|
Vers l'abîme (1934)
Character: Kraver
The dramatic story of a military attaché, in a European embassy who will sign a fake check, in order to recover important secret documents that have been stolen from him.
|
|
|
Magie moderne (1931)
Character: Saintclair
A young inventor who has developed a television set falls in love. Early sound version of this film made in various languages (a not uncommon practice at the time) by Paramount Pictures , all now apparently lost.
|
|
|
Le vertige (1935)
Character: N/A
General Mikailoff once killed a lieutenant he mistakenly believed to be his wife's lover. Subsequently, she meets Henri de Cassel, so different from her drunkard husband, becomes his mistress and agrees to flee with him. She is surprised by her husband who, dead drunk, shoots the young man's reflection in the mirror.
|
|
|
Les Jumeaux de Brighton (1936)
Character: N/A
Slapstick inheritance comedy based on the confusion between twin brothers, both played by the great Raimu who also plays their father.
|
|
|
|
Théodore et Cie (1933)
Character: N/A
Chénérol, a wealthy merchant, one day discovers that his wife is having an affair and that his nephew is playing with him. Indeed, the latter, Théodore, does not work but earns money by using a few dirty tricks.
|
|
|
Rothchild (1934)
Character: Fil de Fer
An ex-businessman, ruined and reduced to living under bridges, uses the name of one of his companions in misfortune, Rothchild, to organize a vast scam.
|
|
|
La Sonnette d'alarme (1935)
Character: Veterinarian
Middle-aged Parisian Bobby, following an attack of gout, is forced to give up his previous merry life. Above all this Bobby falls in love with his niece Genevieve, abandoned by her husband.
|
|
|
Mon cœur t'appelle (1934)
Character: N/A
Director Rosé and his opera company travel to Monte Carlo where they expect an engagément to perform at the opera house. During the boat trip Mario, the cheerful tenor, meets a girl hidden in his cabin. He helps her singing for her passage and soon Nicole is adopted by the whole troupe. Then at Monte Carlo the opera director has no intention to sign them. But he has an eye for beautiful women, so Nicole will try to persuade him to reconsider the offer.
|
|
|
La Perle (1932)
Character: N/A
A jeweler's clerk accidentally swallows a pearl worth three million. The jeweler accepts his marriage to his daughter if the clerk agrees to have the operation. The adventures follow one another until the day when the clerk admits that he has not swallowed the pearl, but as he has become a famous man, the jeweler accepts him as his son-in-law.
|
|
|
Coup de feu à l'aube (1932)
Character: N/A
A crime has been committed by the Trembleur gang, which specializes in jewelry thefts. The Berlin police are on the trail of the mysterious leader. Thanks to a cunning policeman posing as a member of a rival gang, the bandits are trapped in a suburban villa.
|
|
|
La Dernière Valse (1936)
Character: N/A
Count Dimitri is sentenced to death for hitting Prince Paul who was trying to steal a kiss from Countess Vera. Prince Paul pardons him because of a young girl who knew how to conquer his heart at the right time.
|
|
|
Une gueule en or (1936)
Character: Bar customer
The Marquis de Barfleur, an unattractive man, decides to resort to plastic surgery to ensure the fidelity of Colette, his young mistress. Now endowed with a face to die for, he is about to achieve his goal. But the Marchioness de Barfleur, the Marquis' loving wife, does not hear it that way. She has her revenge claiming everywhere that her husband is... dead! An assertion people believe since they do not recognize the Marquis! When her vengeance has lasted long enough, she forgives the Marquis and husband and wife fall into each other's arms.
|
|
|
La Marmaille (1935)
Character: N/A
Mr. Bouton, a modest carpenter from Faubourg-Saint-Antoine, widower and father of Pinpin, a little boy, marries Mrs. Colombe, mother of Ninette, a little girl. Soon deceived and abandoned, he raises the two children alone. As an adult, Pinpin falls in love with Ninette, but she is in love with Gérard Garnier, whom she soon marries. The children gone, Bouton finds himself alone and one Christmas evening meets Mrs. Marie, a mother who raises her two children alone.
|
|
|
|
Charlemagne (1933)
Character: Malet
After the sinking of their boat, seven passengers from a wealthy background find themselves on a desert island. The man who saves them from drowning then proposes to the sailor Charlemagne to become the king of the peninsula.
|
|
|
Baccara (1935)
Character: N/A
A rich banker is actually a crook. His mistress, an alien, wants to become French and the only way is to marry a Frenchman.
|
|
|
Mon amant l'assassin (1932)
Character: N/A
An eccentric woman is determined to marry a murderer. Her admirer will have to become a murderer in order to conquer her heart.
|
|
|
Dédé (1934)
Character: Toto
Dédé is a young wealthy man who buys a shoe store, owned by his friend Robert, in order to receive more conveniently his mistress. Everything seems fine and Dédé seems to be enjoying all of this. But the man barely knew that he would fall in love with one of the many pretty vendors of his new "acquisition", favoring this new girl over the previous one.
|
|
|
Jenny (1936)
Character: N/A
When her fiancé breaks off their engagement, Danielle leaves London and returns to her mother, Jenny, in Paris. With her business partner Benoît, Jenny runs what appears to be a respectable nightclub – it is in fact a place where wealthy men can buy the favours of attractive young women. Oblivious to her mother's professional and personal life, Danielle meets a handsome young man named Lucien, and falls in love with him – not realising that he is Jenny's lover...
|
|
|
On a volé un homme (1934)
Character: Remy
Lost film. A young man is kidnapped by his business competitors, but the jailer falls in love with the man she has to keep a prisoner.
|
|
|
Les Misérables (1934)
Character: Bamatabois (uncredited)
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.
|
|
|
La Petite Lise (1930)
Character: M. Bazet
Victor Berthier, a good man but also a very jealous one, killed his wife in a fit of jealousy. After serving a few years in a chain gang, he is released for good behavior. He feels very happy to be able to return to Paris and to meet Lise, his daughter, again. But, to his dismay, he finds that Lise, through the fault of André, her lover and pimp, has unwillingly committed a murder.
|
|
|
|
|
Rêve éternel (1935)
Character: A villager
The legend says that the summit of Mont Blanc is covered in gold. This ancestral belief has obsessed Jacques Balmat, a mountain guide, from his childhood. Now only he believes in the legend, and is the laughingstock of the villagers. Determined to prove that he is right, he takes advantage of the interest of the Swiss naturalist and physicist Horace Benedict de Saussure, who promises a reward of a thousand pieces of gold for the first who reaches the summit. The determination of Jacques Balmat will overcome the numerous obstacles that will arise during the ascent. French version of the film 'Der Konig vom Mont Blanc', in which the second-tier actors are different.
|
|
|
Allo Berlin? Ici Paris! (1932)
Character: N/A
Story of a rendezvous in Paris which is prepared through telephone calls between a Berlin telephonist and his female colleague in Paris.
|
|
