Gaby Morlay

Monsieur (1964)

Left heartbroken by the death of his beloved wife, a rich banker tries to commit suicide. When he learns from his former maid that his wife was unfaithful, he fakes his own death and comes back under a new identity. ...

La bande à Bobo (1963)

In Castallet, a village in Provence, cats are swarming and disturbing the peace and quiet of the inhabitants. The municipality decides to get rid of these invasive felines, but a group of children nicknamed "la bande à Bobo" (Bobo's gang) comes to their d ...

Le mari ne compte pas (1963)

Fortunate (1960)

During WW2, a posh bourgeois woman (Morgan)is compelled to live under the same room as a crude simple-minded yet big-hearted man.(Bourvil) Her husband was arrested by the Gestapo and she is a hunted woman. ...

Quai des illusions (1959)

Lise is bored with her parents and gets a job as a waitress. She meets a sailor, Fausto, who leaves her to escape from the police. Nevertheless, she gives birth to a baby who dies shortly afterwards. Distraught, she steals a parentless child from a materni ...

Ramuntcho (1958)

Love and adventure story about contraband runners in the Basque province of France. ...

Sacred Youth (1958)

Mr. Longué, aged 79, is offered a life annuity on his provincial estate by his nephew. He receives the same, but more advantageous, offer from his insurer, but Mr. Longué has decided to undergo a rejuvenation treatment in Switzerland, at Dr. Koranoff's e ...

Le Tombeur !!! (1958)

Yes, Doudou (or, more respectfully, Edouard Doucin) is both heir to a big sugar refinery and its managing director but he is also an incorrigibly bashful bachelor, which just exasperates his aunt Agatha. Summoned to marry as soon as possible, Doudou is for ...

My Darned Father (1958)

Roger, editor of a women's magazine, meets Roberte, his friend Jean's former mistress, at a major couturier's during a collection presentation. Roberte, who now lives in Florence with her niece Maria, asks Roger to arrange a student exchange so that Maria ...

The Twilight Girls (1957)

A beautiful and sophisticated teenager is placed in a regimented French girls' boarding school after her father apparently commits suicide over a business scandal. She immediately gains admirers -- a lustful middle-aged artist, a handsome young composer, a ...

Crime and Punishment (1956)

Former student Raskolnikov is pushed to murder when struggling to pay the rent on his apartment. When the murder is being investigated by the police, Raskolnikov struggles between trying to hide his guilt and the pressure to confess. ...

Les Lumières du soir (1956)

A young opera dancer tries to help her mother financially by performing in a dubious cabaret. ...

When the Child Appears (1956)

Charles Fouquet, the Minister of Family Affairs, is having a hard time. His wife Olympe, although not that young, is expecting a baby. His daughter Annie, as for her, is pregnant by her fiance. And let's not forget Georges, Fouquet's son, who has seduced N ...

Papa, Mama, My Wife and Me (1955)

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 either side, ten ...

The Impossible Mr. Pipelet (1955)

A story about a simple old man with a lot of love for his only daughter. She falls in love with a doctor's son and he don't understand why... ...

The Ragpickers of Emmaus (1955)

The Emmaüs community opened and functioned thanks to the generous impetus of Abbé Pierre Groues, bringing together a cross-section of the underprivileged: unemployed truck drivers, former paratroopers, young people leaving prison, etc., and underprivileg ...

Fantaisie d'un jour (1955)

Thérèse is the daughter of a modest couple. One day, she wins a voucher for two hundred thousand francs in a department store. Dazzled, the little typist chose a fur cape, much to her parents' disappointment. She has a fiancé, François, whom she now sc ...

Papa, Mama, the Maid and I (1954)

The residents of the apartment building on Rue Montmartre are a motley crew of oddballs and eccentrics. The daring son of a professor couple is in love with a sexy student who supplements her pocket money by working as an au pair. And then there's Monsieur ...

Les Amoureux de Marianne (1953)

Gaston Duboutois and Catherine Berton love each other, and are about to play Romeo and Juliet in their small provincial town. The industrialist Duboutois is opposed to his accountant Berton, both of whom are running for parliament. Tempers flare and invect ...

Royal Affairs in Versailles (1953)

Witty narration follows the history of Versailles Palace; founded by Louis XIII, enlarged by autocratic Louis XIV, whose personal affairs and amours, and those of his two successors, are pursued in more detail to the start of the Revolution, after which th ...

The Love of a Woman (1953)

Marie, a young doctor, settles down on the Ouessant Island. She will be able to win the diffidence of the local population but she will have to fight for her independence after falling in love with an Italian engineer. ...

The Girl with the Whip (1952)

The daughter of a notorious smuggler is raised as a boy by her foster mother. ...

Foyer perdu (1952)

A brave and talkative wine merchant, Eugène Barbentin drives his son Pierrot out of the family home, because he has given birth to his girlfriend. His wife then reveals to him that he is not Pierrot's father and she flees with her lover. Abandoned, Eugene ...

Le Plaisir (1952)

Three stories about the pleasure. The first one is about a man hiding his age behind a mask to keep going to balls and fancying women - pleasure and youth. Then comes the long tale of Mme Tellier taking her girls (whores) to the country for attending her n ...

Anna (1951)

The life story of a nun who started out as a bar singer, then took the veil because she couldn't choose between two men, and now devotes herself to nursing. ...

Mammy (1951)

Mammy has a grandson she adores even though he is a good for nothing. One day Maurice disappears and Mammy becomes blind. When Maurice finally announces his return the fond old lady is overjoyed. Unfortunately, Maurice's plane crashes and catches fire. The ...

Good Enough to Eat (1951)

Rose Chaperon is asked by her confectioner mother Mathilde to bring jewels to her sick grandmother, Madame de Mergrand. But Hugues, the latter's brother, is prepared to do anything to get his hands on the loot. To this end he hires a villainous young man, ...

Born of Unknown Father (1950)

By taking the defense of Raymond Denis, accused of having killed his mistress, when she committed suicide because he did not want to recognize his child, the lawyer Claude Nogent, learns that he himself was born of unknown father. ...

First Communion (1950)

The daughter of Signor Carloni is about to take her first communion. A problem arises when the dressmaker spends too much time working on the girl's communion frock. ...

Without Trumpet or Drum (1950)

For the Marquis Barbezieux de Saint-Rosay, nobility is important. If anything can comfort her, it's her family tree. In order to erase any doubt he invites in his castle a cousin of his established in Scotland, whom he instructs to bring him his titles of ...

Summer Storm (1949)

An attractive Englishman who is spending his holidays in France, breaks into a French family. ...

Millionaires for One Day (1949)

A typographer makes a mistake by printing the winning number of the national lottery. Many people believe they have won the jackpot. Pursued by his newspaper editor, the worker appears in court where all mystified people are invited to testify. ...

Ève et le serpent (1949)

Georges, a medical student, falls in love with Louisette, his pretty neighbor, and gets engaged to her. They are as happy as Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. One small hitch is that Georges' father has serious money troubles and cannot support his son a ...

Gigi (1949)

Gilberte is a sixteen year old girl raised by her aunt and grandmother to be a demimondaine. But she's not ready for that yet, and spends her days in lessons and in teasing Mamita's old friend, the rich playboy Gaston LaChaille, and following his affairs f ...

Three Boys, One Girl (1948)

A seemingly united family is suddenly shaken by the turmoil caused by the discovery of a letter from the father. He announces his intention to divorce. The children immediately mobilize to preserve the nest, they just manage to do so. The family building w ...

The Lovers of the Pont Saint-Jean (1947)

On the banks of the Rhône, not far from Tain l'Hermitage, Alcide Garonne, an old ferryman - and incidentally a poacher - lives out of wedlock with Victorine Rousset nicknamed Maryse, a colorful tramp. When Garrone's son, Pilou, a worker, falls in love wit ...

The Lost Village (1947)

In the peaceful alpine village of Granges-de-Mortes, a tragedy has just taken place: Gustave Boeuf, the local Casanova, has mysteriously died at the foot of a wayside cross. Shortly afterwards, a peasant, who is suspected of having murdered him, hangs hims ...

Hyménée (1947)

Although Pierre is married, he is in love with his sister in law Marianne, while he is loved by his cousin Agnés, a spinster. Marianne loves him but she prefers to marry Rémy, and ultimately Agnés leaves Pierre to his wife and kids. ...

A Lover's Return (1946)

A ballet producer returns to his native town and schemes to avenge himself on the family who tried to murder him 20 years before. ...

Mensonges (1946)

Marie Leroux, who is married to Charles, an honest, understanding country doctor, lives an uneventful, rather monotonous life.Her husband is a kind man but he does not give her any thrill or excitement. One day, Marie meets Olivier Dumas-Beaulieu, a handso ...

Her Last Part (1946)

An actress who has just played the part of an old lady says that she would like to grow old like that character did.Sadly, she will not get her wish because she is terminally-ill. ...

Lunegarde (1946)

A drifting woman hangs out in the suburbs of Marseille. A young engineer picks her up drunk and takes her to the hospital. He does not know then that it is the Countess Armance de Lunegarde, driven from her home and performing as a gummy in third-rate musi ...

The Last Metro (1945)

Leaving the station after having caught the last Paris Metro, a man comes to the rescue of a woman who is being assaulted and finds himself drawn into her affairs. ...

Farandole (1945)

A ruined banker is abandoned by his mistress. He commits suicide after entrusting a prostitute with twenty-thousand francs. The money changes hands. A crook is arrested in the house of an an actress he had fooled. In a luxury hotel, a typist kills her love ...

L'Enfant de l'amour (1944)

This woman's melodrama pivots around a child that a famous actress had in her youth, but whom she has concealed from the wealthy businessman she is now with. ...

Night Shift (1944)

A devoted switchboard operator is the village guardian angel. ...

Love Around the Clock (1943)

Symbolizing the destiny of man, Hora imposes her destiny on everyone. She appears to a petty bourgeois trying to escape from his mediocre life, to a frivolous mother, to a reveler in nightclubs, to a man stranded without money in a restaurant, to a young s ...

Mademoiselle Béatrice (1943)

A law student passed his exam in his first B.A. year in Paris ;he is in love with a girl who is not from the bourgeoisie and the boy is afraid his father might not approve of their union. ...

Des jeunes filles dans la nuit (1943)

Six young boarding girls return home unexpectedly after their college has been destroyed by fire. Their unexpected presence arouses melodramatic reactions. ...

White Wings (1943)

A great disappointed love once encouraged the vocation of Sister Claire, who, however, forgot nothing. She follows in their daily life three young girls beloved and badly brought up by a widower, an artist with measured comicality. Sister Claire will save ...

The Blue Veil (1942)

In 1914, in the first months of World War I, Louise Jarraud loses her husband, killed on the front. Shortly after, she gives birth to a baby, who soon dies. Devastated by this double misfortune, Louise decides to dedicate her life to caring for the childre ...

Mlle. Desiree (1942)

Julie and Désirée Clary are courted by the brothers Joseph and Napoleon Bonaparte. Joseph marries Julie and Napoleon is affianced to Désirée. When Napoleon breaks the engagement and marries Joséphine de Beauharnais, Désirée becomes involved with Gen ...

L'Arlésienne (1942)

In the Camargue a local young playboy named Frédéri falls in love with a young woman from Arles. His family thinks she is unsuitable as a wife because she had a fling with a soldier. His entourage attempt to cheer him up but he intends to commit suicide. ...

The Black Diamond (1941)

A wealthy man's wife dies in a car crash; she is survived by him and their daughter. The father learns that he's not her biological father. ...

They Were Twelve Women (1940)

Early in the war, a group of women decide to help the soldiers in the war front. They enlist the help of the wealthy Madame Marion. ...

Paris - New-York (1940)

The forbidden romance between wealthy Giselle Preville and impoverished journalist Claude Dauphin. When Preville disappears, Dauphin is accused of kidnapping by the girl's snobbish father Rene Alexander. By the time the Normandie reaches New York, however, ...

La Mode rêvée (1940)

An American star, visiting Paris, falls asleep in the Louvre while a guide comments on Watteau's "Voyage à Cythère". She dreams that the painting's characters, beautiful ladies, escape, scattering across Paris after a tour of the fashion houses. ...

Sacred Woods (1939)

Despite her success, writer Francine Margerie is let down to see that she is not nominated for the Legion of Honor award. One solution could be to sleep with Champmorel, the Director of Fine Arts and one of the judges for the awarding of the coveted medal. ...

Cordial Agreement (1939)

The film depicts events between the Fashoda crisis in 1898 and the 1904 signing of the Entente Cordiale creating an alliance between Britain and France and ending their historic rivalry. It was based on the book King Edward VII and His Times by André Mau ...

Behind the Facade (1939)

In the elevator of two large Parisian buildings, a telegraph operator discovers the body of an elderly woman, Madame Mathieu, the owner of both buildings. Boucheron, the local superintendent, is dispatched to investigate, along with his rival, Inspector La ...

The Life of Giuseppe Verdi (1938)

The great Italian opera composer recalls his eventful life on his deathbed: his childhood in Busseto, his studies in Milan, his first opera "Oberto, conte di San Bonifacio", the death of his wife and his children killed by smallpox. ...

White Nights in Saint Petersburg (1938)

Pozdnycheff, a young party animal, destroyed by his lightness the marital happiness of one of his childhood friends who committed suicide. Since then, he is haunted by the memory. ...

Hercule (1938)

Hercule, a young peasant, inherits a Parisian newspaper with a large circulation. The editor-in-chief, Vasco, takes advantage of his ignorance to make corruption prevail. But Hercules gradually realizes the role that we make him play. ...

Quadrille (1938)

The young American actor Carl Erikson is the darling of the moment. Whilst in Paris on business, he is signing autographs, including one for Paulette Nanteuil, the actress all the rage in France but a complete stranger to Carl. Charmed by the young woman, ...

A Picnic on the Grass (1937)

A rich young woman asks a poor man to play for her the role of a generous friend. He ends up falling in love. ...

The Messenger (1937)

Nick, a Parisian businessman, divorces his rich American wife, marries his new secretary Marie, but is prevented from success in France so travels without his wife to an African outpost. He tells his young assistant Gilbert about his wife. When Gilbert tak ...

Nights of Fire (1937)

19th Century Russia. State prosecutor Fedor Andreiev is presiding over the trial of a man who murdered his wife's lover. Despite a robust defence from the brilliant young lawyer Serge Rostoff, the accused man is found guilty and will be deported to Siberia ...

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 ...

The Seniors (1936)

A high school in the thirties: most of the students are leaving for the Easter holidays. However, one of them,Brassier, an A -student ,stays for sentimental reasons. He is desperately in love with the principal's wife who does not want to cheat on her husb ...

The Terrible Lovers (1936)

After a year of turbulent marriage Annette and Daniel get a divorce, and each marries again. However, they meet again on the French Riviera and are tempted to give in to their old passion... ...

The Fear (1936)

A lady who had a secret affair lives in fear. ...

Samson (1936)

An aristocratic woman is coerced by her impoverished family into marrying a wealthy business tycoon. ...

Aux portes de Paris (1935)

A local man raised two boys. One is his son and the other is that of a rich industrialist, to get the bonus to the unhappy father, he gives his own son a lazy scoundrel, to the tearful father and decides to keep the other boy, but the truth does not soon t ...

Le Billet de mille (1935)

The tribulations of a banknote, from its exit from a counter to its destruction, passing through dozens of hands. ...

Jeanne (1934)

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Le Bonheur (1934)

Philippe Lutcher, an anarchist, fires a shot at Clara Stuart, a famous stage and screen actress, but only wounds her. The star, through affectation and curiosity to know his motives, pleads in his favour at his trial, but he rebuffs her pity. After he has ...

Le Scandale (1934)

A woman suffers ill repute when she deserts her husband for a fling with an adventurer and gives the lover jewelry to pay the hotel bill. Will the husband be understanding and forgive her? ...

We Are Not Children (1934)

In the spring of 1913, Jean Servin, a son of a family, became friends with Roberte, a little midinette. He leaves her a few months later to marry Cécile Breton. The years go by. Jean becomes an important businessman. One evening, he meets Roberte, who has ...

The Ironmaster (1933)

A young noblewoman is unhappy about needing to marry the village ironmaster for financial reasons, but later comes to appreciate her husband. ...

Once Upon a Time (1933)

A poor disgraced girl, belonging to a gang of criminals, is morally transformed by a cosmetic operation that makes her beautiful. ...

The Dreamy Mouth (1932)

The story begins at a concert during which Beethoven's Concerto in D major for violin and orchestra is performed. Romaine, a mysterious woman, is in the concert hall. Pierre, her husband, is first violin of the Orchester Colonne. That evening, she discover ...

Ariane, Russian Maid (1932)

Arianne, a young Russian maid living in France, meets a man twice her age she falls in love with. ...

Companion Wanted (1932)

Young love blossoms between a salesgirl and a handsome man on the French Riviera. ...

When Love Is Over (1931)

An art historian has an affair with a young saleslady while his disaffected wife cheats on him in turn. Both illicit relationships end in little boys being born around the same time. ...

Faubourg Montmartre (1931)

This is the story of two sisters: one of them is a semi-whore with her pimp, the other one tries to walk the line, in spite of her sisters' attempts to debauch her. Enter a not-so-handsome young man the younger sister falls in love with. ...

Dance House (1931)

Three men vie for a pretty young lady in a small Spanish port town: The boss of a dance hall who encourages her aspirations at performing, a married fisherman, and that man's unmarried younger brother. ...