Capricious small-town girl Juliette and barge captain Jean marry after a whirlwind courtship, and she comes to live aboard his boat, L'Atalante. As they make their way down the Seine, Jean grows weary of Juliette's flirtations with his all-male crew, and Juliette longs to escape the monotony of the boat and experience the excitement of a big city. When she steals away to Paris by herself, her husband begins to think their marriage was a mistake.
At a mine on the shared edge of France and Germany, an underground explosion leads to the entrapment of a group of French miners. In an effort to save the trapped Frenchmen, German miners Wittkopp and Kasper take it upon themselves to traverse a crumbling war tunnel leading down into the mines. Yet, though the workers harbor no political biases against one another, their callous, less tolerant bosses hope to halt this cross-cultural rescue mission.
Adaptation of Alexandre Dumas's novel 'The Queen's Necklace' which portrays the Affair of the Diamond Necklace which occurred before the French Revolution.
After three weeks and a long, hot voyage across the Pacific, an ocean liner finally arrives at its destination, Ecuador. That evening, the event is marked by a masked ball and a magic show.
On his way out of a wedding, a young boy named Peacheskin finds a jewel by chance. Bringing it back to its owner, she becomes his benefactress in the years that pass...At the end of a wedding, a young boy named peau de pêche finds by chance a jewel. Bringing it back to its owner, she becomes his benefactress over the years...
A young girl, Gaby, advertised in a newspaper to find a husband. Berthier, director of a telephone exchange, answered it. Yvonne, a charming telephone operator, has been invited by a subscriber, Vanetti, a married man looking for entertainment in the absence of his wife. The four young people have agreed to the same meeting place and will find the wrong partner. Gaby will spend the evening with Vanetti and Yvonne with Berthier.
When her fiancé breaks off their engagement, Danielle leaves London and returns to her mother, Jenny, in Paris. With her business partner Benoît, Jenny runs what appears to be a respectable nightclub – it is in fact a place where wealthy men can buy the favours of attractive young women. Oblivious to her mother's professional and personal life, Danielle meets a handsome young man named Lucien, and falls in love with him – not realising that he is Jenny's lover...
Based on the historical novel by Flaubert, "Salammbo" tells the story of the Mercenary War between Carthage and the Barbarians in the third century BC.
A charming little couple is watched by the misfortune that hides under the disturbing and enigmatic features of a femme fatale.
Boubouroche, a decent guy, enjoys shopping and playing cards at the cafe with his buddies: Potasse, that he is quick to "scold" for playing the wrong card, Fouettard and Roth. For eight years, Boubouroche has been living with a woman he adores called Adele. Then one day over drinks, Boubouroche is shocked and dismayed to find out he is cuckolded... And has been for quite a while!
Between the feelings of the man who believes himself to be deceived and of the surgeon's instinct, it is the latter which triumphs in Doctor Bernon, who saves the man presumed to be his wife's lover. He then realizes that this is not the case and that she is still worthy of him.
An idealistic youth finds sincere love after having been toyed with by several frivolous women who were not serious.
In close-ups and extreme close-ups, we watch two small species of marine crustaceans, the slender long-legged stenorhynchus and the clumsy, short-legged hyas. To blend in, both cover themselves with found objects, such as algae and sponges. We watch them move, eat, greet each other, and fight. They have small mandibles and large claws. Near them are spirograph worms, 6 inches long, with a plume of branchiae that fan out like exploding fireworks. We see vibrating cilia, 0.001 mm long, on the branchiae, sending food toward the mouth at the plume's center. Chopin's music and an off-screen narrator suggest we're watching a ballet.
