Topaze (1936)
Marcel Pagnol

A modest teacher in a boys' school, Topaze does his utmost to instil in his pupils his creed that money can never buy happiness...   [More...]

La Tradition de minuit (1939)
Roger Richebé

Clara Véry, a singer at the nightclub Le Soleil noir, receives an anonymous telephone call inviting her to attend a meeting the next day in a café...   [More...]

Trois de Saint-Cyr (1939)
Jean-Paul Paulin

Despite the objections of his father, a wealthy banker, Jean Le Moyne enters Saint-Cyr, France's most prestigious military academy, to become an officer in the French army...   [More...]

Tumultes (1932)
Robert Siodmak

Once released from prison, Ralph Schwartz doesn't waste any time organising another bank raid with his band of crooks. His wife Ania is less keen to see him: she has started to have an affair with another man, a photographer named Gustave...   [More...]

Un carnet de bal (1937)
Julien Duvivier

To take her mind off the recent death of her husband, Christine de Guérande begins sorting through her old possessions and is surprised to find her dance card for her coming out ball many years ago...   [More...]

Un de la Canebière (1937)
René Pujol

Toinet, Girelle and Pénible are three friends who lead an amiable existence as humble fishermen in the sunny port of Marseille...   [More...]

Un de la légion (1936)
Christian-Jaque

Fernand Espitalion is a timid man who quietly accepts the humiliations heaped on him by his domineering wife Antoinette. Theirs is a marriage of convenience not mutual tenderness...   [More...]

Un grand amour de Beethoven (1936)
Abel Gance

The composer Ludwig van Beethoven is passionately in love with Juliette Guicciardi, but his love is not requited. She chooses instead to marry the Count Gallenberg, news which, along with his encroaching deafness, propels Beethoven into a state of depression...   [More...]

Zéro de conduite (1933)
Jean Vigo

The summer holidays over, a troupe of young boys return downheartedly to their boarding school, where they will no doubt have to endure another gruelling term of sanctions and punishments at the hands of their cruel teachers...   [More...]