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Minute papillon (1959)
Character: N/A
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, he accidentally grabs a gangster's car containing the plans for a super satellite. A wild chase ensues.
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Lettre ouverte (1953)
Character: (uncredited)
Martial, Colette 's husband, is madly jealous. One day, he catches his wife writing a letter and he does want to know what this message contains, to no avail.
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Quai Notre-Dame (1961)
Character: N/A
Eloi is a twenty-year-old secondhand goods dealer who does his job without particular enthusiasm. He has a girlfriend, Nénette, but immature as he is, he feels just as happy in the company of Fortunée, his young sister, whose little girl's games he shares as often as he can. The three of them live with Eloi and Fortunée's grandmother, nicknamed by all the "Queen of the Flea Market". In possession of a mirror of Venice, Eloi decides to present it to Dormoy, an antique dealer who keeps up shop in the fashionable districts of Paris. On that occasion Eloi meets and falls in love at first sight with Dormoy's rich mistress. The latter, half-moved, half-consenting, does not discourage him.
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La Vie parisienne (1977)
Character: Igor
Two young Parisians, Raoul de Gardefeu and Bobinet, are in love with Metella, a beautiful young woman aspiring to high society. Metella rejects them both in favour of a richer and older man.
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Le Bateau à soupe (1947)
Character: N/A
Hervé is a tough sea captain in command of the "Duchesse Anne", a rum-trading ship. But the sea dog hides a tender heart and he allows Marie-Douce, a poor slum girl who dreams of seeing the wide world,on board. To have her accepted by the crew, he passes her off as his niece. A seasoned master like him, wise enough to ban alcohol use on his ship, should have known better : a beautiful girl on the deck cannot but unleash the savage instincts of all those men without women.
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Chemins sans lois (1947)
Character: La Douceur
Inès, a gypsy, pregnant by a rich breeder who abandoned her, finds refuge with a band of smugglers and thieves, led by an old woman nicknamed "the Spider". It is among them that she raises her daughter, Dolores. But her past catches up with her when the wealthy landlord reappears in her life.
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Le Jugement dernier (1945)
Character: N/A
In Central Europe, resistance to the Germans in growing. But the partisan leader is denounced and killed. His daughter and the son of the traitor love each other. Condemned by his comrades, the informer commits suicide in front of the young couple.
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De l'assassinat considéré comme un des beaux-arts (1964)
Character: N/A
The habits and customs of a strange association, "La Sociéte des Gentlemen Redempteurs", which has turned assassination into a veritable art form. But all the fine mechanics of this secret organization go haywire when each member offers his wife to become the next victim.
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L'ours (1960)
Character: N/A
A mild-mannered zookeeper has to contend with his tyrannical boss and a talking lovesick bear.
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Défense d'aimer (1942)
Character: (uncredited)
An unconsummated marriage to fool the father who wants his heir to be wed.
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Si jeunesse savait... (1948)
Character: N/A
Charles Vigne, a wealthy banker, frees Abdul, a good genius imprisoned in a vase. To thank him, Abdul grants his wish: to become a child again, while retaining the experience he has acquired. But the "disappearance" of the banker panics the financial markets and has disastrous consequences for the bank. Eventually, Charles Vigne will ask Abdul to give him back his real age.
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Monsieur Octave (1951)
Character: N/A
Monsieur Octave, a good man who has retired from the French national railway company, wants to have his house built. To this end he contacts a loan company. They ask him to credit them with 100,000 francs. Which he does. From then on, Octave starts waiting, waiting, waiting...
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Le Plus Heureux des hommes (1952)
Character: A guest at the opening
An industrialist who prefers painting to business is cheated on by his wife with a painter who prefers business to painting.
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Le Destin exécrable de Guillemette Babin (1948)
Character: N/A
Being born a witch's daughter did not bode well for your future in the Middle Ages. Guillaumette tries to stay on the straight and narrow with a little help from a priest she visits.
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Suzanne et ses brigands (1949)
Character: Christian
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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Meurtre en 45 tours (1960)
Character: N/A
Danielle Darrieux stars in this French thriller as a singer having an affair with her accompanist. When her husband dies in an automobile accident, the two lovers suspect each other of having murdered him. Soon after, they receive 45 rpm records with the dead man’s voice, threatening to come back.
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Édouard et Caroline (1951)
Character: Igor
Newlyweds Edward & Caroline are preparing for an important evening when a quarrel over Caroline's dress sets off a series of domestic brouhahas.
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La Minute de vérité (1952)
Character: Tenant next door to Daniel (uncredited)
Dr Pierre Richard learns that his wife Madeleine has been unfaithful for years. This comes as a shock after a decade of supposedly wedded bliss. Back home, he demands answers, and a long night of explanations ensues.
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La Môme vert-de-gris (1953)
Character: Un marin sur le bateau (uncredited)
FBI Agent Lemmy Caution is sent after a missing two million in Casablanca while mob boss mistress Carlotta plays both sides of the law.
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La P..... respectueuse (1952)
Character: Nightclub customer
Fred, the nephew of a senator,has murdered a Black man on a train. The two only witnesses are Lizzie McKay, a prostitute from New York, and Sidney, a colored man. Fred decides to seduce Lizzie in order to make her give false evidence according to which Sidney has attempted to rape her. The uncle also puts pressure on the young woman. After much hesitation, Lizzie finally accepts but Sidney, who has nearly got lynched, takes refuge at her home...
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Monsieur Taxi (1952)
Character: Un automobiliste (uncredited)
An honest taxi driver gets into trouble by looking for a customer who left her purse full of cash in her vehicle.
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Tu m'as sauvé la vie (1950)
Character: N/A
A wealthy baron, without offspring, who knows death is approaching, wants to adopt a man who kept him alive a bit longer, when he was almost run over by a horse drawn cart.
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Ces dames préfèrent le mambo (1957)
Character: Juan, diver
Burt Brickford, a deserted U.S. Navy captain stranded in a South American port, rents out his services to survive. Perez, a drug trafficker, calls on him to command Henry's yacht, on which a group of would-be treasure seekers are embarking.
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La Rose rouge (1951)
Character: Tourist photographer
The Jacques Brothers, their temporary replacements, Yves Gérard and his troupe, as well as a famous movie star looking for a new partner, Evelyne Dorsey, are causing disruption at the "La Rose rouge" cabaret, the most famous cellar in Saint-Germain-des-Prés, to the delight of regulars.
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Nathalie (1957)
Character: Le taxi
Haute Couture model in Paris becomes involved in the activities of two rival jewel thief gangs.
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Seul dans Paris (1951)
Character: Un client de l'hôtel
Henri and Jeannette Milliard, a newly married couple from Normandy arrive in Paris where they intend to spend their honeymoon. Unforfunately a wicket gate in the metro separates the couple. In panic, Henri looks for his wife across the capital. He ends up finding her at the hotel they were to put up. But it looks as if Jeannette has gone through some distressing adventure.
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Mission à Tanger (1949)
Character: Guard of Barbara (uncredited)
During the Second World War, Georges Masse undergoes a dangerous mission by taking secret documents from Tangiers to London.
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Le Salaire de la peur (1953)
Character: N/A
In a run-down South American town, four men are paid to drive trucks loaded with nitroglycerin into the jungle through to the oil field. Friendships are tested and rivalries develop as they embark upon the perilous journey.
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La Taverne du poisson couronné (1947)
Character: The quartermaster
Captain Palmer's daughter, Maria, is neglected by her husband, the cynical Leo, who lives with the beautiful Sylvia. To defeat his son-in-law, Palmer has the idea of putting Sylvia back in the presence of Pierre, her first love. Leo takes revenge by creating many difficulties for Palmer who retaliates by starting a violent fight where Leo is killed. Everything seems to point to Pierre, but...
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Un homme marche dans la ville (1950)
Character: Olen
Le Havre, France, in 1949. In a town that still shows the scars of war, several friends meet up in Albert's café. One of them, Laurent, has lost his job on the docks and his marriage to Madeleine is falling apart. He knows that his wife wants to start an affair with friend, Jean Sauviot. Jean is a lonely man who is attracted to Madeleine but doesn't want to commit himself to the wife of a friend. On the day that Madeleine tells her husband that she is seeing Jean, Laurent goes looking for Jean to find an explanation. Arriving on the docks in the evening, he attacks an American sailor who looks like Jean, but the man fights back and runs away after killing Laurent accidentally. Madeleine thinks that Laurent was killed by Jean and believes that she can start a new life with her lover. The police have other ideas...
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La Chatte (1958)
Character: N/A
During the Occupation, Cora takes the place of her dead husband at the head of a Resistance network. One evening, she sympathizes with Bernard, a Swiss journalist. However, he is actually an undercover German officer who is close to the man ordered to find her using an Identikit picture...
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Ni vu… Ni connu… (1958)
Character: Grégory, un détenu
In a small French village, everything would be quiet if the local wildlife cop was not being ridiculed by a smart poacher.
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La Loterie du bonheur (1953)
Character: N/A
Mr Lucas, a grocer, wants to attract the clientele; he imagines a lottery; every week, you can win a bike. It's a big success.
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La Fugue de monsieur Perle (1952)
Character: Un homme au bistrot de Romainville (uncredited)
Modest fifty-something, Mr. Perle, is a baker in a small provincial town. He lives there with an authoritarian woman and her cousin, a parasite who poisons his existence. A Parisian notary writes to the hero to ask him to come and take possession of an inheritance. In Paris, Perle meets a pretty adventuress.
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Secrets d'alcôve (1954)
Character: the Russian (segment "Le lit de la Pompadour") (uncredited)
Four-episode Franco-Italian omnibus film. Four men from different national and cultural background take refuge in a cabin after being sidetracked by bad weather on their way to conference.
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Frou-Frou (1955)
Character: Le porteur russe à la gare (uncredited)
A story of the love of Frou-Frou - an actress and singer in the in the beginning of her career.
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Une affaire d'hommes (1981)
Character: Le chauffeur (uncredited)
Two friends, Commissioner Servolle and real estate developer Faguet, see their friendship tested by the investigation carried out following the murder of Faguet's wife.
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L'Affaire Nina B. (1961)
Character: N/A
A businessman who lives from blackmailing begins to be blackmailed by his own wife who hates him.
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Anastasia (1956)
Character: Stepan
Russian exiles in Paris plot to collect ten million pounds from the Bank of England by grooming a destitute, suicidal girl to pose as heir to the Russian throne. While Bounin is coaching her, he comes to believe that she is really Anastasia. In the end, the Empress must decide her claim.
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