Gaston Modot

AKA:
0.3484

1887-12-31

Paris, France

Biography

Crew Roles

Driving Lesson
Writer
The Blockhead of the Block
Writer
Cruel Tale
Director
Cruel Tale
Writer
Le chevalier de Gaby
Screenplay
Portrait of Innocence
Screenplay
Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {163}

Edouard Schumacher, le garde-chasse

1939-07-09 7.498

The Rules of the Game

A weekend at a marquis’ country château lays bare some ugly truths about a group of haut bourgeois acquaintances. ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy, Romance

L'ingénieur

1937-06-04 7.9

Grand Illusion

A group of French soldiers, including the patrician Captain de Boeldieu and the working-class Lieutenant Maréchal, grapple with their own class differences after being captured and held in a World War ...
Genre :Drama, History, War

1912-01-19 5

La prairie en feu

A Sioux tribe, led by their great chief, wreaks revenge on the palefaces by setting fire to a nearby village. But the cowboys fight back and mortally wound the great chief. ...
Genre :

Coudray

1958-11-05 6.6

The Lovers

A shallow, provincial wife finds her relationship with her preoccupied husband strained by romantic notions, leading her further towards Paris and the country wilderness. ...
Genre :Romance, Drama

The Man

1930-11-28 6.759

L'Âge d'or

The film consists of a series of tightly interlinked vignettes, the most sustained of which details the story of a man and a woman who are passionately in love. Their attempts to consummate their pass ...
Genre :Romance, Comedy, Drama

1923-10-23 0

Little Hotel for Rent

Genre :

Jimmy

1937-01-28 7.193

Pépé le Moko

Pépé le Moko, one of France's most wanted criminals, hides out in the Casbah section of Algiers. He knows police will be waiting for him if he tries to leave the city. When Pépé meets Gaby, a gorgeous ...
Genre :Drama, Crime, Romance

1910-01-01 0

A Drama on a Locomotive

Henri and Pierre, railroad engineers, are both in love with Jeanne. When Pierre refuses to give her up, a fight breaks out in the engine, imperiling everyone aboard the train. ...
Genre :Western

Le caissier de la loterie « Les Geules cassées »

1947-09-27 6.1

Antoine & Antoinette

1947, in France, Antoine and Antoinette, a young couple living in Paris, lead a monotonous existence: he works in a print shop while she is a shop assistant. But one evening, they regain hope: Antoine ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy, Romance

1910-12-16 4

Calino à la chasse

Clément Mégé borrows the shotgun of a sleeping hunter and goes after big game, like ducks and a cat. Soon he gets caught up being chased by some policemen. ...
Genre :Comedy

1932-04-27 0

Under the Leather Helmet

Set in Rumania, the film focuses on a female secret agent who intends to use an airplane to fly behind enemy lines. While she awaits her flight to destiny, the girl spends several days with a French f ...
Genre :

1933-05-19 3

The 1002nd Night

An Arabian prince falls in with a group of downtrodden rebels and faces the wrath of an unsympathetic sultan whose wife he is also romancing. ...
Genre :Drama, Action

1933-11-10 0

Colomba

A young officer of Napoleon's armies returns to Corsica where his sister is waiting for him to avenge the death of their father. ...
Genre :

1933-12-08 0

Plein aux as

Flipotte, driven out of his band of burglars, takes the name, personality, house and checkbook of Monsieur Pardigon. When the real Pardigon returns, he doesn't stop him because he has learned from Fli ...
Genre :

1934-01-12 0

Quelqu'un a tué...

A Scotland investigation into the sinister Lamberton family castle, where a servant was mysteriously killed and then a doctor strangled a few nights later. The servants are wrongly suspected and the t ...
Genre :

Agent Matra

1934-03-16 0

Crainquebille

Crainquebille, merchant of four seasons, is sentenced to fifteen days in prison for having insulted a police officer. When he leaves, his clientele moves away from him and Crainquebille thinks of suic ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Impresario

1934-12-14 0

L'Auberge du Petit-Dragon

Two horsemen are inseparable. One is smart and the other clumsy. A young girl is engaged to the clumsy but she falls in love with the smart one. ...
Genre :

Bookmaker

1935-01-11 0

Le Billet de mille

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

1935-03-17 0

Le Clown Bux

Pierre Buxeuil is better known as the popular clown Bux. One day, he falls in love with Nicole, a romantic but whimsical young lady. He soon elopes her and the beautiful Nicole follows him, persuaded ...
Genre :

Domestic

1935-04-12 0

Le Mystère Imberger

For sentimental reasons, Monsieur Imberger, a fifty-year-old, disappears. Everyone thinks he was murdered but repeatedly he reappears. Inspector Barfin takes care of this mystery... ...
Genre :Thriller, Crime

Fracassa

1935-12-20 5.063

Lucrezia Borgia

French silent film pioneer Abel Gance directs this 1935 classic about Lucrezia Borgia, her brother, Cesare. and her father, Pope Alexander VI -- one of history's most ruthless and ambitious crime fami ...
Genre :Drama, History, Romance

Legionnaire Muller

1935-09-25 5.6

La Bandera

Pierre Gilieth has committed a murder in Paris. He flees to Barcelona, where he runs out of money. So he joins the Spanish Foreign Legion. He meets there two fellow countrymen, Mulot and Lucas. He tri ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Boss

1937-02-19 0

Les Réprouvés

At the borders of the Saharan desert, the dramatic situation of a battalion of light infantry attacked by the enemy. ...
Genre :Drama

Gaston Ravaux

1938-01-26 0

The Time of the Cherries

A poor peasant family, a failed cabinet maker and an unemployed worker struggle in contrast to crooked rich businessmen. nearby.A Communist meeting gives young workers hope for a better future. ...
Genre :Drama

Fred

1930-04-28 6.6

Under the Roofs of Paris

In the tenement slums of Paris between the world wars, impoverished street singer Albert yearns for beautiful Romanian immigrant Pola. Pola's boyfriend, local hoodlum Fred, grows jealous of Albert's c ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

1942-03-05 0

Patrouille blanche

An Oriental villain named Halloway is called in by wealthy oil interests who want to destroy a dam project for hydroelectric power that may threaten their profits. ...
Genre :

Raymond

1938-08-24 10

Ceux De Demain

Jean is ten years old and imagines that he is the cause of the misunderstanding that occurred between his parents. He leaves the military institute where he studies and becomes the protégé of an opera ...
Genre :

Stoker

1938-09-22 5.5

Sirocco

Town trollop Safia, much against her better judgment, falls in love with Matteo, a beggar and mystic in the native quarter of Sirocco. She flees to France, first as the mistress and then wife of a wea ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

1938-11-25 4.375

The Chess Player

A toymaker in Poland specializes in building lifesize mechanical men. He builds a chess-playing "automaton" to hide a pretty young Polish activist who is being hunted by occupying Russian forces. ...
Genre :Drama, History

Policeman (uncredited)

1938-12-30 9

Final Accord

A famous violinist enlists in a music school in order to woo one of the students. ...
Genre :Romance, Music

The head waiter

1941-11-19 5.6

Montmartre on the Seine

Maurice loves Juliet and Michael loves Lily. Romance blossoms on the hill. They are workers, artisans, and Lily has a real talent as a singer. But Claude's arrival brings trouble to their relationship ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Third screenwriter

1940-04-20 0

Une idée à l'eau

Three screenwriters try to write a comedy about a young first man who must conquer a rich billionaire on a desert island. ...
Genre :Comedy

Terriblo

1943-12-22 0

Le brigand gentilhomme

A gentleman, falsely accused of an assassination, becomes a formidable bandit. Condemned by the king, he will be rehabilitated thanks to the intervention of a young girl whom he will marry. ...
Genre :

Vinto, the mute

1944-12-06 0

The Hunchback

The knight Henri de Lagardère wants to avenge the death of his friend, the duke Philippe de Nevers assassinated by the prince de Gonzague, a few years before. ...
Genre :Adventure

Gustave, le caméraman

1947-05-21 6.8

Silence Is Golden

Emile is a French film producer at the beginning of the century. One of his friends leaves his daughter Lucette in his house, when he is starting a tour through France. Emile falls in love with her. P ...
Genre :Romance, Comedy

The huckster

1948-05-26 5.2

Eternal Conflict

Janvier, an embittered teacher, is fed up with his colorless, monotonous life. One day he breaks away and ends up becoming a circus clown. In his new world, he meets a beautiful acrobat nicknamed Lili ...
Genre :Drama

1912-06-12 0

Calino s'endurcit la figure

There is one joke in this slapstick from Jean Durand's comedy unit at Gaumont: Calino wants to win a boxing match, and decides that he needs to toughen up one part of his body: no glass jaw for him! S ...
Genre :Comedy

Teddy

1943-06-09 5.9

The London Man

Maloin, a maritime station guard, spends his nights at the port signal box. One night, he becomes the witness of a murder: for a simple suitcase smuggled, the altercation between the two men turns to ...
Genre :Drama, Thriller

Marcel

1947-08-26 4.5

Last Refuge

Philippe and Sylvie have to do with Alvarez, a dangerous gang leader. They break up with him and commit robbery and murder. Sylvie suggests that Philippe take refuge in his quiet family. His younger s ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy, Mystery

Toni Amanito

1942-09-02 4.2

The Trump Card

A man is shot In the hotel of an imaginary South American country. Clarence and Montès, two inspector students, must solve this murder, but they don't know that dead guy is the USA public enemy No.1. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

The caretaker

1950-04-21 0

Here Is the Beauty

Melodrama of two struggling artists whose love for each other is thwarted.She has some success as a ballerina despite being wounded by him in a fit of jealousy. His career as a sculptor is stymied whe ...
Genre :Drama

Gypsy

1950-03-16 7.21

The Beauty of the Devil

Henri Faust, retiring after 50 years as a professor in a circa-1700 French university, despairs at the ravages of old age ... whereupon Mephistopheles, agent of Lucifer, appears as a virile, handsome ...
Genre :Drama, Fantasy, Comedy

(uncredited)

1952-05-14 5

This Rascal of Anatole

Anatole, quivering nostrils and greedy lips, is the resourceful clerk of Mrs. Paufilat, a butcher. It takes a fancy to take on the identity of the Paufilat son, Paul. He must then undergo the assaults ...
Genre :

Le grand-père

1962-09-14 5.5

The Devil and the Ten Commandments

The film consists of seven roughly 15 minute episodes, each showing what will happen if one or more of the Ten Commandments will be broken: Jérome Chambard is warned that he will lose his job if he co ...
Genre :Comedy

Professor

1949-12-06 5.8

Rendezvous in July

Hopes and love and ambitions and friendship in a group of young jazz-loving Parisians. ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

le patron du café

1951-06-13 6.8

Victor

Secretly in love with Françoise, the companion of his best friend Marc, Victor decides to go to prison in his place. ...
Genre :Drama

Jeremiah Peachum

1931-06-08 6.6

The Threepenny Opera

The French-language version of the The Threepenny Opera with a different cast from the German version. ...
Genre :Music, Drama, Crime

Morain - the escaped convict

1929-09-17 4.9

The Ship of Lost Men

A young doctor gets stuck on a ship after treating an injured first mate. Later, he rescues a woman from plane wreckage, and with the help of the cook, he hides her away from the rowdy and dangerous c ...
Genre :Drama, Thriller

Arthur

1949-06-15 0

The Mystery of the Yellow Room

A young reporter solves a mystery crime. The fictional reporter is Joseph Rouletabille. He works on a complex, and seemingly impossible, crime in which the criminal appears to disappear from a locked ...
Genre :Crime, Mystery

Mathieu

1949-10-05 5

The Perfume of the Lady in Black

Mathilde Stangerson just married her fiance, when she heard that Larsan, her cruel former husband, whom she believed to be dead, is actually very much alive. Taking refuge to her castle, she appealed ...
Genre :Crime

Messenger (uncredited)

1917-03-06 5.2

The Torture of Silence

Hardly one of French filmmaker Abel Gance's masterpieces, The Torture of Silence nevertheless has more dramatic and psychological value than your average romantic-triangle tale. Simply put, the film c ...
Genre :Drama

L'inspecteur #1

1953-05-26 5.857

Poison Ivy

FBI Agent Lemmy Caution is sent after a missing two million in Casablanca while mob boss mistress Carlotta plays both sides of the law. ...
Genre :Crime, Thriller

1911-09-06 0

Calino polygame

Against a painted backdrop of palm trees, Clément Mégé accepts an Arab's offer of three Black wives out of a tent. He takes them back to Paris, where they wreak havoc not only on his apartment, but hi ...
Genre :Comedy

1912-08-31 0

Onésime et la grève des mineurs

Ernest Bourbon, with his idiotic smile perpetually plastered on his face, invites the miners into his apartment, which they accidentally destroy. Miners, as we know, always carry their shovels and pic ...
Genre :Comedy

1912-10-03 5

The Railway of Death

When gold is discovered the first man there gets to stake his claim. Joe and another man race each other, which involves a thrilling episode on a train. ...
Genre :Drama, Western

1927-01-02 0

Milady of Liban

The story, a tale of political and amorous intrigue in Beirut, is based on one of Pierre Benoit's novels, " La châtelaine du Liban," and the film exploits the scenic backgrounds of the novel, Beirut, ...
Genre :Drama

1912-01-01 0

Onésime: Costume Boy

While the costume maker Onésime is absent, his mannequins begin to play... ...
Genre :Comedy

1912-01-01 0

Onésime vs. Onésime

His double behaves very badly, while the real Onésime suffers the consequences. ...
Genre :Comedy

García 'El Tuerto'

1926-01-01 6.1

Carmen

Feyder's scenario very closely follows Don José's own account of his story and his fatal relation with the gypsy Carmen in the third chapter of Mérimée's short novel. ...
Genre :History, Drama

1913-01-01 0

Onésime and the Heart of the Gypsy

While accompanying his lady to a fashionable casino, Onésime hears someone playing an overpowering waltz on a mandolin, and he starts dancing with his lady. Everyone, from the kitchen hands to the che ...
Genre :Comedy

Un spectateur

1913-01-01 0

Onésime's Theatrical Debut

Onésime came down and threw himself on stage, starting into the great aria at which he excelled. We must say, in respect for the truth, that he earned what critics calls "the estimated success": Onési ...
Genre :Comedy

1913-01-01 5

The Disappearance of Onésime

When Onésime gets declared dead by drowning, the supposed-widow consults a private detective specialized in missing persons. ...
Genre :Comedy

1912-09-27 0

Onésime Goes to Hell

Not having enough money to pay his drink bill, Onésime sells his soul to the Devil. ...
Genre :Comedy

1952-03-13 7.3

Casque d'Or

At the end of the 19th century, during a ball in Joinville, on the outskirts of Paris, Georges, a former delinquent working as a carpenter, meets Marie, a young woman connected to a criminal gang. ...
Genre :Drama, Crime, Romance

Captain

1930-01-07 0

Der Erzieher meiner Tochter

An American billionaire's daughter is obsessed with the idea of marrying a count. Her father would prefer her to marry the son of a competitor. So he comes up with the idea of hiring the dashing Heinz ...
Genre :Romance, Comedy, Drama

Paul Kummer

1930-02-05 0

Freiheit in Fesseln

The carpenter Franz Aigner, a kind-hearted but strong and irascible fellow, has beaten a man to death in an argument and is sentenced to prison with a three-year suspended sentence. One of the jurors ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Un Indien

1912-11-27 4

Burning Heart: An Indian Tale

An Indian maiden wishes to marry her lover, but her father refuses because he does not have the requisite bride price. ...
Genre :Western, Drama

1924-06-17 6.7

Au secours !

Max accepts a wager that he cannot remain in a haunted castle for one hour (11 PM to midnight) without crying for help. As soon as he arrives he encounters strange and nightmarish visions, but he is n ...
Genre :Comedy, Horror

Kadjar

1919-11-07 5

The Sultan of Love

An French orientalist fairy tale starring France Dhélia, Gaston Modot, Sylvio De Pedrelli and Marcel Lévesque. ...
Genre :Adventure, Drama

Topinelli

1921-01-01 5.389

Fièvre

Militis, a sailor, returns to a bar where he finds Sarah, the girl he once loved and is still attracted to. However, he is now married to an exotic woman who took care of him during an illness. ...
Genre :Drama

1912-04-04 4.8

La Maison des lions

Madam Berre, the widow of an African traveler, has a lion and two lionesses in her conservatory. Fred, a servant who abuses her beasts, is sent away by her. Under the pretense of haven forgotten his h ...
Genre :

(uncredited)

1933-01-13 6.6

July 14

A light, comedy romance about a cab driver named Jean and a flower girl named Anna that takes place in Paris during the Bastille day celebration of July 14th. ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Fernand Mondego / Comte de Morcerf

1929-04-30 6.8

Monte Cristo

This epic adaptation of The Count of Monte Cristo was directed by Henri Fescourt, and stars Jean Angelo, Lil Dagover, Pierre Batcheff, the beautiful Marie Glory, and Bernhard Goetzke as the Abbé Faria ...
Genre :Adventure

1930-01-01 6.5

Cruel Tale

The escape of a man under Spanish inquisition rule. ...
Genre :

1912-11-01 5.7

Onesime, Clockmaker

In an effort to secure a promised inheritance, Onésime invents a time machine that speeds up activity on earth, hyper-animates men and machines, and telescopes the human life-cycle. ...
Genre :Science Fiction, Comedy

1912-10-04 4

Zigoto Drives a Locomotive

When the train workers go on strike, Zigoto terrorizes the town in a hijacked locomotive. ...
Genre :Comedy

1913-01-01 0

Calino sourcier

A magic wand falls into Calino's hands, and he turns everything he touches into running water, until he falls victim to his own witchcraft. The catastrophic meets the fantastic, for the triumph of the ...
Genre :Comedy, Fantasy

The concierge at the Temple (uncredited)

1956-05-02 1

Meeting in Paris

A wealthy young American woman is suddenly cut off by her father while living in Paris. A philosopher, she tries to make a living as a guide in the capital. The Marquis de Cernay, who has his eye on N ...
Genre :Comedy

1911-02-24 4

Calino's Baptism

A short Calino film. ...
Genre :Comedy

1911-03-31 4.5

The Rembrandt in Rue Lepic

A couple buy what is advertised as a Rembrandt painting, but a wild slapstick chase ensues after a woman sits on it. ...
Genre :Comedy

1911-06-10 4

Zigoto plombier d'occasion

A French comedy short with Zigoto. ...
Genre :

1912-06-10 0

Calino, Love Tamer

One day, Calino has the bold and imprudent idea to follow a woman down the street. The woman leads him all the way to the traveling lion cage run by her husband. To avoid her husband's jealous anger, ...
Genre :Comedy

1912-06-10 4

Calino courtier en paratonnerres

Calino goes politely around to three or four people from the bourgeois class, trying to sell them a lightning rod: but due to a factory defect, the apparatus attracts lightning instead of driving it a ...
Genre :

Le valet de Danglard (uncredited)

1955-04-09 7.16

French Cancan

Nineteenth-century Paris comes vibrantly alive in Jean Renoir’s exhilarating tale of the opening of the world-renowned Moulin Rouge. Jean Gabin plays the wily impresario Danglard, who makes the cancan ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, Romance, Music

Blaise, Gardener

1960-07-04 6.625

Experiment in Evil

Dr. Cordelier, living in a suburb of Paris, withdraws from society to pursue research into the functioning of the human brain. His lifelong friend, Maître Joly, becomes concerned when Cordelier draws ...
Genre :TV Movie, Science Fiction, Horror

Jean Cuirassier

1924-04-04 0

Nène

Michel Corbier, a widower, remarries Madeleine. His children, Lalie and Jo, see her as their second mother and call her "Nène." ...
Genre :Drama

1951-11-07 0

Monsieur Octave

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 fr ...
Genre :Comedy

Fil de Soie

1945-03-15 8.07

Children of Paradise

In a chaotic 19th-century Paris teeming with aristocrats, thieves, psychics, and courtesans, theater mime Baptiste is in love with the mysterious actress Garance. But Garance, in turn, is loved by thr ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

The diver

1911-12-31 4

No! You’re Not Going Anywhere Without Me!

An early Gaumont short ...
Genre :Comedy

1912-02-28 4

Zigoto's Outing with Friends

The short by Jean Durand begins with his frequent character, Zigoto (Lucien Bataille) reading a boring book. So, instead he goes on an outing in his new car with his friends. The captioning says it's ...
Genre :Comedy

1912-08-23 4.7

Onésime et le nourrisson de la nourrice indigne

Onésime needs to take care of an infant and does everything he can to avoid that responsibility. ...
Genre :Comedy

1912-09-13 0

Zigoto et la blanchisseuse

For some time now, Sosthène, clerk at the Grand Laundromat of Papillon-sous-Bois, has been in love with Alphonsine, the girl who brings the laundry. One evening, he decides to win the heart of his bel ...
Genre :Comedy

1913-12-31 0

Onésime, Trainer of Men and Horses

An early Gaumont short. ...
Genre :Comedy

1912-12-31 0

Under the Claw: A Story of the Transvaal

A mine owner discovers a vein of gold but unfortunately dies. His wife doesn't want to sell the mine and so the forman decides to lock her up in a cottage with a dangerous and hungry leopard. ...
Genre :Drama

1912-12-31 0

Un mariage au revolver

An early Gaumont short ...
Genre :

1911-12-31 4.8

Pendaison à Jefferson City

Joe is about to be hung for his crimes but he's going to reveal the whole truth first. ...
Genre :Western

1914-12-31 0

Onésime's Family Drama

Much to his annoyance, Onésime's relatives arrive to stay with him, and the family resemblance is striking. ...
Genre :Comedy

1913-12-31 0

Onésime, You'll Get Married... or Else!

Onésime becomes enamoured of a girl and sends a messenger to her on a motorcycle. ...
Genre :Comedy

1913-12-31 0

Onésime Loves Animals

Looking after his aunt and uncle's house when they're away, animal lover Onésime turns it into a hospital for sick animals. ...
Genre :Comedy

1913-12-31 0

Onésime: Calino's Inheritance

Calino's uncle leaves him an inheritance, but only if he can uncover it hidden in his uncle's house. Detective Onésime is called in to help, and is soon tangling with some criminals after the treasure ...
Genre :Comedy

1912-12-31 4

Onésime et l'étudiante

Onésime short ...
Genre :

1912-12-05 4

Calino, Station Master

Calino is left in charge of a railway station. ...
Genre :Comedy

1912-12-31 0

Onésime a un duel à l'américaine

Onésime short ...
Genre :

1912-12-31 4

Oxford vs. Martigues

Rugby players play the game throughout the city streets. ...
Genre :Comedy

Monsieur Martin, owner of the bistro

1939-03-24 6.6

The End of the Day

Aged penniless actors are living in a old people's home. They always talk about their past glory or failures. One day Raphael Saint-Clair comes; he has been a famous actor and had a lot of love affair ...
Genre :Drama

1920-05-14 0

Le chevalier de Gaby

Genre :

1912-05-20 0

Zigoto et l'écuyère

Lucien Bataille finds himself hired as a secretary to an elderly man. His principal duty is to make sure that the man's niece, Berthe Dagmar, doesn't see the young man she's interested in. No problem! ...
Genre :Comedy

1912-09-02 0

Zigoto gardien de grand magasin

Lucien Bataille is hired as security for the department store, and proceeds to wreck much of it to keep anyone from from stealing anything. ...
Genre :Comedy

1912-09-02 0

Zigoto et le château mystérieux

Berthe Dagmar is kidnapped and Lucien Bataille is almost immediately on the case: examining the road with a magnifying glass, putting a straw hat on a horse, climbing a high gate, and duckwalking acro ...
Genre :Comedy

Sandro's new tenant

1956-05-09 6.4

That Is the Dawn

A generous doctor is aghast that the population of a small island is being oppressed and mistreated, but is seemingly unable to do anything about it, until the arrival of a young woman and the death o ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Le garçon d'étage

1942-10-16 4

At Your Command, Madam

Hector and Odette Dupuis' car breaks down in the middle of nowhere, but not far from a luxury hotel. The couple are well off but, being miserly, Odette is determined to keep her budget tight. Fortunat ...
Genre :Comedy

Baumann, detective

1931-06-05 0

About an investigation

During an inquest after a woman is killed, the judge suspects his own son. The woman's lover had been friendly with the son and he was also supposed to be married to the judge's daughter. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Docteur Belphégor

1924-10-15 0

Más allá de la muerte

Raimundo Davidson is a young man in love with Florence, the niece of Dr. Belforger, master of hypnotics, who takes advantage of this faculty to intervene in a series of illegal business with his frien ...
Genre :Drama

Réal

1920-03-31 6

Spanish Fiesta

A Spanish festival reveals the emotional distance between a woman and a man. ...
Genre :Drama

Lord Glasdall

1929-04-29 6.3

Saint Joan the Maid

This relatively straightforward dramatic biography was one of two films commissioned to honor Joan of Arc on the 500th anniversary of her death, but it was soon undeservedly relegated to obscurity in ...
Genre :Drama, History

1924-10-07 0

Heart of an Actress

Desire brings out the worst in an actress' suitors-- One a well-to-do patron of London's theatre set, the other a lovestruck loner on the verge of penning a play dedicated to her. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Prince Hussein

1928-10-18 0

Secrets of the Orient

A cobbler dreams that he is a prince, in this takeoff on an Arabian Nights style romance. ...
Genre :Drama

Alvarez

1937-02-03 3.25

French White Cargo

Two journalists from different papers are looking for the same story. They want to know, who a group of gangsters getting young women from Europe to South America, where they are forced to work in bro ...
Genre :Drama

Le mendiant Pinatucchio

1925-11-13 0

Naples au baiser de feu

A beggar and a singer are in love with the same woman. ...
Genre :Drama

1929-07-12 0

La ville des mille joies

Genre :Comedy

Jetsam

1927-12-29 0

Die Stadt der tausend Freuden

Genre :Drama

1911-08-08 4

Calino et ses pensionnaires

Calino decides to take a boarder. The gentleman turns out to be a huntsman. All goes well until pay day when the roomer refuses to get out of bed to pay his bill. He says that his pocketbook is in one ...
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Carlotti

1961-10-25 4

House of Sin

In this mystery, a nouveau-riche Frenchman returns to his Parisian home after finding a fortune in Africa. He is looking for a wife and begins advertising in the newspaper. Instead he finds himself vi ...
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1913-01-01 0

Onésime Gets Married... So Does Calino

Difficulties ensue when Calino and Onésime get married on the same day, in the same registry office. ...
Genre :Comedy

1924-11-13 5.4

Miracle of the Wolves

King Louis XI tries to unify France by all means fair or foul, which does not please his powerful rival Charles the Bold. It is against this troubled backdrop that the loves of the daughter of a wealt ...
Genre :History, Drama

1922-01-01 0

Marie Among the Predators

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1929-09-24 0

The Green Monocle

Hans von Trass is a high-ranking German diplomat. When a top-secret document is stolen, his fiancée Christa Varell strangely accuses herself of the theft in a letter. Von Trass entrusts master detecti ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Mystery

Firmin

1932-05-20 5.8

Fantômas

The Marquise de Langrune invites her friends at her castle in Beaulieu. Among them is Lord Beltham who also came to bring her a significant sum of money. The mysterious Fantômas kills the Marquise dur ...
Genre :Crime, Thriller

1921-07-15 6

The Isle of Zorda

Sarkani, an adventurer, finds a trusted carrier pigeon, takes possession of the code message and, teaming up with the unscrupulous banker Torenthal, gets the position of secretary from Matthias Sandor ...
Genre :Adventure, Drama

Dupont

1930-01-02 0

Phantoms of Happiness

Genre :Drama

1911-01-01 0

Zigoto, policier, trouve une corde

Just as the streets to hell, to hear it from the travelers, are paved with good intentions, the illustrious police officer Zigoto's brain is full of the most commendable initiatives. While passing bef ...
Genre :Comedy

1910-03-17 0

In the Air

Julius wants to marry Nelly, but her uncle forbids that. An attempt to court her failed, but the second attempt with the help of an aircraft might work. ...
Genre :Comedy

1912-01-01 0

Onésime et le physicien

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Tiberghien

1949-04-06 7.3

The Mark of the Day

In a settlement in the northern mining country. The Marles, Bréhard and Gohelle families wake up and prepare for a new day at work. The young engineer Larzac, newly appointed to the mine, will soon o ...
Genre :Drama

Philippe - le neveu des Lecocq

1936-04-07 6.3

Life Is Ours

A propaganda film of the communist party of France, showing how the comrades help the proletariat against the capitalists. ...
Genre :Drama, History

Un volontaire

1938-02-10 6.9

La Marseillaise

A film about the early part of the French Revolution, shown from the eyes of the citizens of Marseille, counts in German exile and, of course, the king Louis XVI, each showing their own small problems ...
Genre :History, Drama

Le colonel mexicain

1939-03-01 6.4

Coral Reefs

The adventures of a sailor from Mexico to a lagoon in the Pacific ocean, and the meeting with a lonely girl. ...
Genre :Adventure

Street violinist

1954-11-26 5.5

Papa, Mama, the Maid and I

The residents of the apartment building on Rue Montmartre are a motley crew of oddballs and eccentrics. The daring son of a professor couple is in love with a sexy student who supplements her pocket m ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

1918-10-22 0

L'âme de Pierre

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1931-10-26 0

The bewitchment of Seville

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Justin Benoit

1956-04-27 4.5

Les Truands

"Thieves We Are" - In flashback, the audience learns why 104-year-old Amedee steals the watch belonging to the town mayor. The story develops into a history of the watch-thievery business, told in ane ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime

Le chef des bohèmiens

1956-09-12 5.9

Elena and Her Men

Set amid the military maneuvers and Quatorze Juillet carnivals of turn-of-the-century France, Jean Renoir’s delirious romantic comedy Elena and her Men stars a radiant Ingrid Bergman as a beautiful, b ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy, Romance

Le chef des gangsters

1936-02-07 5

Les Gaîtés de la finance

The banker Marivol looks like a tailor, Lambinet. Gangsters threaten the first, who hires the second as a double. The latter accepts ignoring everything. When he learns that he will be the target of k ...
Genre :Comedy

1913-05-01 5

Onésime champion de boxe

Ernest Bourbon -- that's Onesime -- has decided to learn to box, for some reason, and also fight an American fighter who's touring France. ...
Genre :Comedy

1910-11-16 4

Calino achète un chien de garde

But when he refuses to tip the assistants at the fancier's sales room they lay a scheme for revenge, which takes the form of a practical joke and supplies the onlookers with much merriment. ...
Genre :Comedy

1912-02-09 5

One Hundred Dollars, Dead or Alive

An early Gaumont short. ...
Genre :Western

(voice)

1937-01-24 7

Spain 1936

A Spanish documentary from Jean-Paul Le Chanois & Luis Buñuel made during the Spanish Civil War. ...
Genre :Documentary

1928-03-02 0

Change of Heart

Middle-aged teacher Nadia experiences increasing social exclusion and paranoia as society begins to exclude her and her husband, Ange, in disturbing ways complicated by her difficult family history an ...
Genre :Drama

French examiner

1949-04-08 7.208

Truant School

1920, in a small village in Provence. Monsieur Pascal, a young schoolteacher, is faced with a lack of interest from his pupils. He decides to radically change the methods employed by his predecessor. ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

Gangster

1948-10-29 6.2

The Cupboard Was Bare

The aunt of Alfred Puc, a meek tax-collector in Paris, dies while riding in a moving van. The driver, not wishing to be bothered by a police interrogation, hides her corpse in a cupboard before notify ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime

Augustin

1948-04-14 7

Le Cavalier de Croix-Mort

Elisabeth D'Anthar cheats on her husband François with Simon De Chabre. François, who suspects something, surprises his rival and wounds him. Elisabeth 's sister, to save the situation, claims that Si ...
Genre :Drama

1913-04-12 0

Onésime et son âne

Ernest Bourbon discovers that a shower of gold coins fall from his donkey's hindquarters -- I've phrased that as politely as I can. Now rich, he moves to the city, dresses well and hires servants. Unl ...
Genre :Comedy

Sandegg

1932-08-17 0

Coup de feu à l'aube

A crime has been committed by the Trembleur gang, which specializes in jewelry thefts. The Berlin police are on the trail of the mysterious leader. Thanks to a cunning policeman posing as a member of ...
Genre :Crime

Pascal Lagadec

1925-05-08 0

Lure of the Sea

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1911-01-10 0

Le truc d'Anatole

A husband steps out at night, and the wife decides to leave him. ...
Genre :Comedy

1913-01-19 0

Onésime et l'oeuvre d'art

Ernest Bourbon gets a bust delivered. Eduoard Grissolet visits him and rhapsodizes over it. Then Bourbon is taken to the loony bin, where they perform some extreme slapstick on him. He escapes, heads ...
Genre :Comedy

1914-04-09 0

Onésime gardien du foyer

Seated comfortably in the green pastures near his home, Batty Bill is suddenly presented with a baby, but with his usual dull wits he is slow to realize the catastrophe that has befallen him. When he ...
Genre :Comedy

1913-10-16 0

Onésime et le pas de l'ours

The fact that the Four Arts Club were organizing an international competition of modern dances was welcome news to Simple Simon. When he ascertained that the dances would include the Cake Walk, Serpen ...
Genre :Comedy

1914-03-26 0

Onésime et son collègue

Batty Bill has some bachelor apartments. He also has a friend, who has fallen in love. These lovers adjourn to Batty Bill's apartments, where unfortunately for Batty Bill, they are traced by the wrath ...
Genre :Comedy

Lieutenant de vaisseau Brambourg

1925-05-01 0

Before the Battle

When the commander of a cruiser ,which sank in a confrontation,is tried for negligence, will the wife speak up in his defense? Unknown to him, she was trapped in the cabin below with her former lover, ...
Genre :Drama, War

Rivale

1913-12-04 0

Onésime sur le sentier de guerre

French parody western. ...
Genre :Comedy, Western

Fernand de Morcerf

0

Le Comte de Monte-Cristo

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1911-01-01 0

Bornéo Bill, le brave cow-boy

Cowboy Borneo Bill is in love with Gracie Jackson, the daughter of a miner with whom he had the bad idea of getting into a fight. ...
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