Pierre Brasseur

This tragic tale centers around the ill-fated love between Baptiste, a theater mime, and Claire Reine, an actress and otherwise woman-about-town who calls herself Garance. Garance, in turn, is loved by three other men: Frederick, a pretentious actor; Lacenaire, a conniving thief; and Count Eduard of Monteray. The story is further complicated by Nathalie, an actress who is in love with Baptiste... (imdb)

A military deserter finds love and trouble (and a small dog) in a smoky French port city. (imdb)

During the latter part of World War I, Private Charles Plumpick is chosen to go into the French town... (imdb)

A brilliant surgeon, Professor Genessier, helped by his assistant Louise, kidnaps nice young girls.... (imdb)

Three stories about the pleasure. The first one is about a man hiding his age behind a mask to keep going to balls and fancying women - pleasure and youth. Then comes the long tale of Mme Tellier taking her girls (whores) to the country for attending her niece's communion - pleasure and purity. And lastly, Jean the painter falling in love with his model - pleasure and death. (imdb)

Paris, during the winter after its Liberation. Jean Diego meets up with his friend Raymond Lecuyer again. A tramp, pretending that he the Destiny, predicts Jean will meet the most beautiful girl in the world. The same evening, Jean meets Malou. He soon discovers that her brother Guy was the one that gave Raymond away to the Gestapo... (imdb)

These three retired magistrates want to carry on with their work: judging people is their idée fixe.

In the countryside near Normandy's beaches lives Marie, unhappy. It's 1945, she's married to Jérôme, a somewhat fussy milquetoast, diffident to the war around him and unwilling to move his wife to Paris, where she longs to live, shop, and party. A German outfit is bivouacked at Jérôme and Marie's crumbling château because its commanding officer is pursuing Marie. She's also eyed by a French spy working with the Allies as they plan D-Day. (imdb)

Grozo, an ambitious and lecherous man saved from the gallows, is employed by the Governor in the kennels; his envy of both the latter's position and wife sends him on a spiral of murder and deception till he has replaced him on the 'throne' and intends to take Glossia for himself. (imdb)

Women love handsome Antonio because they think of him as the perfect lover. But he has problems to fullfill this ideal and Barbara only notices his failures when they are married. When the town learns about his trouble they start laughing at him... (imdb)

Lyrical drama about a doomed, decadent society, exploring the torrid sentimental turmoil of its central characters against the luminous Provençal landscape and against social relations in the world of work. (bfi.org.uk)

In order to get rid of his troublesome son François, Maître Gérane manages to have him committed to a mental hospital (imdb)

When he learns his days are numbered old count Hervé de Kéraudren decides to hide in a secret alcove and to die there (imdb)

Another cameo for Orson Welles as Hudson Lowe in this all star production of episodic glances at Napoleon's life, performed by Daniel Gelin as the young and Raymond Pellegrin as the old. (imdb)

Pierre Brasseur stars as a daredevil who succumbs to Maria Montez's femme fatale in this star-filled, but rote drama that ends in a typically ironic fashion.

Illicit passions pervade an Italian town, where men gather nightly for the cynical "game of the law".

Adriana, a pretty but frigid young wife goes to a beach and loses her sexual inhibitions.

An aristocratic novice flees the convent during the French Revolution but when the nuns are condemned by the Tribunal, joins them on the scaffold.

Eugene Ballanchon is working on the development of a truth gas, but discovers an exhilarating gas, capable of neutralizing the enemy.

After his escape to America in the year 1787 Nicolas Phillibert wants to marry a rich American heiress. In his homeland France he is still married however to the pretty Charlotte. In order to obtain the divorce, he must return therefore to France. In confusions of the french revolution he soon gets between Royalisten and republicans. After numerous bold adventures he finds his life-merry wife as bride of the best sword fighter of the Bourbonen. (imdb)

Urged by famous airman Ellissen the Lennartz Company puts into reality the project proposed by his friend Droste: F.P.1, a huge floating platform in the Atlantic that makes long-distance flights viable. Ellissen is in love with company heiress Claire, but when he returns from his adventures to save the endangered F.P.1 he finds out that he has lost her to Droste. Three versions of this were filmed simultaneously. This is the French language version. (imdb)

An old bum becomes infatuated with a pretty young girl who gets entangled with a young gangster. (imdb)

Angelo, a glass-blower from Murano, and Georgia Maglia, the pretty daughter of a fascist magistrate, are chosen to be the stand-ins for the stars of a film version of "Romeo and Juliet" being shot on location in Venice. It is not long before they fall in love and their romance parallels that of Shakespeare's timeless heroes. Indeed their union is threatened by the schemings of Angelo, the Magia family's dubious tout... (imdb)

Noël Schoudler is the head of a wealthy and powerful family in France. He manages his financial and commercial concerns with an iron grip, leaving little room for his son François to prove himself. (imdb)

Young Countess Wilms is forced to wed by midnight or lose her inheritance.

Three little criminals get a tip for a great coup with lots of money in it. Unfortunately they lack the starting funds to buy the required welding torch. So they persuade their successful colleague Alphonse to join their team. But the well thought-out coup fails, and Alphonse is the only one of them who ends up in jail for several years. When he's released, he's out for revenge. (imdb)

The story of eighteen-year old Agathe (Agathe Aëms) with a firm independence of men even if she uses them to get to the côte d'azur.

In the waiting room of the station of Auvernaux, the atmosphere is animated. Several passengers who missed their train, discuss the killer of young girls that rages in the region. While the criminal may well be in the vicinity, pursued by the police, a journalist conducts the investigation inside the station.

After viewing an unusual film about murder and the irony of fate, a man deliberately steps in front of a slow-moving vehicle, planning to use the minor accident which should result as an alibi for his own wife's murder which he has already engineered. However, what actually occurs is a very different scenario about the "art" of murder. (imdb)

The exploits of man completely without any sense of obligation or responsibility with women and property dealings. From the Pirandello play. (bfi)

One of Abel Gance's lesser known films, this is an adaptation of the Alexandre Dumas play La Tour de Nesle (1832).

When a millionaire's valet wins a slogan contest, he wins a stay at an exclusive hotel, where a series of misunderstandings takes place.

In a French mining town, a man is injured in a rockfall. He recuperates in his best friend's house, cared for by his friend's wife, who longs to run away. Mistaking her interest in him for love, he becomes jealous when he suspects her of having an affair with the pit boss.

A criminal is blackmailed into killing a dim poet, but both escape to the countryside together.

Gina is the dedicated nurse of Paul Dupré, a wealthy industrialist who has been treated for heart problems. Dupré dies brutally during an injection made by Gina, and immediately his wife Catherine accuses Gina. (imdb)

Opera singer Enrico Ferraro, tired of his too many engagements, jumps off the train escaping from his manager and changes to another going to the Riviera. He makes a friend and stops at a village, where (it seems) he can at last have some well deserved holidays, with the added interest of meeting a beautiful girl in the surroundings.

Unfairly accused of her husband's murder, a woman is imprisoned. (imdb)

Gregory Iefommovich Raspoutine is a monk with healing powers and a liking for debauchery who manages to insinuate himself into the court of the Romanoffs thanks to Princess Dikvona. Being the only person able to heal he son of Czar Nicolas II and Czarina Alexandra from his hemophilia, he becomes a very powerful man. This infuriates many of the nobles, who begin to plot his demise.

A nasty actor is murdered before the representation of Macbeth by Shakespeare. The show nevertheless goes on with an understudy. The play is cleverly intertwined with a police investigation. A real gem.

What to do when you are nicknamed Bluebeard and you have lost your your sixth wife? Marry a seventh one of course! This time around, Count de Salfère has chosen young Aline, the innkeeper's daughter. So much the worse if the belle already has a lover in the person of Giglio, little does it matter that the villagers accuse Bluebeard of having murdered his former wives, the proud papa says yes to the count

Suppose lost and found objects could talk... But they can! At least four of them... : -A statuette of Osiris remembers how two ex-lovers, a model and a good for nothing who claimed to be an Egyptologist, met again one Christmas Eve. -A violin has things to say about Raoul, a humble policeman who lost Solange, a widowed grocer he loved, to a god-dam seducing busker also named Raoul. -A scarf was witness to an eerie romance between a young madman and girl he had saved from suicide.

Crisscrossed in a sumptuous Parisian palace: the wealthy Leroy-Gomez serves as a matchmaker for her children. All this is orchestrated by Antoine, the butler, lucid and cynical, who serves as confidants to all.

Simon's life is troubled by images of a crime which happened in his family a hundred years ago. While traveling in south France, he finds the landscape familiar. That's when he meets Catherine and falls in love. But her lover comes back and his strong personality attracts her again.

Rosa, a housekeeper in a NATO office in Paris, steals a micro film for her lover whom she hopes to marry. (imdb)