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Taras Bulba

In war against the Poles, the leader Cossack sees itself betrayed by one of his threads, been in lov

Lilac

Also known as Lilac, this early Anatole Litvak-directed talkie was based on a play by Tristan Bernar

Fantômas

The Marquise de Langrune invites her friends at her castle in Beaulieu. Among them is Lord Beltham w

Le Chant de l'exilé

In the French Basque Country, Ramon, the son of a farmer and fruit and vegetable merchant with a bea

Le Jugement de minuit

The mysterious vigilante Milton has warned Scotland-Yard of his intention to kill the lawyer Maurice

Checkmate

After his engagement party with beautiful Aline, Claude, a struggling writer, meets his two closest

The Bread Peddler

A brave woman is sentenced to prison on false testimony. She escapes twenty years later and takes re

Cease Firing

When the war is over, a captain finds it very difficult to reintegrate into civilian life. Nothing h

Le Prince Jean

Following a quarrel with his father, Prince Jean joined the Foreign Legion. When he returns, he find

L'Or dans la rue

A young man is involved in a swindle to produce synthetic gold, but fortunately when the fakery is u

La flambée

A commander who had devised helpful defenses for his country kills a spy who'd tried to entrap him.T

Dernière heure

A young woman flees with her lover, after having killed her brutal husband; hoping to live a few hou

Coup de vent

In Pisa, chance forces an old bookseller out of his isolation. He unleashes the fury of the tenants

Une gueule en or

The Marquis de Barfleur, an unattractive man, decides to resort to plastic surgery to ensure the fid

The Fleeing Dead

Two second-rate, hammy actors, Hector Trignol and Achille Baluchet, come up with a fake murder story

The Twins of Brighton

Slapstick inheritance comedy based on the confusion between twin brothers, both played by the great

Rigolboche

Lina Bourget, a realist singer, is forced to leave Dakar because of a murder she believes she has co

The Secrets of the Red Sea

Said Ali, an old and sick noble Arab, living on an island in the Red Sea, has no other occupation th

J'arrose mes galons

The son of a ruined family transforms into a castellan following an inheritance, becomes a parachuti

The Drunkard

A mother of three escapes the death sentence during her poisoning trial. After spending ten years in

Les maris de ma femme

A poor boy, having consented to play the role of the victim in a fake car accident story, is also in

À minuit, le 7

A young journalist hungry for scoop lets himself be suspected of a crime to write a report.

Gigolette

La Danseuse rouge

Tania, a young girl from Central Europe, leaves her home because of her abusive father. Trained, in

I Accuse

After serving in the trenches of World War I, Jean Diaz recoils with such horror that he renounces l

Rasputin

Story of the Siberian monk Gregory Rasputin and the hold he exerted over the court of the last Russi

White Nights in Saint Petersburg

Pozdnycheff, a young party animal, destroyed by his lightness the marital happiness of one of his ch

Un meurtre a été commis

Inspector Doirel investigates the murder of a man whose servant was found tied up. He discovers very

Street Without Joy

Jeanne supports supports his family on his modest salary. Her boss is arrested for fraud. Jeanne is

The New Rich

The workers Legendre and Martinet have won a large sum in the national lottery. Instead of squanderi

Pension Jonas

A tramp has taken up residence in the belly of a museum whale.

Beautiful Star

Meg decides to commit suicide to escape the marriage to which her father intends her. She is saved b

Hangman's Noose

In England, a boxer is sentenced to death for a murder he does not seem to have committed.... Anthon

The French Way

Cabaret star Zazu intervenes when young lovers are sundered by their parents' feud.

The Rebel

Pimaï, the strong-headed anarchist, joined the navy out of bravado. But the sweet influence of a you

Two Women

Considering his wife as his property, a smuggler bullies the unfortunate woman and does not allow he

Prince de mon cœur

One of the subjects of the Prince of Slopoldavia, followed him to Paris, not out of love but to take

Heroes of the Marne

Bernard Lefrancois is a prosperous farmer on the River Marne, while his neighbor is impoverished. Le

Nadia la femme traquée

A group of political exiles conspire in France against their government. They are pursued by Daminof

Final Accord

A famous violinist enlists in a music school in order to woo one of the students.

Those of the Sky

An airplane manufacturer asks his son-in-law to try out the prototypes he builds. This one ends up h

Soyez les bienvenus

Before the war. Mr. and Mrs. Boisleroi, well off, lived in their castle while their son Jacques cour

Vidocq

A film based upon the life of Vidocq, the famous adventurer, who, after numerous prison escapes ceas

Yamilé Under the Cedars

A Lebanese Christian girl of European origin is attracted to a visiting Muslim chief and rides off w

The Black Diamond

A wealthy man's wife dies in a car crash; she is survived by him and their daughter. The father lear

His Uncle from Normandy

A young American businessman, tired of his hectic life, makes an unexpected inheritance which leads

Immediate Call

In September 1938, an American diplomat negotiated in London the peace of Munich, rather than rush t

Whirlwind of Paris

A gang of broke student musicians travel to Paris to take exams. But very quickly, the lack of money

The Big Fight

The formidable K.O. Bouillon killed trainer Victor's colt during a boxing fight. Strongly affected,

Sacred Woods

Despite her success, writer Francine Margerie is let down to see that she is not nominated for the L

The Path of Honor

Two twin brothers have joined the army, Paul by vocation is a lieutenant of spahis and Georges to es

Face au destin

Two modest young employees, Jean and Madeleine, dream of leading the way, but the experience turns o

Grey contre X

Grey conducts a triple murder investigation, the last murder committed gives him some clues to the m

The Man Who Seeks the Truth

Jean Vernet, an unselfish banker, feels fine : he has a charming mistress, Jacqueline ; a godson, Fe

Radio Surprises

The Bontemps family, like all the inhabitants of the village of Coussy la Chapelle, are passionate a

The Royalists

The Marquis de Montauran was appointed to command the Chouans whose first two revolts were crushed.

Le Soleil de minuit

Going to take up his post in Moukden, the forest engineer finds in a trainer from the cabaret "the m

Finance noire

In Central Europe, an organization of counterfeiters is headed by Burcq. An Air France pilot introdu

Vautrin the Thief

A famous convict Jacques Collin, alias Trompe la mort, or abbot Carlos Herrera, also called Vautrin,

Mahlia the Mestiza

Daughter of a French officer and an Annamite, Mahlia was brought up in Indochina by Mr. and Mrs. de

27, rue de la Paix

A young woman wishing to divorce, promises money to her husband's ex-mistress to obtain her testimon

120, rue de la Gare

On the verge of death, a man entrusts Inspector Burma with an address. Burma conducts a difficult in

Behind These Walls

June 1944, a French town towards the end of the occupation. Following several attacks perpetrated by

Faut ce qu'il faut

In 1939, in a maternity ward, a young man visits his mistress who has just given birth to a little g

Special Mission

The exploits of Chief Police Inspector Chabrier, first before the invasion of France in May 1940 as

A Cage of Nightingales

In France, in 1930, a supervisor of a boarding school for young offenders seeks to awaken the music

Impasse

A student, Gabriel, comes to the aid of Gisèle, a young manicurist wrongfully arrested, by helping h

Mensonges

Marie Leroux, who is married to Charles, an honest, understanding country doctor, lives an uneventfu

Queen's Necklace

The adventurer Jeanne de Valois-Saint-Rémy, descendant (by the left hand) of the king of France Henr

Gringalet

A wealthy man has two sons,one of them is legitimate,the other is not.The first offspring has had a

Anger of the Gods

Sylvain, sentenced to death, assures the visiting priest that his life could have been completely di

Peek-a-boo

A small-town policeman is informed that "naked women" are dancing in a revue at a local variety thea

Une Belle Garce

During a crossing, Professor Rabas, a famous tamer, meets a certain Raymonde whom he brings back wit

Impeccable Henri

Henri, a basically honest fellow, accepts to work for a gang of burglars only to revenge himself on

Le 84 prend des vacances

Gaston Bernod is a Parisian bus driver. Honest, upright and hard-working, he is held in high esteem

The Secret of Monte-Cristo

One of Alexandre Dumas's most popular adventure novels is "The Count of Monte-Cristo". What is littl

Julie de Carneilhan

A penniless aristocrat is fooled by her ex-husband, a crook.

Cité de l'espérance

The City of Hope is the place where left-behind artists subsist by scraping by. When one of them is

The Woman I Murdered

During a singles meal, the phone rings. A woman claims a man, Jean-Louis. As a joke, the master of t

Sending of Flowers

Envoi de Fleurs is based on incidents in the life of French composer Paul Delmet. Played by popular

Road Blocked

Jacques Audoin falls in love with a pianist, Evelyne Clery, and marries her. In reality, he had want

Bed for Two

Robert Bobin has been an assistant accountant for twenty years now and, although meek and obedient,

L'échafaud peut attendre

A trio of criminals gradually become entangled in theft and crime. Serge is arrested, his mistress,

Jo la Romance

For love, the singer Georges Hyverlin gives up his profession to work with his father-in-law in his

The Strollers

Jean-Louis forgets to use the pedestrian crossing;Who could have believed then where it would lead t

La Bataille du feu

Activities and exploits of firefighters in the context of a village then the capital and under the b

L'Homme aux mains d'argile

The fictionalized life, and interpreted by himself, of the popular boxing champion Marcel Cerdan. Tr

Dr. Laennec

Breton doctor René Laennec fights tooth and nail against consumption, all the more desperately as hi

La Veuve et l'innocent

Nicole, a spirited lawyer, must defend, for her debut in the courtroom, the accused Panoyau. It is a

The Rear-Wheel Drive Gang

The manager of a firm has a very unusual idea : asking his employees to pose as gangsters and to hol

The Big Circus

During the second World War. The lives of three comrades fighting in the Forces Françaises Libres' f

The Inn of Sin

Two murders are committed in an inn for the possession of a bag containing a fortune.

Rome Express

A valuable painting has been stolen from an art gallery in Paris.. On a train travelling between Par

Sorceror

A young rogue kills an old lady to rob her. Arrested, he believes it is for this crime, hides nothin

Mr. Leguignon Lampiste

A railway worker, Leguignon, and his wife are forced to move into a house located in a shaggy part o

Foyer perdu

A brave and talkative wine merchant, Eugène Barbentin drives his son Pierrot out of the family home,

Alone in the World

François wants to buy a house to help underprivileged children. He lacks money, but a generous donor

Les Mémoires de la vache Yolande

A drama teacher works as an extra in the cinema: he has to milk a cow. Left alone with the animal in

The Lovers of Bras-Mort

Jean Michaut is a bargeman who lives nearby an old barge cemetery named "Bras-Mort". He is in love w

Cherished by her concierge

Eugène, who works for Radio-Europe, is a bit dim-witted. He lives in a block of flats whose caretake

Beauties of the Night

A daydreaming French composer sees himself as a fine figure dashing through history.

Les Petites Cardinal

Napoleon III, the Commune, the third Republic in the background. In the foreground, two pretty, tale

Piédalu à Paris

Piedalu is an ordinary villager, who comes to the capital to present his financial plan to the Minis

Gigolo

Back from the war, Marceau Le Guern remembers. Educated in an orphanage run by Dominican brothers, h

The Lottery of Happiness

Mr Lucas, a grocer, wants to attract the clientele; he imagines a lottery; every week, you can win a

Belphégor

Belphégor deals with a series of mysterious appearances by a masked-and-robed figure in the Louvre;

The Life and Loves of Beethoven

Lyrical biography of the classical composer, depicted as a romantic hero, an accursed artist.

Yoshiwara

Based on a novel by Maurice Dekobra, the film is set in Yoshiwara, the red-light district of Tokyo,

The Last Turning

Frank, a hobo, ends up in a garage-truck stop in the middle of nowhere. Nick Marino, its older, kind

Pas de souris dans le business

Without seeming to touch it, journalist Trupeau is interested in the doings of Mireille, a jewelry s

Sister Angele's Secret

A young novitiate witnesses a murder. Later, she recognizes the culprit, who admits to the killing;

Piédalu député

In the 1953 elections, Piédalu was elected mayor of Marboue-Chambourcy. The esteem of his fellow cit

Two Little Jesus'

Abandoned by the father of her child, the begging young mother desperately seeks refuge in a monaste

Accused, Stand Up!

Paris, 30's declared professional rivalry between two stars of the musical, Yvonne and Gaby leads to

Le Bonheur

Philippe Lutcher, an anarchist, fires a shot at Clara Stuart, a famous stage and screen actress, but

Un certain monsieur Grant

The Divine Voyage

A girl in search of sailors lost in the Pacific.

Obsession

A man who suffers from the delirium of persecution and to the point of trying to strangle his wife i

Dr. Laennec

Breton doctor René Laennec fights tooth and nail against consumption, all the more desperately as hi

The Right to Life

A young girl marries a financier knowing he has only a short time to live, so she can inherit his mo

A Beautiful Woman

Father-and-son lion tamers, Rabbas and Léo share a mistress - Rosita, the " lovely bitch " of the fi

The Postmaster's Daughter

A small town postal official allows a military officer to sweep his lovely daughter away to St. Pete

Saint Joan the Maid

This relatively straightforward dramatic biography was one of two films commissioned to honor Joan o

Departure

An opera singer travelling with her company on a passenger ship encounters a mysterious young man wh

El Dorado

In Granada in Spain, Sibilla works as a dancer in a squalid cabaret called El Dorado, struggling to

A Bald Lie

John Jones has a bald head and a jealous wife, which, to say the least, is a very bad combination. A

Dear Caroline

France, July 1782. During her birthday, the beautiful young Marchioness Caroline meets the attractiv

Ultimatum

About the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and the beginning of the First World War. Focuse

Villa Destin

Tabusse

In the Cévennes, Tabusse is a figure of the village. Angry and but also in love, he goes through man

Lawless Street

The eccentric characters of a street from the comic designs of Andre Dubout are brought to life with

The Bonnadieu House

Felix is a middle-aged bourgeois husband. Much to his discomfort, he learns that his wife Gabrielle

Gibraltar

A British officer poses as a traitor in order to infiltrate a team of terrorists who are sabotaging

Dark Eyes

In 1913, in Russia, a widower hides from his daughter that he is a butler in a meeting restaurant. S

Rothchild

An ex-businessman, ruined and reduced to living under bridges, uses the name of one of his companion

Dark Sunday

Shortly before the War, Jan Lazlo, a Hungarian musician who has emigrated to France, falls for a you

Change of Heart

Middle-aged teacher Nadia experiences increasing social exclusion and paranoia as society begins to

Le Cavalier de Croix-Mort

Elisabeth D'Anthar cheats on her husband François with Simon De Chabre. François, who suspects somet

The Earrings of Madame de...

In late 19th century France, the Countess Louise, wife of a wealthy general, sells the earrings her

The Man with the Big Coat

Claudie dompteuse

With the carnival in full swing, the circus ringmaster is waiting for the new lion tamer, Margante.

Gervaise

An adaptation of Émile Zola’s 1877 masterpiece L’assommoir, the film is an uncompromising depiction

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