Screenplay: Alex Joffé
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Alex Joffé. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
The Magician
1949 · Movie · 100 min. · Mexico
Direction Miguel M. Delgado
Cast Mario Moreno "Cantinflas" · Leonora Amar · José Baviera · Alejandro Cobo
Plot A slapstick fantasy of the amorous adventures of a magician in Cantinflas style.
5.7
177 votes
5.7
177 votes
The Super Scientist
1948 · Movie · 100 min. · Mexico
Direction Miguel M. Delgado
Cast Mario Moreno "Cantinflas" · Perla Aguiar · Carlos Martínez Baena · Alejandro Cobo
Plot Cantinflas is the apprentice of a renowned scientist, Prof. Arquimides Monteagudo (Carlos Martinez Baena). But Cantinflas has the soul of a poet rather than a serious researcher, and he wants...
5.5
390 votes
5.5
390 votes
We Will All Go to Monte Carlo
1951 · Movie · 101 min. · France
Direction Jean Boyer
Cast Ray Ventura · Henri Génès · Georges Lannes · Max Elloy
Plot As they are waiting for a divorce, young movie star Malissa Farrell and famous pianist Rudy Walter have left their baby, Johnny, with a child minder in Le Vésinet. Marinette,...
5.4
22 votes
5.4
22 votes
The Adventurer of Seville
1954 · Movie · 92 min. · Spain
Direction Ladislao Vajda
Cast Luis Mariano · Lolita Sevilla · José Isbert · Danielle Godet
Plot Figaro, a singing barber, gets caught by some bandits who use his abilities to attract travelers and assault them. To escape justice he joins the army where he meets no...
5.2
134 votes
5.2
134 votes
Fortunate
1960 · Movie · 121 min. · France
Direction Alex Joffé
Cast Bourvil · Michèle Morgan · Teddy Bilis · Rosy Varte
Plot During WW2, a posh bourgeois woman is compelled to live under the same room as a crude simple-minded yet big-hearted man. Her husband was arrested by the Gestapo and she...
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Les culottes rouges
1962 · Movie · 104 min. · France
Direction Alex Joffé
Cast Bourvil · Laurent Terzieff · Etienne Bierry · Teddy Bilis
Plot In French prison camps in Germany during WWII, those who tried to escape were forced to wear red pants. Anthony Rossi tried six times. Hard to live with, he exasperates...
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I'll Get Back to Kandara
1956 · Movie · 95 min. · France
Direction Victor Vicas
Cast François Périer · Bella Darvi · Daniel Gélin · Jean Brochard
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Cavalrymen
1955 · Movie · 102 min. · France
Direction Alex Joffé
Cast Bernard Blier · Giovanna Ralli · Bourvil · Georges Wilson
Plot During the Italian campaigns of the French Revolutionary Wars Brigadier Le Gouce and private Jean-Louis forfeit their horses. Afraid of a severe punishment both lie to Captain Georges. They just...
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The Big Swag
1965 · Movie · 105 min. · France
Direction Alex Joffé
Cast Bourvil · Paul Meurisse · Françoise Deldick · Daniel Ceccaldi
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Adieu chérie
1946 · Movie · 115 min. · United States
Direction Raymond Bernard
Cast Danielle Darrieux · Louis Salou · Gabrielle Dorziat · Jacques Berthier
Plot Chérie is a beautiful young woman who works as an escort girl. She meets a young and wealthy man who propose her to be his fictional wife so that his...
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Every Second Counts
1956 · Movie · 110 min. · France
Direction Alex Joffé
Cast Barbara Laage · Dominique Wilms · Jean-Marc Thibault · Paul Frankeur
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Seul dans Paris
1951 · Movie · 95 min. · France
Direction Hervé Bromberger
Cast Bourvil · Magali Noël · Georgette Anys · Georges Baconnet
Plot Henri and Jeannette Milliard, a newly married couple from Normandy arrive in Paris where they intend to spend their honeymoon. Unforfunately a wicket gate in the metro separates the couple....
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Monte Carlo Baby
1953 · Movie · 70 min. · France
Direction Jean Boyer · Lester Fuller
Cast Audrey Hepburn · Jules Munshin · Cara Williams · Michele Farmer
Plot When a measles epidemic forces the temporary closing of a child care center, the son of a film star and her estranged husband, a concert pianist, is mistakenly delivered to...
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A Bomb for a Dictator
1957 · Movie · 90 min. · France
Direction Alex Joffé
Cast Pierre Fresnay · Michel Auclair · Françoise Fabian · Betty Schneider
Plot A revolution breaks out in a South American country while its cruel dictator is on a trip to France. The rebels have made careful plans to blow up the dictator's...
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Women of Paris
1953 · Movie · 85 min. · France
Direction Jean Boyer
Cast Michel Simon · Brigitte Auber · Henri Génès · Germaine Kerjean
Plot It all begins when astronomer Charles spots a heretofore undiscovered exploding star while peering through is telescope. While calling his colleagues with the news, Charles inadvertently eavesdrops on a young...
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A Simple Case of Money
1949 · Movie · 82 min. · France
Direction André Hunebelle
Cast Gaby Morlay · Pierre Brasseur · Jean Brochard · Yves Deniaud
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...Sans laisser d'adresse
1951 · Movie · 90 min. · France
Direction Jean-Paul Le Chanois
Cast Bernard Blier · Danièle Delorme · Pierre Trabaud · Arlette Marchal
Plot Thérèse Ravenaz is a charming young woman but also the victim of a seducer who abandoned her as soon as he was told she was expecting a baby. To trace...
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Six Hours to Lose
1947 · Movie · 90 min. · France
Direction Alex Joffé · Jean Lévitte
Cast André Luguet · Denise Grey · Pierre Larquey · Paulette Dubost
Plot A traveller is stuck in an unknown town because his connecting train will only arrive in six hours. He decides to kill time by taking a stroll. He is not...
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The Hotshots
1968 · Movie · 110 min. · France
Direction Alex Joffé
Cast Bourvil · Robert Hirsch · Gianni Bonagura · Monique Tarbès
Plot We follow Bourvil who just made a revolutionary bicycle that he wants to get used in Paris-San Remo, the first big cycletour of the century (it's 1901) but due to...
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Riff Raff Girls
1959 · Movie · 110 min. · France
Direction Alex Joffé
Cast Nadja Tiller · Robert Hossein · Silvia Monfort · Roger Hanin
Plot Vicky de Berlin, a female gangster, haunted by wartime memories , runs a floating night-club in Brussels. Marcel, her partner and lover, is in charge of the banknotes forgery manufacture...
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