Christian Gérard

Acting

Christian Gérard

Born — Died

1908-10-03 — 1984-07-27

Place of birth

Paris, France

Known for

Acting

Credits

30 titles

Known for

Film credits

1940s · 7 titles

Colonel Chabert poster
6.9

The story of a French officer who is assumed dead during the Napoleonic Wars, but returns ten years later to a very different France, both on a political and personal level. The film is based on the novel Colonel Chabert by Honoré de Balzac.

Colonel Chabert

1943

Prince Charming poster
9.0

Rosine, who spends her time as a model, has to deal with the advances of a disreputable young man.

Prince Charming

1942

Signé illisible poster
7.0

Strange things are happening in the small town of Breuil-le-Château. Provisions from the black market are stolen regularly and wealthy young men, including the squire's son, start vanishing... Ransom demands are sent but with an illegible signature. The investigation is trusted to Ducreux, the local police brigadier. He is assisted by Carlier, a film director in search of locations for his next movie, who has been mistaken for a police inspector from Paris. The two men will have more than their share of surprises.

Signé illisible

1942

Le café du port poster
7.0

Following a heartbreak, Aimée, a young girl is taken in by the owners of a café for whom she starts working, and falls in love with René, a sailor who gave her a taste for life.

Le café du port

1940

Mort ou vif poster
10.0

A friendly average Frenchman pretends to be a famous commissioner on vacation. He arrives in a castle converted into a boarding house where, after dinner, guests are invited to participate in a "murder-party". The so-called victim of this little game is really murdered and the fake commissioner must lead the investigation.

Mort ou vif

1948

Frédérica poster
5.5

Gilbert, poet and singer, is about to marry Lilette but deep inside himself he is not quite sure that she is the woman he needs. That is the reason why he has made up an imaginary woman, Frédérica" to whom he writes love letters, actual ones this time. When Lilette finds one of these, she sees red. Théodule, one of Gilbert's many friends, sets out the problem with the help of Claudine, his own girlfriend, posing as Frédérica. After Gilbert and "Frédérica" have played a phony breakup scene in front of Lilette, things seem to come right when... another Frédérica appears...

Frédérica

1942

Boléro poster
7.0

As her neighbor Rémi Courmont has told her off for making his ears bleed with Ravel's Bolero, a music piece she plays at full volume all the time, Anne-Marie decides to get even with him. She sets up a hoax with the complicity of her friend Catherine, who agrees to post as Remi's mistress to embarrass him. Just then, Niquette, Rémi's real lover, resurfaces.

Boléro

1942

1930s · 16 titles

Dora Nelson poster
7.0

Dora Nelson, a famous actress, leaves both her husband Philippe de Moreuil and the role she was playing in a movie directed by Nivert, to follow her lover Santini in Italy. But she soon realizes that Santini deceives her with a girl named Elsa. In vexation she decides to return to her husband and to her career. Unfortunately for her, Suzanne Verdier, a little working girl, has in the meantime replaced her not only in the film she had left unfinished but in her husband's heart as well. Dora eventually understands she must step aside.

Dora Nelson

1935

Samson poster
5.8

An aristocratic woman is coerced by her impoverished family into marrying a wealthy business tycoon.

Samson

1936

Anne-Marie poster
6.3

Raymond Bernard’s film of a script by Antoine de Saint-Exupery (The Little Prince) about a young woman who aspires to become a pilot.

Anne-Marie

1936

The Wonderful Day poster
9.0

An assistant pharmacist in the South of France , Blaise works for Mrs. Pinède, a well-endowed hot-blooded woman who has developed a crush on him, and her husband ... who hasn't! One day, Blaise meets Felloux, a rich man who is convalescing in Cassis. Felloux takes a liking to Blaise and decides to offer him a perfect day in Juan-les-Pins. Gambling in the casino, Blaise wins an astronomical sum. A new life seems to open to him but not for long. Indeed he loses all, but not before he has given a beautiful necklace to a young woman.

The Wonderful Day

1932

La Cité des lumières poster
9.0

The life of two students, Rodolphe and Madeleine. They love each other but he is rich and she has just lost her father and is forced to work in a nightclub. Rodolphe leaves her but quickly understands that he loves her and finds her.

La Cité des lumières

1938

The New Testament poster
6.5

Husbands and wives, lovers and gigolos, all break a sweat when Dr. Marcelin’s newly-revised last will and testament is prematurely exposed.

The New Testament

1936

Ma tante dictateur poster
10.0

A young man who wishes to launch his girlfriend in the theater, borrows money from his aunt, making her believe that he wants to buy groceries. His aunt arrives and then wishes to visit “her” grocery store; to save the day he borrows the store of a credulous grocer.

Ma tante dictateur

1939

No artwork available
9.0

After the sinking of their boat, seven passengers from a wealthy background find themselves on a desert island. The man who saves them from drowning then proposes to the sailor Charlemagne to become the king of the peninsula.

Charlemagne

1933

Parisian Life poster
9.0

A rich Brazilian, Mendoza, visited Paris in 1900 and was romantically involved with the star of Offenbach's 'La vie parisienne' which was playing at the time. Thirty five years later, he returns with his son and granddaughter, who is engaged to a young Frenchman. But Mendoza's puritanical son forbids the marriage. Mendoza and the actress's friends conspire to change his mind and convert him to 'Parisian life.'

Parisian Life

1935

No artwork available
7.8

Maître Bolbec is a famous lawyer but the dress she is wearing is not the one her husband would like her to see. When she realizes that he is cheating on her, she gives up the bar, but she is even more taken up by her friends. Mr. Bolbec then begs her to resume her job and asks for the position of secretary.

Maître Bolbec et son mari

1934

The Improvised Son poster
9.0

A woman who is the mistress of a well off antiquarian receives a visit from a younger man. Is her lost son from long ago?

The Improvised Son

1932

The Hen poster
8.0

Mr. Silvestry, nicknamed "The Hen" because he is raising his five daughters alone, for whom he does the housework, the shopping and the cooking, is invited to the Côte d'Azur by a wealthy American.

The Hen

1933

The Hawk poster
10.0

The wife of a Hungarian gentleman tires of helping him cheat and becomes the mistress of a diplomat.When she re-encounters her husband he is enfeebled and ill, so she takes pity on him.

The Hawk

1933

Le cœur dispose poster
7.0

An aristocratic family wants to marry off their young Helene. The mother and grandmother each pick not so bright prospects.Helene herself is drawn to an elderly baron.But what about Robert, the family secretary?

Le cœur dispose

1937

Paris poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Paris

1937

The Royal Waltz poster
8.0

In 1852, the young Austrian emperor Franz Joseph persuades his friend, Count Michel de Thalberg, to act as a go-between in his love affair with the Bavarian duchess Elisabeth. Not long after his arrival in Munch, Thalberg has an embarrassing encounter in a public garden with an attractive young woman. The innocent incident is misinterpreted by a passer-by who, recognising the woman as the youngest daughter of Ludwig Tomasini, a highly respected caterer, persuades her father that she should marry the man who flirted with her to avoid a scandal (FilmsdeFrance).

The Royal Waltz

1936

1920s · 3 titles

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