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Ce sacré grand-père
Jacques spends his summer vacation with his grandfather, Jericho, in the company of his wife Marie. The malicious ancestor quickly realizes that his grandson's marriage is on the brink of breakdown. He does everything to save him.
Le cas du Docteur Laurent
A heartfelt plea for painless childbirth in rural France of the fifties.
Honoré de Marseille
Honoré vit tranquillement à Marseille, exerçant un métier indéterminé, mais peu fatiguant, aux cotés d'une femme joviale, qu'il aime tendrement. Comme Honoré est le prototype du pur Marseillais, c'est lui que viendra interviewer un ethnologue célèbre
Le boulanger de Valorgue
Valorgue est en émoi : le fils du boulanger a mis enceinte la fille de l'épicier, avant de s'exiler en Algérie. L'opinion est divisée. Les uns prennent fait et cause pour le fils, et se voient du même coup interdire d'accès à l'épicierie, alors que d'autres défendent la jeune femme et deviennent indésirables chez le boulanger.
Manon des sources
Marcel Pagnol's adaptation of his own novel Manon des sources, the story of a shepherdess who exacts her revenge on the townsfolk she blames for killing her father, in two parts: Manon des sources and Ugolin.
Le garçon sauvage
A prostitute takes back her child, a boy who does not even know how to play.
Le bagnard
The practice of Dr. Julien, a GP of Marseilles, consists mainly of drug-addicts. One day, one of his patient dies at his surgery and Julien yields to the temptation : he steals the dead man's money and hides the corpse in a trunk. But the whole thing is discovered and ... misinterpreted.
La Table-aux-Crevés
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.
L'école buissonnière
Soon after the Great War, the Provence village of Salezes gets a new boys' teacher: Mr. Pascal, a war hero with a diploma from a teachers' college. He rejects old methods: boys' sitting still with arms folded memorizing facts. He uses modern methods: he becomes their guide.
Le gardian
The guardian is engaged to a girl from a good family, but the intervention of a gypsy will make his heart lean. This one comes in fact to take revenge and will try to kill him.
La règle du jeu
Jean Renoir’s The Rules of the Game is a comedic drama about a Parisian aristocrat. The film was released shortly before the start of World War II.
La bête humaine
Séverine and her husband Roubaud kill their former employer in a train. Engineer Jacques watches them, but doesn't tell the police, because he's in love with Severine. But in an epileptic attack he kills her...
La Marseillaise
A film about the early part of the French Revolution, shown from the eyes of the citizens of Marseille, counts in German exile and, of course, the king Louis XVI, each showing their own small problems.
Toni
In the 1920s, the Provence is a magnet for immigrants seeking work in the quarries or in the agriculture. Many mingle with locals and settle down for good — like Toni, an Italian who has moved in with Marie, a Frenchwoman.
Tartarin de Tarascon
Tartarin is the local hero in the small provincial town of Tarascon. He shows off about imaginary adventures in Africa, where he has never been, as a Lion Hunter, which he is only in his imagination. Even though the locals know he has never been to Africa, they keep hoping he will leave one day.