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- Recounts the courageous efforts by French railroad workers who were part of an organized resistance during German World War II occupation.
- A family man travelling for work, Paolo Bianchi, meets on a train a lonely girl, Maria. He sees her again on a bus and she reveals him that she's in troubles: she's pregnant, her baby's father has left her and she doesn't know how to tell to her parents that she's not married. She asks Paolo to play the role of her husband and he accepts....
- Four-year-old Pricò becomes the subject of emotional folly by his capricious parents and negligent relatives.
- Gilberte is a sixteen year old girl raised by her aunt and grandmother to be a demimondaine. But she's not ready for that yet, and spends her days in lessons and in teasing Mamita's old friend, the rich playboy Gaston LaChaille, and following his affairs from afar. But when Gaston throws off his latest mistress, it looks as if Gigi just might be ready to begin her destined career.
- 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.
- Stalingrad is a 1943 Soviet documentary. The film illustrates the famous battle of the Red Army with the Germans for Stalingrad.
- Eugenia is a daughter of a wealthy but miserly man living a simple life in the provincial town of Saumur. Eugenia's inexperience leads her to fall in love with an unworthy man.
- Sylvie, a girl who believes she is cursed having seen her two lovers die in tragic circumstances, lives in the town of Carcassonne, in the South of France with her adoptive guardian, Mr. Toulzac. This one, a retired school teacher, has a passion: to discover the secret of the Cathars, a Christian sect of the Middle Ages that glorified death over life. One day Sylvie meets Roland, a pianist and composer back home in Carcassonne. A handsome and good man, he instills new hope into Sylvie's troubled mind. Unfortunately her uncle asks her then to renounce the world and to follow him down into a secret cathedral he has just found...
- During the Second World War, Georges Masse undergoes a dangerous mission by taking secret documents from Tangiers to London.
- The sculptor François Bressolles falls in love with the young Catherine. They envision a life together, but one day François becomes distant and cruel. He begins to lose his sight, and does not want to let Catherine engage with a blind man.
- A young girl learns how it is painful growing up.
- Jean-Louis forgets to use the pedestrian crossing;Who could have believed then where it would lead the unfortunate guy to?
- The months before World War II. The fear of the impending war never leaves the guests of an hotel in Paris.
- A love affair which is anything but romantic. The negative of a fairy tale.
- Stuck in Angoulême between her uncle, who composes classical music, and her aunt, who is a fan of contemporary music, young Irène finds life boring. Fortunately, there is swing music which illuminates her days. So when, one day, Raymond Serre and his swing orchestra come to Angoulême, she seizes the opportunity to slip the copy of a song she has written into the pocket of one of the musicians. The trouble is that while she is doing so, the train she has boarded pulls out...
- Sister Claire is a nun who, besides praying God, devotes her time and energy to saving "lost girls". When Siméon, a widower, failed composer and music-hall pianist, comes to the convent to tune the harmonium, he tells her how hard it has been for him to raise his three daughters alone. And how angry he is just now with Lucette, the eldest of the three. The girl is indeed pregnant by her seducer. Hearing that, he nun suddenly remembers her own case: four decades earlier, as she was still Claire Lebourg, she too went through the pains of an unachieved love story and marriage, luckily without falling pregnant. Taking the veil and helping wretched creatures had managed to heal her distress. She will of course support Lucette in her ordeal, doing everything to spare her an abortion or a suicide. And she will see to it that she obtains forgiveness from her father as well as a warm return under his roof.
- Olivier's got skeletons in his closet and on the farm he is the perfect intruder.
- Tommaso Rossi, a young Italian goes to America to visit his elder brother Amedeo who has a business in the construction industry. He is discovered as a talented boxer after getting into a fight with a champion in a restaurant and flooring him. However his elder brother's business is wrecked and he is arrested for a crime he did not commit. Forced to fight in order to raise enough money to bail his brother, Tommaso is then told by a dying Amedeo to return to Italy as the American dream holds nothing for Italian American immigrants.
- An assassin shakes up a popular cafee in Paris.
- In his will, the late Jérôme Armandy expressed the wish to have all the surviving members of his family summoned to the Château de l'Etang in Provence. His servant Firmin asks Montmartre artist Claude to organize the reunion, find the sum of 17 million francs that is hidden there (he was told this as a child by Armandy), and divide the amount among the different heirs. But a series of odd incidents occur: Claude is knocked unconscious as he is busy opening the hiding-place door; one of the heirs gets killed; and even more astoundingly, the dead man reappears and...requests his money back.
- Marguerite secretly loves a novelist whose face no one knows. The jealous husband sets up a scheme by asking an actor friend to play the novelist and behave in an execrable way in order to disgust his wife.
- Micheline is a pretty girl but rich, spoiled and whimsical as well. Jacques, the brother of her friend Danielle, is so exasperated by her behavior that he decides to give her a chance to learn about good manners. To that effect, he kidnaps her and detains her in a hut on the edge of a wood. He starts "taming the shrew" but the situation soon gets out of control when criminals - real ones this time - abduct Micheline in earnest... and for ransom!
- An actress who has just played the part of an old lady says that she would like to grow old like that character did.Sadly ,she will not get her wish because she is terminally-ill .
- A colonial wife carries on an affair with a French officer, but the wife's native servant may have overheard their plan to leave Africa and return to Europe together.And then the servant goes missing.
- The misfortunes of a singer who has lost his voice.
- An Oriental villain named Halloway is called in by wealthy oil interests who want to destroy a dam project for hydroelectric power that may threaten their profits.