Movies: Manuel Raaby

The tale of a rich, flaky poet and his servant who both join the army and wind up in the same barracks....

An impoverished girl tries to sell matches on NYE. Shivering with cold and unable to sell her wares, she sits in a sheltered nook. Striking a match to keep warm, she sees things in the flame....

Inspector Maigret investigates the mysterious murder of a Dutch diamond dealer, found dead in a stolen car. The car belongs to an insurance agent, Michonnet, and has been abandoned in the garage belonging to Carl Andersen....

Rival knights compete for the hand of a beautiful maiden in this period feature from Jean Renoir....

A young French woman who inherits her uncle's property in Algeria finds herself schemed against by her envious cousins, and romanced by a handsome but previously irresponsible young man who works for his uncle on a neighbouring farm....

An ironic look at what it is like to be beautiful for a woman (and handsome for a few men) in the Paris of the late twenties....