Jean Wall
1900 - 1959
L'impeccable Henri
Charles-Félix Tavano
Claude Dauphin, Marcelle Derrien
Henri, a basically honest fellow, accepts to work for a gang of burglars only to revenge himself on Fournier-Salville, a wealthy businessman who once ruined him. His role will be to become Fournier-Saville's majordomo and at the same time to inform the burglars so as to facilitate their work. But once in the house he performs his task so well and so stylishly that he becomes indispensable. Moreover, Eve, the businessman's capricious daughter, does not remain insensible to his charms.
Impeccable Henri
Mariage à responsabilité limitée
Jean de Limur
Florelle, Aimé Clariond
To come into possession of an inheritance, a young woman must marry a man she does not love and who does not love her either. But he falls in love and manages to conquer his wife by becoming a totally different character from the one he was at the time of the wedding.
Mariage à responsabilité limitée
La tentation de Barbizon
Jean Stelli
Simone Renant, Pierre Larquey
Daniel Gelin and Juliette Faber star as a blissfully happy honeymooning couple. They are so happy that they arouse the jealous attentions of Satan. The Dark Prince sends an emissary to beak up the romance, but his advocate is promptly challenged by a representative from "up above."
The Temptation of Barbizon
Les grandes familles
Denys de La Patellière
Jean Gabin, Annie Ducaux
Фильм снят по одноимённому роману Мориса Дрюона. Фильм также известен под названием «Великие семьи». Мультимиллионер Ноэль ворочает делами процветающей бизнес-империи, имеющей свой интерес в самых разных отраслях, вплоть до издания газет. В целях поддержания и укрепления своих позиций Шудлер активно использует связи в верхах и даже политические рычаги. Он не отягощается нравственными идеалами, ориентируясь лишь на достижение выгоды. Ноэль ощущает себя настоящим монархом и выражает недовольство реформаторскими идеями своего сына Франсуа. Решив преподать ему примерный урок, он и не подозревает, что это приведет к поистине трагическим последствиям…
The Possessors
La terreur des Batignolles
Henri-Georges Clouzot
Louis-Jacques Boucot, Germaine Aussey
An expressionist comedy greatly influenced by German Expressionism set in a bohemian enclave of northern Paris, which Clouzot made shortly before he served as assistant director to Anatole Litvak and E.A. Dupont and began scripting French versions of German films at Berlin’s UFA studios.
The Terror of Batignolles
La part de l'ombre
Jean Delannoy
Edwige Feuillère, Jean-Louis Barrault
A violinist passes on to his daughter three rings which represent three passions of his romantic past, and urges her to save each for men who truly deserve one.She squanders them all on one man who is undeserving.
Blind Desire
Raspoutine
Georges Combret
Pierre Brasseur, Isa Miranda
Gregory Iefommovich Raspoutine is a monk with healing powers and a liking for debauchery who manages to insinuate himself into the court of the Romanoffs thanks to Princess Dikvona. Being the only person able to heal he son of Czar Nicolas II and Czarina Alexandra from his hemophilia, he becomes a very powerful man, which infuriates many.A group of nobles, determined to save the monarchy, start conspiring to murder him.
Rasputin
Un drôle de dimanche
Marc Allégret
Bourvil, Danielle Darrieux
Jean Brevent still did not understand the departure of his wife, Danielle Darieux. It's been five years, but he still can't forget her. In spite of a work of writer originator in a newspaper, in which it tried to be invested completely, time did not make its work. One day, by chance, he meets her in the bus...
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