Based on Sébastien Japrisot's novel, the story revolves around a young girl who suffers from amnesia after surviving a terrible fire.

Identite Judiciare stars Raymond Souplex as wily French police inspector Basquier. The villain is Berthet (Jean Debucourt), a high-ranking government official. Basquier suspects that Berthet is a vicious murderer, but is unable to prove anything thanks to bureaucratic interference. Thus, the good inspector plays a waiting game a la Columbo, hoping for that one fatal slip on the part of the killer. Certain portions of Identite Judiciare proved a bit too intense for American audiences, and were accordingly snipped by the censors.

An aging gangster, Fernand Naudin is hoping for a quiet retirement when he suddenly inherits a fortune from an old friend, a former gangster supremo known as the Mexican. If he is ambivalent about his new found wealth, Fernand is positively nonplussed to discover that he has also inherited his benefactor’s daughter, Patricia. Unfortunately, not only does Fernand have to put up with the thoroughly modern Patricia and her nauseating boyfriend, but he also had to contend with the Mexican’s trigger-happy former employees, who are determined to make a claim.

Two whimsical, aimless thugs harass and assault women, steal, murder, and alternately charm, fight, or sprint their way out of trouble. They take whatever the bourgeoisie holds dear, whether it’s cars, peace of mind, or daughters. Marie-Ange, a jaded, passive hairdresser, joins them as lover, cook, and mother confessor. She’s on her own search for seemingly unattainable sexual pleasure.

奎萨（居伊·格罗索 Guy Grosso 饰）将自己的一生都献给了警察这份他深深热爱的职业，然而，再能干的警察也要面临退休的这一天。退休在家后的每一天对于奎萨来说都无异于是一场折磨，他深居简出脾气爆炸，情绪濒临抑郁的边缘。
就在这个节骨眼上，奎萨的老朋友热贝尔（路易·德·菲耐斯 Louis de Funès 饰）和托利威尔（米歇尔·莫多 Michel Modo 饰）出现在了奎萨的面前，他们带来了一个喜忧参半的消息——他们的老伙计福卡斯（让·勒费弗尔 Jean Lefebvre 饰）因为一场意外而丧失了记忆，能够让他回忆起过去的，只有他们这几个曾经生死与共的兄弟们了。这个消息让奎萨顿时来了精神，一行人浩浩荡荡的向着福卡斯所在的疗养院出发了。

1955 film by Alfred Hitchcock

1962 film by Agnès Varda