In Mr. Peek-a-Boo, a civil servant discovers that he has the ability to walk through walls. He uses his newfound powers to become a masked robber and carry out daring jewel thefts. However, his life takes a turn when he falls in love with a beautiful Englishwoman and gets caught up in a bank robbery. Will he be able to escape from prison and continue his superhero fantasy? Based on a short story and set in Montmartre, Paris in the 1950s.
A middle aged baroness thinks she is still young enough to have an affair with a military man the age of her son.She deserts her family and follows the youth to Algeria.
Madame Husson and her circle of holier-than-thou ladies (including an old maid Madame Cadenas)are looking for a chaste and pure girl who will win a hefty sum.
Dardamelle does not conceal the fact that his wife has made him a cuckold.How will his fellow townspeople react?
Early in the war, a group of women decide to help the soldiers in the war front. They enlist the help of the wealthy Madame Marion.
A young man marries the daughter of a famous actress, but is visibly more attracted to his stepmother. She manages, not without difficulty, to reconnect the bonds of a vacillating household.
A young man is kidnapped by his business competitors, but the jailer falls in love with the man she has to keep a prisoner. A lost film.
Vérotchka, a vivacious theater actress touring in a provincial town, is turned out of her hotel by orders of Monsieur Tricointe, the stern president of the local law court. In a rage, the actress knocks at Tricointe's door with a view to protesting against the treatment she is given. She goes about it so well that she ends up being accommodated by the president himself. This is the moment Jean-Pierre Gaudet, the Minister of Justice, chooses to pay an unannounced visit to his friend Tricointe. There he mistakes Vérotchka for Madame Tricointe and the president does not dare to contradict Gaudet. A lot of absurd situations ensue.
An Oriental villain named Halloway is called in by wealthy oil interests who want to destroy a dam project for hydroelectric power that may threaten their profits.
Following a quarrel with his father, Prince Jean joined the Foreign Legion. When he returns, he finds his brother who, on the king's death, usurped his title, and the woman he loved, betrothed to another. Helped by a very rich and philosophical old uncle, Jean, disgusted with classes and politics, flees with the young woman.
They have been living together for some time in a bohemian environment. The boy is attracted to a friend of his mistress and he frankly acknowledges his feeling. His companion favors meetings and even multiplies them: satiety, habituation, weariness set in very quickly. It is the shrewd mistress who will be married.
An actress who has just played the part of an old lady says that she would like to grow old like that character did.Sadly, she will not get her wish because she is terminally-ill.
A young couple goes through a plot unscathed in the welcoming salons of a large fashion house.
Gonzague, a man with a penchant for impersonating others, finds himself in a series of comedic situations involving adultery, dinner parties, and a superstition about the number 13. To make matters worse, his escapades lead him to an all-girls school where chaos ensues.
At the English court, at the beginning of the 18th century, Lady Henriett fell in love with a farmer, Lionel, who, following a mistake, believes her to be his servant. By learning his quality, Lionel refuses to receive the one he already considered his fiancée. The queen herself will appease this lover's quarrel and, moreover, will free the peasants of his kingdom.
Filmed operetta about a wealthy Provencal man who puts those lining up for his inheritance through a series of colorful adventures, only to reveal to them at the end that the whole thing was just a joke.
Gaston wants more than anything to marry the naive Simone. But where he is, there is Sidonie, a local singer romantically pursued by the police commissionaire.
Jacques de Chardin, runner of women, marries a rich and young American, Mary-Ann. He does not give up, however, his conquests and has an affair with Chouquette. His wife and her friend, Baron Sigismond, decide to fake an affair in order to get revenge.