François Viguier

Acting

François Viguier

Algiers, Alger, France [now Algeria]

Acting credits

Napoleon poster
7.8

A biopic of Napoleon Bonaparte, tracing the Corsican's career from his schooldays (where a snowball fight is staged like a military campaign) to his flight from Corsica, through the French Revolution (where a real storm is intercut with a political storm) and the Terror, culminating in his triumphant invasion of Italy in 1797.

Napoleon

1927

No artwork available
9.0

Michel Corbier, a widower, remarries Madeleine. His children, Lalie and Jo, see her as their second mother and call her "Nène."

Nène

1924

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Opération Jericho

Balançoires poster
8.4

A young couple go to the carnival. After some savage heavy petting they meet a sinister fakir who offers to sell them Truth for six sous. A set of uncanny events follow. At worst 'avant-gardist' in the extreme, at best the counterpart to Cœur Fidèle's 'fête foraine' sequence after the abolition of melodrama. Excellent black screen cutting and chaotic camera shaking characterize the style.

Balançoires

1928

The Poster poster
7.0

A mother sells a photo of her daughter to the press for publicity, and a daughter suddenly dies leaving the mother desperate surrounding by portraits of her daughter all around town.

The Poster

1925

Life Is Ours poster
6.4

A propaganda film of the communist party of France, showing how the comrades help the proletariat against the capitalists.

Life Is Ours

1936

Gibraltar poster
6.8

A British officer poses as a traitor in order to infiltrate a team of terrorists who are sabotaging ships, while a seductive cabaret dancer is working for the mysterious genius who runs the enemy spy ring.

Gibraltar

1938

Les Réprouvés poster
10.0

At the borders of the Saharan desert, the dramatic situation of a battalion of light infantry attacked by the enemy.

Les Réprouvés

1937

The Mutineers of Elsinore poster
7.0

A journalist takes command of a ship after the crew mutiny against the brutal captain. It was an adaptation of the novel The Mutiny of the Elsinore by Jack London.

The Mutineers of Elsinore

1936

The Two Worlds poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Two Worlds

1930

No artwork available
9.0

A poor peasant family, a failed cabinet maker and an unemployed worker struggle in contrast to crooked rich businessmen. nearby.A Communist meeting gives young workers hope for a better future.

The Time of the Cherries

1938

Portrait of Innocence poster
7.3

A student from an elementary school accidentally breaks the glass roof of his school. His comrades decide to support it by working during the summer holidays in order to pay for reconstruction.

Portrait of Innocence

1941

No artwork available
8.0

Travelers who have missed their correspondence are forced to spend the night in the waiting room of a small country station. They are told that a ghost train rushes through the night on each anniversary of an accident that once took place there. A detective tries to solve the case.

A Train in the Night

1934

The Train of Suicides poster
7.3

Locked in a train, a group of suicide candidates await the death promised them by a crook. When they have almost gone mad with anguish, the door opens.

The Train of Suicides

1931

The Divine Voyage poster
5.3

A girl in search of sailors lost in the Pacific.

The Divine Voyage

1929

The Divine Voyage poster
5.3

A girl in search of sailors lost in the Pacific.

The Divine Voyage

1929

Colonel Chabert poster
6.9

The story of a French officer who is assumed dead during the Napoleonic Wars, but returns ten years later to a very different France, both on a political and personal level. The film is based on the novel Colonel Chabert by Honoré de Balzac.

Colonel Chabert

1943

Song of Armorica poster
6.0

A poetic drama, spoken in the Breton language and set in a Breton fishing community, telling of the impossible love between a waifish fisherman and a highborn lady-of-the-manor.

Song of Armorica

1935

No artwork available
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Feu!

1927

The Benefactor poster
7.6

A kind and generous village noble, specializing in good works, actually leads a double existence and carries out dishonest activities.

The Benefactor

1942

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

La closerie des Genets

1925

The Miraculous Life of Teresa of Lisieux poster
7.0

A chronicling of the life of Saint Therese of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face, a Catholic nun who died of tuberculosis at age 24.

The Miraculous Life of Teresa of Lisieux

1929

Father Goriot poster
7.0

An old merchant ruined by the dot its two ungrateful daughters, moved to the Vauquer pension in Paris. In after Balzac.

Father Goriot

1945

Malaria poster
8.0

A colonial wife carries on an affair with a French officer, but the wife's native servant may have overheard their plan to leave Africa and return to Europe together.And then the servant goes missing.

Malaria

1943