Gil Clary

A French film star visits Coimbra and it's old university, and breaks a poor local girl's heart, as her fiancee turns his attentions to the foreign girl. In a play within the story, one is told the sad love story of Don Pedro, king of Portugal, and Inês de Castro.

Une danseuse italienne, Rosine Savelli, fervente patriote, est le jouet de conspirateurs qui essaient d'attenter a la vie de Napoléon III. Mais la conspiration échoue et l'Empereur, amoureux de la jeune femme, est convaincu de son innocence.

Philibert Bretonneau signs novels which are actually written by Moluchet, his secretary, secretly in love with Bretonneau's charming wife, Pauline... One day, Jim la houlette, the king of thieves, resurfaces in France. He steals jewels from Madame Clisson, the wife of a lawyer. Saint-Lévy, Bretonneau's publisher, has an idea : to simulate the theft of a manuscript by Jim la houlette, in fact by Moluchet posing as the criminal. But Moluchet, confronted by the real Jim, lets him run away and is arrested...

Father-and-son lion tamers, Rabbas and Léo share a mistress - Rosita, the " lovely bitch " of the film's title. She is as wild as their lionesses and, in a single night the father is injured and the son attempts suicide. Only when Rosita leaves the circus can things get back to normal.

Le mécanicien chef Sisif recueille une petite orpheline à la suite d’une catastrophe de chemin de fer. Elle s’appelle Norma et est élevée avec Élie, le fils de Sisif, à peu près du même âge. Tout semble aller pour le mieux, mais peu à peu Sisif se sent pris d’une étrange passion pour sa fille adoptive. Son comportement change, il devient alcoolique, ombrageux, soupçonneux, violent. Le charme de Norma a séduit un ingénieur, Monsieur de Hersan ; Sisif commet l’imprudence de lui avouer la passion qui a grandi en lui. Hersan le menace d’un chantage s’il ne consent pas à lui donner Norma. Celle-ci se résigne, et Sisif, conduisant le train qui emmène la jeune femme vers son nouveau destin, souhaite mourir avec elle... Durée : entre 273 minutes (4 h 33 min) et plus de 8 h suivant les montages

In a small fishermen's village love affairs are in turmoil, amidst political meetings and revolutionary activities. Nature adds drama to the human passions with its wind- and sea-storms.

Rose is a young factory worker, seduced and abandoned by her lover. She feels compelled to abandon her baby, who will grow up in a rich family, with problems of its own. Rose lives through plenty of adventures, always repenting for leaving her child, until one day.

From 6 P.M. to 8 P.M., in a documentary fashion, the film shows different character types sitting, meeting, and working at a cocktail's bar.

Jean Larivière receives an impromptu visit from his future father-in-law while Lina, his mistress, learning of his marriage, has come to make a scene. The baron is seduced by Lina, and Jean, noticing that Angélique, his fiancée, is not so bad after all, is very happy to marry her.