Léon Belières

Paris Still Sings! (1951)

A famous comedian decrees that his fortune will go to whoever collects as many pop star autographs as quickly as possible. When he dies, two cousins ​​embark on the race for signatures. ...

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. ...

The Wizard of Heaven (1949)

The Wizard of Heaven tells the compelling and remarkable story of St. John Marie Baptist Vianney, the humble pastor of Ars, France, who battled with the devil himself, not only for the faith of his parish, but even for that of his country. Starting with th ...

The Private Life of an Actor (1948)

Biography of Lucien Guitry, stage comedian, by his son, movie director, and a poetic reflection on the passionate love of both men for their chosen art forms. ...

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. ...

Master Love (1946)

Director of a music hall, the dubious Ribero, to save himself from bankruptcy, only hopes for the victory of his horse. An English lord enlists his crack Master Love in the race. Ribero will try to prevent its departure. He is thwarted in his dark projects ...

The Grand Hotel Affair (1946)

In Marseilles, the fisherman Tonin closely monitors the actions of the wreckage workers led by a certain Mr. Léon. Could these bizarre individuals have something to do with the double murder at the Grand Hotel? ...

Le bal des passants (1944)

Fabienne believes herself to be cheated on by her husband Claude and divorces her. He leaves for America and does not return until eight years later. He then meets his daughter. ...

The Murderer Lives at Number 21 (1942)

Paris, France. Commissaire Wens follows the lead of a ruthless murderer to an unexpected place. ...

Dernière aventure (1942)

Comte de Larzac, an aging seducer, leaves Paris for Lannemezan. Accompanied by his friend Charmeuil, he goes there to acknowledge the paternity of Jean, a twenty-year old young man who knows nothing about his biological father. Jean, after falling for Jean ...

Ce n'est pas moi (1941)

Cambo, a banker, has been in trouble since a certain Parizot has tried to extort stocks from him. Following the advice of his friend Quincampoix, Cambo decides to trade places with Bardac, a painter, who happens to be his lookalike. Bardac slips into Cambo ...

Miquette (1940)

Miquette is a young woman whose beauty and vivacity increase the clientele of her mother's tobacco shop. A Barrymoresque actor believes that Miquette has star potential, but he hasn't sufficient capital to finance her theatrical debut. He manages to get th ...

Marseille mes amours (1940)

Filmed operetta about a wealthy Provencal man who puts those lining up for his inheritance through a series of colorful adventures, only to reveal to them at the end that the whole thing was just a joke. ...

Three from St. Cyr (1939)

Three students from Saint-Cyr are sent to Syria to fight the rebels in the desert. ...

Monsieur Brotonneau (1939)

A man leaves his adulterous wife for his secretary, but then the wife apologizes and wants her husband back again. ...

Raphaël le tatoué (1939)

Modeste is a timid watchman at an automobile factory which is run with an iron hand by its owner, Roger Drapeau. One evening, Modeste leaves his post to visit a fairground, where he meets the attractive Aline. Having glimpsed his employer, Modeste makes a ...

Conflit (1938)

Claire Buisson becomes enamored with Gerard and soon afterwords she becomes pregnant. Gerard advises her to abort the child but, at the last moment, Claire decides to keep her child and leaves for her sister's place in the province. ...

Vacances payées (1938)

Prosper, the accountant of a fashion house, takes a vacation to Monte Carlo without his wife Sabine. And if he goes alone it is for a very good reason: he has a rendezvous with Olga, a beautiful woman. Once in Monte Carlo, he wins a large sum of money at t ...

Heartbeat (1938)

A pompous grocer's assistant in Marseille annoys a visiting film crew so much that they prank him with a phony acting contract; believing it to be real, the "schpountz" heads to Paris for his new career. ...

The Gateway Streak (1937)

A brave man accidentally gives some good tips to a client who immediately hires him as a secretary. But he is kidnapped by a rival bank and there is a queue to get his predictions. He finally understands that he makes everyone's fortune except his own. He ...

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. ...

The Marriages of Mademoiselle Levy (1936)

The tailors Moïse and Salomon Lévy decide to marry Mina, Salomon's daughter to a good match, to save themselves from the competition that Cohen makes for them. Mina will eventually succeed in marrying Pierre, from a marriage of love, without this harming ...

Topaze (1936)

Moïse et Salomon parfumeurs (1935)

Brothers Moïse and Salomon run a modest bazaar near the Butte Montmartre, under the sign of "everything for nothing". There are office items, perfumes and leather goods. Their niece, the beautiful Lia, twenty years old, a graduate in synthetic chemistry, ...

Jonny, haute-couture (1935)

Young Jonny Dupont, son of a former employee of fashion designer Rocaille, is tasked with turning around his father's fashion house, which is facing bankruptcy. In carrying out this difficult task, he encounters hostility from Liliane, Rocaille's daughter. ...

Le Billet de mille (1935)

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

The Queen of Biarritz (1934)

Elenita from Sierra Mirador is the darling of Biarritz. For her, a young groom abandons his wife, a forty-year-old suddenly becomes inflamed and cheats on his young wife. But Elenita, watched by her mother, resigns herself to becoming honest and returns to ...

The Voyage of Mr. Perrichon (1934)

Perrichon, a well-off self-satisfied bourgeois, goes on holiday with his wife and his pretty daughter Henriette. He is more or less willingly followed by two young men, Armand Desroches et Daniel Savary, who both have fallen in love with Henriette after me ...

Charlemagne (1933)

After the sinking of their boat, seven passengers from a wealthy background find themselves on a desert island. The man who saves them from drowning then proposes to the sailor Charlemagne to become the king of the peninsula. ...

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. ...

Abbot Constantine (1933)

A rich American lady has bought the Castle of Longueval. Her sister is being courted by two young villagers, one that fell in love with her, and the other one that fell in love with the Castle. ...

Le mari garçon (1933)

Wanting to hide in the countryside, a young couple finds all the friends they were fleeing from. ...

Les surprises du divorce (1933)

A young husband, annoyed by his stepmother, divorces and marries a young girl whose father is a widower. When the two new spouses return from their honeymoon, the stepfather has married his son-in-law's first wife. ...

Aviator Rouletabille (1932)

Rouletabille interrupts his vacation in Hungary to fight a gang of air pirates with his boss Sainclair and the daughter of Budapest's chief of Police. ...

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 ...

To the Polls, Citizens (1932)

The Levy Department Stores (1932)

Now that they have inherited a huge sum of money Moïse Lévy and his brother Salomon are the prosperous owners of a a department store, the Galeries Lévy & Cie. Life is sweet but unexpectedly sours the day a fake Lévy cousin gets into their lives, claim ...

Scent of the Woman in Black (1931)

The story takes place on the Riviera, where the title character may or may not be involved in various shades of skullduggery, including murder. ...

One Night at the Front (1931)