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- DirectorPierre PrévertStarsJulien CaretteAnthony GildèsEtienne DecrouxBenjamin Déboisé, a hatter, his salesman and a young man want to kidnap an American millionaire, put him in a bag and hold him to ransom. But they make a mistake: the fellow they find in the bag is not the millionaire himself, but his son...!
- DirectorLaurent HeynemannStarsJeanne MoreauMichel SerraultLuc ThuillierLady M. wades every morning through the sea in order to heal her pain. But she is not what she pretends to be: Together with her partner Pompilius she finances her luxurious life by fraud and blackmailing. Falling in love with young Lambert she is about to break up all her pretendence as Pompilius is not willing to accept the youngster.
- DirectorGeorges LautnerStarsPaul MeurisseElga AndersenBernard BlierThe Marquis de Villemaur reunite stranges visitors in his Castle, to meet a survivor of the 3rd Reich. There is an Italian fascist ; Heinrich, a German ; Matthias, a russian ; and Dromard, a blind French war hero, with a black monocle.
- DirectorMarcel OphülsStarsJeanne MoreauJean-Paul BelmondoClaude BrasseurCathy wants to avenge her father by stealing Bontemps and Lachards, two corrupt associates who have destroyed the fortune of her father.For this she will work with three specialists,"Charlie Beau Sourire", Reynaldo and her ex-husband Michel.The first part of her plan works very well, Bontemps has gone to the bankruptcy.Now as she feels well with Michel, her ex-husband she is not interested in sharing more money with Charlie Beau Sourire and Reynaldo and she is looking for a move to distract these two specialists.
- DirectorGérard OuryStarsJean-Paul BelmondoBourvilDavid NivenWhen NATO transfers some of its funds from Paris to Brussels by train, a criminal mastermind posing as a British colonel plans to steal it but two petty French thieves also have the same intent.
- DirectorBertrand BlierStarsGérard DepardieuBernard BlierJean CarmetAlphonse lives in an empty building. Empty but for one neighbour, the police captain Morvandieu. When the man who have killed Alphonse's wife appears, the three men will be thrown in a serie of event in a surrealist world.
- DirectorAndré HunebelleStarsJean MaraisLouis de FunèsMylène DemongeotThe best men of France - a brave journalist and an extremely energetic commissioner - attack the trail of a mysterious criminal mastermind.
- DirectorAndré HunebelleHaroun TazieffStarsJean MaraisLouis de FunèsMylène DemongeotWhen Professor Marchand, a famous scientist, mysteriously disappears, the commissioner, Juve, immediately suspects Fantomas.
- DirectorAndré HunebelleStarsJean MaraisLouis de FunèsMylène DemongeotFamous but unlucky pursuers of Fantomas from France go to weird Scotland for a final attempt to bring the impudent criminal to justice.
- DirectorFrancis VeberStarsPierre RichardGérard DepardieuAnny DupereyA woman, whose troubled son has left home, informs two different men from her past that each of them is a real father. Too different men.
- DirectorQuentin DupieuxStarsJean DujardinAdèle HaenelAlbert DelpyA man's obsession with his designer deerskin jacket causes him to blow his life savings and turn to crime.
- DirectorJean-Paul Le ChanoisStarsJean GabinLiselotte PulverPierre VernierUnder his daring look of flower lover and naive painter, Father Tulipe is a counterfeiter who only makes small cuts to improve his ordinary.
- DirectorGeorges LautnerStarsJean-Paul BelmondoGeorges GéretCarla RomanelliAlexandre Dupré is a con artist, accidentally involved in a hunt for microfilm, containing a valuable invention of a recently murdered French scientist.
- DirectorBertrand BlierStarsBernard BlierBruno CremerPatricia ScottA medical doctor gets into trouble when one of his patients turns out to be hunted by the mafia.
- DirectorYves AllégretStarsHorst BuchholzSylva KoscinaMichel de RéA hustler of humble origins steals $200,000 from a gangster and heads to Monte Carlo.
- DirectorGérard OuryStarsLouis de FunèsMiou-MiouSuzy DelairA bigoted Frenchman finds himself forced to impersonate a popular rabbi while on the run from a group of assassins - and the police.
- DirectorJérôme EnricoStarsBernadette LafontCarmen MauraDominique LavanantPaulette lives alone in a housing project in the Paris suburbs. With her meager pension, she can no longer make ends meet.
- DirectorClaude ChabrolJean-Luc GodardUgo GregorettiStarsMie HamaKen MitsudaYatsuko Tan'amiFour swindle stories, taking place successively in Tokyo - Japan (Les cinq bienfaiteurs de Fumiko), Amsterdam - The Netherlands (La riviere de diamants), Italie (La feuille de route), and Paris - France (L'homme qui vendit la tour Eiffel).
- DirectorNanni LoyStarsVittorio GassmanRenato SalvatoriClaudia CardinaleThe usual gang of robbers in engaged by a thief from Milan to steal a suitcase full of money, but troubles will menace the success of the operation.
- DirectorJacques RouffioStarsJean CarmetGérard DepardieuMichel PiccoliCivil servant Adrien Courtois comes to Paris in order to make his money bear fruits.
- DirectorLouis MalleStarsJean-Paul BelmondoGeneviève BujoldMarie DuboisIn Paris around 1900, Georges Randal is brought up by his wealthy uncle, who steals his inheritance. Georges hopes to marry his cousin Charlotte, but his uncle arranges for her to marry a rich neighbour. As an act of revenge, Georges steals the fiance's family jewels, and enjoys the experience so much that he embarks upon a life-time of burglary.
- DirectorMaurice RonetStarsMaurice RonetAnna KarinaJosé NietoFollowing a mistake, a Frenchman selling ice cream in Barcelona, is taken for a burglar and chased by the police and various gangsters.
- DirectorRomuald BeugnonStarsJean-Pierre CasselPhilippe NahonJean-Claude BrialyA former policeman resentfully enters a retirement home. To deceive his boredom, he will investigate the murder of another resident.
- DirectorJean-Pierre MockyStarsFernandelHeinz RühmannJean PoiretPétepan learns that his money has been lost by Robinhoude brothers.He asks his assistants to withdraw his amount from the bank.
- DirectorGeorges LautnerStarsMichel SerraultMaurice BiraudLouis de FunèsJockey Jack has a bill open with a gangster just released from jail. He somehow manages to parry the gangster's knife attack backstage at a theatre and the latter ends up dead being put into a double bass case. A day later the gangster mysteriously has disappeared, but it turns out that he was carrying a bet ticket for a horse race now worth over a million. A turbulent run for the money begins.
- DirectorJohn BerryStarsEddie ConstantineJohnny HallydayMichel SerraultA gang of young "black jackets", led by Frankie, opens a nightclub just above the hideout of a gangster named Morelli who is plotting the heist of the century: the theft of a priceless tiara.
- DirectorClaude ChabrolStarsJean-Paul BelmondoMia FarrowLaura AntonelliDoctor Popaul doesn't trust beautiful women: he says he prefers "moral beauty". Among colleagues he makes a bet who manages to sleep with the most ugly woman during the next year - and wins. Shortly after he meets the plain Christine on vacation in Tunesia. She leaves him after their first night, but by chance they meet again in Bordeaux. He learns that her father is a wealthy doctor who's very pleased to meet him and encourages him to become his son in law. Just on the wedding Popaul meets Christine's beautiful sister, who has the bad fortune to always marry the dumbest guy around. But Popaul knows how to help her out...
- DirectorMichel DevilleStarsEddie ConstantinePierre BrasseurGeorges WilsonJo the gangster has the formidable gift of bringing down the worst kind of catastrophes on the heads of his best friends. Thus everything would be perfect if Simon hadn't lent his car to Jo.
- DirectorJean-Paul SaloméStarsCatherine JacobClémentine CélariéAlexandra KazanIn Montelimar, four young women whom life has not spared want to emerge from mediocrity. They decide to rob a bank, but everything is not so simple and the perfectly developed heist could turn into disaster.
- DirectorClaude ChabrolStarsIsabelle HuppertMichel SerraultFrançois CluzetBetty and Victor are a pair of scam artists. One day Betty brings in Maurice, a treasurer of a multinational company. Maurice is due to transfer 5 millions francs out of Switzerland, and Betty is convinced he plans to steal that money.
- DirectorGiovanni VeronesiStarsAsia ArgentoMassimo CeccheriniValerio MastandreaThree friends leave for a trip by camper, but their vacation is turned upside down by Viola, a girl who has just come from a robbery in a jewelry store.
- DirectorJan BucquoyStarsJean-Henri CompèreFanny HanciauxLolo FerrariOn a Belgian beach at Camping Cosmos. The delegate send by the Ministry is confronted with sex and murder. The residents enjoy their holidays in a peculiar way...
- DirectorNadine MonfilsStarsMichel BlancDidier BourdonDominique LavanantIn Brussels, the corpses of young women were discovered buried behind the graves of collectors of paintings. Each of them lacks the right forearm.
- DirectorGérard KrawczykStarsChristian ClavierJosiane BalaskoGérard JugnotIn the 19th century Pyrénées, a stagecoach stops for the night at an isolated inn run by a couple of murderous thieves. The husband wants to kill and rob them all, but one of them is a priest whom the wife refuses to see harmed.
- DirectorJean-Paul SaloméStarsFrançois DamiensGéraldine NakacheLucien Jean-BaptisteA has-been actor takes a job playing the victims in a homicide reenactment, where he sparks with the civil officer investigating the real-life crime.
- DirectorPhilippe LacheauStarsPhilippe LacheauÉlodie FontanTarek BoudaliNicky Larson, the best private investigator in the business, is called for a high-risk mission: to recover the perfume of Cupid, a perfume that would make irresistible the one who uses it.
- DirectorGérald Hustache-MathieuStarsJean-Paul RouveSophie QuintonGuillaume GouixA bestselling crime novelist who is desperately looking for a new story hones his focus on the apparent suicide of a small-town woman, an aspiring model who thought she was the reincarnation of Marilyn Monroe.