Louis Jouvet

Born: 1887-12-24

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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Jenny Lamour

as Inspector Antoine
Released: 1947-10-04

Paris, France, December 1946. Jenny Lamour, an ambitious cabaret singer, and Maurice, her...

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Hôtel du Nord

as Monsieur Edmond
Released: 1938-12-17

A young couple, Renée and Pierre, take a room at the Hôtel du Nord, in Paris, near the canal...

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La Marseillaise

as Roederer
Released: 1938-02-10

A film about the early part of the French Revolution, shown from the eyes of the citizens of...

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The End of the Day

as Saint-Clair, ex don-juan et acteur adulé
Released: 1939-03-24

Aged penniless actors are living in a old people's home. They always talk about their past glory...

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Alibi

as commissaire Calas
Released: 1937-12-22

Paris, 1937. Winckler kills his enemy Gordon, a Chicago mobster, from the stage of a Parisian...

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Dr. Knock

as Docteur Knock
Released: 1951-03-21

Saint-Maurice, an ordinary peaceful village, lived healthily so much so that the local doctor's...

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Volpone

as Mosca
Released: 1941-05-10

Volpone, an elderly Venetian, connives with his money-crazed servant to convince his greedy...

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The Lower Depths

as Le baron
Released: 1936-12-11

Inhabitants of a flophouse struggle to survive under the harsh treatment imposed by the...

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Return to Life

as Jean Girard (segment "Le retour de Jean")
Released: 1949-09-14

In France in 1946, the difficult return to civilian life of five deportees and prisoners of war...

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Carnival in Flanders

as The Priest
Released: 1935-12-03

Flanders, Hispanic Monarchy, 1616. The inhabitants of the small town of Boom are busy organizing...

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The Curtain Rises

as M. Lambertin, professeur au Conservatoire
Released: 1938-10-06

1938, France, Paris, at the Superior Conservatory of Dramatic Art ("Conservatoire Supérieur...

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Bizarre, Bizarre

as Archibald Soper, évèque de Bedford
Released: 1937-10-20

A French farce set in Victorian London where a botanist and his wife get into trouble when they...

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Carbon Copy

as Manuel Ismora / Dupon / le Duc de Niolles / ...
Released: 1947-07-09

A smooth criminal, who turns to be Manuel Ismora, and his gang successfully and peacefully pull...

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Un carnet de bal

as Pierre Verdier, dit Jo
Released: 1937-09-09

After the death of her husband, Christine realizes she has possibly wasted her life by marrying...

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Monelle

as Gérard Favier, compositeur célèbre
Released: 1948-09-15

A beautiful young pianist falls for her mentor.

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Miquette

as Monchablon
Released: 1950-04-14

A provincial ingenue leaves her mother’s tobacco shop with dreams of a life in the Parisian...

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Lady Paname

as Mr Gambier dit: Bagnolet, le voisin photographe
Released: 1950-05-26

The evocation of Paris in the 1920s mingles with the rapid rise of the irresistible Caprice, a...

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Immortal France

as Pierre Froment / Félix Froment
Released: 1943-04-07

The story of how the people of Paris cope with the strains and struggles of war, from the siege...

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Between Eleven and Midnight

as L'inspecteur Carel
Released: 1949-03-23

Between eleven o’clock and midnight one evening, a notorious trafficker Jérôme Vidauban is shot...

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A Lover's Return

as Jean-Jacques Sauvage
Released: 1946-10-18

1946, a man walks in Lyon. He makes a pilgrimage to the places of his childhood. Another man,...

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Street of Shadows

as le commandant Simonis, l'agent allemand
Released: 1937-04-13

A slippery femme fatale, a spy for Germany during the Great War, is sent to Thessaloniki in...

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The Phantom Wagon

as Georges
Released: 1939-09-07

French version of the Selma Lagerlof story, most famously filmed in 1921 by Victor Sjostrom,...

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The Shanghai Drama

as Ivan
Released: 1938-09-23

A Russian emigrant sings in a Shanghai nightclub under the assumed name of Kay Murphy. All she...

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Lusitanian Illusion

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2010-04-22

Images and sounds expose the duality of Portugal during the days of WW2: a peaceful, god-loving,...

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Ramuntcho

as Itchoua
Released: 1938-02-24

Ramuntcho is a young man who has fallen in with a gang of smugglers, led by Itchoua, who carry...

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Mister Flow

as Achille Durin / Mr. Flow
Released: 1936-12-02

While still behind bars, a crook manages several schemes including one that almost gets his...

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Topaze

as Albert Topaze
Released: 1933-01-06

A tale of a socially inept schoolmaster who must confront his own principles.

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Sirocco

as Rossignol
Released: 1938-09-22

Town trollop Safia, much against her better judgment, falls in love with Matteo, a beggar and...

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Schubert's Serenade

as Le baron Hartmann
Released: 1940-02-28

Serenade represented the return to the screen of international favorite Lillian Harvey after an...

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Knock

as Le docteur Knock
Released: 1933-11-08

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Knock, ou le triomphe de la médecine

as Dr Knock
Released: 1933-11-03

"Everybody is ill: you just don't know it yet". Knock, a newly arrived physician takes over a...

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Forfaiture

as Valfar
Released: 1937-11-24

Denise Moret joins her husband, Pierre, in Mongolia where he works as a civil engineer. One...

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Bargekeepers Daughter

as René Cercleux
Released: 1938-10-11

Prince Sacha studies in Paris and cares more for Marianne than about Silistrie, the country his...

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Young Love

as Inspector Ernest Plonche
Released: 1951-11-14

Catherine, 18, loved Jean, a young accountant, who loved her in return. And yet, one morning,...

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Brasil

as uncredited
Released: 1950-12-31

Abandoned documentary on the country Brazil which director Clouzot wanted to make while on...

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Spécial cinéma

as Self (archive footage)
First aired: 1974-09-25

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Star Life

as Self (archive footage)
First aired: 1990-08-04

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