Noël Roquevert

The Annuity (1972)

In 1930, Louis Martinet, a peaceful sexagenarian, no longer has a long life to live according to the words of his doctor, Leon Galipeau, who sees to take advantage of the very interesting situation of the "future deceased". This one indeed has a small hous ...

Mais qui donc m'a fait ce bébé ? (1971)

Three weeks before his wedding to Virginie, Vincent receives a letter from Magasins Réunis telling him to pick up a gift. He goes there and receives a baby, Olivier, 18 months old... ...

The Novices (1970)

Sister Agnès runs away from her convent in Brittany and seeks refuge in Paris with prostitute Mona Lisa. With absolutely no qualifications, the young novice has a hard job finding work, so Mona Lisa tries to teach her the ropes of the oldest profession of ...

La Honte de la famille (1969)

On the day of his marriage, the son of a Marseille king declares to his family that he wishes to engage in the police. ...

The Sexy Dozen (1969)

A young man who disguises himself as a girl in order to gain access to a girl's College. ...

Un merveilleux parfum d'oseille (1969)

Baron Yves de Kerfunte learns of his uncle's death. Overjoyed, he is astonished to discover that seven other individuals are vying for the inheritance. Worse still, when they open the will, they learn that only the elderly Louise de Kerfunte is the heiress ...

The Gardener of Argenteuil (1966)

Tulipe, is an old man who lives alone in an old railway carriage in the Argentueil region of Paris. His main passions are gardening and oil painting, but he also has a secret source of income. His godson discovers that Tulipe is actually a master forger, p ...

The Restaurant (1966)

A great French restaurant's owner, Monsieur Septime, is thrust into intrigue and crime, when one of his famous guests disappears. ...

Line of Demarcation (1966)

It is based on upon the memoir Mémoires d'un agent secret de la France libre et La Ligne de démarcation by Gilbert Renault under his pseudonym Colonel Rémy. A small village in the Jura is split by the river Loue which creates the line of demarcation bet ...

Les Combinards (1966)

Léo and Claude, two penniless friends turned con artists, answer matrimonial classified ads to trap women. But one of the friends soon finds his own game turned against him. ...

La Queue du Diable (1965)

L'Or du duc (1965)

A young duke marries a girl, also penniless, and moves into a bus left him by an uncle, with their ten children. At last he finds the bus is made of solid gold. ...

Pas de caviar pour tante Olga (1965)

Rosa, a housekeeper in a NATO office in Paris, steals a micro film for her lover whom she hopes to marry. ...

Angelique: The Road to Versailles (1965)

Angelique is saved by the king of the cutthroats when she is endangered in the streets of Paris. After her hero is killed, she has many amorous affairs and becomes a successful businesswoman. ...

Le petit monstre (1965)

Robert's peaceful existence as a manufacturer of beauty creams is suddenly disrupted by the arrival of little Zizi, whose upbringing is entrusted to him in his will. ...

Les Mordus de Paris (1965)

Paris is a city where effervescence is dangerous for city dwellers, who have become nothing more than "nervous machines". Two eminent psychiatrists, one French and one American, decided to administer a sedative to all Parisians, proceeding by arrondissemen ...

X-Ray of a Killer (1965)

The murder of a bandit gives a policeman the opportunity to unmask the activities of a spy. ...

Le Majordome (1965)

Léopold, valet de chambre to the avocat général Maître de Royssac, starts studying the penal code and, during his leave, becomes a judge in a "middle" court. His decisions are recognized as final. Léopold falls in love with Agnès, engaged to the two- ...

That Tender Age (1964)

Antoine and Marie decided to introduce their parents before the wedding. Summer vacation looks like a good time, so the Lartigue family prepares to host Malhouin family. But it turns out that the harsh Emil Malhouin is not too happy to get acquainted with ...

The Great Spy Chase (1964)

A cold-war spy parody. After the death of an armaments manufacturer, an international group of spies is drawn into a high-stakes battle of wits to obtain the valuable military patents which have been inherited by the lovely widow. ...

Friends of the family (1964)

Leon Rollo whose nickname is "Patate" is an inventor adored by his wife and is daughter. He is mostly happy but his best friend Noël seems to succeed in everything he undertakes... Patate become increasingly jealous of this incredible luck. ...

Male Hunt (1964)

A few stories about marriage and its problems. Antoine is about to marry Gisèle. His friend Julien, an established bachelor, desperately tries to convince him not to do it, recounting his own painful experiences. ...

Clémentine chérie (1964)

Gaston Bellus, is the director of a textile house, and the research laboratory makes a sensational discovery: the elastic fabric. This new discovery is used to manufacture new modern stretchable bathing suits. His daughter Clementine, enters the beauty pa ...

Que personne ne sorte (1964)

Set between Christmas and New Year, the film told the story of six criminals who kidnap an ambassador's daughter and await the ransom; enter Monsieur Wens, who infiltrates their hideout using various comic disguises, bumps them off one by one and rescues t ...

L'assassin viendra ce soir (1964)

A woman's father, a scientist, receives repeated death threats and eventually ends up dead. Receiving no help from the police, the woman begins to realize that she is next. ...

Un coup dans l'aile (1963)

L'assassin connaît la musique (1963)

Lionel Fribourg, a great composer (at least that's what he thinks) has a problem with his noisy environment: he can't complete his unfinished symphony. Of course there is a market for unfinished symphonies but, for all he knows, only one became famous. So ...

Three Girls in Paris (1963)

Three girls in Paris is the story of three Danish girls (Ghita Nørby, Susse Wold and Hanne Borchsenius) traveling to Paris, but after having placed suitcase and money on the hotel and takes off in the city, they forget what it's called and where it is loc ...

The Reluctant Spy (1963)

Stanislas Dubois is the manager of a successful advertising agency. One day, he comes up against an imposing woman who foists on him a cumbersome painting by Cézanne. ...

Cadavres en vacances (1963)

The holidays at a pension in Touquet (North-Western France) are marred by a series of tragic disappearances. ...

Chaste Susan (1963)

The young wife of an officer who, in reality, has several lovers receives an award for virtue. ...

People in Luck (1963)

A light French comedy of 5 segments. ...

The Bamboo Stroke (1963)

Albert is the irremovable waiter in a small bistro that has just been sold by his former bosses, Angèle and Léon. Angèle, having forgotten the ten million paid by the notary in a cab, prefers to feign madness rather than incur her husband's wrath; but L ...

Règlements de compte (1963)

Bryant, an American, arrives at the Gare de Lyon after serving a sentence of hard labor at the Baumettes prison for stealing gems (which, incidentally, have not been found). He was immediately spotted and followed by individuals with knowledge of his past ...

Your Turn, Darling (1963)

In this French espionage thriller, Eddie again plays the role that made him a star, Lemmy Caution. Lots of two fisted action. ...

A Blonde Like That (1963)

Myra, daughter of the circus king, has been kidnapped in South America. Or so her father believes. In reality, Miss Shumway has escaped into the Indian jungle in the company of a conjurer. Millan, a mischievous and adventurous journalist, tracks down the y ...

How to Succeed in Love (1962)

Bernard, a young, serious publisher of religious books, finds himself embroiled in amusing and eventful adventures with Sophie, a wacky twist dancer. Having lost his own situation, he joins Editions du Soleil thanks to his friend Marcel's manuscript "Comme ...

The Iron Mask (1962)

The story of the Three Musketeers, D'Artagnan, and the imprisonment in an iron mask of the identical twin of the King of France, Louis XIV. ...

The Mysteries of Paris (1962)

The Marquis Rodolphe de Sombrueil accidentally runs over a working man with his carriage and helps his widow -- unjustly accused of robbery -- to find her missing daughter. ...

The Devil and the Ten Commandments (1962)

The film consists of seven roughly 15 minute episodes, each showing what will happen if one or more of the Ten Commandments will be broken: Jérome Chambard is warned that he will lose his job if he continues to swear; Françoise Beaufort enamored of a str ...

Snobs! (1962)

Four vice-presidents fight among themselves to reach the top post after the president dies. Their wives take part in the various schemes to downgrade the opposition by unorthodox means. ...

The Girls of La Rochelle (1962)

July 13, 1389. On the initiative of the Mayor, warned by a famous astrologer, the town of La Rochelle is getting ready - 400 years in advance! to celebrate the Fête Nationale with dignity! But the English, who already held almost every square in the Kingd ...

A Monkey in Winter (1962)

During World War II, an innkeeper vows to abstain from alcohol for the sake of his family. Years later, as they thrive in Normandy, his resolve is tested by a charming advertising professional who loves to drink. ...

Conduite à gauche (1962)

It all happens in a hospital waiting room. While his young wife has just had a serious accident and is undergoing surgery, the husband relives, in his memory, the reality of their near past, or what he would have liked his marital union to be. At the outse ...

Jusqu'à plus soif (1962)

A young teacher arrives in Normandy, where she intends to put an end to illegal alcohol trafficking and consumption. ...

Cartouche (1962)

In the 18th century, Louis de Bourguignon is working with the Malichot's gang, but their ways are too 'unethical' for him. He creates his own band, acting under the name of Cartouche, making audacious robberies of the rich people, and even distributing the ...

Assassin in the Phonebook (1962)

Fernandel plays Albert, the unhappy brunt of jokes by his fellow office-workers who goes from the frying pan into the fire. Albert gets caught up in a robbery that also goes from bad to worse when it leads to several murders. Although he is not a killer an ...

À rebrousse-poil (1961)

Two scientists have invented a kindness serum which can turn the fiercest human being into the sweetest kindest person. Testing the product on a wild lion proves successful. The "vaccination " becomes compulsory in the whole France, then in Europa. Mrs Dur ...

The Door Slams (1960)

Between a whimsical wife, two insolent girls, a son who is engaged in strange chemical experiments and a mother-in-law who is being courted by a rich English lord, André Costais, an intractable industrialist, is struggling to impose his authority on his f ...

Love and the Frenchwoman (1960)

The seven stages in the life of the modern Frenchwomen are disclosed by seven directors in a witty way: 1 - Childhood, 2 - Adolescence, 3 - Virginity, 4 - Marriage, 5 - Adultery, 6 - Divorce, 7 - The Single Woman. ...

Some Like It... Cold (1960)

The old Valmorin died 200 years ago. The notary tells the family about the inheritance: the one who is terminally ill will receive the money. They all try their luck with getting ill before the other so one family member pretends to be deaf, another preten ...

Marie of the Isles (1960)

In 1635, Jacques du Parquet, the nephew of the well known explorer Belain d'Esnambic, enters a tavern in Dieppe, and falls in love with the daughter of the bartender, Marie Bonnard. He knows his noble family would disapprove such a marriage; besides, he is ...

Come Dance with Me! (1959)

Handsome dentist Herve Dandieu, temporarily separated from his delectable new wife Virginie by a lovers' tiff, is picked up by sexy dance teacher Anita Flores. Sensing trouble, Virginie follows him, only to find him circumstantially incriminated in murder. ...

Atomic Agent (1959)

Murderous foreign agents are after a scientist who has invented an atomic engine that could change the future of rocketry. ...

Soupe au lait (1959)

Roland Lasserre is a shy boy, which would be nothing if he weren't also prone to the violent tantrums that have earned him his nickname "Soupe au lait". It's when Francine announces her engagement that he decides to declare his love for her. Francine is no ...

The Gendarme of Champignol (1959)

Claudius Binoche, brigadier de gendarmerie in Champignol, is about to marry Suzette, the post office maid, when she disappears, called to the village of Buzy by a mysterious telegram. The brigadier is transferred to Buzy to investigate, but Buzy is not Cha ...

Marie-Octobre (1959)

A group of ex-resistance fighters are brought together by Marie-Octobre, the code name of Marie-Helene Dumoulin. The former members of the network have carried on with their lives after the war, but this evening they are going to have to live again a fatef ...

The Magnificent Tramp (1959)

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

Women Are Weak (1959)

A playboy is pursued by three women seeking romance. ...

Houla-Houla (1959)

Fernand Martin, a schoolteacher in Nogent-le-Roi, is in love with Jacqueline, a postal worker and the older sister of one of his pupils. He asks for her hand in marriage, but her father refuses. One morning, he receives an appointment to Tahiti. ...

Follow Me Young Man (1958)

Françoise, a charming young saleswoman for a leading jeweller, is being courted in vain by a billionaire shipowner. He attributes her failure to the existence of a rival, and decides to have her followed by a private detective. Françoise, commissioned by ...

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 ...

A Dog, A Mouse and a Sputnik (1958)

A French animal lover protects a dog and a mouse wanted by Soviet scientists for their space program. ...

Why Women Sin (1958)

La moucharde stars Dany Carrel as a young miss who loves neither wisely nor well. Duped into a life of crime, Carrel remains on the wrong side of the Law because she's hopelessly in love with a two-bit crook. Soon she becomes as jaded and hardened as her c ...

Sacred Youth (1958)

Mr. Longué, aged 79, is offered a life annuity on his provincial estate by his nephew. He receives the same, but more advantageous, offer from his insurer, but Mr. Longué has decided to undergo a rejuvenation treatment in Switzerland, at Dr. Koranoff's e ...

La Parisienne (1957)

Brigitte, the beautiful daughter of the French premier, falls for one of her father's aides, the womanising Michel, and attempts to get him to settle down with her. However, as Michel can't curb his flirtations with other women, Brigitte makes a play to se ...

In Six Easy Lessons (1957)

A bossy count has trouble marrying off any of his six sons. When one of them, Adam, finally makes wedding arrangements, something happens to his bride to be: she develops amnesia after an accident. ...

White Smoke (1957)

Sophie Mallet is the lively manager of a detective agency, assisted by Emile Gachit, her conscientious but not very effective right-hand man. One day a fellow named David entrusts her a pack of cigarettes that she is supposed to hand over to a certain John ...

Sexpot (1957)

Coveted by many of the men around her, the sensual Nathalie is a magnet for passion. After many adventures and dramas, she will find the happiness she longs for. ...

Give Me My Chance (1957)

17 year-old small-town girl Nicole Noblet comes to Paris dreaming of becoming a world-famous actress. ...

This Pretty World (1957)

Pépito runs a gang of thugs with authority. He has a natural son, Gaston, a professor of literature in Aix-en-Provence, whom he has hardly ever seen. Gaston announces himself for Christmas, and Pépito decides to make him look good by moving into his head ...

On Foot, on Horse, and on Wheels (1957)

When he learns that his daughter is to be engaged to the son of a rich businessman, Leon Martin realizes that extreme measures are needed to create a good impression. ...

Quelle sacrée soirée (1957)

Jean Duclos has extraordinary adventures after taking the train and mistakenly taking the luggage of a young dancer, Lola Wanda. An oil tycoon appoints him as a proxy for his future company, and then he marries his beautiful cousin, Suzy. ...

La Peau de l'ours (1957)

A police commissioner lives with his two children, wife, mother-in-law and maid. But he discovers that he has been poisoned with arsenic, and that the culprit must be someone close to him. ...

A Night at the Moulin Rouge (1957)

An uncle in America wants to endow his nieces with a dowry, provided they succeed in making a name for themselves one night at the Moulin Rouge, where one of them is already performing. Everyone's pulling out all the stops to help the girls put on an act, ...

We at Champignol (1957)

A turf war between two French villages against a soccer backdrop... Claudius, goalkeeper for Fouzy's team, is traded for a cow and becomes Champignol's new goalkeeper. During the final, he is transformed by the appearance of the beautiful Solange. He wins ...

Mademoiselle and Her Gang (1957)

Author of the best-selling crime novel Le Poulet se mange froid (Chicken Eats Cold) under the pseudonym Sam O'Connor, Inspector Bourdieux's daughter, Agnès, is unwillingly drawn into the gangster ring by two small-minded young misfits, Dédé and Juju. Sh ...

The Crazy Hostel (1957)

As a favor to his grandmother, singer Rudy Hirigoyen agrees to sing incognito, under the name Romano, in the nightclub his cousin Gustave has just opened in a small seaside resort. The staff and musicians are students camping out in the pine forest near "L ...

Let's Be Daring, Madame (1957)

Two couples of friends who have arranged to meet in the woods get lost and find themselves in an embarrassing situation: the husband of one with the wife of the other? Each couple tries to get through this forced cohabitation honestly, but everything is tu ...

The Terror with Women (1956)

Aimé Morin, a good-natured bookseller, is also one of the candidates in the local elections of his small town. He is well-liked by most but he also has political enemies. Among them is Lagarde, a journalist close to the latter. Lagarde takes advantage of ...

Les Lumières du soir (1956)

A young opera dancer tries to help her mother financially by performing in a dubious cabaret. ...

Life is beautiful (1956)

Paris, 1956. Everything is going smoothly for Roger, married to Denise, and Paul, married to Monique, until the day they win a house in a radio contest. The difficulties of living together and the intrusion of their parents-in-law lead to a falling out. ...

Fernand cow-boy (1956)

Fernand has just inherited a saloon in Texas from an uncle in America. Despite his inheritance, he is considered an intruder. Soon he's the victim of a cruel plot: accused of murder, arrested and kidnapped by Indians and gangsters. A young, beautiful, pure ...

The Whole Town Accuses (1956)

François is the benefactor of the town; but later on, all the inhabitants turn against him. ...

Daddy's Gang (1956)

Shy, timorous bank clerk, Fernand Jérôme, prevents -unwillingly of course - a gang led by "Le Grand J" from robbing the "Crédit Populaire", where he works. Having become a hero out of the blue, this new status allows him to woo Renée, the daughter of c ...

We're Moving the Colonel (1955)

The dynamic Flora has decided to burglarize Colonel de la Ribodiere's apartment in the company of Romeo and Clotaire. The two men discover the old soldier lifeless on his bed. One after the other, the colonel's goddaughter Annette, the gendarmes and their ...

La Madelon (1955)

1914, a small village of the Marne. Charming and woken up, Madeleine, said the Madelon, who works in the coffee(café) of his father, Tourlourou, account of numerous pretenders. To the rich Antoine Pichot, she prefers corporal Beauguitte. When the war burs ...

Tant qu'il y aura des femmes (1955)

A man of of principle leads a double life: one for his mistress and one he takes home to his wife. ...

Nana (1955)

Nana or Nanà is a French-Italian film by Christian-Jaque starring Charles Boyer. It is an adaptation of Émile Zola's novel Nana. ...

Blackmail (1955)

An atmospheric tale about a national blackmail organization, where no one can be trusted. ...

Black Dossier (1955)

In the 1950s, in a small provincial town, a young inexperienced judge clashes with an influential notable during an investigation into a suspicious death. His perseverance to get to the truth will cause a huge scandal. ...

Napoleon (1955)

The film follows the life of Napoleon from his early life in Corsica to his death at Saint Helena. The film is notable for its use of location shooting for numerous scenes, especially at the French estates of Malmaison and Fontainebleau, the Palace of Vers ...

Diabolique (1955)

The cruel and abusive headmaster of a boarding school, Michel Delassalle, is murdered by an unlikely duo -- his meek wife and the mistress he brazenly flaunts. The women become increasingly unhinged by a series of odd occurrences after Delassalle's corpse ...

La Soupe à la grimace (1954)

Frank Keany is the chief engineer of a uranium mine located under the overwhelming sun of New Mexico and owned by a woman, Moira Warden. She suspects her ex-husband want to take possession of the mine. ...

Cadet Rousselle (1954)

The Adventures of Cadet Rousselle that on the French Revolution left his hometown in search of fortune. He thinks he knows love with Violeta, a dancer in a band of comedians but ends up involved in a monarchist plot. ...

Die... We'll Do the Rest (1954)

Unable to go to America where he dreamed of making his fortune, Ulysse Sylvain decided to apply the methods that had been successful across the Atlantic to his parents' village. He posed as a buisinessman, won the confidence of the notables and transformed ...

Madame du Barry (1954)

The daughter of a seamstress, Jeanne Bécu could hardly imagine she would later become one of the most influential women of the Kingdom of France... ...

The Sheep Has Five Legs (1954)

A publicity-minded French mayor reunites quintuplets and their earthy father, all six played by Fernandel. ...

It's the Paris Life (1954)

In 1906, Viscount Paul de Barfleur fell in love with Cri-Cri delagrange, a singer at the cabaret "La vie parisienne". But the young man's father separated the lovers, who then married, each on his own... Forty-seven years later, in 1953, Cri-Cri and Paul's ...

The Secret of Helene Marimon (1954)

At the end of the Great War, the wounded Jacques Taillandier is cared for by the beautiful Hélène Marimon and becomes her lover. He hides from her the fact that her husband is a comrade from the trenches, and only reveals the truth when he learns of Mari ...

Sidi-Bel-Abbès (1954)

Alain, a doctor, has had his life turned upside down by a family tragedy. To forget, Alain joins the Foreign Legion. With the support of his captain, he wins the trust of the caïd Ben Hadj, heals and saves the latter's son, and falls in love with Kadidja, ...

The Count of Monte Cristo (1954)

Young sailor Edmond Dantès is wrongfully imprisoned, escapes, finds treasure, and reinvents himself as the wealthy Count of Monte Cristo to exact revenge on those who betrayed him. ...

My Brother from Senegal (1953)

Jules Pinson, photographer in a small provincial village is in love with Annette, the daughter of the grocer. She 's dreaming only heros of adventure movies, so Jules invents a twin brother, Caesar, hunter of lions in Senegal ... ...

Illicit Motherhood (1953)

A group of drifting youngsters train to commit petty thefts. A certain André puts them on the trail of a real hold-up. They might carry it out if a suicide attempt didn't stop them. A young woman throws herself into the river. They save her, comfort her, ...

Inside a Girls' Dormitory (1953)

In a little town with a renowned college a female student is found after she was hogtied and strangled to death. Inspector Marco is assigned to catch the murderer. ...

Captain Slipper (1953)

A bank clerk is bored to death with his nine-to-five work under his boss ' watchful eye. His missus is a pain in the neck and his in-laws are not better. ...

Companions of the Night (1953)

Three events that seemingly nothing related, namely the murder of a truck driver, the discovery of the corpse of a vitriolic young woman, and the death of another who was crushed, will launch the Inspector Maréchal on the trail of a prostitution network. ...

Les détectives du dimanche (1953)

Two state employees, Molot and Maurent, are very fond of detective stories. They open a private eyes agency, which only opens on Sundays. But the clients are rare, and some kind of Arsène Lupin steals their savings. They set out to track so called suspect ...

Deux de l'escadrille (1953)

During the Second World War, midshipman Dourdan, nicknamed 'Saucisse', distinguished himself by his clumsiness and his blunders. Charged with Lieutenant Goldfinch to convey an aircraft to Marrakech, he shot down an American bomber on the way, mistaken for ...

She and Me (1952)

You never can tell. Jean had always been one of the most confirmed bachelors that kept swearing to anyone that would listen he would never put a ring on a female finger. But that was before he met Juliette, a capricious but irresistibly lovely young woman. ...

Crimson Curtain (1952)

Bertal, a despotic and hated theater director, is assassinated before a performance of Macbeth in which he was to play with Aurélia Nobli, his companion and Ludovic Arn, her lover. The police arrive on the scene and the investigation begins. Suspicion fir ...

Crazy for Love (1952)

To inherit his uncle's hotel and restaurant, a naive and simple man must pass his primary school exam. ...

The Death Agony of the Eagles (1952)

A woman avenging the death of her lover thwarts a conspiracy plotted by a group of former compatriots of Napoleon. ...

Cent ans de gloire (1952)

A fictionalized military documentary. ...

Fan-Fan the Tulip (1952)

Fanfan is a young handsome peasant. He joins the army to escape marriage because a gypsy girl predicted he will get glory and the king's daughter as a wife. But the gypsy girl was in fact Adeline, the daughter of the recruiting officer. Once he has discove ...

My Wife Is Formidable (1951)

Raymond Corbier, a sculptor, has a wonderful wife, Sylvia, whom he adores. To save a passionate admirer who simulates suicide because she does not respond to her advances, Sylvia, an irreproachable wife, is forced to lie for the first time to Raymond. ...

No Vacation for Mr. Mayor (1951)

Annie, the ward of Monsieur Joachim, a nightclub manager, has fallen in love with Philippe Lebon, a singer who could easily re-float her guardian's failing business. The trouble is that Joachim has already - and hurriedly - betrothed Annie to his business ...

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 ...

The Prettiest Sin in the World (1951)

Zoé, a pretty penniless girl, decides on the advice of her neighbor to embark on gallantry. After a brief failure, she meets a young boy, Jacques Lebreton who is about to get married. After causing the failure of this arranged marriage, she will have to p ...

The Passerby (1951)

A woman who has a terrible secret to conceal takes refuge on a barge. ...

El sueño de Andalucía (1951)

Juanillo is in love with Dolores, the daughter of the owner of an inn. He likes to sing, she likes dancing. After the village festivals, where Juanillo has acted as a bullfighter and Dolores has performed, he has been hired as bullfighter for a tour in Ame ...

Andalusia (1951)

Having fallen out with his girlfriend Dolorès, Juanito leaves for Mexico, where he becomes a famous matador.There he meets a Viennese singer, Fanny Miller, who falls for him so much so that she intercepts the letters Dolorès keeps on sending him. In desp ...

Beware of Blondes (1950)

Back from a stay in the Far East, a woman who knew the names of the chiefs of a drug ring is murdered. Georges Masse, the famous reporter, decides to investigate, accompanied by his faithful photographer P'tit Louis. He will come across some unappetizing c ...

Justice Is Done (1950)

Elsa Lundenstein is accused of having murdered her lover. The jury discusses the case vividly. All members are somehow prejudiced because of personal life experience and subsequently each member reads something different into the presented facts. ...

Les femmes sont folles (1950)

Marguerite secretly loves a novelist whose face no one knows. The jealous husband sets up a scheme by asking an actor friend to play the novelist and behave in an execrable way in order to disgust his wife. But things never turn out the way you think they ...

Adémaï at the border post (1950)

The peasant Adémaï, returning home, gets lost in the forest and knocks down a border post. In his haste to replant it, he installs it upside down. ...

Véronique (1950)

The king orders viscount Florestan to take mademoiselle de Solanges for his wife. But the viscount doesn't know the young lady at all. The latter decides to seduce her future husband by introducing herself to him with the name Veronique... ...

Cage of Girls (1949)

Micheline, who fled to Paris with the man she is in love with, finds herself on her own when he abandons her. She lands in a reformatory from which she manages to escape. ...

Return to Life (1949)

In France in 1946, the difficult return to civilian life of five deportees and prisoners of war after having lived through the hell of the Second World War. ...

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. ...

Du Guesclin (1949)

A chronicle of the life of Bertrand du Guesclin, grand officer of the French army in the 14th century. ...

Cruise for the Unknown One (1948)

Kohlman, the attorney for the Fournil bank, diverts money from the institution. To hide his malpractices, he imagines to remove the director, the young and overconfident Clement Fournil, during a cruise at sea on the yacht Emile Frechisse. ...

The Lost Village (1947)

In the peaceful alpine village of Granges-de-Mortes, a tragedy has just taken place: Gustave Boeuf, the local Casanova, has mysteriously died at the foot of a wayside cross. Shortly afterwards, a peasant, who is suspected of having murdered him, hangs hims ...

Antoine & Antoinette (1947)

1947, in France, Antoine and Antoinette, a young couple living in Paris, lead a monotonous existence: he works in a print shop while she is a shop assistant. But one evening, they regain hope: Antoine finds a winning lottery ticket in his girlfriend's hand ...

Last Refuge (1947)

Philippe and Sylvie have to do with Alvarez, a dangerous gang leader. They break up with him and commit robbery and murder. Sylvie suggests that Philippe take refuge in his quiet family. His younger sister Antoinette attracts and charms Philippe and excite ...

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 ...

Le destin s'amuse (1946)

A guardian, abusing his prerogatives, imposes on a young girl the husband he has chosen for her. On the very day of the wedding ceremony, the bride fled. She is picked up on the road by four bandits who are going on a business expedition. After many advent ...

The Sea Rose (1946)

Jérôme owns a boat with his crook of an uncle, La Rose de la Mer. They sail with a band of crooks hired by the uncle to scuttle the ship and collect the insurance premium. ...

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? ...

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 ...

The Last Penny (1946)

Pierre risks being taken advantage of by an agency that sets up financial scams, he escapes thanks to Marcelle, the secretary of the director of the agency, who is a childhood friend. She does her best to keep the young man away from the scams of his boss. ...

Ils étaient cinq permissionnaires (1945)

Four French conscripts are going to go on leave with their godmother, in Provence, in the company of a comrade from the British army. But, in the absence of the godmother, the five leavers end up at a mineral water merchant. ...

Life of Pleasure (1944)

An aristocrat instigates divorce proceedings against his son-in-law, a commoner and the ex-owner of night club "La Vie de Plaisir". ...

Pierre and Jean (1943)

Alice, an unhappy young woman in the household, is the mother of a little boy, Pierre. She falls in love with a young doctor and plans to run away with him and his son. Finally, not considering the right to deprive Pierre of his father, she gives up. Twent ...

Le Corbeau (1943)

Remy Germain is a doctor in a French town who becomes the focus of a vicious smear campaign, as letters accusing him of having an affair and performing unlawful abortions are mailed to village leaders. The mysterious writer, who signs each letter as "Le Co ...

Vingt-cinq ans de bonheur (1943)

Comedy about an older man wanting to marry a younger woman who must make sure first that the woman is not by chance his own daughter. ...

Carnival of Sinners (1943)

A struggling artist buys a talisman that gives him love, fame and wealth. The talisman is a severed left hand, and it works perfectly, in fact, magically. But of course there is nothing free in this world, and after one year the devil comes and asks for hi ...

Picpus (1943)

Picpus is a street and a subway stop where a number of murders have been committed. Maigret tries to find the killer. ...

The Blue Veil (1942)

In 1914, in the first months of World War I, Louise Jarraud loses her husband, killed on the front. Shortly after, she gives birth to a baby, who soon dies. Devastated by this double misfortune, Louise decides to dedicate her life to caring for the childre ...

Mlle. Desiree (1942)

Julie and Désirée Clary are courted by the brothers Joseph and Napoleon Bonaparte. Joseph marries Julie and Napoleon is affianced to Désirée. When Napoleon breaks the engagement and marries Joséphine de Beauharnais, Désirée becomes involved with Gen ...

The Trump Card (1942)

A man is shot In the hotel of an imaginary South American country. Clarence and Montès, two inspector students, must solve this murder, but they don't know that dead guy is the USA public enemy No.1. ...

The Murderer Lives at Number 21 (1942)

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

The Newspaper Falls at Five O'Clock (1942)

The everyday life and activity of "La Dernière Heure", a major evening newspaper, seen through the eyes of Hélène Perrin, a cub reporter trained by Pierre Rabaud, a star in his field. Side by side they will investigate several events: an air show that e ...

Strangers in the House (1942)

Loursat, a lawyer, lives with his daughter Nicole in a sinister and vast bourgeois residence. Abandoned for nearly twenty years by his wife, the brilliant lawyer has sunk into alcoholism and his relationship with his daughter is virtually non-existent. How ...

La Symphonie fantastique (1942)

The film is biographical, telling the story of the life and artistic struggles of the French composer Hector Berlioz. Berlioz is shown as a recalcitrant medical student in an anatomy class dreaming of becoming a composer; at a demonstration during a perfor ...

Miss Bonaparte (1942)

Cora Pearl, a demi-mondaine under the Second Empire, falls in love with a legitimist while she is the mistress of Jérôme Bonaparte, the cousin of Napoleon III. ...

Parade in 7 Nights (1941)

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

The Musicians of the Sky (1940)

A would be blind hoodlum redeems himself in the Salvation Army just for a lovely lieutenant. ...

Paris - New-York (1940)

The forbidden romance between wealthy Giselle Preville and impoverished journalist Claude Dauphin. When Preville disappears, Dauphin is accused of kidnapping by the girl's snobbish father Rene Alexander. By the time the Normandie reaches New York, however, ...

Sing Anyway (1940)

Sergeant Jacques Destranges randomly finds a little friend from the summer. She runs an inn where the company finds good wine and songs. Jacques makes plans for the future with her while his companions relive their peacetime memories. ...

Maxim's Porter (1939)

The hunter at Maxim's, whose family is unaware of the profession, turns around and plans to marry his daughter to a marquis when he recognizes a regular in this nobility. Everyone meets at Maxim's where, unmasked, the hunter agrees to marry his daughter to ...

La Belle Revanche (1939)

A painter who has led a free and independent life meets true love. A jealous former lover intervenes to prevent her from being happy and succeeds in driving away the one she loves. The young woman regains a taste for life thanks to her work and her friends ...

The Mayor's Dilemma (1939)

At the beginning of World War I in a village in the country of La Marne, two families are against the marriage of their children. The war changes the positions. ...

Three Waltzes (1938)

"Les Trois Valses" traces the love story of two people over three eras. In the first waltz (music based on Johann Strauss I), Yvonne is a sensitive Parisian ballet dancer, whose romance with a dashing officer is brought to an abrupt end by his family. She ...

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. ...

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 ...

Barnabé (1938)

Barnabé, an occasional flutist, goes to Mme Petit-Durand to organize her daughter's 20 years. But he is confused with the Count of Marengo whom Mme Petit-Durand wants to give as husband to her daughter, who has already made her choice. ...

Miarka (1937)

Cattion d'Urville takes in a gypsy, Sarah, and her granddaughter Miarka, in an outbuilding of her chateau. Miarka, while growing up, attracts the attention of Luigi, Cattion's nephew who, little by little, falls in love with her. Sarah raised her daughter ...

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. ...

The Great Temptation (1936)

The son of a naval commander faces his first heartbreak when he falls for the young American woman who is destined to become his father's new wife. ...

The Land That Dies (1936)

In Vendée, an old farmer is gradually abandoned by his family who do not see their future in the fields. Only a cripple in love and abandoned remain at his side. ...

La Bandera (1935)

Pierre Gilieth has committed a murder in Paris. He flees to Barcelona, where he runs out of money. So he joins the Spanish Foreign Legion. He meets there two fellow countrymen, Mulot and Lucas. He tries to forget his fault... but Lucas's friendship soon ap ...

Cartouche (1934)

In 1721, at the end of his career as a bandit, Cartouche, touched by the grace of an honest young girl, and falling into the hands of justice under the charge of the father of his beloved, asks as a last resort, that the young girl may, before her executio ...