Émile Drain Movies

The history of one of France's most famous streets is retold, featuring multiple performances from Guitry himself.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sacha Guitry

Talkie remake of a 1927 silent about the adventures of the notorious womaniser and venetian adventurer Chevalier Giacomo Casanova. Action starts in...

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Cast: Ivan Mosjoukine

Jeanne supports supports his family on his modest salary. Her boss is arrested for fraud. Jeanne is forced, out of poverty, in the street.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Dita Parlo

An adaptation of the play L'Aiglon by Edmond Rostand, which portrays the life of Napoleon I.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jean Weber

Fabienne believes herself to be cheated on by her husband Claude and divorces her. He leaves for America and does not return until eight years later....

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Annie Ducaux

Director of a music hall, the dubious Ribero, to save himself from bankruptcy, only hopes for the victory of his horse. An English lord enlists his...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Simone Allain

Roger Laroque is now a rich man. He returns to France under the name of William Farnell. There, he discovers that on the one hand his wife has died...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Lucien Coëdel

In post-Liberation Paris, a man reunites with a friend and meets the woman of his dreams, only to discover her brother's dark past.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Pierre Brasseur

Agnès Bonnardet leaves her parents to marry Claude Sironi, a painter who becomes famous but loses his talent. Meanwhile Agnes acquires a style...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Albert Préjean

Kohlman, the attorney for the Fournil bank, diverts money from the institution. To hide his malpractices, he imagines to remove the director, the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Claude Dauphin

Henri Chatelard is well into his forties, owns a restaurant and a cinema in the city, and appreciates women. When he meets Marie, an 18-ish...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jean Gabin

For fun and to dazzle his wife, the novelist Morgan steals a ring and gets rid of it in the costume jewelry section of a supermarket. Sophie buys the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: René Dary

Elsa Lundenstein is accused of having murdered her lover. The jury discusses the case vividly. All members are somehow prejudiced because of personal...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michel Auclair

A beautiful young pianist falls for her mentor.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Louis Jouvet

A French washerwoman becomes a duchess and a friend of Napoleon.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Gloria Swanson

Witty narration follows the history of Versailles Palace; founded by Louis XIII, enlarged by autocratic Louis XIV, whose personal affairs and amours,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michel Auclair

The story of the seven pearls of the English Crown, from Henry VIII to 1937 – three of them missing.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sacha Guitry

1947, in France, Antoine and Antoinette, a young couple living in Paris, lead a monotonous existence: he works in a print shop while she is a shop...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Roger Pigaut

During a stay in Seville, Empress Eugénie was charmed by the song of Violetta, a flower girl of gypsy origin. She invites her to Paris where...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Raquel Meller

The film is a 125-minute, black-and-white biography of French priest and diplomat Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (1754–1838),...

Genre: History

Cast: Sacha Guitry

Proud, eccentric, and antisocial, Monsieur Hire has always kept to himself. But after a woman turns up dead in the Paris suburb where he lives, he...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michel Simon

Genre: War

Cast: Cyprian Gilles

A propaganda film of the communist party of France, showing how the comrades help the proletariat against the capitalists.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jean Dasté

Historical film directed and written by Sacha Guitry follows the the history of Paris from its founding through the significant events in the city's...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sacha Guitry