French cinema: 1933
L'Abbé Constantin (1933)
Jean-Paul Paulin
The Countess de Laverdens has set her noble heart on buying the château de Longueval. Imagine then her horror when she learns that she has been outbid at the auction and the property now belongs to two wealthy American sisters...
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Jean-Paul Paulin
Baroud (1933)
Rex Ingram
André Duval and Si Ahmed are fellow sergeants in the Spahis, the Algerian native cavalry of the French Army. Duval falls in love with a native Moroccan woman, without realising she is Zinah, the sister of Si Ahmed and daughter of the Berber chieftain Si Allal...
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Rex Ingram
Cette vieille canaille (1933)
Anatole Litvak
At a busy fairground, Hélène, the daughter of a stall holder, gets into a fight with a rival over a man, the handsome acrobat Jean...
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Anatole Litvak
Le Coq du régiment (1933)
Maurice Cammage
Lavirette certainly lives up to his name ' le coq du régiment'. Even before he donned his first uniform, he was always the most unrepentant of skirt-chasers, much to the annoyance of his wife...
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Maurice Cammage
Dans les rues (1933)
Victor Trivas
Jacques is the wayward son of a poor war widow. Unable to find work, he falls in with a gang of delinquents who terrorise householders and shopkeepers in their neighbourhood...
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Victor Trivas
Les Deux orphelines (1933)
Maurice Tourneur
On the eve of the French Revolution, two orphan girls, Henriette and Louise, make their way to Paris. Henriette is kidnapped by a libertine marquis to participate in a debauched party, leaving her blind sister at the mercy of an unscrupulous hag, La Frochard... [More...]
Maurice Tourneur
On the eve of the French Revolution, two orphan girls, Henriette and Louise, make their way to Paris. Henriette is kidnapped by a libertine marquis to participate in a debauched party, leaving her blind sister at the mercy of an unscrupulous hag, La Frochard... [More...]
Don Quichotte (1933)
Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Don Quixote squanders his fortune by buying books about chivalry, which he reads assiduously. After doing so for many years, he believes he is himself a knight, sent on a divine mission to wrong all of the injustices in the world... [More...]
Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Don Quixote squanders his fortune by buying books about chivalry, which he reads assiduously. After doing so for many years, he believes he is himself a knight, sent on a divine mission to wrong all of the injustices in the world... [More...]
Du haut en bas (1933)
Georg Wilhelm Pabst
After graduating with a doctorate, Marie de Ferstel is eager to find temporary work until a permanent teaching job turns up... [More...]
Georg Wilhelm Pabst
After graduating with a doctorate, Marie de Ferstel is eager to find temporary work until a permanent teaching job turns up... [More...]
Le Gendre de Monsieur Poirier (1933)
Marcel Pagnol
Under the reign of Louis-Philippe, Monsieur Poirier has amassed a huge personal fortune through his business dealings. The only thing he lacks is a title, and this is what he hopes to acquire by marrying his daughter Antoinette to an impoverished aristocrat, the Marquis Gaston de Presles... [More...]
Marcel Pagnol
Under the reign of Louis-Philippe, Monsieur Poirier has amassed a huge personal fortune through his business dealings. The only thing he lacks is a title, and this is what he hopes to acquire by marrying his daughter Antoinette to an impoverished aristocrat, the Marquis Gaston de Presles... [More...]
L'Homme à l'Hispano (1933)
Jean Epstein
Virtually bankrupt, Georges Dewalter has made up his mind to leave France and move to Senegal in the hope of making his fortune... [More...]
Jean Epstein
Virtually bankrupt, Georges Dewalter has made up his mind to leave France and move to Senegal in the hope of making his fortune... [More...]
L'Homme mystérieux (1933)
Maurice Tourneur
To resolve a business matter, Pierre needs to have his brother Raymond released from the psychiatric institution to which he was committed after he attacked his wife Louise... [More...]
Maurice Tourneur
To resolve a business matter, Pierre needs to have his brother Raymond released from the psychiatric institution to which he was committed after he attacked his wife Louise... [More...]
Madame Bovary (1933)
Jean Renoir
In the summer of 1839, Dr Charles Bovary is happy with his mundane existence as a country doctor near Rouen, married to an older woman he scarcely notices... [More...]
Jean Renoir
In the summer of 1839, Dr Charles Bovary is happy with his mundane existence as a country doctor near Rouen, married to an older woman he scarcely notices... [More...]
Le Maître de forges (1933)
Abel Gance
The wealthy Claire de Beaulieu is about to marry the Duke de Bligny, an impoverished nobleman, when disaster strikes. Her family ruined, Claire is not surprised when her fiancé gives her up to marry instead a rich heiress... [More...]
Abel Gance
The wealthy Claire de Beaulieu is about to marry the Duke de Bligny, an impoverished nobleman, when disaster strikes. Her family ruined, Claire is not surprised when her fiancé gives her up to marry instead a rich heiress... [More...]
Le Martyre de l'obèse (1933)
Pierre Chenal
Angèle Léger is outraged when she discovers that her husband Henri has been seeing another woman, so outraged that she decides to take a lover herself, just to make Henri jealous... [More...]
Pierre Chenal
Angèle Léger is outraged when she discovers that her husband Henri has been seeing another woman, so outraged that she decides to take a lover herself, just to make Henri jealous... [More...]
La Maternelle (1933)
Jean Benoît-Lévy
After her father's bankruptcy Rose, an educated woman in her early twenties, is abandoned by her fiancé and is forced to fall back on her own resources... [More...]
Jean Benoît-Lévy
After her father's bankruptcy Rose, an educated woman in her early twenties, is abandoned by her fiancé and is forced to fall back on her own resources... [More...]
Les Misérables (1933)
Raymond Bernard
Jean Valjean leaves jail, having served a 15-year sentence for stealing a loaf of bread, a hard and bitter man. The kindness of a bishop sets him on a new course, however, and eight years later he has become Monsieur Madeleine, a respected mayor and industrialist... [More...]
Raymond Bernard
Jean Valjean leaves jail, having served a 15-year sentence for stealing a loaf of bread, a hard and bitter man. The kindness of a bishop sets him on a new course, however, and eight years later he has become Monsieur Madeleine, a respected mayor and industrialist... [More...]
L'Ordonnance (1933)
Viktor Tourjansky
Colonel Limousin returns home to find this his young wife has committed suicide in her bath. After the funeral, he discovers a letter in which the dead woman reveals how she was driven to take her own life... [More...]
Viktor Tourjansky
Colonel Limousin returns home to find this his young wife has committed suicide in her bath. After the funeral, he discovers a letter in which the dead woman reveals how she was driven to take her own life... [More...]
Quatorze Juillet (1933)
René Clair
Anna, a modest flower seller, is in love with Jean, a Paris taxi driver. They plan to spend the evening of the 14th of July in each other's arms, dancing the night away at an open air ball... [More...]
René Clair
Anna, a modest flower seller, is in love with Jean, a Paris taxi driver. They plan to spend the evening of the 14th of July in each other's arms, dancing the night away at an open air ball... [More...]
Le Sexe faible (1933)
Robert Siodmak
Madame Leroy-Gomez is one of the wealthy patrons of an exclusive Parisian hotel. A firm believer in the idea that one can never have too much of a good thing as far as lucre is concerned, she encourages her sons Jimmy and Philippe to marry for money, not knowing that they are too fond of their carefree bachelor existence to fall in with these well-meaning plans... [More...]
Robert Siodmak
Madame Leroy-Gomez is one of the wealthy patrons of an exclusive Parisian hotel. A firm believer in the idea that one can never have too much of a good thing as far as lucre is concerned, she encourages her sons Jimmy and Philippe to marry for money, not knowing that they are too fond of their carefree bachelor existence to fall in with these well-meaning plans... [More...]
La Tête d'un homme (1933)
Julien Duvivier
In a crowded Parisian café, Willy Ferrière, a penniless playboy, declares that he is willing to pay a hundred thousand francs to anyone who will kill his aunt, thereby allowing him to inherit a vast fortune... [More...]
Julien Duvivier
In a crowded Parisian café, Willy Ferrière, a penniless playboy, declares that he is willing to pay a hundred thousand francs to anyone who will kill his aunt, thereby allowing him to inherit a vast fortune... [More...]
Théodore et Cie (1933)
Pierre Colombier
Théodore, is the nephew of a rich cheese merchant, but rather than follow an honest career in his uncle Chénerol's business, he prefers to earn his living by enacting various scams with his colleague Clodomir... [More...]
Pierre Colombier
Théodore, is the nephew of a rich cheese merchant, but rather than follow an honest career in his uncle Chénerol's business, he prefers to earn his living by enacting various scams with his colleague Clodomir... [More...]
Topaze (1933)
Louis J. Gasnier
Albert Topaze is an idealistic schoolteacher who believes that it is better to be honest than rich. His high ideals bring him into conflict with his headmaster, who dismisses him on the spot when he learns that he has shown an interest in his daughter... [More...]
Louis J. Gasnier
Albert Topaze is an idealistic schoolteacher who believes that it is better to be honest than rich. His high ideals bring him into conflict with his headmaster, who dismisses him on the spot when he learns that he has shown an interest in his daughter... [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...]
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...]