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- Depressed Alain Leroy leaves the clinic where he was detoxified. He meets friends, acquaintances and women, trying to find a reason to continue living. Will this help him?
- During World War I, the star-crossed affair of an underage French student with a woman engaged to a soldier.
- Philippe Clarence, a famous Parisian dressmaker, seduces his friend's fiancee. But, for the first time in his life, this is for real. The film is also a sharp picture of the fashion world.
- Zou Zou tries to help her childhood friend prove his innocence after he's accused of murder.
- Lucienne, typist and gorgeous bathing beauty, decides to enter the 'Miss Europe' pageant sponsored by the French newspaper she works for. She finds her jealous lover Andre violently disapproves of such events and tries to withdraw, but it's too late; she's even then being named Miss France. The night Andre planned to propose to her, she's being whisked off to the Miss Europe finals in Spain, where admirers swarm around her. Win or lose, what will the harvest be?
- A captain, who has rescued a woman from danger,sails with her to Macao to do an arms deal with the Asian proprietor of a gambling den.The proprietor,s daughter, whom a visiting journalist tries to help, doesn,t know the sordid business her father is involved with.
- Strange things happen at night at the Saint-Argil secondary school. Baume, Sorgues and Macroy, three of the school's pupils, discover a suspicious man on the premises. Shortly after this unsettling event, pupils begin to go missing.
- Lilac is consorting with the criminal scum of Paris but then she falls in love with a handsome detective...
- In France, in 1930, the supervisor of a reformatory for young offenders seeks to awaken in them the love of music by forming a choir, despite the skepticism of the institution's director.
- Volpone, an elderly Venetian, connives with his money-crazed servant to convince his greedy friends that he is dying, knowing that each will try to curry favor with him in order to be named his heir. He is inundated with valuable gifts, and soon finds himself entangled deeper and deeper in a web of lies.
- Film based on the myth of Don Juan.
- Based on a venerable Legend of the Sea, the story concerns a pliable prostitute named Bella who is all things to all men. No matter what sort of woman her client wants, she will become that woman, at least for the night.
- Petrus,a Montmartre photographer,is accidentally wounded by Migo,a dancer at the Frou Frou night club,when she is trying to shoot her faithless lover Rodrigue,a counterfeiter.Though Petrus tries to reconcile the lovers, Migo lands up with him after Rodrigue is finally killed by another jealous dancer.
- Muichkine, a young Russian prince, returns home to St. Petersburg from a mental institution, determined to spread decency and kindness in the harsh and cruel world. He becomes betrothed to an innocent young girl while trying to save a less-innocent woman from her own travail, but jealousy and his own naivete conjoin to bring about unimaginable tragedy.
- In 1919, Pierre Darmont, a handsome, much-loved piano virtuoso, falls in love with Anne Morris, a young woman who shares his tender feelings. But, quite inexplicably, after an unforgettable night, Anne vanishes without trace. Twenty years later, Pierre, at the peak of his glory, has become embittered. Unable to recover his unhappy love affair, he has collected women without ever committing himself to any. Until some night he meets the eyes of a beautiful young lady, who happens to be the spitting image of his great love...
- Imposture helps an orphan girl become a lawyer.
- An alcoholic doctor accidentally kills someone and manages to make the death look like an accident. The episode triggers a sense of confidence and he resolves to correct the miseries of his life.
- Lucie turns the house of chic dandy Gaston upside down.
- A gangster who's got a lot of dough takes refuge in his hometown.
- A Modern Visual Interpretation of Handel's Masterpiece
- The history of the Entente Cordiale in the big and small picture, from 1898, when a French officer occupied the village of Fashoda, Sudan to 8 April 1904, when a series or agreements marking the rapprochement between England and France were signed. To this turnaround in public opinion corresponds a parallel evolution in the intimate feelings of two families, one English and the other French which will result in the French heir marrying the English daughter.
- A public prosecutor wants his son to marry an ugly girl(who has a squint) because her mom is very rich.But it's too late for the boy has already fallen in love with another girl who is pregnant by him.Angry dad is to stop his shameless son's allowance .Enter exuberant Betty Brown ,with a delightful slight English accent and lots of joy of life .The old man realizes then that life is passing him by .Is it too late for him to find happiness?
- Monique is an ingenue, a clueless girl who believes in true love, for her fiancé is a handsome man, and at the time (early 20th century), marriage is the only thing a decent girl must long for. When she discovers that her future husband has a lover, she rebels against her bourgeois family and their money math; she will live a wild, free life--she will live like a man. Soon she becomes the toast of the Gai Paris, sleeping with all the men--and even a woman.
- It may be the first time they have used the theory of relativity in a story.
- A timid young man marries the daughter of the entomologist he works for. On the train for their honeymoon, he takes his young wife in his arms when a customs officer suddenly enters the compartment. The groom is now inhibited.
- Jean-Gaspard Deburau is a very successful mime, the most famous in his category. One day, he falls head over heels in love with Marie Duplessis, a courtesan better known as "La Dame aux Camélias". But he soon realizes that he is but a number in her long list of lovers. He will find comfort in devoting his time teaching his art to his son Charles.
- During the Christmas season, Christine, a singer and her friends find themselves penniless. She falls asleep and dreams that she goes to heaven, followed by her friends. Waking her back on the ground and in reality. Miraculously, a generous customer is their commitment.
- Listening to a musical program on the radio, each of the listeners remembers these "little nothings" (the title is borrowed from Mozart's ballet-pantomime, Les Petits Riens) which have often changed their lives. The film is presented as a sketch film where everyone tells their story by proving that a tiny detail can change an entire destiny. The painter: Painter refused at the salon, Drial is one day knocked down by a car, he is rescued and transported to the hospital but his painting is lost, it falls into the hands of a concierge who resells it to a discerning collector. Leaving the hospital Drial realizes that he has become famous. Astier: Astier is a receptionist in a hotel, he finds Lefebvre an old childhood friend who encourages him to stake all his savings in a stock market transaction. Astier presuming of his future fortune leaves his job and learns that he is ruined when he returns to see the stockbroker. He then becomes a hearse driver, it is there that he meets Lefebvre again who buries his mother-in-law. The latter informs him that his shares have gone up and that he is now a millionaire. Mesnard: Mesnard is a pawn in a provincial high school and writes plays under a pseudonym. His childhood friend tells him that a theater is ready to play one of these plays. Refusing to go to the rehearsal, he waits for a phone call from his friend who informs him that the first act is catastrophic. Suddenly, as he is dressed, Mesnard takes the opportunity to replace his father as servant in a reception on the floor above. But it turns out that the rest of the play obtains a colossal success, Mesnard then plants there the bourgeois whom he served. Les Brignoles : Monsieur Brignoles sets up a scheme to deceive his wife with Louise, her best friend. While he is supposed to be in Brussels, Madame Brignoles learns by chance that he has stayed in Paris. As for Louise, who was to organize a hunting party in the countryside, she also remained in Paris. Madame Brignoles goes to Louise's, spends time with her while the husband remains hidden in the apartment. Not fooled, leaving the cinema, Madame Brignoles told Louise to ask her husband to hurry home. But on returning home she receives a telegram from Brussels signed by her husband. La Clermont: It is whispered that the king of Sinistrie died in the arms of La Clermont. All of Paris is aware except La Clermont herself who, tonight, is playing Molière. The public and the press praise his great courage. It is only at the end of the performance that she learns of the king's death. She does not deny anything, but soon receives a telegram from her lover who, jealous, decides to break off abruptly. Charpillon: Charpillon marries Lucie, his young secretary. During the private wedding dinner, she shows him a medallion containing the portraits of her parents. The medallion accidentally falls freeing another photo, that of Lucie's lover. Good prince, Charpillon does not retain Lucie and offers her the two train tickets for the honeymoon.
- Alfred Boulard, a good-natured electrician, gives his blood to save Mona Thalia, a great theater actress. Mona Thalia survives and Boulard becomes the man of the hour. Grateful to him, Mona helps Alfred to become a singing star. But his fame will be short-lived.
- Two sisters struggle to stay on the straight and narrow.
- After a deadbeat patron at his restaurant gets special care from the cops who think the man has amnesia, the maitre d'hotel decides to pretend he too has amnesia. He is claimed in turn by an aristocrat family and by trapeze artists.
- "He was there to steal her money ,to take her rings and run,then he fell in love with the lady and got away with none"
- A young man, in love with a famous actress, married her daughter by a combination of circumstances.
- Adventures and misadventures of Ernest, the professional accordionist on a liner.
- Eighteen-year-old Gilbert Quercy has tried to commit suicide and has been sent to hospital. Nobody is surprised there when his mother comes to visit him but the nurse cannot believe her eyes when a second mother, and - even more astounding - a third one, present themselves to comfort the young patient. The reason for this is that Michel Quercy, Gilbert's father, a fanciful egyptologist always away from home, married four different women. Gilbert is the son he had with his first wife but the boy was raised by his three successive other wives after his biological mum died in childbirth. Following their conversation with Gilbert, the three "mothers" are convinced that Michel and his refusal to take his responsibilities as a father are the root of the problem. As a result, they decide to join forces in order to make the disgraceful father change his ways...
- Mario Esposito, who sings in a Neapolitan restaurant, is in love with Assunta, the niece of Teresa, the owner of the place. He shares his apartment with Michel, his best friend. This one has fallen under the spell of Lolita, a gorgeous adventuress he met at the cathedral where he officiates as the organist. But things go awry as, while Michel intercedes with Aunt Teresa for Assunta's hand in his favor, Mario in turn falls in love with Lolita. On the very day of his wedding with Assunta, Mario runs away with Lolita, thus betraying both his love and his friend. But it does not take long before the young singer realizes the big mistake he has made.
- Agnès Bonnardet leaves her parents to marry Claude Sironi, a painter who becomes famous but loses his talent. Meanwhile Agnes acquires a style of her own as an artist, which makes Claude jealous of his young wife. One day, he sends one of his own paintings to the Bazar de la Charité, a very trendy Paris department store, instead of one of his wife's works as ordered. Afraid of her being mad at him, he locks her up in the cloak room. A dreadful fire suddenly breaks out and sets the building ablaze.
- Two modest fishermen pass themselves off as rich industrialists to win two girls' love.
- Now that they have inherited a huge sum of money Moïse Lévy and his brother Salomon are the prosperous owners of a a department store, the Galeries Lévy & Cie. Life is sweet but unexpectedly sours the day a fake Lévy cousin gets into their lives, claiming that the business is his, not theirs...
- An accomplished young man, Prince Stéphane is destined for a brilliant future but when he finds out that Marie, his beloved fiancée, has had an affair with the man he respects the most, Tsar Nicolas 1er in person, the shock is terrible. Unable to recover, he chooses religion and becomes a monk and a hermit. He becomes known as a healer and worshiped as a saint, although he himself is aware of his many weaknesses. The day he learns Marie is seriously ill Le père Serge formerly known as Prince Stéphane leaves sanctity behind and hits the road for Saint Petersburg ...
- A brief history of French theater.
- Etienne Pinson, a notary clerk, is sent by his employer to Juan-les-Pins, on the French Riviera. There he discovers the good life but living it up is not without inconvenience, for example when Etienne finds himself introducing a young beauty as his wife in the presence of his... own wife! But as Etienne hits the jackpot in the casino, his alleged unfaithfulness is easily forgiven.
- Cuckvective Daniel and Rommel go on a lifelong quest to find Ross a girlfriend.
- The action takes place on a liner sailing for New York. Aboard there are no fewer than two hundred passengers bearing the name of Lévy, all persuaded that they are the heirs to Abraham Levy, a multimillionaire. Among them, David Lévy has fallen in love with Esther... Lévy! Which is not to the liking of Salomon and Moïse, his uncles, who have another future in mind for him...