A blow dart-wielding thug snatches a rare statuette from the Musee de l'Homme; anthropologist Jean Servais (Rififi) is kidnapped in broad Parisian daylight; serviceman Jean-Paul Belmondo begins his 8-day leave by changing to civvies in a Metro entrance and witnesses fiancee Francoise Dorleac (Catherine Deneuve's sister, killed in a car accident 3 years later) getting kidnapped herself - and then the chase begins: by motorcycle, shoe leather, flight...

An explorer claims to have discovered a treasure that would change history but struggles to get the recognition he says he deserves.

Selkirk, an unruly, selfish pirate, is the sailing master of the Esperanza, an English galley sailing the South Seas in search of treasures. When Captain Bullock, decides to abandon him on an uninhabited island, he discovers a new outlook on the world and learns to survive alone, becoming the real Robinson Crusoe.

During World War II, the massive Japanese submarine I-52 was sunk by American warplanes in the mid-Atlantic in June of 1944, as the vessel was heading to Germany to provide last-minute aid to the Nazis in an effort to stave off defeat. Manifests show that the sub was laden with two tons of gold. Join Paul Tidwell as he tries to find the treasure sealed within the I-52, which sank to the ocean floor some three miles beneath the surface.