Hélène Perdrière Movies

This Surrealist film, with a title referencing the Communist Manifesto, strings together short incidents based on the life of director Luis...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Adriana Asti

Documents relevant to National Defence have been concealed in a certain vase by a dangerous gang of robbers. To neutralize the criminals, a seasoned...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hélène Perdrière

A young noblewoman regrets having to marry the village ironmaster for money reasons, but later comes to appreciate her new husband.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hélène Perdrière

Albert Topaze, sincere schoolteacher addicted to "rote" morality, works at a private school run by supremely money-grubbing M. Muche, whose daughter,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Fernandel

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Harry Baur

A professor of philosophy, an atheist, converts to Catholicism following a miracle: his daughter, whose leg must be amputated, is taken to Lourdes by...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jean-Pierre Aumont

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gaby Morlay

The crazy adventures of a character forced by circumstances to take on such dangerous professions as those of gangster, burglar, Chinese chiropodist...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Georges Milton

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Rognoni

A young woman is seduced by a soldier whose name she does not know. Pregnant, she asks the colonel to review the squadron in order to recognize him.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Michel Simon

Mr. Bouton, a modest carpenter from Faubourg-Saint-Antoine, widower and father of Pinpin, a little boy, marries Mrs. Colombe, mother of Ninette, a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Florelle

Sitting at his desk, Guitry gives us a lecture on French history from Joan of Arc to the Occupation, with some focus on a number of its great writers...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Sacha Guitry

The agency À Votre Service has the reputation of meeting all needs. This is what Stanislas observes when his uncle replaces his mistress with...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jacques Dumesnil

Durand, a big industrialist, works with an international adventurer, Mr. Ernest, who covets Mrs. Durand and threatens to bankrupt her husband if she...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Albert Préjean

Jacques Audoin falls in love with a pianist, Evelyne Clery, and marries her. In reality, he had wanted to approach her, because he imagined that she...

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Cast: Claude Dauphin

French-language version of Howard Hawks' The Crowd Roars (1932): A race car driver vies with his younger brother, who he'd hoped to keep away from...

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Cast: Jean Gabin

Mathilde Stangerson just married her fiance, when she heard that Larsan, her cruel former husband, whom she believed to be dead, is actually very...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Serge Reggiani

A young reporter solves a mystery crime. The fictional reporter is Joseph Rouletabille. He works on a complex, and seemingly impossible, crime in...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Serge Reggiani

In Shangai, the "Green Dragon" threatens to kill Herbert Aboody, a rich exporter, unless he pays him 50,000 dollars. One of Aboody's secretaries...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Hélène Perdrière

A distress call from a trawler leads various people to come to the crew's aid.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: André Valmy

Diavalo is the popular hero of French serials circa 1912. Diana is an actress who falls in love with Diavalo. Diavalo is forced to wear a series of...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Raymond Rouleau

The story of the Swiss soldier, Henri Dunant, who was responsible for the founding of the Red Cross, and who was offered the first Nobel Peace Prize.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jean-Louis Barrault

Father Lebonnard, a former watchmaker who made a fortune, remains simple while his wife is only dreaming of worldly affairs and pushes his son Freddy...

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Cast: Ruggero Ruggeri

The film is the first of a series of films containing the character of "Bouboule", created by the singer Milton and comprising La Bande à...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Georges Milton

A valuable painting has been stolen from an art gallery in Paris.. On a train travelling between Paris and Rome, Zutra, a mysterious and sinister...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hélène Perdrière

Hélène, a young waitress working in a bar frequented by German soldiers, saves the life of Pierre, a Resistance fighter. Her jealous...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hélène Perdrière

Geneviève, ruined and destitute, visits a former servant working for a count who is absent for the moment. He offers Geneviève the bed...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Noël-Noël