Gaby Morlay

Three stories about the pleasure. The first one is about a man hiding his age behind a mask to keep going to balls and fancying women - pleasure and youth. Then comes the long tale of Mme Tellier taking her girls (whores) to the country for attending her niece's communion - pleasure and purity. And lastly, Jean the painter falling in love with his model - pleasure and death. (imdb)

An odd french couple living near the Rhone run into problems when their son falls in love with the daughter of the pious mayor of Pont-Saint-Jean.

Jacques Brachart is a parvenu in the finance, the boss of the African Coppers. The D'Andeline are noble but pennyless. They make their daughter Anne-Marie marry Brachart. A marriage of convenience for them. But Brachart is really in love with Anne-Marie, though she can hardly stand him. One days, she takes a lover, Jerome Le Govain, a dandy whose money comes from Brachart's advises... A fierce melodrama. (imdb)

A love quadrangle emerges when a magazine editor's longtime girlfriend falls for a movie star while a reporter watches on.

During WW2, a posh bourgeois woman (Morgan) is compelled to live under the same room as a crude simple-minded yet big-hearted man (Bourvil). Her husband was arrested by the Gestapo and she is a hunted woman.

Anna is a nurse and a nun, whose history catches up on her. (imdb)

Gilberte is a sixteen year old girl raised by her aunt and grandmother to be a demimondaine. But she's not ready for that yet, and spends her days in lessons and in teasing Mamita's old friend, the rich playboy Gaston LaChaille, and following his affairs from afar. But when Gaston throws off his latest mistress, it looks as if Gigi just might be ready to begin her destined career. (imdb)

Parents do not realize that their easygoing son (Robert Lamoureux) is in love with their new maid.

Maurice Martin handles firmly porter's lodge of which he holds with his wife, the amiable Germaine. Their daughter, Jacqueline, hardworking and wise, would give them any satisfaction if not a romance between her and George stood Richet, the son of the owners. They do not want any price of this marriage, nor the Martin. After a falling transient, the lovebirds disappear. Fathers erected the first one against the other, despair and mothers wail. (Wikipedia)

An inconsolable widower, who was a wealthy banker, is about to jump into the Seine, but a woman stops him. It is his former maid, Suzanne. She reveals to him that the mourned wife deceived him shamelessly. The banker forgets his suicide and decides to disappear.

Story of the tribulations of self-centred confectioner in Rome on the day of his little daughter's First Communion. (bfi)

'Marie Prieur is a 28-year-old, recently qualified doctor who is about to take up her first post at Oudessant, a small island off the coast of Brittany. She receives a lukewarm welcome from the locals; in fact, the only person who seems pleased to see her is the old schoolteacher, Mademoiselle Leblanc... (Willems Henri)

Paris, 30's declared professional rivalry between two stars of the musical, Yvonne and Gaby leads to dire consequences. Yvonne's body is found in the theater. Gaby's future is threatened against the judgment to which it is subjected, with a probable prison sentence.

A theater electrician's love to a ballet dancer is tested when he is elected minister. (imdb)

19th Century Russia. State prosecutor Fedor Andreiev is presiding over the trial of a man who murdered his wife's lover. Despite a robust defence from the brilliant young lawyer Serge Rostoff, the accused man is found guilty and will be deported to Siberia. (Films de France)

Julie and Désirée Clary are courted by the brothers Joseph and Napoleon Bonaparte. Joseph marries Julie and Napoleon is affianced to Désirée. When Napoleon breaks the engagement and marries Joséphine de Beauharnais, Désirée becomes involved with General Bernadotte.

The wife of a violin player falls in love with her husband's friend.

A ballet producer returns to his native town and schemes to avenge himself on the family who tried to murder him 20 years before.

A beautiful and sophisticated teenager is placed in a regimented French girls' boarding school after her father apparently commits suicide over a business scandal. She immediately gains admirers -- a lustful middle-aged artist, a handsome young composer, a fellow female student -- as well as a jealous rival. With the help of her schoolmates, she attempts to elope with the composer, but the adults catch on to the plot, and she is locked into her room at night. (imdb)

Two sisters struggle to stay on the straight and narrow.