
Directing
Jacques de Baroncelli
Born — Died
1881-06-25 — 1951-01-12
Place of birth
Bouillargues, Gard, France
Known for
Directing
Credits
40 titles
Jacques de Baroncelli (25 June 1881 – 12 January 1951) was a French film director best known for his silent films from 1915 to the late 1930s. He came from a Florentine family who had settled in Provence in the 15th century, occupying a building in the centre of Avignon then called the Baroncelli Palace (now the Palais du Roure). His father's side of the family were of Tuscan origin and part of the Ghibelline tradition, and they were hereditary Marquises of Javon. Though somewhat aristocratic, the family spoke Provençal, which was rather controversial at a time when it was considered to be a language of the common people. His older brother was Folco de Baroncelli-Javon. He directed well ove…
Known for
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The Awakening
1925
7.2Paris, 1830. Fleur de Marie is rescued from poverty by the mysterious Rodolphe, who is in fact the Grand Duke of Gérolstein, who has gone incognito in search of an illegitimate child he once had. Which is not at all to the taste of Sarah Mac Gregor, her current mistress who kidnaps Fleur and has her locked up in Saint-Lazare prison.
Mysteries of Paris
1943
5.3A woman's marriage is on the rocks ; to avenge herself, she decides to take a lover for one night .So she buys all his stock from a balloon man and flies them through the Parisian sky ; all her balloons carry a message :"I will be alone after midnight" (hence the title); a lot a suitors comme to the rendezvous : a fisherman, a soldier, a traveler , a gentleman cambrioleur (a nod to Arsène Lupin?) and others ,much to Michel, a young man in love with her's displeasure.
I'll Be Alone After Midnight
1931
At the time of the departure of a freighter, a man runs on the pier, begging that he be taken aboard. The captain agrees. The only passengers are the captain’s niece, Marie, accompanied by her baby boy. A radio message is received. It seems that a murderer has just escaped on a boat.
Le Passager
1928
7.7The adaptation of a french novel from 1864 describes the idyllic life of a convinced bachelor, Fritz Kobus, in a village in Alsace. With help by the local rabbi, he does get married to young Suzel in the end.
In Old Alsace
1933
6.8A Parisian museum director believes his wife is cheating on him and so places a poisoned cigarette in the box on his desk, thus allowing chance to decide the moment of his death.
The Cigarette
1919
Behind the camera
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The Awakening
1925
7.2Paris, 1830. Fleur de Marie is rescued from poverty by the mysterious Rodolphe, who is in fact the Grand Duke of Gérolstein, who has gone incognito in search of an illegitimate child he once had. Which is not at all to the taste of Sarah Mac Gregor, her current mistress who kidnaps Fleur and has her locked up in Saint-Lazare prison.
Mysteries of Paris
1943
5.3A woman's marriage is on the rocks ; to avenge herself, she decides to take a lover for one night .So she buys all his stock from a balloon man and flies them through the Parisian sky ; all her balloons carry a message :"I will be alone after midnight" (hence the title); a lot a suitors comme to the rendezvous : a fisherman, a soldier, a traveler , a gentleman cambrioleur (a nod to Arsène Lupin?) and others ,much to Michel, a young man in love with her's displeasure.
I'll Be Alone After Midnight
1931
At the time of the departure of a freighter, a man runs on the pier, begging that he be taken aboard. The captain agrees. The only passengers are the captain’s niece, Marie, accompanied by her baby boy. A radio message is received. It seems that a murderer has just escaped on a boat.
Le Passager
1928
At the time of the departure of a freighter, a man runs on the pier, begging that he be taken aboard. The captain agrees. The only passengers are the captain’s niece, Marie, accompanied by her baby boy. A radio message is received. It seems that a murderer has just escaped on a boat.
Le Passager
1928
7.7The adaptation of a french novel from 1864 describes the idyllic life of a convinced bachelor, Fritz Kobus, in a village in Alsace. With help by the local rabbi, he does get married to young Suzel in the end.
In Old Alsace
1933
6.8A Parisian museum director believes his wife is cheating on him and so places a poisoned cigarette in the box on his desk, thus allowing chance to decide the moment of his death.
The Cigarette
1919
10.0Marie is one of her kind. While the other girls are after gold, diamonds and jewels, she swears by ... poverty! She does not remain the companion of a banker too long for obvious reasons. But when she can be the muse of a poor music composer it is fine by her. Unless the musician becomes too famous...! Then, she leaves him! But maybe not forever... He can fall into poverty again, can't he?
Destitute Mary
1945
6.3Edwige Feuillère and Pierre Richard-Willm star in director Jacques de Baroncelli's adaptation of the Balzac novella The Duchesse de Langeais, which tells the tale of a Parisian socialite who is romantically pursued by a Napoleonic war hero. With a screenplay by Jean Giraudoux.
Wicked Duchess
1942
No synopsis available yet.
Roger la Honte
1922
7.0In Paris, in the middle of the 19th century, the Comte de Chamery died of poisoning, leaving a considerable fortune to his long-dead son. Sir William, the count's murderer, hires a young rogue, Rocambole, to pretend to be the deceased's son. The two accomplices have the Count's fortune handed over to them. But their trickery is discovered by an intriguer, Baccarat, who finds the real Count of Chamery, a young painter without fortune, in love with Carmen de Montevecchio. Rocambole, who stops at nothing, kills Sir William, gets rid of Armand and makes Carmen love him. But Baccarat is determined not to let him continue his villainies.
The Revenge of Baccarat
1948
5.8Womanizer Don Mateo helps a girl in a train when attacked by a other woman. This girl, Conchita - a cigarette maker, soon visits the rich Don Mateo at his palace in Sevillia. He falls for her, but she likes to play with him.
The Woman and the Puppet
1929
6.1An expressionist comedy greatly influenced by German Expressionism set in a bohemian enclave of northern Paris, which Clouzot made shortly before he served as assistant director to Anatole Litvak and E.A. Dupont and began scripting French versions of German films at Berlin’s UFA studios.
The Terror of Batignolles
1931
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She Played and Paid
1920
Directed by Jacques de Baroncelli.
Le retour aux champs
1918
Directed by Jacques de Baroncelli.
Le retour aux champs
1918
5.8Cabaret star Zazu intervenes when young lovers are sundered by their parents' feud.
The French Way
1940
5.8Cabaret star Zazu intervenes when young lovers are sundered by their parents' feud.
The French Way
1940
7.0Jérôme owns a boat with his crook of an uncle, La Rose de la Mer. They sail with a band of crooks hired by the uncle to scuttle the ship and collect the insurance premium.
The Sea Rose
1946
8.0Claire is married to the elderly owner of a brewery. She seeks excitement with her childhood friend René.
La Flambée des rêves
1924
10.0A gypsy and a boatman fall in love with each other. They do not understand each other and make each other suffer. When, at last, their hearts are confounded, the young girl’s father kills the young man, thus accomplishing the implacable Bohemian law.
Gitanes
1933
6.8Volpone, an elderly Venetian, connives with his money-crazed servant to convince his greedy friends that he is dying, knowing that each will try to curry favor with him in order to be named his heir. He is inundated with valuable gifts, and soon finds himself entangled deeper and deeper in a web of lies.
Volpone
1941
9.0Crainquebille, merchant of four seasons, is sentenced to fifteen days in prison for having insulted a police officer. When he leaves, his clientele moves away from him and Crainquebille thinks of suicide, when the affection of a kid from Montmartre makes him change his mind.
Crainquebille
1934
No synopsis available yet.
Champi-Tortu
1921
7.0In the 19th century, a thug from the slums of Paris pretends to be a young aristocrat, but is unmasked by a demi-mondaine, from the same background as him.
Rocambole
1948
8.0The film is based on the bitter rivalry of two pigeon racers, Fred, the bell-ringer of Bruges and Neel, the fiancé of Fred's partially sighted sister. Following a major tournament, won by Neel's bird, Fred's resentment drives him to mount an attack upon his rival so ferocious that he believes he has killed him. Seized by remorse, he intends to throw himself from the belfry, but his disabled sister risks her own life to mount to the tower and try to save him.
The Midnight Chimes
1924
10.0Frédéri, a young man from a good family, is in love with a woman he met in the arena of Arles. He wishes to marry this woman.
L'Arlésienne
1930
10.0Frédéri, a young man from a good family, is in love with a woman he met in the arena of Arles. He wishes to marry this woman.
L'Arlésienne
1930
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Nitchevo
1926
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Nitchevo
1926
8.2Meg decides to commit suicide to escape the marriage to which her father intends her. She is saved by Jean-Pierre, another candidate for suicide, and Léon, a tramp who was just trying to reason with him. The trio then becomes inseparable and organizes a new life based on friendship and freedom.
Beautiful Star
1938
No synopsis available yet.
Flipotte
1920
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Flipotte
1920
No synopsis available yet.
The King of the Sea
1917
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La femme du voisin
1929
6.4During a French construction project in the Sudan, a military doctor fights against leprosy and the natives seek protection against witch doctors.
African Diary
1940
7.0Denise, a young employee of the mine, is courted by the engineer Risay while she is engaged to Daniel, a simple underground worker. A betrayal has occurred that compromises the mine. An accident occurs and about fifteen workers, including Denise's fiancé, are buried under rubble in a collapsing shaft.
The Pavilion Burns
1941
10.0During this harsh winter, as Christmas approaches, Angélique, a poor child, is found by an old couple, Hubertine and Hubert. But this couple is not the richest, and the life of this small family is hard and laborious. Angélique likes to escape to the city, to dream. One day, she meets Félicien, with whom she falls in love. But she is told that this handsome man is the bishop's son, so marrying him is impossible.
Le Rêve
1921
10.0During this harsh winter, as Christmas approaches, Angélique, a poor child, is found by an old couple, Hubertine and Hubert. But this couple is not the richest, and the life of this small family is hard and laborious. Angélique likes to escape to the city, to dream. One day, she meets Félicien, with whom she falls in love. But she is told that this handsome man is the bishop's son, so marrying him is impossible.
Le Rêve
1921
No synopsis available yet.
The Secret of Lone Star
1920
