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Le gardian (1921)
Character: N/A
Nivoulas is the leader of a group of "gardians" (cowherds) in Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer. His brother Mazar is engaged to Fanette, an orphan. After the bull run celebrating their engagement, they meet up at a café terrace. Lucie, a flirtatious waitress from the city, captivates Mazar.
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Dernière heure (1934)
Character: N/A
A young woman flees with her lover, after having killed her brutal husband; hoping to live a few hours of happiness, before his arrest...
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Paris (1924)
Character: N/A
Jean Fleury, a young engineer who has designed a revolutionary engine for the Revoil motor company, is engaged to Aimée Valois, a seamstress, his neighbor across the hall. But the charming young lady is hired one day by a nightclub and lets herself be lured by the easy life in Paris. So much so that, to Jean's great distress, she breaks up with him. But, along with time, Aimée gets tired of her vain and frivolous lifestyle and comes back to Jean.
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Le bossu (1925)
Character: N/A
The Prince of Gonzague kills the Duke of Nevers and tries to marry his widow, Aurore de Nevers, so he can get his hand on his fortune. The Chevalier Lagardère takes the child Irène de Nevers with him to Spain only to return disguised as a hunchback years later to unmask the Prince for the villain he is.
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Magie moderne (1931)
Character: Stephany, le financier
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.
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L'Amour en vitesse (1932)
Character: N/A
Lilian, a rich young girl, is to marry Baron de Plessis, captain of the bobsleigh team. However, Lilian is interested in Tressac, the captain of the opposing team. When everyone discovers that the baron is a burglar, Lilian can marry her lover.
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L'Ile enchantée (1927)
Character: Gabriel Lestrange
The story takes place in Corsica, where a young business woman (Jacqueline Forzane) tries to construct an electric system for her steel plant. But this project is not welcomed by everyone...
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Jeunes filles en détresse (1939)
Character: Le père d'Amélie
Somewhat reminiscent of 'Mädchen in Uniform' (1931), the story is set in a private girl's school, populated almost exclusively by children from broken homes. Among the few students who can claim family stability is Micheline Presle, but even her happiness is threatened when her lawyer father Andre Luguet inaugurates an affair with stage actress Jacqueline Debulac. With the help of Debulac's daughter Louisa Carletti, Presle is able to break up her father's romance and deliver him into the open arms of her mother Marcelle Chantal.
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La Danseuse Orchidée (1928)
Character: Buguelle
Expressing post-war cultural internationalism, this silent film follows the mysterious Orchid and the man who loves her.
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Le Tourbillon de Paris (1928)
Character: N/A
Story of a woman who thinks she prefers a life of glory on stage in Paris to life with her Scottish lord of a husband in his castle.
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La Garçonne (1923)
Character: Lucien Vigneret
Monique is an ingenue, a clueless girl who believes in true love. A marriage is the only thing a decent girl must long for. When she discovers that her future husband has a lover, she rebels against her bourgeois family.
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L'Agonie de Jérusalem (1927)
Character: Larsac
A former professor and devout Catholic living in Jerusalem is unaware that his son supposedly studying in Paris has actually become the leader of an anarchist network under the codename Sirias.
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La Neige sur les pas (1942)
Character: N/A
Abandoned by her husband Marc, Thérèse Romanay cheats on him with André Norans. When Romanay finds out, he drives her away. She runs away with her lover. But, during a mountain excursion, Norans is killed and Thérèse is herself seriously injured. But she recovers. The husband then forgives the unfaithful wife, and the couple reunites.
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Le Reflet de Claude Mercoeur (1923)
Character: N/A
A man overloaded by work accepts the offer of an identical double to perform some of those responsibilities for him, leading to deadly consequences.
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Le Chemin du paradis (1930)
Character: Monsieur Bourcart
Willy, Jean and Guy are broke, so they sell their car and open a filling station. Then they all fall in love for the same girl. Simultaneously filmed French version of the German musical "Die Drei von der Tankstelle".
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L'escadrille de la chance (1938)
Character: President
Edwige, a rich American divorcee, goes to Morocco to look up an amazing pilot she once knew. The young woman's secretary, also an aviator, won't fly a plane because he was in a terrible accident. As he is in love with Edwige, the secretary does everything in his power to thwart her romance with the other pilot. He finally supplants his rival and wins the heart of his boss.
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Le Billet de mille (1935)
Character: N/A
The tribulations of a banknote, from its exit from a counter to its destruction, passing through dozens of hands.
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Caprice de princesse (1933)
Character: Superintendent
Princess Isabelle is in love with the young man in charge of her library. But André is looking for a simple woman without money. He falls in love with a shopgirl who could be the Princess' sister. It's up to Isabelle come up with a scheme to find love...
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Mon cœur et ses millions (1931)
Character: Mirgaudon
Franck Crighton is a millionaire who is fed up with his hectic life. To have a bit of peace and quiet he has found the winning formula, passing himself off as Guillaume Aribeau, his own secretary. Under the cover of this modest condition Franck can both lead a freewheeling life and find true love.
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Son altesse impériale (1933)
Character: The Grand Duke
Prince Boris, engaged to marry Princess Dorothea, meets and falls in love with journalist Monique in Cannes.
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Quartier latin (1929)
Character: Baron Harvey
A wealthy man pretends to be a starving artist to gain the affections of a young painter.
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L'Émigrante (1940)
Character: Officer
Fearing a gangster's vengeance,his moll sails away to South Africa ,where many emigrants intend to work in the mines there.
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Charlemagne (1933)
Character: Director
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.
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Espoirs... (1941)
Character: Grigou
Grigou owns a patch of land between farmers Martin's and Aubert's fields. Both covet this plot.As Grigou has lost the title deed,the mayor of the village decides to sell it.After an interminable auction sale, Aubert carries the day .To add insult to injury,shortly after, Martin is expelled from his farm,and becomes an innkeeper (a doomed inn where the former owner hanged himself). Ten years after, Aubert's daughter falls in love with Martin's son.Their fathers being deadly enemies, their marriage seems impossible.
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Der unheimliche Gast (1922)
Character: l'inspecteur David
A couple on their honeymoon in the French Riviera are cursed by an old woman in black.
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La Tête d'un homme (1933)
Character: Willy Ferrière
Willy Ferrière is a gambler living beyond his means, and his mistress is as greedy as he's dead broke. One day, he says out of loud in a a Montparnasse café that he would give 100,000 francs to get rid of his wealthy aunt so he could claim his inheritance. Someone secretly lets Willy know it's a deal. The old lady is murdered, and a low-life criminal is manipulated to be the perfect suspect. But Superintendant Maigret feels something is wrong.
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Großstadtschmetterling (1929)
Character: Baron de Neuve
In this, her second silent film with Eichberg, Wong plays Princess Butterfly, an exotic Parisian fan dancer whose “death leap through a circle of naked swords” act goes tragically wrong. Blamed for the impalement of a fellow performer, she runs away and takes shelter with a handsome but starving painter who she brings luck.
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Le Golem (1936)
Character: Friedrich, le chef de la police
The Golem, a giant creature created out of clay by a rabbi, comes to life in a time of trouble to protect the Jews of Prague from persecution.
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L'Eau du Nil (1928)
Character: Basil Lescoe
Wirsoq, who belongs to the type of cosmopolitan financier, gets into his power a young French aristocrat, Arthur de Sorgepois, and insists that the boy's sister should marry him. The girl is in love with a young artist, Pierre Levannier, who secretly returns her affection, but does not declare himself at this critical moment because he is not rich enough to support a wife.
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Le Chemin d'Ernoa (1921)
Character: N/A
Etchégor, a wealthy Basque peasant is in love with the beautiful American Majesty Parnell. Her husband, about to be arrested for theft, seeks to forge an alibi.
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La Fin du jour (1939)
Character: Lacour
Aged penniless actors are living in a old people's home. They always talk about their past glory or failures. One day Raphael Saint-Clair comes; he has been a famous actor and had a lot of love affairs. Passions come back, and jealousies... A bitter film about aging, failure and the entertainment.
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Sensation im Wintergarten (1929)
Character: Baron von Mallock
The son of a Countess runs away to join the circus and becomes a great trapeze artist. He returns years later and falls in love with a young woman.
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Le Mystère de la Tour Eiffel (1928)
Character: Sir William Dewitt
The Mironton Brothers are part of a fairground attraction. One of them comes into a large inheritance, but the Friends of the Antenna association try to keep him from accessing the money. This formidable brotherhood, whose headquarters are in the Eiffel Tower, send the Mironton Brothers on impossible adventures and countless traps.
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Hříchy lásky (1929)
Character: N/A
The troubled situation of a provincial actor and his actress wife who come to the city. The actor is suspected of attacking another actor who admires the actress.
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Prix de beauté (1930)
Character: Le Duc
Lucienne, typist and gorgeous bathing beauty, decides to enter the 'Miss Europe' pageant sponsored by the French newspaper she works for. She finds her jealous lover Andre violently disapproves of such events and tries to withdraw, but it's too late; she's even then being named Miss France. The night Andre planned to propose to her, she's being whisked off to the Miss Europe finals in Spain, where admirers swarm around her. Win or lose, what will the harvest be?
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David Golder (1931)
Character: Graf Hoyos
David is a poor but ambitious Polish Jew who reinvents himself as a powerful New York business magnate. After gaining wealth, he relocates to Paris, only to have his selfish and demanding wife squander his fortune.
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Saxophon-Susi (1928)
Character: Baron von Aspen
Silent version of a story later remade in French and German as Baby: A count's daughter wants a stage career, her show girl friend wants an education, so they change places.
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Pot-Bouille (1957)
Character: Hippolyte Vabre, the father, owner of the building
Young, handsome, dashing but cynical, Octave Mouret arrives in Paris, determined to conquer the belles of the capital.
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