In the 1930s a young fellow, Simon Chalumet, is sent to a military school by his overbearing father, an ex-soldier who has little sympathy for his son's more gentle temperament, or for his interest in films.

Sent to jail for stealing a loaf of bread, Jean Valjean has every reason for hating humanity and embarking on a life of crime when he is released twenty years later. The gesture of a kindly bishop changes his perspective and he decides instead to live the life of a good and honest man. Through hard work over many years, Valjean becomes a successful industrialist and mayor of a small town, respected by all as a great benefactor. But everything he has achieved is suddenly lost when Inspector Javert, a former guard at the prison where he served, recognises Valjean and decides to arrest him for a minor offence he committed years ago. Valjean would have submitted to arrest had he not already made a promise to one of his employees, Fantine, just before she died. Moved by Fantine�s tragic story, Valjean has agreed to adopt her daughter Cosette, who is currently in the care of the unscrupulous innkeeper Th�nardier and his wife. To fulfil his promise, Valjean must flee from Javert and assume a new identity. Some years later, Valjean and Cosette have settled in Paris, at a time when an uprising against the restored monarchy is fermenting. A young revolutionary, Marius, falls in love with Cosette, but events conspire to keep them apart. Meanwhile, the stone-hearted Javert is not far away, and he is as intent as ever that Valjean be brought to justice...

艾玛（罗密·施奈德 Romy Schneider 饰）出生于一个贫穷的家庭之中，却搭上了时代的浪潮，凭借着股票摇身一变成为了腰缠万贯的女银行家。金钱给艾玛打开了通往上流社会的道路，靠着放高利贷，艾玛很快就将同行们远远地甩在了身后，与此同时，她还邂逅了名为雷米（丹尼尔·梅斯吉什 Daniel Mesguich 饰）的议员，同他坠入了情网之中。 艾玛的出类拔萃很快就引来了其他银行家的嫉妒，他们串通拉盖（克劳德·布莱塞 Claude Brasseur 饰），希望通过法律手段让艾玛坐牢，当雷米得知艾玛即将面临审判时，绝情的他选择了离开。在情场和商场上双双失意的艾玛并没有就此一蹶不振，而是依靠自己的力量给予了那些希望她倒台的人们沉重的反击。

Two buddy farmers are visited by aliens who like their domestic cabbage soup.

Unlucky in love, Alfred tries to commit suicide, only to be thwarted by police efforts to prevent a simultaneous attempt by a nearby young woman. Recovering, the young lady puts him up at her house, as he has run out of places to live. He joins a Parisian sporting team and seems to have transferred his bad luck to a corrupt television boss who is attempting to manipulate the game so that Alfred's Paris team loses.

Dominican friar Etienne de Bourbon visits a 13th-century French village in search of heretics for the Inquisition. Despite the opposition of the local priest and the indifference of the villagers, he finds a seemingly perfect suspect: a young woman who lives in a forest outside the village and cures people with herbs and folk remedies. In the process, he discovers the cult of the greyhound "Saint" Guinefort, and confronts his own troubled past.

French colonists in Africa, several months behind in the news, find themselves at war with their German neighbors. Deciding that they must do their proper duty and fight the Germans, they promptly conscript the local native population. Issuing them boots and rifles, the French attempt to make "proper" soldiers out of the Africans. A young, idealistic French geographer seems to be the only rational person in the town, and he takes over control of the "war" after several bungles on the part of the others.

本片是描写的是17世纪法国一位名叫文森特·德保罗的“圣徒”的一生。他有着贫苦的童年，曾在阿尔及尔度过了一段奴隶般的生活，但他最终成为一个慈善事业工作的牧师，他选择放弃世俗的财产，把一切献给帮助穷人的慈善事业，并劝说贵族出钱出力。

A married man who killed the wife of his best friend during a tryst feels compelled to turn himself in.

Helene Regnier's husband Charles, who is mentally ill, injures their son Michel in a rage. Charles moves back in with his wealthy and manipulative parents, who blame Helene for their son's condition and vow to win custody of Michel. While the boy is in hospital, Helene rents a room in a boarding house nearby. The Regniers hire Paul Thomas, a family acquaintance who needs money, to find dirt on Helene before the court hearing on custody. Paul moves into the boarding house and, with the help of his girlfriend Sonia, who rarely wears clothes, plots to ruin Helene's reputation and then her very life.

1978 film by Claude Chabrol

Alphonse Tram is unwittingly involved in several murders despite having no memory of committing the crimes. His confusion lead him to confess to his neighbour, Inspector Morvandieu. Alphonse and Morvandieu become the axis around which murders occur.

1993 film by Claude Berri

To his chagrin, young Marcel Pagnol and his family move back to their home in Marseilles, France, far from their pastoral holiday cottage in the hills. Determined, Marcel makes the long voyage back to the cottage on foot and lands himself in trouble. One day Marcel's father discovers a shortcut to the cottage, but it requires trespassing. Despite their trepidations, Marcel and his family begin using the secret trail to reach their cottage.

Coming out from jail, Lucas has decided to change his life and behave like a good citizen. But when he is taken hostage in a bank by a hare-brained robber, no cops can believe he is not part of the action.