Jeanne Boitel
Actor · 1904 – 1987 · Paris, Ile de France, France
Movies24
Movie6.3DramaHistoryThe 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.
Movie6.7DramaHistoryWitty narration follows the history of Versailles Palace; founded by Louis XIII, enlarged by autocratic Louis XIV, whose personal affairs and amours, and those of his two successors, are pursued in more detail to the start of the Revolution, after which the story is brought rapidly up to date.
Movie7.0CrimeDramaFour women are murdered, each knifed and, despite torn garments, remain virtuous. As famed police inspector Jules Maigret pieces the clues together, he comes to realise that for the elusive man that he suspects to be unmasked, he has to set a trap.
MovieComedyLa Chienlit
1983
Movie5.9ComedyDramaHistorical 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.
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Follenfant, father of a large family, completed late military service. He looks a lot like the commander who is shy and thanks to this resemblance, Follenfant who is also a ventriloquist, makes his superior and his own happy by marrying the widowed seamstress and mother, too, of a large family.
Famille nombreuse
1934 · 1 votes
Movie8.0ComedyDramaTalkie remake of a 1927 silent about the adventures of the notorious womaniser and venetian adventurer Chevalier Giacomo Casanova. Action starts in Venice and then the plot takes Casanova to France and Russia.
Casanova
1934 · 1 votes
Movie5.4ComedyDramaThe history of one of France's most famous streets is retold, featuring multiple performances from Guitry himself.
Movie6.1HistoryDramaAs Louis XV lies on his deathbed, the Dauphine of France, Marie-Antoinette, seduces a Swedish officer, Axel de Fersen, which pains her husband, Louis XVI, who will know how to be generous when he learns of this deception.
Movie8.0Comedy
Movie7.0AdventurePoacher, bon vivant and womanizer, Maurin falls in love with the fiancée of a policeman. And despite all the principles, he easily triumphs over his rival.
Movie5.8DramaRomanceThe happiness of a newly-married couple, Henry and Jeannie Saint Clair, is shattered when the husband is made a paralytic in an automobile accident. The wife still loves him, although he is incapable of any physical love. She is slowly drawn into a short-lived affair with a handsome athlete, Robert Vanier. When the husband learns of the affair, he commits suicide. But the wife cannot forget him and she sends her lover away.
Movie9.0ComedyDramaA man is engaged to be married.But after getting a phone call from a wronged woman who wants revenge on her husband, he lands up consoling her in bed, and then consoling the mistress of the husband as well.
Un coup de téléphone
1932 · 1 votes
Movie8.0Marceline, a fearless 17-year-old girl, is expelled from her boarding school. Her adoptive parents then sent her to a stricter school.
Petite peste
1939 · 1 votes
Movie7.0RomanceWhen the husband of a rich lady is unfaithful, she plays the role of a chambermaid to a less prominent man.
Movie9.0DramaThe wife of a stable manager will try everything to clear her husband, a very violent being, accused of the assassination of a trainer.
MovieA lawyer defends his client so brilliantly that this one is released at once. But if the attorney expected thanks, he can only be disappointed as his client not only does not show him his gratitude but he reprimands him bluntly as well. The thing would be surprising if one did not specify that the accused, in order to escape all the small domestic worries, WANTED to be sent to prison. As compensations, the client finally settles down at the lawyer's!
Movie8.0ComedyDramaA widower sends his son Dédé to boarding school, falls in love with a young woman and gradually neglects the child, not out of disaffection but because of routine. The little boy is helpless: he feels he has been completely forsaken - Fortunately, things improve: Dédé ends up finding a new mummy.
Son autre amour
1934 · 1 votes
Movie9.0Romarin and his friend Tonin are two brave Provençal poachers who are not afraid. Romarin spends most of his time in his shed or on his boat, protected from customs controls. Tonin, a handsome guy with a tanned complexion, has many romantic adventures. For the moment, he is interested in the daughter of Larquus, a grocer from Cassis, the pretty Nine, who also covets the shady customs brigadier, the Corsican Napoléon Orsini.
Romarin
1937 · 1 votes
Movie9.0ComedyAlternate-language version of Amphitryon (1935).
Les dieux s'amusent
1935 · 1 votes
Movie7.0DramaAn adaptation of the play L'Aiglon by Edmond Rostand, which portrays the life of Napoleon I.
Movie7.0ComedyRuined by her banker, Antoinette becomes her driver. She signs a contract which assures her of the reimbursement of her fortune if she manages to support the banker for three months. She wins his bet, but falling in love with him, she tears up the check and marries him.
Movie6.3ComedyFrançois Chotard, wholesale grocer, gives his daughter in marriage to Julien Collinet, a writer who prefers dreaming to working, a situation conducive to quarrels between the son and the father- in-law. Until the day when Julien receives the Prix Goncourt, prestigious literary award. Chotard has a sudden change of heart.
Movie9.5Jean is ten years old and imagines that he is the cause of the misunderstanding that occurred between his parents. He leaves the military institute where he studies and becomes the protégé of an opera singer at whose house, one day, he surprises a thief who blesses him. His parents reconcile at the foot of his hospital bed.
Ceux De Demain
1938 · 2 votes