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- Escaping a Nazi prison train in war-torn Italy, an American and a British soldier set out for the Swiss border and find themselves leading a multi-national party of refugees for the Italian underground.
- A band of runaways and orphans of the war scour the countryside in search of food and shelter. They invade and then taken in by a musician and former concert pianist who's hiding out in a ruined castle. After the initial altercation between them the gang accepts his guidance and he wins their respect by protecting them from the elements. However, disgruntled townsfolk want to chase away the gang who has been - in their search for survival - laying waste to their crops. A battle ensues ending in the death of a little boy - and resolution.
- When Kerstin Norback is shot and gravely wounded by her lover, the trial causes a public scandal, forcing her to move to Stockholm under an assumed name. There she befriends a group of women and attempts to rebuild her life.
- A con man (Eddie Constantine) is approached by a shipping magnate to become one of his security agents.
- Vittorio De Sica is a teacher struggling to take care of his family and always dreaming that Parliament will increase the salaries for teachers and life will become easier for his wife, Maria Mereander, and kids. An Indian prince (Sabu) visits Italy, is assisted by the teacher, and gives De Sica a baby elephant as a reward. This upsets the landlord, Nando Bruno, the other tenants and the neighborhood . He takes the elephant away but, like Lassie, it comes home.
- The battle of the sexes as drawing room social satire. Philippe, a middle-aged newspaper editor, has lived for six years with Paulette, a successful stage actress. He tells her friend Claudine, a realistic and enterprising reporter, that he's thinking of proposing. Into the mix steps Carl Erickson, a charming Hollywood matinée idol in Paris briefly. He meets Paulette, sees her act (his box seat compliments of Philippe), and sets out to seduce her. The next two days bring talk, tears, separation, despair, surprises, and, perhaps, reconciliation as characters speak "exactly half the truth." It's a quadrille of changing partners.
- Two ambitious parents decide to change their name for a foreign patronymic so that their young son Edmond can win fame easier.He's a eleven-year -old orchestra conductor.
- The duel between a Czarist general and a lieutenant, over the general's wife, is postponed with war approaching.Years later, the rivals meet again but the general realizes his wife has been faithful to him after all.
- Alex Grégoire is a timid insurance company clerk who shares his uneventful life between his wife Angèle, his colleagues and his passion for crosswords. But all of a sudden his existence changes dramatically. First because he wins a crossword competition. Second because a jewel thief, Charles Tuffal, thinks he recognizes in him a former accomplice. From that moment "uneventful" is not the best adjective to qualify Alex's life anymore...
- Ronaldo, a singer with the growing reputation dedicating himself body and soul to his art, sacrificing his marriage.
- In a mining village ,where life is very hard , man never sees the sun .
- Based on the novel by Albert t'Serstevens. Dupuy, the first mate of the French freighter "Cristobal" is informed by cabaret dancer La Rubia that the "Cristobal" carries a priceless secret cargo of gold.
- To all those daring women ,who had a dream to fly.
- Pascal's life should have been normal and happy. A shepherd in his native Provence, he was a friendly young man who very naturally fell in love with Vivette, the daughter of a rich farmer. But that was without counting with Marcellin, a spiteful, jealous man who coveted Vivette and wanted her for himself.The traitor managed to have Pascal enrolled in Napoleon's army. Pascal came close to death in Russia but miraculously survived. And fifteen years later vengeance would be his. Reunited with Vivette and the child he had given her, time had come for happiness.
- Jacques Loew takes us for a walk in the Bois de Boulogne. Will we, thanks to him, learn everything about life in a forest ? Well, not really. Just do not expect a "Call of the Wild" experience. Instead, you will meet some famous people at the top, not of society but of a tree . You will be spoofed, will play charades, try to find riddles there while rocked by the inimitable voice of Gérard Philipe. An eccentric walk indeed.
- Two scientists have invented a kindness serum which can turn the fiercest human being into the sweetest kindest person.Testing the product on a wild lion proves successful.The "vaccination " becomes compulsory in the whole France ,then in Europa.Mrs Durand ,who was a sour-tempered shrew, becomes tender and pampers her husband ,happy as he has never been.The bossy colonel of the fourth floor surrounds his neighbors with attentions .But new problems appear ,caused by this universal goodness:for instance ,Mr Durand's boss's lover does not want to tell him she does not love him anymore for fear he may be grieved.Besides, a country in which people were not inoculated against nastiness becomes aggressive.
- A spy is instructed to investigate a case of arms and women trafficking covered behind a funeral services company.
- This is the combined story of Dominique Verdelet, the self-assured charming star presenter of Radio Globe, who unexpectedly loses control when he feels true love for someone (just ask young dancer Micheline what she thinks about it!) and of Gérard Mercadier, a young sculptor, who is fed up with being a huge fan of a radio singer called "The Voiceless Tenor" (just ask Odette how she gets on her husbie's nerves!) and who discovers he himself has a golden voice...
- Inspector Dumont and his deputy Inspector Queneau investigate the murder of a young woman. They learn that the victim was pregnant before her death and that she was the mistress of Mario, a shady playboy who had dumped her while she was with child. A doctor is first suspected but is he the real culprit?