Maurice RonetFilmography

Born:: April 13, 1927 in Nice, France
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: The son of professional actors, French film star Maurice Ronet studied at the Paris Conservatoire, where one of his mentors was Jean-Louis Barrault. On the stage from age 20, Ronet made his first film, Rendezvous de Juliet, in 1949. A popular leading man of the 1950s and 1960s, Ronet was a...Read More

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Surprise Party

Actors: Caroline Cellier, Michel Duchaussoy, Robert Hossein, Mylène Demongeot

Synopsis: Although written and directed by the well-known Roger Vadim (And God Created Woman), this movie about life and love among a group of high schoolers on vacation in the countryside has nothing to distinguish it beyond the typical couplings and uncouplings found in other movies in the same genre. Read More

1983
La Guerillera

Actors: Agostina Belli, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Maurice Ronet, Alexandra Stewart

5/5/82
La Balance

Actors: Nathalie Baye, Philippe Léotard, Richard Berry, Christophe Malavoy, Maurice Ronet

Synopsis: In the French-made film (La Balance), a couple get caught between the French underworld and the cops who pledge to destroy it. The man is a one-time mobster, now pimp named Dede (Philippe Leotard) who's forced to squeal on some mob-land biggies in exchange for his acquittal from any connection to Read More

1982
Sphinx

Actors: Lesley-Anne Down, Frank Langella, Maurice Ronet, John Gielgud, Vic Tablian

Synopsis: After a string of hits that included Planet of the Apes (1968), Patton (1970), Papillon (1973), and The Boys from Brazil (1978), director Franklin J. Schaffner stumbled badly with this expensive wannabe cousin to Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981). Based on a novel by author Robin Cook, this Read More

1981
Beau-Père

Actors: Patrick Dewaere, Ariel Besse, Maurice Ronet, Nicole Garcia, Nathalie Baye

Synopsis: In French filmmaker Bertrand Blier's seriocomic Beau Pere, Ariel Besse plays a 14-year-old girl who is perversely attracted to her 30-year-old stepfather (Patrick Dewaere). Daddy fends off these unnatural attentions, but eventually gives in and allows himself to be seduced. ~ Hal Erickson, All Read More

1981
Bloodline

Actors: Audrey Hepburn, Ben Gazzara, James Mason, Claudia Mori, Irene Papas, Michelle Phillips, Romy Schneider

Synopsis: Bloodline, a thriller based on a mystery novel by Sidney Sheldon and directed by Terence Young, is the story of Elizabeth Roffe (Audrey Hepburn), who inherits a huge pharmaceutical company and then discovers that some of her family members may be plotting her death in order to gain control of the Read More

1979
Cobblestones

Synopsis: In this romance, the magic of gay Paris is not lost on a young couple who fall in love there. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1978
Mort d'un Pourri

Actors: Alain Delon, Ornella Muti, Stéphane Audran, Maurice Ronet, Mireille Darc

Synopsis: Xavier Marechal (Alain Delon) is a businessman whose long-time business partner and friend is Philippe Dubaye (Maurice Ronet) a member of the French parliamentary assembly. In the film, Philippe has just killed Cerrano, a fellow assemblyman who threatened to disclose Philippe's involvement in Read More

1977
Emmenez-Moi Au Ritz

Actors: Maurice Ronet, Valérie Mairesse, Macha Meril, Tina Aumont, Marcha Grant

Synopsis: Gregor (Maurice Ronet) is a rich, charming womanizer who has been married three times. Perhaps he is not quite charming enough, because his ex-wives have it in for him. They conspire together to find just the sort of girl who will happily ruin him. Once they find her, they make sure the two get Read More

1977
Nuit D' Or

Actors: Bernard Blier, Klaus Kinski, Marie Dubois, Jean-Luc Bideau, Charles Vanel

Synopsis: After his family tries to kill him and he has been pronounced dead, Michel (Klaus Kinski) returns to vex them. He presents each one with a voodoo doll, warning of their fate. Wandering over the streets of Paris, Michel is the haunted and hunted, as he himself hunts his villainous kin. ~ Clarke Read More

1976
Bartleby

Crew: Director

1976
Bis Zur Bitteren Neige

Crew: Screenwriter

1975
The Destructors

Actors: Anthony Quinn, Michael Caine

Synopsis: Set in the City of Light, this crime melodrama chronicles the attempts of a US drug agent to stop a major drug-lord. Though the agent realizes his three predecessors have been assassinated, and that the French government doesn't necessarily approve of the Yank's harassment of a French citizen, he Read More

1974
Die Antwort Kennt Nur der Wind

Actors: Marthe Keller, Maurice Ronet, Raymond Pellegrin, Karin Dor

Synopsis: An insurance agent, informed that he will die young from a heart ailment, decides to live a wild and uproarious life in the time he has left. He finds himself involved in heart-stopping car chases and explosions on the Riviera while trying to fill in the gaps in an important police investigation. Read More

1974
Le Cri du Coeur

Actors: Eric Damain, Stéphane Audran, Maurice Ronet, Madeleine Barbulee

Synopsis: Alexandre (Eric Damain), the neglected teenager in this drama, finally gets some attention when he has a very serious accident while climbing a tree: it leads to the amputation of one of his legs. When he finds out that his mother (Stephane Audran) has a lover, he blackmails her into telling him Read More

1974
La Seduzione

10/30/73
L'Affaire Crazy Capo

Actors: Jean Servais, Maurice Ronet, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Marika Green

Synopsis: When his mobster bosses give the order, a young man prepares to kill his father, who years before had a clown act called "The Crazy Capo." In this French film, the murder scheme is foiled with tragic consequences for the lawman on the scene and the unfilial son. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide Read More

9/9/73
Don Juan 73

Actors: Brigitte Bardot, Maurice Ronet, Mathieu Carrière, Robert Hossein

Synopsis: This campy Roger Vadim film stars sex-kitten Brigitte Bardot as Jeanne, the female counterpart to Don Juan, a woman who is ruthlessly wicked in her pursuit of love and desire. Jeanne confesses murder to a young priest (Mathieu Carriere) who is also her cousin, and after she tells him the story of Read More

2/22/73
Sans Sommation

Actors: Maurice Ronet, Mario Adorf, Bruno Cremer, Anny Duperey

Synopsis: In this French crime/action feature, Maury (Maurice Ronet) has been booted out of the police force for failing to understand which side of the toast his butter is on: he pursued the prosecution of an important police official's son who was involved in the drug trade. Even more important people in Read More

2/15/73
La Chambre Rouge

Actors: Françoise Brion, Sharon Gurney

Synopsis: In this Belgian/French romance, based on the novel by Françoise Mallet-Joris, Tamara (Françoise Brion), a sex-hungry and ambitious woman "on the make," trifles with the affections of Lena (Sharon Gurney), in order to gain affection with Lena's wealthy father. When Tamara and the father are wed Read More

1973
L'Odeur Des Fauves

Synopsis: A tabloid newspaper reporter becomes confused with guilt after one of his stories causes the death of an innocent man, and he must think of a way to make up for his sin in this drama. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

4/14/72
Les Galets D'Etreta

Actors: Virna Lisi, Maurice Ronet

Synopsis: Virna Lisi stars in this slick French romantic thriller. She plays Almy, a beautician on her way to a "fat farm." The story pairs her with a tough, charming race car driver (Maurice Ronet). After he rapes her, she seeks to get revenge by seducing him, but instead finds herself falling in love with Read More

3/10/72
La Maison Sous Les Arbres

Actors: Patrick Vincent, Faye Dunaway, Frank Langella, Barbara Parkins, Karen Blanguernon

Synopsis: This English-language French production, directed by Rene Clement is a psychological/spy thriller, and features an excellent score by Gilbert Becaud. Faye Dunaway is Jill, the wife of a former industrial spy (played by Frank Langella). Her husband's employers are not perfectly reconciled to his Read More

6/9/71
Raphael Ou le Debauché

Actors: Maurice Ronet

Synopsis: This well-made period melodrama, set in late 19th-century France, highlights the worldly, flirtatious fashion of the day and the demands of genuine piety on the one hand and debauchery on the other. Aurore (Francoise Fabian) is a high-minded but flirtatious woman of society who charmingly refuses Read More

1971
Un Peu, Beaucoup, Passionnement

Synopsis: Didier (Maurice Ponet) is a confused lover and a confused husband when the girl he thought he had given up as a mistress attempts suicide and is more or less adopted by his family during her recovery. The situation becomes very tense for him as they all (wife, children and mistress) travel Read More

1971
Qui?

Actors: Romy Schneider, Maurice Ronet, Gabriele Tinti, Simone Bach

Synopsis: Mariana (Romy Schneider) is riding along with her weekend date when she infuriates him by insulting his virility. The irate man drives off a high cliff and crashes into the ocean. She emerges unscathed and she is rescued by the victim's brother. Mariana and the brother become lovers, but he soon Read More

9/23/70
La Modification

Actors: Maurice Ronet, Emmanuelle Riva, Sylva Koscina

Synopsis: A husband (Maurice Ronet) recalls his past experiences as he travels by train to Rome from Paris. He has just left his wife (Emmanuela Riva) for his mistress (Sylva Koscina), and flashbacks are employed to tell his story. He thinks of his future in Rome with the mistress as he fondly remembers the Read More

7/26/70
Le Dernier Saut

Actors: Maurice Ronet, Michel Bouquet, Cathy Rosier, Eric Penet, André Rouyer

Synopsis: A veteran paratrooper murders his Vietnamese wife when he finds her in the arms of a younger man. Garal (Maurice Ronet) makes it back to the army base where his drunken roommate provides him with an iron clad alibi. Jauran (Michel Bouquet) is the local police inspector who befriends the Garal Read More

5/6/70
Que Fais Tu Grande Folle

Actors: Ugo Tognazzi, Vittorio Caprioli, Jenny Tamburi, Maurice Ronet

1970
Les Femmes

Actors: Brigitte Bardot, Maurice Ronet, Anny Duperey, Jean-Pierre Marielle

Synopsis: An older woman uses a younger woman to satisfy both his personal and professional needs in this offbeat sex comedy. Clara (Brigitte Bardot) is beautiful young woman who has been hired by Jerome (Maurice Ronet), a middle-aged novelist, to work as his secretary and take dictation. However, Jerome Read More

11/7/69
The Scarlet Lady

Actors: Monica Vitti, Maurice Ronet, Robert Hossein, Claudio Brook

Synopsis: This dark comedy finds Lucie (Monica Vitti) planning to kill her boyfriend (Maurice Ronet), and then herself, after discovering that he has cheated her out of her inheritance and left her penniless. She decides to binge on champagne and caviar before committing suicide, but is rendered intoxicated Read More

5/14/69
La Piscine

Actors: Alain Delon, Romy Schneider, Maurice Ronet, Jane Birkin

Synopsis: Jean-Paul (Alain Delon) is an out-of-work writer having an affair with Marianne (Romy Schneider), a successful journalist. As they frolic in a swimming pool in St. Tropez, she receives as call from the record executive Harry (Maurice Ronet). He arrives with his nubile young daughter (Jane Birkin). Read More

1/31/69
The Unfaithful Wife

Actors: Stéphane Audran, Michel Bouquet, Maurice Ronet, Michel Duchaussoy, Guy Marly

Synopsis: Stéphane Audran plays the title character, Hélène Desvallées, the bored wife of insurance executive Charles Desvallées (Michel Bouquet). Charles suspects Hélène of playing the field, so he has a private detective locate his wife's lover, author Victor Pegala (Maurice Ronet). Confronting Victor Read More

1/22/69
Delphine

Actors: Dany Carrel, Maurice Ronet, Frederic de Pasquale, Paul Guers, Nino Ferrer

Synopsis: Delphine (Dany Carrel) is a country girl who travels to the big city in search of feminine emancipation and freedom. Attending wild parties and nightclubs, she meet a young rock star. She becomes pregnant by him and after she has an abortion, the singer could care less about her. Delphine is Read More

1969
Les Oiseaux Vont Mourir Au Peru

Actors: Jean Seberg, Maurice Ronet, Pierre Brasseur, Jean-Pierre Kalfon

Synopsis: This sexual psychodrama was the first film to receive an X-rating in the US. Written and directed by Romain Gary and starring his wife Jean Seberg, it is the chronicle of a nymphomaniac who feels compelled to have sex with every man she meets. As the sordid tale begins she is engaged in group sex Read More

1968
How Sweet It Is!

Actors: James Garner, Debbie Reynolds, Maurice Ronet, Paul Lynde, Marcel Dalio, Terry-Thomas

Synopsis: Two parents worry about the feelings of their love-struck teenage son in this engaging romantic comedy. Grif (James Garner) and wife Jenny (Debbie Reynolds) are concerned about their son Davey (Donald Losby). When his girlfriend is slated for a tour of Europe, the teenage boy is heartbroken. Grif Read More

1968
Who's Got the Black Box?

Actors: Maurice Ronet, Jean Seberg, Michel Bouquet, Christian Marquand, Saro Urzi

Synopsis: In this complex spy-thriller, the US radar installations in Greece are suddenly jammed and a NATO security agent is killed. The prime suspect is his own wife, who is innocent. She investigates on her own to prove it and ends up entangled in an espionage conspiracy. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Read More

10/27/67
The Immoral Moment

Synopsis: In this French crime drama, an ex-Resistance fighter has a ruined reputation after he succumbed to Nazi torture during the war and spilled vital information. After the war, he witnesses a killing and finds himself considered the prime suspect. He is brought in for questioning. The leader of an Read More

1967
La Longue Marche

Actors: Robert Hossein, Maurice Ronet, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Paul Frankeur

Synopsis: A doctor (Maurice Ronet) is kidnapped by a resistance group fighting the Nazis in this World War II action drama. A young lieutenant (Robert Hossein) saves the doctor from being executed by people who believe the doctor had turned their names over to the authorities. In spite of the heroic effort Read More

1966
Le Scandale

Actors: Anthony Perkins, Maurice Ronet, Yvonne Furneaux, Suzanne Lloyd, Stéphane Audran

Synopsis: This stylish psychological thriller from Claude Chabrol has such labyrinthine plotting that many critics called it too confusing. Christine Balling (Yvonne Furneaux) tries to convince Paul Wagner (Maurice Ronet) to sell his venerable champagne business to an American company. She asks her husband Read More

1966
Birds Do It

Actors: Soupy Sales, Tab Hunter, Arthur O'Connell, Edward Andrews, Doris Dowling

Synopsis: Comedian Soupy Sales makes his feature film debut in this silly outing as a janitor cleaning up at Cape Kennedy. He has been specially assigned to make sure that none of the nuclear warheads there get dusty. It's not easy because spies run around spreading dust. One day the janitor stumbles into Read More

1966
The Lost Command

Actors: Anthony Quinn, Alain Delon, George Segal, Michèle Morgan, Maurice Ronet, Claudia Cardinale, Gregoire Aslan

Synopsis: In this wartime melodrama, Lieutenant Colonel Raspeguy (Anthony Quinn) is a French peasant who has worked his way up the military ladder during the French involvement in Indochina. Sent to Algeria, Raspeguy must mold a group of raw recruits into a competent fighting unit. He calls on Esclavier (Alain Delon Read More

1966
Ligne De Demarcation

Actors: Jean Seberg, Maurice Ronet, Stéphane Audran, Daniel Gélin, Jacques Perrin

Synopsis: The people of a small town in France react differently to the Nazi occupation in this World War II action drama directed by Claude Chabrol. Mary (Jean Seberg) is willing to risk her life to help the resistance movement in spite of her husband's acceptance of the situation. The movement is slowed Read More

1966
Trois Chambres a Manhattan

Actors: Maurice Ronet, Annie Girardot, Gabriele Ferzetti, O.E. Hasse

Synopsis: Kay (Annie Girardot) and Francois (Maurice Ronet) are two people from France who meet and fall in love in New York in this melancholy romantic drama. She is a former countess, while he is an actor. Both of them must reconcile with their past while they decide to trust their feelings and possibly Read More

11/10/65
La Ronde

Actors: Jean-Claude Brialy, Jane Fonda, Jean Sorel, Anna Karina, Catherine Spaak, Francine Bergé

Synopsis: This uneven remake of the 1950 Max Ophuls feature from the play by Arthur Schnitzler takes place in Paris just before World War I instead of Vienna at the turn of the 20th century. A soldier (Claude Giraud) sleeps with a prostitute (Marie Dubois) before he seduces Rose (Anna Karina), and a willing Read More

10/16/64
Les Parias De La Gloire

Actors: Curd Jürgens, Maurice Ronet, Folco Lulli, German Cobos

Synopsis: By 1964, the French had turned over their interest in the Vietnam War to the Americans. The heyday of the French Indochinese War was in the late 1940s and 1950s. This movie is set in that period and concerns the relationship between a French soldier and a German plantation owner who must set aside Read More

4/1/64
Amador

Actors: Maurice Ronet, Amparo Soler Leal

Synopsis: After Amador (Maurice Ronet) murders his aunt and another woman, he tries to resolve his differences with the mother of his child. His girlfriend (Amparo Soler Leal) talks the thirtysomething Amador out of another murder. He seems to kill out of human weakness as the film takes an almost humorous Read More

1964
Le Voleur De Tibidabo

Crew: Director

Actors: Maurice Ronet, Anna Karina

Synopsis: In this lighthearted crime comedy, Nicolas is a Barcelona ice cream vendor who inadvertently helps a friend who has just committed a robbery. He is chased by several shady underworld characters trying to get their hands on the stolen loot. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide Read More

1964
Le Feu Follet

Actors: Maurice Ronet, Lena Skerla, Jeanne Moreau, Alexandra Stewart, Yvonne Clech, Mona Dol, Bernard Noel

Synopsis: Maurice Ronet plays an alcoholic writer, Alain Leroy, who is on the verge of suicide (his character is based on writer Jacques Rigaut, who killed himself in 1929). The psychiatrist assigned to Leroy is no help, advising his patient to seek a reconciliation with his wife, who is still smarting from Read More

10/11/63
Le Meurtrier

Actors: Robert Hossein, Marina Vlady, Yvonne Furneaux, Maurice Ronet

Synopsis: In this drama, two total strangers suspect each other of murdering their own wives. The trouble begins when an unhappily married architect becomes obsessed with a murder trial in which a husband allegedly murdered his wife. The architect begins collecting newspaper clippings. Although the charges Read More

1/11/63
Noches de Casablanca

Synopsis: Not to be confused with the like-vintage Brazilian film Besame Mucho, the Italian-Spanish Besame is a confusing melange of several genres. Sara Montiel, Maurice Ronet, and Franco Fabrizi are the most recognizable faces appearing on camera during the film's 101 minutes. Per the title, which Read More

1963
The Victors

Actors: George Hamilton, George Peppard, Eli Wallach, Vince Edwards, James Mitchum, Rosanna Schiaffino, Romy Schneider

Synopsis: An epic and unusual anti-war drama about WWII, writer-director Carl Foreman's heavily ironic saga is loosely based on the novel The Human Kind by Alexander Baron. It follows the adventures of an American infantry platoon based in Sicily that participates in the invasion of France, marches into Read More

1963
Casablanca Nid D'Espions

Actors: Sara Montiel, Maurice Ronet, Franco Fabrizi

1963
Demarcation Line

1962
Pleasures and Vices

Synopsis: In this French melodrama, a gigolo makes money by selling the expensive gifts bestowed upon him by his wealthy lovers. One of the women sees the darker side of the man when she tells him she is pregnant and hopes he will settled down with her. He brutally rejects her; she then has a miscarriage. Read More

1962
Portrait Robot

Actors: Maurice Ronet, Andréa Parisy, Jacques Riberolles

Synopsis: In this moderately suspenseful murder mystery by director Paul Paviot, a young journalist goes from a bad situation to much worse. He has been having problems in his relationship with his girlfriend, and one evening he goes out on a bender. Too drunk to remember how he got that way, he goes home Read More

1962
Les Grandes Personnes

Actors: Micheline Presle, Maurice Ronet, Jean Seberg, Françoise Prevost, Annibale Ninchi

Synopsis: Teetering on the one-dimensional, this romantic drama about the coming of age of a nineteen-year-old American woman in Paris is fairly straightforward. Ann (Jean Seberg) arrives in the city of light to visit her uncle, a doctor. But she soon finds herself taking care of a professional woman who is Read More

2/3/61
Liberte 1

Actors: Maurice Ronet, Corinne Marchand

Synopsis: In no more than an average endeavor to show the clashes between an old society and its beliefs and the modern world, this cooperative French-Senegalese drama by director Yves Ciampi focuses on the construction of a modern highway. Everything is going well until the chief engineer runs into an Read More

1961
La Denonciation

Actors: Maurice Ronet, Françoise Brion, Nicole Berger, Sacha Pitoeff

Synopsis: A few gratuitous erotic scenes undermine the supposed seriousness of this routine drama of murder and intrigue by director Jacques Domiol-Valcroze. The past comes back to haunt a young film producer when he makes an unexpected return trip to a nightclub one afternoon and discovers a murder victim. Read More

1961
Le Rendez-vous de Minuit

Actors: Lilli Palmer, Maurice Ronet, Robert Lombard, Lucienne Lemarchand

Synopsis: A slight screenplay and surface characterization undermine the telling of this dramatic tale by director Roger Leenhardt. Like a few other directors during this period, Leenhardt works with the idea of the story in a film being juxtaposed with real life. When a film critic comes across a woman Read More

1961
Purple Noon

Actors: Alain Delon, Maurice Ronet, Marie Laforêt, Elvire Popesco, Erno Crisa

Synopsis: René Clément's thriller Purple Noon stars Alain Delon as Tom Ripley, an American who travels to Europe on an all-expenses-paid mission to convince his friend, the errant playboy Philippe Greenleaf (Maurice Ronet), to travel to San Francisco at the request of the wealthy Greenleaf family. Read More

3/10/60
Carmen la de Ronda

Actors: Sarita Monteil, Jorge Mistral, Maurice Ronet, German Cobos

Synopsis: This Spanish film was officially inspired by the Prosper Merimee novel (and Bizet opera) Carmen. Instead of working in a cigarette factory, however, Carmen (Sarita Montiel) has become a cabaret singer. She and her lover, Napoleonic sergeant Jose (Maurice Ronet), end up joining a Spanish resistance Read More

1959
Cette Nuit La

Actors: Mylène Demongeot, Maurice Ronet, Jean Servais, Françoise Prevost

Synopsis: Cette Nuit La (That Night) was based on a novel by Michel Lebrun. Mylene Demongeot plays Sylvie, the gorgeous photo-model wife of magazine layout artist Jean (Maurice Ronet). Sylvie becomes the object of desire for Jean's boss (Jean Servais), an older man of degenerate tastes. Angered by this turn Read More

1958
Ce Corps Tant Desire

Actors: Daniel Gélin, Dany Carrel, Maurice Ronet, Belinda Lee

Synopsis: A prostitute is courted by two half-brothers. She marries one, and then must deal with the fallout of domestic friction. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide Read More

1958
Carve Her Name With Pride

Actors: Virginia McKenna, Paul Scofield, Jack Warner, Denise Grey, Alain Saury

Synopsis: The true story of Violette Szabo, a heroine of the Second World War for her espionage activities on behalf of the British government. Born Violette Bushell (Virginia McKenna) to a French mother and an English father, she chances to meet Etienne Szabo (Alain Saury), a French officer, whom she later Read More

1958
Ascenseur Pour L'Echafaud

Actors: Jeanne Moreau, Maurice Ronet, Georges Poujouly, Lino Ventura, Jean Wall, Felix Marten, Yori Bertin

Synopsis: The feature-film debut of famed director Louis Malle is an interesting, modern film noir with the classic theme of lovers plotting to kill the husband and make it look like suicide (reminiscent of The Postman Always Rings Twice). Jeanne Moreau, as Florence Carala, gives an astonishing Read More

1957
Sections Des Disparus

Actors: Nicole Maurey, Maurice Ronet, Waldo Martinez, Inda Ledesma

1956
À Toi Toujours

Actors: Antonella Lualdi, Maurice Ronet, Fausto Tozzi

1956
Gueule D'Ange

Actors: Viviane Romance, Maurice Ronet, Genevieve Kervine

1955
La Sorcière

Actors: Marina Vlady, Maurice Ronet, Nicole Courcel, Michel Etcheverry, Ulf Palme

Synopsis: An Alexander Kouprine novel was the springboard for the contemporary melodrama Le Sorciere (The Sorceror). Marina Vlady stars as Ina, a beautiful, mysterious young Swedish girl who captures the heart of visiting French engineer Laurent Brulard (Maurice Ronet). Ina is forced by the local townsfolk Read More

1955
Casa Ricordi

Actors: Miriam Bru, Elisa Cegani, Andrea Checchi

Synopsis: Told in pageantlike fashion, Casa Ricordi is the story of the Ricordi family, the most prestigious music publishers in all Italy. It was the Ricordis who, for better or worse, came up with the "royalty" concept, paying artists (and their families) for their work in perpetuity. As the family's Read More

12/1/54
Desperate Decision

Synopsis: In this odd French tragedy, set in Ireland, a nun plots revenge against her brother's executor, the IRA leader she had idolized. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1954
Lucrece Borgia

Actors: Martine Carol, Pedro Armendáriz, Massimo Serato, Valentine Tessier, Louis Seigner

Synopsis: Blonde French sex symbol Martine Carol is incongruously cast as the title character in Lucrece Borgia. The bloody excesses of the incestuous Borgia family during the Renaissance are given ample screen time, albeit within the bounds of reasonably good taste. Mexico's Pedro Armendariz struts and Read More

10/23/53
Les Sept Péchés Capitaux

Actors: Gérard Philipe, Viviane Romance, Frank Villard, Noël-Noël, Jacqueline Plessis, Henri Vidal, Isa Miranda, Eduardo de Filippo, Paolo Stoppa

Synopsis: The Seven Deadly Sins is a portmanteau film (a la Quartet and O. Henry's Full House) assembled by some of the biggest talents in the Italian and French film industry. The film's six sections (one containing two sins) are designed by separate titles, which should be self-explanatory. "Avarice and Read More

3/27/52
Without Warning

Actors: Adam Williams, Meg Randall, Edward Binns, Harlan Warde, John Maxwell

Synopsis: Adam Williams is frighteningly effective as the "psycho next door" in Without Warning. Normally a quiet, unobtrusive fellow, Carl Martin (Williams) is pushed over the edge when his blonde wife cheats on him. Thereafter, he uses a pair of garden shears to kill every blonde female with whom he comes Read More

1952
Un Grand Patron

Actors: Pierre Fresnay, Renee Devillers, Roland Alexandre, Jean Pascal

Synopsis: Originally titled Un Grande Campon, The Perfectionist is a tailor-made vehicle for Pierre Fresnay. The star plays a brilliant and celebrated surgeon, on the verge of achieving his life's goal: a membership in the Academy of Medicine. Unfortunately, the surgeon's medical accomplishments are Read More

1951
Rendez-Vous de Juillet

Actors: Daniel Gélin, Bernard Lajarrige, Maurice Ronet, Nicole Courcel, Brigitte Auber

Synopsis: Jacques Becker's Rendez-vous de Juillet has been credited as the first postwar European film to accurately depict the Continental "youth culture." Teenaged Lucien (Daniel Gelin) aspires to become a filmmaker, and to that end organizes his friends into a film unit. The young cineastes hope to make Read More

1949

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