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Rue de la Paix (1927)
Character: Thérèse
A designer is in love with a model, who ends up creating her own fashion house, with the help of a millionaire who is also in love with her.
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La Dame aux camélias (1934)
Character: Olympe
Alexandre Dumas' romantic novel Lady of the Camelias (more popularly known as Camille) was filmed twice in 1953, first in Argentina, then in France. The Argentine film was heavily modernized, while the French version returns to Dumas' 19th-century milieu. Micheline Presle is excellent as Marguerite, the gorgeous courtesan who flits from man to man until she finds true love in the form of the much-younger Armand (Rolande Alexandre). Though he is willing to marry her despite her past, she is persuaded to forsake him, lest his reputation be ruined. The story then wends its way towards its famous tragic finale, as the consumptive Marguerite is permitted a few brief moments of happiness before her flame is permanently extinguished. Advertised as the seventh version of the Dumas classic, La Dame aux Camelias was certainly not the last.
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Fanatisme (1934)
Character: L'impératrice Eugénie
After many difficulties, the seductive Italian dancer, Rosine Savelli, manages to clear herself of a plot hatched against Napoleon III...
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La Révoltée (1948)
Character: N/A
The ordeal of Françoise who, deceived by her husband, sees her dying child. After a few events in the backdrop of a festival, the husband returns, she pushes him away, driving him to suicide. Another man she thinks she loves is already married.
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Die Achtzehnjährigen (1927)
Character: Yvette de Valombres
The Eighteen Year Old (German: Die Achtzehnjährigen) is a 1927 German silent drama film directed by Manfred Noa and starring Andrée Lafayette, Ernő Verebes, and Frida Richard.
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Trilby (1923)
Character: Trilby
The hypnotist Svengali makes an artist's model sing, but cannot force her love.
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Der Staatsanwalt klagt an (1928)
Character: N/A
Prosecutor Leander is known for his heavy-handed and unyielding pleadings, demanding draconian punishments, often even the death penalty, for every accused offender. One day, he will experience first-hand how complex some legal assessments can be. Love and passion, hatred and jealousy can drive even the most righteous people to actions they would never normally commit. Therefore, not everyone who commits a crime is necessarily a criminal.
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Le carillon de la liberté (1931)
Character: Nora Sigrid
A painter lives with his patron (soon to be lover) in her fairytale-like Château. But it's 1914, and duty calls. Jacques becomes a hero, and gets married with another girl ,Louise Liègeois; his former mistress is not prepared to accept it and interferes in the couple's life, demanding a portrait of her as a Valkyrie.
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Glanz und Elend der Kurtisanen (1927)
Character: N/A
Balzac adaptation: Escaped convict moves into a brothel where he becomes father to a boy. But his advantageous position is eventually threatened by one of the whores who has fallen in love with the convict's grown up son.
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Le Chasseur de chez Maxim's (1953)
Character: Madame de Beaubourg, lady of the charity
Julien Pauphilat is the doorman at the famous restaurant, Maxim's and is also the confidant of many of his customers. As a consequence, in this post, he has managed to make a comfortable living and even acquire a country mansion. Retirement beckons and he is going to be able to enjoy the quiet life at last. The wedding of his daughter, Genevieve with Andre du Velin, a well born playboy is going to endanger this dream, for Genevieve is ignorant of her father's job. However, her fiance doesn't see any problem with this.
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Les Trois Mousquetaires (1932)
Character: Anne d'Autriche
Young d'Artagnan leaves Gascony for Paris where he hopes to become a Musketeer of the Guard. He does meet three Musketeers, Athos, Porthos and Aramis, but totally by chance and for... a duel against them! But he soon befriends them and follows them in their adventures, notably on a secret mission to uncover a plot contrived against the Queen by Cardinal Richelieu.
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Monsieur Fabre (1951)
Character: N/A
It centres on the life of the entomologist Jean-Henri Fabre and his total devotion to studying insect behavior, travelling from Avignon to Paris, from Paris to his death in Sérignan. He is honoured by the French president Raymond Poincaré and his patience, obstinacy and knowledge are also recognised by Napoleon III, the publisher Charles Delagrave and the philosopher John Stuart Mill. They reach their climax in his book, Souvenirs entomologiques.
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