Colette Darfeuil

Acting

Colette Darfeuil

Born — Died

1906-02-07 — 1998-10-15

Place of birth

Paris, France

Known for

Acting

Credits

60 titles

Known for

Film credits

1950s · 5 titles

The Girl with the Whip poster
10.0

The daughter of a notorious smuggler is raised as a boy by her foster mother.

The Girl with the Whip

1952

This Age Without Pity poster
8.0

Léon, André, Christiane and Monique, who all study drama, decide to go camping together. Unfortunately - although unsurprisingly - their old jalopy breaks down on the road. Chance has it that in the village where they are stranded a historical movie is being shot by famed director Médéric, starring sexpot Barbara Glamour and Latin heartthrob Edouardo Tocato. Two of the young people start flirting with the two film stars until their friends make them see reason : they love each other. The four of them end up being hired as extras and all is well that ends well.

This Age Without Pity

1952

Death Threat poster
8.5

André Garnier, a young pianist, who was sent to deportation following a denunciation, absolutely wants to find his informer. He falls in love with Hélène, the mistress of a wealthy industrialist, Bernier, in whom he soon discovers the man who once sold him to the Gestapo. Bernier is soon found murdered. André deflects suspicion on Jacques, the victim's secretary. Hélène and André's affair ends up being discovered by the police, who seem to see in it the motive for the crime. André surrenders to justice.

Death Threat

1950

Le Costaud des Batignolles poster
4.0

Jules, small and weak, dreams of becoming a formidable athlete. He strives every morning to practice physical culture exercises and takes comforting tablets, without success. But he meets Nénette, a woman who, when he kisses her, suddenly endows him with prodigious strength.

Le Costaud des Batignolles

1952

Bibi Fricotin poster
5.7

To find the heritage of his friend Catherine's ancestors, the leaping Bibi Fricotin, helped by the seer Fatma, goes through a thousand funny or comical adventures, thanks to multiple means of transport, ranging from the bicycle to the helicopter. Despite the pitfalls sown in her path by the young girl's uncle and aunt, the Tartazans, the inheritance will be found with a museum curator.

Bibi Fricotin

1951

1940s · 6 titles

1930s · 45 titles

Wine Cellars poster
6.0

Wine Cellars itself is a Spanish-French co-production. He shot the film in the Paris studios and also in Spain, Andalusia and Seville. According to the critics, his story of love, honour, revenge, bulls and vineyards masterfully captures the spirit of this region, the sun beating down on the parched earth, life on the farms and vineyards and the celebrations coloured by the famous flamenco dance. Wine Cellars was originally a silent film and its soundtrack was only added later.

Wine Cellars

1930

Gigolette poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Gigolette

1937

Prête-moi ta femme poster
9.0

Gontran is required to marry if he wants to benefit from his aunt's inheritance. To convince the latter in favor of a visit, he calls on the wife of a friend who will play the role of the future wife. This maneuver will cause many misunderstandings.

Prête-moi ta femme

1936

No artwork available
9.0

In the French consulate in China, Claude Varville declares his love to the consul's wife.

Tropics

1930

Chéri-Bibi poster
5.0

An innocent young man, burglar Cheri-Bibi, and his gangsters are sent to a penal colony.

Chéri-Bibi

1938

Feu Toupinel poster
8.0

The late Toupinel, a merry fellow, kept a legitimate wife in Paris, and a mistress who passed for his wife in the provinces. When he died, the two widows remarried. A former lover of the mistress comes to confuse everything because he is the real widow's friend.

Feu Toupinel

1934

He poster
6.0

In her village, Ms. Husson seeks to put a price under a rosiere but finding no worthy young pretty girl, hands it has Isidore, the village idiot, who becomes rosier

He

1932

Casanova poster
8.0

Talkie remake of a 1927 silent about the adventures of the notorious womaniser and venetian adventurer Chevalier Giacomo Casanova. Action starts in Venice and then the plot takes Casanova to France and Russia.

Casanova

1934

La treizième enquête de Grey poster
9.0

Grey, an elite detective, has the mission to investigate the assassination, in Paris, of a great Hollywood star. There is no real motive, and yet the suspects are numerous. The investigation promises to be long and difficult.

La treizième enquête de Grey

1937

Un soir à Marseille poster
8.0

The wife of a Marseille industrialist is murdered. An inspector and a young journalist investigate together, and suspect the husband, then the lover, before finding the real culprit.

Un soir à Marseille

1938

L'amore si fa così poster
7.5

No synopsis available yet.

L'amore si fa così

1939

The Prosecutor Hallers poster
10.0

The simultaneously filmed French language version of the 1930 German film The Other. A psychological drama based on the popular Jekyll and Hyde theme involving a strict legal official.

The Prosecutor Hallers

1930

Les joyeuses aventures de Bossemans et Coppenolle poster
8.0

The story is a comedy about two dimwitted men from Brussels, Bossemans and Coppenolle. Much of the comedy comes from the fact that the characters all speak in the local Brussels dialect, which added to its popularity in Brussels and Wallonia. The plot broadly parodies Romeo & Juliet, with the contending families on opposite side of the contemporary Brussels football rivalry between Daring Club de Bruxelles and Union Saint-Gilloise.

Les joyeuses aventures de Bossemans et Coppenolle

1938

Un coup de téléphone poster
9.0

A man is engaged to be married.But after getting a phone call from a wronged woman who wants revenge on her husband, he lands up consoling her in bed, and then consoling the mistress of the husband as well.

Un coup de téléphone

1932

The Brazilian Thing poster
9.0

A young man who loves his wife wants rid of his troublesome mistress. He dresses up as a wealthy Brazilian and seduces her in a jiffy. He hopes to reach a settlement, that she must sign. In this settlement she will promise to break with her lover. He can then show that he is a faithful husband.

The Brazilian Thing

1932

Everything is Going Very Well Madame la Marquise poster
9.0

After he loses a servant job when his employer's mansion burns down, a yokel makes money entertaining tourists in Breton garb, lands up appearing in a Paris show ,and meets another property owning lady, this one of dubious reputation.

Everything is Going Very Well Madame la Marquise

1936

Here comes Sunday! poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Here comes Sunday!

1930

My Heart Is Calling You poster
7.0

Director Rosé and his opera company travel to Monte Carlo where they expect an engagément to perform at the opera house. During the boat trip Mario, the cheerful tenor, meets a girl hidden in his cabin. He helps her singing for her passage and soon Nicole is adopted by the whole troupe. Then at Monte Carlo the opera director has no intention to sign them. But he has an eye for beautiful women, so Nicole will try to persuade him to reconsider the offer.

My Heart Is Calling You

1934

About an investigation poster
9.0

During an inquest after a woman is killed, the judge suspects his own son. The woman's lover had been friendly with the son and he was also supposed to be married to the judge's daughter.

About an investigation

1931

Tu m'oublieras poster
9.0

Estelle de Pressendi, famous music-hall singer, was all the rage in the 1910s thanks to her two inseparable impresarios. Twenty years later, then on the verge of death, the singer wants to entrust her daughter Yvonne to them.

Tu m'oublieras

1932

Escale poster
9.0

An officer of a passenger ship falls in love with the mistress of a Marseille racketeer, with unexpected results.

Escale

1935

The End of the World poster
5.2

The Novalic brothers, Jean and Martial, are both in love with Genevieve. Jean, an impoverished actor and an idealistic dreamer, does not want Genevieve to share in his suffering. Martial, an internationally-respected astronomer, discovers the return of Lexell's Comet, on a collision course for Earth.

The End of the World

1931

Une gueule en or poster
9.0

The Marquis de Barfleur, an unattractive man, decides to resort to plastic surgery to ensure the fidelity of Colette, his young mistress. Now endowed with a face to die for, he is about to achieve his goal. But the Marchioness de Barfleur, the Marquis' loving wife, does not hear it that way. She has her revenge claiming everywhere that her husband is... dead! An assertion people believe since they do not recognize the Marquis! When her vengeance has lasted long enough, she forgives the Marquis and husband and wife fall into each other's arms.

Une gueule en or

1936

L'École des journalistes poster
7.0

Fernand Dubreuil wants to be a journalist and agreed to do an interview with promising star Clara Sergy. He's accompanied by the jerk photographer, Alfred.

L'École des journalistes

1936

Le train d'amour poster
9.0

A doctor is married to an overly jealous wife who wants a divorce. He advises one of his very shy patients to take a mistress when he feels attracted to the latter's fiancée. The "sick", meanwhile, feels weaknesses for the wife.

Le train d'amour

1935

Fat Man's Worries poster
8.0

A young lady whose husband has been seeing someone else decides to make him jealous by flirting with the unlikely prospect of a fat man.Is it worth that guy's trouble to try to lose some weight, or is he kidding himself?

Fat Man's Worries

1933

Navy Blue poster
6.7

Lafraise and Plumard, two rookies on the ship Le Victorieux, are on leave in the port of Toulon. At a time they get lost and in order to escape the Navy patrolmen, they disguise themselves and board a train. Now it happens that in the convoy a delegate of the government is on his way to Paris, with the mission to inaugurate a monument there. But the circumstances are such that our two friends are mistaken for the Minister and his secretary. Unabashed, the pair does the job, in other words, they deliver the expected speech, eat like horses, live it up - until they are recognized. Which eventually results in a prolonged stay in an unpleasant kind of hotel room named - the hold.

Navy Blue

1934

La caserne en folie poster
7.0

Following a misunderstanding, a young servant is mistaken for the rich heir that the owner of a fashion house intended for his daughter. The servant is satisfied while the millionaire is in charge of washing the dishes.

La caserne en folie

1935

La vierge du rocher poster
10.0

A pious family, a non-believer, and a little boy who suffered an accident, whom a doctor believes is forever doomed to crutches: can he walk normally again due to his faith in the Virgin of Lourdes.

La vierge du rocher

1934

Touche-à-tout poster
9.0

A young supervisor is expelled from his high school after misleading his students during an outing. He made his fortune and basked on the Côte d'Azur. A young maid comes to his aid before he loses everything. She reveals to him that she is in fact a successful novelist.

Touche-à-tout

1935

La course à la vertu poster
8.0

Two twin sisters, nieces of the mayor of Buissons-les-Amours, are, one very wise, the other evaporated. The lover of the second falls in love with the first whom he will marry after being forgiven for his conduct.

La course à la vertu

1937

The Beauty of Montparnasse poster
10.0

Mr. Pontbichot has long dreamed of cheating on his wife. To achieve his goals, he looks for a son-in-law who could help him, and finds him in the person of a young painter, who pleases his daughter.

The Beauty of Montparnasse

1937

Trois Balles Dans La Peau poster
7.0

Open and shut case: Maxime Dartois, the painter, is found dead in his penthouse with three bullets in his body, but the pistol that killed him is still being held by the (fainted) young lady by his side. A detective will find a few odd notes, and the plot thickens when plenty of people are interviewed, and more than one could have the will, and the opportunity, to be the killer, and it is not clear what the relationship of the girl was with the deceased.

Trois Balles Dans La Peau

1934

For One Night..! poster
6.7

In a chic nightclub, a navel officer admires his new love, the singer Stella Maris. A fellow officer warns him not to get involved with this woman and tells the tragic story of a sailor who lost everything because of his love for her. Some years before, in the port of Toulon, a sailor, Jean, met Stella in a bar. The two danced and instantly Jean realised he was love. The sailor later traced Stella to her home in St Tropez where, having forced his way into her bedroom, he spent the night with her. Some days later, Jean saw Stella in the company of another man. Driven by jealousy, he deserted his post and decided to put an end to his days…

For One Night..!

1932

L'empreinte rouge poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

L'empreinte rouge

1937

The Flame poster
8.0

A woman of easy virtue rejects a proposal of marriage made to her by a rich lover. But when her son is taken from her to be brought up in the best conditions, she keeps thinking about him. When she finds him, twenty years later, she can not adapt to the environment to which he now belongs.

The Flame

1936

No artwork available
7.2

In a village on the French-Belgian border, a smuggler named Sylvain falls in love with the pretty Pascaline, which infuriates Germaine, his mistress. The jealous woman reports Sylvain to the police. As a result, the young man gets hurt during a night chase. Fortunately Pascaline offers him hospitality and looks after him.

The House on the Dune

1934

No artwork available
7.0

Two young lovers. An arranged marriage. An older groom. The lovers develop a plan to convince the groom that she is unworthy and also to discredit him. A surprise ending convinces the father that he should bless the lovers' marriage.

Monsieur de Pourceaugnac

1932

The King of the Champs-Élysées poster
5.9

In Paris, a stage-struck would-be actor is mistaken for an escaped convict.

The King of the Champs-Élysées

1934

The Patriot poster
7.0

The reign of Tsar Paul I and the intrigues of his friend, Governor Pahlen, to rid the country of the mad despot by plotting to have him murdered.

The Patriot

1938

The Midnight Airplane poster
10.0

During a stopover, Morel, an airline pilot and Colette spin the perfect love. She hides from him that she is compromised in the actions of a band of criminals. She manages to escape her dangerous friends while a shootout wipes them all out.

The Midnight Airplane

1938

Mirages of Paris poster
6.7

In this fast-moving fantasy, an unsophisticated student escapes from a boarding school to become, after many trials and tribulations, the "toast of Paris."

Mirages of Paris

1933

J'arrose mes galons poster
7.0

The son of a ruined family transforms into a castellan following an inheritance, becomes a parachutist champion in spite of himself, and becomes famous.

J'arrose mes galons

1936

No artwork available
9.0

A philatelist absorbed in his collection abandons his wife. He had her followed by a detective and learned that two young people were courting her. He gives them two rare stamps and gets his wife back.

Colette et son mari

1934

Michel Strogoff poster
7.3

The Czar charges a man to deliver a message to the Grand Duke behind enemy lines. On his way he encounters a number of adventures.

Michel Strogoff

1936