Jacqueline Maillan

A light French comedy of 5 segments.

Léonard Monestier owns a large fortune, alas his wife Cynthia made a bad investment in a worthless oil concession. Far from letting this get him down, Léonard decides to find a sucker to buy this concession from him. Right on cue appears Antoine Brévin, a befuddled billionaire who is very interested in Léonard's beautiful daughter Patricia and would do anything to win her hand...

A small-town policeman is informed that "naked women" are dancing in a revue at a local variety theater. Being the guardian of public morals that he is, he decides to stroll on down there and check it out for himself.

Witty narration follows the history of Versailles Palace; founded by Louis XIII, enlarged by autocratic Louis XIV, whose personal affairs and amours, and those of his two successors, are pursued in more detail to the start of the Revolution, after which the story is brought rapidly up to date.

Armand, a boastful womaniser, makes a bet that he can seduce any girl he wants. He soon crosses paths with a beautiful Parisian divorcee, who is nothing like anyone he has ever met before.

It is 1943 in Paris. Like so many others, the Bourbelle family's home has been taken over by the Germans and they now live in their cellar. Little do they know that the son, Guy-Hubert Bourdelle, is far from being the cowardly hairdresser he pretends. He is in truth the Germans’ most feared opponent: le super-résistant!

Edouard and Félix work in a real estate agency. One day, they are threatened with dismissal if they don't manage to sell a very isolated house to an elderly, silver and somewhat unusual Englishwoman. In the house, they discover a corpse. The visit is spent dragging the corpse from room to room, cupboard to chest, so as not to frighten the otherwise impressed buyer. But the corpse disappears. He has to be found before the deed can be signed. The two salesmen become detectives, tracking down the dead man's many female acquaintances. All the seducer's conquests are sifted through, to find the one who left her jewels at the scene of the crime.

A publicity-minded French mayor reunites quintuplets and their earthy father, all six played by Fernandel.

An official's earlier rise to power had some sordid aspects that are about to be uncovered by the death of his uncle. While he is trying to contain any potential scandal, the man becomes enamored of the daughter of his uncle's maid. This new romance inspires him to forget worries about a public image and focus on a new life -- not any easy objective when unsavory friends and foes have their own agendas in mind.

Charles and Emmanuelle organize as every year, the congress of perfumers who distribute their products in their castle. Garibaldi, their mutilated and somewhat disturbed son-in-law, will be the butler.

The brother of a delinquent schoolboy falls in love with his teacher and intrigues to make him reciprocate her love, and succeeds.

Noëlle is a woman who succeeds in everything. In addition, she is blessed with incredible luck. But one day, she questions herself, convinced one day to pay the bill. So, to be unhappy, she dismisses one of her friends ... Filmed at the Édouard VII Theater in Paris.

A crime story writer comes to the French Alps for vacation. However, an envelope given by a strange man, would put him in a conflict between two teams of spies. A young blonde hotel burglar will help him get out of this mess.

On the day he loses his job in advertising agency, Gérard Floque returns home to find that his infant daughter has been arrested for drugs trafficking and his wife is having an affair with a TV presenter. Gérard's only comfort in this time of mid-life crisis is his colleague, a young punk girl named Martine.

Bum Archimède wants to spend the winter in prison, but to get there proves not to be that easy.

Charming and innocent, Candide is vigorously chased away by the Baron, for his close encounters with the pretty Cunégonde. World War II breaks out, and when he is drafted and taken prisoner, he is forced to take German nationality and ends up guarding the camp where he was imprisoned. He crossed into Switzerland, but as he had no bank account, he was incarcerated for eight days for trespassing. Hunted by the Gestapo, he kills two men to free Cunégonde, who has finally been found. They both flee to Argentina, and their world tour begins. In Paris, Moscow, New York, Borneo and Alexandria. They try to follow Dr. Pangloss' optimistic rule of life. Tossed about, separated, they find themselves grown old and wiser, thinking only of cultivating their garden on the shores of the Mediterranean.

Maria, a great tragedian, has desires for radical change in her career. Singing, dancing, changing registers and getting younger: it has become an obsession. To get there, she calls on her ex-lover Simon whom she left in the past, who has become a popular choreographer for stars on Broadway. The reunion is somewhat tormented ...

In order to appoint his new right-hand man, a CEO decides to organize a weekend with all the candidates.

Suzanne Pujol is the submissive wife of a rich industrialist who is as unpleasant with his family as with his workers. Following a strike in the company, Suzanne takes the place of her husband, who is disowned by his staff. She proves to be a woman of leadership and action, which provokes the anger of her husband and her former lover, a communist deputy...

The renowned theatre manager, Paul Rémy, is accused by his general secretary Andrieux of having killed his partner. On the advice of his wife Mona, Paul goes into hiding in a psychiatric hospital to escape from the police. But Andrieux seduces Mona who then turns against her husband.

The artist Edouard Lavigne falls in love with a young girl but must quickly leave her because her parents are opposed to this relationship. Edourd's son will go in search of this woman and will thereby meet her daughter. About a love story that continues from one generation to the next.

A man comes to a small town in France and witness the apparent murder of a woman pharmacist. He teams up with the victim's vulgar assistant to try to solve the mystery.

The action takes place - as the title suggests - in a Palace, a really nice hotel. Funny scenes happen in different places: the kitchen, the reception, the elevator, the rooms, ...