Jacques Henley

Acting

Jacques Henley

Acting credits

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Opération Jericho

Special Mission poster
7.0

The exploits of Chief Police Inspector Chabrier, first before the invasion of France in May 1940 as he fights against spies preparing the coming the Germans, particularly Emmy de Welder, the alleged manager of the Rouen hospital. Later, Chabrier and his men go underground and resist the occupiers whatever the price to pay. When the Liberation comes Chabrier resumes his activities at the French National Police.

Special Mission

1946

Death Threat poster
8.5

André Garnier, a young pianist, who was sent to deportation following a denunciation, absolutely wants to find his informer. He falls in love with Hélène, the mistress of a wealthy industrialist, Bernier, in whom he soon discovers the man who once sold him to the Gestapo. Bernier is soon found murdered. André deflects suspicion on Jacques, the victim's secretary. Hélène and André's affair ends up being discovered by the police, who seem to see in it the motive for the crime. André surrenders to justice.

Death Threat

1950

Monsieur Hector poster
5.8

In a palace in Nice, a modest valet is confused with his master, a viscount chased by a man-eater.

Monsieur Hector

1940

After Midnight poster
8.0

Helene performs in a Paris nightclub run by White Russian exiles. When her husband, an engineer she believed had died in the Russian Civil War, reappears she tries to assist him. However, this opens her to blackmail by her dancing partner Fedor.

After Midnight

1938

Serge Panine poster
8.0

A mother kills a very vile character, Prince Panin, with whom her adopted daughter has fallen in love and who has married, for her money, the natural daughter.

Serge Panine

1939

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

Captain Blomet poster
8.0

Returning from the cemetery where he has just buried his wife, Captain Blomet is on the point of committing suicide, when his valet reveals to him that the deceased had 17 lovers. Blomet undertakes to wash his honor in different ways according to his rivals.

Captain Blomet

1947

Crimson Dynasty poster
6.3

Koenigsmark is a 1935 British-French drama film directed by Maurice Tourneur and starring Elissa Landi, John Lodge and Pierre Fresnay. The film is based on the novel Koenigsmark by Pierre Benoît. It's sets were designed by the art director Lucien Aguettand. The film was known in the United States as Crimson Dynasty.

Crimson Dynasty

1935

Cité de l'espérance poster
8.0

The City of Hope is the place where left-behind artists subsist by scraping by. When one of them is accused of murder, all try to find the real culprit.

Cité de l'espérance

1948

The Woman in Red poster
10.0

Two paintings are stolen. Amateur private detective Roland Gautier investigates.

The Woman in Red

1947

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Candy Apple

1932

Du Guesclin poster
5.4

A chronicle of the life of Bertrand du Guesclin, grand officer of the French army in the 14th century.

Du Guesclin

1949

The mystery of the pink villa poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

The mystery of the pink villa

1930

Nadia la femme traquée poster
7.0

A group of political exiles conspire in France against their government. They are pursued by Daminoff, head of the intelligence service of the country of origin of the conspirators, who uses Nadia, a singer who soon betrays him by taking up the cause of his compatriots. Dramatic chases ensue until Daminoff, having tracked down Nadia and her friends, fires on Chief André and seizes the secret plans. But these are false. André, injured, is stricken with amnesia. Seeing Nadia again, he will become himself again and marry her.

Nadia la femme traquée

1940

Champions of France poster
7.0

In the lead up to WWII, several escapist French films were made promoting health and sport among youth.In this one, we see the friendship of young males on a Marne river rowing team threatened by the presence of a typical femme fatale.

Champions of France

1938

Place de la Concorde poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Place de la Concorde

1939

The Scarlet Bazaar poster
7.0

Agnès Bonnardet leaves her parents to marry Claude Sironi, a painter who becomes famous but loses his talent. Meanwhile Agnes acquires a style of her own as an artist, which makes Claude jealous of his young wife. One day, he sends one of his own paintings to the Bazar de la Charité, a very trendy Paris department store, instead of one of his wife's works as ordered. Afraid of her being mad at him, he locks her up in the cloak room. A dreadful fire suddenly breaks out and sets the building ablaze.

The Scarlet Bazaar

1947

Retour au bonheur poster
8.5

Wanting to complete the research of her doctor husband, a former actress returns to the stage and therefore abandons her home. Badly supervised, her little boy runs away. We find him ill in the Alps. He is saved by his father and the parents' union is sealed again.

Retour au bonheur

1942

Mission in Tangier poster
6.0

During the Second World War, Georges Masse undergoes a dangerous mission by taking secret documents from Tangiers to London.

Mission in Tangier

1949

Neuf de trèfle poster
9.0

Miche Doulin is a wife who like to spend. Her husband Henri, who is a diplomat and worried about several large bills, wins an unexpected gain at play. He hides his luck and invents an incredible burglary. His wife to repay the imaginary theft will commit a big imprudence, when she learns the truth.

Neuf de trèfle

1938

Le Bonheur poster
6.7

Philippe Lutcher, an anarchist, fires a shot at Clara Stuart, a famous stage and screen actress, but only wounds her. The star, through affectation and curiosity to know his motives, pleads in his favour at his trial, but he rebuffs her pity. After he has served 18 months in prison, they meet and fall in love.

Le Bonheur

1934

The Ferret poster
6.2

A mysterious figure signing himself "The Ferret" keeps sending letters to the police, tipping them off about murders that are to be committed around Paris. Among those caught up in the police manhunt is a fraudulent clairvoyant.

The Ferret

1950

The Threepenny Opera poster
6.9

The French-language version of the The Threepenny Opera with a different cast from the German version.

The Threepenny Opera

1931