Georges Benoît

A young woman is in love with a young writer, winner of the Prix Goncourt. Married to a banker, she must face her husband's anger and the blackmail of a former suitor.

О жизни Анабеля Кастанье, пекаря средних лет из прованской деревни. Когда его молодая жена Аурелия бросает его ради симпатичного пастуха, парень перестает печь хлеб, и жизнь в деревне замирает. Все деревенские жители, испокон веков испытывающие друг к другу неприязнь, вынуждены объединиться, чтобы вернуть пекарю его жену.

Madame Cambronne, who is English, "it's historic", would really like to know what this famous "Cambronne word" is, which she has never heard. General Cambronne stubbornly refuses to repeat his famous saying.

Завязка лёгкого любовного романа между обаятельной светской дамой и отошедшим от дел адвокатом сулит приятное времяпровождение обоим, да и случай подворачивается удачный. Муж дамы под предлогом деловой встречи отправляется на вечернее свидание, она же получает возможность нанести визит новому воздыхателю. Утомлённые любовники засыпают сном праведников и лишь утром осознают масштабы грядущего скандала, ведь замужняя дама провела ночь вне дома. Поправить положение, кажется, невозможно, тем более что и муж нежданно-негаданно заявляется на квартиру к адвокату. Только вовсе не скандалить – оказывается, он и сам загулял на всю ночь, а теперь нуждается в помощи ловкого приятеля, чтобы оправдаться перед покинутой в одиночестве супругой.

Завязка лёгкого любовного романа между обаятельной светской дамой и отошедшим от дел адвокатом сулит приятное времяпровождение обоим, да и случай подворачивается удачный. Муж дамы под предлогом деловой встречи отправляется на вечернее свидание, она же получает возможность нанести визит новому воздыхателю. Утомлённые любовники засыпают сном праведников и лишь утром осознают масштабы грядущего скандала, ведь замужняя дама провела ночь вне дома. Поправить положение, кажется, невозможно, тем более что и муж нежданно-негаданно заявляется на квартиру к адвокату. Только вовсе не скандалить – оказывается, он и сам загулял на всю ночь, а теперь нуждается в помощи ловкого приятеля, чтобы оправдаться перед покинутой в одиночестве супругой.

Maxime, heir to an old provincial family, is deeply in love with Maud whom he makes his fiancée. But learning that the young girl's life has not always been beyond reproach, he refuses to marry her and returns to his castle in the company of his sister who, happier than him, has met a man worthy of being in Paris. love.

After being left for another man by his wife, Charles Bellanger raises his only son to fear and suspect women. Years later, such an education is bearing fruit.

In the Camargue, a herdsman has just become engaged to a young local girl when his heart is troubled by a stranger who is playing the comedy of love for him. After this disappointment, he resumes the interrupted idyll.

A French novelist passes off an African shepherdess as a princess.

A neglected young woman comes up against the equivocal feelings of a steward.

A respected gangster, Justin, finds himself in a deadly feud with his rival, the unscrupulous Esposito. The latter plans to steal a cargo of opium bound for China and to have Justin killed.

Nicknamed "the Aristo", a friendly tramp, once a very rich and influential man, will one fine day rediscover the splendor of his past...

A more small scale version of the story Griffin used for his epic Orphans Of The Storm: a doctor tries to reunite two sisters who have become separated from each other during the whirlwind of the French Revolution.

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.

An opera singer travelling with her company on a passenger ship encounters a mysterious young man who she falls in love with.

Father-and-son lion tamers, Rabbas and Léo share a mistress - Rosita, the " lovely bitch " of the film's title. She is as wild as their lionesses and, in a single night the father is injured and the son attempts suicide. Only when Rosita leaves the circus can things get back to normal.

A nobleman decides to join a traveling group of actors to be with a girl he admires, but ultimately must rescue her from bandits

Colonel Beldan runs a Wild West show. When Beldan's star attraction switches to his unscrupulous competitor Vicarino, the young Bob Mason takes the opportunity to take over the job with his horse 'Tarzan'.

"The plot introduces Omar as a leader of his people but deals rather with the love of his nephew, Ben Ali, for the fairest daughter of the tribe" (Variety, 7 Oct 1925, p44).

Rev. Robert Martin is an ex-minister who has lost his faith because of his wife's faithlessness, and taken up a life of crime as head of a band of pickpockets masquerading as religious workers who ply their trade in the wake of a traveling carnival company. He tries to keep the true nature of his work secret from his daughter Julie, but she learns the truth while traveling with his band for a week.

Sonia, a Russian dancer, comes to New York seeking her fortune. She marries Peter Derwynt, a young architect, but their marriage is not a good one. Sonia falls under the spell of a rich Broadway mogul, Jimmy Sutherland, whose wife is in love with Peter. The mix of relationships comes crashing apart when Sutherland ends up murdered.

Film that marks a milestone in the Argentinean social cinema and that reflects the labor revolts suppressed during the Tragic Week in January of 1919.

A potentially lost film, this film tells the story of a man is convicted unjustly of a crime and then subjected to inhumane torment in a prison run by corrupt administrators.

A Spanish soldier falls under the spell of a fiery gypsy girl named Carmen. His obsession with her leads to his ruin.

At 10 years old, Owen becomes a ragged orphan when his mother dies. Abusive next-door neighbors the Conways take him in, and by 17, Owen has learned that might is right. At 25, he's a career gangster: loitering, gambling and drinking in dens of iniquity. Marie Deering arrives in Owen's area, eager to empower the impoverished, gang-affiliated youth through education. Owen slowly but surely leaves his old life behind, choosing the narrow path- all the while falling in love with Marie. Skinny, who's taken over Owen's role in the gang, reappears to him, spelling trouble.