Daniel Mendaille

One day, a troupe of travelling actors arrive and Sigognac, a penniless young aristocrat, invites them in his ruined castle, and forms an instant bond of friendship with them. He falls in love with the young ingenue, Isabelle, but a sense of duty to his ancestors prevents him from accepting an offer to travel with them to Paris. Later, he changes his mind, and he hastens after his new friends. When one of the actors dies, Sigognac takes his place, and becomes the Captain Fracasse...

Charles Vanel and Annabella star respectively as a daring WW I aviator and his loving but neglected wife. Ostracized by the other pilots because of his recklessness and standoffishness, Vanel nonetheless befriends a young flyboy (Jean-Pierre Aumont). It is therefore a great source of consternation for Aumont when he discovers that the woman with whom he's fallen in love is none other than Vanel's wife Annabella.

The alternate-language French version of Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse (1933). (imdb)

This biography was one of two films commissioned to honor Joan of Arc on the 500th anniversary of her death, but it was soon undeservedly relegated to obscurity in favor of Carl Dreyer's triumphant 'La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc'. The comparison is unfair: Dreyer was an artist, but director Marco de Gastyne certainly proved himself a distinguished craftsman and his emphasis on the Maid of Orléans early life in Domrémy serves as a picturesque matching bookend to Dreyer's impassioned courtroom drama. (imdb)

Kids playact war in the backyard and the adults decide to show them a documentary about World War 1.

In 1928 Poirier completed Verdun: Visions of History, a dramatized documentary about the battle. The film was shot on site of the carnage. Poirier utilised, ten years after the conflict, the battlefield and the ruins of the forts of Vaux and Douaumont. The performers were French and German veterans and a few professional actors.

The incidents in this picture took place in 1803-4 when Napoleon was First Consul. In August, 1803, Napoleon discovered a conspiracy hatched in England in which three Englishmen were implicated. The aim of the conspirators was to restore to the throne of France one of the Bourbons. The Prince de Conde, father of the Duke D'Enghien, was in England at this time and he probably was associated with the conspirators.

Mild sibling rivalry between identical twin sisters Sylvina and Martina intensifies when one of the girls tricks the other's sweetheart into proposing to the wrong twin. (imdb)

A crazed scientist planning to rule the world decides to destroy the city of Paris with his lightning/ray gun.