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Face au destin (1941)
Character: The lieutenant
Two modest young employees, Jean and Madeleine, dream of leading the way, but the experience turns out badly. Madeleine marries a German aristocrat who turns out to be a spy, and finds Jean who had joined the Legion.
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La Cousine Bette (1928)
Character: N/A
A poor relative, cousin Bette is cast aside by a wealthy family. Embittered and jealous, she devotes herself to the systematic destruction of those around her. Max de Rieux's adaptation takes the decision to return to the initial meeting of the Hulot couple as if to show the degradation of the pure feelings and sublime aspirations of youth in bloody competition and irresistible perversion in materialist society.
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La Glu (1927)
Character: Marie-Pierre
A young Parisian woman nicknamed La Glu settles in a Breton fishing village with the intention of seducing Marie-Pierre, the only boy of the 9 children of Marie des Agnes.
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Minuit... place Pigalle (1928)
Character: N/A
A Paris night club proprietor falls from grace and is reduced, after going away for a while, to working there in a menial position.
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L'Heureuse Aventure (1935)
Character: Robert Legrand
A problem forces a plane carrying passengers bound for the Far East to land on a desert island. Couples forms and they are happy. They are finally located, rescued and repatriated. A few months of 'civilization' are enough to pit them against each other. Then they decide to return to their paradise lost.
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La Porteuse de pain (1934)
Character: Lucien Labroue
A brave woman is sentenced to prison on false testimony. She escapes twenty years later and takes refuge in Paris where she carries bread while looking for her children Georges and Lucie who will find her and exonerate her.
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Madame Récamier (1928)
Character: The Prince of Prussia
The film displays Madame Récamier 's conflict with Napoleon. Twice she was pressed to become one of the Empress's ladies. In revenge for her refusal Napoleon declined to save her husband from ruin.
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Sapho (1934)
Character: Jean Gaussin
During a transvestite ball, a young provincial meets Fanny Legrand. A great love is born between them. Later, the young man learns that Fanny was a great coquette. He leaves her, he comes back, he forgives. But when he embarks for America, Fanny does not follow him.
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Notre-Dame de la Mouise (1941)
Character: L'abbé
Father Vincent is trying to build a church in the California neighborhood. Greeted by stones, he must face a sinister band of deviants excited by a shady cabaret performer. The abbot resists, gradually builds his church and regenerates all the wretches with whom he lives and especially the hardest, Bibi.
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Les Misérables (1925)
Character: Marius
In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.
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Les Trois Masques (1929)
Character: Paolo della Corba
During a carnival, the two brothers of a poor girl ,who has been impregnated by the son of a well to do farmer, seek vengeance.
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Monte Cristo (1929)
Character: Maximilien Morrel - le fils
Young sailor Edmond Dantès is wrongfully imprisoned, escapes, finds treasure, and reinvents himself as the wealthy Count of Monte Cristo to exact revenge on those who betrayed him.
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Le père Chopin (1945)
Character: Jacques Dupont
A widower is struggling to raise his five children, when he finds a rich brother who imagines he will make them happy by unwittingly destroying their modest projects. After many disasters, the uncle will be more understanding and repair his wrongs. A duel to finish: moral values and love against money and selfishness, in the Quebec of the 1940s.
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