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- During WWI, two French soldiers are captured and imprisoned in a German P.O.W. camp. Several escape attempts follow until they are eventually sent to a seemingly inescapable fortress.
- A wanted gangster is both king and prisoner of the Casbah. He is protected from arrest by his friends, but is torn by his desire for freedom outside. A visiting Parisian beauty may just tempt his fate.
- When Renard the Fox's mischievous pranks go too far, King Lion is forced to attempt to bring the trickster to justice.
- In Victorian London, a crime novelist and his wife fake their disappearance in order to hide from an uptight Anglican bishop who is leading a campaign against the "evils" of crime fiction.
- Soldier Lucien meets elegant Madeleine one night in Cannes. Lovestruck, he follows her to Paris after he is discharged. Their love affair begins anew, but eventually runs cold and he returns to Orange in the south of France. She follows.
- Christine, newly widowed and consumed by the memory of a ball she attended age 16, decides to track down the men she danced with that night and discover their fates.
- This version of the story begins with the engineer's wife (Denise Morel) being driven to the site where her husband is building a bridge. The first thing she notices is the mark of the dragon branded on the shoulders of the coolies who are being driven out with her. On the way to the site, shots ring out, and one of the men in the truck with her is hit. The car would have to take the wounded man to the hospital, but, by chance, another car drives up with Prince Lee Lang in back. The Prince volunteers to drive her to her husband's site. She leaves a glove in the Prince's car. Pierre Morel, her husband, is angry about the shooting, and sends people out to take care of it. Apparently, they are having trouble building the bridge The next day, at Prince Lee Lang's house, Valfar, his business partner and Ming, their secretary, are introduced. The Prince is an art collector, and mentions to Valfar that he would like to add Denise to his collection of art objects. Denise meets the British consul and his wife. Denise and the wife become good friends. Pierre shows Denise how to gamble, and has an argument with the owner of the gambling spot, Tang-si. Denise borrows money from the owner of the gambling spot through Ming. Valfar has a discussion with Tang-si and money is exchanged. The Red Cross bazaar is held at Prince Lee Lang's house. Lee Lang offers to buy Denise's glove, and gives her money, which she puts to the proceeds of the bazaar. All the proceeds of the bazaar are in a drawer, and Denise has the key. Denise goes to the gambling spot, and Tang-si tells her to pay her debt the next day at noon. She takes the Red Cross money out of the drawer and pays Tang-si, but now has to repay the Red Cross funds. Valfar suggests she talk to the Prince. The Prince tells her he will give her the money, if she gives herself to him. She agrees to this and is able to return the money to the Red Cross, but the next day, talks to the wife of the British consul, and gets the money from her, and sends the money to the Prince. The Prince is angry, but Valfar suggests he take his revenge on her husband instead. On the next day, the bridge is tested, but collapses. It has been sabotaged. Pierre and Denise go to France. Pierre explains the fact of the sabotage to his board of directors. Then goes to a house, where he finds a gun and the Prince dying. Valfar sees Pierre in the house. The next day, Denise gets her breakfast in bed, and discovers that Pierre has been arrested. Pierre talks to his lawyer and insists that he is innocent. The trial begins. At a certain point, Valfar puts a piece of one of Denise's dresses, taken from the dying Prince's hand, into Pierre's hand, and Pierre realizes that it was probably Denise that shot the Prince. In court, he confesses that he shot the Prince. Denise says that Pierre is not telling the truth, and is sworn in. She says that Lee Lang had tried to rape her, and had branded her after which she shot him with his gun and run out. The judge demands that she prove that she had been branded, and so she takes off her dress to reveal the brand. Valfar, who had given evidence that Pierre had shot the Prince, is surrounded, and the police release Pierre. Pierre tells Denise that he believes her story.
- The film is set in Yoshiwara, the red-light district of Tokyo, in the nineteenth century. It depicts a love triangle between a high-class prostitute, a Russian naval officer and a rickshaw man.
- Paris, 1937. Winckler kills his enemy Gordon, a Chicago mobster, from the stage of a Parisian music hall, where he performs telepathy. He pays another artist, Helene, so that she tells the police they've spent the night together, which doesn't fool Callas, the police officer who investigates the murder. He hires one of his fellow officers in order to seduce Helene.
- A young man, in love with a famous actress, married her daughter by a combination of circumstances.
- The narrative revolves around a farming village where only three inhabitants remain, but they are told that if only one of them, Panturle, manages to find a wife, the village will be able to prosper again
- Historical drama based on a true case of miscarriage of justice, the "Joseph Lesurques case" of 1796.
- Jules and Fernand are two boys from the Café des sports in Marseille who take part in their corporation's annual race.
- Shavian social satire. Odette is an actress who's now the mistress of a government minister. Her household of cook, maid, and chauffeur needs a valet. On the eve of going with the minister to Deauville, she engages Désiré, a robust and talkative man, even through his most recent employer, a countess, intimates improprieties. Things go well for a short time: the wealthy talk about the servants, the servants talk about their employers. Then, Désiré has explicit dreams about Odette; his outbursts wake the maid in the next room nightly. Odette has the same dream each night, awaking the minister and his jealousy. Is there any decorous way to handle these subconscious attractions?
- A pilot on one of the air mail flights between France and its African colonies has a brief romance with his distressed cousin before he returns to the call of duty, and the rebels in the desert.
- Claudine is a diligent and intelligent student who studies at the Girls' Institute. A new teacher, Aimee Lantini, arrives at the Institute. Claudine soon admires her.
- A slippery femme fatale, a spy for Germany during the Great War, is sent to Thessaloniki in Greece and becomes involved with a man on the other side, a French military officer.
- Imposture helps an orphan girl become a lawyer.
- Honorin (Fernandel) is the simple and naive stage manager of a traveling theatre troupe, whose one ambition is to once play the role of the cavalier in the opera "Francis I, or the Loves of the Beautiful Ferroniere". A hypnotist puts him to sleep and in his dreams he is transplanted to the days of the Renaissance. There, among other items, he is made a Duke by Henri VIII, fights a duel and survives a series of medieval tortures, while also bestowing some 20th century blessings on the court of Francis I.
- For years now, Chief inspector Gustave Picard has been trying to bring down Salviati, the dreadful leader of a drug-selling gang. Lucienne Préville, an informer who works for him, has infiltrated the gang but her position is dangerous. On the other hand, Scoppa, Salviati's former right-hand man, has started challenging his former boss. Will Salviati, the brutal public enemy, clear off at last?
- The fictionalized story of Marthe Richard ,a spy in WW1.
- Three narrators (French writer Jean Martin, an English royal equerry, and a papal chamberlain) tell the story of seven matched pearls, four of them now in the British Crown. Episodes whirl us from Pope Clement VII to Mary Queen of Scots, from whom the pearls are stolen while she's occupied with the headsman. Historic events are seasoned with sly, satiric humor, and famous beauties are portrayed by stunning actresses. Then the narrators meet, and decide to try tracing the three unrecovered pearls from 1587 to the present...
- Ignace Boitaclou, although sympathetic, is not very intelligent. Upon his arrival at the barracks to perform his military service, he was appointed colonel and had to take care of the latter's terrible wife.