La Joie de vivre

อลิซ วัย 38 ปี มีทุกสิ่งทุกอย่างที่จะเป็นบรรณาธิการบริหารคนต่อไปของนิตยสาร Rebelle ยกเว้นภาพลักษณ์ที่เคร่งขรึมของเธอ แต่เมื่อบัลทาซาร์ สาวน้อยผู้มีเสน่ห์วัยเพียง 20 ปี เข้ามาขวางทางของอลิซ เธอจึงรู้ว่าเขาคือกุญแจสำคัญในการเลื่อนตำแหน่งของเธอ

Henri is a middle-aged writer with fading inspiration who has published nothing worthy of note in years. Feeling increasingly misunderstood by his wife and four grown up deadbeat kids, he dreams of running away to start over again. Yet when he discovers an unattractive, bad-mannered dog in his garden, he decides to adopt him and both start developing an unexpected friendship that inevitably upsets Henri’s family and neighbors.

Alexandre, a young and honest farmer, is oppressed by an authoritarian wife, who makes him work like a dog. When she dies in a car crash, he decides to stay in bed, absolutely free and inactive. Just a dog is occupied to carry food and newspapers to him.

Beatrice celebrates with her family the release of her book: she tells about the accident of her husband Frederic. He became blind and without filter - always so funny and seductive, he is totally unpredictable. But this book, hymn-to-life, will turn into a joyful fist because if Beatrice changed the names, each of his friends seeks to find his character. The book awakens secret jealousies, while the group of friends and family pitch.

Dressed as a clown, the clever rascal Grimm holds up the most secure bank of Montreal and takes 30 hostages. While confusing and ridiculing the police with his strange behavior, he calmly manages to rid the bank of a fortune. But then an unsatisfied companion arouses trouble...

The whole intrigue is centered around carte-blanche documents kept in a vault. Whoever fills in the blank becomes the owner of a revue. Big money is involved. The nephew of the owner of the vault is trying to cheat his uncle and have his name in the documents. Everything is even more complicated because the manager of the bank has a finger in the pie, too. Who but a humble bank-teller (Pierre Richard) will ruin the scheme?

An upper middle-class French family celebrates a birthday in a restaurant. In one evening and during one meal, family history, tensions, collective and separate grudges, delights, and memories both clash and coalesce.

Baptiste, a talented imitator, is unable to make a living from his art. One day, he is approached by Pierre Chozène, a famous but discreet novelist, constantly disturbed by incessant calls from his publisher, his daughter, his ex-wife... Pierre, who needs peace and quiet to write his most ambitious text, then suggests that Baptiste become his 'answering machine' by pretending to be him on the phone... Little by little, Baptiste doesn't just imitate the writer: he develops his character!

เมื่อเพื่อนบ้านมหาภัยไม่ยอมย้ายออกจากอพาร์ตเมนต์ในฝันเสียที คู่รักคู่นี้จึงต้องวางแผนแสบ ถ้าอยากได้อพาร์ตเมนต์ที่ว่ามาครอบครอง

Firefighter Charlie Chaplin is tricked into letting a house burn by an owner who wants to collect on the insurance.