A wife uses the pretext, that her American husband refuses to kiss her on the lips, to divorce him. Later after she is remarried he tries in vain to...

Monsieur Gazon is not likely to win employee of the month: he is assuredly the worst salesman at the Galeries de Paris ! And, as the customers...

The late Toupinel, a merry fellow, kept a legitimate wife in Paris, and a mistress who passed for his wife in the provinces. When he died, the two...

Soon after the death of his first wife (whose dowry was inadequate), Charles Bovary, a country doctor in Normandy, marries Emma Rouault. In her new...

Having been ordered to the front, a soldier entrusts his personal papers to his sister's fiancee. Soon, he too is called up. She comes upon a love...

On his wedding day, Robert confesses his father-in-law that twenty years ago, he seduced a lady in a sleeping car of a train. His mother-in-law...

Blaireau, a poacher, is imprisoned for an offense he didn't commit. An ambitious lawyer tries to exculpate and glorify him. But, once he's released,...

Estelle de Pressendi, famous music-hall singer, was all the rage in the 1910s thanks to her two inseparable impresarios. Twenty years later, then on...

A young man from a good family abandons the young girl he has seduced, but finally marries her after being brought back to the right path by the...

A novelist uses all means to curry favor with a particularly cantankerous engineer. After believing her to be selfish and despicable, the young man...

The colonel must marry the baroness of Flair, as soon as the girl this one will have found a match. A friend of the colonel proposes his nephew: a...

Claude, shy, instructs Michel to declare his love to Simone, the young girl he loves. But Michel seduces her and becomes engaged to her. She...

Cochu, a simple soldier, is mistakenly believed to be a rich heir which causes many problems.

Provincials visiting Paris take the drug of Professor Jouvence, which rejuvenates them with the scabrous consequences that one can imagine.

A widower sends his son Dédé to boarding school, falls in love with a young woman and gradually neglects the child, not out of...

A young man drowning in debts must make a rich marriage to pay them off. But his friend compromises the plan until there is one that she likes and...

The rise of a crooked employee of a bank and the attempt of a former co-worker to bring him down.

The pharmacist Floche who was once the merry Flofloche, had a daughter by a dancer. He wants his daughter to become a pharmacist, but of course all...

Travelers who have missed their correspondence are forced to spend the night in the waiting room of a small country station. They are told that a...

Professor Poponof, an old scientist, has just discovered a truth serum. Amédée, a burglar who has been surprised in his apartment, will...

A rich old man wants to give a good lesson to his niece and his nephew, who are very full of themselves. He pretends to be dead, after having put as...

The young Eugène Crochard, whom his entourage believes to be a billionaire following a joke published in a newspaper, is pursued by a cohort...

Colonel Fougas, stricken with catalepsy during the Russian campaign in 1812, was resuscitated after more than a century by French scholars and is not...

The tribulations of a banknote, from its exit from a counter to its destruction, passing through dozens of hands.

A young man is involved in a swindle to produce synthetic gold, but fortunately when the fakery is uncovered he still has his girlfriend and a ticket...

Ginette is always squabbling with her mother and she cannot take it any more. One day, she asks Jim Ashbury to intervene and this is how the son of a...

A poor woman forced to sew in a brothel for a living, a museum guard whose daughters party, an old lady with a fiery heart, and a teacher whose...

Following a misunderstanding, a young servant is mistaken for the rich heir that the owner of a fashion house intended for his daughter. The servant...

When a young woman named Aurélie throws a fit of jealousy at her husband and her lover, daily life becomes more complicated.

There are collectors and collectors. As far as he is concerned, Monsieur Coquelet has brought together a collection of historical... garters! So...

The family Pont-Biquet is composed as follows: father, the judge, afflicted by deafness; authoritarian and irascible mother; funny son-in-law; an...

The young Paulette is placed by her tutor in a boarding school in Lausanne. It is at the neighboring dance hall, by running away for a short time,...

Hubert has married a little provincial girl and, to disgust her with Parisian life, he takes her out every evening.

On one side, a crooked banker, his nephew and his orderly; on the other, the honest friend of the banker and his daughter. Substitution of male and...

Marc Lanterne and Monsieur Smith investigate the home of a castellan who is the victim of jealousy, justified by the way, of his wife. Monsieur...

A washerwoman works so long for the same bosses that she gets to like their young son very much. One day she is unjustly accused of robbery, and...

A doctor is married to an overly jealous wife who wants a divorce. He advises one of his very shy patients to take a mistress when he feels attracted...

Two twin sisters, nieces of the mayor of Buissons-les-Amours, are, one very wise, the other evaporated. The lover of the second falls in love with...

A divorcee, who has many flirtations, decides to marry one of them.

A poor boy, having consented to play the role of the victim in a fake car accident story, is also invited to marry in the place of his crush who...

Three "spinsters" focus their attention very narrowly on their nephew, in his first phase of adulthood. Éloi, handicapped by his shyness,...

Arlette, a young orphan girl, is taken in by four spinster cousins, the eldest of whom, Telcide, is very authoritarian. Arlette befriends Marie, and...

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

A wealthy old maid offers to be the godmother of a regiment in order to find a fiancé for her niece who must come into possession of a large...

In the village of Sableuse, the local manor has been bought out by a nouveau riche, Emile Cousinet. When his wife Lisette, a former music hall...

Reine, a young woman, meets for the first time a cousin of hers, Paul. She falls in love with him but she soon leans that Paul is engaged to Blanche,...

The joys and miseries of the inhabitants of a building in a Parisian district.

Out of love for an actress, Isabelle, the Baron de Sigognac joins a traveling troop en route to Paris. When an actor dies, he takes over his role:...

Ignace Boitaclou, although sympathetic, is not very intelligent. Upon his arrival at the barracks to perform his military service, he was appointed...

The head of a school in a little French country town encourages the playful romances between his young students, as well as a love of jazz music.

A young sculptor presides over the destinies of a student club where a miserable young girl ends up one evening. The treasurer of the association...

Jules Leroy, an industrial shoe polish manufacturer, on his deathbed reveals to his son Achille that the family fortune originates from an...

Four French conscripts are going to go on leave with their godmother, in Provence, in the company of a comrade from the British army. But, in the...

Naive and good-hearted Léon Ménard arrives in Paris, determined to find work in the capital. In a café, he meets Bob, a seedy...

Father Benoît would like one of his twins to take over his inn, at 3 plates. But his ancillary ambitions are not commensurate with his last 3....

Adolphe is in serious financial difficulties and the extravagances of his wife do not help to fix things.

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

Gaston wants more than anything to marry the naive Simone. But where he is, there is Sidonie, a local singer romantically pursued by the police...

The rivalry between Albert Gambier, head of the municipal brass band, and the jazz band, led by Jacques Hélian, provokes many comic adventures...

Unfairly accused of her husband's murder, a woman is imprisoned.

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

1912 short French film written and directed by Léonce Perret.

Part of the series La Vie telle qu'elle est that Feuillade did in which people were shown as they really are and not as they ought to have been. This...

Gribiche, a young boy whose mother is a war widow, gets adopted by a rich woman. She wants to turn him into a perfect gentleman, but soon he feels...

Being a tramp is not always a disadvantage. For example when there is a masquerade ball. Indeed wearing flea-ridden rags might just mean having...

The bright junior lieutenant Jacques Mareuil, son of an admiral, is stationed in one of our great military ports, and is neighbors with the young...

When her father files bankruptcy and then dies, Rose's fiancé jilts her; she takes a job as a maid in a Montmartre kindergarten with 150 poor...

Two small girls whose father is in prison are collected by their grandfather after losing their mother in a shipwreck.

A silent French film depicting the story of the nativity.

A photogenic Partie de campagne with Léonce looking for mushrooms! A nice prestation by Poupette Suzanne Le Bret and a nice little fantasy.

The life of French poet André Chénier, precursor of the Romantic movement, who was guillotined during the Revolution aged only 31.

The Madonna gives a golden lily to the poor musician. He tries to sell it and this arouses the suspicion of the goldsmith.

A historical short film inspired by the Biblical story of Belshazzar's Feast.

Belphégor deals with a series of mysterious appearances by a masked-and-robed figure in the Louvre; a security guard is murdered, and a later...

One night, Bout-de-Zan finds a wanderer and shares his bed to him. The next morning there is a general panic among the servants...

Bout-de-Zan and his family are around the dinner table, awaiting the visit of his millionaire uncle. But the uncle is not what he was...

Paris, France, 1784. After living many tribulations, Joseph Balsamo, known as Count Cagliostro, an infamous adventurer, enigmatic magician and...

The goddess Minerva is jealous of the young Arachne who is more clever it in weaving. Out of spite, Arachne Minerva rushed into hell, then transforms...

Charming, charming but unstable, Rudy is married to Lydia. He dreams of becoming a famous painter. His father-in-law offers him a contract: if he...

Benoit, the head guard of Clouville Prison, prefers to be liked than feared. This basic principle transforms the jail-house into a joyful prison,...

A film by Louis Feuillade.

The two merrymakers Cartahu and Bailladrisse sail together on a cargo ship. When customs officers come aboard to conduct a search, Cartahu is unaware...

Smalltown confectioner Lespinasse, hopeful of being reelected as chief councillor, is opposed by Darcepoil, the local druggist. Darcepoil arranges...

Pouske runs the "Le Bienvenu" café with his wife Antoinette and daughter Jeanne. On the market square, the fairgrounds are setting up their...

Framed in a wreath of roses we see a lithe Creek dancer, who sways and postures before an epicurean party of ancients, followed by a laurel wreath...

This short film consists of a crazy old colonel being asked to entertain party guests about his exploits of daring. However, being a totally insane...

Alcide Darbois, a small-time garage owner, and his sister Ursule come into a fabulous inheritance and become powerful industrialists. The cars they...

If an old man's niece does not claim her inheritance at the notary's office by the appointed time, his fortune will go to his housekeeper.

In eighteenth-dynasty Egypt, Sinuhe, a poor orphan, becomes a brilliant physician and with his friend Horemheb is appointed to the service of the new...

Bernard, Sleeper Coach conductor and automobile inventor, is confused to be the racing car company president, and falls in love with a countess, who...

A very shy person inherits a traveling circus on the express condition that he manages to present a number on the ring.

The dynamic Flora has decided to burglarize Colonel de la Ribodiere's apartment in the company of Romeo and Clotaire. The two men discover the old...

The scene of the drama is a block of modern flats. Many of the residents are away at a dance, and the janitor and his staff decide upon a...

Once their military service is over, the instrumentalists of a regimental orchestra find themselves in civilian life and decide to run a hotel...

A series of seven short films of varying length demonstrating each of the seven deadly sins.

Cyrano, poet and cadet from Gascony, is afflicted with an excessively long nose which makes the beauties smile. He is no less in love with his cousin...

A little Breton tries to save her boss's daughter an unhappy marriage.

Juanita is a 1935 French musical comedy film directed by Pierre Caron and starring Mireille Perrey, Alfred Rode and André Berley.

Chérie is a beautiful young woman who works as an escort girl. She meets a young and wealthy man who propose her to be his fictional wife so...

In this fast-moving fantasy, an unsophisticated student escapes from a boarding school to become, after many trials and tribulations, the "toast of...

Emile is a steelworker in a car factory ;a confirmed bachelor going on fifty, he leads a peaceful life .One night, he is woken up by a burst of...

The marchioness of Botarin secretly exchanges passionate letters with Jean, a young sailor. What Jean doesn't know is that the lady of his heart is...

Burlesque: the champion describes his race with such conviction that everyone is carried away with him.

The famous singer Antonia left the stage to marry a country gentleman. She goes alone one day to Budapest to see again the operetta which revealed...

The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the...

Caesar, a senior French colonist returned home after many years of absence, knows a girl, Marcella, who is in full depression because she was...

Middle-aged Georges of the "old school" who offers shelter and comfort to Marcelle. Despite his own reservations, Georges falls in love with the...

The mystery passenger on Craddock's ship is his country's queen.When he loses money she's entrusted to him at roulette, he threatens to bomb Monte...

Juju, a drunken oaf who feels the need of being important to someone---anyone---and his friend The Artist are forced at gunpoint to house a fugitive,...

Two girls, Ginette and Gaby, have just run away, outraged by the mistreatment of their governess. After many adventures, they will find their father,...

A poor relative, cousin Bette is cast aside by a wealthy family. Embittered and jealous, she devotes herself to the systematic destruction of those...

Historical film directed and written by Sacha Guitry follows the the history of Paris from its founding through the significant events in the city's...

The story of Charles de Foucauld, born September 15, 1858 in Strasbourg (France) and died December 1, 1916 in Tamanrasset in Algeria during the...

A baroness entrusts her daughter to her servants, Germain and Marie. Marie takes her to a dance hall, where the daughter is taken by a man.

Robert Chapelain, a renowned lawyer, loves Annette Rollan, a salesgirl. When his children Jean and Jacqueline witness their uncle telling their...

A young woman is married to a cad. She writes him a break-up letter and decides to run away with her lover to Egypt. But her lover is run over by a...

Four classmates decide to perform a love song that their friend, Pierre, composed for Marie. Novac, another admirer of Marie, is murdered. Pierre...