Screenplay: Jean-Paul Le Chanois

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Jean-Paul Le Chanois. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


Carnival of Sinners

1943 · Movie · 82 min. · France

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,...

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407 votes

6.9

407 votes

Les misérables

1958 · Movie · 227 min. · France

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6.8

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Magic Village

1955 · Movie · 95 min. · France

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Agence matrimoniale

1952 · Movie · 109 min. · France

Direction Jean-Paul Le Chanois

Cast Bernard Blier · Yolande Laffon · Simone Guisin · Michel Nastorg

Synopsis Noel is a bachelor and it is sure easy to see the reason why: an over possessive mother ;he once met a girl ,Gilberte ,but he threw it all away ...He inherits a matrimonial agency;after contemplating selling it ,he chooses...

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Picpus

1943 · Movie · 95 min. · France

Direction Richard Pottier

Cast Albert Préjean · Juliette Faber · Jean Tissier · André Gabriello

Synopsis Whilst moving into her new apartment in the rue Picpus, Madame Dumont discovers a dead body in her wardrobe. Inspector Maigret is called in to investigate...

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The Idol

1948 · Movie · 90 min. · France

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Direction Maurice Tourneur

Cast Paul Meurisse · Simone Signoret · Marcel Herrand · Paul Demange

Synopsis Marianne, a stage actress, has decided to give up her career in order to marry a wealthy nobleman, Marquis Antoine de Fontaines. As a wedding present Antoine gives his future wife a precious diamond necklace, which is coveted by a...

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Le temps des cerises

1938 · Movie · 81 min. · France

Direction Jean-Paul Le Chanois

Cast Gaston Modot · Svetlana Pitoëff · Fabien Loris · Jandeline

Synopsis A poor peasant family, a failed cabinet maker and an unemployed worker struggle in contrast to crooked rich businessmen. nearby.A Communist meeting gives young workers hope for a better future.

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Huit hommes dans un château

1942 · Movie · 93 min. · France

Direction Richard Pottier

Cast René Dary · Jacqueline Gauthier · Aline Carola · Louis Salou

Synopsis The Paladines write crime novels together. In a cinema, they happen to see a report on the consequences of a shipwreck in which Lieutenant Dupuis tells about the death of an old man in the lifeboat carrying the survivors. Husband...

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Fandango

1949 · Movie · 90 min. · France

Direction Emil E. Reinert

Cast Luis Mariano · Ludmilla Tcherina · Jean Tissier · Raymond Bussières

Synopsis In the Basque Country, two friends, José and François, live a cheerful life. The two sly foxes use their wit to boost the business of an innkeeper they have a connection with. José is in love with Angélica, the innkeeper"s...

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La dame d'onze heures

1948 · Movie · 97 min. · France

Direction Jean-Devaivre

Cast Paul Meurisse · Micheline Francey · Gilbert Gil · Pierre Renoir

Synopsis Stanislas Oscar Seminario, aka SOS, is a young explorer, just back from Africa, visiting old friends: the Pescara's. But the father keeps receiving anonymous letters. And soon a mysterious murder is committed. SOS begins to investigate...

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Mandrin

1962 · Movie · 126 min. · France

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Passion for Life

1949 · Movie · 89 min. · France

Direction Jean-Paul Le Chanois

Cast Bernard Blier · Juliette Faber · Édouard Delmont · Edmond Ardisson

Synopsis Soon after the Great War, the Provence village of Salezes gets a new boys' teacher: Mr. Pascal, a war hero with a diploma from a teachers' college. He rejects old methods: boys' sitting still with arms folded memorizing facts. He...

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Papa, Mama, My Wife and Me

1955 · Movie · 105 min. · France

Direction Jean-Paul Le Chanois

Cast Robert Lamoureux · Gaby Morlay · Fernand Ledoux · Nicole Courcel

Synopsis Robert Langlois is now married to Catherine, the former housemaid. And they would live happily ever after if the housing crisis did not force them to live together with Gabrielle and Fernand, Robert's parents. For, despite the good will on...

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Les évadés

1955 · Movie · 110 min. · France

Direction Jean-Paul Le Chanois

Cast Pierre Fresnay · François Périer · Michel André · Jacques Marin

Synopsis WW2:In a boxcar , three escapees hope to get to Sweden;there's the military man who wants to resume the fight , the simple private who's tired of being a fighter ,and the intellectual ,a schoolteacher fluent in German -which is...

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