Julien Duvivier
Date of Birth: 08 Oct 1896
Country: France
Biography: Julien Duvivier (8 October 1896 – 29 October 1967) was a French film director and screenwriter. He was prominent in French cinema in the years 1930–1960.
Total Credits at Criticker: 56 (Director), 44 (Writer)
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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 man's lukewarm relationship with his unloving stepfather is stirred to one of genuine warmth and affection as a result of his mother's cruel treatment. This French talkie was remade from a previous 1925 version by the same director, both based on stories by Jules Renard.
The film is a loosely based bio-pic of Johann Strauss, critics have claimed that the film is really nothing more than a love triangle covered up by many, many waltz's, some sung by Korjus, who was, and plays, a famous opera soprano... (wikipedia.org)
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)
Stefan and Dolly Oblonsky have had a little spat and Stefan has asked his sister, Anna Karenina, to come down to Moscow to help mend the rift. Anna's companion on the train from St. Petersburg is Countess Vronsky who is met at the Moscow station by her son. Col. Vronsky looks very dashing in his uniform and it's love at first sight when he looks at Anna and their eyes meet... (imdb)
An actor, Paul Orman, is accidentally told that his new, custom made tail coat has been cursed and it will bring misfortune to all who wear it. As the 4 succeeding wearers of the coat discover, misfortune can often lead to truth. (imdb)
Denise, an orphaned girl, moves to Paris where she hopes to find work at her uncle's store. But the glamorous department store 'Aux Bonheur des Dames' across the street crunches all the little businesses around. She finds a position there (imdb)
A young woman living with her family on the frontier in Quebec, Canada, endures the hardships of isolation and climate, and chooses between three suitors: a trapper, a farmer, and an immigrant from Paris.
An anthology of three loosely connected occult tales, with ironic and romantic twists. (imdb)
André Chatelin is a restaurant owner in Les Halles in Paris. One morning, a girl named Catherine asks to see him. She happens to be the daughter of his estranged wife, Gabrielle, that André left more than twenty years before. As Gabrielle has just died, André accepts to accommodate Catherine first, then gives her a job in his restaurant before finally marrying her. But the angel-faced young lady might well be a devil in disguise. (imdb)
Those five are unemployed penniless workers. Together they win 100,000 Francs with the national lottery. Instead of sharing the money, they buy a ruin and build an open-air cafe. But difficulties come to split their friendly group apart: former wife, police tracking one of them (Spanish republican refugee), jealousy...
A group of people visit a weird old man who is a student of the black arts. The man lives in an ancient, cursed castle. Soon people in the group start being killed off. (imdb)
Pierre Gilieth has committed a murder in Paris. He flees to Barcelona, where he runs out of money. So he joins the Spanish Foreign Legion. He meets there two fellow countrymen, Mulot and Lucas. He tries to forget his fault... but Lucas's friendship soon appears to be less unselfish... (imdb)
Two bank robbers, Cliff Banks and Sam Baker go their separate ways while being chased by the law. Now fleeing alone, Cliff begins to reflect, via flash back, the various events and unsavory people in his life that lead to his life of crime. Cliff ends up in the idyllic rural town of Paradise Valley. Cliff discovers the local people are very trusting and decides the town would be the perfect place to pull a scam. (imdb)
Lydia MacMillan, a wealthy old woman who has never married, invites several men her own age to her home to reminisce about the times when they were young and courted her. In memory, each romance seemed splendid and destined for happiness, but in each case, Lydia realizes, the truth was less romantic, and ill-starred. (imdb)
Alain Delon stars as an amnesiac, unable to remember he is man of wealth, or where he keeps his wealth. The doctors are flummoxed by Delon's total blackout. On the other hand, Delon's wife Senta Berger doesn't believe it, nor does the family's best friend. This fitfully entertaining puzzler succeeds in leading the audience--and the characters--down several garden paths. A French/Italian/German coproduction, Diabolically Yours was originally titled Diaboliquement Votre. (allmovie.com)
Based on a novel by Emile Zola, the film stars Gerard Philipe as Octave, an opportunistic Parisian youth who hops from bed to bed -- and from bedmate to bedmate. Young or old, plain or beautiful, Octave loves and leaves 'em all. His romantic rovings come to a halt when he meets pragmatic businesswoman Mme. Hedouin (Danielle Darrieux). Apparently impervious to Octave's charms, Mme. Hedouin nonetheless marries the boy and transforms him into a useful (and least to her) member of society. (allmovie.com)
Aged penniless actors are living in a old people's home. They always talk about their past glory or failures. (imdb)
The 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. (imdb)
In the absence of his wife, a clarinet player is induced by a friend to meet a call girl, but arrived after a crime. (imdb)
A girl falsely imprisoned in a girl's reformatory has run ins with the headmistress.
A French adaptation of The Phantom Carriage. David Holm, being the final death of the year is forced to atone by collecting souls for Death for a year.
A man plans a hold-up with a group of trusted fellows, he gets his hands on the money, and the girl - what could go wrong? Almost everything. (imdb)
A man, saved from the guillotine by a Nazi air raid, undergoes a transformation after assuming the identity of a French soldier.
In the suburbs of Paris, an old maid has just been murdered. Every body talks about that, except the misanthrope Mr Hire. (imdb)
Jojo has been living for a while in a room under the roof of a block of flats in Pigalle. He has chosen to leave home since he realized his stepmother has hated him from day one. Among his many neighbors in the house is the gorgeous Jenny Dorr, a nightclub dancer,whose lover he dreams of becoming. (imdb)
Five travelers in Morocco appear to be cursed and begin dying one at a time.
In a village of the Po valley where the earth is hard and life miserly, the priest and the communist mayor are always fighting to be the head of the community. (imdb)
When Vincent arrives near a boarding school, their lives are changed by his charming presence.
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.
The 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. (imdb)
After his battles with the communist mayor Peppone, Don Camillo is sent in exile by his bishop in a remote village. (imdb)
Bold and attractive, Mike Alexander is an American who smuggles drugs across the Spanish Mediterranean. Ingrid Dekker is in love with him while the double-crossing Emily Birk tries to exploit him, which is also the case of Nikarescu, a shady trafficker. (imdb)
After the rejection of their latest - and preposterous - scenario, two script writers get back to basics to prepare a new movie. (imdb)
After discovering that his father, a prosecutor, sentenced a man to a life sentence under dubious circumstances, Etzel sets out to uncover the truth.
Willy Ferriere is dead broke and his mistress costs a lot. One day, he says in a pub that he would give 100,000 francs to get rid of his wealthy aunt. (imdb)
When a common man saves a star by giving blood he becomes her protege, but his luck is short lived.
David Golder is a wealthy businessman who thinks his money can buy him everything, but his selfishness comes back to haunt him.
Five travelers seem to fall under a mysterious curse and start dying one by one.
A girl works a series of odd jobs trying to find her fortune in Berlin.
A young man embarks on a boat to Canada under the promise of a better life.
A young boy who is king prefers the life in Monte Carlo rather than his dreary castle.
A film adaptation of the French author Jules Renard's eponymous oeuvre, which Duvivier would later remake as a talkie in 1932. (imdb review)
Baroness Irène de Rysbergue, neglected by her gloomy husband, is preparing for the ball. Admiring her feather-trimmed dress, her young son nicknames her "Maman Colibri". During the evening, she falls in love with Georges de Chambry, the officer friend of her oldest son. The adulterous couple is quickly exposed, and flee to Algeria where Georges is subject to military discipline. Maman Colibri meets the ravishing Miss Dickson, to whom her young lover is not impervious ... (imdb)
It tells the story of the naive circus artist Achilles Saturnin whose business partner steals his papers, poses as him and causes Saturnin to miss out on a huge inheritance. When members of the crime syndicate Ku Klux Eiffel also set their sights on the fortune, Saturnin seems doomed. But then Saturnin decides to challenge the hoodlums; a series of daredevil exploits on top of the Eiffel Tower follows.
Story of a woman who thinks she prefers a life of glory on stage in Paris to life with her Scottish lord of a husband in his castle.
Landry Smith, lives with Minnie, his ward, in Corrèze, in France. Kate Lockwood, his servant, asks Bill Stanley, a sadistic Mexican cowboy, to come kill her master and fins his money. Bill arrives in the area in the same time of Jean Didier, a man whose father suicided because of Landry Smith.
Marc Verdier, a former professor and devout catholic, lives in Jerusalem near the Mount of Olives, with his crippled wife and Septime, his eccentric brother. On his part, Jean-Louis, Marc's son is in Paris where he continues his studies. Or so he thinks, for, in actual fact, he is the leader of a dangerous anarchist network hiding under the code name of Sirias. (imdb)
A chronicling of the life of Saint Therese of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face, a Catholic nun who died of tuberculosis at age 24.
The daughter of a Brussels restaurant proprietor prefers the company of a young man from Paris to that of her compatriots.