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Actors: Jean Yanne, Dr. Robert Hirsch, Catherine Rouvel, Liliane Montevecchi, Hubert Deschamps
Synopsis: In this satire, Jean Yanne punctures the pretensions of French show business, from music halls, to classical concert halls and even pornography. In the movie, he plays an indefatigable producer whose efforts sufficiently offend the big money people and the police so that his life is in danger. Read More
Actors: Marthe Keller, Jacques Higelin, Victor Lanoux, Jean-Pierre Darras
Synopsis: This dark French comedy satirizes suburban living. Marthe Keller and Jacques Higelin play a newly married couple who have just moved into the suburbs. Nearly everything is oppressive: among other things, the walls of their house are too thin and their neighbors harangue them with complaints of all Read More
Actors: Nicole Courcel, Anicée Alvina, Jean Martin, Ginette Leclerc
Synopsis: Le Rempart des Beguines is based on the novel by Francoise Mallet-Jouris. It tells the story of an upper-class woman who is considering getting married to a widower, a painter with a 16-year-old daughter. During a visit to his home, she finds herself alone with the daughter, who is very lonely. Read More
Actors: Marie Bell, Jacques Charrier, Catherine Rouvel, Lucienne Bogaert
Synopsis: Thomas (Jacques Charrier) is a sailor who has deserted from the Navy in this gentle French drama. He has found refuge in a seaside bordello. Romantic difficulties blossom as he and Flora (Catherine Rouvert), one of the house's prostitutes, fall in love with each other. When he hurts her, however Read More
Actors: Stanley Baker, Claudia Cardinale, Henri Charriere
Synopsis: Claudia Cardinale is Popsy, who double-crosses her older partner Silva (Stanley Baker). Silva has arranged to divert diamonds from a large corporate-run diamond mine in the South American jungle, and Popsy does her "pop" wrong as they are both pursued by police. This French-language underworld Read More
Actors: Jean-Claude Brialy, Sylvie Fennec, Bruno Garcin, Micheline Presle, Gerard Lartigau
Synopsis: Nobles try desperately to cling to the crumbling aristocracy in the days following World War I. The Count (Jean-Claude Brialy) and his Countess Mahe (Sylvia Fennec) delight in throwing lavish costume balls. The couple develops a friendship with a young boy who delights in the parties thrown by the Read More
Actors: Rip Torn, James Callahan, Ellen Burstyn, David Bauer, Laurence Ligneres
Synopsis: Three years after cinematizing James Joyce's long-censored Ulysses, Joseph Strick mounted an adaptation of another racy literary work -- Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer. Rip Torn plays Miller, an American expatriate author living -- and loving -- in 1920s Paris. The much-vaunted sex scenes were Read More
Actors: Ginette Leclerc, Michel Tureau, Marcella Saint-Amant
Synopsis: When a boy is the victim of his over-protective mother, he leaves his home at night in search of female victims. When he meets a young girl who is a petty thief, he mistreats her and she falls in love with him. He takes the girl home, where she brings him out of his psychotic state by making love Read More
Actors: Pierre Brasseur, Ligia Branice, Guy Saint Jean, Jean-Pierre Andréani, Ginette Leclerc
Synopsis: This unusual comic tragedy is filmed both in color and black-and-white and concerns the residents of the mythical island of Goto. Goto III (Pierre Brasseur) is the pompous dictator who allows children to witness public execution and has criminals fight it out in a theater to resolve their Read More
Actors: Gérard Blain, Jean Valerie, Maria Vincent, Junie Astor, Ginette Leclerc
Synopsis: A group of aspiring young thugs from Marseilles move in on established gangsters. They spend the time torturing, killing and intimidating the gangsters until they either pay up or die. One punk with a sexual attraction for his sister is turned in by the girl after a degrading sex scene. The Read More
Actors: Jean Gabin, Martine Carol, Bernard Blier, Frank Villard, Maurice Biraud
Synopsis: This somewhat verbose, standard comic thriller involves one sharp gangster nicknamed Le Dabe (Jean Gabin) pitted against three others as they work on a counterfeiting operation. Le Dabe has just been cooling his heels in the hot tropics and has now resurfaced in France where he hooks up with the Read More
Actors: Jacques Riberolles, Ellen Kessler, Alice Kessler, Ginette Leclerc
Synopsis: Murder, illusion, and lies form the basis of this convoluted drama that centers around twin sisters and the man that loves one of them. The girls work as a circus illusionist. People love their act because the girls are adept at making the audience believe that there is only one of them. To keep Read More
Actors: Ginette Leclerc, Raymond Bussières, Christine Carère
Actors: Ginette Leclerc, Gabriello
Actors: Daniel Gélin, Françoise Arnoul, Trevor Howard, Ginette Leclerc, Betty Stockfeld
Synopsis: Les Amants du Tage (The Lovers of Tage) was based on a novel by Joseph Kessel. Daniel Gelin plays a soldier who is acquitted after committing a crime of passion. Relocating to Lisbon, and still feeling remorse over his impulsive killing of his faithless wife, Gelin manages to find love in the form Read More
Actors: Jean Gabin, Jeanne Moreau, Ginette Leclerc, Henri Cremieux
Actors: Ginette Leclerc, Jean Tissier, Georges Poujouly
Actors: Pierre Brasseur, Ginette Leclerc
Synopsis: A Simple Case of Money (originally released in 1950 as Millionaires d'un Jour) is set in motion when a greenhorn reporter (Bernard Lajarrige) carelessly prints the wrong winning number in the French national lottery. As the reporter and his boss (Leon Bellieres) defend themselves in court, they Read More
Actors: Claude Dauphin, Jean Galland, Gaby Morlay, Madeleine Renaud, Daniel Gélin, Danielle Darrieux, Simone Simon, Jean Gabin
Synopsis: The works of Guy de Maupassant have likely been adapted by more French filmmakers than those of any other author (with the possible exception of Georges Simenon). Max Ophuls harnesses three Maupassant short stories to suit his artistic purposes in Le Plaisir (House of Pleasure). In "The Mask," an Read More
Actors: Ginette Leclerc, Jean Chevrier, Roger Pigaut
Synopsis: Roger Pigaut plays Sylvain, a tobacco smuggler working the border between France and Belgium. Sylvain lives with sexy bar hostess Germaine, played by the formidable Ginette Leclerc. Trouble begins brewing when a customs inspector, bound and determined to catch Sylvain in the act, falls in love Read More
Actors: Ginette Leclerc, Alice Tissot, Jean-Pierre Kerien, Jean Parédès
Synopsis: At 110 minutes, L'Auberge du Peche is a bit too poky for its murder-mystery intrigues. Still, a decent level of suspense is maintained throughout. The ball starts rolling when barmaid Laura (Ginette Leclerc) is entrusted with a fortune by a fugitive gunman. When Laura's benefactor dies the next Read More
Actors: Ginette Leclerc, Elina Labourdette, Jean Murat
Actors: Jean-Pierre Kerien, Robert Dalban, Ginette Leclerc, Yves Deniaud
Synopsis: Un Homme Marche Dans la Ville was Italian director Marcello Pagliero's first production in his adopted country of France. Filmed on location in a grimy seaside village, the story concentrates on a pugnacious longshoreman named Jean (J. P. Kerien). While endeavoring to help a troublesome friend Read More
Actors: Ginette Leclerc, Edouard Delmont, Jean Vilar
Actors: Ginette Leclerc, Noelle Norman, Georges Guetary, Alfred Adam
Actors: Marcel Herrand, Ginette Leclerc, Leonardo Cortese, Vera Carmi, Roldano Lupi
Synopsis: Il Fiacre N. 13 is based on the novel of the same name by Xavier Montepin. The title translates as Cab No. 13, and the two-part story ("Il Castigo" and "Delitto") concerns the various amorous occupants of that cab. Several of the leading actors essay multiple roles to detail the intrigues arising Read More
Actors: Ginette Leclerc, Lucien Coedel
Actors: Ginette Leclerc, Jeanne Fusier-Gir, Edouard Delmont, Alexandre Rignault
Actors: Ginette Leclerc, Marguerite Moreno
Actors: Ginette Leclerc, Gabrielle Fontan
Actors: Ginette Leclerc, Gabriel Gabrio, Edouard Delmont
Actors: Pierre Fresnay, Pierre Larquey, Micheline Francey, Ginette Leclerc, Noël Roquevert, Jean Brochard
Synopsis: A small French village is plagued by a poison-pen writer, whose principal target is Doctor Germain (Pierre Fresnay). The vitriolic letters wreak so much havoc that soon neighbor turns upon neighbor. Eventually, even the doctor himself becomes one of the suspects, as the townspeople are driven to Read More
Actors: Orane Demazis, Ginette Leclerc, Fernand Charpin, Andrex
Actors: Jacqueline Laurent, Ginette Leclerc, Jean Davy, Georges Marchal
Actors: Micheline Francey, Ginette Leclerc, Fernand Ledoux, Jean Chevrier
Actors: Ginette Leclerc, Gaby Andreu, Tino Rossi
Actors: Ginette Leclerc, Gilberte Geniat, Jean Tissier
Actors: Pierre Blanchar, Annie Ducaux, Blanchette Brunoy, Jacques Dumesnil, Pierre Larquey
Synopsis: Two Women was adapted by Charles Spaak from L'Empreinte de Dieu, a novel by Maxence Van der Meerck. Terrified of her violent-tempered husband Gomar (Jacques Dumenil), Karelina (Blanchette Brunoy) takes refuge in the home of Wilfrida (Annie Ducaux), her best friend. The one who suffers most from Read More
Actors: Ginette Leclerc, Alice Tissot, Armand Bernard, Raymond Cordy
Actors: Mireille Balin, Raymond Rouleau, Aimé Clariond, Ginette Leclerc
Actors: Mireille Balin, Ginette Leclerc, Erich Von Stroheim, Jean Galland
Synopsis: Menaces (Threats) was originally filmed in 1938 under the title Cinq Jours d'Angoise. Thanks to a studio fire, the release of the film was held up for nearly two years, by which time its "rumors of war" subtext had taken on a new topicality. John Loder and Mireille Balin star as, respectively, a Read More
Actors: Grace Moore, Suzanne Desprès, Ginette Leclerc
Synopsis: What was it about opera diva Grace Moore that attracted the attention of filmdom's top directors? Moore's 1937 American movie vehicle When You're in Love had been directed by Josef Von Sternberg; two years later, her French starrer Louise was helmed by no less than Abel Gance, who a decade earlier Read More
Actors: Mireille Balin, Ginette Leclerc, Aimé Clariond, Raymond Rouleau
Synopsis: Gunshot is the brief and succinct English-language title for this heavy-breathing French melodrama. In love with the beautiful Ginette LeClerc, aristocratic Austrian army officer Aime Clariond is forced to keep up "appearances" by refusing to acknowledge her existence. What Clariond doesn't know Read More
Actors: Michel Simon, Françoise Rosay, Ginette Leclerc
Synopsis: Le Ruisseau (The Stream) begins as orphan girl Gaby Sylvia escapes from her guardians and stows away on board a ship. She is discovered by officer Paul Cambo, thereby launching a brief shipboard affair. Feeling a bit guilty about taking advantage of the girl's naivete, Cambo sends the girl to live Read More
Actors: Ginette Leclerc, Elvire Popesco, Fernandel
Actors: Raimu, Ginette Leclerc, Charles Moulin, Fernand Charpin, Robert Vattier, Maximilienne
Synopsis: The Baker's Wife (La Femme de Boulanger), though based on a novel by Jean Giono, was specially tailored by writer/director Marcel Pagnol for the talents of the incomparable Raimu. The star plays the new baker in the French community of Provence. One of Raimu's first customers is shepherd Charles Moulin Read More
Actors: Ginette Leclerc, Albert Prejean
Actors: Pauline Carton, Ginette Leclerc, Fernandel, André Lefaur
Actors: Pierre Blanchar, Ginette Leclerc, Isa Miranda, Sinoel, Margo Lion
Synopsis: Having been showered with critical adulation for his 1935 adaptation of Crime and Punishment, writer-director Pierre Chenal was further honored for his film adaptation of Luigi Pirandello's Il Fu Mattia Pascal (The Late Mathias Pascal). Fed up with his present existence as a henpecked husband Read More
Actors: Annie Ducaux, Corinne Luchaire, Ginette Leclerc, Roger Duchesne
Synopsis: Prison Sans Barreaux (Prison Without Bars) takes place in a private correctional institution for young women. Annie Duchaux stars as Yvonne, the new director of the institution, who is of the opinion that her charges will respond better to kindness than brutality. One who benefits greatly from Read More
Actors: Ginette Leclerc, Felicien Tramel, Robert Lynen
Actors: Ginette Leclerc, Fernandel, Raymond Cordy
Actors: Jean Gabin, Brigitte Helm, Ginette Leclerc, Henri Vilbert
Synopsis: Andre Beucler directed this German romantic comedy, filmed in two languages and released overseas in French. Brigitte Helm stars as a sophisticated jewel thief who escapes to Spain with an expensive stolen necklace then gets involved with a naive advertising executive (Jean Gabin) who becomes her Read More
Actors: Ginette Leclerc
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