Louise, literary advisor to the Cercle Editions, receives a large manuscript from the United States. Upset by the reading of this book, she begins an epistolary relationship with Paul, the author.
Saccard, ready to use all means, however immoral or illegal, tries to gain back the fortune he lost three years ago. All involving business and the exchange market. He has a loyal accomplice, an indifferent son, maybe-friends, partners and investors and of course, enemies.
Everything starts when a journalist François decides to investigate the world of working class people. He gets into the lives of Claude, a worker and his wife Lily who has left him.
The Italians have bocce ball, and the French have a similar game, boules. This is played (generally in the southern part of the country) with steel balls on a packed-earth court. While these games have a bucolic, countrified and even genteel air about them, competition and betting are fierce. In...
Alice, a young Portuguese woman, escapes from a psychiatric hospital where she is locked up under the orders of her father-in-law who intends to take away her inheritance. On her way to France, she falls victim to a truck driver who she kills to defend herself. A few moments after this murder she...
Jeanne runs a busy inn with her husband Georges, her two children and two sisters. There is perfect harmony and the constant sound of laughter coming from the kitchen and office. One day, Pierre, the landlord, takes up a room without a word of explanation. Jeanne gradually begins to feel a strong...
This French drama chronicles the romantic exploits of a Parisian alcoholic who falls in love with the wife of his drinking buddy. Fortunately for him, the wife has a twin sister whom the drunk manages to locate. He then convinces her to return to Paris with him where they go to the Montana jazz bar...
Joseph and Victor are two motorcyclists of the national police force and inseparable friends. If the first leads a tidy life with wife and child, the second, single, is always in search of a soul mate - And one day he finds her.
