Pierre Renoir
Children of Paradise
as JerichoIn a chaotic 19th-century Paris teeming with aristocrats, thieves, psychics, and courtesans,...
Movie pageLa Marseillaise
as Louis XVI King of FranceA film about the early part of the French Revolution, shown from the eyes of the citizens of...
Movie pageDr. Knock
as le pharmacien MousquetSaint-Maurice, an ordinary peaceful village, lived healthily so much so that the local doctor's...
Movie pageNight at the Crossroads
as le commissaire MaigretA gang of thieves utilize a cross-road garage as their hideaway; after accidentally murdering a...
Movie pageMadame Bovary
as Charles BovarySoon after the death of his first wife (whose dowry was inadequate), Charles Bovary, a country...
Movie pageFoolish Husbands
as Jules DonaldoBy mutual agreement, a man and a woman are separated to allow the wife to join her lover.
Movie pageLa Bandera
as Commandant WellerPierre Gilieth has committed a murder in Paris. He flees to Barcelona, where he runs out of...
Movie pageResistance
as uncreditedAn Alsatian, head of a section of the Gestapo, is actually spying on behalf of the French and...
Movie pageGambling Hell
as Werner von Krall (1942 version only)In Macao, where places of pleasure and arms trafficking are concentrated, a tragedy opposes an...
Movie pageThe Southern Trail
as StolbergAs Hélène is conveying her husband's body across the Sahara, her convoy is attacked by looters....
Movie pageThe Newspaper Falls at Five O'Clock
as François MarchalThe everyday life and activity of "La Dernière Heure", a major evening newspaper, seen through...
Movie pageSatan's Paradise
as AristophélèsDriven by necessity, Jean Larcher, a young agricultural engineer, accepts the degrading mission...
Movie pageUnder Western Eyes
as Un PolicierPolitical turmoil convulses 19th-century Russia as Razumov, a young student preparing for a...
Movie pagePersonal Column
as BrémontièreTo try solving the strange disappearances of 11 young Parisian women, the police obtain the...
Movie pageThe Trump Card
as Rudy ScoreA man is shot In the hotel of an imaginary South American country. Clarence and Montès, two...
Movie pageFather Goriot
as VautrinAn old merchant ruined by the dot its two ungrateful daughters, moved to the Vauquer pension in...
Movie pageHatred
as BonnerotCaptain Justin Mollenard works for a company that sells armaments to the Far East. After an...
Movie pageThe Traveler Without Luggage
as Georges RenaudHaving lost his memory due to serving in World War I, Gaston has spent the past 15 years in a...
Movie pageLe Patriote
as PahlenThe reign of Tsar Paul I and the intrigues of his friend, Governor Pahlen, to rid the country of...
Movie pageThe Wolf of the Malveneurs
as Réginald de MalveneurA legend about the Malveneur family tells of how their ancestor sold his soul to the devil and...
Movie pageMadame et le mort
as Charles de BruineA person who had usurped the identity of a famous writer of detective stories was killed in the...
Movie pageThe Lafarge Case
as Charles LafargeBased on true facts, a news item which was widely talked about in the nineteenth century, this...
Movie pageCoral Reefs
as AbboyThe adventures of a sailor from Mexico to a lagoon in the Pacific ocean, and the meeting with a...
Movie pageThe Farm of Seven Sins
as Le procureurIn 1825, Paul-Louis Courier, a Republican writer known for publishing pamphlets against the...
Movie pageSpecial Mission
as Landberg alias MoravetzThe exploits of Chief Police Inspector Chabrier, first before the invasion of France in May 1940...
Movie pageJudgement of God
as Le duc Ernest de BavièreBavaria, 1433. Reason of state rules that Prince Albert is to marry Princess Bertha of...
Movie pageThe Ferret
as Doctor Dauvel-JusteA mysterious figure signing himself "The Ferret" keeps sending letters to the police, tipping...
Movie pageThe Mystery of the Yellow Room
as Professeur StangersonA young reporter solves a mystery crime. The fictional reporter is Joseph Rouletabille. He works...
Movie pageThe Eleven O'Clock Woman
as Gérard Pescara, le pèreStanislas Oscar Seminario, aka SOS, is a young explorer, just back from Africa, visiting old...
Movie pageThe Law of Spring
as Frédéric VillaretThe children born from a first marriage of a widower and a widower who have remarried do not get...
Movie pageSecret Cargo
as Le préfet de policeIn a Central American state, the owner of a dance hall and his sponsor engage in drug...
Movie pageDeath Threat
as BernierAndré Garnier, a young pianist, who was sent to deportation following a denunciation, absolutely...
Movie pageWhirlpool of Fate
as FarmerJean Renoir's directional debut and first silent film stars his wife, Catherine Hessling, as a...
Movie pageL'Agonie des aigles
as Colonel de MontanderUnder the regime of Louis XVIII. Years after Waterloo, Napoleon's loyal officers live in...
Movie pageCoïncidences
as uncreditedA rich girl is in love with her father-in-law 's librarian. The wealthy man wants her to marry a...
Movie pageNord-Atlantique
as Captain Jeff CooperBarnes, the mate of the 'Portland', is the object of the hate of the whole ship's crew. His...
Movie pageThose of the Sky
as PierronAn airplane manufacturer asks his son-in-law to try out the prototypes he builds. This one ends...
Movie pageWolves Between Them
as uncreditedA Nazi spy has stolen a gas mask filter of formidable efficiency in Paris. Two agents from the...
Movie pageTrafiquants de la mer
as Le prince Boris MentischevA gang of drug pushers is rampant on the French Riviera. The police has been informed and...
Movie pageL'Embuscade
as Jean GuéretA young man is hired by an industrialist, while a secret hangs over his birth. His boss's wife...
Movie pageL'Île des veuves
as Ralph BerryDuring World War I, in Flanders, Berry and Trent were in love with the same girl, Yvonne. During...
Movie pageThe Imperial Road
as Major HudsonAn indigenous uprising in British controlled Iraq threatens the route to India, as a lobe...
Movie pageSacrifice of Honor
as Commandant BranbourgBefore the Battle is the English-language title of this espionage melodrama. The first half of...
Movie pageThe Citadel of Silence
as Colonel-Count Stepan IporievichDuring the students ' rebellion against Nicholas the Second in Russia, Viana tries to kill the...
Movie pageLe Capitan (1ère époque) Flamberge au vent
as le duc d'AngoulêmeFrance under Louis XIII. 1615. The Duke of Angoulême is at the head of a group of gentlemen who...
Movie pageSirocco
as Archaeologist André ChervinTown trollop Safia, much against her better judgment, falls in love with Matteo, a beggar and...
Movie pageScandal on the Champs-Élysées
as Dominique AirelleIn Paris, three models are murdered, being one of them the mistress of the fashion designer...
Movie pageL'Homme sans cœur
as uncreditedSentenced to 20 years after killing a colleague for revealing that his wife was unfaithful,...
Movie pageThe Pavilion Burns
as JourdinsseDenise, a young employee of the mine, is courted by the engineer Risay while she is engaged to...
Movie pageNadia la femme traquée
as DaminoffA group of political exiles conspire in France against their government. They are pursued by...
Movie pageSt. Val's Mystery
as Doctor DartignacDésiré Le Sec has just won the "amateur policeman contest" and he is so glad he 's telling all...
Movie pageLes Nuits blanches de Saint-Pétersbourg
as BorowskyPozdnycheff, a young party animal, destroyed by his lightness the marital happiness of one of...
Movie pageBoissière
as General Baron von HubnerIn 1914, during the First World War, the rich chatelaine de Boissière, with a sulphurous past,...
Movie pageDestitute Mary
as uncreditedMarie is one of her kind. While the other girls are after gold, diamonds and jewels, she swears...
Movie pageThe Rebel
as Captain YorritzPimaï, the strong-headed anarchist, joined the navy out of bravado. But the sweet influence of a...
Movie pageTornavara
as Sigurd FramrusIn a lost village in Lapland, Gérard comes to the aid of his friend Anders, in conflict with his...
Movie pageTovaritch
as uncreditedPlaywright Jacques Deval directed this 1935 adaptation of his own stage comedy Tovaritch. Set in...
Movie pageL'Appel du bled
as MichaudA famous singer and a settler love each other. She lives only for her home and the child she is...
Movie pageLa Grande Volière
as uncreditedA young pilot, Martin, applies for the Ecole Militaire de Salon. He is accused of having caused...
Movie pageLegions of Honor
as Lawyer DumasAn officer is tried for self-inflicted injury.He is thrown out of the Foreign Legion .
Movie pageSerge Panine
as CayrolA mother kills a very vile character, Prince Panin, with whom her adopted daughter has fallen in...
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