Michel Simon

The sufferings of a martyr, Jeanne D'Arc (1412-1431). Jeanne appears in court where Cauchon questions her and d'Estivet spits on her... (imdb)

When Juliette marries Jean, she comes to live on his ship, on board of which are, besides the two of them, only a cabin boy and the strange old second mate Pere Jules (imdb)

Boudu, a tramp, jumps into the Seine. He is rescued by Mr Lestingois, a gentle and good bookseller, who gives shelter to him... (imdb)

Cashier Maurice Legrand is married to Adele, a terror. By chance, he meets Lucienne, "Lulu", and make her his mistress. He thinks he finally met love, but Lulu is nothing but a streetwalker, in love with Dede, her pimp. She only accepts Legrand to satisfy Dede's needs of money. (imdb)

A military deserter finds love and trouble (and a small dog) in a smoky French port city. (imdb)

In 1944, a German colonel loads a train with French art treasures to send to Germany. The Resistance must stop it without damaging the cargo. (imdb)

Michel Ancelin is an alcoholic doctor: the more the people look down on him as a miserable failure the more he hates his own guts... until that night when, driving home and drunk, he accidentally kills a man. What if it was just the burst of pride his fine intelligence was waiting? (imdb)

A tour of the Hotel des Invalides, and more particularly of the Army Museum and the Saint Louis Chapel. From François I's armor to Guynemer's airplane, to Napoleon's and Marshall Foch's tombs. But this is no ordinary tour,it is rather a chilling visit guided by Georges Franju and narrated by Michel Simon emphasizing - at times through biting humor -not the glory but the nonsense of wars, but their tragic aftermath. (imdb)

Claude is a Jew. Because of the risks of an arrest (France is occupied by the Nazis), his parents send him away in the country, at a couple of elderly's. Pepe, the husband, is a Petain supporter and a anti-semite, but he does not know about Claude's religion. The film is the story of their mutual growing affection. (imdb)

Several young girls were killed. Policeman Matthaei travels to the region where it happened and searches a child that looks similar to the ones that were murdered. He finds one and stays with her and her mother, not telling them that he is waiting for the killer to start his bloody work one more time ... (imdb)

Mistaken identities and people in disguise lead everyone to suspect everyone else of murder

These three retired magistrates want to carry on with their work: judging people is their idée fixe.

Blanche is the young, pure, beautiful wife of the Master of the castle, in a secluded land. Every man is in love with her, including the King and his servant Bartolomeo, visiting the Master. (imdb)

A scientist invents a serum that keeps a dog's head alive after its body dies. When the scientist dies of a heart attack, his crazed assistant cuts off his head and, using the serum, keeps the doctor's head alive and forces it to help him on an experiment to give his hunchbacked nurse assistant a new body. (imdb)

An odd french couple living near the Rhone run into problems when their son falls in love with the daughter of the pious mayor of Pont-Saint-Jean.

Mathias Pascal, only son of a once rich family, marries beautiful Romalinda, who's mother is a terrible mother-in-law

Jean Renoir's first sound movie.

Another of Napoleon's adventures in this epic reconstruction of the battle of Austerlitz, where he had the greatest victory of his career, over the Russians. (imdb)

Simon is the servant, who takes easily to the comparative freedom and equality of barrack life. But his 'poet' master is scapegoated, bullied and jailed. (camerajournal)

In a college, three friends form a secret society. There objective - going to America. A night, after one of their secret meetings, one of them see a man coming out from a wall. Then the day after he talks about it, he disappears. Then the second one vanishes. Are they gone to their dreams? That's when the art teacher is murdered. Suspicions now are too high so the third one decides to investigate. (imdb)

A married woman and a drifter fall in love, then plot to murder her husband... but even once the deed is done, they must live with the consequences of their actions. (imdb)

The Faust story retold, with an aged alchemist accepting the gift of renewed youth from the devilish Mephistopheles. (imdb)

A very young and dazzlingly handsome Jean-Pierre Aumont plays an unemployed engineer who lands a job as a lifeguard at a Tyrolean resort. Boasting a most impressive physique, Aumont finds himself besieged by willing females and not complaining about it one tiny bit. Despite the plethora of female pulchritude, Aumont has eyes only for the beauteous Illa Meary, but he ends up neglecting her, with unfortunate consequences.

Aged penniless actors are living in a old people's home. They always talk about their past glory or failures. (imdb)

In the suburbs of Paris, an old maid has just been murdered. Every body talks about that, except the misanthrope Mr Hire. (imdb)

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

A banker whose unusual generosity gets him put in a mental institution escapes and hides out in a boarding house.

In a small corner of Paris the daily lives of ordinary people intertwine despite differences in social status.

Through a series of circumstances and plot twists an enterprising man manages to get away with murdering his wife, even though he cheerfully admits his guilt in court. (imdb)

Maurice Martin handles firmly porter's lodge of which he holds with his wife, the amiable Germaine. Their daughter, Jacqueline, hardworking and wise, would give them any satisfaction if not a romance between her and George stood Richet, the son of the owners. They do not want any price of this marriage, nor the Martin. After a falling transient, the lovebirds disappear. Fathers erected the first one against the other, despair and mothers wail. (Wikipedia)

Denise Baudu, an orphaned girl in need, decides to go to Paris where her uncle Baudu keeps a small draper's shop, "Le Vieil Elbeuf". The young woman hopes her kinsman will be able to give her a position. Unfortunately Octave Mouret, Baudu's visionary competitor, has just opened a giant department store nearby, "Au Bonheur des dames", which now attracts customers like a magnet. Denise, realizing that "Le Vieil Elbeuf" is dying away, crosses the street to offer her services to Octave Mouret... (imdb)

Comedy: a lawyer is at grips with his contesting son. In the end, he is a conte stator himself, and sends his son to work in his place, giving himself up to a l ife of "dolce far niente".

Five episodes,each illustrating an aspect of post-war Italian life: 1. Mara 2. Il pupo 3. Scena all'aperto 4. Casa d'altri 5. Don Corradino (bfi)

In the waiting room of the station of Auvernaux, the atmosphere is animated. Several passengers who missed their train, discuss the killer of young girls that rages in the region. While the criminal may well be in the vicinity, pursued by the police, a journalist conducts the investigation inside the station.

Marcel works as assistant to a jeweller whose bossy daughter Renée keeps hitting on him. When he meets lovely Loulou and her lazy friend Jo, he is fascinated by the girl and somehow attracted by their world : Loulou and Jo are crooks. As Marcel naively tries to bring some morality in their lives, the pair turn him into an unwilling accomplice in the robbery of his boss's jewels. (imdb)

Forty eight hours in an area around a Parisian canal where a former Tango champion meets a killer. (imdb)

The oddly featured poet Cyrano De Bergerac(Jose Ferrer, reprising an Oscar-winning role in Michael Gordon's Cyrano De Bergerac), he of the enormous nose, and musketeer D'Artagnan (Jean-Pierre Cassel) lend a hand to put down a revolution in 17th-century Paris. While they bravely fight for the monarchy, the men dally with two comely courtesans (Sylva Koscina and Daliah Lavi). Though paired off with satisfactory partners, the couples find that a switcheroo might afford them each true love. Director (allmovie.com)

Albert and Alain Ménard-Lacoste are twin brothers. The first one succeeded in his life: he became a rich and respectable man, feared by his entourage and leading an infernal life to his family...

Grandfather Jericho invites his grandchildren, the young couple Marie and Jacques, to spend a few weeks of holidays with him in his Provencal house in Lourmarin.

From his experiences of hard labor working on barges transporting stone, a young man discovers love, the beauty of the world, and his vocation as an artist.

Drama of a singer who tries to save her revolutionary lover from the police chief but his jealousy leads to tragedy.

Based on a Victor Hugo play, later made into an opera by Giuseppe Verdi, about a hunchbacked clown whose beautiful daughter falls in love with the lecherous king.

Two failed actors prepare a publicity scheme where one will pretend to have killed the other, only for him to show up at the murder trial and exonerate his friend. Things become complicated when his "murdered" friend fails to show up.

A banker, having squandered a fortune because of his philanthropy, is locked up in a mental hospital by his relatives. He manages to escape, taking refuge in a boarding house where he strives successfully to give happiness to the boarders, making them actors in a comedy of which he is the director. (KG)

A thief tries to restore the fortunes of a nobleman.

When Paul, an officer, discovers Denise, a young orphan escaped from her orphanage, he takes advantage of his naivete to seduce her before changing her mind and sending her to live with her mother while sailing. (imdb)

An actor is murdered in Montmartre during the shooting of a wacky comedy. Commissioner Bernard is immediately in charge of the case but his investigations stagnate until he discovers that the crime was filmed.

In ancient Rome a love story blossoms between Fabiola, daughter of a senator, and Rhual, a gallic gladiator. When Fabiola's father is killed, the Romans blame the Christians and the persecution begins. Rhual confesses to be a Christian and is accused of the murder and sentenced to fight to death in the arena.

A butcher dreams of becoming a famous director. He hires stars that he begins to kill. (imdb)

Michel is an Egyptologist on his way home to France. He is plagued by the attentions of an American woman, who is obsessed with him. His wife, who was the mother of his child, Gilbert, now 18, is long dead, and Michel has become embroiled with three women since then, all of whom feel over possessive toward Gilbert who, as our story opens, has just attempted suicide due to the fickle feelings of a cabaret artist.

When a Resistance commander and his forces disguise themselves as patients in a hospital, there is some confusion among the staff as to who is actually suffering from a real illness.

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…

Three famous detectives each investigate a case in their own special way: Inspector Maigret, Police Detective Wens and Lemmy Caution.

Political turmoil convulses 19th-century Russia, as Razumov, a young student preparing for a career in the czarist bureaucracy, unwittingly becomes embroiled in the assassination of a public official.

A nasty actor is murdered before the representation of Macbeth by Shakespeare. The show nevertheless goes on with an understudy. The play is cleverly intertwined with a police investigation. A real gem.

An honest taxi driver gets into trouble by looking for a customer who left her purse full of cash in his vehicle.

Life is sweet and easy beneath the stars ,when we are together.

Slapstick inheritance comedy based on the confusion between twin brothers, both played by the great Raimu who also plays their father.