Jean Joffre

The Count of Monte Cristo Part 1 - The Prisoner of Kastell (1943)

Edmond 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 ...

The Benefactor (1942)

A kind and generous village noble, specializing in good works, actually leads a double existence and carries out dishonest activities. ...

Haut le vent (1942)

In 1906, François left the Basque country with his father, who had decided to settle in Argentina following an incident between him and Esteban. Having become a powerful industrialist, he returned to France in 1940 on the occasion of the signing of a cont ...

Pontcarral, Empire Colonel (1942)

For 15 years after Waterloo, a baron refuses to accept the defeat. He reluctantly marries one of 2 Bourbon sisters but lands up dueling with the wife's former lover. Finally he gets a chance to prove himself again in battle. ...

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. ...

Narcisse (1940)

To inherit from his late uncle, Narcisse Pigeon is obliged to pass his pilot's license. ...

Beating Heart (1940)

Tells the story of a young woman escaping from reform school who tries to steal a foreign ambassador's watch but ends up falling in love with him. ...

The Phantom Wagon (1939)

French version of the Selma Lagerlof story, most famously filmed in 1921 by Victor Sjostrom, about a poor sinner who only realizes what misery he's wrought when he dies on New Year's Eve and is collected by Death in his carriage. ...

The End of the Day (1939)

Aged penniless actors are living in a old people's home. They always talk about their past glory or failures. One day Raphael Saint-Clair comes; he has been a famous actor and had a lot of love affairs. Passions come back, and jealousies... A bitter film a ...

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 ...

Land of Fire (1939)

Adrienne Lecouvreur (1938)

Adrienne Lecouvreur is an acclaimed actress who falls in love with Polish prince Maurice de Saxe, only to be poisoned by a jealous rival while Maurice is away at war. The film was a co-production between the two countries, and was made at UFA's Berlin Stud ...

Saint Theresa of Lisieux (1938)

The life of Thérèse Martin, who entered the Carmel at the age of 15, in 1888, under the name of Sister Thérèse of the Child Jesus, died nine years later, and canonized in 1925. ...

Rasputin (1938)

Story of the Siberian monk Gregory Rasputin and the hold he exerted over the court of the last Russian czar, Nicholas. ...

Orage (1938)

The mistress of an engineer meets the man's pregnant wife and decides to give up the liaison. ...

Êtes-vous jalouse ? (1938)

Germaine Moreuil's insane jealousy triggers such violent marital quarrels that the spouses file for divorce. When Germaine's parents find out, they sham a fierce spat to disgust their daughter and her husband with the pathetic spectacle of a couple at logg ...

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. ...

Assault (1936)

Alexandre Mérital, the leader of a political party, finds himself under attack from Frépeau, one of his opponents. The latter has indeed discovered that Mérital committed a theft in his youth. But Mérital will not be intimidated by his adversary's move ...

Dawn Over France (1935)

The gratuitous murder of his father and the misery of the people, aggravated by a succession of bad harvests, lead Gaspard, a great admirer of Mandrin and blacksmith by profession, to revolt. With his companion Samplan, he finds himself at the head of a ha ...

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 ...

The Adventurer (1934)

A scandalised Frenchman returns from Africa where he has been involved in illegal trading of mines (resulting in the deaths of many African miners). His bourgeois family are wary of the shame that he will bring so he must try to redeem himself and his fami ...

Le Petit Jacques (1934)

An honest worker is unjustly accused of murder. The culprit promises him to give his son a good education if he allows himself to be condemned. ...

The Three Musketeers (1932)

Young d'Artagnan leaves Gascony for Paris where he hopes to become a Musketeer of the Guard. He does meet three Musketeers, Athos, Porthos and Aramis, but totally by chance and for... a duel against them! But he soon befriends them and follows them in thei ...

Moonlight (1932)

While sailing on a yacht off the French Riviera a shy young man and the owner's daughter are shipwrecked on an island. ...

The Picador (1932)

A picador, an already mature man, keeps secret his love for the young orphan he raised. But she falls in love with a young picador... ...

It's all arranged (1931)

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 ...