Marcel L'Herbier

The business tycoon Nicolas Saccard is nearly ruined by his rival Gunderman, when he tries to raise capital for his company. To push up the price of his stock, Saccard plans a publicity stunt involving the aviator Jacques Hamelin flying across the Atlantic to Guyana and drilling for oil there, much to the dismay of Hamelin's wife Line. While Hamelin is away, Saccard tries to seduce Line. Line finally realizes that she and her husband were pawns in Saccard's scheme, and she accuses him of stock fraud. (imdb)

Claire Lescot is a famous prima donna. All men want to be loved by her. Among them is the young scientist Einar Norsen. When she mocks at him, he leaves her house with the declared intention to kill himself (imdb)

Mathias Pascal, only son of a once rich family, marries beautiful Romalinda, who's mother is a terrible mother-in-law

Denis is distracted: he's studying all day for philosophy exams and working all night at the flower market; plus... (imdb)

Huguette Duflos plays a scientist's daughter, who is targeted for a murder by an unknown assailant. When the police prove unable to protect the heroine, wisecracking reporter Roland Toutain assumes the responsibility. (allmovie.com)

The story takes place on the Riviera, where the title character may or may not be involved in various shades of skullduggery, including murder. (allmovie.com)

A hermit who lives along a rugged coast under a vow of silence reflects on the events that lead him to this fate.

A dancer with a child is forced to endure humiliating events after her lover leaves her.

A wealthy man is so preoccupied with his financial success that he fails to notice his object of affection slipping away.

Experimental allegory for French patriotism during WWII through the romance between a French soldier of ill health and a female poet.

A young boy and girl are often at odds, but when tragedy strikes their bond grows.

When a rich woman mismanages money she's been charged to take care of, Prince Hu-Long finds out and blackmails her.

A banker whose unusual generosity gets him put in a mental institution escapes and hides out in a boarding house.

Étienne Ranson is the black sheep of his family. Having made his fortune in Tunisia, he returns to France and receives a cool reception from his uncle, Achille Guéroy, the owner of a glove factory in Grenoble. Guéroy is astounded when his nephew returns the money he had lent him and immediately looks at Étienne in a new light when it becomes apparent that he is now a very wealthy man. (imdb)

The film opens with the overthrow of the Czar during the 1917 Russian revolution. General Count Svirsky murder the young officer who has been having an affair with Countess Svirska (Emmy Lynn). The Countess knows what has happened, but she loyally remains with her husband as they escape to the safety of the French Riviera. It is here that the Countess meets Henri de Cassel (Jaque Catelain), the "living image" of her dead lover.

In the early twentieth century, Bourron, French businessmen became an entrepreneur very important in Morocco, is torn between his passion for his work and his love to his wife. (KG)

In 1898, Empress Elisabeth from Austria was murdered in Switzerland: the man who killed her was an anarchist and he chose her because the man he wanted to slay was not around... for lack of anything better. (imdb)

A short by Marcel L'Herbier with music played by Claude Debussy with children's themed visuals. (imdb)

Adapted from Bernstein's Le Bercail, the film follows Evelyne(Marcelle Pradot)'s attempt to reconnect with her family after a traumatizing experience with a young writer (Jaque Catelain).

Story of the Siberian monk Gregory Rasputin and the hold he exerted over the court of the last Russian czar, Nicholas.(imdb)

A banker, having squandered a fortune because of his philanthropy, is locked up in a mental hospital by his relatives. He manages to escape, taking refuge in a boarding house where he strives successfully to give happiness to the boarders, making them actors in a comedy of which he is the director. (KG)

Every Friday, businessman Gérard Barbier locks himself up in his attic so that he can pass the time with his old friend Jean-Louis Deshayes. Naturally, his wife Adelaide feels neglected, so she starts an affair with the young Achille Bellorson. Too sure of Adelaide's fidelity, Gérard is not remotely jealous, but he finally gets the message when Adelaide disappears one Friday with Achille. (KG)

One of the most expensive French films of the immediate postwar years, L'Affaire du Collier de la Reine is primarily a vehicle for the formidable Vivian Romance. The star plays an aristocrat in the court of Louis XVI, who helps engineer a scheme to divest the Queen of her royal necklace. On the verge of success, the "heroine" is found out, and forced to submit to whipping and torture. (KG)

In the town of Pompeii, 79AD, 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. (imdb)

19th Century Russia. State prosecutor Fedor Andreiev is presiding over the trial of a man who murdered his wife's lover. Despite a robust defence from the brilliant young lawyer Serge Rostoff, the accused man is found guilty and will be deported to Siberia. (Films de France)

Pere de Mademoiselle (Father of the Girl) is all about a star-struck lass from rural France who takes a job as the secretary to a glamorous actress. When her parents come to the big city, the girl is beside herself: she's been claiming in her letters that she's become a show-business success. (KG)

In a time of national emergency, the wife of the Captain of a French battleship finds that her former lover is now her husband's first officer. Her attempts to sort out this situation get mixed in with shipwreck and court-martial. (imdb)

Catherine's technique to sell her clocks is to blackmail illegitimate couples such as Jacques and Gisèle. However when Gisèle's husband Pierre walks in on them, Catherine pretends to be Jacques's lover to save the day. Jacques then gets caught up in her schemes when the next couple she deals with turn out to be jewel thieves who kidnap them.

The duel between a Czarist general and a lieutenant, over the general's wife, is postponed with war approaching.Years later, the rivals meet again but the general realizes his wife has been faithful to him after all. (imdb)