Denys de La Patellière

What do you do when you want to commit suicide whereas you have just had the suicide clause cancelled from your insurance contract? Just ask your wife! What do you do when the attractive new chauffeur surprises you in the process of distorting the truth? Just make him your lover! But beware : even the most elaborate schemes can backfire! (imdb)

Story takes place during 1942 in the Libyan desert at the crucial battle in El Alamein, when the British finally defeated the German "Afrikakorps". During a raid on a German supply dump, the French CO gets killed and the remaining members of the squad have to make their way back to friendly lines. Along the way they lose their patrol car but then capture an enemy truck, together with a German captain (Hardy Krüger). (imdb User Comments)

Orson Welles plays the role of Akerman, a venetian savant, in this all star production of Marco Polo's adventures. Young Marco travels to China to help Kublai Khan fight against rebels, headed by his own son, with a new invention: gunpowder. (imdb)

A confrontation between two enemies. One is a young, captured Israeli agent and the other an older Arab inspector who tries to get the agent talk by making him regain his desire to live. (imdb)

This engaging comedy concerns the tattoo on the back of a military nobleman and the wily art dealer who covets the work of art. The Count has a Modigliani tattoo, and when Mazeray sees it, he wishes to add it to his art collection. The Count only wishes to retire to a life of good wine and fine food, but the maniacal Mazeray will stop at nothing to obtain the Modigliani, even if it means skinning the Count alive. (imdb)

In this French police thriller, Le Guen (Jean Gabin) is an old-style police inspector, near retirement. When Gassot (Fabio Testi) escapes from the mental institute for the criminally insane, Le Guen is the best man to track him down. After all, he put him away years before. Gassot leaves behind a string of corpses and takes up with a prostitute while Le Guen chases him. Gerard Depardieu makes one of his first screen appearances here, in a small part. (imdb)

Brassac (Jean Gabin) is a drunken veterinarian who can't resist bringing home stray animals and humans. Lilli Palmer plays his long-suffering wife Marie. When he brings home the prostitute Simone (Michele Mercier), Brassac is not sure he is acting out of concern or lust. He beats up the pimp who comes looking for Simone, and Brassac is happy when she later falls in love with his neighbor, and they make Brassac a "grandfather." (Allmovie)

Paulo les Diams, his friend Walter, Jack of London and a Munich practice blithely trafficking in gold. A day a rival gang, this of Mario, attack. Correspondents in London and Munich disappear. Paulo is rescued by a fake reporter but true American policeman, who is promoted bodyguard of gangster. When the last member is strafed to death, Paulo angry. At that time a delegate of the union proposes a transaction. Paulo bows, preparing his revenge but is headed to the post by that he did not suspect. (Wikipédia)

Noël Schoudler is the head of a wealthy and powerful family in France. He manages his financial and commercial concerns with an iron grip, leaving little room for his son François to prove himself. (imdb)

While Henri was a POW during the war, his wife passed away and he returned to face the challenges of bringing up three children alone. Henri may get drunk and angry at times but he also has a better side that will not stay buried. (imdb)

France, July 1789. Whilst a party of aristocrats is enjoying themselves in the Bois de Vincennes, the French Revolution is beginning to get underway. At the insistence of her father, 16-year-old Caroline de Bièvre must marry the politician Georges Berthier, but she is in love with the younger, more handsome Gaston de Sallanches. (imdb)