Biography: Biography not available
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: December 26, 1887
Deathday: January 20, 1963
Popularity:
1953-02-18
Overview: La Vie d'un honnête homme English: The Virtuous Scoundrel, is a French comedy drama film from 1953, directed by Sacha Guitry, written by Sacha Guitry, starring Michel Simon and Louis de Funès.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-02-18
Popularity:
1948-02-26
Overview: Biography of Lucien Guitry, stage comedian, by his son, movie director, and a poetic reflection on the passionate love of both men for their chosen art forms.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-02-26
Popularity:
1932-02-15
Overview: In her village, Ms. Husson seeks to put a price under a rosiere but finding no worthy young pretty girl, hands it has Isidore, the village idiot, who becomes rosier
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1932-02-15
Popularity:
1935-09-06
Overview: In the Camargue, the rich owner Jules Fabregoul squanders all his fortune to please his mistress, a Parisian actress with luxury tastes. But he is not the only one to be in trouble. His niece is having sentimental problems: she thinks she is being cheated on by her fiance Gérard, a music-hall artist. She takes refuge with Jules's sister, Aunt Fabregoul, the director of a home for repentant young girls. But Gérard did not make a mistake and the reconciliation takes place during the recording of a radio program.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-09-06
Popularity:
1936-09-08
Overview: The Count of Kerlor, to chastise his wife whom he believes to be unfaithful, entrusts his son to a couple of scoundrels. When he repents and wants to find the child, the carnies make their nephew sick. But the other little boy, in search of his comrade, is recognized by his reconciled parents.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-09-08
Popularity:
1936-12-25
Overview: The son of a ruined family transforms into a castellan following an inheritance, becomes a parachutist champion in spite of himself, and becomes famous.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-12-25
Popularity:
1937-03-12
Overview: Three happy reservists are doing a military period. One evening out and about, thinking they were going back to the barracks, they enter a boarding school for young girls. They exchange their uniforms for the dresses of three teachers, which launches them into a series of incredible adventures for a few days.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-03-12
Popularity:
1937-06-03
Overview: During the students ' rebellion against Nicholas the Second in Russia, Viana tries to kill the governor but it's her lover who is arrested and sent to a sinister fortress : hence the title. To help the prisoner,Vania marries the officer who commands the place. There the convicts have really a bad time, but Vania manages to communicate with her dear captive. But beware of informers.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-06-03
Popularity:
1938-02-09
Overview: In Paris, at the Foire du Trône, the showman Titin from Martigues spins the perfect love with the pretty Yvette, which arouses the jealousy of his rival Dix-de-Der who will cause his downfall. Without this affecting his Provençal joviality, Titin will try his hand at various odd jobs without ceasing to push the song.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-02-09
Popularity:
1938-08-18
Overview: Trapon, a bank employee, is in love with Mrs. Lavator, who wants to marry off her two daughters before marrying her. As one of the two fiancés of his daughters has no money, Trapon begins to embezzle sums of money in his cash box.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-08-18
Popularity:
1938-03-30
Overview: The brave Monsieur Breloque has a friend, Pierre Martel, a private detective. When the latter asks him to replace him for a while, Breloque, although having no competence in the matter, accepts. He anticipates adventures and misadventures but also happy surprises.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-03-30
Popularity:
1938-04-24
Overview: During a leave, three merry soldiers experience a series of incredible adventures.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-04-24
Popularity:
1940-05-16
Overview: Considering his wife as his property, a smuggler bullies the unfortunate woman and does not allow her to turn to another man.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1940-05-16
Popularity:
1939-03-23
Overview: At the beginning of World War I in a village in the country of La Marne, two families are against the marriage of their children. The war changes the positions.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-03-23
Popularity:
1942-08-05
Overview: Marie, a young bourgeois and Jean, a cargo sailor have an affair, she becomes pregnant but he has to go back to the sea. Marie leaves for Paris where she meets Pierre and marries him. War breaks out, Jean and Pierre will befriend each other on the front.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-08-05
Popularity:
1941-09-24
Overview: In the pound, Pipo the dog recounts his adventures to his fellow inmates.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1941-09-24
Popularity:
1941-10-08
Overview: An ambitious and perverse adventurer sows dissension and ruin in a wealthy family of industrialists.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1941-10-08
Popularity:
1939-08-04
Overview: A man leaves his adulterous wife for his secretary, but then the wife apologizes and wants her husband back again.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-08-04
Popularity:
1939-09-29
Overview: Nine Bachelors is a 1939 French comedy film directed by Sacha Guitry and starring Guitry, Max Dearly and Elvire Popesco.[1] An opportunist dreams up a new scheme to make money when the French government passes a law forbidding foreigners from living in France. It's French title is Ils étaient neuf célibataires.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-09-29
Popularity:
1941-09-17
Overview: Two modest young employees, Jean and Madeleine, dream of leading the way, but the experience turns out badly. Madeleine marries a German aristocrat who turns out to be a spy, and finds Jean who had joined the Legion.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1941-09-17
Popularity:
1940-04-03
Overview: The forbidden romance between wealthy Giselle Preville and impoverished journalist Claude Dauphin. When Preville disappears, Dauphin is accused of kidnapping by the girl's snobbish father Rene Alexander. By the time the Normandie reaches New York, however, the "mystery" is solved and all misunderstandings blithely swept away.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1940-04-03
Popularity:
1951-09-14
Overview: Is it because his father was a groom that Adhémar Pomme has a long horse head and a horse- toothed smile? Maybe but the fact is that his head has invariably caused laughter whatever the circumstances, which is the tragedy of his life. After having worked as an undertaker, a theater prompter, a casino bouncer, and so on, and failing at each job, he applies out of desperation to an institution where those rejected for physical reasons can hide and live together. But Adhémar immediately starts... laughing at them and gets kicked out as a result! In the end though, he finds his way as a circus artist.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-09-14
Popularity:
1943-04-14
Overview: Six young boarding girls return home unexpectedly after their college has been destroyed by fire. Their unexpected presence arouses melodramatic reactions.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-04-14
Popularity:
1943-04-21
Overview: A person who had usurped the identity of a famous writer of detective stories was killed in the train. Why and by whom?
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-04-21
Popularity:
1943-06-16
Overview: Elfy, Countess of Saint-Hélié's daughter, was brought up with her foster sister Anne, in an old dilapidated castle whose landlord, Baron Julius Carol, disappeared mysteriously some day. The two girls had a playmate, Hervé, the son of the gamekeeper. Now that they are adult, Anne is in love with Hervé while Elfy thinks she loves the young man. One day, the baron's mummified body is found in an oubliette and the secret of the estate is revealed...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-06-16
Popularity:
1944-02-02
Overview: 1824 in Issoudun. A bourgeois, Rouget, lives as a husband and wife, La Rabouilleuse, who holds him in her power. The old man's nephew, ex-Colonel Philippe Bridau of the Imperial Guard, swears to hunt the intruder.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1944-02-02
Popularity:
1946-02-12
Overview: In 1939, in a maternity ward, a young man visits his mistress who has just given birth to a little girl. He tells her that he is married and that for him the outcome of this adventure was not really planned. The mobilization separates them but the young man will end up divorcing and with the relentless help of a friend, will find his mistress and his child and will be able to marry her in spite of the chaos of the war.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1946-02-12
Popularity:
1945-07-11
Overview: Nicole tries to seduce a young man who lead a bohemian life in an untidy flat with his three pals.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1945-07-11
Popularity:
1949-07-27
Overview: A man remarried his wife's sister whom he believes died in a fire. The alleged deceased reappears and sows trouble and discord in the new household.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-07-27
Popularity:
1947-03-21
Overview: Alain Marchal, wrongly accused of murdering his wife, escapes from prison the day before his execution. Before committing suicide, he contacts Monsieur Charles, a retired gangster, and asks him to investigate, find the real culprit and clear his name. Monsieur Charles accepts his request and along with his wife Ginette and two former accomplices, Paragraphe and Teddy Coffre fort, embarks on his counter-investigation.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-03-21
Popularity:
1947-07-16
Overview: Rather than commit suicide, it is better to stay at the clinic of Professor Patureau-Duparc. This practitioner experiments on his clients with a serum that modifies their personality. Thus Yolande and Albert become new Romeo and Juliet. They end up marrying each other after having regained their primitive selves. Their married life is then a hell and they welcome with joy the proposal of a new injection of serum.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-07-16
Popularity:
1950-02-22
Overview: 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 Artémise, an old maid who owns a manor. He manages to be hired as her chauffeur by Artémise and sets about looking for the treasure. During this time, he falls in love with Lucie, the old spinster's niece. But the trouble is that Artémise develops a crush on André...!
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-02-22
Popularity:
1947-10-29
Overview: Léontine, an old baroness, opposes her granddaughter's wedding for moral reasons. But Adolphe, her first husband reminds her that her own conduct in the past was far from irreproachable. Didn't she cheat on him ? And after her divorce from him and her remarriage with a baron, didn't she do the same thing to her second husband? Léontine then realizes she is in no position to lecture her granddaughter, all the more as she loves her fiancé truly.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-10-29
Popularity:
1948-12-17
Overview: 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 it in hiding, is that Victor writes songs and has made his debut as a singer in a cabaret. To make matters worse, the young man has a mistress. When word of it leaks out, the whole family are outraged. One night, as Victor goes back home, they are all here, waiting for him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-12-17
Popularity:
1950-11-24
Overview: The manager of a firm has a very unusual idea : asking his employees to pose as gangsters and to hold up a bank before returning the stolen money and pocketing the reward. But things do not go according to plan and the phony thieves get stolen in their turn. They have no other choice than turning into amateur detectives to be able to pay back the stolen dough.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-11-24
Popularity:
1949-09-30
Overview: A journalist who deals with the column "courier du cœur" has the absurd idea of launching an investigation into the death of a pianist whom he claims to have been murdered. To dazzle his wife, a reporter for the newspaper, he disguises the facts in such a way that the police suspect him, then declare him guilty. It takes a number of adventures to get him out of this mess and get him back into his section.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-09-30
Popularity:
1951-03-21
Overview: Saint-Maurice, an ordinary peaceful village, lived healthily so much so that the local doctor's practice was scant. But that was before Dr. Parpalaid retired and was replaced by a charlatan by the name of Knock. A real genius this one, for he soon managed to persuade everyone that they were ill. And not only didn't they resent him but they even loved their physician, who made a fortune and brought prosperity to the village by turning it into a big hospital.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-03-21
Popularity:
1955-07-26
Overview: Nana or Nanà is a French-Italian film by Christian-Jaque starring Charles Boyer. It is an adaptation of Émile Zola's novel Nana.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-07-26
Popularity:
1931-06-21
Overview: A little boy won't go to the bathroom, which leads to all sorts of complications for his parents and their friends.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1931-06-21
Popularity:
1943-11-24
Overview: A renowned sculptor aged about fifty years, François Bressolles falls for the young Catherine Collet whom he convinces without difficulty to pose for him. Complications ensue when he starts to go blind.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-11-24
Popularity:
1938-10-28
Overview: A father allows himself to be accused of the murder of a blackmailer to save his son who is the real murderer. But he is forced to confess, and commits suicide in his cell.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-10-28
Popularity:
1939-12-15
Overview: A gang of broke student musicians travel to Paris to take exams. But very quickly, the lack of money pushes young people to pass themselves off as professionals during the performance. They will then win the victory!
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-12-15
Popularity:
1954-10-13
Overview: The daughter of a seamstress, Jeanne Bécu could hardly imagine she would later become one of the most influential women of the Kingdom of France...
Genres: History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-10-13
Popularity:
1956-05-30
Overview: Georges Pinson, who wants to spend his holidays on the riviera with his wife and his two kids,buys a car.His neighbors and the drivers who overtake him gibe at him.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1956-05-30
Popularity:
1955-07-12
Overview: The whimsical Jean Latour wins a competition for a month's holiday on the Côte d'Azur. When he arrives at the "Villa Sans Souci", he discovers that the owner and generous donor, M. Mallez, is a doctor, that the property's guests are sick with nerves, and that Mallez has brought him in to entertain his neurasthenic residents.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-07-12
Popularity:
1958-11-12
Overview: Here's a railway station. Next to it, there's generally a town; and in a town,there is love! The train arrives. Mr. Andrieu is expecting his sardines and both his daughters, back from winter sports.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-11-12
Popularity:
1951-11-07
Overview: Monsieur Octave, a good man who has retired from the French national railway company, wants to have his house built. To this end he contacts a loan company. They ask him to credit them with 100,000 francs. Which he does. From then on, Octave starts waiting, waiting, waiting...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-11-07
Popularity:
1963-03-20
Overview: An unscrupulous reporter investigates the discovery of a corpse in the trunk of a car stolen by his young brother, a petty criminal.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-03-20
Popularity:
1942-01-16
Overview: Cora Pearl, a demi-mondaine under the Second Empire, falls in love with a legitimist while she is the mistress of Jérôme Bonaparte, the cousin of Napoleon III.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-01-16
Popularity:
1948-04-13
Overview: After losing her only child and falling for another man, a wife no longer loves her husband, but he thinks if he takes her back to some of the places they enjoyed in earlier years, it might rekindle their doomed marriage.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-04-13
Popularity:
1954-04-13
Overview: Just as she is about to marry Jules, Nénette realizes that an adventuress has borrowed her identity in order to marry Hubert de Mont-Vermeil. But at the same time, a cardinal arrives, and the truth must be kept from him. Nénette passes for Hubert's wife, and the cardinal spends his time reconciling the pseudo-spouses. After many misunderstandings, Hubert and Nénette discover that they love each other, while Jules marries the pretty soubrette, not without first inoculating Hubert's virtuous aunt with his taste for racing.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-04-13
Popularity:
1931-09-11
Overview: Two middle-class notions dealers live happily with their girl, but an inheritance turns these nice people into snob Nouveaux Riches. Although the aristocracy invites them, the 'Tout-Paris' laughs behind their back. When they invite their would be new friends for a ball in their desirable new mansion, their daughter, sick and tired of being abandoned by her once loving parents, throws the invitations into the Seine.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1931-09-11
Popularity:
1938-12-21
Overview: Claire Buisson becomes enamored with Gerard and soon afterwords she becomes pregnant. Gerard advises her to abort the child but, at the last moment, Claire decides to keep her child and leaves for her sister's place in the province.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-12-21
Popularity:
1941-12-21
Overview: Returning from America where he received a large inheritance, Alaric would like to have a wedding before returning to the family home where his sister, who is as cantankerous as she is uncompromising on principles, awaits him. He asks a “porter” from the station who looks like him to replace him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1941-12-21
Popularity:
1937-01-22
Overview: A pilot on one of the air mail flights between France and its African colonies has a brief romance with his distressed cousin before he returns to the call of duty, and the rebels in the desert.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-01-22
Popularity:
1949-09-30
Overview: A journalist who deals with the column "courier du cœur" has the absurd idea of launching an investigation into the death of a pianist whom he claims to have been murdered. To dazzle his wife, a reporter for the newspaper, he disguises the facts in such a way that the police suspect him, then declare him guilty. It takes a number of adventures to get him out of this mess and get him back into his section.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-09-30
Popularity:
1949-05-06
Overview: Arlette and her brother are penniless orphans; as the man is to leave for Africa to work for a long time, the young girl is forced to live with her cousins, four spinsters, who place virtue over everything.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-05-06
Popularity:
1947-07-16
Overview: Rather than commit suicide, it is better to stay at the clinic of Professor Patureau-Duparc. This practitioner experiments on his clients with a serum that modifies their personality. Thus Yolande and Albert become new Romeo and Juliet. They end up marrying each other after having regained their primitive selves. Their married life is then a hell and they welcome with joy the proposal of a new injection of serum.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-07-16
Popularity:
1935-05-30
Overview: Middle-aged Parisian Bobby, following an attack of gout, is forced to give up his previous merry life. Above all this Bobby falls in love with his niece Genevieve, abandoned by her husband.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-05-30
Popularity:
1960-02-10
Overview: The owner of a suburban boarding school is found murdered. The culprit will be unmasked thanks to the ingenuity and courage of the good Janine and a student, named Nadine.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-02-10
Popularity:
1938-01-07
Overview: In a state correctional institute for teenage girls, Madame Appel, the superintendent, rules with an iron fist. The State appoints thirty-year-old Yvonne to evaluate the situation. The young woman is convinced that the girls should feel wanted rather than be constantly subdued and is accordingly determined to make Madame Appel change her methods of education.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-01-07
Popularity:
1940-06-27
Overview: Cabaret star Zazu intervenes when young lovers are sundered by their parents' feud.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1940-06-27
Popularity:
1951-02-02
Overview: This is the disaster for the Veyron-Lafitte. Régine, the maid, has just given up her apron and the meal is not ready for the dinner guests, the Gachassins. Adèle arrives at their house as a maid and saves the day. Very quickly, the masters of the place realize that she has the gift of seeing the future. Adèle predicts that the Gachassins will not come, which will be verified.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-02-02
Popularity:
1935-01-01
Overview: Joan Of Arc has just released Orléans (1429)but the English are still here to stay . The fortress of Châteauneuf is hold by Lord Pickwickdam
Genres: Comedy History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-01-01
Popularity:
1940-05-01
Overview: Miquette is a young woman whose beauty and vivacity increase the clientele of her mother's tobacco shop. A Barrymoresque actor believes that Miquette has star potential, but he hasn't sufficient capital to finance her theatrical debut. He manages to get the money by practicing a bit of genteel blackmail on an aging marquis who has romantic designs on the heroine.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1940-05-01
Popularity:
1957-08-29
Overview: A father discovers one day that one of his sons is a homosexual and the other, is the "gigolo" of a Japanese countess. He is first horrified, but finally accepts the situation because it brings him economical advantages.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-08-29
Popularity:
1934-05-19
Overview: Claude loves Gisèle, Raymonde loves Édouard, but a double misunderstand leads to the marriage of Claude and Raymonde. Obviously, they vow not to consumate the marriage until they divorce, and can marriage their true loves. But than, come the honey-moon night, more extraordinary things happen to them - even love.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-05-19
Popularity:
1956-01-27
Overview: Historical film directed and written by Sacha Guitry follows the the history of Paris from its founding through the significant events in the city's history.
Genres: Comedy Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1956-01-27
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