Cinematic Discoveries Following the Footsteps of Le scandale: Cult Guide

Dir: Jacques de Baroncelli

The love between two abandoned youths: A poor orphan girl who becomes a seamstress, and the son of a historic castle's lord, returning after many years to his strict father who has now become a bishop.

Dir: Jacques de Baroncelli

Womanizer Don Mateo helps a girl in a train when attacked by a other woman. This girl, Conchita - a cigarette maker, soon visits the rich Don Mateo at his palace in Sevillia. He falls for her, but she likes to play with him. Sometimes she encourages his advances, then she rejects him. Furthermore, there's a portrait of a young man in her room. When he offers her money her mother urges her to accept, she runs away. Some months later he discovers her dancing flamenco in a sleazy cabaret. She notices him, flirts with other customers, then with the young man from the portrait, before she starts talking again with Don Mateo. But the manager asks her to prepare for the next number. Don Mateo soon realises, that that next number is not on the stage, but in a different room. There she dances in the nude (shown!) for rich tourists. He interrupts her dance and asks her to quit. She half accepts and starts dancing in a different place. A rendez-vous with Mateo is again used to make him mad with love and jealousy. When he learns that the man in the picture is paid by Conchita to act as her lover, he gives up and decides to move to Paris with a friend. But then Conchita shows up to confess her love and they start a real romance...

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of The Woman and the Puppet perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Dir: Jacques de Baroncelli

When the commander of a cruiser ,which sank in a confrontation,is tried for negligence, will the wife speak up in his defense? Unknown to him, she was trapped in the cabin below with her former lover, a subordinate officer.

Dir: Jacques de Baroncelli

Claire is married to the elderly owner of a brewery. She seeks excitement with her childhood friend René.

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Veille d'armes perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Dir: Jacques de Baroncelli

Faithfully reproduced observations of Breton fisherfolk in story of the man a local woman really loves who will not at first give himself to her because of his fondness for the sea that takes him away.

Dir: Jacques de Baroncelli

Young novice Beatrice left the veil to follow a childhood friend. A happy life awaits her, but the count abandons her for the beautiful Nilidor. Desperate, she then leads a life of debauchery, and one day she returns to the convent.

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of La flambée des rêves perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Dir: Jacques de Baroncelli

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Jacques de Baroncelli

Madame la Baronne le Bourge has been forced into a marriage of convenience with Baron Le Bourge, while loving Robert de Chaceroy. In despair over her marriage, he gambles wildly, uses Government funds entrusted to his care, and loses all. He then endeavors to recoup the loss by betting on the Baron's horse, but loses there also. The Baronne learns of his distress and suggests the money lender, Bragelin. Chaceroy is unable to raise the funds by any means and sees but one honorable way out of his predicament, that of suicide. The Baronne tries to pawn her jewels, but cannot do so without her husband's consent. She tries to get money from the Baron, but on account of the huge sum involved, he becomes suspicious and in an intense scene, learns of her affair with Chaceroy. In despair she goes to Jean Dupree, a writer of sensational literature, who is infatuated with her. He offers to loan the money on one condition. The Baronne refuses the dishonorable conditions, but finally yields through her love of Chaceroy. She hastens to Chaceroy with the money, but is too late. It was necessary to have the money by six o'clock that evening. Failing, he had committed suicide.

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Pêcheur d'Islande perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Dir: Jacques de Baroncelli

Michel Corbier, a widower, remarries Madeleine. His children, Lalie and Jo, see her as their second mother and call her Nène.

Dir: Jacques de Baroncelli

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.