Cast: Pierre Fresnay

Direction Jean Renoir

Cast Jean Gabin · Erich von Stroheim · Pierre Fresnay · Marcel Dalio

Synopsis 1916, during World War I. Lieutenant Maréchal and Capitaine de Boeldieu are two combat pilots who are shot down by the Germans. They are taken to a prisoner of war camp where they strike up a friendship with Lieutenant Rosenthal,...

Direction H.G. Clouzot

Cast Pierre Fresnay · Ginette LeClerc · Micheline Francey · Pierre Larquey

Synopsis A wave of hysteria sweeps the small provincial town of St Robin when a series of poisen-pen letters signed “Le Corbeau” (The Raven) appear denouncing several prominent members of society. Starting with the village doctor, the slow sinister trickle of...

Direction Marc Allégret

Cast Raimu · Pierre Fresnay · Orane Demazis · Fernand Charpin

Synopsis Fanny has allowed her lover Marius to follow his desire to travel. But a short while after Marius has set out for a five year trip on a ship bound for the Indian Ocean, Fanny discovers that she is pregnant....

Direction Maurice Cloche

Cast Pierre Fresnay · Aimé Clariond · Jean Debucourt · Lise Delamare

Synopsis An inspiring chronicle of the life of St. Vincent de Paul, who established a lifeline between the fortunes of the rich and the misfortunes of the poor.

Direction Alexander Korda

Cast Raimu · Pierre Fresnay · Orane Demazis · Fernand Charpin

Synopsis César manages a café in the French port of Marseilles, with his son Marius. A young romantic, Marius is in love with Fanny, who runs a pavement fishmonger stall for her mother. However, Marius also has a passion to travel...

Direction Georg Wilhelm Pabst

Cast Pierre Blanchar · Dita Parlo · Pierre Fresnay · Roger Karl

Direction Maurice Tourneur

Cast Pierre Fresnay · Josseline Gaël · Noel Roquevert · Guillaume de Sax

Synopsis A man arrives at an isolated mountain inn clutching a small box. The man is panic-struck when, during a sudden blackout, the box disappears. To the assembled guests at the inn he tells his tragic story. The man, Roland Brissot,...

Direction Marcel Pagnol

Cast Raimu · Pierre Fresnay · Fernand Charpin · Orane Demazis

Synopsis Several years have passed since the marriage of Fanny and Panisse. After the death of Panisse, Fanny tells her son, Césariot, that his real father is Marius, who left Marseilles twenty years ago to travel the world and who is...

Direction H.G. Clouzot

Cast Pierre Fresnay · Suzy Delair · Jean Tissier · Pierre Larquey

Synopsis Inspector Wens moves into a Paris boarding house to catch a serial killer.

Direction André Cayatte

Cast Claude Nollier · Noel Roquevert · Valentine Tessier · Antonio Balpetré

Synopsis The Marshal summons the jury and an insight is given into the background of the seven jurors who are to decide on the guilt of the accused, a sick man's mistress on trail for his mercy killing.

Direction Alfred Hitchcock

Cast Leslie Banks · Peter Lorre · Edna Best · Frank Vosper

Synopsis Hitchcocks first and arguably superior production of the same story he retold in 1956 with James Stewart and Doris Day, and critics continue to argue the films merits versus its successor. An English couple on holiday in Switzerland find themselves...

Direction Jean Delannoy

Cast Gina Lollobrigida · Anthony Quinn · Jean Carmet · Alain Cuny

Synopsis Better known as The Hunchback of Notre Dame, this opulent French production is the second talkie version of Victor Hugo's famous novel. Buried under mounds of latex, Anthony Quinn does his best as the deformed bellringer Quasimodo, though he comes...

Direction Fernand Rivers · Abel Gance

Cast Yvonne Printemps · Pierre Fresnay · Jane Marken · Lugné-Poe

Synopsis Marguerite Gautier is a courtesan in Paris. She falls deeply in love with a young man of promise, Armand Duval. When Armand's father begs her not to ruin his hopes of a career and position by marrying Armand, she acquiesces...

Direction Pierre Fresnay

Cast Yvonne Printemps · Raimu · Pierre Fresnay · Raymond Rouleau

Synopsis A priest does not want his brother to marry the woman he secretly loves.

Direction Georges Lacombe

Cast Pierre Fresnay · Madeleine Renaud · Suzy Carrier · Raymond Bussières

Direction Henri Diamant-Berger

Cast Pierre Fresnay · Elina Labourdette · André Randall · Georges Tabet

Synopsis Pierre Fresnay plays the title role of a dedicated man, living in the south of France in the 19th-century and somewhat ahead of his time. Fabre ekes out a meager existence for his huge family as a mathematics instructor who...

Direction Georges Lacombe

Cast Pierre Fresnay · Michèle Alfa · Suzy Delair · Jean Tissier

Synopsis Six friends promise to share their fortune in 5 years. The moment is very close, but one of the six is mysteriously murdered, then another... Superintendent Wenceslas Woroboyioetschik (aka Wens) is in charge of the investigation...

Direction Jean Delannoy

Cast Pierre Fresnay · Henri Vilbert · Raphaël Patorni · Nicolas Amato

Direction Yves Ciampi

Cast Pierre Fresnay · Renée Devillers · Jean-Claude Pascal · Claire Duhamel

Synopsis Professor Louis Delage is a kidney transplant specialist. He is so good in his field that his peers nickname him the "great man". But one day, one of his patients die during surgery and Delage starts doubting. Is he actually...

Direction Marc Allégret

Cast Pierre Fresnay · Darry Cowl · Ann Collette · Louis Seigner