Jean Murat

Rolando, who was close to marrying the daughter of the Doge, is condemned after a highly unfair judicial process and locked up in Venice. Digging a tunnel with the aid of his cellmate, Rolando succeeds to escape.

In 1896 it is announced that the Olympic Games will be revived in Athens. A young shepherd, Spiridon Loues, decides to enter the 26-mile marathon. Once in Athens, he meets Christina Gratsos, a young woman from his hometown who is now the personal maid of Eleni Costa, Greece's most glamorous actress. Though he has arrived after the qualification date, Spiridon's athletic prowess so impresses Coach Graham of the American team that he is permitted to enter the contest. Eleni informs the press that she will marry the victor, confident it will be her lover, Lieutenant Vinardos.

Каждый из семи режиссеров рассказывает об одном из смертных грехов в своей отдельной новелле. «Гнев» перерастает в ядерную войну. В «Лени» кинозвезда платит деньги, чтобы ему завязывали шнурки. В «Ненасытности», семейство едет на похороны родственника, чтобы хорошо поесть и так далее…

Envious of a movie star who is staying at the hotel where she works, the waitress Rosette does everything she can to seduce the actress's lover. Some time later, after having realized her ambition, she returns to the hotel as a client. (Segment of "Les sept pêches capitaux")

Behind the facade of a fashionable Milanese home, headed by Arabella, lies an efficient ring of high prostitution.

Plotters decide to scuttle a ship for the insurance money, but things go wrong.

Фильм снят по одноимённому роману Мориса Дрюона. Фильм также известен под названием «Великие семьи». Мультимиллионер Ноэль ворочает делами процветающей бизнес-империи, имеющей свой интерес в самых разных отраслях, вплоть до издания газет. В целях поддержания и укрепления своих позиций Шудлер активно использует связи в верхах и даже политические рычаги. Он не отягощается нравственными идеалами, ориентируясь лишь на достижение выгоды. Ноэль ощущает себя настоящим монархом и выражает недовольство реформаторскими идеями своего сына Франсуа. Решив преподать ему примерный урок, он и не подозревает, что это приведет к поистине трагическим последствиям…

Young Prince Nechljudov is summoned as a judge in a murder trial. A rich merchant was found dead in the room of the inn where he was staying and the prostitute Maslova was accused of the crime. Nechljudov recognizes in the woman the maid of the aunts he had seduced and abandoned years before and tries to convince the authorities of her of his innocence but to no avail. Convinced that he is responsible for her moral fall, he follows her to Siberia where she must serve her sentence.

Американский комик Боб Хантер путешествует морем на фешенебельном лайнере к берегам Франции. На том же корабле плывет его французский коллега Фернидель. По дороге Боб знакомится с двумя таинственными блондинками. Одна из них — дипломат Энн Маккол, другая — некая Зара, которая, похоже, охотится за какой-то из вещей Боба. Но он едет во Францию всего лишь для того, чтобы получить права на постановку новой пьесы…

Жан Вальжан (Жан Габен) провёл 19 лет на каторге за кражу корки хлеба. Выйдя на свободу, он едва снова не ступил на преступный путь. Но встреча со священником перевернула его душу, и он решает отныне творить добро. На жестоких улицах Парижа его преследует заклятый враг Тенардье (Бурвиль) и безжалостный полицейский Жавер (Бернар Блие).

Paris, 1944. With France under Nazi occupation, General Quade entrusts an important mission to Furstenwerth, the commander of the Wermacht: to secretly transmit secret documents to the Allies. While carrying out this mission, the commander falls under the spell of a young French resistance fighter, Yvonne. He is discovered and arrested by the Gestapo. Yvonne and her group of resistance fighters will do everything to free him.

Antonin, Honoré and Papillote are sailors on the ship "L'Invincible". The three friends are in love with three pretty girls in Toulon: Honoré is in love with Mireille who, as for her, loves Antonin, and Papillote only has eyes for Angèle who, after a fifteen-month-long cruise,presents him a newborn baby that she claims is their son! A new woman appears: Patricia, as sexy as she is mysterious. Antonin, although disconcerted, falls under her spell. What he does not know is that Patricia is not a journalist as she says she is but a secret service agent who has been assigned the mission to investigate Eric Bergen, a shady fellow the trio meets everyday at Arsène's Café...

Cosimo de' Bardi is assassinated by a gentleman called the Flemish. Time passes and at some point a masked knight wearing a red cloak enters the scene. He is the son of the killed. These and the Flemish are also rivals in love. In the final duel the Flemish will be eliminated.

Журналист Гарсэн, богачка Эстель и почтовая служащая Инес попадают после смерти в закрытое помещение — Ад.

Остроумная история Версальского Дворца, основанного королем Луи XIII, разросшимся при деспотичном Луи XIV, разграбленном во время французской революции, после рассказа о которой фильм переносит нас в современность.

На фоне множества целителей, практикующих по городам и весям Бретани, месье Лоран из Динана стоит особняком. Его диагнозы всегда точны, стол ломится от писем благодарных пациентов и имеется в активе настоящее чудо – оживление Луизы Мерьядек, пережившей клиническую смерть после сердечного приступа. Это событие до глубины души потрясло крестницу Луизы Изабель – она влюбилась в наделенного необычным даром человека и согласилась стать его женой. Черная кошка пробежала между влюбленными, когда Изабель узнала, что знаменитый целитель – на самом деле бывший врач Пьер Лашо, прежние коллеги которого готовы привлечь его к суду за незаконную медицинскую практику и злоупотребление доверием.

Джим Роджерс, владелец ранчо из Техаса, по воле судьбы становится международным дипломатом и отправляется по заданию в Париж, прихватив с собой свою дочь Элизабет. Однако там он выясняет, что ее мать - певица Мари Деварон, которую он любил двадцать лет назад, тоже находится в Париже, и начинает всеми силами стараться предотвратить встречу дочери с матерью. Но мистеру Роджерсу придётся больше поволноваться, когда Элизабет встречает молодого француза Андре, с которым у нее возникает бурный стремительный роман...

Джек Мартин, и его подруга, француженка Колетт выступают в ночном клубе Ниццы "Лазурный берег". Когда в Ниццу, после кругосветного путешествия, возвращается знаменитый летчик Анри Дюран, они с удивлением обнаруживают, что Анри очень похож на Джека. Ему приходит в голову использовать свое сходство с Дюраном в новом шоу и обыграть в нем многочисленные любовные похождения бравого авиатора. Дюран посещает премьеру вместе со своей красавицей женой Лили, которая знакомится с Джеком. Вскоре события приобретают такой оборот, что актеру приходится сыграть роль Анри не только на сцене...

A pilot, hero of the war, finds himself implicated in spite of himself in a traffic. He is wanted by the police, but his former companions and an air hostess will help him prove his innocence.

A proud femme fatale who works at a mountainous farm property manages, after being prodded by her lover, to become the heiress, but she plays the rival men against each other.

Danielle Darrieux stars as Arabella Delvaire in this baroque adaptation of Pierre Benoit's novel Bethshabee. Arabella is a woman of the world who arrives at a remote Foreign Legion outpost for a rendezvous with her current lover, Captain Duveuil. It so happens that one of Arabella's previous amours, Captain Somerville (Paul Meurisse), is also serving at the same post. So much for joining the Foreign Legion to forget. A climactic knife duel "solves" the film's various plot complications. Despite its Foreign Legion background, Bethsabee has next to no action, which must have made things difficult when the film was distributed to the U.S.

Inès, a gypsy, pregnant by a rich breeder who abandoned her, finds refuge with a band of smugglers and thieves, led by an old woman nicknamed "the Spider". It is among them that she raises her daughter, Dolores. But her past catches up with her when the wealthy landlord reappears in her life.

In order to engage in life experiences, Christine takes the civil status of her three sisters to marry as many times.

Марк, дядя Патриса, богатый вдовец средних лет, живущий в замке с неприятной сестрой покойной жены, ее странным мужем и злобным уродливым сыном, 24-летним карликом Ахиллом. Приглашенный в гости, Патрис чувствует жалость к доброму дяде и вызывается отправиться в странствие на поиски молодой и красивой невесты, чтобы Марк был не так одинок. Из путешествия Патрис привозит Натали, задача вроде бы выполнена, но постепенно он с ужасом сознает, что влюблен. Карлик Ахилл как вездесущий демон шпионит по всему замку, все видит и все слышит, неумолимо приближая трагический финал. Злополучные влюбленные плывут по течению судьбы без руля и весел и никак не могут повлиять на преследующий их злой рок.

Legend has it that in the village of PugetMaure, a mysterious goat is the guardian of a treasure once abandoned by the Saracens. Norette, the mayor's daughter, has a golden bell that would reveal the secret. A Parisian journalist is interested in the story. In front of the coalition of villagers, he abandons the treasure and marries Norette.

On his fiftieth birthday, Serge Charan, a large industrialist overloaded with activities, decides to leave everything to go on an adventure. In a train heading for the Côte d'Azur, he meets six young girls returning to their boarding school. Arrived at their destination, Serge Charan rents, under an assumed name, a villa with a view of the garden of the boarding school. His presence arouses questions and the interest of young girls who are sensitive to his charm. But one of them, Simone, falls completely in love and runs away from boarding school.

1895. Discovery of X-rays. Researchers and scholars are true martyrs, because they do not know how to protect themselves against radiation dermatitis. Professor Belcour has to have one hand amputated, his assistant Henri Vermont, aware of the danger, has the courage to break up with his fiancée. Withdrawn to the countryside, they eventually recover.

Marie, a young bourgeois and Jean, a cargo sailor have an affair, she becomes pregnant but he has to go back to the sea. Marie leaves for Paris where she meets Pierre and marries him. War breaks out, Jean and Pierre will befriend each other on the front.

Stuck in Angoulême between her uncle, who composes classical music, and her aunt, who is a fan of contemporary music, young Irène finds life boring. Fortunately, there is swing music which illuminates her days. So when, one day, Raymond Serre and his swing orchestra come to Angoulême, she seizes the opportunity to slip the copy of a song she has written into the pocket of one of the musicians. The trouble is that while she is doing so, the train she has boarded pulls out.

Father Lebonnard, a former watchmaker who made a fortune, remains simple while his wife is only dreaming of worldly affairs and pushes his son Freddy to marry Bianca, the daughter of the Marquis de Rocafort, their neighbor. She feeds a similar project for her daughter Mariella.

An officer saves the life of a foreign prince who is in France to buy seaplanes, while pursued by his enemies.

Old friends of Vera Vronsky remind her of her past and try to blackmail her.

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During the London-Melbourne race, two aviators, one male (Guy,) the other female (Betty), are forced to land on a lost island in Polynesia. They learn to survive in difficult conditions and fall in love. Back in civilization, their union does not prove obvious. Pierre is already married to Ginette, a movie actress, and Betty is engaged to her cousin Edouard. Moreover, Lord Stanton, her rich father, will not hear of a marriage with Guy. Will love ultimately triumph in spite of everything?

Wife of an arms trafficker in Poland, Georgina is forced to help him. She will only be able to regain her freedom - and love - after a troika chase during which the trafficker loses his life.

Captain Benoit successfully completes a mission in Berlin, but when he returns to Paris he escapes attacks by German agents.

Separated by an ancestral hatred, two small villages of the South see their infant population engaging in war, while the teacher of the first village and the mayor of the second love each other.

Raymond Bernard’s film of a script by Antoine de Saint-Exupery (The Little Prince) about a young woman who aspires to become a pilot.

A journalist takes command of a ship after the crew mutiny against the brutal captain. It was an adaptation of the novel The Mutiny of the Elsinore by Jack London.

1616 год. В небольшом городке оккупированной испанцами Фландрии готовится карнавал. В этот же город прибывает на ночлег испанский герцог со своей армией. Местный бургомистр прикинулся мертвым, однако его жена берет ситуацию в свои руки.

During the First World War, before joining a squadron at the front in 1918, Herbillon (Jean-Pierre Aumont) has a liaison with Helene (Annabella), a married woman. The young man discovers that his mistress is none other than the wife of Maury (Charles Vanel), an aviator friend.

Captain Benoît manages to take possession of the plans of a new German airplane. The German counter-espionage assigns one of their agents, beautiful Erna Fiedler, to seduce Benoît and to eliminate him. But the two spies fall in love.

Middle-aged Parisian Bobby, following an attack of gout, is forced to give up his previous merry life. Above all this Bobby falls in love with his niece Genevieve, abandoned by her husband.

A former typist at a bank ,having married her elegant young boss and gone on a honeymoon, needs to return to work when the bank runs into trouble, and is separated for a while from her new husband.

The French and the English spy on each other, in this adventure set in post World War I colonial Syria.

Josette needs to marry within a year to get her aunt's money.Her fiance,an Englishman, has gone away .After getting permission from her godfather to do a "white marriage," she realizes that she really loves the godfather instead.

The almost financially ruined French gentleman Gaston Dewalter spends several days in Biarritz before going off in the Hispano-Suiza, a luxe car which was a present from his friends. George becomes the lover of Lady Stéphane Oswill pretending he is wealthy. Then Stéphane spends the remaining funds with which the now desperate George hoped to rebuild his fortune in Senegal.

Young love blossoms between a salesgirl and a handsome man on the French Riviera.

When an up-and-coming singer's career is jeopardized by morphine addiction, her brother takes on the ruthless dope pushers who are intent on keeping her hooked.

Simone finds work as a secretary in a bank whose chief of staff expects more than typed letters.

Fred, a journalist, faces an international intrigue to protect the mysterious Nelly.

A lieutenant of the French navy, ready to kill himself in despair, renounced his project after spending a night with a beautiful stranger. He ends up finding her, the heiress princess Lystrie. The German version (Königin einer Nacht) was an operetta, the Italian version (La donna di una notte) was a comedy, while the French version (La Femme d'une nuit) was a dramatic film.

a silent movie by Heinz Paul

A Princess learns that the captain of a ship she owns has struck a passenger, indirectly causing the passenger's death. The Captain is immediately sacked without realising that his action was in defence of her honour. Later, in Cyprus, the Princess meets a handsome man and they're mutually attracted. Only when he expresses contempt for the name of Princess Beatrice Doriani for costing him his job does she realise that this is the same Captain whom she had sacked.

A girl in search of sailors lost in the Pacific.

Wirsoq, who belongs to the type of cosmopolitan financier, gets into his power a young French aristocrat, Arthur de Sorgepois, and insists that the boy's sister should marry him. The girl is in love with a young artist, Pierre Levannier, who secretly returns her affection, but does not declare himself at this critical moment because he is not rich enough to support a wife.

a silent movie by Heinz Paul

A pilot crashes and a beautiful countess of a castle nearby nurses him to health.

Feyder's scenario very closely follows Don José's own account of his story and his fatal relation with the gypsy Carmen in the third chapter of Mérimée's short novel.

In 1925 what may have been the first cycling film was made, Le Roi de la Pédale starring the popular comedy actor Biscot, and with scenes shot on the Tour de France and also with Henri Decoin as a screenwriter.

Married carnival performers are subjected to the abuses of their employer in this silent film gem that has not received as much attention as it deserves. When the boss' unwanted advances on the wife are refused, he taunts a lion until it nearly kills her. But the other performers assist in a unique plot for revenge. Jaque Catelain directs and stars in this film made for influential French director Marcel L'Herbier's production company. Some sources also list L'Herbier as co-director, as he is credited here. The film boasts some rapid-fire editing techniques that were decades ahead of its time.

A French film star visits Coimbra and it's old university, and breaks a poor local girl's heart, as her fiancee turns his attentions to the foreign girl. In a play within the story, one is told the sad love story of Don Pedro, king of Portugal, and Inês de Castro.

Six-episode film Directed by Maurice Champreux and Louis Feuillade.

In a small fishermen's village love affairs are in turmoil, amidst political meetings and revolutionary activities. Nature adds drama to the human passions with its wind- and sea-storms.

French silent aviation melodrama.

Adrienne, the queen of the Frivolity Theater, is a self-centered vamp who steals other women's husbands. Her current conquest is Phillip Overman, and when Overman's wife pleads with the vamp to free her husband, Adrienne turns a deaf ear. Daisy, a chorine, is shocked by her colleague's callousness, but Adrienne asserts that she is only being practical. When she meets Pittsburgh millionaire Dave Wallace, Adrienne falls in love and casts Overman aside. Soon after their marriage, Adrienne learns that her husband is having an affair with Daisy, who is now the reigning queen of Broadway. She pleads with Daisy to release her husband, who responds by repeating the philosophy that Adrienne had given her. Despondently boarding a boat bound for Europe, Adrienne sees the Overmans, who are now happily reunited, and realizes the shallowness of her life.