
Henri Guisol
Actor · 1904 – 1994 · Aix-en-Provence, France
Movies24
Movie6.9DramaRomanceLola Montes, previously a great adventuress, is reduced to being the attraction of a circus after having been the lover of various important men.
Lola Montès
1955 · 156 votes
Movie7.1HistoryYoung sailor Edmond Dantès is wrongfully imprisoned, escapes, finds treasure, and reinvents himself as the wealthy Count of Monte Cristo to exact revenge on those who betrayed him.
Movie7.1DramaCrimeMild-mannered novelist of Western fiction, Amédée Lange, and his colleagues take over a publishing house after their exploitative boss disappears, only for the superior to return and try to reclaim the profits from their successful cooperative.
Movie4.1DramaA beautiful and sophisticated teenager is placed in a regimented French girls' boarding school after her father apparently commits suicide over a business scandal. She immediately gains admirers -- a lustful middle-aged artist, a handsome young composer, a fellow female student -- as well as a jealous rival. With the help of her schoolmates, she attempts to elope with the composer, but the adults catch on to the plot, and she is locked into her room at night.
Movie7.3DramaCrimeCashier Maurice Legrand is married to the wretched Adele. By chance, he meets Lucienne, 'Lulu', and makes her his mistress. He thinks he has finally found love, but Lulu is a streetwalker, still in love with her pimp.
La Chienne
1931 · 140 votes
Movie5.2ComedyA group of Italian soccer fans arrive in Paris for a match, but most of them go their separate ways to explore the sights, have a bit of an adventure, and maybe even find some romance.
Movie6.1MysteryThrillerDanielle Darrieux stars in this French thriller as a singer having an affair with her accompanist. When her husband dies in an automobile accident, the two lovers suspect each other of having murdered him. Soon after, they receive 45 rpm records with the dead man’s voice, threatening to come back.
Movie6.8An international crook hunted by the police comes to Paris to save his daughter from the clutches of a blackmailer friend of a cabaret singer with eccentric outfits.
Movie6.9ComedyA French farce set in Victorian London where a botanist and his wife get into trouble when they pretend to go missing in order to hide from their sanctimonious cousin – an Anglican bishop who is leading a campaign against such writing.
Movie6.3HistoryRomanceTeodora, a Roman courtesan and former slave girl, marries the Roman emperor Justinian and assumes the throne as Empress of Rome. But the divide between nobility and slave is too great. Teodora seeks justice for her people, and revolution and armed conflict erupt in both Byzantium and Rome.
Movie7.2DramaRomanceHerr Werther, a new magistrate to the Grand Duchy of Walheim who is a violinist and poet, seems to have fate on his side as he meets and pursues a beautiful local woman, Charlotte. But as Werther sets to propose marriage, Charlotte reluctantly tells him she has been promised to another, Werther's superior, Judge Hochstätten. Werther and Charlotte decide to keep their romance from the judge and each descends into depression. Will they be able to keep their feelings a secret?
Movie5.8ComedySophie, viscountess of Valrude, believes herself being a widow since her husband disappeared in the Amazon.
La situation est grave... mais pas désespérée
1976 · 16 votes
Movie5.2RomanceComedyCount Fernand du Bois d'Enghien typifies the pleasure seeker and as such he has a mistress of course, star singer Lucette Gauthier. But now Fernand feels it is time for him to tie the knot. For that, pretty Viviane Duverger is the ideal prey. The trouble is that the explosive Lucette does not hear it that way. Fortunately for Bois d'Enghien, Urugua, a rich South American general, falls in love with Lucette.
Le Fil à la patte
1954 · 5 votes
Movie5.5ComedyArlette and her brother are penniless orphans; as the man is to leave for Africa to work for a long time, the young girl is forced to live with her cousins, four spinsters, who place virtue over everything.
Movie6.3DramaAdventureRobert Shaw slaughters his wife's lover and runs away with his secretary Jacqueline. Helped by a French trapper who takes them for film-makers, they hide in Northern Canada.
Movie6.2DramaAfter his girlfriend is murdered, an art critic realizes that a wealthy heiress is falling in love with him.
Movie7.0ComedyDramaNicole tries to seduce a young man who lead a bohemian life in an untidy flat with his three pals.
Movie9.0CrimeDramaA person who had usurped the identity of a famous writer of detective stories was killed in the train. Why and by whom?
Madame et le mort
1943 · 1 votes
Movie5.0ComedyThe difficulty in finding accommodation in Paris, will cause many stories, between some colorful characters.
Movie10.0CrimeDramaJacques Montet, a successful crime story writer, has already written a hundred books and would like to call it quits now to devote himself to loftier writing. But his wife, a cold-hearted, money-minded, bossy woman won't allow. All the more as she is the one who supplies Jacques with the plots of his detective stories. When Jacques, yearning for true love, meets young, pretty Muriel, he can't stand the situation any longer. Fortunately - for him - the plot of the 101st detective story imagined by his wife is about a ... perfect crime. He simply has to follow her instructions to ... get rid of her. Everything goes according to plan until Jacques discovers a scary detail: the presence of a mysterious witness on the scene of the crime.
Movie9.0DramaA theater troupe is touring Manon Lescaut, starring Denise, whose husband is a sick alcoholic. Tired of his violent outbursts, and wanting to rebuild her life, she runs away and finds refuge with a doctor who hires her as a nurse in his clinic. However, another jealous nurse commissions a detective to investigate, and ends up uncovering Denise's past.
Movie7.0Science FictionIn this sci-fi film, a scientist invents a prescient machine that can tell people when they will die. Oddly enough, the people do not want to know and therefore begin to riot…
Movie5.5ComedyA timid young man marries the daughter of the entomologist he works for. On the train for their honeymoon, he takes his young wife in his arms when a customs officer suddenly enters the compartment. The groom is now inhibited.
Movie8.8DramaComedyThree sketches that all start in the police station, where Léa, La Pintade and the brigadier himself tell their little stories. The story of Danielle, who bamboozled the impresario Mortimer so well that he made her his wife; the story of the sad little Simon, deprived of a father and unable to stand the mockery of his friends; and the story of the daughter of an ex-convict who - by golly - steals a statue on the day of her First Communion.
Series4
TV7.0DramaLe Temps de vivre... Le Temps d'aimer
1973 · 1 votes
TV8.0DramaBalsamo, a scoundrel with the gift of mesmerism, seeks to gain power in the French court in the days before the Revolution.
Joseph Balsamo
1973 · 5 votes
TV7.5DramaFamilyUpon his return from Louisiana in 1865, Maxence de Mettray decides to use the profits from his last commercial trip to buy the castle of Mauregard in Touraine, the castle of his ancestors. From there, his story and that of his descendants is told over six different periods. A French mini-series in six 60-minute episodes.
Mauregard
1970 · 2 votes
TV10.0Action & AdventureAdieu mes quinze ans
1971 · 1 votes