Jean Témerson

Diabolique

The cruel and abusive headmaster of a boarding school, Michel Delassalle, is murdered by an unlikely duo -- his...

The Count of Monte Cristo

Edmond Dantes is falsely accused by those jealous of his good fortune, and is sentenced to spend the rest of hi...

Pépé le Moko

Pépé le Moko, one of France's most wanted criminals, hides out in the Casbah section of Algiers. He knows polic...

Manon

Port of Marseille, France, recently liberated from the German yoke. Caught as stowaways aboard a ship, Manon, a...

Volpone

Volpone, an elderly Venetian, connives with his money-crazed servant to convince his greedy friends that he is...

Queen Margot

Marguerite de Valois, daughter of Catherine de Médicis, celebrates her wedding with Henri de Navarre. Officiall...

The Cupboard Was Bare

The aunt of Alfred Puc, a meek tax-collector in Paris, dies while riding in a moving van. The driver, not wishi...

Personal Column

To try solving the strange disappearances of 11 young Parisian women, the police obtain the services of Adrienn...

Here Is the Beauty

Melodrama of two struggling artists whose love for each other is thwarted.She has some success as a ballerina d...

Flesh and the Woman

In this romance, a jilted lawyer joins the French Foreign Legion to help him forget his faithless love. While i...

Le Petit Poucet

Tête blonde

When he finds a package in the metro, given this period of restrictions, Mr. Truche thinks it may be a good dea...

The Rear-Wheel Drive Gang

The manager of a firm has a very unusual idea : asking his employees to pose as gangsters and to hold up a bank...

Alibi

Paris, 1937. Winckler kills his enemy Gordon, a Chicago mobster, from the stage of a Parisian music hall, where...

Bargekeepers Daughter

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

The Southern Trail

As Hélène is conveying her husband's body across the Sahara, her convoy is attacked by looters. The young widow...

The Cape of Hope

Lyria, a faded beauty who runs a seedy waterfront bar, is madly in love with Bob, a crooked attorney. Bob can't...

Fantomas Against Fantomas

Everyone in Paris thinks Fantomas is dead. A wave of extortion, blackmail and murder all point to the master cr...

Miquette

A provincial ingenue leaves her mother’s tobacco shop with dreams of a life in the Parisian theater, only to be...

Véronique

The king orders viscount Florestan to take mademoiselle de Solanges for his wife. But the viscount doesn't know...

Blanchette

Blanchette, unable to find a job, prostitutes herself in Paris. She then finds the man she loves when her moral...

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...

Raphaël le tatoué

Modeste is a timid watchman at an automobile factory which is run with an iron hand by its owner, Roger Drapeau...

Une mort sans importance

A man who has made a pact with death must designate the member of a family who must die the next day. After man...

Captain Benoit

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

Berlingot and Company

François and Victor sell hard candy at the fun fair. They also bring up Gisèle, a one-year-old child they found...

The Chess Player

A toymaker in Poland specializes in building lifesize mechanical men. He builds a chess-playing "automaton" to...

Rooster in dough

A famous lawyer is irritated to see his fiancée spending her time trying to educate Languille, a tramp. Wanting...

One Does Not Die That Way

In the studio where the famous director Eric Von Berg reigns, Pierre Vanier, the male star of the film and the...

Sacred Woods

Despite her success, writer Francine Margerie is let down to see that she is not nominated for the Legion of Ho...

Barnabé

Barnabé, an occasional flutist, goes to Mme Petit-Durand to organize her daughter's 20 years. But he is confuse...

Without Trumpet or Drum

For the Marquis Barbezieux de Saint-Rosay, nobility is important. If anything can comfort her, it's her family...

The Faceless Enemy

Professor Artus, a scientist specializing in artificial life, wants to try an experiment on an automaton; he is...

Secret Cargo

In a Central American state, the owner of a dance hall and his sponsor engage in drug trafficking. Are involved...

President Haudecoeur

A public prosecutor wants his son to marry an ugly girl(who has a squint) because her mom is very rich.But it's...

Boulot aviateur

An operetta baron has teamed up with a mechanic to carry out insurance scams. During one of their shots, they c...