In Paris, near the end of World War II, crotchety professor Fernand Bonnard maintains a zoo and continues his research. He's a coward, as is his debonair son, Armand, who has one daughter, ...
Marie, a young provincial girl, is seduced by an American billionaire. She did agree to follow him if he moves her village to New York.
North Africa, December 1942. Valentin, a professional gardener ruined by the bombings of 1940, has fled to Tunis, where he traffics stolen goods, transporting them from Libya to Tunisia on an old boat.
A young woman, Louise, is a lecturer in a provincial town where she meets an Italian immigrant. The film retraces their relationship.
Julie asks Jean-Luc Farlot,authorized signatory of a big European bank to help her disguise a murder as an accident.
Edouard Berlon (Jean-Pierre Cassel) is a happy-go-lucky rogue who takes nothing seriously and flits irresponisbly from one affair to another. When he meets Helene Larouch (Anouk Aimee), he ...
Antoine was raised into the easy life by his very rich grandfather. After the death of his grandfather the money has gone and Antoine falls under the influence of various easy people.
Two brothers, one very successful and the other not, switch places with each other, exchanging jobs and wives.