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- A small-time crook, hunted by the authorities for a car theft and the murder of a police officer, attempts to persuade a hip American journalism student to run away with him to Italy.
- A young boy, left without attention, delves into a life of petty crime.
- The farcical adventures of an unhappy, sometimes suicidal, billionaire Arthur Lempereur in Hong Kong and the Himalayas.
- During World War I, a British private, sent ahead to a French town to scout for enemy presence, is mistaken for a King by the colorful patients of an insane asylum.
- Writing his 43rd spy novel, François includes people from his life. He's the competent, sophisticated secret agent Bob in stark contrast to François. His cute neighbor is Tatiana who helps Bob in Acapulco.
- A young private on military leave comes to the rescue of his girlfriend who's been abducted by thieves and brought to Rio de Janeiro. An extravagant adventure ensues.
- Zany subversion of the 1001 Nights myth that skips all of the stories and simply focuses on the lovely Scheherazade's escape from the lustful king with the help of a magic lamp and a time traveling astrologist.
- The Comte de Gonzague schemes against his cousin, the Duc de Nevers, even though he is the Duke's heir and will inherit his estates. The Count has kept secret the existence of the Duke's bastard, recently born. When the Duke learns of his child, he journeys to wed the mother, a baron's daughter, in her father's isolated chateau. The occupants of the castle are surprised and murdered by the Count and his men. The only ones to escape are the Duke's friend, the skilled swordsman Lagardère, and the infant, a girl, now the rightful heiress to the Duke's vast fortune. The Count believes the pair to have drowned, when in fact they have been concealed by a travelling troupe of Italian players. Twenty years pass. The Count has discovered that the two survive and seeks to have them slain. But Lagardère gains the confidence of the Count, and employment as his bookkeeper, through his clever disguise as a hunch-back...
- In 1793 when terror is widespread in France, peasants known as Chouans fight the revolutionaries in attempt to restore the monarchy.
- After long absence, a man returns to his hometown only to find his best friend has become an alcoholic.
- Seven directors each dramatize one of the seven deadly sins in a short film. In "Anger," a domestic argument over a fly in the Sunday soup escalates into nuclear war. In "Sloth," a movie star would rather pay someone to tie his shoe than bend over to do it himself, and he can't be bothered to accept a starlet's sexual favors. In "Gluttony," a peasant family on its way to the funeral of a relative who died from indigestion stops regularly to eat and drink en route, arriving in time to eat some more. In "Greed," a high-class prostitute refunds the price of a cadet's lottery ticket. In "Pride," an unfaithful wife finds reason to reform. And so on through lust and envy.
- A pair of cousins share a flat, but animosity begins to build between the two when a woman gets involved.
- A collection of sketches that tells the story of prostitution through the ages.
- Victor Vautier is incorrigible: he's in constant motion, working several cons at once, using different names and changing disguises. He's charming and outrageous, incapable of uttering a sentence that isn't embellished or an outright lie. His life goal is to make enough money to build a sea wall to protect Mont-Saint-Michel. Charlotte, a parole officer, shows up: she's young and seems taken in by Victor. He discovers she lives above the Senlus Museum, where her parents are the curators. With two pals he decides to steal a priceless El Greco triptych and then ransom it back to the cultural ministry. What will Charlotte do when she realizes he's used her to make a fortune?
- A Marquise who lures motorists to her hotel by sabotaging their cars gets more than she bargains for when one guest turns out to be a bank robber on the run.
- A wealthy wine grower has trouble with his wife, his children, his best friend, and his mistress across the way, who is murdered.
- A stuffy bank clerk has his humdrum existence turned upside-down when a free-spirited, larcenous gipsy girl falls in love with him.
- Virginia Tregan returns to her home in the U. S. Deep South from a sojourn in Paris only to discover that her family plantation and its holdings have been lost. She determines to recoup her family's fortune.
- Parisian detective Lise meets her childhood sweetheart Antoine by chance. Extremely happy about the reunion, the two arrange to meet. But Lise's duties as an inspector thwart their plans.
- During Madeleine's fashion show, Claire meets Antoine and becomes his mistress. Since she's married to George, a wealthy man with a modest job, she only spends a few days a week with Antoine, who is also rich, often taken to meeting by his chauffeur Marius--and also the lover of Madeleine, Claire's best friend. Everything works perfectly until Madeleine discovers the truth. She prepares her vengeance and organizes a celebration which she invites Antoine, Claire, and George.
- Antoine, a professor of Greek, and Lise, a police inspector, honeymoon in Greece. There they meet a young couple, Charles, an archaeologist, and Agnes, a dishy flirt. Charles unearths the lovely buttocks of a classical statue and is determined to donate it to the Louvre. Agnes wants to sell it and gets a handsome local sailor to take it for an appraisal. When the sailor is murdered, the police suspect Charles and arrest Antoine as his accomplice. Lise swings into action, but before she can clear the men, Agnes springs them from jail, and now Lise must help them elude the police, find the real murderer, and recover the statue fragment. More art goes missing. What is the statue's secret?
- Champs-Élysées is a French television variety program presented by Michel Drucker and broadcast live from January 16, 1982 to June 1985 and from January 1986 until June 29, 1990 every Saturday evening on Antenne 2 and irregularly on France 2 from November 13, 2010 to May 11, 2013. The show owes its name to the fact that it is performed live from the Pavillon Gabriel, located on avenue Gabriel, along the avenue des Champs-Élysées in Paris. The theme song for the show's credits was composed by Jean-Pierre Bourtayre and Jean-Claude Petit. The credits choreography was composed by Redha.
- On an observatory set high on a mountain, astronomers make a stunning discovery somewhere out in the galaxy. A flying object in the depths of the cosmos is showing signs of life, emitting an intelligent signal. The UFO has just landed on Earth somewhere in the midst of a rainforest. Margot, the enthusiastic young woman heading up the research team, decides to go to the spot and check out this phenomenon. Meanwhile Edouard, our hero, studies the flora and fauna of the tree tops in the rainforest. He perches on an enormous net that stretches over the still pure, unadulterated forest that spreads out beneath him. He discovers a naked little twelve-year old girl seated on the net. He covers her with a broad banana leaf and asks where she comes from. She quickly replies, in perfect French 'from another world'.
- A travel agent travels to Africa intending to start a resort hotel only to encounter her crusty ex-husband and ivory smugglers.
- A ten episode Tv series on cinephilia, in which contributors to both American and French films are interviewed.