Marcello Pagliero
Director · 1907 – 1980 · London, England, UK
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Marcello Pagliero (15 January 1907 – 18 October 1980) was an Italian film director, actor, and screenwriter. Pagliero was born in London and died in Paris. He is perhaps best known for his performance in the Roberto Rossellini film Rome, Open City (1945). He moved to France in 1947, and continued to work in film until 1960 and in French television after that. In 1949, he was nominated for an Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay an as a co-writer for the Rossellini film Paisà. Description above from the Wikipedia article Marcello Pagliero, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Movies17
Movie8.0DramaWarDuring the Nazi occupation of 1944 Rome, Resistance leader Giorgio Manfredi is pursued by the Nazis as he seeks refuge and a means of escape.
Movie6.4DramaDedee is a prostitute, working in Monsieur Rene's night club on Antwerp's harbour. The porter is Marco, her pimp. Dedee is not happy, until she meets Francesco, an italian sailorman. They fall in love and Dedee begins to dream about an escape of her daily dullness.
Movie6.7CrimeDramaA band of gangsters devise a plan to steal a game contested between two drug gangs of drug traffickers: the five fraudsters will face bigger problems than them.
Movie5.7DocumentaryVariations on the cultural and intellectual explosion in the Saint-Germain-des-Prés district in 1946.
Movie7.4ThrillerCrimeA couple of hit men set out to kill an old friend.
Movie5.5WarDramaEscaping British prisoners of war hide out in German occupied France.
Seven Thunders
1957 · 13 votes
Movie6.8DramaFantasyA society heiress and a resistance fighter are tragically killed at the same moment and meet in the afterlife. They are offered a second chance at life if they can prove their love is real or be doomed to roam the earth as ghosts.
Movie6.1DramaRomanceMilan is an ex Formula One driver and now he lives with his wife Roberte in a small country town. But Milan is not satisfied, so Roberte encourages a love-story between Milan and Helene, a young woman. Milan can't decide and at last the tragedy comes. Then Milan returns to drive in Formula One.
Movie7.0CrimeDramaTaking advantage of the shooting of a film, gangsters stage a hold -up. A black man, Selim, is unfairly accused.
Tourbillon
1953 · 1 votes
Movie8.0DramaA youngish sales employee of a computer firm is blackmailed into helping a group of mysterious Bulgarian industrialists who have come to his office. A government contract is being sought for a businessman who is in danger of bankruptcy.
La Nuit bulgare
1972 · 2 votes
Movie8.0DramaLaura has lost her fiancé. Immediately after, an accident happens to her and she becomes blind. Eve, her sympathetic sister, and an understanding doctor imagine having a newcomer, Marcel, play the delicate role of the missing fiance, because their voices are identical. Laure marvels and regains a taste for life. But Marcel falls in love with Eve.
La Voix du rêve
1949 · 1 votes
Movie5.2ActionCrimeA secret agent uncovers four atomic rockets with a lethal gas warhead which have been stolen from a secret factory, and a dastardly plot.
Movie5.6ComedyDramaSteph, Jean-Claude and Jacques work in a Parisian art shop, but they mainly work in the field of eroticism, which they conceive as a wide-ranging field of exercises and experiments.
Le Bel Âge
1960 · 7 votes
Movie9.0DramaRomanceL'altra
1947 · 1 votes
- Movie6.2Drama
The harsh life of a troubled young man provides the basis of this grim French tragedy that begins when the fellow stops into a shop to buy a pack of the title cigarettes. There he meets a pretty shop girl with whom he falls in love and eventually marries. It was a foolish choice, for the two cannot get along and constantly fight. Things get worse when the husband resumes his criminal activities and gets caught. The two are about to divorce when the woman gets pregnant. The time comes for their baby to be born and while sitting in the waiting room, the husband reflects upon his past activities, which are revealed via flashback.
Les Gauloises bleues
1969 · 6 votes
Movie5.6ComedyThe Jacques Brothers, their temporary replacements, Yves Gérard and his troupe, as well as a famous movie star looking for a new partner, Evelyne Dorsey, are causing disruption at the "La Rose rouge" cabaret, the most famous cellar in Saint-Germain-des-Prés, to the delight of regulars.
Movie9.0In Cambodia in 1943, a family is massacred by the Japanese, before the eyes of the eldest son who manages to escape. His four-year-old sister is taken in by a Cambodian family.