Louis Jouvet
Louis Jouvet (24 December 1887 - 16 August 1951) was a renowned French actor, director, and theatre director. Description above from the Wikipedia article Louis Jouvet, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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as Inspector AntoineParis, France, December 1946. Jenny Lamour, an ambitious cabaret singer, and Maurice, her...
Movie pageThe Lower Depths
as Le baronInhabitants of a flophouse struggle to survive under the harsh treatment imposed by the...
Movie pageHôtel du Nord
as Monsieur EdmondA young couple's suicide pact goes awry, leaving the woman to face her survival with a new...
Movie pageLa Marseillaise
as RoedererA film about the early part of the French Revolution, shown from the eyes of the citizens of...
Movie pageBizarre, Bizarre
as Archibald Soper, évèque de BedfordA French farce set in Victorian London where a botanist and his wife get into trouble when they...
Movie pageCarnival in Flanders
as The PriestFlanders, Hispanic Monarchy, 1616. The inhabitants of the small town of Boom are busy organizing...
Movie pageReturn to Life
as Jean Girard (segment "Le retour de Jean")In France in 1946, the difficult return to civilian life of five deportees and prisoners of war...
Movie pageYoung Love
as Inspector Ernest PloncheCatherine, 18, loved Jean, a young accountant, who loved her in return. And yet, one morning,...
Movie pageDr. Knock
as Docteur KnockSaint-Maurice, an ordinary peaceful village, lived healthily so much so that the local doctor's...
Movie pageThe Curtain Rises
as M. Lambertin, professeur au Conservatoire1938, France, Paris, at the Superior Conservatory of Dramatic Art ("Conservatoire Supérieur...
Movie pageMiquette
as MonchablonA provincial ingenue leaves her mother’s tobacco shop with dreams of a life in the Parisian...
Movie pageImmortal France
as Pierre Froment / Félix FromentThe story of how the people of Paris cope with the strains and struggles of war, from the siege...
Movie pageMonelle
as Gérard Favier, famous composerA beautiful young pianist falls for her mentor.
Movie pageLife Dances On
as Pierre Verdier, dit JoAfter the death of her husband, Christine realizes she has possibly wasted her life by marrying...
Movie pageThe End of the Day
as Saint-Clair, ex don-juan et acteur aduléAged penniless actors are living in a old people's home. They always talk about their past glory...
Movie pageAlibi
as commissaire CalasParis, 1937. Winckler kills his enemy Gordon, a Chicago mobster, from the stage of a Parisian...
Movie pageA Lover's Return
as Jean-Jacques Sauvage1946, a man walks in Lyon. He makes a pilgrimage to the places of his childhood. Another man,...
Movie pageThe Shanghai Drama
as IvanA Russian emigrant sings in a Shanghai nightclub under the assumed name of Kay Murphy. All she...
Movie pageLusitanian Illusion
as Self (archive footage)Images and sounds expose the duality of Portugal during the days of WW2: a peaceful, god-loving,...
Movie pageBetween Eleven and Midnight
as Inspector CarelBetween eleven o’clock and midnight one evening, a notorious trafficker Jérôme Vidauban is shot...
Movie pageVolpone
as MoscaVolpone, an elderly Venetian, connives with his money-crazed servant to convince his greedy...
Movie pageKnock, ou le triomphe de la médecine
as Dr Knock"Everybody is ill: you just don't know it yet". Knock, a newly arrived physician takes over a...
Movie pageLady Paname
as M. Gambier dit « Bagnolet », le voisin photographeThe evocation of Paris in the 1920s mingles with the rapid rise of the irresistible Caprice, a...
Movie pageCarbon Copy
as Ismmora / Dupon / Duke of Niolles / Mover / NorwegianA smooth criminal, who turns to be Manuel Ismora, and his gang successfully and peacefully pull...
Movie pageStreet of Shadows
as le commandant Simonis, l'agent allemandA slippery femme fatale, a spy for Germany during the Great War, is sent to Thessaloniki in...
Movie pageTopaze
as Albert TopazeA tale of a socially inept schoolmaster who must confront his own principles.
Movie pageBrasil
as uncreditedAbandoned documentary on the country Brazil which director Clouzot wanted to make while on...
Movie pageForfaiture
as ValfarDenise Moret joins her husband, Pierre, in Mongolia where he works as a civil engineer. One...
Movie pageThe Phantom Wagon
as GeorgesFrench version of the Selma Lagerlof story, most famously filmed in 1921 by Victor Sjostrom,...
Movie pageSirocco
as RossignolTown trollop Safia, much against her better judgment, falls in love with Matteo, a beggar and...
Movie pageMister Flow
as Achille Durin / Mr. FlowWhile still behind bars, a crook manages several schemes including one that almost gets his...
Movie pageSchubert's Serenade
as Le baron HartmannSerenade represented the return to the screen of international favorite Lillian Harvey after an...
Movie pageBargekeepers Daughter
as René CercleuxPrince Sacha studies in Paris and cares more for Marianne than about Silistrie, the country his...
Movie pageRamuntcho
as ItchouaRamuntcho is a young man who has fallen in with a gang of smugglers, led by Itchoua, who carry...
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