René Clair – MRQE

Le Million

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

Debt-ridden painter Michel is overcome with joy at discovering that he has just won 1 million florins in the Dutch lottery, but almost immediately, he discovers that his softhearted girlfriend, Béatrice, has given away his jacket containing the winning ticket to an elderly petty thief. Soon Michel, Beatrice and Michel’s artistic rival, Prosper, are hurtling through the streets of Paris on the trail of the missing jacket.

Porte des Lilas

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

Juju, a drunken oaf who feels the need of being important to someone—anyone—and his friend The Artist are forced at gunpoint to house a fugitive, Pierre Barbier, in Juju’s broken-down home. The urge for being needed is such in Juju that he gives up drinking and takes care of Pierre. But one day Juju finds out that Pierre has been making love to his girl Maria…

Grandes manoeuvres, Les

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

Armand, a boastful womaniser, makes a bet that he can seduce any girl he wants. He soon crosses paths with a beautiful Parisian divorcee, who is nothing like anyone he has ever met before.

Belles de nuit, Les

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

A daydreaming French composer (Michel Simon) sees himself as a fine figure dashing through history.

La Beauté du diable

Mon, 01 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Henri Faust, retiring after 50 years as a professor in a circa-1700 French university, despairs at the ravages of old age … whereupon Mephistopheles, agent of Lucifer, appears as a virile, handsome young man and exchanges bodies with him to induce Faust to sign a pact to exchange his soul for renewed youth, riches and power. But though the “new” Faust is attracted by the material improvements in his life, he remains wary of signing, while Mephistopheles, now posing as the aged professor whose body he inhabits, must find a way to trick him into signing the pact – and dissuade him from the love of a gypsy girl who prays for his soul – or find himself damned by his own Master…

Le Silence est d’or

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

Emile is a French film producer at the beginning of the century. One of his friends leaves his daughter Lucette in his house, when he is starting a tour through France. Emile falls in love with her. Problems starts when his younger friend Jacques come back from military service and after complaining his misfortune with women, follows Emile’s advice in starting affairs with women and he meets Lucette.

It Happened Tomorrow

Mon, 06 Oct 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A young turn-of-the-century newspaper man finds he can get hold of the next day’s paper. This brings more problems than fortune, especially as his new girlfriend is part of a phony clairvoyant act.

I Married a Witch

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

A 17th-century witch returns to wreak havoc in the life of a descendant of the Puritan witch hunter who burned her, but runs afoul of her father when she discovers that her mischief might have found her true love.

The Flame of New Orleans

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

In old New Orleans, a beautiful adventuress juggles the attentions of a rich banker and a dashing sea captain.

Break the News

Sun, 07 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Two small-time song-and-dance men come up with what they believe is a surefire publicity stunt, guaranteed to keep their names in the public eye–one of them will “disappear” in what looks like a murder, and the other will be convicted of the crime. Then the “dead man” will suddenly show up at his partner’s murder trial. Unfortunately, things don’t quite go as planned. For one thing, no one seems to much care that the “dead man” is missing, and for another thing he’s mistaken for the leader of a Balkan revolutionary group and is kidnapped by the other side.