Marc Allégret
Marc Allégret was a French screenwriter and film director. He was born in Basel, Basel-Stadt, Switzerland, the elder brother of Yves Allégret. Marc was educated to be a lawyer. Allégret became André Gide's lover when he was fifteen and Gide was forty-seven. Later, Marc was to... Read full bio →
Un drôle de dimanche
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...
En effeuillant la marguerite
Agnès Dumont fuit sa Province et son père pour retrouver son frère Hubert à Paris. Pour gagner de l'argent, elle participe à un strip-tease masquée auquel assiste un journaliste qui tombe sous son charme.
L'amant de lady Chatterley
After a crippling injury leaves her husband impotent, Lady Chatterly is torn between her love for her husband and her physical desires. With her husband's consent, she seeks out other means of fulfilling her needs.
Futures vedettes
At the Conservatory of Vienna the students only have eyes for their beautiful singing teacher, tenor Eric Walter.
Maria Chapdelaine
At the beginning of the 20th century, in the North of the Province of Quebec. After five years spent in a boarding school, Maria Chapdelaine comes back to the family farm. Robert Gagnon, a villager and childhood friend, loves her secretly but Maria is wooed by Lorenzo Surprenant, a man who has fled his home town to escape the police.
Pétrus
Petrus,a Montmartre photographer,is accidentally wounded by Migo,a dancer at the Frou Frou night club,when she is trying to shoot her faithless lover Rodrigue,a counterfeiter.Though Petrus tries to reconcile the lovers, Migo lands up with him after Rodrigue is finally killed by another jealous dancer.
Orage
The mistress of an engineer meets the man's pregnant wife and decides to give up the liaison.
Entrée des artistes
Isabelle, Cécilia et François, sont étudiants au conservatoire d'art dramatique. Cécilia est amoureuse de François, mais le jeune homme est amoureux d'Isabelle. Désespérée, Cécilia se suicide en s'arrangeant pour faire passer son suicide pour un meurtre que François aurait commis.
Gribouille
Camille Morestan serves as a jury member at a court in Paris. The attractive Natalie Roguin is accused of murder. Morestan doesn't want to believe she really killed her lover. He succeeds in convincing the other jury members she was innocent. After her acquittal he takes her into his house.
Zouzou
Zou Zou tries to help her childhood friend prove his innocence after he's accused of murder.
Lac aux dames
A handsome but penniless young man takes a summer job as a swimming instructor in a picturesque Alpine lake resort. He falls in love with a young heiress who is staying there with her father, but he also grabs the attention of tomboyish Puck who lives on the other side of the lake and who saves him from drowning one foggy night.
Fanny
After Fanny's boyfriend leaves her and sails away, she finds out she's pregnant.
Voyage au Congo
A love partner of the writer André Gide, as well as his travel companion in their journey to the French colonies of Central Africa, Marc Allégret decided to film their 11-month wandering in the exotic continent, though stripping away the element of adventure.