A forged 500-franc note is passed from person to person and shop to shop, until it falls into the hands of a genuine innocent who doesn’t see it for what…

A young girl living in the French countryside suffers constant indignities at the hand of alcoholism and her fellow man.

Michel takes up pickpocketing on a lark and is arrested soon after. His mother dies shortly after his release, and despite the objections of his only friend, Jacques, and his…

A captured French Resistance fighter during World War II engineers a daunting escape from prison.