Cast: Jacques Varennes

Direction Sacha Guitry

Cast Michel Simon · Jean Debucourt · Jacques Varennes · Jeanne Fusier-Gir

Synopsis The home life of Paul Braconnier and his wife Blandine can hardly be described as one of marital bliss. They hate each other – to the point of wanting to murder one another. When Braconnier hears about Maître Aubanel, a...

Direction Jean Cocteau

Cast Edwige Feuillère · Silvia Monfort · Jean Marais · Jean Debucourt

Synopsis Political intrigue and psychological drama run parallel. The queen is in seclusion, veiling her face for the ten years since her husband's assassination, longing to join him in death. Stanislas, a poet whose pen name is Azrael, is a suicidal...

Direction Claude Autant-Lara

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

Direction Jacques de Baroncelli

Cast Edwige Feuillère · Pierre Richard-Willm · Aimé Clariond · Lise Delamare

Synopsis The Duchess of Langeais, as beautiful as she is brilliant, is a woman who likes to seduce but who does not give in. Until the day when she falls in love with General de Montriveau, a cabal goes up against...

Direction Maurice Tourneur

Cast Harry Baur · Pierre Renoir · Suzy Prim · Jacques Varennes

Direction André Berthomieu

Cast Fernandel · Mireille Perrey · Jacques Varennes · Henri Trévoux

Direction Richard Pottier

Cast Fernandel · Mireille Perrey · Jacques Varennes · Colette Mareuil

Synopsis Noel Annequin is the black sheep of a social-climbing bourgeois family who married for love and stayed in the country while his professional brothers were improving their social position. When his beloved wife, dying of an incurable disease, begs him...

Direction Claude Autant-Lara · Maurice Lehmann

Cast Fernandel · Michel Simon · Hélène Robert · Arletty

Synopsis Marcel works as assistant to a jeweller whose bossy daughter Renée keeps hitting on him. When he meets lovely Loulou and her lazy friend Jo, he is fascinated by the girl and somehow attracted by their world : Loulou and...

Direction Pierre Gaspard-Huit

Cast Daniel Gélin · Dany Robin · Tilda Thamar · Mary Marquet

Synopsis Penelope , a nineteen- year- old girl,is bored stiff in the boarding-school where her mother wants her to stay one more year.During a trip to Paris,Penelope gives the slip to the supervisors and makes acquaintance with Antoine ,a young superintendent:...

Direction Richard Pottier

Cast Martine Carol · Jacques Dacqmine · Marie Déa · Paul Bernard

Synopsis Jeune aristocrate qui fête ses seize ans le 14 juillet 1789, Caroline de Bièvre va vivre péniblement la Révolution tout en cherchant à retrouver son premier amour : Gaston de Sallanches. Ballotée à droite et à gauche, chez les blancs...

Direction Augusto Genina · Marc Allégret

Cast Danièle Parola · Pierre Batcheff · Louis Zellas · Josseline Gaël

Synopsis Gaston Bouchard, sentenced to 20 years in a penal colony, escapes and meets Marcel Valmont on the train. He notices a ticket to South America and a large sum of money in cash in the young man's bag. He offers...

Direction Robert Siodmak

Cast Maurice Chevalier · Pierre Renoir · Marie Déa · Erich von Stroheim

Direction Raoul André

Cast Raymond Rouleau · Sophie Desmarets · Magali Vendeuil · Grégoire Aslan

Direction Raymond Bailly

Cast Jeanne Moreau · Philippe Lemaire · Armand Mestral · Lino Ventura

Synopsis Georges Villard is a modest bank employee who dreams of earning more money so that he can live more comfortably. When Monsieur Steve offers him a chance to do just that he accepts without a moment's hesitation, partly because he...

Direction Christian-Jaque

Cast Fernandel · Robert Le Vigan · Daniel Mendaille · Rolla Norman

Synopsis Fernand Espitalion is miserable as totally whipped husband of a dragon 'passed on' -like cloths- by his late cousin. She often leaves him waiting outside like a dog when she does business. While she sees a notary about an inheritance,...

Direction Jean Dréville

Cast Charles Vanel · Aimé Clariond · Yolande Laffon · Jacques Varennes

Synopsis France, 1880. Francois Roquevillard is a respected lawyer in Chambery and the head of a family that prides itself on its impeccable morals. Francois's world rapidly begins to fall apart when his son Maurice elopes to Italy with Edith Frasne,...

Direction Sacha Guitry

Cast Sacha Guitry · Gaby Morlay · Jacques Varennes · Jean Hervé

Synopsis Désirée Clary met Napoleon when he was an obscure general. There was evidently a romance but, in the outcome, Désirée's sister married Napoleon's brother, while she went on to marry the prickly General Bernadotte, ending up years later as Queen...