of Collège François 1er and determined to prevent him from going on running wild.
- An untiring lady social worker,Emilienne, has as one of her charges a stableman who was wounded by his mistress.Unfortunately Emilienne's young sister who was helping her at work decides to go away with the stableman.
- Emile Boulard is a props man in a Paris movie studio. He has a wife, Suzanne. Or to be more accurate, let's say he HAD a wife since she left him fifteen years before, allegedly ... to go buy a post stamp. But now that their daughter Martine , who lives with her, is old enough to marry, she resurfaces. She confesses that, in order to explain his absence, she has told Martine her father was a great explorer and lion hunter in Africa. Not to disappoint his daughter, Emile accepts to pose as the adventurer he is supposed to be. At the same time he will help Daniel, Martine's bashful fiancé, not to become a henpecked husband like him.
- Eusèbe Bonbonneau, a solicitor's clerk, learns one day that a candidate bearing his name runs for election as a member of parliament. In fact Frazier, a crooked businessman, has urged an accomplice to impersonate Eusèbe, in order to obtain, through this straw man, authorizations for the creation of a casino in Sanceau-les-Nains and to make big money out of it. Eusébe decides to go to Paris to investigate. In the capital he meets Mariska, an exuberant actress who encourages him to try to get elected. As a result, thanks to her the true Bonbonneau becomes a member of parliament and the crook's accomplice is arrested. But Frazier is not impressed and, changing tactics, he starts manipulating Eusèbe.
- An American manager and his daughter want to hire "the little singers with the wooden cross" for a tour of the United States,but Jeannot,a young member of the choir recognize his grandma's locket round the girl's neck .
- Wrongly accused of having killed her boss and set fire to the factory she worked in, Jeanne Fortier, a young window, is given a life sentence. Twenty years later, She escapes from prison, adopts a new identity, determined to clear her name and to discover the real culprit.
- Robert Montfort, happily married to Solange, is his parents-in-law's pet aversion though. To them he is a punk, a good for nothing, a small-time, untalented poet! Robert, who is more gifted than what they think, manages, following a workmate's recommendation, to debut as an entertainer in a nightclub and -even better- to please the audience. Not daring tell the truth to Solange he starts leading a double life, being Robert Montfort in the daytime and Jean Rigobert at night. Of course his wife wonders what is going on and worries about his regular night outings. Only too happy, her parents incite her to have a divorce. Fortunately, all comes right in the end.
- Paris 1810. Breton doctor René Laennec fights tooth and nail against consumption, all the more desperately as his brother Michaud has just died of it. He is supported in his research work by his senior partner and friend, Doctor Bayle, but this one dies before they are able to diagnose and defeat the "enemy". One day, after observing a children's toy, Laennec discovers the principle of the transmission of sound through wood and applies it to a major medical instrument of his invention, the stethoscope. On the other hand, he wins a first victory over consumption by saving Jacquemine, a childhood friend, who soon becomes his wife. Nevertheless Laennec is the laughing stock of many a fellow-colleague, especially famed Doctor Broussais. But , remaining undeterred, Laennec goes on with his research. He works hard, too hard, until he too gets struck by the "enemy".
- Martial,Colette 's husband ,is madly jealous.One day,he catches his wife writing a letter and he does want to know what this message contains ,to no avail.
- Gaston has always wanted to be a clown, which is not to please his father, a stern notary. The latter is adamant : he will never allow his son to tarnish his reputation. Frustrated Gaston falls in love for a pretty circus rider and draws closer and closer to his vocation. Gaston's father dies but goes on interfering, from heaven this time. Cunning and persistence will finally help Gaston to be the clown he has always dreamed of being.
- Jean, a bashful office clerk,becomes a daring pilot.
- Gaston, nicknamed Pilou, has left his native village and Yvette, the girl of his heart, to go to Paris where he has found work as a painter. He is a naive good-natured man who, like most of his fellow-workers, favors a little song or two while he works. For the time being he is busy repainting the exterior of a block of flats and, when he does not sing to pass the time, he looks through the windows, observing the tenants in their daily lives. As time goes by, he goes as far as intervening and changing the course of their lives. In the end, despite having found a lookalike of his fiancée, he returns to her.