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Two young lovers Renée and Pierre check into the Hôtel du Nord in Paris, near to the canal Saint-Martin, with the intention of committing suicide together. Pierre cannot bring himself to go through with it and, having wounded Renée, he flees. The gunshot is overheard by Monsieur Edmond, a pimp who lives in an adjacent room with his prostitute...
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Sickened by the experience of war, having served in the trenches during World War I, Jean Diaz dedicates his life to perfecting a machine that will prevent future wars. Although he thinks he has succeeded, his invention is used by the government as a weapon. In a last desperate measure of retaliation, Diaz conjures up the buried dead of World War I from their graves......
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This film traces the early years of the French Revolution, from the storming of the Bastille in 1789 to the campaign to drive off the Prussian army in 1781. We see the effect of the Revolution on both ordinary people and on the royal court. The removal of the monarchy has a sad inevitability as a nation comes together and unites under the French tricoleur to the sound of that great anthem...
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A station master, Roubaud, discovers that his young wife, Séverine, has been seduced by her godfather, the wealthy Grandmorin. Jealous, Roubaud forces Séverine to assist in the murder of Grandmorin during a train journey. The murder is witnessed by a railway worker, Jacques Lantier, but he keeps quiet because he is in love with Séverine...
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A middle-aged man Aimable and his young wife Aurélie decide to settle in a Provençal village, running the local baker’s shop. A short while later Aurélie runs of with a young shepherd, leaving her husband broken hearted. Aimable refuses to make any more bread and the villagers are forced to separate Aurélie from her new lover and return her to her husband......
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Captain Justin Mollenard works for a company that sells armaments to the Far East. After an eventful stay in Shanghai, where he and his cargo are the victim of a malicious attack, he returns to his hometown of Dunkirk. Mollenard receives a frosty welcome from his wife Mathilde, who resents the way in which he has neglected his family for so many years...
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Although he is happily married, André Pascaud has yet to experience a true romance and his only passion is his work as an engineer. One day, when he is about to set out for Paris, his brother-in-law asks him to deliver a love letter to a young student, Françoise. As soon as he sees Françoise, André knows that she is the woman he has been craving all his life...
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Jean, a deserter from the French army arrives in the port of Le Havre where, by chance, he is offered a change of identity and the opportunity to sail to the safety of South America. He is reluctant to leave, however, because he has met and fallen in love with a young woman, Nelly. Jean’s fortunes take a turn for the worse when he makes a stand to protect Nelly from her guardian...
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He who hears the wheels of the Ghost Wagon knows he is soon going to die. Every year on New Year’s Eve, the Wagon, driven by Death himself, comes to claim someone at midnight... Overtaken by sickness, David Holm becomes a wicked person. He beats his wife and children and drinks himself into a blind stupor at the inn with his friend Georges...
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A one-time popular actor Raphael Saint-Clair takes up residence in a home for retired actors, where he meets up with a former rival, Marny. The inmates revive past glories and failures, even old jealousies. Another resident, the has-been Cabrissade, demands rights for his fellow inmates, but is humiliated when the director informs him that the owners of the home have run out of money...
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An ordinary factory worker barricades himself in his room, having shot another man, Valentin. He ignores the cries from neighbours and police who surround his home. As night falls, he begins to recall the circumstances that led to the killing. He remembers that he was in love with a girl called Françoise, and that everything was going fine until an unscrupulous dog trainer...
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Pascal Amoretti and his assistant Felipe dig wells in the countryside of Provance. Felipe is love with his employer’s eldest daughter, Patricia. However, Patricia has met and fallen in love with a French officer, Jacques Mazel, son of a respectable trader in the area. Shortly after Jacques has returned to his battalion...
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France, 1938. Despite the Munich Agreement, the outbreak of war seems imminent. In a small Parisian hotel, several disparate individuals take refuge from the storm clouds that are gathering over Europe. Denise, an attractive young dress vendeuse, hopes soon to marry Dick Stone, an English journalist. She is alarmed when her neighbour...
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Since leaving a reformatory, a young man named Jean has found it impossible to find work, but he perseveres, determined to make a fresh start. One day, he meets Lucette, a homeless teenage girl, and 12-year-old Lucien, who was dumped on some waste ground after having been beaten unconscious by his drunken father. Lucette and Lucien fall in with a band of street urchins who are employed by...
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André Laurent is the captain of a salvage boat and lives in the Brittany port of Brest with his wife Yvonne. Concealing a serious illness, Yvonne pleads with her husband to give up his hazardous job and start a new life with her in another town, but, loyal to his employees, André refuses. One night, he is called to rescue a merchant ship in distress...
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In a South American town, two police cadets must solve a real murder to decide who will graduate. They end up pursuing America’s most notorious criminal, Toni Amanito......
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On the eve of the French Revolution, Napoléon Bonaparte makes the acquaintance of a merchant’s daughter, Désirée Clary, in Marseilles. They fall in love and agree to get engaged, but on his return to Paris, Napoléon decides to marry instead Joséphine de Beauharnais. For her part...
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Having pulled off a robbery with his friend Maurice, Olivier leaves his mistress Lola and hides out in a small village in the country. He finds work, thanks to a young man named Gilbert, who introduces him to his sister, Monique. Once the robbery has been all but forgotten, Olivier intends to head back to Paris, but before he goes...
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The life and times of one of the greatest of French composers. When he is not immersed in his compositions, Hector Berlioz lives a full life with his numerous friends and women. Nowhere is his passion for life shown more forcefully than in his Symphonie fantastique ......
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Monsieur Moulinet has earned the respect and admiration of all the good people of Barfleur-sur-Oron. Nicknamed “the benefactor”, he is renowned for his generosity. One person who asks for his support is Irène Berger, the president of an association that cares for young orphan girls. Moulinet promises his help...
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