Ali Baba, a clever woodcutter, discovers a secret cave filled with treasure belonging to a band of thieves. With the help of his loyal slave, Morgiana, Ali Baba must outwit the treacherous thieves while navigating a harem, a palace, and the bustling markets of Morocco.
Manon tells the story of a young woman who gets caught up in the French Resistance during World War II and goes on a journey that involves illegal immigration, Nazi collaborationism, and hiding a Jew. Along the way, she forms a forbidden relationship with a Jewish refugee and faces numerous challenges and dangers.
Manon seeks revenge against her neighbors for their role in her father's death, but her plans are complicated by unrequited love and a water shortage. This French drama explores themes of love, loss, and the power of community.
The Dominici Affair is a murder mystery set in post-World War II France. A family is brutally murdered on their farm in the south of France, and suspicion falls on Gaston Dominici, a goat herder. As the investigation unfolds, false accusations, murder confessions, and witness testimonies complicate the case. The film explores social commentary, father-son conflicts, and the pursuit of justice in a small country community. With an unsolved mystery and a death penalty on the line, the police detective, judge, and journalist work to uncover the truth and bring closure to the murder of a family.
This is rural France. It's the summer of 1943, the weather is fine and sunny and life is sweet. On one of these beautiful days, Nanette, a fourteen-year-old peasant girl, meets a slightly injured young man near the farm she lives on. Her life is about to change forever.
A small village is torn apart by a quarrel between the baker and the italian grocery tenant, mother of a pregnant young girl. She accuses the baker's son, doing his military service in Algeria, to be the father of the would be child. Offended, the baker refuses to deliver bread to the villagers standing on the mother's side.
Two unemployed musicians dress up as women to be hired by an all -female orchestra "Tulips from Holland"; they fall in love with two gorgeous musicians.
In a seaside villa, under the care of a nanny, a group of children spend most of their days watching violent television shows.
Lovers of Paris is a movie set in the late 19th century in Paris. It revolves around a male-female relationship in the bourgeois society and explores themes of love, desire, and societal expectations. The story follows the lives of the characters as they navigate the complexities of relationships and social norms in a changing era.
A wealthy businessman joins his servant, who has won a winter getaway, on the trip, but at the hotel where they stay the servant is mistaken for the master.
Jealous of his widowed mother's new lover, a boy does everything to separate them. Then, after he realizes their profound feelings for each other, he tries to reunite them.
Stuck in a loveless marriage, bourgeois industrialist Francois falls in love with Janine, another man's wife. Francois sets up Janine as his mistress, and she, mercenary soul that she is, likes the set-up so much that she continues the relationship even when her own husband returns from WW II. In the long run, however, Janine is the loser in the situation.
"Easiest Profession" - Tistin is the only unemployed man in Clochemerle. Obliged to use their tax money to keep Tistin alive, the other guys in town insist that he find some sort of work. Tistin obligingly takes a few jobs, working for the various ladies in town. Before long, the menfolk become convinced that Tistin is using this cover to play the field, and they're angry at him all over again.
A young girl falls in love with an actor. She persuades her father to support his acting company, but when she discovers him with another girl she runs away. Then everybody try to find her.
The title role in the French comedy-fantasy A Martian in Paris is filled by Darry Cowl. The higher-ups in Mars want to learn all about that strange commodity, peculiar to the planet Earth, known as "Love". Darry soon figures out what makes the world go 'round when he meets the gorgeous Nicole Mirel. A Martian in Paris was obviously inspired by the 1960 American comedy A Visit to a Small Planet, which starred Jerry Lewis. Darry Cowl's imitation of Lewis is passable, but it certainly didn't fool the "Le Roi Crazy Jerry" idolators at Cahiers du Cinema and Positif magazine.
Manon has blocked the spring that feeds the village, whose inhabitants she hates. They gradually become aware of the evil they have done to her and try to obtain her forgiveness…
Love in a Hot Climate (Spanish: Sangre y luces, French: Sang et lumières) is a 1954 Spanish-French drama film directed by Georges Rouquier and Ricardo Muñoz Suay. It was entered into the 1954 Cannes Film Festival.
A tale of a socially inept schoolmaster who must confront his own principles.
In a small village, a farmer discovers his wife has committed suicide, but suspicions of murder arise, dividing the community. Amidst the conflict, he develops feelings for a young woman who is the sister of a man harboring a personal grudge against him.
Picpus is a street and a subway stop where a number of murders have been committed. Maigret tries to find the killer.