François Joux

AKA: Франсуа Жу
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1912-07-10

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {55}

Commissaire de Police

1958-01-29 7.598

Elevator to the Gallows

A self-assured businessman murders his employer, husband of his mistress, which unintentionally provokes an ill-fated chain of events. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Thriller

Cheminot

1946-02-27 6.8

The Battle of the Rails

A dramatized account of the French Resistance, this wartime film depicts how railway workers sabotaged German trains to disrupt troop movements and supply lines during the Nazi occupation. Blending do ...
Genre :Drama, War

(uncredited)

1942-03-27 5.7

Wicked Duchess

Edwige Feuillère and Pierre Richard-Willm star in director Jacques de Baroncelli's adaptation of the Balzac novella The Duchesse de Langeais, which tells the tale of a Parisian socialite who is romant ...
Genre :Drama

Journalist (uncredited)

1942-04-19 7.2

Sideral Cruises

Robert and Françoise Monier make a hot air balloon to fly to the stratosphere. After a visit to Venus, they return home, but have only aged 15 days whereas 25 years have passed on Earth. ...
Genre :Science Fiction, Adventure

1942-08-05 0

L'homme qui joue avec le feu

A do gooder hopes to cure potential romantic partners of what he considers the disease of love, by putting them up in a property and having them watched over.Things do not turn out according to his pl ...
Genre :

Chauffeur

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

1941-12-17 0

The Pavilion Burns

Denise, a young employee of the mine, is courted by the engineer Risay while she is engaged to Daniel, a simple underground worker. A betrayal has occurred that compromises the mine. An accident occur ...
Genre :Drama

1942-09-23 0

Haut le vent

In 1906, François left the Basque country with his father, who had decided to settle in Argentina following an incident between him and Esteban. Having become a powerful industrialist, he returned to ...
Genre :Drama

Murier

1945-06-20 6.3

Paris Frills

Philippe Clarence, a famous Parisian dressmaker, seduces his friend's fiancee. But, for the first time in his life, this is for real. The film is also a sharp picture of the fashion world. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

1945-10-03 0

Destitute Mary

Marie is one of her kind. While the other girls are after gold, diamonds and jewels, she swears by ... poverty! She does not remain the companion of a banker too long for obvious reasons. But when she ...
Genre :Drama

1946-05-13 0

Women's Games

The agency À Votre Service has the reputation of meeting all needs. This is what Stanislas observes when his uncle replaces his mistress with a fiancée provided by the agency. ...
Genre :Comedy

François Joux

1946-07-29 8.3

The Murderer Is Not Guilty

In a film studio, several actors are the victims of attempted murders. Julien Brisseau, a writer, decides to use these facts as the backbone of his new novel. But while he is working on his detective ...
Genre :Crime

1946-10-23 1

Once Is Enough

Christine Jourdan is a highly rated sculptor who, to oust her impresario Ancelin, invented a lover named Nicolas. Soon she marries Jacques, but he proves to be jealous of the supposed lover. The newsp ...
Genre :Comedy

Inspector

1946-11-27 6.1

Back Streets of Paris

Madame Rose runs a seedy hotel in a suburb of Paris. Strong-minded but without the least moral scruple, she once killed her husband whose honesty was a hindrance to her business. Under a suspended sen ...
Genre :Drama

1947-03-21 0

Counter Investigation

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 inv ...
Genre :

Lieutenant Louvet

1947-09-24 7.5

Not Guilty

An alcoholic doctor accidentally kills someone and manages to make the death look like an accident. The episode triggers a sense of confidence and he resolves to correct the miseries of his life. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Doctor

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

1950-02-22 0

Un trou dans le mur

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 ...
Genre :

Coffee boy (uncredited)

1947-12-06 8

False Identity

A man who has just deposited a will with a notary is run over by a car. As his overcoat bears the name and address of Emile Blondin on a label, the police go there and discover that the dead man is no ...
Genre :Crime

Alfred Bouchard

1947-12-17 5.4

Danger of Death

Loiseau the pharmacist mistakenly mixes potassium cyanide into a batch of cough syrup and sells five bottles. With horror he discovers his mistake and sets out to find the buyers. He finds only four. ...
Genre :Drama

Doctor

1950-09-15 6

Les femmes sont folles

Marguerite secretly loves a novelist whose face no one knows. The jealous husband sets up a scheme by asking an actor friend to play the novelist and behave in an execrable way in order to disgust his ...
Genre :Comedy

Architect (uncredited)

1949-03-09 6.9

Manon

Port of Marseille, France, recently liberated from the German yoke. Caught as stowaways aboard a ship, Manon, a young woman who was accused of collaborating with the Nazis, and Robert, a freedom fight ...
Genre :Drama, Adventure, Thriller

(uncredited)

1949-04-22 5.5

Scandal on the Champs-Élysées

In Paris, three models are murdered, being one of them the mistress of the fashion designer Dominique Airelle. It is the young inspector who is in charge of the affair. ...
Genre :Crime

Worried husband at the airport

1950-11-15 3.8

Just Me

Maurice Vallier, nicknamed "Ma Pomme"(which means "myself" in slang), is a cheerful man, well aware that money does not make happiness and who, of all things, prices freedom. Which is why he has becom ...
Genre :Music, Comedy

Gratien

1949-05-18 0

The Cupid Club

Isabelle is a lawyer who has Flip, a private detective, convicted of speeding. But shortly after, a murder is committed of which Isabelle's best friend is suspected. To save her, Isabelle is forced, d ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Le premier prieur

1949-09-02 0

Barry

Lovers since childhood, Sylvain and Angelina do not see their lives separated from each other. However, Sylvain is sent to war and the young woman desperately awaits his return. Years pass and the lat ...
Genre :Drama

Inspector (uncredited)

1950-12-13 6.4

Gunman in the Streets

An American is on the run in the streets and back alleys of France. ...
Genre :Crime

Le 2ème employé du commissariat

1951-11-28 4.5

Alone in Paris

Henri and Jeannette Milliard, a newly married couple from Normandy arrive in Paris where they intend to spend their honeymoon. Unforfunately a wicket gate in the metro separates the couple. In panic, ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Marcel Rivelot

1949-12-14 0

A Royal Affair

Mme Beaudrier, the wife of a Parliamentary Senator, hurls a pastry at visiting King Joan IV of Cerdagne, sparking off a series of farcical events involving all levels of the government and their mistr ...
Genre :Music, Comedy, Romance

The Doctor's assistant

1952-04-30 2.5

Le Costaud des Batignolles

Jules, small and weak, dreams of becoming a formidable athlete. He strives every morning to practice physical culture exercises and takes comforting tablets, without success. But he meets Nénette, a w ...
Genre :Comedy

1950-02-10 5.6

The Ferret

A mysterious figure signing himself "The Ferret" keeps sending letters to the police, tipping them off about murders that are to be committed around Paris. Among those caught up in the police manhunt ...
Genre :Crime

Doctor

1951-03-23 0

Rue des Saussaies

The brother of Jeanne Masson, a young nightclub singer, has been murdered by Brasier, a criminal who pretends to be a respectable man. Jeanne has resolved to avenge her brother but she just cannot tak ...
Genre :Drama

The buyer (uncredited)

1951-08-29 6

The Prettiest Sin in the World

Zoé, a pretty penniless girl, decides on the advice of her neighbor to embark on gallantry. After a brief failure, she meets a young boy, Jacques Lebreton who is about to get married. After causing th ...
Genre :Comedy

The head waiter

1951-11-04 6

No Vacation for Mr. Mayor

Annie, the ward of Monsieur Joachim, a nightclub manager, has fallen in love with Philippe Lebon, a singer who could easily re-float her guardian's failing business. The trouble is that Joachim has al ...
Genre :

Diner

1953-02-11 0

Un trésor de femme

Francois is engaged to Isabelle. While going to buy the engagement ring, he meets Sophie, who puts the ring on her finger and does not manage to remove it. Francois follows in the footsteps of Sophie, ...
Genre :Comedy

Inspector Calmain (uncredited)

1953-02-27 6.1

Follow That Man

While celebrating his birthday, police inspector Basquier recalls two of his most celebrated cases. The first involves duplicitous moneylender Olga. The second concerns the brutal broad daylight murde ...
Genre :Crime

Commissioner

1955-11-08 6

Love at Night

Young Monique leaves the preventorium where Doctor Delaunay has lovingly cared for her. A painful return. Her mother Denise lives with Eugène, a handsome, disreputable young man who's easy to please a ...
Genre :Drama

El vagabundo

1954-08-09 4

Castles in Spain

When the seductive Frenchwoman Geneviève Dupré, secretary to a Spanish businessman, travels to Madrid to announce the death of her boss to his brother, the famous bullfighter Mario Montes, it's love a ...
Genre :Drama

Foulon

1953-12-20 3

Les amoureux de Marianne

Gaston Duboutois and Catherine Berton love each other, and are about to play Romeo and Juliet in their small provincial town. The industrialist Duboutois is opposed to his accountant Berton, both of w ...
Genre :Comedy

1955-08-26 0

Cherchez la femme

Barbara Van Looren is the lively, clever daughter of the well-known shipowner. For her, life is a breeze, even when she's kidnapped by Mike Cortez's men. A young journalist, Mercier, who tried to defe ...
Genre :Action, Comedy

Le secrétaire (uncredited)

1955-04-09 7.2

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

L'inspecteur Muffieux, de la P.J.

1958-01-15 5.1

Sinners of Paris

Michel Piccoli plays a police inspector whose best friend is murdered on the orders of gang boss Charles Vanel. The inspector knows full well that Vanel is too crafty and well-connected to ever stand ...
Genre :Crime

1956-03-16 4

The Indiscreet

A dying man entrusts 25 million to a young girl's care, but she's afraid of being suspected of theft. ...
Genre :Comedy

Guy de Fressignac, deputy (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

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

Fayard

1947-10-04 7.5

Jenny Lamour

Paris, France, December 1946. Jenny Lamour, an ambitious cabaret singer, and Maurice, her extremely jealous pianist husband, become involved in the thorough investigation of the murder of a shady busi ...
Genre :Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Man with the envelope

1947-01-22 5.2

Six Hours to Lose

A traveller is stuck in an unknown town because his connecting train will only arrive in six hours. He decides to kill time by taking a stroll. He is not prepared to get confused with somebody else. I ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

Secrétaire du commissaire

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

1st shareholder

1953-04-26 0

Endless Horizons

The life story of famed French aviatrix Helene Boucher is detailed in Horizons sans fin (Endless Horizons). Giselle Pascal stars as Boucher, who is first seen in 1930, leaving her millinery shop behin ...
Genre :Drama, Adventure

Le marié

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

Kodifu

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

Le commissaire

1953-06-17 6.2

Julietta

Julietta Valendor is in love with lawyer André Landrecourt. He is unaware of her feelings. He puts her up one day when he has his fiancée, Rosie, staying with him... Based on a novel of Louise de Vilm ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance, Drama

Saulnier

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

TV journalist

1952-10-07 5.063

The Respectful Prostitute

Fred, the nephew of a senator,has murdered a Black man on a train. The two only witnesses are Lizzie McKay, a prostitute from New York, and Sidney, a colored man. Fred decides to seduce Lizzie in orde ...
Genre :Drama

Un inspecteur

1955-04-07 6.7

Razzia

Henri, the Man from Nantes, comes back to his country after a successful stay in the United States, where he was working for Liski, the drug dealer. With the fame of being a tough guy preceding him, h ...
Genre :Crime, Drama