Pierre Blanchar
Pierre Blanchar (30 June 1892 – 21 November 1963) was a French actor. He appeared in more than 50 films between 1922 and 1961. Blanchar was married to actress Marthe Vinot, with whom he had a daughter, actress Dominique Blanchar. He played Napoleon in the 1938 British film A Royal Divorce alongside Ruth Chatterton as Josephine. He later appeared alongside Michèle Morgan in the 1946 film Pastoral Symphony. Source: Article "Pierre Blanchar" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Katia
as KoubaroffTsar Alexandre II meets a young student, Katia. He understands that he loves her and try to send...
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Wooden Crosses
as Adjudant Gilbert DemachyThe young and patriotic student Demachy joins the French army in 1914 to defend his country. But...
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Street of Shadows
as Grégor Courdane alias : CondoyanA slippery femme fatale, a spy for Germany during the Great War, is sent to Thessaloniki in...
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Pastoral Symphony
as Pastor John MartensA minister falls in love with a blind young woman he sheltered, but so does his son.
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The Black Monocle
as Le marquis de VillemaurThe Marquis de Villemaur reunite strange visitors in his Castle, to meet a survivor of the Third...
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Life Dances On
as Thierry RaynalAfter the death of her husband, Christine realizes she has possibly wasted her life by marrying...
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The Man from Nowhere
as Mathias Pascal / Adrien MeisMathias Pascal, saddled with a stupid wife and a nagging mother-in-law, leaves home and is...
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The Strange Monsieur Victor
as Bastien RobineauOutwardly, Monsieur Victor would appear to be the model citizen. A respectable Toulon...
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The Chess Player
as Boleslas VorowskiIn 1776, an inventor conceals a Polish nobleman in his chess-playing automaton, a machine whose...
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The Mistress of Atlantis
as Le capitaine de Saint-AvitAntinea, the Queen of Atlantis, rules her secret kingdom hidden beneath the Sahara Desert. One...
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Riff Raff Girls
as Le PirateVicky de Berlin, a female gangster, haunted by wartime memories , runs a floating night-club in...
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A Royal Divorce
as Napoléon BonaparteThe love affair between the French Emperor Napoleon and the lady Josephine leads through...
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Captain Fracasse
as Captain FracasseA nobleman decides to join a traveling group of actors to be with a girl he admires, but...
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Les Bateliers de la Volga
as Le lieutenant Vadime BorzineIn 1912, a Russian officer is wrongly accused of having stolen important papers. His only alibi...
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Crime and Punishment
as RaskolnikovPierre Chenal's adaptation of Dostoyevsky's novel, starring Pierre Blanchar and Harry Baur....
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Courier of Lyons
as Pierre-Joseph LesurquesA courier carrying a large sum of money intended for Bonaparte's army is attacked. A miscarriage...
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The Old Devil
as Jean TrapeauVautier, a wealthy surgeon in his fifties, falls in love with Hélène, a young woman from a...
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Culprit
as Jérôme LescuyerA man from a wealthy family falls in love with a florist, but the lover has to go to war and to...
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Night in December
as Pierre DarmontIn 1919, Pierre Darmont, a handsome, much-loved piano virtuoso, falls in love with Anne Morris,...
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Pontcarral, Empire Colonel
as PontcarralFor 15 years after Waterloo, a baron refuses to accept the defeat. He reluctantly marries one of...
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Secrets
as RenéA penniless private tutor is hired by a wealthy family in Provence. The brat is a reluctant...
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Homeland
as Le comte de RysoorBrussels in the year 1568, as the Flemish people are fighting against the tyranny of the Spanish...
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Secrets of a Ballerina
as Gérard de ClergueIn 1860s France, a couple who have recently acquired a dilapidated country house in Vendôme...
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Two Women
as Domitien Van BergenConsidering his wife as his property, a smuggler bullies the unfortunate woman and does not...
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La terre promise
as DavidIn a small east-european ghetto, the Jewish family is celebrating Easter. The fraternal...
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The Beautiful Sailor
as SylvestreA barge captain saves Marinette from drowning and soon marries her. On the wedding day,...
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Le Joueur
as Alexeï NikitineDrama in a small German water town where various characters clash against a backdrop of money,...
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Le Journal de la Résistance
as Himself - NarratorShot primarily by twelve French cameramen (led by filmmakers Jean Painlevé and Jean Grémillon),...
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Sky Battalion
as Captain FeraneFilm in two eras.1st era: They are not angels. Chronicle of a Free French parachute training...
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The Queen of Spades
as HermannRussia, 1835. Lieutenant Hermann, a compulsive gambler, is fascinated by an infallible...
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A Woman of No Importance
as uncreditedA young lord who has abandoned his pregnant mistress hires his son, twenty years later, as...
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The Liberation of Paris
as (voice)French Resistance's documentary during the liberation of Paris in August 1944.
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Lovers and Thieves
as Claude BrévinClaude, son of a ruined family, pretends to be a dangerous trickster in order to get credit from...
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The Hunchback
as Knight Henri de LagardèreThe knight Henri de Lagardère wants to avenge the death of his friend, the duke Philippe de...
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La Prière aux étoiles
as Pierre FlorentPierre and Florence meet at the fair in Paris. They vow eternal love and go to Cassis, under the...
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The Cupid Club
as FlipIsabelle is a lawyer who has Flip, a private detective, convicted of speeding. But shortly...
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The Dreamy Mouth
as Pierre, le mariThe story begins at a concert during which Beethoven's Concerto in D major for violin and...
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After Love
as François MésauleBetrayed by his wife, a teacher proceeds to have an affair with a young and pretty student. The...
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My Friend Sainfoin
as SainfoinThe honeymoon in Italy of Guillaume and Eugénie de Puycharmois escorted by friend Sainfoin, a...
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Dr. Laennec
as Dr. LaennecBreton doctor René Laennec fights tooth and nail against consumption, all the more desperately...
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Jocelyn
as uncreditedAdaptation of a romantic Lamartine poem. A youth leaves a monastery where he has stayed, after...
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