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- In order to join the Musketeers, young D'Artagnan is embroiled in a plot in which Cardinal of Richelieu tries to take control of power from the King of France, along with Rochefort and Milady de Winter,
- Jean-Louis Matouzec works for French National Library as an expert looking after the restoration of old manuscripts.He falsifies marriage certificates as his wife refuses divorce.
- To avenge her defeat and with the help of the Cardinal's army leader Rochefort, the treacherous Milady de Winter kidnaps both D'Artagnan and Constance, in order to spur a war between the French and the English, as per the Cardinal's wish.
- Marcel, a simple-minded factory worker, is tricked into buying a high-priced American convertible by a widow determined not to let it fall into the hands of her late husband's secretary/secret lover. Once in possession of the car, Marcel only encounters one bad luck episode after another with the excessive gasoline consumption, his wife trying to sell it to make ends meet, getting into traffic jams, accidentally riding into a car wash with the top down, and more.
- Denise, an orphaned girl, moves to Paris where she hopes to find work at her uncle's store. But the glamorous department store 'Aux Bonheur des Dames' across the street crunches all the little businesses around. She finds a position there.
- A hustler of humble origins steals $200,000 from a gangster and heads to Monte Carlo.
- A scientist develops a powder that he believes will have the effect of distorting reality for those who take it. To test its effect tries it out on his assistant, a dog, himself and two young couples.
- France, at the end of the sixteenth century. Henry III decided to eliminate his rival, the Duke of Guise, and, therefore, calls him in the castle of Blois. The mistress of the duke, warned of the King's intentions, informs him, but the noble, sure of his own authority, went there anyway. In Cabinet-Vieux castle Duke is stabbed by guards of the King, while he attends the murder hidden behind the curtains. Eventually, Henry III does burn the duke body to discard.
- Bad financial conditions compel an aristocratic family named Lachesnaye to do strange work.
- One of two circus twins is cheated of an inheritance by his double, who sets himself up in a chateau.Only to be threatened by a sinister black hooded sect. Rollicking adventures follow, culminating with a big chase on the Eiffel Tower.
- A girl in search of sailors lost in the Pacific.
- Richard of Gloucester uses manipulation and murder to gain the English throne.
- A French rugby supporter is in England for a match at Twickenham and is knocked out and loses two teeth. He goes to the dentist and during waiting he wears a uniform of another patient, a police officer.
- The life of Juliette Récamier, a French society figure of the Napoleonic Era.
- Composer Enrid Damor knows nothing of the past life of his new wife Eve Dinant : she lived as a debauchee with an adventurer, Fred Ryce. Fred Ryce meets Damor's daughter, Claire, and tries to marries her. He blackmails Eve. Enric learns something about her and Fred and composes a symphony to express his pain... A melodrama.
- A Parisian museum director believes his wife has lost interest in him and so places a poisoned cigarette in the box on his desk - thus allowing chance to decide the moment of his death.
- Dr. Hobson is a humanist scientist who studies snakes. He saves Maud, a young American girl, who is abused by Ted, a violent snake hunter. But when the First World War begins, Hobson is summoned by the French army to invent deadly gases.
- Baroness Irène de Rysbergue, neglected by her gloomy husband, is preparing for the ball. Admiring her feather-trimmed dress, her young son nicknames her "Maman Colibri".
- Frank Willes, a young soccer player gets into an accident.He has shocked the car of a rich businessman who died in the accident.Then Frank discovers that the the widow of the businessman, Clémece Grandval will become rich because of the life insurance and that maybe this accident was fraudulent.
- Maurice is in love with Evelyne, nicknamed "Ravissant", and who is the wife of his best friend Marc. But Evelyne rejects Maurice's advances. Furious, the latter thinks of a plan to tip Evelyne on the side of infidelity.
- Germain Vignon is a used car dealer whose eloquence is such that he could sell the lousiest banger to a guy that does not even have a driver's license. He is not bad either at chatting up girls. Indeed, since his blonde wife left him, Germain has seduced no fewer than four brunettes. And as, besides being a ladies'man, he has a heart of gold, Germain is unable to break up with any of them, hence a complicated sentimental life. But this delicate balance is threatened the day an outraged stranger comes to him and orders him to leave his wife alone. One small problem is that the man has forgotten to specify the name of the lady in question. So, which of his four mistresses - Christine, Sophie, Anne-Marie or Sonia - should he leave?
- Arsène Lupin decides to run a detective agency in addition to being a gentleman thief. As a detective he happens to cooperate with police in order to unveil the criminal activities of a villain.
- Sad story of an unfaithful wife and her subsequent sufferings as a mother.
- Pierre Fresnay plays the title role of a dedicated man, living in the south of France in the 19th-century and somewhat ahead of his time. Fabre ekes out a meager existence for his huge family as a mathematics instructor who studies insects. Recognition of his work, both in the field of entomology and as it related to man's behavior, came slowly over a 50-year period that showed him that man alone possesses a soul and free will.
- Nationalist sentiments severely test the young marriage between a French and a German.
- The mass suicide of a nation - from Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima. The war lords of Japan plot plunder in Asia, their tentacles grasping and choking a continent into death convulsions.
- The almost financial ruined gentleman Georges Dewalter spends several days in Biarritz before going off in the Hispano-Suiza, a luxe car which was a present from friends. George becomes the lover of 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.
- Left behind while her husband is in Europe, a Japanese military wife entertains the advances of a young British officer.When her man returns, he uses the affair to glean military secrets from the lover.
- An opera singer,restless in her marriage to an elderly Scottish lord, longs to return to the limelight of the stage in Paris.
- Flamboyant thriller in which a bandit, garbed in an eye patch and an outlandish beard, terrorizes a forested area, in order to boost sales of a newspaper he owns.
- 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...
- D'Artagnan and his musketeer comrades must thwart the plans of Cardinal Richelieu to usurp King Louis XIII's power.
- Colombe Maurin, a gentle Provençal shepherdess, and Philippe de Bourgueil, the son of a prominent lawyer, are in love and want to get married. But Maître de Bourgueil, haughty and uncompromising, doesn't want Colombe for his son. In despair, the young girl ends up in a brothel in Toulon. There she becomes a "flower of love".
- The tragedy of a man, about to kill himself, who contemplates his past in a series of flashbacks.
- A documentary about the sad plight of those living on the outskirts of Paris.
- Tragedy results when the brother of a girl who he feels has been seduced by an older married man, a lawyer, chases after them when they depart.
- Jean Fleury, a young engineer who has designed a revolutionary engine for the Revoil motor company, is engaged to Aimée Valois, a seamstress, his neighbor across the hall. But the charming young lady is hired one day by a nightclub and lets herself be lured by the easy life in Paris. So much so that, to Jean's great distress, she breaks up with him. But, along with time, Aimée gets tired of her vain and frivolous lifestyle and comes back to Jean.
- A young unemployed Parisian, René de Médissy, suffers from the disease of the century: boredom. He brings back from Italy a pure Florentine masterpiece: "The Unknown Woman", an enigmatic figure and for hours, the young man remains in contemplation in front of the strange marble face. One day, in the studio of a friend, he meets the living image of the figurine.
- There's a lot of trouble around the vicarage.
- The main occupation of the beautiful Lady Diana Winham is to travel through Europe in luxury trains. She also owns a uranium mine that is of interest to many people.
- The story of a man and his cat, Woody Farris.
- Doctor Mathieu helps the royalists plot against usurper Napoleon .The assassination will take place in Chalons where Mathieu claims he's got to visit some patients .But the emperor's police has got wind of the attempt.Now their master will spend the night in a small village, in Mathieu's own house. And ,unbeknownst to him, one of his accomplices puts the explosive device in his desirable mansion.
- An unpublished documentary film proposed in restored version. 100 million meters of film viewing, film libraries inventoried 11 countries and 3 years of work were needed to bring these documents. This documentary evokes the destruction of the Nazi war machine with a particular emphasis on air power. The most significant events are recounted as the Normandy landings, the battle of Paris, the last German offensive with the historical siege of Bastogne and the landing on the island of Elba. Also shown are the bombing of German industrial centers, and the liberation of concentration camps.