Paulette Dubost

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)

In occupied Paris, an actress married to a Jewish theater owner must keep him hidden from the Nazis while doing both of their jobs. (imdb)

Somewhere in Middle America, 1907: Maria II, the daugther of an Irish terrorist, meets after the dead of her father Maria I, the singer of an circus (imdb)

Augustin Dos Santos is back. He still wants to be an actor and, this time, he moves to the Chinese borough... (imdb)

Like Vanya, in Malle's last film, Milou never left the family estate. His mother dies during the May 1968 student uprising in Paris. The brother who is the London correspondent for Le Monde keeps turning up the volume of the radio for the latest news... (imdb)

The film tells the tragical story of the life of Lola Montes who was a great adventurer and stopped being the attraction of her circus after having been the lover of various important men. (imdb)

A young couple, Renee and Pierre, take one night a room at the Hotel du Nord, in Paris, near the canal Saint-Martin. They want to die together, but after having shooted at Renee, Pierre lacks of courage and ran away. Another customer, Monsieur Edmond, a procurer, rescues her. When Renee goes out of the hospital, she is hired as a waitress at the hotel. Monsieur Edmond falls in love with her, but Renee is still thinking of Pierre ... (imdb)

A young industrialist and a barman swap their social position to test true love. One falls in love with an aristocrat's widow. The other for the former mistress of the first one. (BFI.org.uk)

Maigrets in the form of veteran tough guy Jean Gabin, who played the character three times throughout the 1950s. In Maigret Sets a Trap, the inspector tackles the case of a psychopathic serial killer. The female victims have all been stripped and stabbed but none of the women was raped. Putting two and two together, Maigret determines that the killer was motivated by rage and frustration rather than sex. Maigret Sets a Trap avoids sensationalism in favor of slow-building suspense. (allmovie.com)

Emile (Jean Gabin) and his family travel to the South of France to meet the parents of the man who is to marry his daughter in this family comedy drama. Adelphe (Fernandel) tries to ease the visitors from Paris into the more laid-back life of the South. The two future fathers-in-law slowly becomes friends before a lover's quarrel between their children threatens to jeopardize the upcoming marriage of Antoine and Marie. The two fathers eventually resolve their differences as do their offspring.

Annie Girardot plays the old flame of Greek professor Philippe Noiret. The prof tries to rekindle the flames of passion, but Girardot seems curiously preoccupied. It turns out that she's a detective on the trail of a murderer. (Allmovie)

Police director Lise Tanquerelle marries Antoine Lemercier, an expert in Greek history. While honeymooning in Greece, they are approached by Pochet, a young archaeologist who discloses his latest discovery to the couple. He has uncovered the buttocks of Venus Heroclitus. Agnes is Pochet's disgruntled wife who allows the statue to be stolen by a Greek sailor. When the sailor is found dead, Antoine and Porchet are indicted for murder. The two escape in order to track down the real culprit. (Allmovie)

Children from three veterans of the last war listen open-mouthed jokes and the story of the adventures experienced by parents, including that of a treasure hidden by the Kommandantur... (Wikipédia)

Paris, 1840. Whilst driving his fiancée Irène home in his horse-drawn carriage, the Marquis Rodolphe de Sombreuil accidentally knocks down a poor man in the street. Believing the man is only slightly injured, Rodolphe gives him a purse containing some money as a recompense. But the man dies not long afterwards, leaving his wife and daughter Marie desolate. The widow is then arrested by the police, who believe she stole Rodolphe's purse. (Allmovie)

A publicity-minded French mayor reunites quintuplets and their earthy father, all six played by Fernandel.

A hapless actor making his theatre debut and a notorious gangster breaking out of jail get their lives entwined with rowdy consequences.

Three unemployed buddies become, despite themselves, the henchmen of a racketeer and are driven in the middle of a gang war. (Wikipedia)

Prince Philippe de Gonzague decides to get rid of his cousin Duke de Nevers, having wished for long his properties and wealth. (imdb)

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)

Alex, 12, lives with his grandmother, Lolotte, and his mother, Mary. But it has no attention to Paul-Louis, who is preparing to remarry. The boy, feeling excluded, decides to run away one day when her mother was on a business trip. (Wikipedia)

A gendarme receives a fabulous inheritance. Thanks to this, he conquers the heart of Queen Marika...

Bécassine, the cook for the Marquis of Grand-Air, is suspected of stealing jewelry. (Wikipedia)

Despite the German occupation of Paris, 17-year-old Antoine Michaud (Alain Delon) is having the time of his life. In this atmosphere of chaos and oppression, Michaud is in the midst of a torrid affair with Yvette Grandmaison (Françoise Arnoul), a woman old enough to be his mother. The teenager struggles to hide his true motivations from his father.

World War II, 10 May 1940: The forces of the German Wehrmacht start the Battle of France and invade the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg. Change of location to German-Swiss border area: Early in the morning the armed ticket inspector Emil Tschumi controls tracks next to the border. He surprises Werner Kramer, who is a German refugee. Kramer swims through the Rhine and arrives Switzerland. Tschumi is a good-natured, old man, who receives the repairman to his small house. There he offers to dry

Roger Laroque is now a rich man. He returns to France under the name of William Farnell. There, he discovers that on the one hand his wife has died of a broken heart and on the other that his daughter Suzanne is in love with Raymond de Noirville, the son of his former mistress. With the help of a few friends, Roger coldly prepares his revenge. (imdb)

Three old sisters get together on Epiphany day

A gang of poverty-ridden juvenile delinquents progress from petty theft to hard crime, but a kindly judge manages to set most of them on the right path after they are finally apprehended.

A colonel's wife betrays her husband for a lover and is in return betrayed by her husband's orderly.