In Budapest, in the shop of the unfriendly Mr. Matuschek work Flora, Ilona, Pepi, Vadas, the old Pirovich and Alfred Kralik, the most important shop assistant. One day, Klara Novak enters the shop and gets a job because she manages to sell an item which was considered unsellable. Alfred reveals to Pirovich that he has a pen-girlfriend he has never met in person. When he find...
In the late 1800's, Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian empire, falls for Sophie Chotek, a Czech countess. He's already a problem to the Crown because of his political ideas; this love affair with someone not of royal blood breeches protocol. The Crown allows the union only after the couple agrees to a morganatic marriage. The emperor further neutralizes Fr...
Sent on a mission to Paris to control the work of three Soviet agents, a rigid and stern Russian Communist commissary opens her heart for the beautiful eyes of an aristocratic man and a neat little hat. Based on a screenplay written by Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett, Lubitsch's movie depicts a world of luxurious hotels, revolving doors, penniless nobility and moral aristo...
Eve Peabody, a penniless ballerina who lost all her money on the French Riviera, arrives in Paris and manages to sneak into a high class party, where she is approached by Georges Flammarion, a rich noble man, who asks her to seduce Jacques Picot, the son of Champagne producers, who is flirting with his wife Hélène. To Eve, this sounds like an easy task, but the situation get...
Evelyne works as a stripper in a nightclub, trying to scrape a living for herself and her young son. When a man she loved years earlier suddenly reappears she decides to pretend, for a few days at least, that her life has been more successful. But when Georges ask her to leave for Canada with him and her child, she must make a final choice.
Lucy and Larry, after many years of marriage, get convinced wrongly that they have both cheated on the other and decide to get a divorce. The divorce, complicated because of the problem of the custody of Mr. Smith, the fox terrier dog of the couple, is to become final in 90 days, but Larry is still jealous of his wife. After having come to blows with Armand Duvalle, an "inno...
The government of a small state fears that the rich owner of almost all the capitals of the nation, a widow now, gets married again and brings all her money abroad. So the royal coffers send to Paris, where she lives, a young officer with the mission of winning her heart (and consequently her money). Adaptation of the operetta of the same name by Franz Lehar, the movie is pe...
In Venice, Gaston, a master thief masquerading as a baron, meets Lily, a beautiful thief also pretending to be of the nobility. The two fall in love and decide to team up. They leave Venice for Paris, where they work for the famous perfume manufacturer Mariette Colet with the intention of stealing a great sum of money from her safe. Colet begins to flirt with Gaston and he b...
Joan of Arc's trial for heresy. Joan is interrogated by the French Clerical Court. Her judges try to make her say something that will discredit her claim, but she remains steadfast. When she is threatened with burning at the stake, she finally breaks and allows a priest to guide her hand in signing a confession, but after realizing that she has been unfaithful to God, she de...
Victor Frandsen is a domestic tyrant. His wife Ida is very sweet and takes care of her husband and her children. But this is not enough to satisfy her husband. Mads, Victors' nanny when he was a child, understands that Ida is on the verge of a serious breakdown and persuades Mrs Krigger, Ida's mother, to take Ida away. When Ida gets sick, Mrs. Krigger sends her to the countr...
