Le chef de famille

A straitlaced turn-of-the-century father presides over a family of boys and the mother who really rules the roost.

An unhappily married couple moves to Vienna, where the wife’s married best friend lives, and soon, sparks fly between the wife and the best friend’s husband.

Rose Pierce is discontent with her life as the wife of a small town plumber and has visions of becoming a wealthy socialite. Consequently, when her smart aleck son Sammy hears that an electric railroad li…

The Marquis de la Seiglière returns to 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…

Nolff, a tough Breton fisherman is happy: his wife has just given birth to a son, Michel. His only wish is to make him a fisherman like him. But when he becomes a man, Michel becomes a good-for-nothing wh…

When an aristocratic family and their servants are shipwrecked, the butler becomes their ruler.

Newly married Kay Dunstan announces that she and her husband are having a baby, leaving her father to come to grips with the fact that he will soon be a granddad.

A former All-American football star, now working as a steel mill supervisor in New Jersey, falls in love with the mill owner's wealthy, very spoiled daughter.

Anne reads her younger sister, Marie-Catherine, the story of Bluebeard. In 17th-century , another set of sisters — also named Anne and Marie-Catherine — are left impoverished by their father's death…

Long-missing Bill Cardew returns to find his wife Vicky remarried...and in no hurry to settle for just one husband.

In a grove, a small boy and a small girl are dancing together.

A young boy from Brooklyn discovers he's heir to a British earldom and must win over his cold, aristocratic grandfather while navigating the challenges of his newfound noble status.

Geneva (Exhibition 1896): back to the barn.

With Wheezer's new baby brother getting all the attention, he tries to send the baby back.

Looking after his aunt and uncle's house when they're away, animal lover Onésime turns it into a hospital for sick animals.

The oldest son of a loving and strong family of black sharecroppers comes of age in the Depression-era South after his father is imprisoned for stealing food.

Peter has to be married by midnight or else his inheritance goes to his uncle... Who happens to live in a "haunted house".

Living under the same roof with his newly-wed wife and his mother-in-law, a careless Mr Rough sets the nuptial bedroom on fire, as the residence's cook tries to woo the maid who only has eyes for the char…

A family sits down to enjoy a meal that ends up being fraught with complications.