Movies: Manuel Raaby

An impoverished girl tries to sell matches on NYE. Shivering with cold and unable to sell her wares, she sits in a sheltered nook. Striking a match to keep warm, she sees things in the flame....

The tale of a rich, flaky poet and his servant who both join the army and wind up in the same barracks....

A gang of thieves utilize a cross-road garage as their hideaway; after accidentally murdering a jewel thief, the heat is on....

A young French woman who inherits her uncle's property in Algeria finds herself schemed against by her envious cousins, and romanced by a handsome but previously irresponsible young man who works for his uncle on a neighbouring farm....

Rival knights compete for the hand of a beautiful maiden in this period feature from Jean Renoir....

An ironic look at what it is like to be beautiful for a woman (and handsome for a few men) in the Paris of the late twenties....