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- A story of a love trio, an adultery, an expression of jealousy and the desire to murder without the help of titles, by the combination of images, their associations, editing, tricks, overprints, idling, and acceleration.
- An eight part film set during the French Revolution, telling the story of the Dauphin's (Louis XVI) childhood in Versailles, his life and his untimely death.
- Tells a romanticized version of the life story of Robert Surcouf, a French privateer and slave trader who operated in the Indian Ocean from the end of the 18th century to the beginning of the 19th century.
- During a trip to Naples, a young French man falls in love with a fisherman's granddaughter, Graziella. They are separated when he must return to France, and Graziella soon dies.
- Guilty of insulting Christ Ahasverus became forever eternity the wandering Jew. On 13 February 1682, during a night of pogrom in the Warsaw ghetto a Frenchman married to a Polish Jew is assassinated by members of a secret society.
- A film about the French general's youth and early military career.
- A 1922 play by Ivan Goll, considered a precursor of the theater of the absurd.
- In 1431, Jeanne d'Arc is placed on trial on charges of heresy. The ecclesiastical jurists attempt to force Jeanne to recant her claims of holy visions.
- Obsessed with a general's woman, a clergyman has strange visions of death and lust, struggling against his own eroticism.
- The business tycoon Nicolas Saccard is nearly ruined by his rival Gunderman, when he tries to raise capital for his company. To push up the price of his stock, Saccard plans a publicity stunt involving the aviator Jacques Hamelin flying across the Atlantic to Guyana and drilling for oil there, much to the dismay of Hamelin's wife Line. While Hamelin is away, Saccard tries to seduce Line. Line finally realizes that she and her husband were pawns in Saccard's scheme, and she accuses him of stock fraud.
- Dramatic re-enactment of the battle of Verdun during World War I, as seen by both French and German sides.
- A documentary about the making of L'argent, the epic silent film directed by Marcel L'Herbier. The film shows the details of many of the more complicated moving camera shots.
- Emperess Catherine II wants to get rid of Princess Elisabeth Tarakanova who is to replace her on the throne of Russia. She asks Prince Orloff to travel to Venice so he can seduce Elisabeth and bring her back to Russia. Orloff and Tarakanova fall in love.
- A lieutenant of the French navy, ready to kill himself in despair, renounced his project after spending a night with a beautiful stranger.
- The Gangster Macheath secretly marries the daughter of beggar king Peachum. When Peachum finds out, he instructs the police chief Brown to arrest and hang Macheath. If not, all the beggars of Soho will disturb the upcoming coronation.
- Two sisters struggle to stay on the straight and narrow.
- A visitor from the western front tells young children, in a sober commentary, about the battle of Verdun.
- World War 1 begins and a young man enlists to fight for his country.
- A crime was committed by the Trembleur band who specialized in jewelry theft. The Berlin police are on the trail of the mysterious leader. A policeman acts as a member of a rival band. The bandits are trapped in a suburban villa.
- Melodrama in which a man, learning his wife has turned to her brother in law for romantic comfort, withdraws affection from his daughter, suspecting that she is not really his own.
- Valerian writes his uncle, colonial millionaire, for money. He meets a quartermaster, Napoleon, who pretends to be a doctor of law. They become friends.
- Two women love the same man in a world of few prospects. In Budapest, Liliom is a "public figure," a rascal who's a carousel barker, loved by the experienced merry-go-round owner and by a young, innocent maid. The maid, Julie, loses her job after going out with Liliom; he's fired by his jealous employer for going out with Julie. The two lovers move in with Julie's aunt; unemployment emasculates him and a local weasel tempts him with crime. Julie, now wan, is true to Liliom even in his bad temper. Meanwhile, a stolid widower, a carpenter, wants to marry Julie. Is there any future on this earth for Julie and Liliom, whose love is passionate rather than ideal?
- In 1842, during the conquest of Algeria Sidonie Panache disguised as a Soave runs away with her lover who is doing his military service there.
- At the end of the 15th Century, Rome is ruled ruthlessly by power mad and sex hungry Cesare Borgia, the eldest son of Pope Alexander VI. Following the advice of his chief adviser Niccolo Macchiavelli, Cesare Borgia decides to attempt to unify the country in order to become even more powerful. To this end he needs his sister Lucrezia. Presently, the beautiful creature is married to the Count of Pesaro but she would be more useful if she was the wife of Alphonse of Aragon. Never mind, let the Count join his ancestors! And when the Duke of Aragon becomes useless, Cesare easily finds his replacement. Used as a pawn by her brother, Lucrezia eventually renounces happiness and becomes patron of the arts and the letters/
- A reedited version of Abel Gance's silent masterpiece 'Napoléon vu par Abel Gance', with sound effects added, dialogue post-dubbed, and with new scenes filmed with additional new cast members. The film recounts the life and exploits of Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of France and conqueror of Europe.