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The winner of the Louis Delluc Prize as the most outstanding French photo-play of 1936, as selected by the Young Independent Critics of France (an organization and not a description.) The film treats the imprisoning hold of poverty; the disheartening odds of people rising from such social despair, and the ease in which those in the upper spheres of Society may descend. (imdb)

Jacques Brachart is a parvenu in the finance, the boss of the African Coppers. The D'Andeline are noble but pennyless. They make their daughter Anne-Marie marry Brachart. A marriage of convenience for them. But Brachart is really in love with Anne-Marie, though she can hardly stand him. One days, she takes a lover, Jerome Le Govain, a dandy whose money comes from Brachart's advises... A fierce melodrama. (imdb)

The married Archduke Rudolph of Austria, trapped by politics and tradition in a loveless marriage, embarks upon a doomed affair with the young Marie Vetsera. The relationship culminates in the historic Mayerling incident, a tragedy still wrapped in intrigue today.

The story of how the people of Paris cope with the strains and struggles of war, from the siege of the city by the Prussians during the Franco-Prussian War of 1871 to the invasion by the Germans in World War II. (imdb)

A girl falsely imprisoned in a girl's reformatory has run ins with the headmistress.

Denise 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... (imdb)

On the occasion of his fiftieth birthday, divisional commissioner François Basquier recalls his professional career.

A wealthy industrialist, Roger de Vetheuil, married, feels assured of aging in peace. Then appears a blackmailer who accuses him of being a usurper, actually called Jean Pelletier, a mobster well known to police. Vetheuil, judging himself slandered, refuses to listen to his tormentor and goes to the police. The man speaks.

A womanizer's lover' s dead body is found in the Seine. (imdb)

Two journalists go on the trail of gangsters who are kidnapping women to sell in South America.

A Spanish/Italian co-production of Carmen. In order to help her smuggler kinsmen, a sultry gypsy seduces and corrupts an officer of the Civil Guard turning him into a traitor and murderer.

By listening to a radio musical, each character remembers one of the "little things" which has changed their lives.

Although by no means one of those "historical" movies Guitry was famous for ("Si Paris (Versailles) M'Etait Conté" "Les Perles de la Couronne" ),"De JA à PP " is a much more modest interesting document. It's a lecture by Guitry himself sitting as his desk and flipping through "files".

Three criminals escape from a French prison and hide in a coastal village where they have to wait for 12 hours until the boat that is supposed to take them to freedom arrives. (imdb)

In my "cellar" where case workers all the people of a great hotel, the head of the café, Donge, finds the corpse of Mrs Petersen, a rich client. The investigation by Maigret allows him to rub the husband of the victim, a Swede, Teddy, Ms Petersen's son, his housekeeper, a social dancer and Donge himself who is the natural father of Teddy. The child he will go to his real father or not he will leave the rich Petersen who adores? The murder mystery and enigma sentimental are resolved by Mai

There are two roads: the wide one leads to perdition, the narrow one is not easy to follow, but it leads to happiness.

The rise and fall of a diva circa 1820. (imdb)

Slapstick inheritance comedy based on the confusion between twin brothers, both played by the great Raimu who also plays their father.