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Pierre (Pierre Richard-Willm), a young lawyer, has enormous debts due to his mistress Florence (Marie Bell), and her whims of luxury life. Pierre has gone too far and put the family firm in jeopardy. They ask him to expatriate. To avoid scandal, Pierre joins the Foreign Legion. In Morocco, near the desert, Pierre goes with his comrades of the Legion to a bar-restaurant-brothel, owned by a shady character, Mr. Clement (Charles Vanel). Clement lives more or less with Ms.Blanche (Françoise Rosay) who is a fortune teller with cards, as a hobby. But Clement is also after his girls now and then. Pierre is still obsessed with Florence but he meets Irma (Marie Bell), one of Clement's girls, who is the double of Florence except for hair color. Irma has had an accident and has lost part of her memory at a certain point of her recent past, and Pierre slowly persuades himself she is Florence, but cannot remember it. Advised by Ms.Blanche, Irma finally accepts to act as if she was Florence because she is falling in love with Pierre. Near the end of his contract with the Legion, Pierre receives news from France. He has inherited a fortune. He asks Irma to come to France with him, and they make plans. But Clement tries to rape Irma and Pierre has to kill him.

In 1860s Russia, a young officer is sent on a mission to save his country from invaders.

Jean Valjean is a good man who is nevertheless convicted and imprisoned for a minor offense. When he escapes, he is pursued for decades by the unrelenting lawman, Javert.

Sad story of an unfaithful wife and her subsequent sufferings as a mother.

A lady adventuress sells weapons to rebels in Morocco.After she meets an imposing man, she tries to leave her past life.

Teenage lovers are continually thwarted in their attempts to get married.

An officer is tried for self-inflicted injury.He is thrown out of the Foreign Legion .

Croquette, the youngest daughter of a circus artist, shares her dreams between the handsome Bob and becoming an artist.

A serial (known in French as a cine-roman) in which the adventures are told from the perspective of the kidnapped heroine.

A small town during the 15th century. A band of smugglers settle in the abandoned Grey Tower. At a city auction a mysterious stranger buys the tower. Rumors has he is sent by the devil.

Josette needs to marry within a year to get her aunt's money.Her fiance,an Englishman, has gone away .After getting permission from her godfather to do a "white marriage," she realizes that she really loves the godfather instead.

Matteo, the son of a Bedouin woman and a Maltese Christian, falls in love with a Bedouin dancer and follows her to Paris after she has rejected him for a rich French jeweler.

A Parisian painter working in the Basque country succeeds in keeping together a young woman and her smuggler boyfriend, even though the artist has feelings for the intended bride himself, and then he completes a painting on the subject of the wedding.

In a night shelter, in the morning, two men get to know each other, the oldest is called Father Jean, the youngest is La Bricole. Father Jean, hurrying to his casual job (dog washing), finds a pack of clothes on the floor. In a cloak, he discovers keys, a letter and a notebook. In the letter, a man named Harry Barclay bequeaths his fortune, his house and all he possesses to the one who will find it first. Father Jean goes to Barclay's house in Passy. He moves there. The next morning, a young girl introduces herself and jumps on her neck, exclaiming: "Hello my uncle!" Father Jean lets her believe. The girl moves in. Barclay was a writer and Father John has to write a novel that Barclay's publisher had commissioned. A young secretary helps him in this task. But one day, La Bricole arrives and threatens to say everything if Father Jean does not let him settle in. The young secretary and the niece love each other but he is poor. He does not dare to declare himself but she tries to convince his "uncle". La Bricole, however, has set his eyes on the girl and demands to marry her.

A documentary about the making of L'argent, the epic silent film directed by Marcel L'Herbier. The film shows the details of many of the more complicated moving camera shots.