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- A beautiful young woman takes her father's place as the prisoner of a mysterious beast, who wishes to marry her.
- Recounts the courageous efforts by French railroad workers who were part of an organized resistance during German World War II occupation.
- After an elderly maid is murdered, opinions are manipulated, evidence is planted, violence erupts, and panic ensues.
- The family of a Parisian shop-owner spends a day in the country. The daughter falls in love with a man at the inn, where they spend the day.
- It's Paris in the winter after its liberation. A tramp who may also be Destiny predicts that Jean Diego will fall in love with a beautiful girl. That same evening, Jean meets Malou.
- A ballet producer returns to his native town and schemes to avenge himself on the family who tried to murder him 20 years before.
- The local building contractor Martin Roumagnac is fascinated by the fashionable Blanche Ferrand. To impress Blanche, Martin presents her with a villa. However, this ruins him financially. Despite Martin's many efforts for the femme fatale Blanche, she is not able to chose between him and the rich consul De Laubry.
- A minister falls in love with a blind young woman he sheltered, but so does his son.
- The captain wants to sink his ship and to receive the insurance premium.
- 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.
- Madame Rose runs a seedy hotel in a suburb of Paris. Strong-minded but without the least moral scruple, she once killed her husband, whose honesty was a hindrance to her business. Under a suspended sentence, she now indulges in smuggling. One day, Victor, one of her former accomplices hounded by the police, finds sanctuary with her. During a drinking spree, he has the bad idea to entrust to her a suitcase filled with bank notes, loot with which he hopes to rebuild his life in South America. But Rose, lured by temptation, betrays Victor, who is arrested. However, he manages to escape with only one thing in mind: to take revenge on Rose.
- Jericho is the code name of an operation set up by the British Royal Air Force and the French Resistance to free French hostages held by German soldiers in the jail of Amiens in Northern France.
- Long-nosed Cyrano de Begerac helps an army officer woo Roxanne, the woman he loves.
- Hélène, a young waitress working in a bar frequented by German soldiers, saves the life of Pierre, a Resistance fighter. Her jealous lover has her arrested first and then released. Later on, Hélène is wounded while walking in the streets. Pierre has her transported to friends with the hope of taking her to London with him. Unfortunately, owing to lack of space in the plane, Pierre has to fly alone. Hélène has to wait several weeks before being able to board a new plane. When the day comes at last, the Germans are waiting for the plane on the clandestine airfield...
- Pierre risks being taken advantage of by an agency that sets up financial scams, he escapes thanks to Marcelle, the secretary of the director of the agency, who is a childhood friend. She does her best to keep the young man away from the scams of his boss. However, the director, in love with Marcelle and jealous of Pierre, succeeds in trapping and ruining him.
- 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.
- On the eve of her 16th birthday, Sylvie's father needs cash to stay in his castle so he sells Sylvie's favorite thing, a painting of Alain, the lover of Sylvie's grandmother, killed in a duel. Alain's ghost lives in the castle and Sylvie senses his presence, thinks she loves him, and fears that romance from the living will never come her way. Dad prepares a midnight surprise for Sylvie and her party guests: the appearance of the phantom. He's hired an actor, but two young men in love with Sylvie also volunteer to don white robes: Fred, the rich kid who bought the painting, and Ramure, a jewel thief in hiding. The youths declare their love, and Alain's ghost helps resolve all.
- One year in the life of a French peasant family, whose existence is closely tied with the changing of the seasons.
- Chérie is a beautiful young woman who works as an escort girl. She meets a young and wealthy man who propose her to be his fictional wife so that his mother won't bother him anymore with this other girl, a rich one, she wants to see her son married to.
- In the Charente, during the Nazi occupation, Edouard Martin, a fifty-year-old man with apparently peaceful life is in fact the leader of a resistance network.
- An internationally renowned engraver manages to make counterfeit notes for the love of a woman. She is a blind woman who cannot see the ugliness of the excruciatingly disfigured engraver.
- A gangster who's got a lot of dough takes refuge in his hometown.
- Simon's life is troubled by images of a crime which happened in his family a hundred years ago. While traveling in south France, he finds the landscape familiar. That's when he meets Catherine and falls in love. But her lover comes back and his strong personality attracts her again.
- A day in the life of Beby the clown. Filmed between shows at Circus Medrano, at home and in the streets of Paris, with his faithful partner and friend the clown Maïss.
- 3 years before the Revolution, clever Jeanne De La Motte manages to procure a special necklace belonging to Marie Antoinette.
- An actress is afraid for her career when her agent decides to hire a young provincial with a fabulous voice.
- God sends a guardian angel ,in the shape of a gorgeous blond woman , to protect His flock.But Satan has the same idea and he has His devil sign contracts with the human beings to gain their soul.
- An adaptation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's "Le Eternel Mari", a somber story of marital infidelity, revenge and near madness, and starring Raimu in his last film appearance.
- "Not so stupid," as the title suggests, is an early comedy vehicle for Bourvil about the class differences between a supposedly dumb peasant and the more educated aristocratic elite.
- Just another idol turned to clay.But let's keep the legend intact.
- When a Resistance commander and his forces disguise themselves as patients in a hospital, there is some confusion among the staff as to who is actually suffering from a real illness.
- After lovers fight, the boy leaves for the Riviera. On her way to rejoin him, the girl meets a distinguished but embittered novelist and decides to spend time comforting him.Which is not going to help when she returns to her boyfriend.
- French remake of the lovely 1932 American film "The Death Kiss." See listing in IMDB and more great info on Wikipedia. The clever book was by Madelon St. Dennis. Cast: David Manners, Adrienne Ames, Bela Lugosi, John Wray, Vince Barnett, and Edward van Sloan.
- Roger Laroque, an honest industrialist, is the victim of a criminal machination by Julia de Noirville, his possessive and jealous mistress allied to the perfidious Paul Luversan, meant to make Roger take responsibility for the crime he himself committed. Laroque is sent to prison, from where he escapes by sea. When he is reported missing, it looks like he drowned. But he reappears with revenge as his objective. He also wants his daughter Suzanne back. For his wife, it's too late, she died of grief.
- Hervé is a tough sea captain in command of the "Duchesse Anne", a rum-trading ship. But the sea dog hides a tender heart and he allows Marie-Douce, a poor slum girl who dreams of seeing the wide world,on board. To have her accepted by the crew, he passes her off as his niece. A seasoned master like him, wise enough to ban alcohol use on his ship, should have known better : a beautiful girl on the deck cannot but unleash the savage instincts of all those men without women...
- Fanny Le Doublond has a lover, Jean, and her husband is beginning to have suspicion. To calm him down she makes him believe that Jean dies of love for another woman and wants to commit suicide if his love is not returned. The two accomplices select a young creature named Claire Coussol for the (unwitting role)of the "beloved". As for Jean, he plays the suicidal man to perfection. But what the two lovers had not planned at all is that Claire, deeply moved by Jean's "act of desperation", starts growing fond of him...
- Somewhere in Tunisia, commandos of the First French Army are training, in preparation for the August 1945 landings on the southern coast of France. Lt. Claude Legrand (Georges Marchal), who leads the commando, finds among his men a former resistance fighter, Serge Duhamel (André Valmy), who feels nothing but contempt for the lieutenant. Some years earlier, Lt. Legrand and Duhamel had quarreled over Legrand's wife Simone, who had an affair with Duhamel. The commando training goes on but the grudge between the two men still festers. However, after a dangerous mission in which Lt. Legrand behaves heroically, a mutual esteem is born between the two men and grows with time. The long-awaited day of the landing in Provence arrives. The lieutenant and his former rival are now partners in combat.
- Tulipe works in a printing house and he is in love with the owner's daughter who is to marry a middle-age man who stutters.
- 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!
- Documentary film about artist Henri Matisse.
- Diavolo is the popular hero of French serials circa 1912. Diana is an actress who falls in love with Diavolo. Diavolo is forced to wear a series of disguises to elude the police so he can attend a Gala for the President.
- Sophie de Réan, an unruly mischievous little girl grows up under the thumb of Mademoiselle, her strict governess. Following her mother's death, she is entrusted to Mme de Fleurville, her aunt, who at the same time hires Mademoiselle to further Sophie's education. A few years later, the little girl has blossomed into a lovely young lady. She is now in love with Paul, her cousin, who, unlike her, used to be a model child. Unfortunately Mademoiselle will not hear of a union between them. Instead she wants Sophie to marry Armand, the conceited son of Prefect Hugon. To make matters worse, Paul, the good boy, unexpectedly turns into a revolutionary, who defends the Republic on the barricades against Louis Napoléon's coup. Not being one of the victors, Paul is forced into exile. Will Sophie finally yield and accept the established order or will she react in her usual rebellious way and follow the one she loves ?
- "Le Capitan" depicts a rebellion ,historically led by the Prince De Condé and in the movie by the duke of Angouleme who wants to be king.
- A resistance leader is wounded when the Germans raid his underground print shop. He escapes to the home of a German-friendly Parisian and is helped by her son and daughter. A Jewish doctor also aids him. They all join him in his efforts against the Nazis and derail a munitions train.
- Everytime you utter these words "120,Rue De La Gare" you stand in great danger of being shot down.
- A scientist needs a guinea pig to build an "Adam" ,an android whose intelligence will surpass the human one .
- The film starts by a visit to bucolic Normandy before the events. This peaceful atmosphere is shattered by Operation Overlord, minutely described in the second part of the documentary. The landing on D-Day and the ensuing battles and bombings martyr the peaceful area giving the earth thousands of body instead of seeds. In the last part, the dreadful aftermath of the steel storm is shown both with sympathy for the victims and hope for the future, since all these sacrifices, whether military or civilians, have not been in vain.
- Gaby, the singer of the "Raymond's Jazz" band, leads Maurice, one of the musicians, to believe that, following a night he spent with her in the hay, he is the father of her child. In fact, the baby is neither his nor hers. He is the son of Madeleine, a young war widow who has entrusted him to her friend Gaby until she is allotted a flat. One day, Maurice happens to meet Madeleine and falls in love with her but he does not dare to confess his "paternity" to her. Fortunately the misunderstanding is clarified and Maurice can at the same time marry Madeleine and adopt her kid.