Gina Manès – MRQE

L’auberge rouge

Sat, 30 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Two young doctors, surprised by the storm, take refuge in an inn. A diamond broker joins them and, for lack of space, shares their room. At dawn he is found dead. A few years later justice is done.

Divine

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A country girl (Simone Berriau) finds work as a chorus girl in Paris, gets embroiled with a bad egg, and then finds true love with a good-looking milkman.

Mayerling

Sat, 06 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Rudolf, the only heir to Emperor Franz Josef of Austria-Hungary, is trapped in a loveless marriage to a Belgian princess. As he seeks to flee his stifling environment, he meets the beautiful Maria, and the two enter into a scandalous affair. Despite the interference of the Emperor, the couple refuse to give each other up.

Napoléon

Fri, 05 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A biopic of Napoleon Bonaparte, tracing the Corsican’s career from his schooldays (where a snowball fight is staged like a military campaign) to his flight from Corsica, through the French Revolution (where a real storm is intercut with a political storm) and the Terror, culminating in his triumphant invasion of Italy in 1797. Originally intended to be the first of six films, director Abel Gance realized the full project would be nigh impossible, and never raised the money to complete the other five. The film’s legendary reputation is due to the astonishing range of techniques that Gance uses to tell his story, culminating in the final twenty-minute triptych sequence, which alternates widescreen panoramas with complex multiple- image montages projected simultaneously on three screens.

Thérèse Raquin

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A silent adaptation of the novel by French writer Émile Zola.

Quartier Latin

Tue, 02 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A wealthy man pretends to be a starving artist to gain the affections of a young painter.

Napoléon Bonaparte

Fri, 05 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A second version of Gance’s Napoléon, with sound.

La Tête d’un homme

Sat, 30 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Willy Ferrière is a gambler living beyond his means, and his mistress is as greedy as he’s dead broke. One day, he says out of loud in a a Montparnasse café that he would give 100,000 francs to get rid of his wealthy aunt so he could claim his inheritance. Someone secretly lets Willy know it’s a deal. The old lady is murdered, and a low-life criminal is manipulated to be the perfect suspect. But Superintendant Maigret feels something is wrong.

Sous le casque de cuir

Wed, 03 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Set in Rumania, the film focuses on a female secret agent who intends to use an airplane to fly behind enemy lines. While she awaits her flight to destiny, the girl spends several days with a French flying squadron. Her sexy presence causes the pilots to begin fighting among themselves, resulting in disaster for all concerned.

Die Todesschleife

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Botto the Clown is in love with the much younger Blanche but she is in love with the handsome daredevil acrobate Andre.