Cast: Gina Manès

Direction Abel Gance

Cast Albert Dieudonné · Gina Manès · Edmond Van Daële · Antonin Artaud

Plot A biopic of Napoleon which spans approximately 16 years. It covers Napoleon's childhood, his first strategic victory (a schoolyard snowball fight), his rise through the ranks after the Revolution and...

Direction Jean Epstein

Cast Léon Mathot · Gina Manès · Edmond Van Daële · Claude Benedict

Plot Marie wants to escape from her job and also from her lover, Paul, an unemployed drunk. She dreams of going off with Jean, a dockworker. The two men quarrel and...

Direction Julien Duvivier

Cast Harry Baur · Valery Inkijinoff · Alexandre Rignault · Gaston Jacquet

Plot Willy Ferriere is dead broke and his mistress costs a lot. One day, he says in a pub that he would give 100,000 francs to get rid of his wealthy...

Direction Jean Epstein

Cast Léon Mathot · Gina Manès · Jean-David Évremond · Pierre Hot

Direction Anatole Litvak

Cast Charles Boyer · Danielle Darrieux · Marthe Régnier · Yolande Laffon

Plot Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria, is fettered on all sides. He's bored; his father, the emperor, is domineering; his politics are more liberal than his father's, but he knows his...

Direction Max Ophüls

Cast Simone Berriau · Gina Manès · Catherine Fonteney · Thérèse Dorny

Direction Robert Siodmak

Cast Harry Baur · Albert Préjean · Gabrielle Dorziat · Gina Manès

Plot Justin Mollenard is a sailor and arms smuggler who does not support the hypocrisy of society. He has a wife in Dunkirk who reproaches him the fact of having neglected...

Direction Germaine Dulac

Cast Ivan Petrovich · Nicolas Koline · Mabel Poulton · Yvette Andréyor

Plot Desire brings out the worst in an actress’ suitors.

Direction Maurice Gleize

Cast Jean Gabin · Michèle Morgan · Saturnin Fabre · Gina Manès

Plot The adventures of a sailor (Lennard) from Mexico to a lagoon in the Pacific ocean, and the meeting with a lonely girl (Lilian White).

Direction Henri Chomette

Cast Albert Préjean · Gina Manès · Daniel Mendaille · Rudolf Klein-Rogge

Direction William Dieterle

Cast William Dieterle · Lien Deyers · Gina Manès · Félix P. Soler

Plot A painter (played by Dieterie) falls in love with the daughter (Deyers) of a neighboring count, causing the girl's stepmother to fly into a jealous rage.

Direction Marco de Gastyne

Cast Georges Benoît · Gil Clary · Gabriel Gabrio · Simone Genevois

Direction Jacques Feyder

Cast Gina Manès · Hans Adalbert Schlettow · Jeanne Marie-Laurent · Wolfgang Zilzer

Direction Augusto Genina

Cast Gina Manès · Carmen Boni · Helga Thomas · Ivan Petrovich

Plot Ralph, the son of a wealthy banker, meets young Mimi, a modest student, at a masked ball. They fall in love. Ralph decides not to reveal his real status to...

Direction René Le Somptier

Cast Geneviève Félix · Gina Manès · Madeleine Erickson · Rolla Norman

Plot The film based on the novel of the same name by Alexandre Dumas, is concerned with fraternal royal strife at the court of Henri III. Tragically caught between the millstones...

Direction Marcel Blistène

Cast Édith Piaf · Michel Auclair · Joëlle Bernard · Armand Mestral

Direction Serge Nadejdine · Jacques Robert

Cast Gaston Modot · Gina Manès · Lilian Constantini · Georges Charlia

Plot Antonio Arcella, a popular singer, and Pinatucchio, a beggar, love the same woman, Costanzella, a beautiful and cruel Neapolitan.

Direction Abel Gance

Cast Albert Dieudonné · Annabella · Antonin Artaud · Pierre Batcheff

Plot Abel Gance's 1971 sound edition of his epic 1927 'Napoleon', which contains much of the silent original, with new material shot and added in both 1965 and 1971, and with...

Direction Richard Pottier

Cast Albert Préjean · Suzy Prim · Jacques Baumer · Denise Grey

Direction Pierre Chenal

Cast Viviane Romance · Louis Jouvet · Pierre Renoir · Jany Holt

Plot Town trollop Safia, much against her better judgment, falls in love with Matteo, a beggar and mystic in the native quarter of Sirocco. She flees to France, first as the...