Robert Manuel – MRQE

Le Bourgeois gentilhomme

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Le Désordre et la nuit

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Vallois, a vice inspector for the Paris police, takes special interest in the plight of drug-addicted Lucky (Najda Tiller), whom he considers to be more victim than criminal. Taking it upon himself to wean Lucky away from narcotics, Vallois also wins her love — and, incidentally, smashes the dope ring responsible for her addiction

Rififi

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Out of prison after a five-year stretch, jewel thief Tony turns down a quick job his friend Jo offers him, until he discovers that his old girlfriend Mado has become the lover of local gangster Pierre Grutter during Tony’s absence. Expanding a minor smash-and-grab into a full-scale jewel heist, Tony and his crew appear to get away clean, but their actions after the job is completed threaten the lives of everyone involved.

La Valse de Paris

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A fictitious biography of Jacques Offenbach and Hortense Schneider.

Le Drame de Shanghaï

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A Russian emigrant sings in a Shanghai nightclub under the assumed name of Kay Murphy. All she dreams of is a peaceful life with her daughter Vera. But this is only a pipe dream as she has been forced by her former lover Ivan to work for a secret criminal organization, “The Black Dragon”. Vera, who studies in a Hong Kong boarding-school, knows nothing about her mother’s past. When Ivan, who is also Vera’s father, resurfaces and blackmails Kay, the young woman is determined to fight back…

Mademoiselle Docteur

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A slippery femme fatale, a spy for Germany during the Great War, is sent to Thessaloniki in Greece and becomes involved with a man on the other side, a French military officer.