Jean Mercanton
Actor · 1920 – 1947
Movies24
Movie7.5DramaWhen an up-and-coming singer's career is jeopardized by morphine addiction, her brother takes on the ruthless dope pushers who are intent on keeping her hooked.
Stupéfiants
1932 · 2 votes
- Movie7.0Drama
Lucrèce, a famous actress, is bothered first, then flattered by the passionate testimonies of love given to her by François, a 12th grade student infatuated with her. Taking pity on the boy, Lucrèce decides to heal him of his madness and with this in mind she invites him for a working holiday on her farm. Instead, she falls in love with the cherub. At a time, her young lover grows so jealous of her that he attempts suicide. The mature actress then understands that their love story is going nowhere. She will remain alone while François will forget her.
Lucrèce
1943 · 2 votes
Movie5.6DramaAn officer, two of his comrades and a social worker want to create the "Carrefour", a place for lost children and teens to give them a chance not to fall by the wayside and spend most of their life in jail.
- Movie10.0Comedy
Monsieur Albert is a very elegant and much-appreciated butler. One day he falls in love with a client, Sylvia Robertson, and follows her to a winter sports resort. Sylvia does not recognize him and imagines that he is related to a king who goes incognito.
Movie9.0ComedyDramaGisèle accidentally marries her stalker when she thinks she is signing a hotel register in a foreign country.
- Movie9.0Drama
At the time of the departure of a freighter, a man runs on the pier, begging that he be taken aboard. The captain agrees. The only passengers are the captain’s niece, Marie, accompanied by her baby boy. A radio message is received. It seems that a murderer has just escaped on a boat.
Le Passager
1928 · 1 votes
Movie10.0ComedyDramaA high school in the thirties: most of the students are leaving for the Easter holidays. However, one of them,Brassier, an A -student ,stays for sentimental reasons. He is desperately in love with the principal's wife who does not want to cheat on her husband, and, above all, does not want the young man to ruin his good prospects. On a night he calls on her, a theft is committed, in the principal's office. Although completely innocent, the good lad stands accused. He's got an alibi, but it would compromise the reputation of the woman he is in love with.
- Movie7.0Comedy
Croquette
1929 · 1 votes
Movie10.0A jealous American, Mr Stevenson, travels to France with his very pretty young wife Kitty. He tries all sorts of subterfuges so that the charming young woman does not attract the attention of men. But she did not escape the gaze of a certain Robert Perceval.
Movie10.0DramaFrédéri, a young man from a good family, is in love with a woman he met in the arena of Arles. He wishes to marry this woman.
L'Arlésienne
1930 · 1 votes
Movie9.0DramaMartine discovers, on the eve of her wedding, that her mother, whom she believed to be dead, leads an adventurous life. Pierre, her fiancé, unable to overcome his family's opposition to the revelation of this news, decides to kidnap Martine. The adventurer, who is not recognized by her daughter, agrees to leave France. The family of the young man will no longer put obstacles in the way of marriage.
Movie5.5DramaWarThe story of how the people of Paris cope with the strains and struggles of war, from the siege of the city by the Prussians during the Franco-Prussian War of 1871 to the invasion by the Germans in World War II.
Movie7.7ComedyFollowing a broadcast on the radio, each of the listeners remembers these "little nothings" (the title is borrowed from a play by Mozart), which have often changed their lives. Each of these stories told will prove that a tiny detail in life can change an entire destiny.
Movie7.0
Movie7.2FantasyDramaFrench version of the Selma Lagerlof story, most famously filmed in 1921 by Victor Sjostrom, about a poor sinner who only realizes what misery he's wrought when he dies on New Year's Eve and is collected by Death in his carriage.
- Movie7.0
Cinders is about a professor who inherits both a vast fortune and a luxurious hotel on the French Riviera. He leaves his modest family house in London – where he keeps his insects – and takes Betty, the maid, along with him to his new home.
Movie9.0RomanceMiarka is to marry a gypsy chief - whereabouts unknown. She and her tame bear live upon the estate of an old gentleman who tolerates them because of his interest in gypsies, and more particularly because he has a gypsy document which he cannot decipher. One day, the gardener, who is in love with Miarka, robs the master and sets fire to the home, making it appear that she is the guilty one.
Miarka, la fille à l'ourse
1920 · 1 votes
- Movie10.0Drama
A New York music-hall actress lives in a miserable loveless marriage. After a violent scene, the man leaves her, taking their baby and leaving it with rich Englishmen. Having become a great singer, she finds her son with the help of a lawyer who loves her.
Toute sa vie
1930 · 1 votes
- Movie10.0
Movie7.0DramaThe illegitimate son of a music-hall star and an ambitious politician has grown up to become a journalist. He decides to get back at his father by using blackmail.
Movie8.0ComedyJean Vernet, an unselfish banker, feels fine : he has a charming mistress, Jacqueline ; a godson, Fernand, that he took in when he was a child and that he has brought up and cherished ever since ; a faithful friend, Lamblin ; and an adorable dog. But things are not so rosy as they look. Adrienne, Jean's sister, hates Jacqueline and is prepared to do everything to separate the couple. Worse, it looks as though Fernand has betrayed his godfather by sleeping with Jacqueline. To know more about those around him, Jean, a modern Volpone, decides to fake deafness.
Movie10.0
Movie8.0ComedyRenée Ménard, a young mixed-race Indochinese, arrives in France to find her French father, whom she only knows is called Paul Ménard. In the hope of identifying her father, she meets a series of men with that name.
Movie8.0DramaNow that their parents are ruined, Jacques Eyssette and his younger brother Daniel, are driven to fend for themselves. Jacques becomes the secretary of a marquis who exploits him by making him work so hard that his health gets damaged. Daniel, on his part, is hired as a supervisor and Latin teacher in a school in the province. It soon happens that he is in a bad situation too as, after being subjected to repeated harassment, he ends up being fired. Daniel then decides to join Jacques in Paris, hoping to embark on a literary career. Unfortunately, Irma Borel, an actress, sets her sight on him and drags him into a life of vice.