Léon Arvel Movies

A young girl marries an attractive but very busy businessman. So busy, that on the wedding day, he has no hesitation in taking an unexpected trip.

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Cast: Roger Tréville

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Dorville

The adventures of a pompous jeweler who refuses to listen to the advice of his level-headed employees. In due time, the jeweler is robbed, but his...

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Cast: Colette Broïdo

A wrongfully convicted man finds himself suspected of a crime committed in his prison.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Harry Baur

In the spring of 1913, Jean Servin, a son of a family, became friends with Roberte, a little midinette. He leaves her a few months later to marry...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Gaby Morlay

Following a quarrel with his father, Prince Jean joined the Foreign Legion. When he returns, he finds his brother who, on the king's death, usurped...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Pierre Richard-Willm

A commander who had devised helpful defenses for his country kills a spy who'd tried to entrap him.The officer's young wife who had been thinking of...

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Cast: Pierre Arnaudy

Before the Battle is the English-language title of this espionage melodrama. The first half of the film takes place aboard a French cruising ship,...

Genre: War

Cast: Annabella

A rich banker is actually a crook. His mistress, an alien, wants to become French and the only way is to marry a Frenchman.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Marcelle Chantal

A lady who had a secret affair lives in fear.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gaby Morlay

The Marquis de Barfleur, an unattractive man, decides to resort to plastic surgery to ensure the fidelity of Colette, his young mistress. Now endowed...

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Cast: Lucien Baroux

A tramp learns that even honesty won't help him overcome his struggles to prosper. After a man tells him that he needs to smile in order to succeed,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Maurice Chevalier

Blanchette, unable to find a job, prostitutes herself in Paris. She then finds the man she loves when her morale is at its lowest.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Marie Bell

The mistress of an engineer meets the man's pregnant wife and decides to give up the liaison.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Charles Boyer

The workers Legendre and Martinet have won a large sum in the national lottery. Instead of squandering it, they had the good idea to invest it in...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Raimu

Because of the escapades of Alexis, the Crown Prince of Vodenia, the kingdom is likely to lose the loan lent to them by a rich foreign banker. Baron...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: André Alerme

The film depicts events between the Fashoda crisis in 1898 and the 1904 signing of the Entente Cordiale creating an alliance between Britain and...

Genre: History

Cast: Victor Francen

The forbidden romance between wealthy Giselle Preville and impoverished journalist Claude Dauphin. When Preville disappears, Dauphin is accused of...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Gaby Morlay

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

Betrayed by his wife, a teacher proceeds to have an affair with a young and pretty student. The two women both find themselves expecting a child. The...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Pierre Blanchar

Director Jean Delannoy's immediate followup to his brilliant Les Jeux sont Faits was the more conventional Aux Yeux du Souvenir (aka Souvenir and To...

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Cast: Michèle Morgan

Stanislas Oscar Seminario, aka SOS, is a young explorer, just back from Africa, visiting old friends: the Pescara's. But the father keeps receiving...

Genre: Action

Cast: Paul Meurisse

Noël is a bachelor who inherits a matrimonial agency. After contemplating selling it, he chooses to manage it.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bernard Blier

Filmed in French Morocco, Itto's dialogue is spoken primarily in the tribal Chleuh language. The jingoistic story concerns a series of clashes...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Simone Berriau

Philippe Lutcher, an anarchist, fires a shot at Clara Stuart, a famous stage and screen actress, but only wounds her. The star, through affectation...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Gaby Morlay

During the First World War, before joining a squadron at the front in 1918, Herbillon (Jean-Pierre Aumont) has a liaison with Helene (Annabella), a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Annabella

A French-language remake of Douglas Sirk's "The Court Concert" (1936).

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Mártha Eggerth

Based on a novel by Maurice Dekobra, the film is set in the Yoshiwara, the red-light district of Tokyo, in the nineteenth century. It depicts a love...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Pierre Richard-Willm

An inexperienced, sickly priest shows up in the rural French community of Ambricourt, where he joins the community's clergy. But the locals don't...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Claude Laydu

David is a poor but ambitious Polish Jew who reinvents himself as a powerful New York business magnate. After gaining wealth, he relocates to Paris,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Harry Baur

The plot focuses on Gaillac (Albert Prejean), an electrician employed by the Paris Opera. In love with gorgeous ballerina Suzanne (Gaby Morlay),...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Albert Préjean

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Cast: Louis Alberti

While still behind bars, a crook manages several schemes including one that almost gets his penniless young lawyer into trouble.The crook's mistress,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fernand Gravey

Claire Buisson becomes enamored with Gerard and soon afterwords she becomes pregnant. Gerard advises her to abort the child but, at the last moment,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Annie Ducaux

Monsieur Serval has made a deal with his daughter Jacqueline. She can be a lawyer and act her own way provided that, in a given period of time, she...

Genre: Music

Cast: Danielle Darrieux

Towards the end of the 19th century, the Duke of Gerolstein traveled to Paris. Sixteen years earlier he had a daughter who was taken from him by her...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lucien Baroux

Two women love the same man in a world of few prospects. In Budapest, Liliom is a "public figure," a rascal who's a carousel barker, loved by the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Charles Boyer

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Robert Lamoureux

In 1913, in Russia, a widower hides from his daughter that he is a butler in a meeting restaurant. She meets a banker who is trying to seduce her and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Harry Baur

During the war from '14-'18, two women travel by foot in the North of France and Belgium to aid an organization to provide information to the English

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jeanne Sully

Bastien and Ségard decide to leave France for Canada. They buy tickets aboard a rickety craft, the Tenacity, that never quite seems able to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Albert Préjean