Maurice Maillot
Actor · 1906 – 1968 · Rethel, France
Movies21
Movie8.0A genius director whose daring and sensual films have earned him the nickname "The Merchant of Love", claims to escape commercial contingencies and direct the film of his life on his own. It is a resounding failure that leads him to the forfeiture from which the fate of a woman's love.
Marchand d'amour
1935 · 1 votes
Movie8.0DramaWesternIn the Yukon, searching for gold, Hurricane picks up a paper and discovers that the girl back home is planning to marry another man. Abandoning all care, Hurricane is soon embroiled in a fight in which guns play a part. It is then that the true value of one of his companions, Flossie, a girl of the gold-fields, becomes apparent.
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.
Movie5.4HistoryDramaA chronicle of the life of Bertrand du Guesclin, grand officer of the French army in the 14th century.
Du Guesclin
1949 · 9 votes
Movie9.0ComedyDramaThe Marquis de Barfleur, an unattractive man, decides to resort to plastic surgery to ensure the fidelity of Colette, his young mistress. Now endowed with a face to die for, he is about to achieve his goal. But the Marchioness de Barfleur, the Marquis' loving wife, does not hear it that way. She has her revenge claiming everywhere that her husband is... dead! An assertion people believe since they do not recognize the Marquis! When her vengeance has lasted long enough, she forgives the Marquis and husband and wife fall into each other's arms.
Une gueule en or
1936 · 1 votes
- Movie7.0ComedyHistory
Joan Of Arc has just released Orléans (1429)but the English are still here to stay . The fortress of Châteauneuf is hold by Lord Pickwickdam
Adémaï au Moyen Âge
1935 · 1 votes
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.
Movie6.0DramaA religious fanatic finds his entire life and philosophy turned upside-down as he falls in love with a girl and kills her in a jealous rage. His search is for peace of mind and a desire to justify the murder of the girl to himself. His mind becomes distraught as he gropes trying to rationalize his deed and his world falls apart around him. A police inspector patiently and tirelessly stays on Barrault's trail, without putting him under arrest, though convinced he is the murderer, and waiting for the moment when he feels Barrault will break under the strain of his own religious fanaticism.
Movie8.0ComedyTo be able to win paradise, a selfish old billionaire, who has just died, must make someone happy. He will have to guide a young girl through the intricacies of love.
Movie7.0ComedyA man of of principle leads a double life: one for his mistress and one he takes home to his wife.
Tant qu'il y aura des femmes
1955 · 3 votes
Movie10.0MysteryRouletabille interrupts his vacation in Hungary to fight a gang of air pirates with his boss Sainclair and the daughter of Budapest's chief of Police.
Movie9.0ComedyDramaA local man raised two boys. One is his son and the other is that of a rich industrialist, to get the bonus to the unhappy father, he gives his own son a lazy scoundrel, to the tearful father and decides to keep the other boy, but the truth does not soon to burst.
Aux portes de Paris
1935 · 1 votes
Movie6.0N'épouse pas ta fille
1934 · 1 votes
- Movie9.0Comedy
It is only the prospect of having a child that draws the otherwise strictly urban new wife, Suzanne, to a family farm, she really doesn't care for the countryside of for her in laws.
Movie10.0ComedyThe son of an industrialist is in love with a saleswoman employed by his father. The latter coos with an ingenue from whom he hides the age of his son. A department manager involved in all this has his sentimental disappointments. A double marriage puts a happy ending to the plot.
Un scandale aux Galeries
1937 · 1 votes
Movie7.0ComedyIn the lead up to WWII, several escapist French films were made promoting health and sport among youth.In this one, we see the friendship of young males on a Marne river rowing team threatened by the presence of a typical femme fatale.
Movie8.0In a camp of sailors, the suicidal and solitary life of Greta, which makes men lose their heads.
Movie8.0Three university students decide, before they pursue their various careers, to spend some time together living in a mill.A young woman joins them for a while and all three fall in love with her.
Trois dans un moulin
1938 · 1 votes
Movie5.0ComedyBeing a tramp is not always a disadvantage. For example when there is a masquerade ball. Indeed wearing flea-ridden rags might just mean having donned a costume. This is what happens to two resourceful Brussels bums, La Cloche and Picolard, who manage to gain entry in a fancy-dress ball. Once there, La Cloche is mistaken by an oriental prince for a respected doctor. His mission will be to give care to a music-hall diva. Even more exciting, he is asked to vaccinate a whole troupe of showgirls. Trouble guaranteed.
Movie5.9DramaWar"Menaces" deals with the months before WW2 in a hotel :t he fear of the impending war never leaves the guests of an hotel in Paris.
Movie9.0DramaOdette
1935 · 1 votes