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Ireland, 1922. In the midst of a national uprising, Catherine, a young orphan employed in household chores, goes in search of her brother whom she has heard in a dream calling for help.
Captain Palmer's daughter, Maria, is neglected by her husband, the cynical Leo, who lives with the beautiful Sylvia. To defeat his son-in-law, Palmer has the idea of putting Sylvia back in the presence of Pierre, her first love. Leo takes revenge by creating many difficulties for Palmer who retaliates by starting a violent fight where Leo is killed. Everything seems to point to Pierre, but...
A student, Gabriel, comes to the aid of Gisèle, a young manicurist wrongfully arrested, by helping her escape. As a result, Gabriel must serve three months in prison. His sentence served, unable to continue his studies, he collaborates with a gang of crooks. Gisèle, in turn, will save him from this bad situation by taking him away from his overeager associates.
The exploits of Chief Police Inspector Chabrier, first before the invasion of France in May 1940 as he fights against spies preparing the coming the Germans, particularly Emmy de Welder, the alleged manager of the Rouen hospital. Later, Chabrier and his men go underground and resist the occupiers whatever the price to pay. When the Liberation comes Chabrier resumes his activities at the French National Police.
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A sporty and chivalrous young man creates, with some comrades, a society whose goal is to protect honest people against rogues. He finds himself thrown into unforeseen adventures, at the end of which he will discover love.
Laura - l'habilleuse (uncredited)
В купе поезда случай сводит двоих. Опасный преступник Пьер Гоэль только что бежал из тюрьмы и полиция ищет его по всей стране. Ален Женистер рассказывает своему попутчику, что он работает в банке и впервые за долгие годы собрался в отпуск. Он признается, что мечтает уехать в Аргентину, скопил 100 000 франков и взял их с собой.
По прибытии в город, Пьер отправляется к своему другу Дежана, капитану корабля, накотором он надеется исчезнуть из страны. Команда корабля, узнав об этом, шантажирует капитана, требуя за молчание 100 000 франков.
И тогда Пьер говорит, что знает, где найти деньги. Его возлюбленная Мари-Анж должна привести Женистера в ловушку.
Жиль Мовуазен, единственный потомок своего покойного дяди Октава, наследует все его состояние. Октав оказался отравлен мышьяком и все подозрения упали на его вдову - Коллетт Мовуазен. Но Жиль не верит в ее причастность к случившемуся и решает провести собственное расследование.
The maid (uncredited)
A struggling artist buys a talisman that gives him love, fame and wealth. The talisman is a severed left hand, and it works perfectly, in fact, magically. But of course there is nothing free in this world, and after one year the devil comes and asks for his due.
Maid
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.
René, a bank employee, is suspected of theft and fired from his job. It borders on the worst by following in the footsteps of a misfit, Alexandre. A series of circumstances lead him to save little Gérard, the bank manager's grandson, from a fire. The child becomes attached to René, who manages to discover the real culprit of the theft.
Marthe Noblet (uncredited)
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.
A parodic trial, in which one sees a merry luron, tried for trifles, rallying the whole court to him as soon as one learns that he inherits a large fortune.
Французский исторический криминальный фильм 1939 года режиссера Жака Даруа с Андре Брюле , Надин Фогель и Рене Ферте в главных ролях. Фильм основан на воспоминаниях Эжена Франсуа Видока . Видок был преступником в Париже девятнадцатого века,который перешел на другую сторону и стал ведущим сыщиком.
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The history of one of France's most famous streets is retold, featuring multiple performances from Guitry himself.
The life of Thérèse Martin, who entered the Carmel at the age of 15, in 1888, under the name of Sister Thérèse of the Child Jesus, died nine years later, and canonized in 1925.
Une Habilleuse
The battle of the sexes as drawing room social satire. Philippe, a middle-aged newspaper editor, has lived for six years with Paulette, a successful stage actress. He tells her friend Claudine, a realistic and enterprising reporter, that he's thinking of proposing. Into the mix steps Carl Erickson, a charming Hollywood matinée idol in Paris briefly. He meets Paulette, sees her act (his box seat compliments of Philippe), and sets out to seduce her. The next two days bring talk, tears, separation, despair, surprises, and, perhaps, reconciliation as characters speak "exactly half the truth." It's a quadrille of changing partners.
Koenigsmark is a 1935 British-French drama film directed by Maurice Tourneur and starring Elissa Landi, John Lodge and Pierre Fresnay. The film is based on the novel Koenigsmark by Pierre Benoît. It's sets were designed by the art director Lucien Aguettand. The film was known in the United States as Crimson Dynasty.
Professor Poponof, an old scientist, has just discovered a truth serum. Amédée, a burglar who has been surprised in his apartment, will become the perfect guinea-pig for testing the prof's last find. And it works well. Too well in fact, for if Amédée tells the truth he tells it to everybody and in every circumstance, thus causing disasters around him.
Through the fault of the Leech, Bibi la Puree and her friend Bob find themselves involved in a crime. The judge in charge of the investigation discovers in Bob a relative. He does not send them to prison and welcomes them to his property.
A young woman whose family doesn't want her to marry is taken by her lover to a seance, where before the eyes of her parents she is conjured away. Her man awaits on the other side.
