Quai des Orfèvres (1947)
A flirtatious wife runs off to meet an older man and the husband closes in with intend to murder him, but finds the deed already done
Les abysses (1963)
A bourgeois family, who is harassed and humiliated, ruins their young maids without pay for several years
Sirocco (1938)
Town trollop Safia, much against her better judgment, falls in love with Matteo, a beggar and mystic in the native quarter of Sirocco She flees to France, first as the mistress and then wife of a wealthy archaeologist, and bears
Hotel du Nord (1938)
On the meandering Canal St Martin, at the Parisian Hotel du Nord, a nearly fatal gunshot separates a dejected young couple But, amid a sad but beautiful panorama of lively characters, love has the final say Can life be a fairy
The Lower Depths (1936)
A charismatic thief makes friends with a bankrupt baron who comes to live in the thiefs slum Meanwhile the thief seeks the love of a young woman, who is held emotionally captive by her slumlord family