Stuck in a loveless marriage, bourgeois industrialist Francois falls in love with Janine, another man’s wife. Francois sets up Janine as his mistress, and she, mercenary soul that she is,…

A teenager becomes fixated on a painting of the handsome suitor who died in a duel for her grandmother’s love. On her sixteenth birthday, her father hires three men who…

The Marquis de la Chesnaye and his wife host a weekend gala where a variety of complicated romantic and social entanglements between guests and servants lead to tragedy, all against…

Returning by train to the French port of Le Havre, Jacques Lantier, a tormented railwayman, meets by chance the impulsive stationmaster Roubard and Séverine, his wife.

A group of French soldiers, including the patrician Captain de Boeldieu and the working-class Lieutenant Maréchal, grapple with their own class differences after being captured and held in a World…