The Beautiful Sailor

The Beautiful Sailor 1932

5.60

A barge captain saves Marinette from drowning and soon marries her. On the wedding day, Sylvestre, the captain’s best friend, falls in love with Marinette.

1932

Halfway to heaven

Halfway to heaven 1931

1

Love triangle in an acrobatic trapeze act results in a missed catch and a death, but was it on purpose?

1931

Shout It from the House Tops

Shout It from the House Tops 1932

1

The son of a rich soap manufacturer gets himself in predicaments trying to prove to his father that he's responsible enough for marriage.

1932

A Weak Woman

A Weak Woman 1933

1

Arlette Morand, a rich and pretty young widow, would like to remarry. She hesitates between Henri, the athlete, and Serge, the artist. She grants her favors to Henri, for whom it is only an adventure. She realizes that she doesn't love him and goes to join Serge on the boat that takes him to England...

1933

Frivolous youth

Frivolous youth 1931

1

Lydia is a spoiled young woman who thinks she can get anything for money. One day she causes an accident in which a motorcyclist is killed. At the trial she meets prosecutor Dan O'Bannon. She is sentenced to prison for manslaughter.

1931

Aces of the Turf

Aces of the Turf 1932

1

Two friends win a large sum and become the owners of a splendid horse, which a band of adventurers tries to seize.

1932

Make Up

Make Up 1932

1

Misfortunes and disarray of the little clown Leroy who is upstaged by a comrade, Bertini, and sees himself abandoned by his girlfriend Ginette, preferring his collaborator to him.

1932

Sunday of Life

Sunday of Life 1931

1

Ellen Hobart is a gold-digging manicurist who sights her sights on David Stone, a wealthy young man. After they marry, Hobart is persuaded to accept $50,000 to give her husband up. She willingly goes along with this arrangement, only to realize she's genuinely in love with the boy when he falls dangerously ill. German-language version of the American pre-code film The Devil's Holiday.

1931

The Improvised Son

The Improvised Son 1932

1

A woman who is the mistress of a well off antiquarian receives a visit from a younger man. Is her lost son from long ago?

1932

Nothing But Lies

Nothing But Lies 1933

1

Two husbands claim to be Freemasons so they can go out at night. Where do they go, if not to the lodge, the Masonic lodge? In reality, one goes to visit a pretty and particularly welcoming concierge in his dressing room, and the other spends his evenings in the dressing room of a little music-hall actress.

1933

The Two of Us

The Two of Us 1930

1

Widower Robert Rossiter lives in New York with his two teenage children. When he visits a fashion house one day, he falls in love with the store clerk Joyce Roamer.

1930

The Hen

The Hen 1933

1

Mr. Silvestry, nicknamed "The Hen" because he is raising his five daughters alone, for whom he does the housework, the shopping and the cooking, is invited to the Côte d'Azur by a wealthy American.

1933

Farornas paradis

Farornas paradis 1931

1

A hotel in Surabaya, Java has some features of a brothel. Anita plays in a women's orchestra is exposed to the bandleaders invites. The owner of the hotel wants Anita to attract customers. They two become rivals over Anita.

1931

Une petite femme dans le train

Une petite femme dans le train 1932

1.00

Sophisticated romantic comedy of suspicious husbands, straying wives, handsome lovers, with various misunderstandings thrown in for good measure. (Including a gender-reversal of the old Pirandello plot twist from "The Late Mathias Pascal" of the protagonist changing identities after supposedly perishing in a train wreck.)

1932

The Doctor's Secret

The Doctor's Secret 1930

1

Lady Lillian Gardner is unhappily married to rich businessman Richard Gardner. On a banquet she meets Hugo Paton whom she falls in love with.

1930

The Pearl

The Pearl 1932

1

A jeweler's clerk accidentally swallows a pearl worth three million. The jeweler accepts his marriage to his daughter if the clerk agrees to have the operation. The adventures follow one another until the day when the clerk admits that he has not swallowed the pearl, but as he has become a famous man, the jeweler accepts him as his son-in-law.

1932

The Champion Cook

The Champion Cook 1932

1

Le Cordon Bleu doesn't refer to a ham-and-veal delicacy, though there is plenty of ham in this Gallic comedy. The scene is a posh Parisian hotel-restaurant, which ends up a hotbed of infidelity and mistaken identity. Hotel cook Regina is romantically involved with her boss Octave, the husband of Irma. Mistaken for another woman, Irma is passionately pursued by Bernereau, whose wife gets involved with someone else's husband, whose wife gets involved with.

1932