Jean Abeillé
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Le prestige de la mort
Whilst seeking out locations in the South of France for his next film, director Luc Moullet comes across a male corpse. He immediately decides to use this to his advantage. By swapping his passport with that of the dead man, Moullet hopes that the world will believe he is dead, thereby ensuring a renewed interest in his work.
La bête de miséricorde
After a car accident, Jean Mardet ends the agony of his wife with a rock. Mardet then keeps killing because he believes that God himself has entrusted a mission to him: kill the unfortunate souls.
L'homme des roubines
A documentary about Luc Moullet and the mountainous locations that feature in his films
La cabale des oursins
A travelogue of abandoned strip mining sites in France extolling their potential for recreational use.
Les sièges de l'Alcazar
Paris, 1955. Guy, film critic of the Cahiers du Cinéma, often goes to see the films of Vittorio Cottafavi in a local cinema. One day he notices that Jeanne, film critic of "Positive ", the rival magazine, seems to be following him. He is intrigued.
Une nuit à l'Assemblée Nationale
The leader of a nudist colony enlists the help of left-wing militant when he mistakenly believes he should receive the Legion of Honor.
Les saisons du plaisir
Charles and Emmanuelle organize as every year, the congress of perfumers who distribute their products in their castle. Garibaldi, their mutilated and somewhat disturbed son-in-law, will be the butler.
Le miraculé
Faking an injury for insurance money, a peddler seeks out a cure to support his claims while a suspicious investigator tries to expose the scam.
Agent trouble
Amanda Weber is a museum employee. Her nephew, Victorien, who feels that wild animals should not be kept in zoos, while hitchhiking saw a mysterious bus with 50 dead tourists that later was found by autorities at the bottom of a lake.
La machine à découdre
The insane Doctor Enger is obsessed with his plan to build a hospital to cure blind children, and goes on a killing and kidnapping spree with the police in pursuit.
À mort l'arbitre!
L'arbitre Maurice Bruno siffle un penalty faisant perdre l'équipe locale. Consternation des supporters du cru. De chantages en traque effrénée, l'embrasement collectif, aveugle et meurtrier déferle sur la ville.
Les trois couronnes du matelot
Shortly after murdering his professor, a young man encounters a sailor who offers him a position on his ship in exchange for 3 Danish crowns and his attention as he recounts his life story.
Litan
Un jeune couple est de passage dans la ville de Litan. Bientôt les morts mystérieuses s'accumulent autour d'eux.
Le dernier métro
In occupied Paris, an actress married to a Jewish theater owner must keep him hidden from the Nazis while doing both of their jobs.
Le piège à cons
Ten years after the French political upheavals of 1968, a maturing "soixante-huitard" falls in with some young radicals who are influenced by a book he had written. But does he still have the guts to translate his ideas into acts against the state? And is he still attractive to younger chicks?
Le roi des bricoleurs
Goumic, an industrialist and his wife Anne lose their big house when their town's mayor coerces them to sell it for a low price.
Un linceul n'a pas de poches
In the newspaper he has just founded, journalist Dolannes exposes all the wheeling and dealing and scandals that go on in his town.
Deux grandes filles dans un pyjama
A French man invites two Sweden girls to spend time with him after his wife left for vacation.
Borsalino and Co.
A gang-leader in '30s Marseilles fights off a fascist rival.
Chut!
A small saver discovers the scam that threatens all subscribers to the "Caution foncière". He embarks on an incredible adventure to recover the funds paid in by his friends, and succeeds in exposing the scandal.