Writer
Alice, a widowed Frenchwoman, goes on a vacation to Italy. Upon her return, she relates the particulars of her holiday. Within a 24-hour time frame, Alice gets on the wrong boat, winds up in Switzerland where she whiles away the hours at a casino, meets a handsome young German army deserter named Thomas, spends the night with her new acquaintance, pays his sizeable gambling debts, and helps him elude the authorities...
Story
In this sword and sandal fantasy, Poseidon must battle a gladiator quartet in ancient Rome. If he wins, the son of Hercules will have his life and anything else he wants. Sure enough, he wins and asks that the life of a Christian girl be spared. But the girl refuses her liberty until all of her fellow believers are also released.
Screenplay
In this sword and sandal fantasy, Poseidon must battle a gladiator quartet in ancient Rome. If he wins, the son of Hercules will have his life and anything else he wants. Sure enough, he wins and asks that the life of a Christian girl be spared. But the girl refuses her liberty until all of her fellow believers are also released.
Screenstory
Во время очередной кампании на Британских островах римляне захватили в плен вождя одного из местных племен - Главка. Но сделать из гордого бритта покорного раба оказалось невозможно, Главк постоянно пытался бежать, а оказавшись на гладиаторской арене, быстро завоевал симпатии жестокого императора Калигулы. Но против римского повелителя уже зрел заговор честолюбивой Мессалины, супруги дяди императора, Клавдия. После убийства Калигулы и возведения на трон ее мужа, женщина не успокоилась. Она плетет новый заговор, теперь уже в пользу своего любовника Гая Силия. И в этом заговоре не последнюю роль должен сыграть произведший на любвеобильную императрицу неизгладимое впечатление мужественный бритт Главк…
Screenplay
Во время очередной кампании на Британских островах римляне захватили в плен вождя одного из местных племен - Главка. Но сделать из гордого бритта покорного раба оказалось невозможно, Главк постоянно пытался бежать, а оказавшись на гладиаторской арене, быстро завоевал симпатии жестокого императора Калигулы. Но против римского повелителя уже зрел заговор честолюбивой Мессалины, супруги дяди императора, Клавдия. После убийства Калигулы и возведения на трон ее мужа, женщина не успокоилась. Она плетет новый заговор, теперь уже в пользу своего любовника Гая Силия. И в этом заговоре не последнюю роль должен сыграть произведший на любвеобильную императрицу неизгладимое впечатление мужественный бритт Главк…
Writer
Отличная французская комедия с Фернанделем. Пародийно-гротескные зарисовки средневековой Франции, в правление короля Дагобера. Сюжет - поездка короля в Реймс, дабы опередить родного брата, претендующего на трон. А брат, соответственно, тоже не дремлет и подсылает, то и дело, разных убийц и отравителей.
Writer
Italian sword & sandal thrills as the son of Hercules is pitted against an evil king and his wretched followers.
Writer
The rightful heir to the throne of Babylon leads a slave revolt against an evil ruler.
Screenplay
During WW2, it's not wise to be a mayor chosen by the fascists with the Americans' impending arrival.
Adaptation
Danielle Darrieux stars in this French thriller as a singer having an affair with her accompanist. When her husband dies in an automobile accident, the two lovers suspect each other of having murdered him. Soon after, they receive 45 rpm records with the dead man’s voice, threatening to come back.
Writer
Богатый пожилой донжуан дон Маттео безуспешно добивается взаимности от капризной молодой танцовщицы Евы, которая то привлекает его к себе, то ускользает, оставляя в дураках, а вернувшись, всегда находит объяснение внезапному бегству и вновь очаровывает жаждущего обманываться мужчину. Ведь кавалеры падают к её ногам как куклы. Лишь от её решения зависит, с кем она проведет ночь, а кто будет отвергнут. Так зачем же тратить драгоценную молодость на общение с одним мужчиной…
Adaptation
Based on Cornell Woolrich's 1940 story, "Cinderella and the Mob"
Writer
Madame de Montespan, the Maîtresse-en-titre of Louis XIV, has been in disgrace since the King set eyes on a younger beauty, Marie-Angélique Scorailles. Having had enough of the situation, the rejected mistress decides to visit La Voisin, a woman known as a fortune teller, a doctor, a midwife and who is also said to arrange black masses and sell poisons. Some time later Marie-Angélique, now Duchess of Fontanges, dies mysteriously aged only twenty...
Writer
Nana or Nanà is a French-Italian film by Christian-Jaque starring Charles Boyer. It is an adaptation of Émile Zola's novel Nana.
Writer
The daughter of a seamstress, Jeanne Bécu could hardly imagine she would later become one of the most influential women of the Kingdom of France...
Adaptation
The daughter of a seamstress, Jeanne Bécu could hardly imagine she would later become one of the most influential women of the Kingdom of France...
Screenplay
Распутная и жестокая супруга императора Клавдия Мессалина строит планы по свержению мужа и возведению на трон своего любовника Гая Силия. Но планы императрицы нарушает ее неистовая похоть. Мессалина обращает свой жадный взор на гладиатора Тавра. Однако непокорный раб отказывает всемогущей императрице ради своей возлюбленной христианки Цинции. За это Мессалина приказывает отдать Тавра на растерзание львам. Но отважная Цинция отправляется на арену вместе со своим возлюбленным и, тем самым, смягчает сердца безжалостных римлян. Мессалина вынуждена подчиниться публике и помиловать влюбленных, но она даже не подозревает, что этот жест станет первым предвестником ее падения…
Adaptation
Irène is the unhappy wife of a wealthy publisher, Jacques Voisin-Larive, who cares about her no more than a beautiful piece of furniture. Her meeting with Étienne, a young cabinetmaker with whom she falls in love, turns her dismal existence upside down. Not wanting to reveal her condition to her lover, she pretends to be a modest maid, employed by the Voisin-Larive. At the end of a weekend spent with her lover, Irène discovers that she is pregnant. The fragile balance of their existence is suddenly broken. Taking the initiative, she reveals her affair to Jacques and tells him about her desire to divorce. But her husband has no intention of giving her back her freedom...
Screenplay
Au p'tit Zouave, a café, sees a colorful clientele from working-class Paris. An assassin will shake up the daily life of the regulars.
Screenplay
A trio of criminals gradually become entangled in theft and crime. Serge is arrested, his mistress, Hélène, and his accomplice, Michel, both become lovers, try to exonerate him and use false fingerprints first, then after Serge's conviction, gloves covered with the same fingerprints of the prisoner.
Director
A trio of criminals gradually become entangled in theft and crime. Serge is arrested, his mistress, Hélène, and his accomplice, Michel, both become lovers, try to exonerate him and use false fingerprints first, then after Serge's conviction, gloves covered with the same fingerprints of the prisoner.
Director
One of Alexandre Dumas's most popular adventure novels is "The Count of Monte-Cristo". What is little known is that the famous writer made up neither its plot nor its characters. Dumas actually heard the true story of a man named François Picault during a stay at a private mansion and only adapted it into the novel everybody knows . Picault (who in the book would become Edmond Dantès) was about to marry the beautiful Marguerite (Mercédès in the novel) when he was denounced by three jealous friends who falsely accused him of being a spy for England. Picault was placed under a form of house arrest. In his prison, he made friends with an Italian abbot. When the man died, he left his fortune to Picault whom he had begun to treat as a son. On his release, Picault, who had become wealthy, was able to pursue his ruthless revenge on the three men who were responsible for his misfortune.
Director
An aristocrat instigates divorce proceedings against his son-in-law, a commoner and the ex-owner of night club "La Vie de Plaisir".
Screenplay
The strength of a couple's fascination with airplanes and flight is to the detriment of their family
Director
The novelist Loïc Limousin knew the turbulent past of Marie-Martine and he extracted the material for a novel from which the young girl risks paying the price. After the drama that had thrown her in prison, she met a brave boy ready to make his life with her. Will the scandal separate them?
Director
It's a sailors' story; they often sail away and when they return, the first thing they do is searching girls in the harbor. One of them -Jean- is shy and he does not know how to go with women. One day, he meets Yvonne and falls in love with her. But, alas, she prefers his good friend René. Another suitor, Pierre, owns the "À la Belle frégate" a café where Yvonne works as a waitress. Madam(e )Juliette, pretends she helps Yvonne and tries to make her an "entraineuse"(hostess) for less-than -handsome guests. But the girl knows better and will choose one of her suitors.
Director
У вдовца проблемы с деньгами, и он должен женить семерых дочерей. Кредитор утверждая, что стесняется, не в состоянии решиться.
Scenario Writer
A rich businessman living alone is deprived of the nephew he was to have brought up decides on his doctor's advice to search for the four illegitimate children he once fathered, which leads him to accept responsibility for his actions.
Director
Bienaimé, a modest postman, in love with Janine, the village postmistress, does not know that he is the illegitimate son of the old Baron de Mondésir. The Baron dies and in happy amazement, Bienaimé finds he is the sole heir to the deceased's estate. But he should be careful, for two crooks, Waldemar and Erika, are after his newly-acquired wealth.
Director
The young Suzy is a nightclub hostess in a cabaret in which Frehel is the star. Because one night she gets propositions from a rich widower who would like to have her as his girlfriend, Suzy wishes to leave this place, where she has no future, for a better one. Abandoned by her protector, a young hoodlum named Robert, she gets the occasion to get away from it. She decides to go on vacation on the Riviera and stay at the Chateau des Cedres, the former residence of a noble family that has been transformed into a bourgeois guest house by the baroness Saint-Leu. Shy and elegant, in her modest suit, Suzy stays there under the name of Suzanne Michelet and soon makes new friends among the young people of very wealthy families.
Writer
Outwardly, Monsieur Victor would appear to be the model citizen. A respectable Toulon shopkeeper, he has a devoted wife and is courteous and considerate to all who know him. However, beneath this veneer of respectability hides a notorious receiver of stolen goods, who trades with hardened criminals. Victor manages to keep up his double life without any difficulty until the fateful day when one of his partners in crime threatens to expose him. Fearing a scandal, Victor kills the crook in a moment of panic, using a shoemaker's tool. Naturally, the murder is blamed on a local shoemaker, who is sentenced to ten years' hard labour. Seven years later, the former shoemaker reappears in Toulon, having escaped from prison. The first person to recognise him is Monsieur Victor...
Writer
The son of a naval commander faces his first heartbreak when he falls for the young American woman who is destined to become his father's new wife.
Assistant Director
Домашние американского бизнесмена уговаривают главу семьи купить шотландский замок и по кирпичику перевезти его в Америку. Однако вместе с замком в Америку приезжает и его старый обитатель-призрак.
Director
Director
Alternate-language version of Amphitryon (1935).
Director
Director
Assistant Director
A light, comedy romance about a cab driver named Jean and a flower girl named Anna that takes place in Paris during the Bastille day celebration of July 14th.
Screenplay
Бродяга Будю пытается покончить жизнь самоубийством. Он прыгает с моста в Сену, но его спасает книготорговец Лестэнгуа и приводит к себе домой. Лестэнгуа пытается привить Будю вкус и научить хорошим манерам…
Assistant Director
Фильм рассказывает о дружбе двух заключенных - Луиса, который бежит из тюрьмы и становится владельцем огромной компании фонографов, и Эмиля, который тоже сбегает из тюрьмы и получает работу на фабрике своего друга.
