Mr. Silvestry, nicknamed "The Hen" because he is raising his five daughters alone, for whom he does the housework, the shopping and the cooking, is...

Russia, 1835. Lieutenant Hermann, a compulsive gambler, is fascinated by an infallible martingale held by Countess Tomski, nicknamed The Queen of...

Pierre loves Agnès who prefers Clément, an aviator. Out of desperation, he will commit suicide. Agnès then concludes a pact with...

Ramuntcho is a young man who has fallen in with a gang of smugglers, led by Itchoua, who carry their contraband across the border into Spain. He is...

Claude is a young man whose girlfriend has just broken up with him. Feeling unable to overcome the pain, Claude has no other idea than to end his...

Adrienne Lecouvreur is an acclaimed actress who falls in love with Polish prince Maurice de Saxe, only to be poisoned by a jealous rival while...

In his prison cell, the composer Remi Bonvent composed an opera, The columns bed. The director of the prison, Porey Cave, succeeds made believe he is...

Denise, a young employee of the mine, is courted by the engineer Risay while she is engaged to Daniel, a simple underground worker. A betrayal has...

A discharged seaman winds up on an old man's farm: his children left the place for the broader horizons of the evil city; the walls are near decay...

It's a sailors' story; they often sail away and when they return, the first thing they do is searching girls in the harbor. One of them -Jean- is shy...

Madame Clapain dies in dubious circumstances at the home of the Cadifon ladies, of which she was a tenant. A friendly inspector and...

Sitting at his desk, Guitry gives us a lecture on French history from Joan of Arc to the Occupation, with some focus on a number of its great writers...

After a banker is driven to suicide by his wife's reckless spending, an innocent cashier is wrongly implicated in a crime.

In a Far Eastern town, a settling of accounts between Western and Asian opium traffickers draws the attention of the police.

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...

Noël is a bachelor who inherits a matrimonial agency. After contemplating selling it, he chooses to manage it.

Paris, France. Commissaire Wens is put in charge of the investigation into the murder of one of six friends who, in the past, made a very profitable...

Having found the fabulous treasure of which Abbé Faria had spoken to him, Dantès has only one idea left: revenge. He will succeed...

Edmond Dantes is falsely accused by those jealous of his good fortune, and is sentenced to spend the rest of his life in the notorious island prison,...

A sensitive teen-age boy survives the brutalities of a country training school.

A rich young man, Pierre Trévoux, has a desire for adventure and boasts of his courage. While he is staying with friends in the countryside,...

Jeannou lives in a castle in Périgord with his father, the last man of aristocratic lineage landowners, very attached to traditions. She meets...

A banker who lost everything in the stock market is on the verge of committing suicide when the Devil appears to him and offers to give him a...

During the lead up to a second World War, one of several French films hoping for peace,specifically between Germany and France as shown by a border...

About the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and the beginning of the First World War. Focuses on the relationship between a Serbian officer...

A celebrated singer in Paris meets a young woman and courts her by pretending to be a driving instructor.

Bouboule is a taxi driver. A Russian princess wishing to acquire French nationality offers to marry her to divorce a few months later. After...

Shortly before the War, Jan Lazlo, a Hungarian musician who has emigrated to France, falls for a young woman. Alas, the lady forsakes him and the...

Abandoned by her husband Marc, Thérèse Romanay cheats on him with André Norans. When Romanay finds out, he drives her away. She...