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

Plot 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...

6.9

407 votes

6.9

407 votes

Les misérables

1958 · Movie · 227 min. · France

6.8

119 votes

6.8

119 votes

Life Is Ours

1936 · Documentary · 66 min. · France

6.1

99 votes

6.1

99 votes

The Case of Dr. Laurent

1957 · Movie · 110 min. · France

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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

Plot 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...

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Picpus

1943 · Movie · 95 min. · France

Direction Richard Pottier

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

Plot 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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Dilemma of Two Angels (Impasse of Two Angels)

1948 · Movie · 85 min. · France

Direction Maurice Tourneur

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

Plot 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...

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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

Plot 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

Plot 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...

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Fandango

1949 · Movie · 90 min. · France

Direction Emil E. Reinert

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

Plot 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...

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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

Plot 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...

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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

Plot 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...

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Cecile Is Dead

1944 · Movie · 90 min. · France

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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

Plot 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...

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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

Plot 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...

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