Pierre Doris

A tale of innocence abroad, with racial overtones. Turner is a Black American, stationed at an air base in France. His captain thinks Turner's a good Negro, obedient, cheerful, and frightened, so he gives him a promotion and a three-day pass. On the first night, at a club, he meets Miriam, a White Parisian shop clerk... (imdb)

Mini-series adaptation of Thomas Mann's The Confessions of Felix Krull.

Made in 1971 for French TV, this epic film comes from early in the Pialat's belated feature-filmmaking career. It begins in costume drama and an ethnographic view of rural French life during World War One, and in an apparently sentimental tale of war orphans. But then it irises out from costume drama conventions into the transcendental, exploring Pialat*s spiritual themes, as well as the social dynamics, trauma and collective experiences of war. (KG)

During WW2, a posh bourgeois woman (Morgan) is compelled to live under the same room as a crude simple-minded yet big-hearted man (Bourvil). Her husband was arrested by the Gestapo and she is a hunted woman.

In this slapstick comedy of manners, Eugene (Bourvil) is a businessman who is framed by his crooked partner and thrown in prison. To save his business and escape a long jail term, he adopts three children he has never seen. Freed from prison, Eugene is trapped when the three moppets and their mothers all come to live with him. (Answers.com)

Misunderstood composer, Pierre Cousin, who in addition to the grief of love for his ex-girlfriend Wanda, wants to die. Five times, using different means, he attempts suicide. For nothing. He had the idea then to go to professional killers, who cons money will delete it. But in the meantime, he saves from drowning Carolina and enjoy life again, especially as his action earned him a flattering publicity. This is when shadow looming thugs, eager to honor their contract. (Wikipedia)

France and Germany are in war, Adolf Hitler defied the Allies to play the fate of the war during a football game. The French troops are training in the sport, but the commander was particularly upset by three incompetent rookies : Johnny, Harry and Toto. He decides to get rid of them by sending them on missions into German territory. The three players fall on an armored tank division, and they meet Adolf Hitler himself. The Führer takes them for sports professionals and hiring his own team. (Wikipedia)

Antoine Peyralout is baker Mouillefarine's tricycle delivery man. Comical and stuttering, Antoine shows more interest in the local soccer team than in professional integrity. A wedding cake pays the price for it and the young man is dismissed. Not dispirited in the least, Antoine decides to go to Nice, where his favorite team will play the final of the Cup. On his merry (and eventful) way, he has the opportunity to save a pretty camper, Popeline, with whom he falls in love. (imdb)

A French rugby supporter in England for a match at Twickenham is knocked out and loses two teeth. He goes to the dentist and during waiting he wears a uniform of another patient, a police officer. He saves by chance Diana Dors, a nextdoor movie star. He is congratulated by his chiefs who take him for true police officer. Many misunderstandings follow after. He becomes lost in London. Not speaking a word of English, he needs to return home to France urgently as he is due to be married.

Paul Martin and François Leroux are brothers-in-law, friends, room-mates and gagmen without fame. But one day, one of the most famous television comics, Gaëtan, who has just laid off two his gagmen considered too old and not original enough, finds himself in the little theater where Paul and François where they produce themselves under the name of "Gagsters". (Wikipedia)

Double-agent Brigitte Lahaie is the star attraction at a strip-joint/brothel called "Le Diable Rose" in Nazi occupied France which is frequented by both Nazis and Partisans alike. (imdb)

A couple of innkeepers trying to sell his property to the highest bidder. (Allocine)

Following a mock car confusion, Antoine Malibran is involved in the armed robbery of the bank of the Seine. Antoine was just waiting for his girlfriend Carole, cashier of the bank, but appearances are against him and he is put in prison before he even understood why.

Grégoire, an irrepressible tale-spouting French postman, is unable to convince his fellow villagers that he blew up a nearby bridge, thus slowing a German troop movement. Perhaps he actually did it. When a military "accident" leads the Germans into the village seeking the culprit and reprisals, the postman volunteers that he is the guilty party, but even now he is not believed -- even by the Germans. (Allmovie)

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)