Directing

Jacques Séverac

Houlgate, France

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Adieu Vienne poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Adieu Vienne

1939

Les rigolos poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Les rigolos

1933

Les Réprouvés poster
10.0

At the borders of the Saharan desert, the dramatic situation of a battalion of light infantry attacked by the enemy.

Les Réprouvés

1937

Endless Night poster
10.0

Fleeing Paris where he killed, Olivier takes refuge in the Giraud farm and falls in love with his daughter, to the chagrin of her suitor, a man named Joseph. When the latter is found dead, Olivier is accused and the young woman will arrive too late to clear him, the poor man having fallen into a ravine while trying to flee.

Endless Night

1947

Ceux du rivage poster
9.0

In the oyster and fishing town of Arcachon, one man doesn't want his adopted son to get married to the daughter of his rival, and he suspects a dark underlying secret.

Ceux du rivage

1943

The Knife to the Throat poster
5.3

Pacos Le Maltais, leader of a gang, lays down the law on the quay of Marseille. He fires one of his henchmen, Le Chinois, who killed a woman during the last bank stickup.

The Knife to the Throat

1955

The Knife to the Throat poster
5.3

Pacos Le Maltais, leader of a gang, lays down the law on the quay of Marseille. He fires one of his henchmen, Le Chinois, who killed a woman during the last bank stickup.

The Knife to the Throat

1955

Why Women Sin poster
6.8

La moucharde stars Dany Carrel as a young miss who loves neither wisely nor well. Duped into a life of crime, Carrel remains on the wrong side of the Law because she's hopelessly in love with a two-bit crook. Soon she becomes as jaded and hardened as her criminal cohorts. When the police threaten to throw her in the Bastille, Carrel agrees to turn informer, with the expected disastrous results.

Why Women Sin

1958

Le crime du chemin rouge poster
8.0

A great provincial lawyer is found murdered with a revolver shot in the red path that leads to his mistress's home. The Advocate General accuses his own wife who was a betrayed mistress and whom he assumes guilty out of spite. But the accused's daughter finds the real culprit.

Le crime du chemin rouge

1933

La boutique aux illusions poster
10.0

Two young revelers, driven by a Russian driver, are taken to an unknown neighborhood at the gates of a cafecinema where they are going to attend a screening of 1909. They see Douglas Fairbanks, Max Linder, William Hart, Prince Rigadin, Norma Talmadge , Lya de Putti...

La boutique aux illusions

1939

Que personne ne sorte poster
6.2

Set between Christmas and New Year, the film told the story of six criminals who kidnap an ambassador's daughter and await the ransom; enter Monsieur Wens, who infiltrates their hideout using various comic disguises, bumps them off one by one and rescues the little girl.

Que personne ne sorte

1964

Jules' Breadwinner poster
7.0

Toussaint has stopped his burglaries and lives in Toulon with his wife Assunta who runs a bar called L'île de Beauté. One day, a singer named Gina arrives in the neighboring bar and Toussaint falls in love with her. For her, he decides to leave his wife but wants to leave her some money. So, he starts to rob again.

Jules' Breadwinner

1960

Le Mystère Imberger poster
10.0

For sentimental reasons, Monsieur Imberger, a fifty-year-old, disappears. Everyone thinks he was murdered but repeatedly he reappears. Inspector Barfin takes care of this mystery...

Le Mystère Imberger

1935

Storm of Marrakech poster
10.0

In 1318, in Morocco, a bandit kidnapped the marabout's daughter as a hostage, demanding that the gates of the city be opened to her. The boss, fiance of the young girl, learns that she is safe and sound and organizes the resistance. He puts the bandit and his band to flight and brings back the young girl.

Storm of Marrakech

1932

La Renégate poster
9.5

In 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

Sirocco poster
9.0

A renowned storyteller recounts a yarn about the long lost son of a pasha and a damsel in distress who becomes his love.

Sirocco

1931

Monsieur le maire poster
7.0

The mayor of a small Alsatian village wants to marry off his two daughters, Marie and Gretl, to rich farmers. They do not agree.

Monsieur le maire

1947

Firmin de Saint-Pataclet poster
7.0

Firmin, who returned mute from the war of 14-18, has never displeased anyone for twenty years in terms of political life where low blows, jealousy and betrayal are rife in his Provençal village. But an explosion gives him the floor.

Firmin de Saint-Pataclet

1938

Colomba poster
8.0

A young officer of Napoleon's armies returns to Corsica where his sister is waiting for him to avenge the death of their father.

Colomba

1933

La vie est un rêve poster
8.0

Martine is a young woman of aristocratic origin who does not know the man to whom she is promised. She decides to set up a coup with a schoolteacher friend. She is responsible for flirting with the fiancé under the identity of Martine. The man is totally disappointing. Then Martine learns that he has used the same trick.

La vie est un rêve

1949

Children of the Sun poster
7.0

A routine look at the indominatible spirit of impoverished young boys in Morocco, this drama by Jacques Severac also does not ignore the rather oppressive conditions under which the boys live. In one story, a little fellow has set his heart on buying a sewing machine for his mother. Like the other shoe-shine boys, his goal of saving up money is almost impossible to meet yet after much travail he is finally able to get her a machine. Sadly enough, his triumph is destined to be short-lived when the much-desired sewing machine is broken in an accident. Undaunted, the lad decides the only thing for it is to start again from scratch.

Children of the Sun

1962

Halte... Police! poster
7.0

Darrac, a reporter for Paris-Inter, and Nicole, a journalist for Le Soir-Express, know each other, compete and end up falling in love over the three police investigations they follow for their newspapers.

Halte... Police!

1948

L'âme du bled poster
10.0

A Morrocan sheik's love for a French colonist leads him to leave his native country for France.

L'âme du bled

1929