François Viguier

Napoleon

A biopic of Napoleon Bonaparte, tracing the Corsican's career from his schooldays (where a snowball fight is st...

Wicked Duchess

Edwige Feuillère and Pierre Richard-Willm star in director Jacques de Baroncelli's adaptation of the Balzac nov...

Behind These Walls

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

Somersault

Homeland

Brussels in the year 1568, as the Flemish people are fighting against the tyranny of the Spanish occupiers. Led...

Life Is Ours

A propaganda film of the communist party of France, showing how the comrades help the proletariat against the c...

The Lion of the Moguls

In the kingdom of the Moguls, Prince Roudghito-Sing, a young officer of the palace, falls in love with Zemgali,...

Saint Joan the Maid

This relatively straightforward dramatic biography was one of two films commissioned to honor Joan of Arc on th...

Song of Armorica

A poetic drama, spoken in the Breton language and set in a Breton fishing community, telling of the impossible...

The Two Worlds

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...

Portrait of Innocence

A student from an elementary school accidentally breaks the glass roof of his school. His comrades decide to su...

Gibraltar

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

Le Capitan (1ère époque) Flamberge au vent

France under Louis XIII. 1615. The Duke of Angoulême is at the head of a group of gentlemen who are conspiring...

The Miraculous Life of Teresa of Lisieux

A chronicling of the life of Saint Therese of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face, a Catholic nun who died of tub...

The Divine Voyage

A girl in search of sailors lost in the Pacific.

The Divine Voyage

A girl in search of sailors lost in the Pacific.

Alert Nights

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

Colonel Chabert

The story of a French officer who is assumed dead during the Napoleonic Wars, but returns ten years later to a...

The Time of the Cherries

A poor peasant family, a failed cabinet maker and an unemployed worker struggle in contrast to crooked rich bus...

Pontcarral, Empire Colonel

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

Malaria

A colonial wife carries on an affair with a French officer, but the wife's native servant may have overheard th...

The Benefactor

A kind and generous village noble, specializing in good works, actually leads a double existence and carries ou...

The Poster

A mother sells a photo of her daughter to the press for publicity, and a daughter suddenly dies leaving the mot...

The Train of Suicides

Locked in a train, a group of suicide candidates await the death promised them by a crook. When they have almos...

The Lafarge Case

Based on true facts, a news item which was widely talked about in the nineteenth century, this is the story of...

Les mutinés de l'Elseneur

A journalist takes command of a ship after the crew mutiny against the brutal captain. It was an adaptation of...

First in Line

A screen adaptation of the well-known novel by Roger Frison-Roche about the harsh lives of mountain guides and...

Father Goriot

An old merchant ruined by the dot its two ungrateful daughters, moved to the Vauquer pension in Paris. In after...

La Justicière

Criminal

A wrongfully convicted man finds himself suspected of a crime committed in his prison.

Feu!

Balançoires

A young couple go to the carnival. After some savage heavy petting they meet a sinister fakir who offers to sel...

Opération Jericho

Colomba

A young officer of Napoleon's armies returns to Corsica where his sister is waiting for him to avenge the death...

Les Réprouvés

At the borders of the Saharan desert, the dramatic situation of a battalion of light infantry attacked by the e...