Claire Gérard

Renoir's look at bourgeois life in France at the onset of World War II. An assorted cast of characters - the rich and their poor servants - meet up at a French chateau for various reasons and the result is murder. (imdb)

Séverine and her husband Roubaud kill their former employer in a train. Engineer Jacques watches them, but doesn't tell the police, because he's in love with Severine (imdb)

Zou Zou tries to help her childhood friend prove his innocence after he's accused of murder.

Two failed actors prepare a publicity scheme where one will pretend to have killed the other, only for him to show up at the murder trial and exonerate his friend. Things become complicated when his "murdered" friend fails to show up.

A little boy is sold to a busker who takes him on all the roads of the France with his troupe of animals.