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- DirectorMarcel PagnolStarsLéon BernardAnnie DucauxJean DebucourtPeriod comedy from a play, about a bourgeois who marries off his daughter to an impoverished nobleman in order to win a name for his family.
- DirectorMarcel PagnolStarsVincent ScottoHenri PouponAnnie ToinonIn a country town of Provence, a landowner threatens to kill himself after the neighbor he has sold a property to wants to chop down the trees.
- DirectorMarcel PagnolStarsOrane DemazisFernandelHenri PouponA young and naive peasant girl in Provence, who has been seduced and abandoned, moves to Marseilles and becomes a street-walker after having her baby.
- DirectorMarcel PagnolStarsAlexandre ArnaudyJean CastanAndré RobertA famed Paris chef opens a gourmet spot in a Provençal village, only to be met by patrons who do not truly appreciate haute cuisine.The plot thickens as an ex laundress gets into the act and opens up her own eatery nearby.
- DirectorMarcel PagnolStarsRaimuPierre FresnayOrane DemazisHonoré Panisse is dying, cheerfully, with friends, wife, and son at his side. He confesses to the priest in front of his friends; he insists that the doctor be truthful. But, he cannot bring himself to tell his son Cesariot that his real father is Marius, the absent son of César, Cesariot's godfather. Panisse leaves that to Fanny, the lad's mother. Dissembling that he's off to see a friend, Cesariot then seeks Marius, now a mechanic in Toulon. Posing as a journalist, Cesariot spends time with Marius and leaves believing tales he is a petty thief. Only after the truth comes out can Marius, Fanny, César, and Cesariot step beyond the falsehoods, benign though they may be.
- DirectorMarcel PagnolStarsAlexandre ArnaudyDélia ColJean Arbuleau
- DirectorMarcel PagnolStarsGabriel GabrioOrane DemazisFernandelThe narrative revolves around a farming village where only three inhabitants remain, but they are told that if only one of them, Panturle, manages to find a wife, the village will be able to prosper again
- DirectorMarcel PagnolStarsFernandelOrane DemazisFernand CharpinMeeting a movie team on location near his house, a young man gets a lot of encouragement for his dreaming career as a movie star in what was only sarcasm from the members of the team. This is the characteristic of a schpountz: someone who sees himself as a born movie comedian and is blind on the critics to his dream. After he has signed a fake contract which he blindly takes as genuine even if it is ridiculous, he goes to Paris without money to make his career.
- DirectorMarcel PagnolStarsRaimuGinette LeclercFernand CharpinA small village rejoices at the arrival of a new baker. But when his young wife runs off with another man, he is unable to keep baking and the village is thrown into disarray.
- DirectorMarcel PagnolStarsHenri PouponAndré PollackAnnie ToinonMerlusse is a teacher in an all-boys boarding school - pupils hate him since he smells, has a glass eye and is very strict. When Christmas Eve arrives most boys leave school to spend the holidays with their families but a small group of lonely boys is left behind with Merlusse as their overseer. Merlusse doesn't get along with the boys very well and they pull various tricks on him but on Christmas Morning boys wake to find a huge surprise waiting for them...
- DirectorMarcel PagnolStarsRaimuFernandelJosette DayA rural maiden's two suitors go off to war, leaving her pregnant.
- DirectorMarcel PagnolStarsPierre BlancharJosette DayJulien CarettePierre and Florence meet at the fair in Paris. They vow eternal love and go to Cassis, under the Southern sun. But Florence has a burdensome past: before meeting Pierre she was a kept woman. Her chivalrous lover, Dominique, chooses to set her free. But Pierre is an uncompromising man and, furious with Florence, threatens to leave her...
- DirectorMarcel PagnolStarsTino RossiJacqueline PagnolRaoul MarcoFranz Schubert retired from Vienna in country for musical writing. He draws his inspiration from a romance with the watermiller's daughter. An operetta in the fifties Vienna style. This is the only movie from Marcel Pagnol in color and the only movie in rouxcolor, a French experimental process derivated from the agfacolor German process.
- DirectorMarcel PagnolStarsFernandelHélène PerdrièreJacqueline PagnolAlbert Topaze, sincere schoolteacher addicted to "rote" morality, works at a private school run by supremely money-grubbing M. Muche, whose daughter, also a teacher, makes cynical use of the knowledge that Topaze loves her. Alas, Topaze's naive honesty brings him unjust dismissal...and makes him fair game for the "aunt" of his private pupil, really the mistress of crooked politician Regis, who needs an honest-seeming "front man." Can artful Suzy Courtois keep Topaze on the string? With steadily escalating disillusion comes moral crisis...
- DirectorMarcel PagnolStarsEdmond ArdissonHenri AriusAndré BervilTo avenge her father's death, Manon blocks the source of water for local villagers.
- DirectorMarcel PagnolStarsAntonin FabreRellysFernand SardouConsists of four stories from the book of the same name by Alphonse Daudet: "The Three Low Masses", "The Elixir of Father Gaucher", "The Priest of Cucugnan" and "The Secret Of Master Cornille".