Danièle Delorme

Story about an incurable thief, his success and his failures. (imdb)

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. (imdb)

Four friends, Etienne, Daniel, Simon and Bouly, have a hard time growing older and are still playing tricks among themselves. Etienne, who always stayed faithful to his wife, suddenly falls in love with Marthe after seeing her only once. He does everything he can to conquer her heart, "helped" by his friends. Hilarity ensues.

Having fortuitously discovered a photograph in which Marthe embraces someone unknown, clothed with a chequed jacket, Étienne Dorsay becomes jealous, and imagines various stratagems to identify the lover. In the meantime, Étienne and his friends acquire a weekend house for a very low price. (Wikipedia)

Jean Valjean, convicted of a minor crime, spends the rest of his life being pursued by a cruel and unrelenting policeman, Javert. (imdb)

A walk around the castles of the Loire shown in chronological order of their construction, with comments including poems of the sixteenth century and reflections of gardeners. (mubi.com)

This Andre Delvaux film concerns an apparently happily married archivist who finds a mysterious woman in an abandoned farmhouse one day and enters into a passionate affair with her.

Miquette is tired of living in the province, with all its gossip. She goes to Paris and becomes a star of the theater. Annoyed to see her beloved betrothed to another, she moves to Hollywood...

This is a French TV film based on the often-studied short novel by Colette more or less based on the writer's own autumn years. The meditative film feels a bit like a French Enchanted April as Colette (Delorme) spends her afternoons in the countryside of Saint Tropez writing outside about her transient attempts to love over the years, only to find her romantic yearnings awakened by the arrival of the younger Vial, who apparently has a severe aversion to shirts. (mondo-digital.com)

Upstart and talented young journalist Louis Commander multiplies the intrigues and betrayals to achieve his ends. (Allocine)

The man (Bernard Blier) who actually murdered a woman for rejecting him is on the jury for the trial of an innocent man.

François Naulet turns his bedroom into an island of drugs, loneliness and despair.

Thérèse Ravenaz is a charming young woman but also the victim of a seducer who abandoned her as soon as he was told she was expecting a baby. To trace her unworthy lover, she boards a taxi driven by Emile Gauthier, a friendly cabdriver, who accepts to help her. But street after street, district after district, the seducer is nowhere to be found in Paris. And when she finally achieves the end of her quest, there is no Holy Grail. She learns he is already married! (Guy Bellinger)

1922: Irish Revolution. Catherine, a servant in a convent, goes to Dublin to meet up with her young brother in danger. (imdb)

A young girl learns how it is painful growing up.

Suppose lost and found objects could talk... But they can! At least four of them... : -A statuette of Osiris remembers how two ex-lovers, a model and a good for nothing who claimed to be an Egyptologist, met again one Christmas Eve. -A violin has things to say about Raoul, a humble policeman who lost Solange, a widowed grocer he loved, to a god-dam seducing busker also named Raoul. -A scarf was witness to an eerie romance between a young madman and girl he had saved from suicide.

A love affair which is anything but romantic. The negative of a fairy tale.

Minne is a very imaginative young lady. She pretends to have had lovers and can't think of anything better to do other than... to tell Antoine, her husband, the day she marries him. Bad beginning for the couple... As the marriage is not consummated for years, Minne feels frustrated and tries to find elsewhere the carnal knowledge she does not find at home. But Antoine is a kind-hearted man and on the occasion of a trip, a sexual balance is at last found between the two partners.