Cast: Gérard Philipe

Direction Max Ophüls

Cast Anton Walbrook · Simone Signoret · Serge Reggiani · Simone Simon

Synopsis An all-knowing interlocutor guides us through a series of affairs in Vienna, 1900. A soldier meets an eager young lady of the evening. Later he has an affair with a young lady, who becomes a maid and does similarly with...

Direction Jacques Becker

Cast Gérard Philipe · Lilli Palmer · Anouk Aimée · Lila Kedrova

Synopsis Biographic movie about the last year of the famous Italian painter Modigliani. Modigliani, a poor painter in Paris of 1919, falls in love with a daughter from a wealthy family. Her parents are against their relation and stop financial help.

Direction Paul Haesaerts

Cast Pablo Picasso · Gérard Philipe · Frank Silvera

Direction Christian-Jaque

Cast Renée Faure · Gérard Philipe · Lucien Coëdel · Louis Salou

Synopsis Fabrice del Dongo, a young archbishop, gives his all to romance rather than to the Church, creating complications for everyone around. The Countess of San Severina, is but one of the women who love him a la folie, spurring jealous...

Direction Julien Duvivier

Cast Gérard Philipe · Dany Carrel · Jacques Duby · Danielle Darrieux

Synopsis Young, handsome, dashing but cynical, Octave Mouret arrives in Paris, determined to conquer the belles of the capital. His first attempts are not too successful though as he is rebuffed by Valérie Vabre, the neurotic wife of the landlord of...

Direction Marcel Carné

Cast Gérard Philipe · Suzanne Cloutier · Jean-Roger Caussimon · René Génin

Synopsis Michel has stolen from his employer, Mr Bellanger, for the love of Juliette. He is now in jail. One night, while sleeping in his cell, he wakes up all of a sudden, the gates open and he finds himself in...

Direction Claude Autant-Lara

Cast Gérard Philipe · Micheline Presle · Jean Debucourt · Jean Varas

Synopsis During World War I, underage student Francois Jaubert meets and falls in love with Marthe Grangier, who is engaged to Jacques, a soldier at the Front. Though Francois pursues her ardently, they become separated and she marries Jacques. But when...

Direction René Clair

Cast Gérard Philipe · Martine Carol · Gina Lollobrigida · Magali Vendeuil

Synopsis A young composer has vivid dreams of the past that reflect, yet conflict with his waking life.

Direction Yves Allégret · Rafael E. Portas

Cast Michèle Morgan · Gérard Philipe · Carlos López Moctezuma · Michèle Cordoue

Synopsis The first to die in an epidemic of meningitis in Vera Cruz is a French tourist. His wife Nellie, detached and indifferent, feels little grief and realizes that her coldness is her own doom. Over the next two days, she...

Direction René Clair

Cast Michel Simon · Gérard Philipe · Nicole Besnard · Simone Valère

Synopsis Professor Henri Faust, retiring after 50 years as an alchemist in a circa-1700 university, despairs at still knowing nothing of the true secrets of nature...whereupon his old acquaintance Mephistopheles, servant of Lucifer, appears and grants him youth and a new...

Direction Yves Allégret

Cast Madeleine Robinson · Gérard Philipe · Jean Servais · André Valmy

Direction Sacha Guitry

Cast Jean Marais · Georges Marchal · Jean-Pierre Aumont · Brigitte Bardot

Synopsis Witty narration follows the history of Versailles Palace; founded by Louis XIII, enlarged by autocratic Louis XIV, whose personal affairs and amours, and those of his two successors, are followed in more detail to the start of the Revolution, after...

Direction Claude Autant-Lara

Cast Gérard Philipe · Danielle Darrieux · Antonella Lualdi · Jean Mercure

Direction René Clair

Cast Michèle Morgan · Gérard Philipe · Brigitte Bardot · Jacques Fabbri

Synopsis Clair's romantic comedy on the power of love over pride. Set in a pre-WWI garrison town, a handsome soldier (Philipe) wagers that he can seduce any woman he pleases before leaving for summer maneuvers. Drawing the name of his quarry...

Direction René Clément

Cast Gérard Philipe · Valerie Hobson · Joan Greenwood · Margaret Johnston

Synopsis From the Louis Hemon novel "M. Ripois and His Nemesis" about Andre Ripois, a philanderer in pursuit of love and riches from Paris to London. Andre is breaking up with his wife, Catherine, over his attentions to her best friend...

Direction Christian-Jaque

Cast Gérard Philipe · Gina Lollobrigida · Marcel Herrand · Olivier Hussenot

Direction Vittorio De Sica · Gianni Franciolini

Cast Eduardo De Filippo · Vittorio De Sica · Franca Valeri · Anna-Maria Ferrero

Synopsis VILLA BORGHESE is a film consisting of six vignettes (cut to five in its U.S. release) that are all set in the Roman park that bears that name. All the episodes take place within one day.

Direction Roger Vadim

Cast Jeanne Moreau · Gérard Philipe · Annette Vadim · Madeleine Lambert

Synopsis The Vicomte de Valmont imagines himself as a modern day Don Juan, delighting in his conquests of even the most reluctant of female prey. Far from condemning his behaviour, his wife, Juliette, encourages him, with the proviso that he does...

Direction Luis Buñuel

Cast Gérard Philipe · María Félix · Jean Servais · Miguel Ángel Ferriz

Synopsis Set on a fictional Latin American island, the action starts when Gov. Vargas (Miguel Angle Ferriz) is assassinated. His executive secretary Ramon Vasquez (Gerard Phillipe who died during production) is then forced to temporarily assume the mantle of power. After...

Direction Georges Lampin

Cast Edwige Feuillère · Lucien Coëdel · Jean Debucourt · Jane Marken

Synopsis Muichkine, a young Russian prince, returns home to St. Petersburg from a mental institution, determined to spread decency and kindness in the harsh and cruel world. He becomes betrothed to an innocent young girl while trying to save a less-innocent...