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- After his wife is killed in a terrorist operation, international industrialist Alexander Addington assembles a private team of troubleshooters to help combat terrorism around the world.
- In the 1990s, a South American city suffers the outbreak of a plague. The people react in different ways: Dr. Rieux tries to cure the sick, two French journalists expect sensational headlines, pious believers lament this God-given scourge.
- A British engineer becomes entangled in a forbidden romance with his Indian employer's eldest daughter. As their passion ignites, the East-meets-West clash of cultures leads to surprising and tragic consequences.
- Placide's dad tells him on his deathbed he'll haunt him if he doesn't find a woman soon. When he accidentally enters a photo shoot, Placide meets Sarah.
- Comedy set in the 16th century. Brantome is a soldier embroiled in the religious wars but more interested in women, and has many mistresses among the ladies of the royal court, although his heart belongs to just one, Victoire.
- 1944,6th of June : young musician Michel Legrand's D Day in Paris Conservatoire.
- Samuel's life is a mess. His girlfriend just left him and he is out of a job. Having hit rock bottom, he decides suicide will be the only way out. While attempting to kill himself, he rescues the life of his neighbor Charlyne. Trying to cheer her up, he tells her he is sent from heaven to make her happy again.
- Francois Roques, a power-and-money-mad editor of a Paris newspaper (who justifies his actions by calling attention to his poverty-stricken childhood), invites four women to a housewarming at his penthouse apartment. He plans on one of them to meet death by means of a loose railing on the balcony. The invitees are: Constance, Francois' first wife, whose love and integrity also stood in the way of his schemes; Vera Volpone, his second wife, from whom he is seeking a divorce, and who, with the aid of her lover, is blackmailing Ffancois; Maggy, his mistress who aids him in his illegal transactions; and Cecile, his fiancée, who is pregnant by another man. The women arrive, tension overwhelms them and the host, three of the women depart...and Francois is alone with his intended victim. Despite a misleading Review/Comment on this site-page, the keyword is "intended."
- Julien, a boy in the sixth grade, was badly depressed by the divorce of his parents. But he soon found that half of the class had come from broken families.
- Detective Marco is assigned to investigate a murder that has occurred at an exclusive boarding school for adolescent girls. The victim is a popular, wealthy girl found strangled in her bed. The school director tells Marco she expects him to find the killer outside of the school, and she bristles at his insistent interrogations of the school staff and the students. Marco learns that two sadistic games were played the night of the murder and that the victim had been tied up. There are a number of suspects, including a teacher with an unnatural affection for one of the girls; a suspicious Spanish gentleman at the town-inn, and some of the pupils themselves. The dead girl's best friend gives the detective the victim's letters and some films. At a showing of the films, there is a sequence where an elderly, mild-mannered teacher is shown kissing with the disreputable town photographer.
- Freshly landed in Paris, Daniel Laurençon, who calls himself Netchaïev, who was believed dead five years ago in Gibraltar, warns a commercial center of a bomb attack a few minutes before its completion.
- An innocent young man ,burglar Cheri-Bibi and his gangsters are sent to a penal colony.
- Morhange, a former French army officer, goes to Hoggar in search of Saint-Avit, a comrade in arms who disappeared during a patrol. He finds him in a village, but this one, bewitched by the beautiful Antinea, refuses to leave.
- A young German officer's (Wolfgang Liebeneiner) life is turned upside when he tries to end his affair with a married baroness (Olga Tschechowa) after falling for an innocent young singer (Magda Schneider).
- The eccentric Comtesse de Saint-Plâs sells a black Citroën DS to car dealer Paul Souflé. He sells it to the young mathematics teacher Jacques Denzac who is about to marry.
- A powerful bomb is stolen and is set to explode in a populated area in less than 48 hours, unless French S.S. Agente, Roger Hanin can find and defuse it in time. Larry Anderson.
- Driven by necessity, Jean Larcher, a young agricultural engineer, accepts the degrading mission of leading to ruin, under cover of administering it, a huge cocoa plantation on the island of São Tomé. His employers, a financial coalition, indeed plan to dispossess its owner, an inexperienced young woman who has just inherited it, of her property. But when Jean comes into contact with her, he recognizes Francesca, a girl he had fond feelings for when he was a student...
- During the London-Melbourne race, two aviators, one male (Guy,) the other female (Betty), are forced to land on a lost island in Polynesia. They learn to survive in difficult conditions and fall in love. Back in civilization, their union does not prove obvious. Pierre is already married to Ginette, a movie actress, and Betty is engaged to her cousin Edouard. Lord Stanton, her rich father, will not hear of a marriage with Guy. Will love ultimately triumph in spite of everything?
- Murder on the Maginot LIne, a line of concrete fortifications, obstacles, and weapon installations built by France in the 1930s.
- A young woman gives in to a man who reminds her of another.
- Jean-Honoré Fragonard, an 18th century painter, decides to use as a model a young washerwoman, Marianne, with whom he ends up falling in love.
- Captain Benoît manages to take possession of the plans of a new German airplane. The German counter-espionage assigns one of their agents, beautiful Erna Fiedler, to seduce Benoît and to eliminate him. But the two spies fall in love.
- A toymaker in Poland specializes in building lifesize mechanical men. He builds a chess-playing "automaton" to hide a pretty young Polish activist who is being hunted by occupying Russian forces.
- A man, enthralled by a peasant woman he encounters in Siberia, forgets his fiancee, turns to crime, and brings about ruin.
- Two lovers pretend they have a child, so that the man cannot marry his fiancee.
- A gang of escaped convicts hijacks a ship and heads for a remote island. On the way they pick up a young woman who's been shipwrecked.
- Fearing a gangster's vengeance,his moll sails away to South Africa ,where many emigrants intend to work in the mines there.
- One of several French films responding to the tension during the Czechoslovakia crisis: On the set in a film studio, a production is interrupted, and a conflict develops between the lead actress and an American officer who supports peace.
- Virginie leaves her longtime lover in Paris to live in a spartan studio in Montreal, while pondering on her upcoming abortion. As she looks out of the studio window to the neighborhood below, she has memories from her life and visions of her future.
- Simultaneously filmed German version of a Hungarian romantic comedy.A singing, drinking, devil may care young man racks up debts but refuses to marry an heiress whose fortune would help restore his family's hopes.
- The Marquis de Barfleur, an unattractive man, decides to resort to plastic surgery to ensure the fidelity of Colette, his young mistress. Now endowed with a face to die for, he is about to achieve his goal. But the Marchioness de Barfleur, the Marquis' loving wife, does not hear it that way. She has her revenge claiming everywhere that her husband is... dead! An assertion people believe since they do not recognize the Marquis! When her vengeance has lasted long enough, she forgives the Marquis and husband and wife fall into each other's arms.
- A fairground boss is ruined. He steals his aunt's jewelry, but being chased he gives the jewelry to a couple of dancers. They are mistaken for the Morton Sisters and perform in the Folies Parisiennes with the jewels, with enormous success.
- A high school in the thirties: most of the students are leaving for the Easter holidays .However,one of them,Brassier,an A -student ,stays for sentimental reasons .He is desperately in love with the principal's wife who does not want to cheat on her husband ,and,above all,does not want the young man to ruin his good prospects .On a night he calls on her , a theft is committed ,in the principal's office .Although completely innocent , the good lad stands accused .He's got an alibi ,but it would compromise the reputation of the woman he is in love with.