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Actors: Pierre Brasseur, Claude Dauphin, Charles Vanel, Michel Simon, Alberto Sordi
Synopsis: This film marks the final performance of the notable French film star Pierre Brasseur, who died not long after the film was shot. One of his better-known films is Children of Paradise. In this film, an Italian industrialist (Alberto Sordi) who has made his fortune using some shady tactics Read More
Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Marlène Jobert, Laura Antonelli, Sami Frey
Synopsis: This film is a French period comic romance, set in the time just surrounding the French Revolution (1789). "Year Two," of the French title refers to the second year following the revolution. Those who guided the French Revolution renamed the days of the week, the months of the year, and much more. Read More
Actors: Pierre Brasseur, Bernard Fresson, Michele Mercier
Synopsis: This film details a pretty girl's rise (with its attendant hazards) from obscurity to fame as she becomes a top model. Macedoine is played by Michele Mercier, popular for her appearances in the Angelique films. Her boss is Pierre Brasseur, and the strong supporting cast includes Bernard Fresson as Read More
Actors: Paul Barge, Anny Duperey, Pierre Brasseur, Raymond Pellegrin, Michel Auclair
Synopsis: In this modernized adaptation of the much-filmed Alexandre Dumas story, The Count of Monte Cristo, Edmond Dantes was sent to prison on a trumped-up charge of betraying the revolution, but he managed to escape to South American and earn a fortune. Now he his back in France and is attempting to Read More
Actors: Dany Carrel, Jacques Perrin, Pierre Brasseur, Robert Hossein, Raymond Gerome
Synopsis: A young woman living on the Left Bank of Paris is a pickpocket and a prostitute. Running away from a man she has robbed, she sees a young street photographer and plants the stolen wallet on him. Before she goes to prison, the two fall in love. Upon her release, they are married and things look 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: 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
Actors: Bernard Blier, Pierre Brasseur, Maria Latour, Jean Lefebvre, Margo Lion
Synopsis: This talkative and unevenly paced feature finds Fou (Jean Lefebvre) the inventor of a gas that makes the users fall in love. He is chased by his boss, the police, and spies, who seek to secure the secret recipe for their own selfish purposes. A shadowy American underworld figure tries to Read More
Actors: Alan Bates, Geneviève Bujold, Julien Guiomar, Jean-Claude Brialy, Pierre Brasseur, Micheline Presle
Synopsis: The French/Italian/British King of Hearts (Le Roi de Coeur) takes place during World War I, but it might as well have been the Vietnamese conflict so far as its youthful "core" audience was concerned. Overacting outrageously, Adolfo Celi plays British colonel Alexander MacBibenbrook, who orders Read More
Actors: Folco Lulli, Alida Valli, Pierre Brasseur
Actors: Ugo Tognazzi, Giovanna Ralli, Pierre Brasseur, Anouk Aimée
Synopsis: In this Italian bedroom farce, a humble village peasant has managed to remain a bachelor despite the fact that he has fathered numerous illegitimate children. The trouble begins when he finds himself entangled in a fight over water rights. Though others attempt to blame him, the clever fellow Read More
Actors: Christine Delaroche, Nino Castelnuovo, Tanya Lopert, Madeleine Robinson, Georges Wilson, Pierre Brasseur
Synopsis: A beautiful free-lance photographer meets and falls in love with a French medical student at a fancy ball and becomes pregnant after their passionate tryst. Now the formerly free-wheeling student finds himself facing a difficult situation. He decides that the woman should abort the child, and so Read More
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
Actors: Claude Rich, Dorothée Blanc, Pierre Brasseur, Annie Cordy
Actors: Lino Ventura, Charles Aznavour, Maurice Biraud, Irina Demick, Georges Géret
Synopsis: It is only with some reluctance that big-time hood Alphonse (Lino Ventura) allows himself to be persuaded that a major painting-theft planned by some formerly small-time gangsters is a good idea. He gives the idea his backing and support and winds up holding the bag for the crime as the others Read More
Actors: Philippe Noiret, Catherine Deneuve, Pierre Brasseur, Mary Marquet, Henri Garcin
Synopsis: A Matter of Resistance is the English-language title of the frothy wartime comedy La Vie De Chateau. Set in occupied France, the film stars Catherine Deneuve as the young and beautiful bride of middle-aged and homely Philipe Noiret. Disappointed at Noiret's indifference concerning the Nazi Read More
Actors: Pierre Brasseur, Sophie Daumier, Pierre Vernier, Francis Blanche
Actors: Pierre Brasseur, Pierre Massimi, Silvia Solar
Actors: Pierre Brasseur, Michel Simon, Raymond Rouleau, Jean-Roger Caussimon
Synopsis: Laurent (Pierre Brasseur) is a newspaper reporter sent to investigate a string of mysterious small-town murders. Although he fails to solve the crime, he uncovers a murder plot concocted by a wife and her lover to kill the woman's husband. The uneven feature careens from comedy to drama with some Read More
Actors: Pierre Brasseur, Lilli Palmer, Laurent Terzieff, Sylva Koscina
Actors: Annette Stroyberg, Jean Servais, Pierre Brasseur
Actors: Eddie Constantine, Pierre Brasseur, Georges Wilson, Claude Brasseur
Synopsis: Jo (Eddie Constantine) is a gangster who is down on his luck. His cronies avoid him like the plague because his presence brings them misfortune as well. Jo gets in plenty of fights as he tries to press his luck in the right direction. The role is a departure for American actor Constantine, who Read More
Actors: Bourvil, Anna Magnani, Pierre Brasseur
Synopsis: Josefa (Anna Magnani) is an Italian immigrant operating a small grocery store in France. The people of the town are indifferent to her until the rumor she will receive a monetary fortune from an American gangster relation. The mayor tries to butter her up, and a stranger poses as her long-lost Read More
Actors: Pierre Brasseur, Marina Vlady, Virna Lisi, Bourvil
Synopsis: In a biting, critical look at "justice" and how it does not necessarily work, director Christian-Jaque develops this tale of murder and deception via two principle, conniving characters and their upright opponents in the legal system. Catherine (Marina Vlady) is a heartless, self-serving woman Read More
Synopsis: Distributed in the US in 1963, Agent of Doom was originally released in France four years earlier. The plot is set in motion when a famed atomic scientist makes a remarkable discovery. Unfortunately he may not live long enough to reveal it to the world; he becomes the target of sinister secret Read More
Actors: Pierre Brasseur, Edwige Feuillère, Gino Cervi, Gabriele Ferzetti, Michèle Morgan, Danielle Darreaux, Annie Girardot
Synopsis: Gentle Art of Murder is comprised of a trio of short crime tales: "The Spider's Web," "The Fenyrou Case" and "The Mask." An international all-star cast appears in these filmed playlets, wherein each perfect murder turns out to be less than perfect. The stories are linked by "bookend" scenes in Read More
Actors: Annie Girardot, Lino Ventura, Pierre Brasseur, Michel Simon
Synopsis: Various genres -- social satire, comedy, and romance -- come together in this routine tale by Denis de la Patellière about a family and greed. The well-heeled family gets its fortune from the canning of fish, and all its members are thrown into disarray when a long-lost brother comes back home. Read More
Actors: Pierre Brasseur, Michèle Morgan, Gabriele Ferzetti, Monique Melinand
Synopsis: Pierre Brasseur stars in this undistinguished drama about a pianist who is traumatized by an accident. He is so much affected, in fact, that the talent that fueled his career is killed off. Desperate to find a way to make money anyway, he starts to put together a plan to defraud an insurance Read More
Synopsis: A lovely young nurse finds herself framed for the murder of a hospital patient who died after she administered an injection. She goes to court where eventually, the real killer is revealed by his own jilted lover in this French drama. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Darry Cowl, Pierre Brasseur, Francis Blanche
Actors: Pierre Brasseur, Pascale Audret, Marianne Koch, Jean-Louis Trintignant
Synopsis: Pleins Feux sur l'Assassin is a passable murder mystery by Georges Franju set in the atmospheric interior of an old chateau and involving the heirs to a fortune. The dying man whose fortune it is has played an unusual trick on those who would have his riches. He has hidden himself in a secret room Read More
Actors: Nadja Tiller, Pierre Brasseur, Jacques Dacqmine, Walter Giller, Etienne Bierry
Synopsis: This standard melodrama by director Robert Siodmak, active in Germany, France, and the U.S., is nuanced with shades of film noir and tells the story of some underhanded corporate execs and their Nazi past. A big-name engineering company in West Germany is involved with high-rollers in the Read More
Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Claudia Cardinale, Pierre Brasseur, Rina Morelli, Tomas Milian
Synopsis: Directed by the comparatively unknown Mauro Bolognini, the Italian Bell' Antonio is distinguished by its screenplay, cowritten by directorial giant Pier Paolo Pasolini. Marcello Mastroianni and Claudia Cardinale are happily married until she finds out he's impotent. It takes her a year to find Read More
Actors: Pierre Brasseur, Alida Valli, Edith Scob, Francois Guerin, Juliette Mayniel
Synopsis: French director Georges Franju's Eyes Without a Face (Les Yeux Sans Visage) is an unsettling, sometimes poetic horror film. Pierre Brasseur plays a brilliant plastic surgeon, Prof. Genessier, who has vowed to restore the face of his daughter, Christiane (Edith Scob), who was mutilated in an Read More
Actors: Anne Heywood, José Suárez, Pierre Brasseur, Daniel Gélin, Ilaria Occhini
Synopsis: This costume drama with spectacular special effects but a less-than-adequate storyline was one of the last films by director Carmine Gallone. The tale is set in 200 BC when Rome and Carthage were going at it, sending warships into battle over control of Carthage. Against this backdrop of warfare Read More
Actors: Pierre Brasseur, Daliah Lavi, Michel Simon, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Nadia Gray
Synopsis: Jean-Pierre Cassel is ideally cast as the hopelessly optimistic Candide in this noir updating of Voltaire's classic 18th-century social satire. Candide has been assured by his ivory-tower professor (Pierre Brasseur) that whatever fate befalls him, he will be all the better for it. Armed Read More
Actors: Gina Lollobrigida, Pierre Brasseur, Marcello Mastroianni, Melina Mercouri, Yves Montand, Raf Mattioli
Synopsis: Jules Dassin, blacklisted during the McCarthy era, directs this routine, ostensibly romantic tale that really courts an underlying theme of the misuse of power. Based on a popular French novel and set in a small Mediterranean town, the story involves a small group of men and the woman several of Read More
Actors: Joel Flateau, Gino Cervi, Pierre Brasseur, Bernard Blier
Synopsis: Juvenile actor Joel Flateau is the center of attention in Sans Familie (Nobody's Boy). Heir to a fortune, the young protagonist is kidnapped by an unscrupulous uncle who wants to put the boy out of the way and thereby get his own mitts on the money. The villain turns the kid over to an assassin Read More
Actors: Pierre Brasseur, Paul Meurisse, Jean-Pierre Mocky, Anouk Aimée, Charles Aznavour, Jean Galland
Synopsis: La Tete Contre Les Muirs (U.S. title: The Keepers) was director Georges Franju's 2nd cinematic offering for 1958, and his first purely fictional film. Franju's prior training in documentaries helps to bring a veneer of reality to this harrowing glimpse within the walls of an insane asylum. Pierre Brasseur Read More
Actors: Pierre Brasseur, Danielle Darrieux, Fernandel, Edwige Feuillère, Louis de Funès
Synopsis: French filmmaker Sacha Guitry had intended to direct as well as write 3DLa Vie a Deux3D (3DLife as a Couple3D), but death claimed him before he could bring his plan to fruition. Adapted from Guitry's original by Jean Martin and directed by Clement Duhor, the film offers an all-star cast in a Read More
Actors: Pierre Brasseur, Noël-Noël, Jean Poiret, Michel Serrault
Synopsis: Based on a story by one of France's favorite satirists, Georges Courteline, this is the second time a director has taken on the tale of bureaucracy gone mad. The first version was a 1937 film by Yves Mirande, this 1959 remake is by Henri Diamant-Berger. The story is set at the turn of the 20th Read More
Actors: Jean Gabin, Jean Desailly, Annie Ducaux, Françoise Christophe
Synopsis: Jean Gabin stars as Noel, patriarch of a large and wealthy family of industrialists. Noel sees no reason not to run his home in the same ruthless, coldhearted manner in which he runs his business. "Black sheep" Lucien (Pierre Brasseur), however, sees Noel for the pompous fraud that he is. And it Read More
Actors: Pierre Brasseur, George Brassens, Henri Vidal, Dany Carrel, Raymond Bussières
Synopsis: Port de Lilias was Rene Clair's first film since 1955, and his last until 1960. It is more serious than most of Clair's efforts, ending with a death that is all the more surprising in that the director never quite prepares us for it. Pierre Brasseur plays Juju, a likeable ne'er-do-well who Read More
Actors: Raymond Pellegrin, Daniel Gélin, Sacha Guitry, Michèle Morgan, Jean-Pierre Aumont
Synopsis: Showing no signs of slowing down in his 70th year, Sacha Guitry served as director and writer of the lavish historical epic Napoleon, and also costarred as Talleyrand. It is now hard to assess the quality of the film, since most American prints are severely edited, and the color photography Read More
Actors: Pierre Brasseur, Silvana Pampanini, Rellys, Paul Guers
Synopsis: The French La Tour de Nesle (The Tower of Nesle) was the third Alexandre Dumas adaptation to be released in the first six weeks of 1955. Like the previous The Queen Margot, the film was scripted by the legendary Abel Gance, who also directed after a 12-year absence from the screen. The somewhat Read More
Actors: Michèle Morgan, Cornell Borchers, Pierre Brasseur, Carl Raddatz
Synopsis: Germany's first CinemaScrope feature, Oase (Oasis) was directed by France's Yves Allegret and distributed by Hollywood's 20th Century-Fox. Michele Morgan and Cornell Borchers stars as Francoisce and Karin, a pair of gorgeous lady smugglers. The ladies are sent by their respective gangs to halt the Read More
Actors: Pierre Brasseur, Renée Faure, Isa Miranda, Micheline Francey, Milly Vitale
Synopsis: Pierre Brasseur plays the "mad monk" Rasputin -- or "Raspoutine" -- in this French historical melodrama. Insinuating himself into the court of the Romanoffs in early-20th-century Russia, Rasputin is able to gain enormous power through his apparent ability to heal the hemophiliac son of the Czarina Read More
Actors: Pierre Brasseur, Monique Melinand, Jacqueline Porel, Henri Nassiet
Synopsis: La Pocharde (The Drunkard) stars Pierre Brasseur as Pitrre, a tosspot lawyer practicing in a tiny French community. When a family man is murdered, suspicion immediately falls upon the victim's ailing wife. Pulling himself together, Pitrre undertakes the woman's defense in court. The plot thickens Read More
Actors: Michel Simon, Pierre Brasseur, Noël Roquevert
Synopsis: Playwright Jean Anouilh was the guiding force behind the unorthodox murder mystery Le Rideau Rouge (The Red Curtain) During a provincial theatre production of Macbeth, several tragedies occur. The actors attribute these calamities to the "curse" supposedly hanging over the Shakespeare play, but Read More
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, Simone Simon, Danielle Darrieux, 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: Pierre Brasseur, Daniel Gélin, Claude Nollier, Jacques Castelot
Synopsis: Les Main Sales is based on the Jean-Paul Sartre play of the same name. The hero, Hugo Barine (Daniel Gelin), is a dedicated communist. Hugo suffers a crisis of conscience when he is ordered to assassinate his Marxist mentor Hoederer (Pierre Brasseur) at the behest of a more radical Red faction. It Read More
Actors: Vera Norman, Marcelle Geniat, Georges Tabet, Pierre Brasseur
Actors: Pierre Brasseur, Jacques Sernas, Jean Debucourt
Synopsis: Just before wowing international critics and moviegoers with his adventure romp Fanfan le Tulip, director Christian-Jaque dashed off the lampoonish Barbe-Bleu. Ostensibly the story of the famed wife-killing potentate Bluebeard (Pierre Brasseur), this lighthearted costumer begins as the title Read More
Actors: Edwige Feuillère, Danièle Delorme, Pierre Brasseur, Gérard Philipe
Synopsis: It has been said that French filmmaker Christian-Jacque specialized in two types of films: romantic mysteries and the celebration of historical artifacts. Souvenirs Perdus(1951) falls into both categories. The titular "lost souvenirs" are four unclaimed items, left in the Paris lost-and-found Read More
Actors: Loleh Bellon, Jean Mercure, Pierre Brasseur
Synopsis: Based on a stage play, Maitre Apres Dieu concentrates on a mercenary cargo-ship captain, played by Pierre Brasseur. The skipper experiences a life-altering epiphany when he reluctantly agrees to transport a human cargo, consisting of Jewish refugees. His new-found faith in the Almighty is Read More
Actors: Maria Montez, Arletty, Erich Von Stroheim, Pierre Brasseur
Synopsis: Three powerhouse European screen personalities--Pierre Brasseur, Erich Von Stroheim, Maria Montez---elevate the tawdry melodramatics of Le Portrait d'Un Assassin. Brasseur plays Fabius, a reckless motorcycle driver, currently working in a carnival. When he begins to "choke up" in front of the Read More
Actors: Pierre Brasseur, Edwige Feuillère, Jacques Dumesnil, Marcelle Chantal
Synopsis: Thanks to the popularity of the 1948 cinemazation of Gigi, the "fin de siecle" novels of Colette suddenly became hot properties in the French cinema. Julie de Carneilhan stars Edwige Feuillere in the title role. A divorcee, Julie de Carneilhan finds herself ardently pursued by a roue (Pierre Brasseur Read More
Actors: Sophie Desmarets, Lucien Nat, Pierre Brasseur
Actors: Marcelle Derrien, Madeleine Le Beau, Pierre Brasseur, Robert Dalban
Actors: Anouk Aimée, Serge Reggiani, Pierre Brasseur, Louis Salou, Marcel Dalio
Synopsis: Per its title, Lovers of Verona is an updated adaptation of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. The film was a joint project of those felicitous collaborators, screenwriter Jacques Prevert and director Andre Cayatte. The star-crossed