Lyria, a faded beauty who runs a seedy waterfront bar, is madly in love with Bob, a crooked attorney. Bob can't bring himself to confess his love for Minnie, the pretty daughter of Simon, a safe cracker. In order to run away with her, Bob, one of the masterminds of a big-time robbery, betrays his friends. But Lyria, who has found out what is happening, makes Minnie fall into a ...
At the start of the First World War, Marthe Richard sees her parents arrested by German soldiers, taken away and shot. When she loses contact with her fiancé, André, a soldier on the Western Front, the young woman hastens to Paris with one thought in her mind – to take revenge on the Germans by serving her country. She is engaged by Commandant Rémond to work as a spy. She is se...
Brigitte de Ledouville is always helping good causes with her personal financial support. But where does she get all the money from With the help of her secretary, Guillaume Lestrange, she seduces rich admirers and sends them off gently to heaven, having first appropriated their money. She then buries them under a flowerbed in her garden. Her next admirer is Maurice Portal, wh...
