Граф Роже де Таншбрей был сочтён погибшим в сражении с казаками в Шампани, во время Французской кампании 1814 года, ставшей прелюдией к падению Наполеона. Однако он сумел выжить, но на лице остались страшные шрамы от казацкой сабли. Для соблазнителя и сердцееда это страшный удар. Он возвращается домой в Нормандию в маске. Кожаный Нос компенсирует утраченную красоту эротическими безумствами, вошедшими в легенды.
До тех пор, пока ему не встретится девушка по имени Жюдит де Рьюсс, которая попытается ценой своей благородной души и репутации утихомирить его отчаяние. Она даже готова выйти за него замуж, но Таншбрей, несмотря на свои чувства к ней, отказывается… В образе Кожаного Носа представлена молодёжь Франции, потерявшая ориентиры после Революции и падения империи и безуспешно пытающаяся найти выход.
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The inhabitants of a Scottish island in the 19th century follow their own religion without need for clergy, but as strangers arrive, their faith and beliefs face a deep crisis.
Léon Ménard, the village verger, is a decent young man whose hobby is to play the accordion. One day he is fired for having accompanied Mary Pinson, a singer deemed scandalous by the right-minded parishioners. Blinded by his love for Mary, Léon follows her to Paris where he becomes her plaything. With Mary's complicity, a gang of swindlers make him the puppet proprietor of a night club. But Léon can't live in a fool's paradise forever and soon finds himself on the street, forsaken and desperate. Luckily, the manager of a circus notices him while he is busking and he hires Léon at once. Not only will success come to him but he will win the love of sweet Solange.
The fictionalized life, and interpreted by himself, of the popular boxing champion Marcel Cerdan. Training sessions, matches, victories, flight to the U.S.A. where the title of world champion is disputed, form the whole subject of the film.
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Marceline is pretty but inconstant. She has a brother, eccentric as well as invading, who serves as a go-between between the fickle young woman and her lovers. She has been the mistress of Richard for a while when Jeff, an engaging but but unrepentant dreamer, falls madly in love with her. Marceline first turns him down but finally accepts him after she breaks up with Richard. But the coquette has not given up her escapades to which the young florist, nicknamed "Jean de la Lune" for his naivety, turns a blind eye. Little time after their wedding , Marceline becomes infatuated with the good looks of a superficial young man, Alexandre. But Jeff, who has developed a fondness for Jean, intervenes to save the couple.
François, a young student at a provincial college, likes Colette, the daughter of the headmaster. Turlot his colleague, who commits suicide, left a diary where he writes of his relationship with Colette.
