She's working in a big store, he's a typographer and they lost their winning lottery ticket.

In 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...

Edmond Dantes is falsely accused by those jealous of his good fortune, and is sentenced to spend the rest of his life in the notorious island prison,...

Young Moussa left his native village of Nanguila to succeed in Bamako. But in the capital, he only lived on the cheap and even ended up in a...

At the beginning of the 20th century, the destiny of Félicie Nanteuil, a young girl from the provinces who became a big star on the stage thanks to...

In a film studio, several actors are the victims of attempted murders. Julien Brisseau, a writer, decides to use these facts as the backbone of his...

Jérôme owns a boat with his crook of an uncle, La Rose de la Mer. They sail with a band of crooks hired by the uncle to scuttle the ship and...

Duped by a pretty woman who uses him to smuggle a suitcase containing the proceeds of a theft through the station, an honest fellow understands...

The Donadieu family lives in the Provençal sun in a happy letting go, The father, the mother, the son and the three daughters. One of them, Claire,...

The romantic life of the head of a bandit gang, wanted by the police. Cartouche gets away with being deported to Louisiana after unmasking a plot by...

In the Canadian Far North, a couple is looking for a gold mine. They meet a sergeant and his friend. But the man is killed during a fight with an...

A tough customs man, out to get a youth smuggling tobacco into France across the Belgium border, falls for the jaded ex bar hostess the smuggler...

Tensions mount as the lonely wife of a trucker becomes involved with a gas station attendant.

Dutch documentary filmmaker Joris Ivens follows the course of the famous wind as it originates in the Alps and finds its way to the Mediterranean...

A family goes on holiday, abandoning the little girl’s dog.

Angelique goes in search of her husband Joffrey de Peyrac who did not die on the stake.

This film finds Angélique in a North African Muslim kingdom where she is now part of the Sultan's harem. The first part of the film consist of her...

The bell ringer at a way station in the French Alps, murders a passing horse trader with a thrown rock and relieves him of his bankroll, in order to...

In the reign of king Louis XV,a handsome student,Des Grieux, meets his charming cousin,Manon,just when she goes to the convent of Amiens,to take the...

Jean Berthillot and his wife Anne-Marie settle in Guinea. He is a primary-school teacher, fully occupied with his job. Anne-Marie is bored and has...

Grigori Rasputin becomes a fixture of Russia's Imperial Court after saving the life of Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia, the haemophiliac heir...

Two Congolese men and three Europeans are thrown together as they try to avoid the political turmoil of the Congo.

In 1962 Joris Ivens was invited to Chile for teaching and filmmaking. Together with students he made …À Valparaiso, one of his most poetic films....

After losing her only child and falling for another man, a wife no longer loves her husband, but he thinks if he takes her back to some of the places...

A proud femme fatale who works at a mountainous farm property manages, after being prodded by her lover, to become the heiress, but she plays the...

An inventor has just developed an extraordinary machine, a disintegrating ray and thought detector. He experiences it one evening on a group of...

Teodora, a Roman courtesan and former slave girl, marries the Roman emperor Justinian and assumes the throne as Empress of Rome. But the divide...

Journalist Claude Leroy (Jacques Champreux) reports that a secret society, The Companions of Baal, is behind a hold-up in the small town of...

Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria clashes with his father, Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria, over implementing progressive policies for their country....

Paris, 1418. The city is occupied by the Armagnacs, besieged by Philip of Burgundy. Caboche, a butcher's guild member and supporter of the...

The professional and sentimental misadventures of Maurice, a young engineer who works unsuccessfully on the development of a new model of airplane.

Once upon a time there lived in the same village two men bearing the very same name. One of them chanced to possess four horses, the other had only...

The film follows the life of Napoleon from his early life in Corsica to his death at Saint Helena. The film is notable for its use of location...

Simone's friend is murdered and the young woman is implicated. A journalist, Bernard Landry, succeeds in proving her innocence before being himself...

As in a Hollywood western, rice growers and bull cultivators come into conflict in the Camargue.

A provincial, Julie Moret, is hired as a servant in a Parisian bourgeois residence. She is courted by one of the Bouquinquant brothers, Léon, who...

A woman avenging the death of her lover thwarts a conspiracy plotted by a group of former compatriots of Napoleon.

Hélène, a young waitress working in a bar frequented by German soldiers, saves the life of Pierre, a Resistance fighter. Her jealous lover has her...

This comedy short subject satirizes the Hollywood genre which the French had given the name to of Film Noir.