In a college, three friends form a secret society. Their objective - going to America. One night, after one of their secret meetings, one of them sees a man coming out from a wall. The next day, after he talks about it, he disappears. Then, the second one vanishes. Are they gone to their dreams? That's when the art teacher is murdered. Suspicions now are too high so the third one decides to investigate.

Les Berteaux petit bourg de Normandie en juillet 1839. Après la mort de sa première femme Charles Bovary modeste médecin de campagne épouse Emma Rouault la fille d'un de ses patients. Les Rouault sont de riches fermiers de la région dont l'unique enfant Emma a été élevée au couvent. Pour la jeune fille cette union ressemble à la promesse d'une belle ascension sociale. Mais dotée d'un tempérament romanesque et imaginatif Emma se lasse vite d'une vie conjugale monotone et ennuyeuse comme des médiocres ambitions de son mari. Pour la distraire, celui-ci l'emmène à une fête donnée dans un château. Cette trop brève incursion dans un monde de richesse n'a d'autre effet que de plonger Emma dans un profond état de mélancolie. Pour offrir à son épouse de nouvelles sources de distraction Charles décide de déménager dans un bourg plus important…

Mathias Pascal, saddled with a stupid wife and a nagging mother-in-law, leaves home and is extremely lucky at several gambling resorts. He returns home and discovers that a drowned man, fished out of the river, bears an uncanny likeness to him and is being buried by his family as him. This, to him, is a pleasant turn of events and he goes to Rome, where he falls in love with Louise Paleari. Count Papiano, a jealous suitor of Louise's, threatens him with arrest unless he produces credentials to prove his identity.

When one of their number tries to tear away the veil from the face of a woman of Morocco, five French tourists find themselves cursed by an Arabic sorcerer to die in a specified order before the next new moon appears - and one by one, in different ways, they begin to die as predicted...

1935 French film directed by Julien Duvivier

In this sci-fi film, a scientist invents a prescient machine that can tell people when they will die. Oddly enough, the people do not want to know and therefore begin to riot…

Odette Joyeux plays an eccentric young aristocrat called "Chiffon", who is struggling to comply with the social conventions of the community. A widow, her mother (Suzanne Dantes) would like to remarry a rich noble. Without realizing it, Chiffon is in love with her uncle, a ruined pioneer of aviation ...