Philippe Richard

Danger in the Middle East (1960)

A criminal making plans to pull off one big score before he retires, comes into possession of secret papers worth a fortune, but dies while attempting the hit. His wife takes those papers for herself, while discovering there are rival criminals, a powerful ...

Les Lumières du soir (1956)

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

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 Cage aux souris (1954)

During the Occupation, a boarding school in Moulins was placed under the rule of a headmistress committed to collaboration. It is within these walls that Michel, Arthur and Franck, escaped prisoners seeking to cross the demarcation line, find themselves st ...

The Sheep Has Five Legs (1954)

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

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, ...

Royal Affairs in Versailles (1953)

Witty narration follows the history of Versailles Palace; founded by Louis XIII, enlarged by autocratic Louis XIV, whose personal affairs and amours, and those of his two successors, are followed in more detail to the start of the Revolution, after which t ...

When You Read This Letter (1953)

After a novice nun learns of the sudden death of her parents, she leaves the convent to manage the family business and look after her teenage sister. Both of them fall prey to a womanizing mechanic with psychopathic tendencies. ...

Koenigsmark (1953)

A young French, Vignerte, is hired in the court of Lautenberg, an imaginary land, as the young Prince's private teacher and as the Grand Duchess' reader. ...

The Call of Destiny (1953)

Young conductor Roberto Lombardini has never known his father who is actually a former musician, a failed piano player who has sunk into alcoholism. ...

The Happiest of Men (1952)

An industrialist who prefers painting to business is cheated on by his wife with a painter who prefers business to painting. ...

Beauties of the Night (1952)

A daydreaming French composer sees himself as a fine figure dashing through history. ...

The Seven Deadly Sins (1952)

A compilation of segments covers the seven deadly sins of greed, wrath, envy, pride, lust, sloth, and gluttony. ...

Heart of the Casbah (1952)

Maria-Pilar is the new wife of an Algerian gangster whom the police have just arrested. The son of a first marriage arrives in Algiers from which he has remained far away for a long time. His stepmother, charmed by the teenager, gradually experiences a dev ...

Robinson Crusoeland (1951)

Stan and Ollie are marooned on an island in the south pacific ocean. ...

The Night Is My Kingdom (1951)

After an accident, Raymond has gone blind. His family treats him like a child, but fortunately a nun comes to his rescue. She works in a center where blind people learn to read using the Braille alphabet. ...

Le clochard milliardaire (1951)

Olivier Cabrol is an immature young reveler who lives from hand to mouth. One day he inherits a fabulous fortune from an eccentric uncle. But on the one condition to spend a certain amount of time as a tramp. Olivier accepts out of sheer greed but soon fin ...

Cherished by her concierge (1951)

Eugène, who works for Radio-Europe, is a bit dim-witted. He lives in a block of flats whose caretaker is Madame Motte, and the lady is in love with the young man. Just for laughs, Eugène's friends circulate on the air the rumor that Eugène has inherited ...

Les Aventuriers de l'air (1950)

A pilot, hero of the war, finds himself implicated in spite of himself in a traffic. He is wanted by the police, but his former companions and an air hostess will help him prove his innocence. ...

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... ...

A Night at a Honeymoon (1950)

Gaston wants more than anything to marry the naive Simone. But where he is, there is Sidonie, a local singer romantically pursued by the police commissionaire. ...

Piège à hommes (1949)

A gangster, arrested by the police, manages to escape during his transfer to Paris. He takes refuge in the suburbs where his accomplices and his mistress await him. ...

The Woman I Murdered (1948)

During a singles meal, the phone rings. A woman claims a man, Jean-Louis. As a joke, the master of the house replies that he is gone forever and advises him to take the plunge. But she obeys and the suicide appears in the newspapers. Tested, the master of ...

The Devil Who Limped (1948)

The film is a 125-minute, black-and-white biography of French priest and diplomat Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (1754–1838), who served for 50 years under five different French regimes: the Absolute Monarchy, the Revolution, the Consulate, the ...

Triple enquête (1948)

Commissioner Thomas simultaneously investigates the actions of an oil company, a theft and an assassination, and the kidnapping of a child with look-alikes. ...

Mandrin (2ème époque) La Tragédie d'un siècle (1948)

Around 1750, in the Dauphiné not far from the Swiss border, a cooper, tired of the injustices affecting the peasants crushed by taxes, went into revolt. Louis Mandrin, a handsome fellow without fear and without reproach, puts himself out of the law by ref ...

Mandrin (1ère époque) Le libérateur (1947)

Around 1750, in the Dauphiné not far from the Swiss border, a cooper, tired of the injustices affecting the peasants crushed by taxes, went into revolt. Louis Mandrin, a handsome fellow without fear and without reproach, puts himself out of the law by ref ...

L'Homme de la nuit (1947)

A detective uncovers a crime. The suspects are numerous and it will take all the insight of a journalist to discover the culprit. ...

La Grande Marnière (1945)

A rich peasant, Carvajan, seeks revenge on the castellan, Clairefont, with whom he had a serious conflict. Their respective children, Antoinette and Pascal, meet and fall in love with each other. Robert de Clairefont, Antoinette's brother, unjustly accused ...

Vie privée (1942)

Beautiful and adored by the public, the great actress Florence once faulted with Remi, a disreputable individual. A little girl was born who lives in the countryside. Dorcier, the director, would like to marry Florence and wonders about her private life an ...

The Law of Spring (1942)

The children born from a first marriage of a widower and a widower who have remarried do not get along. Frequent quarrels break out in the household which finally finds calm thanks to the presence of a new little girl. ...

Wicked Duchess (1942)

Edwige Feuillère and Pierre Richard-Willm star in director Jacques de Baroncelli's adaptation of the Balzac novella The Duchesse de Langeais, which tells the tale of a Parisian socialite who is romantically pursued by a Napoleonic war hero. With a screenp ...

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 ...

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 ...

Monsieur Hector (1940)

In a palace in Nice, a modest valet is confused with his master, a viscount chased by a man-eater. ...

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, ...

Schubert's Serenade (1940)

Serenade represented the return to the screen of international favorite Lillian Harvey after an absence of two years. Based loosely on the life of composer Franz Schubert, the film casts Bernard Lancret as Schubert, Harvey as his dancer sweetheart, and Lou ...

The Emigrant (1940)

Fearing a gangster's vengeance,his moll sails away to South Africa ,where many emigrants intend to work in the mines there. ...

From Mayerling to Sarajevo (1940)

Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, is kept absent from the royal court due to his dangerous political ideas. Sent on a tour of inspections and inaugurations, he falls in love with Countess Sophie Chotek. ...

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 ...

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. ...

Savage Brigade (1939)

The duel between a Czarist general and a lieutenant, over the general's wife, is postponed with war approaching. Years later, the rivals meet again but the general realizes his wife has been faithful to him after all. ...

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 ...

Le Prince Bouboule (1939)

Bouboule is a taxi driver. A Russian princess wishing to acquire French nationality offers to marry her to divorce a few months later. After incredible adventures, Bouboule manages to save the inheritance of his wife, divorces and finds his sweet Lucette. ...

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. ...

The Novel of Werther (1938)

Herr Werther, a new magistrate to the Grand Duchy of Walheim who is a violinist and poet, seems to have fate on his side as he meets and pursues a beautiful local woman, Charlotte. But as Werther sets to propose marriage, Charlotte reluctantly tells him sh ...

Let’s Go Up the Champs-Élysées (1938)

The history of one of France's most famous streets is retold, featuring multiple performances from Guitry himself. ...

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 ...

Eau vive (1938)

The inhabitants of a poor village want to sell their houses and their land. One day, a woman breaks down in her car while crossing the village. ...

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'Ange que j'ai vendu (1938)

Baronski has had enough of being a small-time merchant and decides, aided by his daughter Esther, to try his hand at big business. Why not be a film producer for instance? But it is easier said than done and he is soon relieved of 100,000 francs by a crook ...

Gibraltar (1938)

A British officer poses as a traitor in order to infiltrate a team of terrorists who are sabotaging ships, while a seductive cabaret dancer is working for the mysterious genius who runs the enemy spy ring. ...

The West (1938)

The film portrays the relationship between a female Moroccan student, who has been forced to leave her studies at the Sorbonne for financial reasons and works as a dancer in a Paris nightclub, and a French naval officer. However, on returning to Casablanca ...

The Woman at the End of the World (1938)

A sailor falls in love with an innkeeper on a lost island. ...

Alibi (1937)

Paris, 1937. Winckler kills his enemy Gordon, a Chicago mobster, from the stage of a Parisian music hall, where he performs telepathy. He pays another artist, Helene, so that she tells the police they've spent the night together, which doesn't fool Callas, ...

Le Club des Aristocrates (1937)

Serge loves living it up but painting the town red has a price... too high for him! What to do then? Alfred, his servant and former pickpocket, has the solution : steal of course! No sooner said than done ! Or rather: No sooner said than tried... For when ...

Yoshiwara (1937)

Based on a novel by Maurice Dekobra, the film is set in Yoshiwara, the red-light district of Tokyo, in the nineteenth century. It depicts a love triangle between a high-class prostitute, a Russian naval officer, and a rickshaw man. ...

The Citadel of Silence (1937)

During the students ' rebellion against Nicholas the Second in Russia, Viana tries to kill the governor but it's her lover who is arrested and sent to a sinister fortress : hence the title. To help the prisoner,Vania marries the officer who commands the pl ...

Social Police (1937)

For years now, Chief inspector Gustave Picard has been trying to bring down Salviati, the dreadful leader of a drug-selling gang. Lucienne Préville, an informer who works for him, has infiltrated the gang but her position is dangerous. On the other hand, ...

Pépé le Moko (1937)

Pépé le Moko, one of France's most wanted criminals, hides out in the Casbah section of Algiers. He knows police will be waiting for him if he tries to leave the city. When Pépé meets Gaby, a gorgeous woman from Paris who is lost in the Casbah, he fall ...

The Life and Loves of Beethoven (1937)

Lyrical biography of the classical composer, depicted as a romantic hero, an accursed artist. ...

Nitchevo (1936)

A commander suspects his wife of infidelity, when she turns to a subordinate officer to help her against someone threatening to blackmail her about her troubled past. ...

Port Arthur (1936)

French-language version of Port Arthur (1936), a German language film (q.v.) co-produced by German, French and Czechoslovakian film interests. About espionage, action and romance in the Russo-Japanese War, as the conflict threatens Russian naval officer Bo ...

In the Service of the Tsar (1936)

At the turn of the last century, a beautiful spy takes advantage of a handsome officer to get across the Russian border without her passport. They fall in love. But the Grand Duke also falls in love with the young woman, who has in fact been assigned to ki ...

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 ...

Mister Flow (1936)

While still behind bars, a crook manages several schemes including one that almost gets his penniless young lawyer into trouble.The crook's mistress, married to a rich man, then becomes attracted to the lawyer. ...

L'Argent (1936)

Ruined by his competitor, the banker Saccard decides to set up a new business. ...

Sous la Terreur (1936)

During the French Revolution in 1793, a member of the Convention, seduced by the Comtesse de Beaulieu, helps her to discover the truth about the relationship between Agnès de Fitz-James and the count who was guillotined. ...

Gypsy Baron (1935)

An Hungarian young man hides his real identity as baron Barinkay until he returns to his birthplace and claims the family properties, now occupied by a clumsy pig dealer who has a beautiful daughter. The gypsy girl is not bad looking either, and the gypsie ...

Barcarolle (1935)

Turandot, princesse de Chine (1935)

La Cinquième Empreinte (1934)

Jacques de Nisson, a rich man, has a new mistress, Lucie Cavelier. Which does not prevent him from courting Florence, the wife of his lawyer friend Forestier. One day, Jacques is found murdered and chief-inspector Candély is sent on the spot to investigat ...

Le Scandale (1934)

A woman suffers ill repute when she deserts her husband for a fling with an adventurer and gives the lover jewelry to pay the hotel bill. Will the husband be understanding and forgive her? ...

L'Agonie des aigles (1933)

Under the regime of Louis XVIII. Years after Waterloo, Napoleon's loyal officers live in retirement on half-pay. Useless and idle, they have lost their prestige and keep meeting in the hope of the Emperor's return. When Napoleon dies, they decide to plot t ...

La merveilleuse tragédie de Lourdes (1933)

A professor of philosophy, an atheist, converts to Catholicism following a miracle: his daughter, whose leg must be amputated, is taken to Lourdes by her very religious fiancé, and is cured there. ...

The Accomplice (1933)

A young woman loves a thief and follows him in all his bad tricks. Tired of this life, she leaves him the day she meets a young man with whom she falls in love. But she learns that he is a policeman and desperate, tries to commit suicide. ...

Les Amours de Pergolese (1933)

In Italy, in 1736, Pergolese is in love with Maria. But Maria's brother, Count Raniero, forbids his sister to marry a modest composer. Pergolese kidnaps the young girl, but they are caught. Maria is locked up in her castle while Pergolese dies in the conve ...

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...! ...

Fantômas (1932)

The Marquise de Langrune invites her friends at her castle in Beaulieu. Among them is Lord Beltham who also came to bring her a significant sum of money. The mysterious Fantômas kills the Marquise during the night. Inspector Juve is sent on his trail. ...

Les Nous Ç Nous - Le Meilleur des Nous Ç Nous (2005)

Nearly two hours of biting sketches: fake news reports, TV show parodies... You'll also find cult characters such as Michaël d'Amour, Françoise Moisie... and of course three sketches with Brice de Nice, a brand new sketch from Nous Ç Nous, and a blooper ...