Directing

Marcel Cravenne

Born — Died

1908-11-22 — 2002-12-06

Place of birth

Kairouan, Tunisia

Known for

Directing

Credits

22 titles

Known for

A Picnic on the Grass poster
10.0

A rich young woman asks a poor man to play for her the role of a generous friend. He ends up falling in love.

A Picnic on the Grass

1937

Sous la Terreur poster
10.0

During the French Revolution in 1793, a member of the Convention, seduced by the Comtesse de Beaulieu, helps her to discover the truth about the relationship between Agnès de Fitz-James and the count who was guillotined.

Sous la Terreur

1936

Mon bébé poster
6.5

No synopsis available yet.

Mon bébé

1956

The Island of Thirty Coffins poster
5.8

The story takes place in 1917. Véronique is a young woman of 35 years, nurse at the military hospital of Besançon. She suddenly learns of the murder of her husband, the mysterious Count Vorski, whom she has not seen for fourteen years. Her research will also lead her to the track of her father and son whom she believed to have died in a shipwreck, already a long time ago. From clue to clue, here we are in Brittany, on this island with a name so ill-fitting... Brutal deaths, enigmatic words written... by whom? A frightening prophecy, the superstitious terror of the island's inhabitants, and suddenly, Veronica d'Hergemont can no longer leave this island. She's stuck alone. Almost alone...

The Island of Thirty Coffins

1979

No artwork available
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

L'Anglais tel qu'on le parle

1959

Dans la vie tout s'arrange poster
7.5

A Boston school teacher fights with a group of impoverished Frenchmen for possession of an inherited château. Elizabeth Rockwell is indignant when she finds her château filled with squatters, a widower with five messy children, who have no regard for private property rights. This was the French language version of Pardon My French (aka The Lady from Boston)

Dans la vie tout s'arrange

1952

Behind the camera

A Picnic on the Grass poster
10.0

A rich young woman asks a poor man to play for her the role of a generous friend. He ends up falling in love.

A Picnic on the Grass

1937

Sous la Terreur poster
10.0

During the French Revolution in 1793, a member of the Convention, seduced by the Comtesse de Beaulieu, helps her to discover the truth about the relationship between Agnès de Fitz-James and the count who was guillotined.

Sous la Terreur

1936

Mon bébé poster
6.5

No synopsis available yet.

Mon bébé

1956

The Island of Thirty Coffins poster
5.8

The story takes place in 1917. Véronique is a young woman of 35 years, nurse at the military hospital of Besançon. She suddenly learns of the murder of her husband, the mysterious Count Vorski, whom she has not seen for fourteen years. Her research will also lead her to the track of her father and son whom she believed to have died in a shipwreck, already a long time ago. From clue to clue, here we are in Brittany, on this island with a name so ill-fitting... Brutal deaths, enigmatic words written... by whom? A frightening prophecy, the superstitious terror of the island's inhabitants, and suddenly, Veronica d'Hergemont can no longer leave this island. She's stuck alone. Almost alone...

The Island of Thirty Coffins

1979

No artwork available
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

L'Anglais tel qu'on le parle

1959

Dans la vie tout s'arrange poster
7.5

A Boston school teacher fights with a group of impoverished Frenchmen for possession of an inherited château. Elizabeth Rockwell is indignant when she finds her château filled with squatters, a widower with five messy children, who have no regard for private property rights. This was the French language version of Pardon My French (aka The Lady from Boston)

Dans la vie tout s'arrange

1952

Wicked City poster
5.3

A Canadian sailor becomes a fugitive for love after a night with a woman in Marseille.

Wicked City

1949

Le Lys dans la vallée poster
7.2

Félix de Vandenesse's youthful love for the beautiful, inaccessible Madame de Mortsauf, who devotes her life to a half-mad husband and two fragile children. Madame de Mortsauf maintains a friendly, tender relationship. But when she learns of the young man's affair with an Englishwoman, she dies of jealousy and regret.

Le Lys dans la vallée

1970

Le Lys dans la vallée poster
7.2

Félix de Vandenesse's youthful love for the beautiful, inaccessible Madame de Mortsauf, who devotes her life to a half-mad husband and two fragile children. Madame de Mortsauf maintains a friendly, tender relationship. But when she learns of the young man's affair with an Englishwoman, she dies of jealousy and regret.

Le Lys dans la vallée

1970

No artwork available
NR

A TV movie about Huckleberry Finn, directed by Marcel Cravenne and released in France back in 1967.

Huckleberry Finn

1967

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Un jeu d'enfer

1970

No artwork available
7.0

1974 French TV film

La dernière carte

1974

L'Auberge de l'ange gardien poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

L'Auberge de l'ange gardien

1962

La forêt noire poster
10.0

Inspired by the life of 19th century composer Robert Schumann, this fiction tells the decline of Hans Richter, a great German musician. Then dying, he feels his reason leaving him, while his wife gets closer to his disciple, Friedrich Turner, who has endless admiration for him. After his death, Turner helped make him a legend.

La forêt noire

1968

No artwork available
9.0

Delphine Seyrig is Catherine Miller, an internationally renowned pianist. Married and mother of a little boy, she leads a hectic life. Following a recital, she accepts a dinner with the music critic Gilles Bollème. This seemingly innocuous encounter gradually confronts Catherine with her own demons.

Le Troisième Concerto

1963

Van der Valk and the Scapegoat poster
10.0

A flurry of anonymous letters and two suicides leads Inspector Van der Valk to a mission in Drente where small-town hysteria may just lead to one of the century's most wanted criminals.

Van der Valk and the Scapegoat

1975

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

La guerre des trois Henri

1978

La Danse de mort poster
6.3

A sinister fortress on an island where the sun never seems to shine. An officer whose values have long gone a thing of the past.

La Danse de mort

1948

Tartuffe poster
7.0

Orgon and his mother swear by Tartuffe, the self-styled devout who lives off them. The other members of the family, scandalized by the clergyman's hold over them, will do anything to expose his hypocrisy. Michel Bouquet plays an almost monstrous Tartuffe, whose only weakness lies in his feelings for Elmire.

Tartuffe

1971

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

La Malle volante

1959

The Green Dress poster
NR

Surprised at the feet of the wife of Duke de Maulévrier, an influential academic, Hubert de Latour-Latour claims that he was only asking her to help him enter the Institute. The timing was perfect, as a seat had just become available.

The Green Dress

1957

Jacques Brel - Comme quand on était beau poster
9.0

A 3 volume DVD set issued by Barclay Records to mark the 25th anniversary of Jacques Brel's death. This amazing collection contains performances filmed in European television plateaux, rarities, interviews and reports, carefully restored from original sources to allow the viewer rediscover the amazing work of this extraordinary performer in its original splendor. It also includes five previously unpublished songs that Brel wrote in 1977: La Cathédrale, L'Amour est mort, Mai 40, Avec Élégance, and Sans Exigences .

Jacques Brel - Comme quand on était beau

2003