Roger Legris

Four vice-presidents fight among themselves to reach the top post after the president dies. Their wives take part in the various schemes to downgrade the opposition by unorthodox means. (imdb)

In order to get rid of his troublesome son François, Maître Gérane manages to have him committed to a mental hospital (imdb)

At the end of the 19th century, a former Napoleonic officer, Jacques Eymard, is mistaken for a brigand by villagers. Wounded in an ambush and killing in self-defense, he hides in local caves, fearing for his life. (YouTube)

During WW1, a train is stopped by a bombing ;a young soldier takes advantage of the opportunity to go to his native village to see his parents.

The highly sensitive young law clerk Werther, drawn to the simple peasant life in the village of Wahlheim, falls in love with Charlotte, who is already betrothed to his older friend. Suffering intensely and exquisitely, Werther languishes close to the now married Lotte, leading a dissipated life until he can bear his unrequited love for her no longer.

A pilot on one of the air mail flights between France and its African colonies has a brief romance with his distressed cousin before he returns to the call of duty, and the rebels in the desert.