Trapeze
A pair of men try to perform the dangerous "triple" in their trapeze act. Problems arise when the duo is made into a trio following the addition of a sexy female performer.
Les Misérables
In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.
Man About Town
Emile is a French film producer at the beginning of the century. One of his friends leaves his daughter Lucette in his house, when he is starting a tour through France. Emile falls in love with her. Problems starts when his younger friend Jacques come back from military service and after complaining his misfortune with women, follows Emile's advice in starting affairs with women and he meets Lucette.
Le jardinier d'Argenteuil
Tulipe, is an old man who lives alone in an old railway carriage in the Argentueil region of Paris. His main passions are gardening and oil painting, but he also has a secret source of income. His godson discovers that Tulipe is actually a master forger, producing perfect copies of 10 franc notes. His godson’s girlfriend sees this as an opportunity to get very rich – but she must persuade Tulipe to forge 500 franc notes. Assuming Tulipe’s agreement, his godson and his girlfriend buy an expensive new car and luxury villa in provincial France – but there is a cruel turn of fate in store for them when Tulipe strikes up a friendship with a millionaire playboy.
Justice Is Done
Elsa Lundenstein is accused of having murdered her lover. The jury discusses the case vividly. All members are somehow prejudiced because of personal life experience and subsequently each member reads something different into the presented facts.
Beauties of the Night
A daydreaming French composer sees himself as a fine figure dashing through history.
Wicked Duchess
Edwige Feuillère and Pierre Richard-Willm star in director Jacques de Baroncelli's adaptation of the Balzac novella The Duchesse de Langeais, which tells the tale of a Parisian socialite who is romantically pursued by a Napoleonic war hero. With a screenplay by Jean Giraudoux.
Lovers of Paris
Young, handsome, dashing but cynical, Octave Mouret arrives in Paris, determined to conquer the belles of the capital.
...And God Created Woman
Juliette Hardy is sexual dynamite, and has the men of a French coastal town panting. But Antoine, the only man who affects her likewise, wouldn't dream of settling down with a woman his friends consider the town tramp.
The Grand Maneuver
Armand, a boastful womaniser, makes a bet that he can seduce any girl he wants. He soon crosses paths with a beautiful Parisian divorcee, who is nothing like anyone he has ever met before.
The Long Absence
Therese, a café owner, mourns the mysterious disappearance of her husband sixteen years earlier. A tramp arrives in the town and she believes him to be her husband. But he is suffering from amnesia and she tries to bring back his memory of earlier times.
Ni vu, ni connu
In a small French village, everything would be quiet if the local wildlife cop was not being ridiculed by a smart poacher.
Strangers in the House
Loursat, a lawyer, lives with his daughter Nicole in a sinister and vast bourgeois residence. Abandoned for nearly twenty years by his wife, the brilliant lawyer has sunk into alcoholism and his relationship with his daughter is virtually non-existent. However, one day the corpse of a stranger is discovered in the residence of Loursat. Nicole, who frequents a gang of young people who escape boredom by stealing cars and other objects, is immediately suspected.
The Gentleman from Epsom
The story takes place in the racecourses around Paris. A so-called major sells his tips to naive characters.
Les amants de Bras-Mort
Jean Michaut is a bargeman who lives nearby an old barge cemetery named "Bras-Mort". He is in love with Monique, the daughter of a wealthy boat owner. The girl returns his affection but runs her head against the wall of her family's class prejudices. Her "nearest and dearest" prove indeed prepared to do everything to separate the two lovers. But Monique will not buy in. On the contrary, she leaves her intolerant family to live with Jean among simple, more tolerant bargemen.
Les vieux de la vieille
Three friends leave their village for a retirement home travelling the countryside
Monsieur Vincent
The life of Vincent de Paul, the 17th-century author and priest who founded two religious orders.
The Counterfeiters of Paris
"Le Dabe" retired many years ago and now he lives in the Tropics where he owns stables and horses. He is a very rich man. He was the king of all money counterfeiters. He is contacted from Paris to organize a new job. He says no. But when he finds out the the currency that should be counterfeited is the Dutch florin, he accepts immediately. He retired after having counterfeited 100 florin notes just before the Queen Wilhelmina retired them from circulation. He flies to Paris. But the gang is not to be trusted, at least not all of them.
What's Cooking in Paris
A great French restaurant's owner, Monsieur Septime, is thrust into intrigue and crime, when one of his famous guests disappears.
King of Hearts
An ornithologist mistaken for an explosives expert is sent alone into a small French town during WWI to investigate a garbled report from the resistance about a bomb which the departing Germans have set to blow up a weapons cache.
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Carol Reed
Director
Paul Faivre
as
Bartender
Thomas Gomez
as
Bouglione
Burt Lancaster
as
Mike Ribble
Katy Jurado
as
Rosa O'Flynn
Bernard Blier
as
Javert
Jacques Marin
as
Le secrétaire de Monsieur Madelaine
Wolfgang Lippert
as
Un révolutionnaire
Maurice Chevalier
as
Emile Clément
Dany Robin
as
Lucette
Martine Carol
as
Edmée 1900 / Edmée de Villebois
Paolo Stoppa
as
Le directeur de l'Opéra
Anouk Aimée
as
Marie Pichon
Roger Vadim
Director
Carlos Valdes
as
Petit rôle
Michel Piccoli
as
Un officier
Jean Desailly
as
Victor Duverger
Georges Wilson
as
Le clochard
Alida Valli
as
Thérèse Langlois
Louis de Funès
as
Blaireau
Moustache
as
Parju
André Reybaz
as
Émile Manu
Charles Millot
as
Le directeur de la boîte de nuit
Yane Barry
as
Mariette
Nicole Desailly
as
Une villageoise
Jean Carmet
as
L'abbé Pontail
France Rumilly
as
La baronne
Alan Bates
as
Le soldat Charles Plumpick alias le roi de coeur
Jacques Balutin
as
Mac Fish
Micheline Presle
as
Madame Eva alias Madame Eglantine
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