Charles Blavette
The Big Risk
as M. BénazetOn crowded Milan streets, two men execute a split-second payroll heist-in broad daylight-then...
Movie pageEyes Without a Face
as Man from the PondDr. Génessier is riddled with guilt after an accident that he caused disfigures the face of his...
Movie pageLa Marseillaise
as Un MarseillaisA film about the early part of the French Revolution, shown from the eyes of the citizens of...
Movie pageThe Long Absence
as Fernand, un client du caféTherese, a café owner, mourns the mysterious disappearance of her husband sixteen years earlier....
Movie pageJenny Lamour
as Gendarme PoitevinParis, France, December 1946. Jenny Lamour, an ambitious cabaret singer, and Maurice, her...
Movie pageThe Baker's Wife
as AntoninIn this little Provencal village, a new baker, Aimable, settles down. His wife Aurelie is...
Movie pageHarvest
as Jasmin Gaubert, le filsIn the 30s, a small village in the Provence is losing its inhabitants because young people...
Movie pageStormy Waters
as Gabriel TanguyA married tugboat captain falls for a woman he rescues from a sinking ship.
Movie pageThe Gardener of Argenteuil
as M. ArnaudTulipe, is an old man who lives alone in an old railway carriage in the Argentueil region of...
Movie pagePicnic on the Grass
as le berger GaspardEtienne Alexis, a candidate for president of the new Europe, is a scientist promoting artificial...
Movie pageToni
as Antonio Canova dit « Toni »In the 1920s, the Provence is a magnet for immigrants seeking work in the quarries or in the...
Movie pageStrange M. Victor
as Le premier inspecteurOutwardly, Monsieur Victor would appear to be the model citizen. A respectable Toulon...
Movie pageWays of Love
as ToninJofroi sells his orchard to Alphonse. Alphonse wants to use the land for crops, so he starts to...
Movie pageCarnival
as LambrequinDardamelle does not conceal the fact that his wife has made him a cuckold.How will his fellow...
Movie pageHeartbeat
as MarteletteA pompous grocer’s assistant in Marseille annoys a visiting film crew so much that they prank...
Movie pageAngele
as Tonin, le rémouleurAngèle is a 1934 French drama film directed, produced and written by Marcel Pagnol. It stars...
Movie pageThe Last Turning
as Un camionneurFrank, a hobo, ends up in a garage-truck stop in the middle of nowhere. Nick Marino, its older,...
Movie pageManon of the Spring
as Pamphile, le menuisierMarcel Pagnol's adaptation of his own novel Manon des sources, the story of a shepherdess who...
Movie pageThe Vendetta
as uncreditedArbella is a charming village in Corsica. It's such a pleasant place to live that Monsieur...
Movie pageThe Lovers of Verona
as uncreditedAngelo, a glass-blower from Murano, and Georgia Maglia, the pretty daughter of a fallen fascist...
Movie pageLes Trésors de Marcel Pagnol
as Self / Antoine / Antonin (archive footage)The works of Marcel Pagnol are a veritable monument of French cultural heritage. Based on...
Movie pageNaïs
as Henri BernierToine, the local hunchback, works at the tile manufacturing plant, but during the summer, he...
Movie pageSimple-Minded
as Mr MalandronA simpleton turns out to be the lucky charm of a village.
Movie pageSummer Light
as uncreditedA shimmering glass hotel at the top of a remote Provençal mountain provides the setting for a...
Movie pageThe Well-Digger's Daughter
as Le teinturierA rural maiden's two suitors go off to war, leaving her pregnant.
Movie pageCecile Is Dead
as MonfilsCecile, a young girl who goes to the offices of the Judicial Police several times in a row to...
Movie pageSin and Desire
as Raymond la DouleurThe tumultuous loves of a diver and a pretty bitch. Mario loves Perrucha, she only loves money....
Movie pageLe Tournant dangereux
as uncreditedThe adventures of Daniele as he tries to find love with Lucienne despite being framed for murder...
Movie pageParade in 7 Nights
as (uncredited)In the pound, Pipo the dog recounts his adventures to his fellow inmates.
Movie pageBlonde in a White Car
as L'inspecteur de policePicked up by a beautiful motorist, jobless hitchhiker Pierre (Hossein) is subsequently romanced...
Movie pageThe Sword and the Balance
as uncreditedThree young men are suspected of kidnapping and murdering a little boy. Most likely, two of them...
Movie pageTell Me Whom to Kill
as uncreditedOn the Côte d'Azur, a beautiful adventuress and a strange German tourist set themselves the...
Movie pageLe soleil a toujours raison
as uncreditedTonio, pretty Micheline's fiance, meets Georgia ,a gypsy who makes advances to him.
Movie pageLife Is Ours
as Tonin (as Blavette)A propaganda film of the communist party of France, showing how the comrades help the...
Movie pageThe Wicked Go to Hell
as Le pompisteMaking his directorial debut, Robert Hossein also assumes the leading role, playing an escaped...
Movie pageThe Island of Love
as Pascal Frescani, a bandit of honorA Corsican fisherman is the victim of a vendetta, when he was wrong to date the niece of a...
Movie pageAfter the Storm
as uncreditedRené Sabin, engineer, disappointed by failures, leaves his village in the South to go to Paris...
Movie pageThe Lucky Star
as Le pêcheurAuguste, a somewhat simple-minded Provençal fisherman, loves and admires Mireille. This concerns...
Movie pageCigalon
as Le GendarmeCigalon (Alexandre Arnaudy) manages a restaurant in a small town in Provence. A chef with a high...
Movie pageJean Renoir, le patron, 1re partie: La recherche du relatif
as SelfThe first of three documentaries by Rivette on Jean Renoir.
Movie pageColomba
as uncreditedThe film is set shortly after the 1815 Battle of Waterloo, around 1818, in which the hero...
Movie pageTwisted Mistress
as uncreditedGuy Carbonnel, a rich industrialist, has more eyes for rugby than for his wife Hélène. René...
Movie pageLe charcutier de Machonville
as uncreditedIn a town on the banks of the Saône1 Grasalard, a butcher, likes to feast and play boules with...
Movie pageLes Filles du Rhône
as Town Sergeant (uncredited)Frédérique, married to a brutal and vile being who dies tragically during a duel with the...
Movie pageLe roi du village
as uncreditedMoïse, a foundling, is raised by the inhabitants of a village and grows good and strong,...
Movie pageGirl and the River
as L'oncle SimonThe heroine in L'Eau Vive is the unwilling heir to a fortune. Young Hortense (Pascale Audret)...
Movie pageValley of Hell
as CagnardNoël Bienvenu, owner of a career, is a widower and lives with his parents. His son Bastien, whom...
Movie pageMy Uncle from Texas
as The fatherIn 1911, Arnolphe Combalette left his corner of Provence to seek his fortune in the Americas....
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