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Actor and singer on the decline, Sergio, alcoholic, goes adrift. His son, Simon, undertakes to make a film with and on him, to try to bring him back to life, "by force with others"
Myriel
Es una película británica para la televisión del año 1978 basada en la famosa novela de Víctor Hugo "Les Misérables". Esta protagonizada por Richard Jordan como Jean Valjean, y Anthony Perkins interpreta al policía Javert. Narra la historia de Jean Valjean quien es enviado a prisión por robar pan para su familia, al salir sólo un obispo se compadece de él y lo trata con caridad pero Valjean necesitado de dinero le roba unos cubiertos de plata, cuando es capturado y llevado frente al obispo este declara que se los regaló y conmovido por esta acción, Valjean decide ayudar a los demás convirtiéndose en el alcalde de un pueblo, sin embargo será perseguido constantemente por el inspector Javert quien lo busca por el robo que cometió hace años.
Albert Carreaud
Humiliated and down on his luck, a superintendent turns his life around when he decides to write a book.
Le docteur Katz
Madame Rosa es una exprostituta judía de unos 70 años que se gana la vida acogiendo en su casa de París a los hijos no deseados de las prostitutas del barrio. Cuida a doce chiquillos, a los que sus madres visitan cuando pueden y le entregan algo de dinero. Pero hay cuatro por los que no recibe dinero alguno, como Momo, un chico árabe de catorce años. Sabiendo que su salud y sus recursos se están agotando, Madame Rosa le confiesa al chico sus problemas, pero, al mismo tiempo, muy preocupada por su tristeza, llama al médico, que le dice que el único problema del muchacho es la falta de afecto. Como Momo no es admitido en la escuela, tiene que buscarse la vida en la calle. (FILMAFFINITY)
Maître Leroy
Reporter renowned photographer, Danièle Gaur is conducting an investigation into the alleged accident of her husband Michel. Her research is gradually leading her to discover the workings of a plot to assassinate US Foreign Secretary John W. Maxwell.
Boswell
Un hombre de cierta edad, Fernando Tobajas, decidió hace 11 años vivir en el cuarto de baño, que modificó para que parezca un pequeño apartamento, y no salir nunca de él. Es un hombre que ha renunciado a todo, excepto a su vanidad, y sus contactos con el mundo se reducen a las visitas de los amigos y a los mensajes que envía, encerrados en tubos de aspirinas, por el retrete, con la esperanza de que alguien lo reciba y sepa así de su existencia. Arabel Lee, una chica preciosa, encuentra uno de estos mensajes.
Vaudable
Un empresario de media edad, Simon Leotard encuentra su futuro en peligro cuando su compañera Julien se suicidad por las deudas. Su enemigo en los negocios, Lépidon, le ofrece comprarle la empresa por una irrisoria cantidad. Simon decide no caer en la trampa y salir de la crisis a su manera, aunque para ello tenga que contratar a una prostituta llamada Mado.
Husband at accident
Un tímido conserje (Roman Polanski) se muda a una habitación, en la que una chica intentó suicidarse arrojándose por la ventana. A medida que pasa el tiempo, el nuevo inquilino empieza a temer que sus vecinos intenten provocar en él un estado de paranoia que lo induzca también a saltar por la ventana.
De Rovère
Jeanette (Jane Birkin), una peluquera inglesa en París, está cansada y aburrida de su relación con Pierre Vidal (Pierre Richard), un banquero que trabaja frente a la peluquería donde ella trabaja, y está dispuesta a dejarle ya mismo. El director del banco se va a tomar una semana libre y Vidal le sustituirá al frente de la sucursal. Desde que asume la dirección temporal una serie de desgracias e infortunios le colocan en el punto de mira del Comisario de la zona, que sospecha que Vidal pueda estar relacionado con el misterioso robo de las cofres privados del banco hace un año. Precisamente Vidal es testigo del robo de uno de los cofres, como el banco no puede permitirse otro robo porque si no tendría que cerrar, Vidal, teniendo pruebas de donde puede estar la ladrona, va en su busca para recuperar lo robado en lugar de avisar a la policía. Lo que no sabe es que Jeanette y el Comisario también irán.
Charles-André Fargeau
El lujoso yate de recreo Rosebud es secuestrado por unos terroristas palestinos. A bordo se encuentran cinco herederas multimillonarias que organizan una acción de rescate con la ayuda del agente británico Larry Martin y del espía israelí Hamlekh.
Mazelli
Servais Mont es un fotógrafo freelance que trabaja para algunos gánsteres sacando fotos comprometedoras. Un día conoce a Nadine Chevalier, una actriz casada que se gana la vida actuando en cutres películas de bajo presupuesto.
Il Presidente della Repubblica
Sátira a costa del fascismo que narra los planes de golpe de estado de un diputado italiano de extrema derecha. (FILMAFFINITY) La película constituye una sátira del neofascismo italiano que trama y desarrolla un golpe de Estado. Especialmente hilarante en algunos pasajes, la obra refleja la percepción existente de la ultraderecha en la época (década del 70)
El film de retrata así las conexiones entre ambientes filogolpistas del Parlamento y organizaciones neofascistas extraparlamentarias, sin olvidar conexiones cn la dictadura helena de los coroneles. Con buen ritmo narrativo y sentido del humor, la obra (nominada en el Festival de Cannes a la Palma de Oro como mejor película) ofrece un sugerente y divertido testimonio del neofascismo de los años setenta.
Father D'Aval
The premise deals with a family living in a country-house which turns out to be 'alive' – to the point where a TV crew is brought in to 'capture' the paranormal phenomena
Cancelliere Bouisson
Cuando llega la noche, un italiano que se dirige a Suiza se ve obligado a pedir alojamiento en un castillo. Durante la cena, el anfitrión y tres de sus amigos, todos ellos ex-funcionarios de justicia, invitan al huésped a participar en un peculiar juego y le ofrecen el único puesto vacante, el de acusado. Mentira y verdad se confabulan en una oscura farsa, que lleva a reflexionar profundamente acerca del imperfecto intento del hombre de ser justo. (FILMAFFINITY)
Languin
Spy suspense drama set in 1960's Berlin. Intrigue and double-cross lead Killian on a twisting path through love and loss.
Dr. Jadin
Aurelia, una excéntrica condesa, está triste porque para ella el mundo es un lugar infeliz y hostil. Cuando se entera de que en París hay una serie de personajes que quieren convertir la ciudad en un inmenso campo petrolífero, se reúne con unas amigas para trazar un plan encaminado a eliminar a todos los especuladores, haciéndoles creer que el petróleo se encuentra en las alcantarillas de la ciudad.
Maurice
Un asesino a sueldo viaja a Europa para ejecutar un "último trabajo", pero el encuentro con una hermosa mujer lo lleva a cuestionarse su profesión. Finalmente, decide no cumplir el contrato.
President of Earth
Año 40.000. Planeta Lythion. La intrépida Barbarella aterriza en un misterioso planeta donde vivirá toda clase de aventuras, peligros y placeres.
Monsieur Rebeque
Henri quiere adaptar la novela Adolphe, de BenjamIn Constant, al cine. Encuentra las localizaciones y pide a Hélène que actúe en el film. Vivirán el mismo drama que los héroes de la novela.
Lasalle
En Berlín, matan a un agente secreto francés y secuestran a un científico alemán. Otro agente descubre una trama relacionada con los chinos y ha de estar muy atento...
Serebriakov
Anne, an unhappily married actress, temporarily assumes the identity of her sister Simone, the successful director of a London fashion house.
Le marquis d'Orpiez
Lamiel (Anna Karina) is a poor orphan girl who climbs her way to the social elite in this 19th-century costume drama. A doctor (Michel Bouquet) lives vicariously through Anna as he oversees the progress of his female protégé. Lamiel finds love with a young thief who steals into her bedroom after her marriage to a penniless count (Jean-Clause Brialy), and the two experience a romantic rendezvous of forbidden love after Lamiel goes from being a poor peasant woman to living a life of comparative luxury.
Maurice Dalbret
Un viaje de Londres a la Riviera francesa hará que Joanna y su marido Mark revivan los románticos comienzos de su relación, los primeros años de su matrimonio y sus respectivas infidelidades. Con el paso del tiempo los dos han cambiado, por lo que tendrán que enfrentarse a un dilema: separarse o aceptarse mutuamente tal como son.
Hugo Simon
Pete Aron (James Garner), corredor del Grand Prix americano, es expulsado de su equipo, el Jordan-BRM, por su responsabilidad en un accidente, en Mónaco, en el que resultó herido su compañero, el británico Scott Stoddard. Al mismo tiempo que empieza a competir en un equipo japonés, mantiene relación con la mujer de Stoddard.
Colonel Lebel
En agosto de 1944, las tropas americanas están a punto de liberar París. Mientras tanto, Hitler ha ordenado a uno de sus generales que mantenga el control sobre la ciudad o que la destruya. Fresco histórico sobre la liberación de París por las fuerzas aliadas. Impresionante reparto con guión de Coppola.
Inspector Mercier
En su propiedad de la campiña francesa, Lady Landale, a quien todos conocen como Lady L, se dispone a celebrar su ochenta cumpleaños. Obispos, banqueros, diplomáticos y generales acuden a felicitar a la gran señora. Una vez terminado el banquete, Lady L conduce a su pabellón de verano al famoso escritor Sir Percy, encargado de escribir su biografía y empieza a contarle su vida.
Le frère d'Eliane (uncredited)
Durante un viaje en tren desde Marsella a París, seis personas comparten un coche-cama. Cuando uno de ellos aparece asesinado, la policía comienza a investigar.
Lawyer Bardick
Karla, la viuda de un magnate del petróleo, vuelve a su ciudad natal. Ahora que es rica y poderosa, se propone vengarse de los que la despreciaron y, sobre todo, del hombre que la abandonó por otra.
Mr. Oscar
In this romantic drama, a middle-aged gambler tells a casino croupier her life story. The story is told in flashback and chronicles the woman's romantic exploits with men. Though she was involved with many men, only one really touched her heart. He was a bartender who was tragically shot and killed during an attempted robbery. She later marries and has a daughter. Unfortunately she alienates herself from her daughter when she has an affair with her daughter's fiance. Her remorse is short lived. The film jumps back to the present with the woman leaving the casino on the arm of a handsome millionaire.
Valoti
Cinco hombres deciden juntar una gran suma de capital para poder entrar en un importante trato, en el cual adquirirán una cantidad de droga que posteriormente les permitirá enriquecerse. Sin embargo, cuando el trato está apunto de realizarse, uno de los compinches intercepta el dinero y mata a uno de sus amigos para tapar sus pistas. Los demás serán entonces acosados por las dudas y la confusión general, generando una situación que sólo puede desembocar en una oleada violencia.
Georges Beaufort
The film consists of seven roughly 15 minute episodes, each showing what will happen if one or more of the Ten Commandments will be broken: Jérome Chambard is warned that he will lose his job if he continues to swear; Françoise Beaufort enamored of a stripper calls on her only to find her married to a janitor who doesn't know what kind of dancing his wife performs; Denis, a Jesuit novice, leaves the order to avenge his sister's suicide, which was provoked by Garigny, who seduced her into prostitution and drug addiction; Philip buys a necklace for Micheline though he is bored with her; a young man find out that his real mother is not Madeleine, but actress Clarisse Ardant; Didier Marin, cashier of a bank, was fired by his boss; the Devil appears as a serpent for Jérome Chambard and the bishop are eating.
Henri Farengue
James Mason and John Mills star in this comedy-drama about a tough colonel and a refined captain who clashed during the war, and continue their personal battle in peace-time Tahiti.
David Prade
Race car driver Alan Colby and his new wife Denise are involved in a car crash where he sustains a serious head injury, causing him to have murderous feelings toward Denise. After Denise persuades him to honeymoon with her on the Cote D'Azur in France, they enlist the aid of a French psychiatrist who offers to regress Alan back to the time of the accident and cure him.
Narrator (voice)
From his childhood in the lowlands of northern France to his death in Nice, a look at the life of painter Matisse: his early education, his apprenticeship at the Beaux-Arts and his decades-long career as a painter, sculptor, and draftsman.
René Dargillière
Walter, a reporter and photographer, meets Catherine in a train. The young lawyer recently gained an acquittal for a man who killed his alcoholic father to save his mother. Campaigning against alcoholism, she asks Walter to help her unmask a wine merchant engaged in shady practices.
Inspector Vigot
En plena guerra de Indochina, la batalla enfrenta a tropas francesas y la guerrilla de ese país. Un hecho tendrá a las autoridades en vilo: el cadáver de un hombre ha aparecido flotando en un río. Tras las primeras investigaciones, se concluye que dicho cadáver pertenecía a un miembro de una misión de mediación de paz y que era de nacionalidad americana. Ahora las miradas señalan como culpable al periodista británico Fowler, seguidor de los comunistas.
Insp. Bonnard
En París, durante una tranquila noche de verano, los vecinos de la calle Morgue son despertados por los gritos de una mujer. Cuando llega la policía, tiene que forzar la puerta de la casa de donde han salido los gritos de auxilio.
Commentant le film par la voix de (voice)
Adaptación de la primera parte de la archifamosa novela de Dumas. En esta versión los elementos cómicos predominan sobre los dramáticos. D'Artagnan, con la ayuda de sus amigos Athos, Porthos y Aramis y su incondicional Planchet, tendrá que defender la reputación de la reina, la española Ana de Austria, frente a las turbias intrigas del Cardenal Richelieu y sus colaboradores, Rochefort y la peligrosísima Milady de Winter.
Pierre Verdier
Un corresponsal de guerra estadounidense destinado a París durante la II Guerra Mundial, pierde a su mujer francesa que es asesinada por los nazis. Acabada la guerra, vuelve a Francia en busca de su hijo que él creía muerto en un bombardeo.
Philippe Fouquet
El Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores quiere que Ethel Barrymore represente al teatro americano en una exposición de arte en París. Pero la invitación de Ethel Barrymore le llega por error a Ethel “Dinamita” Jackson, una corista muy rubia y muy ordinaria.
Felix Leca
París, 1900. Marie, una bella prostituta, es la amante de uno de los hombres de la banda de Felix; pero, sorprendentemente, acabará encontrando el verdadero amor en un sencillo carpintero. Su amante, celoso, lo provoca, y ambos se enzarzan en una terrible pelea.
le docteur
Adaptación de tres cuentos del escritor francés Guy de Maupassant que versan sobre el placer:
(1) Un hombre extraño, que asiste a un popular baile de máscaras en París, baila hasta caer extenuado. El médico que lo atiende descubre sorprendido que tras la máscara se oculta un anciano. Cuando lo acompaña a su casa, la esposa le cuenta al médico la triste historia del bailarín. (2) A Madame Tellier, que regenta un prostíbulo, la invita su hermano Joseph a la primera comunión de su hija. La Madame cierra el negocio y se traslada con sus pupilas a la lejana granja de Joseph para asistir a la ceremonia. Terminada la fiesta, regresan al prostíbulo en medio del regocijo de los hombres, que ya las echaban de menos. (3) Un famoso artista se enamora de su bella modelo Josephine. Sólo pinta retratos de ella y alcanza el éxito, pero su historia de amor tiene un final inesperado.
Narrator (voice)
André (Daniel Gélin) es un simpático Don Juan, que ha caído enamorado de la preciosa Catherine. Sin embargo, eso no le impide remememorar las gracias y favores de sus antiguas conquistas femeninas, como Christine, Minouche, Denise, etc. Pero eso no será fácil de compaginar con el amor de Catherine.
Vito Bucelli
The real-life deportation of gangster Lucky Luciano was the inspiration for this romanticized and slightly crackbrained crime drama. Jeff Chandler plays the Luciano counterpart, who once he arrives in Italy renews his criminal activities.
Paul Normand
Benjamine, the daughter of the chocolate maker Lapistole, has broken down in her car, spends a night at Paul Norman's, imposes herself casually and causes the break-up of the engagement of this peaceful civil servant with the daughter of his department head. A friend maintains contact between Paul and Benjamine, becomes the head of publicity at Lapistole and when Norman is dismissed through Benjamine's fault, brings his two friends closer and proves to them that they are made for each other.
Pianist André Fuger
In the train that takes her back home, Catheine Beryl meets concert pianist André Fuger, a childhood friend of her husband's. The musician is both good-looking and seductive and Catherine soon falls for his charms. The two young people spend the evening and the following night together. The next day, a lost powder compact gives the affair away. At a loss, Catherine runs away from her husband but she has an accident. When she regains consciousness in her hospital bed, Catherine finds Georges, her husband, by her side, pretending nothing has happened.
Edith, a young orphan, is exploited as a waitress and bullied by her adoptive father. But she has a dream: she wants to become a star. One day the Orient Express, which never stops at the little station across the café she works in, is forced to pull up due to a technical incident. And out of a carriage gets ... a company of dancers, who start rehearsing before Edith's amazed eyes. She meets the director of the company, handsome dancing star Harry Belmont, who takes an interest in her beauty and in her natural talent. When she leaves her obnoxious father for Vienna, Harry is absent. She nearly gets seduced by a libidinous man but, after a narrow escape, she gets a job from Treberg, the owner of the restaurant she had dined in. Treberg finds her there, hires her as a dancer and the pair soon meets tremendous success. A star is born but, realizing that he comes second to her, he prefers to vanish.
Camille, Olivier and Henri Grégeois
1944, France experiences its last days of German occupation. A microcosm representative of the various attitudes adopted during this troubled period, some heroic, others less brilliant, the Grégeois family, scattered by the war, will strengthen its ties according to the Allied advance on the territory and the liberation of Paris, with its joys but also its sorrows, because not all of its members will survive the relative chaos that will characterize this end of the world war.
Jeff
Marceline is pretty but inconstant. She has a brother, eccentric as well as invading, who serves as a go-between between the fickle young woman and her lovers. She has been the mistress of Richard for a while when Jeff, an engaging but but unrepentant dreamer, falls madly in love with her. Marceline first turns him down but finally accepts him after she breaks up with Richard. But the coquette has not given up her escapades to which the young florist, nicknamed "Jean de la Lune" for his naivety, turns a blind eye. Little time after their wedding , Marceline becomes infatuated with the good looks of a superficial young man, Alexandre. But Jeff, who has developed a fondness for Jean, intervenes to save the couple.
Clément Fournil
Kohlman, the attorney for the Fournil bank, diverts money from the institution. To hide his malpractices, he imagines to remove the director, the young and overconfident Clement Fournil, during a cruise at sea on the yacht Emile Frechisse.
Henri, a basically honest fellow, accepts to work for a gang of burglars only to revenge himself on Fournier-Salville, a wealthy businessman who once ruined him. His role will be to become Fournier-Saville's majordomo and at the same time to inform the burglars so as to facilitate their work. But once in the house he performs his task so well and so stylishly that he becomes indispensable. Moreover, Eve, the businessman's capricious daughter, does not remain insensible to his charms.
A debate on the definition of the word laughter, organized by Madame de Saint-Jules and two academicians, illustrated by film extracts, turns into a huge battle of cream pies.
Le narrateur
Nicole Védrèss' chronicle of Paris from 1900 to 1914 is brought to life through the use of original material, all authentic, secured from more then 700 films belonging to public and private collections. A few of the celebrities of the time shown are Enrico Caruso, Sarah Bernhardt, and Maurice Chevalier.
Jacques Audoin
Jacques Audoin falls in love with a pianist, Evelyne Clery, and marries her. In reality, he had wanted to approach her, because he imagined that she had witnessed the murder of the lover of his first wife. Evelyne learns what has happened and, revolted by what she thinks is her husband's plot, commits suicide. Jacques confesses his crime.
Narrator
Oscar Winning 1948 short film by Alain Resnais, not to be confused with either the Short 1966 TV doc or the 1991 feature film by Maurice Pialat, both of which shared the same name.
Jacques Brévannes
Martine is a lonely girl in an exclusive boarding school who conjures up a glamorous existence in order to make her dull life tolerable and to impress the other girls. One of her flights of fancy is a love affair with Brevannes, a famous composer. She leaves the school and goes to the French Alps to find the life she's only dreamed about, where she meets Brevannes and a December-May romance develops until she meets a young mountain guide, Henri Vidal.
Robert Chesnay aka Michel Trévines
When she sets sail for Lisbon, Catherine Laurence, a famous classical singer has but one wish: to be left alone. Unfortunately she soon gets bothered by a rude, invading man. Later she gets to know him better and becomes susceptible to his charm. She realizes that Michel is in love with her and it is not long before she goes beyond her disastrous first impression. Although not quite sure he is a perfectly honest man she entrusts him with a delicate assignment: keep her precious pearl necklace coveted by Van Coolart, a fake Dutch diamond-merchant, and give it back to her in Paris. If he is a robber himself, so much the worse for her. But if Michel keeps the Paris rendezvous love is in store for both of them. Nevertheless there is a crucial factor she regrettably disregards, composer Raymond Aubour, a faithful friend who has been her suitor for ten years.
Maurice
Gaby, the singer of the "Raymond's Jazz" band, leads Maurice, one of the musicians, to believe that, following a night he spent with her in the hay, he is the father of her child. In fact, the baby is neither his nor hers. He is the son of Madeleine, a young war widow who has entrusted him to her friend Gaby until she is allotted a flat. One day, Maurice happens to meet Madeleine and falls in love with her but he does not dare to confess his "paternity" to her. Fortunately the misunderstanding is clarified and Maurice can at the same time marry Madeleine and adopt her kid.
They have been living together for some time in a bohemian environment. The boy is attracted to a friend of his mistress and he frankly acknowledges his feeling. His companion favors meetings and even multiplies them: satiety, habituation, weariness set in very quickly. It is the shrewd mistress who will be married.
Cyrano de Bergerac
Cyrano, poet and cadet from Gascony, is afflicted with an excessively long nose which makes the beauties smile. He is no less in love with his cousin Roxane.
Four men in love with the same woman put on a music-hall show and travel the world in search of the beauty. They will find success and fortune, but their sentimental quest will be a failure.
Robert
To be able to win paradise, a selfish old billionaire, who has just died, must make someone happy. He will have to guide a young girl through the intricacies of love.
Aimé Cavalier
At the beginning of the 20th century, the destiny of Félicie Nanteuil, a young girl from the provinces who became a big star on the stage thanks to a comedian who committed suicide out of love for her.
François de Freycinet
While Lady Christabel Beauclark, a bird fancier, is scurrying about demanding certain territorial rights for British birds from other countries, Her Ladyship's niece is falling in love with the family butler, Tom Gilbey. The birds are forgotten when war breaks out, and Gilbey now finds himself in love with the niece whose love was previously unrequited. Written by Les Adams
Robert Chardin
Jacques Bonhomme
Directed by Garson Kanin and Jean Renoir.
Jules Frémissin
Jules Frémissin is shy and in love. The father of the object of his flame is also shy. The marriage proposal is very laborious, because before marrying Cécile Thibaudier, Jules must fight a duel with the arrogant Vancouver, convinced that all this eager and awkward courtship was intended for his own wife, also named Cécile.
Valentin Le Barroyer
On the very day of his wedding, Valentin Le Barroyer sees the one he was to marry fly away. Hélène has always loved her cousin André, to the great displeasure of her aunt who had combined the failed marriage. The two lovers take refuge in the Dordogne at the home of Hélène's grandmother who believes them to be really husband and wife. Valentin finds the young couple too late, he only has to console himself with a friend of Hélène's.
Drial (uncredited)
Following a broadcast on the radio, each of the listeners remembers these "little nothings" (the title is borrowed from a play by Mozart), which have often changed their lives. Each of these stories told will prove that a tiny detail in life can change an entire destiny.
Henri
1895. Discovery of X-rays. Researchers and scholars are true martyrs, because they do not know how to protect themselves against radiation dermatitis. Professor Belcour has to have one hand amputated, his assistant Henri Vermont, aware of the danger, has the courage to break up with his fiancée. Withdrawn to the countryside, they eventually recover.
A young woman is in love with a young writer, winner of the Prix Goncourt. Married to a banker, she must face her husband's anger and the blackmail of a former suitor.
To prevent her husband from starting a divorce procedure, a wife simulates madness.
Monkey
In the kingdom of animals, Master Fox is used to trick and fool everyone. So the King, the Lion, receives more and more complaints about him. He orders that Master Fox is arrested and brought to him.
Self
The Bontemps family, like all the inhabitants of the village of Coussy la Chapelle, are passionate about radio. Coco, the fiancé of Jacqueline Bontemps, participates in all the contests and under the name of Mr. Bontemps wins a beautiful Sunday. All arrive in Paris and in the premises of the Parisian Post Office attend popular broadcasts.
Paul Landry
The forbidden romance between wealthy Giselle Preville and impoverished journalist Claude Dauphin. When Preville disappears, Dauphin is accused of kidnapping by the girl's snobbish father Rene Alexander. By the time the Normandie reaches New York, however, the "mystery" is solved and all misunderstandings blithely swept away.
Pierre de Rougemont
Tells the story of a young woman escaping from reform school who tries to steal a foreign ambassador's watch but ends up falling in love with him.
Léandre, Hubert & Georges
Cavalcade D'Amour is divided into three sections, each depicting a romance occurring within the walls of the Chateau de Champs. Legend has it that whoever marries in the Chateau is doomed to an unhappy life. This proves to be the case in 1639 and 1839, but the heroine of the 1939 segment, Corinne Luchaire, is determined to break the jinx. She is convinced that she will prove an unsuitable bride for Claude Dauphin, and he is likewise convinced that he will turn out to be an inadequate groom. But the couple's respective families will not be dissuaded, and the marriage takes place as scheduled? with unexpectedly happy results!
Jean Durand
In this sci-fi film, a scientist invents a prescient machine that can tell people when they will die. Oddly enough, the people do not want to know and therefore begin to riot…
Gérard
Claire Buisson becomes enamored with Gerard and soon afterwords she becomes pregnant. Gerard advises her to abort the child but, at the last moment, Claire decides to keep her child and leaves for her sister's place in the province.
François Polti
François, Cécilia and Isabelle are students of the drama class of the Conservatoire led by Professor Lambertin. François is in love with Isabelle who also loves him, but he is pursued by Cecilia, his former mistress. Cécilia commits suicide staging the suicide like a crime, so as to involve Francis. But a testimony restores the truth.
A husband, exasperated by his wife, spanks her without paying attention to the open window in front of which he is. He is annoyingly surprised to discover the next day that the scene has been photographed by a neighbor, and that the image is circulating in Paris. A debate then ensues: is this an opportunity to call for revolt or a welcome manifestation of marital authority?
Un Invité (Prologue)
A husband who has just cheated on his wife returns home in the early morning, puzzled. He finds there, without knowing it, the lover of his wife, to whom he confesses his infidelity.
It is only the prospect of having a child that draws the otherwise strictly urban new wife, Suzanne, to a family farm, she really doesn't care for the countryside of for her in laws.
André Chabrolles
A husband orders his wife to recover a lost slipper. The wife enlists the aid of her friend, Beatrice (Betty Stockfield) to bring the slipper to her in Switzerland, and Georges (Roger Treville) follows Betty.
Trying to acclimatize a group of overworked city dwellers from very different backgrounds to the open air and work in the fields, such is the unusual challenge that an original practitioner, the curious doctor Bouvard, is attempting. The trial, which involves many risks, gives unexpected but not disappointing results.
The nephew
The tribulations of a banknote, from its exit from a counter to its destruction, passing through dozens of hands.
André 'Dédé' de la Huchette
Dédé is a young wealthy man who buys a shoe store, owned by his friend Robert, in order to receive more conveniently his mistress. Everything seems fine and Dédé seems to be enjoying all of this. But the man barely knew that he would fall in love with one of the many pretty vendors of his new "acquisition", favoring this new girl over the previous one.
In the spring of 1913, Jean Servin, a son of a family, became friends with Roberte, a little midinette. He leaves her a few months later to marry Cécile Breton. The years go by. Jean becomes an important businessman. One evening, he meets Roberte, who has become the wife of a wealthy American. She does not love her husband any more than he loves his wife. They recall their memories. They seem to still love each other. They plan to rebuild their lives. Together, they will spend a few days in Dieppe, as they did in the past after their first meeting. They feel so different from what they were twenty years ago that they understand that the past cannot live again.
Prince Philippe
Prince Philippe of Bracowa must join his fiancée by train. The young and pretty Gisèle is on the same train, for her too to join her fiancé.
le jeune homme renversé
A young man is hit by a car on a zebra crossing. The pretty driver drives him home, takes care of him and falls in love with him. She has a fat, selfish, boorish husband whom she abandons to her imaginary illnesses to marry her nice wounded man.
Paul de Laverdens
A rich American lady has bought the Castle of Longueval. Her sister is being courted by two young villagers, one that fell in love with her, and the other one that fell in love with the Castle.
André
Boubouroche, a decent guy, enjoys shopping and playing cards at the cafe with his buddies: Potasse, that he is quick to "scold" for playing the wrong card, Fouettard and Roth. For eight years, Boubouroche has been living with a woman he adores called Adele. Then one day over drinks, Boubouroche is shocked and dismayed to find out he is cuckolded... And has been for quite a while!
Paul
Thomas Hoffmann arrives totally penniless from the megalopolis of Chicago and settles in the small village of Groditzkirchen. He soon forged a solid reputation there and established himself in the world of business and finance thanks to his charm and his bluff, interpreting with brio and relaxation the role of the nice millionaire.
Claude, shy, instructs Michel to declare his love to Simone, the young girl he loves. But Michel seduces her and becomes engaged to her. She surprises him in the arms of another, breaks off her engagement and marries Claude, whom she has come to know and love.
Comedy and misunderstandings around thwarted loves in Paris but which will end well in Provence.
Jacques
While sailing on a yacht off the French Riviera a shy young man and the owner's daughter are shipwrecked on an island.
The French language version of Sehnsucht 202 (1932).
André
