Acting

Lucien Blondeau

Acting credits

The Count of Monte Cristo poster
6.7

Young sailor Edmond Dantès is wrongfully imprisoned, escapes, finds treasure, and reinvents himself as the wealthy Count of Monte Cristo to exact revenge on those who betrayed him.

The Count of Monte Cristo

1954

Imperial Violets poster
5.7

Violeta, an Andalusian gypsy, foretells a lady she will become empress. The lady is Eugenia de Montijo, and when she marries emperor Luis Napoleón of France she takes the young girl with her. The empress'cousin readily makes her his focus of attention, then she discovers a criminal attempt against the empress.

Imperial Violets

1952

The Murderer Lives at Number 21 poster
7.3

Paris, France. Commissaire Wens follows the lead of a ruthless murderer to an unexpected place.

The Murderer Lives at Number 21

1942

Si jeunesse savait... poster
9.0

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.

Si jeunesse savait...

1948

Frou-Frou poster
6.0

A story of the love of Frou-Frou - an actress and singer in the in the beginning of her career.

Frou-Frou

1955

Süss, the Jew poster
4.4

Nazi historical drama about Duke Karl Alexander of Württemberg and his treasurer Süß Oppenheimer.

Süss, the Jew

1940

Gorilla's Waltz poster
4.3

This is the second feature in a series about an intrepid French spy by the nickname of "The Gorilla," but unlike the earlier films, this time around Roger Hanin replaces Lino Ventura in the title role. A West German scientist has discovered a way to recover missiles shot into space, and the major Western powers are after his secret. Even though the scientist is willing to pass his discovery on to NATO, it is guarded by an elite, undercover West German police force. As foreign agents, including the Russians and Americans, try to get their hands on the secret, "The Gorilla" is forced into the affair by his surly, aging boss -- he has to make sure that the scientist's discovery ends up with NATO.

Gorilla's Waltz

1959

Girl with Grey Eyes poster
7.0

A village lost in the mountains where Catherine called L'Airelle's love affair takes place with a young doctor. Catherine's father is the local bonesetter whose wife threw herself into a glacier out of despair of love and whose body reappears intact twenty years later. In addition, the pharmacist of the country is accused of having seduced a young girl who is avenged by her mother. The bonesetter also dies, the village fortunately continues to live.

Girl with Grey Eyes

1945

Crimson Curtain poster
6.6

Bertal, a despotic and hated theater director, is assassinated before a performance of Macbeth in which he was to play with Aurélia Nobli, his companion and Ludovic Arn, her lover. The police arrive on the scene and the investigation begins. Suspicion first falls on Sigurd, an old actor who had threatened Bertal. But parallels appear between the characters in the play and the actors who play them.

Crimson Curtain

1952

Son of France poster
7.0

The crew of a tank from the 1st French army took part in the liberation of Strasbourg during the fall of 1944.

Son of France

1946

First in Line poster
7.1

A screen adaptation of the well-known novel by Roger Frison-Roche about the harsh lives of mountain guides and their families in the French Alps, near Chamonix and the French/Swiss/Italian borders... Like his father, Zian Servettaz is a dedicated mountain man. His Italian-born wife Bianca does not adjust well to his mountain village in France, and to the ever life-threatening dangers presented by his mountain guiding and climbing. She briefly returns to Italy and to her family. However, after Zian's insistence and trip to Italy, she returns to mountain life in the French Alps. Once back there, events will unfold, changing their lives as well as those of other mountain people forever.

First in Line

1944

Paris, mes amours poster
7.0

A freedom-loving man has found a way in the midst of loan sharks and apaches to get it almost totally with a minimum of work, needs and connections. After a few misadventures, he continues to wander in Paris whose streets he loves more than anything in the world.

Paris, mes amours

1935

What the East Wind Saw poster
3.8

Clarisse cheats on her husband with a vain insurance agent. Zamore, the cuckold (and a magician) wouldn't let his wife be stolen so easily. Poiret and Serrault play the rivals in this twisted love story. A poetic absurd fantasy.

What the East Wind Saw

1954

The Revenge of Roger poster
7.2

Roger Laroque is now a rich man. He returns to France under the name of William Farnell. There, he discovers that on the one hand his wife has died of a broken heart and on the other that his daughter Suzanne is in love with Raymond de Noirville, the son of his former mistress. With the help of a few friends, Roger coldly prepares his revenge.

The Revenge of Roger

1946

Cartouche, King of Paris poster
NR

The romantic life of the head of a bandit gang, wanted by the police. Cartouche gets away with being deported to Louisiana after unmasking a plot by a Duke against the throne.

Cartouche, King of Paris

1950

A Swelled Head poster
8.0

A man inherits an old house in a very bad condition. With the help of a young mechanic, he begins to renovate this house.

A Swelled Head

1962

The Convict poster
6.3

The practice of Dr. Julien, a GP of Marseilles, consists mainly of drug-addicts. One day, one of his patient dies at his surgery and Julien yields to the temptation : he steals the dead man's money and hides the corpse in a trunk. But the whole thing is discovered and ... misinterpreted. The doctor is condemned for killing the junkie and sent to the Cayenne convict prison, from which he escapes. The Indians give him shelter and he is soon given the opportunity to return their good deed when a yellow fever epidemic strikes their tribe. A young woman helps to fight the disease and, thanks to her, Julien starts considering that a new life is possible for him.

The Convict

1951

Marie-Martine poster
6.9

The novelist Loïc Limousin knew the turbulent past of Marie-Martine and he extracted the material for a novel from which the young girl risks paying the price. After the drama that had thrown her in prison, she met a brave boy ready to make his life with her. Will the scandal separate them?

Marie-Martine

1943

L'Étrange Amazone poster
7.0

Michel, a young painter in poor health, enters the grounds of a château and faints when he sees a haughty young woman in the simplest of garb. The chatelaine, Eliane, takes care of him and calls in Pierre Fournier, a Parisian doctor. A disreputable Count Ostrowsky turns up to blackmail her. He is found murdered. But who's the killer? Pierre or Eliane? Quite simply Michel, who, before dying, showed his gratitude to the woman who had taken him in. Pierre and Eliane were living apart, but they were husband and wife. Such adventures unite them, this time, forever.

L'Étrange Amazone

1953

A Tough Day poster
NR

A strike has broken out in a big factory in the North of France. Two workers, Robert and Etienne, go through the experience in a different way. Etienne, who has worked there since the start, is still influenced by the time when workmen and their bosses found an agreement directly. Unlike him, his young friend believes in the power of labor unions. He even goes to Paris to attend special classes in trade unionism.

A Tough Day

1952

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7.0

Théodora, Thierry de Villiers' governess, has the leisure of scrambling the cards: She combines the meeting in the same apartment of Thierry, his friend Octave, Brigitte, his wife, and Nicole, Villiers' secretary. Finally, Theodora will be sent back to the asylum from which she had run away.

L’extravagante Théodora

1950

Cartouche poster
9.0

In 1721, at the end of his career as a bandit, Cartouche, touched by the grace of an honest young girl, and falling into the hands of justice under the charge of the father of his beloved, asks as a last resort, that the young girl may, before her execution, come and forgive her.

Cartouche

1934

Scandal on the Champs-Élysées poster
6.7

In Paris, three models are murdered, being one of them the mistress of the fashion designer Dominique Airelle. It is the young inspector who is in charge of the affair.

Scandal on the Champs-Élysées

1949

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