Jean-Louis Barrault Movies

Laurent Terzieff was more than a good actor, after having been a real "star" in the cinema, through his professional choices, he gradually became a...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Laurent Terzieff

Dr. Cordelier, living in a suburb of Paris, withdraws from society to pursue research into the functioning of the human brain. His lifelong friend,...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Jean-Louis Barrault

Documentary examination of the role of Hamlet, in which ten prominent actors who have played the part discuss Hamlet's personality, Shakespeare's...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Laurence Olivier

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

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Cast: Jean-Louis Barrault

The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the...

Genre: War

Cast: Henry Fonda

Semi-autobiographical story of Conrad Rooks, who travels to France to undergo a drug-withdrawal cure. Flashbacks to the beginings of psychedelia in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jean-Louis Barrault

During the French Revolution, a surprising company shares a coach, trying to catch up something - the time itself, perhaps.

Genre: History

Cast: Jean-Louis Barrault

In this experimental film, Isidore Isou, the leader of the lettrist movement, lashes out at conventional cinema and offers a revolutionary form of...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Isidore Isou

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

The story of the seven pearls of the English Crown, from Henry VIII to 1937 – three of them missing.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sacha Guitry

Two bank employees like Lucie, their colleague. They steal money from the cash register to gamble. Jean wins and Paul ends up in prison for five...

Genre: Drama

Cast: André Luguet

For years now, Chief inspector Gustave Picard has been trying to bring down Salviati, the dreadful leader of a drug-selling gang. Lucienne...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Charles Vanel

After serving in the trenches of World War I, Jean Diaz recoils with such horror that he renounces love and personal pleasure to immerse himself in...

Genre: War

Cast: Victor Francen

The film is biographical, telling the story of the life and artistic struggles of the French composer Hector Berlioz. Berlioz is shown as a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jean-Louis Barrault

In the pound, Pipo the dog recounts his adventures to his fellow inmates.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jules Berry

When her fiancé breaks off their engagement, Danielle leaves London and returns to her mother, Jenny, in Paris. With her business partner...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Françoise Rosay

A young sculptor presides over the destinies of a student club where a miserable young girl ends up one evening. The treasurer of the association...

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Cast: Michèle Alfa

Jean-Louis Barrault, Charles Dullin and Roger Blin each say a poem. The actors do not appear on screen.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jean-Louis Barrault

A French farce set in Victorian London where a botanist and his wife get into trouble when they pretend to go missing in order to hide from their...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Françoise Rosay

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

A slippery femme fatale, a spy for Germany during the Great War, is sent to Thessaloniki in Greece and becomes involved with a man on the other side,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Louis Jouvet

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

Two police inspectors pursue a dangerous counterfeiter on the run.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bourvil

Julie and Désirée Clary are courted by the brothers Joseph and Napoleon Bonaparte. Joseph marries Julie and Napoleon is affianced to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sacha Guitry

Political turmoil convulses 19th-century Russia as Razumov, a young student preparing for a career in the czarist bureaucracy, unwittingly becomes...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Pierre Fresnay

An all-knowing interlocutor guides us through a series of affairs in Vienna, 1900. A soldier meets an eager young lady of the evening. Later he has...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Anton Walbrook

The mistress of an engineer meets the man's pregnant wife and decides to give up the liaison.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Charles Boyer

Lyrical biography of the classical composer, depicted as a romantic hero, an accursed artist.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Harry Baur

A religious fanatic finds his entire life and philosophy turned upside-down as he falls in love with a girl and kills her in a jealous rage. His...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Pierre Fresnay

The story of the Swiss soldier, Henri Dunant, who was responsible for the founding of the Red Cross, and who was offered the first Nobel Peace Prize.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jean-Louis Barrault

This drama about the Carmelite order of nuns is set during the French Revolution. A young woman seeks refuge with the Carmelites because she is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jeanne Moreau

An urban gigolo on the run from a mobster hides out at the remote cabin of a female novelist in this plodding romantic drama. Her neighbors include...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nicole Garcia

Documentary about the making of Marcel Carne's 1945 film Children of Paradise (France), interviewing the director, the actors and production...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Agnès Varda

Maurice loves Juliet and Michael loves Lily. Romance blossoms on the hill. They are workers, artisans, and Lily has a real talent as a singer. But...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Édith Piaf

A star of Les Folies Bergères has to choose between her career and her love for an engineer.

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Cast: Michel Simon

Sylvie, a rich girl, learns at the same time the death and the ruin of her father. Forced to find work in Paris, she is given shelter by a medical...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Simone Simon

Helene is based on Helene Wilfur, a novel by Vicki (Grand Hotel) Baum. Madeleine Renaud essays the title role, a young medical student in love with...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Madeleine Renaud

"Altitude 3.200" asks the question and provides the premise of what would happen if a group of young people----poor, rich, discontented, bored---...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Jean-Louis Barrault

A man dreams he is in a wax museum after it is closed for the night.The statues come to life and behave in mysterious ways.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Michel Serrault

As Hélène is conveying her husband's body across the Sahara, her convoy is attacked by looters. The young widow survives only to be...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Ketti Gallian

The poem of the same name by Aragon is read in order to make a statement about the 1940s wartime French Resistance.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jean-Louis Barrault

A violinist passes on to his daughter three rings which represent three passions of his romantic past, and urges her to save each for men who truly...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Edwige Feuillère