Émile Boulard is a props man in a Paris movie studio. He has a wife, Suzanne. Or to be more accurate, let's say he HAD a wife since she left him fifteen years before, allegedly ... to go buy a post stamp. But now that their daughter Martine , who lives with her, is old enough to marry, she resurfaces. She confesses that, in order to explain his absence, she has told Martine her father was a great explorer and lion hunter in Africa. Not to disappoint his daughter, Émile accepts to pose as the adventurer he is supposed to be. At the same time he will help Daniel, Martine's bashful fiancé, not to become a henpecked husband like him.

Pursued by a rival gang after a violent robbery, Toni escapes with nearly thirty million francs. On ...

Two friends, Tricoche and Cacolet, are partners in a detective agency. Chance has it that Cacolet is...

Good-natured and devout, a French house painter takes the train to Rome, where he has decided to go ...

Désiré Le Sec has just won the "amateur policeman contest" and he is so glad he 's telling all the p...

For 25 years now, under the Provence sun, Antonin, a farmhand, has shared his work and everyday life...

Guillaume Dodut is a stationmaster in rural France at a station where trains no longer stop. His dre...

Lafraise and Plumard, two rookies on the ship Le Victorieux, are on leave in the port of Toulon. At ...

Hélène and François are a perfect couple happily married for twelve years. But Hélène discovers psyc...

Following a broadcast on the radio, each of the listeners remembers these "little nothings" (the tit...

Antoine Espérandieu, a French tenderfoot, lands in Windows Canyon, Arizona, a remote place under the...

The life of disorderly soldiers in the barracks dealing with daily routines.

A man assists his gravely ill wife to die and wants to face justice for this, but his brothers try e...

Famous author Bretonneau gets his ghost writer Moluchet to impersonate the notorious criminal Jim la...

Sénéchal, an actor touring the provinces with the "Tournées Carlini" does not meet the success he th...

Fernand Espitalion is miserable as totally whipped husband of a dragon 'passed on' -like cloths- by ...

Auguste, a somewhat simple-minded Provençal fisherman, loves and admires Mireille. This concerns onl...

A man who claims to be the lover of a married woman goes to find the husband and reveals to him that...

Hercule, a young peasant, inherits a Parisian newspaper with a large circulation. The editor-in-chie...

A young man is hit by a car on a zebra crossing. The pretty driver drives him home, takes care of hi...

Jules and Fernand are two boys from the Café des sports in Marseille who take part in their corporat...