Alexandre Mihalesco

The Passion of Joan of Arc

A classic of the silent age, this film tells the story of the doomed but ultimately canonized 15th-century teen...

Méphisto

On his wedding night with Hilda Bergmann, the daughter of a swedish chemist, the young and rich american Willy...

Marius

César runs a bar along Marseilles' port, assisted by his 23-year-old son, Marius. Friends since childhood, Fann...

L'Argent

Adapted from the novel L'Argent by Émile Zola, the film portrays the world of banking and the stock market in P...

Dear Caroline

France, July 1782. During her birthday, the beautiful young Marchioness Caroline meets the attractive soldier G...

Rasputin

Gregory Iefommovich Raspoutine is a monk with healing powers and a liking for debauchery who manages to insinua...

The Strange Monsieur Victor

Outwardly, Monsieur Victor would appear to be the model citizen. A respectable Toulon shopkeeper, he has a devo...

Just Me

Maurice Vallier, nicknamed "Ma Pomme"(which means "myself" in slang), is a cheerful man, well aware that money...

The Adventures of Arsène Lupin

Arsène Lupin is extremely popular among the population, because he allows the needy to share in his acquired we...

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 than collecti...

The Mystery of the Eiffel Tower

The Mironton Brothers are part of a fairground attraction. One of them comes into a large inheritance, but the...

Francis the First

Honorin is the simple and naive stage manager of a traveling theatre troupe, whose one ambition is to once play...

The Duel

A widow is loved by a doctor whose brother, an ecclesiastic unconsciously in love with the young woman, persuad...

Vidocq

A film based upon the life of Vidocq, the famous adventurer, who, after numerous prison escapes ceased being a...

Barry

Lovers since childhood, Sylvain and Angelina do not see their lives separated from each other. However, Sylvain...

Pontcarral, Empire Colonel

For 15 years after Waterloo, a baron refuses to accept the defeat. He reluctantly marries one of 2 Bourbon sist...

Bonheur en location

Saint-Aignan needs a family. He hires people to act as his people to achieve his goal: to succeed in the busine...

The Five Cents of Lavarede

Some try to travel around the world with a time constraint, but Lavarède has to perform an even harder task tha...

Little Lise

Victor Berthier, a good man but also a very jealous one, killed his wife in a fit of jealousy. After serving a...

Bargekeepers Daughter

Prince Sacha studies in Paris and cares more for Marianne than about Silistrie, the country his family was exil...

Gambling Hell

In Macao, where places of pleasure and arms trafficking are concentrated, a tragedy opposes an adventurer and h...

My Crimes After Mein Kampf

The film shows the seizure of power by the Nazis and Hitler wants a trial, at a time when France has just decla...

Captain Benoit

An officer saves the life of a foreign prince who is in France to buy seaplanes, while pursued by his enemies.

Alert Nights

Hélène, a young waitress working in a bar frequented by German soldiers, saves the life of Pierre, a Resistance...

Round of Hours

A singer who has become voiceless is forced to leave his wife and children. He will become famous again as a cl...

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 studio...

Woman of Malacca

Unhappy with her humdrum life as a provincial schoolteacher, Audrey Greenwood marries Major Carter, an officer...

The Phantom Gondola

A femme fatale falls in love with a Venetian count, implacable enemy of Selim, who pursues his sister with his...

The Sweetness of Loving

A young provincial engineer sends romantic stories he has written to a cousin in Paris, who claims them as his...

Accused, Stand Up!

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

The Road to Damascus

Saul De Tarse is a Roman soldier who is making rough all over. He arrives at the Golgotha when the apostles rem...

Rasputin

Story of the Siberian monk Gregory Rasputin and the hold he exerted over the court of the last Russian czar, Ni...

Fecundity

Le Valet maître

Some, like Ravier de l'Orne are born... masters, but ,like him, do not live up to their rank. Others, like Gust...

Feu Nicolas

Nicolas, the owner of a small café, has had enough of his current life. Business-wise, customers are more and m...

Illegitimate Child

The illegitimate son of a music-hall star and an ambitious politician has grown up to become a journalist. He d...