Jimmy Urbain
Actor · b. 1943 · Paris, France
Jimmy Urbain (parfois crédité James Urbain), né le 6 décembre 1943 à Paris (France), est un acteur français. Il fut surtout employé au cinéma comme enfant acteur dans les années 1950 et fait ses débuts, à sept ans, dans On n'aime qu'une fois de Jean Stelli (1950). De sa courte filmographie, on peut citer Chiens perdus sans collier de Jean Delannoy (1955) et son interprétation de Gavroche dans Les Misérables de Jean-Paul Le Chanois (1958). Il apparaît parmi les élèves du pensionnat dans Les Diaboliques d'Henri-Georges Clouzot (1955).
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Movie7.9ThrillerMysteryThe cruel and abusive headmaster of a boarding school, Michel Delassalle, is murdered by an unlikely duo -- his meek wife and the mistress he brazenly flaunts. The women become increasingly unhinged by a series of odd occurrences after Delassalle's corpse mysteriously disappears.
Movie7.2DramaIn 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.
Les Misérables
1958 · 126 votes
Movie7.2ComedyPaul Braconnier and his wife Blandine only have one thing in mind: to find a way to kill each other without risk. After listening to a radio show, Paul decides to go to Paris to meet a famous lawyer in the acquittal of the murderers. He tells the lawyer that he killed his wife. The lawyer asks Paul to reconstruct the circumstances of the drama. Without knowing it, he explains, in spite of himself, the way for Paul to murder his wife by putting the odds on his side to avoid death penalty or even be released...
Movie6.1ComedyTwo children run away from a Swiss boarding school and set out for Paris, with their frantic parents in hot pursuit.
The Happy Road
1957 · 8 votes
Movie6.0Martial, Colette 's husband, is madly jealous. One day, he catches his wife writing a letter and he does want to know what this message contains, to no avail.
Lettre ouverte
1953 · 2 votes
Movie6.8DramaJudge Julien Lamy regularly deals with the welfare of children, namely delinquents. When orphan Alain burns down a barn belonging to his abusive foster family, Lamy has no choice but to send him to a juvenile jail. There, he meets elder Francis, desperate to escape and reunite with his girlfriend. The boys eventually flee, as Francis goes in search of his lost love and Alain continues seeking his biological family.
Movie6.3MysteryDrama"La neige était sale" is based on a novel and play by the phenomenally prolific Georges Simenon. Upon learning that his mother was a prostitute, Frank (Daniel Gélin) dejectedly vows that he, too, will live a life of debauchery. Part of his self-degradation program is to kill someone, and since the story takes place during the Nazi occupation of France, he chooses a German officer as his victim. His steady descent into psychosis and depravity becomes his ultimate undoing.
Movie4.5CrimeDramaIn Provence , Father Caillé runs a family pension backed by his daughter-in-law Cora and a maid. The old man persecutes Cora for her assiduity until the day when she, in a particularly violent confrontation, knocks him down before the eyes of Gino, an Italian pensioner of whom she is in love. The two accomplices will try to make up the murder.
Movie6.7ComedyMr Lucas, a grocer, wants to attract the clientele; he imagines a lottery; every week, you can win a bike. It's a big success.
Movie6.3ComedyWhile he was about to end his life, Baron de Cantenac wanted to return one last time to the land of his ancestors. He then discovers a treasure that he will strive to use to revive his village.
Movie7.5ComedyPeter Simon, a famous American writer, deserts his girlfriend Eva to live incognito at a small Normandy inn. Eva shams her own murder for revenge. Meanwhile, a young reporter, Françoise, has tracked Peter down. The news of the crime quickly spreads and, believing Peter to be the murderer, the village is in an uproar. Despite misadventures galore, everything turns out right and Peter takes Françoise on their honeymoon.
Fric-frac en dentelles
1957 · 2 votes
Movie9.0ComedyDramaAlthough they have loved each other since childhood without admitting it, a surgeon and a young woman see their love thwarted by life.
Movie9.0ComedyA talented but crazy painter, Elvire Mercier agrees to sell one of her canvases to Pierre Leroy, a rich heir. But after a string of misunderstandings, she hands her painting over to a swindler. And her problems have only just begun.
Miss Catastrophe
1957 · 1 votes
Movie7.0ComedyJules Duraton is the headmaster of Chatelbourg's high school. He is happily married, has a teenage daughter named Solange, and everything would be for the best of all possible worlds if he and his family were not the namesakes of the protagonists of a famous comic series broadcast every day on Radio Monde "La Famille Duraton". Day after day, the real-life Duratons are made fun of because of their surname and Jules just can't take it any more. That is why he decides to sue the radio station responsible for his misfortune.
Les Duraton
1956 · 4 votes