Henri Marchand

In this classic French satire, Louis, a convict, escapes from prison and takes on legitimate work, making his way up in the business world....

Release : 1931.12.18
Popularity : 7.094

A widow named Blanche Montel endeavours to find a man with whom to produce a child so that she can pretend that the child was her late husband's and...

Release : 1932.06.05
Popularity : 0.563

The adventures of a pompous jeweler who refuses to listen to the advice of his level-headed employees. In due time, the jeweler is robbed, but his...

Release : 1932.09.23
Popularity : 0.483

The tribulations of a banknote, from its exit from a counter to its destruction, passing through dozens of hands.

Release : 1935.01.11
Popularity : 1.592

Under the Directory, Clairette is in love with the chansonnier Ange Pitou, while the hairdresser Pomponnet is destined for her as a husband. But Ange...

Release : 1935.10.11
Popularity : 1.217

A Danube boatman who cannot have children takes a wife and her niece as passengers.

Release : 1936.08.14
Popularity : 0.907

The first schemer, short of money, offers himself at a high price to facilitate the fantasies of the other, by playing the role of substitute. The...

Release : 1938.02.04
Popularity : 0.648

A would be blind hoodlum redeems himself in the Salvation Army just for a lovely lieutenant.

Release : 1940.04.10
Popularity : 1.141

An international crook hunted by the police comes to Paris to save his daughter from the clutches of a blackmailer friend of a cabaret singer with...

Release : 1940.04.03
Popularity : 0.921

Professor Artus, a scientist specializing in artificial life, wants to try an experiment on an automaton; he is entrusted with a death row inmate....

Release : 1946.11.20
Popularity : 0.749

Story is primarily based on the adventures of Antoine, a young telegraph messenger on his second night of work. He is given three telegrams, one of...

Release : 1950.11.02
Popularity : 1.41

A young rogue kills an old lady to rob her. Arrested, he believes it is for this crime, hides nothing from his lawyer, who soon tells him that he is...

Release : 1950.01.27
Popularity : 1.337

Fates of multiple otherwise disconnected characters intertwine miraculously under the sky of Paris. And it all happens in one day.

Release : 1951.03.28
Popularity : 1.64

A building, a landing, two tenants: he, Jacques Loursier, is president of the U.R.A.F (Union and Resistance Anti-Woman); she, Eliane Cahuzac, is...

Release : 1952.06.27
Popularity : 2.013

A daydreaming French composer sees himself as a fine figure dashing through history.

Release : 1952.11.14
Popularity : 5.02

Renaud, a young student who is camping alone at the moment, has a dream one night, in which the woman of his dreams appears. When he wakes up the...

Release : 1951.06.20
Popularity : 1.171

In 1935, in the Burgundian village of Valromey, Commissioner Desbordes was the very unpopular leader of the anti-alcoholic league. His own brother,...

Release : 1952.10.31
Popularity : 1.204

In order to please Martineau, a wealthy industrialist, cynical Gabory accepts to organize a rigged beauty contest whose winner will be...

Release : 1951.10.31
Popularity : 3.244

Mathusalem (or Methuselah) is a 1922 play by Ivan Goll, considered a precursor of the theater of the absurd. The 1927 run of the play saw five...

Release : 1927.11.06
Popularity : 0.92

For some time, the police have been on the trail of a mysterious burglar who has evaded capture whilst executing one daring robbery after another. No...

Release : 1936.12.04
Popularity : 0.422

Mario is a former gangster turned garage owner. His former accomplices ask him to murder Magali, their leader 's mistress,who intends to turn her...

Release : 1953.05.15
Popularity : 0.426

Yes, Doudou (or, more respectfully, Edouard Doucin) is both heir to a big sugar refinery and its managing director but he is also an incorrigibly...

Release : 1958.07.02
Popularity : 1.185

Jacques and Gisèle, who are just married, are starting their honeymoon. But at nightfall, on their way to marital bliss, their car chooses to...

Release : 1953.06.03
Popularity : 1.262

Line, Annette's daughter, is about to marry a man she's not in love with. At the engagement party three ghosts revisit their disastrous relationships...

Release : 1936.10.24
Popularity : 1.785

In the 16th century, as Flanders is invaded by the Spanish, Till the Mischievous uses stratagems to enter the service of Ferdinand Alvare de Toledo,...

Release : 1956.11.07
Popularity : 1.238

Lagardère protects Aurore, the granddaughter of the Duke of Nevers whose deceitful Philippe de Gonzague covets the inheritance.

Release : 1934.12.28
Popularity : 0.87

Marie, a young doctor, settles down on the Ouessant Island. She will be able to win the diffidence of the local population but she will have to fight...

Release : 1953.12.13
Popularity : 2.034

Anthology film with three shorts each featuring a famous detective: Monsieur Wens, Lemmy Caution and Maigret.

Release : 1952.10.10
Popularity : 0.972

Lieutenant Orloff, a recently graduated Russian officier, is making his way across the snow-covered steppes to the garrison where he is to be...

Release : 1934.02.09
Popularity : 3.699