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- A silent movie about Rugby intertwined with a love story.
- In his brilliant documentary study shot at 20 years old, Marcel Carné, while filming the ginguettes of the edges of Marne, sketches a poetic disenchanted of the laborious petty bourgeoisie of the large modern cities, of which one finds the elements at the same time in Germany in "People on Sunday" by Robert Siodmak or the United States in "Lonesome" by Paul Fejos.
- Miquette, the daughter of Mme Grandier, a tobacconist, would be just another country girl if she did not make men crazy. For the time being, no fewer than three men vie for her: Marquis de la Tour Mirande, a nobleman ; Urbain , his young nephew ; and Monchablon, a mediocre actor on tour in her town. Fed up with being the victim of gossip, Miquette decides to try her luck in Hollywood...
- A street singer becomes the star of the circus but his pal Armand shows him who his real friends are.
- Tells the story of the Spanish invasion of Flanders
- "Gaspard De Besse" is a Robin Hood's French brother,a friend to the poor.
- A hotel for women-only and catering to working girls is the setting for not being able to get a USA PCA seal-of-approval for this French-film, but New York City's 55th Playhouse played it anyway. Along the way the audience meets the girl who sneaked her lover into her no-men-allowed room and her patch soon turns blue; a young lady with a passionate intensity who chooses another young lady as the object of her affections; the blindly-misguided director of the hotel, another lady of real easy virtue who is not the one who smuggled her lover into her room; and a girl who is only there as a procurer for a slavery ring.
- César Sarati, nicknamed "Sarati the Terrible", is an unscrupulous and merciless brute who shamefully exploits the dockworkers at the port of Algiers. He rents them slums and lends them money on a weekly basis, pursuing them, to get reimbursed, even to Hudelo, the coal contractor who makes them work. So he built a huge fortune that he keeps for his pretty niece, Rose, the only being who softens his pirate heart. But Rose loves Gilbert, a newcomer to Hudelo's.
- A story of the Second Punic Wars, beginning with Scipio's futile pleas to the Roman Senate to build an army to battle Hannibal, that climaxes with the battle of Zama.
- Jeanne supports supports his family on his modest salary. Her boss is arrested for fraud. Jeanne is forced, out of poverty, in the street.
- The romanticised life of Auguste Bartholdi, the man who designed the Statue of Liberty
- Marcel works as assistant to a jeweller whose bossy daughter Renée keeps hitting on him. When he meets lovely Loulou and her lazy friend Jo, he is fascinated by the girl and somehow attracted by their world : Loulou and Jo are crooks. As Marcel naively tries to bring some morality in their lives, the pair turn him into an unwilling accomplice in the robbery of his boss's jewels.
- On a Marseille film set, a street urchin who has been hired as an actor is suspected when both a star and a baroness are robbed.With the help of the boy's neer do well friend the real crooks are tracked down.
- In the French Basque Country, Ramon, the son of a farmer and fruit and vegetable merchant with a beautiful voice, has the good life. He is engaged to his charming cousin Maria. But his daily life is called into question when, during a fight, he believes he has killed a bad boy. He flees to Algeria where, with a friend, he joins the Saharan Pioneers .
- Elfy, Countess of Saint-Hélié's daughter, was brought up with her foster sister Anne, in an old dilapidated castle whose landlord, Baron Julius Carol, disappeared mysteriously some day. The two girls had a playmate, Hervé, the son of the gamekeeper. Now that they are adult, Anne is in love with Hervé while Elfy thinks she loves the young man. One day, the baron's mummified body is found in an oubliette and the secret of the estate is revealed...
- Bourdillon is the only teacher in Mister Calumet's boarding- school for girls ;his headmaster ,who keeps on stuffing himself with food ,soon dies of indigestion.The teacher ,in love with his wife, woos her :but alas,she was in awe of her (not handsome at all, though) late hubby and , deceived by the evil bursar ,she believes in metempsychosis and that the faithful departed is reincarnated as a dog she treats as a human being ,much to Bourdillon's disappointment .To conquer her love, he goes as far as to disguise himself as a woman to take her exam.
- After the defeat at the Battle of Waterloo, Napoleon was sent into exile on the small island of Saint Helena. Surrounded by the few who were faithful to him, he spent his last years between an unyielding pride and the discouragement of freedom denied.
- An accomplished young man, Prince Stéphane is destined for a brilliant future but when he finds out that Marie, his beloved fiancée, has had an affair with the man he respects the most, Tsar Nicolas 1er in person, the shock is terrible. Unable to recover, he chooses religion and becomes a monk and a hermit. He becomes known as a healer and worshiped as a saint, although he himself is aware of his many weaknesses. The day he learns Marie is seriously ill Le père Serge formerly known as Prince Stéphane leaves sanctity behind and hits the road for Saint Petersburg ...
- A large farm in Vendée. The father is dying and the three brothers and sister swear not to marry not to break up the field. Months pass. Francis, the eldest, took things in hand. For him, the promise to their father is sacred. So he does everything for his brothers and his sister Amanda are not tempted. However, the latter lets himself courted by a young man from the neighboring village ...
- Recounts the courageous efforts by French railroad workers who were part of an organized resistance during German World War II occupation.
- Gaby, the singer of the "Raymond's Jazz" band, leads Maurice, one of the musicians, to believe that, following a night he spent with her in the hay, he is the father of her child. In fact, the baby is neither his nor hers. He is the son of Madeleine, a young war widow who has entrusted him to her friend Gaby until she is allotted a flat. One day, Maurice happens to meet Madeleine and falls in love with her but he does not dare to confess his "paternity" to her. Fortunately the misunderstanding is clarified and Maurice can at the same time marry Madeleine and adopt her kid.
- After an elderly maid is murdered, opinions are manipulated, evidence is planted, violence erupts, and panic ensues.
- Thanasse, the guard of a small Ardennes station, lives a (rather) peaceful life, with his wife Charlotte (who enjoys pestering him) and his daughter Lisa. Lisa is in love with a young electrician and everything would be fine if Badillon, a very rich but very thick farmer, did not become enamored with the guard's daughter. Flattered by the man's advantageous position, Thanasse takes it into his head to support this union, which leads to tumultuous consequences...
- This is a biopic about Father Damian and his life and work on the island of Molokai
- A Parisian painter working in the Basque country succeeds in keeping together a young woman and her smuggler boyfriend, even though the artist has feelings for the intended bride himself, and then he completes a painting on the subject of the wedding.
- In an aero-naval base, a marine engineer who was about to deliver the name of a redoubtable spy is murdered. Shortly afterwards three different men appear on the crime scene, each of them claiming to be Monsieur Sylvain, the expected sleuth. But which of the three investigators is actually Sylvain? And what about this delightful young lady who arouses one of the police inspectors? Couldn't she be the murderous spy?
- A smooth criminal, who turns to be Manuel Ismora, and his gang successfully and peacefully pull off con after heist. Elsewhere a timid office worker, Gabriel Dupon, is pressured by his boss into making a sale. A chain of events causes him to get mixed up with the criminal, and get arrested. Lack of evidence ensures Dupon's release, but brings him to the attention of the criminal who persuades him into cooperation. Ismora exploits the fact that Dupon looks so much like him that they could be - carbon copies.
- An alcoholic doctor accidentally kills someone and manages to make the death look like an accident. The episode triggers a sense of confidence and he resolves to correct the miseries of his life.
- In the peaceful alpine village of Granges-de-Mortes, a tragedy has just taken place: Gustave Boeuf, the local Casanova, has mysteriously died at the foot of a wayside cross. Shortly afterwards, a peasant, who is suspected of having murdered him, hangs himself from a branch of the calvary. But was he the real culprit? Angélique Barrodet, an old maid , who had been Gustave's fiancée before he abandoned her on the very day of their wedding, leads the investigation in her own way.
- Christine, the daughter of a rich American, acquires from her father the jazz band of Ray Ventura who will be made responsible for accompanying her from morning till evening wherever she goes. From an endless number of amusing situations, the fiancée of the girl despairs. But soon the musicians rebel in in the face of the requirements of their patroness. More than a job, it is for them misery. Christine excuses them and she goes back to America with her band. Things go bad, degenerate, but the kindness of the musicians and the firmness of the fiancée of Christine really quiet down the moods of the young woman .
- First episode: The old countess of Latour Vaudieu dies leaving all her possessions to the first-born Philip. The second son, Giorgio, instigated by his lover Claudia, kills his brother and his doctor. Pietro Maroy is accused of murdering his uncle and sentenced to life imprisonment. Second episode: Twenty years later, Pietro's wife and daughter managed to get the reopening of the trial.
- Chatelard, one of Viscount de Kerlec's guests, has died in mysterious conditions. The police initiates an investigation and sends detective-inspector Pauc to de Kerlec's manor. Pauc decides to mingle with the viscount's guests , who are all likely to have committed the murder. Among them, there is Jacques Mauclerc, a naval officer, and a seedy character named Bartoli, in fact a spy in search of secret documents. Pauc will end up untangling the web during a dramatic séance.
- April fools in a studio where a radio host pretends to shoot dead all the performers....till a true crime occurs.
- The film shows newsreel items from the 1920s on through World War 2, and the Nuremberg trials for people considered responsible for war crimes, and crimes against humanity. The war scenes come from Austria, Czech Republik, France, Belgium, Poland, Russia, England, Italy, and Germany. The courtroom trials serve as a parade in which each person is identified by name, and occasionally to his sentence of responsibility denial. Those images are interspersed with home made movies by people close to Hitler and Eva Braun, mainly during their holiday stays in Berchtesgaden, Austria. The scenes of Jews and other people's mass murders are few, but impressive as they were rarely shown afterwards with the same disregard for human remains, and more so for the relentless accusations by the voice off narration, in sharp contrast with the platitude of diplomatic meetings, and the gaiety of mountain holidays. Intended as a propaganda movie by the French Resistance movement, and the Allied Cinematographic Services, the documentary is still important for the reality captured by the cinematographers of the time.
- The dangerously obsessive relationship between a psychologically manipulative brother and sister who isolate themselves and draw others into their mind games.
- A wealthy baron, without offspring, who knows death is approaching, wants to adopt a man who kept him alive a bit longer, when he was almost run over by a horse drawn cart.