Dita Parlo

Birinci Dünya Savaşı'nda, aristokrat sınıftan gelen Komutan De Boeldieu ile işçi sınıfından gelme Teğmen Marechal, keşif gezisine çıkarlar. Ancak görevlerini başarı ile tamamlayamadan, Alman askerleri tarafından esir alınırlar. Alman Komutan von Rauffenstein da, tıpkı Boeldieu gibi aristokrat bir aileden gelmedir ve esirlerinin kendisi ile birlikte yemek yiyebileceklerini duyurur. Yemek sırasında Boeldieu ile Rauffenstein, aralarındaki ortaklıkları görmeye başlarlar, bunların hepsi de sınıf temellidir. Ancak bu ortaklık, onların esir kampına gönderilmesini engellemez. Komutan ve teğmen, kampta diğer askerler ile arkadaş olur ve onların kaçış planlarına katılırlar. Esir kampından tünel kazarak kaçmayı deneyeceklerdir...

Jean ve Juliette farklı karakterde olan yeni evlenmiş bir çifttir. Jean'ın maceraperest karakterine karşılık, Juliette kent yaşamının olanaklarına sahip olmayı arzulayan yerleşik bir tiptir. Ama yeni evliler Jean'ın isteği üzerine L'atalante adlı bir gemide yaşamaya başlarlar. Gemide onlar dışında Jules Baba isimli hayli eksantrik bir kaptan ve tuhaf görünümlü yardımcısı da yaşamaktadır. Juliette gün geçtikçe gemideki yaşamdan sıkılır. Ancak ne olursa olsun aralarındaki aşk Jean'ı terketmesini engellemektedir.

Hajj, a rascally beggar on the periphery of the court of Baghdad, schemes to marry his daughter to royalty and to win the heart of the queen of the castle himself. This is a German-language version made in Hollywood along side the 1930 production directed by John Francis Dillon.

Intrigue and greed come between an immoral woman and the man who loves her. This film is believed lost.

A gambling countess comes by a secret three card combination that wins her a fortune, but she is allowed to use it only once and not gamble again. She passes on the info twice, and the recipients both die violently. She is warned that if she passes it on again, she too will die. Many years later, a young soldier discovers that the countess has the secret, and he resolves to get it out of her.

Dupuy, the first officer of the Cristobal, a French merchant ship, is informed by cabaret dancer La Rubia that the Cristobal carries a priceless secret cargo of gold. Based on the novel by Albert t'Serstevens.

Denise, an orphaned girl, moves to Paris where she hopes to find work at her uncle's store. But the glamorous department store 'Aux Bonheur des Dames' across the street crushes all the little businesses around. She finds a position there.

An adventuress serves as bait for a swindler, who robs the naive people she brings to him with poker. A childhood friend helps him.

A courier carrying a large sum of money intended for Bonaparte's army is attacked. A miscarriage of justice will lead an innocent person to the guillotine.

Hans has killed the dog of Firmin, a shepherd. Wild with rage, Firmin kidnaps Elsi, Hans' fiancée and locks her up at his home. Hans, a peddler, vows to find the missing girl. This is what he does and he manages, with the help of Mânu, the village idiot, to give Elsi a letter. On seeing her, the changeling falls in love at first sight with the young woman. Elsi soon realizes that Mânu can become her instrument of vengeance.

A German reporter visits Hollywood and is escorted through the MGM Studio by a German nobleman, who is working there as an extra. They meet and speak to several actors, primarily Buster Keaton, John Gilbert, Joan Crawford and Heinrich George. Then they meet Adolphe Menjou, who rehearses a long scene in German. A final scene shows stars arriving at a film premiere, including Jean Harlow, Norma Shearer and Wallace Beery.

Elsa Lundenstein is accused of having murdered her lover. The jury discusses the case vividly. All members are somehow prejudiced because of personal life experience and subsequently each member reads something different into the presented facts.

"Tropical Nights" - The young violinist Alma comes to Simbali with an orchestra led by conductor Zangiacoma, hired for a series of performances at the Schomberg hotel. Both the conductor Zangiacomo and Schomberg are obsessed with Alma. One evening, when Alma is, as usual, forced to entertain the guests she meets Mr. Heyst from his island Sourabaya, where he lives in solitude. He takes Alma to his place on the island.

A slippery femme fatale, a spy for Germany during the Great War, is sent to Thessaloniki in Greece and becomes involved with a man on the other side, a French military officer.

Jeanne supports supports his family on his modest salary. Her boss is arrested for fraud. Jeanne is forced, out of poverty, in the street.

Ed Sullivan shows night spots all over New York in this movie, joking and listening to stories the patrons tell.

During the lead up to a second World War, one of several French films hoping for peace,specifically between Germany and France as shown by a border family in Alsace trying to resolve their differences.

A young noble feels that inflation does not stop at the nobility when she becomes impoverished overnight. As an actress, she struggles and is finally hired by a revue theater through the agency of a Russian emigrant.

During the First World War, a woman doctor falls in love with one of her patients who turns out to be a German spy. She herself ends up working for German intelligence.

George Manolescu (Ivan Mosjoukine) plays a confidence man who works his way from Paris to New York. Along the way, during a train ride to Monte Carlo, he meets the voluptuous Cleo (Brigitte Helm). They have a whirlwind romance that ends suddenly after she flees from him.

A nightclub in Buenos Aires is advertising for blonde women for glamorous jobs.

Produced for television by Claude-Jean Philippe, the « Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma », recounts the history of French cinema from its birth to the beginning of the 1960s. With commentary read by Jean Rochefort.