The Story of a Cheat

The Story of a Cheat

Life story of a charming scoundrel, with little dialogue other than the star/director's witty narration. As a boy, only he survives a family...

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My First Love

My First Love

Bob, a student, is very emotionally close to his mother Suzanne. He is alarmed when she seems about to begin a relationship with a novelist...

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The Ferret

The Ferret

A mysterious figure signing himself "The Ferret" keeps sending letters to the police, tipping them off about murders that are to be committed...

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The Pearls of the Crown

The Pearls of the Crown

The story of the seven pearls of the English Crown, from Henry VIII to 1937 – three of them missing.

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Désiré

Désiré

Sacha Guitry exchanges his usual top hat for a uniform in Désiré, playing a cavalier valet embroiled in an awkward flirtation with his new employer...

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The New Testament

The New Testament

Husbands and wives, lovers and gigolos, all break a sweat when Dr. Marcelin’s newly-revised last will and testament is prematurely exposed.

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Let’s Go Up the Champs-Élysées

Let’s Go Up the Champs-Élysées

The history of one of France's most famous streets is retold, featuring multiple performances from Guitry himself.

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Volpone

Volpone

Volpone, an elderly Venetian, connives with his money-crazed servant to convince his greedy friends that he is dying, knowing that each will try to...

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Let's Make a Dream

Let's Make a Dream

A husband who has just cheated on his wife returns home in the early morning, puzzled. He finds there, without knowing it, the lover of his wife...

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Quadrille

Quadrille

The battle of the sexes as drawing room social satire. Philippe, a middle-aged newspaper editor, has lived for six years with Paulette, a...

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Bonne chance

Bonne chance

A girl, Marie, who got engaged to a boy who is leaving for military training (thirteen days) wins two million on the raffle, thanks to an older man...

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Girls in Distress

Girls in Distress

Jeune Filles en Detresse (Young Girls in Distress) was director G. W. Pabst's last French production before his (ill-timed) return to Nazi-occupied...

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Second Childhood

Second Childhood

Middle-aged Georges of the "old school" who offers shelter and comfort to Marcelle. Despite his own reservations, Georges falls in love with the...

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Life Is a Game

Life Is a Game

Evanella, who writes the “Horoscope” section of a major newspaper, and her brother Méristo, create with the help of a young journalist, Jean...

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My Father Was Right

My Father Was Right

After being left for another man by his wife, Charles Bellanger raises his only son to fear and suspect women. Years later, such an education is...

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Le Mot de Cambronne

Le Mot de Cambronne

Madame Cambronne, who is English, "it's historic", would really like to know what this famous "Cambronne word" is, which she has never heard...

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L'Accroche-cœur

L'Accroche-cœur

A seasoned con-man devises an elaborate plan to relieve a rich socialite of a hefty chunk of her fortune but her falling in love with him...

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Hangman's Noose

Hangman's Noose

In England, a boxer is sentenced to death for a murder he does not seem to have committed.... Anthony Gethryn, who has just resigned from the...

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Let's Get Married

Let's Get Married

Gisèle accidentally marries her stalker when she thinks she is signing a hotel register in a foreign country.

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Comedy of Happiness

Comedy of Happiness

Monsieur Jourdain is a dangerous madman : he wants to share his fortune! His relatives do what any sensible fellow on earth would do: they have him...

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