Michel Piccoli plays a police inspector whose best friend is murdered on the orders of gang boss Charles Vanel. The inspector knows full well that Vanel is too crafty and well-connected to ever stand trial for his crime, so he carefully lays a subtle trap for his adversary. Unfortunately, both Piccoli and Vanel are thwarted by a pair of scheming females.

This Belgian/French tale chronicles the efforts of Jacques (Jacques Brel) to find the Old West in modern America. Dressed as cowboy, he travels throughout western American cities and towns and finds others similarly dressed. These idealists gather together and build an old-western-style town in the middle of an abandoned factory, battling local bureaucracies in the process.

拉莫尔（阿曼多·弗兰西欧利 Armando Francioli 饰）和高格纳斯（亨利·热内斯 Henri Génès 饰）分别是新教和天主教的代表，一天，两人在旅馆里相遇，因为信仰的不同，两人之间爆发了激烈的冲突，与此同时，卢浮宫国王的妹妹玛戈（让娜·莫罗 Jeanne Moreau 饰）嫁给了不同教派的亨利（安德烈·维里尼 André Versini 饰），这场离经叛道的婚礼惹得众人议论纷纷。
拉莫尔要送的信件落到了查理九世（罗伯特·波特尔 Robert Portal 饰）的手中，查理九世这才知道，太后背着他谋划了一场正对新教徒的屠杀，虽然查理九世非常愤怒的谴责了太后，但为时已晚，残暴的屠杀已经拉开了序幕。

A judge investigating police corruption finds that the deeper he digs, the more roadblocks he finds.

Marie Lorieux, contractuelle dans un commissariat de Paris est lassée de distribuer des contraventions. En arpentant les rues de la capitale, elle se retrouve mêlée à des intrigues toutes plus farfelues et rocambolesques les unes que les autres et décide d'agir seule dans ses investigations au grand dam de son commissaire qui ne sait plus comment faire pour la raisonner et de son mari, Hervé, inquiet en permanence...

1964 French film by Christian-Jaque