Louis Jouvet

Flanders, Hispanic Monarchy, 1616. The inhabitants of the small town of Boom are busy organizing the annual local festivities when the arrival of the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Françoise Rosay

A film about the early part of the French Revolution, shown from the eyes of the citizens of Marseille, counts in German exile and, of course, the...

Genre: History

Cast: Pierre Renoir

In France in 1946, the difficult return to civilian life of five deportees and prisoners of war after having lived through the hell of the Second...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bernard Blier

A smooth criminal, who turns to be Manuel Ismora, and his gang successfully and peacefully pull off con after heist. Elsewhere a timid office worker,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Louis Jouvet

Catherine, 18, loved Jean, a young accountant, who loved her in return. And yet, one morning, two policemen find their dead bodies on a stretch of...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Louis Jouvet

Volpone, an elderly Venetian, connives with his money-crazed servant to convince his greedy friends that he is dying, knowing that each will try to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Harry Baur

Denise Moret joins her husband, Pierre, in Mongolia where he works as a civil engineer. One night she loose a lot of money on the roulette and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Victor Francen

Inhabitants of a flophouse struggle to survive under the harsh treatment imposed by the landlord, Kostyleva. One resident, young thief Wasska Pepel,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jean Gabin

1938, France, Paris, at the Superior Conservatory of Dramatic Art ("Conservatoire Supérieur d'Art Dramatique"). The first-year entrance exams...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Louis Jouvet

1946, a man walks in Lyon. He makes a pilgrimage to the places of his childhood. Another man, Edmond Gonin, recognizes him. It was Jean-Jacques...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Louis Jouvet

Between eleven o’clock and midnight one evening, a notorious trafficker Jérôme Vidauban is shot whilst walking in a tunnel in...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Louis Jouvet

French version of the Selma Lagerlof story, most famously filmed in 1921 by Victor Sjostrom, about a poor sinner who only realizes what misery he's...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Pierre Fresnay

Town trollop Safia, much against her better judgment, falls in love with Matteo, a beggar and mystic in the native quarter of Sirocco. She flees to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Louis Jouvet

Paris, 1937. Winckler kills his enemy Gordon, a Chicago mobster, from the stage of a Parisian music hall, where he performs telepathy. He pays...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Erich von Stroheim

A provincial ingenue leaves her mother’s tobacco shop with dreams of a life in the Parisian theater, only to become entangled in relationships...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Louis Jouvet

A young couple, Renée and Pierre, take a room at the Hôtel du Nord, in Paris, near the canal Saint-Martin. They want to die together,...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Annabella

Paris, France, December 1946. Jenny Lamour, an ambitious cabaret singer, and Maurice, her extremely jealous pianist husband, become involved in the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Louis Jouvet

After the death of her husband, Christine realizes she has possibly wasted her life by marrying him instead of the man towards whom, in her youth,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Harry Baur

Aged penniless actors are living in a old people's home. They always talk about their past glory or failures. One day Raphael Saint-Clair comes; he...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Louis Jouvet

A tale of a socially inept schoolmaster who must confront his own principles.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Louis Jouvet

The story of how the people of Paris cope with the strains and struggles of war, from the siege of the city by the Prussians during the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Raimu

A French farce set in Victorian London where a botanist and his wife get into trouble when they pretend to go missing in order to hide from their...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Françoise Rosay

Saint-Maurice, an ordinary peaceful village, lived healthily so much so that the local doctor's practice was scant. But that was before Dr. Parpalaid...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Louis Jouvet

A slippery femme fatale, a spy for Germany during the Great War, is sent to Thessaloniki in Greece and becomes involved with a man on the other side,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Louis Jouvet

The evocation of Paris in the 1920s mingles with the rapid rise of the irresistible Caprice, a talented singer, and her tumultuous love affair with...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Louis Jouvet

A beautiful young pianist falls for her mentor.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Louis Jouvet

A Russian emigrant sings in a Shanghai nightclub under the assumed name of Kay Murphy. All she dreams of is a peaceful life with her daughter Vera....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Louis Jouvet

For Les étoiles ne meurent jamais, director/archivist Max De Vaucorbeil has assembled precious film clips of such Gallic greats as Louis...

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Cast: Harry Baur

Serenade represented the return to the screen of international favorite Lillian Harvey after an absence of two years. Based loosely on the life of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lilian Harvey

While still behind bars, a crook manages several schemes including one that almost gets his penniless young lawyer into trouble.The crook's mistress,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fernand Gravey

"Everybody is ill: you just don't know it yet". Knock, a newly arrived physician takes over a small town through fear and authority. NB : this is a...

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Images and sounds expose the duality of Portugal during the days of WW2: a peaceful, god-loving, rural country, providing an escape route for over...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: António de Oliveira Salazar

Ramuntcho is a young man who has fallen in with a gang of smugglers, led by Itchoua, who carry their contraband across the border into Spain. He is...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Paul Cambo

Prince Sacha studies in Paris and cares more for Marianne than about Silistrie, the country his family was exiled from. But Chautard, a French...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Elvira Popescu

Abandoned documentary on the country Brazil which director Clouzot wanted to make while on honeymoon with his wife Véra Clouzot whose of...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Henri-Georges Clouzot

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Cast: Louis Jouvet

Genre: Drama

Cast: Francine Bergé

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Cast: Louis Jouvet