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The inventor André Castagnier, and his sister, Charlotte, win the coveted first prize of the San Remo regatta, thanks to Castagnier’s revolutionary new dinghy. A short while later, Castagnier disgraces himself when another boat he worked on is damaged on its maiden launch. His employer, the irascible Louis-Philippe Fourchaume...
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Félicien Mézeray, a wealthy art dealer, discovers a priceless Modigliani, tattooed on the back of an ageing legionnaire, Legrain. The latter agrees to sell the tattoo if Mézeray agrees to renovate his country house. The house turns out to be a ruined sixteenth century chateau, but so keen is he to acquire the tattoo that Mézeray agrees to Legrain’s terms...
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Having been ruined, the Vicomte de Clerambard has become a cruel man to all people and animals. When he kills the vicar’s dog, the castle keeper decides to take revenge on Clerambard by fabricating a miracle. A fake monk appears to Clerambard and gives him a book about Saint Franciscus. Unaware that he is the victim of a bad joke...
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The orderly world of Hubert de Tartas, manager of a packaging company, is turned upside-down when his wife’s grandfather, Paul Fournier, makes an unexpected return. 65 years after his ship hit an iceberg, Fournier’s body is discovered preserved in a block of ice and he is miraculously brought back to life, still aged 25...
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Since separating from his wife, violinist Gaspard has two passions in his life: music and nature. Felicia is a rich woman who does nothing else but go to parties in her Rolls-Royce and amuse herself with her many male admirers. This ill-matched pair meet when the former’s clapped out Citroen crashes into the latter’s pristine Rolls...
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Not long after pulling off a spectacular train robbery in Great Britain, the criminal genius The Brain is soon planning his next lucrative enterprise. Joining forces with Mafia boss Scannapieco, he devises a scheme to steal the secret funds of the fourteen member countries of NATO whilst they are being transferred by train between Paris and Brussels...
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A family of aristocrats have fallen on hard times. To pay for repairs to their crumbling country chateau they are forced to use their home as a hotel. The local garage mechanic, Charlie, provides a constant stream of guests for them by sabotaging any car that arrives in his garage. The latest arrival is an important-looking man...
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France, 1750. Benjamin Rathery is a young doctor whose reputation as a skirt chaser is as widely known as his generosity towards the poor folk of his town. He is in love with Manette, the innkeeper’s beautiful daughter. However, she has no intention of giving in to Benjamin until she sees the marriage contract, and he is strangely reluctant to give up his bachelor lifestyle......
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Sir Cuthbert Ware-Armitage enters the gruelling Monte Carlo rally to win back his automobile factory from a young American Chester Schofield, using fair means or foul. Other competitors in the car race include: the eccentric military inventor Major Digby Dawlish, a pair of love-hungry Italians, a women’s team led by a seductive female doctor...
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Antoine Doinel is 26 and happily married to Christine. Whilst his wife gives violin lessons, Antoine works for a florist, dyeing flowers. However, he soon loses interest in this job and decides to go for an interview with an American construction company. To his surprise, he is offered a job, operating radio-controlled boats in a scale-model of a harbour...
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Evan Evans, the director of a ballet troupe, is rehearsing his next show in Monaco, in preparation for a worldwide tour. When one member of his troupe leaves to get married, Evans imposes a regime of strict discipline on his remaining dancers. The latter get their revenge by presenting Evans’ nephew Philippe, the only male member of the group...
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Hitch-hiking his way home after an unsuccessful day betting on the horses, Alfred Mulanet is abducted by a group of gangsters, led by the sinister Monsieur K. Against his will, he is placed in a coffin, which is to be shipped to Istanbul. En route, the coffin and Mulanet fall into the hands of a rival gang, led by the dapper Monsieur Kruger...
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In 1944, Léon Duchemin , a restaurant owner living in Normandy, leads a peaceful life. His restaurant is frequented by German officers, black marketers and members of the French Resistance, but his clients’ exploits hold no interest for him at all. That is until an English airman falls out of the sky and lands in his daughter’s bed...
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Angevine is a blissfully happy French village, thanks to Mayor Leopold Panneton’s efforts to conceal bad news from everyone. Panneton’s daughter, Marie, is selected as Miss Blue Waters in a beauty contest. Used to getting what she wants, Marie is disappointed when Gabriel, the local schoolteacher and the only man she loves...
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Sister Agnès has become so bored with her life in a convent that she decides to run away to Paris. Whilst looking in vain for a job, she meets Mona Lisa, a kind-hearted prostitute who invites her to share her way of life. Through her new friend’s tutelage, Agnès learns all the secrets of her new profession...
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Sagamore Noonan is the owner of a small farm, although his main preoccupation is distilling whisky illegally, which he tries to keep from the attention of the local sheriff. He lives with his brother Doc Noonan, a ruined bookmaker, Billy, his eight-year old nephew, and Noé, an eccentric uncle who is building a ship to survive the end of the world...
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When a drugs dealer is murdered in Nice, the French police see an opportunity to infiltrate and break up a notorious drugs trafficking ring. Commissaire Campana agrees to impersonate the dead man’s brother, although it means “adopting” Christine, a police agent, as his wife, and her infant son as his own...
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Don Salluste is the all-power minister and tax collector of the King of Spain. He delights in tyrannising the peasants with his band of loyal Black Knights. But he is scorned by the Queen who, appalled by his wickedness, has him expelled from the court. An outcast and penniless, Salluste plots his terrible revenge. His valet...
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Five friends – Jean-Guy, Phil, Gérard, Luis and Jean – are united by a single passion, to form a rock band. First they need money to buy the musical instruments, so they set about getting work. This proves to be a disaster, but the boys persevere, and with a little help from a friend, Crème, they win a talent contest...
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Having fled his native France after killing an aristocrat, Nicolas Philibert arrives in the United States and soon makes his fortune as a crop merchant. His marriage to the daughter of a wealthy man is frustrated when it is revealed that he is already married, to a woman still living in France. The only solution is for Nicolas to return to France to divorce his wife...
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