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- DirectorAndré CayatteStarsMichel SimonAlbert PréjeanBlanchette BrunoyDenise Baudu, an orphaned girl in need, decides to go to Paris where her uncle Baudu keeps a small draper's shop, "Le Vieil Elbeuf". The young woman hopes her kinsman will be able to give her a position. Unfortunately Octave Mouret, Baudu's visionary competitor, has just opened a giant department store nearby, "Au Bonheur des dames", which now attracts customers like a magnet. Denise, realizing that "Le Vieil Elbeuf" is dying away, crosses the street to offer her services to Octave Mouret...
- DirectorRaoul AndréStarsPhilippe LemaireLouise CarlettiRaymond PellegrinSister Marie-Thérèse tries to save the prostitutes doomed to a sad fate. Two of them, Marcelle and Maria, are in love with two honest men, a painter and his best friend. But the girls pretend that they work by night in a post office .An old hooker is killed by a pimp and Marcelle is a suspect .The painter could provide her with an alibi, but she does not want him to testify in her favor, as he would know who she really is.
- DirectorRichard PottierStarsYves DeniaudElina LabourdetteYves VincentA wealthy financier is murdered in his desirable mansion.Two lieutenants,a tough guy and a rookie,investigate.
- DirectorClaude Bernard-AubertStarsBruno PradalJean-François PoronKarina VerlierAfter a nurse is captured in Vietnam and held prisoner in a small jungle village, a group of soldiers is tasked with rescuing her.
- DirectorJean DrévilleStarsPierre FresnayAntoine BalpêtréJean DebucourtJust another idol turned to clay.But let's keep the legend intact.
- DirectorJacques PoitrenaudStarsNicoDany SavalJean SobieskiStrip-tease has a pleasing Paris setting and a convincing strip club atmosphere, where a roster of exotic dancers do their thing. Making the club atmosphere work is the animated Dany Saval, as a charming gossip and outspoken cheerleader for the art of the strip-tease. Berthe encourages Ariane to loosen up and enjoy what she's doing.
- DirectorJean LarriagaStarsRobert HosseinCharles AznavourMichel ConstantinA writer teams up with a friend to set up a robbery.
- DirectorClaude Autant-LaraStarsOdette JoyeuxMadeleine RobinsonMarguerite MorenoIn Paris in 1887, Irène works as a governess to Douce, the grand-daughter of the dowager Countess de Bonafé. Douce believes she is in love with Fabien, the handsome manager of the estate. However she cannot hope to marry him because of their class difference. Douce's widowed father, the Count de Bonafé, has a wooden leg, and is infatuated with Irène. Douce discovers that Fabien is planning to flee to Quebec with Irène, and also finds out that the Count has asked Irène to marry him. So Douce tells Fabien this and convinces him to run away with her, causing consternation in the family.
- DirectorGéza von RadványiStarsMichel SimonYves DeniaudGeneviève PageA terminally ill Mr. Bard, a casino bus driver forced to quit his job, miraculously wins a fortune playing roulette. Instantly becoming a millionaire, he wants to fulfill his life's dream: to become a father. This plan is opposed by his greedy relatives who would go any low to take this money away from him. They are being led by a small-time crook. Mr. Bard's natural shyness and good heart lead him to the journey of self-exploration and finding his true love.
- DirectorHenri DecoinStarsDanielle DarrieuxMichel AuclairCorinne CalvetFrancois Roques, a power-and-money-mad editor of a Paris newspaper (who justifies his actions by calling attention to his poverty-stricken childhood), invites four women to a housewarming at his penthouse apartment. He plans on one of them to meet death by means of a loose railing on the balcony. The invitees are: Constance, Francois' first wife, whose love and integrity also stood in the way of his schemes; Vera Volpone, his second wife, from whom he is seeking a divorce, and who, with the aid of her lover, is blackmailing Ffancois; Maggy, his mistress who aids him in his illegal transactions; and Cecile, his fiancée, who is pregnant by another man. The women arrive, tension overwhelms them and the host, three of the women depart...and Francois is alone with his intended victim. Despite a misleading Review/Comment on this site-page, the keyword is "intended."
- DirectorMax PécasStarsThierry de CarbonnièresJean-Marc MaurelLillemour JonssonWhen the investigation on a prostitute murder by the Paris vice department derails, one cop will stop at nothing for revenge.
- DirectorHenri DecoinStarsDanielle DarrieuxClaude DauphinAndré LuguetDanielle Darrieux plays an impoverished reform-school escapee who finds a new lease on life when she enrolls in a school for pickpockets run by Fagin-like Saturnin-Fabre.
- DirectorPierre BlancharStarsPierre BlancharMicheline PresleGeneviève MorelThe French Secrets of a Ballerina is based on Honore de Balzac's Un Seul Amour. The title character is ballet-star Clara Biondi (Micheline Presle), whose peak years are shown in flashback. Clara finds herself victimized by blackmailer -- and former lover -- James de Poulet (Robert Vattier). As it turns out, she will do anything to keep her sordid past from husband Gerard de Clergue (Pierre Blanchar). Director Pierre Blanchar (who also appeared in the film) evidently felt that the flashback format was the best method to convey de Balzac's tricky narrative style.
- DirectorRaoul AndréStarsNicole CourcelPhilippe LemaireMaria MaubanAn adventuress and a swindler use an apartment to set up a profitable network of call girls. They circumvented and robbed an old man who, in despair, eventually killed himself.
- DirectorRino Di SilvestroStarsAnn-Gisel GlassSebastiano SommaTony SerranoA young street girl from Amsterdam seeks a new life away from prostitution.
- DirectorSacha GuitryStarsSacha GuitryLana MarconiJeanne Fusier-GirMichel Desnoyer has turned his private life into a comic stage play. But the volcanic Ecaterina is not at all pleased to find out that Michel's sister is the mistress of the man she loves.
- DirectorRaymond BaillyStarsJeanne MoreauPhilippe LemaireArmand MestralGeorges Villard, a disinterested bank clerk, despises his monotonous life. His encounter with M. Steve, an opulent and friendly man, will change his life when he falls in love with his wife Florence.
- DirectorAndré CayatteStarsAnnie GirardotBibi AnderssonMichel GalabruArchitect Dumas dies from a bullet of his own gun in front of his house. The police suspects his young Swedish wife Catherine and her English lover Tom Hastings. After numerous interrogations, in which they entangle themselves in contradictions, they try to flee, but are soon both caught and brought to trial, he in England, she in France. Only when Catherine keeps on proclaiming her innocence, superintendent Corbier finally considers believing her.
- DirectorJean DelannoyStarsPierre FresnayHenri VilbertRené GéninA greedy advertising executive wants to attract the tourists into a small village:he claims Napoleon slept in the local inn on his was back from Elbe island.
- DirectorDimitri KirsanoffStarsSophie DesmaretsBrigitte AuberJean ChevrierAt Pierre Roussel's, fashion designer, they need to work over time before Christmas' Eve to accommodate the wishes of rich customers. Romantic affairs will suffer from it, but Santa Claus brings new happiness to all.
- DirectorMaurice DelbezStarsPierre FresnayArlettyJean-Claude BrialyBastien du Boccage is a repeat offender: hasn't he been sent to jail no fewer than six times? But he is no ordinary criminal mind you. As a matter of fact he is a newspaper editor and should have no problems with justice. The trouble is that he has a sister, Lucrèce, who is agony aunt in his newspaper and who tends not to mince her words. To make matters worse, Francine, his daughter, has fallen in love with Bruno, a penniless student and Lucrèce is prepared to do anything to prevent her marriage...
- DirectorNelo RisiStarsTerence StampJean-Claude BrialyFlorinda BolkanAbout the last months Arthur Rimbaud spent in Africa before his untimely death (at only 37), trafficking in arms and maybe in slaves. Earlier moments of Rimbaud's life are explored with a frequent use of flashbacks.
- DirectorBernard BorderieStarsJean MaraisSydney ChaplinMarilù ToloItaly during the Napoleonic wars: A French General and his Adjutant are separated from their unit get beyond the enemy lines. There they meet Carlotta the resolute daughter of an Italian Count, who cannot withstand the charm of the French.
- DirectorAndré HugonStarsArmand BernardAntonin BervalMireille
- DirectorGuy GillesStarsDanièle DelormeNathalie DelonPatrick PennYoung man Francois Nole works in a Bank. Often skips a walk, and one day he never comes to work. He goes to bed and refuses stand. Francois is a heroin addict, who has lost the joy of life. Nothing could bring him back from the darkness and despair no mother, no friends, no holidays, no love. One day, he suddenly changes,it becomes cheerful and calm...
- DirectorNikos PapatakisStarsFrancine BergéColette BergéPascale de BoyssonA bourgeois family, who is harassed and humiliated, ruins their young maids without pay for several years.
- DirectorFernandelStarsFernandelJacqueline PagnolBernadette LangeIs it because his father was a groom that Adhémar Pomme has a long horse head and a horse- toothed smile? Maybe but the fact is that his head has invariably caused laughter whatever the circumstances, which is the tragedy of his life. After having worked as an undertaker, a theater prompter, a casino bouncer, and so on, and failing at each job, he applies out of desperation to an institution where those rejected for physical reasons can hide and live together. But Adhémar immediately starts... laughing at them and gets kicked out as a result! In the end though, he finds his way as a circus artist
- DirectorJulien DuvivierStarsDaniel GélinMadeleine RobinsonEleonora Rossi DragoIn this legal drama, told in flashbacks, the son of a judge, who had sentenced a man who may be innocent to 17 years in prison, tries to investigate the mysterious case.
- DirectorPierre ChenalStarsErich von StroheimAlbert PréjeanJany HoltParis, 1937. Winckler kills his enemy Gordon, a Chicago mobster, from the stage of a Parisian music hall, where he performs telepathy. He pays another artist, Helene, so that she tells the police they've spent the night together, which doesn't fool Callas, the police officer who investigates the murder. He hires one of his fellow officers in order to seduce Helene.
- DirectorRoberto RosselliniStarsEdmund MoeschkeErnst PittschauIngetraud HinzeA young German boy faces the problems of the tough life in the immediate post-WWII Berlin.
- DirectorJulien DuvivierStarsJosette DayGermaine AusseyWolfgang KleinStory of a rendezvous in Paris which is prepared through telephone calls between a Berlin telephonist and his female colleague in Paris.
- DirectorGianni FrancioliniVittorio De SicaStarsEduardo De FilippoVittorio De SicaAnna Maria FerreroVilla Borghese, Rome's biggest urban park, is the place where everyday laughs and dramas are consumed.
- DirectorJean GrémillonStarsMicheline PresleMassimo GirottiGaby MorlayMarie Prieur, a young doctor, decides to settle down on Ushant, a remote island belonging to Brittany. Little by little she manages to be accepted by the population. One day she meets André Lorenzi, a handsome engineer, and it is love at first sight. Life is wonderful for a while but André wants to marry her only if she remains at home. Despite her strong feelings for André, Marie refuses to give up her vocation and the two lovers part. Marie finds herself alone, with a broken heart.
- DirectorPierre KastStarsJean MaraisGeneviève PageJean-Claude BrialyA professor experimenting in suspended animation accidentally shrinks his dog and later, his female lab assistant, when she drinks the liquid by accident and shrinks to 3 inches tall. The professor keeps her in his pocket until he can find an antidote. Sometimes she's naked, too.
- DirectorÉdouard MolinaroStarsDaniel AuteuilJean-Pierre MarielleEmmanuelle BéartMarc cheats on his wife Jeanne who throws him out and takes a lover (Antoine). Marc then meets Samantha.
- DirectorPatrick BraoudéStarsPatrick BraoudéKristin Scott ThomasValeria Bruni TedeschiBank theft and love, thief remains but has already fled; very good for adolescent Boys' who wish to sate pleasure when viewing and acting
- DirectorJacques BeckerStarsRoger PigautClaire MafféiNoël RoquevertWorking class couple Antoine and Antoinette dream of a better life. In the midst of constantly fending off the unwanted attention of men, especially the grocer Monsieur Roland, Antoinette purchases a winning lottery ticket. But when Antoine loses their ticket out of poverty, their dreams seem like they'll remain just that.
- DirectorCarlos SauraStarsIsabelle AdjaniHanna SchygullaIgnacio López TarsoAnna uncovers an incident involving a young Mexican woman, Antonieta, while doing research for a book on women's suicides in the XXth century. In 1931, in the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, Antonieta shot herself through the heart.
- DirectorGeorges LacombeStarsJean MaraisJacqueline PorelÉdouard DelmontYoung conductor Roberto Lombardini has never known his father who is actually a former musician, a failed piano player who has sunk into alcoholism.
- DirectorDenys de La PatellièreStarsPierre FresnayBrigitte AuberFrançois GuérinIn Burgundy area, the Marquis De Maubrun, worthy heir of the aristocratic virtues and traditions, reigns over his family and estate. But wind of revolt is about to blow above Maubrun's head.
- DirectorLéo JoannonStarsFernandelGeorges ChamaratHenri CrémieuxFernandel plays Albert, the unhappy brunt of jokes by his fellow office-workers who goes from the frying pan into the fire. Albert gets caught up in a robbery that also goes from bad to worse when it leads to several murders. Although he is not a killer and essentially innocent, there does not seem to be very much that Albert can do to convince others of the truth.
- DirectorHenri-Georges ClouzotStarsPierre FresnaySuzy DelairJean TissierInspector Wens moves into a Paris boarding house to catch a serial killer.
- DirectorLéo JoannonJohn BerryAlfred J. GouldingStarsStan LaurelOliver HardySuzy DelairStan inherits a yacht and a South Pacific island. Ollie and Stan sail there with 2 other men. They shipwreck on a new atoll and settle there. An ex-fiancee joins them. They declare an independent nation and problems arise.
- DirectorGeorges LautnerStarsMiou-MiouRoger HaninEddy MitchellAlice seems to lead a quiet life: the first three days of the week, she works in Paris and and meets with friend Philip, and his little boy, Simon. The other two days, she works in a thalassotherapy center.
- DirectorSacha GuitryStarsSacha GuitryLouis Le BarbenchonAndré RoyA man remarried his wife's sister whom he believes died in a fire. The alleged deceased reappears and sows trouble and discord in the new household.
- DirectorJean DelannoyStarsMichèle MorganJean MaraisJean ChevrierA small private airplane crashes in the desert, not far from Dakar. It is a miracle that the pilot, Jacques Forestier, and his mechanic, Paul Marcadout, survived, since both were drunk when they lost control of the plane.
- DirectorAndré CayatteStarsAntoine BalpêtréPaul BiscigliaBernard BlierSelf-centered parents of the 50's targeted by drama in which teenagers panicking after burglary supposed to finance the run from the Third World War.
- DirectorMaurice TourneurStarsMaurice ChevalierAndré LefaurMarcel ValléeA tramp learns that even honesty won't help him overcome his struggles to prosper. After a man tells him that he needs to smile in order to succeed, he turns his attitude around and he becomes successful.
- DirectorJacques BeckerStarsRobert LamoureuxLiselotte PulverO.E. HasseSuave gentleman thief Arsène Lupin blends within the French and German upper crust, stealing whatever he wants whenever he wants, and no one can touch him.
- DirectorClaude BerriCharles L. BitschJean-François HauduroyStarsMarie-France BoyerCatherine SolaCharles SébrienA portmanteau film in which the producer, instead of as usual using already well known directors with a commercial draw, allowed five new young directors to each have a crack at an episode about romance.
- DirectorRené ClairStarsMichel SimonGérard PhilipeNicole BesnardThe Faust story retold, with an aged alchemist accepting the gift of renewed youth from the devilish Mephistopheles.
- DirectorClaude Autant-LaraStarsEdwige FeuillèreNicole BergerPierre-Michel BeckBased on the novel by Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette. Friends since infancy, Philippe and Vinea have always regarded themselves as brother and sister. But as adolescence segues into puberty, the two youngsters fall in love.
- DirectorJean RenoirStarsJackie MonnierDiana HartRenée RozierA young French woman who inherits her uncle's property in Algeria finds herself schemed against by her envious cousins, and romanced by a handsome but previously irresponsible young man who works for his uncle on a neighbouring farm.
- DirectorDino RisiStarsColucheMichel SerraultUgo TognazziThe caravan of the lazy king Dagobert is attacked by robbers who massacre the guards and rape the women. Dagobert escapes and becomes a penitent on a pilgrimage to Rome with the Pope.
- DirectorAndré HunebelleStarsJean MaraisBourvilSabine SesselmannPrince Philippe de Gonzague decides to get rid of his cousin Duke de Nevers, having wished for long his properties and wealth.
- DirectorRobert EnricoStarsLino VenturaBrigitte BardotBill TraversIn the prohibition years, the 'rumrunners' travel through the Caribbean Sea with the forbidden liquor barely escaping the ship patrols. While on the run, one of the bootleggers falls in love with an actress on a movie set.
- DirectorAlain Robbe-GrilletStarsJames WilbyArielle DombasleDany Verissimo-PetitAn orientalist professor researching Delacroix's North African work becomes entangled in an S&M waking dream in Morocco.
- DirectorClaude PinoteauStarsMichel DuchaussoyGeorges WilsonJean-Pierre DarroussinAntoine, 11, is on holiday with his grandfather. One night he catches thieves hiding their booty in a pond. Antoine seizes the 40 million. But Liza, his new friend, is the daughter of one of the criminals. Both children soon face threats.
- DirectorAndré De TothPrimo ZeglioStarsSteve ReevesValérie LagrangeIvo GarraniA Welsh pirate raids up and down the Caribbean, battling the Spanish, the English and other pirates.
- DirectorGuy LefrancStarsFrançois PérierMarthe MercadierJean BrochardA bank clerk is bored to death with his nine-to-five work under his boss' watchful eye. His missus is a pain in the neck and his in-laws are not any better.
- DirectorLéo JoannonStarsDanielle DarrieuxAlbert PréjeanJean ParédèsA Cinderella type vehicle for Danielle Darrieux as a struggling actress in a little theater who sells flowers to make a living but meets a rich businessman who may rescue her from her plight.
- DirectorRichard PottierStarsMartine CarolAlfred AdamJacques Baumer14th July 1789. While the wedding of her older unprepossessing sister Louise to a wealthy aristocrat is being celebrated, sixteen-year old beauty Caroline falls in love with an attractive young libertine. But Gaston won't hear of marriage and out of spite she weds Georges Berthier, a politician. Two years later she meets Gaston again and once again it is love at first sight. But her husband being declared an outlaw Caroline must go into hiding.Gaston gives her a helping hand but someone gives her away and she gets arrested. Miraculously saved she must hide again and tries to flee to England. But it is now the Chouans who arrest her.
- DirectorJesús FrancoStarsEddie ConstantineFrançoise BrionFernando ReyA mad scientist uses his army of mechanical monsters to control people who have Type O blood.
- DirectorYvan NoéStarsGaby MorlayFernandelCharles TrenetThe one thing man will never master is Time.It reigns over the world and from time to time an hour comes to man's rescue.We will follow one of them,Hora.It's a series of little stories in which we meet a worker,a state employee, an athlete,a mother who sacrifices her little boy for her lover,a famous singer who welcomes an old lady in his place, a man under a sentence of death who tries to play for time .But there's nothing to do when the time comes.
- DirectorCarlo RimStarsYves DeniaudMicheline DaxDarry CowlProfessor of literature Gaston, decides to go visit his father, Pépito. He doesn't know that he's a notorious gangster. When he arrives at Pépito's house, he makes him believe that he is a rich banker.
- DirectorMaurice TourneurStarsAlbert PréjeanSanta RelliGermaine KerjeanA woman keeps coming to Quai Des Orfevres to see Inspector Maigret about disturbing events in her household.Maigret and his colleagues are annoyed, until this woman is found dead and they realize she was on to something.
- DirectorJulien DuvivierStarsRobert HosseinJean SorelCatherine RouvelA man plans a hold-up with a group of trusted fellows, he gets his hands on the money, and the girl - what could go wrong? Almost everything.
- DirectorJulien DuvivierStarsNadja TillerJean-Claude BrialyPerrette PradierA group of people visit a weird old man who is a student of the black arts. The man lives in an ancient, cursed castle. Soon people in the group start being killed off.
- DirectorClaude VitalStarsMichel GalabruJean LefebvreMarie-Hélène BreillatThe love story like no other of an aristocrat with the daughter of the bellboy at Chez Maxim's restaurant.
- DirectorRené ClémentStarsMichèle MorganJean MaraisJean ServaisEvelyne, the young wife of Judge Bertal, falls in love with Remy, who lives in Paris, during a holiday in Italy. After following him in the lovers city, she realizes Remy is the one she really loves, she decides to return home to inform her husband about all - but her plane crashes.
- DirectorMichel BoisrondStarsDany SavalFranck FernandelBerthe GranvalCherchez L'idole tells the story of a man pushed into stealing a jewel by his selfish girlfriend. After stealing the jewel, he hides it in a guitar while being chased. He then has a change of heart, dumps his girlfriend and decides to return the jewel. Only now he has to find the guitar he hid the jewel in, which is in the possession of one of five musicians.
- DirectorMaurice ClocheStarsFernandelGisèle AlcéeJean TémersonTulipe works in a printing house and he is in love with the owner's daughter who is to marry a middle-age man who stutters.
- DirectorCosta-GavrasStarsJohnny HallydayFanny ArdantGuy MarchandFrench rocker Johnny Hallyday stars as a professional thief just released from jail. He returns to stealing to support his family. After several successful thefts, he decides to include his under-aged kid into the "family business".
- DirectorMaurice LabroStarsDominique PaturelVirna LisiJacques BalutinIn a factory working for the National Defense, an employee steals a prototype. In charge of the investigation is Francis Coplan.
- DirectorPierre BillonStarsPierre Richard-WillmJany HoltRaymond AimosA pilot on one of the air mail flights between France and its African colonies has a brief romance with his distressed cousin before he returns to the call of duty, and the rebels in the desert.
- DirectorGeorges LampinStarsJean GabinMarina VladyUlla JacobssonModern update of Dostoievski's novel Crime and Punishment.
- DirectorJean-Pierre BlancStarsAnnie GirardotMiou-MiouJulien ClercJip, a young man of twenty-five who gives a few piano lessons for a living, shares his life with Mona, a triumphant forty-year-old. The romance is shattered by the arrival of the young and pretty Dutch girl Rita
- DirectorJean GrémillonStarsCharles VanelHabib BengliaGaston DuboscShades 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.
- DirectorMauro BologniniStarsIsabelle HuppertGian Maria VolontèBruno GanzA young girl from the provinces, comes to Paris with one goal: to become a part of the rich bourgeoisie. To achieve this she will use her unique beauty and charm.
- DirectorJean-Charles TacchellaStarsRichard BohringerIsabella RosselliniMarianne BaslerComedy set in the 16th century. Brantome is a soldier embroiled in the religious wars but more interested in women, and has many mistresses among the ladies of the royal court, although his heart belongs to just one, Victoire.
- DirectorMax OphülsStarsEdwige FeuillèreJohn LodgeAimé ClariondIn the late 1800's, Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian empire, falls for Sophie Chotek, a Czech countess. He's already a problem to the Crown because of his political ideas; this love affair with someone not of royal blood breeches protocol. The Crown allows the union only after the couple agrees to a morganatic marriage. The emperor further neutralizes Franz by making him inspector general of the army, sending him afield for months at a time. In June of 1914, fearing for his safety, Sophie seeks permission to accompany Franz to Sarajevo; protocol dictates that no army troops attend Franz while she is present. An assassin strikes. Their deaths spark World War I.
- DirectorLéo JoannonStarsPierre FresnayPierre TrabaudNicole StéphaneIn a prison camp, Gérard Lacassagne meets Maurice Morand, a mysterious, anticlerical officer. Lacassagne, who aspires to enter religion, discovers that Morand himself was a priest. He swears to bring him back into the fold of the Church.
- DirectorGeorges LacombeStarsPierre FresnayMichèle AlfaSuzy DelairSix friends promise to share their fortune in 5 years. The moment is very close, but one of the six is mysteriously murdered, then another... Superintendent Wenceslas Woroboyioetschik (aka Wens) is in charge of the investigation...
- DirectorMarcel L'HerbierPaolo MoffaStarsMicheline PresleGeorges MarchalMarcel HerrandIn the town of Pompeii, 79 A.D., a few weeks before the volcanic eruption of Vesuvius, a Roman lady Hélène meets and falls in love with a young Greek man Lysias. He is betrothed to another woman who, to win him back, acquires a potion to make him love only her. The potion was prepared by the Egyptian priest, Arbax, who has a grudge against Lysias, and is not what it seems, it is intended to drive whoever takes it insane. Hélène's new slave is also in love with Lysias. She steals the potion and gives it to Lysias, who hurries away in a mad rage. When the slave girl confronts Arbax, she is killed by the evil priest, and Lysias is charged with her murder.
- DirectorGiacomo GentilomoStarsMyriam BruMilly VitaleAndré Luguet
- DirectorJean AnouilhStarsDany RobinGeorges BaconnetMadeleine BarbuléeThérèse, a young flower girl, tries hard to remain virtuous but the whole world seems to conspire against her, whether her petty Paris family, or her relatives in the province bristling with false respectability, or her lustful employer, or the boy she loves who seduces her and abandons her. But at the end of the day there is Yvon, her childhood friend. Will he be the one that will love her truly?
- DirectorRobert BressonStarsAntoine MonnierTina IrissariHenri de MaublancCharles drifts through politics, religion and psychoanalysis, rejecting them all. Once he realises the depth of his disgust with the moral and physical decline of the society he lives in, he decides that suicide is the only option...
- DirectorJesús FrancoStarsEstella BlainMabel KarrHoward VernonWoman seeks to avenge her father's death by using a local dancer, with long poisonous fingernails, to do her bidding.
- DirectorSacha GuitryStarsSacha GuitryGeneviève GuitryAimé ClariondThe sculptor François Bressolles falls in love with the young Catherine. They envision a life together, but one day François becomes distant and cruel. He begins to lose his sight, and does not want to let Catherine engage with a blind man.
- DirectorÉdouard MolinaroStarsChristopher LeeBernard MenezMarie-Hélène BreillatIn the 1700s, a vampire has a son from a normal woman. The mother dies, and he spends two centuries trying to teach his meek son how to be a proper vampire but no avail. Now they have to flee from Transylvania, and they end up in France.
- DirectorHenri DecoinStarsLouis JouvetMadeleine RobinsonLéo LaparaA police detective with a striking resemblance for a murdered criminal impersonates the deceased to identify his murderer.
- DirectorHarriet MarinStarsMichèle LaroqueVincent PerezPredrag 'Miki' ManojlovicOriane and Hadrian's couple is going through a crisis. Determined to save their marriage, Oriane visits a Gypsy fortune teller who foresees a dark future. But Oriane won't hear of anything but a happy ending and the psychic is forced to read another future which, unfortunately, also happens to end bitterly. Will the third reading satisfy the young woman ?