Paulette Dubost
Paulette Dubost (8 October 1910 – 21 September 2011) was a French actress who began her career at the age of 7 at the Paris Opera. She appeared in over 250 films and worked with directors such as Marcel Carné, Jean Renoir, Max Ophüls (Le Plaisir 1952 and Lola Montès, 1955)... Read full bio →
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Les yeux clairs
Fanny is a schizophrenic woman in her early thirties living under the care of her brother Gabriel, a schoolteacher. Following a violent altercation with his wife, Fanny steals her brother's car and sets off on a road trip to Germany to visit the grave of their father, whose funeral she was not allowed to attend...
Les savates du bon Dieu
After his wife leaves him, Fred goes on a cross-country crime spree in this dark but dreamy French comedy.
Augustin, roi du kung-fu
Augustin Dos Santos is back. He still wants to be an actor and, this time, he moves to the Chinese borough in Paris because he has decided to play in kung-fu movies. But poor Augustin has a morbid fear of physical contacts, so he meets Ling, a nice Chinese doctor. This is the second chapter of Augustin's epic life...
Milou en mai
During the events of May 1968 in France, different worldviews of conflicting relatives collide in their family estate.
Charlots connection
Three friends begin to work the rent collectors. Fee collection goes with a lot of comic episodes...
Le retour des bidasses en folie
The sequel of a successful French comedy "Rookies Run Amok" (1971) again with "Les Charlots" group.
On a volé la cuisse de Jupiter
Antoine, a professor of Greek, and Lise, a police inspector, honeymoon in Greece. There they meet a young couple, Charles, an archaeologist, and Agnes, a dishy flirt. Charles unearths the lovely buttocks of a classical statue and is determined to donate it to the Louvre.
Le dernier métro
In occupied Paris, an actress married to a Jewish theater owner must keep him hidden from the Nazis while doing both of their jobs.
La gueule de l'autre
Martial Perrin is the president of a right-wing political party which is gearing itself up for a forthcoming election. When he learns that a notorious criminal named Kraus has escaped from prison, Perrin panics and goes into hiding. His deputy, Constant, hires Perrin’s cousin, Gilbert, an actor who is a perfect double of Perrin, to replace him.
Tendre poulet
Parisian detective Lise meets her childhood sweetheart Antoine by chance. Extremely happy about the reunion, the two arrange to meet. But Lise's duties as an inspector thwart their plans.
Le dimanche de la vie
After five years in the army, Valentin Brû marry a haberdasher. They move to Paris, where Valentin sells frames, while his wife becomes fortune teller. One day, Valentin replaces her, and predict a terrible event which will happen.
Viva Maria!
1907 Central America: Maria II is the daughter of an Irish terrorist. After her father's death, she meets Maria I, a performer, and decides to stay with the circus, and on her debut as a singer, unintentionally invents the striptease and makes the circus famous.
L'âge ingrat
Antoine and Marie decided to introduce their parents before the wedding. Summer vacation looks like a good time, so the Lartigue family prepares to host Malhouin family. But it turns out that the harsh Emil Malhouin is not too happy to get acquainted with his future relatives...
Peau de banane
The French comedy-drama of Marcel Ophuls, which came to the Paris yesterday.
Maigret voit rouge
Gangsters from the United States try to kill a key government witness whose testimony could help land an influential mobster in jail. It's up to detective Maigret to deal with the FBI and a series of underworld figures to save the life of the witness...
Le meurtrier
Two total strangers suspect each other of murdering their own wives.
Germinal
Dismissed from the railroads in 1863 for his union activities, Etienne Lantier found a job at the Voreux coal mine. But work was hard, wages were low and safety left much to be desired. Lantier tried to organize the miners into a union.
Les mystères de Paris
The Marquis Rodolphe de Sombrueil accidentally runs over a working man with his carriage and helps his widow -- unjustly accused of robbery -- to find her missing daughter.
Arrêtez les tambours
1944, a French Normandy village occupied by the German troops, its mayor, doctor as well, Mr Leproux is caught between a rock and a hard place. The Nazis search for a British pilot wounded, hidden by the good doctor while the French Resistance leads a battle in the shadows - But The D-Day battle is imminent..
Le chemin des écoliers
This movie is a Marcel Aymé adaptation and it deals with the not-so-glorious side of the Occupation: black market, war profiteers, cracking open bottles of Champagne while most of the Parisians are almost starving.
Le bossu
Prince Philippe de Gonzague decides to get rid of his cousin Duke de Nevers, having wished for long his properties and wealth.
Taxi, Roulotte et Corrida
A chaotic family go on holiday to Spain and get mixed up with a gang of diamond thieves
Mädchen in Uniform
A new student, Manuela, enters a strict girls' boarding school after her mother’s death, where she finds comfort in a kind teacher, stirring complex emotions within her.
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.
Lola Montès
The film tells the tragical story of the life of Lola Montes who was a great adventurer and stopped being the attraction of her circus after having been the lover of various important men.
Le mouton à cinq pattes
Edouard a eu des quintuplés, quarante ans plus tard, le maire du village tente de les réunir...
Mon frangin du Sénégal
Jules Pinson, photographer in a small provincial village is in love with Annette, the daughter of the grocer. She 's dreaming only heros of adventure movies, so Jules invents a twin brother, Caesar, hunter of lions in Senegal ...
La fête à Henriette
Two scriptwriters argue about the fate of Henrietta, a charming and gamine shopgirl. One favors a comical path for their heroine, who is overcome with sentimental love for a young photographer on Bastille Day. The other has a more thrilling and dastardly fate in mind for her.
Die Vier im Jeep
Soviet, British, French and American allies patrol post-war Vienna.
Adrien
Adrien Moulinet, a modest encashing agent in the Nortier bank, is also an inventor in his spare time. His latest revolutionary creation is the motorized roller skate. His problem is to be able to market them. Jules Petitpas, a jobless adman, is the right man for that...
Bécassine
A little Breton tries to save her boss's daughter an unhappy marriage.
La règle du jeu
Jean Renoir’s The Rules of the Game is a comedic drama about a Parisian aristocrat. The film was released shortly before the start of World War II.
Titin des Martigues
In Paris, at the Foire du Trône, the showman Titin from Martigues spins the perfect love with the pretty Yvette, which arouses the jealousy of his rival Dix-de-Der who will cause his downfall. Without this affecting his Provençal joviality, Titin will try his hand at various odd jobs without ceasing to push the song.
Hôtel du Nord
Un hôtel modeste au bord du canal Saint-Martin abrite une clientèle bigarrée. Pierre et Renée, un couple d'amoureux, décident d'en finir avec la vie. Ce qui va s'avérer plus difficile que prévu. Un autre couple, M. Edmond, mystérieux homme, et Raymonde, une prostituée, vont se mêler à l'histoire des amoureux désespérés.
Le bonheur
Philippe Lutcher, an anarchist, fires a shot at Clara Stuart, a famous stage and screen actress, but only wounds her. The star, through affectation and curiosity to know his motives, pleads in his favour at his trial, but he rebuffs her pity. After he has served 18 months in prison, they meet and fall in love.