Cast: Jenny Hélia

Direction Jean Renoir

Cast Jean Gabin · Simone Simon · Fernand Ledoux · Julien Carette

Plot In this classic adaptation of Emile Zola's novel, a tortured train engineer falls in love with a troubled married woman who has helped her husband commit a murder.

Direction Jean Renoir

Cast Charles Blavette · Celia Montalván · Édouard Delmont · Max Dalban

Plot The story is the basic "good man destroyed by bad woman" conceit: An Italian laborer sets the gears in motion for Zola-esque tragedy by falling in love with a young...

Direction Henri Verneuil

Cast Fernandel · Maria Mauban · Andrex · Antonin Berval

Plot In Cantagrel, Urbain Coindet, a farmer and town councilor in his forties, finds his wife hanging from a beam in the barn. Aurélie Coindet has committed suicide but but not...

Direction Jean-Paul Le Chanois

Cast Bernard Blier · Juliette Faber · Édouard Delmont · Edmond Ardisson

Plot Soon after the Great War, the Provence village of Salezes gets a new boys' teacher: Mr. Pascal, a war hero with a diploma from a teachers' college. He rejects old...

Direction Jacques Poitrenaud

Cast Michel Simon · Marie Dubois · Yves Lefebvre · Thalia Frugès

Direction Raymond Bernard

Cast Raimu · Fernand Charpin · Sinoël · Paul Ollivier

Plot Tartarin is the local hero in the small provincial town of Tarascon. He shows off about imaginary adventures in Africa, where he has never been until, after a misunderstanding and...