Etienne Decroux

Benjamin Déboisé, a hatter, his salesman and a young man want to kidnap an American millionaire, put him in a bag and hold him to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Julien Carette

Frank, a hobo, ends up in a garage-truck stop in the middle of nowhere. Nick Marino, its older, kind and naive owner, is married to Cora, a sexy and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fernand Gravey

In a chaotic 19th-century Paris teeming with aristocrats, thieves, psychics, and courtesans, theater mime Baptiste is in love with the mysterious...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Arletty

Based on true facts, a news item which was widely talked about in the nineteenth century, this is the story of a wife who might have poisoned her...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Pierre Renoir

Journalist Claude Leroy (Jacques Champreux) reports that a secret society, The Companions of Baal, is behind a hold-up in the small town of...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Claire Nadeau

In 1953, Shirley Clarke went to make a film about French mime Ettiene Decroux. The legend goes that he had left town and instead, she created In...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Etienne Decroux

A little town erupts in turmoil about the construction of a public urinal. The army is sent in to restore order, but the military add to the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jane Marken

A chimney sweep and his beloved shepherdess are aided by Wonderbird in their escape from a ruthless dictator

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Pierre Brasseur

Bilingual film study from the Baylor Theatre in Texas. French mime Étienne Decroux is shown performing various routines, including man of...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Etienne Decroux

Meg decides to commit suicide to escape the marriage to which her father intends her. She is saved by Jean-Pierre, another candidate for suicide, and...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Michel Simon

Dupuy, the first officer of the Cristobal, a French merchant ship, is informed by cabaret dancer La Rubia that the Cristobal carries a priceless...

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Cast: Charles Vanel

In Macao, where places of pleasure and arms trafficking are concentrated, a tragedy opposes an adventurer and his daughter whom he has brought up in...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Sessue Hayakawa

An untiring lady social worker, Émilienne, has as one of her charges a stableman who was wounded by his mistress. Unfortunately,...

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Cast: Pierre Fresnay

A bungling thief is threatened by one target with blackmail, unless the thief will kill his own cousin, a wealthy eccentric who is considered the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Charles Trenet

Having lost his memory due to serving in World War I, Gaston has spent the past 15 years in a psychiatric hospital. Due to his large disability...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Pierre Fresnay

Anne-Marie meets three men bearing the first name of Ludovic. Each of them has a very different character than the other two. The young woman will...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Odette Joyeux

Paris, 1833. The famous composer Franz Liszt is friends with Chopin who introduces him to Countess Marie d'Agout. Very quickly Liszt falls in love...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Pierre Richard-Willm

The basic premise: A retired bus driver fulfills his lifelong dream of providing an extended "voyage surprise" (the title is translated as "Mystery...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Thérèse Aspar

Returning from the cemetery where he has just buried his wife, Captain Blomet is on the point of committing suicide, when his valet reveals to him...

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Cast: Fernand Gravey

Young Amélie is currently enjoying life as the kept woman of her reasonably well off boyfriend Étienne. But when Étienne is...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Danielle Darrieux

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Pierre Palau

Pierre Cousin, a depressive compositor, wants to die. After five vain attempts at committing suicide, he decides to hire professional hit men to do...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Louis de Funès