Paul Frankeur Movies

Benjamin is in love with Manette, the innkeeper's beautiful daughter, but she has no intention of giving in to the young doctor until she sees the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jacques Brel

Jour de Fête tells the story of an inept and easily-distracted French mailman who frequently interrupts his duties to converse with the local...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jacques Tati

In Luis Buñuel’s deliciously satiric masterpiece, an upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but never eats, their attempts continually...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Fernando Rey

This Surrealist film, with a title referencing the Communist Manifesto, strings together short incidents based on the life of director Luis...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Adriana Asti

Rita is a girl that lives on taking gangsters as lovers. But when the money stops coming, she swears revenge.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bernard Blier

A gangster escapes jail and quickly makes plans to continue his criminal ways elsewhere, but a determined inspector is closing in.

Genre: Action

Cast: Lino Ventura

Bum Archimède wants to spend the winter in prison, but to get there proves not to be that easy.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jean Gabin

Gentleman gangster Max and his partner, Riton, pull off their last, most successful heist and find themselves comfortable enough to retire in the...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Jean Gabin

The story of a man who has stopped drinking- and then dreaming- and who thanks to a young man who tries to forget a lost love in alcohol will turn...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jean Gabin

Two men, part tramp, part pilgrim, are on their way to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. On their way they meet a whole assortment of...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Paul Frankeur

Henri, the Man from Nantes, comes back to his country after a successful stay in the United States, where he was working for Liski, the drug dealer....

Genre: Crime

Cast: Jean Gabin

The story takes place in the racecourses around Paris. A so-called major sells his tips to naive characters.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jean Gabin

This character study of a French patriot during the Nazi Occupation has comedian Noel as the chief of the underground who uses his hobby of growing...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Noël-Noël

In France in 1946, the difficult return to civilian life of five deportees and prisoners of war after having lived through the hell of the Second...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bernard Blier

Herve argues with his wife, after which he meets an appealing woman at a nightclub. A subsequent one-night stand with her turns into a tragedy when...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Brigitte Bardot

Star-crossed lovers Thérèse and Laurent think they've gotten away with murder after Thérèse's weakling husband "falls"...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Simone Signoret

Fates of multiple otherwise disconnected characters intertwine miraculously under the sky of Paris. And it all happens in one day.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Brigitte Auber

Casti and Trébois, two friends who are workers at the same factory, have developed a common passion for flying. They dream of starting an...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Jean-Paul Belmondo

François Cardinaud is one of the richest shipowners in the region. But this success arouses resentment and jealousy. When Marthe, his wife,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jean Gabin

Life in a one-parent family with a focus on the parent, Henri Neveu (Jean Gabin), is the topic of this standard drama with a dash of comedy. While...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jean Gabin

Vallois, a vice inspector for the Paris police, takes special interest in the plight of drug-addicted Lucky (Najda Tiller), whom he considers to be...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Jean Gabin

Gangsters from the United States try to kill a key government witness whose testimony could help land an influential mobster in jail. It's up to...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Jean Gabin

A group of ex-resistance fighters are brought together by Marie-Octobre, the code name of Marie-Helene Dumoulin. The former members of the network...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Danielle Darrieux

Brassac is a drunken veterinarian who can't resist bringing home stray animals and humans. Lilli Palmer plays his long-suffering wife Marie. When he...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jean Gabin

Louis Bertain is the owner of a Paris garage which is the front for a robbery gang. He and his accomplices are careful to keep up a civic veneer by...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Jean Gabin

Paul Lamiani, a wizened mobster, is asked to return to duty following the disappearance of secret documents of extreme importance. It is assumed that...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Lino Ventura

Nana or Nanà is a French-Italian film by Christian-Jaque starring Charles Boyer. It is an adaptation of Émile Zola's novel Nana.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Charles Boyer

An aspiring singer tries to break into films during the early talkie era. She is hired to dub the singing and speaking voice of a silent-movie...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Édith Piaf

The death of a wealthy patriarch in 1885 sets off an interfamily power struggle. Son Ferdinando buys out his other relatives in order to gain full...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jean-Paul Belmondo

Back from Indochina, Tony and Dick, two French soldiers, are now in possession of more than 20 million, entrusted by a trafficker. They buy a...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Roger Hanin

After failing to carry out an urgent repair to the car of two German tourists, mechanic Robert has a crisis of conscience. Accidents loom at every...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jean-Marc Thibault

An art dealer in dire straits, after being ripped off by two crooks, one of whom owns a genuine painting by Gauguin while the other is an expert...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michel Auclair

Didier Formenter, the French scientist, has just put the final touch on an invention that will be able to destroy to destroy any sort of flying...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Eddie Constantine

Released from prison after two years, Michel Gérard sets out to find his wife Alice. Alice, luxuriously maintained by her lover, Jacques...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Eddie Constantine

In North Africa, an anguished husband tests the character of the doctor he believes is responsible for his wife’s death.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Curd Jürgens

In the 1950s, in a small provincial town, a young inexperienced judge clashes with an influential notable during an investigation into a suspicious...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Jean-Marc Bory

The scene is a tawdry hotel room in Limbo, where several damned souls are gathered. At first, the group fails to comprehend where they are or why...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Frank Villard

In a chaotic 19th-century Paris teeming with aristocrats, thieves, psychics, and courtesans, theater mime Baptiste is in love with the mysterious...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Arletty

The title of this French "reality" drama, which translates to Before the Deluge, is a play on Louis XVI's famous prognostication, "Apres moi, le...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Antoine Balpêtré

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

A series of vignettes, in which Noel-Noel appears as the moderator, lecturer, commentator and leading actor, that examine the bores and pests of...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Noël-Noël

Anne-Marie meets three men bearing the first name of Ludovic. Each of them has a very different character than the other two. The young woman will...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Odette Joyeux

A thief falls in love with a maid and goes on the run after stealing Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa."

Genre: Thriller

Cast: George Chakiris

Robert and Françoise Monier make a hot air balloon to fly to the stratosphere. After a visit to Venus, they return home, but have only aged 15...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Madeleine Sologne

A devoted switchboard operator is the village guardian angel.

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Cast: Gaby Morlay

Emile is a steelworker in a car factory ;a confirmed bachelor going on fifty, he leads a peaceful life .One night, he is woken up by a burst of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Dany Carrel

Richard killed his wife out of jealousy, but was acquitted. During the vacations, he meets a young girl and decides to start a new life with her....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Serge Sauvion

A Belgian atomic cloud appears not to be deadly but instead instigates a climate of friendship and fraternity.

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Paul Frankeur

The life story of famed French aviatrix Helene Boucher is detailed in Horizons sans fin (Endless Horizons). Giselle Pascal stars as Boucher, who is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gisèle Pascal

Alexandre, a young man from a wealthy family, suffers a serious fall. One leg is finally amputated, leaving the other paralyzed. Desperate, the boy...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Stéphane Audran

Police Commissioner Jules Maigret returns to the small village where he spent his childhood at the request of the Countess of Saint-Fiacre, who has...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jean Gabin

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

Originally titled Nous Sommes Tout des Assassins, We Are All Murderers was directed by Andre Cayette, a former lawyer who detested France's execution...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Marcel Mouloudji

The action takes place under the Restoration, at the Château de Savigny, near Nerville, a devout and prudish little town in the Cotentin...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Paul Frankeur

A group of policemen look over three murder cases including a cutthroat that prays on young women, a madman that hid his deformed landlord's corpse...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Fernand Ledoux

A student from an elementary school accidentally breaks the glass roof of his school. His comrades decide to support it by working during the summer...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Louise Carletti

Denis, a poor student in philosophy, works as a night porter in the Paris market of Les Halles in order to pay for his studies. Constantly weary, he...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Fernand Gravey

Odette Joyeux plays an eccentric young aristocrat called "Chiffon", who is struggling to comply with the social conventions of the community. A...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Odette Joyeux

Martine, who has become a major star of the song in Paris, wants to return to visit her hometown. Confronted with Merlerault, a very haughty and...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Martine Fougère

A person who had usurped the identity of a famous writer of detective stories was killed in the train. Why and by whom?

Genre: Crime

Cast: Renée Saint-Cyr

A bungling thief is threatened by one target with blackmail, unless the thief will kill his own cousin, a wealthy eccentric who is considered the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Charles Trenet

Au p'tit Zouave, a café, sees a colorful clientele from working-class Paris. An assassin will shake up the daily life of the regulars.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: François Périer

In France, in 1930, a supervisor of a boarding school for young offenders seeks to awaken the music by forming a choir, despite the skepticism of his...

Genre: Music

Cast: Noël-Noël

A village lost in the mountains where Catherine called L'Airelle's love affair takes place with a young doctor. Catherine's father is the local...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fernand Ledoux

Pursued by the police, Saget usurps the identity of a man who was returning to his town after having made his fortune in the United States. Under...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Pierre Fresnay

Anne-Marie meets three men bearing the first name of Ludovic. Each of them has a very different character than the other two. The young woman will...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Odette Joyeux

Diavalo is the popular hero of French serials circa 1912. Diana is an actress who falls in love with Diavalo. Diavalo is forced to wear a series of...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Raymond Rouleau

Alain Marchal, wrongly accused of murdering his wife, escapes from prison the day before his execution. Before committing suicide, he contacts...

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Cast: Lucien Coëdel

A provincial, Julie Moret, is hired as a servant in a Parisian bourgeois residence. She is courted by one of the Bouquinquant brothers, Léon,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Albert Préjean

On the banks of the Rhône, not far from Tain l'Hermitage, Alcide Garonne, an old ferryman - and incidentally a poacher - lives out of wedlock...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gaby Morlay

Louis Mennechain is a modest locksmith. So imagine his amazement when Professor Piétrefond approaches him and tells him he recognizes in him a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bernard Blier

Elsa Lundenstein is accused of having murdered her lover. The jury discusses the case vividly. All members are somehow prejudiced because of personal...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michel Auclair

A sensitive teen-age boy survives the brutalities of a country training school.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michèle Alfa

An unhappy wife who has had a child by her lover lives a daily drama under the watchful eye of her husband who hates them both.

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Cast: Viviane Romance

While celebrating his birthday, police inspector Basquier recalls two of his most celebrated cases. The first involves duplicitous moneylender Olga....

Genre: Crime

Cast: Bernard Blier

In a small circus campaign, the act of Valentine, the dwarf, is one of the highlights of the show. But then one night, he grew suddenly and turns...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Roland Lacoste

In a small Italian village live a group of men, each as miscreant as the next. Among them is the baker, violent and miserly. One day, to benefit from...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jean Bouise

During a stay at a roadside inn, long-distance lorry driver Jean Viard meets a young woman Clothilde who works there. Their friendship soon develops...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jean Gabin

A survivor of the Spanish Civil War who had been in French internment camps takes refuge with a family of winegrowers in the Jura. He becomes...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jean-Claude Rolland

A terminally ill Mr. Bard, a casino bus driver forced to quit his job, miraculously wins a fortune playing roulette. Instantly becoming a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Michel Simon

A singer tries to rescue a man drawn into the drug trade.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Marina Vlady

Because he loved a trainer named Suzy too much, honest Pierre Menard wasted his life and died. Innocent, but implicated in the ransacking of a...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Claude Laydu

Charles is a student in Strasbourg. Abandoned by Liliane, his fiancée, who has inexplicably given up on marriage, he moves to Paris, where he...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Pierre Michaël

Oscar, a shy lifeguard, flees the wrath of his boss following the disaster caused by the water purification machine he has developed. In his haste,...

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Cast: Fernand Raynaud

Jacques and Gisèle, who are just married, are starting their honeymoon. But at nightfall, on their way to marital bliss, their car chooses to...

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Cast: François Périer

In June 1944, a young doctor, Chevalier, under the threat of guns, is forced to treat a wounded man in a camp of resistance fighters (maquisards). He...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Maurice Ronet

Guillaume Dodut is a stationmaster in rural France at a station where trains no longer stop. His dream has always been to holiday in the famous...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Fernandel

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Cast: Dany Carrel

Arthur can no longer stand married life. He wants to get rid of his wife and live with his mistress. In doing so, he makes a mistake and kills his...

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Cast: Jean Richard