Charles Lemontier

AKA: Louis Jean Eugène Lemontier, C. Lemontier , Ch. Lemontier
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1894-04-21

Toul, France

Biography

Crew Roles

La blonde des tropiques
Writer
Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {137}

(uncredited)

1956-08-22 6

It Happened in Aden

During a stopover in Aden, a charming actress is kidnapped by an Arab prince. ...
Genre :Comedy

General (uncredited)

1957-05-29 7

Love in the Afternoon

Lovestruck conservatory student Ariane pretends to be just as much a cosmopolitan lover as the worldly mature Frank Flannagan hoping that l’amour will take hold. ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Father Charles

1946-04-30 6.4

Mr. Orchid

This character study of a French patriot during the Nazi Occupation has comedian Noel as the chief of the underground who uses his hobby of growing orchids to hide his radio equipment. ...
Genre :Drama, War

Le professeur Duvernier (uncredited)

1958-06-20 5.8

Les Vignes du Seigneur

Now Gisèle Bourjeon is the mistress of the count Hubert Martin de Kardec.After a long journey abroad Henri Lévrier, a champagne producer has come back and meets again his friends Hubert and the Bourje ...
Genre :Comedy

M. André

1954-07-28 5.8

April Fools' Day

Emile is a good mechanic whose clientele is very loyal. A bit naive, he is bamboozled by a seller who manages to sell him the full trappings of the perfect fisherman. No sooner did he regret that he b ...
Genre :Comedy

La Palice

1937-02-17 5.6

Francis the First

Honorin is the simple and naive stage manager of a traveling theatre troupe, whose one ambition is to once play the role of the cavalier in the opera "Francis I, or the Loves of the Beautiful Ferronie ...
Genre :Comedy, Fantasy

Cloueur

1934-02-02 0

Street Without a Name

The story focuses on a street in the Parisian banlieue where Italian and French workers live. Their neighborhood will soon be demolished and a mysterious character hides himself in this street. ...
Genre :Drama

1934-05-11 0

L'Article 382

While walking back home at night, an examining judge is robbed of his watch. Fortunately he offers resistance and, by roughing up the mugger, manages to recover his belonging. Imagine his surprise whe ...
Genre :

Firmin

1935-02-01 4

Ladies Only Compartment

On his wedding day, Robert confesses his father-in-law that twenty years ago, he seduced a lady in a sleeping car of a train. His mother-in-law overhears the conversation and convinces Robert that she ...
Genre :Comedy

Ludovic

1935-05-30 0

La Sonnette d'alarme

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. ...
Genre :Comedy

1935-11-15 0

Sous la griffe

The tamer Nikita marries the girl he had once recruited into the circus but she loves a trapeze artist. ...
Genre :

1935-09-20 0

The Pont-Biquet Family

The family Pont-Biquet is composed as follows: father, the judge, afflicted by deafness; authoritarian and irascible mother; funny son-in-law; an ingenious son who has a mistress. ...
Genre :

1936-01-17 0

Sacré Léonce

Léonce Vavin, an entomologist, marries Cecile Debienne, but the parents of the bride quickly realize that he's not just ugly but also a complete ignorant of all sexual matters. ...
Genre :

1936-04-10 0

Coup de vent

In Pisa, chance forces an old bookseller out of his isolation. He unleashes the fury of the tenants of his building, he undergoes the rigors of the law and he is involved in the adventure of two lover ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Julien

1936-08-28 5.7

Seven Men, One Woman

At the urging of her childhood friend Brémontier, Lucie de Kéradec, a wealthy widowed countess who wishes to remarry, invites all of her seven suitors to her mansion. Her untold intention is to test t ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

1936-05-20 0

You Can't Fool Antoinette

Hubert has married a little provincial girl and, to disgust her with Parisian life, he takes her out every evening. ...
Genre :Comedy

1936-08-28 0

Œil de lynx, détective

Marc Lanterne and Monsieur Smith investigate the home of a castellan who is the victim of jealousy, justified by the way, of his wife. Monsieur Dunoyau wants to know the author of the anonymous letter ...
Genre :

1936-05-29 0

L'École des journalistes

Fernand Dubreuil wants to be a journalist and agreed to do an interview with promising star Clara Sergy. He's accompanied by the jerk photographer, Alfred. ...
Genre :

1937-06-30 10

Cinderella

An unemployed maid is hired in a music hall to wash the floors. The whim of a screenwriter makes her go on stage in the most basic outfit. A revelation, success is at his doorstep! However, the young ...
Genre :Drama, Music

1936-10-29 4

To the Sound of Guitars

A woman visiting Corsica falls for a singer with a velvet-smooth voice. ...
Genre :Comedy, Music

1936-10-07 4.3

Rigolboche

Lina Bourget, a realist singer, is forced to leave Dakar because of a murder she believes she has committed. Taking refuge in Paris, she unexpectedly becomes a star in the capital. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

1936-11-27 0

Quand minuit sonnera

A criminal is being blackmailed by his former accomplices. He does everything in his power to gain time because the statutory limitation for the crime he committed starts at midnight. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Mouchette, detective

1937-10-22 1

The Gateway Streak

A brave man accidentally gives some good tips to a client who immediately hires him as a secretary. But he is kidnapped by a rival bank and there is a queue to get his predictions. He finally understa ...
Genre :Comedy

1937-03-12 5.2

The Smart People of the 11th

A colonel decided to be represented at the regiment festival of a tragedy in verse by the poem written by his sister. ...
Genre :Comedy

1938-03-30 0

Monsieur Breloque a disparu

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 an ...
Genre :Comedy

(uncredited)

1938-04-13 0

Street Without Joy

Jeanne supports supports his family on his modest salary. Her boss is arrested for fraud. Jeanne is forced, out of poverty, in the street. ...
Genre :Drama

L'assistant (as Ch. Lemontier)

1938-07-22 0

Alexis gentleman chauffeur

Alexis, a former war pilot, attempted the Paris-Tokyo raid and failed. He became a taxi driver. The film actress, Margot Fontane, forgets her bag in the taxi and Alexis thus meets her. He goes to see ...
Genre :Comedy

Le sergent Horn

1938-09-07 5

The Southern Trail

As Hélène is conveying her husband's body across the Sahara, her convoy is attacked by looters. The young widow survives only to be taken to a remote desert village called Tirzit amidst a band of lone ...
Genre :Adventure

Banker

1938-10-05 0

Un fichu métier

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 Patcheff, a minister, decides then to replace the P ...
Genre :Comedy

Maître d'hôtel (uncredited)

1938-12-14 5.3

Three Waltzes

"Les Trois Valses" traces the love story of two people over three eras. In the first waltz (music based on Johann Strauss I), Yvonne is a sensitive Parisian ballet dancer, whose romance with a dashing ...
Genre :Romance, Music

1938-12-14 0

The Tamer

A very shy person inherits a traveling circus on the express condition that he manages to present a number on the ring. ...
Genre :Comedy

1939-04-19 0

Deux de la réserve

The farmer Remy has just invented a new fertilizer and spies are trying to seize his documents, taking him for the famous Remy, inventor of a device of interest to national defence. ...
Genre :

Charly

1939-01-11 0

Le Prince Bouboule

Bouboule is a taxi driver. A Russian princess wishing to acquire French nationality offers to marry her to divorce a few months later. After incredible adventures, Bouboule manages to save the inherit ...
Genre :Comedy

Leroy

1942-06-10 0

Forte tête

René, a bank employee, is suspected of theft and fired from his job. It borders on the worst by following in the footsteps of a misfit, Alexandre. A series of circumstances lead him to save little Gér ...
Genre :

Justice of the peace

1939-04-12 6.2

The Fatted Calf

Jules Vachon, a pharmacist, has two sons, Gabriel, a steady-minded young man dedicated to his job in the pharmacy, and Gaston, a good for nothing whose only talent is to seduce rich women and take mon ...
Genre :Comedy

1939-05-18 0

Cas de conscience

A doctor passionate about research leaves an uncle with an inheritance to die, knowing that he is the legatee. His work succeeds, but overcome by remorse, the doctor tries to commit suicide. He is sav ...
Genre :

Cook

1942-12-09 0

Eight Men in a Castle

The Paladines write crime novels together. In a cinema, they happen to see a report on the consequences of a shipwreck in which Lieutenant Dupuis tells about the death of an old man in the lifeboat ca ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

1939-07-13 0

Ma tante dictateur

A young man who wishes to launch his girlfriend in the theater, borrows money from his aunt, making her believe that he wants to buy groceries. His aunt arrives and then wishes to visit “her” grocery ...
Genre :Comedy

1941-12-17 0

Ici l'on pêche

A painter has his daughter brought up by a couple of innkeepers who run an establishment on the edge of the water with the sign: Here we fish. Having grown up, she refuses to join him and prefers her ...
Genre :

1940-02-25 0

Grey contre X

Grey conducts a triple murder investigation, the last murder committed gives him some clues to the murderer and that the victim may have known his killer. He devises a plan to identify the guilty part ...
Genre :

Arnaud

1943-03-03 0

Coup de feu dans la nuit

A woman is accused of the murder of her husband, who was jealous and brutal. Her lawyer manages to get her acquitted and they get married in the end. ...
Genre :Crime

Belin

1943-03-10 0

White Wings

A great disappointed love once encouraged the vocation of Sister Claire, who, however, forgot nothing. She follows in their daily life three young girls beloved and badly brought up by a widower, an a ...
Genre :Drama

1943-03-24 0

The White Truck

A young mechanic is given a strange job: to convey the king of the gypsies' embalmed dead body on a very long route. ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

1943-06-30 0

Malaria

A colonial wife carries on an affair with a French officer, but the wife's native servant may have overheard their plan to leave Africa and return to Europe together.And then the servant goes missing. ...
Genre :Drama

Jean d'Agon

1942-01-21 0

Cartacalha, reine des gitans

The gypsy dancer Cartacalha is elected queen of the gypsies. She loves a horse breeder, the Galejon, but following misunderstandings and perfidy, she leaves for Paris, invited by a playwright who pred ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Teacher

1943-09-01 3.2

Adémaï bandit d'honneur

Ademaï is very happy to spend a vacation month in Corsica, invited by his family; when he arrives, much to his surprise, all the male relatives have just been shot. ...
Genre :Comedy

Maître d'hôtel

1942-02-16 6.045

Whims

Caprices tells the story of two young rich people. A famous actress poses as a poor florist, and a distinguished society man camouflages himself as forger and swindler. This game leads them to make cl ...
Genre :Comedy

Gendarmerie Brigadier

1943-10-20 0

Ceux du rivage

In the oyster and fishing town of Arcachon, one man doesn't want his adopted son to get married to the daughter of his rival, and he suspects a dark underlying secret. ...
Genre :Drama

Head waiter

1944-04-12 0

The Ménard Collection

Renée Ménard, a young mixed-race Indochinese, arrives in France to find her French father, whom she only knows is called Paul Ménard. In the hope of identifying her father, she meets a series of men w ...
Genre :Comedy

Monsieur Gerbault (uncredited)

1944-04-26 5

Children of Chaos

An officer, two of his comrades and a social worker want to create the "Carrefour", a place for lost children and teens to give them a chance not to fall by the wayside and spend most of their life in ...
Genre :Drama

Inspector Bertin

1946-02-06 5

120, rue de la Gare

On the verge of death, a man entrusts Inspector Burma with an address. Burma conducts a difficult investigation with many twists and turns, which takes him from Lyon to Paris, following in the footste ...
Genre :Crime

Funeral home employee

1945-06-27 0

Mademoiselle X

A famous writer takes in a young amnesiac who, thanks to his care, remembers having tried to kill her unfaithful lover. He will know how to console her and share with her a new happiness. ...
Genre :Drama

Prosecutor

1946-03-13 6

Roger the Disgrace

Roger Laroque, an honest industrialist, is the victim of a criminal machination by Julia de Noirville, his possessive and jealous mistress allied to the perfidious Paul Luversan, meant to make Roger t ...
Genre :Drama

Taciturn traveler in the train

1946-07-03 4

Thirty and Forty

The scene is set during the Second Empire. Captain Bitterlin watches jealously over his lovely daughter Madeleine but he cannot prevent nature from demanding its rights and Madeleine soon finds hersel ...
Genre :Comedy, Music

Doctor

1946-06-19 7.7

The Eternal Husband

An adaptation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's "Le Eternel Mari", a somber story of marital infidelity, revenge and near madness, and starring Raimu in his last film appearance. ...
Genre :Drama

1946-07-24 0

Master Love

Director of a music hall, the dubious Ribero, to save himself from bankruptcy, only hopes for the victory of his horse. An English lord enlists his crack Master Love in the race. Ribero will try to pr ...
Genre :Comedy

Railwayman

1946-09-25 0

Alert Nights

Hélène, a young waitress working in a bar frequented by German soldiers, saves the life of Pierre, a Resistance fighter. Her jealous lover has her arrested first and then released. Later on, Hélène is ...
Genre :Drama

Le commissaire

1946-10-30 0

Le Cabaret du Grand Large

Superintendent Thomas is investigating a cabaret owner with suspicious actions. ...
Genre :Crime

1947-08-06 0

L'Homme de la nuit

A detective uncovers a crime. The suspects are numerous and it will take all the insight of a journalist to discover the culprit. ...
Genre :

Doctor

1948-05-12 5.5

Une mort sans importance

A man who has made a pact with death must designate the member of a family who must die the next day. After many hesitations, he will sacrifice the innocent young girl so that she does not know the in ...
Genre :Drama

Mr. Legros

1950-02-15 3

Amédée

Employed in a beauty salon, Amédée must undergo a pentothal injection. The dose is too strong; suddenly Amédée reveals the truth to everyone; to clients of the institute; to his cheating wife; to his ...
Genre :Comedy

Engineer

1950-02-22 1

Le 84 prend des vacances

Gaston Bernod is a Parisian bus driver. Honest, upright and hard-working, he is held in high esteem by his superiors. Gaston has always pampered "his" bus, going as far as to equip it with a fuel-savi ...
Genre :Comedy

1950-03-20 0

Nous avons tous fait la même chose

Rémi sees his marriage troubled by a scandal caused by his former mistress. He takes refuge with his godmother while his wife organizes her revenge. ...
Genre :Comedy

Antoine Hallu

1948-09-17 0

The Secret of Monte-Cristo

One of Alexandre Dumas's most popular adventure novels is "The Count of Monte-Cristo". What is little known is that the famous writer made up neither its plot nor its characters. Dumas actually heard ...
Genre :

Abbot

1947-11-15 0

Mandrin (1ère époque) Le libérateur

Around 1750, in the Dauphiné not far from the Swiss border, a cooper, tired of the injustices affecting the peasants crushed by taxes, went into revolt. Louis Mandrin, a handsome fellow without fear a ...
Genre :Adventure

Fragerolles, a member of the 'Chat noir'

1950-05-26 5

Sending of Flowers

Envoi de Fleurs is based on incidents in the life of French composer Paul Delmet. Played by popular French singing star Tino Rossi, Delmet is depicted as a man all too willing to give up personal happ ...
Genre :Drama

Lawyer

1948-01-07 0

Le diamant de cent sous

For fun and to dazzle his wife, the novelist Morgan steals a ring and gets rid of it in the costume jewelry section of a supermarket. Sophie buys the diamond, which forces the novelist to embark on cr ...
Genre :Comedy

Theater director

1950-06-15 5

Prelude to Glory

Roberto, a 10-year-old boy, is drawn to music. An old organist discovers his gifts, and begins his musical education which will lead him to the head of an orchestra. ...
Genre :Drama

1949-02-02 4

Piège à hommes

A gangster, arrested by the police, manages to escape during his transfer to Paris. He takes refuge in the suburbs where his accomplices and his mistress await him. ...
Genre :

Inspector Sorbier

1949-02-09 0

L'échafaud peut attendre

A trio of criminals gradually become entangled in theft and crime. Serge is arrested, his mistress, Hélène, and his accomplice, Michel, both become lovers, try to exonerate him and use false fingerpri ...
Genre :

Loschek

1949-05-07 7

The Secret of Mayerling

On the morning of January 30, 1889, the Archduke Rodolphe de Habsbourg and his mistress Marie Vetsera were found dead. The remains of Rodolphe are discreetly repatriated to Hofburg, while that of Mary ...
Genre :Drama

1949-07-01 0

The Red Angel

L'Ange rouge is a cabaret run by a former mobster with his friend, a singer and dancer he brought back from Argentina. A fleeing gangster takes refuge in the cabaret. The singer and the gangster have ...
Genre :

Sanzun

1950-11-24 4

The Rear-Wheel Drive Gang

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 accordi ...
Genre :Comedy

President

1950-12-12 0

Born of Unknown Father

By taking the defense of Raymond Denis, accused of having killed his mistress, when she committed suicide because he did not want to recognize his child, the lawyer Claude Nogent, learns that he himse ...
Genre :Drama

The investigating judge

1951-12-26 5

In the Land of the Sun

A band of Marseilles, lazy and happy to live, are involved in trafficking; Titin, put in prison for a while, is finally released and can marry Miette. ...
Genre :

L'ambassadeur

1951-10-17 5.6

Utopia

Stan and Ollie are marooned on an island in the south pacific island. ...
Genre :Comedy

Mr. Dupin, a board member

1950-01-27 0

Love and Companionship

The accountant of an insurance company, rather eccentric and quick to push the song, is responsible for monitoring the actions of an alluring South American whose suicide would mean the collapse of th ...
Genre :Comedy

Station master (uncredited)

1951-05-25 0

The Merry Pilgrims

With no contract in view, Aimé Barelli, the leader of the band of the same name, decides to take a holiday. As this is the Holy Year, the young artist accepts to follow his mother on a pilgrimage to R ...
Genre :Music, Comedy

1951-03-16 0

Maria of the End of the World

Maria is the wife of self-styled naturalist Mathius. Alas, Maria's husband spends more time with his beloved woodland creatures than with her. Yearning for a visit to the Big City, Maria leaves hersel ...
Genre :Drama

Monsieur Désiré

1952-09-10 4.5

Drôle de noce

Mr and Mrs Barbezat,Concierges are to marry their only daughter to a butcher's boy. Both the in-laws and the groom have an obsession: come what may, they are keen on honoring their engagements: promis ...
Genre :Comedy

Commissioner

1951-05-09 0

Cherished by her concierge

Eugène, who works for Radio-Europe, is a bit dim-witted. He lives in a block of flats whose caretaker is Madame Motte, and the lady is in love with the young man. Just for laughs, Eugène's friends cir ...
Genre :Comedy

1952-10-10 0

Piédalu fait des miracles

The inhabitants of Marboue-Chambourcy want a swimming pool, and the difficulties in realizing this expensive dream divide the village into two clans: on one side the women, on the other the men. Pieda ...
Genre :

Jacquelin (uncredited)

1951-06-22 4.5

Les Petites Cardinal

Napoleon III, the Commune, the third Republic in the background. In the foreground, two pretty, talented sisters, Virginie and Pauline Cardinal. They are ballerinas at the Opera de Paris and very much ...
Genre :

Mr Bonnemain

1946-12-18 6.6

Martin Roumagnac

The local building-contractor Martin Roumagnac is fascinated by the fashionable Blanche Ferrand. To impress Blache, Martin presents her with a villa. However, this ruins him financially. Despite Marti ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Romance

Le médecin

1952-12-11 5.3

Run Away Mr. Perle

Modest fifty-something, Mr. Perle, is a baker in a small provincial town. He lives there with an authoritarian woman and her cousin, a parasite who poisons his existence. A Parisian notary writes to t ...
Genre :Comedy

Prefect

1951-10-12 2

Piédalu à Paris

Piedalu is an ordinary villager, who comes to the capital to present his financial plan to the Minister of Renovation, and finds it difficult to find someone to listen to him. He meets an actress in P ...
Genre :Comedy

The bearded gentleman of the shelter

1951-10-12 4

Life in a Song

The cinematographic illustration of fifteen cheerful, tender or ferocious songs that made the success of the songwriter of the comedian Noël-Noël. After "Les casses pieds", "La vie chantée" stages sev ...
Genre :Comedy, Music

1959-05-24 0

Visa to Hell

The action takes place on the coast of the eastern Pyrenees near the Spanish border. Mario Balducci escaped from prison, after settling his account with his former accomplice who had given him away, h ...
Genre :Drama

Inspector Ballestra

1947-05-02 6.8

Mirror

Portrait of a two-faced man. By day he is rich, brilliant and respectable financial officer Lussac; at night, he becomes "Mirror", a ruthless gang leader in Marseilles. ...
Genre :Drama

Le directeur de l'Opéra

1954-09-26 6

The Contessa's Secret

The lover of an Italian revolutionary offers herself to Napoleon in exchange for her sweetheart's life. ...
Genre :Romance, Drama, History

Courvoisier

1959-09-22 3.8

The Enigma of the Folies-Bergère

The Raffin Commissioner investigates the murder of an industrialist and it soon becomes apparent that the activities of the relatives of the deceased all revolve around the Folies-Bergere. ...
Genre :Crime, Mystery

Mr. Guinelet, attorney

1953-08-14 4.3

Le Chasseur de chez Maxim's

Julien Pauphilat is the doorman at the famous restaurant, Maxim's and is also the confidant of many of his customers. As a consequence, in this post, he has managed to make a comfortable living and e ...
Genre :Comedy

Un journaliste

1955-05-10 6.154

Black Dossier

In the 1950s, in a small provincial town, a young inexperienced judge clashes with an influential notable during an investigation into a suspicious death. His perseverance to get to the truth will cau ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Mr. Delcommune

1957-02-06 6.1

Reproduction interdite

An art dealer in dire straits, after being ripped off by two crooks, one of whom owns a genuine painting by Gauguin while the other is an expert copyist, finds them again and, instead of killing them ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Doctor

1953-08-02 0

Mandat d'amener

Appointed public prosecutor in a small provincial town, Gérard Latour befriends Delanglade, whose young wife becomes his mistress. Shortly afterwards, a fire ravages Delanglade's factory. During the e ...
Genre :

Chaplain

1953-09-03 0

Le Petit Jacques

Noël Rambert is overwhelmed by fate. Marthe, his wife, has left him. His son, little Jacques, sickly and touching, has psychic gifts. Life is not a happy one. A crime is committed. Poor Rambert is unj ...
Genre :Drama

1955-08-08 4.5

Nights of Montmartre

Bobby earns his living in Montmartre by duping naïve provincials, along with his pal Julien, as well as crooks and drug dealers, replaced by bicarbonate. His friend Monique, who dances at Le Paradou, ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime, Drama

Commander

1956-06-27 0

Alert in the Canary Islands

Maxime Bellac owns an art gallery. He has an affair with Michelle. One night when they have dinner together, Maxime tells Michelle he is forced to leave for the Canaries because of paintings. When the ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Leblond

1956-06-05 7.4

In the Manner of Sherlock Holmes

A horrific and, on the face of it, incomprehensible murder has just been committed on the unsympathetic person of a loan shark. The victim's body is found lifeless, but the circumstances of his death ...
Genre :Mystery, Crime

1954-01-29 0

Minuit... Champs-Elysées

A burglar, Bob Duchemin, is charged with murder following a mysterious settling of accounts. Suspicion also falls on the manager of a cabaret on the Champs-Elysées, as well as the owner of the establi ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

1954-12-01 7.5

The Roundup is for Tonight

Three sketches that all start in the police station, where Léa, La Pintade and the brigadier himself tell their little stories. The story of Danielle, who bamboozled the impresario Mortimer so well th ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

1958-11-12 0

So Much Love Lost

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. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Guest at the transient hotel (uncredited)

1957-07-04 4.75

Young Girls Beware

Raven, a mobster just released from prison, settles the score by murdering Mendetta and her partner, who had turned him in. Having taken over Mendetta's various bars, he finds himself at war with othe ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

1960-01-29 6

Take Me As I Am

The director of the Rome office of an American news agency is seduced by his boss' daughter, who subsequently ends up dead at the foot of a cliff. Film adaptation of James Hadley Chase’s 1956 noir thr ...
Genre :Thriller

1957-07-24 0

L’aventurière des Champs-Élysées

After a Parisian haute couture house is robbed and jewels stolen, Commissaire Legrand leads the investigation. His suspicions fall on Linda, the great couturier. He decides to follow her to Nice to pr ...
Genre :

1958-10-15 0

Madame et son auto

Sophie Dirondel, history teacher at the Saint-Cloison-sur-Ermoise, wins the jackpot of a lottery, a 2CV. The good-natured woman is both happy and slightly upset, as she doe not have her driving-licens ...
Genre :Comedy

(uncredited)

1960-01-15 2

Marie of the Isles

In 1635, Jacques du Parquet, the nephew of the well known explorer Belain d'Esnambic, enters a tavern in Dieppe, and falls in love with the daughter of the bartender, Marie Bonnard. He knows his noble ...
Genre :Romance, Adventure

1956-10-19 6.4

The Country I Come From

One Christmas Eve, a carefree young man, Eric, arrives in a small provincial town. Here, he meets Julien, a bar pianist who is his exact double. Julien is in love with Marinette, a pretty waitress, ...
Genre :Fantasy, Comedy

1960-03-30 0

Tête folle

Following an operation, Annie no longer remembers her eleven years of marriage or her children. Her memory stops at the time when she was being courted by Pierre, now the family friend. Unable to bear ...
Genre :Comedy

Doctor (uncredited)

1953-06-03 4

Jeunes mariés

Jacques and Gisèle, who are just married, are starting their honeymoon. But at nightfall, on their way to marital bliss, their car chooses to break down and the lovebirds find themselves stranded in t ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

First road mender

1962-03-02 6.1

Assassin in the Phonebook

Fernandel plays Albert, the unhappy brunt of jokes by his fellow office-workers who goes from the frying pan into the fire. Albert gets caught up in a robbery that also goes from bad to worse when it ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy, Crime

Second silent partner

1943-12-15 4

Lucrèce

Lucrèce, a famous actress, is bothered first, then flattered by the passionate testimonies of love given to her by François, a 12th grade student infatuated with her. Taking pity on the boy, Lucrèce d ...
Genre :Drama

1952-05-08 0

Ma femme, ma vache et moi

Marinette, the wife of Mario, a sympathetic hobo, is disgusted with the farm and runs off to Paris without husband or child. The tenacious husband sets off in pursuit, accompanied by the baby and a co ...
Genre :Comedy

M. Lebourgeon, un envoyé de l'institut pour le vote

1948-04-13 0

Convicted

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 t ...
Genre :Drama

Prosper

1934-12-21 0

Le Père Lampion

How a simple sewer, a perfect look-alike of the president of the council, manages to reform a country and make himself loved by his fellow citizens. ...
Genre :Comedy

M. Leroux

1948-11-05 5.8

Bagarres

A proud femme fatale who works at a mountainous farm property manages, after being prodded by her lover, to become the heiress, but she plays the rival men against each other. ...
Genre :Drama

Assistant

1938-05-31 0

The Little Thing

Now that their parents are ruined, Jacques Eyssette and his younger brother Daniel, are driven to fend for themselves. Jacques becomes the secretary of a marquis who exploits him by making him work so ...
Genre :Drama

Papillon

1940-02-28 3.5

Sur le plancher des vaches

A little bank employee wins a plane in the lottery and amazes his companions with his audacity. ...
Genre :Comedy

Mr. Durand

1950-01-19 5.2

Farewell Mister Grock

The life of Adrien Wettach, famous in the annals of the circus under the name of Grock, world famous Swiss clown. A series of images from Épinal, retracing the career of a European artist, within the ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

Le Clochard

1958-04-02 3.667

The Desert of Pigalle

A young priest works as a barman in a Pigalle cafe in Paris. He tries to prevent the women there to prostitute themselves.... ...
Genre :Drama

Le contrôleur

1938-06-01 0

In the Sun of Marseille

A modest soap factory employee has two passions: sport and his boss's daughter. ...
Genre :Comedy

1958-03-12 5.4

Three Days to Live

Struggling actor Simon witnesses a murder; he didn't see the killer, but that doesn't stop him from claiming that he did in order to get his name into the papers. Sure enough, the murderer targets him ...
Genre :Drama, Crime, Thriller

The Doctor (uncredited)

1958-11-26 6.1

Maxime

Story of an aging dandy who is the factotum and arranger of female conquests for a brusque young millionaire. ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

1959-03-04 6

Drôles de phénomènes

Since the day their mother Aline remarried, Patrice and Eric, a joyful pair of twins, have been very happy. Indeed, François Chantour, their stepfather, is very kind and behaves like a big brother to ...
Genre :

Professor Desforges

1956-06-13 0

Operation Thunder

The inhabitants of a small provincial town are requisitioned to take part in the French army's major maneuvers. A foreign spy takes advantage of these maneuvers to steal secret documents. The pursuit ...
Genre :Adventure, Action, Thriller

L'huissier

1954-05-17 5.4

Trust Me!

Max, an illusionist as unlucky as he is skilled, would like to marry his boss's daughter, but his boss won't hear of marriage and even threatens to fire him if he doesn't come up with an interesting a ...
Genre :Comedy

Casino employee (uncredited)

1960-04-13 6.333

The Baron of the Locks

The lucky Baron wins a boat in a card game and takes off with his former lover to find new adventures. Adverse circumstances land them in a small town, where the Baron's seafaring companion leaves for ...
Genre :Comedy

Garancier

1936-12-31 0

Assault

Alexandre Mérital, the leader of a political party, finds himself under attack from Frépeau, one of his opponents. The latter has indeed discovered that Mérital committed a theft in his youth. But Mér ...
Genre :Drama

Le comte de Camporeal

1948-02-17 6.9

The Queen's Lover

Exiled from the court of Spain, Don Salluste, the chief of police, wants to take revenge on the Queen. One day he meets Ruy Blas, a young student who happens to be a lookalike of Don Cesar, his nephew ...
Genre :Drama

Abbot

1948-04-07 7

Mandrin (2ème époque) La Tragédie d'un siècle

Around 1750, in the Dauphiné not far from the Swiss border, a cooper, tired of the injustices affecting the peasants crushed by taxes, went into revolt. Louis Mandrin, a handsome fellow without fear a ...
Genre :Drama, Adventure

Chaulieu

1950-05-24 5.8

Minne

Minne is a very imaginative young lady. She pretends to have had lovers and can't think of anything better to do other than... to tell Antoine, her husband, the day she marries him. Bad beginning for ...
Genre :Comedy

Le commissaire de police

1949-03-23 0

Dark Sunday

Shortly before the War, Jan Lazlo, a Hungarian musician who has emigrated to France, falls for a young woman. Alas, the lady forsakes him and the poor man tries to overcome his grief by writing "Gloom ...
Genre :

Le docteur

1952-08-29 6

Trial at the Vatican

In 19th-century France, a little girl follows her two sisters into a Carmelite monastery with the goal of becoming a saint. ...
Genre :Drama

Un solliciteur (uncredited)

1957-12-16 5.6

La Parisienne

The spoiled daughter of the French Ambassador tricks one of his aides into marrying her. ...
Genre :Comedy

Le procureur

1952-05-21 6.6

We Are All Murderers

Originally titled Nous Sommes Tout des Assassins, We Are All Murderers was directed by Andre Cayette, a former lawyer who detested France's execution system. Charles Spaak's screenplay makes no attemp ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

A general

1954-04-21 5.6

Mademoiselle Nitouche

Celestin works as an organist at a girl's school. By day, Celestin is the meek and mild target of the girls' incessant practical jokes. By night, however, he is the celebrated composer of popular oper ...
Genre :Music, Comedy

Passerby in the street with Valérie (uncredited)

1957-10-18 5.87

Lovers of Paris

Young, handsome, dashing but cynical, Octave Mouret arrives in Paris, determined to conquer the belles of the capital. ...
Genre :Drama