Jean Dréville Movies

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

A smooth criminal, who turns to be Manuel Ismora, and his gang successfully and peacefully pull off con after heist. Elsewhere a timid office worker,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Louis Jouvet

The story of Lafayette, the 19 year old pacifist who takes the side of the Colonials during the American war of Independence.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Pascale Audret

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

Paris, the middle of the XIX century. Young Marius Petipa is going on a long journey to St. Petersburg, where he is invited to become the first...

Genre: History

Cast: Gilles Ségal

A documentary about the making of L'argent, the epic silent film directed by Marcel L'Herbier. The film shows the details of many of the more...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Pierre Alcover

Louberger, director of an orphanage, is full of praise for a former boarder, Mr. Sauval, who has become their benefactor. One night he arrives and he...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Pierre Fresnay

Genre: Documentary

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Michèle, an employee at the airport, is in love with American pilot Eddie Miller who regularly flies the route from New York to Paris, but...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Dany Robin

A toymaker in Poland specializes in building lifesize mechanical men. He builds a chess-playing "automaton" to hide a pretty young Polish activist...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Françoise Rosay

A toymaker in Poland specializes in building lifesize mechanical men. He builds a chess-playing "automaton" to hide a pretty young Polish activist...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Françoise Rosay

Pietro Ponz lives a happy life in the mountains on the Swiss-Italian border with his mother Lamberta. No one but his mother knows that Pietro is a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Harriet Geßner

Philippe Lutcher, an anarchist, fires a shot at Clara Stuart, a famous stage and screen actress, but only wounds her. The star, through affectation...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Gaby Morlay

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

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 French animal lover protects a dog and a mouse wanted by Soviet scientists for their space program.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Noël-Noël

A certain number of French fighter pilots who will not accept the Second Armistice at Compiègne nor Vichy's orders decide to join the USSR....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Pierre Trabaud

A large farm in Vendée. The father is dying and the three brothers and sister swear not to marry not to break up the field. Months pass....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Charles Vanel

A compilation of segments covers the seven deadly sins of greed, wrath, envy, pride, lust, sloth, and gluttony.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Isa Miranda

Isidore Lechat is a ruthless self-made man whose money allows him to humiliate the others, particularly a ruined noble: he wants his daughter to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Charles Vanel

Pozdnycheff, a young party animal, destroyed by his lightness the marital happiness of one of his childhood friends who committed suicide. Since...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gaby Morlay

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

Genre: Documentary

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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

The duel between a Czarist general and a lieutenant, over the general's wife, is postponed with war approaching. Years later, the rivals meet again...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Véra Korène

Genre: Romance

Cast: Emma Romano

A factual reconstruction of the sabotage events which took place to prevent Hitler's Germany from getting the heavy water needed to make an atomic...

Genre: Action

Cast: Frédéric Joliot-Curie

The story of Lafayette, the 19 year old pacifist who takes the side of the Colonials during the American war of Independence.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Pascale Audret

A middle aged baroness thinks she is still young enough to have an affair with a military man the age of her son.She deserts her family and follows...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Huguette Duflos

A scatterbrained girl harasses a lawyer in Cannes.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Louise Carletti

France, 1880. Francois Roquevillard is a respected lawyer in Chambery and the head of a family that prides itself on its impeccable morals....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Charles Vanel

France, 1880. Francois Roquevillard is a respected lawyer in Chambery and the head of a family that prides itself on its impeccable morals....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Charles Vanel

In the harbor of Toulon, on the “Ocean” training ship, the apprenticeship of the cabin boys and experts of the Navy is punctuated by...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jean Pâqui

The daughter of a notorious smuggler is raised as a boy by her foster mother.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michel Simon

In 1812, Napoleon I set off for the Russian Campaign and planned to spend a night in Châlons-sur-Marne. However, as the police were aware of a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Noël-Noël

Documentary about Physiopolis, a naturist camp in France.

Genre: Documentary

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A public prosecutor wants his son to marry an ugly girl(who has a squint) because her mom is very rich.But it's too late for the boy has already...

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Cast: Harry Baur

A young girl has left her family and lives as best she can on the generosity of her lovers. A naval officer introduces her to Toulon in a special...

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Cast: Madeleine Renaud

A young American businessman, tired of his hectic life, makes an unexpected inheritance which leads him to Normandy. There he discovers, with the...

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Cast: Eddy Lombard

Wife of an arms trafficker in Poland, Georgina is forced to help him. She will only be able to regain her freedom - and love - after a troika chase...

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Cast: Jean Murat

A young supervisor is expelled from his high school after misleading his students during an outing. He made his fortune and basked on the Côte...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Fernand Gravey

In Pisa, chance forces an old bookseller out of his isolation. He unleashes the fury of the tenants of his building, he undergoes the rigors of the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jean Aquistapace

An honest civil servant learns about his wife’s infidelity. He pretends not to be aware of it and decides to start a businessman career. He...

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Cast: Harry Baur

Small rentiers do not want their son to marry a young rich girl. They hijack letters and prevent meetings. But love wins. Defeated, the parents...

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Cast: Gabriel Signoret

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Cast: Nicolás D. Perchicot

A scatterbrained girl harasses a lawyer in Cannes.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Louise Carletti

In a lost village in Lapland, Gérard comes to the aid of his friend Anders, in conflict with his father, a rich owner of gold mines.

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Cast: Pierre Renoir

Georgina comes to see her sister Gladys in Paris in order to dissuade her from becoming attached to Rigo, a gypsy conductor. When she meets the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nicole Courcel

One of the first victories against the Nazis in World War II is when Parisians help allied forces drive the enemy out of occupied French Algeria.

Genre: Drama

Cast: François Patrice

Paris, France, 1784. After living many tribulations, Joseph Balsamo, known as Count Cagliostro, an infamous adventurer, enigmatic magician and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hans Stüwe