Francis Blanche

Severine is a beautiful young woman married to a doctor. She loves her husband dearly, but cannot bring herself to be physically intimate with him... (imdb)

Four swindle stories, taking place successively in Tokyo - Japan (Les cinq bienfaiteurs de Fumiko), Amsterdam - The Netherlands (La riviere de diamants), Italie (La feuille de route), and Paris - France (L'homme qui vendit la tour Eiffel). (imdb)

A cold-war spy parody. After the death of an armaments manufacturer, an international group of spies is drawn into a high-stakes battle of wits to obtain the valuable military patents which have been inherited by the lovely widow. (imdb)

Ex-gangster Fernand (Lino Ventura) receives a call from a dying friend, a mob boss nicknamed "The Mexican". The doomed mobster talks Fernand into taking care of some criminal business and looking after his soon-to-be-married daughter. (imdb)

In 1789, when the Revolution went on, a bandit named "Black Tulip" held the surroundings of village Roussillon in fear. The poor people respected him as Robin Hood, who declare himself a revolutioner but Count Guillaume de Saint Preux "plays" this benefactor. When he fought with Mouche, the policeman he was wounded. (imdb)

Nicolas Pappas and Leon Dubois, two particularly calamitous killers, arrive in Paris where an evil gang leader urges them to cover the escape of the perpetrators of a robbery. They are doing so, and then see themselves responsible for liquidating a certain "Magnum" ...

Comedy about a naive French country girl in London who helps the war effort by parachuting into German-occupied France to help kidnap an important German general. She bungles through to a heroic finish of plot and counter-plot. (imdb)

Alfonso, a jaded and brutal agent of the Protection Service of the High Personalities, is forced to team with Walter, inexperienced young rookie, fascinated by the world of showbiz. This unlikely duo is responsible for the protection of Jal-Y, a young R&B star, threatened by her ex, a criminal on the run.

While a priest faces the consequences of killing a man, a Frenchman is tried for being a conscientious objector.

Jockey Jack has a bill open with a gangster just released from jail. He somehow manages to parry the gangster's knife attack backstage at a theatre and the latter ends up dead being put into a double bass case. A day later the gangster mysteriously has disappeared, but it turns out that he was carrying a bet ticket for a horse race now worth over a million. A turbulent run for the money begins. (imdb)

The story of eighteen-year old Agathe (Agathe Aëms) with a firm independence of men even if she uses them to get to the côte d'azur.

Penniless and vegetating as a clerk, Baron Yves de Kerfuntel incidentally learns the death of a wealthy uncle. Believing himself the sole heir, he rushes to the castle, and discovered 7 other candidates to fortune. The opening of the will they learn that Louise de Kerfuntel, crippled old woman and authoritarian, is the only one heir. She allows all family members to live in the castle, but announces that it intends to squander his fortune to games and by conducting a grand scale. (Wikipedia)

Bad financial conditions compel an aristocratic family named Lachesnaye to do strange work. (imdb)

An industrialist would have everything to live happily if his family did not cause him so much worry.

Five rugby cheated by their coach deserter Auguste Kouglof find its trace in Brizouille, a small village in the Landes. Now known as Colombani, Kouglof / Colombani tries to run for elected office by using mafia practices. But it's reckoned without the determination of the Charlots troublemakers in circles that combine to Mr. Devot, Colombani's only competitor to win the coveted position. Avalanche of gags weaves a love story between Philippot and daughter Kouglof / Colombani. (Wikipedia)

A comedy about the founding of Marseille.

Sickened to see his students always sleeping in class, a teacher with a colleague and an anarchist start a war against the television. They climbed on Paris roofs to coat the T.V. antennas with a special product cutting the signal reception. (imdb)

Gabriel Pelletier's life is no bed of roses. Not because of his job: he is a successful sales manager. But on account of the various wrongdoings committed by his kin : his daughter Nicole, who has just developed an infatuation with a young man who is the son of a Sicilian mobster, Bernard, his brother-in-law, a ladies'man, Albert, his own brother, an avant-garde filmmaker also in trouble with Lombardi, the omnipresent gangster and Maryse, his domestic worker who is a Maoist militant! (imdb)

A farcical account of the happenings in Rome in 1943 when the allied army and the partisans fight the nazis. (imdb)

Comedy of the havoc brought to the marriage of a provincial doctor when he takes aphrodisiac pills. (bfi)

War-time comedy, with music. A young girl, a young professor and an American captain try to escape from occupied Florence to Allied lines. (bfi)

Two police inspectors Triquet and Vergus launch their investigations to arrest a dangerous escaped forger named Mickey Le Bénedictin. (imdb)

William Chaminade (Bourvil) is a veterinarian who watches as a woman jumps off the roof of a small building. After the girl is caught by a folksinger with a striking physique, he rushes to offer assistance to the jumper and her hero. The woman is distraught over not having enough lovemaking, so the good doctor prescribes sex as the cure and enlists the folksinger to perform the services. (Allmovie)

Jean-Louis Matouzec works for French National Library as an expert looking after the restoration of old manuscripts.He falsifies marriage certificates as his wife refuses divorce. (imdb)

Michel Dolannes resigns from a major newspaper as a journalist to launch a new journal 'Le Cosmopolite' which reveals all kinds of shady deals.One day, he is killed but who is the killer ? (imdb)

Gaston Berrien is a hatter and father of a boy and a girl of 17 years. One day arrives in his shop a customer whose concern is much more to know his turnover than to find a hat to his size. The trader is right to worry, because his trade is only a cover.

Leon's uncle is the head of a criminal gang. Leon (Jacques Dutronc) has lived his life innocent of contact with his uncle (Michel Constantin) and knowledge of the gang. After the uncle has died and left the control of the gang to Leon, gang members show up on his doorstep wanting to be told what to do. In this French comedy, Leon shows an unexpected talent for crime. (Allmovie)

Seven short films from seven accomplished directors explore the pivotal stages in a woman's emotional life in this unique anthology. Featuring an ensemble cast of French stars, the collected stories deal with sexual curiosity, virginity, married life, infidelity, divorce and loneliness. Clever animated vignettes introduce each segment. (Netflix)

To replace Hector Grogenol, the tyrannical boss of the factory "Tout pour la camping", put out of harm's way, collaborators call on his cousin Achille, a Provencal shepherd, thinking to use him. But this one will very quickly take his role of CEO seriously and show itself velléitaire. Fortunately, the young secretary Martine, will know how to use her charms to calm this man thirsting for power.

In this French comedy from director Edouard Molinaro, a young Jean-Paul Belmondo stars as Fernand, a groom-to-be who is dissuaded from stepping up to the altar by his two friends after they terrify him with their personal marriage horror stories. Antoine immediately ditches his bride and heads for Greece, but not before giving his friend Antoine (Jean-Claude Brialy) his honeymoon cruise tickets. Aboard the boat, Antoine meets and falls in love. (allmovie.com)

An East European scientist smuggled out of his country by the French is supposed to perfect his invention in suburban Paris, but he is much more interested in having a good time. (imdb)

Newly arrived in Paris, Galia lives in a small apartment near Notre-Dame cathedral. One evening, whilst walking along the banks of the River Seine, she saves a young woman from drowning. (imdb)

A Parisian named Cartier living in Quebec City and employee of a major English Canadian insurance company is promoted to a job in Vancouver. He brings along his annoying and hyperactive Quebecquer wife and his two young kids. Rolling on a trailer van and with no knowledge of the English language, it becomes a Trans-Canadian wacky journey for the French-speaking family, and might influence Mr. Cartier to reconsider accepting this important position... (imdb)

The story of five girls that lose their virginity. (imdb)

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

Annie is a middle-age wife, still sexy and pampered by her husband, Phillippe, who is the owner and general manager of a dynamic company. Under the deluge of sexy Swedish movies, sexy advertising on the streets, sexy intimate clothing in ladies' shops, and even talks about sex and marital infidelity with her mother and female friends, Annie starts feeling left aside by her husband, and trying to attract in a number of ways - and failing. (imdb)

Robotti, a bank employee, discovers someone has been embezzling money at his branch, and when he refuses to take a bribe to stay quiet, he is fired. After he falls in love, he abandons his moral code to make a fortune in the stock market.

A small-town policeman is informed that "naked women" are dancing in a revue at a local variety theater. Being the guardian of public morals that he is, he decides to stroll on down there and check it out for himself. (imdb)

In this episodic comedy, five individuals win prizes - from a free meal to the national lottery - but good fortune doesn't always come with happiness.

Four vice-presidents fight among themselves to reach the top post after the president dies. Their wives take part in the various schemes to downgrade the opposition by unorthodox means. (imdb)