Une histoire du cinéma français II - Les "années folles" and the magnificent years 19-39
An exhaustive history of French cinema coordinated by Claude Beylie.
2nd Part
One chapter: Les "années folles" and the magnificent years 19-39.
Missing from IMDb:
The few entries after 1938 are thematic mentions (mostly an actor or a director).
Full list
The 6 chapters:
Une histoire du cinéma français I - The pioneers years 1880-1918
Une histoire du cinéma français II - Les "années folles" and the magnificent years 19-39
Une histoire du cinéma français III - The noir years and grey years 40-59
Une histoire du cinéma français IV - The breakdown years 60-79
Une histoire du cinéma français V - Today years 80-2000
Une histoire du cinéma français VI - Short films & Animated films
2nd Part
One chapter: Les "années folles" and the magnificent years 19-39.
Missing from IMDb:
- Paris Express, de Pierre Prévert et Marcel Duhamel 1928
- L'Aventure de Luna-park, court-métrage réalisé par Albert Préjean en 1929
- Les Cris bleus de Charles Estienne, Yves Klein, court (vraisemblablement perdu)
- Le Cauchemar de Monsieur Bérignon, Raymond Robert 1936 (court)
- Le taudis doit être vaincu, Marius O'Galop et Jean Comandon, 1912 court.
- Potiron garçon de café ; Potiron sergent de ville ; Albert Mourlan, 1921, courts, animation.
- Zut, Flutte et Trotte, André Daix, animation, court.
- Meunier tu dors, Jean Varé et Jean Delaurier, 1931, animation, court.
- Couchés dans le foin, de Jean Delaurier, Georges Bouisset et Raymond de Villepreux, 1935, animation, court.
- Un concours de beauté, de Alain Saint-Ogan, 1932, animation, court.
- Monsieur Pipe fait de la peinture, Paul Grimault, 1936, animation, court.
The few entries after 1938 are thematic mentions (mostly an actor or a director).
Full list
The 6 chapters:
Une histoire du cinéma français I - The pioneers years 1880-1918
Une histoire du cinéma français II - Les "années folles" and the magnificent years 19-39
Une histoire du cinéma français III - The noir years and grey years 40-59
Une histoire du cinéma français IV - The breakdown years 60-79
Une histoire du cinéma français V - Today years 80-2000
Une histoire du cinéma français VI - Short films & Animated films
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- DirectorAbel GanceStarsRomuald JoubéMaxime DesjardinsSéverin-MarsThe story of two men, one married, the other the lover of the other's wife, who meet in the trenches of the First World War, and how their tale becomes a microcosm for the horrors of war.
- DirectorLouis FeuilladeStarsFernand HerrmannÉdouard MathéGaston MichelThe efforts of lawyer Jacques Varese and journalist Raoul de Nerac who attempt to expose and destroy the criminal organization led by a sadistic banker Rudolph Strelitz.
- DirectorCharles BurguetRené Le SomptierStarsFrance DhéliaSylvio De PedrelliPaul VermoyalThe tale of the tormented loves of Princess Daoulah and Prince Mourad, who had met, she disguised as a girl of the people, he as a poor fisherman, and who could not find each other. The princess is coveted by the sinister Sultan Malik, assisted by the fearsome Kadjar.
- DirectorMarcel L'HerbierStarsClaude-France AïsséJaque CatelainBaron Byron Khun de ProrakA French chauvinistic propaganda film made during the Great War.
- DirectorJulien DuvivierStarsSuzy LiléCamille BertSéverin-MarsLandry Smith, lives with Minnie, his ward, in Corrèze, in France. Kate Lockwood, his servant, asks Bill Stanley, a sadistic Mexican cowboy, to come kill her master and fins his money. Bill arrives in the area in the same time of Jean Didier, a man whose father suicided because of Landry Smith.Haceldama
- DirectorGermaine DulacStarsSylvio De PedrelliÈve FrancisSuzanne ParisysSet in modern day France in a chateau thought to be haunted since the Revolution, a Marquis and his daughter Irene, granddaughter of Marie Antoinette's lady companion, are preyed upon by Latin seductress, Lola, and her brother, Pedro.6 épisodes
- DirectorÉdouard-Émile VioletStarsJosé DavertRené NavarreManuel Caméré6 épisodes
- DirectorRené NavarreÉdouard-Émile VioletStarsRené NavarreMadeleine AileJacqueline Arly12 épisodes
- DirectorGermaine DulacStarsÈve FrancisGabriel GabrioJean TouloutCoveted by two different men, a woman turns to a third man instead.
- DirectorHenri FescourtStarsRomuald JoubéYvette AndréyorJean TouloutSarcany, an adventurer, finds a tried carrier pigeon, gets possession of a code message and joining hands with an unscrupulous banker, Torenthal, secures a position as secretary with Mathias Sandorf. Decoding the message he unearths a plot against the government. Under the law, Torenthal and Sarcany secure half of Sandorf's wealth. Sandorf and his two friends are imprisoned and about to be executed when Sandorf makes his escape by sliding down a cable near the cell window. He hides in a peasant's home. His presence is made known to the police, but by hiding among the rocks all night he finally escapes. Twenty years later he returns, having wandered over the Orient as a healer and been left a fortune, including the Isle of Zorda, by a wealthy man. Sandorf's aim is to seek vengeance on the three who have betrayed him. His daughter, who was kidnapped, has been raised by Torenthal as his own child, and to keep her share of the fortune he seeks to marry her to Sarcany, but she is in love with the son of one of Sandorf's friends, and refuses. Sarcany is kidnapped and taken to Morocco. Sandorf gets the fisherman who betrayed him into his power, and also the banker who has lost his fortune at Monte Carlo. With Sava's sweetheart, who he has restored to health, they rescue Sava and get Sarcany in their power. Sandorf turns them over to the legal authorities, unites his daughter and her sweetheart, and all live happily on the Island of Zorda.
- DirectorRené LeprinceStarsLéon MathotGina RellyHenry KraussMarc Anavan, a rich young man, leads a profligate life and when he understands his fortune is about to evaporate he decides to change his life, to become a vagabond and to do good around him. The task is not easy but his faith in his mission and the love of Silvette will help Marc to overcome all the hardships on his way.
- DirectorRené LeprinceStarsAimé Simon-GirardSimone VaudryJacques GuilhèneAn earlier version of the 18th century swashbuckling story later made as a vehicle for Gerard Philipe, this one is in serial format.
- DirectorJean KemmStarsRené NavarreElmire VautierRachel DevirysFrançois Vidocq has deserted to go back to his wife and kids, so he becomes a thief. Unfortunately, he finds she had become Manon-la-blonde, mistress of a rich man named Ouvrard, and his children have disappeared. He offers his services to the chief of intelligence service and begins a fight against the Aristo, chief of the gang of the children of the sun. After a few years, he dismantles the gang, and finds both his sons. One has become a blackguard, the other a famous organist who is about to be knighted and will soon get married to his beloved.
- DirectorLuitz-MoratStarsJean AngeloMaría DalbaicínThomy BourdelleTells a romanticized version of the life story of Robert Surcouf, a French privateer and slave trader who operated in the Indian Ocean from the end of the 18th century to the beginning of the 19th century.
- DirectorLuitz-MoratStarsRené NavarreMarthe ChaumontMaurice LagrenéeThe love of a Revolutionary's daughter and a royalist's son in the French Revolution.
- DirectorHenri DesfontainesStarsRené NavarreElmire VautierLucien DalsaceA phantom appears in the Louvre museum in the middle of the night in search of something in the dark corridors.
- DirectorHenri FescourtStarsGabriel GabrioPaul JorgeSandra MilovanoffJean Valjean is a good man who is nevertheless convicted and imprisoned for a minor offense. When he escapes, he is pursued for decades by the unrelenting lawman, Javert.4 épisodes
- DirectorHenri FescourtStarsJean AngeloLil DagoverGaston ModotAfter greedy men have Edmound Dantes unjustly imprisoned for 20 years for innocently delivering a letter entrusted to him, he escapes to get his revenge on them
- DirectorHenri FescourtStarsGermaine RouerFrançois RozetJuliette BoyerLa Glu est un film français réalisé en 1926 par Henri Fescourt, sorti en 1927.D'après le roman de Jean Richepin publié en 1881. Une jeune femme parisienne surnommée La Glu s'installe dans un petit port de pêche breton avec l'intention de séduire Marie-Pierre, le seul garçon des 9 enfants de Marie des Anges. Elle parvient à ses fins et Marie-Pierre la suit. Il est à son tour abandonné par la Glu et revient au pays, décidé à se venger. Film tourné en Bretagne.
- DirectorAndré AntoineStarsRomuald JoubéSylvieJacques GrétillatA prosecuting attorney commences his summing-up : the defendant is his son whose pitiful fate led him to murder ; he left his mother he got pregnant and the unwed poor thing had to fight against a hostile world .
- DirectorAndré AntoineStarsArmand BourRené AlexandreGermaine RouerAs Jean is walking across the countryside in search of work, he helps and befriends a young woman, Françoise, who is having trouble controlling the cow that she is leading. Jean finds work at a local farm, but he soon finds himself caught in the middle of the conflicts in Françoise's family. Her uncle Fouan has just decided to divide everything that he has amongst his two sons and his daughter, hoping that he can then spend the rest of his life at ease. But the details of the division only create bitterness, rivalry, and intrigue.
- DirectorAndré AntoineStarsHuguette DuflosCatherine FonteneyFélix HuguenetThe Marquis de la Seiglière returns to France once the Revolution is over. His possessions, which had been sold as material properties, had been purchased by Stamply, a farmer. The latter restores them to the Marquis, who decides to allocate old Stamply with the use of a corner of his manor. Hélène de la Seiglière, the Marquis's daughter, takes care of the old man. But this one, devastated by death of his son, buried under the ice of the Berezina, dies. Some time later, three persons come to live in the manor: M. de Paubert, his son Raoul, and Destournelles, a crafty, ruthlessly ambitious lawyer. De Paubert hopes to marry his son to Hélène de la Seiglière and might well achieve his aim but for the unexpected return of Bernard Stamply, who has escaped death miraculously. He gets to know Helène and the two young people fall in love with each other.
- DirectorMarc AllégretStarsRaimuGaby MorlayLouis JourdanFrédéri is a very handsome young man in love with a girl he met once in Arles (we will never know her name :she is always referred to as "l'Arlésienne" ).
- DirectorJean EpsteinStarsBlanche MontelMarie LacroixMaurice TouzéBargeman Louveau finds an abandoned boy, Victor, and with the authorities permission takes him back to his own family where he raises him. 10 years later Victor and Louveau's daughter Clara have fallen in love, and it is then that Louveau is called to Paris, where it has been discovered that Victor is really the son of Maugendré, a charcoal shipper on the Nivernaise canal. Meanwhile, Victor protects Clara when a jealous bargehand attacks her and he manages to save the family barge from crashing into the lock. Returned to his real father, Victor is sent away to be educated but misses Clara and his life on the barges. When Maugendré realizes this he lets him return and when they are married he gives Victor and Clara a barge of their own.
- DirectorJean EpsteinStarsSandra MilovanoffMaurice SchutzNino ConstantiniSet before the French Revolution, the film tells the story of Bernard De Mauprat, a noble orphan, raised by despicable aristocrats, who is saved from the gallows by his cousin Edmée and his father, the knight Hubert De Mauprat. The return of Bernard causes tensions within Mauprat's family since him tries to win the heart of his cousin Edmée (Knight of La Marche's fiancée) after obtaining her pledge of loyalty under a certain threat of rape.
- DirectorViktor TourjanskyStarsNathalie KovankoAlexandre ColasPaul HubertCol. De Limousin is notified by a maid that his wife has been in her bath more than an hour. With the assistance of the orderly he breaks open the door and finds her dead. A letter from her soon reaches him and as he reads there is presented a story showing the events which lead up to her love affair with another officer, starting at the time when she was left an orphan and adopted by the Colonel. As the plot develops, it is also revealed that the orderly, used as a messenger, also declares his love, and the Colonel's wife, in constant fear that he will reveal her secret when she repulses him, finally commits suicide. The Colonel calls the orderly before him and shoots him when he declines to reveal the name of his wife's lover.
- DirectorViktor TourjanskyStarsMarcelle ChantalJean WormsFernandelPhilippe, the order of an old colonel, surprises the wife of his boss in the arms of a young lieutenant. So that he remains silent, she offers herself to him.
- DirectorViktor TourjanskyStarsNicolas RimskyDenise LegeayLouis MonfilsMr. Morin, a peaceful shopkeeper, meets a young girl named Henriette on a train back to La Rochelle. He makes a pass at her and she calls a policeman to the rescue. Morin asks his friend Labarbe, a newspaper editor, to settle the matter for him. Labarbe seeks the girl's uncle but recognizes her as the girl he wouldn't dare approach years ago when he was penniless. Labarbe, Henriette and Morin all conspire against uncle Tonnelet so that the two lovers can marry and Morin's assault charges can be dropped.
- DirectorGeorges LacombeStarsJacques BaumerMadame BaumerRoland CaillauxLife is so dull in a quiet little neighborhood that gossips, eager for some kind of scandal to brighten things up, imagine their haberdasher has been having quite a raunchy sex life.
- DirectorAlberto CavalcantiStarsCatherine HesslingIca von LenkeffyPauline CartonParis 1883. Yvette is the daughter of a courtesan who serves men of wealth and status. She is unaware of how her mother makes money and why they are always in the presence of princes, dukes and barons. Only when Yvette goes away on a holiday she realizes that the Banker Saval is engaging her mother in such activities, she suddenly feels dirty.
- DirectorJean RenoirStarsSylvia BatailleJane MarkenGeorges D'ArnouxThe family of a Parisian shop-owner spends a day in the country. The daughter falls in love with a man at the inn, where they spend the day.
- DirectorJean RenoirStarsCatherine HesslingPierre LestringuezJacqueline ForzaneWhen the vivacious and beautiful Nana bombs at the Théâtre des Variétés, she embarks on the life of a courtesan, using her allure and charisma to entice and pleasure men.
- DirectorJean RenoirStarsJean GabinJulien CaretteSimone SimonIn 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.
- DirectorJacques FeyderStarsGina ManèsHans Adalbert SchlettowJeanne Marie-LaurentThérèse Raquin (Gina Manès), an unhappily married woman , aided by her lover Laurent (Hans Adalbert Schlettow), drowns her husband Michaud (Charles Barrois) only to find the guilt of her sin is intolerable.
- DirectorMarcel L'HerbierStarsBrigitte HelmMarie GloryPierre AlcoverThe business tycoon Nicolas Saccard is nearly ruined by his rival Gunderman, when he tries to raise capital for his company. To push up the price of his stock, Saccard plans a publicity stunt involving the aviator Jacques Hamelin flying across the Atlantic to Guyana and drilling for oil there, much to the dismay of Hamelin's wife Line. While Hamelin is away, Saccard tries to seduce Line. Line finally realizes that she and her husband were pawns in Saccard's scheme, and she accuses him of stock fraud.
- DirectorMaurice TourneurStarsGeorges CharliaClaire de LorezJean DaxFirst adaptation of Joseph Kessel World War I novel, in which an aviator falls in love with a woman who turns out to be the wife of one of his flying comrades.
- DirectorAnatole LitvakStarsAnnabellaCharles VanelJean MuratCharles Vanel and Annabella star respectively as a daring WW I aviator and his loving but neglected wife. Ostracized by the other pilots because of his recklessness and standoffishness, Vanel nonetheless befriends a young pilot who is in love with Vanel's wife.
- DirectorPierre BillonStarsPierre Richard-WillmJany HoltRaymond AimosA pilot on one of the air mail flights between France and its African colonies has a brief romance with his distressed cousin before he returns to the call of duty, and the rebels in the desert.
- DirectorAbel GanceStarsGabriel de GravonePierre MagnierGeorges TérofA railway engineer adopts a young girl orphaned by a train crash. Years later when she starts getting suitors, he grapples with whether or not to tell her the truth about her parentage.
- DirectorPierre ChenalStarsErich von StroheimAlbert PréjeanJany HoltParis, 1937. Winckler kills his enemy Gordon, a Chicago mobster, from the stage of a Parisian music hall, where he performs telepathy. He pays another artist, Helene, so that she tells the police they've spent the night together, which doesn't fool Callas, the police officer who investigates the murder. He hires one of his fellow officers in order to seduce Helene.
- DirectorMarc AllégretStarsRaimuMichèle MorganGilbert GilIn a trial, one of the jurors makes the jury change their mind as new evidences are found:Camille helps save defendant Natalie from the "eleven angry men".
- DirectorMarc AllégretStarsCharles BoyerMichèle MorganLisette LanvinOrage is a 1938 French drama film directed by Marc Allégret. The screenplay was written by Marcel Achard and H.G. Lustig, based on play "Le venin" by Henri Bernstein. The films stars Charles Boyer and Michèle Morgan. It tells the story of the mistress of an engineer who has a pregnant wife.
- DirectorLéo JoannonStarsRaimuAndré AlermePierre BrasseurA timid young man marries the daughter of the entomologist he works for. On the train for their honeymoon, he takes his young wife in his arms when a customs officer suddenly enters the compartment. The groom is now inhibited.
- DirectorRaymond BernardStarsSimone SimonMichel SimonClaude DauphinA triple love story stopped each time by low material interests.
- DirectorMarcel L'HerbierStarsJaque CatelainLéonid Walter de MaltePhilippe HériatClaire Lescot is a famous first lady. All men want to be loved by her and among them is the young scientist Einar Norsen. When she mocks at him, he leaves her house with the declared intention to kill himself.
- DirectorJulien DuvivierStarsAnnabellaJean GabinRobert Le ViganPierre Gilieth has committed a murder in Paris. He flees to Barcelona, where he runs out of money. So he joins the Spanish Foreign Legion. He meets there two fellow countrymen, Mulot and Lucas. He tries to forget his fault... but Lucas's friendship soon appears to be less unselfish...
- DirectorMarcel CarnéStarsJean GabinMichel SimonMichèle MorganA military deserter finds love and trouble (and a small dog) in a foggy, French port city.
- DirectorMarcel L'HerbierStarsIvan MozzhukhinMarcelle PradotLois MoranMathias Pascal, only son of a once rich family, marries beautiful Romilde, 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 town. His only moments of lights are his mother and his baby, but both die on the same day. Shocked he leaves his hometown and gets to Monte Carlo, where he wins a fortune at the Casino. Returning home, he reads his own obituary in a paper. They have found a corpse in a creek and connected it with his disappearance. Mathias, noticing that he now is free from all ties to his old live, decides to start a new one, and goes to Rome, where he rents a room in a pension full of fake spiritualists who are controlling the owner. The chief of the gang, Terence, wants to marry the owner's daughter Adrienne, and has convinced her father to give her to him, with no regards of Adrienne's feelings, who is in love with and loved by Mathias. When Terence steals Mathias 50,000 Lira, and Mathias, being officially dead can neither marry Adrienne nor denounce Terence to the police, he decides to do something about his state and travels home, just to notice that Romalinda has remarried.
- DirectorMarc AllégretStarsRosine DeréanSimone SimonIla MecséryA handsome but penniless young man takes a summer job as a swimming instructor in a picturesque Alpine lake resort. He falls in love with a young heiress who is staying there with her father, but he also grabs the attention of tomboyish Puck who lives on the other side of the lake and who saves him from drowning one foggy night. Further havoc is caused by the arrival of Eric's old sweetheart whose husband is wanted by the police.
- DirectorViktor TourjanskyStarsGaby MorlayCharles VanelJane LamyA lady who had a secret affair lives in fear.
- DirectorJulien DuvivierStarsPierre FresnayMarie BellMicheline FranceyA nun suffering from TB is desperately trying to save an alcoholic tramp and to bring him back to his wife and kids.He has a friend who died last year and became the coachman of the "Ghost Wagon" .
- DirectorJacques de BaroncelliStarsEdwige FeuillèrePierre Richard-WillmAimé ClariondThe Duchess of Langeais, as beautiful as she is brilliant, is a woman who likes to seduce but who does not give in. Until the day when she falls in love with General de Montriveau, a cabal goes up against her.
- DirectorJacques de BaroncelliStarsSandra MilovanoffCharles VanelThomy BourdelleFaithfully reproduced observations of Breton fisherfolk in story of the man a local woman really loves who will not at first give himself to her because of his fondness for the sea that takes him away.
- DirectorJacques de BaroncelliStarsConchita MontenegroRaymond DestacHenri LévêqueWomanizer Don Mateo helps a girl in a train when attacked by a other woman. This girl, Conchita - a cigarette maker, soon visits the rich Don Mateo at his palace in Sevillia. He falls for her, but she likes to play with him. Sometimes she encourages his advances, then she rejects him. Furthermore, there's a portrait of a young man in her room. When he offers her money her mother urges her to accept, she runs away. Some months later he discovers her dancing flamenco in a sleazy cabaret. She notices him, flirts with other customers, then with the young man from the portrait, before she starts talking again with Don Mateo. But the manager asks her to prepare for the next number. Don Mateo soon realises, that that next number is not on the stage, but in a different room. There she dances in the nude (shown!) for rich tourists. He interrupts her dance and asks her to quit. She half accepts and starts dancing in a different place. A rendez-vous with Mateo is again used to make him mad with love and jealousy. When he learns that the man in the picture is paid by Conchita to act as her lover, he gives up and decides to move to Paris with a friend. But then Conchita shows up to confess her love and they start a real romance...
- DirectorLéon PoirierStarsAlbert PréjeanJeanne Marie-LaurentSuzanne BianchettiDramatic re-enactment of the battle of Verdun during World War I, as seen by both French and German sides.
- DirectorLéon PoirierStarsRoger KarlJeanne Marie-LaurentSuzanne BianchettiAdaptation of a romantic Lamartine poem.A youth leaves a monastery where he has stayed, after the anti-religious terror of the Revolution.He befriends a youth who turns out to be a girl.But his former bishop calls Jocelyn back to duty.
- DirectorLéon PoirierStarsThomy BourdelleMadeleine GuittyLaurence MyrgaGenevieve is an orphan and lives with her younger sister Josette. She ends her marriage to an honest and respectful man. After dramatic incidents, wandering she finally manages to reach the house of her fiance's house
- DirectorLéon PoirierStarsJosé DavertLaurence MyrgaJeanne Marie-LaurentIn the lands of Brière a bitter dispute broke out over the draining of marshes for brick making. An old man, Aoustin, leads the resistance and refuses to give the hand of his daughter Théotiste to a young peasant, Jeannin, who supports it.
- DirectorTony LekainGaston RavelStarsArmand BernardJosseline GaëlJaque CatelainTwo young lovers. An arranged marriage. An older groom. The lovers develop a plan to convince the groom that she is unworthy and also to discredit him. A surprise ending convinces the father that he should bless the lovers' marriage.
- DirectorRaymond BernardStarsMax LinderArmand BernardJoffreMax is a millionaire who is forced to lead a double-life as a waiter, the result of having lost a wager.
- DirectorRaymond BernardStarsPierre BlancharGabriel GabrioCharles VanelWorld War 1 begins and a young man enlists to fight for his country.
- DirectorRaymond BernardStarsHarry BaurCharles VanelPaul AzaïsThe lives of numerous people over the course of 20 years in 19th century France, weaved together by the story of an ex-convict named Jean Valjean on the run from an obsessive police inspector, who pursues him for only a minor offense.
- DirectorLouis Delluc
- DirectorLouis DellucStarsÈve FrancisEdmond Van DaëlePhilippe HériatAfter the death of her mother, Germaine moves in with her father in a small town near the Rhône river. She falls in love with a young man, Alban, already engaged.
- DirectorJean EpsteinStarsGina ManèsMarcelle SchmittMadame DelaunayBased on the story by Honoré de Balzac. Caught in a storm, two young doctors book into an inn for the night and find themselves sharing a room with a Dutch diamond merchant. During the night Prosper steals from the merchant, but when he awakes in the morning he finds the merchant dead and his friend gone. When the stolen property is found on him he is arrested for the crime and executed. 25 years later the innkeeper's daughter relates the tale to a traveler, who in turn later relates it at a dinner party. At that party is Frederic Taillefer, the missing friend and murderer.
- DirectorJean EpsteinStarsJean AngeloSuzanne BianchettiMarquisette BoskyNoted bandit Robert Macaire and his faithful assistant Bertrand arrive at a new town and begin to ply their trade. But will there affections for the women they love be their undoing?
- DirectorJean EpsteinStarsJeanne HelblingSuzy PiersonOlga DayPsychological narrative avantgarde film about a wealthy young businessman who consecutively falls in love with a classy English woman (Pearl), a Russian sculptress (Athalia), and a naive working-class girl (Lucie). Overpowered by weakness, the coward sidesteps the obligations that love affairs impose: rather than living up to his dates he takes his sports-car from an ultra-modern garage and speeds to the fashionable beaches of Deauville. On his way, he is fatally hit by a descending swallow. The film is divided into three segments each of which consists of events the woman experienced. These sequences are embedded in scenes in which each of the three women is telling and casting her mind back to her own love affair. Thus, present, future and past merge and cannot be distinguished clearly. The intertwinement of several layers of time experience, recollection, telling and showing have been regarded as a source of inspiration of Alain Resnais and this film prefigures his "L'Année dernière à Mariënbad" to a certain extent.
- DirectorJean EpsteinStarsJean DebucourtMarguerite GanceCharles LamyAllan visits the sinister Usher family mansion, where his friend Roderick is painting a portrait of his sickly wife Madeline. The portrait seems to be draining the life out of Madeline, slowly leading to her death.
- DirectorJacques FeyderStarsJean AngeloGeorges MelchiorMarie-Louise IribeTwo men, lost in the desert, meet Queen Antinea, ruler of Atlantis.
- DirectorJacques FeyderStarsMaurice de FéraudyFélix OudartJean ForestA poor vegetable peddler in Paris runs afoul of the law and finds himself ground up in the cogs of the corrupt French judicial system.
- DirectorJacques FeyderStarsJean ForestVictor VinaPierrette HouyezA man whose wife has died remarries, and his new wife has a daughter of her own from a previous marriage. The man's young son, however, who loved his mother deeply and misses her terribly, resents his father's new wife, not wanting her to take the place of his beloved mother, and makes life miserable for his new stepsister..
- DirectorJacques FeyderStarsJean ForestRolla NormanFrançoise RosayA sincere working-class 13-year old in France is adopted by a well-meaning philanthropic millionairess from America -- who promises his doting mother that the boy will have the finest education -- but things are not so simple.
- DirectorJulien DuvivierStarsMaxime DesjardinsJeanne DesclosEdmond Van DaëleA family of strict magistrates holds firm in protecting one of their members,who commits an error which provokes a storm of outrage.
- DirectorJulien DuvivierStarsLil DagoverLéon BaryGaston JacquetAn opera singer,restless in her marriage to an elderly Scottish lord, longs to return to the limelight of the stage in Paris.
- DirectorJulien DuvivierStarsDita ParloGinette MaddieAndrée BrabantDenise, an orphaned girl, moves to Paris where she hopes to find work at her uncle's store. But the glamorous department store 'Aux Bonheur des Dames' across the street crunches all the little businesses around. She finds a position there.
- DirectorLéonce PerretStarsKarl HeylHuguette DuflosHenry HouryGrand Duchess Aurora if forced into an unhappy marriage with Grand Duke Rudolph. Rudolph prepares to leave for the Congo but he is murdered by his brother. Aurora goes to Paris be with her father and enters the gay revelries there until she hears of her husband's death. She returns to the Kingdom, where she meets a tutor who falls in love with her. Together they discover her brother-in-law's treachery, and she helps her lover escape from his vengeance. War is declared and the tutor loses his life at Verdun. Aurora goes to France and places a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier with the thought the tombs may be his.
- DirectorCarl Theodor DreyerStarsMaria FalconettiEugene SilvainAndré BerleyIn 1431, Jeanne d'Arc is placed on trial on charges of heresy. The ecclesiastical jurists attempt to force Jeanne to recant her claims of holy visions.
- DirectorLouis DellucStarsÈve FrancisEdmond Van DaëleGaston ModotTopinelli, who runs a bar in a harbor in Marseille with his wife Sarah, begin to quarrel in conflict when a sailor, who turns out to be a past lover of Sarah, dances with her on arrival to the bar.
- DirectorLouis DellucStarsÈve FrancisGine AvrilNoémi SeizeA woman appears at the house where she used to live a long time ago. The new inhabitants, a married couple with a toddler, welcome her to stay for the night. Meanwhile, the wife has to choose between family and adventure.
- DirectorMarcel L'HerbierStarsÈve FrancisJaque CatelainMarcelle PradotSibilla is a single mother, working as a gypsy dancer in a lousy cafe in the south of Spain. Unable to keep with the costs of his son's medical bills, she asks for help to Estiria, her son's biological father and one of the richest men in town. After being rejected, Sibilla vows to save her son's life by any means necessary - even at the cost of her own life.
- DirectorMarco de GastyneStarsSimone GenevoisFernand MaillyGeorges PaulaisBiography of Joan of Arc from her departure from Domremy until her death in Rouen.
- DirectorAbel GanceStarsAlbert DieudonnéVladimir RoudenkoEdmond Van DaëleA film about the French general's youth and early military career.