Edmond Ardisson Movies

During a stopover in Aden, a charming actress is kidnapped by an Arab prince.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: André Luguet

An American is on the run in the streets and back alleys of France.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Dane Clark

1920, in a small village in Provence. Monsieur Pascal, a young schoolteacher, is faced with a lack of interest from his pupils. He decides to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bernard Blier

A small village is torn apart by a quarrel between the baker and the italian grocery tenant, mother of a pregnant young girl. She accuses the baker's...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Fernandel

When he learns that his daughter is to be engaged to the son of a rich businessman, Leon Martin realizes that extreme measures are needed to create a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Noël-Noël

After thirteen years in Germany, Fernand is coming back to his wife and his restaurant. But since his disparition, his wife as made her life with a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Fernandel

Mustapha, a cab driver in Paris, charges a customer in a hurry, without realizing that he is in a hurry to escape his pursuers after robbing a...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Safiri

Bienaimé, a modest postman, in love with Janine, the village postmistress, does not know that he is the illegitimate son of the old Baron de...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Fernandel

Kohlman, the attorney for the Fournil bank, diverts money from the institution. To hide his malpractices, he imagines to remove the director, the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Claude Dauphin

One of Alexandre Dumas's most popular adventure novels is "The Count of Monte-Cristo". What is little known is that the famous writer made up neither...

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Cast: Pierre Brasseur

Melodrama of two struggling artists whose love for each other is thwarted.She has some success as a ballerina despite being wounded by him in a fit...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michèle Morgan

Manhunt in Paris and as far as Belgium to catch an American gangster escaped from a police van.

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Cast: Dane Clark

A typographer makes a mistake by printing the winning number of the national lottery. Many people believe they have won the jackpot. Pursued by his...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Gaby Morlay

In World War II France, American soldier Michael Blake captures, then loses Nazi-collaborator art thief Paul Rona, who leaves behind a gem studded...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Glenn Ford

A tough customs man, out to get a youth smuggling tobacco into France across the Belgium border, falls for the jaded ex bar hostess the smuggler...

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Cast: Ginette Leclerc

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

Since he met Odette, Pierre thinks only of her. Every day, he calls her saying only "Hello...I love you". Then he manages to get hired in the factory...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Robert Lamoureux

1939 : what a beautiful year for Claudia and Jerôme. No sooner do they meet that they are under each other's spell. 1939 : what a horrible year...

Genre: War

Cast: Alida Valli

Zoé, a pretty penniless girl, decides on the advice of her neighbor to embark on gallantry. After a brief failure, she meets a young boy,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Georges Marchal

The film consists of seven roughly 15 minute episodes, each showing what will happen if one or more of the Ten Commandments will be broken:...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Claude Rich

In a small village, a farmer discovers his wife has committed suicide, but suspicions of murder arise, dividing the community. Amidst the conflict,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Fernandel

The young mayor of Fontenac, Virgile, is much loved by his constituents who appreciate the improvements he has made in their peaceful village. This...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Myriam Bru

After witnessing and accidentally helping several thugs get away with a heist, the women rooming together notice through their telescope that the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jane Birkin

Dany Longo is red-haired, beautiful, disturbed, passionate--and nearsighted. As she speeds through the south of France in a purloined Thunderbird on...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Samantha Eggar

Six people travel by train overnight from Marseilles to Paris. When the train arrives at its destination, one of the passengers, a girl, is found...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Yves Montand

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jane Sourza

A publicity-minded French mayor reunites quintuplets and their earthy father, all six played by Fernandel.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Fernandel

In czarist Russia, a neurotic soldier and his distant cousin formulate a plot to assassinate Napoleon.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Woody Allen

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

Manon has blocked the spring that feeds the village, whose inhabitants she hates. They gradually become aware of the evil they have done to her and...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jacqueline Pagnol

Télévision, oeil de demain predicted smartphones and video calling. The film was based on a premise from the science fiction author...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Julien Bertheau

In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jean Gabin

Without seeming to touch it, journalist Trupeau is interested in the doings of Mireille, a jewelry store saleswoman. A certain Jojo is hanging around...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Geneviève Kervine

The Emmaüs community opened and functioned thanks to the generous impetus of Abbé Pierre Groues, bringing together a cross-section of the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Pierre Mondy

A high school boy falls for a prostitute he has met on the notorious "Rue Des Patures".

Genre: Drama

Cast: Maurice Sarfati

One evening, professor André Barret sees the author of a murder in the darkness; cafe owner Cordelec is the victim. From then on, his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Daniel Gélin

As he explains to the journalist who came to interview him, Honoré cultivates, as a perfect Marseillais, farnienté and galéjade....

Genre: Music

Cast: Fernandel

Promoted to wrestling champion by chance, Tonin, known as le Bourreau de l'Ardèche, moves to Paris. He is quickly snapped up by Monsieur Bob,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jean Richard

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jean-Pierre Andréani

Fernand Sarrazin, who runs a nougat factory to perfection, is a happy bachelor, notwithstanding the acrimonious presence of his sister-in-law Julie....

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Fernandel

One morning in August 1944, the inhabitants of a French village are celebrating their premature liberation. The festivities are interrupted by the...

Genre: War

Cast: Albert Hehn

The habits and customs of a strange association, "La Sociéte des Gentlemen Redempteurs", which has turned assassination into a veritable art...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jacqueline Huet

For 25 years now, under the Provence sun, Antonin, a farmhand, has shared his work and everyday life with a horse named Ulysse. What a shock when...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Fernandel

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Fernandel

Ronaldo, a singer with the growing reputation dedicating himself body and soul to his art, sacrificing his marriage.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Luis Mariano

Two tourists in Provence meet an old naive peasant painter who tells them the extraordinary story that happened in the village in 1890:...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Dominique Rollin

This brave, lonely man who arrives in Corsica, in a poor village, has no idea that he will have to take in this 9-year-old child whose mother has...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Pierre Mondy

Martin is a nurse in a private clinic in Paris. The victim of a serious concussion, an unidentified casualty, arrives in the emergency room one...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Darry Cowl

Roberto, a 10-year-old boy, is drawn to music. An old organist discovers his gifts, and begins his musical education which will lead him to the head...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Roberto Benzi

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Edmond Ardisson

Marcel Pagnol's adaptation of his own novel Manon des sources, the story of a shepherdess who exacts her revenge on the townsfolk she blames for...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jacqueline Pagnol

Newlyweds Edward & Caroline are preparing for an important evening when a quarrel over Caroline's dress sets off a series of domestic brouhahas.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Daniel Gélin

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

Mario di Donati, a deserter from the Italian army, lives in Paris under a false name with Germaine, his French lover. When the latter learns about...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Raf Vallone

As the driver of a garbage truck in Arles, Marc-Antoine leads a quiet life with his wife, Mélanie, and their two children. When...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Fernandel

Commissaire Perrache, the chief of the D.S.T., the French domestic intelligence service, tries to neutralize a group of terrorists named the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Charles Vanel

The scene of action embraces Tangier, Toulon and the Mediterranean, where Pierre Fresnay, Rolf Wanka and Kim Peacock, cast as captains of French,...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Pierre Fresnay

Pétepan learns that his money has been lost by Robinhoude brothers.He asks his assistants to withdraw his amount from the bank.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Fernandel

A lord’s servant, Ali Baba, is sent to retrieve a slave for his master, but ends up on an adventure filled with gold, mischief, love, and forty...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Fernandel

A film about the early part of the French Revolution, shown from the eyes of the citizens of Marseille, counts in German exile and, of course, the...

Genre: History

Cast: Pierre Renoir

Port of Marseille, France, recently liberated from the German yoke. Caught as stowaways aboard a ship, Manon, a young woman who was accused of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Serge Reggiani

A French resistance group frees twelve captured soldiers from a German prison camp, but apparently there is an additional prisoner among them who is...

Genre: War

Cast: Bruno Cremer

In 1930, Louis Martinet, a peaceful sexagenarian, no longer has a long life to live according to the words of his doctor, Leon Galipeau, who sees to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Michel Serrault

Shortly before the War, Jan Lazlo, a Hungarian musician who has emigrated to France, falls for a young woman. Alas, the lady forsakes him and the...

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Cast: Michèle Alfa

Robert Langlois is now married to Catherine, the former housemaid. And they would live happily ever after if the housing crisis did not force them to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Robert Lamoureux

Tulipe, is an old man who lives alone in an old railway carriage in the Argentueil region of Paris. His main passions are gardening and oil painting,...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Jean Gabin

A wealthy banker, bored with his life, heads to the Latin Quarter of Paris where he pretends to be a struggling artist. He falls in love with a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bernard Lancret

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

Le Cas Du Dr. Laurent (The Case of Dr. Laurent) stars Jean Gabin as a Paris-based doctor who tries to spread the gospel of Natural Childbirth....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jean Gabin