Pierre Blanchar
Pierre Blanchar (30 June 1892 – 21 November 1963) was a French actor. He appeared in more than 50 films between 1922 and 1961. Blanchar was married to actress Marthe Vinot, with whom he had a daughter, actress Dominique Blanchar. He played Napoleon in the 1938 British film A... Read full bio →
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Le monocle noir
The Marquis de Villemaur reunite strange visitors in his Castle, to meet a survivor of the Third Reich. There is an Italian fascist, Heinrich; a German, Matthias; a Russian; and Dromard, a blind French war hero with a black monocle. - from IMDB
Katia
Tsar Alexandre II meets a young student, Katia. He understands that he loves her and try to send her away but they end up seeing each other again and becomes his mistress.
Du rififi chez les femmes
Vicky de Berlin, a female gangster haunted by wartime memories, runs a floating night club in Brussels. Marcel, her partner and lover, is in charge of printing forged banknotes in the bottom of a boat. He decides to rob the Bank of Belgium and exchange a huge sum of counterfeit money for its genuine equivalent.
La symphonie pastorale
A minister falls in love with a blind young woman he sheltered, but so does his son.
Un seul amour
In 1860s France, a couple who have recently acquired a dilapidated country house in Vendôme discover within it the secret of a passionate love affaire that once took a macabre and sadly turn. it all began 50 years previously, when the wealthy landowner Gérard de Clergue fell madly in love with the beautiful young dancer Clara Biondi.
Un carnet de bal
Christine, newly widowed and consumed by the memory of a ball she attended age 16, decides to track down the men she danced with that night and discover their fates.
Le coupable
A man from a wealthy family falls in love with a florist ,but the lover has to go to war and to leave his darling crying ...and giving birth to a child.
L'homme de nulle part
Mathias Pascal, saddled with a stupid wife and a nagging mother-in-law, leaves home and is extremely lucky at several gambling resorts. He returns home and discovers that a drowned man, fished out of the river, bears an uncanny likeness to him and is being buried by his family as him.
Crime et châtiment
Pierre Chenal's adaptation of Dostoyevsky's novel, starring Pierre Blanchar and Harry Baur. Bears the influence of German Expressionism and serves as an early forerunner of poetic realism.
Zéro de conduite
In a repressive boarding school with rigid rules of behavior, four boys decide to rebel against the director on a celebration day.
Les croix de bois
The young and patriotic student Demachy joins the French army in 1914 to defend his country. But he and his comrades soon experience the terrifying, endless trench war in Champagne, where more and more wooden crosses have to be erected for this cannon fodder.
Le capitaine Fracasse
A nobleman decides to join a traveling group of actors to be with a girl he admires, but ultimately must rescue her from bandits
Le joueur d'échecs
In 1776, an inventor conceals a Polish nobleman in his chess-playing automaton, a machine whose fame leads it to the court of the Russian empress.