Jérôme Rocheville, a man "well established in his age," marries a beautiful but incredibly spendthrift young woman. Unable to keep up with his wife's expensive habits, Jérôme attempts to return to his former career as an architect, but he finds no real success. The couple faces looming financial disaster due to the wife's extravagant spending.
Adolphe Menjou
Jérôme Rocheville
Alice Cocéa
Yvonne
Roger Tréville
Gérard
Charles Redgie
Stanley
Olga Valéry
Mado
Pauline Carton
la concierge
André Marnay
Lepetissale
Renee Savoye
la secrétaire
Jérôme Rocheville, a man "well established in his age," marries a beautiful but incredibly spendthrift young woman. Unable to keep up with his wife's expensive habits, Jérôme attempts to return to his former career as an architect, but he finds no real success. The couple faces looming financial disaster due to the wife's extravagant spending.
One summer, a French teenager who has been living with his mother in the city moves in with his estranged father’s family in the countryside, where he clashes with his stepmother.
Five unemployed workers win 100,000 Francs in the national lottery. Instead of sharing the money, they buy a ruin and build an open-air cafe. But difficulties come to split their friendly group apart.
Middle-aged widow Beatrice Hunsdorfer and her daughters Ruth and Matilda are struggling to survive in a society they barely understand. Beatrice dreams of opening an elegant tea room but does not have the wherewithal to achieve her lofty goal. Epileptic Ruth is a rebellious adolescent, while shy but highly intelligent and idealistic Matilda seeks solace in her pets and school projects, including one designed to show how small amounts of radium affect marigolds.
A young Parisian must make major decisions about pregnancy, a job and her boyfriend.
Set in a magnificent villa near a sun-drenched St. Tropez, lovers Jean-Paul and Marianne are spending a happy, lazy summer holiday. Their only concern is to gratify their mutual passion - until the day when Marianne invites her former lover and his beautiful teenage daughter to spend a few days with them. From the first moment, a certain uneasiness and tension begin to develop between the four, which soon escalates in a dangerous love-game.
After the lewd and frenetic Dance of the Seven Veils, and with the solemn pledge from the very lips of Herod himself that she could have whatever her heart desires up to half his kingdom, wanton and proud young Salomé comes before her king with an unreasonable demand. Beguiled by John the Baptist, and then scorned for the sake of his god, lascivious Salomé—encouraged by her mother, the vindictive, Herodias—commands that John be executed and his head delivered on a silver platter.
An executive manager, his wife and his family, at the point when his professional choices are about to overturn all their lives. Philippe Lemesle and his wife are separating, their love irretrievably damaged by pressures of work. A successful executive in industrial conglomerate, Philippe no longer knows how to respond to the contradictory demands of his bosses. Yesterday they wanted a manager, today an enforcer. Now he must decide what his life really means.
Daniel lives with his grandmother and, after a year of high school, goes to live with his mother in the south of France; a harsher environment which rapidly changes his perception of friends, work, and women.
A French diplomat is surveilled by a secret service to find a weakness for political control, his private life becoming 'File No. 51'.
Psychological drama of the compelling relationship between a young French engineer and the girl he takes into his home after his wife has left him with their baby son.