Julien Carette

The Adventures of Salavin (1964)

Finding himself unemployed overnight, Louis Salavin lets himself go into an incurable laziness despite the support of his friends and his mother... ...

Les Pieds nickelés (1964)

Three tramps in search of adventure and fortune decide to try their luck at swindling. After an initial failure at shoplifting, they take over a bateau-mouche and exploit tourists in their own way. ...

The Blockhead Fair (1963)

On prize-giving day, a few dunces recall various incidents that marked their school year. ...

My Uncle from Texas (1962)

In 1911, Arnolphe Combalette left his corner of Provence to seek his fortune in the Americas. Fifty years later, a letter from him arrived in the village: "No, I'm not dead yet, but it won't be long now. A Combalette should be sent here to settle a questio ...

Long Live Henry IV... Long Live Love! (1961)

Henri IV falls in love with the young Charlotte de Montmorency, 40 years his junior. The king decided to marry her off to his nephew, Henri de Condé, so that he could later make her his mistress. ...

The Thousandth Window (1960)

An old man against the public housing project. ...

Pantalaskas (1960)

An off-beat, uneven tale about a man intent on suicide and the three people who try to talk him out of it, Pantalaskas stars American Carl Studer in the title role of the morose, would-be suicide. Set in Paris and taking place over an entire night, the sto ...

The Green Mare (1959)

A green mare makes the fortune of her owner, the horse dealer Haudouin. Shortly after his death, war broke out in 1870. One day, his neighbor Zèphe Maloret denounces Honoré, Haudouin's son, a maverick, to the Prussians. Following this denunciation, their ...

The Magnificent Tramp (1959)

Bum Archimède wants to spend the winter in prison, but to get there proves not to be that easy. ...

The Gambler (1958)

In 1866, a young Muscovite named Alexei Ivanovitch arrives in Baden Baden, then the gambling capital of Austria, and is soon engaged by General Zagorianski to look after his children. Alexei discovers that his employer is a compulsive gambler who has been ...

The Mirror Has Two Faces (1958)

A teacher runs an ad in the newspaper to find a wife. Afraid of beautiful ladies, he weds an ugly woman. After a car accident, he meets a doctor who offers to reveal his wife's beauty. ...

Hardboiled Egg Time (1958)

A shy, penniless employee of the garage owner Grillot, the gentle Louis wins $10 million in the lottery. Flitting along the banks of the Seine, he takes in Raoul Grandvivier, an unknown, untalented painter who has just botched a spectacular suicide intende ...

Three Make a Pair (1957)

Jojo's ambition is to become a gangster, but to be admitted into a gang he has to prove himself by committing a daring act. To that end, he kills someone in broad daylight, not knowing that his victim is an actor who is playing a scene in a film directed b ...

I'll Get Back to Kandara (1956)

One evening, professor André Barret sees the author of a murder in the darkness; cafe owner Cordelec is the victim. From then on, his suspicions fall on one of his students who had just arrived in his class, Bernard Cormiere. ...

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. ...

Forgive Our Trespasses (1956)

In a port area of ​​France, clashes between a gang of young delinquents and a tribe of gypsies. ...

Hard Knock Out (1956)

A trio of seedy gangsters, Gigi, Totor and Jo, manage to snatch a suitcase of diamonds, which they promptly lose. The precious luggage is recovered by Ernest Mamourette, a distracted salesman. The police suspect him of being behind the hold-up and the safe ...

These Sacred Holidays (1956)

Georges Pinson, who wants to spend his holidays on the riviera with his wife and his two kids,buys a car.His neighbors and the drivers who overtake him gibe at him. ...

Meeting in Paris (1956)

A wealthy young American woman is suddenly cut off by her father while living in Paris. A philosopher, she tries to make a living as a guide in the capital. The Marquis de Cernay, who has his eye on Nancy's portfolio, engages Maurice, a hardworking writer, ...

If Paris Were Told to Us (1956)

Historical film directed and written by Sacha Guitry follows the the history of Paris from its founding through the significant events in the city's history. ...

La Môme Pigalle (1955)

Released from prison, Arlette returns to her job as a cabaret star. The police try to get her to confess where the stolen jewels are hidden. ...

No Big Deal for Johnny (1955)

Robert Lanier, a man with a doubtful past, disembarks clandestinely in Le Havre decided to rebuild his life. Johnny, an orphaned young acrobat, takes him for his father and presents him to the seductive Gaby, his best friend. ...

On the Bench (1954)

La Hurlette and Carmen are a pair of philosophical tramps who enjoy simple pleasures in the company of the cheerful Sosthène. As in the fairy tales, La Hurlette learns that he has just inherited a tidy fortune, provided he can find a job. By dint of hard ...

House of Ricordi (1954)

The film covers a hundred years in the lives of the Ricordi family, the Milan publishing house of the title, and the various composers and other historic personalities, whose careers intersected with the growth of the Ricordi house. It beautifully draws 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. ...

Gli uomini, che mascalzoni! (1953)

Good Lord Without Confession (1953)

Stuck in a loveless marriage, bourgeois industrialist Francois falls in love with Janine, another man's wife. Francois sets up Janine as his mistress, and she, mercenary soul that she is, likes the set-up so much that she continues the relationship even wh ...

To Hell with Virtue (1953)

To conceal his nighttime infidelity from his wife Gisele, Pierre calls in a particularly shady private detective to concoct an alibi. He is introduced to a certain Robert Crémieux, who will pass himself off to Gisèle as a childhood friend with whom he sp ...

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 ...

Matrimonial Agency (1952)

Noël is a bachelor who inherits a matrimonial agency. After contemplating selling it, he chooses to manage it. ...

The Red Inn (1951)

A group of travelers, including a monk, stay in a lonely inn in the mountains. The host confesses the monk his habit of serving poisoned soup to the guests, to rob their possessions and to bury them in the backyard. ...

Rome-Paris-Rome (1951)

Vincenzo, a railwayman who works on the Rome-to-Paris line, has a wife in Italy and a mistress in France: Ginette, a widow with a four-year-old daughter. When he's offered a job in Paris he decides to move, but unfortunately his wife and petulant brother-i ...

Bernard and the Lion (1951)

The carefree Bertrand, gamekeeper for a castellan, puts himself in danger when he discovers that his boss is the leader of a gang of counterfeiters. ...

Without Leaving an Address (1951)

A woman in Paris hires a taxi driver to locate her ex-lover, father to her newborn child, who left her without leaving an address. ...

Twelve Hours to Live (1950)

After dying in a car accident, wealthy shoe industrialist Carlo Bacchi finds himself in the afterlife, where he is condemned to hell for having committed evil while alive. Defending himself against the accusation in an impassioned plea, however, he succeed ...

The First Weapons (1950)

A sensitive teen-age boy survives the brutalities of a country training school. ...

Marie of the Port (1950)

Henri Chatelard is well into his forties, owns a restaurant and a cinema in the city, and appreciates women. When he meets Marie, an 18-ish strong-head who just lost her father in a small fishing village, it is not clear who is the hunter and who is the pr ...

Amédée (1950)

Employed in a beauty salon, Amédée must undergo a pentothal injection. The dose is too strong; suddenly Amédée reveals the truth to everyone; to clients of the institute; to his cheating wife; to his boss that he robs; to the tax collector; etc. When t ...

Keep an Eye on Amelia (1949)

A young woman's comfortable life with her boyfriend is disrupted when he leaves for military duty, entrusting her to a playboy friend seeking a fake marriage for inheritance. Complications arise as a prince enters the scene, pursuing her romantically. ...

Branquignol (1949)

In this sketch comedy compared to the American film Hellzapoppin, a spectacle is put on to celebrate the wedding of a nobleman, but the results are disastrous. ...

Night Round (1949)

During Christmas night, two police officers make their nocturnal rounds, in their round they meet tramps, brawlers in a café, a naked man, a concierge, a sexton, revelers in a nightclub, and end by signing in their report to the police station. ...

Such a Pretty Little Beach (1949)

During the cold and rainy off-season a man arrives in a seaside town and, giving his name only as Pierre, checks into the only hotel which remains open. His arrival arouses curiosity and a degree of suspicion, as people note that he appears to know the are ...

The Murdered Model (1948)

Commissioner Malaise investigates a strange crime: a mannequin, stolen from the window of a tailor, is found stabbed... But his face of wax has the features of a certain Gilbert, who died a year earlier in a family, all of whose members will become more or ...

Love Around the House (1947)

In an isolated house, in Brittany, live two sisters around whom gravitate a whole series of strange characters. Between the eruption of the vagrant voyeur and that of the couple in love, the youngest kills her eldest and goes mad. ...

Last Chance Castle (1947)

Rather than commit suicide, it is better to stay at the clinic of Professor Patureau-Duparc. This practitioner experiments on his clients with a serum that modifies their personality. Thus Yolande and Albert become new Romeo and Juliet. They end up marryin ...

History of Singing (1947)

Gino Fabretti is a famous Italian tenor. During a tour in Nice, he begins a relationship with the wife of a renowned doctor. The doctor traps and drugs him and replaces his vocal cords with those of Robert, a delivery boy in a grocery store. Robert wakes u ...

Gates of the Night (1946)

In post-Liberation Paris, a man reunites with a friend and meets the woman of his dreams, only to discover her brother's dark past. ...

Impasse (1946)

A student, Gabriel, comes to the aid of Gisèle, a young manicurist wrongfully arrested, by helping her escape. As a result, Gabriel must serve three months in prison. His sentence served, unable to continue his studies, he collaborates with a gang of croo ...

Messieurs Ludovic (1946)

Anne-Marie meets three men bearing the first name of Ludovic. Each of them has a very different character than the other two. The young woman will find great love with one of them. ...

Sylvia and the Ghost (1946)

A teenager becomes fixated on a painting of the handsome suitor who died in a duel for her grandmother's love. On her sixteenth birthday, her father hires three men who pretend to be the ghost of the suitor to entertain her. Little do they know, the ghost ...

L'Enquête du 58 (1945)

A train driver has not slowed down at a signal and caused an accident whose victim is a gatekeeper. Two inspectors come to investigate the affair. During his interrogation, the driver refuses to provide an explanation for his action and is charged with mal ...

Vingt-quatre heures de perm' (1945)

Two friends, mobilized together and idle, send their photos to two young workers. The photos are inverted, resulting in a real sentimental imbroglio which finds its best conclusion in the context of the Théâtre aux Armées. ...

The White Blackbird (1944)

Jules Leroy, an industrial shoe polish manufacturer, on his deathbed reveals to his son Achille that the family fortune originates from an inheritance stolen 23 years earlier. The one who should have inherited is one of the factory employees, Hyacinthe Cam ...

Night Shift (1944)

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

Good Evening Ladies, Good Evening Gentlemen (1944)

To teach a lesson to his young wife who dreams of the famous "voiceless singer", a husband enters a radio station and manages to make people appreciate his voice. ...

Adieu Léonard (1943)

A bungling thief is threatened by one target with blackmail, unless the thief will kill his own cousin, a wealthy eccentric who is considered the village idiot. ...

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 ...

Monsieur des Lourdines (1943)

A young man from an aristocratic family tires of the country life and moves to Paris where he squanders his inheritance. Returning to his home with remorse, he reconciles with his father and becomes engaged to his true love. ...

À la Belle Frégate (1943)

It's a sailors' story; they often sail away and when they return, the first thing they do is searching girls in the harbor. One of them -Jean- is shy and he does not know how to go with women. One day, he meets Yvonne and falls in love with her. But, alas, ...

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. ...

A Star to the Sun (1943)

Martine, who has become a major star of the song in Paris, wants to return to visit her hometown. Confronted with Merlerault, a very haughty and noble character who wants to teach her how to live, she succumbs after a time of anger, to the charms of the ge ...

Love Letters (1942)

A plucky businesswoman agrees to receive love letters to a prefect's wife from a young official, and soon finds herself embroiled in a scandal that inflames a town's class tensions. ...

Soyez les bienvenus (1942)

Before the war. Mr. and Mrs. Boisleroi, well off, lived in their castle while their son Jacques courted Geneviève, the manager's daughter. On mobilization, the manager becomes flight captain, Boisleroi a simple waykeeper and Jacques wants to enlist. Refug ...

Sideral Cruises (1942)

Robert and Françoise Monier make a hot air balloon to fly to the stratosphere. After a visit to Venus, they return home, but have only aged 15 days whereas 25 years have passed on Earth. ...

Fromont Young and Risler Elder (1941)

An ambitious and perverse adventurer sows dissension and ruin in a wealthy family of industrialists. ...

Parade in 7 Nights (1941)

In the pound, Pipo the dog recounts his adventures to his fellow inmates. ...

La Prière aux étoiles (1941)

Pierre and Florence meet at the fair in Paris. They vow eternal love and go to Cassis, under the Southern sun. But Florence has a burdensome past: before meeting Pierre she was a kept woman. Her chivalrous lover, Dominique, chooses to set her free. But Pie ...

Sixième étage (1940)

The joys and miseries of the inhabitants of a building in a Parisian district. ...

Thunder Over Paris (1940)

An international crook hunted by the police comes to Paris to save his daughter from the clutches of a blackmailer friend of a cabaret singer with eccentric outfits. ...

The Duraton Family (1940)

Unbeknownst to the members of a French family, a radio announcer makes them the subject of a broadcast. ...

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 Rules of the Game (1939)

The Marquis de la Chesnaye and his wife host a weekend gala where a variety of complicated romantic and social entanglements between guests and servants lead to tragedy, all against the backdrop of a looming war. ...

Le Paradis des voleurs (1939)

A fairground boss is ruined. He steals his aunt's jewelry, but being chased he gives the jewelry to a couple of dancers. They are mistaken for the Morton Sisters and perform in the Folies Parisiennes with the jewels, with enormous success. ...

The World Will Shake (1939)

In this sci-fi film, a scientist invents a prescient machine that can tell people when they will die. ...

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 ...

Coral Reefs (1939)

The adventures of a sailor from Mexico to a lagoon in the Pacific ocean, and the meeting with a lonely girl. ...

La Bête Humaine (1938)

Returning by train to the French port of Le Havre, Jacques Lantier, a tormented railwayman, meets by chance the impulsive stationmaster Roubard and Séverine, his wife. ...

I Sing (1938)

Charles's uncle is the headmaster of a chic girls school .He is short of the readies and he has lots and lots of debts. ...

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. ...

The Curtain Rises (1938)

1938, France, Paris, at the Superior Conservatory of Dramatic Art ("Conservatoire Supérieur d'Art Dramatique"). The first-year entrance exams are in full swing. Many applicants, few accepted. Isabelle (Janine Darcey) is one of the few chosen. She joins fo ...

Lights of Paris (1938)

A celebrated singer in Paris meets a young woman and courts her by pretending to be a driving instructor. ...

Café de Paris (1938)

This murder mystery is set in a Parisian cafe and examines the mysterious murder of a famed journalist and extortionist who is killed at his table in the cafe. Though the prime suspects are gathered together( including his wife and her lover, the gun-runne ...

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. ...

Les Gaietés de l'exposition (1938)

Set against the backdrop of the 1937 Paris Exposition, a mistaken identity plot where a travel agent from Morocco is confused by the French police with a dangerous swindler. ...

Le Monsieur de 5 heures (1938)

A wealthy banker who takes his accountant's name after multiple incidents is forced to pass off his girlfriend as his daughter. But the truth is coming out. The banker's wife then favors the marriage of the young girl, which creates a new intimacy in her h ...

La Marseillaise (1938)

The early days of the French Revolution, as seen through the eyes of the ordinary citizens in Marseille and the royal court, including King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. ...

Precious Fools (1938)

Being a tramp is not always a disadvantage. For example when there is a masquerade ball. Indeed wearing flea-ridden rags might just mean having donned a costume. This is what happens to two resourceful Brussels bums, La Cloche and Picolard, who manage to g ...

The Spanking (1937)

A husband, exasperated by his wife, spanks her without paying attention to the open window in front of which he is. He is annoyingly surprised to discover the next day that the scene has been photographed by a neighbor, and that the image is circulating in ...

The Kings of Sport (1937)

Jules and Fernand are two boys from the Café des sports in Marseille who take part in their corporation's annual race. ...

Heart of Paris (1937)

Camille Morestan serves as a jury member at a court in Paris. The attractive Natalie Roguin is accused of murder. Morestan doesn't want to believe she really killed her lover. He succeeds in convincing the other jury members she was innocent. After her acq ...

Grand Illusion (1937)

A group of French soldiers, including the patrician Captain de Boeldieu and the working-class Lieutenant Maréchal, grapple with their own class differences after being captured and held in a World War I German prison camp. When the men are transferred to ...

La Reine des resquilleuses (1937)

A young unemployed girl pretends to be a boy and gets a job as a car washer. ...

Adventure in Paris (1936)

Michel Levasseur is a joyous reveler who does not care about the next day. So much so that one day a bailiff bursts into his Paris apartment and seizes his furniture on behalf of Raymond Sauvaget, his landlord, a rich food industrialist. But far from resen ...

27, rue de la Paix (1936)

A young woman wishing to divorce, promises money to her husband's ex-mistress to obtain her testimony on her behalf. But the same evening, the corpse of the young woman is found in the Seine. Everything seems to confirm the husband's guilt, however a journ ...

Marinella (1936)

Tino is a painter and occasionally a singer. When he has an opportunity to replace an absent singer, he becomes a sucess as a masqued singer, "Le chanteur masqué". Lisa is a typist who becomes a successful singer, also as a masqued singer, "La chanteuse m ...

The Golem (1936)

The Golem, a giant creature created out of clay by a rabbi, comes to life in a time of trouble to protect the Jews of Prague from persecution. ...

La Marraine de Charley (1936)

To receive his fiancée and his father at his home, an Oxford student counts on the presence of his aunt from Brazil to serve as his chaperone. The latter having delayed his trip, the young man passes his servant off as his aunt. This results in multiple m ...

Les Sœurs Hortensia (1935)

Aline's father encourages his daughter's extra-marital love affair with a rich Argentinian. Aline's husband meets a little dancer, Marie, who looks like his wife. Marie is the daughter of a former friend of Aline's father. The two young women perform a dan ...

Fanfare of Love (1935)

Two unemployed musicians dress up as women to be hired by an all-female orchestra called "Tulips from Holland"; they fall in love with two gorgeous musicians. ...

Dora Nelson (1935)

Dora Nelson, a famous actress, leaves both her husband Philippe de Moreuil and the role she was playing in a movie directed by Nivert, to follow her lover Santini in Italy. But she soon realizes that Santini deceives her with a girl named Elsa. In vexation ...

Speak to Me of Love (1935)

A young girl marries an attractive but very busy businessman. So busy, that on the wedding day, he has no hesitation in taking an unexpected trip. ...

Paris-Camargue (1935)

In the Camargue, the rich owner Jules Fabregoul squanders all his fortune to please his mistress, a Parisian actress with luxury tastes. But he is not the only one to be in trouble. His niece is having sentimental problems: she thinks she is being cheated ...

Et moi, j'te dis qu'elle t'a fait de l'oeil (1935)

When a young woman named Aurélie throws a fit of jealousy at her husband and her lover, daily life becomes more complicated. ...

A Night at a Honeymoon (1935)

The maid and the driver of Sidonie de Valpurgis have the absurd idea of ​​subletting the hotel of their boss during her absence, and precisely to Sidonie's ex-friend, who wants to spend his wedding night there. ...

L'Heureuse Aventure (1935)

A problem forces a plane carrying passengers bound for the Far East to land on a desert island. Couples forms and they are happy. They are finally located, rescued and repatriated. A few months of 'civilization' are enough to pit them against each other. T ...

Gangster malgré lui (1935)

The crazy adventures of a character forced by circumstances to take on such dangerous professions as those of gangster, burglar, Chinese chiropodist and amateur detective. ...

Ferdinand the Roisterer (1935)

Ferdinand is an honest and almost prude chemist at the Fourageot laboratories. His boss, Mr Fourageot, is mostly busy with his mistresses but comes to be worried with his young and outgoing daughter. ...

Turandot, princesse de Chine (1935)

Le Billet de mille (1935)

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

My Heart Is Calling You (1934)

Director Rosé and his opera company travel to Monte Carlo where they expect an engagément to perform at the opera house. During the boat trip Mario, the cheerful tenor, meets a girl hidden in his cabin. He helps her singing for her passage and soon Nicol ...

Gonzague (1934)

Superstitious new rich find that they will be thirteen at the table. To reassure themselves, they invite a piano tuner, named Gonzague, whom they pretend to be Prince Gonzague to their guests. One of them imagines that Gonzague is his wife's lover. ...

Georges et Georgette (1934)

Goodbye Beautiful Days (1933)

After she has abused the confidence of the young engineer Pierre Lavernay, the beautiful thief Olga, who has fallen in love with him, wants to break with her criminal past. Unfortunately, by the awkwardness of her former accomplices, Olga is extradited to ...

Je te confie ma femme (1933)

A young man, having seduced his friend's mistress, undertakes to leave his wife to the latter for one night, when he is married. A few years later, the friend claims his due and the young man introduces him to his so-called wife. ...

La Pouponnière (1933)

Christianne Delannoy is the daughter of Mr. Brown, who subsidizes a nursery in memory of his affair with Mrs. Delannoy. She loves Doctor Moreau, but her mother forces her to marry a rich young man. ...

Baby (1933)

It's in the Bag (1932)

Benjamin Déboisé, a hatter, his salesman and a young man want to kidnap an American millionaire, put him in a bag and hold him to ransom. But they make a mistake: the fellow they find in the bag is not the millionaire himself, but his son...! ...

Passionately (1932)

A jealous American, Mr Stevenson, travels to France with his very pretty young wife Kitty. He tries all sorts of subterfuges so that the charming young woman does not attract the attention of men. But she did not escape the gaze of a certain Robert Perceva ...

Fun in the Barracks (1932)

The life of disorderly soldiers in the barracks dealing with daily routines. ...

Seul (1932)

A poor boy lives in the attic of a luxury house. During a party, he pays court to an elegant young woman who, without warning him, surprises him at his home. ...

Night attack (1931)

A woman enters a police station at night to ask the commissioner to help her get rid of her dead lover's body to protect her honor. ...

The four legs (1931)

American Love (1931)

A young American lady has certain prejudices against the people in France, but comes there to find a lover.She causes nothing but trouble. ...

The Necklace (1931)

A professional female thief figures out an original way to steal a precious necklace: she takes a gullible jeweler to a psychiatrist, poses as his wife and passes him off as a lunatic. Dr. Schwartz falls into the trap and has the poor jeweler committed to ...