Françoise Rosay

Seven small rogues dream of stealing the beautiful jewels which are in Paris for an exhibition. One of them tries to involve Raphael who is a big shot in finance. Raphael refuses. The seven rogues will decide to try to carry out the theft themselves.

Penniless and vegetating as a clerk, Baron Yves de Kerfuntel incidentally learns the death of a wealthy uncle. Believing himself the sole heir, he rushes to the castle, and discovered 7 other candidates to fortune. The opening of the will they learn that Louise de Kerfuntel, crippled old woman and authoritarian, is the only one heir. She allows all family members to live in the castle, but announces that it intends to squander his fortune to games and by conducting a grand scale. (Wikipedia)

A young lady tries to get his stolen money back, from the famous gangster Charles le Téméraire.

Three little criminals get a tip for a great coup with lots of money in it. Unfortunately they lack the starting funds to buy the required welding torch. So they persuade their successful colleague Alphonse to join their team. But the well thought-out coup fails, and Alphonse is the only one of them who ends up in jail for several years. When he's released, he's out for revenge. (imdb)

"Le Dabe" retired many years ago and now he lives in the Tropics where he owns stables and horses. He is a very rich man. He was the king of all money counterfeiters. He is contacted from Paris to organize a new job. He says no. But when he finds out the the currency that should be counterfeited is the Holland Forint, he accepts immediately. He retired after having counterfeited 100 Forint notes just before the Queen Wilhelmina retired them from circulation. He flies to Paris. (imdb)

After surviving a traumatic car accident, a race car driver travels to the Cote D'Azur to recover but is plagued by an urge to strangle his wife. (imdb)

Follows the lives and passions of the Compsons: a once-proud Southern family now just barely scraping by both financially and emotionally. Howard passes the time in a bottle; his brother Bengy is child in a man's body; sister Caddy has come crawling home after years of being kept by a string of "admirers". Only Jason, the cruel, cold-hearted adopted head of the family, and Quentin, who was abandoned at birth by Caddy, have the fire and the fury needed to put the family back on its feet again. (imdb)

A French tutor is determined to save a general's family from financial ruin.

Danny Kaye, a Jewish refugee flees from the Nazis with an aristocratic anti-semitic Polish officer (Curd Jurgens) trying to get papers to England. Jurgens learns to appreciate Kaye, despite their competition for the same woman, and together they outwit their pursuers. (imdb)

The story of a young woman, Helen Banning (June Allyson), who travels to Munich in search of life experience and romance... (imdb)

An adulteress tries to redeem herself by helping her doctor husband fight an epidemic in China. (TCM.com)

Story of the daughters of an Italian travelling salesman and their love affairs. (bfi)

Ana, the Princess of Eboli, wears a black patch over her right eye, where she was blinded as a youth when fighting a duel in defense of her king, the despotic Philip. Thereafter she and the monarch were close friends, although his passion for her was never consummated. She marries one of Philip's ministers, bore him a son, and soon became a widow. Now Philip calls upon her to assist in coaching a commoner, Antonio Perez, for the office of first secretary to the crown... (imdb)

Two riders ride to Paris carrying a message for their respective lords. One is a faithful servant of Henry of Navarre, the other of the Duke of Guise. (imdb)

Smuggler's Ball is the English-language title for this French-Belgian seriocomedy. The action takes place along the borders separating Belgium, Holland and France. It is here that the worldly Pierre carries on a profitable smuggling operation, all the while romancing Siska, the daughter of a local customs official. Various subplots and secondary characters weave in and out as the plotline guides the viewer through the WW II years. (artistdirect.com)

When a young woman is mistakenly imprisoned for her sister's crime of abandoning her own child, her husband who works abroad decides to nullify their marriage. (Mubi)

The story of forbidden love between the owner of a quarry and the daughter of one of his workers.

A portmanteau film covering each of the seven deadly sins.

Concerns a doctor at a Canadian hospital in the province of Quebec who receives a series of poison pen letters. Later, more letters all signed with the mysterious pseudonym "Raven," are delivered to others in the small Canadian town. The wife of the doctor receives a letter accusing her of having an affair. One letter informs a shell-shocked veteran that he is dying of cancer, causing the distraught man to commit suicide. Quickly, the townsfolk begin pointing fingers at all possible suspects. (Wikipedia.org)

A group of travelers, including a monk, stay in a lonely inn in the mountains. The host confesses the monk his habit of serving poisoned soup to the guests, to rob their possessions and to bury them in the backyard. The story unfolds as the monk tries to save the guest's lives without violating the holy secrecy of the confession. (imdb)

An industrialist (Joseph Cotton) and a pianist (Joan Fontaine) meet on a trip and fall in love. Through a quirk of fate, they are reported dead in a crash though they weren't on the plane. This gives them the opportunity to live together free from their previous lives. Unfortunately, this artificial arrangement leads to greater and greater stress. Eventually the situation collapses when they come to pursue their original, individual interests without choosing a common path. (imdb)

Story of several desperate ladies incarcerated somewhere in Italy in a camp for displaced women after the end of World War II. Among them, Anna, a Yugoslav, who has seen her husband killed in Trieste by political enemies. She is pregnant and her one and only aim right now is her baby to be born. Janka, a beautiful Polish girl who has lost her mind, is reunited with the physician who sent her to a brothel for Nazi officers.

A young woman marries Prince George but it's far from a love match. Then she falls for a Swedish Count. (imdb)

A hotel in the back streets of Paris has a bad reputation because of its owners shady dealings, much to her daughter's chagrin. When an man shows up looking to hide out after a crime things turn tense.

The fisherman from a Cornish village have a friendly rivalry with the fishermen (and one formidable woman) from a French port. Then war comes and they must all rethink their petty differences. (imdb)

When a faded opera star commits suicide and leaves an unidentified corpse a series of people attempt to claim relation to her.

An escaped convict arrives seeks refuge at a circus where his lover and son work.

Intrigue follows a French traveling circus when the lion tamer's husband seeks refuge after escaping from prison.

A toymaker in Poland specializes in building lifesize mechanical men. He builds a chess-playing "automaton" to hide a pretty young Polish activist who is being hunted by occupying Russian forces.

Ramuntcho is a young man who has fallen in with a gang of smugglers, led by Itchoua, who carry their contraband across the border into Spain. He is in love with Gracieuse whose mother, Dolorès, bitterly dislikes Ramuntcho because he was born an illegitimate child. (imdb)

When Paul, an officer, discovers Denise, a young orphan escaped from her orphanage, he takes advantage of his naivete to seduce her before changing her mind and sending her to live with her mother while sailing. (imdb)

After the death of her husband, Christine realizes she has possibly wasted her life by marrying him instead of the man towards whom, in her youth, she had a stronger inclination. To overcome these dreary thoughts, she decides to find out about him and the other men who danced with her during a ball that was a turning point in her life, many years ago... (imdb)

Mistaken identities and people in disguise lead everyone to suspect everyone else of murder

This film - clumsy as the few remaining copies now might seem to us - has an unforgettable poetry in it. The film is about a treasure hidden in an pianola or organ. It develops this theme with an imagery which one never forgets. For example images of pianola's dashing through the snowy forests, huge round barrels drawn by horses through the country as a hide out for the robbers, musical robbers playing the saxophone while frozen to the bone and so on and so on. (imdb)

After an influential apprenticeship with the filmmaker Jacques Feyder in the mid-1930s, Marcel Carné made his auspicious directorial debut with this moody melodrama of a love triangle between the proprietress of a seedy nightclub (Rosay), her gangster lover (Préjean), and her not-so-innocent daughter (Lanvin). (moma.org)

Story of a town in Flanders under Spanish occupation which is preparing for a festival when they learn that a Spanish duke hopes to arrive in town.

An author, a businessman, a shipowner and a publisher form a business venture, which will supposedly exploit a huge find of lobsters on the island of Santa Cruz. After a report in the newspaper, the business' stocks do well. But the partners quarrel with one another and it doesn't help that there aren't any lobsters on Santa Cruz after all. Nevertheless, a team heads off to the island in a decrepit boat to open up a cannery in vain.

Secret de Polichinelle roughly translates as Open Secret. The “secret” in question is an illegitimate child, the offspring of young-and-foolish Henri (Bernard Lacret). The baby is adopted by its grandparents, Monsieur and Madame Jouvenol (Raimu and Francoise Rosay). At first taking charge of the child because it is their duty, the Jouvenols come to love the little nipper as if he were their own son.

The tribulations of a banknote, from its exit from a counter to its destruction, passing through dozens of hands.

When the village of Boom, in Flanders, learns a Spanish Duke and his troops plan to pass the night, the 4-man army deserts and the Mayor plays dead; so the Mayor's wife organizes the townswomen to greet the invaders and preserve the peace with womanly wiles. (imdb)

When his father is sent to prison Pierrot is adopted by the owners of a small gambling house and grows up to be a small time crook.

The happiness of a newly-married couple, Henry and Jeannie Saint Clair, is shattered when the husband is made a paralytic in an automobile accident. The wife still loves him, although he is incapable of any physical love. She is slowly drawn into a short-lived affair with a handsome athlete, Robert Vanier. When the husband learns of the affair, he commits suicide. But the wife cannot forget him and she sends her lover away.

A case of espionage in high society: To save the reputation of his county, a diplomat voluntarily takes his own life.

A countess wants to become a chatelaine again. Unfortunately ,her beloved son cannot get the castle which 's sold for a hefty sum to Americans.

An honest but naive young man is manipulated by a gang of crooks who use him as as a cover for their misdeeds. His honesty will be rewarded though and he will find the way to the heart of his beloved.

Madame Husson looks over her town in vain for a girl who can be crowned with the traditional garland of roses symbolizing innocence,so picks a boy.After which the lad, drunk from celebrating, loses his innocence in a place of debauchery.

Jonny wants to marry Evelyn, who refuses to marry unless her older sister, the hard-to-please Anna, gets married first. Literally by accident he meets bill poster Reggie and tries every trick in the book to couple him with Anna.

Capt. Kovacs falls for the general's daughter against her mother's wishes.

Garadoux has beaten his wife. His lawyer Fremissin is young and very shy, and therefore, not very efficient... Two years after, Garadoux is trying to seduce Cecile, but she prefers Fremissin... (imdb)

Gribiche, a young boy whose mother is a war widow, gets adopted by a rich woman. She wants to turn him into a perfect gentleman, but soon he feels unhappy.

Boulevard comedy in which we never see the feet of any of the actors.A wronged woman gets help from her sister to retrieve her husband, who has been charmed away by a princess.