Dowdy Sylvia accepts her boss' marriage proposal, even though he only asked her to avoid marriage to another woman. As a wealthy wife, Sylvia changes from plain to uninhibited swan and even contemplates having an affair.

Pelopidas and his wife, Pelagia, receive a visit from their fiery daughter, Dora, who announces that...

Samba migrated to France 10 years ago from Senegal, and has since been plugging away at various lowl...

To make his frivolous nephew see the error of his ways, a shipowner takes under his wing his bookish...

Genial, bumbling Monsieur Hulot loves his top-floor apartment in a grimy corner of the city, and can...

Two men meet in the men's room of a courthouse. Both just divorced, they decide to help each other r...

Nine years later, Jesse travels across Europe giving readings from a book he wrote about the night h...

Arnaud, facing an uncertain future and a dearth of choices in a small French coastal town, meets and...

When all Broadway shows are shut down during the Depression, a trio of desperate showgirls scheme to...

Popular monarch Queen Christina of Sweden must choose between love and loyalty to her nation when sh...

During the 18th century, German noblewoman Sophia Frederica, who would later become Catherine the Gr...

A Parisian tailor goes to a château to collect a bill, only to fall for an aloof young princess livi...

Oscar François de Jarjayes was born female, but her father insisted she be raised as a boy as he had...

A failed 40 year old comedian wants to organize the first Black protests in France but meeting with ...

Nina is a young, carefree actress who arrives in Paris searching for her big break. There, she finds...

Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony K...

Henry Moon is captured for a capital offense by a posse when his horse quits while trying to escape ...

An American missionary is gradually seduced by a courtly warlord holding her in Shanghai.

Celestine has a new job as a chambermaid for the quirky M. Monteil, his wife and her father. When th...

Sailors Pike and Shorty are on leave when a street woman swindles them out of some money by telling ...

A bank robber seeks refuge in a desert gas station run by nuns, awaiting her boyfriend's release. An...