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A French village doctor becomes the target of poison-pen letters sent to village leaders, accusing him of affairs and practicing abortion.

Un racconto surrealista su un uomo e una donna che si amano, ma i loro tentativi di consumare quella passione sono costantemente interrotti dalle loro famiglie, dalla Chiesa e dalla società borghese.

Sir Ismay è presidente della White Star Line e confida molto nel viaggio inaugurale del Titanic. Sarà per questo motivo che lui spingerà il capitano Smith a raggiungere il prima possibile New York facendogli aumentare la velocità dei motori del transatlantico. La tragedia però è in agguato.

Albert is smitten for Pola but ends up wrongly committed in jail, in the meantime her affections are sought after by his friend, and on his release both love and friendship must be tested.

In cerca di una vita migliore, due detenuti scappano di prigione.

A charming scoundrel reflects on his exploits, from childhood through to manhood.

Inspector Wens moves into a Paris boarding house to catch a serial killer.

An impoverished painter and his rival engage in a race across Paris to recover a jacket concealing a winning lottery ticket.

Tells the story of the Spanish invasion of Flanders

André Laurent, il capitano di un rimorchiatore, ha sposato Yvonne dieci anni fa. Lei ha una malattia cardiaca ma non vuole dirglielo. Sogna che lui lasci il lavoro affinché possano vivere tranquillamente.

Roland Brissot bought for a nickel a talisman that gives him love, fame, and wealth. The talisman is a cut left hand, and it works perfectly. Of course, there is nothing free in this world, and after one year, the devil comes and asks for his due.

The story concerns an old globe-maker who is mysteriously killed while going through the town portraying Pere Noel ("Father Christmas" aka Santa Claus).

Three narrators (French writer Jean Martin, an English royal equerry, and a papal chamberlain) tell the story of seven matched pearls, four of them now in the British Crown. Episodes whirl us from Pope Clement VII to Mary Queen of Scots, from whom the pearls are stolen while she's occupied with the headsman. Historic events are seasoned with sly, satiric humor, and famous beauties are portrayed by stunning actresses. Then the narrators meet, and decide to try tracing the three unrecovered pearls from 1587 to the present...

Mr. and Mrs. Noblet run a boarding house on the French Riviera. One day, they are led by circumstances to welcome a little boy Pierre, whose father is in jail, into their home. Which makes Louise Noblet all the happier as she can't have children herself. But, after a while, Pierre's father is released from prison and reclaims his son... Time passes and Pierre, now a young adult, lives in Paris more or less on the wrong side of the law. He has a mistress, Nelly, who does not say no to other men's money... Louise, who still loves Pierre as her own son, wants only one thing - to help him get by.

A husband who has just cheated on his wife returns home in the early morning, in a daze. Another man is there, and the dazed man confesses his infidelity to this stranger--who turns out to be his wife's lover.

Jean is a young cab driver. Anna, a flower-girl neighbour, is in love with him. But he is still thinking to Pola, who just left him. Jean asks her to the bal. Many events (Pola's come back, two villains...) will disturb this arising love.

Denise Baudu, an orphaned girl in need, decides to go to Paris where her uncle Baudu keeps a small draper's shop, "Le Vieil Elbeuf". The young woman hopes her kinsman will be able to give her a position. Unfortunately Octave Mouret, Baudu's visionary competitor, has just opened a giant department store nearby, "Au Bonheur des dames", which now attracts customers like a magnet. Denise, realizing that "Le Vieil Elbeuf" is dying away, crosses the street to offer her services to Octave Mouret...

Shavian social satire. Odette is an actress who's now the mistress of a government minister. Her household of cook, maid, and chauffeur needs a valet. On the eve of going with the minister to Deauville, she engages Désiré, a robust and talkative man, even through his most recent employer, a countess, intimates improprieties. Things go well for a short time: the wealthy talk about the servants, the servants talk about their employers. Then, Désiré has explicit dreams about Odette; his outbursts wake the maid in the next room nightly. Odette has the same dream each night, awaking the minister and his jealousy. Is there any decorous way to handle these subconscious attractions?

Picpus is a street and a subway stop where a number of murders have been committed, Maigret tries to find the killer.

Before starting her teaching job Marie works as a maid for the Binders. When she is accused of stealing neighbor Charles, a soccer champion who loves her, and deadbeat lawyer Maximilian support her in her plight.

Good King Pausole selects a wife for every day in the year but one protests when he spends her day searching for his favorite daughter who has eloped with a visiting airman stranded in the kingdom.