Marc Allégret

In Marseille two gangs are fighting for the drug traffic.An American killer, Paolo Timetti called the Mude arrives at Marseille for a delivery to the band of Arnakos. But somebody denounces him to the police. (imdb)

The omnibus made of four separate romantic playlets, each with its own cast, director, and scenarist. "The Tale of Ella," directed by Jacques Poitrenaud, stars Dany Saval as an ambitious nightclub performer who very nearly messes up her chances for success by bullying a mild-looking but important producer. "The Tale of Antonia," directed by Michel Boisrond, finds hous. (imdb)

A beautiful 18-year-old orphan escapes from a reformatory and hooks up wth a gang of jewel smugglers, and decides on a life of crime. However, she falls for and marries a policeman, putting a crimp in her criminal career. (imdb)

Jean Brevent has never been able to work out why his wife Catherine walked out on him. Five years later, he meets her by chance on a bus, but they are soon separated again. (imdb)

When ultra-respectable General Dumont discovers that his nubile daughter Agnes is "A.D.", author of a scandalous under-the-counter novel, he wants her shipped to a convent; but she escapes to Paris, planning to live with her brother, ostensibly a rich artist but really a poor guide in the Balzac Museum... (imdb)

At the Conservatory of Vienna the student only have eyes for their beautiful singing teacher, tenor Eric Walter. (imdb)

Beautiful Hedy Lamarr finds herself faced with a difficult decision when she must choose an appropriate costume for an important masquerade ball in this metaphorical fantasy that unfolds in three parts. To help her decide, she asks a trio of male friends. Their disparate suggestions that she go as either Helen of Troy, the Empress Josephine or Genieve de Brabant, and the reasons behind their choices provide the bulk of the film. (allmovie.com)

Julietta Valendor, in order to avoid an arranged marriage to a prince, hides in the attic of a lawyer she meets on a train. Chaos ensues when the lawyer's fiancée unexpectedly visits the house.

A blackmailer is murdered, and those who witnessed the scene agree to keep quiet; the complication is that the scene is also witnessed by a young artist, a victim of blackmail as well. (BFI)

Ambitious poor relation Blanche Fullerton accepts a job as governess from her wealthy cousins who have adopted the name Fury since they acquired the ancestral home of the Fury family. Blanche plots to become the lady of the manor but her illicit passion for the vengeful, obsessed Philip Thorn sets off a string of tragic events, including murder. (imdb)

Two men are in love with the same woman.

A young girl learns how it is painful growing up.

François, Cecilia and Isabelle are in the class drama conservatory headed by Professor Lambertin. François is in love with Isabelle, who also loves, but he is pursued by Cecilia, his former mistress. Cecilia's suicide suicide by concealing a crime, so as to involve François. But testimony set the record straight. (Wikipedia)

Audrey marries a medical officer, sails to Malaysia and meets a prince whose burden is too heavy for his shoulders .

In a trial, one of the jurors makes the jury change their mind as new evidences are found:Camille helps save defendant Natalie from the "eleven angry men".

Michel Levasseur is a joyous reveler who does not care about the next day. So much so that one day a bailiff bursts into his Paris apartment and seizes his furniture on behalf of Raymond Sauvaget, his landlord, a rich food industrialist. But far from resenting Sauvaget's act of hostility, Michel … becomes his friend. Now Raymond, although prosperous, does not know how to handle women. That is why he asks Michel, a regular Casanova, to give him lessons in seduction.

Political turmoil convulses 19th-century Russia, as Razumov, a young student preparing for a career in the czarist bureaucracy, unwittingly becomes embroiled in the assassination of a public official.

There's never a dull moment at the Hôtel du Libre Echange. Deceptions, hitches and other misunderstandings make a few people mingle whereas, for their own sake, they should not. An example among others: an expert who has come to the hotel for professional reasons had better not meet his wife, who is there to cheat on him with his best friend...

A very young and dazzlingly handsome Jean-Pierre Aumont plays an unemployed engineer who lands a job as a lifeguard at a Tyrolean resort. Boasting a most impressive physique, Aumont finds himself besieged by willing females and not complaining about it one tiny bit. Despite the plethora of female pulchritude, Aumont has eyes only for the beauteous Illa Meary, but he ends up neglecting her, with unfortunate consequences.

A little boy is sold to a busker who takes him on all the roads of the France with his troupe of animals.

Zou Zou tries to help her childhood friend prove his innocence after he's accused of murder.

Marius has left, signed up for a five year hitch on a ship bound for the Indian Ocean. In his few letters to his father César, he hardly mentions Fanny (imdb)

A bureaucratic civil servant is annoyed by the spoiled daughter of a rich chocolate maker, but lands up marrying her.

A bank employee who stole money at work falls in the hands of a dangerous escaped convict whose girlfriend is going to help him out of this mess.

Marguerite Desnoyers wonders why her husband Marcel goes traveling so often: for business as he claims? Or to cheat on her, as she suspected? She gradually becomes convince that he has mistresses, then decides to return the favor. On a dark night, she gives herself to a total stranger. Nine months later she gives birth to...a Black baby.

A man who claims to be the lover of a married woman goes to find the husband and reveals to him that the lady is giving her favors to a third thief. Now the lover got the wrong floor and apartment.

A convent organist escorts a young lady who has been boarding there,home to be married, but various romantic complications ensue.

A comedy short which was the debut of Fernandel.

Cinema has long fed our fascination with other cultures, and appears to be just one facet of what is a fundamentally visual fascination. One of the most elaborate manifestations of this was the 1931 Exposition Coloniale Internationale, held in Paris to celebrate 'la France des 5 continents'. This exhibition sought to represent to the people of France their colonial world by reordering and reconstructing it into scenes or tableaux of everyday indigenous life.