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- Richard from Épinay tells us the crazy and fabulous story of Eclair Studios. Devoured by the passion of cinema, he makes us discover with his acolytes his Hollywood-on-Seine, where Louis Jouvet or Jean Gabin are regularly invited.
- A persistent amateur composer tries to get a song recorded by a music publisher but the latter refuses in the first place. Only when his star singer Lily Fayol urges him to, and not before a lot of misunderstandings happen, does the publisher finally accept to record it, making it a hit.
- Today, the whole village is celebrating the hundredth birthday of their local centenarian. Everybody is happy but some of those supposed to honor him in public think they can afford to be ironic about him. They could not be more wrong, as the centenarian will prove to them. For the hundred-year old man is more sprightly and more quick-witted than that pack of young boors!
- Mélanie, a maid just arrived from her province, has the bad idea to entrust her savings to her employer, Bertrand de l'Espierre. Indeed the latter, a heavily indebted coffee merchant, shows no scruples in using Melanie's money to pay his wife Mona's bills. When Mélanie gets wind of it, she smashes everything up. Madame wants to fire her. Monsieur does not...
- Boule de Gomme is a child actor. On the set of the film he is shooting he gets on the nerves of the director and of the all crew by being off the beat when he is asked to cry or to laugh. Nobody manages to reason with him, with the exception of a grip who uses the rough way. A good beating and everything comes right in the end. The grip is promoted to the rank of production manager.
- The prison of a Southern town has a particularity: its prison holds... no inmate at all! It usually is a blessing but not today, as the director has just received a letter informing him of an inspection to come. At first, the poor warden does not know what to do but then he has an idea : to ask friends to pose as the prisoners...
- Segment 1: "Bip, piéton de Paris". Bip goes for a facetious walk through the streets of Paris. Segment 2: "In a Silent Way, exercices''. Marcel Marceau does mime exercises. Segment 3: "La cage". The mime finds himself imprisoned in an invisible cage. Segment 4: "Lignage et filiation" and 5: "...Cousinages et parentèles": Marcel Marceau pays tribute to his great predecessors. Segment 6: "La création du monde". The creation of the world evoked through the art of mime. Segment 7: "La bonne nouvelle". Jesus and His message evoked through the art of mime. Segment 8: "Les sept péchés capitaux". The seven deadly sins evoked through Marceau's drawings and his art of mime. Segment 9: "Bip et la marchand de masques". At the fun fair, Bip buys a grinning mask he cannot get rid of. Segment 10: "L'école du mime". A masterclass by Marcel Marceau,at his Théâtre de L'Ambigu mime school. Segment 11: ''Don Juan, mimodrame". Marcel Marceau plays Don Juan - without his usual painted face and clown outfit. Segment 12: "Bip For Ever". Bip's walk is over. He turns his back and moonwalks to where he belongs, poetry.
- A lawyer defends his client so brilliantly that this one is released at once. But if the attorney expected thanks, he can only be disappointed as his client not only does not show him his gratitude but he reprimands him bluntly as well. The thing would be surprising if one did not specify that the accused, in order to escape all the small domestic worries, WANTED to be sent to prison. As compensations, the client finally settles down at the lawyer's!...
- Allan visits the sinister Usher family mansion, where his friend Roderick is painting a portrait of his sickly wife Madeline. The portrait seems to be draining the life out of Madeline, slowly leading to her death.
- After a long mission at sea, two ensigns, Manuel d'Astures and viscount of Brazza nicknamed Boy, return to Spain. The latter is surprised to find his father with a woman he hates instantly. Soon afterward, he falls for a countess, whose lavish lifestyle ruins him. Unfortunately, the lender from whom he has just borrowed money is murdered and Boy is suspected...
- A few friends have a weekly fools' dinner, where each brings a fool along. Pierre finds a champion fool for next dinner. Surprise.
- A French crew is working on location in Spain. But when they want to film a scene in which Gérardn the male star is supposed to be swimming across a river, the matinée idol proves water-shy and the director decides to double him. The one that replaces him is Antonio, a local fisherman. The latter does the job so well that he is chosen as a stunts man for the whole film. This does not please Lola,his fiancée; all the more as Antonio has fallen in love with Martine, the female star...
- Gilberte is a sixteen year old girl raised by her aunt and grandmother to be a demimondaine. But she's not ready for that yet, and spends her days in lessons and in teasing Mamita's old friend, the rich playboy Gaston LaChaille, and following his affairs from afar. But when Gaston throws off his latest mistress, it looks as if Gigi just might be ready to begin her destined career.
- François Cardinaud is one of the richest shipowners in the region. But this success arouses resentment and jealousy. When Marthe, his wife, leaves the home without warning, Cardinaud sees her life cracking little by little.
- A man spreads the rumor of his fake homosexuality with the aid of his neighbor, to prevent his imminent firing at his work.
- A strict French headmaster sends his frivolous son to England to learn English. But the student has a better idea of how to spend his summer holidays.
- Paris, 1937. Winckler kills his enemy Gordon, a Chicago mobster, from the stage of a Parisian music hall, where he performs telepathy. He pays another artist, Helene, so that she tells the police they've spent the night together, which doesn't fool Callas, the police officer who investigates the murder. He hires one of his fellow officers in order to seduce Helene.
- A bookseller saves a tramp from drowning and shelters him, but the tramp's odd behavior starts to wear everyone down.
- The owner of an apartment building is found murdered. Two rival policemen, Boucheron and Lambert, investigate the matter and get into the private lives of the tenants: an unfaithful judge, a crippled blind man and his daughter, an eccentric knife thrower, a shoplifter (and proud of it!), a bourgeois lady who has a bone to pick with a gigolo, a mistress who cheats on her lover, not forgetting the caretaker and a soldier in love...
- When Nadia, his unfaithful mistress, breaks up with him, Patrick Lambert decides to kill himself. But before he reaches the point of no return he is stopped in the act by Camille, a burglar who has just broken into his house. Thanks to him and also to Rosita, Camille's girlfriend who falls for him, Patrick forgets his gloomy thoughts. It is the beginning of a series of crazy misunderstandings and adventures.
- A society lady engineers a marriage between her lover and a cabaret dancer who is essentially a prostitute.
- Olivier, a handsome but callow and moody young student, picks up an enthusiastic actress during a theatre rehearsal, and is introduced to her acquaintances -- a group of jaded rich kids who spend their time storming around the Riviera harassing passersby, throwing wild parties and following all the latest trends. When sexy Elke gives him the eye, he leaves the actress in the lurch and joins the gang for a decadent party aboard a yacht. However, Elke's wanton ways and Olivier's inexperience do not mesh. Charlie accidentally sets the yacht afire. The gang wreaks its vengeance by luring him into a dangerous contest of bravura on a construction site.
- A police inspector, suspecting an attorney of two child sex murders, has him held for a questioning session that goes on for hours.
- While Henri was a POW during the war, his wife passed away and he returned to face the challenges of bringing up three children alone. Henri may get drunk and angry at times but he also has a better side that will not stay buried.
- A charming gold smuggler tries to recruit equally charming air hostesses to transport gold bars to Bombay.
- On his way to Paris, Casanova keeps on collecting female conquests, does not shy away from duels and gets into many a colorful adventure. Once in the capital, the fearless knight saves the honor of a great lady, conquers the niece of his implacable enemy but courts disaster for love of Coraline, a faithless opera dancer.
- A retired CIA agent travels across Europe and relies on his old skills to save his estranged daughter, who has been kidnapped while on a trip to Paris.
- In German-occupied France, a Jewish child is sent away from his family and conceals his religious affiliation from the anti-Semitic elderly man that takes care of him.
- When he receives a call from Bornsville sheriff, telling him Pamela Rose' coffin has been stolen, agent Douglas Riper sees a good occasion to meet again with his former partner Richard Bullit, that he hasn't seen for a long time. Both of them used to be stars of the FBI but are now completely out of the game, and this inquiry is in fact a trap set up by a guy who hates them big time. But none of them suspects that soon they are going to be the only ones to know that the President of the United States is on the verge of being murdered. Nothing less....
- Having escaped from prison, Ristack contacts his partner to organize an attack on a van full of gold.
- On the morning of January 30, 1889, the Archduke Rodolphe de Habsbourg and his mistress Marie Vetsera were found dead. The remains of Rodolphe are discreetly repatriated to Hofburg, while that of Mary is hastily thrown into the depths of a tomb.
- A young Alpine guide does feats of daring but is an outcast to villagers due to his illegitimate birth and is accused of killing a federal judge. Will his love for a local maiden, and the chance of an inheritance, lure him from hiding?
- Famous author Bretonneau gets his ghost writer Moluchet to impersonate the notorious criminal Jim la Houlette and pretend to steal a manuscript to boost the sales of their novels.
- A beautiful woman helps an inept scam artist get his game together.
- A worn-out businessman and a beautician on the run collide in a Paris airport. Love arrives, all its hurdles be damned.
- A prisoner escapes and kidnaps a woman with her he falls in love. He's involved in a bad business where politicians and underworld are leading the dance. He'll die like the albatross in Baudelaire's poem.
- Jean Nevers is a solitary middle-aged bachelor whose apartment is next to that of Cora Elbaz, an erotic dancer who lives alone with her five year old son Antoine.
- After a spending the night with his girlfriend, trucker Jean encounters a dead body on the road home. He reports the incident to the police who suspect that Jean was responsible for the death.
- Antoine, said the Baron, hero of the First World War and penniless, lives in Deauville playing casino. He starts to win some nice money and a yacht as payment. The Baron goes to Monte Carlo. But his luck is likely to turn quickly .
- Martine and Jacques knew their friend before he became an important television personality, but have not seen him for over ten years. They are hospitable people - witness the fact that they have been putting up with having writer Georges be their informal roommate, as he sleeps on their living-room sofa off and on over the years whenever he is between jobs. They have invited their friend and his wife Charlotte over for dinner, and are on pins and needles, as they want everything to go just right. Instead, George allows his bitterness that Charlotte, his ex-girlfriend, married a success to overwhelm him, and Martine and Jacques are apalled when their brother, who hasn't a penny and is deeply in debt, persuades their guest of honor to join him in a high-stakes poker game.
- A charismatic thief makes friends with a bankrupt baron who comes to live in the thief's slum. Meanwhile the thief seeks the love of a young woman, who is held emotionally captive by her slumlord family.
- Seven pals decide to take a few days'holidays to free up the time necessary to pull three enormous pranks. Their aim is to ridicule three established bodies: the army, the church and the administration. Quite arbitrarily, they set their hearts on two peaceful sub-prefectures, Ambert and Issoire. Broudier, disguised as a government minister, turns up at the barracks, demands and obtains the organization of night maneuvers. The following day, Bénin, dressed up as a reverend, preaches in the cathedral of Issoire a sermon against the precepts of the Church. As for Lesueur, he disturbs the inauguration of the statue of Vercingétorix by an MP. But the holidays are over. The seven of them can'r part without a last joke...
- Janvier, an embittered teacher, is fed up with his colorless, monotonous life. One day he breaks away and ends up becoming a circus clown. In his new world, he meets a beautiful acrobat nicknamed Lili and grows fonder and fonder of her every day of his life. The trouble is that the lady bestows her favors to two different lovers : wealthy married man Chardeuil and good-looking but listless young Antonio. He now considers his duty to make Lili recover her dignity...