La femme de paille

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poster The Smiling Madame Beudet
The Smiling Madame Beudet
(4/5)
54mn - Drama
An unhappily married woman devises a scheme to get rid of her husband.
poster Mademoiselle de La Seiglière
Mademoiselle de La Seiglière
87mn - Family, Drama
The Marquis de la Seiglière returns to France once the Revolution is over. His possessions, which had been sold as material properties, had been purchased by Stamply, a farmer. The latter restores them to…
poster My Wife's Relations
My Wife's Relations
(3.3/5)
30mn - Comedy
Buster and a woman are mistakenly married and her initially unfriendly family begins to treat him nicely when they come to believe he has a large inheritance awaiting him.
poster Washerwomen on the River
Washerwomen on the River
1mn - Documentary
Women wash clothes in a washhouse on the edge of a river.
poster Protéa
Protéa
(3.1/5)
50mn - Action, Crime, Mystery
Protéa is the last film directed by Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset, one of the early film pioneers in France. The hero of this film is a female spy, an acrobatic Mata-Hari, played by his favorite actress, Jose…
poster The Mill
The Mill
(3.2/5)
5mn - Drama
Johanna loves poor farmer Joachim, yet marries the wealthy miller. One day, Joachim visits Johanna when he is away. When the miller finds out, he takes revenge.
poster Wicked Woman
Wicked Woman
(3.4/5)
77mn - Drama
Drifting floozy Billie Nash gets a bar job where she seduces the owner's husband by convincing him to defraud his drunkard wife in order to elope together to Mexico, but a sleazy neighbor with designs on …
poster Husbands or Lovers
Husbands or Lovers
(3.1/5)
56mn - Drama, Romance
A wife, bored by her overweight slob of a husband, gives in to the temptation of a slickly seductive poet.
poster Too Wise Wives
Too Wise Wives
(2.9/5)
80mn - Drama
An insecure wife fears her husband may be straying back to an old flame.
poster Eugénie, Stand Up Straight!
Eugénie, Stand Up Straight!
4mn - Comedy
Poor Eugénie! She's humpbacked and everyone wants to straighten her out, but when success finally comes, she's too tall not to cause disasters. To solve the problem, the help of a sword swallower is urgen…
poster La Moglie di Claudio
La Moglie di Claudio
(2.8/5)
70mn - Drama, History
Claudio is married to Cesarina, a frivolous and unfaithful woman. After the death of their only son their marriage is cold. While his wife lives her free life, Claudio is dedicated to the development of s…
poster Mabel and Fatty's Wash Day
Mabel and Fatty's Wash Day
13mn - Comedy
A henpecked husband's innocent friendship with a married woman leads to chaos.
poster Me and Marlborough
Me and Marlborough
(3.0/5)
84mn - Comedy, Romance
A woman disguises herself in men's clothes in order to follow her husband to the wars.
poster The Parson's Widow
The Parson's Widow
(3.6/5)
93mn - Comedy, Drama
A young man is elected by a small village to be its parson. As part of his duties, he is required to marry the widow of the parson before him. This poses two problems--first, the widow is old enough to be…
poster Slipping Wives
Slipping Wives
(3/5)
23mn - Comedy
Neglected by her husband, our heroine decides to make him jealous by getting the handyman to play a literary genius at a party and flirt with her.
poster Blanche Fury
Blanche Fury
(3.4/5)
90mn - Drama, Thriller, History
Penniless governess Blanche Fullerton takes a job at the estate of her rich relations, the Fury family. To better her position in life, Blanche marries her dull cousin, Laurence Fury, with whom she has a …
poster Mulheres da Beira
Mulheres da Beira
(3.4/5)
74mn - Drama, Romance
Ana doesn't care for the pure love André devotes her, and turns her heart towards a noble man that is just lightly interested in her. Ana will experience the agony of being abandoned, and must contemplate…
poster Bluebeard
Bluebeard
9mn - Drama, Horror, Fantasy
A young woman becomes the eighth wife of the wealthy Bluebeard, whose first seven wives have died under mysterious circumstances.
poster Princess Tam Tam
Princess Tam Tam
(3.2/5)
77mn - Drama, Comedy
A French novelist passes off an African shepherdess as a princess.
poster Borrowed Wives
Borrowed Wives
(2.7/5)
62mn - Comedy
Peter has to be married by midnight or else his inheritance goes to his uncle... Who happens to live in a "haunted house".
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