France

Travelogue of a road trip through the Sahara.

Film about the first airmail flight from the Waalhaven airport to Marseille, on 29 May, 1926.

In the heart of the Jordaan, the working-class quarter of Amsterdam, the widow Bet Mager has a laundry in which she is assisted by her 13-year-old son Piet, a truly mischievous boy, and by Cobus Langoor, a good-natured simpleton. Bet has to work hard to earn a livelihood in a respectable manner, but Fortune smiles at her. Suddenly she wins the first prize in the lottery, 100,000 guilders. She decides to take a trip together with Piet. She leaves Cobus in charge of the laundry and instructs him to try to sell it while she is away.

Reportage about the flooding around the Zuiderzee in 1916.

Social drama about a parish priest in a Parisian slum.

In a slum, ironically called 'California', on the outskirts of Paris, the poor lead a miserable existence. A young, idealistic priest who works among them builds a 'cathedral' with his own hands, Our Lady of the Slums, earning him the respect of the sceptical Californians.

A jealous businessman seeks revenge on his wife.

Crime film about a businessman whose murky past comes back to haunt him.

Kee has been a widow for seven years when she meets the jolly butcher Meiblom, who wins her heart because, like her first husband, his name is Janus. After some time she tells her daughter and son that she intends to marry for a second time. The wedding party is attended by Rinus, Hein, Gerrit and all their other friends from the Jordaan, the working-class quarter of Amsterdam.

An old bargee and his wife have two sons, Willem and Hendrik, and a foster-daughter, Jeanne, a Belgian refugee.

Part I: Bet owns a café in Amsterdam.