Directing

Pierre-Jean Ducis

Known for

Directing

Credits

15 titles

Known for

Behind the camera

Sur le plancher des vaches poster
4.7

A little bank employee wins a plane in the lottery and amazes his companions with his audacity.

Sur le plancher des vaches

1940

Assault poster
8.0

Alexandre Mérital, the leader of a political party, finds himself under attack from Frépeau, one of his opponents. The latter has indeed discovered that Mérital committed a theft in his youth. But Mérital will not be intimidated by his adversary's move. In his turn, he discovers that Frépeau was once involved in a financial scandal, which forces the plaintiff to discontinue the prosecution.

Assault

1936

No artwork available
NR

A jealous husband (Pegotte), his wife, and a friend are returning from a night of heavy drinking. An argument breaks out and escalates into a fight. Believing he has killed his friend, the husband panics and locks him in a trunk. The trunk is then delivered to the home of strangers in Paris, where the friend eventually wakes up.

Le crime de Monsieur Pegotte

1935

To the Sound of Guitars poster
7.0

A woman visiting Corsica falls for a singer with a velvet-smooth voice.

To the Sound of Guitars

1936

In the Sun of Marseille poster
10.0

A modest soap factory employee has two passions: sport and his boss's daughter.

In the Sun of Marseille

1938

No artwork available
NR

A misunderstanding between two candidates for an open position take each other to the boss.

We ask for an employee

1932

The Lafleur Cavalryman poster
6.3

The reservist Lafleur, having a wife, a mistress and still running after the first petticoat that comes along, his namesake, an active soldier, finds himself embroiled in the vengeance or intrigues that all these women are plotting. Eventually, the entanglements will unravel in a final party.

The Lafleur Cavalryman

1934

No artwork available
NR

"Un petit trou pas cher" is a French medium-length film directed by Pierre-Jean Ducis and released in 1934. This black-and-white fiction film, lasting approximately 40 minutes, stars actors Jules Berry, Julien Carette, and Léonce Corne. The plot follows a reveler who, pursued by creditors, decides to hole up in his own little "hole" to escape them.

Un petit trou pas cher

1934

After the Storm poster
7.0

René Sabin, engineer, disappointed by failures, leaves his village in the South to go to Paris with friends. In the capital, he befriends dubious people, in particular Alex Krakow who does not disdain shady business. Then comes the war. René is mobilized then returns to the country, and finds with joy his fiancée.

After the Storm

1941

Un fichu métier poster
8.0

Because of the escapades of Alexis, the Crown Prince of Vodenia, the kingdom is likely to lose the loan lent to them by a rich foreign banker. Baron Patcheff, a minister, decides then to replace the Prince by a double. The man chosen is Castin, a Parisian haberdasher, who looks like Alexis feature for feature.

Un fichu métier

1938

Œil de lynx, détective poster
9.0

Marc Lanterne and Monsieur Smith investigate the home of a castellan who is the victim of jealousy, justified by the way, of his wife. Monsieur Dunoyau wants to know the author of the anonymous letters he receives. After a whole series of extraordinary adventures, the truth comes out and Dunoyau is reconciled with his wife.

Œil de lynx, détective

1936

Le Dernier Preux poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Le Dernier Preux

1933

Lune de miel poster
10.0

Freshly married, Yvonne and Jacques discover on their return from their honeymoon that they are poor and that their respective parents have lied to them. They are going to have to work hard; but everything will work out eventually.

Lune de miel

1935

Strange Suzy poster
10.0

To prevent her husband from starting a divorce procedure, a wife simulates madness.

Strange Suzy

1941

La souris bleue poster
7.0

René, a simple employee of the Univers agency run by Mr. Lebourdier, loves Yvonne. But Mr. Martin dreams of a brighter party for his daughter. In order to win the post of deputy director, René asks Nenette, a pretty blonde, to seduce Mr. Lebourdier. But Nenette is Mr. Martin's girlfriend and she manages to fix everything.

La souris bleue

1936