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- DirectorMarcel L'HerbierStarsClaude-France AïsséJaque CatelainBaron Byron Khun de ProrakA French chauvinistic propaganda film made during the Great War.
- DirectorMarcel L'HerbierStarsSuzanne DesprèsPaul CapellaniJaque CatelainIn this symbolist drama of truth and falsehood, a countess and her lover try to seduce and blackmail a rich man living near them who is fond of a naïve young friend of theirs. The plot does not go as well as planned.
- DirectorMarcel L'HerbierStarsCharles BoyerClaire PréliaSuzanne DorisNolff, a tough Breton fisherman is happy: his wife has just given birth to a son, Michel. His only wish is to make him a fisherman like him. But when he becomes a man, Michel becomes a good-for-nothing who spends his time in taverns with his evil genius friend Gwenn la Taupe. The sea will be his judge.
- DirectorMarcel L'HerbierStarsSaint-GranierAlice FieldGeorges PaulaisA parody of the serial thrillers, in multiple episodes, that had become popular in France in recent years.
- DirectorMarcel L'HerbierStarsÈve FrancisJaque CatelainMarcelle PradotSibilla is a single mother, working as a gypsy dancer in a lousy cafe in the south of Spain. Unable to keep with the costs of his son's medical bills, she asks for help to Estiria, her son's biological father and one of the richest men in town. After being rejected, Sibilla vows to save her son's life by any means necessary - even at the cost of her own life.
- DirectorMarcel L'HerbierStarsEmmy LynnJori SarnoClaire Prélia
- DirectorMarcel L'HerbierStarsJaque CatelainLéonid Walter de MaltePhilippe HériatClaire Lescot is a famous first lady. All men want to be loved by her and among them is the young scientist Einar Norsen. When she mocks at him, he leaves her house with the declared intention to kill himself.
- DirectorMarcel L'HerbierStarsIvan MozzhukhinMarcelle PradotLois MoranMathias Pascal, only son of a once rich family, marries beautiful Romilde, who has a terrible mother-in-law. She controls her daughter, and soon his home life becomes a nightmare, as well as his job as assistant librarian in his home town. His only moments of lights are his mother and his baby, but both die on the same day. Shocked he leaves his hometown and gets to Monte Carlo, where he wins a fortune at the Casino. Returning home, he reads his own obituary in a paper. They have found a corpse in a creek and connected it with his disappearance. Mathias, noticing that he now is free from all ties to his old live, decides to start a new one, and goes to Rome, where he rents a room in a pension full of fake spiritualists who are controlling the owner. The chief of the gang, Terence, wants to marry the owner's daughter Adrienne, and has convinced her father to give her to him, with no regards of Adrienne's feelings, who is in love with and loved by Mathias. When Terence steals Mathias 50,000 Lira, and Mathias, being officially dead can neither marry Adrienne nor denounce Terence to the police, he decides to do something about his state and travels home, just to notice that Romalinda has remarried.
- DirectorMarcel L'HerbierStarsEmmy LynnJaque CatelainRoger KarlIn Petrograd, at the beginning of the revolution, General Svirsky shot his wife's lover, Dimitrieff. Emigrating to Nice, Natacha Svirsky meets Henri de Cassel, a living portrait of the deceased. Full of fear, she becomes his mistress.
- DirectorMarcel L'HerbierStarsBetty BalfourJaque CatelainRoger KarlLudivine Bucaille stupidly wishes that Leherg and his son Delphin both die at sea. Amazingly, Leherg actually is lost at sea but his son somehow survives. His mother subsequently dies of sorrow. Remorseful, Ludivine gets her parents to take Delphin in their care. She makes sure the house is nice and tidy. Delphin and Ludivine grow to love each other and eventually get engaged. But father Bucaille, a drunk, wants Ludivine to marry Lauderin, the owner of a bar. Ludivine, in a moment of jealousy, thinking that Delphin has cheated on her, accepts. As Delpin plans on leaving the country the day after the engagement, Ludivine takes a boat to meet him. Lauderin sneaks into the boat and, as a storm hits it, he attempts to rape her. Delphin comes to the rescue. The two lovers can now unite.
- DirectorMarcel L'HerbierStarsBrigitte HelmMarie GloryPierre AlcoverThe business tycoon Nicolas Saccard is nearly ruined by his rival Gunderman, when he tries to raise capital for his company. To push up the price of his stock, Saccard plans a publicity stunt involving the aviator Jacques Hamelin flying across the Atlantic to Guyana and drilling for oil there, much to the dismay of Hamelin's wife Line. While Hamelin is away, Saccard tries to seduce Line. Line finally realizes that she and her husband were pawns in Saccard's scheme, and she accuses him of stock fraud.
- DirectorMarcel L'HerbierStarsEmmy LynnJaque CatelainWarwick WardThe illegitimate son of a music-hall star and an ambitious politician has grown up to become a journalist. He decides to get back at his father by using blackmail.
- DirectorMarcel L'HerbierStarsGina ManèsJaque CatelainHarry Nestor
- DirectorMarcel L'HerbierStarsFrancesca BertiniJean MuratBoris de FastA lieutenant of the French navy, ready to kill himself in despair, renounced his project after spending a night with a beautiful stranger.
- DirectorMarcel L'HerbierStarsHuguette DuflosKissa KouprineMaxime DesjardinsA professor's daughter is attacked in her sealed bedroom.Her fiance is suspected but a cub journalist finds the surprising culprit.
- DirectorMarcel L'HerbierStarsHuguette DuflosKissa KouprineWera EngelsRouletabille comes to the aid of a recently remarried lady whose late criminal husband turns out to be still alive.Her honeymoon is at a fantastic art deco villa perched above the Riviera.
- DirectorMarcel L'HerbierStarsFrancesca BertiniRuggero RuggeriRomano CalòA navy lieutenant contemplates suicide in his despair.But then he meets a beautiful stranger who turns out to be a princess.
- DirectorMarcel L'HerbierStarsCharles BoyerNatalie PaleyMarguerite TempleyThe wife of a Hungarian gentleman tires of helping him cheat and becomes the mistress of a diplomat.When she re-encounters her husband he is enfeebled and ill, so she takes pity on him.
- DirectorMarcel L'HerbierStarsGaby MorlayHenri RollanJean GallandA woman suffers ill repute when she deserts her husband for a fling with an adventurer and gives the lover jewelry to pay the hotel bill. Will the husband be understanding and forgive her?
- DirectorMarcel L'HerbierStarsGaby MorlayCharles BoyerPaulette DubostInjured by anarchist Philippe Lucher, film actress Clara Stuart falls in love with her attacker and decides to plead in his favor at his trial.
- DirectorMarcel L'HerbierStarsVictor FrancenBlanche MontelHenri RollanÉtienne Ranson is the black sheep of his family. Having made his fortune in Tunisia, he returns to France and receives a cool reception from his uncle, Achille Guéroy, the owner of a glove factory in Grenoble. Guéroy is astounded when his nephew returns the money he had lent him and immediately looks at Étienne in a new light when it becomes apparent that he is now a very wealthy man.
- DirectorMarcel L'HerbierStarsKäthe von NagyPierre Richard-WillmJaque CatelainAn indigenous uprising in British controlled Iraq threatens the route to India, as a lobe triangle develops among the expatriates.
- DirectorMarcel L'HerbierStarsAnnabellaVictor FrancenGabriel SignoretIn a time of national emergency, the wife of the Captain of a French battleship finds that her former lover is now the her husband's first officer. Her attempts to sort out this situation get mixed in with shipwreck and court martial.
- DirectorMarcel L'HerbierStarsVictor FrancenMarcelle ChantalJacques BaumerThe son of a naval commander faces his first heartbreak when he falls for the young American woman who is destined to become his father's new wife.
- DirectorMarcel L'HerbierStarsHarry BaurNatalie PaleyMax MichelA triangle set in Morocco involving a nouveau riche businessman, his wife and her former lover.Meanwhile a French officer in Morocco accomplishes much for his country.
- DirectorMarcel L'HerbierStarsGaby MorlayVictor FrancenJorge RigaudIs it his corpse they found in the river?
- DirectorMarcel L'HerbierStarsAnnabellaPierre RenoirBernard Lancret.During he students ' rebellion against Nicholas the Second,Viana tries to kill the governor but it's her lover who is arrested and sent to a sinister fortress .
- DirectorMarcel L'HerbierStarsVictor FrancenSessue HayakawaLouis JouvetThis version of the story begins with the engineer's wife (Denise Morel) being driven to the site where her husband is building a bridge. The first thing she notices is the mark of the dragon branded on the shoulders of the coolies who are being driven out with her. On the way to the site, shots ring out, and one of the men in the truck with her is hit. The car would have to take the wounded man to the hospital, but, by chance, another car drives up with Prince Lee Lang in back. The Prince volunteers to drive her to her husband's site. She leaves a glove in the Prince's car. Pierre Morel, her husband, is angry about the shooting, and sends people out to take care of it. Apparently, they are having trouble building the bridge The next day, at Prince Lee Lang's house, Valfar, his business partner and Ming, their secretary, are introduced. The Prince is an art collector, and mentions to Valfar that he would like to add Denise to his collection of art objects. Denise meets the British consul and his wife. Denise and the wife become good friends. Pierre shows Denise how to gamble, and has an argument with the owner of the gambling spot, Tang-si. Denise borrows money from the owner of the gambling spot through Ming. Valfar has a discussion with Tang-si and money is exchanged. The Red Cross bazaar is held at Prince Lee Lang's house. Lee Lang offers to buy Denise's glove, and gives her money, which she puts to the proceeds of the bazaar. All the proceeds of the bazaar are in a drawer, and Denise has the key. Denise goes to the gambling spot, and Tang-si tells her to pay her debt the next day at noon. She takes the Red Cross money out of the drawer and pays Tang-si, but now has to repay the Red Cross funds. Valfar suggests she talk to the Prince. The Prince tells her he will give her the money, if she gives herself to him. She agrees to this and is able to return the money to the Red Cross, but the next day, talks to the wife of the British consul, and gets the money from her, and sends the money to the Prince. The Prince is angry, but Valfar suggests he take his revenge on her husband instead. On the next day, the bridge is tested, but collapses. It has been sabotaged. Pierre and Denise go to France. Pierre explains the fact of the sabotage to his board of directors. Then goes to a house, where he finds a gun and the Prince dying. Valfar sees Pierre in the house. The next day, Denise gets her breakfast in bed, and discovers that Pierre has been arrested. Pierre talks to his lawyer and insists that he is innocent. The trial begins. At a certain point, Valfar puts a piece of one of Denise's dresses, taken from the dying Prince's hand, into Pierre's hand, and Pierre realizes that it was probably Denise that shot the Prince. In court, he confesses that he shot the Prince. Denise says that Pierre is not telling the truth, and is sworn in. She says that Lee Lang had tried to rape her, and had branded her after which she shot him with his gun and run out. The judge demands that she prove that she had been branded, and so she takes off her dress to reveal the brand. Valfar, who had given evidence that Pierre had shot the Prince, is surrounded, and the police release Pierre. Pierre tells Denise that he believes her story.
- DirectorMarcel L'HerbierStarsHarry BaurMarcelle ChantalPierre Richard-WillmStory of the Siberian monk Gregory Rasputin and the hold he exerted over the court of the last Russian czar, Nicholas.
- DirectorMarcel L'HerbierStarsYvonne PrintempsPierre FresnayJunie AstorA famous actress and a Polish prince have an ill-fated love affair.
- DirectorGiorgio FerroniMarcel L'HerbierStarsTito SchipaMireille BalinMarie GloryA prominent tenor kills a man in a fit of jealousy.After years of forced labor as a convict, he attempts to return to his wife and child and to his singing career.
- DirectorMarcel L'HerbierStarsGaby MorlayVictor FrancenPierre Richard-WillmThe history of the Entente Cordiale in the big and small picture, from 1898, when a French officer occupied the village of Fashoda, Sudan to 8 April 1904, when a series or agreements marking the rapprochement between England and France were signed. To this turnaround in public opinion corresponds a parallel evolution in the intimate feelings of two families, one English and the other French which will result in the French heir marrying the English daughter.
- DirectorMarcel L'HerbierJean DrévilleStarsVéra KorèneCharles VanelYoucca TroubetzkovThe duel between a Czarist general and a lieutenant, over the general's wife, is postponed with war approaching.Years later, the rivals meet again but the general realizes his wife has been faithful to him after all.
- DirectorMarcel L'HerbierStarsMichel SimonRamon NovarroJacqueline DelubacMonsieur Jourdain is a dangerous madman : he wants to share his fortune! His relatives do what any sensible fellow on earth would do: they have him committed to a mental hospital. But Jourdain manages to escape and decides to make everybody happy except... his heirs!
- DirectorMarcel L'HerbierStarsMichel SimonRamon NovarroJacqueline DelubacA banker has been locked away by his family due to his erratic and possibly immoral behavior.Escaping, he hides out in a boarding house and tries to bring happiness to several of its residents.
- DirectorMarcel L'HerbierStarsFernand GraveyMarie DéaMicheline PresleA philosophical husband is resigned to permitting his wife to leave him for a lover, but the latter is the husband of her best friend.
- DirectorMarcel L'HerbierStarsFernand GraveyMicheline PresleSaturnin FabreDenis is distracted: he's studying all day for philosophy exams and working all night at the flower market; plus, whenever he closes his eyes, he dreams of a mysterious woman in white. His girlfriend Nina is annoyed at him for his inattention, so she steps out behind his back with a friend of his. One night, while napping at the flower mart, he pursues the mystery woman in what he thinks is a dream, and finds himself with her in a restaurant with her father and her fiancé, then on to a magic shop, the Louvre, a nightclub, and a mental asylum. During the night, he discovers a plot against her, and still believing it's a dream, goes to great lengths to try to save her.
- DirectorMarcel L'HerbierJacques de BaroncelliStarsEdwige FeuillèreRaymond RouleauAndré LuguetCatherine's technique to sell her clocks is to blackmail illegitimate couples such as Jacques and Gisèle. However when Gisèle's husband Pierre walks in on them, Catherine pretends to be Jacques's lover to save the day. Jacques then gets caught up in her schemes when the next couple she deals with turn out to be jewel thieves who kidnap them.
- DirectorMarcel L'HerbierStarsMaria DenisLouis JourdanGisèle PascalAll are artists (painters,musicians,poets...) ,all are bound for glory .
- DirectorMarcel L'HerbierStarsDanielle DarrieuxAndré LuguetFrançois PérierAfter lovers fight, the boy leaves for the Riviera. On her way to rejoin him, the girl meets a distinguished but embittered novelist and decides to spend time comforting him.Which is not going to help when she returns to her boyfriend.
- DirectorMarcel L'HerbierStarsViviane RomanceMaurice EscandeJacques Dacqmine3 years before the Revolution, clever Jeanne De La Motte manages to procure a special necklace belonging to Marie Antoinette.
- DirectorMarcel L'HerbierStarsVictor FrancenJosette DayJacques BerthierMelodrama of a suffering woman: Her husband has left her, her child has died, and she finds that another man she has turned to is unfortunately married.
- DirectorMarcel L'HerbierPaolo MoffaStarsMicheline PresleGeorges MarchalMarcel HerrandIn the town of Pompeii, 79 A.D., a few weeks before the volcanic eruption of Vesuvius, a Roman lady Hélène meets and falls in love with a young Greek man Lysias. He is betrothed to another woman who, to win him back, acquires a potion to make him love only her. The potion was prepared by the Egyptian priest, Arbax, who has a grudge against Lysias, and is not what it seems, it is intended to drive whoever takes it insane. Hélène's new slave is also in love with Lysias. She steals the potion and gives it to Lysias, who hurries away in a mad rage. When the slave girl confronts Arbax, she is killed by the evil priest, and Lysias is charged with her murder.
- DirectorMarcel L'HerbierStarsArlettySuzy CarrierAndré LuguetThe father of the girl is a magistrate with a high sense of duty.The daughter, Françoise is a romantic girl.The mother of the girl is an ambitious woman who doesn't accept the second place of her husband in a town of province.Françoise escapes from her family because she didn't agree with an arranged matrimony and goes to Paris where she becomes the secretary of Edith Mars, a great comedian.In a letter to her sister she wrote that she was working in an American company and gave the address of Edith as her address.Now the parents are arriving from Nancy to Paris.