Pierre Bost

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

Dir. Claude Autant-Lara · With Jean Gabin, Bourvil, Louis de Funès

Michel Descombes is a watchmaker who lives in Lyon with his teenage son Bernard. When the police visit and inform him that Bernard has killed a man and is on the run with a girl, Michel realises that he knew far less about his son than he thought.

Dir. Bertrand Tavernier · With Philippe Noiret, Jean Rochefort, Jacques Denis

A group of travelers, including a monk, stay in a lonely inn in the mountains. The host confesses the monk his habit of serving poisoned soup to the guests, to rob their possessions and to bury them in the backyard.

Dir. Claude Autant-Lara · With Fernandel, Françoise Rosay, Marie-Claire Olivia

France, 1893. Joseph Bouvier attempts to shoot his love who refused to marry him and to commit suicide. Upon release from the filthy asylum where he was placed, with bullets still remaining in his head, he wanders the country roads and rapes and murders many teenagers over years. The judge Rousseau captures him, but to serve his ambition seeks to avoid that Bouvier is simply declared insane.

Dir. Bertrand Tavernier · With Philippe Noiret, Michel Galabru, Isabelle Huppert