Orane Demazis

César runs a bar along Marseilles' port, assisted by his 23 year old son, Marius. Colorful characters abound: M. Panisse, an aging widower and...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Raimu

Picking up moments after the end of Marius, this film follows Fanny’s grief after Marius’s departure—and her realization that...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Orane Demazis

In the 30s, a small village in the Provence is losing its inhabitants because young people prefer to go to the city to find easy jobs and escape from...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fernandel

Honoré Panisse is dying, cheerfully, with friends, wife, and son at his side. He confesses to the priest in front of his friends; he insists...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Raimu

Angèle is a 1934 French drama film directed, produced and written by Marcel Pagnol. It stars Orane Demazis as a naive young woman who is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fernandel

In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Harry Baur

A pompous grocer’s assistant in Marseille annoys a visiting film crew so much that they prank him with a phony acting contract; believing it to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Fernandel

Just released from prison after serving a six-month sentence, Fernand Bastia goes into hiding. He has indeed double-crossed his gang by keeping part...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Raymond Pellegrin

A writer spends a summer in her bayside house in Saint-Tropez, south of France. Now in her fifties, she gardens, takes care of her animals and vines,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Danièle Delorme

Jeanne looks back on her love for Jean. The melancholic young man wouldn't accept the world as it was, always wishing to depart. She doesn't know...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Macha Méril

Genre: Drama

Cast: Simone Signoret

Catherine (Juliet Berto) is the temporary head of the family while her husband, whom she loathes, is away fighting in the war. Her widowed...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Juliet Berto

A proud femme fatale who works at a mountainous farm property manages, after being prodded by her lover, to become the heiress, but she plays the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: María Casares

The detectives of the Paris Judicial Police, based at the Quai des Orfèvres, are mobilized by four criminal cases. A double murder,...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Anne Vernon

This Surrealist film, with a title referencing the Communist Manifesto, strings together short incidents based on the life of director Luis...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Adriana Asti

As in a Hollywood western, rice growers and bull cultivators come into conflict in the Camargue.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tilda Thamar

Antoine Vautier is a failed actor. A director hires Christian, Antoine's son, for a film. He immediately becomes a star. Antoine suffers from it....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lucien Baroux

Le Cas Du Dr. Laurent (The Case of Dr. Laurent) stars Jean Gabin as a Paris-based doctor who tries to spread the gospel of Natural Childbirth....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jean Gabin

The sentimental adventure of an old bachelor, mayor of his village and owner of a mill, who suddenly falls in love with a 20-year-old Parisian girl....

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Orane Demazis

In a small Provençal port, a young girl tries to divert a fisherman from his laborious life and his chaste loves.

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Cast: Roger Duchesne

In the 1930s, Marcel Pagnol, a leading light of the Paris theater, set out for new horizons as a filmmaker in his native Provence. His early...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Raimu