Christian Argentin

Crainquebille (1954)

In the Mouffetard district of Paris, Jérôme Crainquebille, an affable four-season merchant, is stopped by a police officer and taken to the station, unjustly accused of shouting "Mort aux vaches!" ("Death to the cows!"). When he returns to work after a f ...

Les Dents longues (1953)

A young, talented and ambitious journalist, Louis heads off to try his luck in Paris. He's spotted by Walter, editor-in-chief for a major daily newspaper, who takes to him and furthers his career. What he doesn't realise is that Louis is ready to betray an ...

Holiday for Henrietta (1952)

Two scriptwriters argue about the fate of Henrietta, a charming and gamine shopgirl. One favors a comical path for their heroine, who is overcome with sentimental love for a young photographer on Bastille Day. The other has a more thrilling and dastardly f ...

Mr. Leguignon Lampiste (1952)

A railway worker, Leguignon, and his wife are forced to move into a house located in a shaggy part of town. What Leguignon doesn't know is that a group of children have discovered a treasure and keeps it stored in the house. Trouble ensues when he discover ...

La Veuve et l'innocent (1949)

Nicole, a spirited lawyer, must defend, for her debut in the courtroom, the accused Panoyau. It is a failure, the death sentence. Furious, Nicole proclaims to Claude, her fiance, that the marriage is canceled as long as Panoyau is threatened. Claude manage ...

Scandals of Clochemerle (1948)

A little town erupts in turmoil about the construction of a public urinal. The army is sent in to restore order, but the military add to the confusion by getting involved with the local women. ...

Si jeunesse savait... (1948)

Charles Vigne, a wealthy banker, frees Abdul, a good genius imprisoned in a vase. To thank him, Abdul grants his wish: to become a child again, while retaining the experience he has acquired. But the "disappearance" of the banker panics the financial marke ...

The Trump Card (1942)

A man is shot In the hotel of an imaginary South American country. Clarence and Montès, two inspector students, must solve this murder, but they don't know that dead guy is the USA public enemy No.1. ...

Cartacalha, reine des gitans (1942)

The gypsy dancer Cartacalha is elected queen of the gypsies. She loves a horse breeder, the Galejon, but following misunderstandings and perfidy, she leaves for Paris, invited by a playwright who predicts a total success on stage. Having become a star, she ...

Sur le plancher des vaches (1940)

A little bank employee wins a plane in the lottery and amazes his companions with his audacity. ...

Cavalcade of Love (1939)

Cavalcade D'Amour is divided into three sections, each depicting a romance occurring within the walls of the Chateau de Champs. Legend has it that whoever marries in the Chateau is doomed to an unhappy life. This proves to be the case in 1639 and 1839, but ...

Place de la Concorde (1939)

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I Was an Adventuress (1938)

Old friends of Vera Vronsky remind her of her past and try to blackmail her. ...

The Enchanted Road (1938)

The son of two teachers hits the road and becomes a singing success after being taken in as a protege by a kooky countess. ...

Crossroads (1938)

A wealthy industrialist, Roger de Vetheuil, married, feels assured of aging in peace. Then appears a blackmailer who accuses him of being a usurper, actually called Jean Pelletier, a mobster well known to police. Vetheuil, judging himself slandered, refuse ...

L'Ange que j'ai vendu (1938)

Baronski has had enough of being a small-time merchant and decides, aided by his daughter Esther, to try his hand at big business. Why not be a film producer for instance? But it is easier said than done and he is soon relieved of 100,000 francs by a crook ...

Marthe Richard (1937)

Fictionalized reconstruction of the life of the French spy Marthe Richard who decided to contact the secret services during the First World War. ...

The King (1936)

King John IV of Cerdania, who knows monarchs are a vanishing race but who plays his royalty role in state council or boudoir to the hilt, is in Paris to sign a treaty, and becomes enmeshed in intrigue with an actress, Therese Mannix and involved in a bit o ...

La Sonnette d'alarme (1935)

Middle-aged Parisian Bobby, following an attack of gout, is forced to give up his previous merry life. Above all this Bobby falls in love with his niece Genevieve, abandoned by her husband. ...

Si j'étais le patron (1934)

An intelligent young worker, enterprising but boastful, repeats to all the winds that, if he were the boss, we would see what we would see. One of the main shareholders of the factory takes him at his word for twenty-four hours. ...

Fanatisme (1934)

After many difficulties, the seductive Italian dancer, Rosine Savelli, manages to clear herself of a plot hatched against Napoleon III... ...

Iris perdue et retrouvée (1934)

To save her brother compromised in a case of forgery in writing, Iris agrees to marry a shady financier, lover of her sister-in-law. A young painter, in love with her, persuades her to flee with him, but tired of the life of an artist, Iris returns to her ...

L'Agonie des aigles (1933)

Under the regime of Louis XVIII. Years after Waterloo, Napoleon's loyal officers live in retirement on half-pay. Useless and idle, they have lost their prestige and keep meeting in the hope of the Emperor's return. When Napoleon dies, they decide to plot t ...

Pour vivre heureux (1932)

After he is thought dead, a painter who had no success before suddenly becomes a man of repute, and a statue is even prepared in his honor. ...

A Star Vanishes (1932)

The Pearl (1932)

A jeweler's clerk accidentally swallows a pearl worth three million. The jeweler accepts his marriage to his daughter if the clerk agrees to have the operation. The adventures follow one another until the day when the clerk admits that he has not swallowed ...

With Assurance (1932)

Luck (1931)

Quand te tues-tu? (1931)

Leon lives with Gaby. One of their friends, Xavier, is determined to kill himself. But Leon will inherit several millions if he marries a widow, so he gives Gaby in marriage to Xavier. ...

La Chienne (1931)

Cashier Maurice Legrand is married to the wretched Adele. By chance, he meets Lucienne, 'Lulu', and makes her his mistress. He thinks he has finally found love, but Lulu is a streetwalker, still in love with her pimp. ...

Un homme en habit (1931)

Completely ruined, André is left with nothing more than the clothes on his back. He is hired as a controller in a small theater and there meets his wife, from whom he is in the process of divorcing. She tells him that he has just recieved an inheritance a ...