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- DirectorJacques RivetteStarsMichel PiccoliJane BirkinEmmanuelle BéartThe former famous painter Frenhofer revisits an abandoned project using the girlfriend of a young visiting artist. Questions about truth, life, and artistic limits are explored.
- DirectorYves AngeloStarsGérard DepardieuFanny ArdantFabrice LuchiniColonel Chabert has been severely wounded in the French-Russian Napoleonic war to the point that the medical examiner has signed his death certificate. When he regains his health and memory, he goes back to Paris, where his "widow", Anne has married the Count Ferraud and is financing his rise to power using Chabert's money. Chabert hires a lawyer to help him get back his money and his honor.
- DirectorJacques RivetteStarsJeanne BalibarGuillaume DepardieuBulle OgierIn Majorca, in 1823, a French general, Armand de Montriveau, overhears a cloistered nun singing in a chapel; he insists on speaking to her. She is Antoinette, for five years he has searched for her. Flash back to their meeting in Paris, he recently returned from Africa, she married and part of the highest society. She flirts with him, and soon he's captivated. His behavior is possessive, insistent. Then, it is her turn to become obsessed. Letters, balls, scandal, a kidnapping, and an ultimatum bring her to the cloister and him to melancholy. Whose steel proved sharper? Is it tragic or grotesque?
- DirectorLavinia CurrierStarsBen DanielsMichel PiccoliPaul M. MestonYoung French officer Augustin Robert escorts artist Jean-Michel Venture de Paradis to Egypt during Napoleon's Egyptian campaign. Napoleon sent de Paradis to record Egypt's great monuments and temples that are destroyed by French soldiers in acts of barbarism. During combat, Augustin and Jean-Michel are separated from their regiment, and they start wandering through the desert fighting for their life. In one of the canyons Augustin meets a leopard he names Simoom and a strange bond between them appears.
- DirectorRené Le HénaffStarsRaimuMarie BellJacques BaumerAn Empire colonel, left for dead on a battlefield, returns to Paris and finds his wife remarried.
- DirectorHenri CalefStarsJean MaraisMarcel HerrandPierre Dux
- DirectorRaúl RuizStarsElsa ZylbersteinJean-Marc BarrLaurent MaletSurreal gothic comedy about a gambler who wins a strange Chilean mansion and takes his frail wife there.
- DirectorChano UruetaStarsJorge NegreteRosario GranadosJulio VillarrealIn Sacramento, Mexico, Antonio Ruiz is a bandit better known as 'El Halcon' (The Hawk). He had a twin brother who unfortunately died some time ago. At least this is what he thinks. In Seville, Spain, Juan Ruiz is a lawyer who once had a twin brother before he died. At least this is what he believes. So when Juan travels to Sacramento and finds Antonio alive the two brothers fall into each other's arms. They soon decide to join forces to fight against Enrique Ledesma, the governor of Sacramento, who murdered their father. But they also vie for the beautiful eyes of Luisa, who can't marry both of them.
- DirectorMarcel L'HerbierStarsCharles BoyerClaire PréliaSuzanne DorisNolff, a tough Breton fisherman is happy: his wife has just given birth to a son, Michel. His only wish is to make him a fisherman like him. But when he becomes a man, Michel becomes a good-for-nothing who spends his time in taverns with his evil genius friend Gwenn la Taupe. The sea will be his judge.
- DirectorAndré CayatteStarsDanielle DarrieuxLise DelamareMonique JoyceGuy Carbonnel, a rich industrialist, has more eyes for rugby than for his wife Hélène. René Rivals, his long-time pal, takes advantage of it to court her but Guy is becoming suspicious so René has to find a way to deflect his friend's suspicion. He finally has an idea: he asks Lilian, a circus acrobat, to pose as his mistress. Lilian accepts and they embark on a series of eventful moments.
- DirectorMario SoldatiStarsAlida ValliGualtiero TumiatiGiorgio De LulloEugenia is a daughter of a wealthy but miserly man living a simple life in the provincial town of Saumur. Eugenia's inexperience leads her to fall in love with an unworthy man.
- DirectorGeorge D. BakerStarsGeorge WalshBessie LoveCarmel MyersPoet Raphael de Valentin is down on his luck until a friend introduces him into society. He meets the Countess Fedora, and after she reads his poems, his work becomes an overnight sensation.
- DirectorFrank LloydStarsNorma TalmadgeAdolphe MenjouWedgwood NowellThe Duchess de Langeais has a love affair, as in the novel by H. de Balzac.
- DirectorDes McAnuffStarsJessica LangeElisabeth ShueBob HoskinsWhen her sister dies in 1846, Bette moves from the château to Paris to work as a theater seamstress. She helps a handsome, starving artist. When her niece lures him away from her, she plans a devious revenge.
- DirectorLloyd BaconStarsBebe DanielsWarren WilliamAlan MowbrayHonor of the Family is a 1931 American Pre-Code drama film released by First National Pictures (a subsidiary of Warner Bros.), starring Bebe Daniels and Warren William. It was based on the play by Emil Fabre, from the Honoré de Balzac novel, La Rabouilleuse. This was the talkie debut for Warren William who would become one of the major stars for Warner Brothers over the next five years. It also marked Dita Parlo's first English-speaking role.
- DirectorErnest C. WardeStarsJ. Warren KerriganWedgwood NowellAlice WilsonWhen young writer Brandon McShane is left penniless by the death of his father, he is forced to rent a room in the tenement district from the Mahon family. Brandon soon becomes infatuated with the fortune hunting Mimi Gascoigne, who casts him aside for a wealthy suitor. In search of revenge, Brandon acquires a magic skin which will gratify its owner's wishes, but which exacts years from the petitioner's life in payment. Brandon wishes himself wealth and his enemies unhappiness, and then lives in terror of the penalty he must pay. One day he meets Pauline Mahon who has loved him since his tenement days. Pauline convinces Brandon to wish the skin out of his life, and then he discovers that Pauline's love is the fulfillment of this last wish.
- DirectorJosée DayanStarsGérard DepardieuJeanne MoreauFanny ArdantA man who created great literature from the adventures of his own life--and the women at the heart of it. Although gruff, unsophisticated, and far from handsome, Balzac exerts an irresistible fascination on women.
- DirectorEmilio Gómez MurielStarsMarga LópezJulio VillarrealAndrea PalmaOn the day that Eugenia Grandet turns 21, her miserly father gives her a valuable gold coin, like every year. Carlos, Eugenia's cousin, arrives at the celebration with a letter. Thanks to the letter, the old Grandet finds out that his brother, Carlos's father, is bankrupt and is going to commit suicide, begging him to take care of his son, who does not know the content of the letter. Eugenia tries to comfort Carlos when he finds out about the death of his father, and they both fall in love. Grandet opposes the wedding of them because he believes that Carlos covets his daughter's money.
- DirectorMarc DugainStarsJoséphine JapyOlivier GourmetValérie BonnetonFelix Grandet reigns supreme in his modest house in Saumur where his wife and daughter Eugenie lead a distraction-free existence. Extremely avaricious, he does not take a favorable view of the beautiful parties who rush to ask for his daughter's hand. Nothing should damage the colossal fortune he hides from everyone. The sudden arrival of Grandet's nephew, an orphaned and ruined Parisian dandy, turns the young girl's life upside down.
- DirectorRex IngramStarsAlice TerryRudolph ValentinoEric MayneAfter losing his father, a playboy moves in with his miserly uncle, who seeks to cheat him out of his inheritance.
- DirectorJean-Daniel VerhaegheStarsAlexandra LondonJean CarmetDominique LabourierWhen the daughter of the miserly cooper Grandet is up for marriage, both families Des Grassins and Cruchot want to marry their sons to her and her substantial dowry. But the girl shows more interest in the impoverished cousin, whom she entrusts her entire fortune to.