Samson Fainsilber

The plot concerns a comet hurling toward Earth on a collision course and the different reactions to people on the impending disaster.

One of the most popular melodrama films directed by Abel Gance. A paranoide, fanatical and obsessively jealous husband obducts his own son to bully...

An old and poor couple, Charles and Lucie, scrape by working as a concierge and an untalented antique dealer, respectively. But one day, their dreary...

A neglected young woman comes up against the equivocal feelings of a steward.

Biarritz, 1933. Charm and talent help small-time swindler Serge Alexandre, alias Stavisky, to bribe his way into the centre of French political...

A hero of the Paris streets is recruited for a conspiracy against Mazarin in the court of the King, but he reveals the subversive plot to Anne of...

Jeanne lives in Paris and believes she is the reincarnation of Don Juan. She visits a priest and tells him she has killed a man. He comes to her...

1871. Roger Laroque accuses himself of a crime he did not commit to save his mistress, Julia de Noirville, from dishonor. He escapes from prison and...

The youthful loves of a young seminarian Jocelyn and the young and gentle aristocrat Laurence, refugees in the mountains to escape the...

A brave woman is sentenced to prison on false testimony. She escapes twenty years later and takes refuge in Paris where she carries bread while...

The crazy adventures of a character forced by circumstances to take on such dangerous professions as those of gangster, burglar, Chinese chiropodist...

To be able to win paradise, a selfish old billionaire, who has just died, must make someone happy. He will have to guide a young girl through the...

A young man and an alleged witch get married despite the prejudices of their fellow citizens.

A gang of broke student musicians travel to Paris to take exams. But very quickly, the lack of money pushes young people to pass themselves off as...

Richard is a private detective. He makes a good money from marital infidelity: the deceived husband and wife generously paid him for proof of their...

Witty narration follows the history of Versailles Palace; founded by Louis XIII, enlarged by autocratic Louis XIV, whose personal affairs and amours,...

A resistance leader is wounded when the Germans raid his underground print shop. He escapes to the home of a German-friendly Parisian and is helped...

In the newspaper he has just founded, journalist Dolannes exposes all the wheeling and dealing and scandals that go on in his town. But the day he...

Married to Karl Ammer, the station master of Thaya, a Hungarian quiet village, Anita is a pretty young peasant who feels deeply bored. She dreams of...

An officer of a passenger ship falls in love with the mistress of a Marseille racketeer, with unexpected results.

In this whimsical fable, Resnais deftly interweaves three story lines: the creation of an early-20th-century utopia; romantic high jinks at a school...

Lagardère protects Aurore, the granddaughter of the Duke of Nevers whose deceitful Philippe de Gonzague covets the inheritance.

On the eve of his 78th birthday, the ailing, alcoholic writer Clive Langham spends a painful and sleepless night mentally composing and recomposing...