First performed in 1732, Marivaux's play on the theme of cross-dressing, depicts the stratagems of the young princess Léonide in love with Agis, the legitimate heir to the throne of Sparta. To meet the prince, watched over by the philosopher Hermocrates and his sister, Léonide disguises herself as a man and seduces the whole household.
The lawyer is visiting a prison to meet with a violent criminal who has been condemned to death. During the visit, things turn bad, there is a riot where prisoners escape and the criminal escapes taking a lawyer hostage.
François, condenado por um duplo homicídio que não cometeu, é liberado da prisão. Agora ele procura os verdadeiros assassinos, em uma cidade onde reina a grande burguesia têxtil.
Created in 1861, this comedy by Eugène Labiche depicts two bourgeois families obsessed with appearances who intend to marry off their children. Labiche exposes the social rivalry between the two families through tyrannical female characters and submissive husbands, whose only concern is to create illusions in society.
São Vicente de Paulo (Pierre Fresnay) teve uma infância extremamente pobre e sofrida, e passou muitos anos trabalhando como escravo. Anos depois, ao tornar-se padre, começou os primeiros trabalhos humanitários de caridade, trabalhando para trazer paz e harmonia entre os nobres e os pobres durante o século XVII, na França, numa época em que a peste negra dizimava milhares de vidas.
An Alsatian, head of a section of the Gestapo, is actually spying on behalf of the French and dismantling a Nazi network. His activities are brought to light by the Germans and he owes his life only to the intervention of a young woman.
The knight Henri de Lagardère wants to avenge the death of his friend, the duke Philippe de Nevers assassinated by the prince de Gonzague, a few years before.
