Henri Crémieux

A poet in love with Death follows his unhappy wife into the underworld.

Two sisters leave their small seaside town of Rochefort in search of romance. Hired as carnival singers, one falls for an American musician, while the other must search for her ideal partner.

The Poet looks back over his life and work, recalling his inspirations and obsessions.

In a moment of madness a respectable pharmacist kills a young woman who is sun-bathing by a lake. Unable to take in what he has done, he flees from the scene of the crime and behaves as if nothing has happened.

The problem of the reasonableness of capital punishment.

Patterning himself after the American gangster John Dillinger, a criminal is tracked by an inspector, a former childhood friend.

In order to please Martineau, a wealthy industrialist, cynical Gabory accepts to organize a rigged beauty contest whose winner will be Françoise, Martineau's young mistress. However, there are other comely contestants among whom C...