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- A series of stories following a week in the life of a philandering tabloid journalist living in Rome.
- The Prince of Salina, a noble aristocrat of impeccable integrity, tries to preserve his family and class amid the tumultuous social upheavals of 1860s Sicily.
- Four men plan a technically perfect crime, but the human element intervenes...
- The theatrical life of a beautiful courtesan in 1830s Paris and the four men who love her.
- Twin brothers revolt against tyranny in pre-Roman Italy and then come to a parting of the ways as they lead their people toward the founding of a new city.
- Jean Valjean, convicted of a minor crime, spends the rest of his life being pursued by a cruel and unrelenting policeman, Javert.
- A bed-hopping coterie of soldiers, prostitutes, maids, actors, and aristocrats swap lovers amid the opulence of pre-World War I Europe.
- An Eskimo who has had little contact with white men goes to a trading post where he accidentally kills a missionary and finds himself being pursued by the police.
- A mysterious phantom appears in the Musée du Louvre in Paris at night. Neither the guards nor the police are able to arrest it. A curious young man tries to break the ice and discover what drives the creature and the background activities.
- In 18th century Russia, Imperial officer Piotr Grinov is dispatched to a faraway isolated outpost where his loyalties are tested during the Pugachev Rebellion against the Empress Catherine II.
- The adventures of the iconic gentleman-burglar, loosely adapted from Maurice Leblanc's pages.
- Handsome and rich Spanish gentleman abandons his wife and riches for his love of a young girl of poor stock who taunts and degrades him. Only after she has humbled him mercilessly does she offer him her love in the end.
- André Chatelin is a restaurant owner in Les Halles in Paris. One morning, a girl named Catherine asks to see him. She happens to be the daughter of his estranged wife, Gabrielle, that André left more than twenty years before. As Gabrielle has just died, André accepts to accommodate Catherine first, then gives her a job in his restaurant before finally marrying her. But the angel-faced young lady might well be a devil in disguise.
- It's Paris in the winter after its liberation. A tramp who may also be Destiny predicts that Jean Diego will fall in love with a beautiful girl. That same evening, Jean meets Malou.
- In this semi-autobiographical film, black soldiers help to defend France, but are detained in prison camp before being repatriated home.
- A man plans a hold-up with a group of trusted fellows, he gets his hands on the money, and the girl - what could go wrong? Almost everything.
- FBI Agent Lemmy is sent after a missing two million in Casablanca while mob boss mistress Carlotta plays both sides of the law.
- A photo montage of Cubans filmed by Agnes Varda during her visit to Cuba in 1963. The film explores Cuban society and culture post-revolution.
- A country girl is discovered by a Paris magazine and becomes a top model.
- In the 15th century France, only one honest knight stands up on protection of a young noblewoman when she finds herself trapped in enmity between a king and a treacherous nobility.
- A French sailor, returning to Hamburg where he had been imprisoned during WWII, looks for a German woman he had loved in those days, and finds her in a night club.
- Pascal (Lino Ventura) sells newspapers. He is a simple man who one day resting on the banks of the Seine sees a drowning stranger. Pascal saves his life and begins his adventure next to a man who says his wife wants to intern in a madhouse. No good deed goes unpunished.
- The film is based on Voltaire story "Candide, or Optimism" (1759), transferred to the twentieth century, during the Second World War, about the love of Cunégonde and Candide.
- Mario and the new kid Franco gradually become the best of friends, but their friendship is tested when one of them wins a competition.
- A gangster who's got a lot of dough takes refuge in his hometown.
- Géo Paquet, aka The Gorilla, breaks from jail. Now an escaped convict, the elite agent must infiltrate a dangerous gang working for a foreign embassy as their leader, a spy enjoying diplomatic immunity, can't be arrested by regular police.
- Lemmy Caution is back! He hooks up with a fellow agent at a night club to exchange info about a beautiful babe the FBI has under observation. Later, Eddie finds his fellow agent murdered and stuffed into a refrigerator! Who is the mysterious woman? Is she or her friends responsible for the murder? One of the better Caution series entries.
- Pierre Marsac, a French engineer working for the Nagasaki shipbuilding yards, has fallen in love both with Japan and a charming Japanese girl named Noriko. But Françoise Fabre, a French journalist and Pierre's former lover, contacts him while visiting the Land of the Rising Sun. They meet again, find out their love might not be dead. Meanwhile, Pierre gradually becomes estranged from sweet, humble Noriko. One day, a typhoon strikes Nagasaki...
- A medical doctor gets into trouble when one of his patients turns out to be hunted by the mafia.
- Mlle de Maupin escapes from her uncle's castle, invaded by Hungarian troops, under the guise of a clergyman named Theodore. An army recruiter forces Theodore to enlist in the King's army, and not even the religious robe is an insurance against it. Theodore is assigned to be aide-de-camp to Alcibiade, a man as virile in combat, as he seems troubled for the figure of his aid... D'Albert, an aristocrat, will expose Theodore's true sex, and after a number of confusing, comedy situations, Alcibiade will appease his troubled feelings.
- The girl across the street is Roger's dream.
- A boat en route to a treasure hunting?
- Pierre Verger is a quick-tempered Paris taxi driver (excuse the pleonasm!). On the other hand , he is a good family man concerned about his nearest and dearest. Married to Hélène, he has two children, Georges, a journalist and womanizer, and Jacqueline, a seamstress, engaged to a serious-minded, naive artist/delivery man. He has also a a brother-in-law, who is a policeman outside home and a henpecked husband inside. But his closest companion is "Gangster", a young dog, who shares his days of work as well as his aversion to law enforcers. Pierre's main preoccupation is to provide his next of kin with a comfortable life but he finds it hard to make ends meet. This is the reason why he is faced with a moral dilemma when a client, an Italian woman whose address he can't find, leaves her bag in his taxi with 300,000 francs in it. Will usually honest Pierre keep this large sum of money or bring it to the police?
- Doris Putzke is fond of dating men in her quest for finding the perfect one. In her brief relationships, she goes from one disillusionment to another, constantly deluding herself about the intentions of her lovers.
- This collection brings together short reports, from about 6 to 13 minutes in length, on every aspect of France's regional, cultural and artistic life during the 60s and 70s, offering other nations a comprehensive outline of French society.
- Study of Milanese social life and of the people who become involved in it.
- A guideless old tour proprietor trumps his new-fangled rival by offering a genuine mystery trip. The takers are a crowd of eccentrics and dropouts from all backgrounds.
- Italy during the Napoleonic wars: A French General and his Adjutant are separated from their unit get beyond the enemy lines. There they meet Carlotta the resolute daughter of an Italian Count, who cannot withstand the charm of the French.
- During the annual Good Friday pageant in a tiny Italian village, local priest Don Vincenzo faces a crisis when the girl selected to play the Virgin Mary shows up pregnant.
- Story about a young boy who make friends with a baby shark. He introduces the shark to his girl friend and the shark is his pet. A decade later they reunite and now they are husband and wife and the shark becomes friends again
- The Knight of Maison-Rouge (translation for the roman of Alexandre Dumas)
- Maurice Martin takes care of the concierge's lodge he has with his wife, the amiable Germaine.
- This is October 1955. The place is a village in Loire-Atlantique, La Chapelle-Basse-Mer, where an old clog-maker works and lives with his wife and their adopted son. The clog-maker's meticulous craft is described with love and close attention to detail. On the other hand, forthcoming death pervades the quiet everyday life of the elderly couple.
- Famed marshal Wyatt Earp is sent to clean up a lawless mining town on the Mexican border.
- The Adventures of Cadet Rousselle that on the French Revolution left his hometown in search of fortune. He thinks know love with Violeta, a dancer in a band of comedians but a ends involved in a monarchist plot.
- A new challenge is offered to the french pilots of the early age of aviation: Forward airmail farther and farther towards Africa and South America.
- A guy is sick and tired of losing every time he tries his luck at "100 Francs a second",a radio game.
- Among Alexander Calder's creations were miniature spring-loaded circus figures, made of wire. In this short film, Calder (1989-1976) talks about and demonstrates these toy-like creations. We see them spin, hop, roll, and leap. It's pure whimsy, wit, and glee.