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- In 1925 Paris, the Colonel kidnaps unhappy or abandoned boys, providing them and his wife with comfort and joy in his rich mansion. Then things become complicated when he adopts a girl.
- In 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.
- Married with two young children, Jean Girod, a "writer", partly escapes that family life when he secretly witnesses a young woman commit suicide. In that new other life, he rents a room through his abstract artist friend Tian, there where he takes refuge. Through delusion or psychopathy, Jean begins to pedal the notion that he killed the woman, taunting the police through open anonymous letters to the media stating that he knows who killed her. He seemingly is either trying to push the theory as far as he can without getting caught, or truly does want to be caught as the killer despite not having done it. In an encounter with Tian's friend Florinda, with who there is a seeming mutual attraction, Jean may divulge his true intent and from what mental illness he suffers.
- A young man from Orléans comes to Marseille hoping to find a job. Circumstances will drive him to become a robber.
- The woman thief evades a young lady who is onto his game, but then tries his wiles elsewhere on a married woman by attempting to compromise and ruin the husband she is happy with.
- A man buys the novel The Invisible Man by "G.H. Wells" at a bookshop, and in it finds the recipe for Wells' invisibility potion. Then the opportunity makes the thief.
- Following a mistake, a Frenchman selling ice cream in Barcelona, is taken for a burglar and chased by the police and various gangsters.
- The thief: a gangster on the lam, is waiting for a boat which is to sail away from this harbor,a dead end. The liar :a young woman he meets in a restaurant tells him the story of her life based on the screenplay of a movie she was to make. They fall head over heels in love. The convict who has just escaped from jail wants to keep her out of his predicament ,but after a night of desperate love, she refuses to leave him.And the police are tracking him down.
- A man seizes a bicycle and makes off, pursued by a nurse and baby carriage, bill poster and ladder, pastry cook with basket, automobile, man on horseback, man leading a donkey, horse and twenty others.
- A gentle, violent and surreal allegory on colonialism. It narrates the last day of Mr. Leo and his collection of butterflies from the Belgian Congo. Once a week, Mr. Leo visits the museum which for decades has exhibited his beloved butterflies. However, this last rendezvous will hurt him back into the Congo's violent past and within the deadly wings of his favorite butterfly: the Charaxes Imperialis.
- Little Esteban no longer dreams so he decides to steal the dreams of other children. On his roof he meets the Moon which accompanies him in the night to find them. A children's tale about the power of dreams.All that goes off Under the moon goes off.And then lights up.If you're sleeping at last.Esteban I come.
- An old vagrant accidentally meets a man who has just killed his wife. They are both housed with an old woman who lives in the nostalgia of a youthful love.
- An encounter on a rooftop between two policemen and a thief who specializes in lightning conductors.
- In 1937, in Marseille, Louis-César is an antique dealer who admires Louis XVI and, like him, knows how to pick a lock. At night, he claims to go to a club and becomes a burglar who, for the sake of honesty, only robs trifle things like a rubber, glasses, etc. His sole challenge is to manage to pick the locks and to leave a card with his nickname "Sesame". One night, his wife Élise, that he calls Marie Antoinette, goes to bed but his daughter Annie admits that she found out about his activities and he reluctantly accepts to bring her along in M. Vinières's apartment. He manages to open a safe with a tiara inside. Annie tries it on. As they hear a car coming, they escape. Only when they return home do they realize that Annie still has the tiara on her head. He hides the tiara in an armor in his shop and decides to stop breaking in houses after he has returned it to its rightful owner. Annie flirts with a shy young customer called Jean-Pierre. When Louis-César returns to M. Vinières's apartment, he finds that he changed the lock to a burglar-proof one and he has to give up. He talks about his shop in a seedy bar to attract professional burglars. Jean-Pierre asks Annie if he can talk to her. She agrees to meet him at midnight. It is Jean-Pierre that arrives, and Louis-César offers him to put back the tiara and Annie goes with him to make sure that he does replace it. When Jean-Pierre opens the door, Annie says that she will not let herself fall in love with a thief. The next day, Jean-Pierre meets Louis-César in the shop and the latter offers him the money he promised in exchange for the deed. Jean-Pierre demands Annie's hand in marriage. Louis-César will not have it until his friends show him a newspaper article that claims Sesame returned the tiara, with a picture of Jean-Pierre Vinières.
- After losing his job, a man is forced to go on welfare and move to a different neighborhood where rent is more affordable. While Filming this new reality, he unwittingly takes on it's characteristics, and the traits of his neighbors.
- Technicolor, painter of the world, travels across numerous countries to give color to life. On his way, he encounters the color thief but also the charming Fairy.
- A family trip to the zoo will face animal thieves.
- Jaded by a life of crime, Rick vows to go straight, but his boss has other plans for him.
- A fairground boss is ruined. He steals his aunt's jewelry, but being chased he gives the jewelry to a couple of dancers. They are mistaken for the Morton Sisters and perform in the Folies Parisiennes with the jewels, with enormous success.
- A woman steals to have enough money to please her husband. Her nephew, madly in love with her, reports this to a detective who catches her red handed.
- Max at an evening party takes a necklace from one of the guests and makes good his escape. The guests and the police set out in pursuit but Max employs some novel methods and among others mounts a boat on the water chute and finally makes good his escape in a balloon which soars far out of reach of his would-be captors. This film is just cram full of novel situations and laughable episodes.
- In Lisbon, there is a special brigade dedicated to camera thefts. Few cameras are found, though sometimes tapes are, thrown in the gutter like lost memories. Policemen watch these tapes, hoping to find clues in this flow of touristic and intimate images. One of the leads will guide them until France.
- Hector Dumontier has had enough of his wife Noémie : she is always immersed in those detective stories he disapproves of. To teach her a lesson, Dumontier decides to simulate the burglary of their house, with the help of an alleged jewel thief masked by a hood. He creates many false leads and everybody in the house gets suspected, from Ernestine, the maid, to Cabassol, the chauffeur, to Rosine, the Dumontiers'daughter. The disorder is complete and the various police detectives in charge do not help much...
- -Music video: Robin Le Voleur - "Mortel".
- 1967–19901h 32m7.0 (11)TV Episode