Henri Garat

Fou d'amour (1943)

Claude, who temporarily replaces his father at the head of a department store, falls in love at first sight with a pretty female customer. He finds out that she is named Solange and that she is the goddaughter of Professor Hauteclerc, who runs a private ps ...

Annette and the Blonde Woman (1942)

Based on the short story by Georges Simenon. Annoying Annette is bent on seducing Maurice, a handsome lawyer who has his eye on a haughty American Myriam who is running after bashful Bernard. The story takes place in hotels, prisons, and music-making apart ...

Le Valet maître (1941)

Some, like Ravier de l'Orne are born... masters, but ,like him, do not live up to their rank. Others, like Gustave Morillon, are... born masters, even if, like him, they are valets. Morillon will indeed prove better at bridge than his master and will event ...

The Path of Honor (1939)

Two twin brothers have joined the army, Paul by vocation is a lieutenant of spahis and Georges to escape the police is a sergeant in the Foreign Legion. A snitch having informed the police of Georges' presence at the Legion, he must leave. In Casablanca, P ...

L'Accroche-cœur (1938)

A seasoned con-man devises an elaborate plan to relieve a rich socialite of a hefty chunk of her fortune but her falling in love with him complicates matters. ...

Ça... c'est du sport (1938)

Trapon, a bank employee, is in love with Mrs. Lavator, who wants to marry off her two daughters before marrying her. As one of the two fiancés of his daughters has no money, Trapon begins to embezzle sums of money in his cash box. ...

In the Sun of Marseille (1938)

A modest soap factory employee has two passions: sport and his boss's daughter. ...

La Présidente (1938)

Vérotchka, a vivacious theater actress touring in a provincial town, is turned out of her hotel by orders of Monsieur Tricointe, the stern president of the local law court. In a rage, the actress knocks at Tricointe's door with a view to protesting agains ...

Clingy Women (1938)

Babinois courts all the women he meets. He has a mistress, Gladys. He would like to marry the Bourillon's daughter, Monique. His maid, Rose, claims to marry him; Héloïse, a young widow, is madly in love with him. Babinois, not knowing how to refuse women ...

La Fille de la Madelon (1937)

The widow of a soldier in the 1914-1918 war, running an inn called "Au rendez-vous des veterans", is happy to see her daughter in love with an officer whose father was once in love with La Madelon. ...

The Girl in the Taxi (1937)

In this British musical, set in Paris, an apparently upstanding husband and father spends his nights fooling around with wild women. His son, wanting to be just like his dad, begins dating a seductive widow--the same widow his father has been seeing. Troub ...

La Chaste Suzanne (1937)

Madame Pomarel becomes the winner of a prize of virtue awarded by the Academy of Moral Sciences which Monsieur des Aubrais is a prominent member. In reality she walks the cabarets, including the Moulin Rouge, where a succession of misunderstandings will oc ...

L'amour veille (1937)

Believing that her husband is cheating on her, Jacqueline decides to take revenge and goes to find Ernest, a chilled sigh. But in her bachelor apartment, she cannot decide to push her revenge to the end. ...

Armchair 47 (1937)

A young man marries the daughter of a famous actress, but is visibly more attracted to his stepmother. She manages, not without difficulty, to reconnect the bonds of a vacillating household. ...

Un mauvais garçon (1936)

Monsieur Serval has made a deal with his daughter Jacqueline. She can be a lawyer and act her own way provided that, in a given period of time, she becomes a great name of the profession. If she does not, she must pledge herself to marry the son of a rich ...

La souris bleue (1936)

René, a simple employee of the Univers agency run by Mr. Lebourdier, loves Yvonne. But Mr. Martin dreams of a brighter party for his daughter. In order to win the post of deputy director, René asks Nenette, a pretty blonde, to seduce Mr. Lebourdier. But ...

The Royal Waltz (1936)

In 1852, the young Austrian emperor Franz Joseph persuades his friend, Count Michel de Thalberg, to act as a go-between in his love affair with the Bavarian duchess Elisabeth. Not long after his arrival in Munch, Thalberg has an embarrassing encounter in a ...

Les dieux s'amusent (1935)

Alternate-language version of Amphitryon (1935). ...

Midnight Prince (1934)

A record seller, and not very serious, Henry spends his nights in a cabaret where there is a Slavic prince in exile. His resemblance to the Prince of Palestria makes him designated to replace the young man who prefers to stay in Paris. And Henry takes with ...

A Man Has Been Stolen (1934)

Lost film. A young man is kidnapped by his business competitors, but the jailer falls in love with the man she has to keep a prisoner. ...

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. ...

A Woman at the Wheel (1933)

A young sportsman, heir to a tyre manufacturers wants to end the rivalry between his father's company and their main rival, by marrying the daughter of the rival family. ...

Adorable (1933)

Rebellious Princess Marie "Mitzi" Christine must try to marry the man she loves, instead of the stuffy old prince her parents want her to marry. ...

Une petite femme dans le train (1932)

Sophisticated romantic comedy of suspicious husbands, straying wives, handsome lovers, with various misunderstandings thrown in for good measure. (Including a gender-reversal of the old Pirandello plot twist from "The Late Mathias Pascal" of the protagonis ...

A Star Vanishes (1932)

Students in Paris (1932)

Jacques Dombreval gets a new job at a lawyers office in Paris and end up in a romantic entanglement. ...

The Congress Dances (1932)

In 1815, Tsar Alexander I romances a working-class glove seller, while his double takes his place at the Vienna Congress. English-language version of Der Kongreß tanzt. ...

He Is Charming (1932)

A French musical comedy film, one of the many operetta films made in the 1930s. Rejected for the law after cheating with his fellow students, a frivolous youth gets a job as a notary in the provinces where he hires his girlfriend and they have a fine music ...

Delphine (1931)

A music-hall singer leaves his loving wife to run off with Delphine. The singer's wife and Delphine's husband make them believe that they love each other and the singer, already tired of his affair, wins back his wife's heart. ...

Left Bank (1931)

Princess, At Your Orders! (1931)

Simultaneously made French version of "Ihre Hoheit Befiehlt": An officer, posing as a deli clerk, and a princess, posing as a manicurist, meet at a ball. The court especially the prime minister oppose a marriage, for political reasons. ...

The girl and the boy (1931)

In the act (1931)

Simultaneously made French version of "Einbrecher": A wealthy old husband looks for the successor for his young wife.A devious gentleman burglar is one possibility he toys with. ...