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Let Joy Reign Supreme . . .

Actors: Philippe Noiret, Jean Rochefort, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Christine Pascal, Marina Vlady

Synopsis: The humanistic actions of Philippe D'Orleans, the cultured gentle regent to young Louis the XV in pre-revolutionary France (1719) are chronicled in this French costumer. Though the regent endeavors to keep his subjects cultured and happy to stop the peasants from rising up, he knows he has no real Read More

1975
Juliette et Juliette

Actors: Marlène Jobert, Annie Girardot, Pierre Richard, Alfred Adam

Synopsis: In this French drama, when magazine journalist Juliette (Annie Giradot) goes to work on a story, she gets serious. This gets her into trouble when she interviews the other Juliette (Marlene Jobert), the winner of her magazine's contest, and she discovers a real person with a job instead of a Read More

2/27/74
Ursule et Grelu

Actors: Annie Girardot, Bernard Fresson, Roland Dubillard, Henri Garcin

Synopsis: The on-again, off-again relationship between a man and a woman who first meet during a shipwreck (she is a Salvation Army soldier, he is a sailor, both are adrift) is the subject of this French film. The two meet and separate numerous times during the movie, until they are finally able to Read More

1/9/74
Mon Oncle Benjamin

Actors: Jacques Brel, Claude Jade, Rosy Varte, Robert Dalban, Bernard Blier

Synopsis: Benjamin (Jacques Brel) is a country doctor who has a way with women with the exception of his fianceé. While other women yearn to play doctor with the handsome physician, his intended intends on saving herself for their wedding night. When the local Marquis feels he is snubbed by the wise Read More

11/28/69
Sous le Signe du Taureau

Actors: Jean Gabin, Suzanne Flon, Colette Dereal, Raymond Gerome, Michel Auclair

Synopsis: This is an updated version of the Alexander Dumas classic. Edmond Dantes (Paul Barge) is framed and imprisoned for collaboration with the enemy during World War II. When he escapes from jail he travels to South America where rumors of his death are soon taken to be fact. He discovers a treasure Read More

1968
Lo Straniero

Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Anna Karina, Bernard Blier, Georges Géret

Synopsis: The Stranger is a literal (but still very cinematic) adaptation of the novel by Albert Camus. Marcello Mastrioanni stars as Meursault, a man who feels utterly isolated from everyone and everything around him. This alienation results in sudden, inexplicable bursts of violence, culminating in Read More

10/14/67
Maigret a Pigalle

12/30/66
Commissaire Maigret A Pigalle

Actors: Gino Cervi, Lila Kedrova, Raymond Pellegrin, Alfred Adam

1966
Le Caid De Champignol

Actors: Jean Richard, Michel Serrault, Alfred Adam

1965
Le Jardinier d'Argenteuil

Actors: Jean Gabin, Liselotte Pulver, Curd Jürgens, Pierre Vernier

Synopsis: Martin (Jean Gabin) is a venerable gardener who passes counterfeit currency to make ends meet in this situation comedy. When a tax bill puts him further in debt, his nephew convinces him to pass bigger bills to pay off the taxes and live the good life. Soon the nephew and his girlfriend buy a Read More

1965
Carambolages

Actors: Jean-Claude Brialy, Louis de Funès, Michel Serrault, Anne Tonietti, Sophie Daumier, Alfred Adam

Synopsis: An overly ambitious young man hopes to rise to the top of the advertising business. When he feels his progress is being impeded, he conspires to murder his way up the corporate ladder. He uses the bodies of his victims as rungs to climb to the top in this macabre comedy of errors. ~ Dan Pavlides Read More

1963
Tartarin De Tarascon

Actors: Francis Blanche, Alfred Adam, Jacqueline Maillan, Michel Galabru

1962
Tout l'Or du Monde

Actors: Bourvil, Alfred Adam, Philippe Noiret, Claude Rich, Annie Fratellini

Synopsis: This standard comedy was one of the last films by director René Clair, who began his career in 1922! The story deals with two real-estate developers who try to buy up one particular town noted for the long life of its residents. A nearby spring may have something to do with their longevity, and Read More

11/1/61
Le President

Actors: Jean Gabin, Bernard Blier, Renée Faure, Louis Seigner, Alfred Adam, Henri Cremieux

Synopsis: Jean Gabin carries this conventional political drama set in pre-World War II France. He is Emile, a retired politico with a long memory, a curmudgeon who is not yet prepared to stand on the sidelines and watch others wield power. Flashbacks fill in the details about his earlier career -- and why Read More

3/1/61
La Belle Americaine

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Robert Dhéry, Colette Brosset, Catherine Sola, Michel Serrault, Alfred Adam, Christian Marin

Synopsis: In this French variation on Mark Twain's Man with a Million story, a man's life is completely changed by the acquisition of a new car. Marcel, a Chaplainesque factory worker, sets out to buy an old motorcycle and ends up getting a new Cadillac convertible (the "beautiful American" of the title) Read More

1961
La Main Chaude

Actors: Jacques Charrier, Macha Meril, Paulette Dubost, Alfred Adam

Synopsis: Intermittent sexual encounters and a sleazy group of protagonists provide some interest in this otherwise undistinguished story about avarice and love. A chain of similar events begins when a young woman decides to bilk her middle-age "sugar daddy" of some money. She is temporarily living with him Read More

2/3/60
Love and the Frenchwoman

Actors: Sylvia Montfort, Marie-José Nat, Darry Cowl, Sophie Desmarets, Jacqueline Porel, Dany Robin, Valerie Lagrange, Paul Meurisse, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Annie Girardot, François Perier, Martine Carol

Synopsis: Love and the Frenchwoman (La Francaise et L'Amour) concentrates on the nature of love by illustrating seven separate aspects of the emotion. In "Childhood," 9-year old Pierre-Jean Vaillard suffers a traumatic experience when he takes his parents' "cabbage patch" theory of conception too literally. Read More

1960
Maigret Tend un Piege

Actors: Jean Gabin, Annie Girardot, Jean Desailly, Lucienne Bogaert, Oliver Hussenot, Jeanne Boitel

Synopsis: The French-made Inspector Maigret offers one of the best-ever Maigrets in the form of veteran tough guy Jean Gabin, who played the character three times throughout the 1950s. In Maigret Sets a Trap, the inspector tackles the case of a psychopathic serial killer. The female victims have all been Read More

1/29/58
La Fauve Est Lache

Actors: Lino Ventura, Estella Blain, Paul Frankeur, Alfred Adam

Synopsis: This popular, standard French spy drama is the second in a series that stars tough guy Lino Ventura as Paul, a man who really would like to come in from the cold. Paul has established himself in the ordinary world with an on-going, successful business and has settled down with his wife Nadine (Estella Blain Read More

1958
Le Gendarme De Champignol

Actors: Jean Richard, Roger-Pierre, Noël Roquevert, Alfred Adam

Synopsis: Director Jean Bastia has created another amusing comedy in this story about Claudius (Jean Richard), a local policeman who is plagued by the local bandit, Vittorio (Roger-Pierre). In reality, Claudius has become Vittorio's friend, which makes chasing after him in all seriousness a difficult Read More

1958
Une Manche et la Belle

Actors: Henri Vidal, Mylène Demongeot, Isa Miranda, Alfred Adam

Synopsis: A novel by James Hadley Chase was the source for Une Manche et la Belle (Beauty Up His Sleeve). Bank clerk Henri Vidal ingratiates himself to middle-aged heiress Isa Miranda. Once they're married, however, Vidal's eyes begin to wander. Falling for Mylene Demongeot, Vidal and his new paramour cook Read More

1957
Cadet-Rousselle

Actors: Bourvil, François Perier, Dany Robin, Madeleine Le Beau

Synopsis: The Gallic swashbuckler Cadet-Rousselle stars Francois Perrier in the title role. In love with the mayor's daughter, Rousselle is separated from her by money and by his low-born parentage. He heads off to Paris, there to find fame and fortune and make himself worthy of his sweetheart. En route Read More

1954
L'Ennemi Public Numero Un

Actors: Fernandel, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Nicole Maurey, Alfred Adam

Synopsis: Lantern-jawed French comedian Fernandel plays a dual role in Most Wanted Man. He stars as an ordinary Joe (or ordinary Pierre, perhaps) who is the exact double of a notorious gangster. In the tradition of Edward G. Robinson's The Whole Town's Talking, Fernandel must take the place of the criminal Read More

12/22/53
Caroline Cherie

Actors: Martine Carol, Marie Déa, Alfred Adam, Pierre Cressoy

Synopsis: Also known as Dear Caroline, Caroline Cherie is one of the best of Martine Carol's movie vehicles. Set during the French revolution, the film relates the story of Caroline (Carol), who, to dredge up a couple of old clichés, is no better than she ought to be but is more sinned against than sinning. Read More

1951
Ma Femme Est Formidable

Actors: Fernand Gravey, Sophie Desmarets, Simone Valere, Alfred Adam

Synopsis: Fernard Gravet may look like a natural-born philanderer in Ma Femma est Formidable, but appearances are deceiving. Condemned without evidence as a "rake" by his dimwitted wife Sylvia (Sophie Desmarets) and his monstrous in-laws, Raymond Corbier (Gravet) is further bedeviled by the unwarranted Read More

1951
L'Amant de Paille

Actors: Louis de Funès, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Gaby Sylvia, Alfred Adam

1950
A Royal Affair

Synopsis: In this comedy, a charming (at least he thinks so) king comes to Paris to sign a treaty and quickly learns more about French customs and temperament than he ever wanted to. When the senator he has come to see learns that the king is interested in his wife and mistress, the conniving fellow Read More

1950
Mon Ami Sainfoin

Actors: Louis de Funès, Pierre Blanchar, Sophie Desmarets, Alfred Adam

1949
Le Roi

Actors: Annie Ducaux, Sophie Desmarets, Alfred Adam, Maurice Chevalier

Synopsis: Though it took Maurice Chevalier a long time to regain his American popularity after WW II, he remained a favorite in France. In Le Roi, Chevalier stars as--what else?--a king. Making a goodwill visit to France during the era of the First Republic, the merry monarch stirs up trouble with the Read More

1949
L'Homme Aux Mains D'Argile

Actors: Marcel Cerdan, Blanchette Brunoy, Alfred Adam

1949
Jo La Romance

Actors: Ginette Leclerc, Noelle Norman, Georges Guetary, Alfred Adam

1948
Femme Sans Passe

Actors: Sophie Desmarets, Margo Lion, Alfred Adam, François Perier

1948
Le Sorcier Du Ciel

Actors: Claire Gérard, Georges Rollin, Alfred Adam

1948
Le Village Perdu

Actors: Gaby Morlay, Alfred Adam

1947
Le Fugitif

Actors: Madeleine Robinson, Alfred Adam, Philippe Hersent

1946
La Ferme Du Pendu

Actors: Charles Vanel, Bourvil, Claudine Dupuis

Synopsis: A corrupt, lecherous farming son and the destruction he brings to his family is featured in this melodrama. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1946
Le Bateau A Soupe

Actors: Charles Vanel, Alfred Adam, Jacques Dufilho

1946
Sylvie et le Fantome

Crew: Play Author

Actors: Odette Joyeux, Julien Carette, François Perier, Pierre Larquey

Synopsis: Claude Autant-Lara's literally haunting romantic tale Sylvia and the Phantom stars Odette Joyeaux as Sylvia, an imaginative young girl who lives in an old French castle. Fascinated by a portrait of the lover of her deceased grandmother, Sylvia fantasizes about having a romance with the lover's Read More

1945
Boule de Suif

Actors: Micheline Presle, Louis Salou, Alfred Adam, Marcel Simon

Synopsis: This French morality play is fraught with cynical undertones as it tells the tale of a group of French people from every social strata trying to flee the Nazis who have just invaded Paris. En route they meet a cruel German officer who threatens to kill the others if the heroine Presle refuses to Read More

1945
À Vos Ordres Madame

Actors: Suzanne Dehelly, Jacqueline Gauthier, Jean Tissier, Alfred Adam

1942
La Kermesse Héroïque

Actors: Françoise Rosay, Jean Murat, Louis Jouvet, Lyne Clévers, André Alerme, Micheline Cheirel

Synopsis: Released in France as La Kermesse Heroique, Carnival in Flanders is set during the long-ago war between the Dutch and Spanish. A tiny village in Flanders is invaded by Spanish troops. The townsfolk have heard of Spanish cruelties in other towns, and decide to deflect the vanquishers by playing Read More

1935

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