Richard Francœur
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Un drôle de paroissien
Georges Lachaunaye, qui appartient à une famille bourgeoise à présent ruinée et pour laquelle l'oisiveté est un principe sacré, est un jour saisi par une révélation ; il décide d'assurer le train de vie des siens en montant une entreprise de pillage de troncs d'églises...
Le joueur
In 1866, a young Muscovite named Alexei Ivanovitch arrives in Baden Baden, then the gambling capital of Austria, and is soon engaged by General Zagorianski to look after his children. Alexei discovers that his employer is a compulsive gambler who has been almost ruined by his addiction.
Le dos au mur
A wealthy industrialist discovers his wife is having an affair and decides to exact revenge by blackmailing her under an assumed identity.
Occupe-toi d'Amélie..!
A young woman's comfortable life with her boyfriend is disrupted when he leaves for military duty, entrusting her to a playboy friend seeking a fake marriage for inheritance. Complications arise as a prince enters the scene, pursuing her romantically.
Le diable au corps
Pendant la Première Guerre mondiale, Marthe Grangier, infirmière fiancée à un soldat tombe amoureuse de François Jaubert, un lycéen de 17 ans. Leur amour passionnel va leur causer quelques ennuis...
Macadam
Madame Rose runs a seedy hotel in a suburb of Paris. Strong-minded but without the least moral scruple, she once killed her husband whose honesty was a hindrance to her business. Under a suspended sentence, she now indulges in smuggling. One day, Victor, one of her former accomplices hounded by the police, finds sanctuary with her.
Les caves du Majestic
Maigret is called to the high-class Hotel Majestic to investigate a body. The wife of a wealthy American has been killed - but to Maigret's surprise she has a gun in her purse. He begins to follow up the handful of clues that could explain her secret life and her demise.
La cage aux rossignols
In France, in 1930, a supervisor of a boarding school for young offenders seeks to awaken the music by forming a choir, despite the skepticism of his boarding school director.
Douce
In Paris in 1887, Irène works as a governess to Douce, the grand-daughter of the dowager Countess de Bonafé. Douce believes she is in love with Fabien, the handsome manager of the estate. However she cannot hope to marry him because of their class difference.
Le mariage de Chiffon
Odette Joyeux plays an eccentric young aristocrat called "Chiffon", who is struggling to comply with the social conventions of the community. A widow, her mother (Suzanne Dantes) would like to remarry a rich noble. Without realizing it, Chiffon is in love with her uncle, a ruined pioneer of aviation ...
Jud Süß
Nazi historical drama about Duke Karl Alexander of Württemberg and his treasurer Süß Oppenheimer.
La règle du jeu
Jean Renoir’s The Rules of the Game is a comedic drama about a Parisian aristocrat. The film was released shortly before the start of World War II.