Lyane is a singer and daughter of the producer of the operetta: "C'est une fille de Paris". She convinces the composer of the music, Jacques Kellermann, whom she loves, to sign her piece. The famous composer Jean Paget, who cannot put the work to his advantage, declares to Jacques that Lyane had a child by him. Shocked, Jacques breaks with the singer who soon knows the celebrity. Finally, he realizes that happiness is ready to be seized, because the beauty still loves him...
Richardson
Bistro Owner
Millionaire Victor Danemore, living on the French Riviera, dies suddenly of a heart attack. His secretary, Dave Bishop, wants to know more about his employer's life. Surprisingly, not even his young wife knows anything about her husband's background or how he earned his fortune. Clues lead Bishop to Vienna and Stockholm, where he learns that Danemore was blackmailing people who cooperated with the Nazis during World War II.
Un Cocher
Профессор университета беседует со студентами в форме «ясного признания в любви» и рассказывает им о разных исторических фактах, которые складываются в историю Парижа… Это история Шарля VII и Аньес Сорель, создание типографии при Луи X, Лувр во времена Франсуа I, Варфоломеевская ночь, убийство Анри III монахом-фанатиком, процесс над Марией Антуанеттой, Парижская коммуна, дело Дрейфуса и другие…
Mr. Blue
Испанская танцовщица Мария Варгас грациозна и талантлива, она родилась для того, чтобы стать звездой. В ночном кабаке в Мадриде, где она танцевала босоногой, ее заприметил режиссер Гарри и вскоре Мария добивается головокружительного успеха на голливудской фабрике грез. Непременный атрибут звездной жизни — череда любовников: известный гитарист, латиноамериканский миллионер… Появляется и законный супруг — итальянский граф Винченцо, шофер которого вскоре занимает место очередного любовника Марии… Остается совсем немного времени до трагической развязки, но… Босоногая графиня никогда не будет танцевать под чужую музыку!
French Stationmaster
История отца Брауна, в рабочее время священника, а на досуге - сыщика. Когда у отца Брауна при перевозке из Лондона в Рим крадут ценный религиозный артефакт, он задается целью не только вернуть похищенное, но и заставить покаяться крупного международного преступника Фламбо.
Teacher
Prosecutor Etzel discovers that his father has sentenced a man, Leonardo Maurizius, on mere presumptions. He then makes it a point of honor to trace the sources of the case to uncover the truth.
L'Américain
Le cocher / Le soldat (segment "Jeanne") (uncredited)
Three stories, very different in space and time. Lysistrata, a dancer from ancient times, Jeanne d'Arc, medieval warrior and Elisabeth, American war widow who comes on pilgrimage in Italy.
Self
French documentary short
Virolet, le rebouteux
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.
Rita Johnson's agent
Пьер, не придя ночью домой, говорит жене, что ночевал у своего друга Робера, не зная при этом, что Робер в ту ночь совершил аварию и скрылся с места происшествия, за что имеет теперь неприятности с полицией. Таким образом Пьер становится соучастником преступления. Выбрав из двух зол меньшее, он наконец говорит правду и пытается убедить полицейских, что ночь он провёл у Моник, подруги своего коллеги Жака.
Albertine's father
A twenty year old Anouk Aimée stars as Albertine, the daughter of a bourgeois couple who house a young officer during the Napoleonic wars. Newly promoted, the officer (Jean-Claude Pascal) is quartered by a dull bourgeois couple who treat him with a cold politeness bordering on indifference.
Eddy - le patron du «Zéro de conduite»
Главный герой, врач, Пьер Ришар узнает о том, что его жена, актриса Мадлен Ришар, ему изменяет. Оба проводят ночь, обмениваясь горькими упреками и вспоминая прошлые обиды…
A young man from Marseille starts a jazz orchestra in Paris.
Monsieur Poisson
A Boston school teacher fights with a group of impoverished Frenchmen for possession of an inherited château. Elizabeth Rockwell is indignant when she finds her château filled with squatters, a widower with five messy children, who have no regard for private property rights.
Commissioner Germain
Этот фильм о том, каким был Новый Орлеан в 1860 году. В те годы на побережье многих обуяла гордыня. Те, кто считал себя выше других по крови или по имени обосновались на улице Сан Чарльз стрит. Именно на этой улице и развернется история безумной любви морского капитана Фабиана и молодой креолки Леи Мариотте, неудовлетворенной своим социальным положением и изо всех сил желающей, несмотря ни на что, выбиться в высший свет…
Monsieur Poisson
A Boston school teacher fights with a group of impoverished Frenchmen for possession of an inherited château. Elizabeth Rockwell is indignant when she finds her château filled with squatters, a widower with five messy children, who have no regard for private property rights.
Van der Edern
A Dakota plane is carrying a ton of gold bound for Brazzaville, but it is hijacked over the Camargue. On arrival, we find nails instead of gold!
The bank employee
The manager of a firm has a very unusual idea : asking his employees to pose as gangsters and to hold up a bank before returning the stolen money and pocketing the reward. But things do not go according to plan and the phony thieves get stolen in their turn. They have no other choice than turning into amateur detectives to be able to pay back the stolen dough.
The doctor
When he finds a package in the metro, given this period of restrictions, Mr. Truche thinks it may be a good deal, he takes it home but discovers a woman's head inside. A friend of Mr. Truche having just disappeared, the superintendent accuses her of having murdered her and discovers the head buried in his cellar. But the girlfriend, whom Mr. Truche loves platonically, returns from the countryside and at the same time we spot the assassin of the unknown woman.
Mr. Farjon
Activities and exploits of firefighters in the context of a village then the capital and under the bombardments of the Second World War where the saving of lives was more important than that of factories.
Major
Маленький самолет частной компании разбивается в пустыне, недалеко от Дакара. Пилот самолета, Жак Форестье, и его механик, Поль Маркадур, остались невредимы: они были пьяны и потеряли контроль над машиной! Благодаря вмешательству их друга, командира боевого самолета Эйр Франс, Пьера Обри и стюардессы Клэр Маньи, Жак и Поль были оправданы. Некоторое время назад Клэр и Жак провели вместе неделю, наполненную любовной страстью, после чего Жак оставил ее, плачущую на вокзале. Клэр пыталась покончить жизнь самоубийством, но ее спасли. После этого, Клэр, которая мечтала стать актрисой, решила стать стюардессой.
A police inspector tries to capture international robbers who are actually also police.
Renaudel
"Les jeux sont faits," is a fantasy film based on a screenplay by French existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre. A society heiress and a resistance fighter are tragically killed at the same moment and meet in the afterlife. They are offered a second chance at life if they can prove their love is real or be doomed to roam the earth as ghosts.
Three friends vacationing on the French Riviera open a bar on a yacht and are mistaken by the police for drug traffickers.
Le gouverneur
Hervé is a tough sea captain in command of the "Duchesse Anne", a rum-trading ship. But the sea dog hides a tender heart and he allows Marie-Douce, a poor slum girl who dreams of seeing the wide world,on board. To have her accepted by the crew, he passes her off as his niece. A seasoned master like him, wise enough to ban alcohol use on his ship, should have known better : a beautiful girl on the deck cannot but unleash the savage instincts of all those men without women.
Ramshow
Professor Artus, a scientist specializing in artificial life, wants to try an experiment on an automaton; he is entrusted with a death row inmate. The professor is soon found murdered. It is Inspector Wens, helped by a journalist, who must solve the case. Franck Villard in the role of Wens succeeds Fresnay.
Commissioner Plachon
A historian seeks to clarify the mysterious death of Sire de Malvaleix and will find himself involved in the murder of the current descendant.
During the stagecoach trip of a frightened group of inhabitants of Rouen, Elisabeth Rousset, known as "Boule de Suif", renders these people a signal service, but comes up against their stupidity and their sufficiency. A little later, Boule de Suif assassinates the formidable Prussian lieutenant whom his friends had nicknamed Fifi and who shamelessly displayed his taste for pillage and his sadistic tendencies.
Calumet
Mr. Gustave Bourdillon loves hopelessly the wife of the director of the institution where he is the only teacher. Soon a widow, the pretty wife of Mr. Calumet, agrees to marry the brave professor, but believes each onstant that her husband has returned in the form of his brave little dog Medor. After incredible situations and an immeasurable pursuit, Gustave Bourdillon and widow Émilie will live a deserved happiness.
Sailor
In Macao, where places of pleasure and arms trafficking are concentrated, a tragedy opposes an adventurer and his daughter whom he has brought up in ignorance of his profession. She is torn from her environment and saved from tragedy by a young journalist who loves her.
Tobie is a hopeless daydreamer. He always has his head in the clouds, and this inevitably gets him into trouble with his employer. In the end, Tobie loses his job as a fairground performer and sinks into a state of abject despair.
Un pirate
Dupuy, the first officer of the Cristobal, a French merchant ship, is informed by cabaret dancer La Rubia that the Cristobal carries a priceless secret cargo of gold. Based on the novel by Albert t'Serstevens.
Professor Maingot
It is based on the popular West End stage comedy by Terrence Rattigan. It all begins when Diana (Ellen Drew), the sister of a British boy studying in France, arrives in town to flirt with all of her brothers' schoolmates. Alan (Ray Milland), one of the students, successfully resists Diana's charms-meaning of course that Alan and Diana will be in each other's arms by fadeout time. (AllMovie)
Crittin, l'aubergiste du village
Two young revelers, driven by a Russian driver, are taken to an unknown neighborhood at the gates of a cafecinema where they are going to attend a screening of 1909. They see Douglas Fairbanks, Max Linder, William Hart, Prince Rigadin, Norma Talmadge , Lya de Putti...
Grebs
Trapon, a bank employee, is in love with Mrs. Lavator, who wants to marry off her two daughters before marrying her. As one of the two fiancés of his daughters has no money, Trapon begins to embezzle sums of money in his cash box.
Father Dancourt
During a leave, three merry soldiers experience a series of incredible adventures.
Jeanne supports supports his family on his modest salary. Her boss is arrested for fraud. Jeanne is forced, out of poverty, in the street.
An officer is tried for self-inflicted injury.He is thrown out of the Foreign Legion .
In Paris, at the Foire du Trône, the showman Titin from Martigues spins the perfect love with the pretty Yvette, which arouses the jealousy of his rival Dix-de-Der who will cause his downfall. Without this affecting his Provençal joviality, Titin will try his hand at various odd jobs without ceasing to push the song.
The Charcoal-Burner
A bag of loot is stashed in a piano that belongs to a family of traveling entertainers. A gang of robbers tries to get the loot back, and though they kddnap two members of the troop, the third, a young boy, has run off with the piano.
Veight
Drummond goes up against foreign agents who are trying to steal plans for a top-secret aircraft.
Le Cubain
While still behind bars, a crook manages several schemes including one that almost gets his penniless young lawyer into trouble.The crook's mistress, married to a rich man, then becomes attracted to the lawyer.
For still being a bachelor at an "advanced" age, César is the laughing stock of the neighborhood. Determined to change things, César goes in search of hearts to take.
A doctor is married to an overly jealous wife who wants a divorce. He advises one of his very shy patients to take a mistress when he feels attracted to the latter's fiancée. The "sick", meanwhile, feels weaknesses for the wife.
Colonel Fougas, stricken with catalepsy during the Russian campaign in 1812, was resuscitated after more than a century by French scholars and is not getting used to our time.
A man creates a national scandal after he mistakenly kisses the wrong woman in a darkened cinema. The following year it was remade as an American comedy One Rainy Afternoon, released by United Artists.
Cocardasse
Lagardère protects Aurore, the granddaughter of the Duke of Nevers whose deceitful Philippe de Gonzague covets the inheritance.
Two horsemen are inseparable. One is smart and the other clumsy. A young girl is engaged to the clumsy but she falls in love with the smart one.
Because he spent his youth with a gang of thugs, a tennis champion is forced to help his former comrades rob his mistress's house. He opposes it and is seriously injured the day before a match, he loses it. The one he loves learns the truth and keeps her love for him.
César and Achille, two industrial friends, take in an abandoned child and both claim the title of dad. Marcel, the company's accountant, meets Micheline, the young mother, and ends up marrying her. The child finds a real family.
Trigorin
Second of three versions of Margaret Kennedy’s novel about a sickly, sensitive Belgian schoolgirl, Tessa (Victoria Hopper), in love with world-famous composer Lewis Dodd (Brian Aherne), who marries her wealthy cousin Florence (Leonora Corbett). Undermining the already delicate Tessa’s health, the composer realises that life without Tessa is unbearable and leaves his unloving wife – but sadly too late.
Bruno
Escaping from a policeman who has caught h.im with a stolen dog, Toto (Albert Préjean), a petty crook, hides in the apartment of a typist, Ginette (Renée Saint-Cyr). The two quickly fall in love, and after a brief incarceration, Toto returns to her and schemes to have her win a beauty contest.
The daughter of the austere professor Smithson, during a walk on skis, loses her balance, revealing her underwear. An indiscreet photographed the scene. Smithson demands that his daughter marry this man, but who is he? He luckily turns out to be the young man she loves.
Old Caleb has a blind daughter who he lies to about disasters happening to keep her happy. By chance he finds his son who disappeared at sea, that the marriage of his ex-fiancée with the villainous Tackleton does not take place and that everything ends for the best in the world...
The new bride of a young Viennese is so demanding about her career that she lets him go on the honeymoon solo so she can do an engagement.Left on his own,he finds an unpretentious young lady who suits him better.
Lilian, a rich young girl, is to marry Baron de Plessis, captain of the bobsleigh team. However, Lilian is interested in Tressac, the captain of the opposing team. When everyone discovers that the baron is a burglar, Lilian can marry her lover.
A deceived husband asks his priest to bring back the frivolous wife.
Marius
Georget is a happy-go-luck seafarer who'd rather sing than work -- or be faithful to his wife. Together with his sailor pal Marius, they decide to cheat on their spouses by frequenting the dives and joints in every town where their ship drops anchor. The boys are certain, however, that their wives would never behave in a similar fashion. Upon returning home, of course, they discover that their better halves are just as sexually irresponsible as their hubbies.
Ernest
A singer who is believed dead returns with a decidedly different appearance. He has been in Russia and has lost his memory. But his wife still loves him.
Le capitaine du brick
Fred, a journalist, faces an international intrigue to protect the mysterious Nelly.
Knox - l'imprésario américain
Due to a revolution fueled by Fedor Karew, the queen of Gregoria abdicates and travels incognito to Paris with her cousin Vicky. She becomes a cabaret singer and Vicky her chauffeur.
as Portier de l'hôtel
Le directeur du théâtre
A young singer at the Opera finds out who really loves her, when the theater catches fire on the opening night of the performance.
Desk Clerk
A Tyrolean mountain guide comes under suspicion of killing a tourist.
Monsieur Barsac, père
Garadoux
Garadoux has beaten his wife. His lawyer Fremissin is young and very shy, and therefore, not very efficient... Two years after, Garadoux is trying to seduce Cecile, but she prefers Fremissin...
Beauperthuis
On the day of Fadinard's wedding, his horse eats a lady's hat on a bush at the roadside, while the lady is hidden behind the bush with her lover Lieutenant Tavernier. Because she is married, she cannot return home hatless without being compromised, and Tavernier orders Fadinard to replace the hat with one exactly like it - or else he will wreck his new home. In an elaborate sequence of complications, Fadinard tries to find a hat while keeping to his marriage schedule
A pilot crashes and a beautiful countess of a castle nearby nurses him to health.
Bicard nicknamed Le Bouif earns 1,000 francs for lending his body to the experiments conducted by Professor Caligari. Further adventures await him when he encounters Ladislas, a young reveler, who happens to be the crown prince of Corinthia. This one, who favors living it up over his royal duty, commissions Bicard to replace him on the throne.
Auguste
Крайне застенчивый молодой человек по имени Жан работает в банке, и из-за свой простоты и застенчивости постоянно подвергается насмешкам и подтруниваниям со стороны своих более уверенных в себе коллег. Он настолько робок, что с трудом может заставить себя подарить машинистке, в которую он влюблен, букетик цветов.
Однажды к банк заходит Роза Козлекс, старая «лицензированная» хиромантка, и гадает работникам конторы. Жану она сообщает, что он возьмет в жены ту девушку, которую любит. Задумавшийся Жан в послеполуденное время дремлет на рабочем месте, и снова видит загадочную хиромантку, которая открывает перед ним новый мир и ведет его в увлекательнейшее приключение по нему.
