
Acting
Jean Pommier
Born 1922-08-24 · Niort, Deux-Sèvres, Poitou-Charentes, France
Acting credits
4.7Thérèse, a young flower girl, tries hard to remain virtuous but the whole world seems to conspire against her, whether her petty Paris family, or her relatives in the province bristling with false respectability, or her lustful employer, or the boy she loves who seduces her and abandons her. But at the end of the day there is Yvon, her childhood friend. Will he be the one that will love her truly?
Two Pennies Worth of Violets
1951
6.0The professional and emotional cross-currents between two romantically entwined theater actors played by the director’s son Louis and Anna Mouglalis.
Jealousy
2013
5.4An eccentric man endangers himself when he makes advances toward the girlfriend of a saloon keeper.
White Paws
1949
5.6French philosopher Denis Diderot produces the first encyclopedia while indulging in 18th-century decadence.
The Libertine
2000
6.1Hopes and love and ambitions and friendship in a group of young jazz-loving Parisians.
Rendezvous in July
1949
5.5Pierre and Manon are poor. They make documentaries with nothing and they live by doing odd jobs. Pierre meets a young intern, Elisabeth, and she becomes his mistress. But Pierre will not leave Manon for Elisabeth; he wants to keep both.
In the Shadow of Women
2015
5.9A portrait of a 58-year-old man battling his inner demons on the search for self-discovery.
Before I Forget
2007
5.9A movie director does a new film against heroin consumption, and the producers are heroin dealers.
Wild Innocence
2001
6.8Sucre Amer tells the story of a unique court case in which an event from the past is judged by a court of history. Major figures from history are brought together in the present to re-examine the "Ignace case", about a legendary figure in the history of Guadeloupe who fought against the armies of Napoleon Bonaparte to preserve his freedom. A hero despite himself, Ignace's life and struggle were subsequently consigned to oblivion by his enemies. His treatment has left a bittersweet taste in the mouths of the people of Guadeloupe.
Bitter Sugar
1998
7.3The fantasies and dreams of two over-the-hill actresses are intertwined with their realities, as the two roommates struggle to survive their day-to-day lives in the expensive and difficult world of Paris.
Femmes femmes
1974
4.7A young priest works as a barman in a Pigalle cafe in Paris. He tries to prevent the women there to prostitute themselves....
The Desert of Pigalle
1958
7.5A lieutenant, at the head of a commando ready to land in France, finds among his men a maquisard who had tried to kill him in the past.
Dawn Devils
1946
6.3Catherine, 18, loved Jean, a young accountant, who loved her in return. And yet, one morning, two policemen find their dead bodies on a stretch of waste ground. The case is obvious: the two young people have killed themselves. But why? Chief Inspector Ernest Plonche, feeling upset, decides to investigate personally.
Young Love
1951