Battement de coeur (1940)
Henri Decoin

On leaving a reformatory, Arlette finds herself alone and penniless in Paris. An orphan, she has no one to stay with and nowhere to go...   [More...]

Cavalcade d'amour (1940)
Raymond Bernard

For hundreds of years, the château de Maupré has brought misfortune to its inhabitants, as those who choose to wed within its walls are destined to wed unhappily...   [More...]

L'Émigrante (1940)
Léo Joannon

Christiane is the owner of a popular night club whose habitués includes Monrozat, a sad wreck of a man who is desperately looking for a woman to accompany him to South America to start a new life...   [More...]

La Fille du puisatier (1940)
Marcel Pagnol

France, 1939. Pascal Amoretti and his assistant Felipe earn an honest living by digging wells in their picturesque region of Provence...   [More...]

Les Musiciens du ciel (1940)
Georges Lacombe

In Paris, Victor makes a dishonest living as a petty criminal. When his partner in crime is arrested for manufacturing forged coins, Victor begins begging on the street, pretending he is blind...   [More...]

Nuit de décembre (1940)
Curtis Bernhardt

In 1919, Pierre Darmont, a world-class pianist, falls in love with an attractive young woman named Anne, but after a night of passion she mysteriously walks out of his life, never to return...   [More...]