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- Silent films about crowds celebrating the end of World War I in November 1918.
- A dying CIA agent trying to reconnect with his estranged daughter is offered an experimental drug that could save his life in exchange for one last assignment.
- Forty-something Irene had a dream job that made her life easy: she was indeed a luxury hotel inspector and her work got carried out in a wonderful ever-renewed setting.
- The fashion industry and Paris provide the setting for a comedy surrounding the mistaken impression that Samantha Blake is a high-priced call girl. Steve Sherman is the journalist interviewing her for insights on her profession.
- Is it because his father was a groom that Adhémar Pomme has a long horse head and a horse- toothed smile? Maybe but the fact is that his head has invariably caused laughter whatever the circumstances, which is the tragedy of his life. After having worked as an undertaker, a theater prompter, a casino bouncer, and so on, and failing at each job, he applies out of desperation to an institution where those rejected for physical reasons can hide and live together. But Adhémar immediately starts... laughing at them and gets kicked out as a result! In the end though, he finds his way as a circus artist
- Investment bank manager FRANK BERNDSSEN (c. 40), based in Berlin, believes life to be just a matter of careful advance planning. Currently, he works for a Swiss investor group keen on taking over the French nation-wide meat production chain of Charcuteries Albert. If everything turns out well, Frank's bank will earn billions, and he'll be promoted to a director's post. He just needs the French side to agree to his plan, which is why he's on his way to Paris. While still at Airport Berlin-Tegel waiting to check in, Frank's progress is slowed to a standstill by chaotic author PATRIZIA MUNZ (beginning 30s), who wishes to board the plane under all circumstances, although the flight is overbooked in the economy class. Patrizia, an upcoming novelist, has forgotten her credit cards, when she received a phone call just an hour ago from a Paris clinic. Her lover, Parisian architect JEAN-JACQUES SECRETIN lies in a coma, heavily injured in a car crash. Frank, queuing nervously behind her, loans to Patrizia the cash she needs for the upgrade of her economy-class ticket. On the flight in business class, they make hesitant but ineffective efforts to do smalltalk and then leave each other alone.
- Documentary/Historical retrospective of the Gay Rights movement from the 1969 Stonewall riots to the present.
- On the verge of a divorce, Aldo wins the lottery. About to tell his wife, he discovers she's sleeping with his new boss. Instead of telling her and sharing the money, he keeps the news hidden.
- Film establishes a unique dialogue with the refined calligraphic monograms by Louis Vuitton, the legendary Parisian fashion brand , it creates an universe around the "Louis Vuitton" symbol letters that would complement their aesthetics.
- Frustrated housewife/writer Cathy Palmer ghostwrites a story about Rebecca Ryan, a dashing international spy, and wins a trip to Paris. While there, she is involved in an accident, and awakens in the hospital believing she IS Rebecca Ryan. Much craziness ensues as she meets the writer of the Rebecca Ryan books, thwarts real international spies, and eventually gets her memory back.
- A scientist's invisible ray freezes Paris into immobility.
- Romantic poet Gérard de Nerval is now thirty-three and "Aurélia" tells of his final descent into the hell of madness and death. Gérard still meets his good friends but they do not understand him any more. God is dead. Aurélia, his great love, the most perfect of all women, is dead as well. But has she ever existed ? The state of permanent delirium Gérard is in will lead him to a cemetery first, then to a police station and a mental hospital before he finally takes his own life.
- Michel Levasseur is a joyous reveler who does not care about the next day. So much so that one day a bailiff bursts into his Paris apartment and seizes his furniture on behalf of Raymond Sauvaget, his landlord, a rich food industrialist. But far from resenting Sauvaget's act of hostility, Michel ... becomes his friend. Now Raymond, although prosperous, does not know how to handle women. That is why he asks Michel, a regular Casanova, to give him lessons in seduction...
- Jojo has been living for a while in a room under the roof of a block of flats in Pigalle. He has chosen to leave home since he realized his stepmother has hated him from day one. Among his many neighbors in the house is the gorgeous Jenny Dorr, a nightclub dancer,whose lover he dreams of becoming. But as the boy is only sixteen Jenny proves kind and motherly but that's that. Worse, she becomes the lover of Dicky, a mediocre boxer farting around in the Pigalle cafés. On the other hand, Jojo, who has no income, must absolutely find work, all the more as he woos Marietta, one of his other neighbors, a young lady more suited to his age. Selling magazines works for a while but posing as Narcissus for two gay artists proves a disaster. When things go really awry, Jojo tries to commit suicide by jumping off the roof of his house...
- A small-time crook, hunted by the authorities for a car theft and the murder a police officer, attempts to persuade a hip American journalism student to run away with him to Italy.
- Tony Hancock gives up his day job to become an artist. He's a lot of enthusiasm, but little talent, and critics dislike his work. Nevertheless, he impresses a talented artist.
- Carefully picked scenes of nature and civilization are viewed at high speed using time-lapse cinematography in an effort to demonstrate the history of various regions.
- A wealthy American has a chance encounter with a joyful young French woman, and anonymously pays for her education. She writes letters to her mysterious benefactor, nicknaming him from the description given by some of her fellow orphans.
- A strange deal between a young foreign apprentice and a cop. The story of their meeting.
- It is the story of two types: Moltes a criminal in prison and Reggio one of the guards. Crazy adventures happen when following a winner ticket to Africa, they competes in a rally and are chased by the Turk, a sworn enemy of Moltes.
- The best men of France - a brave journalist and an extremely energetic commissioner - attack the trail of a mysterious criminal mastermind.
- Rita will play her relationships, especially in love, among the crooks to get her share of gold bars.
- London, 1944: SOE's section for French ops parachute 4 women into France, plus a woman there, to free an English geologist and kill SS colonel Heindrich.
- An ironic look at what it is like to be beautiful for a woman (and handsome for a few men) in the Paris of the late twenties.
- A successful business woman, dissatisfied with her current, philandering lover, starts an affair with a much younger man.
- After the rejection of their latest--preposterous--scenario, two scriptwriters get back to basics to prepare a new movie. The new scenario centers on Henriette, a pretty, lively Parisian, and how she spends the 14th of July in Paris with her fiancé. We follow the tribulations of Henriette as various other characters enter the story and turn a traditional festive day into something more adventurous than expected.
- The American star Dolores Gray lands in Paris where she is welcomed by five admirers who compete for the right to accompany her on her walks through the streets of Paris. Bob takes her to the fun fair and makes her discover the acrobatic dance number of Margit & Margot. Ted shows her Raymond Girerd performing Charles Trenet's "Retour à Paris". As for Peter, he introduces her to the sweetness of the parks and of sentimental strolls...
- August 1944. The Allies are approaching Paris and resistance groups within the city start to plan an uprising against the Germans. However, Hitler wants the city destroyed if it looks like the Allies will take it.
- The brothers Zef and Roni are very different. In Paris, Zef's wife is buried about the same time as Roni's daughter is getting married. Zef's daughter unknowingly falls in love with Roni's daughter's fiance. Problems arise.
- A lawyer, Édouard Barnier, will try to convince the American embassy to grant American nationality to a young Frenchman, Francis Farge, who considers himself more American than French.
- Odile has 42 years, an actress and single mother. One day, her 18 year old daughter decided to live alone. All of a sudden, alone in her empty house, the anguish takes over. But she decided to do something about it. After some nights out with no interest and some failed encounters, Odile falls desperately in love with Kader, a mysterious man. Perhaps she found the man of her life? What their friends may think? What may her daughter say? And about the "Adamo" nights she loved so much?
- Gaston Bernod is a Parisian bus driver. Honest, upright and hard-working, he is held in high esteem by his superiors. Gaston has always pampered "his" bus, going as far as to equip it with a fuel-saving device of his invention. Very close to his vehicle, he may have somewhat neglected his wife Paulette, who lets herself got round by the smooth words of Pierrot. The gigolo has indeed managed to persuade her to follow him to the Mont Saint-Michel, "a wonderful nest for their burgeoning love" as he says. The trouble is that Gaston, while driving his dear 84, catches sight of the car, and suddenly aware of his misfortune, sees red. He immediately sets off in pursuit of the culprits, involving his load of helpless passengers in the chase...
- Writing his 43rd spy novel, François includes people from his life. He's the competent, sophisticated secret agent Bob in stark contrast to François. His cute neighbor is Tatiana who helps Bob in Acapulco.
- The story is about Commissioner Jordan who arrives in Marseille to combat drug trafficking activities in his own unique way.
- Henri Sauveur, a veterinarian in his fifties, is harassed by his parents, friends and working relationships. He leaves with Louise in Normandy to live the perfect love. But again, the pitfalls seem to wait for him.
- So called friends at a dinner party end up acting like a dysfunctional family.
- Segment 1: "Bip, piéton de Paris". Bip goes for a facetious walk through the streets of Paris. Segment 2: "In a Silent Way, exercices''. Marcel Marceau does mime exercises. Segment 3: "La cage". The mime finds himself imprisoned in an invisible cage. Segment 4: "Lignage et filiation" and 5: "...Cousinages et parentèles": Marcel Marceau pays tribute to his great predecessors. Segment 6: "La création du monde". The creation of the world evoked through the art of mime. Segment 7: "La bonne nouvelle". Jesus and His message evoked through the art of mime. Segment 8: "Les sept péchés capitaux". The seven deadly sins evoked through Marceau's drawings and his art of mime. Segment 9: "Bip et la marchand de masques". At the fun fair, Bip buys a grinning mask he cannot get rid of. Segment 10: "L'école du mime". A masterclass by Marcel Marceau,at his Théâtre de L'Ambigu mime school. Segment 11: ''Don Juan, mimodrame". Marcel Marceau plays Don Juan - without his usual painted face and clown outfit. Segment 12: "Bip For Ever". Bip's walk is over. He turns his back and moonwalks to where he belongs, poetry.
- 1991–20031h 26mTV-147.0 (19)TV EpisodeBurma messed it all up this time around. Not his fault. Sure, he could have stopped a gang from stealing the precious paintings he was supposed to keep watch on. Okay, he could have saved more lives,. Granted, he could have had the culprit arrested earlier. But there was Jenny. Sexy Jenny. Dangerous Jenny. Jenny, the young wife of Corbin, the millionaire who hired Nestor. And Burma is only human. Aren't you?
- He walks the streets of Paris observing all facets of its colorful life. Nothing stays the same even for a moment. Everything is moving. But at the same time there are reminders everywhere that this will all end.
- Suppose lost and found objects could talk... But they can! At least four of them... : -A statuette of Osiris remembers how two ex-lovers, a model and a good for nothing who claimed to be an Egyptologist, met again one Christmas Eve. -A violin has things to say about Raoul, a humble policeman who lost Solange, a widowed grocer he loved, to a god-dam seducing busker also named Raoul. -A scarf was witness to an eerie romance between a young madman and girl he had saved from suicide. -A funeral wreath lets us know how it caused a young woman to believe her lover dead. After having told their respective story, the objects return to their customary stillness.
- Married French lawyer Andre defends succesfully the case of Yvette, who committed a robbery. He falls in love with her, but she isn't true to him.
- A middle-aged playboy becomes fascinated by the daughter of a private detective who has been hired to entrap him with the wife of a client.
- Marguerite must navigate through the hardships of the Liberation after losing her husband and starting a relationship with the enemy during the War.
- While on a trip to Paris with his fiancée's family, a nostalgic screenwriter finds himself mysteriously going back to the 1920s every day at midnight.
- Pierre Verger is a quick-tempered Paris taxi driver (excuse the pleonasm!). On the other hand , he is a good family man concerned about his nearest and dearest. Married to Hélène, he has two children, Georges, a journalist and womanizer, and Jacqueline, a seamstress, engaged to a serious-minded, naive artist/delivery man. He has also a a brother-in-law, who is a policeman outside home and a henpecked husband inside. But his closest companion is "Gangster", a young dog, who shares his days of work as well as his aversion to law enforcers. Pierre's main preoccupation is to provide his next of kin with a comfortable life but he finds it hard to make ends meet. This is the reason why he is faced with a moral dilemma when a client, an Italian woman whose address he can't find, leaves her bag in his taxi with 300,000 francs in it. Will usually honest Pierre keep this large sum of money or bring it to the police?