Maurice ClocheFilmography

Occupation:: Director, Screenwriter

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Le Vicomte Regle Ses Comptes

Crew: Director

Actors: Jean Yanne, Fernando Rey

Synopsis: In this stylish crime drama, a smooth-talking insurance investigator looks into a bank robbery and ends up breaking up two famous gangs involved in a drug war. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

4/5/67
Sellers of Girls

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: In this mysterious crime drama, a down-and-out Parisian woman finds herself entangled in a white slavery-narcotics ring. They send her on a boat for South America. There she gets engaged to a sailor, and upon her arrival decides to fight against those who have enslaved her. She suffers terribly Read More

1967
Coplan Ouvre Le Feu A Mexico

Crew: Director

Actors: Lang Jeffries, Sabine Sun, Guy Marly

1966
Baraka Sur X 13

Crew: Director

Actors: Gérard Barray, Sylva Koscina, José Suárez, Agnes Spaak

1965
Coplan Agent Secret FX 18

Crew: Director

Actors: Kenneth Clark, Jany Clair, Jacques Dacqmine

1964
Requiem Pour Un Caid

Crew: Director

Actors: Pierre Mondy, Jean-Pierre Bernard, Folco Jacques Monod

1964
La Porteuse de Pain

Crew: Director

Actors: Suzanne Flon, Philippe Noiret, Jean Rochefort, Jean Valerie

8/23/63
Cocagne

Crew: Director

Actors: Fernandel, Dora Doll, Rellys, Andrex

3/8/61
Touchez Pas Aux Blondes

Crew: Director

Actors: Philippe Clay, Dario Moreno, Jany Clair

Synopsis: This undistinguished action film by Maurice Cloche is set in Los Angeles and with ample corpses and nudity, unfolds the tale of a series of murders -- the victims are all prostitutes. A real thin-man detective by the name of Al (Philippe Clay) gets involved in the case and slowly starts to ferret Read More

1960
Bal De Nuit

Crew: Director

Actors: Sophie Daumier, Jany Clair

Synopsis: This conventional teen drama by director Maurice Cloche centers around the upheavals in the life of young Martine (Pascale Audret). She is plagued both by poverty and by uncaring, problem parents who in no way can provide the kind of nurturing that Martine needs during her adolescent years. As a Read More

1959
Filles de la Nuit

Crew: Director

Actors: Georges Marchal, Nicole Berger, Claus Holm, Gil Vidal, Renato Baldini, Kay Fischer

Synopsis: This is a standard drama by Maurice Cloche about an uneven struggle against the excesses of pimps and gangsters. Father Herman (Claus Holm) runs a shelter for hookers, and while he takes care of them, he tries to get them away from the pimps and other men who pose a continual threat to their Read More

11/19/58
Le Fric

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jean Pascal, Eleonora Rossi-Drago, Raymond Rouleau, Roger Hanin

Synopsis: This routine story by director Maurice Cloche is about two gangs at war over the possession of a valuable cache of crude diamonds. As the gangs battle it out with each other, a young man is drawn into the conflict by his girlfriend, an aggressive sort of woman in her own way. Before the basically Read More

1958
Prisons de Femmes

Crew: Director

Actors: Danièle Delorme, Jacques Duby, Joelle Bernard

1958
Marchands De Filles

Crew: Director

Actors: Georges Marchal, Agnes Laurent, Daniela Rocca, Pascale Roberts

Synopsis: The title Marchands de Filles translates to Girl Merchants. This doesn't mean that the characters are female businessmen. Far from it: the "protagonists" are the heads of a white slavery ring, "merchandising" girls to salacious customers. The plotline is the old one about the innocent young Read More

1957
Adorables Demons

Crew: Director

Actors: Jean Poiret, Michel Serrault, Dora Doll, Rellys

1956
Un Missionnaire

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Yves Massard, Charles Vanel

Synopsis: Yves Massard is Un Missionaire in this inspirational drama. Consumed by wanderlust, novice missionary Massard ventures into the wilds of French colonial Africa. Here he is taken under the wing of mission founder Charles Vanel, who is somewhat wiser in the ways of his chosen profession than the Read More

1955
Quand Vient L'Amour

Crew: Director

Actors: Suzet Mais, Mylène Demongeot, Vera Talchi

1955
Never Take No for an Answer

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Vittorio Manunta, Denis O'Dea, Guido Celano, Nerio Bernardi

Synopsis: Paul Gallico adapted his own short story Never Take No For an Answer in collaboration with his wife Pauline. Filmed on location in the Italian communities of Rome and Assissi, the film relates the simple story of 7-year-old war orphan Peppino (Vittorio Mannunta). When his beloved donkey falls ill Read More

1952
Rayes Des Vivants

Crew: Director

Actors: Daniel Ivernel, Marthe Mercadier, Christiane Lenier

1952
Moineaux de Paris

Crew: Director

Actors: Jean-Pierre Aumont

1952
Peppino E Violetta

Crew: Director

9/13/51
Domenica

Crew: Director

Actors: Odile Versois, Jean-Pierre Kerien

Synopsis: French filmmaker Maurice Cloche's only 1952 production (and his last effort until 1954) was Domenica. Filmed on the island of Corsica, the story concerns a restless young girl named Domenica (Odile Versois). Anxious to experience life on the mainland, she attaches herself to the first man who pays Read More

1951
Ne De Pere Inconnu

Crew: Director

Actors: Gaby Morlay, Gabrielle Dorziat, Jean-Pierre Kerien, Nicole Stephane

Synopsis: Ne de Pere Iconnu is one of the lesser-known works of versatile French filmmaker Maurice Cloche (of Monsieur Vincent fame). The plot is set in motion by the suicide of an unwed mother. The father of the girl's baby is subsequently tried for murder. The young man's attorney (J. P. Kerien) proves Read More

12/12/50
La Porteuse de Pain

Crew: Director

Actors: Vivi Gioi, Nicole Francis, Philippe Lemaire, Jean Tissier

9/14/50
La Cage Aux Filles

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Danièle Delorme, Noël Roquevert

Synopsis: French filmmaker Maurice Cloche was better known in 1950 as the founder of the Institute of Advanced Film Studies than the fact that he was as a director of stature. Most of Cloche's own films were merely potboilers, with such notable exceptions as La Cage Aux Filles. Daniele Delorme, who'd been Read More

1949
Docteur Laennec

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Pierre Blanchar, Pierre Dux, Saturnin Fabre, Mireille Perrey, Jany Holt, Geymond Vital

Synopsis: Like his earlier Monsieur Vincent, Maurice Cloche's {#Docteur Laennec} is a lovingly rendered biography of a famed humanitarian. In this instance, the subject is the inventor of the stethoscope, who was forced to battle the hidebound medical hierarchy of his time to prove the far-reaching Read More

1949
Monsieur Vincent

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Pierre Fresnay, Lise Delamare, Gabrielle Dorziat, Aimé Clariond, Jean Debucourt

Synopsis: Pierre Fresnay stars as St. Vincent De Paul in this reverent but realistic French biopic. The film traces "Monsieur Vincent's" progress from his days of forced servitude in Algiers to his entry into the priesthood, culminating with his Herculean efforts on behalf of the ill and destitute in early Read More

1947
Coeur De Coq

Crew: Director

Actors: Mireille Perrey, Fernandel

1946
Pas Un Mot A La Reine Mere

Crew: Director

Actors: Suzanne Dehelly, Liliane Bert, Pierre Bertin, André Brunot

1946
La Fille Aux Yeux Gris

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Claude Genia, Line Noro

Synopsis: Filmmaker Maurice Cloche penned the original story upon which La Fille Aux Yeux Gris was based. The title, which translates as Girl with Grey Eyes, refers to the foster daughter (Claudia Genia) of a travelling medical charlatan (Blondeau). Alcoholic country doctor Bernard (Fernand Ledoux) is the Read More

1945
L'Invite De La Onzieme Heure

Crew: Director

Actors: Blanchette Brunoy, Jean Tissier, Roger Pigaut

Synopsis: Also known as The Eleventh Hour Guest, this French romantic drama is a vehicle for up-and-coming Gallic star Jean Tissier. Posing as a detective, hotshot journalist Tessier crashes a weekend party held by a famous atomic scientist. When the party's host turns up dead, everyone is placed under Read More

1945
Jeux De Femmes

Crew: Director

Actors: Hélène Perdrière, Mila Parély, Jacques Dumesnil, Saturnin Fabre

Synopsis: Director Maurice Cloche's sole cinematic contribution of 1946 was Jeux de Femmes. Jacques Dumesnil stars as a carefree young man, living in exquisite sin with the lovely Mila Parely. But upon learning that his rich uncle will cut him out of his will if he doesn't marry, Dumesnil frantically Read More

1945
Bel Ouvrage

Crew: Director

1941
Feu Sacre

Crew: Director

Actors: Viviane Romance, Georges Flamant, Frank Villard

1941
Depart A Zero

Crew: Director

Actors: Madeleine Sologne, Gaby Andreu, Robert Berri, Maurice Baquet

1941
Vingt Quatre Heures De Perm'

Crew: Director

Actors: Blanchette Brunoy, Mona Goya, Georges Rigaud, Julien Carette

1940
Sixieme Etage

Crew: Director

Actors: Janine Darcey, Jean Daurand, Henri Cremieux

1939
Nord-Atlantique

Crew: Director

Actors: Marie Déa, René Dary, Albert Prejean

1939
Le Petit Chose

Crew: Director

Actors: Arletty, Fernand Charpin, Robert Lynen, Jean Mercanton

Synopsis: Maurice Cloche's second directorial effort was Le Petit Chose, released in the U.S. as The Little Thing. Based on a novel by Alphonse Daudet, the film stars Robert Lynen and Jean Marcaton as two brothers. While Marcaton is sober and sensible, Lynen is a poetic dreamer. Forced to make his way in Read More

1938
La Vie Est Magnifique

Crew: Director

Actors: Germaine Dermoz, Jean Servais, Jean Daurand

1938
Ces Dames Aux Chapeaux Verts

Crew: Director

Actors: Micheline Cheirel, Alice Tissot, Pierre Larquey, Georges Mauloy

1937

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