Guillaume de Sax
1889 - 1945
La main du diable
Maurice Tourneur
Pierre Fresnay, Josseline Gaël
A struggling artist buys a talisman that gives him love, fame and wealth. The talisman is a severed left hand, and it works perfectly, in fact, magically. But of course there is nothing free in this world, and after one year the devil comes and asks for his due.
Carnival of Sinners
Le voyageur de la Toussaint
Louis Daquin
Assia Noris, Jules Berry
A young man comes back to his hometown to be confronted with a bourgeois obnoxious family who has always despised his -now dead - parents because they were music hall artists, "entertainers". But because he's the sole legatee of an uncle's fortune, his relatives become friendly with him.. at least for a while.
Le Voyageur de la Toussaint
Ne bougez plus!
Pierre Caron
Saturnin Fabre, Paul Meurisse
Are these two tramps who come to pose for an advertising agency at Patrice Farfadou, the fashionable photographer, the Prince Andromache of Miremir and his faithful secretary Palmer? Who will find the key to the Enigma: The melancholic Hector, the youthful Geneviève, or the feverish Elyane?
Ne bougez plus!
L'or du Cristobal
Jacques Becker, Jean Stelli
Charles Vanel, Dita Parlo
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.
Cristobal's Gold
Pontcarral, colonel d'empire
Jean Delannoy
Pierre Blanchar, Annie Ducaux
For 15 years after Waterloo, a baron refuses to accept the defeat. He reluctantly marries one of 2 Bourbon sisters but lands up dueling with the wife's former lover. Finally he gets a chance to prove himself again in battle.
Pontcarral, Empire Colonel
La Vie de bohème
Marcel L'Herbier
Maria Denis, Louis Jourdan
Four young friends share the carefree, cheerfulness, laughter and dances of Bohemian life. Rodolphe the painter, Alexandre Chaunard the composer, Colline the philosopher, as well as Marcel and his friend Musette. Mimi, a romantic young girl, falls in love with Rodolphe.
The Bohemian Life
Péchés de jeunesse
Maurice Tourneur
Harry Baur, Guillaume de Sax
A rich businessman living alone is deprived of the nephew he was to have brought up decides on his doctor's advice to search for the four illegitimate children he once fathered, which leads him to accept responsibility for his actions.
Sins of Youth
L'Invité de la onzième heure
Maurice Cloche
Jean Tissier, Blanchette Brunoy
An inventor has just developed an extraordinary machine, a disintegrating ray and thought detector. He experiences it one evening on a group of relatives, including his fiancée, and it seems to turn into a tragedy: he is found lifeless, apparently poisoned. A man calling himself a police officer begins to investigate.
The Eleventh Hour Guest
La Ferme aux loups
Richard Pottier
Paul Meurisse, François Périer
Bastien and Furet are a journalist and a photographer working together as a team on the newspaper 'L'Echo du Jour'. Just as they are about to go off on a weekend break with Micky, their boss's secretary, they are sent to a crime scene to report the murder of a Russian named 'le Moujik'.
The Wolf Farm
