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- 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?
- Stanislas Oscar Seminario, aka SOS, is a young explorer, just back from Africa, visiting old friends: the Pescara's. But the father keeps receiving anonymous letters. And soon a mysterious murder is committed. SOS begins to investigate...
- An actor was murdered in Montmartre while filming a comedy. Commissioner Bernard was immediately in charge of the investigation, but his investigations stalled until the day it was discovered that the crime had been filmed.
- A captain, who has rescued a woman from danger,sails with her to Macao to do an arms deal with the Asian proprietor of a gambling den.The proprietor,s daughter, whom a visiting journalist tries to help, doesn,t know the sordid business her father is involved with.
- 3 years before the Revolution, clever Jeanne De La Motte manages to procure a special necklace belonging to Marie Antoinette.
- Herr Werther, a new magistrate to the Grand Duchy of Walheim who is a violinist and poet, seems to have fate on his side as he meets and pursues a beautiful local woman, Charlotte. But as Werther sets to propose marriage, Charlotte reluctantly tells him she has been promised to another, Werther's superior, Judge Hochstätten. Werther and Charlotte decide to keep their romance from the judge and each descends into depression. Will they be able to keep their feelings a secret?
- Bavaria, 1433. Reason of state rules that Prince Albert is to marry Princess Bertha of Wurtemberg. But the fine-looking young man is loath to become the husband of a woman with pimples,flat feet and no breast. Nevertheless, he has to obey his authoritarian father, Duke Ernest, and accompanied by faithful Count Törring, he mounts his steed and sets out for Würtemberg. Stopping in Augsburg, he falls in love with the daughter of a local barber-surgeon, pure and beautiful Agnès Bernauer. The couple is soon secretly married and both take refuge at the castle of Margravine Josepha, Albert's aunt, waiting for Ernest's consent. Unluckily Albert's father will not accept his son's union with a commoner and Albert, supported by Josepha and an army of common people, declares war on the Duke. They seem about to be victorious when Brother Enrique, a monk formerly in the Holy Inquisition, finds a way to reverse the situation: accusing Agnès of witchcraft...
- The months before World War II. The fear of the impending war never leaves the guests of an hotel in Paris.
- The rise and fall of a diva circa 1820.
- Alain Marchal, wrongly accused of murdering his wife, escapes from prison the day before his execution. Before committing suicide, he contacts Monsieur Charles, a retired gangster, and asks him to investigate, find the real culprit and clear his name. Monsieur Charles accepts his request and along with his wife Ginette and two former accomplices, Paragraphe and Teddy Coffre fort, embarks on his counter-investigation...
- Based on a venerable Legend of the Sea, the story concerns a pliable prostitute named Bella who is all things to all men. No matter what sort of woman her client wants, she will become that woman, at least for the night.
- In the peaceful alpine village of Granges-de-Mortes, a tragedy has just taken place: Gustave Boeuf, the local Casanova, has mysteriously died at the foot of a wayside cross. Shortly afterwards, a peasant, who is suspected of having murdered him, hangs himself from a branch of the calvary. But was he the real culprit? Angélique Barrodet, an old maid , who had been Gustave's fiancée before he abandoned her on the very day of their wedding, leads the investigation in her own way.
- Mr. Croquignolle is afflicted with a terrible hardship, his... wife. Gruff and stingy, she keeps spoiling his life. One day, a band of gangsters who do not know what they are doing take it into their heads to kidnap her in the hope of claiming a heavy ransom. Poor devils, the moment Mrs Croquignolle becomes their hostage life becomes hell for them! To such an extent that they beg the husband to take back his shrewish other half. For a price of course!
- Only two (or three?) can play at the game of knavery: a cashier who has diverted 200,000 francs consults a businessman to know how to manage this amount of money. The intermediary is only to happy to oblige: he goes and sees the cashier's employer and tells him that the man has robbed not 200,000 but 400,000 francs from him, and that his relatives have made big sacrifices to repay him, the only trouble being that they have managed to collect only 150,000 francs. The cashier has now earned 50,000 francs legally and even gets a favorable certificate from his boss!
- Sylvain and Angelina, two young people living in the Alps, love each other but they are separated when Sylvain thoughtlessly joins Napoléon Ier's army and takes part in all the Napoleonic campaigns until the fall of the emperor. As for Angelina who believes that her lover is dead, she marries Jean-Marie, a man she does not love, has a child and goes to America. Thirteen years later,Angelina and her family, back from the States, are buried by an avalanche in the Alps. Saved by Barry, the good rescue dog, and Father Théotime, a monk of St Bernard's Hospice, who once loved her, Angelina is reunited with Sylvain in dramatic circumstances. Her daughter Gisèle is still missing. Although old and tired, Théotime does not hesitate. He defies the snowstorm once again in the company of Barry... saves them with the help of Barry, the good rescue dog.
- An accomplished young man, Prince Stéphane is destined for a brilliant future but when he finds out that Marie, his beloved fiancée, has had an affair with the man he respects the most, Tsar Nicolas 1er in person, the shock is terrible. Unable to recover, he chooses religion and becomes a monk and a hermit. He becomes known as a healer and worshiped as a saint, although he himself is aware of his many weaknesses. The day he learns Marie is seriously ill Le père Serge formerly known as Prince Stéphane leaves sanctity behind and hits the road for Saint Petersburg ...