Jean Sylvain Movies

A young opera dancer tries to help her mother financially by performing in a dubious cabaret.

French version of the Selma Lagerlof story, most famously filmed in 1921 by Victor Sjostrom, about a poor sinner who only realizes what misery he's...

Minne is a very imaginative young lady. She pretends to have had lovers and can't think of anything better to do other than... to tell Antoine, her...

Tells the story of a young woman escaping from reform school who tries to steal a foreign ambassador's watch but ends up falling in love with him.

A teen marries the Prince of Clèves, more than twice her age, which makes her an official Princess, a position she takes to heart. Although...

A trio of criminals gradually become entangled in theft and crime. Serge is arrested, his mistress, Hélène, and his accomplice, Michel,...

The lover of an Italian revolutionary offers herself to Napoleon in exchange for her sweetheart's life.

André Garnier, a young pianist, who was sent to deportation following a denunciation, absolutely wants to find his informer. He falls in love...

During Christmas night, two police officers make their nocturnal rounds, in their round they meet tramps, brawlers in a café, a naked man, a...

The eccentric characters of a street from the comic designs of Andre Dubout are brought to life with human performers instead of drawings.

Émile Boulard is a props man in a Paris movie studio. He has a wife, Suzanne. Or to be more accurate, let's say he HAD a wife since she left...

A man assists his gravely ill wife to die and wants to face justice for this, but his brothers try everything to keep the family's name clean.

Melodrama of two struggling artists whose love for each other is thwarted.She has some success as a ballerina despite being wounded by him in a fit...

Based on the short story by Georges Courteline. The story of Monsieur Badin, a model employee who can't bring himself to go to the office and suffers...

World War I aviator Carbot attempts to establish a commercial airline after the war, for the purpose of delivering the mail to the outermost regions...

Commissioner Malaise investigates a strange crime: a mannequin, stolen from the window of a tailor, is found stabbed... But his face of wax has the...

Released from prison after two years, Michel Gérard sets out to find his wife Alice. Alice, luxuriously maintained by her lover, Jacques...

Jules Duraton is the headmaster of Chatelbourg's high school. He is happily married, has a teenage daughter named Solange, and everything would be...

A married industrialist maintains three mistresses. On the instructions of his wife, the tax inspector seizes the small notebook where he records his...