Acting
Alfred Goulin
Acting credits
4.5Jo Guardini, now the peaceful owner of a charming inn by the banks of the River Marne, once was a dreaded gangster. The respectful citizen does not want to have anything to do with the underworld any more. Unfortunately, two of his former accomplices kidnap a little girl and decide to hide her in his hotel. What will Jo do : side with the law in the person of inspector Loriot or have a relapse in crime?
A Certain Mr. Jo
1958
8.0After a Parisian haute couture house is robbed and jewels stolen, Commissaire Legrand leads the investigation. His suspicions fall on Linda, the great couturier. He decides to follow her to Nice to present her next collection.
L’aventurière des Champs-Élysées
1957
6.6Marcel Pagnol's adaptation of his own novel Manon des sources, the story of a shepherdess who exacts her revenge on the townsfolk she blames for killing her father, in two parts: Manon des sources and Ugolin.
Manon of the Spring
1953
7.0In Marseille, a customs inspector falls in love with a young woman involved in dubious traffic.
Oriental Port
1950
7.0Charles Fouquet, the Minister of Family Affairs, is having a hard time. His wife Olympe, although not that young, is expecting a baby. His daughter Annie, as for her, is pregnant by her fiance. And let's not forget Georges, Fouquet's son, who has seduced Natacha, his close (too close!) collaborator. As if that were not enough, a former mistress of Charles' comes and reveals to him the existence of a son he knew nothing about. But Charles is a man of action and he is not so easily deterred: he WILL take action against this abundance of offspring.
When the Child Appears
1956
7.0Robert Lanier, a man with a doubtful past, disembarks clandestinely in Le Havre decided to rebuild his life. Johnny, an orphaned young acrobat, takes him for his father and presents him to the seductive Gaby, his best friend.
No Big Deal for Johnny
1955
9.0The mysterious death of a well-known criminal sparks an investigation into national security.
Nest of Spies
1956
5.5Michel Piccoli plays a police inspector whose best friend is murdered on the orders of gang boss Charles Vanel. The inspector knows full well that Vanel is too crafty and well-connected to ever stand trial for his crime, so he carefully lays a subtle trap for his adversary. Unfortunately, both Piccoli and Vanel are thwarted by a pair of scheming females.
Sinners of Paris
1958
6.7World War I aviator Carbot attempts to establish a commercial airline after the war, for the purpose of delivering the mail to the outermost regions of France.
At the Grand Balcony
1949
7.3Manon has blocked the spring that feeds the village, whose inhabitants she hates. They gradually become aware of the evil they have done to her and try to obtain her forgiveness…
Ugolin
1953
9.0A young novitiate witnesses a murder. Later, she recognizes the culprit, who admits to the killing; the sister works to convince him to turn himself in to the police.
Sister Angele's Secret
1956
8.0Michel Thierry is asked by the Second Bureau to go to Provence to help two colleagues, Leroy and Orcado, who are monitoring a gang of arms dealers. As soon as he arrives, Orcado is shot and leaves him an incomprehensible message in which three words are written: Sarah, Métis, Yerco...
Whereabouts Unknown
1957
4.9A young intellectual, Hugo, joins the Communist Party out of a sense of idealism, only to see his principles manipulated by party leaders. He is given the assignment of killing Professor Hoederer, a party deviationist. However, he grows to admire the man and begins to have doubts about morals and revolutionary politics. But jealousy - Hugo thinks Hoederer has made love to his wife, Jessica - takes matters out of the political realm.
Dirty Hands
1951
6.0Frank Keany is the chief engineer of a uranium mine located under the overwhelming sun of New Mexico and owned by a woman, Moira Warden. She suspects her ex-husband want to take possession of the mine.
La Soupe à la grimace
1954
9.0An industrialist who prefers painting to business is cheated on by his wife with a painter who prefers business to painting.
The Happiest of Men
1952
4.0A young man from Marseille starts a jazz orchestra in Paris.
Farewell, Paris
1952
9.5In a small town in Spanish Morocco, old Ricardo, who runs a café, lives with his daughter, Conchita. She believes that Ricardo is her father. In reality, he took her in at the age of eighteen months in a douar abandoned during the conquest. One day a Berber chief, Tamar, sees Conchita, tells her that she is from his tribe and wants to take her away. She rejects it, then accepts later to find that Muslim civilization is incompatible with the Christian training she received. She escapes and succeeds in obtaining forgiveness from Tamar. A French officer from the Intelligence Service offers to collect it.
La Renégate
1948
6.0In Marseilles, the fisherman Tonin closely monitors the actions of the wreckage workers led by a certain Mr. Léon. Could these bizarre individuals have something to do with the double murder at the Grand Hotel?
The Grand Hotel Affair
1946