Louis Arbessier Movies

A French secret agent gets a license to kill when he is sent to Vienna to plug a security leak in this routine spy saga. He is caught in the...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Lino Ventura

Six months before his retirement from the criminal police, inspector Joss finds his colleague Gouvion dead, in a poorly faked suicide attempt. Joss...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jean Gabin

Following a broadcast on the radio, each of the listeners remembers these "little nothings" (the title is borrowed from a play by Mozart), which have...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Raimu

At 73, a former President of the French Council reflects on his political career while writing his memoirs, delving into his relationships with key...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jean Gabin

Veterinarian Léandre Brassac lives with his wife Marie on a remote estate. One day, he decides to shelter a young woman with no bearings.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jean Gabin

Guillon, a young administrator is appointed by the French government in Ivory Coast to replace the former one, who has been assassinated. He is soon...

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Cast: Louis Arbessier

The establishment of a French family who came to cultivate vines in Algeria.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Georges Marchal

Mesrine was the foremost criminal, public enemy N°1, the man most wanted in France, guilty of 39 crimes. "In the police or newspaper history,...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Nicolas Silberg

When Emir Feofar Khan, leader of the Tartar hordes, takes up arms and invades the steppes of Eastern Siberia, Czar Alexander II of Russia entrusts...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Curd Jürgens

Suzanne is a lawyer, she's just got her degree and she is married to a cop. We follow her through three investigations.

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Cast: René Dary

An industrialist who prefers painting to business is cheated on by his wife with a painter who prefers business to painting.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Fernand Gravey

In this film, Albert is an eccentric inventor of missiles who comes under fire from his investors when his first prototype explodes. Even his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jean Gabin

An Italo-French biopic about one of the most famous women of Belle Époque, Spanish-born dancer and actress, star of Folies-Bèrgere:...

Genre: Drama

Cast: María Félix

Normandy, second half of the nineteenth century. Jeanne Dandieu lives in a manor house with her parents and their servant Rosalie. She gets to know...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Maria Schell

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

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

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

Appointed public prosecutor in a small provincial town, Gérard Latour befriends Delanglade, whose young wife becomes his mistress. Shortly...

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Cast: Frank Villard

A French film about a famous American trial - that of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who became the first people in American history to receive the...

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Cast: Marie-José Nat

Pierre Tercelin who used to be a prosperous industrialist is now ruined and embittered, having become a mere lock keeper. A widower, he lives with...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Paul Meurisse

In Antwerp, Belgium, in 1959, a succession of Interpol agents are gunned down without obtaining what they're looking for: a list of all the...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Pierre Trabaud

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

Alice Rémon, a pharmacist, is a prostitute who managed to leave the streets by getting married. Her husband dies one day, poisoned. Her...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Danièle Delorme

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

A writer is reunited with an old childhood friend, who gives him the opportunity to devise a heist.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Robert Hossein

The widow Champbaudet believes herself loved by an architect. But the young man actually has views on the neighbor upstairs. Cunning, he multiplies...

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Cast: Georges Chamarat

Starting as an investigation, the film begins with the discovery of a murdered young woman. Gradually we go back in time to realize that this crime...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Sirpa Lane

The umpteenth adaptation of Dumas' novel finds d'Artagnan and his friends promoting the love affairs of Anne of Austria and the Duke of Buckingham,...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Georges Marchal

Marguerite de Valois, daughter of Catherine de Médicis, celebrates her wedding with Henri de Navarre. Officially, it's a rapprochement between...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jeanne Moreau

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Michel Aumont

Violeta, an Andalusian gypsy, foretells a lady she will become empress. The lady is Eugenia de Montijo, and when she marries emperor Luis...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Luis Mariano

Genre: Comedy

Cast: François Chaumette

Created in 1861, this comedy by Eugène Labiche depicts two bourgeois families obsessed with appearances who intend to marry off their...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Michel Etcheverry

Charles le Temeraire asks in marriage Jeanne de Beauvais, daughter of King Louis XI, wishing to get her valuable lands in dowry. The King is wise to...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Jean Marais

The blueprints of an aeroplane built from an ultra-secret metal are stolen from national security. French secret service agent Walder believes that...

Genre: Action

Cast: Henri Vidal

In Marseille, crime squad captain Dominique fights against racketeers and tries to put a young man back on the right track.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Michel Simon

Adaptation for TV of the play by Friedrich Durrenmatt. A very rich old lady arrives in her nearly bankrupt native village. She is ready to come to...

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Cast: Mary Marquet

A cold-war spy parody. After the death of an armaments manufacturer, an international group of spies is drawn into a high-stakes battle of wits to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Lino Ventura

Superintendent Maigret is sent to Antibes to elucidate the murder of William Brown, a rich Australian who regularly disappeared to indulge in...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Louis Arbessier

Bob recruits Jacques, a desperate blacksmith, to "recover" smuggled diamonds from de Belar. The heist goes badly wrong. The crooks kill each other...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jean-Claude Pascal

Léo Fardier is a police inspector who goes to prison undercover as a convict. He shares a cell with Mariani, a Corsican mafioso, whose trust...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Henri Vidal

As Dominique Marceau is being tried for the murder of Gilbert Tellier, accounts by different witnesses paint a picture of the kind of relationship...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Brigitte Bardot

An experienced but aging captain in command of the Sofala must hide the fact that he is becoming blind.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Charles Vanel