Michel Simon

Michel Simon

Nascimento : 1895-04-09, Geneva, Switzerland

Morte : 1975-05-30

História

Michel Simon (9 April 1895 – 30 May 1975) was a Swiss actor. He appeared in the notable films La Chienne (1931), Boudu Saved from Drowning (1932), L'Atalante (1934), Port of Shadows (1938), The Head (1959), and The Train (1964).

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Michel Simon
Michel Simon
Michel Simon
Michel Simon

Filmes

René Clair, tout entre nous n'était qu'un jeu
Lui-même
Cinéastes de notre temps: Jean Vigo
Self
Jean Vigo : le son retrouvé
Le père Jules (archive footage)
Journey Through History
Self (archive footage)
A journey through history
The Red Ibis
Zizi
A mentally disturbed man named Jérémie is scouring the area in search of women he can strangle with his scarf, which is embroidered with an ibis.
A Mais Bela Noite da Minha Vida
Attorney Zorn
A successful businessman whose destiny leads him to a secluded Swiss chalet where his life is put on trial by a group of retired law professionals. The men assemble to analyze Sordi's rise to power and his increasingly immoral behavior as he attained success, and the warped perceptions of right and wrong he has adopted to remain successful.
Blanche
Master
Blanche is the young, pure, beautiful wife of the Master of the castle, in a secluded land. Every man is in love with her, including the King and his servant Bartolomeo, visiting the Master.
The House
Louis Compiegne
Former professor of natural history, Louis Compiegne lives in retirement in a big house, with Pascal, his faithful servant. The arrival of a young American student comes to disorder the quiet life of the pensioner.
A Contestação
Cavazza
Mais um filme Italiano em episódios. 1 A Bomba na Televisão: Zelosos executivos de televisão convidam Riccardo, um diretor de vanguarda. O resultado é excessivamente provocativo e embaraçoso. Este episódio foi cortado na televisão e na distribuição em VHS. 2 Concerto Para Três Flautas: As agruras de um homem com seu filho universitário contestador e seu trabalho onde ele acaba se vendo na mesma situação de seu filho. 3 A Universidade: Manifestações estudantis em universidades. Uma espécie de documentário. 4 O Padre: A luta de um Padre com a pobreza de sua paróquia. E o desalento ao ver a opulência de outros padres e do pastor protestante.
The Marriage Came Tumbling Down
Le vieux Jéricho
Jacques spends his summer vacation with his grandfather, Jericho, in the company of his wife Marie. The malicious ancestor quickly realizes that his grandson's marriage is on the brink of breakdown. He does everything to save him.
The Two of Us
Pépé
Durante os últimos meses da ocupação alemã, uma criança judia é enviada com nome falso para a casa de um casal de idosos no campo.
Jean Renoir le patron, 2e partie: La direction d'acteur
Self - Interviewee
Second in the documentary trilogy from mastermind Jacques Rivette, featuring a conversation between Jean Renoir and Michel Simon
Deux heures à tuer
L'employé de la consigne
Cinéastes de notre temps: Sacha Guitry
Self - Interviewee
Documentary about French playwright and film director Sacha Guitry.
Cyrano and d'Artagnan
Le Grognard
Duelist and poet Cyrano de Bergerac and musketeer d'Artagnan meet and team up to stop the conspiracy against King Louis XIII of France.
O Trem
Papa Boul
Em 1944, um coronel alemão carrega um trem com tesouros de arte francesa para enviar para a Alemanha. A resistência deve pará-lo sem danificar a carga. Quando as forças aliadas se aproximam de Paris em agosto de 1944, o coronel alemão von Waldheim está desesperado para levar todas as maiores pinturas da França para a Alemanha. Ele consegue um trem para transportar as valiosas obras de arte, mesmo com o caos da retirada. A resistência francesa, no entanto, quer impedi-los de roubar seus tesouros nacionais, mas receberam ordens de Londres de que não devem ser destruídas. O chefe da estação, Labiche, tem a tarefa de agendar o trem e fazer tudo acontecer sem problemas, mas ele também faz parte de um grupo cada vez menor de combatentes da resistência encarregados de impedir o roubo. Ele e outros armam um estratagema elaborado para impedir que o trem saia do território francês.
Ecco
Self
A documentary highlighting some of the oddest, strangest and more grotesque examples of human behavior. Included are a tour of the Grand Guignol theater in Paris, a man who sticks long needles through his body, reindeer being castrated, and footage of lesbians and strippers.
O Diabo e os Dez Mandamentos
Jérôme Chambard
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 stripper calls on her only to find her married to a janitor who doesn't know what kind of dancing his wife performs; Denis, a Jesuit novice, leaves the order to avenge his sister's suicide, which was provoked by Garigny, who seduced her into prostitution and drug addiction; Philip buys a necklace for Micheline though he is bored with her; a young man find out that his real mother is not Madeleine, but actress Clarisse Ardant; Didier Marin, cashier of a bank, was fired by his boss; the Devil appears as a serpent for Jérome Chambard and the bishop are eating.
Emile's Boat
Charles-Edmond Larmentiel
Charles-Edmond, the eldest of the Larmentiel brothers, decides to return to La Rochelle, his hometown to die there. Forty years earlier he had been driven out by his father. Before passing away, the old eccentric announces that he has a hidden son, Émile, a fisherman to whom he wishes to bequeath his property. François, the younger brother, whom Charles-Edmond hates, is eyeing the inheritance to bail out the powerful family business, a veritable fishing trust, and will try to appropriate the affection and property of this inopportune heir. Émile, meanwhile, is too busy arguing with Fernande, a beugland singer, to suspect what awaits him...
Candide or The Optimism in the 20th Century
Colonel Nanar, du cadre de réserve
The film is a 20th-century adaptation of Voltaire's 1759 social satire novel Candide, ou l’Optimisme.
Pete the Tender
Pierrot
In this crime drama, Michel Simon is cast as Pierrot, an elderly gangster who does not fit the stereotype -- he is soft-hearted. After a petty criminal betrays his cohorts by taking off with the loot from a big robbery, he is caught and sent to jail. Now he has served his time, and Pierrot is given the task of retrieving the stolen cash. The tyro criminal tries to use a pretty young woman who has fallen in love with him as a red herring for Pierrot's investigation. Everything backfires though, and Pierrot is left considering what to do with the loot, and with the criminal who does not yet realize he loves his attractive accomplice and could have a good life with her if he opts for walking the straight and narrow.
A Batalha de Austerlitz
Alboise
Napoleon Bonaparte crowns himself emperor and fights the English, Austrians and Russians in 1802.
The Head
Prof. Dr. Abel
A scientist invents a serum that keeps a dog's head alive after its body dies. When the scientist dies of a heart attack, his crazed assistant cuts off his head and, using the serum, keeps the doctor's head alive and forces it to help him on an experiment to give his hunchbacked nurse assistant a new body.
It Happened in Broad Daylight
Jacquier
The search for a child murderer drags a once-respected detective into an all-consuming obsession.
Un certain Monsieur Jo
Joseph "Jo" Guardini
Jo Guardini, now the peaceful owner of a charming inn by the banks of the River Marne, once was a dreaded gangster. The respectful citizen does not want to have anything to do with the underworld any more. Unfortunately, two of his former accomplices kidnap a little girl and decide to hide her in his hotel. What will Jo do : side with the law in the person of inspector Loriot or have a relapse in crime?
Three Make a Pair
Commissaire Bernard
Jojo’s ambition is to become a gangster, but to be admitted into a gang he has to prove himself by committing a daring act. To that end, he kills someone in broad daylight, not knowing that his victim is an actor who is playing a scene in a film directed by a cranky film-maker (Darry Cowl). The murder is caught on film, leading Commissaire Bernard (Michel Simon) to think that the killer will be easy to find. Sure enough, Bernard soon makes his arrest, a clown from a circus, but then he faces an almost insurmountable problem. The clown has an identical twin, who is also a clown with the same circus. Both men claim to be innocent…
Mémoires d'un flic
Principal Commissioner Henri Dominique
In Marseille, crime squad captain Dominique fights against racketeers and tries to put a young man back on the right track.
The Impossible Mr. Pipelet
Maurice Martin, concierge d'immeuble
A story about a simple old man with a lot of love for his only daughter. She falls in love with a doctor's son and he don't understand why...
At the Order of the Czar
Prince de Sayn-Wittgenstein
At the Order of the Czar
Hungarian Rhapsody
General von Sayn-Wittgenstein
Nossos Tempos
Padre Silvio
Nine episodes about life in Italy in the period just before its economic boom.
Strange Desire of Mr. Bard
Auguste Bard
A terminally ill Mr. Bard, a casino bus driver forced to quit his job, miraculously wins a fortune playing roulette. Instantly becoming a millionaire, he wants to fulfill his life's dream: to become a father. This plan is opposed by his greedy relatives who would go any low to take this money away from him. They are being led by a small-time crook. Mr. Bard's natural shyness and good heart lead him to the journey of self-exploration and finding his true love.
Saadia
Bou Rezza
Saadia is a wild, strange Arab girl whose life has been dominated by a local sorceress, a vengeful outcast in the community, who has convinced her she has the "evil eye" and brings disaster to all who love her. French doctor Henrik takes her to his clinic, for rehabilitation purposes, and falls in love with her as does his friend, Si Lahssen, the reigning prince of this small Moroccan state. When a plague falls on the town, Saadia is convinced she is responsible, and rides alone into the mountain country to retrieve the plague serum being held for ransom by bandits. The love triangle dominates most of the rest of the film.
The Merchant of Venice
Shylock
A rich merchant, Antonio is depressed for no good reason, until his good friend Bassanio comes to tell him how he's in love with Portia. Portia's father has died and left a very strange will: only the man that picks the correct casket out of three (silver, gold, and lead) can marry her. Bassanio, unfortunately, is strapped for cash with which to go wooing, and Antonio wants to help, so Antonio borrows the money from Shylock, the money-lender. But Shylock has been nursing a grudge against Antonio's insults, and makes unusual terms to the loan. And when Antonio's business fails, those terms threaten his life, and it's up to Bassanio and Portia to save him.
Femmes de Paris
Professeur Charles Buisson
The Virtuous Scoundrel
Albert et Alain Ménard-Lacoste
La Vie d'un honnête homme English: The Virtuous Scoundrel, is a French comedy drama film from 1953, directed by Sacha Guitry, written by Sacha Guitry, starring Michel Simon and Louis de Funès.
Hôtel des Invalides
Récitant / Narrator (voice)
A tour of the Hotel des Invalides, and more particularly of the Army Museum and the Saint Louis Chapel. From François I's armor to Guynemer's airplane, to Napoleon's and Marshall Foch's tombs. But this is no ordinary tour,it is rather a chilling visit guided by Georges Franju and narrated by Michel Simon emphasizing - at times through biting humor -not the glory but the nonsense of wars, but their tragic aftermath.
The Road to Damascus
Caïphe
Saul De Tarse is a Roman soldier who is making rough all over. He arrives at the Golgotha when the apostles remove the cross. He ruthlessly persecutes the Christians, even though they are his own friends.
Crimson Curtain
Lucien Bertal / Léonard, his understudy / Banquo
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 first falls on Sigurd, an old actor who had threatened Bertal. But parallels appear between the characters in the play and the actors who play them.
The Two Truths
Cidoni
The young Loris is undergoing a trial for killing his girlfriend Maria Luce. According to the reconstruction of the facts, the young man would shoot his mistress making it then end up under the wheels of a tram. On the remains of the woman's body, however, there is no trace of a gunshot wound and, during the trial, the accused, who appears hypnotized, refuses to answer. The arrival of the ex-lawyer Cidoni, who takes the place of the defense, overturns the thesis of the prosecution and instead demonstrates that the victim was not a naive girl as had been believed up to then.
Full House
Le commissaire Jules Maigret
Anthology film with three shorts each featuring a famous detective: Monsieur Wens, Lemmy Caution and Maigret.
Das Geheimnis vom Bergsee
Bürgermeister
Pietro Ponz lives a happy life in the mountains on the Swiss-Italian border with his mother Lamberta. No one but his mother knows that Pietro is a girl, a deception that Lamberta was forced into by a series of tragedies almost twenty years previously. Not long after her husband Joseph Ponz died, Lamberta also lost her fragile infant son, Pietro. Whilst mourning this double loss, she began an affair with Bolzano, a notorious smuggler. After Bolzano was killed by the customs men, Lamberta gave birth to his child, a little girl that she decided to pass off as her son Pietro, in the hope of securing an inheritance from her husband's wealthy parents. Now that Pietro is fast coming of age, his tutor and grandmother are adamant that he should be sent to a religious school. Pietro escapes from the school and joins a gang of smugglers...
The Girl with the Whip
Le tuteur
The daughter of a notorious smuggler is raised as a boy by her foster mother.
Mister Taxi
Pierre Verger
An honest taxi driver gets into trouble by looking for a customer who left her purse full of cash in her vehicle.
Veneno
Paul Louis Victor Braconnier
Depois de trinta anos juntos, um jardineiro e a sua mulher deparam-se com a contemplação de que desejam livrar-se um do outro, tendo o jardineiro já planeado como poderia negociar o seu eventual processo criminal, no seguimento do assassinato.
The Beauty of the Devil
Mephistopheles / Elderly Henri Faust
Henri Faust, retiring after 50 years as a professor in a circa-1700 French university, despairs at the ravages of old age ... whereupon Mephistopheles, agent of Lucifer, appears as a virile, handsome young man and exchanges bodies with him to induce Faust to sign a pact to exchange his soul for renewed youth, riches and power. But though the "new" Faust is attracted by the material improvements in his life, he remains wary of signing, while Mephistopheles, now posing as the aged professor whose body he inhabits, must find a way to trick him into signing the pact - and dissuade him from the love of a gypsy girl who prays for his soul - or find himself damned by his own Master...
Fabiola
Senator Fabius Severus
In ancient Rome a love story blossoms between Fabiola, daughter of a senator, and Rhual, a Gallic gladiator. After Fabiola's father is killed, the Romans blame the Christians and the persecution begins. Rhual confesses to being a Christian, is accused of the murder and sentenced to fight to the death in the arena.
La Carcasse et le Tord-cou
Joseph Ferdinand Anselme Midot,aka 'Le tord-cou'
La Carcasse, an obtuse peasant, lives with his wife Lucie and his father-in-law Tord-cou. At odds with his son-in-law, the Tord-cou takes it into his head to marry Thérésa, the daughter of their neighbor Casimir. But the Carcass, too, feels attracted to the young woman...
The Lovers of the Pont Saint-Jean
Alcide Garonne
On the banks of the Rhône, not far from Tain l'Hermitage, Alcide Garonne, an old ferryman - and incidentally a poacher - lives out of wedlock with Victorine Rousset nicknamed Maryse, a colorful tramp. When Garrone's son, Pilou, a worker, falls in love with Augusta, the mayor's daughter, the unconventional old couple tries to protect the unconventional young pair from the disapproval of self righteous villagers.
The Crowned Fish Tavern
le Capitaine Palmer
Captain Palmer's daughter, Maria, is neglected by her husband, the cynical Leo, who lives with the beautiful Sylvia. To defeat his son-in-law, Palmer has the idea of ​​putting Sylvia back in the presence of Pierre, her first love. Leo takes revenge by creating many difficulties for Palmer who retaliates by starting a violent fight where Leo is killed. Everything seems to point to Pierre, but...
Pânico
Monsieur Hire
Depois que uma empregada idosa é assassinada, as opiniões são manipuladas, evidências são plantadas, a violência irrompe e o pânico acontece. Nos subúrbios de Paris, uma velha empregada acaba de ser assassinada. Todo mundo fala sobre isso, exceto o misantropo Mr Hire. Na mesma noite, Alice, saindo da prisão, chega e se encontra com seu amante Alfred novamente. Eles agem como se não se conhecessem, pois Alice foi presa para poupar Alfred. Mas o Sr. Hire se apaixona por Alice, e ele suspeita quem é o assassino. (e 16 - Estimado 16 Anos)
Not Guilty
Docteur Ancelin
An alcoholic doctor accidentally kills someone and manages to make the death look like an accident. The episode triggers a sense of confidence and he resolves to correct the miseries of his life.
A Friend Will Come Tonight
Michel Lemaret
Commander Gerard and his band of guerrillas have found the ideal hideout: a nursing home in the Alps where, along with the mentally ill, are also hiding a Jewish girl and a Swiss doctor who might be a spy for the Germans ...
Vautrin the Thief
Vautrin
A famous convict Jacques Collin, alias Trompe la mort, or abbot Carlos Herrera, also called Vautrin, escapes from prison. Chance makes him meet Lucien de Rubempré, an impetuous and eternal lover who, when he is dismissed, collapses. Moved by this fragility, he takes him under his wing, and will do everything possible to ensure that his creature reaches happiness, even if it means imagining the worst shenanigans and other scams, with the help of a band of clever villains.
Shop Girls of Paris
Baudu
The struggles of a small business owner come to light in this film by director André Cayatte. The proprietor of a fabric shop, M. Baudu (Michel Simon) faces stiff competition when a department store moves in across the street, the first of its kind in 1860s Paris. On top of the stresses associated with the rival retailer, Baudu’s niece and two nephews take up residence with him after recently being orphaned. The niece, Denise Baudu (Blanchette Brunoy), sees the writing on the wall for her uncle’s business so she takes a job as a shop girl with his competitor and despite her success the decision does not register well with the family.
Girl of the Golden West
Butler
The King's Jester
Screenplay
Based on a Victor Hugo play, and scored with music from the later opera by Giuseppe Verdi, the film tells about a hunchbacked clown whose beautiful daughter falls in love with the lecherous king.
The King's Jester
Rigoletto
Based on a Victor Hugo play, and scored with music from the later opera by Giuseppe Verdi, the film tells about a hunchbacked clown whose beautiful daughter falls in love with the lecherous king.
Tosca
Il barone Scarpia
Non-musical account of Puccini's opera: Tosca and Cavaradossi are in love, but the tyrant Scarpia desires Tosca and oppresses Cavaradossi who is fighting for freedom.
Comedy of Happiness
Monsieur Jourdain
Monsieur Jourdain is a dangerous madman : he wants to share his fortune! His relatives do what any sensible fellow on earth would do: they have him committed to a mental hospital. But Jourdain manages to escape and decides to make everybody happy except... his heirs!
The Musicians of the Sky
Le capitaine Simon
A would be blind hoodlum redeems himself in the Salvation Army just for a lovely lieutenant.
Paris-New York
Le commissaire Boucheron
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, the "mystery" is solved and all misunderstandings blithely swept away.
Cavalcade of Love
Diogène, Monseigneur de Beaupré & Lacouret
Cavalcade D'Amour is divided into three sections, each depicting a romance occurring within the walls of the Chateau de Champs. Legend has it that whoever marries in the Chateau is doomed to an unhappy life. This proves to be the case in 1639 and 1839, but the heroine of the 1939 segment, Corinne Luchaire, is determined to break the jinx. She is convinced that she will prove an unsuitable bride for Claude Dauphin, and he is likewise convinced that he will turn out to be an inadequate groom. But the couple's respective families will not be dissuaded, and the marriage takes place as scheduled? with unexpectedly happy results!
Extenuating Circumstances
M. Gaetan, "Le Sentencier"
Harsh Parisian judge Gaetan (known as Monsieur Maximum), chafing in the idleness of retirement, leaves for a seaside holiday. But Gabriel the chauffeur has his mind on his girl, not the car; Gaetan and wife Nathalie are stranded in the country, where they find shelter in a low class bistro patronized by cheerful jail birds. Once the ice is broken, they have a wonderful time, but as the judge tries to trick his new friends into reforming, inevitable exposure approaches...
Fric-Frac
Jo
An employee at a jewelry store falls in love with a woman who secretly plans to rob the store.
The Last Turning
Nick Marino
Frank, a hobo, ends up in a garage-truck stop in the middle of nowhere. Nick Marino, its older, kind and naive owner, is married to Cora, a sexy and mercenary woman half his age. Frank, although not a fan of hard work, accepts Nick's offer to work for him. Of course, it is not for Nick's sake that the young man becomes his attendant, but for the love of Cora under whose spell he has fallen at once. It does not take long before Cora, who despises her husband, asks her lover to help her get rid of him. Frank is reluctant at first but ...
The End of the Day
Cabrissade, l'éternelle doublure
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 about aging, failure and the entertainment.
Behind the Facade
Picking
The owner of an apartment building is found murdered. Two rival policemen, Boucheron and Lambert, investigate the matter and get into the private lives of the tenants: an unfaithful judge, a crippled blind man and his daughter, an eccentric knife thrower, a shoplifter (and proud of it!), a bourgeois lady who has a bone to pick with a gigolo, a mistress who cheats on her lover, not forgetting the caretaker and a soldier in love.
Deputy Eusèbe
Eusèbe Bonbonneau
Eusèbe Bonbonneau, a solicitor's clerk, learns one day that a candidate bearing his name runs for election as a member of parliament. In fact Frazier, a crooked businessman, has urged an accomplice to impersonate Eusèbe, in order to obtain, through this straw man, authorizations for the creation of a casino in Sanceau-les-Nains and to make big money out of it. Eusébe decides to go to Paris to investigate. In the capital he meets Mariska, an exuberant actress who encourages him to try to get elected. As a result, thanks to her the true Bonbonneau becomes a member of parliament and the crook's accomplice is arrested. But Frazier is not impressed and, changing tactics, he starts manipulating Eusèbe.
Cocoanut
Josserand
A small town gentleman learns that his prim and proper wife was once a showgirl, and that, even worse, he had enjoyed a one night stand with her in the Orient.
Beautiful Star
Léon
Meg decides to commit suicide to escape the marriage to which her father intends her. She is saved by Jean-Pierre, another candidate for suicide, and Léon, a tramp who was just trying to reason with him. The trio then becomes inseparable and organizes a new life based on friendship and freedom.
Mother Love
Michel Quercy
Gilbert Quercy, 18, tried to commit suicide after a heartache. At the hospital, three women try to cheer him up : the three former wives of his father, an archaeologist and an egyptologist, whom Gilbert called his "mothers". These women show a lot of willingness, but soon will become intrusive.
The Stream
le comte Edouard de Bourgogne
When Paul, an officer, discovers Denise, a young orphan escaped from her orphanage, he takes advantage of his naivete to seduce her before changing her mind and sending her to live with her mother while sailing.
The New Rich
Martinet
The workers Legendre and Martinet have won a large sum in the national lottery. Instead of squandering it, they had the good idea to invest it in industry. Happy in business, they soon find themselves at the head of a fortune. But their characters are very different. Legendre, who is brave and honest, narrowly escapes the malevolence of a couple of harlots. Martinet, his former work companion, has become a crooked and formidable financier. Both will face each other in court, the honesty of the first finally triumphing over the greed of the second.
Cais das Sombras
Zabel
Um desertor do exército colonial se apaixona por uma jovem, mas uma tragédia pode separá-los.
Boys' School
Lemel, le professeur de dessin
In a college, three friends form a secret society. Their objective - going to America. One night, after one of their secret meetings, one of them sees a man coming out from a wall. The next day, after he talks about it, he disappears. Then, the second one vanishes. Are they gone to their dreams? That's when the art teacher is murdered. Suspicions now are too high so the third one decides to investigate.
Mirages
Michel
A star of Les Folies Bergères has to choose between her career and her love for an engineer.
Naples Under the Kiss of Fire
Michel
Mario Esposito, who sings in a Neapolitan restaurant, is in love with Assunta, the niece of Teresa, the owner of the place. He shares his apartment with Michel, his best friend. This one has fallen under the spell of Lolita, a gorgeous adventuress he met at the cathedral where he officiates as the organist. But things go awry as, while Michel intercedes with Aunt Teresa for Assunta's hand in his favor, Mario in turn falls in love with Lolita. On the very day of his wedding with Assunta, Mario runs away with Lolita, thus betraying both his love and his friend. But it does not take long before the young singer realizes the big mistake he has made.
Bizarre, Bizarre
Irwin Molyneux, alias Félix Chapel
A French farce set in Victorian London where a botanist and his wife get into trouble when they pretend to go missing in order to hide from their sanctimonious cousin - an Anglican bishop who is leading a campaign against such writing.
La bataille silencieuse
Sauvin
A young journalist who has gone reporting with the papers of a friend gets caught up in an arms smuggling operation. It is in this context that he meets Draguicha, a Serbian student who, misled by a group of greedy financiers, is planning a terrorist attack on the Orient Express...
Boulot aviateur
An operetta baron has teamed up with a mechanic to carry out insurance scams. During one of their shots, they come up against Boulot, a drunken but clever driver, who ends up having them arrested after revealing their ride.
Le choc en retour
Laverdac
A rich sugar factory manager wants to marry his daughter to an aristocrat, while the young girl is in love with an engineer, employed in a rival company.
Vamos Sonhar
Un Invité (Prologue)
Um advogado seduz uma mulher casada e passa a noite com ela. Na manhã seguinte, o marido chega no escritório do advogado, mas por outro motivo: ele também passou a noite com uma amante e precisa de um álibi.
Girls of Paris
A few colorful characters, with very different social origins and whose destinies are not always glorious, will parade before our eyes, for our greatest pleasure. Turning among characters such as : an alcoholic bum, a rich banker, an eccentric old lady, a working class girl, a poor lover, and a hypocritical bourgeois.
The Twins of Brighton
Labrosse
Slapstick inheritance comedy based on the confusion between twin brothers, both played by the great Raimu who also plays their father.
Moutonnet
Frècheville
A crude countryman sells horses and ,thanks to an old war buddy who has now become a film star, has achieved some renown. Full of himself, he ventures to Paris to see his movie friend, only to experience bitter disappointment.
Under Western Eyes
Lespara
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.
The Fleeing Dead
Achille Baluchet
Two second-rate, hammy actors, Hector Trignol and Achille Baluchet, come up with a fake murder story to draw attention to themselves. Baluchet is to kill Trignol, who will temporarily disappear then reappear, as if by magic, during the trial. But things don't go according to plan.
Le bébé de l'escadron
A young woman is seduced by a soldier whose name she does not know. Pregnant, she asks the colonel to review the squadron in order to recognize him.
Lovers and Thieves
Doizeau
Claude, son of a ruined family, pretends to be a dangerous trickster in order to get credit from the guys in the middle. He is in charge of retrieving compromising letters from a woman whose lover fears blackmail. But before arriving there, Claude fortunately meets love.
Adémaï au Moyen Âge
Lord Pickwickdam
Joan Of Arc has just released Orléans (1429)but the English are still here to stay . The fortress of Châteauneuf is hold by Lord Pickwickdam
A Bum Deal
Boudu
In 1932, Michel Simon plays in "Boudu sauvé des eaux" under the direction of Jean Renoir. Three years later, he was again invited to don the clothes of the famous tramp on the sets of Boulogne.
Le Bonheur
Noël Malpiaz
Philippe Lutcher, an anarchist, fires a shot at Clara Stuart, a famous stage and screen actress, but only wounds her. The star, through affectation and curiosity to know his motives, pleads in his favour at his trial, but he rebuffs her pity. After he has served 18 months in prison, they meet and fall in love.
Ladies Lake
Oscar Lyssenhop
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.
O Atalante
Le père Jules
Quando se casa com Jean, Juliette vai morar no barco do marido, onde o casal está acompanhado apenas de mais dois tripulantes. Pouco tempo depois, entediada com a vida a bordo, a mulher desembarca em Paris para ver a vida noturna. Irritado com isso, Jean zarpa, abandonando Juliette, mas, angustiado pela culpa e pela saudade, cai em depressão, e um dos tripulantes volta à cidade para tentar achar Juliette.
Miquette and Her Mother
Monchablon, un médiocre acteur de tournées, qui fait la cour à Miquette
The irresistible rise of a young provincial, Miquette, who, having risen to Paris, will experience success in the theater and love in Hollywood with a very attractive tennis player.
Léopold le bien-aimé
Away in the colonies for 15 years after his girlfriend has jilted him, Leopold returns to his village to resume involvement with women ,hopefully with better results.
High and Low
M. Bodeletz
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.
Boudu, Salvo das Águas
Producer
Boudu, um mendigo parisiense, tenta se suicidar no rio Sena, mas é resgatado pelo rico livreiro Sr. Lestingois. Este decide acolher Boudu, sem suspeitar que o mendigo deixará sua casa de pernas para o ar.
Boudu, Salvo das Águas
Priape Boudu
Boudu, um mendigo parisiense, tenta se suicidar no rio Sena, mas é resgatado pelo rico livreiro Sr. Lestingois. Este decide acolher Boudu, sem suspeitar que o mendigo deixará sua casa de pernas para o ar.
Baleydier
The attempt of a young hairdresser to act in a serious film with his chosen co star , recognized during the shooting as inept, is mistakenly taken by the audience to be deliberately comic.
A Cadela
Maurice Legrand
Infeliz no casamento, Maurice Legrand se apaixona pela jovem Lulu, uma prostituta, de quem se torna amante. Porém, ela só aceita o relacionamento pelo dinheiro de Maurice, já que está envolvida com o gigolô Dede.
O Laxante do Bebê
Chouilloux
A little boy won't go to the bathroom, which leads to all sorts of complications for his parents and their friends.
Jean of the Moon
Jean de la Lune
Marceline, the young wife of the florist Jean, can't help flirting with other men, but her brother Clo-Clo takes the poor husband's side against his sister.
Illegitimate Child
Lorédan
The illegitimate son of a music-hall star and an ambitious politician has grown up to become a journalist. He decides to get back at his father by using blackmail.
The Sad Sack
Joseph Turlot
The tale of a rich, flaky poet and his servant who both join the army and wind up in the same barracks.
O Martírio de Joana D'Arc
Jean Lemaître
França, século XV, Joana de Domrémy, filha do povo, resiste bravamente a ocupação de seu país. É presa, humilhada, torturada e interrogada de maneira impiedosa por um tribunal eclesiástico, que a levou, involuntariamente, a blasfemar.
The Late Mathias Pascal
Jérôme Pomino
Mathias Pascal, only son of a once-rich family, marries beautiful Romalinda, who has a terrible mother-in-law. She controls her daughter, and soon his home life becomes a nightmare. His only moments of lights are his mother and baby, but both die on the same day. Shocked, he leaves his hometown and goes to Monte Carlo, where he wins a fortune at the casino. Returning home, he reads his own obituary in a paper. They have found a corpse in a creek and connected it with his disappearance. Mathias, noticing that he is now free from all ties to his old life, decides to start a new one.
The Vocation of André Carel
Gaston Lebeau
At the urging of his over-protective father, André Carel, a young bourgeois from Paris, travels to Lake Geneva to rejuvenate his health. There, he falls in love with Reine, the beautiful daughter of a simple boatsman. In order to impress her solely through his personality and character, he conceals his wealthy origins and, disguising himself as a migrant laborer, takes up work on board her father's ship.
Les Deux Réalités
Cidoni