1948 film by Jacques de Baroncelli

Three little criminals get a tip for a great coup with lots of money in it. Unfortunately they lack the starting funds to buy the required welding torch. So they persuade their successful colleague Alphonse to join their team. But the well thought-out coup fails, and Alphonse is the only one of them who ends up in jail for several years. When he's released, he's out for revenge.

Christopher Joett, sympathique mauvais garçon au grand cœur, porte la poisse à son entourage, ce qui lui a valu le surnom de «Lucky Jo». À sa sortie de prison, personne ne veut plus «monter de coups» avec lui. Seul, son ami Simon accepte de le recevoir. Ce dernier, reconverti en garagiste à Bougival, prête une Peugeot 404 à Jo pour qu'il aille revoir Mimi, son ancienne petite amie chanteuse dans un beuglant de Pigalle. Pendant que Jo fête ses retrouvailles avec sa belle, la malchance frappe de nouveau: des gangsters volent la 404 pour commettre un braquage et la police a aussitôt fait de retrouver le propriétaire du véhicule, le garagiste Simon…

A shimmering glass hotel at the top of a remote Provençal mountain provides the setting for a tragicomic tapestry about an obsessive love pentangle, whose principals range from an artist to a hotel manager to a dam worker.

The film follows the life of Napoleon from his early life in Corsica to his death at Saint Helena. The film is notable for its use of location shooting for numerous scenes, especially at the French estates of Malmaison and Fontainebleau, the Palace of Versailles, and sites of Napoleonic battles including Austerlitz and Waterloo.

An aimless young man is committed to a psychiatric hospital by his father in an attempt to cure him of his delinquent tendencies.

A circus daredevil is the next victim of a danger-seducing woman who tricks him into a potentially deadly stunt after he attempted to kill her.

1946 film by Marc Allégret

An old count hides just before he dies to annoy his heirs. The heirs search a manor for the count's body and are killed off one by one. Jean-Marie, his fiancée Micheline, and Edwige investigate the deaths and search for the count's body.

June 1944, a French town towards the end of the occupation. Following several attacks perpetrated by the resistance, the inhabitants who listen to English radio are rounded up by the Germans in a prison and considered as hostages. In one of the cells are found men from all walks of life: an aristocrat, the Viscount of Saint-Leu, Doctor Noblet, a resistance fighter, Béquille the wanderer with a wooden leg, and a strange character nicknamed "Black Market". The latter arouses mistrust among the prisoners, because it could well have been introduced by the enemy.

A gorgeous housekeeper turns the tables on the men in a small Mediterranean coastal town by using their own vicious drinking game.