Arletty

Belmondo: The Incorrigible (2022)

Charismatic and resourceful, seducer and daredevil, Jean-Paul Belmondo has always played his roles as he lived, at a thousand miles an hour. He had only one passion: to entertain the public with his smile, his naturalness, his energy, his stunts. But cont ...

Morceaux de Cannes (2021)

We thought we'd seen, read, and heard everything there was to see about the Cannes Film Festival, from the glitz and gossip to the scandals and censorship. And yet, Emmanuel Barnault's "Morceaux de Cannes" (Pieces of Cannes), by this leading expert on Ital ...

Love and Sex under Nazi Occupation (2011)

Love & Sex under Nazi Occupation questions the burning mystery of intimate heterosexual and homosexual relations in times of war... and shows how being close to death reinforces the yearning for passion, for pleasure, for transgression, for desire as a las ...

Arletty, Lady Paname (2007)

A biography of the French actress Arletty. ...

Heart of the Festival (2002)

A short film containing some of the highlights of the Cannes Film Festival's storied history. ...

Nylon Blues: A History of the Nylon Stocking (1991)

Events of strange and serious nature mark the invention and the manufacture of the nylon stockings. For example inhuman exploitation of workers in artificial silk factories. The US army was a substantial promoter of the nylons. ...

The Birth of Children of Paradise (1967)

Documentary about the making of Marcel Carne's 1945 film Children of Paradise (France), interviewing the director, the actors and production designer, as well as other French directors. ...

The Trip to Biarritz (1963)

Guillaume Dodut is a stationmaster in rural France at a station where trains no longer stop. His dream has always been to holiday in the famous resort town of Biarritz. Meanwhile, he gets involved in the romantic life of his son who is studying to be an en ...

Destination Rome (1963)

After WWII, a young man without perspective arrives in Rome. Living in a loft, he gradually discovers the city becoming a tour guide. ...

The Longest Day (1962)

The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that when the Allied ...

Law of Men (1962)

After a planned robbery on an armoured car the investigating police officer encounters a female journalist who specialises in criminology, and who he suspects may have had a role in the heist. ...

Hitch-Hike (1962)

Agathe, 18, dreams of change. Gone are her vacations on the rainy beaches of Belgium! She decides to hitchhike down to the South of France, where she'll have many happy and less happy encounters. On the way to Paris, men of various ages offer to shorten he ...

The Dance (1962)

The Dance is a 1962 French comedy film directed by Norbert Carbonnaux and starring Jean-Pierre Cassel, Françoise Dorléac and Arletty. The film is based on the French comic strip 13 rue de l'Espoir. ...

Paris la belle (1960)

A look at Paris in 1928 in black and white and then color sequences filmed in the same places in 1959. ...

Maxime (1958)

Story of an aging dandy who is the factotum and arranger of female conquests for a brusque young millionaire. ...

Sunday Encounter (1958)

Jean Brevent still did not understand the departure of his wife, Danielle Darieux. It's been five years, but he still can't forget her. In spite of a work of writer originator in a newspaper, in which it tried to be invested completely, time did not make i ...

Et ta sœur… (1958)

Bastien du Boccage is a repeat offender: hasn't he been sent to jail no fewer than six times? But he is no ordinary criminal mind you. As a matter of fact he is a newspaper editor and should have no problems with justice. The trouble is that he has a siste ...

The Stowaway (1958)

A group of adventurers compete with one another to find the missing heir Rene Marechal, thought to be near Tahiti. ...

Explosive Vacation! (1957)

Arlette thinks she has made a wonderful gift to her daughter Sylvie, who has just married François Morel, a young journalist. And, to tell the truth, not everybody receives a posh little bar like the Royal Montmartre as a gift. The trouble is that Monsieu ...

My Priest Among the Poor (1956)

Abbé Pellegrin, parish priest of Sableuse, sells an ancient Christ to an unknown man, M. de Saint Preux. Summoned to the bishop's palace, he learns that he has been the victim of a swindler. The Christ, exchanged for a "mouthful of bread", is a valuable a ...

No Exit (1954)

The scene is a tawdry hotel room in Limbo, where several damned souls are gathered. At first, the group fails to comprehend where they are or why they're there. When the horrible truth dawns upon them, they carp and snipe at one another, blaming everyone b ...

Air of Paris (1954)

Victor Le Garrec, a former boxer, runs a gym in Paris while dreaming of finding an aspiring champion who will reach the goals he was never able to achieve. ...

Flesh and the Woman (1954)

In this romance, a jilted lawyer joins the French Foreign Legion to help him forget his faithless love. While in the desert he espies a village beauty who is the exact double of his true-love. ...

The Father of the Girl (1953)

Françoise Marinier, a strong-willed young woman, won't accept a husband being forced on her. She left her family and moved to Paris, where she found work as a secretary for a fashionable artist, Edith Mars. The understanding Edith Mars encourages Françoi ...

Love, Madame (1952)

Madame Célerier is determined to marry off her son François to a rich and haughty woman but François has other plans. ...

Gigolo (1951)

Back from the war, Marceau Le Guern remembers. Educated in an orphanage run by Dominican brothers, he fell into misery when he left it. His only asset was his good looks, which did not escape the attention of Madame Alice, a shady woman who persuaded him t ...

Portrait of a Murderer (1949)

A circus daredevil is the next victim of a danger-seducing woman who tricks him into a potentially deadly stunt after he attempted to kill her. ...

Madame and Her Redskins (1948)

After the exodus, a woman with a tidy life decides to take in the abandoned children; she meets a singer who knows how to make her see life with more poetry. ...

Children of Paradise (1945)

In a chaotic 19th-century Paris teeming with aristocrats, thieves, psychics, and courtesans, theater mime Baptiste is in love with the mysterious actress Garance. But Garance, in turn, is loved by three other men: pretentious actor Frederick, conniving thi ...

The Devil's Envoys (1942)

At the end of the 15th century, a man and a woman, posing as traveling minstrels, are sent by the Devil to a castle to seduce its inhabitants. ...

The Lover of Borneo (1942)

Lucien Mazerand, a bookseller from Châteauroux, goes to Paris to spend a few days in the French capital. At the music-hall, he discovers Stella Losange, a singer who literally enthralls him. Determined to seduce her, he is aware that a mere bookseller fro ...

Boléro (1942)

As her neighbor Rémi Courmont has told her off for making his ears bleed with Ravel's Bolero, a music piece she plays at full volume all the time, Anne-Marie decides to get even with him. She sets up a hoax with the complicity of her friend Catherine, who ...

The Woman I Loved the Most (1942)

Claude is a young man whose girlfriend has just broken up with him. Feeling unable to overcome the pain, Claude has no other idea than to end his life. Back home, he finds five middle-aged or elderly men sitting at the dinner table but he refuses to join t ...

Madame Sans-Gêne (1941)

Deals with the ordeals of a crude washerwoman in the chic court of Napoleon the First. Based on the play of the same name. ...

Thunder Over Paris (1940)

An international crook hunted by the police comes to Paris to save his daughter from the clutches of a blackmailer friend of a cabaret singer with eccentric outfits. ...

Extenuating Circumstances (1939)

Harsh Parisian judge Gaetan (known as Monsieur Maximum), chafing in the idleness of retirement, leaves for a seaside holiday. But Gabriel the chauffeur has his mind on his girl, not the car; Gaetan and wife Nathalie are stranded in the country, where they ...

Fric-Frac (1939)

An employee at a jewelry store falls in love with a woman who secretly plans to rob the store. ...

Daybreak (1939)

After committing a murder, a man locks himself in his apartment and recollects the events the led him to the killing. ...

Hôtel du Nord (1938)

On the meandering Canal St. Martin, at the Parisian Hôtel du Nord, a nearly fatal gunshot separates a dejected young couple. But, amid a sad but beautiful panorama of lively characters, love has the final say. Can life be a fairy tale? ...

Mother Love (1938)

Gilbert Quercy, 18, tried to commit suicide after a heartache. At the hospital, three women try to cheer him up : the three former wives of his father, an archaeologist and an egyptologist, whom Gilbert called his "mothers". These women show a lot of willi ...

The Little Thing (1938)

Now that their parents are ruined, Jacques Eyssette and his younger brother Daniel, are driven to fend for themselves. Jacques becomes the secretary of a marquis who exploits him by making him work so hard that his health gets damaged. Daniel, on his part, ...

Mirages (1938)

A star of Les Folies Bergères has to choose between her career and her love for an engineer. ...

Aloha, the Song of the Islands (1937)

During the London-Melbourne race, two aviators, one male (Guy,) the other female (Betty), are forced to land on a lost island in Polynesia. They learn to survive in difficult conditions and fall in love. Back in civilization, their union does not prove obv ...

Désiré (1937)

Désiré is hired by Odette Cléry as a valet. She is the mistress of Félix Montignac, Minister of Posts, Telegraphs and Telephones. Désiré is assisted by Adèle, the cook, and Madeleine, 'Madame's' maid. The summer holidays take this little group to De ...

The Pearls of the Crown (1937)

The story of the seven pearls of the English Crown, from Henry VIII to 1937 – three of them missing. ...

Let's Make a Dream (1936)

A husband who has just cheated on his wife returns home in the early morning, puzzled. He finds there, without knowing it, the lover of his wife, to whom he confesses his infidelity. ...

Le Mari rêvé (1936)

A shy young composer gets a job as musical director, under a false name, at a music publisher. The editor has two charming daughters, one falls in love with the composer, and the other with the musical director, two people who are only one man... Complicat ...

The Bureaucrats (1936)

A comedy about the petty bureaucrats who need special leather props under their posteriors because of the long hours they spend sitting at their desks. ...

Adventure in Paris (1936)

Michel Levasseur is a joyous reveler who does not care about the next day. So much so that one day a bailiff bursts into his Paris apartment and seizes his furniture on behalf of Raymond Sauvaget, his landlord, a rich food industrialist. But far from resen ...

The Tomboy (1936)

The eponymous garçonne or flapper is Monique Lerbier, an emancipated French woman who leaves home to escape a marriage of convenience to a man she does not love which her parents have forced on her. She then falls into all sorts of carnal temptations and ...

Mais n'te promène donc pas toute nue (1936)

A deputy with higher political aspirations is annoyed that, as visitors come to see him, his wife insists on staying in her nightie because it is such a hot day. ...

Lovers and Thieves (1935)

Claude, son of a ruined family, pretends to be a dangerous trickster in order to get credit from the guys in the middle. He is in charge of retrieving compromising letters from a woman whose lover fears blackmail. But before arriving there, Claude fortunat ...

La Fille de Madame Angot (1935)

Under the Directory, Clairette is in love with the chansonnier Ange Pitou, while the hairdresser Pomponnet is destined for her as a husband. But Ange Pitou is flighty and lets herself be seduced by Mademoiselle Lange who wanted to know the author of sediti ...

Le vertige (1935)

General Mikailoff once killed a lieutenant he mistakenly believed to be his wife's lover. Subsequently, she meets Henri de Cassel, so different from her drunkard husband, becomes his mistress and agrees to flee with him. She is surprised by her husband who ...

Pension Mimosas (1935)

Mr. and Mrs. Noblet run a boarding house on the French Riviera. One day, they are led by circumstances to welcome a little boy Pierre, whose father is in jail, into their home. Which makes Louise Noblet all the happier as she can't have children herself. B ...

The Voyage of Mr. Perrichon (1934)

Perrichon, a well-off self-satisfied bourgeois, goes on holiday with his wife and his pretty daughter Henriette. He is more or less willingly followed by two young men, Armand Desroches et Daniel Savary, who both have fallen in love with Henriette after me ...

Un soir de réveillon (1933)

An innocent girl is mistaken for one of the loose women at a Christmas Eve party and is pursued by a young man who doesn't know where she lives. ...

Je te confie ma femme (1933)

A young man, having seduced his friend's mistress, undertakes to leave his wife to the latter for one night, when he is married. A few years later, the friend claims his due and the young man introduces him to his so-called wife. ...

Mademoiselle Josette, ma femme (1933)

Josette needs to marry within a year to get her aunt's money.Her fiance,an Englishman, has gone away .After getting permission from her godfather to do a "white marriage," she realizes that she really loves the godfather instead. ...

Abduct Me (1932)

René Dargelle is asked by a friend to receive a young woman in his place. She is soon to marry a Hindu prince, a man who is certainly attractive, but who cheats on her shamelessly and whom she dreams of making jealous. When Dargelle, out of pure fantasy, ...

The Beautiful Adventure (1932)

A Dog That Pays Off (1932)

Josyane Plaisir, a rather idle singer, who is waiting for the man of her heart,handsome and rich if possible, accepts the offer of a dog handler. The clever man has worked out a scheme to snare rich men. The trick is simple: "Pantoufle", the little dog he ...