Hidden Genre Gems In Alignment with the style of Un fil à la patte:...

Dir: Karl Anton

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Karl Anton

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Shout It from the House Tops perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

The son of a rich soap manufacturer gets himself in predicaments trying to prove to his father that he's responsible enough for marriage.

Dir: Karl Anton

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Karl Anton

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Rien que des mensonges perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

An innocent girl is mistaken for one of the loose women at a Christmas Eve party and is pursued by a young man who doesn't know where she lives.

Dir: Karl Anton

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Karl Anton

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Un soir de réveillon perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Sophisticated romantic comedy of suspicious husbands, straying wives, handsome lovers, with various misunderstandings thrown in for good measure. (Including a gender-reversal of the old Pirandello plot twist from "The Late Mathias Pascal" of the protagonist changing identities after supposedly perishing in a train wreck.)

Dir: Karl Anton

Prince Philippe of Bracowa must join his fiancée by train. The young and pretty Gisèle is on the same train, for her too to join her fiancé.

Dir: Karl Anton

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Le chasseur de chez Maxim's perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

A woman returns from the countryside to her home in Prague and works as a prostitute. When she accepts the plight of a convicted murderer to spend one night with a woman before his death, she garners the criticisms of everyone around her.

Dir: Karl Anton

A prostitute in an act of pity is keeping chaste company with a condemned man through the night before he is to be hung.

Dir: Karl Anton

Monsieur Albert is a very elegant and much appreciated butler. One day he falls in love with a client, Sylvia Robertson, and follows her to a winter sports resort. Sylvia does not recognize him and imagines that he is related to a king who goes incognito.