Falling Leaves

Falling Leaves

It's early autumn and Dr. Headley eagerly demonstrates what seems to be a miraculous cure for tuberculosis. Not far from where he is working, the...

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Ladies Only Compartment

Ladies Only Compartment

On his wedding day, Robert confesses his father-in-law that twenty years ago, he seduced a lady in a sleeping car of a train. His mother-in-law...

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The Magician

The Magician

A young woman, Margaret Dauncey, is caught between the forces of a charlatan magician, Oliver Haddo, whom she is unable to resist, and the love of...

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The Puritan

The Puritan

A religious fanatic finds his entire life and philosophy turned upside-down as he falls in love with a girl and kills her in a jealous rage. His...

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Bethsabée

Bethsabée

Danielle Darrieux stars as Arabella Delvaire in this baroque adaptation of Pierre Benoit's novel Bethshabee. Arabella is a woman of the world who...

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My Last Mistress

My Last Mistress

A renowned sculptor aged about fifty years, François Bressolles falls for the young Catherine Collet whom he convinces without difficulty to pose...

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La Dame aux camélias

La Dame aux camélias

Alexandre Dumas' romantic novel Lady of the Camelias (more popularly known as Camille) was filmed twice in 1953, first in Argentina, then in France...

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Esmeralda

Esmeralda

It was the first film version of the Hunchback of Notre Dame.

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Business Is Business

Business Is Business

Isidore Lechat is a ruthless self-made man whose money allows him to humiliate the others, particularly a ruined noble: he wants his daughter to...

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The Love Cheat

The Love Cheat

Henry, a struggling Greenwhich Villiage artist, accidentally finds an invitation to Louise Gordon's coming out party. He goes to the party, falls...

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The Birth, the Life and the Death of Christ

The Birth, the Life and the Death of Christ

The stations of Christ's life are segmented into a series of performative tableaux.

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Fra Diavolo

Fra Diavolo

Based on the opéra comique of the same name, the film follows the exploits of Italian brigand Fra Diavolo.

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The Sewer

The Sewer

A noted philanthropist is captured by a rowdy gang, but one of the children involved resists the gang's insistence that he turn to a life of crime.

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L'évadée

L'évadée

Woman of Destiny

Woman of Destiny

Expressing post-war cultural internationalism, this silent film follows the mysterious Orchid and the man who loves her.

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