Pierre Vernier

Marie, a professor of English literature in a Paris university, has been happily married to Jean for 25 years, although they have no children. During their summer vacations in the southwest of France, Jean leaves Marie sunbathing on the beach and goes to swim in the sea. When Marie turns back, she cannot find Jean. Has he left her? commited suicide? drowned? With no clue and no body to mourn over, Marie acts as her husband was still alive. (imdb)

A magistrate investigates a corporate executive. (imdb)

In another typical Jean-Paul Belmondo vehicle, the French action hero plays a policeman prone to advancing the cause of justice by any means necessary. On his agenda is a powerful drug cartel working out of Paris and Marseilles, with a drug lord (Henry Silva) who is essentially inaccessible -- but not immortal... (Answers.com)

French new wave director Claude Chabrol presents a complex narrative based on a novel by Georges Simenon in which two women form a dependent bond on a rainy night. Rescuing the broken-down Betty (Marie Trintignant) from an evening with a seedy suitor, the glamorous Laure (Stephane Audran) brings her back to her Parisian hotel, where the bedraggled woman recounts a sordid past through flashbacks filled with abandonment, alcohol and angst. (Netflix)

A jaundiced police commissioner, Stan Jalard, is planning to start a new life, running a hotel in the Antilles with best friend. When his friend is shot dead almost under his nose, Stan abandons his dream and resumes his police duties, with the sole objective of tracking down his friend's killer, the ruthless crook Schneider (filmesdefrance.com)

Sam Lion (Jean-Paul Belmondo) stars as a powerful international businessman who, in his youth, had been a carnival performer. Once more bitten by wanderlust, Sam Lion tries to escape his responsibilities by staging his own death. Hiding out in Tanzania, Lion meets Abert Duvivier (Richard Anconina), one of his own employees. (answers.com)

In 1917, the First World War is raging. Julien is from Luxemburg, so instead of having to go to war he studies piano in Paris. One day his friend Jacques, also a musician and now a fighter pilot on the front, invites him to spend a few days in his family's empty house in Bray. The housekeeper, a beautiful but mute woman lets Julien in, but his friend is late and he is obliged to wait. In the meantime, he starts reminiscing of the pre-war days spent with his friend and Jacques' girlfriend Odile.

Martin (Jean Gabin) is a venerable gardener who passes counterfeit currency to make ends meet in this situation comedy. When a tax bill puts him further in debt, his nephew convinces him to pass bigger bills to pay off the taxes and live the good life. Soon the nephew and his girlfriend buy a villa on the Riviera and some fancy cars. Martin wants out of the deal but agrees to pull off one more caper before retiring. (Allmovie)

Yan is a successful artist. One day he is waiting for his date Florence to turn up at his apartment. As the doorbell rings, he finds another young woman in underwear on his doorstep: his neighbor Eva! She tells him she locked herself out of her apartment and insists that he helps her... (imdb)

Louis Bourdin, a humble subway puncher at the RATP, boastful but fearful, works at the station Quai de la Rapée. He is so fanatical of detective novels that he writes one himself.

François Perrin is a journalist who reads the news on RTL radio. Alone in life, his only "amusement" is his neighbour from Africa, who makes mildly fun of him from time to time. One evening, François is bored, and decides to call a random telephone number. He gets Christine on the line, a bit of an old school pharmacist, who hesitates to put down the phone, and plays the game of seduction with the charming "Mr X". (imdb)

Since the suicide of his wife, Jacques Loursat has gone downhill. Estranged from his daughter, his lawyer's pratice in ruins, he consoles himself with drink. One night he is woken by a gunshot and catches sight of a young man fleeing the house. Isabelle, his daughter, claims to know nothing about it, even when he finds the body of a young man. (imdb)

Jacques-Alain Marty, known as "Jam", is the owner of Vladis Entreprises, a large French group. Everything succeeds, but for a few weeks, Jam is no longer in its normal state. He is subject to crises of anguish, linked to a childhood trauma, to which he must find the antidote.

A company president gets framed with a food-poisoning scandal and the only person who can help him is the evening cleaning-woman, who always seems to be at the right place at the right time. (imdb)

Civil servant Adrien Courtois comes to Paris in order to make his money bear fruits. (imdb)

Aleksandra and Cyrille are the trendiest of Parisian couples. Succesful and up to date, they decide to adopt a 7 year old as the latest added accessory to their chic life. What they don't expect is the newest addition to their trendy collection to have a mind of his own, and more importantly a hectic effect on their perfect lives. (imdb)

Captain Michael Strogoff is chosen in Moscow to be the courier of the Tsar, 5,523 km far to Irkutsk, to warn the governor about the traitor Ivan Ogareff, a former colonel, who was once demoted and exiled and now seeks revenge. (imdb)