Movies: Monette Dinay

In a small French village, everything would be quiet if the local wildlife cop was not being ridiculed by a smart poacher....

Two unlikely companions must smuggle four suitcases filled with contraband pork across Nazi-occupied Paris....

Originally titled Nous Sommes Tout des Assassins, We Are All Murderers was directed by Andre Cayette, a former lawyer who detested France's execution system. Charles Spaak's screenplay makes no attempt to launder the four principal characters (Marcel...

In France in 1946, the difficult return to civilian life of five deportees and prisoners of war after having lived through the hell of the Second World War....

Life is so dull in a quiet little neighborhood that gossips, eager for some kind of scandal to brighten things up, imagine their haberdasher has been having quite a raunchy sex life....

A somewhat naive young man, newly married to a well-to-do young lady, is harassed by a promiscuous woman he met on a train. Everything will end well....

A colonel decided to be represented at the regiment festival of a tragedy in verse by the poem written by his sister....

Soon after the death of his first wife (whose dowry was inadequate), Charles Bovary, a country doctor in Normandy, marries Emma Rouault. In her new home, Emma finds conflict with her mother-in-law, a husband uninterested in the social whirl, and gene...

In the 1950s, in a small provincial town, a young inexperienced judge clashes with an influential notable during an investigation into a suspicious death. His perseverance to get to the truth will cause a huge scandal....

There are collectors and collectors. As far as he is concerned, Monsieur Coquelet has brought together a collection of historical... garters! So imagine his reaction when he realizes his most invaluable piece has been stolen... Municipal police and g...

Odette Joyeux plays an eccentric young aristocrat called "Chiffon", who is struggling to comply with the social conventions of the community. A widow, her mother (Suzanne Dantes) would like to remarry a rich noble. Without realizing it, Chiffon is in...

A wealthy young American woman is suddenly cut off by her father while living in Paris. A philosopher, she tries to make a living as a guide in the capital. The Marquis de Cernay, who has his eye on Nancy's portfolio, engages Maurice, a hardworking w...

A one-night stand with an entertainer threatens to destroy a woman's marriage after she gives birth to a black child....

A tough customs man, out to get a youth smuggling tobacco into France across the Belgium border, falls for the jaded ex bar hostess the smuggler lives with.Meanwhile the young man is intrigued by another, more innocent girl....

Bienaimé, a modest postman, in love with Janine, the village postmistress, does not know that he is the illegitimate son of the old Baron de Mondésir. The Baron dies and in happy amazement, Bienaimé finds he is the sole heir to the deceased's estate....

A film based upon the life of Vidocq, the famous adventurer, who, after numerous prison escapes ceased being a crook, a thief and a counterfeiter, and was employed by Pasquier’s government’istry as director of the crime-fighting Sûreté Nationale....

O-Kay Agency, run by Monsieur Dubois, will supply anything you like. Even what you do not particularly crave : for instance, Max, the agency's gifted employee made Sam, a millionaire, buy a bath just by putting an attractive young lady in it ! But wh...

Jacques is a jolly bachelor who lives a wild life with his a mistress Wanda and all he wishes is to go on living the way he does. But Father won't allow. He demands that Jacques get married. More or less reluctantly, Jacques decides to comply but on ...

A young aristocrat whose ruined father decided to marry her spends one last night as a bachelor at the boarding school ball. But there, cheerful students strip her of her clothes and she finds refuge precisely with her future husband whom she did not...

A prudish man becomes, by inheritance, owner of the Bal Tabarin which, according to the testamentary provisions, he must manage himself. He launches himself happily into this life of pleasures and hides it from his family....