Cast: Jean-Louis Barrault

Direction Marcel Carné

Cast Jean-Louis Barrault · Pierre Brasseur · Pierre Renoir · Arletty

Plot It follows a mysterious woman (Arletty) loved by four different men (all based on historical figures): an actor, a criminal, a count, and, most poignantly, a mime (Jean-Louis Barrault), in...

Direction Max Ophüls

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

Plot 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...

Direction Ken Annakin · Andrew Marton · Bernhard Wicki

Cast John Wayne · Robert Mitchum · Henry Fonda · Richard Burton

Plot England in June 1944. Unseasonal storms. Allied troops are massed ready for the invasion of France, some already on the boats. The Normandy beaches will be their destination while paratroopers...

Direction Sacha Guitry

Cast Jacqueline Delubac · Sacha Guitry · Lyn Harding · Renée Saint-Cyr

Plot Three narrators (French writer Jean Martin, an English royal equerry, and a papal chamberlain) tell the story of seven matched pearls, four of them now in the British Crown. Episodes...

Direction Isidore Isou

Cast Marcel Achard · Isidore Isou · Jean-Louis Barrault · Blanchette Brunoy

Plot In this experimental film, Isidore Isou, the leader of the lettrist movement, lashes out at conventional cinema and offers a revolutionary form of movie-making: through scratching and bleaching the film,...

Direction Philippe Agostini · Raymond Leopold Bruckberger

Cast Jeanne Moreau · Alida Valli · Madeleine Renaud · Pascale Audret

Direction Abel Gance

Cast Victor Francen · Line Noro · Marie Lou · Jean-Max

Direction Georg Wilhelm Pabst

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

Direction Jean Renoir

Cast Jean-Louis Barrault · Teddy Bilis · Michel Vitold · Jean Topart

Plot Based on the Novel: "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" by Robert Louis Stevenson. A lawyer, Joly (Teddy Bilis) is disturbed when his friend, the eminent psychiatrist...

Direction Ettore Scola

Cast Jean-Louis Barrault · Hanna Schygulla · Marcello Mastroianni · Harvey Keitel

Plot June 1791. When the controversial novelist Restif de la Bretonne sees Queen Marie-Antoinette’s lady-in-waiting secretly leaving Paris one evening, he concludes that King Louis XVI and his family have already...

Direction Marcel Carné

Cast Michel Simon · Françoise Rosay · Louis Jouvet · Jean-Pierre Aumont

Plot A French farce set in Victorian London where a botanist and his wife get into trouble when they pretend to go missing in order to hide from their sanctimonious cousin...

Direction Sacha Guitry

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

Plot 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...

Direction Conrad Rooks

Cast Jean-Louis Barrault · Conrad Rooks · William S. Burroughs

Plot Semi-autobiographical story of Conrad Rooks, who travels to France to undergo a drug-withdrawal cure. Flashbacks to the beginings of psychedelia in San Fran.

Direction Marcel Carné

Cast Françoise Rosay · Albert Préjean · Lisette Lanvin · Charles Vanel

Direction Anatole Litvak

Cast Charles Boyer · Danielle Darrieux · Marthe Régnier · Yolande Laffon

Plot Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria, is fettered on all sides. He's bored; his father, the emperor, is domineering; his politics are more liberal than his father's, but he knows his...

Direction Abel Gance

Cast Harry Baur · Annie Ducaux · Jany Holt · André Nox

Plot 1801, in Vienna, two young women, his pupils, are in love with him. Thérèse de Brunswick's love remains unrequited even though she and Beethoven are engaged for years; Juliette Guicciardi,...

Direction André Hunebelle

Cast Jean Marais · Rosanna Schiaffino · Roger Hanin · Jean-Louis Barrault

Direction Jean-Pierre Mocky

Cast Bourvil · Jean-Louis Barrault · Francis Blanche · Victor Francen

Plot French comedian Bourvil is a police inspector who trails a counterfeiter and spends several days in a small rural town, where you'll find one policeman, one butcher, one doctor, one...

Direction Christian-Jaque

Cast Jean-Louis Barrault · Bernard Blier · Hélène Perdriére · Denis d'Inès

Plot The story of the Swiss soldier, Henri Dunant (Jean-Louis Barrault), who was responsible for the founding of the Red Cross, and who was offered the first Nobel Peace Prize.

Direction Georges Lacombe

Cast Édith Piaf · Jean-Louis Barrault · Roger Duchesne · René Bergeron

Plot Maurice loves Juliet and Michael loves Lily. Romance blossoms on the hill. They are workers, artisans, and Lily has a real talent as a singer. But Claude's arrival brings trouble...