Das Lächeln der Madame Beudet(1923)
An unhappily married woman devises a scheme to get rid of her husband.
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An unhappily married woman devises a scheme to get rid of her husband.
A government official, Count Muffat, falls under the spell of Nana, a young actress. She becomes his mistress, living in the sumptuous apartment which he provides for her. Instead of elevating herself to Muffat's level, however, Nana drags the poor man down to hers - in the end, both lives have been utterly destroyed.
The good guys win out in this sweet tale about a young orphan who is abused for much of her life but who eventually finds happiness when she marries an honest man who extricates her from her situation.
Albert (Henri Rollan) arbeitet als Nachtwächter auf dem Eiffelturm, der hoch über Paris über einen eigenen Raum verfügt. Als er nach einer langen Nacht spät aufwacht und den Blick über Paris schweifen lässt, zweifelt er an seinem Verstand. Nichts bewegt sich in der Stadt. Schnell verlässt er die Turmspitze und läuft über die verlassenen Plätze und Strassen der Stadt. Die wenigen Menschen, die er antrifft, verharren regungslos in ihrer letzten Bewegung und können durch nichts wiederbelebt werden. Fassungslos setzt er sich auf einen Bordstein, bis plötzlich ein Auto an ihm vorbei rast...
Im tiefsten Winter wird das verarmte Mädchen Karen (Catherine Hessling) von ihrer Familie losgeschickt, um mit dem Verkauf von Schwefelhölzern etwas Geld zu verdienen. Bei eisigen Temperaturen findet sich jedoch kein Käufer und sie traut sich nicht, erfolglos nach Hause zurück zu kehren. Alsbald beginnt sie sich vor Hunger und Kälte in einen frohe Welt mit lebendigem Spielzeug zu fantasieren...
Zwei Personen stehen auf einer Straße, unscharf. Durch ein Glas verzerrt gesehen, ziehen sie sich nach oben in ein Schlafzimmer zurück, wo sie sich auszieht. Er sagt: "Adieu". Bilder: das schöne Mädchen, ein Seestern in einem Glas, Stadtszenen, Zeitungen, Schleppboote. Weitere Bilder: Seestern, das Mädchen. "Wie schön sie ist." Wiederholt. Er schreitet die Treppe hinauf, das Messer in der Hand, der Seestern auf der Stufe. Drei Menschen stehen auf einer Straße, unscharf. "Wie schön sie war." "Wie schön sie ist." "Schön.".
Das erste surrealistische Werk der Filmgeschichte und sein berüchtigter “Anti-Klassiker” – nach dem Drehbuch von Antonin Artaud.
Marquis Sévéro, a rich, lazy Parisian, wants to divorce his wife so that he can marry his own goddaughter Denise. But Denise herself loves André Berval, an engineer employed by the marquis. Filled with jealousy, the marquis sends André to the Antilles, to prospect some land he has just acquired. He promises André that he can marry Denise if he is successful in the tropics, but he then writes to Alvarez, his manager at the site, asking him to prevent André from ever returning to France. The brutal Alvarez forms an instant hatred for André when the engineer breaks up Alvarez's attempt to rape Papitou, a beautiful native girl. Papitou becomes devoted to André, and protects him against Alvarez's schemes. But she faces a crisis herself when she learns that André plans to marry Denise.
Film composed of 10 episodes: 1.- L'Ami felon. 2.- Le secret de L'etang. 3.- L'Ambition au service de la haine. 4.- L'Implacable verdict. 5.- Le Pont vivant. 6.- La Voix du sang. 7.- Les Caprices du destin. 8.- En Champ clos. 9.- Les Angoisses de Corradin. 10.- Le Triomphe de L'amour.
Der junge Marine-Offizier Edmond Dantès ist ein erfolgreicher und glücklicher junger Mann, der kurz vor der Hochzeit steht. Doch unmittelbar vor den Festlichkeiten gelingt es dem intriganten Widersacher und Nebenbuhler Fernand de Montcerf, Edmond Dantès verhaften zu lassen. Er belastet ihn mit kompromittierenden Aussagen bezüglich seiner politischen Haltung. Unschuldig bleibt Dantès jahrelang im berüchtigten Insel-Gefängnis Château d'If vor der Küste von Marseille inhaftiert, bis ihm endlich die Flucht gelingt. Durch die Hilfe seines Mitgefangenen, Abbé Faria, kommt Edmond Dantès zu immensem Reichtum. Als mysteriöser Graf von Monte Christo kehrt er nach Paris zurück, angetrieben von einem Ziel: Er will an seinen Verrätern fürchterliche Rache nehmen.
Romantic novelist George Sand's Mauprat as adapted by cinema visionary Jean Epstein. As a child, orphan Bernard de Mauprat was adopted by Tristan, a brigand who brought him up with his biological sons to hate, kill and pillage. Hubert de Mauprat, the elder brother of Tristan, the very incarnation of nobility, and his daughter, the beautiful and intrepid Edmée, undertake to tear wild-eyed Bernard away from his uncle. Still uncouth and rough, Bernard endeavors to wrest the love of Edmée away from her betrothed.
On the islet Bannec, off the coast of Brittany, four fishermen have set up camp for three months to harvest seaweed. If processed correctly, the ash of the seaweed can be sold for high prices. It is therefore burnt in several large piles on the island.
Adapted from Jules Verne's 1876 novel Michael Strogoff, the film tells the tale of a Russian courier named Michael Strogoff who has to dash across Russia with a vital message for the tsar's brother, wrestling with bears and fighting off ferocious Tatar rebels along the way. Captured by the Tatars, he is brought before their leader and blinded with a red hot sword by the executioner.
Jean Renoir's directional debut and first silent film stars his wife, Catherine Hessling, as a young girl who manages to turn her tragic family life into one of joy and happiness.
As Jean is walking across the countryside in search of work, he helps and befriends a young woman, Françoise, who is having trouble controlling the cow that she is leading. Jean finds work at a local farm, but he soon finds himself caught in the middle of the conflicts in Françoise's family.
Gribiche, a young boy whose mother is a war widow, gets adopted by a rich woman. She wants to turn him into a perfect gentleman, but soon he feels unhappy.
When bored American billionaire Charles Vanel is amused by the happiness of poor railroad man Nicolas Koline, he offers him a wager: if Koline and his family can spend 20,000 francs a day (about $11,000 in current American money) for a year, then he'll give him a nice pension. The rest of the movie is about the poor man and his family's efforts to win the bet.
A dramatized re-enactment and documentary of the Battle of Verdun as seen by both French and German soldiers, shot on site of the actual battle.
Lügen, Unordnung, Geschwätz. Drei Dinge, die Monsieur Lepic über alles hasst und ausgerechnet diese verkörpern für ihn seine Frau. Der in diesen Ehekrieg hineingeborene Sohn François, "Karottenkopf" genannt, führt das unglückliche Leben eines Prügelknaben ... Verfilmung des berühmten Romans von Jules Renard.
A young French woman who inherits her uncle's property in Algeria finds herself schemed against by her envious cousins, and romanced by a handsome but previously irresponsible young man who works for his uncle on a neighbouring farm.
One of the longest films ever made.
King Louis XI tries to unify France by all means fair or foul, which does not please his powerful rival Charles the Bold. It is against this troubled backdrop that the loves of the daughter of a wealthy bourgeois and the king's god-daughter Jeanne Fouquet and knight Robert Cottereau unfurl in spite of all the obstacles in their way. One of these being a pack of hungry wolves trying to stop Jeanne from carrying out an important mission assigned to her by the king himself.
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A Princess learns that the captain of a ship she owns has struck a passenger, indirectly causing the passenger's death. The Captain is immediately sacked without realising that his action was in defence of her honour. Later, in Cyprus, the Princess meets a handsome man and they're mutually attracted. Only when he expresses contempt for the name of Princess Beatrice Doriani for costing him his job does she realise that this is the same Captain whom she had sacked.
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