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- A flirtatious wife runs off to meet an older man and the husband closes in with intend to murder him, but finds the deed already done.
- In the last days of World War II, a group of Nazis and their sympathizers try to escape from reckoning using a submarine.
- St. Vincent de Paul struggles to bring about peace and harmony among peasants and nobles in the midst of the Black Death in Europe, carrying on his charitable work in the face of all obstacles.
- During World War I, the star-crossed affair of an underage French student with a woman engaged to a soldier.
- Portrait of a two-faced man. By day he is rich, brilliant and respectable financial officer Lussac; at night, he becomes "Mirror", a ruthless gang leader in Marseilles.
- Working class couple Antoine and Antoinette dream of a better life. In the midst of constantly fending off the unwanted attention of men, especially the grocer Monsieur Roland, Antoinette purchases a winning lottery ticket. But when Antoine loses their ticket out of poverty, their dreams seem like they'll remain just that.
- Two people learn to love each other in the afterlife and get a second chance.
- The invincible bandit faces his daughter, who wants him to end his criminal activities.
- 1910. A friend leaves his daughter, Madeleine, with Emile a French film producer. Emile falls in love with her. Problems starts when his young friend Jacques returns from military service complaining his misfortune with women. Once he follows Emile's advice to have an affair, he meets Lucette and falls in love with her instead.
- A husband leads a double life ,one for his lover (a student who could be his daughter),and the one he takes home to his wife.
- Documentary limning the life of Paris and its citizens during "La Belle Epoque," the years between 1900 and 1914. Beginning with the Paris Exposition of 1900 and the completion of the Eiffel Tower, the film progresses through cultural, technological, and social changes, from peaceful and sometimes näive times to the rumbling foreshadowing of the war that would disrupt France and Europe for years to come.
- Julien, a modest postal worker, admires and hopelessly loves Thérèse, the lovely daughter of the local squire. But, quite unexpectedly, on the very night of her engagement with Count of Vétheuil, Thérèse asks Julien for help. In fact, she has just killed Pierre, her lover and wants his body disposed of. Julien performs the sinister task and is entitled to a night of love with Thérèse. Then he disappears. When Thérèse, ashamed, wants to confess, nobody believes her. Julien, who had come to denounce her, cannot speak when he finds himself facing the girl who had bewitched him and still does, and is arrested.
- 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.
- A stranger named Constant, disrupts life of Flora who is seemingly happy with her husband, Lucien. She suddenly experiences a passionate love, taking refuge with her lover in a cave they call "home under the sea."
- A smooth criminal, who turns to be Manuel Ismora, and his gang successfully and peacefully pull off con after heist. Elsewhere a timid office worker, Gabriel Dupon, is pressured by his boss into making a sale. A chain of events causes him to get mixed up with the criminal, and get arrested. Lack of evidence ensures Dupon's release, but brings him to the attention of the criminal who persuades him into cooperation. Ismora exploits the fact that Dupon looks so much like him that they could be - carbon copies.
- « They are not Angels » is a French film directed by Alexandre Esway, released in 1947, based on the book by Joseph Kessel who had stayed in the paratroopers camp of Free France, England.
- On the banks of the Rhône, not far from Tain l'Hermitage, Alcide Garonne, an old ferryman - and incidentally a poacher - lives out of wedlock with Victorine Rousset nicknamed Maryse, a colorful tramp. When Garrone's son, Pilou, a worker, falls in love with Augusta, the mayor's daughter, the unconventional old couple tries to protect the unconventional young pair from the disapproval of self righteous villagers...
- Arabella, a beautiful woman with a turbulent past, joins her lover, Captain Dubreuil, in a remote place of Morocco. Another officer, Captain Sommerville, who happens to be her former lover, recognizes her. The colonel, whose daughter is Sommerville's partner, falls for Arabella and gets rid of Dubreuil by sending him to his death. As for Evelyne, the colonel's daughter who hates Arabella, she is prepared to do everything to take her out of the picture...
- In pre-war France, children were jailed under horrific conditions. The film tells of the massive escape that took place on the island of Belle-Ile-en-Mer, and of the child hunt that ensued.
- What secret is hidden beyond the seventh door?
- Olivier's got skeletons in his closet and on the farm he is the perfect intruder.
- Jacques de la Bastide is a young lawyer, not very good and oppressed by his mother. He takes over the case of three bandits, than falls for the wife of one of them, the seductive Catherine.
- A traveller is stuck in an unknown town because his connecting train will only arrive in six hours. He decides to kill time by taking a stroll.
- On a small island in the middle of the river where Tramontana almost always blows, some losers tear each other to pieces .
- Inspector Sergil investigates three crimes at the same time, helped by two beautiful women.
- Provincial girl Julie Moret arrives in Paris to serve in a residential house. She soon married seemingly nice guy Leo Bouquinquant, but he uncovers as brutal drunkard and lazy.
- A guideless old tour proprietor trumps his new-fangled rival by offering a genuine mystery trip. The takers are a crowd of eccentrics and dropouts from all backgrounds.
- Martine (Dany Robin) is a lonely girl in an exclusive boarding school who conjures up a glamorous existence in order to make her dull life tolerable and to impress the other girls. One of her flights of fancy is a love affair with Brevannes (Claude Dauphin), a famous composer. She leaves the school and goes to the French Alps to find the life she's only dreamed about, where she meets Brevannes and a December-May romance develops until she meets a young mountain guide, Henri Vidal.
- The arrival of a femme fatale causes a circus proprietor and his brother to compete for her affections.She then challenges them to enter into a ring of dangerous lions.
- A Parisian painter working in the Basque country succeeds in keeping together a young woman and her smuggler boyfriend, even though the artist has feelings for the intended bride himself, and then he completes a painting on the subject of the wedding.
- 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 chemist is selling "Sirop Soleil" (= Sunshine Syrup)which he makes in his dispensary.He makes a colossal mistake ,putting cyanide in his medicine.
- Philippe and Sylvie have to do with Alvarez, dangerous band leader. They break with him and commit robbery and murder. Sylvie offers Philippe to take refuge in his calm family.
- When Monsieur Crauqual, the supervisor, is found hanging, all wonder why this rather rich person decided to kill himself. And when a pupil is found hanging too, François and his friends decide to investigate. They are certain there is a killer within the walls of Collège François 1er and determined to prevent him from going on running wild.
- Claude, a penniless young engineer will come into his uncle's heritage on the only condition that he marries one of his cousins. Too bad because the girl he loves, Isabelle, is not one of them... But money is money and Claude goes in search of one of the three cousins he might marry. The first one, Joséphine, a Martinican, already has a lover. The second one, Conchita, is Spanish and Claude, mistaken for a smuggler, must run away from her. As for the third potential wife, Sophie, who lives in Tyrol, Claude has known her since she once saved his life when he was about to commit suicide. Will she be the right one? And what about Isabelle?
- Sir William murders an Earl who left his fortune to his long-lost son.
- Two paintings are stolen .Amateur private detective Roland Gautier investigates.
- On his way to Paris, Casanova keeps on collecting female conquests, does not shy away from duels and gets into many a colorful adventure. Once in the capital, the fearless knight saves the honor of a great lady, conquers the niece of his implacable enemy but courts disaster for love of Coraline, a faithless opera dancer.