Paul Mercey
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Deux heures moins le quart avant Jésus-Christ
In antique Rome, a simple pepboy for chars becomes involved in a coup against Cesar.
Le gang
In 1945, as World War Two comes to a close, five small time crooks unite to form a gang. After several bold robberies they become notorious as "the front-wheel drive gang". The police attempt to stop their crime spree with little success, but how long will their luck last?
Pas de problème!
A man with a gunshot wound in the stomach comes to first house and collapses in Anita's apartment. A minute later he dies and the girl horrified by what happened, must look for somebody who would help her get rid of the corpse...
On a retrouvé la 7ème compagnie!
The second part of the Seventh Company adventures.
Les chinois à Paris
Les Chinois ont envahi la France. Devant leur calme et leur discipline, un seul moyen pour les chasser, faire de la France le pays du plus mauvais exemple. Quelques Français s'attelent à cette tâche...
L'horloger de Saint-Paul
Lyons, France. Michel Descombes is a watchmaker who lives alone with his teenage son Bernard. When the police visits and informs him that Bernard killed a man and is on the run with a girl, Michel realizes that he knew far less about his son than he thought .
Deux grandes filles dans un pyjama
A French man invites two Sweden girls to spend time with him after his wife left for vacation.
Moi y'en a vouloir des sous
Dismissed following an unfortunate initiative, financial advisor Benoît Lepape decides to work for his uncle, a union activist. His capitalist methods will surprise at first, but quickly bring in a lot of money.
Mais où est donc passée la 7ème compagnie
Pendant la débâcle française de 1940, la 7ème compagnie se réfugie dans les bois. Mais, elle est prise en embuscade par l'armée allemande. Seuls trois hommes partis en éclaireur en réchappent. Ils se retrouvent livrés à eux-mêmes dans une France occupée.
Les aventures de Rabbi Jacob
The racist industrialist Victor Pivert by accident gets kidnapped by an Arabic revolutionist. Pivert dresses up as a Rabbi in order to confuse them and gets mistaken for Rabbi Jacob as a Parisian neighborhood in New York celebrates his return. A screwball comedy.
La raison du plus fou
The supervisor of a nursing home accompanies in their escape two young loving residents who dream of seeing the sea.
Le gendarme en balade
The entire squad of gendarmes from Saint-Tropez has been retired. But there is no such power that could stop them from protecting the law and public order.
Le cerveau
Arthur and Anatole are two little robbers. They want to rob money, money that will travel in a special train from Paris to Bruxelles. They don't know that other people have planned to do the same thing.
Le tatoué
An art dealer wants to buy a Modigliani, which is tattooed on the back of an old soldier.
Two for the Road
Architect Mark Wallace and his wife, Joanna, travel to France to meet with an affluent client. While there, they reflect on their first decade of marriage -- memories of when they first met, of courtship, and of road trips through the French countryside.
Tendre voyou
Jean-Paul Belmondo is a lovable lothario who delights in his womanizing ways in this ribald comedy adventure. When two women can't get enough of him, he is chased to Tahiti and back to Paris by admiring females. His experiences are exhausting to the point that he considers giving up his life as a ladies man.
La grande vadrouille
During World War II, two French civilians and a downed English Bomber Crew set out from Paris to cross the demarcation line between Nazi-occupied Northern France and the South. From there they will be able to to escape to England. First, they must avoid German troops - and the consequences of their own blunders.
Merveilleuse Angélique
Angelique (Michele Mercier) is saved by the king of the cutthroats (Giuliano Gemma) when she is endangered in the streets of Paris. After her hero is killed, she has many amorous affairs and becomes a successful businesswoman in this costume-drama sequel based on the book by Serge and Anne Golon.
Mélodie en sous-sol
Charles, fresh out of jail, rejects his wife's plan for a quiet life of bourgeois respectability. He enlists a former cell mate, Francis, to assist him in pulling off one final score, a carefully planned assault on the vault of a Cannes casino.
Les tontons flingueurs
La vie de Fernand Naudin, ex-truand devenu depuis petit propriétaire d'une usine de tracteurs, est bouleversée quand son ami d'enfance, un gangster notoire, l'appelle à son chevet...
Bébert et l'omnibus
L'espiègle Bébert échappe à la vigilance de son grand frère dans les rues de la capitale. Perdu, Bébert va vivre une nuit mémorable dans un train de banlieue.
Lemmy pour les dames...
A famous FBI agent's vacation is interrupted by murder. His investigation leads him on the trail of three women of the local upper middle class.
Le gentleman d'Epsom
The story takes place in the racecourses around Paris. A so-called major sells his tips to naive characters.
L'oeil du monocle
1942, au large de Bonifacio. La Wehrmacht a fait immerger de l'or et des documents classés secret défense. Les espions du monde entier convoîtent ce trésor. Les services secrets français font alors appel à leur meilleur agent, Dromart, alias "Le Monocle".
Tout l'or du monde
Businessman Victor Hardy (Noiret) wants to buy the entire area around the small village of Cabosse. He claims that he wants to return to nature, but he also intends to profit by selling the water from the village fountain, which is reputed to enhance longevity. However old farmer Mathieu and his sons (all played by Bourvil) don't want to sell...
Les honneurs de la guerre
This is August 1944. In France the times are uncertain and some places can be in turns liberated by the Allies and reclaimed by the Occupiers. The place is Nanteuil, a provincial town. The German troops present there are exhausted and leaderless and have offered the inhabitants to surrender.
Les vieux de la vieille
Three friends leave their village for a retirement home travelling the countryside
Rue des Prairies
While Henri was a POW during the war, his wife passed away and he returned to face the challenges of bringing up three children alone. Henri may get drunk and angry at times but he also has a better side that will not stay buried.
Katia
Tsar Alexandre II meets a young student, Katia. He understands that he loves her and try to send her away but they end up seeing each other again and becomes his mistress.
Sérénade au Texas
Music seller and singer on occasion, Jacques Gardel learns from master Jérôme Quilleboeuf that he inherits oil fields located in Big Bend in Texas.
La roue
Pierre is an engine driver who adopts a small girl, a WWI orphan. A widower, he sees in her the image of her mother.
French Cancan
A comedy/drama about a world-weary impresario who transforms a laundress into a theatrical star.
Sous le ciel de Paris
Une journee parmi tant d'autres a Paris, charriant son lot de drames, d'espoirs de raisons de vivre.
Le cap de l'espérance
Lyria, a faded beauty who runs a seedy waterfront bar, is madly in love with Bob, a crooked attorney. Bob can't bring himself to confess his love for Minnie, the pretty daughter of Simon, a safe cracker. In order to run away with her, Bob, one of the masterminds of a big-time robbery, betrays his friends.