Au Bonheur des Dames (1930) is a comedic drama that explores the growth of a department store and the rampage of progress. Based on the novel of the same name, the movie depicts the story of a model who gets caught up in the changing times and the consequences of industrialization.
Inflamed by his readings of chivalric novels, Don Quixote, a knight with a sad face, accompanied by Sancho Panza, a peasant steeped in common sense, decides to set off across the world in search of improbable adventures.
The story is about a superstitious village, where the mayor has sold a tower to an unknown, who is soon suspected of being the devil.
The life of disorderly soldiers in the barracks dealing with daily routines.
Jacques Prémont-Solène is a degenerate gambler and his losses at baccarat have bankrupted his lover, Laure Maresco. When he steals four hundred thousand francs and loses that at the gambling tables, he flees to the United States, and Nathalie takes the blame. Twenty years later, she has a flourishing career as a nightclub singer, but their son is just as inept a gambler as his father had been.
O-Kay Agency, run by Monsieur Dubois, will supply anything you like. Even what you do not particularly crave : for instance, Max, the agency's gifted employee made Sam, a millionaire, buy a bath just by putting an attractive young lady in it ! But what Dubois does not know is that, besides being able to close sales brilliantly, Max also dreams of becoming a professional singer.
Monsieur Albert is a very elegant and much-appreciated butler. One day he falls in love with a client, Sylvia Robertson, and follows her to a winter sports resort. Sylvia does not recognize him and imagines that he is related to a king who goes incognito.
A baroness entrusts her daughter to her servants, Germain and Marie. Marie takes her to a dance hall, where the daughter is taken by a man.
One of two peasant brothers in love with the same woman escapes his grim country life and pursues a career as a Parisian sculptor.
First adaptation of Joseph Kessel World War I novel, in which an aviator falls in love with a woman who turns out to be the wife of one of his flying comrades.
A widower sends his son Dédé to boarding school, falls in love with a young woman and gradually neglects the child, not out of disaffection but because of routine. The little boy is helpless: he feels he has been completely forsaken - Fortunately, things improve: Dédé ends up finding a new mummy.
Four classmates decide to perform a love song that their friend, Pierre, composed for Marie. Novac, another admirer of Marie, is murdered. Pierre suspects one of the four of being the killer, but incriminates himself, believing that Marie was in love with the killer.
Film adaptation of Georges Feydeau's 1908 stage farce.
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