Gillenormand
The story of Jean Valjean, a Frenchman convicted of minor crimes, who is hounded for years by an unforgiving and unrelenting police inspector, Javert.
Guérande
A young journalist stumbles across something much more sinister than a simple suicide in the death of a politician - the death seems to be an assassination contrived by an American multinational company intent on taking over several French industries. The journalist's objective is to garner enough evidence to expose the American corporation for what it really is, before French companies start disappearing - and before any more corpses accumulate, including his own.
Le père
La pequeña Laurence ha sido secuestrada. Su madre, Madeleine, ha de plantar cara a la familia, la prenda, la policía, reúne el rescate, pero en vano. La película nos presenta el calvario y la dulzura de esta madre.
Doctor / Old man at banquet
Alice Carroll le comunica a su marido que va a dejarle. Ante la insistencia de éste de que no lo haga, la mujer, que ya no soporta a su esposo, temerosa de que éste la retenga, huye en su coche a pesar de que está lloviendo torrencialmente. Pero en un momento de su fuga, Alice detiene el coche, ya que la persistente lluvia no la deja ver a través de los cristales del coche. De esta forma, ella va a parar a un lugar que desconoce, siendo acogida amablemente por el dueño de una mansión, el aristócrata Heni Vergennes. Éste la invita a pasar la noche en el castillo. Alice accede y se toma un somnífero. A la mañana siguiente, cuando ella sale de su habitación, encuentra el desayuno preparado, pero en todo el inmueble no hay nadie. Cuando quiere salir, se encuentra que ha sido encerrada.
Father Amable Houlbrecque
Celeste has failed with Victor and has a little boy. Césaire would still like to marry Céleste, a beautiful and hard-working girl. His father, old Amable, did not hear him that way but ended up giving in. Less than a year later, Césaire dies. Between Father Amable and his daughter-in-law, a cold and silent war begins.
Frugebelle, l'académicien collabo
Overnight, Paris is invaded - although peacefully - but the Chinese Army, and millions of Chinese people... It's the Nazi occupation all over again, with modern - funny - twists.
Le Doyen des Juges
La protagonista de la historia, una mujer llamada Rose, vive con su familia en una lejana granja de una helada región francesa. La policía encuentra el cadáver de una mujer en las cercanías y la culpa recae en los dos hijos de la mujer. Cuando un policía investiga el caso comienza a encontrar muchas claves secretas en la vida de esta familia. Segunda y última película para el cine de Jean Chapot tras La ladrona (1966) -con Romy Schneider y Michel Piccoli-, pues luego tan solo trabajó para la televisión hasta su muerte en 1998. (FILMAFFINITY)
Sauveur Chouras
Dismissed following an unfortunate initiative, financial advisor Benoît Lepape decides to work for his uncle, a union activist. His capitalist methods will surprise at first, but quickly bring in a lot of money.
Le roi rouge
En su lecho de muerte, la Reina hace prometer al Rey que no volverá a casarse hasta que no encuentre a una mujer que la supere en bondad y belleza. Algunos años después, el Rey encuentra a la perfecta sustituta de su esposa: su propia hija. El Hada de las Lilas, la madrina de la joven princesa, le aconseja que pida a su padre, como regalo, unos vestidos maravillosos, aparentemente imposibles de confeccionar. Pero como el Rey consigue los vestidos, la princesa le pide que le regale una capa hecha con la piel del asno banquero, principal fuente de riqueza del Reino.
Le juge
Gracias a la financiación de Jérôme, su cuñado, el inventor Albert Raynal logra desarrollar un revolucionario cohete espacial. Desafortunadamente el cohete estalla en su primer vuelo de prueba, lo que hace que Jérôme le retire el soporte. Dispuesto a no abandonar su idea, Raynal buscará desesperadamente los fondos que le permitan completar su proyecto. (FILMAFFINITY)
Self
Documentary about filmmaker Jean Grémillon.
L'inspecteur
A schoolteacher (Robert Dhéry) and his wife (Colette Brosset) use the couple's new car for a class field trip in this routine situation comedy. Soon the children are lost in this story written and directed by Jean L'Hôte taken from his own novel.
Le procureur
Three young men are suspected of kidnapping and murdering a little boy. Most likely, two of them are really involved, but one is not. All of their pasts are questionable, riddled with violence and controversy. Neither the police nor the court can decide how to solve that puzzle.
Chief Clerk of the Law Court
Un hombre se despierta por la mañana, y se encuentra con que la policía ha entrado en su habitación y lo arresta, tras acusarlo de haber cometido un crimen.
Dr. Charcot
En 1885, a la edad de 29 años, ya Sigmund Freud (Montgomery Clift) se daba el lujo de confrontar a su maestro Meyniert... y pronto, de ilustre alumno, su asociación con el médico Josef Breuer (Larry Parks), lo convertiría en uno de los más notables investigadores sobre la histeria. Después, la neurosis, la interpretación de los sueños y el psicoanálisis, entre otros temas, tendrían en él a uno de los más fuertes exponentes de las nuevas teorías psicológicas. El guión lo supervisó Jean-Paul Sartre. (FILMAFFINITY)
Elie de Coëtquidan
Louis
Reconstrucción con todo lujo de detalles de uno de los episodios claves para el desarrollo de la II Guerra Mundial: el desembarco en las playas de Normandía llevado a cabo por las tropas aliadas en junio de 1944.
Customs Official
Vic Brennan convence a su familia en Dublin para reunir dinero y financiarle su viaje al remoto pueblo africano de Jebanda, donde pretende abrir un negocio de camiones de transporte. La familia accede con la condición de que su primo Samuel, empleado de banco, vaya con él para proteger sus intereses.
Le médecin légiste
Dominique Marceau es juzgada por el asesinato de Gilbert Tellier, un músico lleno de talento recién salido del Conservatorio. Los abogados intentan encontrar un móvil que explique su conducta. ¿Pasión, venganza o accidente? Entre los testigos están los conocidos de Gilbert, los antiguos amantes de Dominique y, además, su hermana Anne, estudiante de violín y prometida de Gilbert. Los datos que van proporcionando los testigos permiten reconstruir las personalidades de Dominique y Gilbert y son más útiles que las elocuentes alegaciones de los abogados.
The priest
Mario di Donati, a deserter from the Italian army, lives in Paris under a false name with Germaine, his French lover. When the latter learns about his hidden past, she feels hurt by Mario's lack of trust in her and she distances herself from him. In despair, Mario surrenders to the law but, at the time of trial, he runs away to join the woman he loves.
Horace Chandley
Joe Grant, a light-skinned African American, heads to a small Southern town to investigate the lynching death of his brother. He draws the attention of a gorgeous heiress whom he learns may have been involved in the killing.
Mr Weiring, Christin's father
Viena 1906. La apasionada historia de amor entre un joven teniente y una cantante de ópera correrá peligro cuando el muchacho sea acusado de perseguir a una mujer casada.
Monseigneur Myriel
Adaptación de la novela de Victor Hugo, con Jean Gabin en el papel de Jean Valjean.
Pierre Tiercelin
Pierre Tercelin who used to be a prosperous industrialist is now ruined and embittered, having become a mere lock keeper. A widower, he lives with his daughter Evelyne, a music-hall dancer. Claiming he is being persecuted by his cousin Edgar he gets in touch again with another cousin of his he hates, Bernard, a millionaire gun runner,who is also a victim of Edgar. It must be said that both Pierre and Bernard once caused Edgar to go bankrupt... Pierre offers Bernard to join efforts against Edgar. Soon after, Bernard dies of poison, which is only the first of a series of acts of violence. Tiercelin is shot at while going back home, Bernard's son is gunned down while his sister Luciane disappears. Chief-inspector Malouvier - who oddly enough looks very much like the suspect- investigates....
Claes, le semeur
Based on the book by Belgian XIX century author Charles de Coaster.
Le père Blain
El propietario de un bar de poca monta acoge bajo su protección a un joven delincuente.
Fernand Langlois
Robert Langlois is now married to Catherine, the former housemaid. And they would live happily ever after if the housing crisis did not force them to live together with Gabrielle and Fernand, Robert's parents. For, despite the good will on either side, tension soon arises. What else to expect when there is too little space in their Montmartre apartment for four people (then for six then eight, the couple having... two pairs of twins!) ; the continued presence there of Fernand (who loves peace and quiet) after he is driven to retirement ; the difficult beginnings of Robert as a lawyer in a room of the apartment, etc... Other troubles follow and the harried family is on the verge of implosion...
Dr. Delpuech
Fernand Langlois
Fernand Lacaud
Robert Teller (Kirk Douglas) es un soldado estadounidense que, en 1944, participa en la liberación de Francia. En París, conoce a una chica pobre (Dany Robin) que le inspira compasión y finge estar casado con ella para evitar que sea arrestada por prostitución. Cuando Teller intenta legalizar la unión, sus superiores le niegan el permiso. La chica, que está realmente enamorada de él, acabará demostrándolo de manera trágica.
Le roi Charles-V-et-trois-font-huit-et-huit-font-seize (voice)
A chimney sweep and his beloved shepherdess are aided by Wonderbird in their escape from a ruthless dictator
Thomas Mollert
A secret agent is summoned by the head of a counter espionage organization, to Trieste where he is to unmask a potential enemy operating in Venice.
Piétrefond
Louis Mennechain is a modest locksmith. So imagine his amazement when Professor Piétrefond approaches him and tells him he recognizes in him a descendant of the kings of France, more precisely of Louis XVII (the king who never reigned). According to him he is none other than the monarch's great grandson. Louis's life is soon turned upside down as he becomes the center of attention of a group of ardent royalists. Even a duchess "gives" him her love to make sure that he accepts his role as pretender to the throne...
Montrésor
A group of policemen look over three murder cases including a cutthroat that prays on young women, a madman that hid his deformed landlord's corpse in the floor, and a wine aficionado who buries his friend alive.
Beverley
Following the assassination of a financier, several people who had an interest in seeing him disappear are suspected.
Jock Le Guen
An eccentric man endangers himself when he makes advances toward the girlfriend of a saloon keeper.
Firmin Blache
Suspected of murder, a man disappears under mysterious conditions, which only increases the charges against him.
Professor Janvier
Janvier, an embittered teacher, is fed up with his colorless, monotonous life. One day he breaks away and ends up becoming a circus clown. In his new world, he meets a beautiful acrobat nicknamed Lili and grows fonder and fonder of her every day of his life. The trouble is that the lady bestows her favors to two different lovers : wealthy married man Chardeuil and good-looking but listless young Antonio. He now considers his duty to make Lili recover her dignity.
Loiseau
Loiseau the pharmacist mistakenly mixes potassium cyanide into a batch of cough syrup and sells five bottles. With horror he discovers his mistake and sets out to find the buyers. He finds only four. The fifth, not a regular customer, comes back to the pharmacy...
Romain Jardehu
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 doctor
Pursued by the police, Saget usurps the identity of a man who was returning to his town after having made his fortune in the United States. Under this new name, he deceives his compatriots with the exception of a doctor and the savage Isabelle. During an explanation Saget understands that Isabelle secretly admires him. She denounces him and Saget surrenders without a fight. Thus he ruins all his prestige with the young Amazon.
Fabret, his friend
The bell ringer at a way station in the French Alps, murders a passing horse trader with a thrown rock and relieves him of his bankroll, in order to bribe the daughter of his only friend, a head injury victim considered the village simpleton, into marrying him, despite her love for a lowly woodsman who is, in turn, being cajoled into marriage by the daughter of the wealthy innkeeper.
Doctor Renard
A village lost in the mountains where Catherine called L'Airelle's love affair takes place with a young doctor. Catherine's father is the local bonesetter whose wife threw herself into a glacier out of despair of love and whose body reappears intact twenty years later. In addition, the pharmacist of the country is accused of having seduced a young girl who is avenged by her mother. The bonesetter also dies, the village fortunately continues to live.
Carvajan
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 of murder, is defended and saved by Pascal. Finally, love, by uniting the son of one to the daughter of the other, will appease souls and reconcile families.
Doctor Mauléon
The belated and revolting passion of a famous surgeon for a young orphan whom he once took in. He goes so far as to dishonor her to prevent her marriage to a young man she loves, whom she will however end up marrying. The young girl herself is not without reproach; she has missed a mother's love: in this ordeal, she has no sense of feminine dignity.
Maloin
Maloin, a maritime station guard, spends his nights at the port signal box. One night, he becomes the witness of a murder: for a simple suitcase smuggled, the altercation between the two men turns to drama. While the first falls and drowns, the second flees. Maloin, instead of warning the police, decides to dive in and recover the suitcase...which contains more than 3 million in small denominations! That's when the trouble begins...
Auguste
Six young boarding girls return home unexpectedly after their college has been destroyed by fire. Their unexpected presence arouses melodramatic reactions.
Goupi-Mains rouges
An old woman living in an inn is killed and her family members seem like the likely culprits.
le maire
The story of how the people of Paris cope with the strains and struggles of war, from the siege of the city by the Prussians during the Franco-Prussian War of 1871 to the invasion by the Germans in World War II.
Baron Hugues, Anne's father
En 1485, el Demonio envía al mundo a dos emisarios, Dominique y Gilles, que se presentan en el castillo del Barón de Hughes, que está celebrando el compromiso de su hija con el caballero Renaud. Como Gilles, en contra de los planes de su Señor, se enamora de la joven, el Diablo acaba presentándose en el castillo adoptando la figura de un viajero.
Porey-Cave
In his prison cell, the composer Remi Bonvent composed an opera, The columns bed. The director of the prison, Porey Cave, succeeds made believe he is the author of this work. The death of the two protagonists will prevent the discovery of the truth.
Le Bosco
A married tugboat captain falls for a woman he rescues from a sinking ship.
Noirngoutte
A village in the French Alps is rocked by a series of crimes, including the theft of a sacred ring and the murder of a man dressed as Père Noël (Father Christmas).
Michel Noblet
Two country sisters are rivals for the love of the doctor. He marries one, but regrets it and is rescued by the other.
Nicolas
Micheline Chevassu is a young, naive woman living in an orphanage. Through classified ads, she has a date with an unknown man. She escapes from the orphanage to go to it, dreaming of the Prince Charming. But comes Nicolas Rougemont, an unattractive middle-aged man... He pretends not to be the author of the letters, who could not come...
Corvino
Volpone, an elderly Venetian, connives with his money-crazed servant to convince his greedy friends that he is dying, knowing that each will try to curry favor with him in order to be named his heir. He is inundated with valuable gifts, and soon finds himself entangled deeper and deeper in a web of lies.
(uncredited)
A woman managed to leave the man she hated and finds its difficult to live without him.
Roubaud
Inspirada en la novela homónima de E. Zola. El maquinista de tren Lantier (Jean Gabin) es un hombre solitario marcado por el estigma hereditario de la locura. No puede reprimir su misoginia y su trato con las mujeres es muy violento. Solo es feliz mientras conduce su locomotora que cubre el trayecto desde Le Havre hasta París. Su gran error será hacerse amante de Sévérine (Simone Simon), que querría inducirlo a matar a su marido.
Martin
The scene of action embraces Tangier, Toulon and the Mediterranean, where Pierre Fresnay, Rolf Wanka and Kim Peacock, cast as captains of French, German and English boats, respectively, unite to rescue the passengers of a neutral boat that is about to be engulfed in a cloud of poison smoke released by a smuggling ship.
The doctor
"Altitude 3.200" asks the question and provides the premise of what would happen if a group of young people----poor, rich, discontented, bored--- were given an idyllic community in which to live. Call it a colony. Call it a village. Call it one-world. Mainly call it a futile exercise in changing human nature, mores, culture and attitudes at any altitude. For t'ain't no time before clashing personalities, petty jealousy, violence and---that old demon---love create havoc. And isn't much longer before they become re-united in the face of an avalanche that threatens to destroy them. They all return to whence they came, sadder and wiser.
Major Walters
Gaston, an artist in love with an upper class English girl, accepts to stay away from her when a wealthy rival offers to pay her father's heavy debt. Broken-hearted, he leaves for France with his young servant. They join a young girl as popular musicians and tour the countryside in their way to Paris, where his former love reappears.
Tovkatch
In war against the Poles, the leader Cossack sees itself betrayed by one of his threads, been in love the girl of an enemy.
Philippe de Cobourg
Film sobre la vida del archiduque Rodolfo, hijo de Francisco José de Austria, y del romance que vivió cuando tenía 17 años con la baronesa Maria Vetsera.
François
Alternate-language French version of Folies Bergère de Paris (1935).
Flick
In 1885, La Guillaumette and Croquebol are two cavalrymen who are constantly victimised by their superior, adjutant Flick. One day, the two men are given an opportunity to redeem themselves by recovering four horses that have gone astray. Unfortunately, they follow the horses' example by taking the wrong train. When they finally make it back to barracks, after a long series of mishaps, they are rewarded with sixty days in prison.
