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Expatriate Henry Miller indulges in a variety of sexual escapades while struggling to establish himself as a serious writer in Paris

Inspector Lavardin is induced to investigate the murder of a provinces notable who was taking himself as the moral guardian of his village The perspective of the inquiry changes when the inspector recognizes the widow as one of his

Anthony Perkins, a young sculptor with a weird penchant for waking up in strange hotels with his memory wiped clean and bloodied hands, invites a former professor Michel Piccoli to the Gatsby like provincial manor presided over

A black comedy centered around a TV weather girl and the two very different men who pursue her

Marie Chantal travels by train to her cousins place to spend a winter holiday, when a stranger apparently a fugitive from someone aboard entrusts her with a jewel in the shape of a tiger with ruby eyes Unknown to her, these fal

Homicide detective Steve Carella is trying to solve the brutal murder of 17 year old Muriel Stark Her younger cousin Patricia, who saw the killer and barely escaped with her life, helps him However, the case soon takes a bizarre tu

WWII In German occupied Paris, Helene is torn between the love for her boyfriend Jean, working for the resistance and the German administrator Bergmann, who will do anything to gain her

In a small provincial French town, Dr Morasseau, Mr Lavoisier and butcher Filiol decide to create a significant estate business but Mrs Cuno and her son Louis do not want to sell their house Louis presumably provokes the death of Fi

Betty and Victor are a pair of scam artists One day Betty brings in Maurice, a treasurer of a multinational company Maurice is due to transfer 5 millions francs out of Switzerland, and Betty is convinced he plans to steal that mone

Architect Paul Thomas insinuates himself into the relationship of two bisexual women living in a St Tropez villa with tragic consequences

Andre Mercier, a journalist known as Albin Mercier, is a failed, embittered writer Sent to cover an event in Germany, he gets to know Andreas Hartmann, another writer who, for his part, has not failed The successful Andreas is m

In Lausanne, the aspirant pianist Jeanne Pollet has lunch with her mother Louise Pollet, her boyfriend Axel and his mother Lenna leans that when she was born, a nurse had mistakenly told to the prominent pianist Andre Polonski that

A newly hired maid for a rich countryside family befriends a post office clerk who encourages her to rebel against her employers

A champagne tycoons Furneaux partner Ronet suspects his partners gigolo husband Perkins of murders hes been framed for

While traveling to a resort in Tunisia, the magician and clairvoyant Professor Vestar befriends the idle millionaire Edouard Vangard and he offers a ride in his car Vestar discloses to Edouard that he had had a premonition of a woma

Four Parisian women navigate the world of romance and daily life looking to fulfill their dreams but often find real life to be inescapable

Paul, an irritable and stressed out hotel manager, begins to gradually develop paranoid delusions about his wifes infidelity As he succumbs to green eyed jealousy, his life starts to crumble Each step on his downward spiral to mad

A well known Parisian inspector becomes involved in an investigation while on holiday

Three generations of a wealthy Bordeaux family are caught in the crossfire when Anne decides to run for mayor, thanks to a political pamphlet that revives an old murder scandal

A housewife in Nazi occupied France struggles to make ends meet when her husband returns home after being wounded in the war

After the death of his father, the weirdo Yvan Lesurf believes his mother Claudia Lesurf and his uncle Adrien Lesurf have poisoned him since they got married to each other Completely disturbed and insane, the cruel Yvan decides to m

In an interwar France struggling with profound social and political change, 18 year old Violette Noziere rebels against the constraints of her claustrophobic, working class and possibly incestuous family, with troubling consequence

After separation from his wife Robert moves to Vichy where he observes beautiful Juliette Her fiance Patrick becomes jealous and attacks Robert When Patrick disappears Robert is suspected to have killed him

An unlikely friendship between a dour, working class butcher and a repressed schoolteacher coincides with a grisly series of Ripper type murders in a provincial French town

Four swindle stories, taking place successively in Tokyo Japan Les cinq bienfaiteurs de Fumiko, Amsterdam The Netherlands La riviere de diamants, Italie La feuille de route, and Paris France Lhomme qui vendit la tour Ei

Lucienne Delamare and Pierre Maury are having an affair Luciennes husband Paul is the mayor, and a French deputy Pierres wife Clotilde has been weak and sickly for years Luciennes husband holds no excitement for her, and he is

A man asserts himself within the life of an actress he believes is somehow responsible for his sons death

Helene Regniers 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 sons condition and vow to win custody of Michel

Hired to write a biography of a television personality, a reporter spends a few days at the mans country estate with the eccentric extended family

In nineteenth century France, the romantic daughter of a country squire marries a dull country doctor To escape boredom, she throws herself into love affairs with a suave local landowner and a law student, and runs up ruinous debts

Six vignettes set in different sections of Paris, by six directors St Germain des Pres Douchet, Gare du Nord Rouch, Rue St Denis Pollet, and Montparnasse et Levallois Godard are stories of love, flirtation and prostitution