Maurice Escande

Napoleon
as Louis XV (uncredited)The film follows the life of Napoleon from his early life in Corsica to his death at Saint...
Movie pageLa Marseillaise
as Le seigneur du villageA film about the early part of the French Revolution, shown from the eyes of the citizens of...
Movie pageIf Paris Were Told to Us
as Le Baron de GrimmHistorical film directed and written by Sacha Guitry follows the the history of Paris from its...
Movie pageThe Devil Who Limped
as RandallThe film is a 125-minute, black-and-white biography of French priest and diplomat Charles...
Movie pageThe Woman I Loved the Most
as GaëtanClaude is a young man whose girlfriend has just broken up with him. Feeling unable to overcome...
Movie pageFather Goriot
as Monsieur de RestaudAn old merchant ruined by the dot its two ungrateful daughters, moved to the Vauquer pension in...
Movie pageMr Poirier's Son-in-Law
as Hector de MontmeyranThis is the story of a wealthy bourgeois who marries his only child, a daughter, to a penniless...
Movie pageBuridan, hero of the tower of Nesle
as Enguerrand de MarignyIn Paris in 1314, the knight Jean Buridan is in love with Mirtille but the young woman is...
Movie pageLa Dame aux camélias
as DukeYoung and handsome Armand Duval falls in love with Marguerite Gautier, a 'demi-mondaine'. He...
Movie pageMoulin Rouge
as ColoradoA poor wretch, who has just been hired as a music-hall artist, in spite of himself becomes the...
Movie pageLife of Pleasure
as Count Roger de BoëldieuAn aristocrat instigates divorce proceedings against his son-in-law, a commoner and the ex-owner...
Movie pageComment épouser un premier ministre
as GrandbourgPhilippe Lambert, an attractive young attaché to the Prime Minister's office, is a man of many...
Movie pageQueen's Necklace
as Louis de RohanThe adventurer Jeanne de Valois-Saint-Rémy, descendant (by the left hand) of the king of France...
Movie pageThe Green Domino
as Henri Bruquier, an art criticAfter his girlfriend is murdered, an art critic realizes that a wealthy heiress is falling in...
Movie pageCafé de Paris
as Le marquis de PireliThis murder mystery is set in a Parisian cafe and examines the mysterious murder of a famed...
Movie pageLes Époux scandaleux
as DesbonnièresA couple get married, not out of love, but to get away from their families. When they run out of...
Movie pageMonsignor
as The Duke of Saint GermainLouis Mennechain is a modest locksmith. So imagine his amazement when Professor Piétrefond...
Movie pageEverything is Going Very Well Madame la Marquise
as uncreditedAfter he loses a servant job when his employer's mansion burns down, a yokel makes money...
Movie pageParis - New-York
as uncreditedThe forbidden romance between wealthy Giselle Preville and impoverished journalist Claude...
Movie pagePatricia
as André VernonMademoiselle Bressac is a bossy spinster who manages "Le Clos", her estate, with an iron hand....
Movie pageBifur 3
as AlvarezTwo hitch-hikers are on the way to Marseilles pursued by her husband.
Movie pageMan to Men
as Jérôme de LormelThe story of the Swiss soldier, Henri Dunant, who was responsible for the founding of the Red...
Movie pageLe Capitan (1ère époque) Flamberge au vent
as le prince de CondéFrance under Louis XIII. 1615. The Duke of Angoulême is at the head of a group of gentlemen who...
Movie pageCaptain Fracasse
as Marquis des BruyèresOut of love for an actress, Isabelle, the Baron de Sigognac joins a traveling troop en route to...
Movie pageThe Black Diamond
as Guy de FresnoyA wealthy man's wife dies in a car crash; she is survived by him and their daughter. The father...
Movie pageThe Strange Madame X
as Jacques Voisin-LariveIrène is the unhappy wife of a wealthy publisher, Jacques Voisin-Larive, who cares about her no...
Movie pageSeven Men, One Woman
as BizulierAt the urging of her childhood friend Brémontier, Lucie de Kéradec, a wealthy widowed countess...
Movie pageLa Renégate
as Le caïd TahmarIn a small town in Spanish Morocco, old Ricardo, who runs a café, lives with his daughter,...
Movie pageDes quintuplés au pensionnat
as le comteIn a girls boarding-school run by Madame Piégeois, young Gisèle meets, at night, the count of...
Movie pageLucrezia Borgia
as Jean Borgia, Duke of GandieFrench silent film pioneer Abel Gance directs this 1935 classic about Lucrezia Borgia, her...
Movie pageThe Two Girls
as uncreditedTwo girls, Ginette and Gaby, have just run away, outraged by the mistreatment of their...
Movie pageCheck on the King
as Le roi Louis XIVJeanne De Pincret refuses to marry Viscount Haussy De Villefort, having discovered his...
Movie pageLes Petites Alliées
as uncreditedA young girl has left her family and lives as best she can on the generosity of her lovers. A...
Movie pageThe Animals
as Récitant (voice)Frédéric Rossif selected animal footage from 300,000 m of film, and structured his film in nine...
Movie pageFarandole
as ProsecutorA ruined banker is abandoned by his mistress. He commits suicide after entrusting a prostitute...
Movie pageThe Messenger
as GéoNick, a Parisian businessman, divorces his rich American wife, marries his new secretary Marie,...
Movie pageMadame Sans-Gêne
as Le comte de NeippergDeals with the ordeals of a crude washerwoman in the chic court of Napoleon the First. Based on...
Movie pageCinderella
as GilbertAn unemployed maid is hired in a music hall to wash the floors. The whim of a screenwriter makes...
Movie pageHyménée
as Industrialist Pierre VaironAlthough Pierre is married, he is in love with his sister in law Marianne, while he is loved by...
Movie pageLa Danseuse rouge
as UrsacTania, a young girl from Central Europe, leaves her home because of her abusive father. Trained,...
Movie pageLiberté
as uncreditedFictionalized biography of the sculptor Bartholdi.
Movie pageLa Belle Revanche
as Jacques DorcelA painter who has led a free and independent life meets true love. A jealous former lover...
Movie pageDora Nelson
as SantiniDora Nelson, a famous actress, leaves both her husband Philippe de Moreuil and the role she was...
Movie pageLove and Companionship
as Mr. LecourtoisThe accountant of an insurance company, rather eccentric and quick to push the song, is...
Movie pageLes Demi-Vierges
as Julien de SuberceauxMaxime, heir to an old provincial family, is deeply in love with Maud whom he makes his fiancée....
Movie pageRooster in dough
as Me Jacques LionA famous lawyer is irritated to see his fiancée spending her time trying to educate Languille, a...
Movie pageThe Tomboy
as Lucien VigneretThe eponymous garçonne or flapper is Monique Lerbier, an emancipated French woman who leaves...
Movie pageSon altesse impériale
as Count SymoffPrince Boris, engaged to marry Princess Dorothea, meets and falls in love with journalist...
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