Cast: Pauline Carton

Direction Max Ophüls

Cast Edwige Feuillère · George Rigaud · Daniel Lecourtois · Mady Berry

Synopsis Melodrama of the wife of a dissolute man who widowed, earns her living in a nightclub and goes away rather than let her lover take her to Canada with him.

Direction Sacha Guitry

Cast Sacha Guitry · Marguerite Moreno · Jacqueline Delubac · Roger Duchesne

Synopsis The story of the cheat begins and ends with personal misfortune. When he was a young boy, our hero was caught stealing money from the family shop. As a punishment, he was not allowed to join his family on their...

Direction Sacha Guitry

Cast Michel Simon · Jean Debucourt · Jacques Varennes · Jeanne Fusier-Gir

Synopsis The home life of Paul Braconnier and his wife Blandine can hardly be described as one of marital bliss. They hate each other – to the point of wanting to murder one another. When Braconnier hears about Maître Aubanel, a...

Direction Jean Cocteau

Cast Elisabeth Lee Miller · Pauline Carton · Enrique Rivero · Jean Desbordes

Synopsis Superb timeless film dealing with the poet's inner self, in four sketches: 'The Wounded Hand', 'Do The Walls Have Ears?', 'The Snowball Fight' and 'The Profanation Of The Host'.

Direction Sacha Guitry

Cast Jean Poiret · Michel Serrault · Magali Noël · Clément Duhour

Synopsis Surprised by a burglar (Michel Serrault), the doleful Philippe (Jean Poiret) regains his composure, then asks the thief for his assistance. It seems that Philippe wants to commit suicide but hasn't the nerve to pull off the deed himself. In...

Direction Marcel L'Herbier

Cast Ivan Mozzhukhin · Marcelle Pradot · Michel Simon · Lois Moran

Synopsis Mathias Pascal, only son of a once rich family, marries beautiful Romalinda, who has a terrible mother-in-law. She controls her daughter, and soon his home life becomes a nightmare, as well as his job as assistant librarian in his home...

Direction Sacha Guitry

Cast Sacha Guitry · Jacqueline Delubac · Jacques Baumer · Saturnin Fabre

Synopsis Sacha Guitry exchanges his usual top hat for a uniform in Désiré, playing a cavalier valet embroiled in an awkward flirtation with his new employer (played by the actor-director’s real-life wife, Jacqueline Delubac), who is involved with a stuffy politician....

Direction Louis Delluc

Cast Ève Francis · Gine Avril · Noémi Seize · Denise

Synopsis A fifty year old woman, scarred by a life of disillusionment and regret, returns to the place where she lived twenty years before, to rekindle happier memories. She meets a young woman, the daughter of the current owners of the...

Direction Sacha Guitry

Cast Jean Marais · Georges Marchal · Jean-Pierre Aumont · Brigitte Bardot

Synopsis Witty narration follows the history of Versailles Palace; founded by Louis XIII, enlarged by autocratic Louis XIV, whose personal affairs and amours, and those of his two successors, are followed in more detail to the start of the Revolution, after...

Direction Sacha Guitry

Cast Sacha Guitry · Gaby Morlay · Jacqueline Delubac · Georges Grey

Synopsis A sparkling four-way affair overflowing with dialogue that showcases writer-director Sacha Guitry’s wit, Quadrille stars Guitry as a magazine editor whose longtime girlfriend—to whom he plans to finally propose—is uncontrollably drawn to a handsome American movie star. Meanwhile, a discerning...

Direction Richard Pottier

Cast Luis Mariano · Bourvil · Annie Cordy · Fernando Rey

Direction Augusto Genina

Cast Gaby Morlay · Claude Dauphin · Jean Wall · Pierre Larquey

Direction Léo Joannon

Cast Raimu · Sylvia Bataille · Pierre Brasseur · Pauline Carton

Synopsis A shy young man, Edmond, marries Paulette, the daughter of his employer, Jules Papillot. The bride is beautiful and the prospects are good. But there is a little hitch: the young husband is unable to fulfill his conjugal duties. All...

Direction Georg Wilhelm Pabst

Cast Jean Gabin · Michel Simon · Peter Lorre · Janine Crispin

Direction Alexis Granowsky

Cast Harry Baur · Jean-Pierre Aumont · Danielle Darrieux · Pierre Larquey

Direction Raymond Bernard

Cast Edwige Feuillère · Henri Guisol · Etchika Choureau · Pauline Carton

Synopsis Sabine Gravières, married to Edouard, the High Commissioner for Criminal Youth, has a problem: Juliette, her daughter, is not only pregnant but she also refuses to marry Claude, the young man who got her pregnant. It is fair to say...

Direction Abel Gance

Cast Grace Moore · Georges Thill · André Pernet · Suzanne Desprès

Synopsis Louise, a young seamstress, has fallen in love with Julien, her neighbor, a composer who lives a Bohemian life with his friends, artists like him. Her over-possessive working class parents unfortunately object to her marrying her beloved. Louise then decides...

Direction Sacha Guitry

Cast Sacha Guitry · Gaston Dubosc · Serge Grave · Paul Bernard

Direction Raymond Bernard

Cast Gaby Morlay · Line Noro · Florelle · Pauline Carton

Direction Christian-Jaque

Cast Fernandel · André Lefaur · Saturnin Fabre · Ginette LeClerc

Synopsis A colonel decided to be represented at the regiment festival of a tragedy in verse by the poem written by his sister.