Marc Allégret

Zou Zou tries to help her childhood friend prove his innocence after he’s accused of murder.Read More »

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A beautiful 18-year-old orphan escapes from a reformatory and hooks up wth a gang of jewel smugglers, and decides on a life of crime. However, she falls for and marries a policeman, putting a crimp in her criminal career.Read More »

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‘Isabelle dreams of becoming a great actress and so she is over the moon when she is accepted into the Conservatoire, France’s leading drama school. Her talents are immediately spotted by her drama instructor, Professor Lambertin, who is appalled to hear that Isabelle may have to abandon her studies so that she can earn her keep in her adopted parents’ laundrette. Isabelle’s guardians have a change of heart when Lambertin visits them in person and convinces them that his is a noble profession and that their ward has the makings of a fine actress. At the school, Isabelle falls in love with an older student, François, who has a reputation as a lady’s man. When François begins an affair with Isabelle, his former girlfriend Cécilia is consumed with anger and jealousy. She plans to use her theatrical training to inflict on her former lover a cruel and deadly revenge…’
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Political turmoil convulses 19th-century Russia, as Razumov, a young student preparing for a career in the czarist bureaucracy, unwittingly becomes embroiled in the assassination of a public official.

Based on Joseph Conrad’s novel.Read More »

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Un Drole de Dimanche (What a Sunday) stars Danielle Darrieux as Catherine and Bourvil as her ex-husband Jean. By chance, Catherine and Jean are reunited five years after she walked out of his life. In a fit of romantic nostalgia, Jean mentally reconstructs the events that led up to their separation. He then determines to win her back, certain that he’ll never, ever make the same mistakes again? or will he?Read More »

Julietta Valendor is a romantic and dreamy girl who accepts with difficulty the fifth-year-old fiancé chosen by her mother: the very worldly prince of Alpen. One day she is given the opportunity to meet the man of her dreams in the person of lawyer André Landrecourt.Read More »

After his wife deserted him, Frédéric Grimaud had to bring up his four daughters alone. Today, as his daughters approach womanhood, they dutifully help him out in his busy bookshop. Rosine, the youngest, has fallen in love with Francis, the handsome fiancé of her sister Edith. Desperate, Rosine telephones Francis to let him know she intends to kill herself. Overhearing this conversation, a young doctor decides to come to the aid of the distressed adolescent…Read More »