It all begins with the discreet romance between the Creole maid Lea Mariotte and her young boss, George Brissac, an amoral bourgeois who plans to inherit his uncle's fortune and marry a young woman from a good family. After an incident where she kills a man, she is saved from the gallows by Fabian, a ship's captain, who has personal reasons for antagonizing the Brissacs. He takes care of her and falls in love with her, but doesn't tell her. She, in turn, takes the opportunity to return to her lover Brissac's arms, forcing him to marry her after seeing him murder his uncle.

A young aspiring boxer is lured by a powerful impresario into a dangerously compromising situation.

A crooked lawyer trying to cheat a young girl out of her inheritance tries to convince a sea captain...

At the height of the October Revolution during the 1919 allied intervention in Arkhangelsk, the expl...

Brothers Vincent and Clay meet up for the first time after their father's funeral and remark on how ...

A stone-encrusted body is unearthed at Pompeii, and people left alone with it keep dying of crushed ...

The ruthless Flint, a disabled man, rules an isolated region of Kongo like an omnipotent god, throug...

Two old fellow mobsters meet up at hideout to discuss their next job. They plunge into a conversatio...

A countess fleeing her husband mistakes a count for her hairdresser at a Monte Carlo casino.

A group of travellers, each with a personal problem that they want to hide, arrive at a mysterious W...

A young man is torn between his free-thinking lifestyle and the tradition of his wealthy fiancée's f...

An airline executive refuses to believe that pilot error, by his friend, caused a fatal crash and pe...

In 1910s Paris, a sewer worker disillusioned with Christianity feels his prayers have been answered ...

Eager to find a better life abroad, a Senegalese woman becomes a mere governess to a family in south...

A quiet killer is looking for a room. The real state agent, shy and expressionless, guides him throu...

In 1941 Malaysia, the advancing Japanese army captures a lot of British territory very quickly. The ...

A beautiful Italian woman is told by her black friend about the Carribean love god Jambaya who appea...

The owner of an impoverished circus in Communist-ruled Czechoslovokia plots to flee across the borde...

If ever a man seems lost in time, it would be Johnny Twennies, a newspaper writer who talks, walks a...

A Soviet woman is caught between her husband and son, who find themselves on opposing sides of the R...