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Échappement libre (1964)

Jean Becker

David Ladislas, a career smuggler, is hired to transport a large consignment of gold into Lebanon in his sports car. Olga, his partner in the operation, is surprised when he decides to keep the gold for himself and go on the run but she decides to play along with him. Meanwhile, David’s scheme has been rumbled by his employers, who send armed killers after him..... [More...]

L’École des cocottes (1935)

Pierre Colombier

Monsieur Labaume, a solitary middle-aged man, has become infatuated with the attractive young woman who has recently moved into the apartment opposite his own. Alas, Ginette already has an amorous suitor, Robert, and he has no intention of giving her up. But Ginette attracts the attentions of a third man, Stanislas de la Ferronnière, a professor of good manners, who sees that she has the potential to be the most talked about woman in Paris... [More...]

L’École des contribuables (1934)

René Guissart

Gaston Valtier is an idler who is more than content to live the life of a man of leisure than work for his living, if only to avoid having to pay income tax. His father-in-law, Émile Fromentel, is a government tax inspector who, naturally, regards Gaston’s lifestyle with utter contempt. Not only does Gaston not keep his wife Juliette in the manner to which she deserves to get accustomed, but he is depriving the state of a valuable source of revenue, through the taxes he would pay if he had a well-paid job... [More...]

L’École des facteurs (1947)

Jacques Tati

In his office, the chief postman of a French rural community puts three junior postmen through a course of intensive training. The aim is to reduce the time of their postal round so that they can catch the airmail plane on time. In the classroom, François may be the star pupil, but when he gets back to his daily round, countless obstacles prevent him from succeeding in his mission..... [More...]

L’École pour tous (2006)

Eric Rochant

Jahwad, 30, is the black sheep of his family. Having failed his baccalaureate, he turned to a career in crime, and is now on the run from the police. One day, he is given a golden opportunity to go back to high school – not as a pupil, but as a teacher... [More...]

Ein Engel auf Erden (1959)

Géza von Radványi

When his bride-to-be jilts him at the alter and runs off with a singer, racing driver Pierre Chaillot decides to drown his sorrows in alcohol and then kill himself. Before he can commit the fatal act, his guardian angel suddenly appears, in the form of an air hostess named Line who, unbeknown to Pierre, is madly in love with him... [More...]

L’Élève Ducobu (2011)

Philippe de Chauveron

The pupil from Hell, Ducobu has once again been sent back to school. This is his last chance. If he fails at Saint-Potache he will be sent to boarding school. To save himself, Ducobu must employ the most ingenious tricks and ruses ever devised. Unfortunately, he is up against a formidable adversary in Monsieur Latouche, his redoubtable teacher... [More...]

Elle boit pas, elle fume pas, elle drague pas, mais... elle cause! (1970)

Michel Audiard

Through her work as a housecleaner, Georgette finds out things about her employers which, if widely known, would provoke a scandal. Francine, for instance, is a popular TV presenter whose fiancé’s political career would be ruined if it were revealed that she was once an exotic dancer. Likewise, Phalempin would lose his job as the head of a Catholic orphanage if his bishop ever learned that he has a penchant for dressing up as a dragonfly... [More...]

Émile l’Africain (1948)

Robert Vernay

Mild-mannered studio prop man Emile is surprised when his wife returns to him after twenty years, accompanied by their daughter Martine. The latter is about to get married, to a young man named Daniel, and is eager to win her father’s consent. Realising that Daniel could so easily end up becoming the victim of his authoritarian ex-wife, Emile advises his future son-in-law to show that he is not a man who is easily controlled... [More...]

L’Emmerdeur (1973)

Edouard Molinaro

Professional hit man Ralf Milan takes a room in a hotel opposite the law courts in Montpellier - his mission: to assassinate a key witness in a gangland trial. In an adjacent room, François Pignon is about to commit suicide. Now that his wife has abandoned him for another man, he has no reason to live, so he tries to hang himself... [More...]

L’Emmerdeur (2008)

Francis Veber

In his hotel room, hired killer Ralph Milan is making preparations to assassinate a key witness in a trial. Next door, François Pignon is about to commit suicide, unable to go on living after his wife left him. Milan is a pro, a man who knows what he is doing, and a man who gets results. Pignon is one of life’s losers, a walking disaster area who has barely enough gumption to kill a comatose fly... [More...]

Les Émotifs anonymes (2010)

Jean-Pierre Améris

Angélique has a passion and an instinct for the art of chocolate making that is virtually unrivalled. But she is also chronically shy, so when she goes for a job interview at a chocolate factory she is almost paralysed with fear. It so happens that the owner of the factory, Jean-René, is just as timid as she is, and it looks as if Fate has been working over time to bring them together... [More...]

En effeuillant la marguerite (1956)

Marc Allégret

When he find out that his daughter, Agnes, has written a saucy novel, General Dumont orders her to go to a convent. At the last moment, Agnes escapes on a train bound for Paris, where she meets a newspaper reporter, Daniel. When Daniel refuses to lend her some money, Agnes is forced to sell a valuable book taken from the Balzac museum where she is staying (which she has mistaken for her brother Hubert’s home)... [More...]

Enfermés dehors (2006)

Albert Dupontel

One evening, Roland, a homeless man, witnesses a policeman commit suicide. When he tries to hand over the dead man’s possessions at the police station, he is not taken seriously and so he decides to wear the uniform himself. This allows him access to the staff canteen and a very welcome free meal... [More...]

L’Ennemi public no 1 (1953)

Henri Verneuil

Having lost his job in a New York department store on account of his advanced myopia, Joe Calvet decides to cheer himself up with a visit to the cinema. When he leaves the theatre, he walks out with the coat of another man, who happens to be a member of a notorious band of gangsters. When Joe pulls a gun out of the pocket of the coat, he is arrested and, mistaken as the gangsters’ boss, sent to prison... [More...]

Ensemble c’est trop (2010)

Léa Fazer

Clémentine and Sébastien are a young couple who have become trapped in the stale routine of their work and parental responsibilities. But things take a sudden turn for the worse when Sébastien’s mother, Marie-France, moves in with them, having learned of her husband’s infidelity... [More...]

Ensemble, nous allons vivre une très, très grande histoire d’amour... (2010)

Pascal Thomas

When Dorothée and Nicolas meet, it is love at first sight. From the moment they first set eyes on one other, they know they are made for each other, that they will live the great tumultuous passion which they thought existed only in old American movies. Alas, fickle Fate has a nasty habit of frustrating even the most ardent of resolutions... [More...]

L’Entente cordiale (2006)

Vincent De Brus

Crooked arms dealer Viktor Zilenko steals a revolutionary microchip which, when implanted into a soldier, makes him impervious to pain. Zilenko intends to sell the chip back to the Russians through the intermediary of the French secret service. François de la Conche, an aristocratic secret agent, is sent to London to undertake the transaction, accompanied by a hired interpreter Jean-Pierre Moindreau... [More...]

Entre nous deux (2010)

Nicolas Guillou

For three years and seven months, Emma and Thomas have been trying desperately to start a family, without any success. A medical examination establishes there is nothing to prevent them from conceiving, so the problem has to be psychological. The pressure of work and the continual presence of Emma’s overly attentive parents are proving to be the perfect contraceptive... [More...]

Envoyés très spéciaux (2008)

Frédéric Auburtin

News radio station R2I sends its best reporter, Frank Bonneville, and his sound engineer, Albert Poussin, to Iraq to make a special report on the country. Albert is suffering from chronic depression after learning that his wife has just left him; he doesn’t yet know that this was the result of a one night stand that his wife had with Frank... [More...]

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