Germaine Dermoz
Actor · 1888 – 1966 · Paris, France
Movies24
Movie6.5AdventureRomanceA French officer and his sister develop an inappropriate attraction, leading to comical misadventures and an unexpected twist that brings them closer despite their forbidden desire.
Movie10.0DramaIn the snow as bells toll, a hooded figure makes its way through the streets to a church.
Movie6.6DramaHistoryThe life of Vincent de Paul, the 17th-century author and priest who founded two religious orders.
Monsieur Vincent
1947 · 46 votes
Movie5.9ComedyDramaHistorical film directed and written by Sacha Guitry follows the the history of Paris from its founding through the significant events in the city's history.
Movie6.0DramaAn unhappily married woman devises a scheme to get rid of her husband.
Movie7.0FamilyDramaA misunderstanding, due to five-year-old Régine's innocent games, causes the Chambrys to split up. They send the child to pastor Crokfield, an old friend of the family, to be taken care of. Petit Ange (Little Angel), as little Régine is nicknamed, wishes to see her mom and dad together at he same time. The pastor helps her to achieve her goal.
Petit ange
1920 · 1 votes
Movie7.5DramaDries, a farmer and a widower, lives with his mother-in-law Grietje and his son Peter. He falls in love with Minna, a widow, and marries her despite the opposition of his family and friends. In anger his son Peter leaves home to enlist, while Grietje takes up her residence in another cottage. Six years pass, during which Grietje becomes acquainted with Minna's daughter Dina. Peter falls ill in Sumatra, but after falling in love with Dina, through the medium of photographs, he recovers and is drafted home again to Holland. He meets Dina and the two find that they truly love.
Movie6.6ComedyMadame Husson and her circle of holier-than-thou ladies (including an old maid Madame Cadenas)are looking for a chaste and pure girl who will win a hefty sum.
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
Movie5.4ComedyDramaThe history of one of France's most famous streets is retold, featuring multiple performances from Guitry himself.
Movie8.0DramaA great provincial lawyer is found murdered with a revolver shot in the red path that leads to his mistress's home. The Advocate General accuses his own wife who was a betrayed mistress and whom he assumes guilty out of spite. But the accused's daughter finds the real culprit.
Le crime du chemin rouge
1933 · 1 votes
- Movie7.0
Early film version of the famous play.
Zaza
1913 · 1 votes
Movie6.5DramaIn a maternity hospital, young single mothers are accompanied by social worker Hélène Lambert, who tries to make them aware of their new responsibilities, while Dr. Baurain stresses the importance of their moral and sexual education. They come to the aid of several young women: one who would like to give up her child to a couple applying for adoption, another who, after the death of her first baby in dramatic circumstances, is expecting a second, and many others.
Movie6.3WarBernard Lefrancois is a prosperous farmer on the River Marne, while his neighbor is impoverished. Lefrancois objects strongly to the romance between his son and the neighbor's daughter, but it continues in secret. WWI begins and the son becomes an aviator with the French army, and the unwed girl presents Lefrancois with an unexpected grandchild. The German army occupies the area, and the girl is serving France as a spy and securing information needed by the French to drive out the Germans. While his son is engaged in air-combat against the Germans, and the unwed mother of his grandchild is serving as a spy against their country's enemy, Lefrancois also joins the battle as a soldier.
- Movie10.0Drama
Eugenie Grandet has discovered where her father, a miserable old miser, keeps his treasure. Eugenie's cousin, Charles, is the bearer of a letter from his father to his uncle, Eugenie's father. The letter informs the miser that Charles' father, his only brother, is reduced to a state of utter ruin, and unless he can obtain immediate help, he contemplates suicide.
Eugénie Grandet
1910 · 1 votes
Movie10.0DramaA man is killed smuggling contraband through the Pyrenees Alps. He leaves behind a pregnant woman who must go on.
Movie8.0DramaA brave woman is sentenced to prison on false testimony. She escapes twenty years later and takes refuge in Paris where she carries bread while looking for her children Georges and Lucie who will find her and exonerate her.
Movie5.7Commissioner Malaise investigates a strange crime: a mannequin, stolen from the window of a tailor, is found stabbed... But his face of wax has the features of a certain Gilbert, who died a year earlier in a family, all of whose members will become more or less suspicious to the Commissioner. He thinks that, in spite of Dr. Furnelle's conclusions, Gilbert's death was not natural. But finding the cause of death and the identity of the possible culprit will require more than a mere intuition.
Movie10.0DramaAs the red headed boy writes in his school book, a family is a group living under the same roof who can't stand each other.
Movie4.8WarDramaDuring the First World War, the Russian officer Captain Ivan Ignatoff falls in love with his nurse, Natasha Kovrin. But she is subject to an upcoming marriage of family convenience to Brioukow, a wealthy industrialist of peasant stock. Brioukow is unjustifiably jealous, since Natasha has not betrayed him. He forces Ignatoff into his debt as a means of humiliating him. When Ignatoff's new friend, Madame Sabline, offers to pay his debt, preventing his ruin, Ignatoff comes quickly to realize that Madame Sabline has an ulterior motive, one that could prove dangerous to more lives than just Ignatoff's.
Movie5.0DramaTwo brothers-in-law hate each other but, for business interests, they want their respective son and daughter to marry. The young fiancées are not in agreement, as the boy has a happy relationship with a woman, and the girl is in an isolation mood. A crime happens, and the relations amongst this sad family become even worse.
Movie6.0Drama in which the love between Claude and Germaine is tested when Claude is falsely accused and Germaine's father doesn't approve of their relationship.
- MovieDrama
In the glittering salons of Parisian high society, a celebrated duchess known for her beauty and charm becomes entangled in a provocative game of power and pride when a stoic and decorated general resists her allure. What begins as a flirtatious challenge soon unravels into a story of unrequited love, emotional reckoning, and the consequences of vanity. As their paths diverge, the two are drawn together once more under unexpected and tragic circumstances, revealing the enduring grip of passion and the quiet devastation of missed chances.
Movie10.0DramaA young man from an aristocratic family tires of the country life and moves to Paris where he squanders his inheritance. Returning to his home with remorse, he reconciles with his father and becomes engaged to his true love.
Monsieur des Lourdines
1943 · 1 votes