Henri Jeanson

Hollywood producer Alexander Meyerheimer has hired drunken writer Richard Benson to write his latest movie... (imdb)

Pépé le Moko is a gangster from Paris that hides in Algier's Casbah. In the Casbah, he is safe and is able to elude the police's attempts to capture him (imdb)

A young couple, Renee and Pierre, take one night a room at the Hotel du Nord, in Paris, near the canal Saint-Martin. They want to die together, but after having shooted at Renee, Pierre lacks of courage and ran away. Another customer, Monsieur Edmond, a procurer, rescues her. When Renee goes out of the hospital, she is hired as a waitress at the hotel. Monsieur Edmond falls in love with her, but Renee is still thinking of Pierre ... (imdb)

After the death of her husband, Christine realizes she has possibly wasted her life by marrying him instead of the man towards whom, in her youth, she had a stronger inclination. To overcome these dreary thoughts, she decides to find out about him and the other men who danced with her during a ball that was a turning point in her life, many years ago... (imdb)

Denis is distracted: he's studying all day for philosophy exams and working all night at the flower market; plus... (imdb)

This French morality play is fraught with cynical undertones as it tells the tale of a group of French people from every social strata trying to flee the Nazis who have just invaded Paris. En route they meet a cruel German officer who threatens to kill the others if the heroine Presle refuses to sleep with him. (www.allmovie.com)

A series of sketches depicting the consequences of breaking one or more of the ten commandments.

15 years after WWII ten members of the underground reunite to expose a traitor among them.

After the rejection of their latest - and preposterous - scenario, two script writers get back to basics to prepare a new movie. (imdb)

In 1942, a French prisonner of war in Germany decide to escape to France using a cow hold by a lunge as a decoy. He cross all Germany in this way. (imdb)

A boy is kidnapped and murdered on the French riviera. The police, who had watched the delivery of the ransom to TWO men gives chase once they determine that the boy is dead. The police never loses sight of the TWO men who flee on a speedboat and run into an old lighthouse after landing. However, when the police surrounds the lighthouse, THREE men come out, each one claiming that he was there on a stroll and the following investigation can not determine who is lying. (imdb)

Tells the story of a young female singer who tries to become a star in the music hall world of the early 1900s and falls in love with a composer. (Wikipedia)

Mr Jo, nicknamed "the man with the Buick", is the darling of the small town of Honfleur. But he is in fact a trafficker with a bad reputation who would like to forget about his past, now limiting himself to smuggling rubies under the cover of a charitable organization which offers underprivileged children holidays in Switzerland. However, Mr. Jo is in love with a pretty widow and, in order to marry her, he is willing to get involved in a hold-up again. (imdb)

Jules and Fernand are two boys from the Café des Sports in Marseille who participate in the annual race of their corporation. Jules won the race (by some illicit means) and pocketed 5,000 francs, which he immediately put in a bet with Burette, a Parisian sports impresario.

François, Cecilia and Isabelle are in the class drama conservatory headed by Professor Lambertin. François is in love with Isabelle, who also loves, but he is pursued by Cecilia, his former mistress. Cecilia's suicide suicide by concealing a crime, so as to involve François. But testimony set the record straight. (Wikipedia)

After viewing an unusual film about murder and the irony of fate, a man deliberately steps in front of a slow-moving vehicle, planning to use the minor accident which should result as an alibi for his own wife's murder which he has already engineered. However, what actually occurs is a very different scenario about the "art" of murder. (imdb)

Gérard Favier (Louis Jouvet) is a famous composer, very much in love with his wife Sylvia (Renée Devillers). The couple made the acquaintance of Monelle (Dany Robin), a young pianist pretty, talented and fervent admirer of Gérard Favier. The musician takes the young girl under her wing and propels her towards success.

Noel Annequin is the black sheep of a social-climbing bourgeois family who married for love and stayed in the country while his professional brothers were improving their social position. When his beloved wife, dying of an incurable disease, begs him to end her misery, he finally agrees, but his desire to atone for his "crime" runs afoul of his heartless family, and all would be lost without his rebellious niece. (imdb)

Two journalists go on the trail of gangsters who are kidnapping women to sell in South America.

On the night of their tenth anniversary, Doctor Rene Richard accidentally discovers that his wife, actress Madeleine Richard, has been having an affair with a disturbed artist, Daniel Prevost who has just attempted suicide. He confronts her and she spends the night trying to explain the reasons for her infidelity. (imdb)

A struggling lawyer is responsible for defending a formidable criminal. He falls in love with the bandit's mistress. The young woman finally becomes in love with the lawyer while Mr. Flow stays in prison.

Gina is the dedicated nurse of Paul Dupré, a wealthy industrialist who has been treated for heart problems. Dupré dies brutally during an injection made by Gina, and immediately his wife Catherine accuses Gina. (imdb)

A ballet producer returns to his native town and schemes to avenge himself on the family who tried to murder him 20 years before.

The daughter of a seamstress, Jeanne Bécu could hardly imagine she would later become one of the most influential women of the Kingdom of France. Nor could she anticipate her quick fall and tragic death. The teenage girl was still a mere milliner's assistant when her beauty attracted the attention of Count Jean du Barry, a degenerate noble man who, after making her his mistress, undertook to make her Paris's most successful courtesan. Later, he realized that he could even help her to become one

Captain Palmer’s daughter, Maria, is neglected by her husband, the cynical Leo, who lives with the beautiful Sylvia. To defeat his son-in-law, Palmer has the idea of ​​putting Sylvia back in the presence of Pierre, her first love. Leo takes revenge by creating many difficulties for Palmer who retaliates by starting a violent fight where Leo is killed. Everything seems to point to Pierre, but…

A prostitute takes back her child, a boy who does not even know how to play.

Catherine's technique to sell her clocks is to blackmail illegitimate couples such as Jacques and Gisèle. However when Gisèle's husband Pierre walks in on them, Catherine pretends to be Jacques's lover to save the day. Jacques then gets caught up in her schemes when the next couple she deals with turn out to be jewel thieves who kidnap them.

Suppose lost and found objects could talk... But they can! At least four of them... : -A statuette of Osiris remembers how two ex-lovers, a model and a good for nothing who claimed to be an Egyptologist, met again one Christmas Eve. -A violin has things to say about Raoul, a humble policeman who lost Solange, a widowed grocer he loved, to a god-dam seducing busker also named Raoul. -A scarf was witness to an eerie romance between a young madman and girl he had saved from suicide.

A small private airplane crashes in the desert, not far from Dakar. It is a miracle that the pilot, Jacques Forestier, and his mechanic, Paul Marcadout, survived, since both were drunk when they lost control of the plane.

A smooth criminal, who turns to be Manuel Ismora, and his gang successfully and peacefully pull off con after heist. Elsewhere a timid office worker, Gabriel Dupon, is pressured by his boss into making a sale. A chain of events causes him to get mixed up with the criminal, and get arrested. Lack of evidence ensures Dupon's release, but brings him to the attention of the criminal who persuades him into cooperation. Ismora exploits the fact that Dupon looks so much like him.