Catherine Hessling

Based on the classic Hans Christian Andersen tale, The Little Match Girl

French filmmaker Jean Renoir would later remark that he directed the sensual dance fantasy Charleston because he'd "just discovered American jazz." He also had some stock footage left over from his previous silent success Nana, and decided it would be provident to fashion a new film from these leavings. Even without the benefit of sound, one can hear the jazzy rhythms of Charleston through the exuberant gyrations of an African-American dancer... (All Movie Guide)

After the death of her father and her uncle had drunk all the heritage, Virginia is left alone. She is accepted by a family of bohemians but a quarrel between the bohemians and the peasants coerce her to flee the peasant's riot. She is then helped by the son Raynal who fall in love with her but is too shy to tell her. Sheltered by his father, she is robbed by her uncle of the money M. Raynal gived her to pay a bill in the village. He and his son then believed she's a thief. (imdb)

Based on an Emile Zola novel, a woman goes around Paris seducing rich and powerful men.

Little Miss Lili, a pretty girl of 16 years is a prostitute in the bad neighborhoods of Paris, on behalf of her friend and pimp, a little soulless thug. One gloomy day filled with mist, she tries to flee to escape her fate...

Catherine is a servant girl working for the local mayor and victim of the sharp tongues of the mayor's wife and her friends. (mubi)

The ill-fated romance of a brow-beaten seaport slum café waitress and a young man with a possessive mother, who dreams of going out to sea. (unifrance.org)