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- The lives of numerous people over the course of 20 years in 19th century France, weaved together by the story of an ex-convict named Jean Valjean on the run from an obsessive police inspector, who pursues him for only a minor offense.
- World War 1 begins and a young man enlists to fight for his country.
- A crook escapes from jail after hypnotizing the warden.
- What starts off as a conventional travelogue turns into a satirical portrait of the town of Nice on the French Cote d'Azur, especially its wealthy inhabitants.
- A red-haired boy is his mother's punching bag ; only his father's presence is a great comfort to him,but this weak man is under the shrew's thumb. His pain is so great he feels suicidal.
- The leader of a gang of drug traffickers, loved and esteemed by everyone for protecting the weak, ends up killing his greatest enemy.
- Dr. Holk leads a lonely life in a small dutch colony in the tropics. Fled from love and civilisation his only companions are alcohol and his work, which takes him to the villages ravaged by dirt, fever, fear and a strange illness turning innocent people into madmen: Amok. One day he receives a visit by the young and beautiful Hèlène Haviland, who asks him to abort her lover's child before her husband returns. Even though Holk is infatuated by her seductive beauty, he haughtily refuses her request. Hélène seeks help from a Chinese practitioner. When Holk - driven by his fevered love and agony - finds her again in a dirty dive, it is already too late.
- Pierre (Pierre Richard-Willm), a young lawyer, has enormous debts due to his mistress Florence (Marie Bell), and her whims of luxury life. Pierre has gone too far and put the family firm in jeopardy. They ask him to expatriate. To avoid scandal, Pierre joins the Foreign Legion. In Morocco, near the desert, Pierre goes with his comrades of the Legion to a bar-restaurant-brothel, owned by a shady character, Mr. Clement (Charles Vanel). Clement lives more or less with Ms.Blanche (Françoise Rosay) who is a fortune teller with cards, as a hobby. But Clement is also after his girls now and then. Pierre is still obsessed with Florence but he meets Irma (Marie Bell), one of Clement's girls, who is the double of Florence except for hair color. Irma has had an accident and has lost part of her memory at a certain point of her recent past, and Pierre slowly persuades himself she is Florence, but cannot remember it. Advised by Ms.Blanche, Irma finally accepts to act as if she was Florence because she is falling in love with Pierre. Near the end of his contract with the Legion, Pierre receives news from France. He has inherited a fortune. He asks Irma to come to France with him, and they make plans. But Clement tries to rape Irma and Pierre has to kill him.
- Biography of Joan of Arc from her departure from Domremy until her death in Rouen.
- Victor Berthier, a good man but also a very jealous one, killed his wife in a fit of jealousy. After serving a few years in a chain gang, he is released for good behavior. He feels very happy to be able to return to Paris and to meet Lise, his daughter, again. But, to his dismay, he finds that Lise, through the fault of André, her lover and pimp, has unwillingly committed a murder.
- Dr. Lucien Petypon is usually a serious man, but, drawn by his friend Corignon, he once paints the town red at Maxim's. When he wakes up late the next morning, he finds the scantily clad Môme Crevette, a dancer at the famous Paris restaurant, by his side. It is the moment General Petypon du Grêlé, Lucien's rich uncle, chooses to make an unexpected visit. The good doctor has no other choice but to pass Crevette off as his lawful wife.
- Injured by anarchist Philippe Lucher, film actress Clara Stuart falls in love with her attacker and decides to plead in his favor at his trial.
- The escape of a man during the Spanish Inquisition.
- A policeman is killed when he tries to investigate a case involving cocaine traffic. The only evidence of the crime is a white female's bloodstained glove found in an abandoned taxi and a revolver. After thorough researches, the police will be tightening the circle around a woman of Polish origin.
- Charles Vanel and Annabella star respectively as a daring WW I aviator and his loving but neglected wife. Ostracized by the other pilots because of his recklessness and standoffishness, Vanel nonetheless befriends a young pilot who is in love with Vanel's wife.
- A satirical view of the problems of capitalism - a small state on the brink of bankruptcy invites a foreign billionaire to rule, who soon becomes an insane dictator.
- The life of disorderly soldiers in the barracks dealing with daily routines.
- A silent film theater projectionist is kidnapped by a gangster group, so he can show them footage of a Dutch jewel dealer they want to steal from. The head gangster's sister helps foil their plan.
- Lolette is the painter Rouchard's model and he wants to marry her. But she is not interested in him and falls in love with Pierre Bernier, a penniless painter.
- A more small scale version of the story Griffin used for his epic Orphans Of The Storm: a doctor tries to reunite two sisters who have become separated from each other during the whirlwind of the French Revolution.
- Raymond Bernard's film of a script by Antoine de Saint-Exupery (The Little Prince) about a young woman who aspires to become a pilot
- When the baroness surprises the baron with his mistress at the music hall, he passes off young Marcel, a clothing salesman, as an important customer.
- Jules, a pharmacist, embarrasses himself by trying to woe Claire, a younger girl he is in love with.
- When the night comes,the wife's terror will rise..
- In the snow as bells toll, a hooded figure makes its way through the streets to a church.It is a small child ,and a woman opening up her window across onto the scene comes out to help and bring the child into her home. Inside, the little girl tries to run out again, but the woman and a man joining her offer a bowl of cafe au lait.As the girl rests her head on the table to sleep she drops a booklet which gives some of her history that she later talks about.She had been beaten and doesn't want to be returned to where she was. Ten years after.Angelique the girl works in a church abbey as an embroiderer with her mother.She talks of the dead returning to life. The scene changes to the exterior of the nearby castle where the family is eating.Angelique's adopted parents tell her about the manor, Hautecoeur, and a legend when people were cured of a plague by the local saint. Angelique sings in the church choir, when the lord of the manor, who is also the bishop, visits. Next we see her washing linen in a river, she has a young admirer who is in the nearby woods.Distracted, she lets the garment slip but he comes to help her retrieve it.He is Felicien and tells her that, as an artist, he has been hired to repair the stained glass church windows. She hangs up the garments to dry. Talking later to her mother, Angelique shares her dream of marrying a rich prince like the one who is the bishop's son .(The manor lord had been heartbroken when the mother died and went into the church.) The mother advises her that would be impossible. Angelique looks in the evening at an illustrated book about a Golden Legend and sees Felicien outside by the window, he comes up to her balcony but she tells him to leave. He will continue to look at her but will not talk to her for a month. After which he returns and says he wants to tell her who he really is.They will meet again tomorrow.She prays. A procession leaves the church, singing the Gloria. Angelique hears another girl identifying Felicien as the son of the manor and embraces her mother in happiness. She meets him later by the river.As bells toll, the mother paces. Felicien tells Angelique he had also been abandoned by his father and had grown up poor, he has just now returned. She talks of their marriage but the mother, doubtful once again, comes out to her and later tells her in the room that the son is destined to marry someone else. Felicien asks his father about marrying Angelique and is refused. The abbey comes to see her mother and Angelique hears them from the stairs as we see their silhouettes. Angelique goes to the church, where she introduces herself to the bishop after he comes to the altar.She begs him about the marriage and calls after him. Angelique is back at the river doing washing with her mother and another woman.Hearing of Felicien's impending marriage to another woman, she lets a garment drift off again, and collapses. The doctor visits and Felicien also comes to see her .She is in weakened condition and can't go with him but her mother comforts her. She is now dying.The abbey visits to bless her as others gather by the bed and the bishop recites the Our Father.After he kisses her forehead she sits up. We see sculptured figures at the church as Angelique and Felicien are finally wed by the bishop and they are led out by a group of children.In one of the film's few close shots, we see the newlyweds kiss. But Angelique's last dream has not yet come true.Until we see a figure representing her spirit ascending, after her immediate death, into the skies.
- Touched by love, will a little crook who steals dogs he brings back for the reward become honest?
- Étienne Ranson is the black sheep of his family. Having made his fortune in Tunisia, he returns to France and receives a cool reception from his uncle, Achille Guéroy, the owner of a glove factory in Grenoble. Guéroy is astounded when his nephew returns the money he had lent him and immediately looks at Étienne in a new light when it becomes apparent that he is now a very wealthy man.
- The illegitimate son of a music-hall star and an ambitious politician has grown up to become a journalist. He decides to get back at his father by using blackmail.
- Tartarin is the local hero in the small provincial town of Tarascon. He shows off about imaginary adventures in Africa, where he has never been, as a Lion Hunter, which he is only in his imagination. Even though the locals know he has never been to Africa, they keep hoping he will leave one day. After a misunderstanding, and much gossip, everyone thinks that Tartarin plans to actually take the trip. Initially reluctant, he is eventually convinced by his friend Bravida, who warns him about the growing shame the delay has caused him all across town. Tartarin meets an ex-convict on the train who calls himself a Prince and offers to travel with him to Algeria, in the hope of stealing his money with the help of a girl, Baïa. Tartarin leaves for the desert and as soon as the first lion is in sight, the "Prince" escapes with his money. Tartarin shoots the lion and gets arrested by the local police because the animal was a blind sacred lion. He is condemned to pay a fine for which he must sell his weapons since his money was stolen. He sends the lion skin to Tarascon, and after having learned the truth about Baïa and the Prince, Tartarin, feeling stupid, decides to go back home. Expecting to have to move to another town, he is surprised at the station by all the inhabitants, anxious to meet the lion killer they are so proud of.
- Fred Leroy is a wealthy industrialist, part of a large family-owned corporation. Fred has fallen for Annette, a comely cabaret bartender. He proposes to her, much to the horror of his family, which considers Annette and her unsophisticated father far below their caste. The family convinces Fred to give up the girl in exchange for increased position and income in the company. But Fred's lapse is momentary, and he again pursues Annette. But she, by this time, has learned of his erstwhile agreement and has agreed to marry someone else.
- Benjamin Déboisé, a hatter, his salesman and a young man want to kidnap an American millionaire, put him in a bag and hold him to ransom. But they make a mistake: the fellow they find in the bag is not the millionaire himself, but his son...!
- Young French student Madeleine Duchanel wants to go to the theater and therefore pulls out of the well-protected environment of her school. In Paris she hopes to make a career, but in her naivety she ends up on the street.
- During a carnival, the two brothers of a poor girl ,who has been impregnated by the son of a well to do farmer, seek vengeance.
- Simone finds work as a secretary in a bank whose chief of staff expects more than typed letters.
- The story, a tale of political and amorous intrigue in Beirut, is based on one of Pierre Benoit's novels, " La Chatelaine du Liban," and the film exploits the scenic backgrounds of the novel, Beirut, Palmyra and the Syrian Desert. A young captain in the Camel Corps. goes mad when he finds himself on the point of selling his country's secrets to get the money to satisfy the enchantress whose mysterious activities are concerned with espionage. The captain's eventual return to his Camel Corps. and the desert provides the opportunity for a fight with Bedouins, which marks the dramatic climax of the film.
- No mercy for a woman who has been living in sin for six years.
- Georg is a daredevil aviator tamed by his wife Maria who is sick of contantly fearing for his life. When she flirts with his greatest competitor Jonny he decides to fly across the Atlantic Ocean to prove he hasn't lost his derring-do guts.
- Simultaneously filmed French version of the German "Der Moerder Dimitri Karamassof": A son is accused of killing his father, whose young mistress he has also loved. Condemned for ten years, he is accompanied by the woman.
- The friendly cavalier Lidoire has always suffered from the mood swings of his adjutant.
- The first in a series of popular comedies featuring the character of Bouboule, a man of few means who somehow manages to sneak into various athletic events (such as here boxing, cycling, and rugby) without paying the entrance fee, and who thoroughly enjoys himself doing so.