Name: The House of Mystery - part one
Director: Alexandre Volkoff
Released: 1923
Duration: 1 h 27 min
Cast: Charles Vanel, Ivan Mozzhukhin, Hélène Darly, Francine Mussey

Charles Vanel

Ivan Mozzhukhin

Hélène Darly

Francine Mussey

An imaginative wedding scene shot in silhouette, begins a tale of murder blackmail and romance covering a period of about 18 years, ending around 1923.

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The House of Mystery - part one

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Marguerite Moreno

 Florelle

Paul Azaïs

Charles Dullin

Harry Baur

Orane Demazis

Gaby Triquet

Emile Genevois

Josseline Gael

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<div class="summary_text">The lives of numerous people over the course of 20 years in 19th century France, weaved together by the story of an ex-convict named Jean Valjean on the run from an obsessive police inspector, who pursues him for only a minor offense.</div>
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Les Misérables, Part 2

Jean Gabin

Raymond Aimos

Charles Dorat

Charles Granval

Viviane Romance

Raphaël Medina

Fernand Charpin

Raymond Cordy

Marcelle Géniat

Robert Lynen

Michèle Verly

Those five are unemployed penniless workers. Together they win 100,000 Francs with the national lottery. Instead of sharing the money, they buy a ruin and build an open-air cafe. But difficulties come to split their friendly group apart: former wife, police tracking one of them (Spanish republican refugee), jealousy.

Réalisme poétique français

They Were Five

french - SME

Jean Marchat

Pierre Labry

Gabriel Gabrio

Marcelle Chantal

Jean Dax

José Noguero

Nestor Ariani

Geo Laby

Régine Dancourt

A Civil War veteran with a sawed-off rifle as a holstered weapon makes a living as a bounty hunter in the Wild West of the 1870s.

In the Name of the Law

René Bergeron

Antonin Artaud

Jean Galland

Pierre Blanchar

Marcel Delaître

 Christian-Jaque

The young and patriotic student Demachy joins the French army in 1914 to defend his country. But he and his comrades soon experience the terrifying, endless trench war in Champagne, where more and more wooden crosses have to be erected for this cannon fodder.

Wooden Crosses

Les Misérables, Part 3

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<div class="summary_text">The lives of numerous people over the course of 20 years in 19th century France, weaved together by the story of an ex-convict named Jean Valjean on the run from an obsessive police inspector, who pursues him for only a minor offense.</div>
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Les Misérables, Part 1 

Antonio Centa

Folco Lulli

Peter Van Eyck

Véra Clouzot

William Tubbs

Jo Dest

Dario Moréno

Luis de Lima

Yves Montand

Reclus &agrave; Las Piedras, une petite ville perdue quelque part en Am&eacute;rique Latine, quelques ressortissants europ&eacute;ens ayant fui leur pays respectif esp&egrave;rent chacun de leur c&ocirc;t&eacute; voir passer l&rsquo;occasion qui leur permettra de se payer un billet retour. Une opulente compagnie p&eacute;troli&egrave;re am&eacute;ricaine, la SOC, victime d&rsquo;un accident, r&eacute;clame justement l&rsquo;aide de quatre personnes assez d&eacute;sesp&eacute;r&eacute;es pour accepter une mission consistant &agrave; transporter de la nitroglyc&eacute;rine &agrave; travers la jungle. Mario et Jo, deux fran&ccedil;ais, Luigi, un italien et Bimba, un allemand, sont s&eacute;lectionn&eacute;s pour ce p&eacute;rilleux p&eacute;riple. Outre les conditions p&eacute;nibles de l&rsquo;enfer vert, les quatre hommes se retrouvent oblig&eacute;s de cohabiter et de d&eacute;jouer les intrigues qui se nouent entre eux.

Notes : Le Salaire de la peur est l&rsquo;adaptation du roman &eacute;ponyme de Georges Arnaud publi&eacute; en 1950. Le film a fait l&rsquo;objet de deux remakes am&eacute;ricains : Violent Road, r&eacute;alis&eacute; par Howard W. Koch, et <a href="/fr/tous-les-films/2455-le-convoi-de-la-peur.html" target="_blank">Le Convoi de la peur</a>&nbsp;en 1977, r&eacute;alis&eacute; par William Friedkin.

The Wages of Fear

Albert Rémy

Jean Debucourt

Madeleine Renaud

Léonce Corne

Raymonde Vernay

Anne Vandenne

Michel François

Raoul Marco

Robert Le Fort

The wife of a mechanic and former fighter pilot falls in love with the idea of flying herself. This soon becomes an obsession and she undertakes a lofty feat: the longest solo flight ever made by a woman.

The Woman Who Dared

Michel Serrault

Pierre Larquey

Simone Signoret

Paul Meurisse

Noël Roquevert

Jean Brochard

Georges Chamarat

The wife and mistress of a loathed school principal hatch a plan to murder him while having the perfect alibi. They carry out the plan...but then his body disappears.

Diabolique

french-SME

The House of Mystery - part two

The House of Mystery - part three

Jacques Perrin

Sami Frey

Brigitte Bardot

Marie-José Nat

Barbara Sommers

A liberated small-town girl and the family&#x27;s black sheep moves to Paris with her sister, only to find herself standing trial for the shocking murder of her young lover. Was his killing premeditated or was this a crime of passion?

La Vérité

Cary Grant

Georgette Anys

René Blancard

Jessie Royce Landis

Grace Kelly

Brigitte Auber

Jean Martinelli

Roland Lesaffre

Alfred Hitchcock

John Williams

A retired jewel thief sets out to prove his innocence after being suspected of returning to his former occupation.

L’âge d’or des studios américains 

To Catch a Thief

french

VF+VOST - HD

Zita Duarte

Mario Pardo

Eduardo Durán

Henriqueta Maia

Chili. Les mauvais traitements et tortures font r&eacute;gner un r&eacute;gime de terreur dans l&rsquo;enceinte de la prison d&rsquo;&eacute;tat. Les riverains, ne pouvant plus supporter la situation, d&eacute;cident de faire entendre leur m&eacute;contentement aux autorit&eacute;s et de protester contre ces abus de pouvoir.

Calm Prevails Over the Country

Es herrscht Ruhe im Land

Marie Bell

Pierre Richard-Willm

Pierre , a young lawyer, has enormous debts due to his mistress Florence , and her whims of luxury life. To avoid scandal, Pierre joins the Foreign Legion. In Morocco, near the desert, Pierre goes with his comrades of the Legion to a bar-restaurant-brothel where he meets Irma, who looks a lot like Florence.&nbsp;

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Le Grand jeu

Paul Bonifas

Jeanne Pérez

Catherine Coste

Louis Vign&eacute;, a modest retired civil servant, peacefully ends an uneventful life at his wife&#x27;s side. When she dies and Louis is all alone : alone with the objects, alone with others and alone with himself. Very quickly he realises the extent of the happiness he has experienced and realises that the only place where he can find peace is the small graveyard where his wife rests. In this melancholy and affecting parable, Charles Vanel plays a role made entirely of nuances and restrained emotions.

L'INA

La Séparation

VF - SD - INA

Sandra Milowanoff

Abel Sovet

Roger San-Juana

Jean Wells

Claire Darcas

Faithfully reproduced observations of Breton fisherfolk in story of the man a local woman really loves who will not at first give himself to her because of his fondness for the sea that takes him away.

Pécheurs d'Islande

FR - HD 

Freebox - VOST - SD

Joseph Farnham

Zasu Pitts

Gibson Gowland

Jean Hersholt

Dale Fuller

Tempe Pigott

Sylvia Ashton

Chester Conklin

Frank Hayes

Joan Standing

Vera Cruz, 1938. &quot;Le Rital&quot;, a tough French hit man, agrees to serve Mexican revolutionaries who want to replace the current President by Chico, an insecure young bourgeois that they intend to manipulate. The killing of the President is to take place in a small town whose &quot;great lady&quot;, Camito, is an alluring former thespian and the despot&#x27;s mistress. Things go according to plan as the President commits the imprudence to come and see Camito without his escort. &quot;Le Rital&quot; just has to pull the trigger and his mission is achieved. But to no avail actually as the revolutionaries prove unable to take advantage of the situation. Worse, &quot;Le Rital&quot; finds himself driven to shoot at Chico(without killing him though) whereas he has become close to him. In the end he leaves Mexico for new adventures without anybody knowing that deep inside himself he is a broken man.

Expressionnisme allemand

Greed

English

VOST - SD

Freebox - VO - SD

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Florence Vidor

Monte Blue

Marie Prevost

Creighton Hale

Adolphe Menjou

Harry Myers

Esther Ralston

Professor Stock and his wife Mizzi are always bickering. Mizzi tries to seduce Dr. Franz Braun, the new husband of her good friend Charlotte. Dr. Braun&#x27;s colleague, Dr. Mueller, who has had his eye on Charlotte, sees this as his opportunity, even though the Braun&#x27;s are very happily married.

The Marriage Circle

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VO - SD

Buster Keaton

Joe Keaton

Natalie Talmadge

Joe Roberts

Ralph Bushman

Craig Ward

Monte Collins

Kitty Bradbury

Buster Keaton Jr.

Leonard Clapham

Edward Coxen

Jean Dumas

Jack Duffy

A man returns to his Appalachian homestead. On the trip, he falls for a young woman. The only problem is her family has vowed to kill every member of his family.

Our Hospitality

VOST - HD

Freebox - VOST - HD

Henry Bergman

Charles Farrell

Malvina Polo

Edna Purviance

Clarence Geldart

Carl Miller

Lydia Knott

Charles K. French

Betty Morrissey

Nellie Bly Baker

Frank Coghlan Jr.

Harry d' Abbadie d'Arrast

Against the wishes of their tyrannical parents, Jean and Marie decide to elope to Paris. The sudden death of Jean&rsquo;s father makes it impossible for him to meet her at the station, and Marie heads for Paris alone. A year later, Jean finds her in the arms of a rich and decadent playboy&hellip; and tragedy ensues. 
Highly acclaimed by filmmakers from Lubitsch to Scorsese, this brilliant yet subtle Parisian fresco reveals the dramatic genius of the King of Comedy.

A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate

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