Jean Desailly Movies

French secret service agent Josselin Beaumont is dispatched to take down African warlord N'Jala. But when his assignment is canceled, he's shocked to...

Genre: Action

Cast: Jean-Paul Belmondo

Pierre Lachenay is a well-known publisher and lecturer, married with Franca and father of Sabine, around 10. He starts a love affair with air hostess...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Françoise Dorléac

Iranian Iradj Azimi directed this French historical drama re-creating events depicted in the famous 1819 painting The Raft of the Medusa by Jean...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jean Yanne

A Stalinist assassin tracks exiled revolutionary Leon Trotsky to Mexico in 1940.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Burton

Enigmatic gangster Silien may or may not be responsible for informing on Faugel, who was just released from prison and is already involved in what...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jean-Paul Belmondo

A Parisian police chief has an affair, but unbeknownst to him, the boyfriend of the woman he’s having an affair with is a bank robber planning...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Alain Delon

Armand, a boastful womaniser, makes a bet that he can seduce any girl he wants. He soon crosses paths with a beautiful Parisian divorcee, who is...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Michèle Morgan

A Romanian peasant fights to get back to his family after he's imprisoned by the Nazis.The picture is based on real events. It includes Hungary's...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Anthony Quinn

Albert is a Franciscan monk and a medical orderly at a monastery in France. Although he is German, the kindly monk helps hide French resistance...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hardy Krüger

A discontented concert pianist causes all sorts of heartbreak with his egotistical and womanizing antics, and all the people in his life attempt to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jean Rochefort

In Central Europe, resistance to the Germans in growing. But the partisan leader is denounced and killed. His daughter and the son of the traitor...

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Cast: Raymond Bussières

After his father is killed in a plane crash, Bart Cordell returns back home to France to claim his inheritance: to lead the industrial empire his...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Jean-Paul Belmondo

The tour of a theatrical troupe is disturbed by the waltz-hesitation love of the young actress Stepha between the young first and the director.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Madeleine Sologne

A trio of criminals gradually become entangled in theft and crime. Serge is arrested, his mistress, Hélène, and his accomplice, Michel,...

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Cast: Jany Holt

The king orders viscount Florestan to take mademoiselle de Solanges for his wife. But the viscount doesn't know the young lady at all. The latter...

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Cast: Jean Desailly

Nicole, a spirited lawyer, must defend, for her debut in the courtroom, the accused Panoyau. It is a failure, the death sentence. Furious, Nicole...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sophie Desmarets

Max and Colette often bother the lawyer Vermorel to initiate divorce proceedings, then everything calms down. An anonymous letter escalates the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sophie Desmarets

In 1786, Jocelyn entered the Seminary. He leaves his share of the inheritance to his younger sister Julie. In 1793, on the point of being ordained a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jean Desailly

The lucky Baron wins a boat in a card game and takes off with his former lover to find new adventures. Adverse circumstances land them in a small...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jean Gabin

Nobel-prize-winning author, social justice crusader, anti-colonialist, adventure traveler, musician, and one-time Communist: André Gide was a...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: André Gide

Since his wife died, Inspector Louis Baroni (Philippe Noiret) has become a virtual recluse, preferring the solitude of his quiet house to the company...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Philippe Noiret

A young woman's comfortable life with her boyfriend is disrupted when he leaves for military duty, entrusting her to a playboy friend seeking a fake...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Danielle Darrieux

Montage film dedicated to the Resistance, under German occupation from 1940 to 1945, with documents from French, Canadian, American, English and...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jean Desailly

Philippe, Théo and Bob share the same cell in the prison of La Santé. Philippe, a young student, known as "Sciences-Po", is planning...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Salvatore Adamo

A minister falls in love with a blind young woman he sheltered, but so does his son.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michèle Morgan

Seven directors each dramatize one of the seven deadly sins in a short film. In "Anger," a domestic argument over a fly in the Sunday soup escalates...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Danièle Barraud

During WW2, in a Nazi-occupied country, a local partisan blows-up a German military train, prompting the Germans to take civilian hostages to be shot...

Genre: War

Cast: Mel Ferrer

An old merchant ruined by the dot its two ungrateful daughters, moved to the Vauquer pension in Paris. In after Balzac.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Pierre Renoir

Stéphane Blanchon lives a quiet life in Switzerland with his wife, Christine, until a young American boarder named Belle, who was living with...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Jean Desailly

(auto-translation: LA CINÉMATHÈQUE FRANÇAISE ) Using a subjective camera, set to music by Bela Bartók and text by Arthur...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jacques Doniol-Valcroze

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Cast: Jean Rochefort

Harmonious, inspired by nature, moving, luminous... there is no shortage of words to describe La Chapelle Notre-Dame du Haut in Rochamp (France) and...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris

A young man comes back to his hometown to be confronted with a bourgeois obnoxious family who has always despised his -now dead - parents because...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Assia Noris

Noël Schoudler, founder of an empire built on three foundations - sugar, banking and the press - reigns like an absolute sovereign over his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jean Gabin

Witty narration follows the history of Versailles Palace; founded by Louis XIII, enlarged by autocratic Louis XIV, whose personal affairs and amours,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michel Auclair

Desperate, Didier throws himself out in the Seine. Pascal, a newsboy, jumps and saves him. It’s the beginning of the friendship between...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Lino Ventura

The head of a school in a little French country town encourages the playful romances between his young students, as well as a love of jazz music.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jean Desailly

A teenager becomes fixated on a painting of the handsome suitor who died in a duel for her grandmother's love. On her sixteenth birthday, her father...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Odette Joyeux

Burgundy 1728. Old count Antoine d'Eon is overjoyed. His daughter-in-law has finally given birth to a boy and he will at long last be able to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Andrée Debar

Pierrette is a woman who describes herself as having "opted for the temporary on a permanent basis." After 15 years of living the good life in...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Catherine Frot

The seven stages in the life of the modern Frenchwomen are disclosed by seven directors in a witty way: 1 - Childhood, 2 - Adolescence, 3 -...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jacqueline Porel

This short film by Jacques Demy was based on his memories of growing up in Nantes, France. While it was initially made for the omnibus film THE SEVEN...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jean-Louis Trintignant

Vlassov is a Soviet spy who defects in France. He is whisked to the U.S, where Allan Davies takes over the case. After polygraph tests and...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Yul Brynner

Four women were murdered, each was knifed and, though they had their clothes torn, they weren't molested. As the famed police inspector Jules Maigret...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Jean Gabin

In a small provincial town, students meet at a party organized by one of them, and share their thoughts on the difficult year they are leaving : the...

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Cast: Jean Desailly

Fred Peloux, nicknamed Chéri, the handsome son of Charlotte Peloux, a former demimondaine, lives in the small circle of his mother's friends,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jean Desailly

In this satire, a police detectiveis investigating the disappearance and kidnapping of the host of a television dance show. However, instead of...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jean Yanne

Roger Laroque is now a rich man. He returns to France under the name of William Farnell. There, he discovers that on the one hand his wife has died...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Lucien Coëdel

Summoned by his mother to plead, a very young lawyer has a trio of pathetic criminals acquitted. The daughter of one of them reveals to the lawyer...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jean Desailly

The film evokes all the aspects of bullfighting - its history, the bulls, the toreros, the arena, the audience - and involves numerous matadors from...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jean Desailly

In a settlement in the northern mining country. The Marles, Bréhard and Gohelle families wake up and prepare for a new day at work. The young...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michel Piccoli

Brussels in the year 1568, as the Flemish people are fighting against the tyranny of the Spanish occupiers. Led by Count de Rysoor, the revolt...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Pierre Blanchar

Anthology of four love stories that have some historical basis.

Genre: History

Cast: Jean-Paul Belmondo

A series of events beginning during the German occupation of France showing what might have happened if one thing had gone differently. The premise...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Pierre Clémenti

10 years ago, François Nolan and his brother have been betrayed by one of their accomplices after a break-in. During the fight with the...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Serge Reggiani

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Edmond Ardisson

Play by Peter Ustinov, about a return to the modern world by Beethoven, who knocks on the door of a London music critic. He is fitted with a hearing...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jean Desailly

Quentin and André, two brothers who had lost sight for several years, find themselves in the family home, uninhabited since the death of their...

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Cast: Jean Desailly

The rich and conservative Edward can not forgive his younger wife who had been unfaithful. She's trying to get his attention by flirting with a Dutch...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gunnel Lindblom

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Álvaro Mosca

A story about two girls who grew up as sisters, were separated and finally met again.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mike Marshall

Un soir sur la plage is relatively interesting; the cast includes highly talented Jean Dessailly, Martine Carol, a cast against type Michel Galabru...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Martine Carol

Bernard Sommet has killed his wife and her lover and he declares that was a crime of passion. Sylvie Foucot, his court-appointed attorney, not only...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Jean-Claude Pascal

On his journey through USA, Simon Templar, alias 'the Saint', landed in Palm Springs. After arrival, Simon is offered a job as a bodyguard of a...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Félix Marten

Set in a garrison town in Austria before 1914, is the story of the unfortunate love between simple lieutenant Anton Hofmiller and Edith, the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mathieu Carrière

Dieudonné, poet and dreamer, is the opposite of his father, the famous D'Artagnan, as he hates walks and duels.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Michel Leeb

A portray of French actress Françoise Dorléac

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Françoise Dorléac

Genre: History

Cast: Gratien Gélinas

Genre: History

Cast: Gratien Gélinas

This comedy short subject satirizes the Hollywood genre which the French had given the name to of Film Noir.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Daniel Gélin