Sacha Guitry
Alexandre-Pierre Georges Guitry (21 February 1885 – 24 July 1957), known as Sacha Guitry, was a French stage actor, film actor, director, screenwriter, and playwright of the boulevard theatre. He was the son of a leading French actor, Lucien Guitry, and followed his father... Read full bio →
Un crime au paradis
In the 1980 French countryside, farmer Jojo and his ill-tempered wife Lulu hate each other, though their respective interests speak against divorce. The only thing that keeps the oppressed Jojo from murder is the threat of the guillotine...
Assassins et voleurs
A man becomes the lover of his former persecutor's wife.
Si Paris nous était conté
Historical film directed and written by Sacha Guitry follows the the history of Paris from its founding through the significant events in the city's history.
Napoléon
The film follows the life of Napoleon from his early life in Corsica to his death at Saint Helena. The film is notable for its use of location shooting for numerous scenes, especially at the French estates of Malmaison and Fontainebleau, the Palace of Versailles, and sites of Napoleonic battles including Austerlitz and Waterloo.
Si Versailles m'était conté...
The history of the palace of Versailles from its founding to the present.
La vie d'un honnête homme
La Vie d'un honnête homme English: The Virtuous Scoundrel, is a French comedy drama film from 1953, directed by Sacha Guitry, written by Sacha Guitry, starring Michel Simon and Louis de Funès.
Je l'ai été trois fois
A husband who had divorced twice because he had been betrayed by his former wives, takes his precautions to prevent the deed from happening a third time. And yet it does.
La poison
Paul Braconnier et sa femme Blandine n'ont qu'une seule idée en tête : trouver le moyen d'assassiner l'autre sans risque. Paul rencontre dans ce but un célèbre avocat qui lui explique comment procéder. Paul tue ensuite sa femme d'un coup de couteau dans le ventre, pendant qu'elle lui verse du poison...
Adhémar ou le jouet de la fatalité
Is it because his father was a groom that Adhémar Pomme has a long horse head and a horse- toothed smile? Maybe but the fact is that his head has invariably caused laughter whatever the circumstances, which is the tragedy of his life.
Rendez-vous de juillet
Hopes and love and ambitions and friendship in a group of young jazz-loving Parisians.
Aux deux colombes
A man remarried his wife's sister whom he believes died in a fire. The alleged deceased reappears and sows trouble and discord in the new household.
Le diable boiteux
Evocation, avec tout l'esprit de Guitry mais aussi celui de Talleyrand, de la vie de ce dernier, qui passe du service de la republique à celui de Bonaparte et de celui de Napoleon à celui de la royauté, avec pour seul but la grandeur de la France.
Remontons les Champs-Élysées
The history of one of France's most famous streets is retold, featuring multiple performances from Guitry himself.
Quadrille
The battle of the sexes as drawing room social satire. Philippe, a middle-aged newspaper editor, has lived for six years with Paulette, a successful stage actress. He tells her friend Claudine, a realistic and enterprising reporter, that he's thinking of proposing.
Les perles de la couronne
Three narrators (French writer Jean Martin, an English royal equerry, and a papal chamberlain) tell the story of seven matched pearls, four of them now in the British Crown.
Désiré
Shavian social satire. Odette is an actress who's now the mistress of a government minister. Her household of cook, maid, and chauffeur needs a valet. On the eve of going with the minister to Deauville, she engages Désiré, a robust and talkative man, even through his most recent employer, a countess, intimates improprieties.
Mon père avait raison
After being left for another man by his wife, Charles Bellanger raises his only son to fear and suspect women. Years later, such an education is bearing fruit.
Le roman d'un tricheur
Un homme, depuis son enfance, n'a qu'une seule ambition, devenir riche. Pour cela il a decide de devenir tricheur et voleur professionnel. A douze ans, il survit a l'empoisonnement collectif dans lequel perit sa famille: pour avoir vole des champignons, il avait ete puni et n'avait pas pu en manger...
Le nouveau testament
Un médecin, qui se sait trompé, se fait passer pour mort et fait rapporter chez lui son veston dans lequel sa femme et ses amis trouvent un testament révélant quelques-uns de leurs secrets. Stupeur et panique. Le faux mort réapparaît. la vie reprend, à peine différente.
Pasteur
Guitry reprises his role as Pasteur which he played successfully at the Vaudeville Theatre in 1919.