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Benjamin Déboisé, a hatter, his salesman and a young man want to kidnap an American millionaire, put him in a bag and hold him to ransom. But they make a mistake: the fellow they find in the bag is not the millionaire himself, but his son...!
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Melodrama mudo sobre el conflicto entre clases sociales a través de la vida de la desdichada Catherine Ferrand, una chica huérfana, que es víctima de los celos de las mujeres y la codicia de los hombres. Encuentra trabajo en casa de los Mallet, pero la señora desconfía de ella debido a las insidiosas habladurías de la gente del pueblo. Catherine acaba huyendo, pero, algún tiempo después, el amable señor Mallet, lleno de remordimientos, la busca e intenta rescatarla de la miseria.
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Leopoldo Quintana is a lawyer who, determined to reach power and capable of anything to get what he wants, uses blackmail and shady maneuvers to be appointed congressman for the Balearic Islands, then minister, and finally President of the Council of Ministers of the Spanish Government.
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Tras la muerte de su padre, Virginia (Catherine Hessling) tiene que salir adelante por su cuenta. Todo el dinero que le dejó su padre se lo ha gastado en bebida su tío Jef (Pierre Lestringuez). Después del fallido intento de vivir con unos bohemios, es acogida por el señor Raynal (Georges Térof) y se enamora de su hijo Georges (Harold Levingston). Viajando en diligencia para pagar una deuda de Raynal, su tío le quita el dinero, pero Raynal sospecha de ella. Primera película de Renoir.
Cinematography
In a village on the banks of the Rhone river, Alban, a young farmer, is about to marry Margot. Monsieur Broc, a town hall employee, discovers his daughter is taken with Alban. When he rejects her, she collapses. Suddenly, the river rises and floods the village. One evening, Margot disapears… This peasant drama, adapted from a novel by André Corthis and shot during an actual flood of the Rhone, was Delluc’s last. The human madness is an echo to nature’s fury, magnified by moving images of a Provence submerged by water and mist.
Cinematography
A fifty year old woman, scarred by a life of disillusionment and regret, returns to the place where she lived twenty years before, to rekindle happier memories. She meets a young woman, the daughter of the current owners of the property, who is on the point of abandoning her home – just as she did, all those years ago...
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Militis, a sailor, returns to a bar where he finds Sarah, the girl he once loved and is still attracted to. However, he is now married to an exotic woman who took care of him during an illness.
