Marcelle Monthil

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fernand Ledoux

Abandoned by the father of her child, the begging young mother desperately seeks refuge in a monastery church....

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Cast: Georges Paulais

Lucrèce, a famous actress, is bothered first, then flattered by the passionate testimonies of love given to her by François, a 12th...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Edwige Feuillère

Tells the story of a young woman escaping from reform school who tries to steal a foreign ambassador's watch but ends up falling in love with him.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Danielle Darrieux

In a chaotic 19th-century Paris teeming with aristocrats, thieves, psychics, and courtesans, theater mime Baptiste is in love with the mysterious...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Arletty

The irresistible rise of a young provincial, Miquette, who, having risen to Paris, will experience success in the theater and love in Hollywood with...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Blanche Montel

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...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Harry Baur

To protect the honor of a married lady, a grammar professor pretends to be a singing teacher and falls in love with the real professor's daughter.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Yolande Laffon

Hélène has an affair with Alain for ten years, but does not want to divorce her husband. Alain receives one letter from a girl Michelle...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Annabella

A schoolboy remembers his last holiday in the big house of his family in the country, before it was sold.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Odile Versois

Although suspected and hunted down by policeman Sherlock Coco and inspector Hector, the Pieds Nickelés (Croquignol, Filochard and...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Maurice Baquet

An art historian has an affair with a young saleslady while his disaffected wife cheats on him in turn.Both illicit relationships end in little boys...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gaby Morlay

A woman steals to have enough money to please her husband. Her nephew, madly in love with her, reports this to a detective who catches her red handed.

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Cast: Paul Amiot

The aunt of Alfred Puc, a meek tax-collector in Paris, dies while riding in a moving van. The driver, not wishing to be bothered by a police...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Fernandel

In Vendée, an old farmer is gradually abandoned by his family who do not see their future in the fields. Only a cripple in love and abandoned...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Pierre Larquey

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Léon Belières

An opinionated and cocky bookkeeper is certain he can rum his employer's business better than his employer can. The latter dive the bookkeeper a...

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Cast: Tramel

It is one thing to open a beauty salon (which Edwige and her young lover Gaston have just done) but it is another to keep it on its feet.To best...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Elvira Popescu

Life is so dull in a quiet little neighborhood that gossips, eager for some kind of scandal to brighten things up, imagine their haberdasher has been...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jacques Baumer

1871. Roger Laroque accuses himself of a crime he did not commit to save his mistress, Julia de Noirville, from dishonor. He escapes from prison and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Constant Rémy

In the spring of 1913, Jean Servin, a son of a family, became friends with Roberte, a little midinette. He leaves her a few months later to marry...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Gaby Morlay

Crainquebille, merchant of four seasons, is sentenced to fifteen days in prison for having insulted a police officer. When he leaves, his clientele...

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Cast: Tramel

A husband, exasperated by his wife, spanks her without paying attention to the open window in front of which he is. He is annoyingly surprised to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Albert Préjean

A rich young woman asks a poor man to play for her the role of a generous friend. He ends up falling in love.

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Cast: Gaby Morlay

"Menaces" deals with the months before WW2 in a hotel :t he fear of the impending war never leaves the guests of an hotel in Paris.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mireille Balin

A rich businessman living alone is deprived of the nephew he was to have brought up decides on his doctor's advice to search for the four...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Harry Baur

Caprices tells the story of two young rich people. A famous actress poses as a poor florist, and a distinguished society man camouflages himself as...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Danielle Darrieux

The film is biographical, telling the story of the life and artistic struggles of the French composer Hector Berlioz. Berlioz is shown as a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jean-Louis Barrault

In 1914, in the first months of World War I, Louise Jarraud loses her husband, killed on the front. Shortly after, she gives birth to a baby, who...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gaby Morlay

A kind and generous village noble, specializing in good works, actually leads a double existence and carries out dishonest activities.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Raimu

A young mechanic is given a strange job: to convey the king of the gypsies' embalmed dead body on a very long route.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jules Berry

A struggling artist buys a talisman that gives him love, fame and wealth. The talisman is a severed left hand, and it works perfectly, in fact,...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Pierre Fresnay

Comedy about an older man wanting to marry a younger woman who must make sure first that the woman is not by chance his own daughter.

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Cast: Denise Grey

Bernard Lampré, a young composer, is engaged to Hélène Madelin, a gifted intern. Jealous of Professor d'Esperel, the great...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lise Delamare

Renée Ménard, a young mixed-race Indochinese, arrives in France to find her French father, whom she only knows is called Paul...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Lucien Baroux

An officer, two of his comrades and a social worker want to create the "Carrefour", a place for lost children and teens to give them a chance not to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: René Dary

Two friends, mobilized together and idle, send their photos to two young workers. The photos are inverted, resulting in a real sentimental imbroglio...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: George Rigaud

Sylvie, a young woman who believes to be cursed, lives in the town of Carcassonne with her guardian, Mr. Toulzac. He is a retired teacher who wishes...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Pierre Richard-Willm

An adventure between rival spies about documents concerning the process for extracting fuel from seawater. A love story that threatens to turn...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Marie Déa

Hélène, a young waitress working in a bar frequented by German soldiers, saves the life of Pierre, a Resistance fighter. Her jealous...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hélène Perdrière

Philippe and Sylvie have to do with Alvarez, a dangerous gang leader. They break up with him and commit robbery and murder. Sylvie suggests that...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Raymond Rouleau

A friendly average Frenchman pretends to be a famous commissioner on vacation. He arrives in a castle converted into a boarding house where, after...

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Cast: Max Régnier

For fun and to dazzle his wife, the novelist Morgan steals a ring and gets rid of it in the costume jewelry section of a supermarket. Sophie buys the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: René Dary

Léon Ménard, the village verger, is a decent young man whose hobby is to play the accordion. One day he is fired for having accompanied...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bourvil

Returning from South America, a singer is hired by an old pal who runs a detective agency to use a perch as a night club performer to be an...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tino Rossi

After a crazy night spent at Maxim's, Doctor Montgicourt returns home with the Môme Shrimp. General Petypon invites her to his castle for the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Saturnin Fabre

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Pierre Palau

1938, France, Paris, at the Superior Conservatory of Dramatic Art ("Conservatoire Supérieur d'Art Dramatique"). The first-year entrance exams...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Louis Jouvet