Jean Desailly
Jean Desailly (August 24, 1920, Paris – June 11, 2008) was a French actor. He was a member of the Comédie-Française from 1942 – 1946, and later participated in about ninety movies. Desailly was married to the French actress Simone Valère.
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Le fou du roi
Dieudonné, poet and dreamer, is the opposite of his father, the famous D'Artagnan, as he hates walks and duels.
Le professionnel
French secret agent Joss Baumont is sent to kill the president Njala of an African country. However, a counter-order is given before he can execute his mission and he is abandoned in the hands of foreign authorities. He escapes and seeks revenge by pursuing what was his original mission.
Pile ou face
Since his wife died, Inspector Louis Baroni (Philippe Noiret) has become a virtual recluse, preferring the solitude of his quiet house to the company of others.
Le cavaleur
A discontented concert pianist causes all sorts of heartbreak with his egotistical and womanizing antics, and all the people in his life attempt to force him to grow up in this French comedy/drama.
Je te tiens, tu me tiens par la barbichette
L'inspecteur Chodaque s'introduit dans le milieu des jeux télévisés afin de retrouver la trace de l'animateur-vedette Patrice Rengain, mystérieusement enlevé. Il decouvre que c'est le directeur de la chaine lui-même qui a organisé le rapt pour s'approprier la rancon.
L'héritier
After his father is killed in a plane crash, Bart Cordell returns back home to France to claim his inheritance: to lead the industrial empire his father built. But when a prostitute tries to set him up for a drug smuggling charge, he is forced to accept that his father may have been assassinated and that the killers are out to get him as well...
Un flic
Bank robbery in small town ends with one of the robbers being wounded. The loot from the robbery is just a asset for the even more spectacular heist. Simon, gang leader and Paris night club owner, must also deal with police comissaire Edouard Colemane, who happens to be his good friend.
The Assassination of Trotsky
A Stalinist assassin tracks exiled revolutionary Leon Trotsky to Mexico in 1940.
Les rois maudits
It is the start of the 14th century and Philip IV the Fair reigns supreme over France. His three sons would rule after him. Isabelle, his only daughter, is married to King Edward II of England. Under Philip's reign, France is great but its people are unhappy. Only one power dares to stand up to him: the order of the Knights Templar.
Comptes à rebours
10 years ago, François Nolan and his brother have been betrayed by one of their accomplices after a break-in. During the fight with the police, Francois's brother was killed, and a cop disfigured by François. Now, François is back for revenge. As nobody knows who the traitor was, the former accomplices lose their head.
L'ardoise
Philippe, a student, is sent to jail for manhandling his father's business partner, who blackmailed the poor man and caused his death. He shares his cell with two mates: easily offended Théo Giulani and jovial Bob Daniels, with whom he soon establishes a bond of friendship.
Le franciscain de Bourges
The story of priest Alfred Stanke, interned by the Gestapo of Bourges in 1944-45.
Les deux orphelines
A story about two girls who grew up as sisters, were separated and finally met again.
La peau douce
A married editor and lecturer with a daughter finds himself drawn into a passionate affair with a flight attendant, struggling between his family obligations and his growing feelings for his lover.
L'année du bac
In a small provincial town, students meet at a party organized by one of them, and share their thoughts on the difficult year they are leaving : the preparation of high school diploma.
Le doulos
A stone-faced Jean-Paul Belmondo stars as enigmatic gangster Silien, who may or may not be responsible for squealing on Faugel (Serge Reggiani), just released from the slammer and already involved in what should have been a simple heist. By the end of this brutal, twisting, and multilayered policier, who will be left to trust?
Un soir sur la plage
Un soir sur la plage is relatively interesting; the cast includes highly talented Jean Dessailly, Martine Carol, a cast against type Michel Galabru as the cop.The biggest surprise is sixties starlet Daliah Lavi as a simple-minded nymphomaniac girl who is murdered on the beach.
La mort de Belle
Stéphane Blanchon teaches at International College and lives quietly in Geneva with his wife Christine. His love life is nonexistent until Belle arrives to stay in his villa.
Le baron de l'écluse
The lucky Baron wins a boat in a card game and takes off with his former lover to find new adventures. Adverse circumstances land them in a small town, where the Baron's seafaring companion leaves for more attractive scenery offered by a wealthy local man.
Le secret du Chevalier d'Éon
Burgundy 1728. Old count Antoine d'Eon is overjoyed. His daughter-in-law has finally given birth to a boy and he will at long last be able to transmit his inheritance to his son Pascal. At least this is what he thinks, for Pascal has concealed from his father the fact that his son was ... a daughter, his eighth daughter!
125 rue Montmartre
Desperate, Didier throws hymself out in the Seine. Pascal, a newsboy, jumps and saves him. It’s the beginning of the friendship between them.Once, as Pascal helps Didier, he finds himself involved in a murder. Only the superintendent believes in his innocence…
Maigret tend un piège
Four women were murdered, each was knifed and, though they had their clothes torn, they weren't molested. As the famed police inspector Jules Maigret pieces the clues together, he comes to realize that for the elusive man that he suspects to be unmasked, he has to set him a trap.
Les grandes familles
Noël Schoudler is the head of a wealthy and powerful family in France. He manages his financial and commercial concerns with an iron grip, leaving little room for his son François to prove himself.
Les grandes manoeuvres
Sûr de son charme, un soldat en garnison parie avec ses camarades qu'il est capable de séduire la première femme qui passe, avant les grandes manoeuvres. Il met son plan en oeuvre et tombe amoureux de la jeune modiste choisie au hasard.
Si Versailles m'était conté...
The history of the palace of Versailles from its founding to the present.
Chéri
Fred Peloux, nicknamed Chéri, the handsome son of Charlotte Peloux, a former demimondaine, lives in the small circle of his mother's friends, all high-class prostitutes past their best. He has an affair with Léa, a waning beauty, who loves him both as a mistress and a mother. But the age difference takes its toll on their union.
Occupe-toi d'Amélie..!
A young woman's comfortable life with her boyfriend is disrupted when he leaves for military duty, entrusting her to a playboy friend seeking a fake marriage for inheritance. Complications arise as a prince enters the scene, pursuing her romantically.
Sylvie et le fantôme
A teenager becomes fixated on the handsome suitor who died in a duel for her grandmother's love. On her sixteenth birthday, her uncle oversees three men who pretend to be the ghost of the suitor to entertain her - but little do they know, the ghost of the suitor himself is roaming the castle halls......
La symphonie pastorale
A minister falls in love with a blind young woman he sheltered, but so does his son.
Le père Goriot
An old merchant ruined by the dot its two ungrateful daughters, moved to the Vauquer pension in Paris. In after Balzac.