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- Seeking better life, two convicts escape from prison.
- Maurice Legrand, a meek cashier married to a nagging wife, has a secret passion: he's a Sunday painter. He falls in love with Lulu, a young woman dominated by Dédé, the pimp who she works for. Dédé pushes Lulu into a relationship with him.
- Marius is faced with a choice whether to fulfill his passion by sailing the seas or stay and marry the woman he loves.
- Plea against war and for friendship between peoples, through the story of French miners rescued by German colleagues after a firedamp explosion.
- An impoverished painter and his rival engage in a race across Paris to recover a jacket concealing a winning lottery ticket.
- David is a poor but ambitious Polish Jew who reinvents himself as a powerful New York business magnate. After gaining wealth, he relocates to Paris, only to have his selfish and demanding wife squander his fortune.
- A man races to save his son's life, but death - incarnated in the child's imagination as the titular Elf King - calls unceasingly.
- A famous but hated scientist, Sir Amory, is killed during a house party, and some of his valuable papers are missing. Poirot rapidly determines the cause of death and the motive, then narrows down the suspects to the most likely culprit.
- A porcelain-maker invites a guest to sell him chamber pots, but family problems cause interruptions.
- The two Novalic brothers, Jean and Martial, are in love with the same woman, Genevieve. Jean is an impoverished actor and an idealistic dreamer, who does not want Genevieve to share in his life of suffering. Martial is an internationally-respected astronomer who discovers the return of Lexell's Comet, on a collision course for Earth. Meanwhile, the rich play while the world is arming for war. Martial decides to use the impending threat of world destruction to reorganize and improve global society. But he is opposed by the rich financiers and government officials who stand to lose their power and influence.
- Five gentlemen are on vacation in Morocco; one of them takes off a Muslim girl's veil and the sorcerer curses them: before the full moon, all of them will die.
- Marguerite Desnoyers wonders why her husband Marcel goes traveling so often: for business as he claims? Or to cheat on her, as she suspected? She gradually becomes convince that he has mistresses, then decides to return the favor. On a dark night, she gives herself to a total stranger. Nine months later she gives birth to...a Black baby. Marcel, her husband, goes traveling so often. For business, as he claims? Or to cheat on her, as she suspects - With the passing of time, Marguerite is persuaded that Marcel has mistresses and she decides to return the favor. On a dark night, she gives herself to a total stranger. Nine months later, she gives birth to a - Black baby.
- The story of two young men, one a prince of royal Bali-blood and the other defined as a coolie, and they are both in love with Dasnee, a slave girl possessing the sensuous charms for which the women of Bali are known to have. The prince marries a girl of his caste and the coolie marries Dasnee, but the prince still loves Dasnee. So, with the aid of his sister---nice family---they give Desnee, while her husband is off elsewhere, a hearty dose of goona-goona and the prince spends the night having his way with Desnee. He goes home to the palace but leaves his sacred sword, known far and wide as 'Kris,' in the bed. When the husband comes home he knows who has been sleeping in and left his sacred sword in his bed. The husband sets out to right this wrong in the manner of his ancestors.
- A singer who is believed dead returns with a decidedly different appearance.He has been in Russia and has lost his memory. But his wife still loves him.
- Based on the play "The Bells", by Sir Henry Irving and Richard Mansfield, and first shown in the USA in September, 1937 at the "Cinema de Paris," which was a theatre and not a distribution company. The story recounts the murder of an itinerant Jew (Jules Maurice)by the village Burgomaster (Harry Baur.) Years go by and Baur's crime does not weigh heavily on his conscience. But at a banquet one night, the subject of the killing comes up and he faints, and is haunted from that point onward by the vision of the man he killed and the sound of the sleigh bells that first accompanied the victim's arrival in the village. And, to complicate matters for Baur, the son of the victim arrives, and proceeds to fall in love with Baur's daughter.
- A sailor, who meets a lovely music hall singer during a police raid, falls in love. In a contest at a fair, he defeats a former boxing champ. The ex-champ trains the sailor to become a boxer. After he wins the French championship, the sailor is swayed by easy money and a sultry coquette. The singer goes on a singing tour, and the sailor falls into decadence. He enters the European championship spiritually empty and in bad condition.
- Rouletabille comes to the aid of a recently remarried lady whose late criminal husband turns out to be still alive.Her honeymoon is at a fantastic art deco villa perched above the Riviera.
- Célestin, the organist in a convent, has written and composed a light operetta under the name Floridor. One day, the Mother Superior asks him to chaperone one of the boarders, Denise de Flavigny, who is returning home to get married. Now, Denise, for all her goody-goody looks, soon proves as saucy as can be. Things get even more complicated when Célestin starts courting Corinne, the star of his operetta, to the great displeasure of a commander of dragons, the young woman's lover--the Mother Superior's brother - To say nothing of Lieutenant Fernand de Champlatreux, who happens to fall in love with Denise, his fiancée whom he's never even met yet.
- A bank employee who stole money at work falls in the hands of a dangerous escaped convict whose girlfriend is going to help him out of this mess.
- The new French military attaché at the Constantinople embassy helps a young woman being blackmailed by her own husband.
- Two middle-class notions dealers live happily with their girl.But an inheritance turns these nice people into snob Nouveaux Riches;although the aristocracy invites them,the 'Tout-Paris ' laughs behind their back.
- Jules, a pharmacist, embarrasses himself by trying to woe Claire, a younger girl he is in love with.
- In the snow as bells toll, a hooded figure makes its way through the streets to a church.It is a small child ,and a woman opening up her window across onto the scene comes out to help and bring the child into her home. Inside, the little girl tries to run out again, but the woman and a man joining her offer a bowl of cafe au lait.As the girl rests her head on the table to sleep she drops a booklet which gives some of her history that she later talks about.She had been beaten and doesn't want to be returned to where she was. Ten years after.Angelique the girl works in a church abbey as an embroiderer with her mother.She talks of the dead returning to life. The scene changes to the exterior of the nearby castle where the family is eating.Angelique's adopted parents tell her about the manor, Hautecoeur, and a legend when people were cured of a plague by the local saint. Angelique sings in the church choir, when the lord of the manor, who is also the bishop, visits. Next we see her washing linen in a river, she has a young admirer who is in the nearby woods.Distracted, she lets the garment slip but he comes to help her retrieve it.He is Felicien and tells her that, as an artist, he has been hired to repair the stained glass church windows. She hangs up the garments to dry. Talking later to her mother, Angelique shares her dream of marrying a rich prince like the one who is the bishop's son .(The manor lord had been heartbroken when the mother died and went into the church.) The mother advises her that would be impossible. Angelique looks in the evening at an illustrated book about a Golden Legend and sees Felicien outside by the window, he comes up to her balcony but she tells him to leave. He will continue to look at her but will not talk to her for a month. After which he returns and says he wants to tell her who he really is.They will meet again tomorrow.She prays. A procession leaves the church, singing the Gloria. Angelique hears another girl identifying Felicien as the son of the manor and embraces her mother in happiness. She meets him later by the river.As bells toll, the mother paces. Felicien tells Angelique he had also been abandoned by his father and had grown up poor, he has just now returned. She talks of their marriage but the mother, doubtful once again, comes out to her and later tells her in the room that the son is destined to marry someone else. Felicien asks his father about marrying Angelique and is refused. The abbey comes to see her mother and Angelique hears them from the stairs as we see their silhouettes. Angelique goes to the church, where she introduces herself to the bishop after he comes to the altar.She begs him about the marriage and calls after him. Angelique is back at the river doing washing with her mother and another woman.Hearing of Felicien's impending marriage to another woman, she lets a garment drift off again, and collapses. The doctor visits and Felicien also comes to see her .She is in weakened condition and can't go with him but her mother comforts her. She is now dying.The abbey visits to bless her as others gather by the bed and the bishop recites the Our Father.After he kisses her forehead she sits up. We see sculptured figures at the church as Angelique and Felicien are finally wed by the bishop and they are led out by a group of children.In one of the film's few close shots, we see the newlyweds kiss. But Angelique's last dream has not yet come true.Until we see a figure representing her spirit ascending, after her immediate death, into the skies.
- "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"
- Locked in a train, a group of suicide candidates await the death promised them by a crook. When they have almost gone mad with anguish, the door opens.
- During an inquest after a woman is killed, the judge suspects his own son. The woman's lover had been friendly with the son and he was also supposed to be married to the judge's daughter.
- A visitor from the western front tells young children, in a sober commentary, about the battle of Verdun.
- A woman's marriage is on the rocks ; to avenge herself, she decides to take a lover for one night .So she buys all his stock from a balloon man and flies them through the Parisian sky ; all her balloons carry a message :"I will be alone after midnight" (hence the title); a lot a suitors comme to the rendezvous : a fisherman, a soldier, a traveler , a gentleman cambrioleur (a nod to Arsène Lupin?) and others ,much to Michel, a young man in love with her's displeasure .
- Shortly before the First World War, an Italian and an Austrian take part in a mountaineering expedition together. Not long afterwards they find themselves fighting on different sides. The plot also features references to the Mines on the Italian Front (World War I).
- Archibald Burel, a banker, has had enough of his wife cheating on him, and with his best friend Hubert into the bargain. One day he has (at least that is what he thinks!) a bright idea: he asks Sonia, his cousin traveling in France but staying in Saumur at the moment, to seduce Hubert. In these conditions, how could Lucienne not fall into his arms again? Lucienne also asks Sonai to seduce Archibald. Unfortunately for Archibald, things do not go (at all!) according to plan: he himself falls for Sonia while Hubert manages to reconquer Lucienne. Dispirited, Sonia decides to continues her trip in Europe.
- Simone finds work as a secretary in a bank whose chief of staff expects more than typed letters.
- French-language version of "The Big House" (MGM, 1930), with Charles Boyer in Chester Morris's role, filmed by MGM parallel to the English-speaking version, at a time when good subtitles weren't yet in use.
- A bank employee who stole money at work falls in the hands of a dangerous escaped convict whose girlfriend is going to help him out of this mess.
- Georg is a daredevil aviator tamed by his wife Maria who is sick of contantly fearing for his life. When she flirts with his greatest competitor Jonny he decides to fly across the Atlantic Ocean to prove he hasn't lost his derring-do guts.
- Robby and Jim are two friends working in a circus. When Marina, a new acrobat, enters the show, both men will compete for her love. She needs a partner for a flying number, and one of them will be elected. Then accidents will happen.
- Simultaneously filmed French version of the German "Der Moerder Dimitri Karamassof": A son is accused of killing his father, whose young mistress he has also loved. Condemned for ten years, he is accompanied by the woman.
- In a luxury hotel, a gathering of foreign high society people attend a wedding lunch. By the end of the feast a dramatic turn of events occurs : on the time of leaving the groom realizes that his newly married wife has... disappeared ! One morning, some time later, he meets her again at the Bois de Boulogne. She tells him everything about her strange attitude: she needed to be married to be able to have access to her husband's money. With this money, she managed to avenge her mother.
- Disgusted with love, a man bets 500,000 that he can live 5 years without a woman, joins a band of fellow women-haters, and manages to make it through 4 until he meets a troublesome young lady.
- Charmed by a pretty girl, Olive follows her on board a dirigible, where he discovers that the belle, Pearl, has a husband. Never mind such an insignificant detail, Olive tells himself as the dirigible takes off with a stowaway among the passengers. Unfortunately a storm breaks out and the captain, realizing that there are 13 people on board, decides to sacrifice one of them. Guess which one? Olive, of course.