Jacques Dufilho

This merry farce depicts a satirical view of the French society: Twelve years old Zazie has to stay two days with her relatives in Paris, so that her mother can spend some time with her lover.

Jonathan and Lucy live in Wismar and the Count wants a house there. Varna is a port on the Black Sea, close to Dracula's castle. (imdb)

A chronicle of a group of friends in rural France in 1918. Garris and Riton live in Marais, a quiet region along the banks of Loire river... (imdb)

French colonists in Africa, several months behind in the news, find themselves at war with their German neighbors. Deciding that they must do their proper duty and fight the Germans, they promptly conscript the local native population... (imdb)

In early twentieth-century Brittany, two peasants marry, have a son, and live in traditional Breton ways: three generations under one roof, a division of labor between the sexes, elders' stories at night, politics and religion during their little free time. Times are hard: la Chienne du Monde drives some to suicide; Ankou (death) is close at hand. Pierre is born into this republican family, his lyric childhood interrupted by the outbreak of war and his father's conscription. (imdb)

Bruno is released from prison. He looks for a job and tries to start a new life. His first stop is at his father's apartment (imdb)

The Marquis de Villemaur reunites strange visitors in his Castle, to meet a survivor of the 3rd Reich. There is an Italian fascist, Heinrich, a German, Matthias, a Russian and Dromard, a blind French war hero, with a black monocle. (imdb)

War of the Buttons is a film directed by Yves Robert, about two rival kid gangs whose playful combats escalate into violence. The title derives from the buttons that are cut-off from the rival team's clothes as combat trophies. (wikipedia.org)

A dying French naval frigate captain tries to make a last rendezvous in the winter storm-tossed seas off the Grand Banks, with "le crab tambour," a French war hero he had betrayed twenty years earlier. (imdb)

A father plan to kill in the same day the 9 members of the jury who had condemned his son to the death sentence. (imdb)

Delphine receives word she will inherit a sizeable fortune provided she is a widow. Her love for her husband Antoine is soon overtaken by her lust for money. A Jewish charitable organization will get the money if the husband lives. He goes to a local gangster for protection while his wife contacts a mob hitman to murder the man. In the shadows, the couple consorts with gangsters as they jockey for position to collect the coveted coin. (Allmovie)

Boarding school and the absence of maternal love have thoroughly messed up young Andrea. He still is in love with his mother, which inhibits his functioning properly with other women. So he's a virgin. What is more, Andrea takes after his grandpa's twin brother, who happens to be a bishop, and wants to become a priest himself. That turns out to be a big problem: Andrea's grandpa Annibale is a real libertine, he disinherits Andrea and wants to turn the house into an abode for retired prostitutes.

A pair of elderly men, friends for 40 years, find their relationship stressed when they set up housekeeping together in order to save money. Exploring similar ground to that covered in Neil Simon's play The Odd Couple, which spawned a movie and a television series, Ce Cher Victor explores the tragic and dramatic aspects of the story. The two friends, meek, sensitive Anselme and blustering Victor are swiftly driven apart by circumstances. (allmovie.com)

Gérard, Phil, Jean-Guy, Jean and Luis, five inseparable friends, dream of creating a pop group under the name of The Tourists. After having rented their instruments, they participate at a regional contest, in which they win the trophy.

Sylvie is a young cashier in a Montmartre café, "le bar des Philosophes", owned and run by Monsieur Marcel, a former safe cracker. One day, the pretty creature accepts to give a helping hand to two regulars, Francis and Josélito. But what the naive girl does not know is that the two men are gangsters and that they plan to steal 50 million francs deposited in the safe of Maître Roland Devert, a charming young notary. (imdb)

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)

Sagamore Noonan lives secluded on a farm in Alabama where he distills whisky clandestinely. He was visited by his brother Doc Noonan and his son Billy. A young stripper, whose bikini contains her adornment of diamonds, and her companion gangster come to disturb their tranquility.

Comedy, erotic. Disappointed because of a missing opportunity to go to england for a holiday, Claudia discovers that it is her stepmother's fault. She decides to take her revenge and involves a friend in her plan.(ftvdb.bfi)

The good news is that at last a scientist has discovered a way to disarm all the nuclear weapons in the world. The bad news is that he doesn't have altruistic intentions with regard to his new invention.

On the death of Alexander, her husband, Hermione, a chatelaine, discovers that he was a bigam on the one hand, and a swindler on the other. In company with the second wife of Alexander, she launches in search of the spoils hidden in its vast property.

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

Fritz Ducharrel has to fight real estate sharks in order to save the money received from land value tax. (imdb)

Set in 1938, it tells the farcical story of a band of five French speaking Greek Jews who seek to have their status as self-appointed ambassadors of a Palestinian Zionist state recognized by the League of Nations in Geneva. The film follows their rambling odyssey from their native Greek island to Marseilles to Geneva, where they involve a Polish Jewish immigrant in their scheme.

A police brigade and financial brigade is sent to Switzerland to dismantle a banking sector. (Wikipedia)

Nicolás is a young man that lives with his parents in the country. He falls in love with María, but their love affair has a tragic end.

Paul fishes out of the water the body of his greatest enemy. To avoid accusations that he is a killer, taking steps that will clear his good name. (imdb)

After World War I, the French gentleman thief Arsène Lupin emerged from his convalescence in a hospital to resume his criminal activities. To his surprise, someone else has already initiated a series of robberies with his particular style, even signing one of his crimes with his own name - Arsène Lupin. (Filmaffinity)

Four-part mini-series based on the books of Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre (letterboxd)

Horace Tumelat,a powerful politician was raised by his uncle Eusèbe. He has to find a letter written by his uncle who committed suicide.

During second world war,Philippe Pétain gets absolute powers.The war ends with the arrival of allied forces by Petainism has not been put on trial. (imdb)

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)