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- Pierre (Pierre Richard-Willm), a young lawyer, has enormous debts due to his mistress Florence (Marie Bell), and her whims of luxury life. Pierre has gone too far and put the family firm in jeopardy. They ask him to expatriate. To avoid scandal, Pierre joins the Foreign Legion. In Morocco, near the desert, Pierre goes with his comrades of the Legion to a bar-restaurant-brothel, owned by a shady character, Mr. Clement (Charles Vanel). Clement lives more or less with Ms.Blanche (Françoise Rosay) who is a fortune teller with cards, as a hobby. But Clement is also after his girls now and then. Pierre is still obsessed with Florence but he meets Irma (Marie Bell), one of Clement's girls, who is the double of Florence except for hair color. Irma has had an accident and has lost part of her memory at a certain point of her recent past, and Pierre slowly persuades himself she is Florence, but cannot remember it. Advised by Ms.Blanche, Irma finally accepts to act as if she was Florence because she is falling in love with Pierre. Near the end of his contract with the Legion, Pierre receives news from France. He has inherited a fortune. He asks Irma to come to France with him, and they make plans. But Clement tries to rape Irma and Pierre has to kill him.
- Jean Valjean is a good man who is nevertheless convicted and imprisoned for a minor offense. When he escapes, he is pursued for decades by the unrelenting lawman, Javert.
- In 1860s Russia, a young officer is sent on a mission to save his country from invaders.
- Teenage lovers are continually thwarted in their attempts to get married.
- Josette needs to marry within a year to get her aunt's money.Her fiance,an Englishman, has gone away .After getting permission from her godfather to do a "white marriage," she realizes that she really loves the godfather instead.
- A Parisian painter working in the Basque country succeeds in keeping together a young woman and her smuggler boyfriend, even though the artist has feelings for the intended bride himself, and then he completes a painting on the subject of the wedding.
- A small town during the 15th century. A band of smugglers settle in the abandoned Grey Tower. At a city auction a mysterious stranger buys the tower. Rumors has he is sent by the devil.
- Sad story of an unfaithful wife and her subsequent sufferings as a mother.
- A Moroccan woman named Hassina rescues a French soldier who she falls in love with, but marauders who have attacked her village try to use her young sister to lure her and her new French lover into a trap.
- Alcide Darbois, a small-time garage owner, and his sister Ursule come into a fabulous inheritance and become powerful industrialists. The cars they make a re very successful on the French market. Now a bit of a snob, Alcide decides to marry his daughter Suzanne to Marquis Gaëtan de la Michodière, but the young lady is actually in love with Bégonia, her father's chief worker. A car racing event will resolve the situation.
- A serial (known in French as a cine-roman) in which the adventures are told from the perspective of the kidnapped heroine.
- In a night shelter, in the morning, two men get to know each other, the oldest is called Father Jean, the youngest is La Bricole. Father Jean, hurrying to his casual job (dog washing), finds a pack of clothes on the floor. In a cloak, he discovers keys, a letter and a notebook. In the letter, a man named Harry Barclay bequeaths his fortune, his house and all he possesses to the one who will find it first. Father Jean goes to Barclay's house in Passy. He moves there. The next morning, a young girl introduces herself and jumps on her neck, exclaiming: "Hello my uncle!" Father Jean lets her believe. The girl moves in. Barclay was a writer and Father John has to write a novel that Barclay's publisher had commissioned. A young secretary helps him in this task. But one day, La Bricole arrives and threatens to say everything if Father Jean does not let him settle in. The young secretary and the niece love each other but he is poor. He does not dare to declare himself but she tries to convince his "uncle". La Bricole, however, has set his eyes on the girl and demands to marry her.
- A crazed scientist planning to rule the world decides to destroy the city of Paris with his lightning/ray gun.
- A documentary about the making of L'argent, the epic silent film directed by Marcel L'Herbier. The film shows the details of many of the more complicated moving camera shots.
- Matteo, the son of a Bedouin woman and a Maltese Christian, falls in love with a Bedouin dancer and follows her to Paris after she has rejected him for a rich French jeweler.
- Claire d'Arlon loves Jean d'Axel, a gambler who completely ruined himself. He goes away and Claire, left alone, ends up marrying Arnheim, a banker. The latter actually conspired to ruin Jean so he could marry his fiancée. Jean returns to set things right.
- Croquette, the youngest daughter of a circus artist, shares her dreams between the handsome Bob and becoming an artist.
- Choupette's lover resents the presence of Monsieur Dupont with her. He therefore makes him believe that he is involved in a case of espionage. The unfortunate Dupont tries to clear his name and ends up suspecting one of his cousins of being the boss of the spy ring...
- Documentary in three parts: 1)The paths of childhood: the childhood and the youth of the great French romantic writer in Milly; his love for horses; his friendship with Father Dumont, his confessor and confidante. 2)The shores of romance: Lamartine's stay in Savoy; his love story with Elvire, a sick young lady. 3)The way to grandeur: Lamartine's return to his native region; his literary work; Lamartine's glory.
- An officer is tried for self-inflicted injury.He is thrown out of the Foreign Legion .
- Grégoire Vachette is a bashful librarian, forced to listen to the daily boasting of his colleague Courgéan, a great seducer according to what he says. But when, while on holiday, Grégoire meets beautiful Madeleine, the shy young man becomes fired up. Back to his place of work, he can't help communicating his enthusiasm for Madeleine, so much so that he too is taken for a Don Juan. But Madeleine is not for him. Nevertheless, his unexpected change of attitude will have helped him to conquer the heart of Denise, a typist who loved him in secret.
- A lady adventuress sells weapons to rebels in Morocco.After she meets an imposing man, she tries to leave her past life.
- Josette needs to marry within a year to get her aunt's money, but her fiance has left.After getting her godfather's permission for a "white wedding," she realizes she loves the godfather instead.