Henri Arius

Your Money or Your Life (1966)

Pétepan learns that his money has been lost by Robinhoude brothers.He asks his assistants to withdraw his amount from the bank. ...

Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez (1964)

The ambitious police officer Cruchot is transferred to St. Tropez. He's struggling with crimes such as persistent nude swimming, but even more with his teenage daughter, who's trying to impress her rich friends by telling them her father was a millionaire ...

My Wife's Husband (1963)

After thirteen years in Germany, Fernand is coming back to his wife and his restaurant. But since his disparition, his wife as made her life with a norman chef, sympathetic but a specialist of butter's cooking when Fernand cook only with oil! ...

The Count of Monte Cristo (1961)

Edmund Dantes is falsely accused by those jealous of his good fortune, and is sentenced to spend the rest of his life in the notorious island prison, Chateau d'If. While imprisoned, he meets the Abbe Faria, a fellow prisoner whom everyone believes to be ma ...

A Man Named Rocca (1961)

Roberto goes to Marseilles to give a hand to his friend Xavier, wrongly imprisoned following a frame-up organized by his associate Villanova. Roberto sets out to seduce Villanova's mistress, but when Villanova is killed, Roberto ends up leader of the band. ...

Cocagne (1961)

As the driver of a garbage truck in Arles, Marc-Antoine leads a quiet life with his wife, Mélanie, and their two children. When Amédée's "Fanny" is stolen from the bouliste club, Marc-Antoine offers to repaint another one. As soon as the work is finishe ...

Croquemitoufle (1959)

Returning from a two-year stay in Terre Adélie, explorer Bernard Villiers meets up with his best friend, Thomas Desjardins, whose diplomatic duties call him to London. While Thomas is away, Bernard learns that Catherine, his wife, has run off with his col ...

Blonde in a White Car (1959)

Picked up by a beautiful motorist, jobless hitchhiker Pierre (Hossein) is subsequently romanced by the girl. Immediately thereafter, however, she dumps him, attempting to run him over as a final insult. Memorizing her license number, Pierre pursues the eni ...

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 ...

The Law Is the Law (1958)

Assola is an imaginary village on the border between Italy and France and the borderline crosses the village itself. The French customs agent Ferdinand is always trying to catch the Italian smuggler Giuseppe. Giuseppe discovers that Ferdinand was actually ...

Girl and the River (1958)

The heroine in L'Eau Vive is the unwilling heir to a fortune. Young Hortense (Pascale Audret) has always known that her family was greedy, but until she inherits her father's hidden millions she has no idea how loathsome her relatives could be. Surrounded ...

Fire in the Flesh (1958)

Physicist Theodore Heldt, his young daughter Fern and his assistant Larry Gordon, on board a ship for a scientific expedition, are shipwrecked in the Pacific Ocean after a terrible storm. They find themselves safe and sound on an exotic desert island parad ...

Pas de grisbi pour Ricardo (1957)

Ricardo will try his luck in the capital after winning an amateur singing contest. He has many adventures. Kidnapped by gangsters, he is only freed by the intervention of his fiancée. Finally, the director of the "Folies Parisiennes" presents him with a c ...

The Case of Dr. Laurent (1957)

A Paris-based doctor tries to spread the gospel of Natural Childbirth. Working in a cloistered rural community, Gabin runs up against the stone walls of fear and prejudice. His theories are proven sound when unwed mother Nicole Courcel gives birth within G ...

The Virtuous Bigamist (1956)

The Provence, somewhere in the 1950's. Paul Verdier, traveling salesman, leaves his home and his quarrelsome wife for his weekly round. On the train he meets a young woman, Marie, who looks a little lost. No wonder. Marie is pregnant but lacks the customar ...

Honoré de Marseille (1956)

As he explains to the journalist who came to interview him, Honoré cultivates, as a perfect Marseillais, farnienté and galéjade. He evokes the Phocaean Protis, who founded the city of Marseille, and the Roman Honorius, who invented pétanque. He loves t ...

Sister Angele's Secret (1956)

A young novitiate witnesses a murder. Later, she recognizes the culprit, who admits to the killing; the sister works to convince him to turn himself in to the police. ...

Mademoiselle from Paris (1955)

Micheline Bertier is as wise as she is graceful, and is the perfect assistant to her boss, couturier Maurice Darnal. Darnal's business is faltering and he has to close down. Micheline's family is also in trouble. Her crazy-headed sister is about to steal h ...

The Amazing Mr. Callaghan (1955)

A ship, La Circé, has sunk and it might possibly be criminal . The vessel belongs to Storata ,who asks the insurance company for a hundred million Francs .Callaghan is working for them and he investigates on dry land and on the sea. The brilliant detectiv ...

Dangerous Turning (1954)

The adventures of Daniele as he tries to find love with Lucienne despite being framed for murder and cocaine smuggling. ...

Letters from My Windmill (1954)

Set in the countryside of Provence, the film is based on three tales from Alphonse Daudet's 1869 short story collection Letters from My Windmill: "The Three Low Masses", "The Elixir of Father Gaucher" and "The Secret of Master Cornille". ...

Quai des blondes (1954)

The blond cigarette trade is raging in the Mediterranean, pitting the crew of a former naval officer, Ferrer, against a band of pirates led by Lucky Esposito. Initially defeated and robbed, Ferrer seeks revenge. Two women emerge, a singer, Barbara, and his ...

Strange Desire of Mr. Bard (1954)

A terminally ill Mr. Bard, a casino bus driver forced to quit his job, miraculously wins a fortune playing roulette. Instantly becoming a millionaire, he wants to fulfill his life's dream: to become a father. This plan is opposed by his greedy relatives wh ...

The Blonde Gypsy (1953)

As in a Hollywood western, rice growers and bull cultivators come into conflict in the Camargue. ...

Mr. Scrupule, Gangster (1953)

Mr. Scrupule is a mild-mannered smuggler operating on the coast of Nice. If it hadn't been for an unexpected encounter, he'd probably have gone on for a long time in a trade that earned him the esteem of the bourgeoisie. An attractive young woman, Rolande, ...

Le Club des 400 coups (1953)

An orphan's grandmother dies. Alone in the world,he is going to be confided to the health and social security services. His pals decide to kidnap him so that he can stay with them. ...

Carnival (1953)

Dardamelle does not conceal the fact that his wife has made him a cuckold.How will his fellow townspeople react? ...

Naked in the Wind (1953)

Smalltown confectioner Lespinasse, hopeful of being reelected as chief councillor, is opposed by Darcepoil, the local druggist. Darcepoil arranges for the incumbent's defeat by having Pantaflon, a nightclub singer, lure him to the nudist camp on the Isle o ...

My Husband Is Marvelous (1953)

A young journalist, Sylvia, has to interview a writer, Claude Chatel, whose success is due to his misogyny. ...

The Wild Oat (1953)

A small village is torn apart by a quarrel between the baker and the italian grocery tenant, mother of a pregnant young girl. She accuses the baker's son, doing his military service in Algeria, to be the father of the would be child. Offended, the baker re ...

Manon of the Spring (1953)

Marcel Pagnol's adaptation of his own novel Manon des sources, the story of a shepherdess who exacts her revenge on the townsfolk she blames for killing her father, in two parts: Manon des sources and Ugolin. ...

Ugolin (1953)

Manon has blocked the spring that feeds the village, whose inhabitants she hates. ...

Les révoltés du Danaé (1952)

Captain Handson, captain of the "Danae", learns that his wife, Danae, is the mistress of his owner, Pierre Ricardo. Leaving for a new crossing, he takes his wife and her lover by force, whom he makes work in the holds. After a stopover in Douala, the "Dana ...

I Was It Three Times (1952)

A husband who had divorced twice because he had been betrayed by his former wives, takes his precautions to prevent the deed from happening a third time. And yet it does. ...

Sergil Among the Girls (1952)

The maid of a clandestine brothel in Marseille is found murdered. The inspector Sergil, in charge of the investigation will employ somewhat particular methods in order to unmask the assassin. ...

Savage Triangle (1951)

Based on the novel of the same name by writer Edouard Peisson, this Jean Delannoy film display one boy's unconditional love for his mother, despite her tragic mistreatment of him. After being raised by a shepherd for the past 12 years, Simon (Pierre-Michel ...

The Convict (1951)

The practice of Dr. Julien, a GP of Marseilles, consists mainly of drug-addicts. One day, one of his patient dies at his surgery and Julien yields to the temptation : he steals the dead man's money and hides the corpse in a trunk. But the whole thing is di ...

Oriental Port (1950)

In Marseille, a customs inspector falls in love with a young woman involved in dubious traffic. ...

Three Sinners (1950)

A man assists his gravely ill wife to die and wants to face justice for this, but his brothers try everything to keep the family's name clean. ...

Here Is the Beauty (1950)

Melodrama of two struggling artists whose love for each other is thwarted.She has some success as a ballerina despite being wounded by him in a fit of jealousy. His career as a sculptor is stymied when he is arrested. ...

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. ...

Sin and Desire (1949)

The tumultuous loves of a diver and a pretty bitch. Mario loves Perrucha, she only loves money. When, by dint of diving, the boy's health deteriorates, the girl goes to find an important industrialist. Such a story can only end badly and Mario strangles Pe ...

The Passenger (1949)

When her godmother dies, Nicole's happiness collapses and her fiancé leaves her because she is ruined. ...

Truant School (1949)

1920, in a small village in Provence. Monsieur Pascal, a young schoolteacher, is faced with a lack of interest from his pupils. He decides to radically change the methods employed by his predecessor. He listens to the children, draws inspiration from their ...

Two Loves (1949)

Sylvain is the town clerk of the small Provençal village of Coursoul. He is the darling of all the girls in the country. His brother, Désiré, a disabled carpenter, secretly loves Toinette, the lumber merchant's daughter. She falls in love with Sylvain. ...

Sergil et le dictateur (1948)

Inspector Sergil is assigned the mission to protect the dictator of Santa Juanita during his stay in France and - it goes without saying -trouble begins at once, as of his journey in the fast train from Paris to Marseilles. A lot of opponents of all kinds ...

Si ça peut vous faire plaisir (1948)

Gonfaron is barking at the auction of Cassis. He accepted with good heart to believe that he was the proud custodian of the jackpot of the National Lottery , to avoid marital trouble his friend Viala, which is the real winner with his mistress Ginette . Mi ...

Jenny Lamour (1947)

Paris, France, December 1946. Jenny Lamour, an ambitious cabaret singer, and Maurice, her extremely jealous pianist husband, become involved in the thorough investigation of the murder of a shady businessman, led by Antoine, a peculiar and methodical polic ...

The Crowned Fish Tavern (1947)

Captain Palmer's daughter, Maria, is neglected by her husband, the cynical Leo, who lives with the beautiful Sylvia. To defeat his son-in-law, Palmer has the idea of ​​putting Sylvia back in the presence of Pierre, her first love. Leo takes revenge by ...

Passionnelle (1947)

Thérèse kills her lover during the very night of her wedding to the count of Vétheul. To gain a night with her, a modest local worker agrees to bury the body. ...

Rumors (1947)

Jean is a good man who has a steady job (he is a mechanic in the village garage) and a companion named Aline. But Jean is also a guzzler and a philanderer. As a result, when a local prostitute is killed in the surroundings, he becomes at once the victim of ...

La Dame de Haut-le-Bois (1947)

The son of the Comtesse de Brévannes dies. She, who has never wanted to meet her daughter-in-law and who wants to take care of her grandson, goes to their house under the guise of a governess. ...

Inspector Sergil (1947)

Inspector Sergil is a detective comedy. Sergil, inspector of the P.J., investigates three crimes, helped by two pretty women, Bijou and Nadège. ...

Escale au soleil (1947)

Rooster Heart (1946)

A man is too shy to ask a girl out and decides to kill himself. While lying in the road he is rescued by a Doctor who tries to cure him by implanting the heart of a rooster into him, something which suddenly makes him irresistible to women. ...

La Troisième Dalle (1946)

A historian seeks to clarify the mysterious death of Sire de Malvaleix and will find himself involved in the murder of the current descendant. ...

Le Gardian (1946)

The guardian is engaged to a girl from a good family, but the intervention of a gypsy will make his heart lean. This one comes in fact to take revenge and will try to kill him. ...

L'Aventure de Cabassou (1946)

An architect whose wife has cheated on him withdraws to a solitary life in a cave, but somehow manages to keep au courant with what is going on. ...

Song of the Clouds (1946)

Sylvio, a successful singer, has found a way to take a peaceful vacation, safe from his female adulators: to travel incognito. He puts up at an old castle whose landlord, Count Fabrice, a ruined nobleman, seeks a hidden treasure. Posing as the nephew of th ...

Naïs (1945)

Toine, the local hunchback, works at the tile manufacturing plant, but during the summer, he gives a hand to Micoulin, the farmer, thereby being able to spend more time close to Nais, Micoulin's daughter. That summer, the estate owner's son, Frederic Rosta ...

Jeannou (1943)

Jeannou lives in a castle in Périgord with his father, the last man of aristocratic lineage landowners, very attached to traditions. She meets Peter, a young engineer, she joined in Paris, decided to marry her. A few months later, pregnant, she returned t ...

Don't Shout it from the Rooftops (1943)

A scientist who have discovered how to turn salt water into petrol dies before he has revealed his formula. By mistake it's assumed that his assistant knows it although he does not. ...

The Lucky Star (1943)

Auguste, a somewhat simple-minded Provençal fisherman, loves and admires Mireille. This concerns only Maurice, son of an important wholesaler, whom scruples do not stifle. Seduced and abandoned, Mireille moves Auguste who tries to mend his poor happiness. ...

Le soleil a toujours raison (1943)

Tonio, pretty Micheline's fiance, meets Georgia ,a gypsy who makes advances to him. ...

Cap au large (1942)

Father Boquet, old and sad, hopes that François, his son, will be a fisherman like him. Alas, François follows his evil genius Simon to town and succumbs to the charms of the great Lisa. The wise village teacher sets out to find him when his father is il ...

Simple-Minded (1942)

A simpleton turns out to be the lucky charm of a village. ...

Little Nothings (1941)

Following a broadcast on the radio, each of the listeners remembers these "little nothings" (the title is borrowed from a play by Mozart), which have often changed their lives. Each of these stories told will prove that a tiny detail in life can change an ...

Le Roi des galéjeurs (1940)

Because the shiner Titin has fallen in love with a singer, he braves the latter's protector, the baron, and passes himself off as an insurer in connection with a pearl necklace that is circulating. Bitters get involved, Titin kidnaps the beauty and leaves ...