Self (archive footage)
Monsieur (archive footage)
Self (archive footage)
Self (archive footage)
The fascinating story of a man destined to be only a son of and who sought all his life to become "someone" by getting rid of the overwhelming image of his genius as a father, the painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir.
Self (archive footage)
Lui-même
Self (archive footage)
Um perfil de Jean-Paul Belmondo por seus pares. Além de fazer mais de oitenta filmes, o ator também brindou seu público com as cenas perigosas em que dispensou o dublê, seu riso, as brincadeiras, uma desenvoltura e impertinência refrescantes. Cultivando a arte do contrapé, ele atravessou meio século de cinema francês.
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The films, affairs and struggles of the iconic star of The Blue Angel as told by Rosemary Clooney, Roger Corman, Deanna Durbin and many more.
Self (Archival Footage)
O escritor Henri Laborit apresenta três histórias que ilustram as complexidades do comportamento humano. René é um homem de raízes agrícolas que se torna gerente de uma fábrica têxtil. Janine, ex-atriz e agora estilista, tem um caso amoroso com Jean, um político que enfrenta dificuldades em casa.
Max Lambert
Two bank robbers, an old and a young, escape from prison to get to the hidden loot.
Leguen
A desperate woman, whose son is on trial for murder, blackmails the judge and kidnaps his wife.
Germain Cazeneuve
A former bank robber is released after 10 years in prison. He gets help from a social-worker, but gets harassed by an old cop from his past.
Gaston Dominici
In August 1952, a family of British tourists is found by the roadside in Haute Provence, brutally murdered. In the ensuing, very public, investigation a local landowner, 75 year old Gaston Dominici, is arrested for the murders, having been denounced by his sons. Under police interrogation, Dominici confesses to have killed the family and it looks certain that he will be charged, tried and sentenced to death. But then the case begins to collapse. The old man retracts his confession and the lack of evidence against him becomes apparent…
Commissaire Le Guen
Christmas Eve in Paris. Leo Zimmerman is a businessman who lives for his beloved little daughter’s smile. Outwardly, his life is exemplary. However, when Dimitri Kopas walks into his office, pretending to be a normal client, Leo understands that a contract is out on his head and that the young man has come to town to kill him. Overcome with anxiety and paranoia, no longer able to sleep, Leo decides to meet the killer face to face and to broker a strange deal.
Victor Ploubaz
Producer
Julien Bouin, a former typographist, and his wife Clemence, who used to perform in a circus, hardly talk to each other in their small house, soon to be demolished. His cat Greffier being the only one he still gives affection to, he becomes the object of Clemence's anger.
Julien Bouin
Julien Bouin, a former typographist, and his wife Clemence, who used to perform in a circus, hardly talk to each other in their small house, soon to be demolished. His cat Greffier being the only one he still gives affection to, he becomes the object of Clemence's anger.
Auguste Maroilleur
Auguste Maroilleur, an elderly farmer, exploits 400 hectares of crop land with the help of his family, over which he rules with an iron hand. Things go awry the day he discovers one of his grandsons is involved in drug traffic. To make matters worse, the reckless youth has hidden the white powder in the Maroilleur farm. Without a moment's hesitation, Auguste gets rid of the toxic substance but, of course, the mob has different views...
Vittorio Manalese
Um jovem e ambicioso mafioso planeja um elaborado roubo de diamantes enquanto seduz a filha de um implacável patriarca, mas um determinado comissário de polícia começa a cercar todos eles.
Albert Raynal
In this film, Albert is an eccentric inventor of missiles who comes under fire from his investors when his first prototype explodes. Even his sympathetic mistress has her doubts, as Albert lashes out in a verbal tirade condemning those of little faith in his genius.
Comte Enguerand de Montignac, dit « Legrain »
An art dealer wants to buy a Modigliani, which is tattooed on the back of an old soldier.
Comissaire Joss, le Pacha
Six months before his retirement from the criminal police, inspector Joss finds his colleague Gouvion dead, in a poorly faked suicide attempt. Joss loses his temper, and investigates on his own, which leads him through the bas-fond of Paris...
Denis Ferrand
An American (Robert Stack) talks a retired French crook (Jean Gabin) into robbing a bank, but kidnappers demand the loot as ransom.
Le père Tulipe M. Martin
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, producing perfect copies of 10 franc notes. His godson’s girlfriend sees this as an opportunity to get very rich – but she must persuade Tulipe to forge 500 franc notes. Assuming Tulipe’s agreement, his godson and his girlfriend buy an expensive new car and luxury villa in provincial France – but there is a cruel turn of fate in store for them when Tulipe strikes up a friendship with a millionaire playboy.
Paul Berger dit Paulo les Diam's
In Paris, a gold smuggler is at war with other local gangsters who want piece of the action. Then the mob shows up and makes things worse. And an undercover US Treasury Department agent is trying to infiltrate the smuggling business.
Léandre Brassac
Brassac is a drunken veterinarian who can't resist bringing home stray animals and humans. Lilli Palmer plays his long-suffering wife Marie. When he brings home the prostitute Simone, Brassac is not sure he is acting out of concern or lust. He beats up the pimp who comes looking for Simone, and Brassac is happy when she later falls in love with his neighbor, and they make Brassac a "grandfather."
Émile Malhouin
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 his future relatives...
le banquier René Duchêne, alias Georges Baudin dit "Monsieur"
Désespéré par la mort de sa femme, le banquier René Duchesne se promène le long de la Seine. Seule la rencontre de Suzanne, son ancienne femme de chambre lui révélant les infidélités de Madame, le sauve du suicide. Monsieur décide alors d'aider sa protégée à sortir de la prostitution, et d'empêcher ses beaux-parents de faire main basse sur l'héritage.
Commissaire Jules Maigret
Gangsters from the United States try to kill a key government witness whose testimony could help land an influential mobster in jail. It's up to detective Maigret to deal with the FBI and a series of underworld figures to save the life of the witness...
Charles
Charles, fresh out of jail, rejects his wife's plan for a quiet life of bourgeois respectability. He enlists a former cell mate, Francis, to assist him in pulling off one final score, a carefully planned assault on the vault of a Cannes casino.
Richard Briand-Charmery
The story takes place in the racecourses around Paris. A so-called major sells his tips to naive characters.
Albert Quentin
Albert é dono de uma pousada que prometeu nunca mais beber se ele e sua esposa sobreviverem à guerra. Sobrevivem e o alcoólatra reformado mantém seu voto. Mas os tempos mudaram e logo após a guerra, Albert entra em contato com Gabriel, um jovem propenso a pesados ataques à garrafa. Gabriel está em conflito por visitar sua filha em uma escola próxima e, em um momento de nostalgia, Albert entra com ele em uma grande farra, mas com resultados desastrosos. (e 14 - Estimado 14 Anos)
Ferdinand Maréchal, aka 'le Dabe'
"Le Dabe" retired many years ago and now he lives in the Tropics where he owns stables and horses. He is a very rich man. He was the king of all money counterfeiters. He is contacted from Paris to organize a new job. He says no. But when he finds out the the currency that should be counterfeited is the Dutch florin, he accepts immediately. He retired after having counterfeited 100 florin notes just before the Queen Wilhelmina retired them from circulation. He flies to Paris. But the gang is not to be trusted, at least not all of them.
Emile Beaufort
Jean-Marie Pejat, réparateur de vélos
Baron Jérôme Napoléon Antoine
The lucky Baron wins a boat in a card game and takes off with his former lover to find new adventures. Adverse circumstances land them in a small town, where the Baron's seafaring companion leaves for more attractive scenery offered by a wealthy local man. Meanwhile, there is a certain charming cafe owner that the Baron finds irresistible -- at least for awhile.
Henri Neveu
Life in a one-parent family with a focus on the parent, Henri Neveu (Jean Gabin), is the topic of this standard drama with a dash of comedy. While Henri was a POW during the war, his wife passed away and he returned to face the challenges of bringing up three children alone. Henri may get drunk and angry at times but he also has a better side that will not stay buried. Since handling three children alone is no easy task, the single father has the choice of growing in the process or not.
Commissioner Jules Maigret
Police Commissioner Jules Maigret returns to the small village where he spent his childhood at the request of the Countess of Saint-Fiacre, who has received a disturbing anonymous letter.
Joseph, Hugues Guillaume Boutier-Blainville dit : Archimède
Bum Archimède wants to spend the winter in prison, but to get there proves not to be that easy.
Noël Schoudler
Maître André Gobillot
In Case of Adversity é um filme de drama francês de 1958, dirigido por Claude Autant-Lara, estrelado por Jean Gabin, Brigitte Bardot e Edwige Feuillère. Foi lançado como Love Is My Profession nos Estados Unidos.
Inspecteur Georges Vallois
Vallois, a vice inspector for the Paris police, takes special interest in the plight of drug-addicted Lucky (Najda Tiller), whom he considers to be more victim than criminal. Taking it upon himself to wean Lucky away from narcotics, Vallois also wins her love -- and, incidentally, smashes the dope ring responsible for her addiction
Jean Valjean / Champmathieu
Victor Hugo's monumental novel Les Miserables has been filmed so often that sometimes it's hard to tell one version from another. One of the best and most faithful adaptations is this 240-minute French production, starring Jean Gabin as the beleaguered Jean Valjean. Arrested for a petty crime, Valjean spends years 20 in the brutal French penal system. Even upon his release, his trail is dogged by relentless Inspector Javert. Valjean's efforts to create a new life for himself despite the omnipresence of Javert is meticulously detailed in this film, which utilizes several episodes from the Hugo original that had hitherto never been dramatized. Originally released as a single film, Les Miserables was usually offered as a two-parter outside of France.
Commissaire Maigret
Já faz algum tempo que as mulheres que chegam em casa à noite são violentamente assassinadas por um misterioso serial killer. O inspetor Lagrume acha que encontrou o culpado, Barberot, um açougueiro local. Mas Maigret, que assume a investigação, não está convencido. Bem no fundo ele sabe que o assassino ainda está foragido. Mas como prendê-lo? (e 14 - Estimado 14 Anos)
Louis Bertain/Louis le blond
Louis Bertain é o proprietário de uma garagem em Paris, fachada de uma gangue de assaltantes. Ele e seus cúmplices têm o cuidado de manter um verniz honesto durante o dia, entregando-se às atividades criminosas apenas quando 'a luz vermelha está acesa', à noite. Esse status quo é perturbado quando um dos membros da gangue se convence de que o irmão mais novo de Louis é um informante da polícia. (e 16 - Estimado 16 Anos)
le docteur Laurent
Le Cas Du Dr. Laurent (The Case of Dr. Laurent) stars Jean Gabin as a Paris-based doctor who tries to spread the gospel of Natural Childbirth. Working in a cloistered rural community, Gabin runs up against the stone walls of fear and prejudice. His theories are proven sound when unwed mother Nicole Courcel gives birth within Gabin's methodology. The childbirth sequence is filmed straight-on with a delicate combination of taste and frankness. Nonetheless, the lurid ad campaign of Cas Du Dr. Laurent sensationalized this sequence all out of proportion.
Commissaire Gallet
A young tormented student can no longer stand his miserable life. To avoid his sister marrying an old antiques dealer out of convenience, he murders a pawnbroker to steal his money. Very quickly, it is taken from remorse and confides to a young prostitute. The latter, very believing, advises him to go. He opposes this idea, but guilt devours him. He is soon struck by remorse, and confides in a young prostitute, who advise him to surrender. He opposes this idea, but guilt devours him.
Grandgil, artist painter
Dois homens, um pintor e um cara pobre, têm que atravessar Paris à noite durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial e entregar carne no mercado negro. Enquanto andam pelas ruas escuras de Paris, eles encontram vários personagens e aventuras até serem presos pela polícia alemã. (e 10 - Estimado 10 Anos)
François Cardinaud
François Cardinaud is one of the richest shipowners in the region. But this success arouses resentment and jealousy. When Marthe, his wife, leaves the home without warning, Cardinaud sees her life cracking little by little.
André Chatelin
In Les Halles, in the heart of Paris, the restaurateur André Chatelin, leads an uneventful life until the arrival from Marseille of Catherine, the daughter of his ex-wife Gabrielle. She tells him her mother is dead and that she is without resources. Chatelin welcomes her under his roof - then marries her. Gérard, a young student that Chatelin looks upon as a son, becomes Catherine's lover, and she sets him at odds with Chatelin. She asks him to kill the restaurateur. He refuses. She kills him. Having discovered that Gabrielle is still alive, declined and drug addicted, Chatelin realises the darkness of Catherine's soul who has always lied to him.
Jean Viard
During a stay at a roadside inn, long-distance lorry driver Jean Viard meets a young woman Clothilde who works there. Their friendship soon develops into a passionate love affair, even though Jean is already married and is old enough to be Clothilde’s father. Things take a turn for the worse when Jean loses his job and his wife finds out about his affair. But Clothilde’s predicament is even more distressing...
Julien Lamy
Judge Julien Lamy regularly deals with the welfare of children, namely down on their luck delinquents. When an orphan named Alain Robert burns down a barn belonging to his abusive foster family, Judge Lamy has no choice but to send him to a juvenile jail. There he meets an older boy named Francis Lanoux, who is desperate to escape and be reunited with his girlfriend Sylvette. The boys eventually flee the institution, as Francis goes in search of his lost love and Alain continues looking for his parents. Unfortunately, the little rebels run into some big problems once on the outside.
Jean Chape
A trucker encounters a dead body on the road home. He reports the incident to the police, who suspect that Jean was responsible for the death, and his new truck is impounded. To make matters worse, the man's widow accuses him of having robbed her husband, and a gang of sinister crooks are also harassing him.
Henri Danglard
Em 1890, o Cancan ainda está na moda, mas nem os shows da dançarina Lola ajudam o Café Le Paravent Chinois a sair da decadência. Henri, amante de Lola e dono do Café, tem a idéia de popularizar a dança no bairro boêmio de Montmarte. Ele conhece Nini, uma lavadeira com o dom natural da dança. Os problemas começam quando Lola fica enciumada com Nini.
Le commandant Lequévic
Martine is searching for her sister that disappeared mysteriously. Lequévic agrees to help her.
Henri Ferré dit 'Le Nantais'
Henri, the Man from Nantes, comes back to his country after a successful stay in the United States, where he was working for Liski, the drug dealer. With the fame of being a tough guy preceding him, he sets himself to the task of knowing why the French operations were not so profitable - and soon he is master of all links of the organization. He can now get it honed to perfection - or destroy it. Only... the Police are following his every step.
Marshal Jean Lannes
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 Versailles, and sites of Napoleonic battles including Austerlitz and Waterloo.
Victor Le Garrec
Victor Le Garrec, a former boxer, runs a gym in Paris while dreaming of finding an aspiring champion who will reach the goals he was never able to achieve.
Max dit Max le Menteur
Tendo feito o assalto de uma vida, Max está ansioso para passar o resto de seus dias relaxando com sua bela namorada. Mas quando seu parceiro menciona o saque acidentalmente à Josy (Jeanne Moreau), Max é relutantemente arrastado de volta para o mundo do crime.
Martin Schmidt, alias Jacques Ledru
Reported missing in 1940, Jacques Ledru comes back to Strasbourg as Martin Schmidt. He tracks down his wife Genevieve, but she's remarried and has taken the head of his shipping company. She and her husband will do anything to get rid of Jacques and keep his company.
Pierre Ruffin
Arriving in Paris, Madeleine Marsan rents a room in a guesthouse where she makes the acquaintance of Pierre Ruffin, a respectable municipal librarian. Through Pierre, Madeleine finds work as a schoolteacher and soon realises that she is in love with him. Then she discovers that Pierre is in truth the head of a band of crooks. Caught by the police after a failed robbery, Pierre manages to escape. With Madeleine’s help, he goes on the run.
il professore Antonio Sanna
Adaptation of a play written by Sabatino Lopez.
Dr Pierre Richard
After attending to a suicidal young man, Dr Richard learns that his wife has been unfaithful for years. This comes as a shock after 10 years of supposedly happy marriage. Back home, he demands answers from Madeleine. A long night of explanations ensues.
Joseph Rivet
Três histórias sobre o prazer adaptadas da obra de Guy de Maupassant. Na primeira, A Máscara, um velho usa uma máscara de jovem em um salão para seduzir as mulheres. No conto seguinte, Mansão Tellier, uma cafetina e suas prostitutas passeiam pelo campo durante um final de semana. Já a terceira história, A Modelo, fala sobre a paixão de um casal de artistas.
François Donge
François Donge, a rich industrialist and womaniser, meets a girl nicknamed Bébé who he marries. Ten years later, poisoned by his wife and dying in hospital, he recalls his married life and understands how his wife who adored him suffered from his many affairs and indifference.
Raymond Pinsard
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.
Victor
Secretly in love with Françoise, the companion of his best friend Marc, Victor decides to go to prison in his place.
Carlo Bacchi
Henri Chatelard
Henri Chatelard is well in his forties, owns a restaurant and a cinema in the city, and appreciate women. When he meets Marie, a 18ish stronghead who just lost her father in a small fishermen village, it is not clear who is the hunter and who is the prey.
Pierre Arrignon
A French fugitive arrives in Genoa, where he becomes entangled with an Italian woman and her daughter.
Pierre Lussac
Portrait of a two-faced man. By day he is rich, brilliant and respectable financial officer Lussac; at night, he becomes "Mirror", a ruthless gang leader in Marseilles.
Martin Roumagnac
The local building-contractor Martin Roumagnac is fascinated by the fashionable Blanche Ferrand. To impress Blache, Martin presents her with a villa. However, this ruins him financially. Despite Martin's many efforts for the now femme-fatal Blanche, she is not able to chose between him and the rich consul De Laubry.
Clément / Maurice Lafarge
The story concerns a condemned murderer named Clement (Jean Gabin), who is "liberated" when the Nazis bomb the French jail that holds him. During his escape, Clement comes across the body of a French soldier; he steals the dead man's uniform and identification papers, then hides from the law by joining the Resistance movement. Clement's new identity and purpose in life reforms him, and in due time he has sacrificed himself in service of his country.
Bobo
After a drunken night out, a longshoreman thinks he may have killed a man.
Le capitaine André Laurent
A married tugboat captain falls for a woman he rescues from a sinking ship.
François
O dia amanhece normal em um subúrbio operário. Um cego começa a subir a escada de um prédio, até que uma voz se faz escutar: “Cala essa boca!”. Um tiro. Uma porta se abre e um homem sai com a mão na barriga e rola escada abaixo até os pés do cego, apavorado. François, operário, permanece só em seu quarto, que logo será cercado pela polícia.
Ted "Trott" Lennard
The adventures of a sailor from Mexico to a lagoon in the Pacific ocean, and the meeting with a lonely girl.
Jacques Lantier
Baseado no romance homônimo de Émile Zola, A Besta Humana é a história de Jacques, um maquinista alcoólatra, que presencia seu chefe e a esposa cometerem um crime. O chefe convence sua mulher a envolver-se com Jacques, para que ele não conte nada às autoridades, mas ela acabará se apaixonando de verdade por ele.
Jean
Um desertor do exército colonial se apaixona por uma jovem, mas uma tragédia pode separá-los.
Lucien Bourrache, dit 'Gueule d'Amour'
Lucien Bourrache, a good looking non-commissioned officer at the Spahis, is used to charm many women. He met Madeleine Courtois at Cannes. She is beautiful and lives in luxury. He lends her a large amount of money, which she loses gambling. Then she drops him. But Lucien is now in love, and once demobilized, he goes to Paris to find her again. But he's not so sexy without his uniform, and Madeleine and him do not belong to the same milieu.
Nicolas Dange
Nick, a Parisian businessman, divorces his rich American wife, marries his new secretary Marie, but is prevented from success in France so travels without his wife to an African outpost. He tells his young assistant Gilbert about his wife. When Gilbert takes sick and returns to Paris, he begins to fall in love with Marie.
Le lieutenant Maréchal
A Primeira Guerra Mundial em uma época que ela não era conhecida como tal - o filme conta a história de um grupo de soldados franceses presos em um campo de prisioneiros na Alemanha em 1916, de suas análises sobre a guerra e do comportamento humano no meio dela.
Pépé le Moko
Pépé é um gangster de Paris que se esconde na Argélia. Após dois anos se escondendo, começa a sentir falta de sua liberdade, mesmo com poderes. Ao conhecer Gaby, sua vontade de voltar só aumenta, mas se voltar pode ser pego pelo detetive Slimane.
Pepel Wasska
Inhabitants of a flophouse struggle to survive under the harsh treatment imposed by the landlord, Kostyleva. One resident, young thief Wasska Pepel, ends his affair with the landlord's wife, Vassilissa, and takes up with her sister, Natacha. Pepel also befriends the baron, a former nobleman fallen on hard times, but Pepel's attempts at happiness are complicated when he's accused of murder by a spiteful Vassilissa.
Jean dit Jeannot
Cinco amigos estão desempregados e sem dinheiro algum. Juntos, ganham 100.000 francos na loteria francesa e, em vez de compartilhar o dinheiro, decidem permanecer unidos para tentar levar um negócio adiante.
Georges
Annabella, Jean Gabin and Fernand Gravey star as a trio of circus trapeze artists. Both Gabin and Gravey love Annabella, but she has eyes only for Gravey. Seething with jealousy, Gabin plots revenge against his rival. He "accidentally" drops Gravey into a net during rehearsal -- but does he plan to do the same during a performance, when the trio works without a net?
Pierre Gilieth
Depois de cometer um assassinato em Paris, Pierre Gilieth foge para Barcelona. Na tentativa de arrumar dinheiro na capital da Catalunha, o francês se alista na Legião Estrangeira Espanhola, onde faz dois amigos, Lucas e Mulot. Pierre tenta esquecer suas culpas, mas os fatos não deixam.
Ponce Pilate
The final days of Jesus from the time he enters the city of Jerusalem. Viewed as a threat, it is decided that he must be captured, tried, and executed as a criminal, a plan aided and abetted by disciple Judas Iscariot.
Jean
Zou Zou tries to help her childhood friend prove his innocence after he's accused of murder.
François Paradis
A young woman has three suitors on her father's logging ranch on the Quebec frontier.
Mac Allan
An engineer is hired to plan and oversee the construction of a undersea tunnel between Europe and the US. However, certain interests don't want to see the tunnel built and use every means at their disposal, including sabotage and murder, to stop its construction. French-language version of the 1933 German DER TUNNEL, q.v.
Charles Boulla
The intersecting lives of neighbors in a courtyard apartment building in Vienna,including a football player related to the concierge,a new blonde maid hired by the wife of a baron,whom both the athlete and a baron flirt with,and a deadbeat tenant who fakes his suicide.
Pierre Lavernay
Pedro Savedra
Charles
A young man, Charles, operator in a neighborhood cinema, is suspected of involvement in the theft of jewelry. His fiancée, Lucette, but it would save would necessitate denounce his brother Olivier who is the leader of the band of thieves. Lucette will see the victim, the jeweler Van Hoolst who agrees to withdraw its complaint against restitution jewelry. Thieves do not meet the market but ultimately, the operator is cleared and becomes the owner of the cinema.
Le capitaine
A barge captain saves Marinette from drowning and soon marries her. On the wedding day, Sylvestre, the captain’s best friend, falls in love with Marinette.
Joe Greer
French-language version of Howard Hawks' The Crowd Roars (1932): A race car driver vies with his younger brother, who he'd hoped to keep away from the track, both in competition and for a girl who hangs out with the men. Tragedy results.
Fricot
The life of disorderly soldiers in the barracks dealing with daily routines.
Martousse
Also known as Lilac, this early Anatole Litvak-directed talkie was based on a play by Tristan Bernard and Charles Henry Hirsch. The story bears traces of the Bertold Brecht-Weill piece The Threepenny Opera, with heroine Lilac (Marcelle Romeo) consorting with the criminal scum of Paris. Lilac falls in love with a handsome detective (Andre Luguet), but he doesn't let his emotions stand in the way of his duty, and in the end he reluctantly turns her over to the authorities. At $120,000, Coeur de Lilas was one of the most expensive movies to come out of France in 1931, but it more than made back its cost at the box-office.
Jean
In a chic nightclub, a navel officer admires his new love, the singer Stella Maris. A fellow officer warns him not to get involved with this woman and tells the tragic story of a sailor who lost everything because of his love for her. Some years before, in the port of Toulon, a sailor, Jean, met Stella in a bar. The two danced and instantly Jean realised he was love. The sailor later traced Stella to her home in St Tropez where, having forced his way into her bedroom, he spent the night with her. Some days later, Jean saw Stella in the company of another man. Driven by jealousy, he deserted his post and decided to put an end to his days…
Robert Nourry
Jean Cordier
Tourneur's first film tells the story of a chemist, Jules Renaudin. He welcomes a young pregnant girl, Claire, who enters his pharmacy in despair one evening. He takes care of her and gradually falls in love with her, doing everything for her. But she is attracted by the cheerfulness of young Jean Cordier, whose warehouse is a few steps away from the pharmacy.
Bob
In order not to compromise the great music hall star with whom he spent the night, a man is accused of a murder he did not commit.
Jacques Miral
On his wedding night with Hilda Bergmann, the daughter of a swedish chemist, the young and rich american Willy Keanton is stabbed by an unidentified masked man. He kidnaps the young woman, who is found later on by the count Robert d'Arbel. The detective Jacques Miral, nicknamed « the pointed tower's ferret » is put in charge of the case. Soon, he discovers that an international bandit, Méphisto, seeks to seize the formula of a process against asphyxiating gas, invented by professor Bergmann. The struggle is tough between Miral and the uncatchable Méphisto. Monique Aubray, Keanton's secretary and engaged to the detective, the Nostradamus stallholders and the « mastiff of Bordeaux », and the famous novelist Fortuné Bidon are also involved in the case...
Marcel Grivot
When the baroness surprises the baron with his mistress at the music hall, he passes off young Marcel, a clothing salesman, as an important customer.
Jean Gabin's second film.
Jean Gabin's first film.
