Directing

Jean Kemm

Born 1874-05-15 · Paris, Ile-de-France, France

Acting credits

Behind the camera

La Loupiote poster
7.0

Little Germaine Valcour, an adulterine child, is abandoned and taken in by a showman, Father Ballot. She becomes the consolation of the good man whose daughter has gone wrong. Madame Vaulcour died of grief while her lover, after many bad blows, takes justice into his own hands. The girl stays with her adoptive parents.

La Loupiote

1937

The Drunkard poster
9.0

A mother of three escapes the death sentence during her poisoning trial. After spending ten years in prison, she finds her children and rebuilds her family.

The Drunkard

1937

Flame of Love poster
10.0

French language version. A Chinese cabaret singer will do whatever it takes to save her brother when he is sentenced to death for trying to save her from a lecherous Duke.

Flame of Love

1930

Miss Rovel poster
10.0

Misanthrope Raymond Ferray's life of peace and quiet is disrupted by the arrival of his new neighbors the Rovels. Lady Rovel designs on marrying her daughter Meg to the much older Marquis de Boisgenêt. Her mother agrees not to force her, however, if she can find a suitable alternative. Raymond, who despite himself has taken a great interest in Miss Rovel, helps her to find one.

Miss Rovel

1921

Liberté poster
9.0

Fictionalized biography of the sculptor Bartholdi.

Liberté

1938

The Lackered Box poster
8.0

Fearing the theft of an important secret formula, the scientist Claude Amory asks for help from Monsieur Préval, director of the Sûreté. But when Amory is mysteriously poisoned inside his own home, the detective realizes the case is more serious than he had imagined and decides to investigate each of the suspects.

The Lackered Box

1932

Atlantic poster
6.5

A heavily fictionalized version of the RMS Titanic story.

Atlantic

1930

Vidocq poster
9.0

François Vidocq has deserted to go back to his wife and kids, so he becomes a thief. Unfortunately, he finds she had become Manon-la-blonde, mistress of a rich man named Ouvrard, and his children have disappeared. He offers his services to the chief of intelligence service and begins a fight against the Aristo, chief of the gang of the children of the sun. After a few years, he dismantles the gang, and finds both his sons. One has become a blackguard, the other a famous organist who is about to be knighted and will soon get married to his beloved.

Vidocq

1923

La comtesse de Somerive poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

La comtesse de Somerive

1917

André Cornelis poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

André Cornelis

1927

L'héritier du Bal Tabarin poster
9.0

A prudish man becomes, by inheritance, owner of the Bal Tabarin which, according to the testamentary provisions, he must manage himself. He launches himself happily into this life of pleasures and hides it from his family.

L'héritier du Bal Tabarin

1933

The Child King poster
10.0

An eight part ciné-novel (episodic film) set during the French Revolution, telling the story of the Dauphin's childhood in Versailles, his life at the Conciergerie during the Revolution, and his untimely death.

The Child King

1923

Polish Jew poster
9.0

The story recounts the murder of an itinerant Jew (Jules Maurice)by the village Burgomaster (Harry Baur.) Years go by and Baur's crime does not weigh heavily on his conscience. But at a banquet one night, the subject of the killing comes up and he faints, and is haunted from that point onward by the vision of the man he killed and the sound of the sleigh bells that first accompanied the victim's arrival in the village. And, to complicate matters for Baur, the son of the victim arrives, and proceeds to fall in love with Baur's daughter.

Polish Jew

1931

What for? poster
8.0

Céleste Noménoé, a provincial actor, comes to Paris for an inheritance. He also gets a part in a movie. The managers of a music-hall notice him. He takes the stage name of Grock.

What for?

1926

What for? poster
8.0

Céleste Noménoé, a provincial actor, comes to Paris for an inheritance. He also gets a part in a movie. The managers of a music-hall notice him. He takes the stage name of Grock.

What for?

1926

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

La Ferme du choquart

1922

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

La Ferme du choquart

1922

The Duke's Motto poster
7.0

The Prince of Gonzague kills the Duke of Nevers and tries to marry his widow, Aurore de Nevers, so he can get his hand on his fortune. The Chevalier Lagardère takes the child Irène de Nevers with him to Spain only to return disguised as a hunchback years later to unmask the Prince for the villain he is.

The Duke's Motto

1925

The Duke's Motto poster
7.0

The Prince of Gonzague kills the Duke of Nevers and tries to marry his widow, Aurore de Nevers, so he can get his hand on his fortune. The Chevalier Lagardère takes the child Irène de Nevers with him to Spain only to return disguised as a hunchback years later to unmask the Prince for the villain he is.

The Duke's Motto

1925

The Barber of Seville poster
10.0

Based on an opera by Rossini and an opera by Mozart, taken from the work of Beaumarchais.

The Barber of Seville

1933

French Leave poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

French Leave

1931

No artwork available
7.0

The daughter of the austere professor Smithson, during a walk on skis, loses her balance, revealing her underwear. An indiscreet photographed the scene. Smithson demands that his daughter marry this man, but who is he? He luckily turns out to be the young man she loves.

Miss Helyett

1933

Les surprises du divorce poster
9.0

A young husband, annoyed by his stepmother, divorces and marries a young girl whose father is a widower. When the two new spouses return from their honeymoon, the stepfather has married his son-in-law's first wife.

Les surprises du divorce

1933