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.

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

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

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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...

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

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

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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...

A man is too shy to ask a girl out and decides to kill himself. While lying in the road he is rescue...

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