Pierre Bertin

Orphée is a poet who becomes obsessed with Death (the Princess). They fall in love. Orphée's wife, Eurydice, is killed by the Princess' henchmen and Orphee goes after her into the Underworld. Although they have become dangerously entangled, the Princess sends Orphée back out of the Underworld, to carry on his life with Eurydice. (imdb)

Polish countess Elena falls in love to a Frensh radical party's candidate, a general, in pre world war I Paris, but another officer pines for her. (imdb)

Ginette, Rita, Jacqueline and Jane try to find fulfillment and love in their lives. Rita has a fiancé whose family is obsessed with social distinction; Jane has a boy-friend in the army, but does not hesitate to enjoy herself with chance encounters; Ginette has a mysterious passion that keeps her away from her colleagues at nights. Jacqueline is lonely; but who is that mysterious bike-rider who is constantly following her ? (imdb)

In an atmosphere of political tension when the French still control Algiers, an Algerian is killed on the beach and a French man who has lived in Algiers all his life is arrested for the murder... (imdb)

A strange mystery set in a hotel.

Two middle-aged victims of the war of the sexes, Paul and Albert (Jean-Pierre Marielle and Jean Rochefort) run away from their families at the same time. They indulge themselves by eating what they want to, when and where it pleases them. Trouble finds them in the form of their abandoned wives, and the film moves very much into the realm of symbolic and sexual fantasy from this point onward. (Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide)

An aristocratic novice flees the convent during the French Revolution but when the nuns are condemned by the Tribunal, joins them on the scaffold.

Saint-Maurice, an ordinary peaceful village, lived healthily so much so that the local doctor's practice was scant. But that was before Dr. Parpalaid retired and was replaced by a charlatan by the name of Knock. A real genius this one, for he soon managed to persuade everyone that they were ill. And not only didn't they resent him but they even loved their physician, who made a fortune and brought prosperity to the village by turning it into a big hospital. (imdb)

"Faisons un reve" is an adaptation of one the first, oldest pieces by Sacha Guitry and probably one of this most witty, poetical and charming works. Not more than three caracters: the husband, the wife, her lover. And a "divertissement" was born out of this simple threesome: within four walls something happens, the lover becomes more and more daring and the wife, dazzled, falls in love with him.The dialogues of "Let's have a dream" are exquisite.

A 9-minute piece concerning the travails of "the spiderelephant"

One of the most expensive French films of the immediate postwar years, L'Affaire du Collier de la Reine is primarily a vehicle for the formidable Vivian Romance. The star plays an aristocrat in the court of Louis XVI, who helps engineer a scheme to divest the Queen of her royal necklace. On the verge of success, the "heroine" is found out, and forced to submit to whipping and torture. (KG)

A woman's marriage is on the rocks; to avenge herself, she decides to take a lover for one night. So she buys all his stock from a balloon man and flies them through the Parisian sky; all her balloons carry a message: "I will be alone after midnight" (hence the title); a lot a suitors comme to the rendezvous: a fisherman, a soldier, a traveler a gentleman cambrioleur and others, much to Michel, a young man in love with her's displeasure.

It is with a heavy heart that Monsieur Charles has to close his Parisian brothel in 1946, following new legislation outlawing such establishments. As a parting gift, he offers the brothel's red lantern to one of his star employees, Lucette.

The novelist Suzanne Delmont creates a character, “The Uncatcable Frédéric”, a sort of Arsène Lupin. A mysterious stranger launches a press campaign accusing him of having a harmful influence on young people…

Rosa, a housekeeper in a NATO office in Paris, steals a micro film for her lover whom she hopes to marry. (imdb)