Gaston Jacquet
Actor · 1883 – 1970 · Lanas, Ardèche, France
Gaston Émile Marius Jacquet was a French actor. Jacquet was born in Lanas, Ardèche, France and died in 1970 in Thonex in Switzerland.
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Movie6.7DramaAged penniless actors are living in a old people's home. They always talk about their past glory or failures. One day Raphael Saint-Clair comes; he has been a famous actor and had a lot of love affairs. Passions come back, and jealousies... A bitter film about aging, failure and the entertainment.
Movie6.1DramaYoung, handsome, dashing but cynical, Octave Mouret arrives in Paris, determined to conquer the belles of the capital.
Movie4.7ComedyDramaGrigou owns a patch of land between farmers Martin's and Aubert's fields. Both covet this plot.As Grigou has lost the title deed,the mayor of the village decides to sell it.After an interminable auction sale, Aubert carries the day .To add insult to injury,shortly after, Martin is expelled from his farm,and becomes an innkeeper (a doomed inn where the former owner hanged himself). Ten years after, Aubert's daughter falls in love with Martin's son.Their fathers being deadly enemies, their marriage seems impossible.
Movie9.0DramaThe story takes place in Corsica, where a young business woman (Jacqueline Forzane) tries to construct an electric system for her steel plant. But this project is not welcomed by everyone...
L'Ile enchantée
1927 · 1 votes
Movie6.1CrimeMysteryWilly Ferrière is a gambler living beyond his means, and his mistress is as greedy as he's dead broke. One day, he says out of loud in a a Montparnasse café that he would give 100,000 francs to get rid of his wealthy aunt so he could claim his inheritance. Someone secretly lets Willy know it's a deal. The old lady is murdered, and a low-life criminal is manipulated to be the perfect suspect. But Superintendant Maigret feels something is wrong.
Movie5.0DramaSomewhat reminiscent of 'Mädchen in Uniform' (1931), the story is set in a private girl's school, populated almost exclusively by children from broken homes. Among the few students who can claim family stability is Micheline Presle, but even her happiness is threatened when her lawyer father Andre Luguet inaugurates an affair with stage actress Jacqueline Debulac. With the help of Debulac's daughter Louisa Carletti, Presle is able to break up her father's romance and deliver him into the open arms of her mother Marcelle Chantal.
Movie9.0ComedyThe tribulations of a banknote, from its exit from a counter to its destruction, passing through dozens of hands.
Le Billet de mille
1935 · 1 votes
- Movie8.0
Nivoulas is the leader of a group of "gardians" (cowherds) in Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer. His brother Mazar is engaged to Fanette, an orphan. After the bull run celebrating their engagement, they meet up at a café terrace. Lucie, a flirtatious waitress from the city, captivates Mazar.
Le gardian
1921 · 1 votes
Movie7.0ComedyFranck Crighton is a millionaire who is fed up with his hectic life. To have a bit of peace and quiet he has found the winning formula, passing himself off as Guillaume Aribeau, his own secretary. Under the cover of this modest condition Franck can both lead a freewheeling life and find true love.
Movie6.4DramaLucienne, typist and gorgeous bathing beauty, decides to enter the 'Miss Europe' pageant sponsored by the French newspaper she works for. She finds her jealous lover Andre violently disapproves of such events and tries to withdraw, but it's too late; she's even then being named Miss France. The night Andre planned to propose to her, she's being whisked off to the Miss Europe finals in Spain, where admirers swarm around her. Win or lose, what will the harvest be?
Movie3.0DramaMonique is an ingenue, a clueless girl who believes in true love. A marriage is the only thing a decent girl must long for. When she discovers that her future husband has a lover, she rebels against her bourgeois family.
Movie10.0DramaExpressing post-war cultural internationalism, this silent film follows the mysterious Orchid and the man who loves her.
Movie5.2FantasyDramaThe Golem, a giant creature created out of clay by a rabbi, comes to life in a time of trouble to protect the Jews of Prague from persecution.
Movie10.0ComedySilent version of a story later remade in French and German as Baby: A count's daughter wants a stage career, her show girl friend wants an education, so they change places.
- Movie8.0Drama
The Ways of Love Are Strange is a 1927 German silent romantic drama film directed by Fritz Kaufmann and starring Maly Delschaft, Walter Slezak and Fritz Alberti. The film is based on a novel by Maurice Dekobra. It was shot at the Staaken Studios in Berlin.
Movie7.2DramaEtchégor, a wealthy Basque peasant is in love with the beautiful American Majesty Parnell. Her husband, about to be arrested for theft, seeks to forge an alibi.
Movie5.8DramaThe Mironton Brothers are part of a fairground attraction. One of them comes into a large inheritance, but the Friends of the Antenna association try to keep him from accessing the money. This formidable brotherhood, whose headquarters are in the Eiffel Tower, send the Mironton Brothers on impossible adventures and countless traps.
Movie7.5DramaA would be blind hoodlum redeems himself in the Salvation Army just for a lovely lieutenant.
Movie7.0DramaA former professor and devout Catholic living in Jerusalem is unaware that his son supposedly studying in Paris has actually become the leader of an anarchist network under the codename Sirias.
Movie7.0ComedyWilly, Jean and Guy are broke, so they sell their car and open a filling station. Then they all fall in love for the same girl. Simultaneously filmed French version of the German musical "Die Drei von der Tankstelle".
Movie7.0CrimeDramaA couple on their honeymoon in the French Riviera are cursed by an old woman in black.
Movie7.0- MovieDrama
The life and loves of countess Therese Martin-Bellème, who was married off at a young age by her father to a much older man.
Movie10.0ComedyEdwige, a rich American divorcee, goes to Morocco to look up an amazing pilot she once knew. The young woman's secretary, also an aviator, won't fly a plane because he was in a terrible accident. As he is in love with Edwige, the secretary does everything in his power to thwart her romance with the other pilot. He finally supplants his rival and wins the heart of his boss.