Paul Guers

Jean is a clerk in a bank. His colleague Caron is a gambler and gives him the virus. In the casinos, Jean meets Jackie. Their love affair will follow their luck at the roulette. (imdb)

British barrister Sydney Carton lives an insubstantial and unhappy life. He falls under the spell of Lucie Manette, but Lucie marries Charles Darnay. When Darnay goes to Paris to rescue an imprisoned family retainer, he becomes entangled in the snares of the brutal French Revolution and is himself jailed and condemned to the guillotine. But Sydney Carton, in love with a woman he cannot have, comes up with a daring plan to save her husband. (imdb)

In late 1950s France an army deserter with literary ambitions recalls the erotically charged summer he spent with passionate beauty Yvonne. (Channel 4)

The story follows the decadent heir Henri de Marsay, who becomes enamored of Paquita Valdes and plots to seduce her. Though he succeeds, he becomes disillusioned when he discovers she is also involved with another lover, and plots to murder her. When he arrives to kill her, he discovers she's already dead by the hand of her lover - his half-sister. She declares that Paquita came from a land where women are no more than chattels, able to be bought and used in any way. (Wikipedia)

A desperate alcoholic reaches a turning-point in his life when he meets a strange woman in a railway carriage: they make love, but then she leaves. Chasing after the girl, he clings to her as if she were his final chance. (imdb)

In this standard comedy of sex and odd manners, a few men and women converge on a picturesque chateau for the reading of a will and then start pairing off. (allmovie.com)

A group of school friends meet again after several years, and reminisce. (bfi)

At the end of the 19th century, during the British rule of India, the goddess Kali commits a number of murders, among which the man who was conducting a cargo of serum to a village infected with disease. Worried with the vast number of fatalities that will result from stopping this shipment, Dr. Palmer asks for help from Major Talbot. The Major suspects about the murderer turn onto the doctor, and he must take refuge in the jungle, after faking his own death by a tiger. (imdb)

One of Abel Gance's lesser known films, this is an adaptation of the Alexandre Dumas play La Tour de Nesle (1832).

In the American south, light-skinned Afro-American Joe Grant leaves Memphis and moves to a small town after his 18-year-old brother Sonny is brutally lynched for attempting to marry a white woman. Joe's skin is so light that he is able to pass himself off as Caucasian and find work in a local bookstore. To get revenge on white society, Joe seduces a rich young white girl Lizbeth Shannon.

In order to pay off some major gambling debts, a drifter agrees to perform a dangerous job for his debtors. Things start to go wrong when he finds out that his girlfriend, thinking he has deserted her, marries another man. Despondent and depressed, he joins the French Foreign Legion to "get away from it all", but soon discovers that it's not as easy as he thought.