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- Newly married couple Juliette and a ship captain Jean struggle through marriage as they travel on the L'atalante along with the captain's first mate Le père Jules and a cabin boy.
- A Chinese warlord and an engaged Christian missionary fall in love.
- Plea against war and for friendship between peoples, through the story of French miners rescued by German colleagues after a firedamp explosion.
- David is a poor but ambitious Polish Jew who reinvents himself as a powerful New York business magnate. After gaining wealth, he relocates to Paris, only to have his selfish and demanding wife squander his fortune.
- Shades of Othello loom in this engrossing exploration of class, race, and murder set on an ocean liner. Young Dainah encounters an engineer on board who mistakes pleasantries for flirtation. When she disappears the next day, suspicion spreads not only to the engineer but also to Dainah's husband. Forward-thinking and absorbing.
- Adaptation of Alexandre Dumas's novel 'The Queen's Necklace' which portrays the Affair of the Diamond Necklace which occurred before the French Revolution.
- Honorin (Fernandel) is the simple and naive stage manager of a traveling theatre troupe, whose one ambition is to once play the role of the cavalier in the opera "Francis I, or the Loves of the Beautiful Ferroniere". A hypnotist puts him to sleep and in his dreams he is transplanted to the days of the Renaissance. There, among other items, he is made a Duke by Henri VIII, fights a duel and survives a series of medieval tortures, while also bestowing some 20th century blessings on the court of Francis I.
- Simultaneously made French version of Das Maedel Von Montparnasse: A count's son has a place to meet his poor Parisian girlfriend and even work they can share to make a few bucks, but the father prefers he marry someone else.
- Georges Vinot nicknamed Bouboule, a colorful but naive Parisian, falls prey to a gang of diamond thieves. Not only do they manipulate him into smuggling stolen precious stones into Senegal but they have bought life insurance on his head, which means they are prepared to do anything to liquidate him. But Bouboule succeeds in thwarting all their traps and eventually decides to settle down in a Senegalese village, of which he becomes... king!
- Oscar, a bum, falls in love with Dalila, the beautiful monkey tamer of Brutus Circus. To win her heart, he does not hesitate to get hired as an amateur wrestler. Pampered by the circus people, he gains strength and he manages to beat Brutus in a fight, which causes Dalila to fall into his arms... forever.
- Mailman Biscot decides to run the Tour de France bike race to impress a lovely swimming champion.
- An Arabian prince falls in with a group of downtrodden rebels and faces the wrath of an unsympathetic sultan whose wife he is also romancing.
- Emperess Catherine II wants to get rid of Princess Elisabeth Tarakanova who is to replace her on the throne of Russia. She asks Prince Orloff to travel to Venice so he can seduce Elisabeth and bring her back to Russia. Orloff and Tarakanova fall in love.
- Director Rosé and his opera company travel to Monte Carlo where they expect an engagément to perform at the opera house. During the boat trip Mario, the cheerful tenor, meets a girl hidden in his cabin. He helps her singing for her passage and soon Nicole is adopted by the whole troupe. Then at Monte Carlo the opera director has no intention to sign them. But he has an eye for beautiful women, so Nicole will try to persuade him to reconsider the offer.
- Pierre and Georges both love Gretel who, in turn, is in love with Georges. Georges falls in love with another, Dolly, but the lover of the latter threatens to stop supporting him.
- An orphan from Montmartre is sent to the countryside by his foster parents. Ten years later he returns in search of a girl he once knew.
- Popular science descriptions of two marine crustaceans, both of whom camouflage themselves in found objects, moving, eating, interacting.
- A wealthy businessman ,Chevalier De La Légion D'Honneur ,starts all over again.
- Men including younger ones flock around a seductive older woman of mixed race, so that she forgets her age.Will she choose the one rightly destined for her?
- Pessimistic drama of a struggling young boxer and a mistress who craves a luxury he cannot provide for her. In its evocation of the smell of the crowded ring, compared by historian Raymond Chirat to the similar Warners B films of the era.
- Toward the close of World War I, European railroads in Djibouti are under siege by bands of indigenous warriors, while one of the white employees falls for a mysterious woman tied to the rebels.
- 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.
- In order to attract customers to an ultra fashionable nightclub, the dishwasher, in agreement with the manager, imagines to send a letter to a certain number of personalities in which they are " informed " that their life partner cheats on them at this very place. A host of misunderstandings ensue...
- A desperate mother abandons her child on the door step of a playboy. A poster for this film once dominated the foyer of the Paris Cinematheque.