André Alerme

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Cast: Jean-Louis Barrault

Flanders, Hispanic Monarchy, 1616. The inhabitants of the small town of Boom are busy organizing the annual local festivities when the arrival of the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Françoise Rosay

A one-night stand with an entertainer threatens to destroy a woman's marriage after she gives birth to a black child.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Raimu

An honest but naive young man is manipulated by a gang of crooks who use him as as a cover for their misdeeds. His honesty will be rewarded though...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Frédéric Duvallès

Georges Gauthier is an electrician who lives with his mother and his sister Madeleine. He is the son of a womanizing singer who made his mother...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Charles Trenet

Not content to be an austere judge, M. de Méricourt is also a domestic tyrant. He terrorizes his son René to such an extent that the...

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Cast: André Lefaur

It is one thing to open a beauty salon (which Edwige and her young lover Gaston have just done) but it is another to keep it on its feet.To best...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Elvira Popescu

Grégoire Vachette is a bashful librarian, forced to listen to the daily boasting of his colleague Courgéan, a great seducer according...

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Cast: André Alerme

Perrichon, a well-off self-satisfied bourgeois, goes on holiday with his wife and his pretty daughter Henriette. He is more or less willingly...

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Cast: Jeanne Cheirel

The irresistible rise of a young provincial, Miquette, who, having risen to Paris, will experience success in the theater and love in Hollywood with...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Blanche Montel

Playwright Jacques Deval directed this 1935 adaptation of his own stage comedy Tovaritch. Set in Paris, the story revolves around Princess Tatiana...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Irén Zilahy

Cabissol, the Mayor of Martigues, a town in the South of France, wishes to organize a bullfight as part of the coming festivities. But that is not...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Lucien Baroux

Secret de Polichinelle roughly translates as Open Secret. The "secret" in question is an illegitimate child, the offspring of young-and-foolish Henri...

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Cast: Raimu

A ten-year old film when it was first released in the USA as "Symphonie D'Amour" in 1946. Panard (Fernand Gravet) is a talented composer who is...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Fernand Gravey

A young journalist who has gone reporting with the papers of a friend gets caught up in an arms smuggling operation. It is in this context that he...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Käthe von Nagy

Jacques is a jolly bachelor who lives a wild life with his a mistress Wanda and all he wishes is to go on living the way he does. But Father won't...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Georges Tabet

During the London-Melbourne race, two aviators, one male (Guy,) the other female (Betty), are forced to land on a lost island in Polynesia. They...

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Cast: Arletty

Jean Bonnefoy, who has a talent for singing, is unemployed. So he is very happy the day he is offered a post as a music teacher in a college for...

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Cast: Jean Lumière

Following a slight accident, a stranger appears in a Provençal village and knocks at the door of the Philippes'villa, asking them for help....

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Cast: Jules Berry

Baronski has had enough of being a small-time merchant and decides, aided by his daughter Esther, to try his hand at big business. Why not be a film...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Fernand Charpin

Comte de Larzac, an aging seducer, leaves Paris for Lannemezan. Accompanied by his friend Charmeuil, he goes there to acknowledge the paternity of...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: André Alerme

Because of the escapades of Alexis, the Crown Prince of Vodenia, the kingdom is likely to lose the loan lent to them by a rich foreign banker. Baron...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: André Alerme

Prince Sacha studies in Paris and cares more for Marianne than about Silistrie, the country his family was exiled from. But Chautard, a French...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Elvira Popescu

A famous violinist enlists in a music school in order to woo one of the students.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Käthe von Nagy

Félix Raffut, a Périgord squire terrified by the German invasion, carries out the exodus of his family and his furniture towards...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: André Alerme

Lucien Mazerand, a bookseller from Châteauroux, goes to Paris to spend a few days in the French capital. At the music-hall, he discovers Stella...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Arletty

Georges Legrand is a young unscrupulous reveler. He seduces Fred, a woman doctor before shamelessly dumping her for Aline Ribourg, a tennis player....

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Huguette Duflos

Barnes, the mate of the 'Portland', is the object of the hate of the whole ship's crew. His mistress is murdered shortly before the departure and...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Albert Préjean

Guy Carbonnel, a rich industrialist, has more eyes for rugby than for his wife Hélène. René Rivals, his long-time pal, takes...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Danielle Darrieux

Mademoiselle Bressac is a bossy spinster who manages "Le Clos", her estate, with an iron hand. But is she really a bad person? Her manners are abrupt...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Louise Carletti

Monsieur Vincent is the respected healer of a Basque village. But nobody knows that Vincent Berteaux used to be a surgeon in Paris. When Assomption,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jean Galland

Jean Vernet, an unselfish banker, feels fine : he has a charming mistress, Jacqueline ; a godson, Fernand, that he took in when he was a child and...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Raimu

Elfy, Countess of Saint-Hélié's daughter, was brought up with her foster sister Anne, in an old dilapidated castle whose landlord,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: André Lefaur

Véra, a vivacious woman, and her alleged brother Boris, are both hired by the Dubelairs as their chambermaid and caretaker. But Dubelair has...

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Cast: Elvira Popescu

Madame Millois, an ambitious mother, thinks she has found the perfect match for her daughter Arlette, Count de Tremblay-Matour. Alas, the ideal...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: André Luguet

The scene is set during the Second Empire. Captain Bitterlin watches jealously over his lovely daughter Madeleine but he cannot prevent nature from...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Georges Guétary

Micheline is a pretty girl but rich, spoiled and whimsical as well. Jacques, the brother of her friend Danielle, is so exasperated by her behavior...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Odette Joyeux

Thérèse kills her lover during the very night of her wedding to the count of Vétheul. To gain a night with her, a modest local...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Odette Joyeux

André de Kerdec, a young lawyer buys an old parchment in an antique shop and discovers that a treasure is hidden in the bedroom of...

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Cast: André Alerme

Gaston, nicknamed Pilou, has left his native village and Yvette, the girl of his heart, to go to Paris where he has found work as a painter. He is a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bourvil

Hector Dumontier has had enough of his wife Noémie : she is always immersed in those detective stories he disapproves of. To teach her a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: André Alerme

Mr. Catignac, a pork butcher in Perigueux, plans to marry Victor, his son, to the daughter of a magistrate. What he does not know, for his son does...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jean Parédès

Josette, the daughter of a hotel-casino owner on the French Riviera is wooed by Pradier, a young gambler she (and everyone else) mistakes for the...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Lucien Baroux

Ferdinand is an honest and almost prude chemist at the Fourageot laboratories. His boss, Mr Fourageot, is mostly busy with his mistresses but comes...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Fernandel

Léon, André, Christiane and Monique, who all study drama, decide to go camping together. Unfortunately - although unsurprisingly -...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: André Alerme

Monsieur Jourdain is a dangerous madman : he wants to share his fortune! His relatives do what any sensible fellow on earth would do: they have him...

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Cast: Michel Simon

A Russian emigrant sings in a Shanghai nightclub under the assumed name of Kay Murphy. All she dreams of is a peaceful life with her daughter Vera....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Louis Jouvet

A plucky businesswoman agrees to receive love letters to a prefect’s wife from a young official, and soon finds herself embroiled in a scandal...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Odette Joyeux

Dr. Lucien Petypon is usually a serious man, but, drawn by his friend Corignon, he once paints the town red at Maxim's. When he wakes up late the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: André Lefaur

Mr. and Mrs. Noblet run a boarding house on the French Riviera. One day, they are led by circumstances to welcome a little boy Pierre, whose father...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Françoise Rosay

Alcide Darbois, a small-time garage owner, and his sister Ursule come into a fabulous inheritance and become powerful industrialists. The cars they...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: André Alerme

In 1914, in the first months of World War I, Louise Jarraud loses her husband, killed on the front. Shortly after, she gives birth to a baby, who...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gaby Morlay

A sporty and chivalrous young man creates, with some comrades, a society whose goal is to protect honest people against rogues. He finds himself...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Pierre Mingand

In pre-World Ward I in Paris, a budding artist, Pierre LeBlanc, falls in love and marries Janine, a dressmaker's assistant. Pierre has a flair for...

Genre: War

Cast: Fernand Gravey

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Danielle Darrieux

Bitru is a carefree fellow who, one day, decides to buy a houseboat on the River Seine. He moves there and starts living surrounded by a circle of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Pierre Brasseur

In the village of Sableuse, the local manor has been bought out by a nouveau riche, Emile Cousinet. When his wife Lisette, a former music hall...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bach

Monsieur Serval has made a deal with his daughter Jacqueline. She can be a lawyer and act her own way provided that, in a given period of time, she...

Genre: Music

Cast: Danielle Darrieux

A timid young man marries the daughter of the entomologist he works for. On the train for their honeymoon, he takes his young wife in his arms when a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Raimu

An assistant pharmacist in the South of France , Blaise works for Mrs. Pinède, a well-endowed hot-blooded woman who has developed a crush on...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Frédéric Duvallès

The irresistible rise of a young provincial, Miquette, who, having risen to Paris, will experience success in the theater and love in Hollywood with...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Blanche Montel

In a Provençal village, two jolly good fellows, Boule and Pons, decide to dress as Saint Anthony and Saint Nicholas for the distribution of...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Raimu

Alexandre Mérital, the leader of a political party, finds himself under attack from Frépeau, one of his opponents. The latter has...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Charles Vanel

There's never a dull moment at the Hôtel du Libre Echange. Deceptions, hitches and other misunderstandings make a few people mingle whereas,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Fernandel

In Flanders in the eighteenth century, Ramon de Ortila, a young lord who has been dispossessed of property has turned into a gentleman brigand. His...

Genre: History

Cast: Georges Guétary

Augustin, the bashful but model secretary of Fontange,a tyrannical industrialist, is desperately in love with Christiane,his boss's daughter. Of...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Armand Bernard

Alfred Boulard, a good-natured electrician, gives his blood to save Mona Thalia, a great theater actress. Mona Thalia survives and Boulard becomes...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Maurice Chevalier

Célestin, the organist of a convent, has written and composed a light operetta under the name of Floridor. One day, the Mother Superior asks...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Raimu

Chatelard, one of Viscount de Kerlec's guests, has died in mysterious conditions. The police initiates an investigation and sends detective-inspector...

Genre: Crime

Cast: André Alerme

Bernard Lampré, a young composer, is engaged to Hélène Madelin, a gifted intern. Jealous of Professor d'Esperel, the great...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lise Delamare

Sophie de Réan, an unruly mischievous little girl grows up under the thumb of Mademoiselle, her strict governess. Following her mother's...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Madeleine Rousset

A ruined banker is abandoned by his mistress. He commits suicide after entrusting a prostitute with twenty-thousand francs. The money changes hands....

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Gaby Morlay

Pierre and Florence meet at the fair in Paris. They vow eternal love and go to Cassis, under the Southern sun. But Florence has a burdensome past:...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Pierre Blanchar