Marc Bujard

Commissioner Thomas simultaneously investigates the actions of an oil company, a theft and an assassination, and the kidnapping of a child with look-alikes.

Wanting to complete the research of her doctor husband, a former actress returns to the stage and therefore abandons her home. Badly supervised, her little boy runs away. We find him ill in the Alps. He is saved by his father and the parents' union is sealed again.

Lillian Harvey plays Miquette, whose beauty and vivacity increases the clientele of her mother's tobacco shop. A Barrymoresque actor (Lucien Baroux) believes that Miquette has star potential, but he hasn't sufficient capital to finance her theatrical debut. He manages to get the money by practicing a bit of genteel blackmail on an aging marquis (Andre Lefaur) who has romantic designs on the heroine.

In 1917, in a small village in the North, Abbe Gaillard is suspected by the Germans of facilitating the escape of French and Belgian soldiers. A false alibi makes him innocent and he can thus continue his mission, thanks to the devotion of an Alsatian who, in enemy uniform, obscurely serves his country.

One of the subjects of the Prince of Slopoldavia, followed him to Paris, not out of love but to take revenge for the monarch's betrayal of one of his friends. Involuntary architect of a plot, she forces the prince to return to the throne and agrees to share the burdens of power with him.

Jean is a ten-year-old boy who runs away from boarding school because he thinks he is the cause of his parents' marital breakup. A famous opera singer offers him shelter in her home.

Based on a play by Pierre Wolff, about a wronged husband’s revenge on his wife and her lover, La belle de nuit is a major find, a work of uninhibited stylistic imagination that ranges from Sirkian stylization (an elaborate play of mirrors and doubles) to brutal realism (a tour of the bordellos of Marseille suggests the contemporary photographs of Brassaï).

The story is about a drug ring and the finally successful efforts of the Paris police to break it up. A young detective goes into a den in Paris' Chinatown, following a clue, and that is the last seen of him until his body is found floating in the Seine several days later. The only clue is a woman's glove. The dead man's friends on the force vow to avenge him, and receive information leading them to suspect one Sandra, a beautiful foreigner, played by the stunning Marcelle Chantal.

Two sisters struggle to stay on the straight and narrow.

Three men vie for a pretty young lady in a small Spanish port town: The boss of a dance hall who encourages her aspirations at performing, a married fisherman, and that man's unmarried younger brother.

A silent, surreal short involving a man buying a pearl necklace. He meets a woman who also desires the necklace.

In 1776, an inventor conceals a Polish nobleman in his chess-playing automaton, a machine whose fame leads it to the court of the Russian empress.

King Louis XI tries to unify France by all means fair or foul, which does not please his powerful rival Charles the Bold. It is against this troubled backdrop that the loves of the daughter of a wealthy bourgeois and the king's god-daughter Jeanne Fouquet and knight Robert Cottereau unfurl in spite of all the obstacles in their way. One of these being a pack of hungry wolves trying to stop Jeanne from carrying out an important mission assigned to her by the king himself.

Directed by Alexandre Volkoff, 1924

열차 기관사인 시지프는 전복사고 현장에서 고아 소녀 노르마를 발견하고 몰래 집으로 데려온다. 엄마 없이 자란 아들 엘리와 노르마를 함께 키우려던 그의 욕심은 비극을 낳는다. 어느 날 시지프는 노르마에 관한 비밀을 고위 관료인 에르상에게 털어놓는데, 노르마를 탐한 에르상은 비밀을 빌미 삼아 그녀와의 결혼을 요구한다. 어느새 노르마를 남자로서 흠모했던 시지프는 힘겹게 그녀를 떠나보내고, 노르마에 대한 애정을 간직해온 엘리 또한 사실을 알게 된 뒤 좌절감에 빠진다. 정작 노르마 자신은 비밀을 모르는 가운데, 한 여자를 사랑한 세 남자는 지옥 같은 현실에서 벗어나지 못한다.

1914년 프랑스 남부 프로방스, 주민들은 독일과의 전쟁 선포를 환영한다. 그중 질투심 많고 폭력적인 성향인 프랑수아 로린은 에디트와 결혼하지만, 그녀가 시인 장 디아즈와 불륜 관계라고 의심해 그녀를 로렌 주로 보낸다. 하지만 그녀는 그곳에서 독일군에게 강간당한다. 제1차 세계대전을 배경으로 한 비극적 드라마이자 몇몇 평론가는 반전 영화라고 평하기도 한다. 감독인 아벨 강스는 1920년대 프랑스 인상주의 영화 감독들 중 가장 중요한 인물이자 플래시백 등 무성영화의 전형적인 연출 스타일을 만들었다.