Jean Aymé

Suppose lost and found objects could talk... But they can! At least four of them... : -A statuette of Osiris remembers how two ex-lovers, a model and a good for nothing who claimed to be an Egyptologist, met again one Christmas Eve. -A violin has things to say about Raoul, a humble policeman who lost Solange, a widowed grocer he loved, to a god-dam seducing busker also named Raoul. -A scarf was witness to an eerie romance between a young madman and girl he had saved from suicide. -A funeral wreath lets us know how it caused a young woman to believe her lover dead. After having told their respective story, the objects return to their customary stillness.

Satire of publishing circles, featuring a ferocious boss, Moscat, a successful but handsome author, Maréchal, another successful but bitter author, Bourgine, a writer plagued with ambition, Brégaillon and the hero, Marc Fournier Zola Prize winner. Naive, the latter quickly becomes formidable, especially since his wife's infidelities have provided him with the material for a new novel.

On the morning of January 30, 1889, the Archduke Rodolphe de Habsbourg and his mistress Marie Vetsera were found dead. The remains of Rodolphe are discreetly repatriated to Hofburg, while that of Mary is hastily thrown into the depths of a tomb.

El inspector Juve decide enfrentarse al maestro del disfraz Fantomas, utilizando sus mismas armas. Cuarta entrega del serial dirigido por Louis Feuillade, basada en los folletines de Pierre Souvestre y Marcel Allain. En esta ocasión, la novela adaptada fue "El policía apache".

Director Jean Delannoy's immediate followup to his brilliant Les Jeux sont Faits was the more conventional Aux Yeux du Souvenir (aka Souvenir and To the Eyes of Memory). The film is based on a true story, wherein an France airliner managed to survive a journey from Rio De Janeiro to Dakar with two of its engines incapacitated. To this already intensely dramatic situation has been added a romantic subplot involving Claire Magny (Michele Morgan) and Jacques Forester (Jean Marais). The love story adds very little to the film; fortunately, neither does it detract from the film's overall quality. As was the case with many French productions of the 1940s, Aux Yeux du Souvenir benefits immeasurably from the Wagnerian musical score by Georges Auric.

Stage actress Marianne has decided to give up her career to marry wealthy nobleman Marquis Antoine de Fontaines. As a wedding present, Antoine gives his future wife a precious diamond necklace, which is coveted by a gang of crooks. Jean, one of them, is given the mission to approach Marianne and steal the necklace from her. The only trouble is that when he meets her, she recognizes him as the man she once loved.

Aged penniless actors are living in a old people's home. They always talk about their past glory or failures. One day Raphael Saint-Clair comes; he has been a famous actor and had a lot of love affairs. Passions come back, and jealousies... A bitter film about aging, failure and the entertainment.

In the village of Sableuse, the local manor has been bought out by a nouveau riche, Emile Cousinet. When his wife Lisette, a former music hall actress, flees to Paris with young Pierre de Sableuse, Cousinet asks Father Pellegrin, the village vicar, to bring the lost sheep back home.

Meg decides to commit suicide to escape the marriage to which her father intends her. She is saved by Jean-Pierre, another candidate for suicide, and Léon, a tramp who was just trying to reason with him. The trio then becomes inseparable and organizes a new life based on friendship and freedom.

In the middle of the 19th century, Tsar Alexander II made the acquaintance of a young aristocratic girl from the provinces, unruly in character. He falls in love with her and tries to see her again.

This murder mystery is set in a Parisian cafe and examines the mysterious murder of a famed journalist and extortionist who is killed at his table in the cafe. Though the prime suspects are gathered together( including his wife and her lover, the gun-runner, the creditor, and a playboy) and all of them have motives, none of them did it. So whodunit?

Now that their parents are ruined, Jacques Eyssette and his younger brother Daniel, are driven to fend for themselves. Jacques becomes the secretary of a marquis who exploits him by making him work so hard that his health gets damaged. Daniel, on his part, is hired as a supervisor and Latin teacher in a school in the province. It soon happens that he is in a bad situation too as, after being subjected to repeated harassment, he ends up being fired. Daniel then decides to join Jacques in Paris, hoping to embark on a literary career. Unfortunately, Irma Borel, an actress, sets her sight on him and drags him into a life of vice.

Jeanne supports supports his family on his modest salary. Her boss is arrested for fraud. Jeanne is forced, out of poverty, in the street.

La Revolución Francesa vista a través de los ojos de sus participantes directos (desde los campesinos hasta el propio Luis XVI) es el tema de este drama de época dirigido por el maestro Jean Renoir.

Lucien Bourrache es un legionario que cautiva a cualquier mujer que encuentra, lo que le vale el apodo de Gueule d'Amour ("Cara o Jeta o Morro de Amor"). Pero un día conoce a una mujer joven y bella que lo cautiva. Al principio parece corresponder sus sentimientos, pero más tarde Lucien comienza a temer que ella está jugando con él. ¿Está realmente enamorada de él o es sólo una aventurera que lo manipula? En esta adaptación notable del libro de André Beucler, Jean Gabin interpreta uno de sus papeles más conmovedores, memorables y trágicos. Jean Grémillon le da un sentido sobrio y melancólico a la historia, llena del sentido de tristeza y malos presentimientos que eran omnipresentes en el cine francés de ese momento. (FILMAFFINITY)

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.

Maryse blackmails her former lovers by threatening to mention their names in her memoirs. But a real blackmailer appears and cashes the checks for him.

A very nice young man, Sylvain Renaud is "surrounded" by two bad guys who want to drag him into some very dirty business.

A disillusioned rich American bets with a railroad worker that the latter will not be able to spend the 600,000 francs a month that he will pay him for a year. All the railwayman's attempts to win his bet fail but his daughter luckily conquers the American.

An eighteen year old boy is pressured by his god-mother to begin instructions to become a priest, but he changes his plans when he arrives in Paris and sees how much fun he can get there.

Guerra de los Cien Años (siglos XIV y XV). En 1431, Juana de Arco, después de haber conducido a las tropas francesas a la victoria, es arrestada y acusada de brujería. Ella declara haber recibido de Dios la misión de salvar a Francia, pero es procesada y condenada a morir en la hoguera.

A man is accused of the murder of a banker in order to get some money. In the meantime, the banker's wife is somehow convinced that she killed her husband after a violent fight to save her child's honor. But the actual murderer happens to be a third party.

París es presa de un terror invisible contra el que la policía no puede hacer nada: una siniestra organización que siembra el caos y la muerte. El intrépido periodista Philippe Guérande y su compañero inician una larga cruzada con el propósito de acabar con los crímenes del Gran Vampiro e Irma Vep, su peligrosa cómplice.

Count Fernand De Keramic plots against his niece in order to acquire her wealth to pay his debts.

A 1912 crime film.

El pintor Andrew Darel, que espera ansiosamente el resultado de un concurso, ve invadido su estudio por sus compañeros que lo coronan con laureles y le informan que es el afortunado ganador del premio en metálico. Poco después marcha a Italia, y un buen día, al admirar la hermosa vista desde Sorrento, oye una voz que canta entre los naranjos. Una visión más cercana le revela una hermosa chica vestida con las pintorescas prendas del campo recogiendo naranjas...

Adaptación libre de "El coronel Chabert" de Balzac.

The tyrant Emperor Heliogabalus lives a life of debauchery and set lions loose among his guests.

LA TARE is about Anna, a woman who is rescued from a Parisian dance hall to work in a charitable hospital. Over the years, she rises to become the head of the institution, but when an old habitué of the dance hall recognizes her picture, he attempts to blackmail her.

Directed by Louis Feuillade. Part of the 'Life As It Is' series.

Part of the series La Vie telle qu'elle est that Feuillade did in which people were shown as they really are and not as they ought to have been. This one is about Hypocrisy