Victor Hugo
Historical film directed and written by Sacha Guitry follows the the history of Paris from its founding through the significant events in the city's history.
Le professeur Dutoit
Uma médica é acusada do assassinato de seu marido por eutanásia.
Le médecin
Henri Chatelard is well in his forties, owns a restaurant and a cinema in the city, and appreciate women. When he meets Marie, a 18ish stronghead who just lost her father in a small fishermen village, it is not clear who is the hunter and who is the prey.
un critique
A beautiful young pianist falls for her mentor.
A shareholder
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.
Napoléon 1er
The film is a 125-minute, black-and-white biography of French priest and diplomat Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (1754–1838), who served for 50 years under five different French regimes: the Absolute Monarchy, the Revolution, the Consulate, the Empire, and the Constitutional Monarchy. Its title comes from one of the main historical nicknames for Talleyrand, that he shares with demon king Asmodeus and English poet Lord Byron.
Jeweler
For fun and to dazzle his wife, the novelist Morgan steals a ring and gets rid of it in the costume jewelry section of a supermarket. Sophie buys the diamond, which forces the novelist to embark on crazy adventures to recover the jewel.
Le Père du Marié
O casal de trabalhadores Antoine e Antoinette sonham com uma vida melhor. Constantemente se afastando da indesejada atenção dos homens, Antoinette compra um bilhete de loteria premiado. Mas quando Antoine perde o bilhete, parece que tudo não vai passar de um sonho.
The Dominican Reverend
Agnès Bonnardet leaves her parents to marry Claude Sironi, a painter who becomes famous but loses his talent. Meanwhile Agnes acquires a style of her own as an artist, which makes Claude jealous of his young wife. One day, he sends one of his own paintings to the Bazar de la Charité, a very trendy Paris department store, instead of one of his wife's works as ordered. Afraid of her being mad at him, he locks her up in the cloak room. A dreadful fire suddenly breaks out and sets the building ablaze.
Monsieur Breteuil dit le petit caporal
Depois que uma empregada idosa é assassinada, as opiniões são manipuladas, evidências são plantadas, a violência irrompe e o pânico acontece.
Nos subúrbios de Paris, uma velha empregada acaba de ser assassinada. Todo mundo fala sobre isso, exceto o misantropo Mr Hire. Na mesma noite, Alice, saindo da prisão, chega e se encontra com seu amante Alfred novamente. Eles agem como se não se conhecessem, pois Alice foi presa para poupar Alfred. Mas o Sr. Hire se apaixona por Alice, e ele suspeita quem é o assassino. (e 16 - Estimado 16 Anos)
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Paris, during the winter after its Liberation: Jean Diego meets up with his friend Raymond Lecuyer again. A tramp predicts Jean will meet the most beautiful girl in the world, and that same evening Jean meets Malou. But he soon discovers that her brother Guy was the one that gave his friend Raymond away to the Gestapo...
Roger Laroque is now a rich man. He returns to France under the name of William Farnell. There, he discovers that on the one hand his wife has died of a broken heart and on the other that his daughter Suzanne is in love with Raymond de Noirville, the son of his former mistress. With the help of a few friends, Roger coldly prepares his revenge.
Director of a music hall, the dubious Ribero, to save himself from bankruptcy, only hopes for the victory of his horse. An English lord enlists his crack Master Love in the race. Ribero will try to prevent its departure. He is thwarted in his dark projects by the lord's daughter, captain of a troop of girls, and by a wise and determined sportsman who does not hesitate, for the occasion, to become a jockey. Master Love wins the race, Ribero is confused, a few weddings are celebrated.
Doctor Baudouin
Fabienne believes herself to be cheated on by her husband Claude and divorces her. He leaves for America and does not return until eight years later. He then meets his daughter.
Napoléon Premier
Um professor parisiense conta a história da famosa avenida de Paris, a Champs-Élysées, desde o seu início em 1617 como estrada cortando a mata traçada por Marie de Médicis até os tempos atuais, passando pelo seu período esplendor burguês sob Napoleão III.
Jeanne supports supports his family on his modest salary. Her boss is arrested for fraud. Jeanne is forced, out of poverty, in the street.
Un ouvrier
A propaganda film of the communist party of France, showing how the comrades help the proletariat against the capitalists.
Talkie remake of a 1927 silent about the adventures of the notorious womaniser and venetian adventurer Chevalier Giacomo Casanova. Action starts in Venice and then the plot takes Casanova to France and Russia.
Napoléon III
During a stay in Seville, Empress Eugénie was charmed by the song of Violetta, a flower girl of gypsy origin. She invites her to Paris where she becomes a prima donna.
Napoléon
An adaptation of the play L'Aiglon by Edmond Rostand, which portrays the life of Napoleon I.
Napoleon
A French washerwoman becomes a duchess and a friend of Napoleon.