Fernand Bercher

Fictionalized reconstruction of the life of the French spy Marthe Richard who decided to contact the secret services during the First World War.

In an isolated community on a mythical island, a pompous dictator holds public executions and lets criminals fight in the streets.

This one is generally looked upon as the best version of the old-fashioned melodrama by Jules Mary.Riccardo Freda,who was mainly known for his horror movies,tried also his hand at spy thrillers in the wake of James Bond ("Coplan Ouvre Le Feu à Mexico") ,and had a penchant for old French melodramas (before "Roger la Honte" ,he redid "Les Deux Orphelines " -D.W.GRiffith's "orphans of the storm-. Georges Géret replaces Lucien Coedel and Irene Pappas takes on Maria Casarès's part of his mistress.Freda 's movie is more compact ,with a running time of 105 min,whereas Cayatte's version (1945-46) spread over two episodes with a total time exceeding 3 hours.It also benefited from the use of color .But all in all,it's the same old story.

The struggle of a female doctor against superstition and healers.

A propaganda film of the communist party of France, showing how the comrades help the proletariat against the capitalists.

Adrienne Lecouvreur is an acclaimed actress who falls in love with Polish prince Maurice de Saxe, only to be poisoned by a jealous rival while Maurice is away at war. The film was a co-production between the two countries, and was made at UFA's Berlin Studios. It was based on the 1849 play Adrienne Lecouvreur by Eugène Scribe and Ernest Legouvé about the life of the eighteenth century actress Adrienne Lecouvreur.

A French-language version of Stradivari (1935).

One night in Paris all the clocks and watches of the whole world stopped except that of a small professor.

Le Voyageur des siècles

Un curé de choc