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- After his daughter weds, a middle-aged widower with a profitable farm decides to remarry, but finds choosing a suitable mate a problematic process.
- The business tycoon Nicolas Saccard is nearly ruined by his rival Gunderman, when he tries to raise capital for his company. To push up the price of his stock, Saccard plans a publicity stunt involving the aviator Jacques Hamelin flying across the Atlantic to Guyana and drilling for oil there, much to the dismay of Hamelin's wife Line. While Hamelin is away, Saccard tries to seduce Line. Line finally realizes that she and her husband were pawns in Saccard's scheme, and she accuses him of stock fraud.
- A flamboyant portrait of the famous seducer seen by a former baritone of the Moscow Opera who, after a vocal accident, leaves for Germany and then France to devote himself to cinema.
- Jean Valjean is a good man who is nevertheless convicted and imprisoned for a minor offense. When he escapes, he is pursued for decades by the unrelenting lawman, Javert.
- A phantom appears in the Louvre museum in the middle of the night in search of something in the dark corridors.
- A girl helps a composer win fame despite a flirtatious socialite.
- Womanizer Don Mateo helps a girl in a train when attacked by a other woman. This girl, Conchita - a cigarette maker, soon visits the rich Don Mateo at his palace in Sevillia. He falls for her, but she likes to play with him. Sometimes she encourages his advances, then she rejects him. Furthermore, there's a portrait of a young man in her room. When he offers her money her mother urges her to accept, she runs away. Some months later he discovers her dancing flamenco in a sleazy cabaret. She notices him, flirts with other customers, then with the young man from the portrait, before she starts talking again with Don Mateo. But the manager asks her to prepare for the next number. Don Mateo soon realises, that that next number is not on the stage, but in a different room. There she dances in the nude (shown!) for rich tourists. He interrupts her dance and asks her to quit. She half accepts and starts dancing in a different place. A rendez-vous with Mateo is again used to make him mad with love and jealousy. When he learns that the man in the picture is paid by Conchita to act as her lover, he gives up and decides to move to Paris with a friend. But then Conchita shows up to confess her love and they start a real romance...
- François Vidocq has deserted to go back to his wife and kids, so he becomes a thief. Unfortunately, he finds she had become Manon-la-blonde, mistress of a rich man named Ouvrard, and his children have disappeared. He offers his services to the chief of intelligence service and begins a fight against the Aristo, chief of the gang of the children of the sun. After a few years, he dismantles the gang, and finds both his sons. One has become a blackguard, the other a famous organist who is about to be knighted and will soon get married to his beloved.
- Guilty of insulting Christ Ahasverus became forever eternity the wandering Jew. On 13 February 1682, during a night of pogrom in the Warsaw ghetto a Frenchman married to a Polish Jew is assassinated by members of a secret society.
- It's the story of Yolande, a little girl (about 12) who wanted to become a princess. Bombastus, her old father, has created a marvelous and big clock crowded with little characters (animated puppets). On each hour ring, one of the twelve knights of the clock comes into motion. They're all in love with the princess but a strong black knight doesn't agree... It's not a happy end. So Yolande will dive deep into her dreams, maybe to change the story. It's the second part of the movie. Sylph, master of this imaginary earth and Ondin, master of the aquatic world are the main characters. Yolande and then the man of her dreams join this strange world...
- The love of a Revolutionary's daughter and a royalist's son in the French Revolution.
- An earlier version of the 18th century swashbuckling story later made as a vehicle for Gerard Philipe, this one is in serial format.
- Croquette, the youngest daughter of a circus artist, shares her dreams between the handsome Bob and becoming an artist.
- A naval officer has to abandon a young girl he has rescued as a stowaway, to the mercies of his sleazy show business mother and her plans.
- A serial (known in French as a cine-roman) in which the adventures are told from the perspective of the kidnapped heroine.
- An eight part film set during the French Revolution, telling the story of the Dauphin's (Louis XVI) childhood in Versailles, his life and his untimely death.
- Film composed of the following episodes: 1.- Les Briseurs d'ailes. 2.- Le Calvaire de Pascaline. 3.- L'Innocent. 4.- Le Remords de Fergus. 5.- Je me vengerai. 6.- La Fille du forcat. 7.- Le Marquis de Santa-Fiore. 8.- Le Mediant mysterieux. 9.- La Lutte a mort. 10.- L'Horrible complot. 11.- Jean-Claude et Jeannine. 12.- Le Justicier.
- Claire d'Arlon loves Jean d'Axel, a gambler who completely ruined himself. He goes away and Claire, left alone, ends up marrying Arnheim, a banker. The latter actually conspired to ruin Jean so he could marry his fiancée. Jean returns to set things right.
- Matteo, the son of a Bedouin woman and a Maltese Christian, falls in love with a Bedouin dancer and follows her to Paris after she has rejected him for a rich French jeweler.
- A Moroccan woman named Hassina rescues a French soldier who she falls in love with, but marauders who have attacked her village try to use her young sister to lure her and her new French lover into a trap.
- La Glu est un film français réalisé en 1926 par Henri Fescourt, sorti en 1927.D'après le roman de Jean Richepin publié en 1881. Une jeune femme parisienne surnommée La Glu s'installe dans un petit port de pêche breton avec l'intention de séduire Marie-Pierre, le seul garçon des 9 enfants de Marie des Anges. Elle parvient à ses fins et Marie-Pierre la suit. Il est à son tour abandonné par la Glu et revient au pays, décidé à se venger. Film tourné en Bretagne.