Une des dames bienfaitrices (uncredited)
The life of Vincent de Paul, the 17th-century author and priest who founded two religious orders.
Jeanne Granier
The film depicts events between the Fashoda crisis in 1898 and the 1904 signing of the Entente Cordiale creating an alliance between Britain and France and ending their historic rivalry. It was based on the book King Edward VII and His Times by André Maurois. It was made with an eye to its propaganda value, following the Munich Agreement of September 1938 and in anticipation of the outbreak of a Second World War which would test the bonds between Britain and France in a conflict with Nazi Germany.
Edwige, a rich American divorcee, goes to Morocco to look up an amazing pilot she once knew. The young woman's secretary, also an aviator, won't fly a plane because he was in a terrible accident. As he is in love with Edwige, the secretary does everything in his power to thwart her romance with the other pilot. He finally supplants his rival and wins the heart of his boss.
Story of the Siberian monk Gregory Rasputin and the hold he exerted over the court of the last Russian czar, Nicholas.
A washerwoman works so long for the same bosses that she gets to like their young son very much. One day she is unjustly accused of robbery, and dismissed. She suffers in her loneliness, until the day she hears that the boy is terminally ill, and there's no medical hope for him. She comes back and sits by him, praying to Saint Thérèse de Lisieux - and the miracle happens.
Armande Granet
The very chic Parisian couturier Jean Granet has trouble with the police, and will find himself imprisoned for two weeks, in the provinces, for speeding. He manages to get himself replaced by his friend Lambelin who, for a fee, will serve the sentence in his place. This is the beginning of a series of misunderstandings.
Olga Worskaïa
Narcisse is a doorman for a jeweler but dreams of becoming a private detective. The Criminas agency hires him and he comes to the aid of his former boss's nephew, accused of stealing jewelry. He first passes for the accomplice of the young man but soon discovers the culprit.
A Danube boatman who cannot have children takes a wife and her niece as passengers.
The Innkeeper
플랑드르 지역이 스페인의 지배를 받고 있던 17세기. 사육제 준비로 분주한 마을에 스페인 공작과 그의 군대가 마을로 오고 있다는 소식이 전해진다. 시장은 죽은 체하고, 군인들은 도망가기 바쁜데, 시장의 부인은 침착하게 마을 여인들을 모아 공작을 맞을 준비를 하고, 여성 특유의 지혜로 마을의 평화를 지키려 한다. 프랑스의 시적 리얼리즘을 확립한 페데의 익살스러운 시대극. 페데의 정치적 관심이 녹아있으며, 정성껏 만든 세트와 화려한 의상들은 풍부한 회화적 요소를 구성한다.
Juliette Durand
A man creates a national scandal after he mistakenly kisses the wrong woman in a darkened cinema. The following year it was remade as an American comedy One Rainy Afternoon, released by United Artists.
A young woman flees with her lover, after having killed her brutal husband; hoping to live a few hours of happiness, before his arrest...
Angélique
Argan, the imaginary patient, allows himself to be led by his wife and his doctors who take advantage of his weakness. Only his daughter has sincere love for him. He ends up accepting that she should marry the one she loves and not the benet, son of an apothecary, whom he intended for her.
Liane d'Arbel
A street singer becomes the star of the circus but his pal Armand shows him who his real friends are.
The story is about a lieutenant, nicknamed "the Rooster of the Regiment", a married man, who just can't help running after any woman passing around, and one of his friend, who always has "good ideas" to give him a hand to come out of "ubuesque" situations.
A very rich businessman, knight of the Legion of Honor, bets that he can start his career from scratch. After all kinds of adventures, he climbs the ladder of society and, having become rich again, finds love and a new fortune.
A gambler has the same name as a billionaire. Suddenly he gets lucky, finds love and wins 24 million.
Maxe
Georget is a happy-go-luck seafarer who'd rather sing than work -- or be faithful to his wife. Together with his sailor pal Marius, they decide to cheat on their spouses by frequenting the dives and joints in every town where their ship drops anchor. The boys are certain, however, that their wives would never behave in a similar fashion. Upon returning home, of course, they discover that their better halves are just as sexually irresponsible as their hubbies.
An idealistic youth finds sincere love after having been toyed with by several frivolous women who were not serious.
