Jacques Varennes

The cruel and abusive headmaster of a boarding school, Michel Delassalle, is murdered by an unlikely duo -- his meek wife and the mistress he...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Véra Clouzot

To try solving the strange disappearances of 11 young Parisian women, the police obtain the services of Adrienne Charpentier, friend of the latest...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Maurice Chevalier

Paul Braconnier and his wife Blandine only have one thing in mind: to find a way to kill each other without risk. After listening to a radio show,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Michel Simon

On the death of the famous singer Maria Malibran, Countess Merlin retraces the main lines of the unusual destiny of this young woman entirely devoted...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sacha Guitry

Prosecutor Etzel discovers that his father has sentenced a man, Leonardo Maurizius, on mere presumptions. He then makes it a point of honor to trace...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Daniel Gélin

A man assists his gravely ill wife to die and wants to face justice for this, but his brothers try everything to keep the family's name clean.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fernandel

Famous author Bretonneau gets his ghost writer Moluchet to impersonate the notorious criminal Jim la Houlette and pretend to steal a manuscript to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Fernandel

Julie and Désirée Clary are courted by the brothers Joseph and Napoleon Bonaparte. Joseph marries Julie and Napoleon is affianced to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sacha Guitry

Political intrigue and psychological drama run parallel. The queen is in seclusion, veiling her face for the ten years since her husband's...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Edwige Feuillère

It's no holds barred for Julian in pursuit of upward mobility. Although expected to channel career aspirations into the Church of the post-Napoleonic...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gérard Philipe

Everyman Coupeau's attempts to stop drinking are routinely thwarted by the wicked and vengeful Virginie. Based on Zola's novel, Capellani's film is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Alexandre Arquillière

Jeanne De Pincret refuses to marry Viscount Haussy De Villefort, having discovered his frivolity. After a duel against the Duke De Montgobert, whom...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Odette Joyeux

An employee at a jewelry store falls in love with a woman who secretly plans to rob the store.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fernandel

A scientist who have discovered how to turn salt water into petrol dies before he has revealed his formula. By mistake it's assumed that his...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Fernandel

Georges Villard, a minor bank employee, is won over by Mr Steve who does him favours, treats him to the high life and introduces him to his wife...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jeanne Moreau

Ruined by her banker, Antoinette becomes her driver. She signs a contract which assures her of the reimbursement of her fortune if she manages to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jeanne Boitel

Jacqueline took one of her friends to a place where tourists, informants, girls, pimps and Apaches rub shoulders. Her husband, who watches over her,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Fernandel

France, 1880. Francois Roquevillard is a respected lawyer in Chambery and the head of a family that prides itself on its impeccable morals....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Charles Vanel

The reign of Tsar Paul I and the intrigues of his friend, Governor Pahlen, to rid the country of the mad despot by plotting to have him murdered.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Harry Baur

A bank employee who stole money at work falls in the hands of a dangerous escaped convict whose girlfriend is going to help him out of this mess.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Danièle Parola

France, July 1782. During her birthday, the beautiful young Marchioness Caroline meets the attractive soldier Gaston. It's love at first sight but...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Martine Carol

During the Directory, a handful of royalists tried to get the Dauphin Louis XVII to escape from the Temple.

Genre: History

Cast: Fernand Gravey

A street singer becomes the star of the circus but his pal Armand shows him who his real friends are.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Georges Thill

Ginette, daughter of a foreman of an automobile factory, and Claude, son of the director of this company, love each other, but the father of the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Paul Bernard

Robert Bernier murdered his brother with the complicity of a worker. The only witness to the tragedy, Veronique was injured while rescuing her boss...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Marcelle Géniat

Bouboule is a taxi driver. A Russian princess wishing to acquire French nationality offers to marry her to divorce a few months later. After...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Georges Milton

Penelope Benson, known as Penny, is both romantic and determined. Put in a select boarding school by her mother, she takes advantage of a trip to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Dany Robin

Historical film directed and written by Sacha Guitry follows the the history of Paris from its founding through the significant events in the city's...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sacha Guitry

Dominique is a pretty, vivacious girl. When she witnesses a car theft, she throws herself and her bicycle under the vehicle. Jacques Mareuil, whom...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Raymond Rouleau

An art historian has an affair with a young saleslady while his disaffected wife cheats on him in turn.Both illicit relationships end in little boys...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gaby Morlay

Foreign spies are interested in plans for a device invented by a French aviator. They kidnap the young man but fail in their business thanks to the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jean Érard

A florist in a nightclub in Montmartre, a good, naive man is manipulated by a gang of gangsters who use him to smuggle drugs.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Noël-Noël

Betty marries rich Allan out of interest and drives a wedge between him and his family.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Marcelle Chantal

A bank guard disappears from the elevator between the ground floor and the first floor. He was carrying a briefcase containing valuable documents....

Genre: Crime

Cast: Jacques Varennes

The son of a rich soap manufacturer gets himself in predicaments trying to prove to his father that he's responsible enough for marriage.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Saint-Granier

Julien Villandrit owns a textile factory whose manager, Henri Corrandi, is his childhood friend. Both love the same woman, Régine de Bettigny,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jacques Varennes

An honest worker is unjustly accused of murder. The culprit promises him to give his son a good education if he allows himself to be condemned.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Constant Rémy

Lagardère protects Aurore, the granddaughter of the Duke of Nevers whose deceitful Philippe de Gonzague covets the inheritance.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Robert Vidalin

A banker threatened by gangsters is replaced by a tramp who is his perfect double. The gangsters arrest the fake banker and take him for a madman.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Pierre Larquey

Fernand Espitalion is miserable as totally whipped husband of a dragon 'passed on' -like cloths- by his late cousin. She often leaves him waiting...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Fernandel

In the 13th century, lovers hurried to the door of Marguerite de Bourgogne. The aristocrat who every day was indulged in orgies that were famous...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Tania Fédor

A courier carrying a large sum of money intended for Bonaparte's army is attacked. A miscarriage of justice will lead an innocent person to the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Pierre Blanchar

Florimond, a dangerous smuggler, and his mistress Viviane try in vain to transfer illegal precious stones. When Viviane gets to know young...

Genre:

Cast: Tramel

Inspector Doirel investigates the murder of a man whose servant was found tied up. He discovers very quickly that the servant has lied. The latter...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Florelle

The daughter of an industrialist takes an interest in the workers and tries to improve their lot. She avoids a strike, and falls in love with an...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Pierre Brasseur

The wife of a stable manager will try everything to clear her husband, a very violent being, accused of the assassination of a trainer.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Daniel Mendaille

A group of political exiles conspire in France against their government. They are pursued by Daminoff, head of the intelligence service of the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Pierre Renoir

A student, who wishes to become an opera singer, is helped by a good boy, Saturnin, who improvises as a manager. The student succeeds and becomes...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Gorlett

A rich businessman living alone is deprived of the nephew he was to have brought up decides on his doctor's advice to search for the four...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Harry Baur

Edwige Feuillère and Pierre Richard-Willm star in director Jacques de Baroncelli's adaptation of the Balzac novella The Duchesse de Langeais,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Edwige Feuillère

A former colonial official lives far from Paris with a dry cousin who pays attention to his heritage. He never took care of his son, married to a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Lucien Baroux

A young man from an aristocratic family tires of the country life and moves to Paris where he squanders his inheritance. Returning to his home with...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Raymond Rouleau

In Central Europe, an organization of counterfeiters is headed by Burcq. An Air France pilot introduces an intelligence agent to the principality. A...

Genre:

Cast: Marie Déa

A famous convict Jacques Collin, alias Trompe la mort, or abbot Carlos Herrera, also called Vautrin, escapes from prison. Chance makes him meet...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Georges Marchal

Sitting at his desk, Guitry gives us a lecture on French history from Joan of Arc to the Occupation, with some focus on a number of its great writers...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Sacha Guitry

The film is a 125-minute, black-and-white biography of French priest and diplomat Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (1754–1838),...

Genre: History

Cast: Sacha Guitry

A series of vignettes, in which Noel-Noel appears as the moderator, lecturer, commentator and leading actor, that examine the bores and pests of...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Noël-Noël

A poet in love with Death follows his unhappy wife into the underworld.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Jean Marais

A young customs officer is given an important mission: to investigate drug trafficking on the Belgian border. Incognito, he goes to the place where...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Daniel Clérice

Italian-language version of the Germany-made DER TEUFELSBRUDER (FRA DIAVOLO), with different supporting cast and some scenes. Based on the Auber...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Tino Pattiera

Witty narration follows the history of Versailles Palace; founded by Louis XIII, enlarged by autocratic Louis XIV, whose personal affairs and amours,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michel Auclair

A man becomes the lover of his former persecutor's wife.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Michel Serrault

Appointed public prosecutor in a small provincial town, Gérard Latour befriends Delanglade, whose young wife becomes his mistress. Shortly...

Genre:

Cast: Frank Villard

Georges Villard, a minor bank employee, is won over by Mr Steve who does him favours, treats him to the high life and introduces him to his wife...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jeanne Moreau

Lise is bored with her parents and gets a job as a waitress. She meets a sailor, Fausto, who leaves her to escape from the police. Nevertheless, she...

Genre:

Cast: Gaby Morlay