The cynical boss of a big insurance agency invites his top salary employees to spend a week end in his country house A modest clerical worker, also invited, discovers the hidden reason for this party and decides to
On 9 January 1836, Pierre Lacenaire goes to the guillotine, a murderer and a thief He gives Allard, a police inspector, his life story, written while awaiting execution He also asks Allard to care for Hermine, a la
Inspector Lavardin investigates on the murder of a famous writer, whose widow happens to be Helen, a woman Lavardin once loved She has a daughter from a first marriage, who actually killed her stepfather, as he was
An East European scientist smuggled out of his country by the French is supposed to perfect his invention in suburban Paris, but he is much more interested in having a good time
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 provok