Alice Sapritch

This French historical comedy/farce, loosely based on Victor Hugo's play Ruy Blas, benefits greatly from having Louis De Funes and Yves Montand in the roles of Saluste and Blaze. Saluste is a nobleman who has been exiled from court and sent to collect taxes in the countryside. Blaze is his assistant, who manages to help the overtaxed peasants behind his boss's back. When Saluste decides to resume meddling in the monarch's affairs using Blaze as his henchman, his schemes backfire badly. (All Movie Guide)

French comic Louis De Funes stars as Henri, who has a very unfortunate accident while on his way to arrange some sort of shady deal on the Italian border. He has tried desperately not to let his better impulses get control of him; nonetheless, he has already picked up a hitchhiker (Olivier De Funes) and a married woman in distress (Geraldine Chaplin) when his car runs off the road, falls over a cliff, and lands in the crown of a tree. The efforts of this threesome to cope with the situation and get rescued constitute the body of this film. (All Movie Guide)

Satire. Polly Maggoo is a fashion model in Paris, 20, on the runway at the big shows where magazine editor Miss Maxwell is the reigning opinion maker. The ridiculous passes for sublime. Polly becomes the subject of a vapid TV news documentary, "Qui êtes-vous, Polly Maggoo?," and she's pursued by the filmmaker and by the prince of Borodine, a small country. (imdb)

France and Germany are in war, Adolf Hitler defied the Allies to play the fate of the war during a football game. The French troops are training in the sport, but the commander was particularly upset by three incompetent rookies : Johnny, Harry and Toto. He decides to get rid of them by sending them on missions into German territory. The three players fall on an armored tank division, and they meet Adolf Hitler himself. The Führer takes them for sports professionals and hiring his own team. (Wikipedia)

A witty journey through the history of Paris told to a group of students by Sacha Guitry, from its foundation at the time of Caesar to 1955. (imdb)

Three thugs in suits church settled in a priest from a village in Meurthe-et-Moselle in Lorraine (Liverdun) with the intent to capture a precious reliquary. (Wikipédia)

Because he dishonored the daughter of a mafia boss, Ernesto must leave Rome and take shelter with his uncle in Paris. There, he thinks of only one thing: to seduce girls. (imdb)

Two unemployed men, heavily in debt due to losses at the racetrack, are hired by a criminal mastermind to harass the guests of a hotel he hopes to purchase at a below-market price in order to access a tunnel below the building that leads directly to a nearby bank.

18th century adventures of the rescue of two orphan girls, kidnapped and maltreated in Paris by a wicked uncle, by a handsome hero. (BFI)

The story follows young orphan Lamiel as she rises from poverty into high society under the guidance of a doctor, who lives vicariously through her. (imdb)

Josépha (Marie-José Nat), after years of living under the thumb of a drunkard uncle (Paolo Stoppa), is disaffected. A chance encounter with the new local chemist (Robert Hossein) further upsets her situation. To escape a lonely and aimless existence she reaches out to a self-entitled gang of rebellious youth, but in attempting to prove her worth to them she traps herself in a web of lies.