Marc Allégret

Nobles try desperately to cling to the crumbling aristocracy in the days following World War I. The Count (Jean-Claude Brialy) and his Countess Mahe (Sylvia Fennec) delight in throwing lavish costume balls. The couple develops a friendship with a young boy who delights in the parties thrown by the noble couple. Love soon blooms between the Countess and the boy as she searches for something more than a string of endless parties and social affairs. The masquerades are an attempt to freeze time and hold on to the nostalgia of a bygone era. For fear of losing her, the Count allows the Countess to continue her love affair.

Nobles try desperately to cling to the crumbling aristocracy in the days following World War I. The Count (Jean-Claude Brialy) and his Countess Mahe (Sylvia Fennec) delight in throwing lavish costume balls. The couple develops a friendship with a young boy who delights in the parties thrown by the noble couple. Love soon blooms between the Countess and the boy as she searches for something more than a string of endless parties and social affairs. The masquerades are an attempt to freeze time and hold on to the nostalgia of a bygone era. For fear of losing her, the Count allows the Countess to continue her love affair.

About the Lumière brothers

This drama's main asset is Charles Boyer as Pierre, a father out looking for his son one night. Pierre receives a call from a woman who says she will kill herself because of his son. Naturally disturbed at this news, Pierre takes off to find his son and avert disaster. Along the way, he picks up a malcontent, wealthy young woman who decides to stick with him and help him look for his son. After traveling through some of the worst aspects of Paris' demi-monde, Pierre begins to wonder if his son will ever be found. Meanwhile, the relationship with his newfound wealthy friend is heating up.

The spirit of a vengeful female vampire is released from her grave and possesses a wealthy young woman of nobility, who preys on other women in her village.

Jean es diseñador en una agencia publicitaria y se vuelca totalmente en su trabajo para intentar olvidar a su mujer, que le abandonó cinco años atrás. Casualmente un día la encuentra en el autobús y descubre que todavía le gusta y que él también ejerce atractivo sobre ella. Los sentimientos de Jean serán entonces contradictorios, por una lado querría matarla y por otro volver a conquistarla.

A beautiful 18-year-old orphan escapes from a reformatory and hooks up with a gang of jewel smugglers, and decides on a life of crime. However, she falls for and marries a policeman, putting a crimp in her criminal career.

A beautiful 18-year-old orphan escapes from a reformatory and hooks up with a gang of jewel smugglers, and decides on a life of crime. However, she falls for and marries a policeman, putting a crimp in her criminal career.

Cuando el muy respetable General Dumont descubre que su hija Agnes es "AD", autora de una novela escandalosa de venta libre, quiere que sea enviada a un convento, pero ella se escapa a París y planea vivir con su hermano, aparentemente un artista rico pero en realidad un mal guía en el Museo de Balzac. Este malentendido la pone en serios problemas, y Agnes se encuentra en la necesidad inmediata de dinero. Sólo la cantidad ofrecida como premio en un concurso de strip-tease de aficionados, que su nuevo novio, el reportero Daniel, está cubriendo para su revista, la podría ayudar.

Cuando el muy respetable General Dumont descubre que su hija Agnes es "AD", autora de una novela escandalosa de venta libre, quiere que sea enviada a un convento, pero ella se escapa a París y planea vivir con su hermano, aparentemente un artista rico pero en realidad un mal guía en el Museo de Balzac. Este malentendido la pone en serios problemas, y Agnes se encuentra en la necesidad inmediata de dinero. Sólo la cantidad ofrecida como premio en un concurso de strip-tease de aficionados, que su nuevo novio, el reportero Daniel, está cubriendo para su revista, la podría ayudar.

Cuando Sir Clifford Chatterley regresó de la II Guerra Mundial, lo hizo invalidado a causa de las graves heridas que sufrió. Esta discapacidad hace que con el tiempo sienta cierta carga de culpabilidad respecto a su esposa, quien, puesto su imposiblidad, no puede disfrutar de los goces del cuerpo. Es por ello que le sugiere que debe buscar a un amante provisional para satisfacer sus necesidades. Constante sigue amando a su marido y no se atreve a aceptar esa libertad que generosamente él le ha concedido. Hasta que un día conoce al nuevo guardabosques de la finca, un hombre llamado Oliver Mellors, cuyo atractivo físico le conducirá a dejarse llevar e iniciar una aventura extramatrimonial.

Cuando Sir Clifford Chatterley regresó de la II Guerra Mundial, lo hizo invalidado a causa de las graves heridas que sufrió. Esta discapacidad hace que con el tiempo sienta cierta carga de culpabilidad respecto a su esposa, quien, puesto su imposiblidad, no puede disfrutar de los goces del cuerpo. Es por ello que le sugiere que debe buscar a un amante provisional para satisfacer sus necesidades. Constante sigue amando a su marido y no se atreve a aceptar esa libertad que generosamente él le ha concedido. Hasta que un día conoce al nuevo guardabosques de la finca, un hombre llamado Oliver Mellors, cuyo atractivo físico le conducirá a dejarse llevar e iniciar una aventura extramatrimonial.

Todas las alumnas del Conservatorio de Viena están enamoradas de su apuesto profesor de canto, Éric. Separado de su esposa una temporada, toma como amante a una joven alumna. Una compañera de ésta intenta, por desesperación, suicidarse. Cuando Éric vuelve con su esposa, su ex amante se dedica en cuerpo y alma al canto, con el fin de triunfar y ser la mejor.

Todas las alumnas del Conservatorio de Viena están enamoradas de su apuesto profesor de canto, Éric. Separado de su esposa una temporada, toma como amante a una joven alumna. Una compañera de ésta intenta, por desesperación, suicidarse. Cuando Éric vuelve con su esposa, su ex amante se dedica en cuerpo y alma al canto, con el fin de triunfar y ser la mejor.

Todas las alumnas del Conservatorio de Viena están enamoradas de su apuesto profesor de canto, Éric. Separado de su esposa una temporada, toma como amante a una joven alumna. Una compañera de ésta intenta, por desesperación, suicidarse. Cuando Éric vuelve con su esposa, su ex amante se dedica en cuerpo y alma al canto, con el fin de triunfar y ser la mejor.

Hedy Winsor recibe una invitación para asistir a un baile de disfraces y se le presenta el dilema de elegir entre tres mujeres: Genoveva de Brabante, Josefina de Beauharnais o Helena de Troya. En su imaginación recrea los episodios más característicos de sus vidas, pero finalmente decide que debe acudir con su propia y exclusiva personalidad.

Liala es la primera actriz de una compañía de cómicos de la legua. De ella dependen los ingresos del grupo. Al final, sacrificará su amor por el futuro de sus amigos.

Hedy Winsor recibe una invitación para asistir a un baile de disfraces y se le presenta el dilema de elegir entre tres mujeres: Genoveva de Brabante, Josefina de Beauharnais o Helena de Troya. En su imaginación recrea los episodios más característicos de sus vidas, pero finalmente decide que debe acudir con su propia y exclusiva personalidad.

Julietta is a French comedy comedy romance film from 1953, directed by Marc Allégret, written by Françoise Giroud, starring Dany Robin and Jean Marais. Film was based on a novel of Louise de Vilmorin.

Rosette is young and charming but she is crippled so she cannot make the most of her life. Which upsets Jules Petitpas, a single inventor, her eccentric but kind-hearted neighbor. Jules pledges to help her by creating a potion that will cure her. Unfortunately he dies before being able to achieve his aim. But a promise is a promise, and the good man comes back to the land of the living as an ... ectoplasm! And he manages to involve a whole tribe of ghosts to assist him in the noble task of saving the young lady. All is well that ends well.

Nobel-prize-winning author, social justice crusader, anti-colonialist, adventure traveler, musician, and one-time Communist: André Gide was a larger-than-life character who dominated French letters from the turn of the 20th century to his death in 1951. Directed by Marc Allégret, with whom Gide traveled extensively in French Equatorial Africa, the With André Gide was made in the year leading up to the writer’s death.

A blackmailer is murdered, and those who witnessed the scene agree to keep quiet; the complication is that the scene is also witnessed by a young artist, a victim of blackmail as well. (BFI Website)

At the beginning of the 20th century, in the North of the Province of Quebec. After five years spent in a boarding school, Maria Chapdelaine comes back to the family farm. Robert Gagnon, a villager and childhood friend, loves her secretly but Maria is wooed by Lorenzo Surprenant, a man who has fled his home town to escape the police. The one she is really in love with is François Paradis, a handsome trapper. The latter promises to marry her in the spring, as soon as he is back from the Far North. Robert, who is aware of how miserable Maria is, writes a letter to François , asking him to come back at once. Unfortunately, the young trapper is buried under the snow during a storm. As for Lorenzo he gets gunned down by the police. Finally understanding that Robert has sacrificed himself out of love for her, Maria accepts to become his wife.

Adaptación del libro 'Blanche Fury' de Joseph Shearing que relata una historia de estilo victoriano con pasiones olvidadas, secretos de familia y asesinatos. Un médico rural se dirige hacia Clare Hall, una gran mansión inglesa. Su dueña Blance Fury (Valerie Hobson) se encuentra gravemente enferma. El médico le administra un anestésico y, en el trance, Blanche recuerda su pasado, cuando utiliza su verdadero apellido, Fuller, y era una mujer joven. Todo cambió el día que recibió una carta de su tío Simón (Walter Fitzgerald), ofreciéndole empleo como gobernanta en la enorme mansión. Una vez allí conocerá a su primo Lawrence (Michael Gough) con quien acepta contraer matrimonio pese a estar profundamente enamorada de Philip Thorn (Stewart Granger), el hijo ilegítimo de los anteriores dueños de la mansión. Pero el día del enlace nupcial ocurre una gran tragedia...

Petrus, a Montmartre photographer, is accidentally wounded by Migo, a dancer at the Frou Frou night club, when she is trying to shoot her faithless lover Rodrigue, a counterfeiter. Though Petrus tries to reconcile the lovers, Migo lands up with him after Rodrigue is finally killed by another jealous dancer.

A drifting woman hangs out in the suburbs of Marseille. A young engineer picks her up drunk and takes her to the hospital. He does not know then that it is the Countess Armance de Lunegarde, driven from her home and performing as a gummy in third-rate music halls.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the destiny of Félicie Nanteuil, a young girl from the provinces who became a big star on the stage thanks to a comedian who committed suicide out of love for her.

A brave bookseller raises his four daughters alone, all of whom he employs in his shop. They are especially interested in their sentimental stories. Rosine, the youngest, falls in love with Francis, fiancé of Edith, the eldest. But Francis pushes her away and Rosine announces that she is going to commit suicide. Bertrand, a young doctor, decides to stop her by watching over her. After a few adventures, everything finally works out. Edith keeps her fiancé, the father, from whom the adventure has been hidden, returns to the usual course of his life and Bertrand and Rosine find themselves alone.

On the very day of his wedding, Valentin Le Barroyer sees the one he was to marry fly away. Hélène has always loved her cousin André, to the great displeasure of her aunt who had combined the failed marriage. The two lovers take refuge in the Dordogne at the home of Hélène's grandmother who believes them to be really husband and wife. Valentin finds the young couple too late, he only has to console himself with a friend of Hélène's.

In the Camargue a local young playboy named Frédéri falls in love with a young woman from Arles. His family thinks she is unsuitable as a wife because she had a fling with a soldier. His entourage attempt to cheer him up but he intends to commit suicide.

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

In 1939, the "Union des Jeunes Filles de France", a French communist movement, sponsored this documentary short constituting a tour de France of farms, factories and workshop where young women work, thus taking charge of their own destiny.

François, Cécilia and Isabelle are students of the drama class of the Conservatoire led by Professor Lambertin. François is in love with Isabelle who also loves him, but he is pursued by Cecilia, his former mistress. Cécilia commits suicide staging the suicide like a crime, so as to involve Francis. But a testimony restores the truth.

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

Escaping her school teacher life, a lady marries a British military doctor who takes her to Malaysia. But realizing there that the marriage isn't working, she turns to an Oriental prince instead.

Unhappy with her humdrum life as a provincial schoolteacher, Audrey Greenwood marries Major Carter, an officer in the British Army whom she does not love. Not long after the wedding Carter is on his way to Malaysia, accompanied by his wife, to take up a post in the British colony. During the long sea voyage, Audrey becomes acquainted with the handsome Prince Selim, the heir to the Malaysian throne. Life in the province of Malacca soon proves disagreeable to the free-spirited Englishwoman and she becomes a social outcast when her amorous affair with the prince is discovered.

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 acquittal he takes her into his house. While he tries to keep her identity a secret for his family her presence leads to a number of unfortunate incidents.

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 resenting Sauvaget's act of hostility, Michel ... becomes his friend. Now Raymond, although prosperous, does not know how to handle women. That is why he asks Michel, a regular Casanova, to give him lessons in seduction.

After a year of turbulent marriage Annette and Daniel get a divorce, and each marries again. However, they meet again on the French Riviera and are tempted to give in to their old passion...

Political turmoil convulses 19th-century Russia as Razumov, a young student preparing for a career in the czarist bureaucracy, unwittingly becomes embroiled in the assassination of a public official.

Sylvie, a rich girl, learns at the same time the death and the ruin of her father. Forced to find work in Paris, she is given shelter by a medical student who soon falls for her. Another young man falls in love with her. When her benefactor gets ill and finally dies, Sylvie refuses to give the other man her heart out of faithfulness for the dearly departed. But youth commands and after a time love -but not oblivion - triumphs.

Zou Zou tries to help her childhood friend prove his innocence after he's accused of murder.

Rémy (Robert Lynen), a stolen child is adopted by a wandering singer. With him and his trained animals, Rémy travels the roads of France. But his adoptive father dies and Remy, who has knowledge of a boy who knows something of his history, sails for England to find his mother.

There's never a dull moment at the Hôtel du Libre Echange. Deceptions, hitches and other misunderstandings make a few people mingle whereas, for their own sake, they should not. An example among others: an expert who has come to the hotel for professional reasons had better not meet his wife, who is there to cheat on him with his best friend.

There's never a dull moment at the Hôtel du Libre Echange. Deceptions, hitches and other misunderstandings make a few people mingle whereas, for their own sake, they should not. An example among others: an expert who has come to the hotel for professional reasons had better not meet his wife, who is there to cheat on him with his best friend.

A handsome but penniless young man takes a summer job as a swimming instructor in a picturesque Alpine lake resort. He falls in love with a young heiress who is staying there with her father, but he also grabs the attention of tomboyish Puck who lives on the other side of the lake and who saves him from drowning one foggy night. Further havoc is caused by the arrival of Eric's old sweetheart whose husband is wanted by the police.

A handsome but penniless young man takes a summer job as a swimming instructor in a picturesque Alpine lake resort. He falls in love with a young heiress who is staying there with her father, but he also grabs the attention of tomboyish Puck who lives on the other side of the lake and who saves him from drowning one foggy night. Further havoc is caused by the arrival of Eric's old sweetheart whose husband is wanted by the police.

A handsome but penniless young man takes a summer job as a swimming instructor in a picturesque Alpine lake resort. He falls in love with a young heiress who is staying there with her father, but he also grabs the attention of tomboyish Puck who lives on the other side of the lake and who saves him from drowning one foggy night. Further havoc is caused by the arrival of Eric's old sweetheart whose husband is wanted by the police.

Picking up moments after the end of Marius, this film follows Fanny’s grief after Marius’s departure—and her realization that she’s pregnant. Panisse continues courting her and embraces the baby’s impending arrival as a gift, so long as its paternity remains a secret. Fanny and Panisse wed, but after her baby’s birth, Marius returns unexpectedly and demands what he believes is still his.

A bureaucratic civil servant is annoyed by the spoiled daughter of a rich chocolate maker, but lands up marrying her.

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.

Célestin, the organist of a convent, has written and composed a light operetta under the name of Floridor. One day, the Mother Superior asks him to chaperone one of the boarders, Denise de Flavigny, who is returning home to get married. Now, Denise, for all her goody goody looks, soon proves as saucy as can be. Things get even more complicated when Célestin starts courting Corinne, the star of his operetta, to the great displeasure of a commander of dragons, the young woman's lover. Worse, the latter is none other than the Mother Superior's brother... To say nothing of Lieutenant Fernand de Champlatreux, who happens to fall in love with Denise, his fiancée that he has never seen before...!

Célestin, the organist of a convent, has written and composed a light operetta under the name of Floridor. One day, the Mother Superior asks him to chaperone one of the boarders, Denise de Flavigny, who is returning home to get married. Now, Denise, for all her goody goody looks, soon proves as saucy as can be. Things get even more complicated when Célestin starts courting Corinne, the star of his operetta, to the great displeasure of a commander of dragons, the young woman's lover. Worse, the latter is none other than the Mother Superior's brother... To say nothing of Lieutenant Fernand de Champlatreux, who happens to fall in love with Denise, his fiancée that he has never seen before...!

A one-night stand with an entertainer threatens to destroy a woman's marriage after she gives birth to a black child.

A bank employee who stole money at work falls in the hands of a dangerous escaped convict whose girlfriend is going to help him out of this mess.

A bank employee who stole money at work falls in the hands of a dangerous escaped convict whose girlfriend is going to help him out of this mess.

A comedy short which was the debut of Fernandel. Monsieur Pivoine and his missus are waiting for Monsieur Bouchamiel, a man who can provide him with the money he needs for his business.

Cinema has long fed our fascination with other cultures, and appears to be just one facet of what is a fundamentally visual fascination. One of the most elaborate manifestations of this was the 1931 Exposition Coloniale Internationale, held in Paris to celebrate ‘la France des 5 continents’. This exhibition sought to represent to the people of France their colonial world by reordering and reconstructing it into scenes or tableaux of everyday indigenous life. This entailed shipping over scores of indigènes and forcing them to act out the gestures of their ‘everyday lives’ under the eyes of 1930’s Parisian society. A slightly less elaborate, although equally controversial at the time, visual representation of The Other was one of the first film documentaries to be made which sought to represent the lives of a colonised people, Marc Allégret’s Voyage au Congo.

Cinema has long fed our fascination with other cultures, and appears to be just one facet of what is a fundamentally visual fascination. One of the most elaborate manifestations of this was the 1931 Exposition Coloniale Internationale, held in Paris to celebrate ‘la France des 5 continents’. This exhibition sought to represent to the people of France their colonial world by reordering and reconstructing it into scenes or tableaux of everyday indigenous life. This entailed shipping over scores of indigènes and forcing them to act out the gestures of their ‘everyday lives’ under the eyes of 1930’s Parisian society. A slightly less elaborate, although equally controversial at the time, visual representation of The Other was one of the first film documentaries to be made which sought to represent the lives of a colonised people, Marc Allégret’s Voyage au Congo.